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In retrospect, I love spending time with my wife. I wish I had been there that night.

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Former FBI Director James Comey, who broke a dinner date with his wife Patrice Failor in order to have a one-on-one dinner with President Trump

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Comey said he had to break a date with his wife in order to have dinner with President Trump.

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A light moment in former FBI director James Comey’s testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence came when Senator Angus King asked if Comey had initiated an intimate dinner with President Donald Trump.

The president had told NBC’s Lester Holt that Comey “wanted to have dinner because [Comey] wanted to stay on.”

Comey said that was not true. In fact, Trump had called him at his desk and asked to have dinner, he testified. “I had to call my wife and break a date with her,” Comey said. “I was supposed to take her out to dinner that night.”

“That’s one of the all-time great excuses for breaking a dinner date,” Sen. King said.

“In retrospect, I love spending time with my wife. I wish I had been there that night,” Comey said. The former FBI director had previously described that dinner as “strange,” “awkward,” and “very awkward.”

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“That is a big deal. People need to recognize that,” Former FBI Director James Comey told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. “It's not about Republican or Democrat.”

The response was in regards to Russian attempts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election by hacking and leaking Democratic National Committee emails, and to infiltrate the campaign of Donald Trump. This investigation includes a criminal inquiry into former national security advisor Michael Flynn, and according to more recent reports, President Trump’s close advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner.

“We're talking about a foreign government tried to shape the way we think, we vote, we act,” Comey said. “And they will be back.”

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I'm not going to sit here and try to interpret the president's tweets.

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Former FBI Director James Comey in response to a question about Trump’s tweets from Republican Senator James Lankford

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John McCain, are you OK?

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The most bizarre part of James Comey’s testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence today was an exchange between the former FBI Director and Senator John McCain.

The Republican Senator from Arizona seemed confused as to why the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server had concluded last year, but the investigation into Russian interference in the U.S. election and potential collusion with the Trump campaign was ongoing.

This exchange highlights the general confusion during McCain’s questioning:

McCain: Tell me the difference between your conclusion as far for Secretary Clinton is concerned and Mr Trump.

Comey: The Clinton investigation was a completed investigation that the FBI had been deeply involved in so I had an opportunity to understand all the facts and apply those facts against the laws I understood them. This investigation [Trump] was underway and was still going when I was fired so it’s nowhere near in the same place.

McCain: But it’s still ongoing?

Comey: Correct, as far as I know. It was when left.

McCain: That investigation was going on. This investigation was going on. You reach separate conclusions.

Comey: No, that one was done.

McCain: That investigation of any involvement of Secretary Clinton or any of her associates is completed?

Comey: Yes, as of July the 5th. The FBI completed its investigative work and that's when I announcing what we had done and what we had found.

McCain: Well, at least in the mind of this member there’s a whole lot of questions remaining about what went on particularly considering the fact that as you mentioned it’s a, quote, “big deal” as to what went on during the campaign. So, I’m glad you concluded that part of the investigation but I think the American people have a whole lot of questions out there particularly since you just emphasized the role that Russia played and obviously she was a candidate at the time and clearly involved in this whole situation where fake news as you just described it, “big deal,” took place.

You’re gonna have to help me out here. In other words, we’re complete [sic] the investigation of anything that for Secretary Clinton had to do with the campaign and we don’t have to worry about it anymore?

Comey: With respect to Secretary Clinton — I’m a little confused, Senator — with respect to Secretary Clinton, we investigated a criminal investigation in relation to her use of a personal email server.

McCain: I understand.

Comey: And that's the investigation I announced the conclusion of on July 5th.


This line of questioning went on for the entirety of McCain’s questioning. Political reporters seemed just as confused as Comey. McCain’s line of questioning didn’t really track logically. He was wondering why one investigation, into Clinton’s use of a private email server was completed while a completely unrelated investigation into a foreign adversary trying to manipulate the U.S. presidential election was still ongoing. Clinton’s investigation involved a much smaller set of factors and players, and her use of a private email server transpired long before the alleged Russian interference, while she was Secretary of State.

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The Comey Hearing

James Comey testifies in the Senate

The former FBI director was asked to testify about whether President Trump attempted to circumvent the agency’s independence.

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