Biden Tells Romney To Run For Senate.
SAVIDGE: House and Senate investigators firing off a litany of requests now for former FBI Director James Comey's memos after his sworn testimony against President Trump.</s>PAUL: A defiant President Trump, though, is challenging James Comey's claims that the president demanded his loyalty and asked him to let go of the investigation into fired National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. Listen here.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So he said those things under oath, would you will willing to speak under oath to give your version of (inaudible).</s>PRESIDENT TRUMP: One hundred percent. I didn't say under oath. I hardly know the man. I'm not going to say I want you to pledge allegiance. Who would do that? Who would ask a man to pledge allegiance under oath? I mean, think of it, I hardly know the man. It doesn't make sense. No, I didn't say that and I didn't say the other.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So if Robert Mueller wanted to speak with you about that --</s>PRESIDENT TRUMP: I would be glad to tell him exactly what I just told you.</s>PAUL: All righty, our panel is back with us. Paul, you wrote a piece for cnn.com saying for Trump a prosecution of Comey would be a disaster.</s>CALLAN: Yes. You know, Christi, I think it is going to be catastrophic for his presidency because the last time this was done where a special prosecutor began investigating a sitting president was in Bill Clinton's administration and of course, that resulted in impeachment charges being filed against Clinton. Of course, they were dismissed in the end, but it was a disaster and I think he's setting the scene for this. Just one other thing, the clip you were playing. I chuckle when I watch it. Wolf Blitzer ran a piece yesterday with the president standing in front of I think around 30,000 people.</s>PAUL: A crowd, yes, in Orlando in March of 2016.</s>CALLAN: And he said to them I want you all to raise your hands and pledge loyalty to me, the whole crowd. I think in the past he's asked strangers to pledge loyalty to him. So there you go.</s>SAVIDGE: All right, Lynn Sweet, let me ask you this. We obviously live in very interesting times. Even more so now because here we have Joe Biden, former vice president, and a Democrat, who is apparently encouraging Mitt Romney to run for Senate. What is going on there?</s>SWEET: Well, I think we have to put an asterisk, it depends on what state. Certainly Mitt Romney who is the governor of Massachusetts with the Democratic -- you don't want to have him run in Massachusetts where you could elect a Democrat. I think the intent is if he runs in Utah, where Mitt Romney has a home and has connections and is well known there to replace Orrin Hatch, if indeed Orrin Hatch decides not to run for an eighth term, then Biden is saying Mitt Romney would be an addition to the Senate. And in the context of these times, someone with his background, experience, to put in a more or less moderate Republican could make sense to Joe Biden. But step one is Joe Biden talking about Utah, which is going to elect a Republican, that's what I think Joe Biden is talking about. Because if he's talking about running in Massachusetts, that won't be great for Democrats necessarily. I think he's talking about Utah. So that's a great cross aisle move for Biden, both look like senior statesmen now.</s>PAUL: Good point. I want to get back here and look forward to what is to come yet in the Russian investigation. We know that Jared Kushner is going to be meeting with the Senate Intel Committee sometime this month, Andre. How candid do you think he'd be?</s>BAUER: I think he'll be very candid. They need to get this past them. I think they need to be clear and concise on what they say. You don't need to muddy the water any more. Earlier it was talked about how this could drag on, as an American I don't want to see it. I don't think good comes out of it. The whole statement was ambiguous anyway. Really, Comey should have had whatever you want to call it to question the president then, say Mr. President, I didn't understand exactly what you were asking me to do. And he should have done it. This is absolutely drain the swamp. This is probably the biggest bureaucrat that there was in Washington. He was right to be fired, but he should have right then questioned the president on what he meant, if he thought there was any impropriety whatsoever. I hope Kushner will get right to the point and move past this because it is hindering so many accomplishments they could be having right now with control of both houses.</s>SAVIDGE: Juliette, in the time we've got left, I just would be interested to hear what you're hearing from law enforcement and those that you talk to about former FBI Director Comey's testimony. What's the reaction from law enforcement?</s>KAYYEM: I think look -- I think most people view Comey as truthful although a lot of us I think across the aisle sometimes question his judgment, so the difference between is he telling the truth that Trump said those things, yes. It was his judgment. Andre just said maybe he should have been more forceful or maybe he should have done something else, that's a legitimate debate. But the question of the truthfulness of those interactions I don't think no one doubts. Just picking up on what Andre said, look, the White House has a big problem not just from the Thursday testimony but from the Wednesday testimony where every head of the intelligence agencies refused to say no to the question, did Donald Trump try to get you to stop this investigation. And now next week we not only have Jared Kushner coming up in the next couple weeks, next week Sessions, our attorney general, who was definitely implicated in some of those conversations, what does Sessions know, why did he not disclose certain meetings? Sessions testifies this coming week as attorney general, but the chances that he talks about the Department of Justice are pretty minimal at this stage. This will be yet another Russian and Trump series of questions.</s>SAVIDGE: Yes, he's supposed to talk about budgetary issues. I don't see that happening.</s>KAYYEM: You and I can agree, that is not going to happen.</s>CHRISTI PAUL, CNN ANCHOR: All right. Thank you so much. I know you're all going to stick around, we have another conversation coming up in a couple of minutes.</s>SAVIDGE: New developments, the special counsel has just introduced a new player to help in this Russia investigation. What are the government's top criminal law specialists, more on that and what it could mean for the probe after this.</s>PAUL: And in its second season, "UNITED SHADES OF AMERICA" with W. Kamau Bell explores the far corners of our country, its various groups and sub cultures. Tomorrow night at 10:00 Eastern right here on CNN, Kamau unlocked some of the myths surrounding Puerto Ricans. There is an epic journey from New York City to the captivating island itself.</s>W. KAMAU BELL, CNN HOST, "UNITED SHADES OF AMERICA": So Puerto Ricans are American citizens.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Not by choice. In 1898, the United States invades Puerto Rico and claims it as a prize from the Spanish American war.</s>BELL: So you believe that Puerto Rico would be better off if it was officially a state?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Independence hasn't worked, not because we haven't tried but because we have been so repressed.</s>BELL: Puerto Ricans can't vote for the president.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That is true.</s>BELL: That doesn't make sense, right?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That doesn't make sense.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If Barack Obama would move to Puerto Rico, he would lose the right to cast an absentee ballot.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: On the business front, we're limited in growth, even in the poor states, they have income per capita that's more than twice.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: People of color have always been invisible.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are American citizens, yet we don't have the same rights.