The Timeline Of President Donald Trump And James Comey | Morning Joe

>>> ALL RIGHT. LET'S TAKE A MOMENT TO GO
THROUGH SOME OF THE TIME LINE OF WHAT HAS UNFOLDED IN THE PAST
FEW MONTHS. IT ALL MAY HAVE BEGUN WHEN THE
ACTING HEAD OF THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SALLY YATES INFORMED
WHITE HOUSE COUNCIL THAT MICHAEL FLYNN HAD MISLED THE PUBLIC AND
COULD BE COMPROMISED BY THE RUSSIANS, A WARNING THAT WAS
RELAYED TO THE PRESIDENT IN JANUARY.
>> FOLLOWING THE MEETING, THE WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL IMMEDIATELY
INFORMED THE PRESIDENTSIDENT ANE HOUSE SENIOR PERSONNEL, WHICH HE
FIRST CAME HERE, LATE ON FRIDAY THE 27th, YATES AND WHITE HOUSE
COUNSEL MET AGAIN TO DISCUSS CERTAIN ISSUES THAT SHE HAD LEFT
UNCLEAR AT THE TIME. >> ON THE NIGHT OF JANUARY 27th,
PRESIDENT TRUMP HAD DINNER WITH JAMES COMEY WHERE HE REPORTEDLY
ASKED FOR THE FBI DIRECTOR'S LOYALTY, AND COMEY REFUSED.
THREE DAYS LATER ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL YATES WAS FIRED FOR NOT
DEFENDING THE TRAVEL BAN. HOURS AFTER "THE WASHINGTON
POST" REPORTED THAT YATES WARNED THE WHITE HOUSE POUT FLYNN,
PRESIDENT TRUMP FIRED THE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER.
THAT WAS ON FEBRUARY 13th. IN THE OVAL OFFICE ON THE
FOLLOWING DAY, FEBRUARY 14th, TRUMP ASKED COMEY ABOUT LETTING
THE FLYNN CASE GO. ACCORDING TO THE FBI DIRECTOR'S
MEMO. BUT THROUGH IT ALL, COMEY
CONTINUED TO SHOW HIS INDEPENDENCE.
ON MARCH 4th, TRUMP TWEETED, ACCUSING PRESIDENT OBAMA OF
WIRETAPPING HIM. THE NEXT DAY, "THE NEW YORK
TIMES" REPORTED THAT COMEY PUSHED FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE TO PUBLICLY REJECT THE ACCUSATIONS.
LATER THAT WEEK ON MARCH 8th, COMEY SAID HE WOULD SERVE HIS
FULL TERM AS DIRECTOR LESS THAN TWO WEEKS BEFORE CONFIRMING THE
FBI'S INVESTIGATION SPOKE RUSSIA.
>> YOU'RE STUCK WITH ME FOR ABOUT ANOTHER 6 1/2 YEARS.
SO I'D LOVE TO BE INVITED BACK AGAIN.
>> I HAVE BEEN AUTHORIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO CONFIRM
THAT THE FBI, AS PART OF OUR COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE MISSION, IS
INVESTIGATING IN THE NATURE OF ANY LINKS BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS
ASSOCIATED WITH THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND THE RUSSIAN
GOVERNMENT. >> THAT CONFIRMATION OF THE
INVESTIGATION CAME BEFORE THE HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE ON
MARCH 20th. ON MARCH 30th, GENERAL FLYNN
ASKED FOR IMMUNITY TO TESTIFY. ON MARCH 31st, PRESIDENT TRUMP
TWEETED FLYNN WAS RIGHT TO ASK FOR IMMUNITY AND THAT THE
INVESTIGATION WAS A, QUOTE, WITCH HUNT.
JUMP AHEAD TO MAY 2nd WHEN IN A PHONE CALL RUSSIAN PRESIDENT
PUTIN ASKED PRESIDENT TRUMP TO MEET WITH SERGEY LAVROV.
THE NEXT DAY, PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS REPORTEDLY ANGERED BY COMEY,
TESTIFYING HE WAS UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THE IDEA THAT HIS ACTIONS
SWUNG THE ELECTION. >> IT MAKES ME MILDLY NAUSEOUS
TO THINK WE MIGHT HAVE HAD HAD SOME IMPACT ON THE ELECTION.
I COULD BE WRONG BUT WE HONESTLY MADE A DECISION IN THOSE TWO
CHOICES EVEN IN HINDSIGHT AND THIS HAS BEEN THE WORLD'S MOST
PAINFUL EXPERIENCE BUT I WOULD MAKE THE SAME DECISION.
>> THE FOLLOWING WEEK, MONDAY MAY 8th, COMEY TOLD THE HEADS OF
THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE HE ASKED FOR MORE
RESOURCES IN THE RUSSIA PROBE FROM THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT.
THE DAY AFTER THAT, TUESDAY MAY 9th, PRESIDENT TRUMP FIRED
COMEY. LESS THAN 24 HOURS LATER, HE MET
IN THE OVAL OFFICE WITH THE RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AND THE
VERY AMBASSADOR WHOSE CONVERSATION ENSNARED FLYNN AND
REPORTEDLY SHARED SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE.
JOE. >> WILLIE, IT'S JUST AN
EXTRAORDINARY TIME LINE, DEVASTATING.
WOULD CERTAINLY BE DEVASTATING FOR ANY CLIENT IN COURT.
YOU HAVE YATES COMING UP AND PUSHING, WARNING THEM.
TRUMP FIRES YATES. THEN THE NEXT DAY HE ASKS COMEY
TO DROP THE INVESTIGATION. THERE'S SO MUCH OVER THE PAST
MONTH, IT'S REALLY HARD TO KEY IN ON JUST ONE AREA BUT IT'S
DEVASTATING THE WAY THESE EVENTS LINE UP.
>> IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT, I THINK, TO LOOK AT IT THAT WAY.
MIKA JUST LAID IT OUT WELL OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS, MARK
HALPERIN, WHICH IS TO SAY
THERE'S SO MANY STORIES SO FAST AND SO FURIOUS AND ONE OR TWO
PER DAY THAT ARE DEVASTATING TO THE WHITE HOUSE.
IT'S IMPORTANT TO LOOK AT THEM ON THE SPECTRUM OF HOW THEY
RELATE TO EACH OTHER, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE MEMO THAT
COMEY WROTE, THAT WE'RE LEARNING ABOUT FROM MICHAEL SCHMITT
REPORTING IN THE "NEW YORK TIMES."
SAYING, LOOK, WE GOT

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