You just know that the people in that room will have a sort of “checklist”.
Will he say this?
Will he deny that?
Comey makes a wrong step in front of Congress and President Trump is going to turn to someone and say: “Do we have him? Did he just screw up? Can we charge him this afternoon?”
ANd didn’t President Trump meet yesterday with some or all of today’s questioners?
I hope we get a few take-downs
Neither former President Barack Obama nor any member of his cabinet warned state election officials of any Russian effort to hack or interfere with the country’s electoral systems, according to the president of the National Association of Secretaries of State. “We did ask,” Denise Merrill, Connecticut secretary of state and the association’s top official, told The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group Wednesday.
“And over-and-over again, they did say there was no credible threat that they had found. And they said that right through the election, and the next administration reiterated that. Over and over again when we asked, we were told there was no actual threat that they knew of,” Merrill said.
Asked if there were any private briefings for state election officials on possible Russian interference prior to the November 2016 voting, Merrill said, “No. We were not briefed on any of that. We were not told in advance.”
Merrill also claimed the Obama administration failed to take state officials aside about a potential or real Russian threat to election machinery.
“That’s right, because I don’t really think there was one,” she said.
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REFERENCE How a dubious Russian document influenced the FBI’s handling of the Clinton probe
Washington Post ^ | May 24 / fr Posted by navysealdad
In the midst of the 2016 presidential primary season, the FBI received a purported Russian intelligence document describing a tacit understanding between the campaign of Hillary Clinton and the Justice Department over the inquiry into whether she intentionally revealed classified information through her use of a private email server.
The Russian document mentioned a supposed email describing how then-Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch had privately assured someone in the Clinton campaign that the email investigation would not push too deeply into the matter. (Washington Post excerpt---rest on FR.)