>> alberto gonzalez and i are good friends and close colleagues.ave a slight disagreement with him. trump did not have a traditional transition, he just didn't. when he came into office he had nobody at the department of justice. it took him a while to get his a.g. in there. i think the a.g. having played a political role in the campaign with jeff sessions. he has been a friend of mine since college days, an excellent choice but he having been active in the campaign was a little restrained in how he could talk about this things. it took until they got the number two guy into the department and confirmed by the senate and then and only then could there be an appropriate review of comey's activity. he is right -- >> bill: can i read something from the "wall street journal." i want you to chew on this. tell me whether or not you agree with this. the reality is mr. comey has always been most concerned with the politics of his own reputation. it continues. he styles himself as the last honest man in washington he has dangled insinuations across his care

alberto gonzalez said the timing is really weird here. the basis in that memo are getting criticism. that's on rosenstein. he is going to be saved, i think, jason johnson, from many intense scrutiny. the best evidence of that is the president's letter. the second paragraph where he says something we have been unable to verify with any source at the fbi or anyone who knows james comey. that was communicated to the president on at least three occasions that he is not part of the investigation. one, why would he put that in there if it is not about the russia investigation and two, what does it mean if the president is lying? or that is not true when he was never told that. >> right. it seems unlikely that james comey would have a sitdown with trump and say you are not under investigation. what good investigator does that? that doesn't make sense when it is an ongoing investigation. we know the president has a tendency to lie. going back to rosenstein. if your boss comes to you and says tell me how to do something. it is his job to provide t

thank you very much for the debate. >> joining us now is alberto gonzalez.tioned in rod rosen stein's letter about james comey. he is currently the dean at belmont university college of law and the author of "true faith and allegiance, a story of service and sacrifice in war and peace." sir, always a pleasure to have you on new day. >> it is always a pleasure to be with you. >> your baseline reaction? >> i was surprised. obviously there are serious questions about the timing and i think the white house ohs the american public an explanation of why now. and quite frankly, if this firing was intended to intimidate or interfere with the ongoing russian investigation, i think that is terribly wrong and there needs to be -- there needs to be a full accounting and a full explanation of the reasons why. i know rod rosen stein, he was one of my u.s. attorneys. i have a great deal of faith in him. i have in issues with him coming out and speaking to the press and providing a full explanation of the reasons. but the timing is so strange. i have heard other guests on y

we have alberto gonzalez with us right now.ering the question about the contact that president trump the president claims to have had with james comey where james comey allegedly told him three times there's no investigation into him, the impropriety on that, and also whether or not you think a special prosecutor would make things better at this point. >> first of all, including in that letter seemed totally inappropriate, quite frankly. if there was that communication it would have been inappropriate for james comey to have offered that information and that would be a sufficient basis to remove him as fbi director, but it also would be inappropriately, quite frankly, for the president to be asking and he should know better than to ask about an ongoing investigation. what i worry about is the whole issue of this investigation and the swirl around the fbi director and his public comments and testimony and now his removal has created this cloud that i do worry about whether or not new fbi director can restore the integrity and co

attorney general alberto gonzalez.ntly the dean at belmont university college of law and the author of true faith and allegiance, a story of service and sacrifice in war and peace. always good to have you on the show, sir. >> it's always good to be on your show, chris. >> special counsel, right move? mueller, good choice? >> i think so. i have total confidence in the fbi doing this investigation and i would have expected him to continue and get to the bottom of all this. but given the swirl about the firings and about these recent conversations between the president and the fbi director, i think there is so much out there that perhaps this was probably the right and inevitable outcome, quite frankly. in terms of the right person, i have confidence in bob mueller. it appears that he has broad support on both sides of the aisle, so that's being viewed as a very good choice by many people. >> so we had a moment of apparent clarity and unusual cooperation between left and right when it came to the counsel and the choice of

. >> he talks about general michael mukasey alberto gonzalez air colder and thompson as well. the paragraph below, what you just quoted the paragraph below he says the director was wrong to usurp the attorney general and that would have been loretta lynch's authority and announces conclusion that the case should be close without prosecution. basically rosenstein is saying that comey took the law into his own hands and he went about the head of the attorney general and there were no circumstances, no circumstances under which without authorization that the fbi director should do that and in the letter from donald trump to comey which i understand was hand delivered earlier today this scathing and continues with a very unusual paragraph which he said this is the president talking. while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that i'm not under investigation by nevertheless -- lou: excuse me john. i believe we have this up on full screen. let's bring it up here for the audience. if we could, please. here we go. if you would begin again, john. he says wh

alberto gonzalez was cited as a krit sick and said the timing raises a lot of bad questions. so he's got some things to answer for in this. but isn't it what sa liz chris talking about here, that if it wasn't about russia, why did he include that paragraph with something that is almost unconfirmable. no one who i have talked to who knows james comey said he would have said anything like that around the president. but why is it in the letter? >> there this glaring disconnect where you have the deputy attorney general saying this is about comey's behavior in the clinton investigation and then the president himself raising the spector of the russia investigation. and everyone that we have talked to not only people who are around comey but also just career prosecutors, long-time officials who have worked at the justice department say it is just hard to imagine that any fbi director would make that kind of statement to a president to go to them not just once but three times to say you are not personally under investigation when there is an open inquiry that the fbi just doesn't kn

i had alberto gonzalez on our radio show and he said it was a perfectly reasonable thing to have doneople felt like jim comey lurched around in a political fashion during the campaign. >> you are not addressing the question. >> yes, i am. don't you think that is inappropriate. >> he said the pressure is off of them. how do you feel about that? >> strong move. >> what i think is this, that there are conversations that happen in diplomatic setting. president obama was overheard. i to this day don't know what he said when he said i will have flexibility. i think what president trump was trying to do is tell the russians that there is nothing to this collusion. i think they all know there is nothing to this collusion. >> you think he needed to tell the russians there is nothing to collusion? you think they don't know exactly what happened and why they would be the perpetrators. >> that's why they're having an honest conversation about how silly it is. >> good to know you think the president and the russians are on the same page. >> do you think the russians needed help to do any of the ha

. >> joining me is former attorney general alberto gonzalez, dean of the university of law.ou see this investigation going? as many experts have pointed out, for bill clinton the investation started with whitewater, ended up with monica lewinsky. >> it really hard to predict, isn't it? obviously bob mueller has been given wide latitude to do this investigation and sometimes this is very hard to predict where investigations are going to go because today we don't know of certain facts and certain incidents and certain actions and certain statements have been made. it really not made public. so it really hard to predict. also, it ha's hard to predict t is going to take. you also have investigations going on in congress, the fbi, bob mueller investigation may conflict with the congressional investigation. bob may decide to wait and let the investigation proceed to a certain measure. we don't know if this investigation is it going to get close to the oval office, might be there be an assertion of executive privilege? that might have to be litigated. >> which one would trump the o

e-mails leaked to the "new york times" in 2009 show comey wrote to then attorney general alberto gonzalez four years earlier arguing that torture tactics were a bad idea and that justice officials would regret being pushed by the george w. bush white house to approve them. last week when president trump suggested there might be tapes of his january 27thth meeting with james comey, the former communications director for obama attorney general eric holder tweeted this. one thing i learned at the doj about comey, he leaves a protective paper trail whenever he dream something inappropriate happened. stay tuned. now lawmakers want to see what comey wrote down. republican and democratic leaders on the senate judiciary committee are formally asking the fbi to provide all memos relating to comey's interactions with his superiors in both the trump and obama administrations. plus, they want white house counsel done mcgahn to and over all white house records that show when comey discussed either the white house investigation or the clinton e-mail server investigation with administration officials or

. >> joining me is former attorney general alberto gonzalez, dean of the university of law.nk you for joining us. where do you see this investigation going? as many experts have pointed out, for bill clinton the investigation started with whitewater, ended up with monica lewinsky. >> it really hard to predict, isn't it? obviously bob mueller has been given wide latitude to do this investigation and sometimes this is very hard to predict where investigations are going to go because today we don't know of certain facts and certain incidents and certain actions and certain statements have been made. it really not made public. so it really hard to predict. also, it's hard to predict this is going to take. you also have investigations going on in congress, the fbi, bob mueller investigation may conflict with the congressional investigation. bob may decide to wait and let the investigation proceed to a certain measure. we don't know if this investigation is it going to get close to the oval office, might be there be an assertion of executive privilege? that might have to be litiga

duffy and elijah cummings, also senators angus king and richard blumenthal and former attorney alberto gonzalez, all joining us live. >>> republicans, are they on the same page as president trump? you're talking about the agenda, you're talking about the special investigation. the president says it divided the country but it seems lawmakers believe the opposite, that it's the first time they've agreed on something in this administration. we have republicans and democrats in congress, ahead. i am benedict arnold, the infamous traitor. and i know a thing or two about trading. so i trade with e*trade, where true traders trade on a trademarked trade platform that has all the... get off the computer traitor! i won't. (cannon sound) on a perfect car, then smash it into a tree. your insurance company raises your rates. maybe you should've done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. switch and you could save $509 on auto insurance. call for a free quote today. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. at

alberto gonzalez was on his way to persuade john ashcraft to reauthorize a key part of the act.ustice department had determined it was against the law. comey, with mueller's brlessing raced to the hospital to stop gonzales. >> >> i thought i had just witnessed a very sick man who did not have the powers of the attorney general because they had been transferred to me. >> both mueller and comey threatened to resign but were convinced to stay. bob mueller served for two terms. >> i want to thank robert mueller, not just for the introduction but because bob has led the bureau during incredibly challenging times. >> mueller has most recently been a visiting professor at stanford. he'll leave those positions to take on this new and important responsibility. gary tuchman, cnn, atlanta. >> lisa monica worked with robert mueller from 2005 to 2009. is he the right person for the job? >> absolutely. there's no one better suited in this country for this role at this time. >> why do you say that? >> because if you look at the authority that the deputy attorney general required here, the pers

she was somebody who wasn't just an appointee like alberto gonzalez was, for example, under george w.any, you know, appointees. she was a career justice department official who as we said on this program yesterday and many times since who had worked at -- very, very hard prosecuting people who have no political affiliation and even and especially democrats in her home state of georgia to the point where she really angered democrats, where they tried to block her from getting an appointment as u.s. attorney. >> she served under republican presidents and democratic presidents. >> i would note everybody perez's reporting on this which we have just gotten is there are people standing up for sally yates, saying, wait a minute. i want to make sure, former senior justice department official worked under sally yates who makes a similar point to dana, this is someone who has been with the justice department in one form or another since 1989. u.s. attorney, yes, u.s. attorney appointed by president obama, deputy attorney general appointed by president obama, but, again, if you -- if you believe

attorney general alberto gonzalez. what do they think about what has happened this morning. >>> all right. so the firing of james comey. is this just clear proof of dirty politics or a move to clean it up? why some trump supporters say getting rid of comey was the right move. we'll debate. i'm claudine and i quit smoking with chantix. smoking's a monkey on my back. it was, it was always controlling your time, your actions, your money. it had me. it had me. i would not be a non-smoker today if it wasn't for chantix. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. chantix reduced my urge to smoke some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. some reported seizures or sleepwalking with chantix. if you have any of these, stop chantix and call your doctor right away. tell your doctor about any history of mental health problems, which could get worse or of seizures. don't tak

and also using some of the same quotes that folks like alberto gonzalez and mike mukasey and former attorney general holder used at the time. so i mean i find that very ironic. >> so i guess it's so through the loong glass, right, because at one level the sort of most vociferous critics, i would say, of james comey's conduct, particularly as it pertains to the clinton matter, are people close to -- including hillary clinton, people close to hillary clinton, people that work for her, lots of professionals too that don't have a dog in the fight were very critical of his behavior. >> sure. >> i guess like -- but here's my question. rod rosenstein is someone who has a very good reputation. >> yes. >> he is not viewed as a hack. he is not viewed as a yes man. he's the one ultimately who puts his name to this letter with this rationale that is then krielted. wh how do you process that? >> i process that as the same level of cowardice that we've seen from donald trump time and time again where he, you know, blames barack obama for general flynn's behavior, right? i mean he never takes responsibilit

ago this week that comey recounted to senators a dramatic showdown between white house counsel alberto gonzalezand white house chief of staff andy card on one side and justice department officials on the other over whether to review warrantless domestic program launched in the wake of 9/11 attacks. gonzalez and card tried to override then acting attorney general comey's objections to the program by going directly to his superior attorney general john ashcroft, who at the time was in the happened recovering from gallbladder surgery. tipped off by ashcroft's wife upset at her husband receiving visitors at such a delicate time comey raced to the hospital hoping to get to ashcroft before the white house aides. >> so i raced to the hospital room, entered. mrs. ashcroft was standing by the hospital bed. mr. ashcroft was lying down in the bed. the room was darkened, and i immediately began speaking to him trying to orient him to time and place and try to see if he could focus on what was happening. it wasn't clear to me eck. he seemed pretty bad off. >> comey made a call to then fbi director robert mu

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