RI Senators weigh in ahead of Comey testimony

Less than 24 hours before Former FBI Director James Comey’s much anticipated testimony in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Rhode Island Senior Senator Jack Reed tells ABC 6 he is ready for some answers.

"I think it’s impossible to avoid the conclusion that the President got rid of him because he saw him as a threat,” said Senator Reed.

Senator Reed is an ex-officio member of the Intelligence Committee and will have the opportunity to question Comey Thursday. We’re told he wants Americans to hear directly from Comey about those “disturbing details” released in his opening statement. The Senator will base his questions off of the Q and A he hears with other members.

"I suspect we’ll get a detailed explanation of all of the contact Director Comey had with the President,” said Senator Reed.” “And, that would include the President’s request which he publicly ordered to stop essentially investigations into General Flynn and to stop the Russian investigation."

In pre–released remarks Comey says the president left him feeling "concerned." adding that he was pushed to clear the president’s name under the guise of "loyalty."

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse weighing in on those remarks on CNN’s situation room.

"Well if you stack all these conversations up, while any one of them might have an innocent explanation, each one of them from its own place points in the same direction, which is to a desire, on the part of the president, to interfere with or impede this ongoing investigation of General Flynn,” said Senator Whitehouse.

The Senator also sharing his thoughts on whether or not the President broke the law.

"I think it’s prima facie obstruction of justice,” said Senator Whitehouse. “But you’d need to have some context around that to know whether that kind of prima facie case moved into something where a jury would convict."

Comey is expected to testify Thursday morning at 10. We will air it live on ABC 6.

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