11:27 AM: Interesting to me how seriously Comey took Trump’s tweet about taping.
11:21 AM: A remarkably delicate balance GOPs are trying to thread here. On the one hand, Comey’s statements exonerate the President. On the other, why were you such a pushover with the President’s inappropriate behavior?
11:13 PM: This seems like a pretty key statement: It’s why Comey thought Sessions would soon have to recuse himself: “He was very close to and inevitably going to recuse himself for a variety of reasons. We also were aware of facts that I can’t discuss in an open setting that would make his continued engagement in a Russia-related investigation problematic. So we were, we were convinced that, in fact, I think we had already we heard the career people were recommending he recuse himself, that he was not going to be if contact with russia-related matters …” [Again, rough transcript.]
11:06 AM: Interesting dynamic here that the GOP Senators are clearly carrying Trump’s water as much as possible, as much as they can. Yet they feel that Comey’s has enough helpful things to say that they cannot easily go after him.
11:03 AM: It’s fascinating that Comey’s answers to why he didn’t say more, why he wasn’t more emphatic, amount to being stunned by the scope of Trump’s corruption, audacity.
