{"id":74071,"date":"2017-06-04T07:51:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T11:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=74071"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:54:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T11:54:13","slug":"74071","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=74071","title":{"rendered":"Is Rep. Mike Lee sending James Comey a serious message before his public testimony? The House has Comey perjury on record!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"title\">Why A Judiciary Committee Member Said &#8220;I&#8217;d Be Surprised If Comey Testifies That Trump Pressured Him&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Echoing the thoughts of many who have watched this farce from outside the Beltway, <strong>Senator Mike Lee said early Thursday that he would be surprised to hear former FBI Director James Comey testify that President Trump pressed him to end a federal investigation <\/strong>into former national security advisor Michael Flynn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/05\/31\/20170601_lee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/05\/31\/20170601_lee.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;New Day&#8221;, Lee said &#8220;that would surprise me&#8221; when asked if Comey would testify that Trump pressured him. His reasoning is simple&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m on the Judiciary Committee and just a few weeks ago we had, still Director Comey, come and testify. Someone asked him about political pressure and he said, &#8216;This is something I haven&#8217;t seen, something in my experience has not occurred.'&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a reminder, testifying under oath in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 3rd, Comey states that he has not been pressured to close an investigation for political purposes, &#8220;not in my experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>COMEY:<\/strong><strong> Not in my experience. <\/strong>Because <strong>it would be a big deal to tell the FBI to stop doing something like that &#8212; without an appropriate purpose.<\/strong>y give us opinions that we don&#8217;t see a case there and so you ought to stop investing resources in it. But <strong>I&#8217;m talking about a situation where we were told to stop something for a political reason,<\/strong> that would be a very big deal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s not happened in my experience.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Caught on tape?<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o-dW59Fu1hg<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/335883-sen-mike-lee-says-hed-be-surprised-if-comey-testifies-there-was-pressure-from\"><em>As The Hill reports,<\/em><\/a> recent reports said <strong>Comey is expected to testify that he believes Trump was trying to meddle in the FBI&#8217;s investigation of Russian interference in the presidential election.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nLee said he hasn&#8217;t personally seen Comey&#8217;s memos related to Trump&#8217;s reported requests to the former FBI director to end the investigation into Flynn.<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Those memos, if they exist, if he said those things, would seem to contradict his testimony,&#8221; Lee said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;So that&#8217;ll be my first question &#8230;, &#8216;How do you reconcile that memo, if in fact it does say that, with the testimony you provided with the committee in early May?'&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lee said there are an &#8220;infinite number of possibilities&#8221; about what could happen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to pre-judge the fact until I have them,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but I will have a whole bunch of follow-up questions for him if these things turn out to be the case.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F8zYY3vVLzw<\/p>\n<p>This comes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-05-31\/comey-testify-publicly-trump-did-push-him-end-flynns-russia-probe\">a day after reports that Comey would testify publicly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-06-01\/judiciary-committee-member-id-be-surprised-if-comey-testifies-trump-pressured-him\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-06-01\/judiciary-committee-member-id-be-surprised-if-comey-testifies-trump-pressured-him<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why A Judiciary Committee Member Said &#8220;I&#8217;d Be Surprised If Comey Testifies That Trump Pressured Him&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}