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Speaker 1: Well, now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief,

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Speaker 1: exploring legal issues in the news, and Today Bloomberg Law

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Speaker 1: host Juding Grosso and Greg Stewart take a closer look

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Speaker 1: at the legal matters involved in the testimony of former

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Speaker 1: FBI Director James Comey. Today, they speak with Andrew Kent,

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Speaker 1: a professor of national security law at Fordham University. What

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Speaker 1: is the biggest thing you are most interested in hearing

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Speaker 1: from former Director Comy? Well, there's been so much good

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Speaker 1: press reporting on this, so many leaks about the conversations

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Speaker 1: that he allegedly had with the President. That yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think really you know, getting his impressions on if he

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Speaker 1: can on the on the president's intent rate or at

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Speaker 1: very at least, how how Comey felt when the President

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Speaker 1: Trump said these areas things to him, whether he felt pressured,

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Speaker 1: whether he felt it was improper, uh, and you know,

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Speaker 1: considerations like that. It seemed like a lot of the

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Speaker 1: underlying facts about what President Trump has said have been

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Speaker 1: have come out, although, of course, you Comy will likely

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Speaker 1: provide a lot more detail about the surrounding contexts Andy.

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Speaker 1: He's already made it known that he won't answer one

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Speaker 1: question that's on everyone's minds, and that's whether Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: obstructed justice by urging Comey to sideline his Russia probe

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Speaker 1: into Michael Flynn. Would you expect him to really answer

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Speaker 1: that question? Isn't it more of a legal question? It

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Speaker 1: is that in the ordinary course, it would be Department

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Speaker 1: of Justice attorneys who would make the decision about whether

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Speaker 1: they believed a crime had committed. And we're going to

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Speaker 1: pursue that the FBI would just be investigating facts and

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Speaker 1: then forwarding them to the d J. You know, the

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Speaker 1: reason why some people think you call me might uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, perhaps make a statement like that, is because

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Speaker 1: he so famously did with regard to Hillary Clinton and

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Speaker 1: emails back in the summer of when he kind of

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Speaker 1: stepped in front of the Department of Justice and said

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Speaker 1: that he did not think that it would be appropriate

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Speaker 1: to bring criminal charges. But that was extraordinarily unusual, as

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Speaker 1: he himself, uh, you know, said at the time time.

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Speaker 1: So now I don't think we should have any uh,

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Speaker 1: any reason to think that Comy would say something about

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Speaker 1: whether criminal laws have been violated. And that's Andrew Kent,

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Speaker 1: a professor at Fordham University Law School, speaking with Bloomberg Lahouse,

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Speaker 1: Jum Grasso, and Greg Sture. You can listen to Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Law weekdays at one pm Wall Street Time here on

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Radio and Karen Let's insert a programming note here.

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Speaker 1: We will bring you live coverage of that Senate Intelligence

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Speaker 1: Committee hearing this morning on both Bloomberg Radio and television.

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Speaker 1: Comy's testimony schedule to begin at ten am Wall Street Time.

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Speaker 1: Now among the top legal stories from Bloomberg Law. In

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles, a jury has rejected a wrongful of firing

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Speaker 1: claim by a former technician at elon Musk SpaceX Jason

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Speaker 1: Blasdell claimed he was fired for telling supervisors he thought

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Speaker 1: test protocols weren't followed and results are falsified. Space X

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Speaker 1: argue that Blasdell was fired for poor job performance. In

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Speaker 1: the UK, a former h SBC banker has been arrested

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Speaker 1: on charges he scheme to rig ORGN currency markets. Stuart

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Speaker 1: Scott used to run the bank's currency trading in Europe.

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Speaker 1: Since last year, prosecutors have been trying to bring him

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Speaker 1: to the u s H s b c's global head

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Speaker 1: of Foreign exchange cast Trading, Mark Johnson, has already pleaded

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Speaker 1: not guilty. In the case. And that's this morning's Bloomberg

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