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‘Political Rewind’ replay: When Trump denied consorting with Russian ‘hookers’

FBI Director James Comey prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington in this 2015 file photo. AP Photo/Susan Walsh

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FBI Director James Comey prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington in this 2015 file photo. AP Photo/Susan Walsh
By Jim Galloway
June 7, 2017

Today's edition of GPB's "Political Rewind" homed in on last night's Sixth District debate on WSB-TV between Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel.

But the gang could hardly ignore the early release of fired FBI director James Comey’s prepared remarks for Thursday. You do not often hear former FBI directors quote presidents as saying he “had not been involved with hookers in Russia.”

If you didn’t catch it live, click here to listen now:

Today’s panelists: Host Bill Nigut; Greg Bluestein, one of your Insiders; former congressman Buddy Darden; Republican consultant Eric Tanenblatt; and Democratic activist Melita Easters.

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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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