of his his moemos about his conversations with president trump. members of congress have been asking for those memos. the freniend has just told cnn he s turning those back over to the fbi. up next, high praise for president trump like we ve rarely seen. and a cabinet meeting like we ve rarely seen.
special counsel which could mean now the president is being investigated for obstruction of justice. he dropped a political bomb of last year s clinton e-mail investigation and loretta lynch which she had come under fire from democrats. the attorney general directed me to call it a matter which confused me and concerned me and took a not subtle swipe at the president for having to learn he was fired on television. the fbi is and always will be independent. and now to my former colleagues if i may, i am so sorry that i did not get a chance to say good-bye to you properly. the fact that comey handed over his moemos to the special counsel so he can read part of it to the press but not to congress the top democrats will meet next week with special
is uniquely immune from indictment while he is in office. i think that s constitutional question is open for the country s sake i hope we don t have to confront it in this situation but i think mr. trump, president trump and his lawyers will certainly be worrying about whether that kind of immunity claim can be asserted. all right. i want you to stand by. john dean, i have breaking news that i want you to respond to. we re just getting this from cnn s pamela brown. former fbi director james comey did not share his moemos with president trump with top justice department officials including jeff sessions or rod rosenstein. the memos were not shared despite concerns from comey that trump could be crossing the line and obstructing justice. it was not immediately clear if he shared the memo with any staffers at a lower level. rosenstein had not reviewed the
mueller is going to proceed forward with the idea of a criminal investigation versus a counterintelligence investigation. there was no facts laid out as to why you would change that but appointing a special counsel has created a dynamic for congress that s going to have to be very leery of crossing into mr. mueller s lane. the judiciary committee won t be able to get moemos required yesterday? i think mr. mueller will tell us what we can get and not get. while you re inside, you may not have heard that joe lieberman s name has emerged as a top contender. what s your reaction to that? good choice. one of the winners of the new fbi director because they don t have to deal with this. i think joe lieberman is a pillar of credibility and he d be a good choice. now the fbi director does not have to worry about an investigation of over the man
again or did he mislead the american people? i believe i ve answered that question. if you have, i don t think i caught it. because the vice president said yesterday that the president chose to accept and support the decision of the deputy attorney general and attorney general he certainly accepted the deputy attorney but that doesn t mean he wouldn t still accept his recommendation. they re on the same page. why are we arguing about the semantics of whether or not he accepted it. they agreed! i m not sure how he didn t accept the deputy attorney general s recommendation when they agreed with one another. so let me just switch topics, slightly. if the president knew he was going to do this, why ask for those memos to begin with? why not just fire comey? why have these memos put out and explain that he did it because of the moemos, but then say tha he was going to do it either way. i m confused as to why we even got those memos? look, i think he wanted to get the feedback fr