that marc kasowitz is focusing in on is comey leaked the memo after the president tweeted as a way of getting a special prosecutor appointed. kasowitz saying it amounted to retaliation. listen to what he said on that front. mr. comey admitted that he leaked to friends of his purported memos of those privileged communications. one of which he testified was classified. mr. comey also testified that immediately after he was terminated, he authorized his friends to leak the contents of those memos to the press in order to, in mr. comey s words, prompt the appointment of a special counsel. and kasowitz said it was in response to a tweet the day before, there was information from the dinner which he believes came from a memo that
sunday s chris wallace. what jumped out at you? well, it was a mixed bag. on the legal side it wasn t bad for president trump. comey said that as of the day he was fired that trump was still not the target of a criminal investigation. that s good news. certainly wasn t going to go to the question of obstruction of justice. he was not quite clear in his own mind whether it rose to that level and he said he was going to leave it to the special counsel as he probably should. so in a legal sense, he didn t drop any bombs on president trump. in a political sense, it was very damaging. out and out called the president a liar. he basically said i had to write down and memorialize every contact i had because i thought he would he might lie about it. his recounting of what happened on that diner in the green room at the white house was not january 27.
change or the endeavor was to change the investigation into russian meddling and potential collusion. the president admitted to nbc news the russian investigation was on his mind when he fired james comey. the former fbi chief stopped short of accusing the president of obstruction. he said the special counsel overseeing the investigation will make that judgment. and then there s loyalty. james comey said the president asked him for his loyalty during a dinner in january. during that same dinner, comey said the president asked whether he wanted to stay on as fbi director. comey said it seemed to me that the president wanted something in return for keeping that job. also, listen to what comey says president trump whispered in his ear during a fairly awkward encounter a couple of days after the inauguration when comey tried to blend into some curtains. the dinner was an effort to build a relationship. he asked specifically of loyalty
.awkward. shepard: breaking news. congressman tray gowdy set to been the next chairman of the house oversight committee. the republican conference has to sign off on the money. it s a done deal. jason chaffetz set to resign at the end of the might. the oversight committee is investigating whether president trump pressured james comey to drop the investigation of michael flynn. congressman gowdy is a former prosecutor and said he s grateful for the opportunity and looks forward to working alongside his fellow committee members, tray gowdy with the new job. one democratic senator described james comey s testimony today as absolutely chilling. i ve noted how comey said president trump asked him to end the investigation into the former national security adviser mike flynn and his ties to
i m gonna just go back to doing what i was doing. find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. fired fbi director james comey said it would be up to the special counsel to see if president trump was trying to obstruct justice when the president talked to comey about the investigation of the former national security adviser michael flynn. comey testified that the president said i hope you can let this go. even though the president used the word hope , comey said he took it as a direction to drop the flynn case. the president s private later said the president never directed or suggested anything like that. take you to the judge. judge andrew napolitano. that s a he said he said. right, right. shepard: if he did say it if he did say it because examining the credibility of the two of them, a neutral observer