comey is not. comey is now a private citizen, called to testify. might as well make an attack ad about one of my audience members out here. like this guy: as an audience member, this guy put his viewing experience over protecting america. ever since taking his seat, he's just been laughing while doing nothing to combat terror. enough's enough. >> some say this guy is a good audience member. but what do we really know about him? i know i don't trust him around my baby. >> stephen: neither do i. ( laughter ) ( applause ) this guy: wrong for seat 12. wrong for america. ( cheers and applause ) we've got a great show for you tonight. tilda swinton is here. but when we return, we're going to do another monologue. more chaos at the white house. stick around. discover card. how can i help you? oh, you're real? you know i'm real! at discover, we're always here to talk. good, 'cause i don't have time for machines. some companies just don't appreciate the power of conversation! you know, i like you! i like you too! at discover, we treat you like you'd treat y

he will replace james comey, who was fired earlier this year. asked abouted to be russian interference in the 2016 election and his previous experience at the justice department. live coverage of starting at 9:30 a.m. eastern on a c-span3. you can follow it live on www.c-span.org, and with the c-span radio app. c-span, where history unfold daily. created as aan was public service by america's cable television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. >> a discussion about the russian-led a military exercise in and around the baltic sea, slated to begin mid-september. andeard for military government leaders from estonia, norway, and the u.s. on the mechanics and applications of the exercises, both for the nato alliance and russia's military ambitions. this is an hour and 40 minutes. >> good morning, everyone, and welcome to this event, implications for nato and the united states. it is getting muggy out there, we are happy to share our ac with you in here. of initiativesor here at the atlantic council. it is great

would you have done what james comey did? guest: he said he could not imagine a situation in which you would be holding a press theerence about a person justice department had decided not to charge with any wrongdoing and then speak openly about allegations with them. he said he felt his hands were tied because that attorney general loretta lynch had met with bill clinton on the tarmac in arizona last year and created an appearance of impropriety. i will point out and christopher actions that comey's are under investigation by the justice department inspector general and we make it more on that later this year. canthe real reasons, if we find them, for his firing by president trump, are also under investigation by special counsel robert mueller and his crackerjack team of lawyers. host: why would chris wray and others be critical of what james comey did? why would he say, i can't iagine circumstances where would do this? what is justice department protocol? guest: prosecutors are supposed to make decisions about charging, not

president trump accusing james comey of illegally leaking classified material.for the fired f.b.i. director. lieutenant colonel tony shaffer will discuss what's been done. and why isn't the special counsel talking to hoik, the clinton foundation and john copd makes it hard to breathe. so to breathe better, i go with anoro. ♪go your own way copd tries to say, "go this way." i say, "i'll go my own way" with anoro. ♪go your own way once-daily anoro contains two medicines called bronchodilators, that work together to significantly improve lung function all day and all night. anoro is not for asthma . it contains a type of medicine that increases risk of death in people with asthma. the risk is unknown in copd. anoro won't replace rescue inhalers for sudden symptoms and should not be used more than once a day. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition, high blood pressure, glaucoma, prostate, bladder, or urinary problems. these may worsen with anoro. call your doctor if you have worsened breathing, chest pain, mouth or tongue swelling, problems urinating, vision

comey, this goes back to the meeting when u.s.elligence officials at the time briefed then president elect trump in trump tower and as comey has testified, comey pulled him aside after the meeting and told him about the existence of this dossier or two-page summary of thises dossier, the president saying he believes comey did that to get leverage to keep his job. >> essentially comey wanted to keep his job and that was the point in showing it to him. again, the president feels sort of vindicated as i think you have seen him say publically, that comey had to acknowledge under oath that he had told the president three times he was under investigation, he said he would not say that publically because it might change. the president doesn't accept that as an answer and was very frustrated that comey wouldn't say it publically. again, i think his frustration with the dossier continues and this was a piece of that. >> the white house went after cnn and others who reported that comey had briefed the president about the existence of the do

we're also learning exclusive details of a conversation between john kelly and james comey after comey was fired as fbi director by president trump. our justice correspondent pamela brown is working her sources for us. pamela, they tell you kelly, who was then homeland security secretary, was angry about how the president handled comey's firing? >> that's right, wolf. we've learned that the incoming white house chief of staff john kelly was so upset, so disgusted as one source put it, with the way president trump handled the firing of fbi director james comey that he called comey shortly after he was terminated to say how angry he was, to express that. this is from a source in a conversation with comey and kelly. the sources we spoke to, my colleague said comey was particularly upset by the way it all went down, by the way comey was treated when he learned that he had been fired on the news rather than learning about it by the president, from the president. and this call took place while comey was traveling back from los angeles to washington on may 9 after learning this thewnews. come

comey. i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story, it is an excuse. >> while the president makes the case against himself -- >> but i watched his interview, i read the press accounts of his conversations. i take the president at his word that i was fired because of the russia investigation. >> tonight, the reporting that fuels our knowledge of the investigation. >> breaking news tonight. a blockbuster report from the "new york times." nbc news reporting tonight, "the washington post" explosive report that the president of the united states is currently under a criminal investigation for the obstruction of justice. >> how america learns about this major scandal as the white house shrinks from public scrutiny. "all in" starts right now. >> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. this president tells so many lies so oven that news organizations are now employing entire teams of fact checkers to document them for posterity. and because it is so hard to get

lou: good evening a new report, former fbi director james comey is at the center of it all, again. officials familiar with comey's private memos documenting his talks with president trump, say 4 of them contain class tied material, raising a possibility that comey mishandled classified information in. the same way he accused hillary clinton of doing so last year. comey admitted last month he gave one of those memos to a cluckia law professor who leaked it to the press. and president trump back in washington today, seized on the use, accusing comey of leaking gas fid -- classified material. reporter: the fired fbi director's memos documenting his conversation president trump are considered government records. all fbi employers sign the employment agreement it's hard to believe that information would not becrat fid, further if true that in was was secret and or condeden shall. >> comey justified his acteds to a len at panel last month. >> you consider to be your own personal document to share with media as you wanted to, through a friend. >> i think this my recollection recorded as a

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he fired james comey. he also threw the sitting attorney general, his attorney general of the united states and one of his earliest political supporters under the proverbial bus. we'll have all of that shortly. but first, sad news that senator john mccain has brain cancer. our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta reports. he joins us now. sanjay, explain what you've learned. >> just over the last couple of hours, i've had a chance to hear exactly what transpired over the last several days. we heard that senator mccain went in the hospital on friday, had surgery, but are getting the details of what happened. take a listen. senator john mccain is recovering well after an operation last friday to remove a malignant brain tumor. known as glioblastoma. with senator mccain's permission, i spoke exclusively to two of his mayo clinic doctors about the details of his care. mccain had come in for a scheduled annual physical friday morning with no complaints except intermittent

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so how could james comey ignore the same security protocol that james comey publicly criticized hillary clinton for in the remaining days of the election? >> he's a hypocrite. jim comey has been a hypocrite throughout this process. he's gone a step further. i mean, hillary clinton was setting up a server that was improper. jim comey was leaking out classified information. i mean, intentionally. and of course, in this situation. he's already violating the rule because remember, also important to this. the fbi deeming this government property. so we now can start from the beginning in the criminal code and say we look at government records provisions that have nothing to do with whether they're classified or not. that is a crime. so taking this government records. that's a crime. then if they're classified, that's a second crime. the espionage act crime. then if you have a conspiracy to share with your friend. third crime. so jim comey has -- i mean, just a base level. i think already got them pretty easy on misdemeanors. the question is how many felonies could you add up at this point? l

president, as they say in new zealand -- [ laughter ] so comey's -- [ applause ] so comey's opening statementw public and it includes some damning and truly bizarre details about comey's uncomfortable interactions with trump. first of all, just the shear number of conversations comey had with trump is itself weird. comey says he spoke with president obama just two times. trump on the other hand, would not leave him alone. >> he says that he had a total of nine one-oe months. three of them were in person, six of them were on the phone. >> seth: nine times. to put that in perspective, he's only talked to eric five times ever. [ laughter ] and three of those were just, "what's your name again?" [ light laughter ] then there is comey's account of his infamous dinner with trump. it turns out, comey had no idea the meeting would be a private one-on-one encounter. >> he had called me at lunch time that day and invited me to dinner that night, saying he was going to invite my whole family but decided to have just me this time. with the whole family coming the next time. it was unclear from the conver

nine meetings between james comey and president trump, seven memos taken by comey.our of them contained classified information but we don't necessarily know that one of those four was the one leaked. >> eric: catherine herridge outlined this this afternoon. comey feels on his own admission that this is important information. the public needed it. he leaks into a professor who links it to "the new york times." the professor says they weren't classified documents because they weren't stamped classified. who knows if they were. he's not the guy who dictates whether it's classified. james comey may have broken the law. i'm not sure. whatever it is, if you think it's okay to leak classified intel from meetings with the president of the united states, it's outrageous. >> eboni: let's go with you, capri. two different things. one is breaking fbi protocol and the other is breaking the law. but we don't know. what we know is comey used specific words in his testimony. he specifically said an unclassified memo. >> capri: he said he wrote the ♪ memo, that he wrote it in such a

on may 9th of this year, president trump fired james comey.lthough we're still sorting out all of the circumstances and details surrounding the president's decision, it does not appear that mr. comey was fired because the bureau was a mess as originally stated. nor is there evidence that mr. comey was dismissed because rank and file fbi agents had either lost confidence in him or because of his handling of the clinton administration -- investigation. rather, we find that rank and file agents of the fbi did and continue to overwhelmingly support james comey. in addition, deputy attorney general rosenstein told members of congress that when he wrote his memo, president trump had already decided to remove mr. comey as fbi director. based on press reports and the president's own words, the reason mr. comey was dismissed was because he would not pledge his loyalty to the president and he would not lift the cloud of the russia investigation. president trump said in a televised interview, for example, i was going to fire comey regardless of recommend

now, the fact that comey leaked this memo comey university is not news.estified before the senate intelligence committee. comey at that hearing was asked whether or not he considered that classified information. he said it did not. he also was asked if this was the first time he had done this at that time he testified in fact it had. the question here is are memos that jim comey wrote down because he was concerned about how the meeting was going to be talked about later by the president considered classified information? and if the fbi was in fact conducting an investigation into russian interference into the 2016 election would those notes in and of itself be part of that investigation and would the details that comey went into be classified. and now, when we get neat situations like we've had over the past six months would the president tweets something and then everybody kind of shifts folk us to what it you also have to remember there are things going on outside of that spotlight. and that things going on right now is the investigation by the special

you've known jim comey for a long time. and you've worked alongside him and you, you know a good number of people at the fbi back from your time at the justice department. is that your experience, talking to them? >> well senator, obviously i haven't done a scientific sampling of the 36,000 men and women of the fbi. >> why not? sorry, go ahead. >> appreciate your patience with me on that one. but -- but all the people that i've spoken with at the fbi, from senior people down to rank-and-file people, strike me as the same fbi i've always known and loved. which is people who are mission-focused. who believe in what they're doing. who are going to follow the facts and the law wherever it takes them. they've got their head down. their spirit up and they're charging ahead. now if there's somebody somewhere, who feels that, that could be. >> you don't think director comey is a nut job, right? >> that's never been my experience with him. >> okay. >> i'm glad to hear that. if you are asked in some kind of setting by the president,

-- >> 30 seconds, do you think comey violated the law?> i think he may well have. certainly treating those memos as his personal property rather than government records, and then taking them away, this is the same type of thing that got hillary clinton in trouble on her e-mails. those were government archive records. there are rules about how you dispose of government records. whether there was classified information in them or not is more questionable. if there was, then he clearly violated that law as well. >> thank you del wilbur, thank you john eastman. ladies and gentlemen, i'll be right back. where are we? about to see progressive's new home quote explorer. where you can compare multiple quote options online and choose what's right for you. woah. flo and jamie here to see hqx. flo and jamie request entry. slovakia. triceratops. tapioca. racquetball. staccato. me llamo jamie. pumpernickel. pudding. employee: hey, guys! home quote explorer. it's home insurance made easy. password was "hey guys." bounty is more absorbent,mom"sy. per ro

trying to hurt comey.investigation and divert attention away from what people should be paying attention to. >> john, i want to ask you now that we are learning about the meeting with the russian lawyer. would you have taken a meeting like this? >> kate, i have been on nine presidential campaigns. not one of them has anyone, in any of them met with foreign officials at that level, much less with the impact of trying to find dirt on an opponent. so, no, i wouldn't have. normally, our campaign wouldn't have. the thing is right now, kate, they can't keep their stories straight. they are zigzagging more than a band of road runners on crack. it's hard to keep up with what's going on. initially, we saw different dots on the screen. ift was hard to see the picture. with good reporting and better investigation is going on by director mueller, you know, the lines are being drawn to all these dots. a clear picture is emerging. it's alarming. >> john, would you take a meeting, during a campaign, any of them, with som

comey. new allegations on donald trump jr.'s meeting. life in washington, we are here with "america's newsroom" ." >> shannon: hours after, donald trump jr. says he wished he would've done something differently. >> i can vouch for the information. at some he sent me an email. i can't help what somebody sends me. i read it and responded accordingly. in retrospect, i would've done things differently. >> bill: this starts our hour. president trump talks to the french leader tonight. also the confirmation hearing, begins in 28 minutes. >> there's a lot of anticipation outside of the hearing room. i'm going to step aside. you can see the line extends down the hallway and back into a hallway that occurs around the corner. people have been lined up here for over an hour. but we anticipate are several lines of questioning is a get through the opening statements from the committee chairman. as well as the ranking member d democrat. how will they respond to new allegations against donald trump jr. how

on may 9 of this year president trump fired james comey.e still sorting out all of the circumstances and details surrounding the president's decision, it does not appear that mr. comey was fired because the bureau was a mess, as originally stated. nor is there evidence that mr. comey was dismissed because rank and file fbi agents had either lost confidence in him or because of his handling of the clinton administration. investigation. rather, we find that rank and file agents of the fbi did and continue to overwhelmingly support james comey. in addition, deputy attorney general rosenstein told members of congress that when he wrote his memo, president trump had already decided to remove mr. comey as fbi director. based on press reports and the president's own words, the reason mr. comey was dismissed was because he would not pledge his loyalty to the president. and he would not lift the cloud of the russia investigation. president trump said in a televised interview, for example, i was going to fire comey regardless of recommendation. and,

james comey was dealt a difficult hand. i think he made some mistakes in the way he handled this.director being a source of leaks, including memos that could include classified information. very troubling. this undermines our support from our allies which we share classified information with and could well dry up that information. so we need to get to the bottom of this. i'm confident we will. >> senator, when he first came forward with that and said yes, i called up my friend and my friend leaked this essentially to "the new york times," i thought, wow, is this just business as usual in washington? is this what the the head of the fbi would do if he wants to get his version of the story out? >> i talked to christopher ray, the nominee for the fbi. i told him i thought the single most important thing he could do is to help restore the reputation of the fbi and the department of justice that suffered mightily during the obama years under eric holder and loretta lynch. the reason why director comey did what he did is he said he lost confidence in the attorney general's ability to be

comey declined to comment to us about this story. the white house and dhs did not comment, wolf. >> pamela brown reporting for us, thanks very much. let's get some more on all of these developments. jack is joining us, the ranking democrat on the senate armed services committee. senator, thanks for joining us. >> thanks, wolf. >> first to the breaking news. what is the white house communications director anthony scaramucci's dismissal after only, what, ten days or so on the job, say about the influence of the president's new white house chief of staff general john kelly? >> well, i think it says a great deal about general kelly's influence. he is someone that i've known and respected for many, many years. we've known each other more than a decade. he's a patriarch who sacrificed for his country. he went in, he not only wanted to organize the white house, reorient it, get a strategy in place. i think it was his influence probably more than anyone else that was decisive. >> so, does this give you a little bit more confidence in the pre

did james comey commit felonies? tonight, we have a full investigation. laura ingraham, sara carter, dr. sebastian gorka, jay sekulow, john solomon. they will all be here tonight. the mainstream media is oncedr again foaming at the mouth, hysterically obsessing over russia, russia, russia. while completely ignoring the millions of forgotten men and women in this country. that's the issue they should be focusing on. that is tonight's opening monologue. once again, the destroy-trump-media has worked itself into a frenzy over a meeting that donald trump, jr., had back in june of 2016 with ae russian lawyer. the press is running wild, all types of black helicopter tinfoil hat conspiracy theories about russian collusion once again. of course, they are completely missing many of the key facts about this story. if you actually do some research and read more than the headlines of these phony "new york times" reports, with the media should be doing in the first place, you will notice the massive holes in this story. the lawyer who donald trump, jr., paul manafort

comey was the right person at the right time.hen he brought in manafort to get him in the position. then he brought in kellyanne conway to get him over the finish line. he knew the donors, he knew the party base, but he was unable to get him across the finish line, so he brings in, trusting his instincts, john kelly to come in and set the order. i have no way of proving this, but i also think scaramucci came in at the right time to set the tone. three big names left that white house. leaks would not be tolerated. general kelly came in and the reorder is going to happen. >> just so i'm clear, i don't think the president's instincts are good, i think they're mean-hearted, i think they're dangerous and i think you'll see them rear their ugly head again, so just to be clear, i don't think the president has good instinc instincts. >> maybe scaramucci was clearing the ice. he was the zamboni and came in and took care of that, and then he put john kelly in place to have a good tone. if scaramucci leaving is a sign of kelly ascending, i

wray addressing comey's handling of the hillary clinton.ng his senate confirmation hearing today. the. >> in my experience as prosecutor, as head of the criminal division i understand there to be department policies that govern public comments about uncharged individuals, i think those policies are there for a reason. i would follow those policies. >> okay. >> i can't imagine a situation where a fbi director i would be giving press conference on uncharged individual, much less talking to the hill about it. >> okay. lou: after recent revelations concerning his handling of classified information, joining us here tonight, fox news anchor, former defense attorney gregg jarrett. >> nice to be here, lou. lou: an unusual hearing today, as i said, ed rollins earlier, you would have thought that the democrats were leading the judiciary committee and the u.s. senate questioning that unfolded and to hear again, in this case, a nominee to be fbi director and in the case of james comey and former february by director talking about an independent agency

as the president did with director comey. now, you told me yesterday there's been no question by anybody in the white house asking you for pledge of loyalty, is that correct? >> that's correct, senator. my loyalty is to the constitution, to the rule of law, and to the mission of the fbi. and no one asked me for any kind of loyalty oath at any point of this process and i sure as heck didn't offer one. >> and i also understand from what you said yesterday you would not give one if asked. >> correct. >> and the reason i ask this, i remember when then-senator jeff sessions asked a question regarding sally yates at her nomination hearing. she said the views the president wants executed are unlawful, should the attorney general, deputy attorney general say no? you served with sally yates and you can imagine and probably not surprised her answer was she'd say no. and she stayed true to her word. of course, as soon as she said no, when she refused to defend president trump's discriminatory muslim ban, she got fired. now, so i'm going

and talk about james comey. accused him of trying to leverage the dossier and trying to keep his job, the salacious dossier that came out. in my mind he shared it so i would think he had it out there as leverage. mr. trump said as leverage? "yeah, i think so," mr. trump said "in retrospect." and comey testified the exact opposite of that. >> what distinguishes president trump from other presidents is a systematic assault on institutions since he took office. since before then and obviously the media is one example of all that and the the intelligence community and i think there is an abroad sense, a battle between these classic institutions that are mounting these investigations that there pursuing them and i must say i am more confident now than i was january 20th that these institutions do remain strong and in the long run they will write president trump's obituary, rather than the other way around. >> where it talks about the array of issues they covered but he kept going back to the fact he wasn't under inve

you know, belittling comey, for example. in one of the excerpts i read that wasn't this the main article, he calls comey dumb. now that's just belittling a potential witness against him that isn't smart. those sort of things, as i say, i think ty cobb or somebody like that is going to vet him. those are the sort of things that will be under control in the future, if that's possible. >> it's just extraordinary. to john's point that here he is sort of sitting in the oval office, and he is -- there is this investigation that robert mueller is undertake, we're still not totally sure whether president trump is under investigation or to what extent it is. and yet he is still talking about based on a lack of faith in jeff sessions. and how if he knew that jeff sessions wasn't going to take the right step under the constitution to recuse himself from an investigation, he never would have appointed him in the first place. it really sort of raises questions about judgment here. i know you're just going to point people who are essentia

familiar with the conversation between kellie and comey.me kelly was secretary of homeland security. the sources say kelly was particularly upset by the way that comey was treated by learning he had been fired on the news rather than by the president. the call took place while comey was traveling back from los angeles to washington on may 9th after learning the news. i could note comey declined to comment to us about the story. the white house and department of homeland security did not comment. >> there's more to this story. we have learned from our sources that kelly was so angry, he even told comey at the time he was contemplating resigning from his position as secretary of homeland security, as a showing of solidarity. comey responded during this conversation by telling him not to resign, but clearly it just shows you how upset he was the sources we spoke with cautioned it was unclear how serious kelly was about resigning himself, of course that never happened. and now he's at the white house as chief of staff. for context, they're not

comey said when the attorney general will read l. lynch had a meeting on the tarmac with president clinton knowing that mrs. clinton was the subject of the ongoing investigation that was the cap and he decided not to refer the of matter to the attorney general but take it upon himself to say no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute a case like that under the circumstances. ion to stand your hesitation to talk about this matter under investigation by the inspector general, but insp the memo opinion is laid out over the last year he said the fbi reputation and credibility has suffered substantial damage and it has affected the entire department of justice. you have read the memo i a trust so as a result the fbi is unlikely to regain trust until it has a directive and understand the gravity of the mistakes it promises never to repeat them. i want to be respectful of the line you're trying to draw but the committee needs to know whether yout understand the gravity of the mistakes made by the previous director and he pledged never to repe

james comey or donald trump? attorney general jeff sessions is going to be asked under oath by the special prosecutor, did president trump order everyone out of the room? did he order you out of the room? what do you think jeff sessions is going to say under oath in answer to that question, which is a key obstruction of justice question because the obstruction of justice case against the president is very much about that meeting, very much about what was his incentive for kicking everyone out of that room, to have a private conversation with the fbi director. did he intend to obstruct justice in that conversation and not want any witnesses? jeff sessions is going to be asked, did the president kick you out of the room? do you think jeff sessions is going to simply say he agrees with donald trump and just doesn't remember, or do you think he's just going to say, yes. yes, the president kicked us out of the room. do you think jeff sessions is going to agree with former fbi director james comey's testimony that he's

comey's decision decision -- you know that has evidentiary value. tell me your reaction, do you feel bound or at least you feel the recommendation from comey's action to create contemporary written records of your conversations with the president if you become director of the fbi hashtag >> at a minimum, i would it take the approach i always take witches try to listen very carefully to what i'm hearing on the conversation. there would be times where i think the appropriate next step is for me to memorialize that, but i would value that on a case-by-case basis. >> you can correct me because i think you have much more experience, your memory of a conversation and a written contemporaneous report carried different evidentiary value and weight and a courtroom, is that not true? >> that's absolutely true. >> i do want to put words in your mouth, but what you're saying is under some circumstances, conversations with the president of united states should be memorialized in a contemporaneous written report. >> certainly, there would be situations where it w

comey, you -- the president comey -- no, sir. >> the case of president trump, you -- an ongoing investigationre going to have to help me out here. in other words we're complete the investigation or anything that former secretary clinton had to do with the campaign's over and we didn't have to worry about it anymore. >> with respect to circumstance -- i'm a little confused senator. >> so sanjay we discussed it at the time we didn't know what we know now. i asked if it was related he said well he stayed up late watching a baseball game do you remember? do you think it was realized to the tumor now knowing what you know? >> well, i asked his doctors again today, and they sort of say the same thing. it's possible that that's this tumor and the blood clot could be related. the reason they hesitate and the reason i hesitate with you asked me earlier in the week because this portion -- this part of the brain is not really responsible for speech or your able to remember. what senator mccain was kplaening about to his doctors when he showed up on friday it was a routine exam. but when asked, he said l

accusing comey of breaking the law.james comey leaked class if ied information to the media. that is so illegal. he was referring to a story on fox. according to sources more than half of comey's private memos documenting conversations with the president contained classified material, but the hill report does not say that the memo comey leaked to his friend contained classified information. this is how comey described that memo when he testified last month. >> what kind of information did you give to a friend? >> that the flynn conversation. that the president asked me -- but the conversation in the oval office. >> you didn't consider your memo or your sense of that conversation to be a government document? you considered it to be somehow your own personal document that you could share with the media as you wanted to? >> correct. >> to your friend? >> i understood this to be my recollection recorded of my confers with the president as a private citizen i felt free to share that. i felt important to get it out. >> all ri

what's going to be done in regard to james comey? they need to investigate james comey.re should be a grand jury and panel. let's understand what he did. he had a conversation -- several now. he had a series of conversations with the president of the united states. he went to his government computer, put them into a memo form, put them in his government desk and then releases them. and now he says this was his own recollection recorded. the government is saying no, it's not. as government property. they are crimes. >> sean: we are going to dig deeper. we will point out the hypocrisy and talk about how the media has an agenda that will not help you, the american people. coming up, on this program, we are holding washington accountable. it is time for republicans to work and keep their promises. senator ted cruz will join us next and also later tonight ... >> at the west will never, ever be broken. our values will prevail. our people will thrive and our civilization will triumph. >> sean: president trump showed the world that leading from the front, what it looks like. dr.

why is this a supportered by james comey and christopher ray. the fbi is not an independent agency of any sort or kind. >> no tis one thing to say i am guided by law and not politics. comey inserted he was a quited of any kind of accountability. the fbi director is an inferior officer in the executive branch. that means when hoover investigated martin luther king. would it be improper for the president kentucky to say don't do that. >> lou: that is the system and reality of the matter that the fbi director may not want to have dipper with the president but that is not his choice. he may have other choices. he worked for the president and attorney general. >> what the democrats want is to create a situation where the fbi director is told to go to war with the administration torg show your independence and that is not the proper role either. you follow the law and don't try to line yourself against the president to impress the party and media. >> lou: i think the senate judiciary has respect for christopher ray. he turned over the meeting to the d

comey for loyalty.ty an fbi director needs to give. he has a loyalty to the constitution and american people. >> we are a nation of laws, you pointed that out. we have personal preferences, but we have a nation of laws. that dictates all. he said i was not asked and would not have given. the president did not ask and it would not have been given. the measure of man he chose was not given, that's reassuring. >> you were at the white house yesterday for this lunch with the president on health care. you said that we are close to reaching a deal. you said within a margin of two votes. that is drastically different than we have heard from fellow republican colleagues. where are you close, on a full repeal vote or repeal and replace? you know the president said what the american people need is not just a repeal, they need a repeal and replace. what are you close to agreement on? >> the president was adamant about wanting a repeal. the common ground is we want to get power out of washington, d.c., return it to