comey? it was jim comey who signed off on that document that was completely, think about this, unverifiable. how do we know it's unverifiable? its author, christopher steele, testified in great britain he had no idea if any of that dossier was true. we now know most of it isie totally debunked, but that's what they presented to the fisa court judge. now, i thought, if i remember correctly, a fisa application can only be obtained if a career law enforcement official swears that the information is true and correct. or else there will be serious consequences. where did i learn that from? oh, rod rosenstein. take a look. >> fisa application is actually, a warrant, like a search warrant. in order to get a fisa search warrant, you need an affidavit signed by a career federal enforcement officer who swears that the information in the affidavit is true and correct to the best of his knowledge and belief. that's the way we operate.fi if it's wrong -- sometimes it is -- if you find out there's somethi

and it's something you asked comey about. i want to play that. >> do you ask yourself why mueller did not subpoena president trump to try to get to the heart of this intent question on obstruction? >> yes, i do. and i don't know the answer to that. at the same question, i have about how the attorney general could resolve the question which he says in his letter turns upon the president's intent without the president having been asked what his intent is. >> and that's something comey references in your sprinterview that he doesn't know the president's mind-set or intent because he never spoke with robert mueller that we know of. >> never did i hear him fully criticize the mueller report or even the four-page letter. but he did come back to that question of why wouldn't you talk with him? why would you ask him, hey, when you fired comey and you said the russia thing, what did you mean by that? when you asked about michael flynn, what did you mean about that? to the extent those questions weren't asked, he said it's very curious

you know james comey. what stood out to you in that interview? >> interesting to me that the former director of the fbi is as puzzled as anybody about why mueller did not make the call on obstruction, leaving it up to the political appointees. i can tell you that officials at the justice department, when they found out he wasn't going to make the call, were surprised too. as for why mueller never interviewed the president, we don't know why that didn't happen. but the president's own lawyers speculate that it's because mueller realized subpoenaing the president would start a court battle that would take months and maybe he didn't want to keep e kshat long. or your analysis. let's go to peter alexander at the white house for us. he's just learned some new details about the mueller report. peter, tell us about that, and is there any reaction to what comey is saying? >> reporter: lester, tonight the house judiciary chair, democrat jerry nadler, says attorney general william barr told him the entire report is in his words very substantial in terms of

comey wrote. >> yeah. jim comey doesn't care.was jerusalem comey care -- jim comey cared number that he created the special counsel. his ego, when he got fired, was why jim comey cared enough to leak classified, privileged conversations with the president of the united states from the oval office to the new york times to create the special counsel. now the special counsel doesn't come up with the findings that jim comey wants, and he wants everyone to know that he doesn't care anymore. but at the same time, in that op-ed he wants to lecture you and me ask about the rule of law and restoring the reputation of the department of justice. getting a lecture from jim comey about the rule of law is like getting lectured by bernie madoff on how to invest wisely. donald trump wasn't the president when loretta lynch met with bill clinton five days before hillary clinton was cleared. and donald trump wasn't president when jim comey talked in the public square about conduct of hillary clinton for which she wasn't charged. maria: yeah. >> all

james comey, by the way, i know most of you in the media love james comey. james comey has a lot of questions to be asked. needs things to be accountable for. if an exoneration took place for political purposes before an investigation, that will be ara federal crime. also, look at the law, violating 18 usc 371, when he signed off on a fisa warrant, the first fisa warrant, that was in october of 2016, just before the election, to spy on a trump campaign associate, carter page, the warrant, we are told, was based on the phony dossier, according to the nunes-grassley-graham memos. fisa judges, they were never toldud that hillary clinton paid for that dossier with russian lies, that they were tainted, that they were never verified, that they were t unverifiable, because the author of the dossier, well, in an interrogatory in great britain, he said he had no idea if any of this was true. that would be committing a fraud on the fisa court, not telling the judges she paid for it, not being able to verify what they presented before the fisa court judges, as well as,

out at the fbi director he fired, james comey. >> there was no crime. they all admitted it. comey, who is a terrible guy. the fbi, there are so many incredible people. but at the top, they were not clean to put it mildly. >> reporter: those fiery words coming after comey's interview with lester, which he defended the special counsel investigation that the president called a hoax. >> there was smoke and enough smoke to justify investigating and overwhelming evidence that the russians were interfering in the election. but whether americans were conspiring with him, we had to look at that. >> reporter: the former fbi director expressing surprise that robert mueller didn't weigh in on obstruction of justice. >> does that alone surprise you? >> it does. the purpose of the special counsel to make sure that the politicals, in this case the attorney general, doesn't make the ultimate call that the president of the united states should be held criminally liable. >> reporter: and on this 2017 exchange, where the president revealed why he fired comey. >> in fact,

why comey says he has no regrets. ht >>> also tongrowing controversy over the education secretary's plan to strip all federal funding for the special olympics. >>> boeing unveils its urgent fix for grounded 737 max planes. will it be enough to get those jetsack in the air after a pair of deadly disasters? >>> chicago's top prosecutor who recused herself from jussie smollett's case speaking out foh first time. how she explains that shocking turn, all charges dropped against e actor, even though police say they still think he's guilty. >>> good evening from washington where we begin with an nbc news exclusive. james comey, the former fbi direor, who began the russia investigation, and was famously fired by president trump in what some saw as a move to derail that investigation, is speaking out.in is first interview since the mueller investigation was closed, comey told me he is struggling to understand why robert mueller didn't reach a o conclusipossible obstruction of justice charges. also saying he has no regrets over

the interesting thing in the analogy to comey is nadler did not like comey's press conference. >> byhe way i agree with him. i agree with nadler. that's your job. >> the question here is the justice department has decided not to prosecute the president. bl but all the documentation is going to the hill? >>. >> the language was pretty clear. there was nothing between this campaign and russia. so on that basis should he be breathing a sigh of relief? >> i don't know that i read the letter from the attorney general that way. i read it in they didn't find any evidence to establish. what other evidence there is that falls short of the standard. i'm prepared as everybody is to wait and get ttransparency we n. >> it seems me a lot of people were upset and i thought so reasonably that when comey came out and said he wasn't going to charge candidate, hillary clinton on those email matters and he kept talking and saying but she was really bad and put tar on it. he put some stain on her and this time around they're saying why did he make a call and do his job and go quiet. because this time he

first, jim comey's professional reputation is on fire.verybody is forgetting here that it was jim comey's memos, the leak of those mamas that was meant as a push and incentive to start this witch hunt that ended up today like a dumpster fire. we now have nothing. another thing on comey, they base to nearly their entire investigation on the dossier. we now know according to comey himself he claims is salacious and unverified. not only does comey initiate a bulk investigation that leads nowhere based on a fake dossier, he also incentivizes them through the leak of illegal information to start a special counsel probe that leads to wha what? taxicab medallions? nothing? this is all we got? >> sean: based on no further indictments, i will ask you both, 20 seconds each, jason first, no further indictment, what is the worst that can be in there? innuendo, maybe people shouldn't have sat in a meeting or this piece of paper didn't look good? what? >> i don't think there will be much at all. remember, it was the inspector general who found director

the white house firing back at comey. >> i think c it'sar that director comey's been confused on a lot of things over the lasp of years. >> reporter: comey says ultimately the investigation has been a good thing. >> itd, establis hope to all people no matter on the spraum spectrum, that ths not corrupt, but an honest group of people trying to find out what is >>true. eporter: defending the department he once led. blayne alexander, nbc news, washington. >>> a mistrial today in the case of a man who says he killed a virginia store manager because he thought the victim was werewolf. prosecutors say it was murder. the jury was deadlocke over the case. he viciously slashed and beat bradford jackson to death in old town alexandria last year, but the defense argued he was insane at the time of the attack. prosecutors and the victim's friends didn't buy it. they'll decide next week whether to retry the case or not. >>> well, tomorrow we'll learn the fate of a man iolved in another high-profile murder case in virginia. darwin martinez-torres will be sentenced for killing a teenager. he's facing

comey recalls his thoughts when the president decided to fire comey. >> i thought that was potentially an obstruction of justice. >> gives his reaction to the way the mueller report was submitted. that interview is coming up in 20 minutes. >>> backlash tonight over the special olympics, secretary of education betsy devos proposes cutting funding robert, i bet a lot of people not happy with the secretary's remarks. >> reporter: it is not going over too well. in a little over a months, may fourth, the special olympic spring games will be held here. as we have been hearing for the future of special olympics in schools, there is more at stake than winning medals. >> stephanie is proud of winning her medals. the 35-year-old cupertino woman talking about what special olympics does for 130,000 northern california students throughout the schools. betsy devos who she met at an event proposed cutting funding for all special olympics in school. >> i was so sad. and i am really worried about not cutting all of the funding and all the money out. because we need all of that stuff because it is for o

he is all about james comey. probably a person who could tell you that better than anybody is hillary clinton. because remember what he did in the july before the election. it caused a cloud over her, her team members said. >> president trump said was wrong about comey and reason to fire him. then it turn around to say firing comey was obstruction of justice. it appears based on -- we have to get the content, maybe it's not there. >> harris: thank you for standing by with me tonight. i want to bring in now corey lewandowski, someone who knew the trump campaign very well. corey, good to see you on this night in particular. michael caputo was on, former member of the trump campaign earlier and he talked about the disruption in his life. i want you to talk about what it is like to sit down and talk about this case with the prosecutors. >> well, harris, as i have been forward about, i have spent 12 hours testifying in front of the house committee and schiff and eric swalwell who repeatedly said they are 100% certain

comey right here?us statement that i have seen him make his testimonies or anything else kind of staked part of reputation on fact that trump was going to be found guilty of collusion with john brennan didn't happen i think now, he has you know what else is he go to go say? but disingenuous he has not pleased about this the way he acts. elizabeth: -- robert mueller, just about everybody agrees robert mueller is very precise with words operates on facts. not on what jim comey or anybody else thought, right? >> that is exactly right, look. you know we all got frustrated with two years 25 million dollars went into this investigation in fact over two years but at the end of the day mueller was thorough mueller is a guy that has been very precise, he hasn't thrown anything out there that he wasn't quite sure of in terms of statements. but comey is a totally different guy, and i think what you are seeing now is comey is relative of what is happening in much mainstream media as i think he and others are melti

comey is confused.former fbi director told an audience quote, i have great faith in bob mueller, but i can't tell from bill barr's letter why didn't mueller decide these questions when the entire rationale for a special counsel is to make sure the politicals aren't making the key charging decisions? comey's comments come after bill barr said he'll release the mueller report in a matter of weeks and not months. but remember, democrats are demanding that report by tuesday. that's their deadline. the russia investigation itself was triggered in part by george papadopoulos, a former trump adviser whose reps are now in touch with his old boss. >> do you want to get a pardon from president trump? >> um, i'm not asking one. i know my lawyers have formally applied for one. if i am granted one, i would accept it. it's an honor. >> let me bring in julia ainsley, there for comey's speech last night. along with legal analyst cynthia oxney. julia, you write in your sort of summary of comey's remarks that he also pus

for his part, comey telling lester he still has a lot of questions.it. comey who is a terrible guy, fbi folks, i know so many that are incredible people. but at the top, they were not clean to put it mildly. >> reporter: those fiery words coming after comey's wide ranging interview with lester in which he defended the special counsel investigation that the president consistently called a hoax. >> there was smoke and enough smoke to justify investigating. ere was overwhelming evidence that the russians were interfering in thect en to hurt one candidate and help another. whether americans were conspiring with them i didn't know. we had to look at that. >> reporter: the former fbi director expressing surprise erat robert mueller didn't weigh in on whee thought the president obstructed justice. >> does that alone surprise yo >> it does. the purpose of the special counsel is to make sure the politicals, in this case the attorney general, doesn't make theultimate call on wheth subject of the investigation, the president of the united states, shod be held cr

lindsey will bring comey, barr.with lindsey whether or not this report should be made public. the department of justice answers true and false questions. should you be indicted, should you not be indicted? they don't write reports and do op research on people we don't like. that's part of how we got where we are now. the f.b.i. and d.o.j. were given research by fusion gps and swalwell and schiff and castro. >> sandra: thank you for standing by through that with us. we appreciate that. let's bring in political analyst brit hume. you've been standing by. i want to throw to this sound going back to lindsey graham making the point why he has so many questions now about how this all began. listen. >> what happens next is that i have been talking since 2017, the end of 2017 about the other side of the story. nobody much appears to care, but i hope you will find some interest now. that the fisa warrant issued against carter page based on a dossier prepared by christopher steele is at a minimum disturbing. whether or not it

first, sean, comey's professional reputation is on fire. everybody's forgetting it was comey's memos, the leak of those memos that was meant as an incentive to start this witch-hunt that ended up today like a dumpster fire. we now have absolutely nothing. remember, they based nearly their entire investigation on the dossier that we now know, according to comey himself, he claimed was salacious and unverified. not only does comey initiate a bunk investigation that leads nowhere based on a fake dossier, but he also incentivizes them to start a special counsel fraud. this is all we've got? >> let me ask you both this. based on no further indictments, 20 seconds each, jason first. no further indictments. what's the worst that could be in there? what? innuendo? maybe people shouldn't have sat in a meeting or this piece of paper didn't look a good, what? >> no, i don't think there will be much at all. but remember, it was the inspector general who found director comey insubordinate in his first report. and look for more of that to come. >> charac

trump hung up the phone. - he's mad at comey, right? he's mad at comey.fe because she ran for a senate seat and lost? that's so messed up. especially since trump should know what it's like to have a wife who wants to run. come on! [laughter] and... [applause] and poor mccabe... [cheers and applause] poor mccabe in this whole thing-- he's so fbi that he gets insulted and he's just like, "okay. okay, sir." that's all he does? 'cause the commander-in-chief insults him, he treats it like it's an order: "why don't you ask your wife why you're so bad in bed." "okay, sir. honey, the president has a question." so again, again... it's well known that president trump wasn't a fan of andrew mccabe, but still, that doesn't prove that he conspired to have mccabe fired. it is suspicious, though, that back in december, trump tweeted, "mccabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits. 90 days to go." and then right at the deadline... - former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe fired tonight by attorney general jeff sessions just two days before mccabe was going to

the op-ed, jim comey was director of the fbi, jim comey knew that he had flimsy evidence to actuallya warrant to wiretap an american citizen, he know that the dossier was unverified, he called it solicitous, for him to write op-ed, what's your reaction? >> they fired mr. steele, i'm disgusted by the fact that jim comey still has a platform. he's a proven liar. he took steps that would actually make the fbi political operation and not law enforcement operation, he has done more damage than anybody involved to the process. i don't care what he thinks about the special counsel. maria: it's incredible. andrew mccabe writing a book, going all over the place on book tour, these guys were complicit. running two interviews at the same time on hillary clinton investigation, they were told by the doj, we know this from lisa page testimony, stay away from it. >> called off. you had a president that intervened in an fbi investigation and that president was obama, it was not president trump, we are studying and investigating the whole wrong episodes here. we should be investigating what obama did

comey and said he wished it would go away. these are things where it raised a serious question about what the motivation was. on this question of obstruction, if you have the power to fire a person, it doesn't necessarily mean you can do it if the motivation is you want to obstruct an investigation that may result in jeopardy for you. he had the legal authority to .ire comey the question, and we will read the report, was the basis of the firing. host: the trump administration -- through the justice department asking to reconsider the aca. how serious is this? guest: it is really very serious and, in my view, quite cynical. your earlier callers were talking about the cost of health care. they are right, it is -- it is too expensive. the trump administration say they wanted to abolish the affordable care act where there is no replacement. we went through this already. we have to focus on how do we make a more efficient system, more affordable system and bring down the cost of prescription drugs? the abolishing of our entire stru

he fired comey. he's intimidated witnesses in publ public. >> sean: 3, that's called freedom of speech. obstruction of justice because he fired comey. comey doesn't agree with that. remember this? >> when i was appointed fbi director in 2013 i understood i served at the pleasure of the president. even though i was appointed to a 10 year term which congress created to underscore is the importance of the fbi being outside of politics and independent. i understood i could be fired by a president for any reason or no reason. >> sean: yes, it's legal. the president can fire the fbi director. nader said barack obama should can comey for influencing the election. eye ironic. -- how ironic. thank goodness for tape. >> what comey did was so improper and wrong from the beginning in july. the president was to fire comey inland. >> you can't just fire comey? >> yes, he can. >> why? >> for cause. >> he is insulated. >> he ought to. >> sean: there is a serious side to all of this. what this is about is the democra

james comey. what do we have -- >> sean: that was in january of 2017. he signed the fisa warrant in october of 2016 saying the opposite to the fisa court. that's a broad! >> exactly. that's exactly what is going to then you have the fisa warrants say. on top of it. y the whole impetus was this dossier, this counterintelligence investigation regarding collusion.im and guess what? after 2800 subpoenas, 500 search warrants -- 300 search warrants, 500 witness interviews, 13 countries, no collusion, no obstruction. >> sean: you and your team performed a service for the country. i thank you on behalf of all the people that want free, fair, open elections. no president should ever have to go through this again. i'm going to address that now. thank you for being with us. >> thank you, sean. >> sean: i want to welcome everyone to this program, maybe including some of you maybe that don't usually tune in here. those who maybe now realize that you have been lied to by other networks and the news media on a spectacular level for years and years. you know, i look at

james comey, i warned you, you have the right to remain silent. mike turner, a fox news contributor sarah carter, investigative reporter, thank you all for being with us. sarah, i begin with you. >> wow! it's amazing, sean. sorry to interrupt, but i'm just saying it's amazing because there is so much information that came out today in these depositions that we need to look at beyond christopher steele but also with david kramer and what we've been reporting on for several years that this dossier that was filled with lies was being shopped around by david cramer who worked with john mccain and christopher steele who, by the way, should not have been sharing any of this information with anyone. it was obviously set up. sharing it with the f.b.i., and then shopping it around himself throughout washington, d.c. i mean, christopher steel was also shopping this around and glen simpson was pushing both of them to push this out through the state department, journalists, like the "washington post," cnn, everybody else, and now we know andrew weisman, who w

>> i think james comey believes that donald trump committed obstruction.ust think that james comey doesn't have a position in which he is able to make that declaration, but i think he continues to point to the world and prosecutors that indeed he did. this is where i think william barr's testimony to congress will leave us with more questions than answers. there will be a lot of daylight establishes between muellers findings in and of themselves. . he is telling us there is behavior there that raises questions. we saw it in helsinki. we have seen the behavior. the question is how did bill barr draw his conclusions of mueller's report, and bill sbar a political actor. he made is decision to sit out there and let the president claim exoneration. what we must not do is allow the president to conflate exoneration. find indication is very different from legal exoneration that the president is claiming. >> the danger for republicans seems to be getting too involved. if they would just let -- i mean there is plenty in here for them to latch on to. no criminal con

comey who is a terrible guy.hose fiery words coming after comey's wide-ranging interview with lester in which he defended the special counsel investigation that the president consistently called a hoax. >> there was smoke and enough smoke to justify investigating and obviously there was overwhelming evidence that the russians were interfering in the election to hurt one candidate and to help the other, but whether americans were conspiring with them i didn't know, but we had to look at that. >> the former fbi director expressing surprise that robert mueller didn't weigh in on whether he thought the president obstructed justice. >> does that alone surprise you? >> it does. the purpose of a special counsel is to make sure that the politicals, in this case, the attorney general doesn't make the ultimate call on whether the subject of the investigation, the president of the united states should be held criminally liable for activities that were under investigation. >> and on this 2017 exchange where the president rev

comey's his best friend. i have a deputy, appoints a man to write a report on me to make a determination of my presidency? people will not stand for it. >> mike schmidt, he doesn't use names there but take us through that. i think he's talking about robert s. mueller, rod rosenstein, some folks you're pretty familiar with. >> yes, despite the fact that's been proven false, comey and mueller are best friends, it's something he continues to repeat. it's the same argument he's made since sessions recused himself, sort of the original sin in his eyes, back all the way in march 2017, sessions stepping aside, allowing for rosenstein to take over the investigation and trump blaming sessions when rosenstein appoints mueller in may of that year. these are similar things he's said. but the president has a mega phone in ways no one else in the country has and he's being forced to defend himself and will be forced, if there are issues with the report. and these are the refrains, comey, mueller was comey's best friend. th

i know that comey signed the first one. did he sign the second? >> i don't know if he signed the second. he signed the first. >> hannity: he signed the first one. that's all i want to know. i forgot. so in october 2016, congressman, james comey signs off in front of the fisa court. he's telling the court it's verified and corroborated and that they believe it to be true. they also withheld the fact that hillary paid for it ok, so that's a pretty big point that they left out. now, january following that october 2016, comey goes into trump tower, sees president-elect trump and says, "i need to talk to you alone. um, there's a dossier. now, it's salacious but it's unverified." well, that's not what he said to the fisa court months earlier, is it? what does that say about james comey on a legal side of this equation? >> well, i thinknk you'reth absolutely right. the fact that thise now discredited dossier that was paid for byt the hillary campain and thes democratic national committee was ever used as evidence before the fisa court is just absolutely

president, do you believe james comey committed perjury?shouting questions] [inaudible] >> neil: the president making a lot of news there one interesting item, the de-funding the education secretary betsy devos had for the special olympics $13 million. the president has overruled her and put it back in the budget that funding and funding for the special olympics was on. also when the president was speaking there we learned that wells fargo ceo is stepping down effective immediately with all the scandals going on there. he is gone. more after this. >> neil: the president his way. grand rapids. the crowds are already there. throngs waiting to hear from him. the former department of justice prosecutor joins us. on the smollett case, the feds getting involved in the president encouraging them to get involved, what role would they play? could they reverse the decision? >> it's a limited role. they are not the super police. they are not there to second-guess to recharge or cases from local police. they don't have that kind of jurisdiction even if

rob: how is james comey handling the no-collusion news? very oddly.will show you this coming up. stay tune. i must admit. i had a few good tricks to help hide my bladder leak pad. like the old "tunic tug". you know it, right? but i don't have to, with always discreet. i couldn't believe the difference. it's less bulky. and it really protects. watch this. the super absorbent core turns liquid and odor to gel, and locks it away. so i have nothing to hide. always discreet. for bladder leaks. >> the evidence is pretty clear this there was collusion between campaign and russians. >> plenty of evidence of collusion and conspiracy in plain sight. >> we have strong evidence of collusion. >> so we know that there was collusion with people in the campaign. rob: well, you had to expected, trump reelection campaign pouncing on bob mueller's report releasing video slamming democrats for all of those claims about collusion. jillian: are they helping his bid for reelection, big question there, here to weigh in republican strategists and ceo of american majority ned

nicmostly james comey. it's tempting to say there needs to be a special counsel.ngoing investigation into the alleged corrupt act in launching this trump, russia collusion investigation. i think william barr probably wants to see results in that. in the meantime, that may not come out for 90 days or longer. i think he needs to put together a team of top prosecutors to gather together the evidence they already have presented to a federal grand jury for potential indictment against everybody from james comey to andrew mccabe and peter struck, and you know what, maybe you ought to throw in the instigator and the whole thing which is john brennan. >> yes, that's exactly right. who can, is that purely with the attorney general to initiate that. can the president request or you have to leave it to the attorney general two i think it's up to the attorney general. >> it's up to william barr and the pressure on him. he is now the attorney general of the united states, he had to move forward, but it just as he said, it's the american people that have to build their faith in

as for comey, you know, the comey redemption tour just i find tiresome at this stage. believe in rules. and i believe in rules for the president. i also believe in rules for the fbi director. and so while i support comey's conclusion, we should have as much transparency as possible, he spends the entire editorial defending his decision coming out and criticizing hillary clinton. and like you know, that reasoning does not hold. i mean, in other words, he broke the rules that he should have abided by, which has sort of unleashed this whole mess right now. and basically, no one -- you know, no one asked comey and maybe he should realize it's -- you know, sorry. i just don't think he has that moral clarity that others who support transparency might. >> all right. thank you all. all right. quote, "rupert wants donald trump to win." how with this one sentence a reporter was told to quash her breaking story, that donald trump had an affair with none other than stormy daniels. and the many other ways that fox news is so intimately tied into the trump administration. that's nex

that's exactly what comey did. how is this different than comey?ey says i'm not going to indict hillary clinton, but let me tell you it was a closed case. -- a close case. she had all in this stuff, and she was extremely careless, and she did terrible things, but we're not going to indict her. that's not what prosecutors do. so i challenge defenders of comey -- i'm sorry, defenders of mueller to distinguish what mueller did in relation to obstruction of justice to what comey did in relation to her e-mail and why she wasn't indicted on that. i don't see a big difference. shannon: yeah, it's interesting because we knew as soon as he saw where the special counsel said i'm not exonerating, i'm also not indicting the president or suggesting he committed a crime on this issue of obstruction of justice. he left it to the attorney general who then with the legal team and rod rosen sign and others -- rosenstein came to the conclusion they did not have a factual finding of obstruction the of justice. it wasn't completely premised on the point that they didn'

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he told comey to shut down his investigation of michael flynn. when comey refused, he fired him.ged to the russians he fired comey because of the russia investigation and he tried to interre in the investigation of michael cohen. the evidence is clear, ohen this is ar, trump is either going to go to jail or he's going to have to resign and flee and join the -- >> space force. [ laughter ] >> seth: this has been "a closer look." ♪ [ cheers a applause ] we'll be right back with james spader, everybod [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ >> for more of seth's "closer looks," be sure to subscribe to "late night" on youtube. ♪ oh oh oh oh oh ♪ it's taking over ♪ there's no escape ♪ you better get moving ♪ ready or not ♪ it's about to go down here it comes now ♪ ♪ get ready oh oh oh oh ♪ ♪ oh oh oh oh ♪ get ready ♪ moving ♪ ready or not ♪ get ready ♪ oh oh oh oh oh ♪ hey [whistle] ♪ hold up! nelson, you smell great. and no sweat, either. wow, you're the new team captain. degree advanced protection. ultimateevrotection activated y time you move. degree. it won't let you down. at subaru, we're ta

nicmostly james comey. it's tempting to say there needs to be a special counsel.re is an inspector general ongoing investigation into the alleged corrupt act in launching this trump, russia collusion investigation. i think william barr probably wants to see results in that. in the meantime, that may not come out for 90 days or longer. i think he needs to put together a team of top prosecutors to gather together the evidence they already have presented to a federal grand jury for potential indictment against everybody from james comey to andrew mccabe and peter struck, and you know what, maybe you ought to throw in the instigator and the whole thing which is john brennan. >> yes, that's exactly right. who can, is that purely with the attorney general to initiate that. can the president request or you have to leave it to the attorney general two i think it's up to the attorney general. >> it's up to william barr and the pressure on him. he is now the attorney general of the united states, he had to move forward, but it just as he said, it's the american people that

james comey sat down for an exclusive interview with nbc's lester holt late today. and lester will join us live in minutes to talk about his conversation with comey. >>> but we're going to start with the tension building on capitol hill with blayne alexander. >> and that tension is building in part to this unexpected move by president trump's justice department tort sup ending obamacare entirely. now, keep in mind that this really is a f politicalor for democrats who are now renewing their fht over health care. with the trump administration a backing the poh eliminate obamacare completely. >> if if the supreme cou rules that obamacare is out, we will have a plan that's far better than obamacare. reporter: democrats rallying to save it. >> i think we're going to do everything in our power. we just had a meeting on it as a bunch of freshman members soe weoing to fight it. >> reporter: democrats eager to focus on an issue they believe will help them win house control in 2018, already a frequentpi for 2020 presidential hopefuls. >> health care shod be understood to be a

james comey.e will get to all of these folks over the next four hours who have been out there suggesting maybe the president will be indicted, maybe the president's family will be indicted. maybe his close aides will be indicted specifically what you were saying, pete, on collusion or conspiracy. a conspiracy to collude with the russians. instead, what you had were a whole bunch of indictments were about bank fraud. tax fraud and all the rest. important, certainly, you know, things that should not be laughed away or swept under the carpet in terms of paul manafort and others. but none of those indictments have to do with collusion or conspiracy. where this all started. where did it start? it started with that dossier which was paid for by the clinton campaign, paid for by the dnc. unverified information about that man on the right and, remember what james comey said. under oath to congress. that he used a friend on the outside to leak memos to help force the appointment, the nomination of a specia

it is not just jim comey who is still scratching his head. our own legal analyst chuck r e rosenberg is confused also. so is eric holder who hired mueller at one point, and adam schiff is defiantly saying there is undoubtedly collusion despite the findings that there was not enough evidence. let's try to cut through this collusion. doug berns is a federal prosecutor. phil bump, reporter, and doug, does it make sengs to you why he would punt on the issue of obstruction? >> no, i said coming out of the kate that after he reached the decision, it didn't make sense that he would say i didn't use the normal process with making a determination to whether or not it was obstruction. he is did it on the first part. i want to make a fairness point though, everybody kmujumped and said an independent counsel is to be separate from d.o.j. the independent statute lapsed, this is a special counctsel in d under the same umbrella. it makes it less -- never the less it is correct to say wait why didn't he make that decision, why did he let par do it. >> especi

obstruction of justice because he fired comey? comey doesn't even agree with that. remember this. >>>> when i was appointed fbi director in 2013, i understood that i served at the pleasure of the president. even though i was appointed to a 10-year term, which congress created in order to underscore the importance of the fbi being outside of politics and independent, i understood that i could be fired by a president for any reason or for no reason at all. >> sean: any reason or no reason. yeah, it's legal.le the president can fire the fbi director for no reason at all. don't forget, nadler himself said in 2016, barack obama should canned comey for influencing the election. how ironic. oh, i love tapes. thanks goodness for tapes. >> what comey did was so highly improper and wrong. from the very beginning in july, the president ought to fired comey immediately and he ought to initiate investigation. >> he can't just fire comey. >> yes, he can. >> sean: why? >> for cause. >> so he's insulated from the political payback. >> he ought to. >> sean: there is a very serious s

comey kpan raexonerated her jul. not before the infamous tarmac meeting between bill clinton and then attorney general lynch and of course the testimony last week that loretta lynch herself was up to her eyeballs in every decision that was made. even lisa page admitted, they're all democrats, we knew the fix was in. that horribly flawed investigation into hillary clinton now must be reopened if we are to ever have justice in this country. once clinton lost the election, the next phase of the deep state corruption, that kicked in. the insurance policy, hillary's bought and paid for russian lies. imagine russian lies put together by a foreign spy. and then used on an american citizen to get entry into the trump campaign in the lead-up to a presidential election. they denied carter page due process. they denied carter page's constitutional rights. they repeatedly committed fraud against fisa court judges, they did it by omission, and of course they used what is unverified, uncorroborated information. remember, christoph