Well, now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief, exploring legal issues in the news, and today Bloomberg, La Hoost, Doing Grosso, and Greg Store discuss former FBI Director James Comby's congressional testimony yesterday. Jim Comey was very clear that the words he heard from Donald Trump were I hope you will let this go. But then he said he took that as a direction. Republicans kept trying to make the point that he didn't actually order you to do anything,
did he? And so the question, both from a legal standpoint and a political standpoint, is is it effectively the same thing when when the President of the United States says, I hope you'll do this, should Jim call me have reasonably interpreted it to be uh an order. He is a former prosecutor, he is a former head of the FBI, and he was clear several times saying that he took those words to me not only from what Trump said, but from his body language, that he took those words
to mean that it was an order. He said that he believed that Flynn was in legal jeopardy at the time, and he perceived that what Trump said to be an order. He said at one time a direction he said at another time, there are only those two people in the room unless there are tapes. But you have to take
everything into account. And he took such notes that if you read and I'm sure a lot of people have already read his statement which came from his notes, there are such detail in that statement, in to the point where he said they closed the door. I saw the grandfather clock there. I mean. And that is what makes a testimony of a witness believable, is the detail that's there. It's not just oh he said this, I said that. It's all the little details that you remember. And that's
what makes it convincing. I'm talking about to most people. And that's why I found his testimony and his statement to be very convincing, because he had the detail, and he was clear that it's fun. You want to you want to see the notes, that's fine. In fact, it might be opening a can of worms to see those notes because Robert Mueller has them now. And he kept on saying it's an open investigation, and open investigation. There may be a lot more in those notes than Donald
Trump would like there to be. And one of the senators, I think it was Kamala. Harris made the point that these are the kind of notes that are admissible in court when you're dealing with with a witness who took contemporaneous notes. That's the sort of thing that a judge will let go to a jury. So it may have some some legal relevance, especially FBI notes of an FBI agent and mess of Bloomberg Lah host Greg's story and
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