that chairman goodlatte is trying to compel these people to testify in private. why? if indeed this is a serious issue and such an important thing for the country to know about, former direct ore comey says he wants to testify in public, why would you not do it in public? goodlatte says they don t want other coming after to possibly be influenced. but if you re testifying before congress, don t you have to do it truthfully? right? how would that change anybody s opinions or what they know to be true. i agree, but let s go to the core concept here. again, they are telling us, this is such an urgent issue, it has to be raised in a lame-duck
questions and pushing back rather aggressively on the idea he may have helped russian officials try to sway the election for donald trump including this testy exchange with senator wyden. more comey said there were matters with respect to the recusal that were problematic and he couldn t talk about them. what are they? i why don t you tell me? there are none, senator wyden. there are none. i can tell you that for absolute certainty. this is a secret innuendo being leaked out there about me and i don t appreciate it. reporter: sessions did not respond to a number of questions that democrats had particularly about his interactions with president trump, what he discussed with president trump with regard to firing of james comey, whether or not the russian investigation was discussed in anyway. question after question jeff sessions would not answer and woe not say if there was
we decided to keep it very closely held to decide what to do with it down the road as our investigation progressed. the following month, comey describes a president who is growing increasingly uneasy. the president called me at the fbi. he described the russia investigation as a cloud that was impairing his ability to act on behalf of the country. he said he had nothing to do with russia, had not been involved withing whoers in russia, had always assumed he was being recorded when in russia. he asked what we could do to lift the cloud. and then during that conversation we get what is arguably the single biggest bombshell from comey s testimony. more comey. the president went on to say if there were some satellite associates of his who did something wrong, it would be good to find that out. but that he hadn t done anything wrong and hoped i would find a way to get it out, that we weren t investigating him. folks, the president of the united states did not deny to the fbi director that m
or anything else. i m not under investigation. kat: also today during a senate intelligence committee hearing, the new fbi director was pressed about it. did you ever hear director comey tell the president he wasn t the subject of an investigation? i can t comment on any conversations the director may have had with the president. kat: how are you guys doing, having a great day? more comey news. i think the nbc interview was pretty interesting because he said he was going to do regardless. does that make the timing make a little less sense in a way? eric: i will jump in and say two or three days now all we have heard about is the timing. the left is so interesting in finding out whether or not there is any collusion between donald trump and the russians, for ten months, they ve investigated. they have dug and subpoenaed and they have found exactly zero, and air ball. meanwhile, isis is trying to take down the west. north korea is testing nuclear