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The Bill Press Pod

All Eyes on Comey (6.8.17)

The Bill Press Pod

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Fox News, Hillary Clinton, Young Turks, Donald Trump, Jamie Benson, Progressive, News, Bernie Sanders, Progressive Talk, Liberal, Cnn, Msnbc, Stephanie Miller, Bill Press, Thom Hartmann

4.7601 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2017

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Bill Press welcomes Cory Bennett, Niall Stanage, & Paul Singer to discuss the seven-page statement from James Comey ahead of his testimony in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the fake news campaign that caused Donald Trump to criticize Qatar, the intel chiefs' inability to answer basic questions about the Russian investigation, & whether or not Comey's statement proves obstruction of justice - the full Thursday edition of the Bill Press Show! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:41.1

James Comey drops the hammer on Donald Trump, even before he starts his testimony. Hey, what do you say?

0:51.0

Hello, everybody. Wow. I've never seen anything like this in Washington, D.C.

0:55.7

for a long time or anywhere in this nation. The former FBI director releasing his prepared testimony,

1:05.6

24 hours ahead of time, catching the White House by surprise and undercutting any attempt on their part

1:15.0

to try to steal the spotlight from James Comey or to rebut anything he has to say.

1:24.6

It was the White House is trying to call it a nothing burger. No, it is a nuclear burger.

1:31.1

And we're going to tell you all about it, what Tom Comey says. We'll say today in these seven pages of

1:38.1

testimony that he released yesterday. It's a Thursday, Thursday, June 8, the day we've been waiting for. Good to have you

1:45.8

with us. I hope you've made plans to gather around the TV or the radio and maybe at your local

1:53.0

bar to watch the testimony today. It is happening in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee following a real nothing burger yesterday from Dan Coates, Director of National Intelligence, and Mike Rogers, the director of the NSA, who decided to take the cowardly way out and refuse to answer questions.

2:14.3

That's not what James Comey, of course, is going to do today.

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