Russian investigation . James comey testifies there was no doubt they we re testifies there was no doubt they were meddling in the investigation. He says its about as unfake as you can get. This was appointment viewing and such a crowd puller this morning in washington. The bars even opened early. Welcome to 100 days plus, im katty kay in washington. Christian fraser is in london. The fired director of the fbi doesnt think the current president of the United States tells the truth. James comey told senators at a Block Buster Hearing Today that donald trump lied about his firing mr comey also said he was worried mr trump would lie about other things too. Mr comey confirmed much of what we already knew from his testimony the president asked for his loyalty, he asked him to drop the investigation into former National Security adviser Michael Flynn and he did it repeatedly. But mr comey would not say whether he thought the president was guilty of Obstructing Justice in the russia investiga
top notch lawyers and then we learned about a grand jury being used to look into this and now we learn about this raid. it makes it harder and harder for trump to say this is much to do about nothing. this isn t a real thing and this has nothing to do with me. it starts to look more and more what americans expect for an actual investigation that can lead to something real. paul manafort has name has come up repeatedly when we were talking about the special counsel and the investigation, as well. it is significant because others have surfaced like robert page and stone who didn t have a significant relationship with the trump campaign. the white house tried to say it. they re trying to say it. nobody believes it. paul manafort is one of the satellite associates. campaign manager and one of the de facto campaign manager, if not by title. he is still doing it. involve would the trump campaign for a significant period of time until close to the very end.
months and see what comes out of that investigation. now, with that being said, excuse me, with that being said is the idea that donald trump, mike flynn, paul manafort, carter page, awful these players sort of got us to russia to begin with, right? what comey admitted this week is that russia did engage in our election. we also know is that there is connection. sandra: exonerated yesterday, joe, by the fact that there is still absolutely zero evidence of collusion here. let me give you this quote from james comey during his testimony. quote. of 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 i hoped i would find a way to get it out that we weren t investigating him. it is amazing the turn of events that we witnessed this week. joe? you are right. you have the president there asking the fbi director to do his job. what we have is no collusion no. investig
the trump campaign? i explains the demands from the leadership from both parties in congress for more information and that senator grassley had even held up the confirmation of a deputy attorney general until he briefed him in detail on the investigation. i explained that we had briefed the leadership of congress on exactly which individuals we were investigating, and that we had told those congressional leaders that we were not personally investigating president trump. i reminded him i had previously told him that. he repeatedly told me we need to get that fact out. i did not tell the president that the fbi and the department of justice had been reluctant to make public statements that we did not have an open kay on president trump for a number of reasons, most importantly because it would create a duty to correct should that change. the president went on to say that if there were some satellite associates of his who did something wrong, it would be good to find that out, but that he
billions and he got in trouble for not doing it himself. this is what the white house would like us to do and they re doing parsing so the president s new attorney has taken out the president and somehow removed him from the fact that he was part of an entity called his campaign. and they said, you know, case closed, the president s been exonerated. and this is what s so amazing. the goalle posts have changed with every revelation and we ve become we ve normalized these questions about whether his orbit, his team, his campaign, was in cahoots with the russians because we hear about it every single day, every night before your broadcast, after mine, sadly, there s a new story in the new york times or washington post but another story every day about whether and it started with sort of the outl outliars in the orbit, manafort satellite point. the latest revelations satellite associates. whether jared kushner set up