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president trump. and mourning barbara bush but celebrating a remarkable lady. she was first lady, mother of a president, and her oldest son says she was much, much more. >> she was warm and wonderful until you got out of line. then she wasn't too warm and wonderful. she was awesome. we ought to be joyful we had such a wonderful woman in our lives. and two, she passed with such strong belief, and she truly was peaceful. >> more on barbara bush in just a few moments, including a rare conversation with a dear friend, former secretary of state colin powell. but we begin with the president picking new fights on twitter. one with stormy daniels. one with himself. here's the president this morning venting again at the former fbi director turned author james comey.

>> he needs to explain that to this president trump with nbc's lester holt last year. >> regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. knowing there was no good time to do it. and in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. it's an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election that they should have won. >> with me on this day, maybe they can help explain that, joining me now is my panel. the president is often inconsistent in what he says. but why at this moment tweet something that is directly contradictory to what you yourself said about this big issue and stir it all up again? >> i think the main reason he's doing this is venting. i can tell you, we've reported

at "the wall street journal," what they're telling trump in the white house when it comes to comey, take out your frustration on twitter. don't pick up the phone and make calls to doj. that is where we get in trouble. as long as you're on twitter or in front of the cameras and it's in the public domain, that's good enough for this white house right now. >> it seems like there's been -- obviously this is a change from what he said before where he was open about the fact that he got rid of comey because of the russia investigation. but someone has gotten to him and said you just can't get people because of the russia investigation or your own party will have to turn on you. phil, you can speak to this, as well. we've noticed a lot of republicans trying to make the case against people that the president might fire, go after mueller, go after rod rosenstein, and they're doing it by not talking about the russia investigation, they're making a case about documents and not

working with congress. and so maybe somebody has gotten to the president if you look at russia for investigation, that could be potential for obstruction. >> it stirs up conversation not favorable to the president. it's not favorable to the president of the united states when here is what he said, the opposite of what he said 11 months ago. the president so far on twitter has not said a thing about stormy daniels. the only time he spoke publicly is when he was asked if he knew about the $130,000 payment shortly before the election. he said no, and call my attorney, michael cohen. yet today he retweets on twitter, where stormy daniels released a sketch, and the president tweets this -- >> again, it stokes more conversation about something that i would assume even the president understands is not favorable to the president.

>> in some ways you saw stormy daniels yesterday on "the view" and in some ways pretty credible appearance there. she was with her lawyer and showed this photo and people have all sorts of ideas about who it looks like. but surprising that the president would sort of take that bait. it almost -- to me, it might be because she did seem very credible in that interview that she had with those ladies around the table there, and the president there just not being able to help himself to wade into this and kind of go man to stormy over this issue, which again, people hadn't been thinking about it. there's so many other things in the news, you even saw stormy overshad do overshadowed in the courtroom. >> other things in the news, the president is at mar-a-lago today, meeting with the japanese prime minister. they have a lot to discuss, the

upcoming discuss with kim jong-un. the japanese have a different perspective than the south koreans. but the fact that we're not talking about it first and foremost, because the president stirs things up every day. >> the most interesting element is my take on things from talking to people yesterday is they saw the sketch, there were no shortage of twitter memes about who it was, but nobody was taking it that seriously. not trying to undercut what stormy daniels alleges. but just the idea this was a long time ago, okay, this kind of seems like a pr stunt, and then the president tweets about it and everybody talks about it. it almost seems that he's just undercutting himself, because he can't help it. to mike's point, this idea that you go to twitter to vent, which is the exact opposite of what all of our hr and pr people tell us, like god, do not go to twitter if you're anger. delete the tweet or put it in draft and leave it there.

it's clearly paid off in terms of his base, but exacerbates issues that make him angry and the white house wants off the table. certainly capitol hill would just like to be tucked into a corner and they have talked about again. >> he was specifically told not to sweet about stormy daniels. he's been shown polling this is a fight he can't win and told this is not a fight you want to have with the first lady, bring attention to this. again, to phil's point, and the drawback to the point about comey, they're in another defensive crouch over this book. the first time they did this over the "fire and fury" book, that book sold a million copies, and he's just bringing more attention to these issues. >> as we ask the question, is the president juundermining himself, that same question was put to comey. a lot of people are asking why

did james comey decide he wanted to get in the gutter with his fight with the president. >> did you enjoy taking those shots at the president? >> i didn't think of them as shots. >> really? >> you see the description of my high school teacher. i try to describe in great detail what i'm seeing. >> you're talking about his hair and stuff like that. people would say james comey, you just got in the gutter with president trump, who is known for his name calling. he's called you a sometime ball, a nutjob. did you stoop? >> i don't think so. >> really? >> taking shots at the president. comey has elevated one of the juiciest parts of the dossier that a lot of people had never talked about publicly on television because it's incredibly salacious and suggested that perhaps these things happened and said there

was no evidence that they did or didn't happen. nobody was talking about this on tv. that is absolutely a shot at the president and a very personal one. >> he knows the president is sensitive about the size of his hands, his skin tone, his hair, all those sorts of things. this is somewhat he was doing in the book. . so of course he was taking a shot. >> trying to provoke the president and trying to sell some books. up next, a secret meeting revealed. the man in line to be president trump's next secretary of state, face-to-face with north korea's dictator. how did it go and the bigger question, where does it go from here? iscovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember.

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worked out now. de-nuclearization will be a great thing for the world and also north korea. sources say pompeo didn't take anyone from the statehouse or white house. the goal was to frame the agenda for a trump-kim summit in may or june. that summit is priority one in conversations with japan's prime minister who is golfing with the president today before some additional meetings with reporters. word of the secret mission drawing mixed reaction on capitol hill. >> i like the fact that pompeo met with him. i hope that a lot of other people will meet with him, and i hope there's huge amounts of precursor activity that makes place before the two of them meet. >> director pompeo is the wrong person to be engaging in diplomacy. we need a secretary of state and not a cia director doing that work. >> now, the point from senator

blumenthal there is that director pompeo is the nominee to be the secretary of state. we don't have one at the moment. he is saying we need somebody who is more diplomatic. i want to come back to senator corker's point. he was polite there, but trying to send a message saying don't just have the president go in to meet with kim jong-un after one meeting with pompeo. if you have to delay things so you have a better sense of what they are willing to do, as opposed to before you give them a meeting with the president of the united states on the world stage, that was the message, right? >> it's important to read between the lines. he's saying that. the big concern on capitol hill is you can't do something this seismic without preparation that matches up with it. what does disarmament or nuclear disarmament mean? what are the guidelines? what are the things that are on the table from the beginning? are 28,000 u.s. troops in south korea leaving? are you talking long range or

short-range missiles? because that's what the prime minister of japan would like to discuss. so the idea that senator corker was laying out, complimenting mike pompeo for going. i haven't talked to a lot of democrats who are upset about it, but underscoring the fact that this is going to happen in may or june, please have everything lined up so this isn't some scatter shot, reality show, let's just get everybody together and make it happen. and behind the scenes, the bureaucracy is working to do just that. the difficulty they face and the concern on capitol hill is when you have a president that doesn't operate through normal channels, that they don't have the opportunities to do what they need to do. >> so that point, i listened to the president yesterday with prime minister abe. a lot of people are worried this is a propaganda victory for kim jong-un, putting him in the same room as the president of the united states. but the president of the united states thinks he can do business. >> i look forward to meeting with kim jong-un, and hopefully

that will be a success, and maybe it will be, and maybe it won't be. we don't know. but we'll see what happens. but i can say this, they do respect us, and we are respectful of them, and we're going to see what happens. i think it's a time for talking and solving problems. >> if you talk to the japanese delegation, they're as nervous about this as people on capitol hill. not that they don't want this to go forward, but what are we talking about here? if the north koreans are willing to de-nuclearize, can you get something in the short term? >> just the meeting for the north koreans would be a success, even if they came away with nothing, that would be a big victory. this is something that north korea has wanted for a long time, legitimacy. so that do they need a

deliverable each before the meeting or is the meeting just going to be talking about de-nuclearization, something you said is unlikely to happen. >> they would argue they do have a deliverable in a sense if that there haven't been more provocative missile tests. and trump administration officials say people criticized us for being bullies, but that he's quote unquote behaving in their view. >> we saw a little of that in cork he's remarks. when trump was presented with the idea of meeting with the north korean leader, he wanted to do it this month, which was a little too quick, so he pushed it back one month, which is concerns that it's still too quick. so the fact that the meeting with pompeo happened, and it seems like a success. or at least it's been the same warm tones from the u.s. >> my question is, does this impact the pompeo confirmation? doesn't look like he can get majority support.

the white house trying to take advantage at the moment. sarah sanders tweeting today, nothing could better underscore for getting america's top diplomat in place. democrats have an opportunity to put politics aside and confirm mike pompeo. smart for the white house to say if we're going to have this summit, we need a secretary of state. >> the timing of this is particularly suspect. this absolutely helps him. there is an expectation on the hill he's not going to get a favorable recommendation by the foreign relations committee. he could still get confirmed in the senate and i don't think that's happened in something like a century. but there's a reason why democrats are really ticked off about this. it makes him look like a secretary of state already. this is a guy who, i mean, when was the last time we had a secretary of state actually go to north korea to meet with the top diplomat? at least a couple of decades. to set up a meeting between the president of the united states

and the leader of north korea, something that's never happened before. so this absolutely helps him. >> i need to pause our conversation just to get some breaking news. puerto rico has suffered an island-wide power outage. puerto rico still reeling from the devastation caused by hurricane maria seven months ago. cnn's leila santiago joins us now from mexico city. horrible development. >> reporter: yeah, john, i've been tracking the developments for the last hour or so. here's what we know. there is an island-wide power outage in puerto rico right now. that means 1.5 million clients from the puerto rico power authority in the dark, unable to turn the rights on. the power authority telling me it's going to take between 24 to 36 hours to restore this power. so what caused this? those details still not available. we know there was a line that went down on the southern end of the island, and that is where the trouble is. but exactly what caused that we don't know.

here's the thing, john. just last thursday, there was also another out j. it wasn't island wide, but more than half of the island that didn't have power as a result of a line that went down. in that situation, last week the power authority says it was because of a tree. they did manage to restore power pretty quickly, but it wasn't as big as it is right now. right now, island wide, no power, and let's remember, john, we are 44 days away from the next hurricane season if puerto rico. >> ominous words there. thanks for bringing us the latest. a quick break. when we come back, barbara bush passed away last night. colin powell joins us in just a second. ♪ ♪ don't work your way upfront without it. ♪ ♪ and don't watch her dance, like nobody's watching without it.

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she truly believes that she is -- there's an after life, that she'll be wonderfully received in the arms of a loving god, and therefore did not fear death. and as a result of her soul being comforted on the deathbed, my soul is comforted. >> former president george bush there paying tribute this morning to his remarkable mother. barbara bush passed away yesterday at the age of 92. she was home in houston surrounded by family, including her husband of 73 years. the former president, george h.w. bush. only abigail adams was the wife and mother of a president. but to stop there would be unfair. she was blunt, yes, but side splitting funny. feisty and confident, but acknowledged deep bouts of depression, and best coped with that by pouring herself into charitable causes. in her memoir, barbara bush

wrote this about the man with us today. there is no finer man, american, or friend. and we also love his wife, alma. the former secretary of state colin powell is with us. welcome. >> thank you very much. >> i want to start at the very beginning. you write in your book about your first conversation with barbara bush. you were a general then. he was vice president. barbara bush and you were at a reception at the french embassy. >> we were at the french embassy. it was shortly after i became deputy national security adviser. she's sitting next to me at the head table. i'm very moved by this. i said very pleased to be with you today, mrs. bush. she said don't call me mrs. bush. ma'am? don't call me ma'am. call me barbara. i said ma'am, i can't do that. whatever your name is, i can't do that. it's not appropriate. she said, call me barbara! i said, if i did that, my mother would kill me.

she said, if you don't, i will kill you. yes, barbara, i got it. that was the beginning of a precious relationship until her passing with not only her, but of course, the president himself and with the whole family. >> we met, i'll stipulate for this, two weeks ago when you were still a general. you're a general then, george h.w. bush is vice president, then president. you become friends. you're from different sides of the tracks, it's not common for people to become friends like that. why? >> we did become friends. when i was national security adviser in the last two years of the reagan administration, my office and then vice president bush's office were separated by a bathroom that we both shared. when you share a bathroom with somebody else for two years, you get a little closer. but seriously, he's just that kind of guy. he was and is just that kind of guy. we became very close.

the family became very close. one story that is most important of all for me was two days after he lost the election in november of 1992, i called him to just share the moment with him and tell him how i was feeling. and he said, thank you very much, colin, and we talked about five minutes. i hung up. an hour later my wife calls me and says barbara just called. i said about what? they canwant us to come to camp david this weekend. this weekend after what just happened? yes. they want us. so of course we said yes. then she called back an hour later. barbara said, bring the kids. so all my kids weren't available, but two of them were and we went. it was a wonderful, wonderful evening. we watched movies and we didn't talk a lot. but late in the evening, the president wanted to take a walk through the woods around camp david. i said, of course. we were walking, the president

and me in front and alma and barbara behind us. i'm not saying anything. he just turns to me and he says, it really hurt. i said, mr. president, i know. but you could tell the strength in that family came from barbara. she was that kind of a person. she was always there and steadfast. she was a grand, grand woman. >> she said at the end of that, you write in your book, explaining as you were leaving, that they wanted to be with real friends. >> yes. >> define what real friends meant to barbara bush. >> somebody you can be totally comfortable with. somebody that's not there to take advantage of you. she and my wife hit it off. and i hit it off with her. over the years we stayed together. after she was out, and i was out, we actually went on cruises together in the agean, two summers. i met all the kids and grand kids, and it was always fun to be on that private ship and

watch her being what we called the earth mother, in charge of everybody. >> i want to put on the screen, this is the 21st century, but a word cloud. what i was struck with last night reading all of these statements coming in, we live in a time where the coarseness of our public conversation is not very healthy. and barbara bush could be feisty. she could be fiercely loyal to her family. she could stir up controversy. but you see family, country, loving, exceptional, dedicated, remarkable. have we lost that? or how did she navigate that? yes, she was fiercely loyal to her family, but nobody thought of her as a jerk. and in today's age, that's a term we hear too often. >> that was just who she was. it was her personality. it was a relationship she had frankly with her husband and

nac family. she was dead kadicated to famil her friends. and i saw that in so many different ways over the years. she was so in a certain way humble. i remember when she was coming into the office of the first lady of the united states. some press person asked her, who will be doing your dressing for you, reflecting with nancy reagan's designers. her answer was nobody, i have my own clothes and i'll be bringing them with me. how could you not love something like that? that's who she was. she was down to earth, honest, a great lady. and she stood up for her husband. if you ever said anything about her husband she didn't like, you would hear about it. fortunately, that was never my problem. it was a friendship that continued to the day she passed away and continued to the present. >> i want you to listen to her upon, president george bush, talking about what laura bush

gets into a debate with mom. >> mother and i, we occasionally would argue. not argue, we would -- >> debate. >> debate. >> that's a good word. >> different opinions. we were having a theological discussion, and, you know, i was basically saying what the new testament said about going to heaven. and mother said what about her friend mustafa? we went back and forth. she decided, i'm going to call billy graham. he said look, you two, i agree with the new testament, but i want to remind you two, you don't get to play god. >> there you go. >> pretty good lesson for the day, by the way. >> we saw this in the bill clinton, hillary clinton relationship. i think it existed in the george h.w. bush/barbara bush relationship just as much. it just wasn't so public. some people reacted with horror when barbara bush spoke out when people weren't supposed to do that. she was ahead of her time in some ways.

you worked in the white house. was she someone who intervened in policy matters? y >> she did not insert herself into the daily policy issues that came along. she was always a presence. if you got in a debate with her, you should know in the beginning she's going to win it. there's no debate about that. what she was, was a steel rod in the president. she was the president's strongest supporter. but she didn't need to shout and scream and go on television and say things that might cause a problem within the administration. my two years working with her, she was always a presence, we always knew what she thought, but we also knew she was there to make life easier for her, her husband, and her sons and the rest of the family. >> what don't we know about her? you spent time in kennebunkport. we have video of her putting the

medal of freedom around your neck. what don't we know about her, that only a friend would know? >> i don't know if it's -- you don't know about it yet, but there's no secret to her. she is what she is. she was forthright. she believed in everything. she believed in her faith. she believed in her family. everything was about the family and the country. that's who she was. >> did she moderate him? she may have disagreed with him on abortion rights or get mad about the language in politics. >> you can be sure that she would moderate him, but she mostly did it when they were alone together. there was one wonderful clip on a television show where they were walking in kennebunkport and he reaches over with his leg and kind of kicks her, and she reaches over and pinches him. that's who they were. they were normal people who had no egos. one thing i'll always remember

is, after desert storm, when the country was so proud of what our troops accomplished, and we were going to have this parade in new york and washington. the parade in new york, the president said, i'm not coming. sir, you're not coming? he said no, this is for the soldiers, the troops. you go, cheney goes, schwar schwartzcopf goes. it was always commit totally to family and country. and i never had a fight with her. sometimes she would look at me with that little stare that i knew what meant. but it was always the closest of relationships. the first day i became national security adviser, i'm in this tiny office in the west wing and i hear this loud noise coming down the hallway, is he in? i want to talk to him. the vice president of the united states walks to my office and i almost fall over as i stand up to get to him. and that was the beginning of a

treasured friendship between me, the president, and the first lady at that time. when the term was over and he was about to take over, the day after he came to the white house, after the election, first time when he won, he called me in, and offered me several jobs in the new administration, his new administration. and i wanted to go back to the army. that's what i told him. but just for him to think about me at that point in his career when he was just taking over the presidency, it was -- it shows you the kind of person he was. the kind of person he was. he would kid a lot. had a lot of funny things happen in that oval office that i would not share, couldn't remember. but the two of them were just, i think, wonderful. not so unique, but wonderful people. they really reflected the american spirit and american loyalty to each other and to the country. and really reflected the best

tributes and instincts of the american people. >> examples we could use in the current discourse. you're here to talk about barbara bush, but it would be a crime against journalism if i can't ask you about current events. mike pompeo is the nominee to be secretary of state. he says he called every former living secretary of state, which includes you. he just also had a secret meeting with the leader of north korea. from that conversation, what were your impressions? >> i had called him when he was first announced. and then we've had two other conversations, and i had a dinner with him. we talked about issues, and many of the issues we probably had different points of view. what i liked about my discussions with him, he listened carefully and he's taking aboard what i told him, which is very often in opposition to his position. so i think we have somebody who is amenable to changes in his past positions and we'll see. with respect to his conversations with kim jong-un,

since i know nothing about that, i wouldn't speculate what comes next. >> do you think a summit is a good idea? you tell a story about being with ronald reagan across from gorbachev, and about your army training. gorbachev makes it known, he's going to let the soviet union dissolve. so do you have any reason that, like a gorbachev, he would be willing to walk away from his grandfather and father's history? >> i would be surprised if he walked away from 70 years of kim family occupancy leadership of north korea. >> a regime based on cruelty to its own people. >> whatever it's based on, it's been 70 years. the only thing that counts to him is the survival of that regime. and so i think it's good to talk rather than threaten bombing each other. i don't think there's a basis

f -- they're not going to commit suicide, but talking is always useful. whether a summit or a lower level, i would let others decide that. i would start at a more modest level. but the director of central intelligence was a good way to get this started. >> appreciate your time. thank you for coming in. one more unforgettable moment with the former first lady barbara bush, involving her husband's distaste for a certain vegetable. >> i do not like broccoli! >> i'm going to tell you the honest truth, the president is never going to eat broccoli. but i'm they have going to eat pork rind, ever! hey allergy muddlers. are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool? try zyrtec®.

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very effective ambassador. there might have been some momentary confusion about that. >> well, that didn't sit well with ambassador haley, who issued this terse, frosty statement. with all due respect, i don't get confused. eight words. ouch. >> yeah. >> it's great drama, but also meaning al. i'm told one of the reasons the ambassador is not happy is because she knows what happened to rex tillerson. she needs people around the world and in the chambers of the united nations to think when she speaks, she speaks for the president. this was in the works. she mentioned secretary mnuchin. the treasury was working on the paperwork. it was supposed to happen on monday and the president said halt. why? >> well, what i'm hearing from the white house, what we reported at the journal on this is that the decision changed at one point, and that the -- when haley was read in part of the decision, this was going to be a

twin strike, the actual strikes in syria, and another punch on the sanctions. at some point after haley was read in, according to the white house, the decision was made to hold back on the sanctions to wait and see what the russia response was. when that response was not much, there was the resolution at the u.n. that got defeated easily, the white house decided to put the -- to table those sanctions, not to poke putin in the eye needlessly. this is -- this clashes with haley, who is very meticulous about her image, her ambitions are very well known. and comes at a critical time for the white house. they have no secretary of state. they have a brand new national security adviser. and here's ambassador haley stepping in to take on the role as the foreign policy voice in the trump administration. she wanted to break this news on the sanctions, and now she's

left out. >> and there's a lot of conversation in washington that it's not just about the president deciding not to impose sanctions, but haley has on her staff a never trumper. so reminding him that mr. learner exists. breitbart trying to take advantage of how much of it is this, how much do we know that the president was reminded, oh, yeah, there are maparts of it i don't like and how much is russia? >> it's both, but you have to keep in mind that there's -- if you get into the president's orbit and you appear bigger than the president or perhaps thought of as above the president in some capacity on this foreign policy, which there has been no shortage of very nice stories about nikki haley and her time

on capitol hill, there's a bipartisan regard for her and the work she's done at this point, that you're in danger of getting burned. you add the staff issue, you add the russia issue in general, and you're wandering into a lane that could blow up into your face. >> yet silence from the president on twitter. when he sees these media stories, he often intervenes. he did this to general mcmaster, forgot to say the results of the election were not impacted by the russians. the president off jumps into these controversies silent with nikki haley. >> there's still many hours left in this day. and he's down in florida. so we'll see what he says on this. what's interesting, though, i'm not sure that nikki haley comes out any better, just because she brushed back on kudlow, because

they essentially said she wasn't read in on this. so to the world leaders, she looks like she wasn't read in on something. so in terms of her credibility and standing, it's pretty damaged. >> okay. another fun one. don't blame me, blame washington. one red state democrat's choice words in a brand new campaign ad. patrick woke up with a sore back. but he's got work to do. so he took aleve this morning.

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checking today's political radar, it's the end of an era. the hill says goodbye to its 50 most beautiful list. since 2004, they have highlighted congressional staffers for that annual addition. senator orrin hatch of utah saying it best with this tweet, you wake up early to comb your hair, pick out your strongest tie-shirt combo, think thing is going to be the year, then this

happens. sor sorry, senator, times are changing. senator joe manchin giving voters a cheerful knew way to see washington in this new ad. >> people here have been screwed by both political parties. yes, washington sucks. but west virginians don't give up and i'll never give up trying to make it better. >> that's one way to unite your constitue constituents. senator manchin facing a tough election this year. the pentagon says an account in "the new york times" about president trump and james mattis disagreeing whether they needed congressional approval is false. this as several lawmakers voiced concerns on a classified briefing on syria tuesday night. here is senators corker and graham. >> look, the president is very committed to getting out of

syria rapidly as possible. i don't see anything changing that. when we invited russia in, the international community to help with chemical weapons, we basically turned the country over to russia. it is russia and iran's to determine what is going to happen in syria. >> i am very unnerved by what i hear and see. i think president trump has been a good commander in chief, but when it comes to syria, i think he's going down a dangerous path. >> thanks for joining us on "inside politics." brianna keilar is in for wolf. she takes the chair after a break. have a great day. which gave us a little wiggle room in our budget. i wish our insurance did that. then we could get a real babysitter instead of your brother. hey, welcome back. this guy, right? (laughs) yes. ellen. that's my robe. you could save $782 when liberty stands with you. liberty mutual insurance.

hi there, i'm brianna keilar in for wolf blitzer. wherever you're watching from around the world, thank you for joining us. he either forgot or hopes we did. today, president trump contradicting himself on the reason why he fired former fbi director james comey. he tweeted this morning, slippery james comey, the worst fbi director in history, was not fired because of the