Comey Accuses White House of 'Lies, Plain and Simple' About His Firing
Trump's Lawyer Fires Back After Comey Testimony, Denies Asking for Loyalty Pledge
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Former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe abruptly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/01/29/581597193/fbi-deputy-director-target-of-partisan-ire-is-retiring-as-he-planned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">left the bureau in January\u003c/a>, as watchdogs raced to finish their report, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/03/16/571671917/justice-department-fires-embattled-fbi-deputy-director-just-short-of-retirement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">later was fired outright\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCabe's lawyer later confirmed that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/04/19/604048396/justice-department-refers-mccabe-to-prosecutors-but-unclear-if-theyll-charge-him\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prosecutors in Washington, D.C., were considering a criminal referral on McCabe\u003c/a>, who allegedly lied to investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4515892-2016-Election-Final-Report-06-14-18-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Horowitz's full report was released on Thursday\u003c/a> in a spray of new fuel onto the still smoldering political fires over the 2016 election that have never stopped burning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey's actions, it concluded, were \"extraordinary and insubordinate,\" and none of his explanations amounted to a \"persuasive basis for deviating from well-established department policies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey responded swiftly Thursday afternoon once the report was released. \"The conclusions are reasonable, even though I disagree with some,\" \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Comey/status/1007328935842123777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the former FBI director wrote on Twitter\u003c/a>. \"People of good faith can see an unprecedented situation differently.\" And Comey \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/comey-clinton-inspector-general.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">provided a longer response in a column for the New York Times\u003c/a> published online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Comey/status/1007328935842123777\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey wasn't the only person whose conduct has undercut public faith in the Justice Department, the report found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, two FBI officials, special agent Peter Strzok and lawyer Lisa Page, also have been under intense scrutiny after their text messages were collected during the inspector general investigation and later released to Congress and the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Page has left the FBI. The disclosures about the range of candid political and other opinions that Page traded with Strzok on their official government mobile phones have been an embarrassment for the bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one new message released on Thursday, Page writes to Strzok:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Page -\" (Trump's) not ever going to become president right? Right?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strzok: No. No he's not. We'll stop it.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The FBI officials did not \"stop\" Trump from being elected, but Trump and Republicans have cited those kinds of statements in months of attacks on federal law enforcement. \"Biased\" officials in the \"deep state\" are trying to frame Trump in another investigation, they contend — the one by special counsel Robert Mueller into the Russian attack on the 2016 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump and his Republicans allies also have accused then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and other officials in the Obama administration of being too soft on Clinton. \"Lock her up\" was a campaign rally leitmotif in 2016 and remains a popular chant at the president's campaign events now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/amberjamieson/trump-muhammad-ali-rodman-lebron-russia-leaks-g7-transcript?utm_term=.cjqXV09oA#.aq2o2nA0N\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speaking recently to reporters\u003c/a>, Trump suggested the inspector general's findings could be something of a \"birthday present\" for him. Trump turns 72 on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dems: The feds didn't go easy on Hillary. They hurt her\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats, meanwhile, said the findings of the report made it clear that the FBI had effectively helped elect Trump — by damaging Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the minority leaders of the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees cited Comey's choice to reveal the FBI's investigation into Clinton but not its counterintelligence investigation into Trump aides' ties to Russians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As we warned before the election, Director Comey had a double standard: he spoke publicly about the Clinton investigation while keeping secret from the American people the investigation of Donald Trump and Russia,\" said Judiciary Committee ranking member Jerry Nadler of New York and Oversight Committee ranking member Elijah Cummings of Maryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democrats also said they are angry that Comey talked so much, so often, about a case that he ultimately had concluded should not result in any prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The FBI should not have spoken publicly about the case after recommending against criminal charges,\" Nadler and Cummings said. \"They should not have revealed that they had reopened the case just days before the election. These actions violate long-standing guidelines designed to protect citizens from unfair attacks and avoid influencing elections.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Justice, FBI vow to do better\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Jeff Sessions — whom Trump has said he regrets nominating — said on Thursday that he views the \"errors\" uncovered by the IG report as an opening the Justice Department can use to improve itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Accordingly, this report must be seen as an opportunity for the FBI—long considered the world's premier investigative agency — and all of us at the department to learn from past mistakes,\" Sessions said. \"The department is not above criticism, and it is accountable to the chief executive, Congress, and most importantly, the American people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FBI Director Christopher Wray, whom Trump nominated to replace Comey after an interregnum in which McCabe was acting director, picked up that theme from Sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The FBI is taking immediate remedial actions to reinforce the importance of maintaining a work environment free from the appearance of political bias,\" he said. Wray said the actions include a review of whether commingling of work discussions and political commentary violates any FBI guidelines and \"a review of how the FBI staffs, structures and supervises sensitive investigations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?embed=true&id=4515903-DOJ-IG-Report-Executive-Summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the report's executive summary here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Those faulted in the report fire back\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey has defended his actions in 2016 as the response to an unprecedented situation for which there was no instruction manual. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Comey/status/1007328935842123777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He said on Twitter\u003c/a> after the release of the IG report that he welcomed the work that investigators have now completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey also pointed out in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/comey-clinton-inspector-general.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a column in \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that Horowitz's report had effectively vindicated his decision-making — that there was no \"prosecuteable\" case against Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others defended themselves on Thursday, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCabe, who faces potential criminal charges, did not comment on the report but his attorney, Michael Bromwich, issued a statement defending him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In short, the report demonstrates that any and all claims that political bias or political influence affected Mr. McCabe's actions, including charges from the president and other critics, are entirely baseless,\" Bromwich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawyer for Strzok, Aitan Goelman, pointed to a section that said there is no evidence that the political views Strzok expressed \"impacted the handling of the Clinton email investigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, Goelman said, the IG report noted instances in which Strzok and Page supported investigative techniques even more aggressive than those supported by their bosses, including the potential use of search warrants or a grand jury to get witnesses testimony and issue subpoenas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And David Laufman, the former Justice Department counterintelligence official who oversaw the Clinton email probe, defended the integrity of the investigation amid repeated attacks from the president and his allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Particularly given the formidable circumstances, the Justice Department lawyers who conducted this investigation carried out their responsibilities with exceptional rigor, professionalism and integrity consistent with the finest traditions of the department,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Clinton matter\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The IG report has its origins in the tumultuous days after the 2016 presidential election, when politicians and Justice Department veterans of all stripes cried foul at the FBI's public statements about its investigation of Clinton's email practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton used a private email server while she served as secretary of state under President Obama. Although she said she regretted the practice, Clinton said she never knowingly used it to handle classified information. Republicans alleged that she knowingly hazarded important secrets and received sympathetic treatment from then-Attorney General Lynch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday's IG report faulted Lynch for not being more sensitive to the public perceptions she created by meeting privately with former President Bill Clinton aboard an airplane as the FBI investigation was taking place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Lynch's failure to recognize the appearance problem created by former President Bill Clinton's visit and to take action to cut the visit short was an error in judgment,\" the report said. Her statements later about her decision not to recuse \"created public confusion and didn't adequately address the situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early last year, following calls from Congress, the DOJ inspector general announced he would review allegations that the FBI failed to follow procedures when Comey criticized Clinton in \u003ca href=\"https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clinton2019s-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a hastily called news conference on July 5, 2016\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information,\" Comey told reporters at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In this case, given the importance of the matter, I think unusual transparency is in order,\" he also said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey eventually appeared before lawmakers to explain his findings, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/07/07/485138667/fbi-director-faces-congress-over-hillary-clinton-email-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promised to update them\u003c/a> if any new information came to light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI director notified Congress he had reopened the probe Oct. 28, 2016, because of emails that investigators had found on the laptop belonging to Anthony Weiner, the then-husband of longtime Clinton confidante and aide Huma Abedin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, just days before the election, Comey went public again, to tell lawmakers he had found no new bombshells and would again close the investigation with no charges — on Nov. 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton and her top aides blamed Comey's verbosity for slowing her momentum in the waning days of the campaign and turning the election for her opponent, Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was on the way to winning until the combination of Jim Comey's letter on Oct. 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/05/02/526586505/clinton-blames-2016-loss-on-comey-letter-russian-interference-and-herself\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she later said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey, of course, was fired by Trump in May 2017, a move that helped prompt the Justice Department to appoint special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to investigate Russian election interference and whether any Americans took part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a book published this year, Comey defended himself as caught in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/04/17/602860452/james-comey-says-fbi-would-be-worse-today-if-not-for-his-actions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"500-year flood,\"\u003c/a> and he concluded he would probably take the same actions that drew so much criticism of himself and the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Other matters\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other subjects under investigation by the inspector general included:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Whether Deputy FBI Director McCabe should have been recused from participating in the Clinton matter because his wife took donations from Clinton's friend, Terry McAuliffe, in her unsuccessful run for the Virginia state Legislature.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Whether the Justice Department's former top lobbyist improperly shared information with the Clinton campaign or should have been recused because of his friendship with campaign chairman John Podesta.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Whether any other DOJ or FBI employees disclosed nonpublic information about the email investigation.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Whether the FBI release of some Freedom of Information Act documents in late October and early November 2016 was influenced by improper political considerations.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Prior to its release Thursday, Horowitz established some limits about what he would conclude in his report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The review will not substitute the OIG's judgment for the judgments made by the FBI or the Department regarding the substantive merits of investigative or prosecutive decisions,\" the inspector general pledged in January 2017 when he launched the probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, although the IG report faulted Comey and others, it did not second-guess their decisions not to press criminal charges against Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Horowitz, a former federal prosecutor who worked under both Democrats and Republicans, has drawn bipartisan support over his career. But he was the subject of a tweet from President Trump in February that called him \"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/968856971075051521\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an Obama guy.\u003c/a>\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Report+Condemns+FBI+Violations+In+2016+Clinton+Probe+But+Finds+No+Political+Bias&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"James Comey's actions, the report said, were \"extraordinary and insubordinate,\" and none of his explanations amounted to a \"persuasive basis for deviating from well-established department policies.\"","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1529013564,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":61,"wordCount":1909},"headData":{"title":"Report Condemns FBI Violations in 2016 Clinton Probe But Finds No Political Bias | KQED","description":"James Comey's actions, the report said, were "extraordinary and insubordinate," and none of his explanations amounted to a "persuasive basis for deviating from well-established department policies."","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Report Condemns FBI Violations in 2016 Clinton Probe But Finds No Political Bias","datePublished":"2018-06-14T21:25:10.000Z","dateModified":"2018-06-14T21:59:24.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11674859 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11674859","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/06/14/report-condemns-fbi-violations-in-2016-clinton-probe-but-finds-no-political-bias/","disqusTitle":"Report Condemns FBI Violations in 2016 Clinton Probe But Finds No Political Bias","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"http://www.npr.org/","nprImageCredit":"Jacquelyn Martin","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>Carrie Johnson\u003c/strong>","nprImageAgency":"AP","nprStoryId":"612387464","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=612387464&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/14/612387464/report-expected-to-condemn-fbi-violations-in-2016-clinton-email-investigation?ft=nprml&f=612387464","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 14 Jun 2018 16:33:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 14 Jun 2018 05:00:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 14 Jun 2018 16:30:44 -0400","path":"/news/11674859/report-condemns-fbi-violations-in-2016-clinton-probe-but-finds-no-political-bias","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 4:28 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Justice Department watchdog on Thursday criticized \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/05/15/527773206/what-just-happened-the-james-comey-saga-in-timeline-form\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former FBI Director James Comey\u003c/a> for violating long-standing department guidelines and mishandling the Hillary Clinton email investigation in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The probe by Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz has already prompted reassignments and departures at the highest levels of the FBI. Former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe abruptly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/01/29/581597193/fbi-deputy-director-target-of-partisan-ire-is-retiring-as-he-planned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">left the bureau in January\u003c/a>, as watchdogs raced to finish their report, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/03/16/571671917/justice-department-fires-embattled-fbi-deputy-director-just-short-of-retirement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">later was fired outright\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCabe's lawyer later confirmed that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/04/19/604048396/justice-department-refers-mccabe-to-prosecutors-but-unclear-if-theyll-charge-him\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prosecutors in Washington, D.C., were considering a criminal referral on McCabe\u003c/a>, who allegedly lied to investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4515892-2016-Election-Final-Report-06-14-18-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Horowitz's full report was released on Thursday\u003c/a> in a spray of new fuel onto the still smoldering political fires over the 2016 election that have never stopped burning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey's actions, it concluded, were \"extraordinary and insubordinate,\" and none of his explanations amounted to a \"persuasive basis for deviating from well-established department policies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey responded swiftly Thursday afternoon once the report was released. \"The conclusions are reasonable, even though I disagree with some,\" \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Comey/status/1007328935842123777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the former FBI director wrote on Twitter\u003c/a>. \"People of good faith can see an unprecedented situation differently.\" And Comey \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/comey-clinton-inspector-general.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">provided a longer response in a column for the New York Times\u003c/a> published online.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1007328935842123777"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Comey wasn't the only person whose conduct has undercut public faith in the Justice Department, the report found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, two FBI officials, special agent Peter Strzok and lawyer Lisa Page, also have been under intense scrutiny after their text messages were collected during the inspector general investigation and later released to Congress and the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Page has left the FBI. The disclosures about the range of candid political and other opinions that Page traded with Strzok on their official government mobile phones have been an embarrassment for the bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one new message released on Thursday, Page writes to Strzok:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Page -\" (Trump's) not ever going to become president right? Right?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strzok: No. No he's not. We'll stop it.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The FBI officials did not \"stop\" Trump from being elected, but Trump and Republicans have cited those kinds of statements in months of attacks on federal law enforcement. \"Biased\" officials in the \"deep state\" are trying to frame Trump in another investigation, they contend — the one by special counsel Robert Mueller into the Russian attack on the 2016 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump and his Republicans allies also have accused then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and other officials in the Obama administration of being too soft on Clinton. \"Lock her up\" was a campaign rally leitmotif in 2016 and remains a popular chant at the president's campaign events now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/amberjamieson/trump-muhammad-ali-rodman-lebron-russia-leaks-g7-transcript?utm_term=.cjqXV09oA#.aq2o2nA0N\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speaking recently to reporters\u003c/a>, Trump suggested the inspector general's findings could be something of a \"birthday present\" for him. Trump turns 72 on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dems: The feds didn't go easy on Hillary. They hurt her\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats, meanwhile, said the findings of the report made it clear that the FBI had effectively helped elect Trump — by damaging Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the minority leaders of the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees cited Comey's choice to reveal the FBI's investigation into Clinton but not its counterintelligence investigation into Trump aides' ties to Russians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As we warned before the election, Director Comey had a double standard: he spoke publicly about the Clinton investigation while keeping secret from the American people the investigation of Donald Trump and Russia,\" said Judiciary Committee ranking member Jerry Nadler of New York and Oversight Committee ranking member Elijah Cummings of Maryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democrats also said they are angry that Comey talked so much, so often, about a case that he ultimately had concluded should not result in any prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The FBI should not have spoken publicly about the case after recommending against criminal charges,\" Nadler and Cummings said. \"They should not have revealed that they had reopened the case just days before the election. These actions violate long-standing guidelines designed to protect citizens from unfair attacks and avoid influencing elections.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Justice, FBI vow to do better\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Jeff Sessions — whom Trump has said he regrets nominating — said on Thursday that he views the \"errors\" uncovered by the IG report as an opening the Justice Department can use to improve itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Accordingly, this report must be seen as an opportunity for the FBI—long considered the world's premier investigative agency — and all of us at the department to learn from past mistakes,\" Sessions said. \"The department is not above criticism, and it is accountable to the chief executive, Congress, and most importantly, the American people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FBI Director Christopher Wray, whom Trump nominated to replace Comey after an interregnum in which McCabe was acting director, picked up that theme from Sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The FBI is taking immediate remedial actions to reinforce the importance of maintaining a work environment free from the appearance of political bias,\" he said. Wray said the actions include a review of whether commingling of work discussions and political commentary violates any FBI guidelines and \"a review of how the FBI staffs, structures and supervises sensitive investigations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?embed=true&id=4515903-DOJ-IG-Report-Executive-Summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the report's executive summary here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Those faulted in the report fire back\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey has defended his actions in 2016 as the response to an unprecedented situation for which there was no instruction manual. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Comey/status/1007328935842123777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He said on Twitter\u003c/a> after the release of the IG report that he welcomed the work that investigators have now completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey also pointed out in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/comey-clinton-inspector-general.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a column in \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that Horowitz's report had effectively vindicated his decision-making — that there was no \"prosecuteable\" case against Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others defended themselves on Thursday, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCabe, who faces potential criminal charges, did not comment on the report but his attorney, Michael Bromwich, issued a statement defending him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In short, the report demonstrates that any and all claims that political bias or political influence affected Mr. McCabe's actions, including charges from the president and other critics, are entirely baseless,\" Bromwich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawyer for Strzok, Aitan Goelman, pointed to a section that said there is no evidence that the political views Strzok expressed \"impacted the handling of the Clinton email investigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, Goelman said, the IG report noted instances in which Strzok and Page supported investigative techniques even more aggressive than those supported by their bosses, including the potential use of search warrants or a grand jury to get witnesses testimony and issue subpoenas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And David Laufman, the former Justice Department counterintelligence official who oversaw the Clinton email probe, defended the integrity of the investigation amid repeated attacks from the president and his allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Particularly given the formidable circumstances, the Justice Department lawyers who conducted this investigation carried out their responsibilities with exceptional rigor, professionalism and integrity consistent with the finest traditions of the department,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Clinton matter\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The IG report has its origins in the tumultuous days after the 2016 presidential election, when politicians and Justice Department veterans of all stripes cried foul at the FBI's public statements about its investigation of Clinton's email practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton used a private email server while she served as secretary of state under President Obama. Although she said she regretted the practice, Clinton said she never knowingly used it to handle classified information. Republicans alleged that she knowingly hazarded important secrets and received sympathetic treatment from then-Attorney General Lynch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday's IG report faulted Lynch for not being more sensitive to the public perceptions she created by meeting privately with former President Bill Clinton aboard an airplane as the FBI investigation was taking place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Lynch's failure to recognize the appearance problem created by former President Bill Clinton's visit and to take action to cut the visit short was an error in judgment,\" the report said. Her statements later about her decision not to recuse \"created public confusion and didn't adequately address the situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early last year, following calls from Congress, the DOJ inspector general announced he would review allegations that the FBI failed to follow procedures when Comey criticized Clinton in \u003ca href=\"https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clinton2019s-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a hastily called news conference on July 5, 2016\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information,\" Comey told reporters at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In this case, given the importance of the matter, I think unusual transparency is in order,\" he also said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey eventually appeared before lawmakers to explain his findings, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/07/07/485138667/fbi-director-faces-congress-over-hillary-clinton-email-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promised to update them\u003c/a> if any new information came to light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI director notified Congress he had reopened the probe Oct. 28, 2016, because of emails that investigators had found on the laptop belonging to Anthony Weiner, the then-husband of longtime Clinton confidante and aide Huma Abedin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, just days before the election, Comey went public again, to tell lawmakers he had found no new bombshells and would again close the investigation with no charges — on Nov. 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton and her top aides blamed Comey's verbosity for slowing her momentum in the waning days of the campaign and turning the election for her opponent, Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was on the way to winning until the combination of Jim Comey's letter on Oct. 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/05/02/526586505/clinton-blames-2016-loss-on-comey-letter-russian-interference-and-herself\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she later said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey, of course, was fired by Trump in May 2017, a move that helped prompt the Justice Department to appoint special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to investigate Russian election interference and whether any Americans took part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a book published this year, Comey defended himself as caught in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/04/17/602860452/james-comey-says-fbi-would-be-worse-today-if-not-for-his-actions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"500-year flood,\"\u003c/a> and he concluded he would probably take the same actions that drew so much criticism of himself and the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Other matters\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other subjects under investigation by the inspector general included:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Whether Deputy FBI Director McCabe should have been recused from participating in the Clinton matter because his wife took donations from Clinton's friend, Terry McAuliffe, in her unsuccessful run for the Virginia state Legislature.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Whether the Justice Department's former top lobbyist improperly shared information with the Clinton campaign or should have been recused because of his friendship with campaign chairman John Podesta.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Whether any other DOJ or FBI employees disclosed nonpublic information about the email investigation.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Whether the FBI release of some Freedom of Information Act documents in late October and early November 2016 was influenced by improper political considerations.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Prior to its release Thursday, Horowitz established some limits about what he would conclude in his report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The review will not substitute the OIG's judgment for the judgments made by the FBI or the Department regarding the substantive merits of investigative or prosecutive decisions,\" the inspector general pledged in January 2017 when he launched the probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, although the IG report faulted Comey and others, it did not second-guess their decisions not to press criminal charges against Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Horowitz, a former federal prosecutor who worked under both Democrats and Republicans, has drawn bipartisan support over his career. But he was the subject of a tweet from President Trump in February that called him \"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/968856971075051521\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an Obama guy.\u003c/a>\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Report+Condemns+FBI+Violations+In+2016+Clinton+Probe+But+Finds+No+Political+Bias&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11674859/report-condemns-fbi-violations-in-2016-clinton-probe-but-finds-no-political-bias","authors":["byline_news_11674859"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_22477","news_425","news_1866","news_20383"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11674860","label":"source_news_11674859"},"news_11662009":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11662009","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11662009","score":null,"sort":[1523646840000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"5-insights-from-comeys-memoir-ex-fbi-chief-blasts-trump-as-mob-like","title":"5 Insights From Comey's Memoir: Ex-FBI Chief Blasts Trump as Mob-Like","publishDate":1523646840,"format":"image","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>James Comey's much-anticipated memoir, \u003cem>A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership,\u003c/em> doesn't pull any punches when it comes to condemning the tenure of President Trump. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former FBI director, whom Trump unceremoniously fired, paints a picture of a chief executive only concerned about his own image in the press instead of the safety of the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book isn't set to be released until next week, but NPR has obtained a copy. In it, Comey reflects on the circumstances surrounding his dismissal, reveals further insights into his fraught conversations with the president and examines his own controversial decisions — namely how he handled the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server and whether he impacted Clinton's chances against Trump in the 2016 presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are five major areas Comey examines in the memoir:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. Trump's \"unethical\" and \"transactional\" Mafia-like approach\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The broad portrait Comey tries to paint is of Trump as a president so far outside democratic norms that he is a danger to the republic as he spouts conspiracy theories and untruths regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This president is unethical, and untethered to truth and institutional values,\" Comey writes. \"His leadership is transactional, ego driven and about personal loyalty.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And ultimately, it may have been Comey's refusal to bend to that demand for loyalty, he believes, that led to the president to suddenly fire him almost a year ago. That set in motion the appointment, by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, of special counsel Robert Mueller. The title of Comey's book itself is a nod to his belief that a public servant's allegiance should not be to one man but instead to the belief in democratic ideals and to the Constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early in his law career, Comey writes, he worked as a prosecutor targeting organized crime, and he compares many of his interactions with Trump to those of mobsters and the Mafia.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/05/15/527773206/what-just-happened-the-james-comey-saga-in-timeline-form\">The James Comey Saga, In Timeline Form\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/05/15/527773206/what-just-happened-the-james-comey-saga-in-timeline-form\">\u003cimg src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/05/10/ap_17129807287428-41f7d297bc889255f8ece4811990290fdb3e705e-s1600-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"The silent circle of assent. The boss in complete control. The loyalty oaths. The us-versus-them worldview. The lying about all things, large and small, in service to some code of loyalty that put the organization above morality and above the truth,\" he writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the now infamous one-on-one dinner he had with Trump at which Comey says the president demanded loyalty — but Comey would only promise honesty and, finally, \"honest loyalty\" — Comey writes that the president's \u003cem>\"\u003c/em>demand was like Sammy the Bull's Cosa Nostra induction ceremony,\u003cem>\"\u003c/em> a reference\u003ca href=\"http://www.organized-crime.de/revmaa01sammygravano.htm\"> to a member of the Gambino crime family\u003c/a> who would eventually turn state's evidence to help bring down mob boss John Gotti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its response to the book, the Republican National Committee made its own play on the book's title.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"James Comey's book is really just a way for him to make money off of his true higher loyalty \u003cem>– \u003c/em>to himself,\" the RNC said in an email to reporters Thursday evening after several reports about the book and its contents were posted online by multiple media outlets.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Trump himself fired back on Twitter early Friday morning, a \"proven LEAKER & LIAR\" whose firing was fully justified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/984763579210633216\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/984767560494313472\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. Were Trump's actions illegal? \u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Comey also writes about the pressure he felt from Trump when the president asked the then-FBI director whether he could \"see your way clear to letting this go, to letting [Michael] Flynn go.\" The president's longtime ally and former national security adviser, Flynn, had to resign because he had misrepresented to Vice President Pence his conversations with Russia's ambassador during the presidential transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flynn has since pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI as part of a plea deal with Mueller. Precisely what Trump and others knew about what took place during the presidential transition and the early weeks of the administration remains unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey reserves judgment on whether Trump's actions then and other times since constituted obstruction of justice, admitting, \"I have one perspective on the behavior I saw, which while disturbing and violating basic norms of ethical leadership, may fall short of being illegal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He does, however, fault those who overlook how much he says Trump's actions are beyond the pale. Comey's ire seems to extend to much of a Republican Party that he appears to feel has made a Faustian bargain with Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is also wrong to stand idly by, or worse, to stay silent when you know better, while a president brazenly seeks to undermine public confidence in law enforcement institutions that were established to keep our leaders in check,\" Comey writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difficulty confronted by the Washington establishment is embodied by retired Marine Gen. John Kelly. Comey writes that after he was fired, then-Secretary of Homeland Security Kelly phoned and offered to resign in protest in an \"emotional call\" with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He said he didn't want to work for dishonorable people who would treat someone like me in such a manner. I urged Kelly not to do that, arguing that the country needed principled people around this president. Especially this president,\" Comey writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than three months later, Trump would tap Kelly to be his chief of staff, but his relationship with Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/john-kelly-trump-oval-office-meeting-threatened-quit-f29667d3-d99f-4e23-92f6-9c48c360722b.html\">is described as tenuous\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. The backlash over the Clinton email investigation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While many liberals and opponents of the president will likely cheer the stinging rebuke Comey delivers of Trump, they also won't forget one of his most controversial decisions. Comey released a letter less than two weeks before the 2016 election revealing the FBI had reopened its investigation into Clinton's private email server used while she was secretary of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many in Clinton's camp — and the former Democratic nominee herself — have said they believe that may have swayed the election. Ultimately, the weekend before the election, the FBI said no relevant information had been found. Clinton, however, felt she had been tarred too much too close to Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his testimony before Congress last year, Comey told senators the idea that he had impacted the election with that pronouncement made him \"mildly nauseous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have read she has felt anger toward me personally, and I'm sorry for that,\" Comey writes in the memoir. \"I'm sorry that I couldn't do a better job explaining to her and her supporters why I made the decisions I made.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his book, Comey explains that one reason he felt he had to release the letter was because he believed that Clinton was going to win — and he didn't want her presidency to be tainted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is entirely possible that, because I was making decisions in an environment where Hillary Clinton was sure to be the next president, my concern about making her an illegitimate president by concealing the restarted investigation bore greater weight than it would have if the election appeared closer or if Donald Trump were ahead in all polls. But I don't know,\" Comey writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662012\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/gettyimages-693805668comeyaskew_wide-fba99371cb1191370d6c05af0bf64ec60eefc120-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Former FBI Director James Comey testifies before the Senate intelligence committee on June 8, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662012\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former FBI Director James Comey testifies before the Senate intelligence committee on June 8, 2017. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After Clinton's loss to Trump, Comey says President Barack Obama reassured Comey he had conducted himself the right way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I picked you to be FBI director because of your integrity and your ability,\" Obama said, according to Comey. \"I want you to know that nothing – nothing – has happened in the last year to change my view.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. Comey's \"extremely careless\" damnation \u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In July 2016, Comey went before TV cameras to announce that the Justice Department would not be filing charges against Clinton but that he felt she had acted irresponsibly by handling classified material on the personal email server.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the book, Comey writes that he regrets using the language \"extremely careless\" to describe Clinton's conduct because it is so similar to \"grossly negligent\" — the legal standard under which she might have been prosecuted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone on the investigative team agreed there was no case against Clinton, Comey writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey said he still believes he did the right thing by making that statement because the Justice Department had taken a similar approach in other high-interest investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, he also confirms that the FBI had unverified classified information that could have hurt then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch's credibility in overseeing the probe — and that's one reason he took a more high-profile role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Had it become public, the unverified material would undoubtedly have been used by political opponents to cast serious doubt on the attorney general's independence in connection with the Clinton investigation,\" Comey says. He doesn't elaborate more on what that information may be, simply that it's a \"development still unknown to the American public to this day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-a-dubious-russian-document-influenced-the-fbis-handling-of-the-clinton-probe/2017/05/24/f375c07c-3a95-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?utm_term=.0c803703aaff\">The Washington Post has reported\u003c/a> that the FBI obtained what appeared to be a Russian intelligence intercept that described documents in which Lynch assured Clinton's campaign that she would go easy on them in the email investigation. Comey and other FBI officials are believed to have suspected that intelligence was phony, but it, in part, prompted Comey to take matters into his own hands given the damage it might have done to Lynch's credibility if it became public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lynch has also come under fire for a tarmac meeting with Clinton's husband, former President Bill Clinton, as the investigation was underway. Comey says he saw no evidence of her interfering with the probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. Trump's obsession with the Steele dossier — instead of Russian interference\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Comey also says that Trump was intently focused on disproving some salacious allegations in the unverified dossier — authored by former British spy Christopher Steele — about Trump's alleged actions with Russian prostitutes, raising it several times with Comey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump \"strongly denied the allegations, asking — rhetorically, I assumed — whether he seemed like a guy who needed the service of prostitutes,\" the former FBI director writes. One reason Trump wanted the allegations disproved was because he feared there was a very slim chance his wife, Melania, might believe them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He just rolled on, unprompted, explaining why it couldn't possibly be true, ending by saying he was thinking of asking me to investigate the allegation to prove it was a lie. I said it was up to him,\" Comey writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one thing that Comey said wasn't on Trump's mind was dealing with the threat posed by Russia. The United States had publicly blamed Russia for interfering in the 2016 race, and by early 2017, the outgoing Obama administration was taking punitive actions including kicking out intelligence officers and closing Russian diplomatic posts inside the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump and his advisers, however, were not curious about any of that, Comey writes. He recounts a meeting in which he and intelligence officials briefed the then-president elect in January 2017 in Trump Tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump and his aides were more concerned with how to \"spin\" the information they had just been given and concerned about the perception that people might believe the only reason Trump was elected was because of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/05/23/528500501/lies-forgery-and-skulduggery-the-long-history-of-active-measures\">the Russian \"active measures\" effort.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were about to lead a country that had been attacked by a foreign adversary, yet they had no questions about what the future Russian threat might be,\" Comey writes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=5+Insights+From+Comey%27s+Memoir%3A+Ex-FBI+Chief+Blasts+Trump+As+Mob-Like&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In\u003cem> A Higher Loyalty\u003c/em>, James Comey says the president \"is unethical, and untethered to truth and institutional values. ... His leadership is transactional, ego driven and about personal loyalty.\"","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1523647143,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":46,"wordCount":1931},"headData":{"title":"5 Insights From Comey's Memoir: Ex-FBI Chief Blasts Trump as Mob-Like | KQED","description":"In A Higher Loyalty, James Comey says the president "is unethical, and untethered to truth and institutional values. ... 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In it, Comey reflects on the circumstances surrounding his dismissal, reveals further insights into his fraught conversations with the president and examines his own controversial decisions — namely how he handled the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server and whether he impacted Clinton's chances against Trump in the 2016 presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are five major areas Comey examines in the memoir:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. Trump's \"unethical\" and \"transactional\" Mafia-like approach\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The broad portrait Comey tries to paint is of Trump as a president so far outside democratic norms that he is a danger to the republic as he spouts conspiracy theories and untruths regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This president is unethical, and untethered to truth and institutional values,\" Comey writes. \"His leadership is transactional, ego driven and about personal loyalty.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And ultimately, it may have been Comey's refusal to bend to that demand for loyalty, he believes, that led to the president to suddenly fire him almost a year ago. That set in motion the appointment, by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, of special counsel Robert Mueller. The title of Comey's book itself is a nod to his belief that a public servant's allegiance should not be to one man but instead to the belief in democratic ideals and to the Constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early in his law career, Comey writes, he worked as a prosecutor targeting organized crime, and he compares many of his interactions with Trump to those of mobsters and the Mafia.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/05/15/527773206/what-just-happened-the-james-comey-saga-in-timeline-form\">The James Comey Saga, In Timeline Form\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/05/15/527773206/what-just-happened-the-james-comey-saga-in-timeline-form\">\u003cimg src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/05/10/ap_17129807287428-41f7d297bc889255f8ece4811990290fdb3e705e-s1600-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"The silent circle of assent. The boss in complete control. The loyalty oaths. The us-versus-them worldview. The lying about all things, large and small, in service to some code of loyalty that put the organization above morality and above the truth,\" he writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the now infamous one-on-one dinner he had with Trump at which Comey says the president demanded loyalty — but Comey would only promise honesty and, finally, \"honest loyalty\" — Comey writes that the president's \u003cem>\"\u003c/em>demand was like Sammy the Bull's Cosa Nostra induction ceremony,\u003cem>\"\u003c/em> a reference\u003ca href=\"http://www.organized-crime.de/revmaa01sammygravano.htm\"> to a member of the Gambino crime family\u003c/a> who would eventually turn state's evidence to help bring down mob boss John Gotti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its response to the book, the Republican National Committee made its own play on the book's title.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"James Comey's book is really just a way for him to make money off of his true higher loyalty \u003cem>– \u003c/em>to himself,\" the RNC said in an email to reporters Thursday evening after several reports about the book and its contents were posted online by multiple media outlets.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Trump himself fired back on Twitter early Friday morning, a \"proven LEAKER & LIAR\" whose firing was fully justified.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"984763579210633216"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"984767560494313472"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003ch2>2. Were Trump's actions illegal? \u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Comey also writes about the pressure he felt from Trump when the president asked the then-FBI director whether he could \"see your way clear to letting this go, to letting [Michael] Flynn go.\" The president's longtime ally and former national security adviser, Flynn, had to resign because he had misrepresented to Vice President Pence his conversations with Russia's ambassador during the presidential transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flynn has since pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI as part of a plea deal with Mueller. Precisely what Trump and others knew about what took place during the presidential transition and the early weeks of the administration remains unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey reserves judgment on whether Trump's actions then and other times since constituted obstruction of justice, admitting, \"I have one perspective on the behavior I saw, which while disturbing and violating basic norms of ethical leadership, may fall short of being illegal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He does, however, fault those who overlook how much he says Trump's actions are beyond the pale. Comey's ire seems to extend to much of a Republican Party that he appears to feel has made a Faustian bargain with Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is also wrong to stand idly by, or worse, to stay silent when you know better, while a president brazenly seeks to undermine public confidence in law enforcement institutions that were established to keep our leaders in check,\" Comey writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difficulty confronted by the Washington establishment is embodied by retired Marine Gen. John Kelly. Comey writes that after he was fired, then-Secretary of Homeland Security Kelly phoned and offered to resign in protest in an \"emotional call\" with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He said he didn't want to work for dishonorable people who would treat someone like me in such a manner. I urged Kelly not to do that, arguing that the country needed principled people around this president. Especially this president,\" Comey writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than three months later, Trump would tap Kelly to be his chief of staff, but his relationship with Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/john-kelly-trump-oval-office-meeting-threatened-quit-f29667d3-d99f-4e23-92f6-9c48c360722b.html\">is described as tenuous\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. The backlash over the Clinton email investigation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While many liberals and opponents of the president will likely cheer the stinging rebuke Comey delivers of Trump, they also won't forget one of his most controversial decisions. Comey released a letter less than two weeks before the 2016 election revealing the FBI had reopened its investigation into Clinton's private email server used while she was secretary of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many in Clinton's camp — and the former Democratic nominee herself — have said they believe that may have swayed the election. Ultimately, the weekend before the election, the FBI said no relevant information had been found. Clinton, however, felt she had been tarred too much too close to Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his testimony before Congress last year, Comey told senators the idea that he had impacted the election with that pronouncement made him \"mildly nauseous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have read she has felt anger toward me personally, and I'm sorry for that,\" Comey writes in the memoir. \"I'm sorry that I couldn't do a better job explaining to her and her supporters why I made the decisions I made.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his book, Comey explains that one reason he felt he had to release the letter was because he believed that Clinton was going to win — and he didn't want her presidency to be tainted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is entirely possible that, because I was making decisions in an environment where Hillary Clinton was sure to be the next president, my concern about making her an illegitimate president by concealing the restarted investigation bore greater weight than it would have if the election appeared closer or if Donald Trump were ahead in all polls. But I don't know,\" Comey writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662012\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/gettyimages-693805668comeyaskew_wide-fba99371cb1191370d6c05af0bf64ec60eefc120-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Former FBI Director James Comey testifies before the Senate intelligence committee on June 8, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662012\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former FBI Director James Comey testifies before the Senate intelligence committee on June 8, 2017. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After Clinton's loss to Trump, Comey says President Barack Obama reassured Comey he had conducted himself the right way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I picked you to be FBI director because of your integrity and your ability,\" Obama said, according to Comey. \"I want you to know that nothing – nothing – has happened in the last year to change my view.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. Comey's \"extremely careless\" damnation \u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In July 2016, Comey went before TV cameras to announce that the Justice Department would not be filing charges against Clinton but that he felt she had acted irresponsibly by handling classified material on the personal email server.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the book, Comey writes that he regrets using the language \"extremely careless\" to describe Clinton's conduct because it is so similar to \"grossly negligent\" — the legal standard under which she might have been prosecuted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone on the investigative team agreed there was no case against Clinton, Comey writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey said he still believes he did the right thing by making that statement because the Justice Department had taken a similar approach in other high-interest investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, he also confirms that the FBI had unverified classified information that could have hurt then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch's credibility in overseeing the probe — and that's one reason he took a more high-profile role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Had it become public, the unverified material would undoubtedly have been used by political opponents to cast serious doubt on the attorney general's independence in connection with the Clinton investigation,\" Comey says. He doesn't elaborate more on what that information may be, simply that it's a \"development still unknown to the American public to this day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-a-dubious-russian-document-influenced-the-fbis-handling-of-the-clinton-probe/2017/05/24/f375c07c-3a95-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?utm_term=.0c803703aaff\">The Washington Post has reported\u003c/a> that the FBI obtained what appeared to be a Russian intelligence intercept that described documents in which Lynch assured Clinton's campaign that she would go easy on them in the email investigation. Comey and other FBI officials are believed to have suspected that intelligence was phony, but it, in part, prompted Comey to take matters into his own hands given the damage it might have done to Lynch's credibility if it became public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lynch has also come under fire for a tarmac meeting with Clinton's husband, former President Bill Clinton, as the investigation was underway. Comey says he saw no evidence of her interfering with the probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. Trump's obsession with the Steele dossier — instead of Russian interference\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Comey also says that Trump was intently focused on disproving some salacious allegations in the unverified dossier — authored by former British spy Christopher Steele — about Trump's alleged actions with Russian prostitutes, raising it several times with Comey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump \"strongly denied the allegations, asking — rhetorically, I assumed — whether he seemed like a guy who needed the service of prostitutes,\" the former FBI director writes. One reason Trump wanted the allegations disproved was because he feared there was a very slim chance his wife, Melania, might believe them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He just rolled on, unprompted, explaining why it couldn't possibly be true, ending by saying he was thinking of asking me to investigate the allegation to prove it was a lie. I said it was up to him,\" Comey writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one thing that Comey said wasn't on Trump's mind was dealing with the threat posed by Russia. The United States had publicly blamed Russia for interfering in the 2016 race, and by early 2017, the outgoing Obama administration was taking punitive actions including kicking out intelligence officers and closing Russian diplomatic posts inside the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump and his advisers, however, were not curious about any of that, Comey writes. He recounts a meeting in which he and intelligence officials briefed the then-president elect in January 2017 in Trump Tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump and his aides were more concerned with how to \"spin\" the information they had just been given and concerned about the perception that people might believe the only reason Trump was elected was because of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/05/23/528500501/lies-forgery-and-skulduggery-the-long-history-of-active-measures\">the Russian \"active measures\" effort.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were about to lead a country that had been attacked by a foreign adversary, yet they had no questions about what the future Russian threat might be,\" Comey writes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=5+Insights+From+Comey%27s+Memoir%3A+Ex-FBI+Chief+Blasts+Trump+As+Mob-Like&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11662009/5-insights-from-comeys-memoir-ex-fbi-chief-blasts-trump-as-mob-like","authors":["byline_news_11662009"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_18880","news_1323","news_425","news_20383","news_20279","news_21120","news_21254"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11662010","label":"source_news_11662009"},"news_11526193":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11526193","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11526193","score":null,"sort":[1498155233000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"trump-i-did-not-make-and-do-not-have-recordings-of-comey","title":"Trump: 'I Did Not Make, and Do Not Have' Recordings of Comey","publishDate":1498155233,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/877932956458795008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2017%2F06%2F22%2F533965746%2Ftrump-i-did-not-make-and-do-not-have-recordings-of-comey\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Thursday, 1:59 p.m. ET\u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump gave a straight answer on Thursday as to whether he has recordings of his private conversations with fired FBI Director James Comey — No.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/863007411132649473\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question of the existence of tapes arose on May 12, when shortly after firing Comey, Trump tweeted the former FBI Director \"better hope there are no 'tapes' of our conversations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That tweet appeared to come in response to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/us/politics/trump-comey-firing.html\" target=\"_blank\">a New York Times article\u003c/a> that said during a private dinner at the White House, Trump asked Comey for \"loyalty.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/08/watch-live-comey-testifies-before-senate-intelligence-committee/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comey testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee\u003c/a> that he told the president he would be \"honestly loyal\" and that the conversation made him \"uneasy.\" He also said he orchestrated a leak of information from memos he wrote about his recollection from private conversations with the president to trigger the naming of a special counsel, which did follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point during his Senate testimony on June 8, Comey memorably said, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/08/comey-to-feinstein-lordy-i-hope-there-are-tapes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"Lordy, I hope there are tapes.\"\u003c/a> He added, \"The president surely knows whether he taped me, and if he did, my feelings aren't hurt. Release the entire — release all the tapes, I'm good with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks since that May 12 tweet, Trump and his aides kept the mystery alive, refusing to say whether such recordings actually existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump was pressed on it by ABC News Correspondent Jonathan Karl during a press conference on June 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Q: And you seem to be hinting that there are recordings of those conversations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TRUMP: I'm not hinting anything. I'll tell you about it over a very short period of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Q: When is that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TRUMP: Okay. Do you have a question here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Q: When will you tell us about the recordings?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TRUMP: Over a fairly short period of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Q: Why not now? Are there tapes --\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TRUMP: Oh, you're going to be very disappointed when you hear the answer. Don't worry.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"I think the president's statement via Twitter today is extremely clear,\" said White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders when pressed by reporters on why the president waited 41 days to clear up whether he had any recordings of Comey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You guys asked for an answer. He gave you one. He said he would have it to you by the end of this week, which he did. And beyond timing of that, I can't really speak anything further,\" Sanders added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House Intelligence Committee requested any tapes that might exist be turned over by the White House by Friday, so the president was up against a deadline to deliver an answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president's statement on Twitter went out just two hours after Senate Republicans \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/22/senate-republicans-reveal-obamacare-repeal-bill/\">released a nearly 150-page bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act\u003c/a>, or Obamacare, and reshape America's health care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"After it was leaked that Trump allegedly asked former FBI Director James Comey for loyalty during a private dinner, Trump suggested there may have been 'tapes' of their conversations.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1498174370,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":520},"headData":{"title":"Trump: 'I Did Not Make, and Do Not Have' Recordings of Comey | KQED","description":"After it was leaked that Trump allegedly asked former FBI Director James Comey for loyalty during a private dinner, Trump suggested there may have been 'tapes' of their conversations.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Trump: 'I Did Not Make, and Do Not Have' Recordings of 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href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/22/533965746/trump-i-did-not-make-and-do-not-have-recordings-of-comey\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","nprImageAgency":"Getty Images","nprStoryId":"533965746","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=533965746&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/22/533965746/trump-i-did-not-make-and-do-not-have-recordings-of-comey?ft=nprml&f=533965746","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:05:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 22 Jun 2017 13:34:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:05:07 -0400","path":"/news/11526193/trump-i-did-not-make-and-do-not-have-recordings-of-comey","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv 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conversations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That tweet appeared to come in response to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/us/politics/trump-comey-firing.html\" target=\"_blank\">a New York Times article\u003c/a> that said during a private dinner at the White House, Trump asked Comey for \"loyalty.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/08/watch-live-comey-testifies-before-senate-intelligence-committee/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comey testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee\u003c/a> that he told the president he would be \"honestly loyal\" and that the conversation made him \"uneasy.\" He also said he orchestrated a leak of information from memos he wrote about his recollection from private conversations with the president to trigger the naming of a special counsel, which did follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point during his Senate testimony on June 8, Comey memorably said, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/08/comey-to-feinstein-lordy-i-hope-there-are-tapes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"Lordy, I hope there are tapes.\"\u003c/a> He added, \"The president surely knows whether he taped me, and if he did, my feelings aren't hurt. Release the entire — release all the tapes, I'm good with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks since that May 12 tweet, Trump and his aides kept the mystery alive, refusing to say whether such recordings actually existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump was pressed on it by ABC News Correspondent Jonathan Karl during a press conference on June 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Q: And you seem to be hinting that there are recordings of those conversations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TRUMP: I'm not hinting anything. I'll tell you about it over a very short period of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Q: When is that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TRUMP: Okay. Do you have a question here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Q: When will you tell us about the recordings?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TRUMP: Over a fairly short period of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Q: Why not now? Are there tapes --\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TRUMP: Oh, you're going to be very disappointed when you hear the answer. Don't worry.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"I think the president's statement via Twitter today is extremely clear,\" said White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders when pressed by reporters on why the president waited 41 days to clear up whether he had any recordings of Comey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You guys asked for an answer. He gave you one. He said he would have it to you by the end of this week, which he did. And beyond timing of that, I can't really speak anything further,\" Sanders added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House Intelligence Committee requested any tapes that might exist be turned over by the White House by Friday, so the president was up against a deadline to deliver an answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president's statement on Twitter went out just two hours after Senate Republicans \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/22/senate-republicans-reveal-obamacare-repeal-bill/\">released a nearly 150-page bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act\u003c/a>, or Obamacare, and reshape America's health care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11526193/trump-i-did-not-make-and-do-not-have-recordings-of-comey","authors":["byline_news_11526193"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_1323","news_425","news_20383"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11526194","label":"source_news_11526193"},"news_11510805":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11510805","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11510805","score":null,"sort":[1497535200000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"report-trump-under-investigation-for-possible-obstruction-of-justice","title":"Trump Conflates 'Phony Collusion' and Possible Obstruction of Justice Investigation","publishDate":1497535200,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 9:55 a.m. ET on June 15\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump dismissed a potential obstruction of justice investigation into his conduct, calling allegations of collusion between him, his campaign or people associated with him and Russia a \"phony story.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/875305788708974592\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, it's possible to obstruct justice without colluding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump was responding to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/special-counsel-is-investigating-trump-for-possible-obstruction-of-justice/2017/06/14/9ce02506-5131-11e7-b064-828ba60fbb98_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar&tid=a_breakingnews&utm_term=.db67d5d0b0b9\">Washington Post\u003c/a> report that special counsel Robert Mueller, who is overseeing the Department of Justice Russia investigation, is looking into whether Trump attempted to obstruct justice. An hour later, Trump was back at it, calling the investigation the \"single greatest WITCH HUNT in American political history.\" (People who followed McCarthyism closely might disagree.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/875321478849363968\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president also appeared to undermine Mueller's leadership, saying the \"witch hunt\" was being \"led by some very bad and conflicted people!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There has been an effort on the right to try to undermine Mueller to de-legitimize his potential findings ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/status/875314161345077248\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/status/875314527583260672\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... even though some of the same people just a month earlier had been praising the former FBI director for his esteem:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/status/864998445244743684\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News of Mueller looking into potential obstruction comes after former FBI Director James Comey testified last week. He said he didn't know if Trump obstructed justice, but said it was for Mueller to decide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey testified that he told the president he was not personally under investigation three times and confirmed that Trump was not under investigation at the time of his firing on May 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, \"Officials say that changed shortly after Comey's firing,\" the \u003cem>Post\u003c/em> reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It stands to reason that the circumstances surrounding Comey's firing would now be at the center of Mueller's query. That's particularly the case since other high-ranking administration officials have declined under oath in open testimony to provide more details about whether Trump asked them in any way to influence Comey or the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, National Security Agency Director Adm. Mike Rogers and Rogers' former deputy, Richard Ledgett, agreed to be interviewed as part of Mueller's investigation, according to five people \"briefed on the requests\" who were \"not authorized to discuss the matter publicly,\" the paper reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officially, Mueller spokesman Peter Carr told NPR's Carrie Johnson, \"We'll decline to comment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines told NPR's Phil Ewing, \"NSA will fully cooperate with the special counsel. We are not in a position to comment further.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for Trump's personal lawyer in the Russia matter, Marc Kasowitz, said, \"The FBI leak of information regarding the president is outrageous, inexcusable and illegal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"dZ5hkz8sRYhFsYhCEFfq4GQ2Wu3es6K6\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey's firing is a \"central moment that's being looked at\" in the investigation, \u003cem>Post\u003c/em> reporter Devlin Barrett told NPR's Ari Shapiro on \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em>, \"but it's not the only thing.\" Investigators are also considering the conversations Comey and the president had leading up to that point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his testimony on June 8, Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee that he believed Trump had fired him over his role as lead of the FBI investigation into Russian interference in the U.S. election and Trump campaign associates' possible ties to Russia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House has been inconsistent with its public messaging about the dismissal — initially saying Trump took the recommendations of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein about Comey's management of the FBI and his handling of the Clinton email investigation. But then the president himself said he had made up his mind prior to receiving the recommendations from the two top lawyers at the Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey testified that initial explanations that he was fired because of poor leadership were \"lies, plain and simple.\" He also said Trump had privately urged him to pull back on the investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn — \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/05/18/528989289/president-trump-holds-press-conference-with-colombias-president-before-overseas\">a claim that the president has denied\u003c/a>. Comey said he declined to tell agents working on the case about his conversation with Trump to shield them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/05/22/529586885/report-trump-asked-intel-heads-to-push-back-on-fbi-russia-probe\">The Washington Post previously reported\u003c/a> that Trump also asked Rogers and Coats to push back against the FBI's investigation. The intelligence chiefs \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/07/531851337/intelligence-chiefs-wont-discuss-private-conversations-with-trump-in-open-hearin\">declined to discuss\u003c/a> their private conversations with Trump during a Senate panel hearing on June 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether Trump's actions rose to the level of obstruction of justice, Comey testified last week: \"I don't know. That's Bob Mueller's job to sort that out.\" But Comey \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/10/532321287/is-trump-guilty-of-obstruction-of-justice-comey-laid-out-the-case\">did lay out facts that a prosecutor could use \u003c/a>to try to prove obstruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump and his supporters cast Comey's testimony that he had told the president he was not personally under investigation as vindication. Trump disputed, though, Comey's assertion he had asked for a pledge of loyalty. After Comey's much-watched Senate testimony, the president said in a press conference that he would testify \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/09/532273772/trump-says-he-is-100-percent-willing-to-testify-about-interactions-with-comey\">under oath\u003c/a> regarding his interactions and conversations with the former FBI director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think, frankly, our story shows that the president is by no means out of the woods as far as the investigation goes,\" the \u003cem>Post's\u003c/em> Barrett told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chatter surfaced earlier this week that the president was \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/13/532763717/trump-considering-firing-special-counsel-just-another-example-of-stirring-the-po\">considering firing Mueller\u003c/a>. After a day of speculation, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, \"While the president has the right to, he has no intention to do so.\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/us/politics/robert-mueller-special-counsel-trump.html\">The New York Times reported\u003c/a> that Trump had been waved off the idea by advisers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/05/17/528846598/former-fbi-director-mueller-appointed-special-counsel-to-oversee-russia-probe\">who appointed Mueller\u003c/a> on May 17, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/13/532756387/rosenstein-says-he-wouldnt-fire-special-counsel-without-good-cause\">testified on Tuesday\u003c/a> that he would not fire the special counsel without \"good cause.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump is not the only one under scrutiny, Barrett said: Investigators are also looking into the finances of Trump associates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Oftentimes what happens, frankly, in counterintelligence investigations is you start looking at sort of a core intelligence question — What did the Russians do and did they do it with any Americans? — and it grows into: What did any of those Americans do in their financial matters that may also raise alarms with the FBI?\" Barrett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller's investigative team has expanded in recent weeks. \u003cem>The National Law Journal\u003c/em> reported on June 9 that Mueller has brought Deputy Solicitor General Michael Dreeben onto the team on a part-time basis. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202789177543/Mueller-Enlists-Top-Criminal-Law-Expert-for-Russia-Probe?et=editorial&bu=National%20Law%20Journal&cn=20170609&src=EMC-Email&pt=Daily%20Headlines&slreturn=20170509104942\">Reporter Tony Mauro noted\u003c/a> the addition of Dreeben may signal that \"Mueller may be seeking advice on complex areas of criminal law, including what constitutes obstruction of justice.\" At the end of May, the chief of the Justice Department's Fraud Section, Andrew Weissman, also joined the team, NPR's Carrie Johnson reported at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Department policy is that a sitting president cannot be indicted by a grand jury, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/special-counsel-is-investigating-trump-for-possible-obstruction-of-justice/2017/06/14/9ce02506-5131-11e7-b064-828ba60fbb98_story.html?utm_term=.6069366b7243\">the Post also reported Wednesday\u003c/a>. Any findings by the department's investigation would be referred to Congress, where lawmakers would determine whether to impeach the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Trump+Conflates+%27Phony+Collusion%27+And+Possible+Obstruction+Of+Justice+Investigation&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As part of the DOJ Russia investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller's team is looking into whether President Trump attempted to obstruct justice, \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em> reported Wednesday.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1497565071,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1174},"headData":{"title":"Trump Conflates 'Phony Collusion' and Possible Obstruction of Justice Investigation | KQED","description":"As part of the DOJ Russia investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller's team is looking into whether President Trump attempted to obstruct justice, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Trump Conflates 'Phony Collusion' and Possible Obstruction of Justice Investigation","datePublished":"2017-06-15T14:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2017-06-15T22:17:51.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11510805 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11510805","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/15/report-trump-under-investigation-for-possible-obstruction-of-justice/","disqusTitle":"Trump Conflates 'Phony Collusion' and Possible Obstruction of Justice Investigation","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"http://www.npr.org/","nprImageCredit":"Nicholas Kamm","nprByline":"Dana Farrington","nprImageAgency":"AFP/Getty Images","nprStoryId":"532985377","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=532985377&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/14/532985377/report-trump-under-investigation-for-possible-obstruction-of-justice?ft=nprml&f=532985377","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 15 Jun 2017 13:56:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 14 Jun 2017 19:57:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 15 Jun 2017 13:56:07 -0400","path":"/news/11510805/report-trump-under-investigation-for-possible-obstruction-of-justice","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 9:55 a.m. ET on June 15\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump dismissed a potential obstruction of justice investigation into his conduct, calling allegations of collusion between him, his campaign or people associated with him and Russia a \"phony story.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"875305788708974592"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Of course, it's possible to obstruct justice without colluding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump was responding to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/special-counsel-is-investigating-trump-for-possible-obstruction-of-justice/2017/06/14/9ce02506-5131-11e7-b064-828ba60fbb98_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar&tid=a_breakingnews&utm_term=.db67d5d0b0b9\">Washington Post\u003c/a> report that special counsel Robert Mueller, who is overseeing the Department of Justice Russia investigation, is looking into whether Trump attempted to obstruct justice. An hour later, Trump was back at it, calling the investigation the \"single greatest WITCH HUNT in American political history.\" (People who followed McCarthyism closely might disagree.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"875321478849363968"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The president also appeared to undermine Mueller's leadership, saying the \"witch hunt\" was being \"led by some very bad and conflicted people!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There has been an effort on the right to try to undermine Mueller to de-legitimize his potential findings ...\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"875314161345077248"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"875314527583260672"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>... even though some of the same people just a month earlier had been praising the former FBI director for his esteem:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"864998445244743684"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>News of Mueller looking into potential obstruction comes after former FBI Director James Comey testified last week. He said he didn't know if Trump obstructed justice, but said it was for Mueller to decide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey testified that he told the president he was not personally under investigation three times and confirmed that Trump was not under investigation at the time of his firing on May 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, \"Officials say that changed shortly after Comey's firing,\" the \u003cem>Post\u003c/em> reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It stands to reason that the circumstances surrounding Comey's firing would now be at the center of Mueller's query. That's particularly the case since other high-ranking administration officials have declined under oath in open testimony to provide more details about whether Trump asked them in any way to influence Comey or the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, National Security Agency Director Adm. Mike Rogers and Rogers' former deputy, Richard Ledgett, agreed to be interviewed as part of Mueller's investigation, according to five people \"briefed on the requests\" who were \"not authorized to discuss the matter publicly,\" the paper reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officially, Mueller spokesman Peter Carr told NPR's Carrie Johnson, \"We'll decline to comment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines told NPR's Phil Ewing, \"NSA will fully cooperate with the special counsel. We are not in a position to comment further.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for Trump's personal lawyer in the Russia matter, Marc Kasowitz, said, \"The FBI leak of information regarding the president is outrageous, inexcusable and illegal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey's firing is a \"central moment that's being looked at\" in the investigation, \u003cem>Post\u003c/em> reporter Devlin Barrett told NPR's Ari Shapiro on \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em>, \"but it's not the only thing.\" Investigators are also considering the conversations Comey and the president had leading up to that point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his testimony on June 8, Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee that he believed Trump had fired him over his role as lead of the FBI investigation into Russian interference in the U.S. election and Trump campaign associates' possible ties to Russia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House has been inconsistent with its public messaging about the dismissal — initially saying Trump took the recommendations of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein about Comey's management of the FBI and his handling of the Clinton email investigation. But then the president himself said he had made up his mind prior to receiving the recommendations from the two top lawyers at the Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey testified that initial explanations that he was fired because of poor leadership were \"lies, plain and simple.\" He also said Trump had privately urged him to pull back on the investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn — \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/05/18/528989289/president-trump-holds-press-conference-with-colombias-president-before-overseas\">a claim that the president has denied\u003c/a>. Comey said he declined to tell agents working on the case about his conversation with Trump to shield them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/05/22/529586885/report-trump-asked-intel-heads-to-push-back-on-fbi-russia-probe\">The Washington Post previously reported\u003c/a> that Trump also asked Rogers and Coats to push back against the FBI's investigation. The intelligence chiefs \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/07/531851337/intelligence-chiefs-wont-discuss-private-conversations-with-trump-in-open-hearin\">declined to discuss\u003c/a> their private conversations with Trump during a Senate panel hearing on June 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether Trump's actions rose to the level of obstruction of justice, Comey testified last week: \"I don't know. That's Bob Mueller's job to sort that out.\" But Comey \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/10/532321287/is-trump-guilty-of-obstruction-of-justice-comey-laid-out-the-case\">did lay out facts that a prosecutor could use \u003c/a>to try to prove obstruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump and his supporters cast Comey's testimony that he had told the president he was not personally under investigation as vindication. Trump disputed, though, Comey's assertion he had asked for a pledge of loyalty. After Comey's much-watched Senate testimony, the president said in a press conference that he would testify \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/09/532273772/trump-says-he-is-100-percent-willing-to-testify-about-interactions-with-comey\">under oath\u003c/a> regarding his interactions and conversations with the former FBI director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think, frankly, our story shows that the president is by no means out of the woods as far as the investigation goes,\" the \u003cem>Post's\u003c/em> Barrett told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chatter surfaced earlier this week that the president was \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/13/532763717/trump-considering-firing-special-counsel-just-another-example-of-stirring-the-po\">considering firing Mueller\u003c/a>. After a day of speculation, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, \"While the president has the right to, he has no intention to do so.\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/us/politics/robert-mueller-special-counsel-trump.html\">The New York Times reported\u003c/a> that Trump had been waved off the idea by advisers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/05/17/528846598/former-fbi-director-mueller-appointed-special-counsel-to-oversee-russia-probe\">who appointed Mueller\u003c/a> on May 17, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/13/532756387/rosenstein-says-he-wouldnt-fire-special-counsel-without-good-cause\">testified on Tuesday\u003c/a> that he would not fire the special counsel without \"good cause.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump is not the only one under scrutiny, Barrett said: Investigators are also looking into the finances of Trump associates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Oftentimes what happens, frankly, in counterintelligence investigations is you start looking at sort of a core intelligence question — What did the Russians do and did they do it with any Americans? — and it grows into: What did any of those Americans do in their financial matters that may also raise alarms with the FBI?\" Barrett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller's investigative team has expanded in recent weeks. \u003cem>The National Law Journal\u003c/em> reported on June 9 that Mueller has brought Deputy Solicitor General Michael Dreeben onto the team on a part-time basis. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202789177543/Mueller-Enlists-Top-Criminal-Law-Expert-for-Russia-Probe?et=editorial&bu=National%20Law%20Journal&cn=20170609&src=EMC-Email&pt=Daily%20Headlines&slreturn=20170509104942\">Reporter Tony Mauro noted\u003c/a> the addition of Dreeben may signal that \"Mueller may be seeking advice on complex areas of criminal law, including what constitutes obstruction of justice.\" At the end of May, the chief of the Justice Department's Fraud Section, Andrew Weissman, also joined the team, NPR's Carrie Johnson reported at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Department policy is that a sitting president cannot be indicted by a grand jury, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/special-counsel-is-investigating-trump-for-possible-obstruction-of-justice/2017/06/14/9ce02506-5131-11e7-b064-828ba60fbb98_story.html?utm_term=.6069366b7243\">the Post also reported Wednesday\u003c/a>. Any findings by the department's investigation would be referred to Congress, where lawmakers would determine whether to impeach the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Trump+Conflates+%27Phony+Collusion%27+And+Possible+Obstruction+Of+Justice+Investigation&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11510805/report-trump-under-investigation-for-possible-obstruction-of-justice","authors":["byline_news_11510805"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_1323","news_425","news_20383","news_4783","news_20963"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11510806","label":"source_news_11510805"},"news_11508090":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11508090","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11508090","score":null,"sort":[1497389820000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"watch-live-jeff-sessions-testifies-before-senate-intelligence-committee","title":"Jeff Sessions Testifies He Never Discussed Election With Russians","publishDate":1497389820,"format":"aside","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/event/embeddedVideo.php?storyId=532649665&mediaId=532672044\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 5:37 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Jeff Sessions told a Senate committee Tuesday that any suggestion he colluded with Russia during last year's U.S. presidential campaign was an \"appalling and detestable lie.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sessions spent more than 2½ hours before the Senate Intelligence Committee, which included several testy exchanges with Democratic senators who accused him of obstructing their investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the questioning, Sessions defended himself and refused to discuss any details of conversations he's had with President Trump. In his opening statement, Sessions said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Let me state this clearly, colleagues: I have never met with or had any conversation with any Russians or foreign officials concerning any type of interference with any campaign or election in the United States. Further, I have no knowledge of any such conversations by anyone connected to the Trump campaign.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The attorney general on March 2 recused himself from the FBI investigation into Russia's role in the election, saying he felt he was required to do so because he had been a prominent figure in Trump's campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many have suggested that my recusal is because I felt I was a subject of the investigation myself, that I may have done something wrong,\" he said, stressing this was not the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The suggestion that I participated in any collusion, that I was aware of any collusion with the Russian government, or hurt this country which I have served with honor for 35 years, or to undermine the integrity of our democratic process, is an appalling and detestable lie,\" Sessions said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"WtC6eYpi6iOsN0ACuPPE69Jhqtiu8BXv\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His testimony came just six days after James Comey, the fired FBI director, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/08/watch-live-comey-testifies-before-senate-intelligence-committee/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appeared before the same committee\u003c/a>. The former FBI director discussed a host of issues surrounding Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election, though his remarks also raised questions that were directed at Sessions on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey referred frequently to the attorney general, and included the tantalizing tidbit that there were \"facts that I can't discuss in an open setting.\" Sessions requested an open hearing, though he made clear in his opening remarks, and at several times during his testimony, that there were some things he would not discuss, including confidential conversations with the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic senators expressed frustration with Sessions on several occasions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one tense exchange, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said, \"I believe the American people have had it with stonewalling. Americans don't want to hear that answers to relevant questions are privileged or off-limits.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am not stonewalling,\" Sessions said. \"I am following the historic policies of the Department of Justice\" on private discussions with the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Mark Warner, the Virginia Democrat and vice chairman of the committee, raised his concerns in his opening statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Our committee will want to hear what you are doing to ensure that the Russians — or any other foreign adversaries — cannot attack our democratic process like this ever again. I am concerned that the president still does not recognize the severity of the threat. He does not acknowledge the unanimous conclusions of the U.S. intelligence community that Russia massively intervened in our election.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Before he became attorney general, Sessions served two decades as a Republican senator from Alabama. But his former Democratic colleagues pressed him repeatedly on his contacts with Russia and his role in the dismissal of Comey — who led the FBI's probe on Russia until he was ousted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general has acknowledged two meetings last year with Russia's ambassador to the U.S., Sergei Kislyak. But he denied reports that he had a third, previously undisclosed meeting with Kislyak at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington in April 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"eeWz2Qciif0urNgm82phDR9lkCAZDJPu\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did not have any private meetings, nor do I recall any conversations with any Russian officials at the Mayflower Hotel,\" said Sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was asked about the event several times, and said at one point, \"If any brief interaction occurred in passing with the Russian ambassador during that reception, I do not remember it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his testimony last week, Comey said he and Trump had a one-on-one meeting in the Oval Office on Feb. 14 about the investigation into the former national security adviser, Michael Flynn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Comey, Trump said of Flynn: \"He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that meeting, Comey said he told Sessions he did not want to be left alone with Trump, because he didn't think it was appropriate for the president and the FBI director to have such private meetings. The FBI is part of the Justice Department that Sessions heads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sessions confirmed Comey's account, but placed less emphasis on the Trump-Comey meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe it was the next day that [Comey] said something, expressed concern, about being left alone with the president,\" Sessions said. \"But that in itself is not problematic. He did not, at that time, tell me any details about anything that was said that was improper. I affirmed his concern that we should be following the proper guidelines of the Department of Justice, and basically backed him up in his concerns.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., asked Sessions why, after recusing himself from the Russia inquiry, he signed a letter last month recommending that President Trump fire Comey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sessions said he agreed with a letter drafted by his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, that Comey should be replaced. Sessions added his own letter to that effect, and both documents were sent to Trump, who then fired Comey later on the same day, May 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Sessions refused to say whether he ever spoke with Trump about firing Comey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[SessionsAnnote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Jeff+Sessions+Testifies+He+Never+Discussed+Election+With+Russians+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In testy exchanges with Democrat senators, Sessions defended himself against any suggestions of wrongdoing during the 2016 campaign, but refused to discuss his conversations with President Trump.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1497393781,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":965},"headData":{"title":"Jeff Sessions Testifies He Never Discussed Election With Russians | KQED","description":"In testy exchanges with Democrat senators, Sessions defended himself against any suggestions of wrongdoing during the 2016 campaign, but refused to discuss his conversations with President Trump.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Jeff Sessions Testifies He Never Discussed Election With Russians","datePublished":"2017-06-13T21:37:00.000Z","dateModified":"2017-06-13T22:43:01.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11508090 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11508090","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/13/watch-live-jeff-sessions-testifies-before-senate-intelligence-committee/","disqusTitle":"Jeff Sessions Testifies He Never Discussed Election With Russians","videoEmbed":"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/13/532649665/watch-live-jeff-sessions-testifies-before-senate-intelligence-committee","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"http://www.npr.org/","nprByline":"Greg Myre","nprStoryId":"532649665","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=532649665&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/13/532649665/jeff-sessions-testifies-he-never-discussed-election-with-russians?ft=nprml&f=532649665","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 13 Jun 2017 17:37:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 13 Jun 2017 14:18:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 13 Jun 2017 17:37:38 -0400","path":"/news/11508090/watch-live-jeff-sessions-testifies-before-senate-intelligence-committee","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/event/embeddedVideo.php?storyId=532649665&mediaId=532672044\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 5:37 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Jeff Sessions told a Senate committee Tuesday that any suggestion he colluded with Russia during last year's U.S. presidential campaign was an \"appalling and detestable lie.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sessions spent more than 2½ hours before the Senate Intelligence Committee, which included several testy exchanges with Democratic senators who accused him of obstructing their investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the questioning, Sessions defended himself and refused to discuss any details of conversations he's had with President Trump. In his opening statement, Sessions said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Let me state this clearly, colleagues: I have never met with or had any conversation with any Russians or foreign officials concerning any type of interference with any campaign or election in the United States. Further, I have no knowledge of any such conversations by anyone connected to the Trump campaign.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The attorney general on March 2 recused himself from the FBI investigation into Russia's role in the election, saying he felt he was required to do so because he had been a prominent figure in Trump's campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many have suggested that my recusal is because I felt I was a subject of the investigation myself, that I may have done something wrong,\" he said, stressing this was not the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The suggestion that I participated in any collusion, that I was aware of any collusion with the Russian government, or hurt this country which I have served with honor for 35 years, or to undermine the integrity of our democratic process, is an appalling and detestable lie,\" Sessions said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His testimony came just six days after James Comey, the fired FBI director, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/08/watch-live-comey-testifies-before-senate-intelligence-committee/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appeared before the same committee\u003c/a>. The former FBI director discussed a host of issues surrounding Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election, though his remarks also raised questions that were directed at Sessions on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey referred frequently to the attorney general, and included the tantalizing tidbit that there were \"facts that I can't discuss in an open setting.\" Sessions requested an open hearing, though he made clear in his opening remarks, and at several times during his testimony, that there were some things he would not discuss, including confidential conversations with the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic senators expressed frustration with Sessions on several occasions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one tense exchange, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said, \"I believe the American people have had it with stonewalling. Americans don't want to hear that answers to relevant questions are privileged or off-limits.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am not stonewalling,\" Sessions said. \"I am following the historic policies of the Department of Justice\" on private discussions with the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Mark Warner, the Virginia Democrat and vice chairman of the committee, raised his concerns in his opening statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Our committee will want to hear what you are doing to ensure that the Russians — or any other foreign adversaries — cannot attack our democratic process like this ever again. I am concerned that the president still does not recognize the severity of the threat. He does not acknowledge the unanimous conclusions of the U.S. intelligence community that Russia massively intervened in our election.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Before he became attorney general, Sessions served two decades as a Republican senator from Alabama. But his former Democratic colleagues pressed him repeatedly on his contacts with Russia and his role in the dismissal of Comey — who led the FBI's probe on Russia until he was ousted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general has acknowledged two meetings last year with Russia's ambassador to the U.S., Sergei Kislyak. But he denied reports that he had a third, previously undisclosed meeting with Kislyak at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington in April 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did not have any private meetings, nor do I recall any conversations with any Russian officials at the Mayflower Hotel,\" said Sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was asked about the event several times, and said at one point, \"If any brief interaction occurred in passing with the Russian ambassador during that reception, I do not remember it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his testimony last week, Comey said he and Trump had a one-on-one meeting in the Oval Office on Feb. 14 about the investigation into the former national security adviser, Michael Flynn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Comey, Trump said of Flynn: \"He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that meeting, Comey said he told Sessions he did not want to be left alone with Trump, because he didn't think it was appropriate for the president and the FBI director to have such private meetings. The FBI is part of the Justice Department that Sessions heads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sessions confirmed Comey's account, but placed less emphasis on the Trump-Comey meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe it was the next day that [Comey] said something, expressed concern, about being left alone with the president,\" Sessions said. \"But that in itself is not problematic. He did not, at that time, tell me any details about anything that was said that was improper. I affirmed his concern that we should be following the proper guidelines of the Department of Justice, and basically backed him up in his concerns.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., asked Sessions why, after recusing himself from the Russia inquiry, he signed a letter last month recommending that President Trump fire Comey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sessions said he agreed with a letter drafted by his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, that Comey should be replaced. Sessions added his own letter to that effect, and both documents were sent to Trump, who then fired Comey later on the same day, May 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Sessions refused to say whether he ever spoke with Trump about firing Comey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[SessionsAnnote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Jeff+Sessions+Testifies+He+Never+Discussed+Election+With+Russians+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11508090/watch-live-jeff-sessions-testifies-before-senate-intelligence-committee","authors":["byline_news_11508090"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_1323","news_19542","news_20383","news_20377","news_17041"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11508197","label":"source_news_11508090"},"news_11501622":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11501622","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11501622","score":null,"sort":[1497057232000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"comey-testimony-judge-thelton-henderson-gubernatorial-candidate-delaine-eastin","title":"Comey Testimony, Judge Thelton Henderson, Gubernatorial Candidate Delaine Eastin","publishDate":1497057232,"format":"video","headTitle":"KQED Newsroom | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":7052,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Comey Testifies\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In dramatic testimony that lasted close to three hours, former FBI Director James Comey accused President Trump and his administration of firing him over the Russia investigation and then misleading the public about the reasons for the dismissal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guests:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>, former S. Attorney for the Northern District of California\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Sean T. Walsh\u003c/strong>, Republican political analyst and partner at Wilson Walsh Consulting\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Judge Thelton Henderson\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a young lawyer, U.S. District Court Senior Judge Thelton Henderson worked on voting rights in Birmingham, Alabama. Since his appointment to the judiciary by President Jimmy Carter in 1980, he’s ruled on high-profile and controversial cases, from dolphin-safe tuna to prison health care. Now after 37 years of service, Judge Henderson reflects on what he wants to be best remembered for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gubernatorial Candidate Delaine Eastin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrat Delaine Eastin, who served eight years as California's top education official, tells Scott Shafer why she wants to be governor of California in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Comey Testimony, Judge Thelton Henderson, Gubernatorial Candidate Delaine Eastin","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1527191607,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":8,"wordCount":172},"headData":{"title":"Comey Testimony, Judge Thelton Henderson, Gubernatorial Candidate Delaine Eastin | KQED","description":"Comey Testimony, Judge Thelton Henderson, Gubernatorial Candidate Delaine Eastin","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Comey Testimony, Judge Thelton Henderson, Gubernatorial Candidate Delaine Eastin","datePublished":"2017-06-10T01:13:52.000Z","dateModified":"2018-05-24T19:53:27.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11501622 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11501622","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/09/comey-testimony-judge-thelton-henderson-gubernatorial-candidate-delaine-eastin/","disqusTitle":"Comey Testimony, Judge Thelton Henderson, Gubernatorial Candidate Delaine Eastin","videoEmbed":"https://youtu.be/Zjqvs05zL5M","path":"/news/11501622/comey-testimony-judge-thelton-henderson-gubernatorial-candidate-delaine-eastin","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Comey Testifies\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In dramatic testimony that lasted close to three hours, former FBI Director James Comey accused President Trump and his administration of firing him over the Russia investigation and then misleading the public about the reasons for the dismissal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guests:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Melinda Haag\u003c/strong>, former S. Attorney for the Northern District of California\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Sean T. Walsh\u003c/strong>, Republican political analyst and partner at Wilson Walsh Consulting\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Judge Thelton Henderson\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a young lawyer, U.S. District Court Senior Judge Thelton Henderson worked on voting rights in Birmingham, Alabama. Since his appointment to the judiciary by President Jimmy Carter in 1980, he’s ruled on high-profile and controversial cases, from dolphin-safe tuna to prison health care. Now after 37 years of service, Judge Henderson reflects on what he wants to be best remembered for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gubernatorial Candidate Delaine Eastin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrat Delaine Eastin, who served eight years as California's top education official, tells Scott Shafer why she wants to be governor of California in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11501622/comey-testimony-judge-thelton-henderson-gubernatorial-candidate-delaine-eastin","authors":["236"],"programs":["news_7052"],"categories":["news_18540","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_21109","news_425","news_23202","news_20383","news_4593","news_20297","news_19177","news_2248","news_20909","news_20557","news_20963","news_21110"],"featImg":"news_11502265","label":"news_7052"},"news_11500315":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11500315","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11500315","score":null,"sort":[1496963981000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"comey-testifies-about-trumps-cloud","title":"Comey Testifies About Trump's 'Cloud'","publishDate":1496963981,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18515,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Accusing the White House of \"\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/08/watch-live-comey-testifies-before-senate-intelligence-committee/\">lies, plain and simple\u003c/a>,\" former FBI Director James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was live-drawing the hearing Thursday morning, focusing on Comey and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/08/comey-to-feinstein-lordy-i-hope-there-are-tapes/\">our senators from California\u003c/a>. While Comey was testifying before the Senate, President Trump was touting his infrastructure plan to a friendlier crowd in Ohio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are a few selections from this morning's cartoon frenzy, beginning with James Comey being sworn in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11500349\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_live001-800x812.png\" alt=\"Comey Sworn In by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"812\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_live001.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_live001-160x162.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_live001-240x244.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_live001-375x381.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_live001-520x528.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_live001-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_live001-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_live001-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_live001-96x96.png 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former FBI director went on to voice his concerns . . .\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11500361\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony002-800x812.png\" alt=\"Comey Concerned by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"812\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony002.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony002-160x162.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony002-240x244.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony002-375x381.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony002-520x528.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony002-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony002-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony002-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony002-96x96.png 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>. . . and called on President Trump to release any tapes of their conversations, if they exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11500408\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony003-800x812.png\" alt=\"Comey Lordy by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"812\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony003.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony003-160x162.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony003-240x244.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony003-375x381.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony003-520x528.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony003-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony003-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony003-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony003-96x96.png 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then along came California's longtime senator, Dianne Feinstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11500411\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony004-800x812.png\" alt=\"Feinstein Questions Comey by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"812\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony004.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony004-160x162.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony004-240x244.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony004-375x381.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony004-520x528.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony004-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony004-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony004-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony004-96x96.png 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it was her turn to question Comey, California's freshman Sen. Kamala Harris made a memorable analogy as she pointed out Trump's use of the word \"hope\" when allegedly telling the FBI director, \"I hope you can let this go\" -- referring to the inquiry into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When a robber held a gun to somebody’s head and said, 'I hope you give me your wallet,' the word hope was not the operative word at that moment,\" Harris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11500416\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony005-800x812.png\" alt=\"Kamala's Robber by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"812\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony005.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony005-160x162.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony005-240x244.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony005-375x381.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony005-520x528.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony005-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony005-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony005-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony005-96x96.png 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Accusing the White House of \"lies, plain and simple,\" former FBI Director James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee today.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1496972480,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":202},"headData":{"title":"Comey Testifies About Trump's 'Cloud' | KQED","description":"Accusing the White House of "lies, plain and simple," former FBI Director James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee today.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Comey Testifies About Trump's 'Cloud'","datePublished":"2017-06-08T23:19:41.000Z","dateModified":"2017-06-09T01:41:20.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11500315 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11500315","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/08/comey-testifies-about-trumps-cloud/","disqusTitle":"Comey Testifies About Trump's 'Cloud'","path":"/news/11500315/comey-testifies-about-trumps-cloud","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Accusing the White House of \"\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/08/watch-live-comey-testifies-before-senate-intelligence-committee/\">lies, plain and simple\u003c/a>,\" former FBI Director James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was live-drawing the hearing Thursday morning, focusing on Comey and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/08/comey-to-feinstein-lordy-i-hope-there-are-tapes/\">our senators from California\u003c/a>. While Comey was testifying before the Senate, President Trump was touting his infrastructure plan to a friendlier crowd in Ohio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are a few selections from this morning's cartoon frenzy, beginning with James Comey being sworn in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11500349\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_live001-800x812.png\" alt=\"Comey Sworn In by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"812\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_live001.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_live001-160x162.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_live001-240x244.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_live001-375x381.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_live001-520x528.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_live001-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_live001-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_live001-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_live001-96x96.png 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former FBI director went on to voice his concerns . . .\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11500361\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony002-800x812.png\" alt=\"Comey Concerned by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"812\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony002.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony002-160x162.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony002-240x244.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony002-375x381.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony002-520x528.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony002-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony002-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony002-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony002-96x96.png 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>. . . and called on President Trump to release any tapes of their conversations, if they exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11500408\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony003-800x812.png\" alt=\"Comey Lordy by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"812\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony003.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony003-160x162.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony003-240x244.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony003-375x381.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony003-520x528.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony003-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony003-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony003-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony003-96x96.png 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then along came California's longtime senator, Dianne Feinstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11500411\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony004-800x812.png\" alt=\"Feinstein Questions Comey by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"812\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony004.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony004-160x162.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony004-240x244.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony004-375x381.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony004-520x528.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony004-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony004-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony004-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony004-96x96.png 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it was her turn to question Comey, California's freshman Sen. Kamala Harris made a memorable analogy as she pointed out Trump's use of the word \"hope\" when allegedly telling the FBI director, \"I hope you can let this go\" -- referring to the inquiry into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When a robber held a gun to somebody’s head and said, 'I hope you give me your wallet,' the word hope was not the operative word at that moment,\" Harris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11500416\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony005-800x812.png\" alt=\"Kamala's Robber by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"812\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony005.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony005-160x162.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony005-240x244.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony005-375x381.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony005-520x528.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony005-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony005-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony005-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/comey_testimony005-96x96.png 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11500315/comey-testifies-about-trumps-cloud","authors":["3236"],"series":["news_18515"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_274","news_20150","news_20383","news_61","news_20949","news_20279"],"featImg":"news_11500343","label":"news_18515"},"news_11499710":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11499710","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11499710","score":null,"sort":[1496950500000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"watch-live-comey-testifies-before-senate-intelligence-committee","title":"Comey Accuses White House of 'Lies, Plain and Simple' About His Firing","publishDate":1496950500,"format":"aside","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>[ComeyLive]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 3:01 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former FBI Director James Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee that he believed he was fired by President Trump over the growing Russia investigation, and that arguments otherwise by the White House were \"lies, plain and simple.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In bombshell testimony Thursday, Comey, who was abruptly let go a month ago, said he began memorializing his numerous, often uncomfortable, conversations with Trump -- in which he asked for his \"loyalty\" and for him to scuttle the FBI's investigation into former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn -- because he \"was honestly concerned (Trump) might lie\" about their meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"jRJMTaEwo8ZQLCELIZcFr8iwVY8OdE9H\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I knew there might come a day when I might need a record of what happened not just to defend myself\" but also the FBI, Comey added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My impression is something big is about to happen. I need to remember every word that is spoken,\" he said of the numerous memos he wrote immediately after his encounters with the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"Shifting explanations\" for Comey's firing \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former FBI director also harshly pushed back on Trump's changing explanations for why he had been let go, saying he was \"confused\" and \"increasingly concerned\" about the \"shifting explanations\" Trump gave. The president initially pointed to Comey's handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation as the impetus, but later conceded it was because of his handling of the Russia investigation and claimed Comey was overseeing a demoralized FBI in disarray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"8FOfNiKdaQpgGR2c9oqyqcawSaOKhIPU\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So it confused me when I saw on television the president saying he actually fired me because of the Russia investigation and learned again from the media that he was telling, privately, other parties that my firing had relieved 'great pressure' on the Russia investigation,\" Comey said, referring to reporting on Trump's conversation with Russian officials in the Oval Office the day after the dismissal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The administration then chose to defame me, and more importantly the FBI,\" Comey said, by claiming the agency was \"poorly led.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"GpuYsOu3i6Sn9U3TvrSrxwaS0vMqWqex\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those were lies, plain and simple,\" Comey bluntly told the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Sanders later pushed back on Comey's assertions, telling reporters that \"I can definitely say the president is not a liar and I think it's frankly insulting\" that the question was asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Awkward \"loyalty\" dinners and Oval Office pressure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey's highly anticipated testimony followed the release by the committee of his written statement on Wednesday, which ticked off in rich detail the extent to which Trump pressed him about the Russia investigation. Comey wrote that Trump did ask him for a \"loyalty\" pledge during a one-on-one dinner and later told Comey in a solo Oval Office meeting that he \" hope[d] you can let ... go\" of the Flynn investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president has denied both those accusations. But Comey's testimony so far has only confirmed the many bombshell reports over the past few weeks about the private conversations he had with Trump, many of them unprecedented and possibly inappropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"PkoHy1Kkpj064rWEcKCF6HbqqxahfpGv\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey told the committee that he did see Trump's request for loyalty from him -- an independent arbiter atop the FBI -- as a sort of quid pro quo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My common sense told me what's going on here is he's looking to get something in exchange for granting my request to stay in the job,\" Comey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said that in a now-infamous photo just days after Trump's inauguration in which the president shook his hand and embraced him, Trump whispered in his ear, \"'I really look forward to working with you.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Trump's Feb. 14 private conversation with Comey in the Oval Office — the day after Flynn was asked to resign for misleading Vice President Mike Pence over his conversations with the Russian ambassador during the transition — Comey said that he believed the president was indeed directing him to scuttle the investigation into Flynn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I took it as a direction,\" which he didn't follow, Comey said. \"I took it as, this is what he wants me to do.\" Comey also added that, at that time, Flynn was indeed in \"legal jeopardy\" over his ties and contacts with the Russians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that Attorney General Jeff Sessions tried to linger in on that meeting, and he said that it was his \"sense\" that Sessions \"knew he shouldn't be leaving.\" According to Comey's written testimony, he later told Sessions he didn't want to be left alone with Trump again. Comey said during questioning that he was \"stunned\" by that conversation and the president asking everyone else to leave, and later said it was a \"significant fact\" to him as a prosecutor that Trump wanted to speak with him alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"2Au7mMGeCTSauaMwV8Ad0l35XTxeIrie\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey did testify that he didn't believe Trump was asking Comey to stop the broader Russia investigation being conducted by the FBI, but that while his conversation with Trump was \"disturbing,\" he didn't \"think it's for me to say that the conversation I had with the president was an effort to obstruct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Obstruction of justice? Up to special counsel Mueller to \"sort that out\" \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later asked by Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., whether Trump's interactions with him over Flynn rose to the level of obstruction of justice, Comey responded that was newly appointed special counsel Robert Mueller's \"job to sort that out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey said he had indeed seen Trump's tweet last month suggesting that the president had \"tapes\" of their conversations — and that if those did exist, they would corroborate his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Lordy, I hope there are tapes,\" he told senators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"yQFz2d9XQ7ctJqIpAA3jwWrRdUodKB8X\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Comey revealed that it was Trump's tweet about those alleged \"tapes\" that prompted him to call up a friend to leak the memos about his conversations with the president to the press last month in hopes it would lead to the appointment of a special counsel to oversee the Russia investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans have already seized on one section of Comey's written testimony as vindication. The former FBI director does detail in his written submission to the committee how he told Trump on three separate occasions that he himself was not under investigation -- a surprising assertion Trump put in his termination letter to Comey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Cfus4B3i9DIXOfTbHM7JAp7OWOUtESha\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey told the committee that deliberations with senior FBI leadership about whether to tell the president he was not personally under investigation, beginning in January before he was inaugurated, were not unanimous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the members of the leadership team had a view that although it was technically true, we did not have a counterintelligence file case open on then-President-elect Trump, his concern was that because we're looking at the potential -- again that's the subject of the investigation -- coordination between the campaign and Russia, because it was President Trump -- President-elect Trump's campaign, this person's view was inevitably his behavior, his conduct will fall within the scope of that work. And so he was reluctant to make the statement that I made. I disagreed,\" Comey said. \"I thought it was fair to say what was literally true — there is not a counterintelligence investigation of Mr. Trump -- and I decided in the moment to say it given the nature of our conversation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He later confirmed that when he was let go on May 9, there was no counterintelligence, nor criminal investigation, of Trump individually, and that the president was not personally under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked by Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., as to whether he believed Trump colluded with Russia during the campaign, Comey responded, \"I don't think I should answer in an open setting.\" Following his open hearing with members of the Intelligence Committee, Comey did go into a closed briefing with senators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey was also pressed by Republicans on the committee, including Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, on why he didn't alert White House officials or the White House Counsel's Office about what he believed were inappropriate conversations with Trump and a breach of protocol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know,\" Comey responded to Rubio. \"I think the circumstances were such that I was a bit stunned and didn't have the presence of mind.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Comey critical of Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans also pressed Comey on how he handled the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails during the 2016 campaign, usurping then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch by announcing the FBI was not recommending prosecution for handling of classified information on Clinton's private server.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey testified he was disturbed by Lynch's tarmac meeting with Clinton's husband, former President Bill Clinton, and that was one reason he made his announcement in July, though he did say at that time he believed Hillary Clinton had been careless with classified information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn't believe she could credibly decline that investigation, at least not without grievous damage to the Department of Justice and the FBI,\" Comey said of Obama's attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey said it made him uncomfortable that Lynch had directed him to refer to the Clinton email investigation as a \"matter\" and not an investigation, even though she was, indeed, under criminal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pressed by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., as to why he didn't call for an independent counsel to handle that matter, Comey said that he \"knew there was no case there\" and that \"calling for a special counsel would be brutally unfair.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Republicans push back that Trump has been \"vindicated\" \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president himself has not yet directly responded to Comey's testimony, and has not tweeted, as many people speculated he might. However, the president's son, Donald Trump Jr., did largely live-tweet the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/872828184575737861\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/872828336560640002\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/872828608464773120\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/872829135487475712\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Marc Kasowitz, President Trump's personal lawyer regarding the Russia inquiries, underscored in a statement that Comey did confirm what Trump has long asserted — that the former FBI director assured the president he was not under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[Comey] also admitted that there is no evidence that a single vote changed as a result of any Russian interference. Mr. Comey's testimony also makes clear that the President never sought to impede the investigation into attempted Russian interference in the 2016 election, and in fact, according to Mr. Comey, the President told Mr. Comey 'it would be good to find out' in that investigation if there were 'some 'satellite' associates of his who did something wrong. And he did not exclude anyone from that statement,\" Kasowitz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kasowitz also claimed that Trump never told Comey he needed loyalty from him \"in any form of substance,\" even though the president \"is entitled to expect loyalty from those who are serving in an administration.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he raised alarm over Comey's admission that he had encouraged a friend to leak his memos about his conversations with the president to the press, suggesting those were privileged communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will leave it the appropriate authorities to determine whether this leaks should be investigated along with all those others being investigated,\" Kasowitz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, House Speaker Paul Ryan defended Trump at his weekly press conference, arguing that one reason the president had unusual conversations with Comey was because he was a novice president learning the ropes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Of course there needs to be a degree of independence between DOJ, FBI and the White House and a line of communications established. The president is new at this. He's new to government. So he probably wasn't steeped in the long-running protocols that establish the relationships between DOJ, FBI and White Houses,\" Ryan said. \"He's just new to this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan was pushed by a reporter who asked how being new is an acceptable excuse when he has staff and legal counsel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not saying it's an acceptable excuse, it's just my observation,\" the House speaker replied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think people now realize why the president is so frustrated,\" Ryan also added. \"When the FBI director tells him on three different occasions he's not under investigation, yet the speculation swirls around the political system that he is, that's frustrating. Of course the president is frustrated, and I think the American people now know why he was so frustrated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR's Susan Davis contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Former FBI Director told the Senate Intelligence Committee he was \"confused\" and \"increasingly concerned\" about the \"shifting explanations\" President Trump gave for his May 9 firing.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1496968996,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":63,"wordCount":2099},"headData":{"title":"Comey Accuses White House of 'Lies, Plain and Simple' About His Firing | KQED","description":"Former FBI Director told the Senate Intelligence Committee he was "confused" and "increasingly concerned" about the "shifting explanations" President Trump gave for his May 9 firing.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Comey Accuses White House of 'Lies, Plain and Simple' About His Firing","datePublished":"2017-06-08T19:35:00.000Z","dateModified":"2017-06-09T00:43:16.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11499710 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11499710","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/08/watch-live-comey-testifies-before-senate-intelligence-committee/","disqusTitle":"Comey Accuses White House of 'Lies, Plain and Simple' About His Firing","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"http://www.npr.org/","nprImageCredit":"Justin Sullivan","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/404496424/jessica-taylor\">Jessica Taylor\u003c/a>\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","nprImageAgency":"Getty Images","nprStoryId":"531643678","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=531643678&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/08/531643678/comey-accuses-white-house-of-lies-plain-and-simple-about-his-firing?ft=nprml&f=531643678","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 08 Jun 2017 15:03:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 08 Jun 2017 09:54:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 08 Jun 2017 15:03:14 -0400","path":"/news/11499710/watch-live-comey-testifies-before-senate-intelligence-committee","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>[ComeyLive]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 3:01 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former FBI Director James Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee that he believed he was fired by President Trump over the growing Russia investigation, and that arguments otherwise by the White House were \"lies, plain and simple.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In bombshell testimony Thursday, Comey, who was abruptly let go a month ago, said he began memorializing his numerous, often uncomfortable, conversations with Trump -- in which he asked for his \"loyalty\" and for him to scuttle the FBI's investigation into former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn -- because he \"was honestly concerned (Trump) might lie\" about their meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I knew there might come a day when I might need a record of what happened not just to defend myself\" but also the FBI, Comey added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My impression is something big is about to happen. I need to remember every word that is spoken,\" he said of the numerous memos he wrote immediately after his encounters with the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"Shifting explanations\" for Comey's firing \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former FBI director also harshly pushed back on Trump's changing explanations for why he had been let go, saying he was \"confused\" and \"increasingly concerned\" about the \"shifting explanations\" Trump gave. The president initially pointed to Comey's handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation as the impetus, but later conceded it was because of his handling of the Russia investigation and claimed Comey was overseeing a demoralized FBI in disarray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So it confused me when I saw on television the president saying he actually fired me because of the Russia investigation and learned again from the media that he was telling, privately, other parties that my firing had relieved 'great pressure' on the Russia investigation,\" Comey said, referring to reporting on Trump's conversation with Russian officials in the Oval Office the day after the dismissal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The administration then chose to defame me, and more importantly the FBI,\" Comey said, by claiming the agency was \"poorly led.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those were lies, plain and simple,\" Comey bluntly told the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Sanders later pushed back on Comey's assertions, telling reporters that \"I can definitely say the president is not a liar and I think it's frankly insulting\" that the question was asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Awkward \"loyalty\" dinners and Oval Office pressure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey's highly anticipated testimony followed the release by the committee of his written statement on Wednesday, which ticked off in rich detail the extent to which Trump pressed him about the Russia investigation. Comey wrote that Trump did ask him for a \"loyalty\" pledge during a one-on-one dinner and later told Comey in a solo Oval Office meeting that he \" hope[d] you can let ... go\" of the Flynn investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president has denied both those accusations. But Comey's testimony so far has only confirmed the many bombshell reports over the past few weeks about the private conversations he had with Trump, many of them unprecedented and possibly inappropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey told the committee that he did see Trump's request for loyalty from him -- an independent arbiter atop the FBI -- as a sort of quid pro quo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My common sense told me what's going on here is he's looking to get something in exchange for granting my request to stay in the job,\" Comey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said that in a now-infamous photo just days after Trump's inauguration in which the president shook his hand and embraced him, Trump whispered in his ear, \"'I really look forward to working with you.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Trump's Feb. 14 private conversation with Comey in the Oval Office — the day after Flynn was asked to resign for misleading Vice President Mike Pence over his conversations with the Russian ambassador during the transition — Comey said that he believed the president was indeed directing him to scuttle the investigation into Flynn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I took it as a direction,\" which he didn't follow, Comey said. \"I took it as, this is what he wants me to do.\" Comey also added that, at that time, Flynn was indeed in \"legal jeopardy\" over his ties and contacts with the Russians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that Attorney General Jeff Sessions tried to linger in on that meeting, and he said that it was his \"sense\" that Sessions \"knew he shouldn't be leaving.\" According to Comey's written testimony, he later told Sessions he didn't want to be left alone with Trump again. Comey said during questioning that he was \"stunned\" by that conversation and the president asking everyone else to leave, and later said it was a \"significant fact\" to him as a prosecutor that Trump wanted to speak with him alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey did testify that he didn't believe Trump was asking Comey to stop the broader Russia investigation being conducted by the FBI, but that while his conversation with Trump was \"disturbing,\" he didn't \"think it's for me to say that the conversation I had with the president was an effort to obstruct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Obstruction of justice? Up to special counsel Mueller to \"sort that out\" \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later asked by Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., whether Trump's interactions with him over Flynn rose to the level of obstruction of justice, Comey responded that was newly appointed special counsel Robert Mueller's \"job to sort that out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey said he had indeed seen Trump's tweet last month suggesting that the president had \"tapes\" of their conversations — and that if those did exist, they would corroborate his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Lordy, I hope there are tapes,\" he told senators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Comey revealed that it was Trump's tweet about those alleged \"tapes\" that prompted him to call up a friend to leak the memos about his conversations with the president to the press last month in hopes it would lead to the appointment of a special counsel to oversee the Russia investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans have already seized on one section of Comey's written testimony as vindication. The former FBI director does detail in his written submission to the committee how he told Trump on three separate occasions that he himself was not under investigation -- a surprising assertion Trump put in his termination letter to Comey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey told the committee that deliberations with senior FBI leadership about whether to tell the president he was not personally under investigation, beginning in January before he was inaugurated, were not unanimous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the members of the leadership team had a view that although it was technically true, we did not have a counterintelligence file case open on then-President-elect Trump, his concern was that because we're looking at the potential -- again that's the subject of the investigation -- coordination between the campaign and Russia, because it was President Trump -- President-elect Trump's campaign, this person's view was inevitably his behavior, his conduct will fall within the scope of that work. And so he was reluctant to make the statement that I made. I disagreed,\" Comey said. \"I thought it was fair to say what was literally true — there is not a counterintelligence investigation of Mr. Trump -- and I decided in the moment to say it given the nature of our conversation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He later confirmed that when he was let go on May 9, there was no counterintelligence, nor criminal investigation, of Trump individually, and that the president was not personally under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked by Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., as to whether he believed Trump colluded with Russia during the campaign, Comey responded, \"I don't think I should answer in an open setting.\" Following his open hearing with members of the Intelligence Committee, Comey did go into a closed briefing with senators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey was also pressed by Republicans on the committee, including Florida Sen. 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John McCain, R-Ariz., as to why he didn't call for an independent counsel to handle that matter, Comey said that he \"knew there was no case there\" and that \"calling for a special counsel would be brutally unfair.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Republicans push back that Trump has been \"vindicated\" \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president himself has not yet directly responded to Comey's testimony, and has not tweeted, as many people speculated he might. However, the president's son, Donald Trump Jr., did largely live-tweet the event.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"872828184575737861"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"872828336560640002"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"872828608464773120"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"872829135487475712"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>And Marc Kasowitz, President Trump's personal lawyer regarding the Russia inquiries, underscored in a statement that Comey did confirm what Trump has long asserted — that the former FBI director assured the president he was not under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[Comey] also admitted that there is no evidence that a single vote changed as a result of any Russian interference. Mr. Comey's testimony also makes clear that the President never sought to impede the investigation into attempted Russian interference in the 2016 election, and in fact, according to Mr. Comey, the President told Mr. Comey 'it would be good to find out' in that investigation if there were 'some 'satellite' associates of his who did something wrong. And he did not exclude anyone from that statement,\" Kasowitz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kasowitz also claimed that Trump never told Comey he needed loyalty from him \"in any form of substance,\" even though the president \"is entitled to expect loyalty from those who are serving in an administration.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he raised alarm over Comey's admission that he had encouraged a friend to leak his memos about his conversations with the president to the press, suggesting those were privileged communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will leave it the appropriate authorities to determine whether this leaks should be investigated along with all those others being investigated,\" Kasowitz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, House Speaker Paul Ryan defended Trump at his weekly press conference, arguing that one reason the president had unusual conversations with Comey was because he was a novice president learning the ropes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Of course there needs to be a degree of independence between DOJ, FBI and the White House and a line of communications established. The president is new at this. He's new to government. So he probably wasn't steeped in the long-running protocols that establish the relationships between DOJ, FBI and White Houses,\" Ryan said. \"He's just new to this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan was pushed by a reporter who asked how being new is an acceptable excuse when he has staff and legal counsel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not saying it's an acceptable excuse, it's just my observation,\" the House speaker replied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think people now realize why the president is so frustrated,\" Ryan also added. \"When the FBI director tells him on three different occasions he's not under investigation, yet the speculation swirls around the political system that he is, that's frustrating. Of course the president is frustrated, and I think the American people now know why he was so frustrated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR's Susan Davis contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11499710/watch-live-comey-testifies-before-senate-intelligence-committee","authors":["byline_news_11499710"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_425","news_19542","news_20383","news_17041"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11499833","label":"source_news_11499710"},"news_11500132":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11500132","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11500132","score":null,"sort":[1496949932000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"trumps-lawyer-fires-back-after-comey-testimony-denies-asking-for-loyalty-pledge","title":"Trump's Lawyer Fires Back After Comey Testimony, Denies Asking for Loyalty Pledge","publishDate":1496949932,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>President Trump's outside lawyer flatly denied that the president ever asked former FBI Director James Comey for a pledge of loyalty, and he accused Comey of disclosing privileged communications with the president to the news media, without authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's attorney, Marc Kasowitz, went on the offensive only a couple of hours after Comey concluded his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee -- a highly anticipated performance that was broadcast live on national television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"w5oKCyK91kuB7wJUZ2JP7nN790FdZCfG\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kasowitz highlighted Comey's most favorable point for the president: that Trump was not personally the target of an FBI investigation. But he challenged Comey's account of a private dinner he had with the president on Jan. 27, during Trump's first full week in the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president \"never told Comey, 'I need loyalty, I expect loyalty,' in form or substance,\" Kasowitz said in a statement, refuting Comey's testimony that Trump appeared to be trying to create a patronage relationship with the FBI director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/mjDNe9A0QfI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey was so concerned by the dinner, and the perceived threat to the FBI's independence, that he documented that and other meetings with the president in personal memos. After he was fired, Comey asked a friend to leak the content of the memo about the Jan. 27 dinner to a newspaper reporter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kasowitz called that a breach of privileged information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Comey's excuse for this unauthorized disclosure of privileged information ... appears to be entirely retaliatory,\" Kasowitz said in the statement. \"We will leave it [to] the appropriate authorities to determine whether this leaks [sic] should be investigated along with all those others being investigated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president himself was uncharacteristically restrained during the Comey hearing. Trump didn't send out a single tweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"X6kzLg0WRP6ukx6dQFKutaDxJR2f8N6i\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's elder son was active on Twitter, however, defending his dad. Donald Trump Jr. took particular aim at Comey's claim that by saying, \"I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go,\" the president was effectively directing the FBI director to close the investigation of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/872828608464773120\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hoping and telling are two very different things,\" the younger Trump tweeted. \"Knowing my father for 39 years, when he 'orders or tells' you to do something there is no ambiguity, you will know exactly what he means.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Administration spokeswoman Sarah Sanders tried to project an air of normalcy, telling reporters, \"It's a regular Thursday at the White House.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the president spent much of the morning in meetings with his national security team, although a person close to his legal team said Trump planned to watch at least part of the Comey hearing with his attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders declined to answer specific questions about Comey's testimony, referring those to the president's lawyer. She did take issue, though, with Comey's claim that Trump is less than honest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"3jZGx5IaDfjYrzeUCJPlhvYk7Ciq47pf\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can definitely say the president is not a liar,\" Sanders said. \"And I think it's frankly insulting that that question would be asked.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey accused Trump of lying in multiple instances in the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump later addressed the Faith and Freedom Coalition, a group of religious conservatives who have been supportive of the president. He made no direct reference to the Comey hearing in his speech, though he did liken himself to people of faith who feel persecuted by the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As you know, we're under siege,\" Trump said, promising to protect religious liberty. \"You understand that. But we will come out bigger and better and stronger than ever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"7PMzYWTGxdOt72PvWRVxcHMselbrrou4\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan defended the president's contacts with Comey, saying any breach of the usual firewalls was a product of inexperience, not nefarious intent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Of course there needs to be a degree of independence\" between the FBI and the White House, Ryan said. \"The president is new at this. He's new to government. So he probably wasn't steeped in the long-running protocols that establish the relationships.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the hearing, Comey offered a different take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why did he kick everybody out of the Oval Office\" before raising the Flynn investigation, if the president's intent was innocent? Comey asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That, to me, as an investigator, is a very significant fact.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"President maintained Twitter silence during the Comey hearing and he didn't mention Comey during a speech before a religious group. But his attorney and his eldest son teamed up to defend him.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1496967185,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":734},"headData":{"title":"Trump's Lawyer Fires Back After Comey Testimony, Denies Asking for Loyalty Pledge | KQED","description":"President maintained Twitter silence during the Comey hearing and he didn't mention Comey during a speech before a religious group. 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After he was fired, Comey asked a friend to leak the content of the memo about the Jan. 27 dinner to a newspaper reporter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kasowitz called that a breach of privileged information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Comey's excuse for this unauthorized disclosure of privileged information ... appears to be entirely retaliatory,\" Kasowitz said in the statement. \"We will leave it [to] the appropriate authorities to determine whether this leaks [sic] should be investigated along with all those others being investigated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president himself was uncharacteristically restrained during the Comey hearing. Trump didn't send out a single tweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's elder son was active on Twitter, however, defending his dad. Donald Trump Jr. took particular aim at Comey's claim that by saying, \"I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go,\" the president was effectively directing the FBI director to close the investigation of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"872828608464773120"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\"Hoping and telling are two very different things,\" the younger Trump tweeted. \"Knowing my father for 39 years, when he 'orders or tells' you to do something there is no ambiguity, you will know exactly what he means.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Administration spokeswoman Sarah Sanders tried to project an air of normalcy, telling reporters, \"It's a regular Thursday at the White House.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the president spent much of the morning in meetings with his national security team, although a person close to his legal team said Trump planned to watch at least part of the Comey hearing with his attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders declined to answer specific questions about Comey's testimony, referring those to the president's lawyer. She did take issue, though, with Comey's claim that Trump is less than honest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can definitely say the president is not a liar,\" Sanders said. \"And I think it's frankly insulting that that question would be asked.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey accused Trump of lying in multiple instances in the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump later addressed the Faith and Freedom Coalition, a group of religious conservatives who have been supportive of the president. He made no direct reference to the Comey hearing in his speech, though he did liken himself to people of faith who feel persecuted by the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As you know, we're under siege,\" Trump said, promising to protect religious liberty. \"You understand that. But we will come out bigger and better and stronger than ever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan defended the president's contacts with Comey, saying any breach of the usual firewalls was a product of inexperience, not nefarious intent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Of course there needs to be a degree of independence\" between the FBI and the White House, Ryan said. \"The president is new at this. He's new to government. So he probably wasn't steeped in the long-running protocols that establish the relationships.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the hearing, Comey offered a different take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why did he kick everybody out of the Oval Office\" before raising the Flynn investigation, if the president's intent was innocent? Comey asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That, to me, as an investigator, is a very significant fact.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2017 NPR. 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