comey: no, no. but i also think there are lots of ways to be useful to your community and your country without working in the government. i never thought i was coming back after 2005 and the struggle over surveillance and torture. i thought i was done. you know this. i didn't apply to be f.b.i. director. the economy in connecticut and told me to come in to be interviewed. my wife thought -- they are not going to pick you anyway. [laughter] the reason she said that was i had given money, as you know, tell mccain and to romney. i gave it in large part because i worried that unprincipled people might take over the republican party, which was a crazy worry to have, i know. [laughter] but she thought, there is no way they are picking you because you have been a republican. one thing led to another, and here i i think there is not am. another life there i could imagine, but i will try to find ways to be useful to people. i bet that will be either in the university setting or a nonprofit. nicolle: are you

i don't think you can blame it on comey. comey wrong to take matters into his own hands and exonerate clinton and not leave the decision to the attorney general? that's why he had to make the announcement all over again when he did reopen it. the reasons for that are fascinating. you see it in context in the narrative. i think that's probably the most controversial thing he did and with benefit of hindsight, i would've urged him not to do it. but who has benefit of hindsight? he didn't have it. at the time, he was very concerned that the american people would feel a verdict rendered by the justice department was partisan and would not be fair. and there was reason for that. loretta lynch had set a few things that made him suspicious, president obama had dismissed it as not a significant investigation, which he didn't like. but the thing that really put him over the edge was when will clinton barged onto loretto lynches plano as a matter of fact in phoenix, sat down, and stayed there for 35 minutes. that became public. there

he wrote an editorial after comey made his announcement about clinton praising comey and praising the decision. a little-known fact. sessions came under repeated attack from trump. you see here, there are a lot of people who thought sessions was not qualified for the position. putting that aside, no one deserves to be humiliated repeatedly the way trump did him. largely because he was mad. recused himself from the russia investigation. it was clear. that is when barr writes this praising trump cannot be anything as he is president. he has auditioning for the job and he submits that to the white house. he acknowledges only time he has ever sent an unsolicited memo was to the justice department. he then gets the job. he said in his hearing, i have already been attorney general. i don't need to do that again. attorney general is a very good job. it is a powerful job among other things. have you ever been in their offices in the justice department? they have their own dining room. they have a whole suite of offices. they have their own airplane they can fly around on. they have enormous p

it's not because of the clintons that trump wanted to fire comey and it was not his idea to fire comey credit, he refused to do that. trump had to get sessions to pressure him. sessions it says no. that's a false narrative and were not going to put it out. days later rosenstein calls andrew mccabe over. andrew mccabe has become the acting fbi director since comey was fired. i want to read a brief passage. they were talking about something relatively innocuous. i report as follows b& rosenstein's gaze shifted toward the closed door to the room somewhere off in the distance. his eyes looked brassy. his voice wavering, his eyes teared up he said he couldn't believe what was happening. the white house was trying to make it look as if it was his idea to fire comey. that wasn't true. the president had asked him to write the memo only after announcing he was firing comey. rosenstein was obviously struggling to keep his emotions in check. mccabe was shocked, rosenstein was confiding in him, essentially calling the president a liar. they barely knew each other but he wanted to be compassionate.

that's how devious james comey is. and when he gets caught in a lot of these things, he feigns memory loss as he did in his testimony, i think he said 149 times i don't remember. gee. and in interviews when confronted, he pretends that he doesn't know. the dossier? i'm not quite sure i know what that is. christopher steele? i think i've heard that name before. it's those kinds of answers that makes you seriously doubt the credibility of comey. >> host: so if jim comey who really brings ruin to the reputation of the fbi, that's undeniable, but then you have this question about the policies, using your power to stop trump, to push this russia hoax. what, who hires andy mccabe to be the deputy -- [laughter] in this process? like, how does the cast of characters around james comey come together? is that his doing? is it an internal process where it was just kind of inevitable? because how do all these people with left-wing politics and animus toward the duly elected president, how do they all get into the upper echelon? th

we did some checking on jim comey. i'm not a lawyer but most of what we did, politically he was a chameleon. he would tell us he loved president bush and his policies but then talk to liberals and they say james comey secretly he is one of us he is pretty liberal so you got this hodgepodge story and one person who knew him well summarized him by saying the best thing about james comey as he is about james comey. >> i saw that early on as a us attorney in the 19 nineties and i attended a news conference that he held about a case that he had launched. i remember my cameraman walked out with me to the van after the conference and said have you ever seen a guy who loves himself that much? i always remember that because i then saw it vividly in my research for the case and following the case writing columns. james comey i describe as a glorious sanctimonious self-righteous individual who only cares about james comey. >> that was our experience. if you thing to every one of those major jobs he always turned on the person who

, comey quote. gross negligence, the words used by comey, is a criminal standard under title 18 section 793. now, he later dumbed down his statement to a noncriminal standard, quote, although we did not find clear evidence that secretary clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive highly classified information, end of quote. and that was before he finished the investigation and interviewed 17 witnesses, including secretary clinton. director comey never once said that some individuals deliberately sent classified information on an unclassified system. according to the state's department's findings, comey should have come to that conclusion and made that statement. clearly deliberate conduct rises beyond gross negligence. so who deliberately sent unclassified information on an unclassified -- let me start over again. so who deliberately sent classified inform

any fire james comey. and then comey who had told the president that i don't leak and i don't do sneaky things. he steals government documents, not his property, is government property and links them to a friend for the purpose of linking them to the media to trigger the appointment of the special counsel that just happens to be his longtime friend and colleague and mentor bob muller. so that is how devious james comey is. and when he gets caught in a lot of these things, he feigns memory loss. is he did in his testimony, i think he said hundred 49 times and remember, and interviews when confronted, he pretends that he doesn't know things. the dossier, i'm not sure i know what that is. chris purcell, i know i've heard the name before. those kinds of answers. they really make you seriously doubt the credibility of comey. so jim comey is someone that really brings racket brewing to the rescue reputation of the fbi. that's undeniable. with any of this question about the policies you see your power, stop trump

according to the state department's findings, comey should have come to that conclusion. clearly that conduct rises beyond gross negligence. so who deliberately sent unclassified information cracks let me start over. so who deliberatelyat sent classified information on unclassified channels and has the department adjudicated this new finding to the fbi? just last week i spoke on this for about how the fbi pulled punches during the clinton investigation. i talked about how the fbi agreed to limit the scope of review to her time as secretary of state. that decision eliminated potentially highly irrelevant e-mails before and after her ten year that could have shed light on why she operated the nongovernment server. it also eliminated e-mails around the time of the conference call between clinton's attorneys and the administrator of her server that led to the deletion of e-mails. that scope defies reason. and lastly the fbi agreed to destroy records andnd laptop laptops, clinton's associates after reviewing them. and in light of those records could have been relevant to ongoi

fire hurricane gets its name that was the code name for the fbi's russia investigation and as jim comey's assistant, he was -- he is able to offer a fly on the wall perspective and account on the early days of the investigation as well as really insightful analysis into the investigation up to the present, he was also there when director comey made some faithful decisions about another investigation called mid-year exam which was the investigation to hillary clinton's e-mail server. just as important the book offers josh's perspective on again what is the subtitle of the book, donald trump's war on the fbi. the trump administration's reaction to the investigations and their ramifications, the book i can tell you is a page-turner, i highly recommend it. i want to start my question just with, again, your ut experience, josh writes that he first decide today -- decided to become an fbi agent sitting at ut watching twin towers collapsed in 9/11, i would like for you to tell us about your ut experience and how it changed your world? >> i appreciate it, first, thank you all for coming. this is

uncritical of comey in the book as well.. i had the honor of a lifetime working for someone who i believe is one of the greatest leaders the fbi's ever seen. i can tell you as a person where our leaders lie to us every single dayay about things big ad small one of the big criticisms people give him is that he's too sanctimonious. again, in an era where we are lied to thousands of times according to the-- thousands of times in the current administration and one thing i criticize is the used to describe secretary clinton's behavior you will require a-- recall with law enforcement if you're not compressed prosecute someone but then to talk-- describe someone's behavior is bad so i think that was unfortunate and he has since said he would not use that same language in hind sight. i don't want to keep going on-- all of this is in the book, backs up to the election where t now he is staring at another set of facts. of the fbi had come into new set of evidence, e-mails related to the server that the fbi had to investigate, his decis

elizabeth: comey accused of setting up trump with the steel dassiedossier briefing.r ra transparen, the irony seems to be rich there if you are a comey critic. to get fisa warrant to spy on carter page who was never charged. what koh comey is aing. >> this guy, he was like advocates for his book, this guy, circumvented the actual process in u.s. government, he was leaking his own documents, referred by inspect oa inspectol for criminal prosecution for doing that he went off the books, he not a by the book guy. elizabeth: thing to watch where horowitz has prosecution referrals that durham would pick up on. i want to talk about this barr and durham reports say they interviewed foreign intelligence officials who may have been recruited by obama administration to meddle in campaign to help spy on trump. your take? >> deeply consequential, this is serious, du durham impaneling gd juries, there are serious issues, i think that reaction that we've seen from people who are part of obama administration from democrats watching is to try to work the rest, that is american peopl

loretto lynch and james comey know this so what intervenes? is that just saying to the fbi we will not prosecute this this is a matter or investigation quick. >> we know former officials at the fbi who were there at the time this unfolded testified behind closed doors that testimony has since been released very few journalists have read it. i dug through it all which was thousands of pages of testimony but for example lisa page admitted under oath they were told by the department of justice that no charges would be brought against hillary clinton and comey stood in front of cameras said the department of justice doesn't know what i'm about to do but they knew. they were directing him. so a lot of people believe nothing like this could have happened without the president or vice president being aware you cannot find proof of that the people just half to understand how high this went. >> as i lay out the facts in the book witchhunt when the exoneration statement cleared her first implicating her then clearing her. >> he seems pretty upset about

comey: i do. i think they make clear that they are laying out the obstruction pattern for two reasons. first, for future prosecutors. they say essentially that an interesting language which is, we cannot charge this person now, we want to collect all this so that -- the way i read it -- and he can be charged, the evidence has been gathered, and second, so that the constitutional responsibilities of congress can be discharged. i forget the exact language but that is the gist of it. i have not talked to him or anyone on his team, i would expect they thought that, first of all, they were surprised the attorney general and deputy attorney general decided to make a call, no obstruction here, move on. and second, that it was not taking up in a more, in a deeper, more lasting way by congress. barr, the that bill attorney general who did that, put his finger on the scale before, after, and during the release of the mueller report, were you surprised that rod rosenstein, the government official who appoint

book it's value will continue in a few minutes, josh campbell, former assistant director to james comey, shares thoughts on president trump's relationship with the bureau. and later today you'll hear from gun safety advocate. we will be back live from austin shortly. after words with fox news legal and political analyst greg jaret on the mueller investigation. >> there were multiple dueling investigations going on at the same time, trey gowdy's investigation was probably the foremost but had it not been for the deceptions by hillary clinton and the state department about benghazi, we would have never discovered these -- this private server in which hundreds of thousands of emails of classified documents were short at moment. >> the folks that you chronical in the book, the fbi, predominantly by mr. brennan and folks, the intelligence community switched then and go on offense at some point in this process, they decide to quote peter strzok we have to stop him, we are going to stop him, meaning trump. they take extraordinary measures to try to dig up dirt overseas specifically with russia

about james comey. on back in the 19 nineties with the news conference that he held about a case he had launched he said have you ever seen a guy who loves himself that much? i always remember that because i then saw it vividly in my research following the case. james comey could be described as this glorious sanctimonious self-righteous individual who only cares about james comey. that is our experience every major job he has he always turns on the person who picks him. he turned on president bush on the renewal of the patriot act, act, 9/11 era legislation. the whole hillary clinton thing back and forth opening the investigation right before the election day making the clinton folks mad. what is he doing? and to this day now he has the social media presence of almost the aoc acolyte. he is a warrior in the communist revolution. >> it is rather nauseous when he treats tweets out of these philosophical phrases that he uses standing among the tall trees. [laughter] it is actually pretty comical. >> not s

david: james comey is at it again.er a wide-ranging "new york times" interview with the former and fired fbi director. he wants to take down president trump and he admits it. he tells the "new york times" quote, comey has pledged to spend the next 13 months working to drive president trump out of power. it frustrates me that millions of people had a false impression of me. i wish they knew i was funnier. gregg jarrett is joining me. he's the author of "witch hunt." good to see you. david: i have my own copy and i have been reading it. let's talk about something which may be coming out at the end of this week according to maria bartiromo. saying the i.g. report could be coming out soon, if not this week, soon. will comey feature in that report? >> prominently. principally he signed off on the first three nice a warrants to spy -- the first three fisa warrants to spy on the trump campaign. he claimed it was verified information when he knew it wasn't. he withheld exculpatory evidence. he night was paid for by the hillary

comey said in an interview.ine hours a night. who sleeps nine hours a night? thinking deep thoughts. jedediah: comey and schiff and let me just throw in spartacus there while i'm at it, all three of them have that same quality of it's bawl them. let me seize my moment. it's my responsibility to the people. they are so focused on themselves all the time, the ego is the size of this building. i mean, it's extraordinary. it's just remarkable when you see it man tested like that. an -- manifested like that. he believes i would go but i owe it to you to stay. i really do. ed: earlier it was audio only now have joe on camera. pete: mr. comey, as ever, cannot fight a nagging conviction about it all. james comey can help. he must help. i feel stuck, he said, like can't do something else. and i couldn't look myself in the mirror. i went and did something easy. what is he doing, exactly is not entirely clear. [laughter] even to him. rather than proceed with the standard arc erst while intelligence leader think tanks. mr.

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he's about james comey. >> yeah. you know i saw it early when he was attorney in 1990's, i attended a news conference that he held about some case that he had launched and i remember my cameraman walked out with me to the van after the news conference and he said, wow, have you ever seen a guy who loves himself that much, and i always remembered that because i then saw it vividly in my research for the case in following the case, writing columns, james comey i describe in the book as this glorious self-righteous individual who only cares about james comey. >> he ended upturning on president on renewable patriot act, 9/11 era legislation, he obviously, the whole hillary clinton thing back and forth, opening -- reopening the investigation right before the election date, completely infuriating all of the obama-clinton folks, like what is he doing. to this day he has the social media presence almost of aoc. >> it's rather nauseous when he tweets out, you know, standing by the sea in some philosophical phrase he uses or s

the guy playing dumb and a dumber plays james comey.k into the american psyche he was the right man to take out a president. one the report comes out they may have to rewrite. >> democrats have a lot of issues with comey. >> yes. any candidate that loses they need to take responsibility. if there was one person that caused them problems, it was james comey. a premier date hasn't been set. this will happen 2 weeks before the election of 2020. i will be interesting to see who the contributing producers are. they will get paid to consult for this production. >> who is the audience? >> the people that actually make it. no. it's like when guys used to write for gq. writing for the guys at esquire. trying to impress. >> like the "washington post." >> yes. i think they are making a huge mistake. they need to focus on him taking down that vicious criminal martha stewart. that's the high point of his herloic career. getting that vicious criminal off the street and putting her in jail.oic career. getting that vicious criminal off the street and p

because, remember, trump had decided to fire comey.n he calls rosenstein and sessions and says i'm going to fire him, do you agree? he says i think you mishandled clinton. so rosenstein writes a memo. trump immediately brandish it's and says this is why i'm firing him and then he wanted rosenstein to go out and do a press conference saying i was the one who fired comey. that was completely false. i think rosenstein wasn't in the job that long. he was literally falling apart inside the justice department. at one point he says to andrew mccabe there is nobody i can talk, to there's no one i can trust. i'm all alone here, can i talk to jim comb snaechl i really admire the guy. he just wrote a memo that was being used to fire him. and people were staggered by that. so then he starts getting into this stuff, well, i could wear a wire in the white house. i could get evidence against the president obstructing. then he brought up this twenty-fifth amendment. he must have been talking about it because he said he had sessions and kelly already l

mccabe, clapper, brennan, comey? >> all of the above.ere committed, they were authorized and agents were instructed to commit certain acts. here everything was being done by senior leadership of the fbi. the agent on the streets were exclude from doing the operations they are trained to do. trish: it was a tight-knit group. the former national security advisor michael flynn is accusing agents of lying about his interview with them. it's quite an accusation. what are your thoughts on this? >> again, we are talking the same people doing that investigation. flynn refers to the 302. the 302 is not a form you fill out. it's a blank sheet of paper agents write the report on. the question is do the notes the agents took match what was said and reported in the interview? this is a significant interview. was it recorded? if we are talking of somebody who is just a witness, they don't record. but if we are talking to somebody who we are looking at as a possible subject, we record that to insure the accuracy. trish: george papadopoulos was on the s

the other three witnesses were jim comey, and loretta lynch.went to testify behind closed doors before these prominent members of congress. it was clear there was a lot at least some sort of surveillance going on our me in london. the key question is was that based on facts and a legal basis or was there something more insidious going on here. in my opinion, and i think my testimony for anybody who is interested, they can google it it's public now, will see i actually notified authorities my meetings with these people including the australian government because of how bizarre they are. i thought they were up to something they shouldn't have been doing and they were opening spying on me. these meetings were some of the most of consequential events surrounding this investigation william barr and john durham are spearheading. now that mueller's testimony has come to a close and the next chapter opens. these events will have to be scrutinized from a different perspective. trish: what do you think italy has to do with it. attorney general barr and j

he wants to get rid of comey because of russia.e drags rod rosenstein in and drafts a memo about clinton. he wants rosenstein to give a press conference saying it was his idea to fire comey. and it was because of clinton, all false, so, first of all, trump fires the person who is investigating him. that's bad enough then he lies about it to cover the reasons. it nearly prompted a constitutional crisis when rosenstein was calling for wearing a wire to record the president and invoking the 25th amendment. it's a highly dramatic very illustrious example of how this president operates. he's impulsive and doesn't listen to advice and lies about what he did. he acts like someone who is guilty of the underlying offense and now he's done it all again with the ukraine. >> meantime, as we speak, fbi agents are in detroit, chicago, new york, they're knocking on a door enforcing a warrant preparing for court tomorrow morning. is it too early yet to sum up the net effect of this bad, bad time for them? >> well, it's been a terrible period for t

then you have comey who acknowledged publicly.eanine: cardinal comey. >> he said on the record that he sent agents or to the white house knowing it was not standard procedure because he thought he could get one over on the trump administration because they were new. judge jeanine: he was proud of it. they were proud of the fact they circumvented white house rules, regulations and policy, and the constitutional requirement because he was a target of the right to remain silent. they say we just want to talk, no big deal when they had the intent from the beginning. if there aren't charges as it relates to the leaking of this information. when the head of the dni, clapper, who says we don't spy on the american people, and if there aren't charges against this guy for leaking information to the "washington post," this is an outrage. >> there are three crimes here with flynn. we know the obvious one, the leaking of the flynn classified phone call. we know now there is potential falsification of evidence. sidney powell is making a stagger

and then of course in may -- trump fires director comey. the day before that is made final, he asks the deputy attorney general to write a memo justifying the firing, and he asks the deputy attorney general, please put russia in your memo. the deputy attorney general says, i don't think that is a good idea. e said i understand, but i'm asking you to do it anyway. after he fires the director, he tells lester holt on the news that when he fired the director, he was thinking about russia. the next day, he tells the russians that he fired the director and had relieved a lot of pressure from the russia investigation. with that knowledge, and your investigator hats are tightly pulled down over your heads, ask yourself, have we met the standard for an investigation? do we have information that might indicate that a threat to national security could exist, or that a federal crime could have been committed? that was the question that confronted me on may 9 and in the days following when we determined to open a case on the president of the united sta

mccabe, clapper, brennan, comey? >> all of the above. were committed, they were authorized and agents were instructed to commit certain acts. here everything was being done by senior leadership of the fbi. the agent on the streets were exclude from doing the operations they are trained to do. trish: it was a tight-knit group. the former national security advisor michael flynn is accusing agents of lying about his interview with them. it's quite an accusation. what are your thoughts on this? >> again, we are talking the same people doing that investigation. flynn refers to the 302. the 302 is not a form you fill out. it's a blank sheet of paper agents write the report on. the question is do the notes the agents took match what was said and reported in the interview? this is a significant interview. was it recorded? if we are talking of somebody who is just a witness, they don't record. but if we are talking to somebody who we are looking at as a possible subject, we record that to insure the accuracy. trish: george papadopoulos was on the

he likes comey when he reopens the clinton administration.hen he gets into russia and he's pursuing the investigation, he doesn't like that. you see the fundamental clash between a political animal in trump and the non-partisan bureaucrat in comey. they were destined to have mortal combat. lou: you write about the entrenched republican enclave within the fbi. or enclaves as comey describes it to you when most of of us are focusing on the left-wing elements, whether it's strzok and page or mccabe at all. it is a bureau that is it seems more vulnerable and susceptible than any of us would have imagined previously to political corruption. animated in whether we follow your view of the deep state or anyone else's. it is a deeply troubled fbi. >> i think there is no question the fbi and the people tonight are in many ways a mirror of the society we live in. it is more polarized the same way america as a whole is probably more polarized. i have known fbi agents by entire reporting career. fbi agents are free to have whatever political beliefs they

comey? no one is tugting they are automatically above scrutiny, but the president already gave away the gain. as this congress considerats th question of trying to remove a sitting president from office, and using his power to demand informations of a political rival because this follows the ark of the investigations into his rivals. >> if i win i will instruct my attorney general to get a specific prosecutor to look into your situation. >> who specifically are you accusing treason. >> if you look at comey, mccabe, maybe people higher. >> this was an illegal take down. >> did you discussion joe biden and his family? >> legally, candidates, politicians, have all kinds of latitudes for rhetoric. the nude tonight shows this is way beyond rhetoric, and you can see his blots working against his chapters and you can see how his overkill can backfire. the break down of his rooils, one by one, you have james comey, and they went after trump's detractors. remember, trump fired him and turned the same

james comey was interviewing for the job as director of the f.b.i. there was also an interview with robert mueller who i believe did not tell the truth, even though he was under oath, but the records show that he was interviewing for the job of director of the f.b.i. as well. james comey went outside his meeting in the oval office with president trump, sat down and typed up from his memory what he believed was the exchange between donald trump and james comey. and in short order took it up to columbia university and handed it over to a law professor who was a friend of his with the either direct or implied, explicit or implied directions, leak this information in the private meeting with donald trump to "the new york times." and the objective is to upset this country in such a way that they'll have to name a special counsel to investigate the russia collusion that we heard about for two years. and that special counsel needs to be robert mueller. well, see how this unfolded? our attorney general, jeff sessions, who is a personal friend and someone who

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comey still runs to the white house on february 14th and conjures up the entire obstruction of justice narrative against the president when flynn had been cleared of everything long before that. >> flynn is scheduled to be sentenced december 18th, guys. ed: lucas tomlinson live in washington. thank you. we were joking around about deep state and who is playing in the swamp. this is serious business. this comes what lucas was just reporting the fbi manipulating the situation with general flynn we just learned in the last 24 to 48 hours this review of the justice department fbi behavior how the russia probe started has now

here's my question to you, why was james comey an fbi administrator, not a field agent, why was comeying the russia probe? why wasn't a field office investigating it? these sources say that is the biggest sign things were going haywire. >> that's a good question. remember, watergate was run by the washington field office. i wasn't run by the director of the fbi. i was a field commander in the washington field office. comey took all these cases and put them under his command where he and his minions did the investigation and that is a huge problem for the fbi. it actually started -- that process started under bob mueller. he started bringing more cases back to headquarters. fbi agents aren't intimidated by politics. all they want to do is find out what happened and report it. but clearly there was a bias at the highest levels of the fbi, and they took it away from the washington field office. by the way, washington field office asked to conduct an investigation of the clinton foundation on numerous occasions for money laundering and they were denied that ability. i think that says volu

he said, i heard you were part of the group that didn't like jim comey. you didn't approve what he did in these cases. you didn't agree with him. wayaid, you objected to the he worked to these cases, is that right? said, no, sir, that is not right. i worked very closely with jim comey and we worked on this cases together. i was a part of most of those decisions, most of them. i know that some people have disagreements with the way that we handled some of our decisions, but i was part of that team, so i don't think you are correct about that. , my impulse was to answer the question honestly, because that is what we do. it was only later that i realize that this was my loyalty test. jim comey had notoriously had his in his private dinner with the president shortly after his inauguration, when the president came out and said, i need you to be loyal. there was no interpretation needed there. it was pretty direct. i realized this was my version of that same loyalty test. the president clearly laid out -- i don't want to call them facts -- alternative facts? ,h

fbi director at the time is james comey. james comey announces to the world that there is both a criminal -- a criminal and counterintelligence investigation into what russia did, but also into the question of whether the trump campaign was in on it. why did they have advance notice, for example, of some of the things that the russians did before anybody else knew those things had happened? james comey, of course, also gets fired by the white house. fired by the president. and excoriated and called a traitor and everything else thereafter. when james comey is fired, it's the deputy fbi director who steps up and becomes fbi director, andrew mccabe. in his role as acting fbi director after comey was fired, mccabe expands the counterintelligence investigation so that it also includes the president himself. was the president compromised by russia? andrew mccabe then fired, right? excoriated. came very close to being charged by the justice department. we're still not sure if he won't be. a judge who is overseeing the case has dem

we'll see lots and lots of pages, james comey's behavior he's another one. another one under the microscope. officials familiar with the durham report that they'll use it as a road map for this criminal probe. the inspector general cannot prosecute, can only suggest here's what happened. here's what may have been wrongdoing but can't actually plus get anybody. can recommend prosecution but can't actually do it. now john durham has a subpoena power, has a grand jury, can potentially push criminal charges. >> laura: ron johnson sent a letter to the intel community's inspector general and they contained previously unreleased emails. lots of stuff happened today! maybe they knew the world series was tomorrow night. in emails and texts between strozk and page, there is a reference to a crescendo of leaks. it was sent the day before jim comey testified in 2017 after he was fired. how much of this deep state animus towards trump stems from the firing of comey here? >> your question to ed, who has the most to lose? in the end, this is a review of barack obama's admi