Summary: There’s no smoking gun of any kind in former FBI Director James Comey’s prepared congressional testimony. While the testimony contains some self-serving stuff on Comey’s part, there’s nothing at all that indicates that President Trump attempted to pressure the former agency head to stop any investigation whatsoever. The statement also comports with Trump’s previous statements that Comey told him on three separate occasions that he wasn’t under criminal investigation by the FBI. Nevertheless, the media and committee Democrats persist in trying to push a narrative of wrongdoing, as they gear up to make political hay of Comey’s open testimony before Congress Thursday. Later, Andy McCarthy, Contributing Editor at National Review, calls in to talk about the Comey testimony and the lack of evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. If there was collusion, why did Jared Kushner have to meet with the Russian ambassador to set up a back channel in December after the election? If there was collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians, the communication channels would have been up and running.
