comey made on the clinton matter. i am aware oftime in all of my experience, and i don't think i have heard of any situations, in which a major case in which the department of justice prosecutors were involved in an investigation, that the investigative agency announces a closure of the investigation. and then, a few weeks before this happened, he was testifying before the congress, james comey was, and he said he thought he did the right thing and would do it again. pedro: give us some context, for that exchange. : jeff sessions and rob rosenstein both recommended that it yet director james comey be fired, citing his many failures, what they believed to be many failures and handling the hillary clinton email investigation. and you just are jeff sessions, saying james comey doubled down on congressional testimony this year, to announce no charges against hillary clinton. there's a problem with that though, pedro. and the problem is, president trump later said he fired call me to lift the cloud on russia. and when jeff

comey made on the clinton matter. >> uh-oh.ral jeff sessions was standing by president trump's initial justification for firing the fbi director. we're like three explanations beyond that, mr. attorney general. the original one, though, was that comey mishandled the investigation into hillary clinton's e-mails and was so unfair to her when he spoke about it during the campaign. the only problem is the president's no longer standing by that explanation. within a few days of firing comey, donald trump told lester holt he wanted to get the russia investigation off his back and just today, he tweeted, quote, as it has turned out, james comey lied and leaked and totally protected hillary clinton. he was the best thing that ever happened to her. so that's the opposite of the point sessions was pushing today. maybe they really are talking. here now is a reporter with "the new york times" and op ed almostist brent stevens and kent delane and our man on the russia probe. what say you about what went down today? and i have to say, poor a

as it has turned out, jails comey lied and leaked and totally protected hillary clinton. he was the best thing that ever happened to her. joining us tonight from washington, michael crowley, national security editor at politico and ken vogue el, new york times political reporter. two of the very best minds on this story. michael, back to that second bit of sound from a.g. sessions, that excuse for firing comey has long been superseded when the boss told lester holt it was because of russia. >> yeah. over taken by events. obe, i guess, as people say. and even the original excuse, brian, didn't make a lot of sense. i think there were people who were, you know, willing to believe, okay, if trump came in and on day one said comey, i hated the way you handled that thing. a lot of people said, even some democrats said the way you handled the hillary investigation was inappropriate, you're out of here. that would be one thing. but he does it after the russia investigation is well under way, and trump realizes how much jeopardy he's in. and that, of course, was just an incredibly

people don't understand how bad comey blew the hillary clinton thing. but donald trump with his tweet this morning eviscerated that argument again that he thought comey was protecting hillary clinton. so if mueller was looking at whether donald trump put up a bogus story about the comey firing, donald trump didn't help himself with that tweet today. >> okay, counselor, all these claims for confidentially of his conversations with the president of the united states made by the attorney general, can he do that? and can he be compelled all the times he decided to take the pitch and step out of the batters box, can he be compelled to answer in some other form? >> well, first of all let me say i agreed completely with what ken said on all of your questions on the first part. and yes, he can be compelled. but the question is will he? and the answer to that is probably not because the republicans control the committee. and they are not likely to try to force him. he cannot sort of pretend to be claiming executive privilege. only the president can do that. and

comey made on the clinton matter. for the first time i'm aware of and all of my experience and i don't think i've heard of the situation in which a major case in which the department of justice prosecutors were involved in investigations that the investigative agency announces the closure of the investigation. >> harris: judge? >> andrew: so general sessions, do something about it. he reopened the investigation and reevaluate the evidence. if it was wrong for jim comey to make the decision not to prosecute, and i have harshly criticized comey for it, tell us what the evidence is. >> lisa: you mention standard operating procedures for these individuals to come to a conclusion prior to some of the interviews, is it standard operating procedure when we've seen a comey give contradictory information under oath to essentially lie under oath to the extent that he has? >> andrew: of course not. before i knew what the answer was going to be. >> marie: let's not forget ivanka and jared recently were found to have that up a pri

director james comey.ired director comey based on your recommendation and that of deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. within days the president admitted to lester holt on nbc news that he actually fired comey because of quote, the russia thing, end quote. it has also been report -- reported the day before he fired comey president trump summoned his top advisors and said he had prepared a termination letter. it is important, i believe, to understand what role you had in this process, including conversations with the president and others in the white house. last week the democratic members of this committee sent a letter making it clear we would be asking about director comey's firing at this hearing and that we expected answers or the assertion of a valid claim of executive privilege by the president. in conclusion, attorney general, your department, as you know, is incredibly important and you are as well. our country depends on a department that is independent, committed to protecting the rights and f

here's that testimony with comey.ctor, did you make the decision not to recommend criminal charges relating to classified information before or after hillary clinton was interviewed by the fbi on july 2nd? >> after. >> the president says comey stated under oath he didn't do this. alice, what questions should sessions face on all of this today? >> i think the difficulty that sessions is in with regard to the russia investigation, the probe is that he's in a tight spot given that he was on the campaign while a lot was going on and he recused himself from the investigation and from being involved in this and he's in a difficult spot. he has to come clean with all of his information. there's a couple investigations going on. the one in congress and then the mueller investigation. i think from what i hear with the investigation going on with house and senate members, that is nearing its completion. quote, possibly by the end of november, they have two dozen more witnesses. from what i hear they are going to lean toward no

to do with comey. decide whether they push him harder to get answers. >> this is what jeff sessions had to say about the then fbi director james comey. >> if that's the main reason the president wanted to fire him, why did it take so long? >> the investigation? >> no. to fire him. the president knew when he was inaugurated that comey jumped into the middle of the clinton e-mail investigation. took the job of attorney general over. that's the main reason he was fired. why did he wait so long to fire comey? >> i'm not sure he ever grasped the full import of that. >> and that's where the most interesting, i think peculiar to people elements of all this. that the official reason, the reason with jeff sessions is getting at in this hearing, the official reason for firing james comey was that he was too hard to hillary clinton, essentially. >> it's weird be given the president's own tweet this morning attacking comey saying he was in the bag for clinton. so it doesn't even square with the president's stateme

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comey should be fired. mr. sessions said the way the clinton investigation was handled, he thought, was wrong. but then when asked by senator feinstein whether the president ever told mr. sessions that he thought mr. comey should be fired to lift the cloud of the russia investigation, that's the other sore point here with democrats, mr. sessions said, i can't discuss my confidential conversations with the president, and here he said, this is a longstanding tradition between members of the administration -- with members of the administration from different political parties who have declined to tell congress about their private conversations with the president. so i think those are the things that stand out most in this hearing so far, kristen. >> and, pete, we should let our viewers know right now, senator ted cruz is asking sessions some questions which relate to his decision to effectively, at this point in time, halt the daca program. i want to ask you one more point, though. sessions was also asked about hi

does it make you hate james comey more or less?e last person in the world that will defend the way that james comey handled the investigation of hillary clinton. first of all, this is not new information. we knew several months ago that he had written some sort of memo, statement, in regards to what he ultimately said in july when he said, you know, case closed, i'm -- the f.b.i. is finished with this investigation and hillary clinton did no wrongdoing. we also know that he's a very copious note-taker. >> steve: you can say that again. >> yeah, yeah. he's -- he is a self-declared copious note-taker. so none of this is surprising, but i know that republicans are trying to use this to reopen the door here. was james comey biased in any way, shape or form? donald trump made it clear when he fired james comey -- he said he fired him because of the way he handled the hillary clinton email investigation, which we all know is wrong, and now republicans are trying to say, oh, he -- james comey was biased in some way towards hillary clinton

comey made in the clinton matter. i don't think i've heard of a situation in which a major case in which the department of justice prosecutors were involved in an investigation, that the investigative agent announces the closure of the investigation. and then a few weeks before this happened, he was testifying on -- before the congress, will comey was, and he said he thought he did the right thing and would do it again. so the deputy attorney general rosenstein, who's got, what, 27 years in the department of justice, harvard graduate, served for eight years, as u.s. attorney on the under president obama and four years under president bush, he said that was a usurpation of the position of the department of justice that position. but particularly we confirmed that he reaffirmed he would do it again. i think that's a basis that called requester a fresh state after the fbi. mr. comey had many talents. there's no doubt about it. no hard feeling about that. but i am really excited about the new director, chris wray, who you

instead, we have talked about a man named james comey. so it is donald trump who is on trial here today in this proposition. secondly, if we want to have a long debate over problems in the american, economy about the problems of inequality, we could have a very long debate about that and i would welcome it. but i do not think it is the left side of american politics that is dividing us in the way donald trump did on the day of charlottesville, when he tried to create a moral equivalence between clansmen and not seize -- clansmen and nazis and those who oppose them, because many of those who were in the streets opposing them were peaceful protesters trying to oppose the rise of this far right. and look at the rise of the far right itself. i believe this movement has empowered new forms of political action on the right, the far right end of politics, that i know kim and newt have to oppose in their hearts and their consciousness -- consciences. we see these movements empowered in our country and given airing. it is not just that for liberal

i don't think anybody would say comey was a hillary fan at what he did right before the election wouldut out the information he did, not that it might have cost her the election but i was in that election and it did affect it whether it meant to or that. >> dagen: fair enough thanks guys and emily. cashing in just over an hour from now lauren what do you guys have coming up? >> lauren: dagen some things are sacred chief of staff general john kelly blasting a lawmaker ends the press for politicizing a president's private phone call with the widow of a fallen soldier. did the media go overboard or not plus cities offering big tax incentives to attract amazon's new headquarters but does one of the biggest companies on the planet really need tax breaks? cashing in see you at 11:30. >> dagen: thanks, lauren we'll be watching but up here will far rell starring in a new role with a serious message unplug and be present. the whole family will want to see this who knew that phones would start doing everything? entertaining us, getting us back on track, and finding us dates. phones really have c

firing of the fbi director james comey. the president's power to pardon all of that, much more came up during almost five hours of sometimes rather tense questions and answers between the senate judiciary committee and the attorney general jeff sessions. he denied being part of what one lawmaker called a russian facade, and he was pressed on his initial denial of meetings with russian officials over the summer. it was revealed he discussed the trump campaign with the russian ambassador to the united states. listen to this one very heated exchange. >> first it was, i did not have communications with russians. which was not true. then it was, i never met with any russians to discuss any political campaign. which may or may not be true. now it's, i did not discuss interference in the campaign, which further narrows your initial blanket denial about meeting with the russians. since you have qualified your denial to say that you did not, quote, discuss issues of the campaign with russians, what in your view constitutes issues of

then you also had an investigation launched into the comey memos.nd then destri -- devin nunes a good job investigating the dossier memos. the american people are thanking me on the streets. if we want to drain the swamp. now is our time to do it. judge jeanine: you wrote a letter to jeff sessions and rod rosenstein. this guy appoints mueller when he knew he was on the uranium one deal. rosenstein was on the ou uranium one prosecution and they are dance weather devil. you write -- dancing with the devil. did they ever answer you? >> no. in fact we did, jim jordan and myself and a number of other members. we did go meet with people at the justice department even the attorney general, reiterating these issues need resolution. judge jeanine: what do they tell you until. >> they don't say they won't do it. they say we don't talk about investigation. that's why it's frustrating because people say why is any of this stuff happening? especially with the clinton stuff. give therein was criminal activity underlying this deal, i think it's legitimate to have

i also want to ask you about the firing of former fbi director james comey. it was an important moment for the department of justice and for this country. the american people have a right to know why he was fired, especially in the middle of so many high-profile issues going on, including the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. thank you, general sessions, for being here, and for your continuous service to the country. senator feinstein? senator feinstein: i do, mr. chairman. good morning, mr. attorney general. this is the first time you have appeared before this committee, and i want to say welcome. as a former member, you know well the oversight authority that we hold. as i mentioned that your confirmation hearing, i have a deep belief in the independence of the attorney general. although we have had attorney general to view their job as serving the president and as an extension of the white house, i do not believe that is the job of the attorney general. for the attorney general, his master is the people and the law. importantly,

now republicans are trying to say james comey was bias in some weights towards hillary clinton.t thing in the world that i think most of us who watched the investigation and tone aggressive james comey was towards hillary clinton -- >> steve: maybe there's an agreement between democrats and republicans. not so much about how he handled that but you can't believe a word this guy says. he is totally untrustworthy. i think all sides can agree about that. >> look, i will say this, james comey, i think you mishandled the investigation with hillary clinton server but he's a top investigator. he was very aggressive with the fact, he's been known as a very -- he was a very tough fbi director. and reopening the investigation 12 days before the actual election day, which i think largely cost us the election, i mean the mishandling of the investigation is far different from the way he went in and dealt with the facts. >> steve: the things he said just don't stack up. the reason she even was getting into all this was because of the tarmac meeting, she couldn't take care of it so he had to t

comey because it was not based on the merits of the investigation. it was based on his performance publicly and in regard to announcing a decision that was a decision he was not entitled to announce. >> senator tillis. >> thank you, mr. chair. >> the attorney general jeff sessions in that exchange right there with senator chris coons fascinating exchange. this part of the democratic questioning a broad democratic effort to undermine the attorney general's credibility, his conduct in office, some of the decisions he made with senator coons it was his decision to be involved in the firing of james comey even though as the attorney general he had said he was recused from anything involved with the russia investigation because of his role in the trump campaign with any decisions about the hillary clinton e-mail investigation because he thought that was proper. yet, he participated in the firing recommended the firing of the fbi director who was in charge of the clinton investigation and in charge of the russia investigation, the attorney general making t

did comey mislead the american people?ere is former member of the joint terrorism task force steve rogers, thank you for joining us. this came out yesterday, the fbi released 5 pages of additional documents confirming he began writing this letter in may so people at home recall hillary clinton was not even interviewed until july. what did you think of that? >> in all my years of supervising committal investigations i have never concluded an investigation before i got all the evidence and interviewed everyone involved. james comey, two acts, he exceeded his authority by stating to the attorney general that hillary clinton should not be prosecuted. that is not job of a criminal investigator. his job was to gather the evidence and let the attorney general make the decision. drafting a letter before you interview everyone involved in the investigation and before you gather the evidence is absolutely unconscionable and he should suffer consequences. heather: we also know the midyear exam unclassified was sent by comey on may 2n

you mentioned james comey. what was his passion to totally support previous administration hillary wing he originally, what made them of totally try to sabotage trump? >> first of all let me question your fundamental assumption. it's hillary is assumption that comey sabotage her. the fact of the matter is that comey looked at her e-mails and comey said they show that, in fact, you are fast and loose with national security. to the point of criminality. but we can show you are motivated by anything other than loyalty to the country or yourself and that you didn't have criminal intent so we will not prosecute. that's what stood in early july. then in the middle of august, prosecutors for the fbi who would nothing to do with the e-mail scandal were investigating congressman anthony weiner for sexting, and he went to his computer and this all the pornography but underneath that they saw hillary is e-mails, 13,000 of them. she never turned over. which she turned over to huma abedin who put them on her husbands comput

comey was, he said he would do the right things and do it again. that called for a fresh start at the fbi. melissa: so another spot stealing heat on capitol hill, attorney general jeff sessions facing tough questions about jim comey. this was in front of the senate judiciary committee today, defending president trump's firing of former fbi director comey. that was interesting back and forth. the president said he fired james comey because of what you said. later he told interviewer that wasn't the case. he was always going to fire him. jeff sessions cut through the nonsense, look he usurped the power, i have never seen, he usurped power of the department of justice by fbi making announcement they believe there is no reason to go forward and they're not going forward. what did you think of that exchange? >> i thought it was good. candid, feedback from the attorney general. it still begs the question, where are the democrats going on this one? i thought it was going to be the most universally accepted move by donald trump. i didn't think there was a

comey made on the clinton matter. for the first time i am aware of in all of my experience -- and i don't think i have heard of a situation in which a major case in which the department of justice prosecutors were involved in an investigation, that the investigative agency announces the closure of the investigation. and then a few weeks before this happened, he was testifying before the congress, mr. comey was, and he said he thought he did the right thing and would do it again. so the deputy attorney general rosenstein, who has -- what, 27 years in the department of justice, harvard graduate, served for eight years as u.s. attorney under president obama, and four years under president bush -- he said that was an usurpation of the position of the department of justice. the attorney general's position. and that particularly we were concerned that he reaffirmed that he would do it again. i think that was our basis that called for a fresh start at the fbi. mr. comey had many talents, there is no doubt about that, and the

comey, no. there were three emails there was no header. >> if secretary clinton really worthy expert what is classified and what is not. the absence means those three documents are not classified. am i correct?. >> that would be reasonable inference. >> family from carelessness and negligence the lying about not sending or receiving any emails. to say that it is not appropriately marked which is what she has been saying for months. to badger her and badger her that she was hiding something. comey should of had a full-blown press conference to apologize firkins assessment of handling classified materials but instead was silent while the media hammered away at her carelessness and one of the chapters is called untrustworthy hillary and how that image was built up. it as a recklessly disseminated narrative. but yet the time of the of this characterization comey offered no retraction that is less of that political dirty work. because the importance had never turned into breaking news. the media does

comey and mueller. when senator grassley asked about it, sessions said we are not going to comment on any ongoing investigation which leads me to believe the justice department might actually be investigating dirty money flowing into the clinton foundation. >> kimberly: aha. juan. do you concur? >> juan: if it's true, they can look into it. i don't know if it's anything of substance. the question is what happens. we will find out. what interested me today was a number of exchanges. i thought the exchange with al franken was just hilarious. he's going back and forth. >> kimberly: can i play it for you? let's play more from sessions' testimony. juan wants to hear it. here is his fiery exchange with senator al franken. because the goalpost has been moved. first it was "i did not have medications with russians." which was not true. then it was "i never met with any russians to discuss any political campaign." now it's "i did not discuss interference in the campaign." >> i conducted no improper discussions w

it was because comey had been unfair to hillary clinton. in ten months, does that not -- what happened? >> that is how you sum it up. you start in one place and end up in the other. the reality of it is, the attorney general has been on the bubble with this president for some time. still on the bubble with the president. and i think, you know, part of this is going to the hill to do some clean up with the members to, you know, patch up the relationship certainly and to sort of rebuild his brand in the administration. but it also doesn't take away from the fact that there is still these conflicts that are out there that the administration doesn't want to have to deal with. and the only thing they are hoping for right now is that he doesn't make it worse in any kind of answer that is he gives. >> well, we're going to see that when he gets questioned in the next three moninutes. and nick ackerman, i want to bring you in here. he was a u.s. assistant attorney. nick, do you foresee this hearing as being productive? are we going to come away with

>> well, i've been critical of jim comey, but i've also known jim comey for 20, 30 years.an honest guy, and the determination that he made and i think inappropriately announced, i think is based on the facts, based on his interpretation of the law and it was nothing more than that. it was a good-faith assessment by a person who i think has done a lot for this country. >> what do you make of him working on this memo in may before he had even interviewed hillary clinton? some of the president's supporters and president trump himself are suggesting, see, the fix was in, he was never going to go after her criminally? >> well, you know, assuming the facts are as you say, you can make determinations about where an investigation is likely to go before you actually speak to the subject of that investigation. that inquiry had been under way for an extended period of time. a lot of resources had been used. a lot of people had been spoken to. a lot of documents had been reviewed. so you can get to, you know, pretty close to the end of an investigation and understand where you're goin

comey was fired may 9.y did you talk to deputy attorney general rosenstein about the firing of mr. comey, and what did you discuss with him? when did you come to the conclusion that james comey needed to be terminated? a.g. sessions: in my view, after discussing with director comey, excuse me, my possible new deputy attorney general rosenstein, we discussed it. he was the united states attorney 12 years, i was the united states attorney 12 years. we love the department. we know about it. it was my best judgment, as i expressed it, that a fresh start at the fbi was appropriate. >> why did you think mr. comey needed to be removed? a.g. sessions: i don't think he was essential at that time, but that was my best judgment. and i think his. i believe a few weeks before he was actually terminated, he was testifying before congress, and that that time, asserted he believed he was correct to take over the clinton investigation and to announce its conclusion, that it was being closed, and testified he would do it aga

director james comey. he have is pushing back on the accusation from democrats that he misled them about his contacts with the russians. and two key figures who were part of the group that commissioned the dossier, the dossier is one of the foundational pieces of the russia investigation by the f.b.i. have taken the fifth before the house intelligence committee in a private session. >> great information. his explanation was did i talk to anyone from russia about the election and he is like i said no because, of course i've had incidental contact but i didn't talk to anyone about the election. that was his explanation. if people except it or not they were able to clear it. on the fusion gps side, it is behind closed doors. one of the biggest questions you mentioned, who funded that dossier? who paid people with connections to the russians to go in and do this oppositional research? it's a big deal and that's what they are trying to get to the bottom of and they aren't doing it today with people refusing to

of james comey predate the dossier? >> the dossier was certainly part of it, but the fbi was already investigating and federal officials were investigating the hacked e-mails that were leaked by wikileaks that belonged to john podesta. there is a lot of stuff going on here. it is reductionist to say, oh, it is about the dossier. >> you have to remember how comey and the intelligence community used the dossier. they told the president it is out there. they didn't act on it. they thought a lot of it wouldn't be actionable. some of it turned out to be. others they are still looking into. >> it is a window into the president's mind. remember, that happened during a transition meeting at trump tower. the president later today, to my colleagues and me, that he interpreted that essentially as comey wanting to have leverage on over him. i'm paraphrasing. it was about comey wanting to hang onto his job. that's how the president hears everything. it is zero sum and about him. not that this is bigger by a foreign power on the pres

comey was fired may 9. why did you talk to rosenstein comey,he firing of mr. and what did you discuss with him? when did you come to the conclusion he needed to be terminated? my view, afterin discussing with director comey, my possible new deputy attorney general rosenstein, we discussed it. we love the department. we know about it. judgment, as i expressed it that a fresh start at the fbi was appropriate. think mr. comey needed to be removed? he. sessions: i don't think was essential at that time but that was my best judgment. and i think his. i believe a few weeks before he testifyingted he was before congress and at that time asserted he believed he was clintonto take over the investigation and announces conclusion it was being closed, and testified he would do it again. eventas a fairly stunning for both of us. it did highlight the problem more significantly than it had been performed. >> in regard to opioids, we passed the addiction and recovery act. tools -- what is the department of justice doing to prevent overdose deaths in our communities? what furt

comey made on the clinton matter. for the first time i am aware of in all of my experience -- and i don't think i have heard of a situation in which a major case in which the department of justice prosecutors were involved in an investigation, that the investigative agency announces the closure of the investigation. and then a few weeks before this happened, he was testifying before the congress, mr. comey was, and he said he thought he did the right thing and would do it again. so the deputy attorney general rosenstein, who has -- what, 27 years in the department of justice, harvard graduate, served for eight years as u.s. attorney under president obama, and four years under president bush -- he said that was an usurpation of the position of the department of justice. the attorney general's position. and that particularly we were concerned that he reaffirmed that he would do it again. i think that was our basis that called for a fresh start at the fbi. mr. comey had many talents, there is no doubt about that, and the

you mentioned james comey. what was his passion to totally support the previous administration hillary, when he originally -- what made him move totally to sabotage? >> percival, let me question your fundamental assumption. it is hillary's assumption that she was sabotage. the truth is that james comey looked at the emails and said that they show that she was fast and loose with national security to the point of criminality. but we can show that you are motivated to anything other than loyalty to the country or yourself and that you did not have criminal intent so we will not prosecute. and that is where it stood in early july. then in the middle of august, prosecutors for the fbi would nothing to do with the email scandal were investigating congressman anthony weiner. for sexting and they went to his computer and they saw all of the porn. underneath that they saw hillary's emails. 13,000 of them. she never turned over. which she turned over to huma abedin put them on her husband's computer.so she could tell th

comey made on the clinton matter . for the first time i'm aware of and all of my experience, i don't think i've heard of the situation in which a major case in which the department of justice prosecutors were in an investigation, the investigative agency announces the closure of the investigation. a few weeks before this happened he was testifying before the congress and he said he thought he did the right thing and would do it again. the deputy attorney general rosenstein, 27 years in the department of justice, harvard graduate must serve for eight years under president obama, and four years under president bush, he said that was a usurpation of the position of the department of justice. particularly we were concerned that he would do it again. i think that was a basis that called for a fresh start at the f ei. he had many talents. there is no doubt about it. no hard feelings about that but i'm excited about the new director, who you have confirmed with an overwhelming vote. i believe he is going to be able to do the

so comey is too much involved. comey is the one that should be investigated. what do you say, larry? mueller. mueller. mueller. >> mueller had this long friendship with james comey. this whole thing absolutely stinks! this is an outrage! it vindicates donald trump. it shows you that he was right when he said he was being wire-tapped at trump towers. some of his aids were being wi wire-tapped at the trump tower. does he know dossier was using him as a muse to go after donald trump? it was used to get a warrant to tap donald trump even though the people knew what they relied on this dossier that it was full of crap? these are the kinds of questions that need to be answered. this thing is just now beginning. again it vindicates donald trump. you head to to have an i.q. two points under plant life now to still believe there's a trump collusion going on right now. >> the only person who hasn't been involved in this mess is jeff sessions. he's the only person who recaused himself. he's the one guy -- recused himself. he's the one guy who is not a part of this. >> je

and then there's the meeting where everyone leaves and comey testified about that where comey understood trump to be asking him to lay off. i guess he's -- laying off flynn was the january 27th meeting. so it's the contemporaneous. it's not just interesting gossip or reince was there. define the state of trump's mind. we're talking about actual conversations that priebus was a part of. >> and in a normal white house, a chief of staff arranges those meetings. you don't call the fbi. >> what did president trump say to reince priebus? i want to have dinner with comey? call over the fbi director? did reince say y? what do you intend to discuss? >> not his biggest problem. the same way whitewater, ken starr, whitewater and ended up with a blue dress. the last -- this is going to go back to 20 years of one of the -- >> you can't impeach the guy for stuff ten years ago. >> if all of a sudden it comes out there's money laundering, that then starts to be the line that brings you to russia. he cannot survive a presidency when we see 10 or 20 years of illegal money laundering into his real estate e

what do you think he's up to with going after comey again, claiming that comey's a partisan?think he's afraid. and it's very patently clear that he's afraid. bringing spicer in and bringing priebus in sets up two sets of guardrails that can only channel trump in one direction. they're going to give up the casual information that the chief of staff would know before he has those closed-door, boss-tweet-like sessions with his gang of four, the people that he is most concerned with. mueller is going to want to know every witness who he can bring in that will show the pathway right up to where obstruction was done. and if spicer has no information about that, he will have all of the information about what went on in that hallway right up until the minute he was shut out. and that's where mueller will have every -- you know, three or four people that were in the room that could have had some form of, you know, discussion, he'll have them in a box at that point. >> you're thinking like i am. thank you so much, sir. annie karni, of course, charlie savage, thanks for your reporting h

he was there when donald trump was dealing with comey. he was there when donald trump was talking about what he was going to do to comby. and he was also involved with the flynn situation. he made statements about the june 9th meeting at trump tower with the russians and i think he said that it was a nothing-burger. how does he know that. who did he talk to? there are a whole series of things that he could be extremely helpful on and could provide lots of leads in terms of this investigation. he was with donald trump right from the time that trump took office, he was in a position as his chief of staff where he was in the oval office all of the time, he was outside of the oval office, he knows who trump spoke to, and i think even more importantly, he also knows what the posture was with the trump white house with respect to cooperating or not cooperating with the mueller investigation. i think he could give a lot of in sight into exactly where this white house is coming from, in terms of this investigation and how it views it. >> joyce, w

>> i hope james comey doesn't run for anything, he's had his business in the public eye.next chapter of his life. >> harris: he is still part of an important investigation at this point. that we will be watching, that will make news and we will cover it as it happens. >> thank you for having us. >> harris: thank you very much, we will be right back with more "outnumbered overtime" as we await the latest developments in president trump's luncheon with republican senators on capitol hill. they are talking tax reform, they have to get it done. stay s close. en their windshield got chipped. so they scheduled at safelite.com. they didn't have to change their plans or worry about a thing. i'll see you all in a little bit. and i fixed it right away with a strong repair they can trust. plus, with most insurance a safelite repair is no cost to you. >> customer: really?! >> tech: being there whenever you need us that's another safelite advantage. >> singers: safelite repair, safelite replace. (avo) but you also have a higher risk of heart attack or stroke. non-insulin victoza® lowe

he answered to shed light on even the firele of james comey.ard, big news, you are someone who brings a lot of experience on friday nights like this, and they seem to be busy. >> right. >> my question to you, tell us what we need to know about this development. >> okay. central to the theory of bob mueller's case, is that there was a coverup. there was a deliberate attempt to hide the true story about what happened in the election. and i think central to that is the question of the firing of jim comey and the explanations given for it. what were the real reasons for the firing and who said what afterwards? and those are the two parts of mueller's case i think reince priebus can shed the most light on. reince priebus came out in february of 2017 and said flatly as chief of staff in the trump white house, there have been no collusion whatsoever with russia during the campaign, who told him to say that and based on what, why did he say that? then, of course, the whole firing of james comey, which i think mueller believes is in itself an act of obs

about mueller and comey. >> this long friendship with james comey. this whole thing absolutely stinks. this is an outrage. and to vindicate his donald trump. it shows you he was right when he said he was being wiretapped. some of his aides are being wiretapped at trump tower. the question is did mueller know that this dossier was phony but used as a ruse in order to go after donald trump? used it to get a warrant to tap donald trump even though the people knew that it was full of crap? these are the kinds of questions that need to be answered and it vindicates donald trump. you have to have an iq two points under plant life to believe there was some kind of trump collusion going on right now. [laughter] >> jeanine: the only person who has not been involved in this message mess is jeff sess. he recused himself. he's the one guy who has not been a part of it. coming up, gotta go. just when you thought it couldn't get any worse for hillary clinton, there are new developments in another one of her scandals. we will tell you why this particular scandal is

they want to hear about the firing of fbi director james comey. within days however the president admitted to lester holt on nbc news that he actually fired james comey because of the russia thing". that's also been reported that the day before he fired director comey resident trump summoned his top advisers and told them that he have preparedrm a termination letter. it's important i believe to understand what role you head in that process including conversations with the president and others in the white house. and we expected answers. in conclusion attorney general. our country depends. that on the independent. with these and other important issues. i think you mister chairman.i do you affirm that the testimony you are about to give before the committee will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? >> and nothing but the truth so help you god? since we did not get a copy of the opening remarks. with to get to the question sooner. the ranking member in distinguished members of the committee. in honor of a lifetime.

then we have to ask, james comey. what did he know and why didn't he act? there's also questions about the phony dossier. how is it possible these same people didn't think it was necessary to tell you, the american people, tell congress that the clinton camp and dnc paid for it? we are working hard day and night. you deserve answers to every one of these questions. one other important thing we have to tell you about the night before we bring in our guest, we now have proof that intelligence wasn't the only powerful government entity that was weaponized by the obama administration. you may remember -- i talk about five forces against the president. one is the deep state. they weaponize the power of the intelligence to use against this president. the department of justice announced they reached a settlement with multiple tea party groups that were targeted specifically by the obama irs because of their political ideology. the settlement includes payouts to several key party groups and an official apology from the irs which now means their actions during the o