to characterize any undertaking as a witch hunt is totally unfair >> did he shed any light on the comay memo >> the memo effectively talking about [inaudible] >> did rod rosenstein take any responsibility for the firing of james comey in the memo that he worke wrote? if not where does responsibility like >> i think he stressed the responsibility that it was the decision of the president. it's an executive branch decision and it was an executive action. his memo was written within the context of it. he very much avoided giving specific answers as to circumstances around writing the memo and if somebody helped him and who reviewed it saying that should be part of mr. muller's investigation. he totally backed away from ever going back >> did he tell you may 8 was the day which he knew [inaudible] >> i missed the beginning of his opening statement. i cannot say for sure >> is it your impression based on the briefing that this has now crossed the threshold to a criminal matter >> he stress this is an investigation. he did not go beyond that. to say that it goes beyond that would prejudice pe

americans should be concerned about how they are playing right into director comay's hand.ey use the memo to get congress to call him in public to testify and verify their existence. >> and we also add that republicans, specifically congressional republicans love to leaks when it was wiki leaks. they thought it was the latest thing out there. now it's things they don't want to talk about the possible collusion between trump campaign and russia, suddenly leaks and unmasking is the problem. you need to talk about both issue. >> before i wrap up this issue, the special counsel, robert muller, what do you anticipate coming from him? he's widely known throughout washington in america, some that people really applaud from both sides of the aisle. what you think he has to do to bring this to a close. it might take years. >> it could take years. i think we will just get silence. there will be footage of him going to work everyday. when we hear something from him it will be very simple, i recommend john smith to be prosecuted or we have found no finding and no wrongdoing. the specia

director comay convened a meeting at a time of extraordinary anxiety and uncertainty. he want to express his support and compassion and assure us that the fbi would expend whatever resources needed to close the case, and true to his word, that's what what he did. we thank the bureau publicly then and we wish to thank director comay personally again today. please join me back. please join me in welcoming the fbi director james comey. [applause] >> thank you for that and the kind introduction. thank you for your applause for the fbi. they are people who spend all day every day worrying about protecting the people you are worried about protecting as well. i last spoke to you in the spring of 2014 and i was seven months into this job. it seems like a lifetime ago. i was taller than. [laughter] when i spoke to three years ago, i sing your praises and highlighted the way you fight for inclusiveness and diversity and the way you fight for equality and justice. i did that because at the time i described yours as an organization that works with us to fight hate crime and terror

. >> the president contradicted mike pence and various white house officials said the firing of comay only came after the recommendation from the attorney general and deputy attorney general, the president told nbc he decided on his own before that. the president had his personal lawyer volunteer a letter to republican senator lindsey graham, one of many lawmakers investigating russian collusion that after reviewing the president's tax returns for the last ten years, there is no debt or equity investments in russian entities, though democrats want to see the tax returns themselves. another reason this is not going away next week is the senate intelligence committee has invited comey to testify tuesday, a chance to tell his side of the story on that dinner with the president. treacherous for the white house because he may be for a year speak his mind. a closed session for the testimony so there will not be tv cameras, as we've already seen, information about this drama has a tendency to leak out anyway. >> martha: thank you very much, joining me now, chris wallace host of fox news sund

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democratic side, not only the republican side that were saying such terrible things about director comay and he had the very poor performance on wednesday. it was so poor that i believe, and you would have to ask him because i don't like to speak for other people, but i believe that's why the deputy attorney general went out and wrote his very strong letter and then, on top of that, after the wednesday performance by director comay, you had a person come and readjust the record, which many people have never seen before because there were missed payments made. i thought that was something that was terrible. we need a great director of the fbi. i cherish the fbi. it is special. all over the world, no matter where you go, the fbi is special. they have not had that special reputation with what happened in the campaign, what happened with respect to the clinton campaign, and even you could say directly or indirectly to the much more successful trump campaign. we will have a director who will be outstanding. i will be announcing that very soon. i look forward to doing it. i think the people in

now the president fires comay and now he's the villain.schizophrenic or did i miss something. >> they are absolutely schizophrenic. it's a mental thing. they are brainwashed. >> even if he cures cancer it won't matter. >> no. >> how do you think he can function like that? if you are working hard, doing the best job and all of a sudden a matter what you do your a villain. >> i know the feeling. i'm a stepmom. >> can he do anything right? >> no he cannot. he's a joke. jeanine: are the american people stupid? we elected him. >> i know, i feel so bad bill clinton seems like a nicer man. jeanine: you think? >> yes. >> if he saved somebody's life tomorrow they would say he did it wrong. jeanine: did he do the right thing at the wrong thing. >> wrong. impeach him. >> why do you want to impeach the president? >> we don't even know where were at right now. here we are. thank you. that's it for us. i just want to say to my mother, i love you mom, thanks for everything. to all your moms, thanks for watching. and the dads too. we will see you next sat

i think jim comay way back almost a year ago kind of forgot he was the fbi director. and rather than stand up until the american people that the attorney general wouldn't allow a grand jury investigation to actually do a federal investigation of hillary clinton, which might have had the democratic party pulled back from being the nominee which would have changed the whole outcome possibly can. jim comay dance with the devil and later on down the road talked about this great investigation, the fbi conducted. of course, they had no screen of power, they couldn't compel any investigation or search warrants. they had to beg people to look at things. the interview of hillary clinton in my view was a sham. so he made a lot of mistakes. i think he's basically a good guy. he was lacking common sense and it's time for new leadership in the fbi. >> martha: is that a lot there, jim. and i think the headline is that you believe the obama administration had never had suggestion that they were going to bring any charges against hillary clinton for any of this and that jim comey end

responsibility, but then she also does want to shift the blame to things like voter suppression and james comay russians. i actually agree with you a lot on this, i do think it's possible to say maybe if jim comey handled things differently may be things do go a different way, but ultimately, donald trump did not run an amazing campaign. he was not an amazing candidate. he was highly polarizing at one election they can, a majority of americans were saying he's unfit for the presidency. hillary clinton should have been able to win and should have been in a position to win even with the slings and arrows of russia and jim comey et cetera. i talk a lot about this reversing the apocalypse. i think the democratic party as a whole has really strayed from their roots as a party of the working class focused on those economic issues that trump really did touch on. i didn't want her to run on the first place, i was a joe biden supporter and then i was a bernie sanders supporter, i think there are a lot of problems there but i also think the problem goes deeper with the democratic party if you just look a

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this is happening as the administration is trying to put out a fire storm after james comay's ousting. white house counselor kellyanne conway said that is not the ca case. >> independent of that, his deputy attorney general who oversees the fbi, that's his job, he came to that conclusion on his own and made the recommendation. now, i would also point out that everyone is saying james comey was investigating. no, he wasn't. the fbi was investigating and they will continue to investigate. laura: we have fox team coverage on all of this. caroline shively is in washington with the latest on north korea. first we go to kevin on the north lawn and we have heard the president would like to fill the post at the fbi by friday. what is the hurry? >> i think a couple of things. they feel this is a position they can fill with relative ease and find a very highly qualified candidate. in fact, you can make a plausible argument that whittling down the field is probably going to be the most difficult part has as i show you the names and faces we've already talked about, we are talking of some of the

there were many reasons why people on both sides of the aisle had doubts about the temperament of jim comay for this position. here is what is raising more than few eyebrows. they had showered praise a few months back for having the guts to reopen the investigation into hillary clinton's use of the private e-mail server. the timing is upsetting them. what do you say to that. >> i think the important thing is for the investigation to go forward i think we need a neil gorsuch type of person for them to bring forward. impeccable credentials and experience and i think once that person gets in place if it goes forward as it should go i think this hysteria in the tornado as you mentioned will come down and move on to other things. >> would you give continued supports. >> i would hope that the acting director would continue with the investigation i would call for him to appoint someone with the bipartisan support. someone who is beyond reproach. i do not know him. i cannot comment. i take it's important that this persois someone who is determined the republicans and democrats they have confidence

this is happening as the administration is trying to put out a fire storm after james comay's ousting. white house counselor kellyanne conway said that is not the ca case. >> independent of that, his deputy attorney general who oversees the fbi, that's his job, he came to that conclusion on his own and made the recommendation. now, i would also point out that everyone is saying james comey was investigating. no, he wasn't. the fbi was investigating and they will continue to investigate. laura: we have fox team coverage on all of this. caroline shively is in washington with the latest on north korea. first we go to kevin on the north lawn and we have heard the president would like to fill the post at the fbi by friday. what is the hurry? >> i think a couple of things. they feel this is a position they can fill with relative ease and find a very highly qualified candidate. in fact, you can make a plausible argument that whittling down the field is probably going to be the most difficult part has as i show you the names and faces we've already talked about, we are talking of some of the

. >> jim comay didn't tell her not to campaign in wisconsin, he didn't say don't put any resources intoichigan until the final week of the campaign. it takes a lot of work to lose to donald trump. he was the least popular presidential candidate to win in the history of polling. it wasn't just the comey letter. >> it was not a perfect campaign but no mention of her failure to go to wisconsin to campaign earlier in michigan, connect with rustbelt voters in pennsylvania, all blue states that went for donald trump, or why the first female nominee could not win a majority of white college-educated women. >> greg: in there turning on her. >> jesse: when your enemies tell you to get off the stage, when your friends tell you it's time to go. the clinton machine to me is like a fax machine, it hasn't been useful since the 90s. think about it, hillary clinton's machine lost to obama, then they lost to trump, they have a terrible polling operation, no turnout. they can't raise money from small donors. the worst thing in politics besides being a loser. gort went out with more dignity and he lost by

in the former fbi director jim comay confirmed that the president referred to the director. >> i don't agree with that and he's not. >> does it refer you, doesn't concern you at the presidents meeting in the oval office as the vice president and the attorney general to leave and then he asked the fbi director jim comey to let him go? >> i don't know the veracity of these things but that's why we have an investigation. what i'm not going to do is comment on things that are under ongoing review. we got three investigations going on right now. you've got a house intelligence community midi investigation and a special counsel run by bob miller who i don't think anybody has any problems with his credibility, he's the most credible people i've known. i've known him for i don't know, eight years i think. so what i'm not going to do is do the armchair quarterback thing and go play by play or prejudge the outcome. these are independent investigations, they're going to follow the facts wherever the facts go and we need to let that happen and i'm not going to sit around and comment on stories and

chris: in his congressional testimony comay said he faced to terrible alternatives. >> speaking can stillspeak would be really bad. there is an election in 11 days. concealing in my view would be catastrophic. >> the argument he makes is if they had not revealed this, if she had been elected president and then it comes out that there is an investigation going on let alone that she had broken the law that would have badly damage the fbi. >> he had a great chapter in john asked ashford's hospital room when he blocked assigning he thought will's illegal print i thought he was wrong three times last year. the right thing to do was to keep his mouth shut. concealed, no way. what we are talking about was a stash of e-mails on anthony weiner's hard drive which no one had looked at. to imply, which the announcement did imply that there was something bad there and it turned out there wasn't, i think that was unprofessional. chris: okay we have both sides of the argument. let's turn to the politics of late-night comedy. here was steven colbert with his astonishingly crude attack on donald trump. >>

fbi director james comay and russian interference, she is now back to being an activist citizen and is a book about her campaign. house lawmakers are warning top airline executives they will take action if customer service does not improve. airline leaders were called to testify after a rash of incidents caught on camera including a passenger being dragged off the flight, ceo and president among those present today. a big discovery may have been made in the caribbean. it's believed it came from one of the three ships used by christopher columbus. i am jackie ibanez, now back to "hannity" for all your headlines, log on to foxnews.com. ♪ >> sean: the ultimate radical left stoops to a brand-new low. imagine this was president obama and a late night comic stephen colbert goes after him. after he called to the cbs sunday morning show defaced the nation, big deal and ended the interview with john dickerson a little abruptly, here's how colbert reacted. >> john dickerson has too much dignity to trade insults with the president of the united states to his face but i am no john dickerson. i lov

it has claimed that that memo shows president trump asking comay to take it easy. we have it covered from every angle. and richard goodstein they will tell us what all this means for the trump administration. we are less than an hour to the closing bell. i am ashley webster in for liz claman. let's start the countdown. after weeks of ignoring every sign of trouble. they are suddenly selling off amid evidence. a damaging allegation that could derail the white house's policy agenda. you can see the losses piling up. down as much as 354 points. still on track for the worst day since the election. it's down 327 as we say the s&p down. down two and a quarter percent. the fear gauge which have been hovering at the lowest levels in a century so much for that. now 1420 about 300% today. maybe some of that is washed away. the sector which is being one of the top performers since donald trump was elected to date one today one of the biggest losers. the largest like on the tao. jp morgan up nearly 400 percent. think of bank of america down about 50. one of the few bright spot

quick programming note, on "special report," bret baier will talk about the comay firing with paul ryan, you do not want to miss that tonight. >> jon: do i have to grow my mustache? >> jenna: i would love to see that, by the way. >> jon: could happen. we are awaiting the white house daily press briefing after a dramatic date in washington, d.c. we expect even more fireworks in that briefing room. plus, i meeting today with the secretary of state and president trump, we are at live at the state department with more on those meetings and what they mean. in the wake of the fbi director's dismissal. earn interest, david. you know i work at ally. i was being romantic. you know what i find romantic? a robust annual percentage yield that's what i find romantic. this is literally throwing your money away. i think it's over there. that way? yeah, a little further up. what year was that quarter? what year is that one? '98 that's the one. you got it! nothing stops us from doing right by our customers. ally. do it right. let's get out of that water. >> jon: the white house daily briefing was schedu

comay should report putting reporters in prison for publishing classified information."hat point, he turned to the issue of flynn. this conversation allegedly came one day after flynn had been fired. it is interesting that he would take comey into his office alone, jeff sessions, his attorney general, wanted to come into the office but he was asked to meet with comey alone according to "the new york times." separately, the other story that we all been looking at today, we finally have a reaction from the defense secretary on "the washington post" report that president trump had revealed classified information to the russians during that meeting in the oval office. defense secretary jim mattis was on the steps of the pentagon a few hours ago and he was asked -- he was swearing in his first, the secretary of the air force, the first service secretary to be sworn in, he was asked by reporters if he thought to the president had done anything wrong during that russian meeting. i will read from the report. it says "mattis was asked directly if it had any confirmed on my concer

[inaudible] as director comay said through the fingers of that cross are going to come hundreds of very, very dangerous people. there will be a terrorist ds for a in the next two to three years that we've never seen before. those chilling words should serve as a wake-up call. last week it was reported that two british nationals and a us citizen were detained by turkish border police after spending two years in ices territory. with hundreds of americans fighters and thousands of fighters returning to their home countries armed with visas, we must be able to run them from gaining air entry into the united states by abusing our immigration system. the 2015 attacks in paris and the 2016 attacks in brussels, and east and berlin. these attackers were european citizens with valid passports. it's easy to imagine anyone of them gaining access to the country for a valid visa or through the visa waiver program. a secretary kelly recently said that us is the prime target especially since so many of these fighters are citizens of the wp countries. that is why we are here today. we want to ensure our

comay is correct in his analysis. he has ability to fire at well.that. the firing was a surprise to you and your colleagues on the help. should you had been informed should you had had some idea that the president wasn't happy so that the president doesn't find himself on the spot. yesterday was because he to handle the e-mail skin a while. with regard to whether or not he should have advised us. think about how that would've played out. if he would've announced to the public into us that he was gonna make a determination before he went and talked to circle me. one of my guests earlier lee carter was a polling expert said this has been a bread come lead up. not that he would've told you before. we didn't know about it. and the american the american public i suspect for a while i think along the way there have been expectations that he was there to begin with. the firing in the impact. this is firing in the fact that you're now talking about it and this is the conversation of the moment this is the front page of every page today rather than the agend

to characterize any undertaking as a witch hunt is totally unfair >> did he shed any light on the comay memo >> the memo effectively talking about [inaudible]