TESTIFY TOMORROW BARRING SOME ACT OF GOD -- WASHINGTON, DC,
THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS EXPECTING THAT SOMETHING MIGHT COME OUT OF
THIS.
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE QUESTIONS ARE THAT WILL BE ASKED
OR WHAT COMEY'S RESPONSES WILL BE, BUT WE HAVE A PRETTY GOOD
IDEA OF WHAT HE WILL SAY DURING HIS TESTIMONY SINCE THE ENTIRE
THING WAS LEAKED THE DAY BEFORE.
I'M NOT ENTIRELY SURE WHY, BUT
WE WILL READ A LITTLE BIT OF IT.
IT'S A VERY ENTERTAINING READ,
HERE ARE A FEW SECTIONS.
COMEY SAYS --
>>THIS INITIAL HURRIEDLY-TYPED MEMO IS CONCERNING ONE OF THE
INSTANCES IN WHICH TRUMP PUT PRESSURE ON HIM TO BACK OFF THE
INVESTIGATION INTO FLYNN.
AND HE SAID THIS, I THOUGHT THIS WAS
VERY INTERESTING --
>>-- THIS WAS
AFTER TRUMP SAID I WANT LOYALTY --
>>INTERESTING THERE.
HE GOES ON TO SAY, AND THIS IS ONE OF MY
FAVORITE PARTS -- ONLY WITH TRUMP AS PRESIDENT DO WE GET
MEMOS BY FORMER HEADS OF THE FBI THAT SAY THINGS LIKE THIS --
>>I'M ASSUMING THE HOOKERS IS A DIRECT QUOTE, I DON'T THINK
COMEY CAME UP WITH THAT.
>>I DON'T THINK HE WOULD'VE SAID HOOKERS, AND THE FACT THAT
THAT WAS THE ONLY THING TRUMP WAS CONCERNED ABOUT IS
HILARIOUS AND RIDICULOUS.
>>YET NOW I'M LIKE, OH, HE MET WITH HOOKERS IN RUSSIA.
HE KEEPS
PUTTING HIS FOOT IN HIS MOUTH OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
FIRST OF
ALL I DON'T CARE IF HE MET WITH HOOKERS, BUT FOR THOSE WHO MIGHT
CARE, NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN IT PLANTED A SEED.
>>AS ONE MIGHT WITH A HOOKER --
>>THEN YOU HAVE TO GO IN DISPUTE THE REST OF THE SALACIOUS
CLAIMS, YOU CAN'T JUST SAY I DIDN'T MEET WITH HOOKERS IN
RUSSIA, THE REST OF IT MAYBE I DID, NOT THE HOOKERS.
>>YOU HEARD YOU WENT TO RUSSIA AND SLEPT WITH A HOOKER AND HAD
WAY TOO MUCH CAKE -- I DIDN'T HAVE CAKE.
THAT IS SUSPICIOUS.
DEVIL'S ADVOCATE -- IF NONE OF IT HAPPENED, YOU COULD BE
JUSTIFIABLY FRUSTRATED BY PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT IT.
THAT IS
LEGITIMATE.
TALKING ABOUT IT WITH THE HEAD OF THE FBI SEEMS SUSPICIOUS.
>>AND ALSO, IF I WAS ACCUSED OF SOMETHING I KNOW I DIDN'T DO, I
WOULD BE AS TRANSPARENT AS POSSIBLE AND I WOULD COOPERATE
AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO PROVE THAT I WASN'T INVOLVED IN
WHATEVER IT WAS.
HE'S DOING THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF THAT.
SO
REALLY IF THERE WAS NO ISSUE WITH RUSSIA YET HE WAS GOING OUT
OF HIS WAY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE, WHY?
WHAT IS GOING ON WITH YOU,
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?
THAT IS THE THEME WE KEEP SEEING PLAY OUT WITH THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION.
>>MY PRODUCTION FOR TOMORROW -- I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE
HOPING THAT COMEY WILL TESTIFY, HE WILL JUST LOB BOMBS AND SHAKE
UP THE WHOLE THING, THAT IS POSSIBLE, BUT BASED ON WHAT WE
HAVE READ IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE THAT WILL HAPPEN.
THIS IS
INTERESTING, I READ THIS AS CLEAR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
DOCUMENTED CONTEMPORANEOUSLY BACKED UP BY MULTIPLE SOURCES IN
THE WHITE HOUSE, WHICH SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO THEORETICALLY IMPEACH
THE GUY BUT WE LIVE IN A CRAZY WORLD SO IT WON'T -- I DON'T
THINK A LOT OF CRAZINESS WILL COME ABOUT NATURALLY FROM COMEY.
BUT THERE IS ONE WILDCARD WITH THIS, AND THAT IS DONALD TRUMP.
ROBERT COSTA TWEETED --
>>SOUND LIKE A GREAT IDEA.
>>SOUND LIKE A WONDERFUL PLAN.
>>HE IS NOTORIOUS FOR GETTING HIMSELF INTO TROUBLE WITH THE
TWEETS HE PUTS OUT THERE, IT'S BEEN PART OF THE REASON HE
HASN'T BEEN ABLE TO IMPLEMENT SOME OF HIS EXECUTIVE ACTIONS.
NOT ABLE TO IMPLEMENT THE TRAVEL BAN BECAUSE HE REFERRED TO IT IN
A WAY THAT MADE IT CLEAR THAT IT WAS DISCRIMINATION AGAINST
MUSLIMS, WHICH IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
IF YOU WANT TO
TWEET, HAVE AT IT, HAVE FUN.
>>IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S AN ATTEMPT TO ACTIVELY DISCREDIT JAMES
COMEY AS HE IS TESTIFYING, AND IT'S INTERESTING BECAUSE THERE
WERE A NUMBER OF PARALLELS BETWEEN WHAT COMEY IDENTIFIES IN
HIS MEMOS AND A SEXUAL HARASSMENT CASE.
THIS PRESSURE,
I DON'T WANT TO BE ALONE WITH THIS PERSON, THEY MAKE ME VERY
UNCOMFORTABLE -- AND THEN THE BACKLASH TO COME FROM THIS OPEN
TESTIMONY.
IT'S BAD, IT'S VERY BAD, AND THE PRESENTATION, THE
PUBLIC IMAGE OF THE PRESIDENT, IS TERRIBLE.
AND YOU WOULD THINK
THAT HE WOULD WORK A LITTLE HARDER TO TRY TO BE TRANSPARENT
IF HE DIDN'T IN FACT DO ANY OF THESE THINGS.
BUT THE FACT THAT
YOU HAVE SAID THAT YOU MIGHT LIVE TWEET A HEARING --
>>I DON'T THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA.
>>IT'S JUST A PLOY TO INCREASE HIS TWITTER FOLLOWERS.
>>ITEMS CRAZY, BUT EVERY TIME ANYTHING HAPPENS HE IS WORRIED
ABOUT WHETHER HE'S GETTING ENOUGH SHINE.
WHEN COMEY WAS
INTRODUCED HE SAID THIS GUY IS GETTING MORE FAMOUS THAN ME.
HE
DOESN'T LIKE THAT HE'S GETTING ATTENTION THAT HE SEEKS SO
BADLY.
AFTERWARDS IF HE GETS MORE EYES ON HIS LIVE TWITTER
FEED THEN ON THE HEARINGS, HE WILL GO, LOOK WHO WON THE
BATTLE.
>>THAT'S RIDICULOUS BECAUSE YOU ARE THE PRESIDENT, YOU CAN MAKE
A FORMAL STATEMENT ANYTIME, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE VIA TWITTER.
>>IT IS ALSO SHORTSIGHTED, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN MONETIZE
YOUR TWITTER FEED WHEN YOU ARE IN PRISON.
BUT I LIKE THE
ANALOGY YOU MADE TOWARD SEXUAL ASSAULT, HE RESPONDS IN THE SAME
WAY.
AFTER HE FIRED COMEY HE STARTED ATTACKING HIM AND
THREATENING HIM ON TWITTER, HE IS ON THE SAME TWO WOMEN WHO
CLAIMED THAT HE ASSAULTED THEM.
HE WANTS TO DISTRACT, HE KNOWS
OF SOMETHING BAD HAS HAPPENED, I HAVE TO DISTRACT, BUT HE OFTEN
DISTRACTS HIMSELF BY SHOOTING HIMSELF IN THE LEG.
HE DOESN'T
KNOW WHAT WILL HURT HIM IN THE LONG RUN, AND IT'S POSSIBLE THAT
HE WILL REVEAL SOMETHING THAT THE SENATORS QUESTIONING COMEY
WILL SEE ON TWITTER, AND THEN THEY WILL BE ABLE TO ASK COMEY
ABOUT IN REAL TIME.
IF HE STARTS THREATENING COMEY, COMEY MIGHT
BE PUSHED INTO REVEALING MORE THAN HE OTHERWISE WOULD.
I
ASSUME COMEY WILL GO SOFT, SLOW ROLL THIS, BECAUSE I THINK IS
WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES WITH MUELLER.
BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT TRUMP CAN'T PUSH HIM INTO
REVEALING MORE THAN HE OTHERWISE MIGHT.