Absolutely they raise more questions than what they answer. If the tapes don't exist, why did he raise the prospect, why was he so long in denying their existence, what was intended by this, how is this in the national interest, or is this…

It's not amusing at all. I think somebody -- I hope one of the president's friends or advisers needs to underscore with the president, this is not designed to be entertainment for the country. He can't be a reality talk show host anymore.

Well, my reaction is, if he didn't record these conversations, if they don't exist, why did he suggest that they did? What was to be gained by that? Was this an effort to intimidate James Comey? Was it an effort to discourage other people…

I think the pressure on Republicans would be even too much for them to resist.

I would hope that Jeff Sessions would take the principle course and resign before he would agree to that.

If president fired Bob Mueller, Congress would immediately re-establish independent counsel and appoint Bob Mueller. Don't waste our time.

I agree. I think that Dir. Comey should have said, Mr. President, that's not an appropriate request, I can't do that.

I think you can certainly make the case that he should have had a different response to Loretta Lynch. He should have had a different response to the president.

The fact the director of the FBI felt that he couldn't go to the attorney general because the attorney general was conflicted. That the president asked him to drop a criminal case against the National Security Advisor, that ought to take…

To me as a former prosecutor that says this is someone conscious that what he is about to do is wrong.

I don't buy that at all. I don't think you can make an argument that we hold this president to a different ethical standard unless he's suggesting that the president is new to a high ethical standards or new to a commitment to be honest…

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Congress really needs to find out whether there was an active effort to interfere with the investigation or to draw in the intelligence agencies or their leadership in a way that would politicize the agencies.

He doesn't have experience in any of these areas. And he is acting as a super secretary of state.

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I would have liked to have seen the deputy attorney general in that lengthy letter he wrote justifying the firing of Comey, directly apparent conflict of interest, the quite obvious conflict of interest and also urge the attorney general…

I don't think there's anyone in the country right now that can have confidence that the president made this decision on a sound basis, instead everyone is going to suspect I think with very good reason, he's making this because he thinks…

I don't know if I would call it a cover-up, but it's a brazen interference with a criminal investigation.

This can't be a situation where the president picks a crony to run the bureau and another crony as an independent counsel.

Well, it's incredibly disturbing at many levels.

We've got to have a special prosecutor.

I think the new Republican lead, Mike Conaway, is very serious about undertaking a thorough and a non-partisan investigation.

I'm sure it was a difficult decision for him. But as he mentioned, I think it's in the best interests of the investigation.

I find it more than ironic that some of the same people who are still -- voice suppressing condemning the leaks of classified information or condemning me for not leaking information about these classified documents.