jim comey is saying that he thought that he didn t say anything because the president had pushed at him. he didn t think the president was successful at making it stop. he thought that living with this president was standing up and pushing back. he thought he could do so and protect the integrity of the investigation. does that add upped to you as an explanation for him not telling congress, telling anyone what the president supposedly did? it does add 7-to me, erin. it would be good to hear directly from mr. comey in his own words what he was thinking. again, we re looking at what he did or didn t do in this instance. and again maybe ideally he would have come out with this right away. but the hard truth is this. time and again, going back a long period of time, the president has represented that the relationship is adversarial. now there s a question of
and now it s unclear whether he shared it with anyone. i ve had calls to question his judgment, but never his word. and this has the feeling of chickens coming home to roost. a few days ago, the president was unleashing this sort of vailed thread the in mr. come s comey s veiled threat. turns out the president should have been concerned that there was no memo, that mr. comey was writings about their meeting. that s where we are right now. look. at the end of the day the real problem is this. the president has over a long period of time apparently an adversarial relationship with the truth. he said i think 34r6r789 comey s going to come out on top in this instance. mark, what do you say? a couple of things. one is pluns go back to impeachble offenses and what would republicans do. we have to look at this through
all i know is the public reports. but to go right at the heart of this comey matter, i think it is absolutely absurd to think that the president supposedly made such a comment or request to director comey and director comey sat on it for three months and after getting fired magically reaches into his jacket and pulls out some memo he wrote at the time. that is absolutely absurd. he would have had the obligation to step forward and make that known. i think there s something a little bit weird and vindictive on director comey s part, there s this little diary or figuratively speaking a die write where he can come back and play goc ya games later on, it doesn t make sense. jason s making the case that the trump defenders are going to make.
it s time for testimony. but you have to get underlying documents as well. are there any documents that shed light on what went on in this meeting, including the waves records, which is the records of who was going in and out of the white house on february 14th they ve said they don t want to share those records. just let me add one point on the bind that comey is in. comey, ironically they end up being forced to be on trump s site in this scenario because he s going to have to come in and say, well, if i thought the president was asking me to obstruct justice, i would have either resigned or i would have gone to a senate committee or i would have gone to a house committee. he s in a really tough spot. for him to endorse the idea that this was in truth obstruction of justice he has decided he is complice it in the obstruction. gloria. there was enough reason for comey to memorialize this.
united states? if he did it, it s impeachble. but remember ok. the the congress has to vote to ima peach. i don t see them voting to impeach on this evidence. le. one reason comey might give is he wanted to finish the russia investigation, which was his job, and he didn t want it to be politicized because he thought the investigation into 2 hacking into an american election was just that important to the country that he wanted to finish that job. look. i can t speak for comey nor would i ever try to. but i would think that that might have been a more important thing that he was thinking about getting done. so tony, let me ask you, because i know you also have been in the situation room. you know jim comey. what do you make of the fact he would say that in a memo and perhaps now as we understand, multiple memos, multiple times