The suddenly relevant debate about whether a president can be prosecuted, explained

[Max E.]

So your saying it could be something that is chopped with video editing? I.E. the answers are not to the real questions, and its just clever video editing? Some of these people with video editing are pretty amazing, but it looks legit to me cause you can hear them both talking to each other with the camera on the same person in many cases.

But Yeah im surprised this wouldnt be front page on breitbart and drudge and fox by this point, cause i never saw it there either, do you remember where it was originally from?

Because this just blows a a gigantic hole in the whole thing, i would have thought that even a shameless organisation like CNN would have to show it at some point otherwise risk just blowing their credibility altogether. If it is infact legit.

let me give one caveat. I saw the clip on my phone this morning while I was waiting in my car.
Leading me... to believe it must have been on breitbart or a link from drudge.

When I got to the office computer I did a search of breitbart and drudge and it was not there.

So I found it with google search. But, I am concerned that maybe there is an issue with it.

 

[Tony Stark]

this thread is clearly a hypothetical because there was no obstruction... per comey.

She specifically asked about The AG or members of the DOJ.

 

[Max E.]

She specifically asked about The AG or members of the DOJ.

It doesnt matter what the question was the response was "It would be a big deal to tell the FBI to stop doing something for a political reason, that would be a big deal in my experience"

Any lawyer worth their salt is going to say, "So you said that it would be a big deal in your experience, but yet you didnt see fit to tell anyone that the president of the united states was telling you to stop an investigation for political purposes, until the day you got fired"

Any lawyer worth their salt and (and Trump will have the best) is going to absolutely decimate him and his credibility with that video, and thats assuming what the media has is even true.

They are going to say, obviously you didnt see what Trump said to you as being a "Big Deal" at the time or you would have came foreword with it.

The argument is obvious for anyone whose spent even 1 minute watching the way court cases play out.

 

[jem]

Breitbart has something about it, but, not the video I saw this morning.
I think this knocks out the concern it was just fancy editing.


http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...nced-any-requests-to-stop-fbi-investigations/

The debate about former FBI Director James Comey’s alleged memo about President Donald Trump’s attempt to stop the agency’s investigation into former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn showed up on Twitter Wednesday.
A reporter tweeted that Comey denied any interference in the agency’s investigations while under oath at a Senate hearing earlier this month.


Jack Posobiec, Washington Bureau Chief for The Rebel.media, tweeted about it on Wednesday.



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Although Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) didn’t specifically ask about Trump in the question she posed to Comey, the inquiry was about whether or not he had experienced having a higher authority stop an FBI investigation.

“So if the Attorney General or senior officials at the Department of Justice opposes a specific investigation, can they halt that FBI investigation?” Hirono asked.

“In theory yes,” Comey answered.

“Has it happened? Hirono asked.

“Not in my experience,” Comey responded. “Because it would be a big deal to tell the FBI to stop doing something that — without an appropriate purpose.”

“I mean where oftentimes they give us opinions that we don’t see a case there, and so you ought to stop investing resources in it,” Comey said. “But I’m talking about a situation where we were told to stop something for a political reason, that would be a very big deal.

“It’s not happened in my experience,” Comey said.

 

[Tony Stark]

It doesnt matter what the question was the response was "It would be a big deal to tell the FBI to stop doing something for a political reason, that would be a big deal in my experience"

Any lawyer worth their salt is going to say, "So you said that it would be a big deal in your experience, but yet you didnt see fit to tell anyone that the president of the united states was telling you to stop an investigation for political purposes, until the day you got fired"

Any lawyer worth their salt and (and Trump will have the best) is going to absolutely decimate him and his credibility with that video, and thats assuming what the media has is even true.

They are going to say, obviously you didnt see what Trump said to you as being a "Big Deal" at the time or you would have came foreword with it.

The argument is obvious for anyone whose spent even 1 minute watching the way court cases play out.

Trump is under investigation. Comey is not going to mention possible evidence in Trumps Russia case in a public hearing.He in no way perjured himself. Comey specifically answered the specific question he was asked.

 

[Max E.]

Trump is under investigation. Comey is not going to mention possible evidence in Trumps Russia case in a public hearing.He in no way perjured himself. Comey specifically answered the specific question he was asked.

So its ok to mention it once Comey gets fired, but its confidential before that? LOL. Also your making a big leap to say Trump himself was underinvestigation, there is no evidence of that at this point.

 

[Tony Stark]

So its ok to mention it once Comey gets fired

Comeys not the one who mentioned it.

 

[Tony Stark]

Also your making a big leap to say Trump himself was underinvestigation, there is no evidence of that at this point.

“I’ve been authorized by the Department of Justice to confirm that the FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election,” Comey said in testimony before the House Intelligence Committee. “That includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia’s efforts.”

 

[Max E.]

Comeys not the one who mentioned it.

But hes going to go testify about it, he didnt think to tell someone on the investigation committee before this? There is all kinds of avenues he could have used before if he thought it was "a very big deal" In his words.

 

[Max E.]

“I’ve been authorized by the Department of Justice to confirm that the FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election,” Comey said in testimony before the House Intelligence Committee. “That includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia’s efforts.”

The campaign does not = Trump specifically, the campaign = Manafort and Flynn. Why hasnt he denied telling Trump he was not under investigation?