> comey opens up another investigatn into... >> james comey isn't backing down. 's said he wouldn't... >> ...still as an active part of an fbi investigation, was there collusion between trump associates... >> nartor: the next morning in the west wing, the word was out. trump was preparing to take the fateful step of sending the letter. >> word gets back to don mcgahn, the white house counsel, that this document has been prepared. and he freaks out. >> our understanding is that don mcgahn reads that and says, "yeah, you-- you don't want to send that." n rator: even trump's abrasive adviser steve bannon was stunned. >> of all people, steve bannon is the one in the room who's saying, "you can't get rid of this guy jim comey.ld this we a terrible, terrible mistake. it's going to cause a firestorm." >> narrator: although trump had the execute power to fire comey, bannon foresaw dire political consequences. >> bannon has mo of a sense of history than a lot of the people who are in thawhite house. and so, he knows the history of watergate. and he also knows about obstru

comey sees politics. comey doesn't want any part of this. by pushing jim comey to come across the room, and shakeis hand, he was setting the tone of their relationship. you know, "you work for me. you're loyal to me, right?" that's what he wants to know. he wants to know, "you're loyal to me." >> narrator: for james comey, donald trump was a threat to the fbs independence. and on a personal level, a threat to the reputation he had built over a lifelong career in law enforcement. he had begun as an assistant unitedtates attorney. >> i first met jim comey 30 years ago, when he and i both started as assistant u.s.s attorn the southern district of new york. rudy giuliani swore us in a few weeks apart. stm comey, certainly, as a young prosecutor, waight down the middle. always turning square corners. ep narrator: under george w. bush, he was named attorney general, but he clashed with the president when he led a revolt of justice department officials. >> his real claim to fame is this moment duri the bush administration where he won't support a p

james comey. they are looking to see how they can improve. if people are involved in things dishonest, they are not going to be there anymore. >> your former department of justice, as you look forward, i want to talk about the public's trust. you have mentioned fbi, not for the thousands that do their job, but the advocates for a witch hunt. what do you do going forward. speak to specifics? >> i am not sure how the fbi is handling future investigation. they recognize they do need to improve. things were done in 2016 absolutely inappropriate. you are right. unfortunately the focus is on the bad apples and shifts their way away from important cases. putting the focus back on the rank and file and express how we can better the fbi. that is one step they can take to make sure the field is adequately represented. policies don't overshadow the day-to-day hard work. >> we have gotten breaking news. you mentioned james comey of the fbi. declined to speak to house committees. fox news can confirm council for james comey written to the judiciary commit

james comey leaked to his professor friend at columbia. this is plain, simple, fundamental abuse of power. corruption at the highest levels of the doj and the fbi. it shreds our 4th amendment protections. sarah smith and greg jarrett and catherrine are here tonight. in 28 days we the people will decide the fate of your government. hillary clinton is throwing herself back into the political fray. she'll make a lot of money doing so. demonizing conservatives. we are all irredeemable, smelly wal-mart people. we cling to god, guns, bibles and religion. this is the latest. >> you can't be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about. that's why i believe if we are fortunate enough to win back the house and/or the senate, that's when civility can start again. >> sean: in the season time, no civility. we have angry mobs of left wing protestors blocking traffic. portland's liberal mayor did zero to stop this. take a look. >> watch out you white little [bleep]. >> [shouting]. >> you are a whitey, aren't

we talk about republicans going -- jim comey is the gift that keeps on giving.the best thing will be to have brats there questioning him again. that was the biggest smack down i have ever seen may be in the history of fox news. >> jessica: i think about this little bit differently. as no surprise to that one. >> melissa: that's why we love you. >> jessica: i'm not a fan of jim comey. we know democrats and republicans have reasons to dislike him. thank you for that email stuff, jim. we bemoaned the number of leaks and the level of disinformation that comes out of these closed-door hearings all the time. this guy ran, the senator ran to his favorite reporter and said this was what with the said, we are that with the kavanaugh stuff as well. hearing about what's going on with the fbi, people saying "they said they weren't there, so it didn't happen." which doesn't mean it didn't happen. my impression was that jim comey wanted to testify publicly so that he could be very clear and certain about what he is saying and not get his words -- [laughter] >> harris: he's no

comey is a bad guy, mccabe, very bad but he worked for comey. remember one thing about mccabe, his wife was running for office and he got $750,000 from hillary clinton's essentially pac. it was run by terry mcauliffe who is absolutely hillary clinton's, absolutely hillary clinton's best friend and bill clinton. they gave him $750,000 for his wife. nobody even knows if she spent the money. she might not have spent the money. this was at the time she was being investigated by mccabe. so mccabe is investigating hillary clinton and her pac, essentially run by her best friend is paying mccabe $750,000. to me that's a big deal. nobody ever mentions it. it is really -- look, we have a hornet's nest. i think i have done a great service for this country because i exposed so much. when you look at emails between the two lovers, strzok and lisa page, you say the insurance policy, they're so wanting to win against trump, but then in a moment of silence they said, well, if that doesn't work out, we have an insurance policy. well the insurance policy is what

james comey, of course, the subject of this claim, tweeting somewhat tongue in cheek, the following. my wife is so relieved. so at least comey's wife is relieved there aren't 100 pictures. >> so they couldn't come up with one or two pictures? >> according to the fbi, as they said there, we were unable to locate records responsive to your request. that seems categorical there were no such records of these hugging and kissing photos between comey and mueller. >> jim sciutto, thank you very much. >>> the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, adam schiff of california, is joining us. congressman, thanks so much for joining us. and i want to get to several other issues in a moment. but first on what we just heard, the upcoming testimony from the former trump foreign policy adviser, george papadopoulos. this will be his first interview with members of congress. what should lawmakers press him on? >> well, they should press him on his meeting with massu. what he said, and he's been squirrelly about whom he told within the trump campaign about his contact with the russians, their

he actually wrote the letter to give to the present, so that james comey would be fired. it all out. this guy is in the middle of everything, and somebody needs to learn the truth because he is still the deputy attorney general of the united states. >> sean: by the way, to answer serious question, who is investigating the investigators, all of us have been from the beginning. starting with both of you, to be honest. lead to the number one "new york times" best seller, but this sounds like a soft coup. revengeof taken out on the president. you have two people that both reported the very same thing here, john, about what rod rosenstein instead at the time. that is mccabe. he is under criminal investigation. thinks that hillary should win 100000000-0. >> as i was coming over to the show, i bumped into an old fbi friend of mine. he said i am starting to think that if you need to rebrand itself. maybe we should call ourselves the federaled bureau of politic. there was a lot more politics going on then investigating. think about this. >> sean: i really need to say this. this is

, the fbi claims zero evidence to back the president's bizarre claim there are 100 nos to of james comey and robert mueller hugging and kissing. tonight, another russia probe conspiracy theory debunked. i'm wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> we're following breaking news, that president trump is throwing at his base exactly two weeks before the mid-term election. tonight we heard him call himself a nationalist, this for the third time in less than 24 hours. he insists the term renecks his love of country, claiming he is unaware sometimes associated with racism and anti-semitism. speaking to reporters a while ago, the president strongly defended a series of controversial and misleading statements he had been making out there on the campaign trail. i'm get reaction and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. first, are it's go to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, you were there inside the oval office. you had a chance to ask thesfrom about the use of his term nationalist. tell us what he said. >> reporter: that's r

comey declines the interview. he would welcome an opportunity to testify in a public hearing.no longer has a security clearance, we won't have a public concern about disclosing classified information. republicans say they want more accountability. >> comey is gone, brennan is gone, baker is gone, page is gone. there's been some accountability. i think there would be more if the democrats spent more time working with the republican colleagues and less time coordinating media leaks. >> it's unclear as to whether the republicans would tray to get the former director in for the mid-terms or wait until after given the short time line, shep. >> shepard: catherine, the attorney general is expected on the hill next week, right? >> house republicans said it will be a closed door deposition similar to what we saw earlier today from the former top lawyer at the fbi, james baker. he worked with rosenstein to security the warrants and his transcribed interview lays the ground work for rosenstein's deposition last week. it will be on the record and under oath. the white house press secretar

in "the new york times," comey criticized putting a seven-day clock on the kavanaugh investigation bute did say agents could quickly interview scores of people and follow leads unless they're limited by the trump administration. comey said one week to find facts is better than no investigation at all and he added that it's not as hard as republicans hope it would be. >>> the massachusetts senator elizabeth warren acknowledging that she is seriously thinking about taking on president trump in 2020. warren was asked about a possible white house run during a town hall meeting over the weekend. she said it's time for women to go to washington to fix our broken government. >> after november 6th, i will take a hard look at running for president. >> warren there saying after november 6th she'll take a hard look at running for president. now, she has frequently clashed with president trump and is currently running against a former trump campaign official for a second term in the senate. >>> local and federal authorities are still scouring allentown, pennsylvania. they're searching for more clu

. >> and to really help things along, james comey has written an article about all of this. what you make about. >> i'm stunned. i'm shocked. he has his new york times op-ed saying here's the proper way to do it. he does that on twitter all the time. there's some serious points about how the fbi is full of professionals, men and women who can get this job done in just a few days, and that's all well and good but do we really want take advice from james comey, the man who by the democrats account screwed up the fbi investigation by the republican account was grossly unfair to president trump. peter struck, lisa page, how can we trust the fbi. it's ironic that the president is saying let's have the fbi give the good housekeeping seal of approval when he's been attacking them for so long but we want to take advice from james comey about how to do investigations not good question. you have more of those and lots of answers at the top of the hour. 55 minutes from now, we will see you then. let's go to capitol hill senior producer chad pilgrim on what we can expect in the coming d

evidence shows that some not rank and file were involved, they wanted retribution for the firing of comey and it would be proof. >> that's right. i think the american people will be stunned tomorrow when the information comes out regarding members of the doj. >> sean: let me go to my friend alan dershowitz. professor, i know you as a person and i know that politics is not being ball, it's a blood sport. i accept it for what it is. you are in the public arena, all of us are in the public arena, we will all get hit. but what they did to judge cavanaugh feet kavanaugh, the democratic party systematically, and i believeen but, i'm trying to change that party, i will try to make

what we saw in firing comey and the threats to the investigators, in various other actions linked to the white house is the potential obstruction of justice case. >> is it not absolutely essential, both these cases, vis-a-v vis-a-vis russia and saudi

. >> and to really help things along, james comey has written an article about all of this. what you make about. >> i'm stunned. i'm shocked. he has his new york times op-ed saying here's the proper way to do it. he does that on twitter all the time. there's some serious points about how the fbi is full of professionals, men and women who can get this job done in just a few days, and that's all well and good but do we really want take advice from james comey, the man who by the democrats account screwed up the fbi investigation by the republican account was grossly unfair to president trump. peter struck, lisa page, how can we trust the fbi. it's ironic that the president is saying let's have the fbi give the good housekeeping seal of approval when he's been attacking them for so long but we want to take advice from james comey about how to do investigations not good question. you have more of those and lots of answers at the top of the hour. 55 minutes from now, we will see you then. let's go to capitol hill senior producer chad pilgrim on what we can expect in the coming d

yes, that james comey. that made a hash of the trump and clinton fbi probes. our panel will debate whether brennan and comey have a point or sit this one out? >>> and talk about irony, the president battling the fbi leadership for well over a year. now the president put the fate of his nominee in the fate of the very same fbi. he thinks it could be a blessing in disguise because if the fbi clears kavanaugh it may guarantee support of swing votes like jeff flake. >> i think it would be proper to delay the floor vote for up to but not more than one week in order to let the fbi to do an investigation limited in time and scope. ed: also today, the president and aides are pushing back hard. report is claiming he asked the fbi to limit investigation of the allegations against judge kavanaugh. sorting it all out is ellison barber with the latest in washington. good evening, ellison. reporter: good evening, ed, two separate reports raised a whole lot of questions about the scope of the fbi investigation and what directive might be coming from the white house. nbc news

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james comey is blasting the fbi deadline. the fired director.clock on the fbi. a seven-day probe is better than nothing. they overheard a review of sexual misconduct allegations. people are bringing confirmation vote to the senate. do you remember this at the american flag that went viral for flapping in the wind are in hurricane florence. it is auctioning off the flag for $10,900 on ebay millions of people watched the flag on a live camera during the storm. it is seen as a symbol of american resiliency. sunday was the 16th annual tunnel to towers 5k walk in new york city. thousands of people made their way from brooklyn. all the way into manhattan going right through the brooklyn artery tunnel and ending at the world trade center. at the same route that they took the morning of september 11 and 60 pounds of gear. he braced through the tunnel to the towers to help save lives. i have the honor of running the sprout. and talked about why they came out at the run. here at the tunnel of towers 5k it will be a lot easier for me because i don't had 60

what do you make of comey's assertion here? >> you know, people may think what they want about james comey, but he's clearly a very skilled investigator. and i completely agree with his take that there are lots of flashing lights in the judge's testimony. the positions he's taken are very questionable as to credibility. and we're already seeing the public disclose, lots of people questioning his statements about drinking. and again, it's not whether he actually drank or not, it's whether he is credible and telling the truth about that. and i agree with josh's concern over the limit on time in the investigation. i co-wrote an editorial with senator coons in which we called for certain type of terms and conditions to look for in the hearings. and let's keep in mind, that was a political compromise that he and senator flake had to make. they wanted to have a pause. and now it's important that if that pause develops other leads that need to be pursued, that they not just stick to this one-week timeline like it's completely set in s

the james comey i knew back then is different than the james comey who became director of the fbi, andhe things that he did when he was director of the fbi to hillary clinton were unthinkable, unthinkable. havenkable that you would a press conference as fbi director and say, we are not charging her but, let me tell you of awful things about her. that's not what we do as prosecutors. we are supposed to charge or shut up. if you have enough evidence, let them have it great and if you don't, keep quiet. [applause] ,t was totally unfair to her and what it did was, it forced him to then do the letter he did in october. there is a rule in the justice department that we all know, that within 60 days of an election you do nothing, because we don't want prosecutors to be affecting elections. we hold a special place in the public mind and if we come out and do something, the public goes, wait a minute, we should listen because the prosecutors talking. when he did that at the end of october, the only reason he had to do it was the bad decision he made in july. if he had kept his mouth shut then,

robert mueller is totally conflicted, trump said, he's best friends with former fbi director james comey, trump said. oh, but it's worse than that. i quote him here. i could give you 100 pictures of him and comey hugging and kissing each other. 100 pictures of them hugging and kissing. okay, that's scandalous and strange. the daily color printed without question. but lee pold made a freedom of information act with the fbi, his request, please, please, send the hundred pictures of comey and mueller hugging and kissing, thank you. a month went by. brace yourselves, we were unable to locate records responsive to your request. therefore, your request is being administratively closed. perhaps that was a whole lot of trouble to confirm trump makes stuff up. james comey was pleased, saying, quote, my wife is so relieved. >>> there are just 12 days until november 6th and one of the factors in play in some of the more rural states that voted for president in 2016 is the impact of trump's trade war on farmers. in tennessee a state trump won by 26 points republican marsha blackburn has aligned hers

comey's team. i mean, andrew mccabe is in trouble for that.her stories, around the government, the person on the senate staff, that pled guilty. melissa: yeah. >> to charges of leaking and then, i think another woman from, was it treasury department? that was arrested today. there are a lot of blabbermouths out there. melissa: yeah. >> and really putting out, you know controversial material. melissa: what do you think about the odds he is coming close to a conclusion and, you know along the lines what you said, we won't hear about it until the midterms, unlike james comey, don't want to upset it and is that a possibility? >> i think it's a possibility and he owes it to the nation to come to conclusion. it is outrageous for any president to have a special counsel serve at his heels, nipping at him, makes it very hard to run an administration and we haven't found any information in these two years to me suggest president trump was owe lewding with the russians-colluding with the russians on the election. on contrary we find out incredible activi

former fbi director james comey. >> comey writes in a "new york times" opinion piece this morning, quotes idiotic to put a shot clock on the fbi, but it's better to give professionals seven days to find facts than have no professional investigation at all. let's talk about what this all means for judge kavanaugh's nomination to the high court. susan page is with us, jennifer rogers with the legal time, and warren flag, who worked with the fbi, retired fbi agent. nice to have you here. w warren, let me begin with you. what can the fbi get done in seven days. i should note, i think it's worth noting, the anita hill investigation took three days. >> let me say this first. okay. i think this is the most important interview i have ever conducted. and the reason is because my opinion is that i represent the current and former fbi agents in this. and i believe in my heart that the senate judiciary committee has caused the greatest crime fighting and fact finding investigative firm to be their moral police. not going to happen. >> let me ask you a question. i get that point because in effect, th

of james comey.kes no sense to me, it's super sketchy. another thing that is super sketchy is information about james baker, who was his top fbi attorney at the heart of the surveillance. now we know he met with the democrat party attorney. a meeting that he described as atypical. weeks before they launched the surveillance into carter page and the investigation into the trim campaign. remember, also, we know that the dossier was used to obtain a fisa warrant, which is an opposition piece of research still unverified and even christopher steele has admitted in a london court that parts of it are false and fictitious. >> mind you, we are still at a point where carter page is not been charged with anything and not a single person on the trump side has been tied to any sort of collusion. we are here and looking at all the sketchy things coming together. >> steve: very quickly, i totally agree with you but you have to be fired. you cannot have a situation where somebody so senior and so clearly disloyal,

first of all, james comey, bye-bye. regarding rosenstein i would agree.on't think present trip is going to fire him, nor do i think it's the best move politically. however, i do have a problem with him, because he was the guy who laid out the beautiful case for firing james comey. president trump listened, fired him, and then rosenstein appointed a special counsel as part of an obstruction of justice. i have a problem with that. it does make sense to me. >> melissa: maybe one day we will understand all the detail. [laughter] we will see. in the meantime, we are awaiting a white house briefing life at the top of the hour. the kavanaugh confirmation, rod rosenstein's interview with house republicans, and much more. you know it's all going to come up. we are going to go there live. as soon as it starts. plus, hillary clinton going after president trump and judge kavanaugh, casting doubts on kavanaugh's done out of sexual assault allegations and laughing off his claim that they are part of a political revenge plot. is she right addressing this one? we will de

jim comey has lost any support he has ever in that community.as never happened in the history of the fbi. no fbi director hats ever left the office and then become a political partisan. steve: and, of course, mr. comey wrote yesterdayed in the pages of the "new york times" the that fbi can do a lot in a week. just watch them. brian: only thing more embarrassing james comey's antics being fired is john brennan whose furious tweets belie the office he once held. steve: a lot of partisan comments. ainsley: fbi investigation in full swing and we will know more hopefully later today or definitely by the end of the week. brian: jillian has been in full swing since 5:00 this morning. jillian: midnight. ainsley: is that what time you wake up? jillian: super fun. moment in mississippi as three law enforcement officers are gunned down in two separate shootings. trooper kenneth josh smith shot dead while off duty near the tennessee border. the shooter surrendered to police. came just hours after patrolman james white and zachery were murdered responding to

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your reaction to jim comey's words. >> you know, the fbi has 35,000 employees. if they are allowed to do their job, they can get this done in a week. this is a background investigation, not a criminal investigation. and so president trump is the fbi's client. he gets to dictate the terms. but i've never heard of an investigation being micromanaged in this way. originally four witnesses. one week. it creates the unsettling impression that the republicans in the senate and president trump don't want an objective investigation. they want one that will clear judge kavanaugh's name. it kind of sounds like the fix is in, unless the bureau is allowed to do its job. >> and so it sounds like there was an understanding at the white house today that that was the impression that set in over the weekend. do you think the correction to expand it and say the fbi can talk to whoever they want, is that enough or is this still under the microscope. >> i think it's still not clear. what's been said publicly is not necessarily what the supervision in the fbi is hearing from the dep

comey says, quote, mr. comey respectfully declines your request for a private interview.would welcome the opportunity to testify at a public hearing given that mr. comey no longer has a security clearance we do not anticipate a public setting to present concerns about disclosure of classified information. a couple points worth noting. that lawyer, david kelly, is one of at least three people who received the comey members. some of them contained classified information. the subject of an f.b.i. investigation into whether there was a classified spill and not clear how it could affect the anticipated closed-door deposition next week from deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. >> sandra: thank you. >> he has been racist, he has been sexist, he has been islamophobic, he has been anti-lgptq. there is a long list. he talks to that america. he talks to them all the time. it is a very hard core who are responding to him and supporting him. >> bill: that was a long list. hillary clinton slamming the president and some of those who support him. say hello to america's a-team richard

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that is when you asked director comey to lay off flynn, what was your purpose? intent? what was your motive? when you went onto fire director comey, what was your intent, purpose and motive? it's always better to have direct evidence rather than circumstantial evidence. i think that's what bob mueller wants and the other thing that he wants is to give the president an opportunity to have his side heard which i think is going to be important once bob public scho mueller tips his hand and discloses his findings. then he'll be able to say i gave the president the opportunity to be heard. what does bob mueller need out of an interview, i suggest he needs relatively little because hesita he's elected up so much information about what the president has done. every tweet is evidence of his intent that koulcould be used against him. i suspect he doesn't need much to wrap up his i venvestigation this point. >> bryan kemp is running for governor, secretary of state has called into the rquestion the registration of some 53,000 african-americans. >> without question it's mo

it may be the case that the mueller team has concluded that the firing of james comey and the investigation into potential obstruction is not really fertile ground for the prosecutors and investigators. that would be a significant inference to draw from this. but the other big question is, why and for what reason has the mueller team agreed to accept written answers to interrogatories. you almost never see this in criminal cases and when you o do see them in civil case, they have largely fallen by the wayside because everybody knows that giving written answers to written interrogatories, it's very easy to monkey around with your answers. you can say they were vague. you can say they were ambiguous, those questions. and then you can think really hard about your answer and give the most nonresponsive answer legally possible. >> then why do it? >> it's advantageous to trump, of course. it may avoid him sitting down or giving testimony under oath. an informal interview or testifying before a grand jury has a lot of pitfalls, not the least of which are potential perjury or section 1001, false st

you have to put it in context, it's may am the fbi just had fbi director fired, james comey.e know for good cause from the ig report, and looks like they're trying to get retribution from the president. that's not what the fbi and justice department is supposed to be doing. focusing on counterintelligence crimes and threats, i go back to what the agent said to me today, the federal bureau of politics, all ought to pause and think how dangerous that is if the fbi sees itself that way now. lou: frightening to think how the fbi must consider itself. if truth has gone to die, truth has gone there to die. the fbi doesn't do reports. they don't give you conclusions. they don't prosecute the bad guys, and by that i mean the bad guys within their own ranks. >> right. lou: do you think that will change in the next few months? >> i think the inspector general's report, there's a lot of evidence that there's a criminal case built against mccabe. that would be historic. you have the question of whether james comey leaked classified information ala hillary clinton, that's a big issue and

investigation idiotic. >> but a "new york times" op-ed comey says, quote, the fbi is up for this. it's not as hard as the republicans hope it will be. >> and we spoke with a former fbi special agent. steve gomez, and we asked him how the fbi can pull off this investigation with the time constraint and such a divisive climate. >> they can definitely do this investigation in a week because the fbi is going to allocate every agent, analyst and professional staff member to this investigation. it's going to be the highest priority investigation during this week-long period. so as far as resources, they have them, but then it's a matter of making sure that all the witnesses are available for these interviews to ensure that they are able to get as many leads covered as possible and they should be able to do it, but you just don't know what is going to come up during these interviews that could create additional investigation. >> interesting indeed. experts say it's likely the fbi has not talked to professor ford yet because they already have her testimony from last week and because of th

the james comey that i knew back then, is significantly different than the james comey became director of the fbi. and the things that he did quite frankly, when director of the fbi, to hillary clinton, were unthinkable. unthinkable! unthinkable that you would come out of a press conference as fbi director, and say we are not charging you but let me tell you a bunch of really awful things about her. that is not what we are supposed to do is prosecutors. we're just supposed to charge or shut up. if you have enough evidence to charge somebody, let them have it. if you don't, then keep quiet! [applause] it was totally unfair to her. and what it did was, it forced him to then to the letter he did in october. none there is a rule in the justice department that we all know. in 60 days of an election, you do nothing. because we do not want prosecutors to be affecting elections. because you hold a special place in the public mind and if we come out and do something or say something the public says wait a second, we should listen to this because the prosecutors -- when he did that the end of oc

the comey firing? the travel ban? trump's hurricane response? and the family separation policy at the border. the panel still here. phil rucker, let me read you one more piece of reporting from axios. subpoenas flowing into a white house creates paralysis, said neil eggelton who was obama's white house counsel and associate counsel in the clinton administration. the whole system stops while everyone tries to comply with subpoenas and prepare to testify. the white house doesn't operate optimally and morale suffers and energy is diverted to the crisis at hand. paralysis and morale suffering feels like something i read about in a lot of yours and ashley's columns and stories every week. what would this white house look like paralyzed with low morale? >> well, it might look even more chaotic than it does now. that's a long list of issues that democrats are going to start investigating. and the challenge for the white house is that president trump's inclination is to deal with these issues as if they were public relations crises. he lixs to sort of s

and former fbi director james comey says the investigation is idiotic. he does not like putting a shot clock on the fbi. he says fbi agents know time has little to do with memory. they know every married person remembers the weather on their wedding day no matter how long ago. significance drives memory. they know that little lies point to bigger lies. they know that buys the no, ma'am -- they know the words in the yearbook are a flash to dig deeper. >> with the kavanaugh nomination in limbo and 36 days to the midterms, democrats are using this as a pitch to voters. former vice president joe biden rallied the party faithful in rhode island. >> a degree of invective. blind rage and brut partisanship that threatens the senate and the supreme court, but the basic faith of the american people have on our institutions. ♪ if you don't like who's in there vote them out ♪ ♪ vote them out ♪ vote them out when we're done and sing and dance and shout ♪ >> vote them out. willie nelson debuting a new election themed number in texas for candidate beto o'rourke saturda

if the president had a real and confident attorney general, he would have called comey into his officeshow me your evidence. and that attorney general would discover there was no evidence. he would have said show me the evidence in the fisa warrant applications to spy on the trump campaign and would have discovered that it was all conjured by hillary clinton basted on fabricated evidence. and that go and competent attorney general would have marched over to the white house and told the president you must fire james comey for violating a myriad of revelations and launch a serious investigation in front of the grand jury into the russia hoax. honor is sean it sounds like we are getting there though. because now you very, you know, which james baker is testifying and lisa page is telling some truth and they all seem to be turning on each other. here is the question. will we ever get the unclassified redacted. 302 information, the foiz warrants and do you all believe this is all coming to a head and back firing and people will pay the price? jim jordan? >> i think we should get all of that

comey didn't like the appearance of having a meal with the president of the united states. just take the optics we saw today of him traveling with, ultimately, the boss. do you have any problems with it? >> look, trump is absolutely entitled to meet with his deputy attorney general. they do that regularly to talk about issues of policy or the priorities of the justice department. it's very different, and i agree it would be improper, if they actually talked about specifics of an investigation, most specifically, the russia investigation. now, rod rosenstein is a career prosecutor. he's a man of integrity. i don't think that it is likely that he kbot on that airplane and said, okay, let me catch up on the russia investigation, let's talk about all the specifics on that. that being said, the optics are terrible. even though they're entitled to meet, it's one thing to meet in the white house with other aides there, to meet on air force i and have a 30-minute discussion certainly raises eyebrows. that's what republicans are worried about, this appearance of impropriety. they wi

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president obama with james comey famously of course james comey fired by this president. >> well, this in reaction to him saying comey said in his book that trump had asked him for a loyalty pledge. and so this was my snarky retort. >> have you heard anything from president obama about your new book? >> no, i actually didn't tell him i was doing this book until a couple weeks ago when it was done and printed. and i gave him a heads up that i was doing this book. that's really the only communication i've had with him about the book. >> we also have a picture with vladimir putin in china. which sort of captures the obama/putin standoff. >> this was in response to, you know, one of his many tweets about obama not doing enough to tell putin about election meddling and so on. >> your pictures have captured worldwide attention, you know, for decades now. famously, your book on the obama white house of course. how does it feel to have entered this new space? >> well, i mean, it's not the most comfortable thing for me to do, to be sitting in this chair talking to you, but i think it's necessar

you know, the democrats hated comey more than any human being.actually did hillary clinton a big favor, because she should be in jail. they should have taken her right off the campaign. so he did her a big favor. >> well, if you looked at it when you think of it, there was collusion between hillary, the democrats and russia. there was collusion. there's no question. there was a lot of collusion with them and russia. >> so hillary didn't take that too quietly. in fact, she responded to trump saying on twitter, seriously, you asked russia to hack me on national television. >> it's no secret president trump is not happy with attorney general jeff sessions after all he recently publicly stated he has no attorney general. white house officials and advisors tell the "wall street journal" that trump is considering as many as five candidates to replace sessions based on the bheelief sessions will become the latest official to leave later this year. sessions anticipated he will be asked to resign most likely via twitter. when asked for a comment, a justic

if the president had a real and confident attorney general, he would have called comey into his office evidence. and that attorney general would discover there was no evidence. he would have said show me the evidence in the fisa warrant applications to spy on the trump campaign and would have discovered that it was all conjured by hillary clinton basted on fabricated evidence. and that go and competent attorney general would have marched over to the white house and told the president you must fire james comey for violating a myriad of revelations and launch a serious investigation in front of the grand jury into the russia hoax. honor is sean it sounds like we are getting there though. because now you very, you know, which james baker is testifying and lisa page is telling some truth and they all seem to be turning on each other. here is the question. will we ever get the unclassified redacted. 302 information, the foiz warrants and do you all believe this is all coming to a head and back firing and people will pay the price? jim jordan? >> i think we should get all of that. informatio

leading up to comey's firing and following it.ter the decision apparently was made to fire comey. if you believe some of the narratives put out there. he was critical to that. memo cited by president trump as a reason for firing comey. >> tucker: right. >> then apparently he became upset and had a confrontation with the white house. they walked it back. but he was part of the discussion that followed that firing if not preceded it. so to make the matters worse, new reports indicate that this issue was raised last year by high ranking officials including former acting f.b.i. director andrew mccabe who asked why haven't you recused yourself? this is raised inside the justice department. people like myself raise it outside the justice department and he didn't do so. >> tucker: you make a good point but what is striking is the attorney general himself recused himself. he was on our show that night. he did so because the permanent staff at the d.o.j. told him he had to because he had a conflict that seems less profound. >> rosenstein h

as per usual, disgraced former fbi director james comey is weighing in from the sidelines and siding with all of his friends from the democratic party. andte unmitigated disaster. buckle up. it's time for our opening monologue. ♪ >> sean: if you are the average american networks are, placed by the rules can reprise your taxes, raise your kids, and serve as every day, providing goods and services, code americans need to step back tonight. this is about republicans, democrats, conservative, or liberal at all. withth no due process, zero corroborating evidence, the left in america is now smearing an individual and may have been doing it now for 15 consecutive days calling him evil, accusing him of being a serial rapist, liar, perjurer, and so much more. classic character assassination of a man who has served his country and has been in the spotlight for 40 years without a single whiff of misconduct until 14 days ago. we better get this as a country right because the collective rush to judgment, getting rid of the presumption of innocence, duear process, it is a clear and present danger