>>> BREAKING NEWS IN HOUR, THE FORMER INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE
INVITED JAMES COMEY TO TESTIFY IN A OPEN HEARING.
IT INCLUDING A MEMO -- >> JOINING ME IS MARK WARNER,
CAN YOU TELL US WHAT YOU'RE HEARING BACK FROM COMEY.
WHY HAS THE MEETING NOT HAPPENED YET.
>> I THINK IT IS VERY UNDERSTANDABLE AFTER THE WEEK
THAT JIM COMEY HAD LAST WEEK. THAT HE WANTED TO TAKE A FEW
DAYS TO CLEAR HIS HEAD, AND I HAVE A HIGH LEVEL OF
EXPECTATION, HIGH EXPECTATION THAT HE WILL APPEAR BEFORE THE
SENATE IN AN OPEN HEARING AND TELL HIS SIDE OF THE STORY.
BUT I THINK THAT THE REAL THING THAT THE AMERICAN PUBLIC WANTS
TO HEAR IS THEY WANT TO HEAR FROM JIM COMEY AND THEY WANT TO
HEAR FROM HIM IN AN OPEN HEARING, AND THE SENATE INTEL
COMMITTEE, AS LONG AS HE GETS A CHANCE TO MAKE HIS CASE.
>> IF THIS BECOMES A HE SAID HE SAID BECAUSE THERE WAS ONLY TWO
PEOPLE IN THE ROOM, HOW DO YOU GET THE WHITE HOUSE'S VERSION OF
WHAT HAPPENED, HOW DO YOU FIND OUT IF THERE ARE WHITE HOUSE
TAPES. >> LET'S GO WAY BACK TO LAST
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY WHEN THE PRESIDENT CHANGD HIS STORY
ABOUT WHY COMEY WAS FIRED, BECAUSE OF THE ACTIVITIES WITH
THE INVESTIGATION OF HILLARY CLINTON, AND THEN THE PRESIDENT
SAID THERE MAY BE SECRET TAPES, AND THE WHITE HOUSE REFUSED TO
TELL ANYONE IN THE PRESS IF THE TAPES EXIST OR NOT.
IF A PRESIDENT HAS SECRET TAPES, THAT NORMALLY DOES NOT END UP IN
A VERY GOOD SPOT. WE WILL CONTINUE TO PURSUE THAT.
THEN, THIS WEEK THE PRESIDENT MAY HAVE RELAYED INAPPROPRIATE
INFORMATION TO THE RUSSIANS, AND THERE IS A QUESTION OF OR TRANS
THAT MEETING? AND NOW WE HAVE IN THE LAST 24
HOURS INDICATIONS THAT JIM COMEY, AND THIS IS VERY
BELIEVABLE ABOUT JIM COMEY, AFTER HE HAD ANY MEETING WOULD
TAKE METICULOUS NOTES. I BELIEVE IF HE TOOK NOTES THAT
WERE COINCIDENT WITH THAT ALLEGED MEETING WITH THE
PRESIDENT, AND THEY ARE ANYTHING CLOSE TO WHAT THE PRESS HAS
REPORTED, THEN WE HAVE REALLY BROKEN INTO A NEW REALM IN THIS
WHOLE INVESTIGATION. .
>> HAVE YOU ASKED ANDREW McCABE, THE ACTING FBI DIRECTOR, FOR
THOSE MEMOS? >> WE HAVE ASKED HIM FOR THOSE
MEMOS AND ANY OTHER DOCUMENTS HE MAY HAVE RELEVANT TO EXCHANGES
BETWEEN COMEY AND THE PRESIDENT AND RELEVANT TO OUR RUSSIAN
INVESTIGATION. >> HAVE YOU ASKED THE WHITE
HOUSE FOR ANY TAPES OR ANY NOTES?
>> WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF TRYING TO FIND OUT WHETHER THE
WHITE HOUSE HAS ANY OF THOSE DOCUMENTS OR TAPES, AS WELL.
WE HAVE NOT -- I DON'T BELIEVE WE HAVE YET FORMALLY REQUESTED
THAT. BUT THAT WILL BE IN PROCESS
SHORTLY. >> THE MEETING THAT THIS REFERS
TO HAPPENED THE DAY AFTER MIKE FLYNN WAS FIRED.
DO YOU HAVE CONCERNS THAT THE PRESIDENT, AFTER A NATIONAL
SECURITY MEETING, A HOMELAND SECURITY MEETING, ASKED THE
OTHERS, INCLUDING THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, TO LEAVE AND MET ONE ON
ONE WITH JAMES COMEY, WAS THAT APPROPRIATE?
>> ANDREA, WE HAVE SEEN THROUGHOUT THIS INVESTIGATION A
SERIES OF DOTS THAT SEEM TO BE CONNECTED.
OR I'VE USED THE ANALOGY A LOT OF SMOKE.
WHATEVER ANALOGY WE WANT TO USE, I WANT TO GIVE THIS PRESIDENT
AND THE WHITE HOUSE THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT.
BUT THAT BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT ONLY GOES AS FAR AS THEM BEING
FORTHCOMING WITH TAPES, WITH TRANSCRIPTS, WITH THE TRUTH.
AND SO FAR AT LEAST WE HAVE -- I'M NOT SURE WE HAVE GOTTEN THE
FULL TRUTH, AT LEAST FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.
>> WHOM ARE YOU DEALING WITH IN THE WHITE HOUSE, THE GENERAL
COUNSEL? >> CHAIRMAN BURR HAS HAD A
NUMBER OF CONVERSATIONS I KNOW WITH THE GENERAL COUNSEL.
BUT I'M NOT GOING TO GET INTO THE PARTICULARS BETWEEN THE
COMMITTEE AND THE WHITE HOUSE. >> YOU MET WITH THE DEPUTY
ATTORNEY GENERAL ROD ROSENSTEIN WHO IS HANDLING THE RUSSIAN
PROBE BECAUSE OF THE RECUSAL OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.
YOU MET WITH HIM LAST WEEK ALONG WITH SENATOR BURR.
DID HE GIVE YOU ASSURANCES THAT EVERYTHING IS GOING TO PROCEED
AND BE ABOVE BOARD? >> WELL, I'M NOT GOING TO
COMMENT ON THE SPECIFICS OF THAT PRIVATE CONVERSATION WITH THE
DEPPKY ATTORNEY GENERAL. I DO KNOW HE'S COMING BACK
TOMORROW AFTERNOON. AND A WHOLE LOT OF MEMBERS --
EVERY ANSWER DOESN'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE CLASSIFIED -- ARE
GOING TO ASK HIM THE SAME QUESTIONS I ASKED LAST WEEK AND
THEY'LL MAKE THEIR OWN JUDGMENT ABOUT HOW TAINTED OR NOT HE AND
SOME OF THE OTHER PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN AFFILIATED WITH THE
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION MAY BE IN TERMS OF OVERSEEING THIS
INVESTIGATION. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT DIDN'T
GET THAT MUCH ATTENTION LAST WEEK WAS THAT ACTING DIRECTOR
McCABE, A CAREER GUY AT THE FBI, SAID THAT THE FBI WILL NOT
SUCCUMB TO POLITICAL PRESSURE, THAT THEY HAVE PUT ALL THE
RESOURCES NEEDED INTO THIS INVESTIGATION, AND THEY'RE GOING
TO FOLLOW THE TRUTH, NO MATTER WHAT.
>> HOW DO YOU RECONCILE McCABE SAYING THERE HAS BEEN NO
INTERFERENCE IN THE FLYNN INVESTIGATION WITH THE COMEY
NOTES AND MEMOS, WHICH INDICATE HIS CONCERNS THAT THERE ARE
INTERFERENCE FROM THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF?
>> WELL, THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS WE NEED TO ASK JIM COMEY.
BUT IT COULD CLEARLY BE THE CASE THAT ACTING DIRECTOR McCABE MAY
OR MAY NOT HAVE BEEN AWARE OF THE COMEY MEMOS.
BUT I'M GOING TO TRUST -- AGAIN, I'M GOING TO TRUST ACTING
DIRECTOR McCABE UNTIL I CAN'T TRUST HIM.
SO FAR HE'S BEEN A STRAIGHT SHOOTER AND HE SEEMED TO HAVE
STEELY DETERMINATION THAT HE AND THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE FBI ARE
NOT GOING TO BE INTIMIDATED AND FOLLOW THE FACTS.
>> GENERAL McCASTER SAID EVERYTHING THE PRESIDENT TOLD
THE RUSSIANS WAS APPROPRIATE. HOW DO YOU RECONCILE THAT WITH
THE FACT THAT THE WHITE HOUSE IS CONTINUING TO ASK "THE
WASHINGTON POST" AND OTHERS WHO HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT THAT
CLASSIFIED SOURCE NOT TO PUBLIC EVERYTHING THAT WE KNOW?
>> TO ME, IT SEEMS VERY CURIOUS TO SAY THE LEAST, THAT THERE'S
STILL ATTEMPTS FROM THIS WHITE HOUSE TO REIN IN THE PRESS FROM
PUBLISHING ALL THE INFORMATION THAT THE PRESIDENT RELAYED TO
THE RUSSIANS. WHAT MAKES IT FURTHER OUTRAGEOUS
IS YOU HAVE RUSSIAN MEDIA IN THAT MEETING BUT NOT AMERICAN
MEDIA. AND NOW YOU HAVE VLADAMIR PUTIN
IN WHAT IS FRANKLY AN INSULTING GESTURE OFFERING TO PROVIDE
RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE ABOUT WHAT TOOK PLACE IN THAT MEETING.
AS IF ANYBODY IN THIS TOWN, DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN, WOULD
BELIEVE THAT. >> DO YOU THINK THERE'S ANY
POSSIBILITY THAT THEY BUGGED THAT MEETING?
>> ANDREA, A WEEK AGO I SAID I DIDN'T THINK THERE WAS ANYTHING
THIS ADMINISTRATION COULD DO THAT WOULD SURPRISE ME.
AND THEN THEY FIRE JIM COMEY. SO I'M NOT GOING TO SAY -- I'M
NOT GOING TO SPECULATE ON WHAT MAY BE IN THE REALM OF
POSSIBILITY OR NOT. I KNOW THAT NORMAL
ADMINISTRATIONS ARE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT WHAT KIND OF CAMERAS,
OTHER DEVICES ARE TAKEN INTO THE OVAL OFFICE.
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