ahead but tell me jim comey said on february 15th that he knew that jeff sessions was going to recuse himself from the investigation. jeff sessions didn t recuse himself from the investigation until march 2nd. how could jim comey know two weeks in advance that the attorney general was going to recuse himself? it s because he s the one who was leaking the information. that s the only panel scenario. give me 20 seconds. what s his motivation for this? his motive is jim comey basically wants to do what is best for jim comey. he has lost the faith of the president. he s lost the faith of the individuals working at the fbi, and, you know, his reputation has clearly taken a hit on this because not just today but in his previous testimony in front of the house and the senate he had to go back and correct because he made misstatements then too. just because he s under oath today doesn t mean jim comey is tellinetrut thank you. hope you come ba. we ll back with bill chrisow and michae
president trump. all right. let me go to you, ari. same question, what do you think about today? what was most significant was that jim comey, unle many other participants in this drama, was willing to come out der his own name, under oath, and testify. he also has some background materials. i didn t find it all that notable whether he used other people to distribute things. a lot of senior owe fishlfficia accustomed to having aides so to speak. what he said was backed up by other officials at the fbi that this effort to stob the flynn investigation was problematic so much so they took all these extra steps to try to deal with it. reading from director comey, because this is the new factual information that s interesting. they were as shocked and troubled as i was, referring to other fbi officials. they were all experienced people who had never experienced such a thing. so, they were very concerned and the conversation turned, what do we do with this information? he went on to say
and my only supposition is today that his avenue at that time was through the media. there was still confusion in d.o.j. as to who s got what piece of russia and who doesn t. and jim comey as we heard it today, his goal was get a special counsel on this case. and the media was the means to do that. but he wouldn t do it himself. he had somebody else. all right, bill, is there any in all the times your experience of the white house, is it unusual to have a one on one? usually every time i see anyone moving around washington they have six aides. and the president has met with former director comey at dinner alone in the oval office. apparently tossed everybody else, alone. that has always struck me as unusual. very unusual. it s not that he was a close friend, secretary of defense, secretary of state they had to discuss policy questions. there was an ongoing investigation. the white house counsel had been briefed before the was a prlem with the white house national security advisor
he said not to the best of my recollection. marco rubio said why is it the only leak not coming out of the fbi was donald trump was not under investigation? and jim comey had no answered t under the penalty of perjury, u was that he is the leak in the department of justice. what we know, greta is he is the one that most likely leaked information to the wall street journal that ran a story on march 1st, which pressured then attorney general, current attorney general to recuse himself and said that in that sorry, there was hand-wringing at the fbi, that he is the one who probably leaked the undisclosed meeting between then senator jeff sessions and kislyak. and this is the reason, because there is no formal process to have an attorney general recuse himself from an investigation except for public pressure. and it looks like after the wall street journal story ran on march 1st, which was probably leaked by jim comey, this is when jeff sessions recused himself. and if you believe g
the president also never told mr. comey, quote, i need loyalty. i expect loyalty, close quote. former trump campaign manager cory lewandowski here, jim comey never reporting the president asked him to drop the flynn investigation. why not? a top democrat responds coming up. show you how behind schedule we are. yeah. are those the pyrotechnics that are gonna startle me from a distance? yep. and my impractical wardrobe changes, those all set? not even close. oh, this is obly going to shine in your eyes at the worst possible time. perfect. we re looking at a real train wreck here, am i right? wouldn t it be great if everyone said what they meant? the citi® double cash card does. it lets you earn double cash back with 1% when you buy, and 1% as you pay. the citi double cash card. double means double.