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Comey Told Sessions: Dont Leave Me Alone With Trump
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MATT APUZZOJUNE 6, 2017
WASHINGTON The day after President Trump asked James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, to end an investigation into his former national security adviser, Mr. Comey confronted Attorney General Jeff Sessions and said he did not want to be left alone again with the president, according to current and former law enforcement officials.
Mr. Comey believed Mr. Sessions should protect the F.B.I. from White House influence, the officials said, and pulled him aside after a meeting in February to tell him that private interactions between the F.B.I. director and the president were inappropriate. But Mr. Sessions could not guarantee that the president would not try to talk to Mr. Comey alone again, the officials said.
Mr. Comey did not reveal, however, what had so unnerved him about his Oval Office meeting with the president: Mr. Trumps request that the F.B.I. director end the investigation into the former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, who had just been fired. By the time Mr. Trump fired Mr. Comey last month, Mr. Comey had disclosed the meeting to a few of his closest advisers but nobody at the Justice Department, according to the officials, who did not want to be identified discussing Mr. Comeys interactions with Mr. Trump and Mr. Sessions.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/us/politics/comey-sessions-trump.html
malaise
(269,004 posts)I'm watching from tomorrow
Rec
babylonsister
(171,066 posts)malaise
(269,004 posts)I'll be watching Rosenstein tomorrow - could be interesting
babylonsister
(171,066 posts)or somewhere, over the international date line, watching this from tomorrow.
I'll be watching the next two... oh, hell, I'll be watching!
You tell me what's going on on Morning Yo; what time is it there right about now? It's 8:25pm here.
malaise
(269,004 posts)babylonsister
(171,066 posts)Next time you're in FL, I live here now. Visit me, because I do love you.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)first day.
canetoad
(17,160 posts)Who is comfortable about being alone with that fucking idiot?
Comey's testimony happens live at midnight Thursday here. I'll be going to bed early and setting an alarm.
babylonsister
(171,066 posts)happy you'll be watching, as I know how riveted you are to this ongoing drama.
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)babylonsister
(171,066 posts)furtheradu
(1,865 posts)With a lick of sense & self respect.
O, hey, Y'all!
TOMORROW is a BIG FREAKIN DEAL Day of hearings!
4 top INTEL heads, Coates, Rosenstein, etc ..
I've been seriously vibing on this.. this will be bigger than Comey Day. I BELIEVE.
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)I hope someone asks him under oath.