Wednesday on CNN’s “The Lead,” while discussing the statement from former FBI Director James Comey ahead of his congressional testimony scheduled for Thursday, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) said President Donald Trump made an “almost a Watergate level effort to interfere with an ongoing investigation.”
Wyden said, “It is a remarkable statement, and it reads more like a Tom Clancy novel than the usual garden variety congressional testimony. For example, Comey confirms that Trump asked him to end that investigation into Flynn. That by itself is almost a Watergate level effort to interfere with an ongoing investigation.”
When asked if he believed Trump obstructed justice, Wyden said, “What I can tell you, and you and I have sparred on these legal issues before, that’s going to be a topic for lawyers, but I’ll tell you, if it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it just might be a duck.”
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