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(8 Jun 2017) VOICE-OVER SCRIPT:
VERBAL SPARRING ON CAPITOL HILL ...
SOUNDBITE (English) Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General:
"Our default position is that when there is a Justice Department investigation we do not discuss it publicly. That's out default rule ..."
SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Mark Warner, (D) Virginia:
"Is that the rule for the president of the United States as well? Because that is what the questions are being asked about, reports that nobody has laid to rest here, that the president of the United States has intervened directly into an ongoing FBI investigation."
THE NATION'S TOP INTELLIGENCE CHIEFS STAUNCHLY REFUSING TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT CONVERSATIONS THEY HAD WITH PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP regarding PROBES INTO RUSSIAN ACTIVITIES DURING THE ELECTION.
SOUNDBITE (English) Adm. Michael Rogers, National Security Agency Director:
"To the best of my recollection, I have never been directed to do anything I believe to be illegal, immoral, unethical or inappropriate. And to the best of my recollection, during that same period of service, I do not recall ever feeling pressured to do so."
THE NON-ANSWERS ... NOT SATISFYING COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, RICHARD BURR.
SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Richard Burr, (R) North Carolina, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman:
"At no time should you be in a position where you come to Congress without an answer. It may be in a different format, but the requirements of our oversight duties and your agencies demand it. "
WEDNESDAY'S HEATED DEBATES, A CURTAIN-RAISER FOR FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY'S MUCH ANTICIPATED TESTIMONY BEFORE THE SAME SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE THURSDAY.
HIS FIRST PUBLIC COMMENTS SINCE PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ABRUPTLY FIRED HIM ON MAY 9.
IN HIS PREPARED REMARKS RELEASED IN ADVANCE, COMEY'S SEVEN PAGE STATEMENT DESCRIBES IN DETAIL NINE ONE-ON-ONE CONVERSATIONS HE HAD WITH TRUMP IN FOUR MONTHS.
DURING A JANUARY 27TH DINNER AT THE WHITE HOUSE, COMEY RECALLS HOW THE PRESIDENT DECLARED: "I NEED LOYALTY. I EXPECT LOYALTY."
COMEY ALSO PROVIDES DETAILS OF A FEBRUARY 14TH OVAL OFFICE MEETING IN WHICH THE PRESIDENT RETURNED TO THE TOPIC OF FIRED NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER MICHAEL FLYNN ... SAYING "HE IS A GOOD GUY AND HAS BEEN THROUGH A LOT."
SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Ron Wyden, (D) Oregon:
"Director Comey's testimony reads a lot more like a Tom Clancy novel than it does garden variety Congressional testimony with respect to the details of the loyalty pledge, with respect to his comments about General Flynn."
AT THE TIME OF HIS FIRING, COMEY HAD BEEN OVERSEEING THE FEDERAL INVESTIGATION INTO POSSIBLE TIES BETWEEN TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN AND RUSSIA'S ELECTION MEDDLING.
TRACY BROWN / ASSOCIATED PRESS

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