1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,400 Speaker 1: Well, now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief, 2 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 1: exploring legal issues in the news, and today Bloomberg, La Hoost, 3 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:09,399 Speaker 1: Doing Grosso, and Greg Store discuss former FBI Director James 4 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 1: Comby's congressional testimony yesterday. Jim Comey was very clear that 5 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 1: the words he heard from Donald Trump were I hope 6 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:19,479 Speaker 1: you will let this go. But then he said he 7 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 1: took that as a direction. Republicans kept trying to make 8 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:25,959 Speaker 1: the point that he didn't actually order you to do anything, 9 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:28,319 Speaker 1: did he? And so the question, both from a legal 10 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: standpoint and a political standpoint, is is it effectively the 11 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 1: same thing when when the President of the United States says, 12 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:37,479 Speaker 1: I hope you'll do this, should Jim call me have 13 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:40,839 Speaker 1: reasonably interpreted it to be uh an order. He is 14 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: a former prosecutor, he is a former head of the FBI, 15 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 1: and he was clear several times saying that he took 16 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 1: those words to me not only from what Trump said, 17 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 1: but from his body language, that he took those words 18 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 1: to mean that it was an order. He said that 19 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: he believed that Flynn was in legal jeopardy at the time, 20 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:05,759 Speaker 1: and he perceived that what Trump said to be an order. 21 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:08,759 Speaker 1: He said at one time a direction he said at 22 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:11,320 Speaker 1: another time, there are only those two people in the 23 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:14,680 Speaker 1: room unless there are tapes. But you have to take 24 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:19,039 Speaker 1: everything into account. And he took such notes that if 25 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 1: you read and I'm sure a lot of people have 26 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 1: already read his statement which came from his notes, there 27 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:27,959 Speaker 1: are such detail in that statement, in to the point 28 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 1: where he said they closed the door. I saw the 29 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: grandfather clock there. I mean. And that is what makes 30 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: a testimony of a witness believable, is the detail that's there. 31 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 1: It's not just oh he said this, I said that. 32 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 1: It's all the little details that you remember. And that's 33 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 1: what makes it convincing. I'm talking about to most people. 34 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 1: And that's why I found his testimony and his statement 35 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: to be very convincing, because he had the detail, and 36 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:00,080 Speaker 1: he was clear that it's fun. You want to you 37 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: want to see the notes, that's fine. In fact, it 38 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: might be opening a can of worms to see those 39 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 1: notes because Robert Mueller has them now. And he kept 40 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 1: on saying it's an open investigation, and open investigation. There 41 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:16,359 Speaker 1: may be a lot more in those notes than Donald 42 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 1: Trump would like there to be. And one of the senators, 43 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 1: I think it was Kamala. Harris made the point that 44 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:23,360 Speaker 1: these are the kind of notes that are admissible in 45 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:25,919 Speaker 1: court when you're dealing with with a witness who took 46 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 1: contemporaneous notes. That's the sort of thing that a judge 47 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 1: will let go to a jury. So it may have 48 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 1: some some legal relevance, especially FBI notes of an FBI 49 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:37,799 Speaker 1: agent and mess of Bloomberg Lah host Greg's story and 50 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: June Grasso. You can listen to Bloomberg Law weekdays at 51 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 1: one pm Wall Street Time right here on Bloomberg Radio Now. 52 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 1: Among the top legal stories from Bloomberg Law. 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