TPM - "Ryans Spin: Nothing We Havent Heard Before In Comeys Released Testimony"

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/paul-ryan-comey-testimony-senate-trump

By ESME CRIBB Published JUNE 7, 2017 6:30 PM

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Wednesday tried to play down fired FBI Director James Comey’s prepared remarks for Thursday’s hearing as nothing that hasn’t already come up in news reports.

“I haven’t had a chance to read it. I’ve been briefed on it,” Ryan told Greta Van Susteren on MSNBC. “It’s been a little busy here.”

Ryan said he is “going to get through” Comey’s statement “tonight.”

“It sounds like it’s much of what’s already been reported, but it’s fairly rich in detail and color,” he said. “But the substance seems to me, from what I’ve understood, similar to what we’ve already been hearing.”

“Is it appropriate for the President to ask a question of loyalty for the FBI director?” Van Susteren asked.

“Yeah, no. Obviously I don’t think that is,” Ryan said. “But I don’t think that that’s new. I think that that’s already been reported on. I think that was something that was in the New York Times, gosh, a month or two ago.”

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Check out that last paragraph above - Ryan says asking for loyalty isn't appropriate, but since it's not new news, there's no problem. These assholes are shameless.

[spanone]

1. i'm sure you'd feel the same if it was Hillary, right paulie?

[kimbutgar]

2. Chumps dinner with him and the rethug leadership got their talking points

I hope Ryan and McConnell and the rethug leadership get all ensnared In the Russian manipulatio and rigging of our elections and get taken down. A total collapse of the rethug party.


I can fantasize at least!

[gademocrat7]

3. What a weasel.