james comey, andrew mccabe, everybody knows about michael cohen. counsel for many years who was willing to do anything for donald trump, and then donald trump wants to bring the full wrath of the department of justice and the federal governdo michael cohen to keep him from exercising his first amendment rights. he saw to it presumably that michael cohen end up in solitary confinement for a couple of weeks. if he would do this thing to the director of the fbi, deputy director the fbi, his own private counsel, imagine what he would do to any ordinary citizen out there who dares to take a stand against donald trump. when he says dictator day one, everybody has to take him at his word. he means that ntu will feel as if he made his intentions clear all the more justified. let's not forget the supreme court in its roberts court wisdom has now said that the president of the united states has immunity from prosecution for actual crimes committed as president of the united states if they are perceived to be within the core functions of the presidency. under

and when comey refused to go after hillary then he turned on comey saying he should be prosecuted. you start to see in donald trump's paranoid world view, vengeance really is the substance of politics. that's really what it's all about. going on vendettas against perceived political adversaries and enemies and it's amazing the people were on, that list. james comey, andrew mccabe. everybody knows about cohen. his pivate council for many years who was willing to do anything for donald trump. then donald trump wants to bring the full wrath on the department of justice on cohen to keep him from exercising his first amendment rights and saw to it that michael cohen end up in solitary confinement for a couple of weeks. if he would do this sort of thing as the director of the fbi, the deputy director of the fbi, his own counsel, imagine what he would do to any ordinary citizen out there who dares to take a stand against donald trump. when he says dictator day one everybody has to take him at his word. he really means that. he will feel as though he's made his intentions clear all the mos

when he fired comey because comey wouldn't pledge loyalty.- >> two weeks. >> right. we have seen pattern after pattern. i will say this. it is important for the victims who have -- i don't know that anyone really understands the cost, both the emotional and the personal cost of being threatened with the full power of the law. >> right. >> when it's unfair. there are a lot of people in this society that suffer from that when it is turned on government for doing government's job. it becomes something that is deeply destructive. but it does matter because if donald trump is not allowed to do what he's really doing now, which is not saying make america great again, he's saying make me great again, there is a vindication because if he gets back in the white house he has already said he is going to do this very thing, except now what is different is we have a supreme court decision granting him absolute immunity to intervene directly in the operations of the department of justice in a way, and to michael's point, we never as a society after waterga

fbi hi directors alone to avoid the appearance of political interference. >> but instead trump fired comey. >> he's a show boat, his a grandstander attacked his attorney general jeff sessions for not doing enough to end the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. >> are recuse myself and eventually fired him to that in the post-watergate era just violates what the norm has been after richard nixon left office. and what has been adhered to by presidents we're very, very long time trump saw no reason to have any distance between himself and the justice department trump went to war publicly and privately against career public servants who stood in his way. you have trump ours who are saying they believe the department of justice should pay according to the white house. the white house should tell the department of justice what today and what we have seen now, recently is that unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats who don't change with administration's, they stayed the same. they are the ones that are actually calling the shots. and in many cases, as we saw with president

he wanted james comey investigated. he wanted john kerry investigated so actually he already has a history of this and i expect that that would continue under no circumstances. you are promising america tonight you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody except for day one he says you're not going to be a dictator, are you? i said no, no, no other than day one as president trump chafed at restrictions on his executive powers and openly admired for and authoritarians who had no such limits. i think we're going to do tremendous things for both china and for the united states. and it is a very, very great honor to be with you. >> it would be unthinkable before donald trump for an american president to show hero worship of foreign dictators. >> a lot of friendships have been made and this has been in particular aggressor redshift. >> he says they're strong, they're tough. and he says quite clearly that that's somebody who i want to get to know often it's very striking because he will describe them as friends

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they do not know what i'm about to say. >> kaplan says comey stepped out of line with that announcement the fbi should not make those announcements because prosecutors could decide to go another direction with their findings. that risks confusing the public. >> there are many times that the fbi collects what they believe is sufficient evidence to charge someone. with that being said, there are justs many times as the fbi goes with all of this evidence that they believe is sufficient to charge someone. and the u.s. attorney's office issues a declination, meaning they decide not to charge the person. >> ultimately, we won't find anything out about this investigation before the recall election, in part because of the agency's sensitivity to the upcoming election, and also because kaplan says investigations like these can typically take up to two years before there are any findings. in the meantime, mayor tao says she'll continue her duties as mayor. no matter what dark cloud comes her way. >> the threshold looks like it's pretty unfair here, and that's the very frustrating part. however, w

they do not know what i'm about to say. >> caplan says comey stepped out of line with that announcementnouncements because prosecutors could decide to go another direction with their findings. that risks confusing the public. >> there are many times that the fbi collects what they believe is sufficient evidence to charge someone. with that being said, there are just as many times as the fbi goes with all of this evidence that they believe is sufficient to charge someone. and the us attorney's office issues a declination, meaning they decide not to charge the person. >> ultimately, we won't find anything out about this investigation before the recall election in part because of the agency's sensitivity to the upcoming election, and also because caplan says investigations like these can typically take up to two years before there are any findings. in the meantime, mayor tao says she'll continue her duties as mayor no matter what dark cloud comes her way, the threshold looks like it's pretty unfair here, and that's the very frustrating part. >> however, we're not going to focus on stuff th

fbi director, he doesn't want to be the jim comey in the 2024 election. as to how the trump team responded, we have a statement from a spokesman for the trump team and it said, there should be no sentencing in the manhattan d.a.'s election interference witch-hunt, he called it, as mandated by the united states supreme court, this case along with all of the others, harris/biden hoaxes should be dismissed. so, the opportunity for the trump team to talk about this is something that he took an opportunity to do with the statement from a spokesperson. guys? >> and rehema, separately, mr. trump appeared in court today for another case. this is related to the sex abuse case brought by a writer e. jean carroll. what happened there? >> reporter: and in that case, he was asking for the judge to throw out, this is a panel of three appellate judges here in the u.s. district court. a civil case. and he's asking them to either throw out the case or reduce the verdict in that the awarding of judgment of $5 million in this particular case. they argue that the evidence ab

whether it was firing james comey after trump asked comey to drop the federal investigation into thel security adviser michael flynn or having his attorney general, bill barr, fire another attorney from the southern district. the man he appointed in 2020, after berman prosecuted trump's former lawyer, michael cohen, and opened several other investigations of people and banks in trump's orbit. >> the cardinal rule is that partisan political concerns are not supposed to enter any decision-making and that rule was repeatedly violated. now we managed to push back every attempt to interfere in our cases and we were successful every time. but it was difficult. it was 2 1/2 years of unrelenting pushback. >> unrelenting pressure, 2 1/2 years. trump was constantly pushing for prosecutions of his perceived enemies including hillary clinton and john kerry. he said this publicly. this is not some scoop. his attorney general bill barr also distorted the mueller report on the trump campaign russian contacts and appointed as special counsel to investigate the fbi investigators who looked into trump

they do not know what i'm about to say. >> kaplan says comey stepped out of line with that announcement, and the fbi should not make those announcements because prosecutors could decide to go another direction with their findings. that risks confusing the public. >> there are many times that the fbi collects what they believe is sufficient evidence to charge someone. with that being said, there are just as many times as the fbi goes with all of this evidence that they believe is sufficient to charge someone. and the u.s. attorney's office issues a declination, meaning they decide not to charge the person. >> ultimately, we won't find anything out about this investigation before the recall election in part because of the agency's sensitivity to the upcoming election, and also because kaplan says investigations like these can typically take up to two years before there are any findings. in the meantime, mayor tao says she'll continue her duties as mayor no matter what dark cloud comes her way. >> the threshold looks like it's pretty unfair here, and that's the very frustrating part. howev

one more thing, back in 2016 people were not talking about james comey and what he did two weeks before that to hilary. i am not going to say it will be a landslide, but i think that trump is going to get smoked. host: lee in new york. republican. good morning. caller: good morning. , lucero -- kamala harris said that her job was to find the root cause of illegal immigration and that was welcoming people with grandiose promises. many voted what she done about the 300 million missing children that are believed to be set -- sex trafficked and prisoners. guest: to the first caller i will say forecasting. and i do not particularly enjoy political forecasting myself. i think it ultimately does a disservice because we are going to find out what the results are. there is an election, and the pole is the -- the poll, the final one is election day and that is what matters. that said there has been a massive increase in the amount of polling that we have had, publicly available polling. some of it is good and some of it is not so good. it goes into these aggregates that we see. and i do not know.

michael flynn in james comey and the fbi. host: if you can related to the top issue for 2024.hat is the point. caller: can you trust the democrats to do the right thing now? they have tried to kill the president of the united states. host: no, no, no. i will leave it right there. james on the democrat line. caller: this will rouse some feathers of the listening group. a long time ago i heard a statement -- i am 74 years old -- i heard a statement made that it does not make much difference to the president of the united states is and at the time i did not think much of that statement. as time has gone by i begin to think that. then along comes trump and that is all we have heard about since he won the first election is trump, trump, trump. you have to make the best choices you can. the choice today we have is you have to have rules, you have to have guidelines. trump has no guidelines. no matter how much you try to say the democrats are going to do this or that, they are going to do the right thing. trump has not done the right thing. it is not a matter of opinion. you cannot h

doing it, regardless of if we adjust pay, having people think about doing this only for a time, five comey 10 years, eight -- five years, 10 years, they do not have to think about this being the only thing they are doing in their life and instead doing it and then going and doing something else. but getting talented people in here, seeing what it is like, people from a lot of different walks of life is important because then when they take that experience to the next job, it is helpful to have a more diverse group of people in here, regardless of salary, having a different group of people in here would be great. >> as i look at who is here, i'm the only one who voted for the pay raise in 1989. [laughter] >> i voted for it. >> were you there? >> a $40,000 pay raise. >> it was a tough vote. i was a deputy whip. my other deputy whip was denny hastert who also said he would vote for it, and then he voted no. [laughter] he took the easy course. but i took holy shit for it for a while. i had a primary with a state senator who wanted to only have lincoln douglas debates on only that topic. [laugh

trey: my first thought was yours about peter strzok and peter mccab and james comey and james baker and all fbi pros working against one candidate and for another. how do our viewers take the bureau seriously in light of what happened in 2016? >> well, polls show they don't take them seriously and crux of accusations of using allocations that russia disinformation, russia collusion or russia propaganda and was in facted a vanning one candidate and turning out to be completely false. the number of countries meddling and the lack of this administration taking them seriously because they're going back to the same well of claiming russia disinformation and meddling and they're ignoring iran and two people charged with attempting assassination and result of killing soleimani and they're directed their targeting of president trump and president trump department and his cabinet members and i know cheerily that's less concerned of beating the old drum of russia. trey: years ago, we were sitting elbow to elbow and jay johnson came in and said i tried to warn the states, i offered them help but t

a lot of people think that would make more sense considering what is still a fairly robust looking comey- looking economy, if they do that, that's going to face an enormous amount of pushback from the market. you cannot kind of imagine a world where they cut by 25 but they showed they are open to cutting by more in the not-too-distant future so that reassures markets, i am not buying that. if they cut by 25 rather than by 50, they have to sell the message that, you know, look, we see a soft landing coming and we are on target for it, we don't see the need for 50 basis points. that's going to be a real shock for markets, rate markets at least. they are busy pricing for not just one 50 basis point cut but two of them over the four meetings through to january. they see a very strong pace. and in fact, the way that the market is set up, they're basically saying if the fed only cuts 25 basis points today, then they will have to cut 50 in november. if the fed was going to cut by 50 at some stage, it would cut now. that sets up that conflict between the market and the fed if it goes 25. if it g

now i read this article that in 2016 when trump won we had barack obama, james comey, joe biden and the whole team who wentz -- went after michael flynn. he was a retired patriotic general who was absolutely just a brilliant wonderful man who they lied, cheated and absolutely just destroyed his life, his family, costing him every dime. this is the f.b.i. in charge of this. host: let's take it in 2024. what is the top issue? caller: it is how much -- you don't want to remember about what the democrats did before. are they going to do it again? michael flynn and the f.b.i. -- host: i'm just saying relate it to what is the top issue of 2024 what points are you trying to make caller: can you trust democrats to do the right thing? they already tried to kill the president -- host: no, no. i will leave it there. james in indiana democrat lane. caller: good morning. this is going to rile some feathers of the learning group but a long time i heard a statement and i'm 74, i heard a statement it doesn't make were difference who the president is and at that time i didn't think were of it. but as ti

criminal investigations he directed into former fbi director jim comey and threatening the secretaryurn trump's defeat in the state of georgia. remember this part of the call with brad raffensperger. >> it's more illegal for you than it is for them because you know what they did and you're not reporting it. that's a criminal, that's a criminal offense. and, you know, you can't let that happen. that's a big risk to you and to ryan, your lawyer. that's a big risk. >> again, nobody following the law talks about doing things that are more legal than other things. a crime is a crime. now trump's view here that when you're president you can do it, just like when you're famous you can do it, his view he can use and pull the levers of government for his own political purposes is bolstered now by the supreme court and their recent ruling on absolute presidential immunity for presidential acts. it states that a president is free from criminal prosecution for those, quote, official acts. acts, which according to the twice impeached ex-president thinking include interviewing in an election. >> w

the james comey was a subject of a leak investigation that trump wanted.ump wanted. michael cohen was put back in prison when he refused to not publish a damning book about trump. hillary clinton had to ultimately sit before john durham and ask questions from that special counsel about all the conspiracy theories that trump had pushed about the clinton campaign. when you look at the totality of this, and you look at what trump tried to do behind closed doors, and the way he also tried to push the justice department publicly, those things ended up happening. what we were trying to say in these thousands of words that we published was that, sure, people say if he comes back, he might do this, but we are saying, it already happened. this has already happened. that can be used as a template to see how he would act if he came back. because we know that the guardrails that were there, or those people that tried to be guardrails in the first term, would certainly not be there in the second. >> mike, i guess the question is, well, there are many questions, but the

that while some of the episodes obviously this different facts and circumstances, the firing of jim comeystruck and lisa page. but to trump they were all the same. part of this effort you describe add delegitimatizing the most powerful people at doj who in his view threatened him. >> he was setting examples for other civil service justice in the fbi. his public firing sent a clear message to people who common possible servants in washington. i want to emphasize, there are people who re sit and fight back in the book. it is not all hopeless. but it was a strategy. it was to make an example of andy mccabe, to show fbi and doj officials, this is what will happen to you if you get involved in one of these investigations of trump. that he'll make, he'll punish you. and i had a very hard time getting people to speak on the record, many people did speak to me, they talked about their frustration and concerns. but he is effectively made people think even if they're retired from the fbi, their career and their businesses will be damaged if they criticize him or investigate him openly. >> who fough

and he's praising comey because they were attacking hillary clinton. the 2016 campaign. books, written on the campaign said new york office had a decided pro trump and anti- hillary tilt. and then of course, the comey letter ten days before the election historians believe that letter in and of itself swung the election. so, this agency, this fbi agency that trump supposedly hates so much right now, he actually loved it and praised it when it was going after his political opponent right? >> that's true. and what i found is that the problem here is that there's again, so much hyperpartisanship we need nonpartisan public service in the law enforcement agencies and fbi and doj. we need nonpartisan election clerks counting the vote nonpartisan judges certifying and deciding cases and not partisan journalists. we need facts we can agree on. if we don't have that, it becomes a threat for our democracy. and that's why this fall had been an amazing test for american democracy. >> since you started reporting and writing book the supreme court came through with t

that did not happen with jim comey. you see massive politicization of the department and it is very dangerous. and i would emphasize again, people that fought, that resisted him often underestimated him. one person told me, i thought the presidency would change donald trump and instead, donald judge -- trump change the presidency. >> donald trump is changing his ideology it seems. he wrote in an article molly that both trump and his running mate j.d. vance are trying to moderate their positions on a number of issues including abortion. and women's rights as they make it appeal to swing voters. is this pivot something we should believe in or is this more political expediency? >> a great example is j.d. vance. he is hot on the child tax credit but he voted, when the child tax credit -- credit was up to expire he did not show up for the vote in the senate. so republicans didn't support the child tax credit in 2023 and the idea that now they are going to implement it and the same thing with ivf, republican senators didn't v

say is not even just the medium we saw this with intelligence apparatus and john brennan, clapper, comeyrds, isn't that putting out this information, the lies and calling them a threat and making it a security, potential security threat for him in his life and his family. >> what is a former first lady melania trump her own attaches very poised and measured in what she was saying i think as a spouse of somebody who is been through two assassination attempts and has threats coming through on an hourly basis that she could've really laid and a lot harder but she is one of the classiest first ladies we've ever had. >> absolutely, thinking about this, there is another belief that iran has an attempt on his life, security has to be enhanced and people complain and say i don't think, a lot of people are worried is the secret service up to par will he have enough security, there is to attempt on his life and now another one from an adversarial nation, that is very concerning. >> the former first lady is a viewer of cable news just like the rest of america, she has seen during the first attempt

my first thought was yours isetr about peter strzok and lisa page and anti-mccabe, james comey, jamesoyeesne working against one candidate for another. so how did the viewers take the bureau seriously in light of what happened 2016? >> the polls show they don'ton take the'tm seriously and the impact, because they have been the crux of accusations of using allocations that russia disinformation and russia collusion a rush up propaganda, impact, diminishing one candidate and completely falls to sound thaletet alarm nw really sounds incredibly hollow. what is also troubling here, tray a number of countries that are meddling and the lack' of this administration taking them seriously because they are going back to the same well claiming russian disinformation in russia meddling and they are ignoring iran's meddling and two people have been charged with attempting assassinations as a result of the killing of solaf money where it would have been directed, targetinirg president trump and president trump department, his cabinet members. clearly that rises to the highest level of election inter

they do not know what i'm about to say. >> caplan says comey stepped out of line with that announcement, and the fbi should not make those announcements because prosecutors could decide to go another direction with their findings that risks confusing the public. >> there are many times that the fbi collects what they believe is sufficient evidence to charge someone. with that being said, there are just as many times as the fbi goes with all of this evidence that they believe is sufficient to charge someone and the us attorney's office issues a declination, meaning they decide not to charge the person. >> ultimately, we won't find anything out about this investigation before the recall election, in part because of the agency's sensitivity to the upcoming election and also because caplan says investigations like these can typically take up to two years before there are any findings. in the meantime, mayor tao says she'll continue her duties as mayor. no matter what dark cloud comes her way. >> the threshold looks like it's pretty unfair here, and that's the very frustrating part. however,

the facts at the all new car facts.com dinner time need a moment to take care of yourself major made comey vitamins self-care has never been this easy nature trump made the number one pharmacist recommended vitamin and supplement brand is cnn the world's news network tonight. a new twist in a bizarre story for robert f. kennedy cnn's tom foreman is following this for us, what do we know, tom? >> well, we know it just keeps getting weirder national marine fisheries france has confirmed to cnn that they are investigating robert kennedy jr. for allegedly taking the head of a dead beached whale. kennedy himself says it's happened some 20 years ago. you mentioned the investigation is his campaigning for donald trump over the weekend. his daughter, kathleen kick kennedy originally described as to town and country magazine in 2012, saying her dad chain saw the whale's head off strapped it to the top of the family car and took it home to study because he was interested in such things. but federal law says you can't do that so the feds are taking a look and depending on what they find conceivably w

it's as if judge merchan is making the decision in his own head that he does not want to be the jim comey of 2024. >> lisa rubin, thank you for that. i want to bring in nbc's vaughn hillyard who covers the campaign, vaughn, how are they reacting to all of this? >> reporter: this is a moment here for the campaign where their candidate is in control, chris. for donald trump, he is in the air, here to charlotte, north carolina. to address the fraternal order of police, the largest police unit in the country here. of course this comes after the nearly hour remarks that he delivered at trump tower. it was initially billed as a press conference, he took no questions, instead, after leaving that appeals courtroom there, he talked extensively about the details of the case. he brought up the other women who made allegations against him, other than e. jean carroll, when it comes to evidence, it could potentially have been brought into the courtroom as a part of this appeal. donald trump talking extensively about it. i want to let you, though, look at the statement here from trump campaign spokesper

comey says it's offering a 30% pay raise over 4 years. the union originally wanted 40% over 3 since september 13th over 33,000 union members have been on strike says the striking union must accept the offer by friday night. >> i-44 the time the arab resource and organizing center also known as a r o c is holding a rally today outside san francisco is federal building. they want the u.s. to stop selling arms to israel after a deadly strike in lebanon killed 325 people and injured 1200 others. it's the deadliest attack that country has seen in nearly 20 years. today's rally is set for 06:00pm. >> and interstate 6.80, in contra costa county against upgrades. talk 166 million dollar investment to complete the northbound express lane from highway. 24 to 42. it aims to convert existing hov lane and to express lane. the money will be used to address the traffic problems between north main street entry on a creek. we'll also include new metering along a 19 mile stretch northbound 6.80, and a new truck scale. most doesn't. bay area schools have be

how about comey admitting on stage that he did something to donald trump's administration that he never have even tried under barack obama? do you remember the book tour he went on, where he just couldn't wait for the audience to applaud? when he said, "to be honest with you, we wouldn't even have tried it." what about peter strzok? i don't know if merrick garland was on the golf course with other judges when peter strzok and l the others conspired to hp one candidate over another candidate. if merrick garland really believes the doj has not been weaponized, then not only does he not need to be the ag, he frankly doesn't need a driver's license. he is delusional if he believes that. >> john: i want to switch gears and go on to the assassination attempt against the former president. the acting director of the secret service was across the street in a closed-door meeting with republicans and democrats. michael waltz was one of the people he was in that meeting. here's what he said after coming out. listen here. >> leading the investigation and the motive, but we need to understand at leas

if f you his s big lead h head, you w wo say the sasame to do and h he comes, comey bites and loved back tv on the edge premieres sunday, september the 22nd, did nine on cnn with just 65 days until election day and labor day upon us, both presidential campaigns are targeting battleground states tomorrow, vice president kamala harris at joining president joe biden in pittsburgh for a labor day event that's focused on the working class. >> she's also visiting detroit earlier in the day. >> foreign president donald trump's campaign also has michigan in mind in hosting a video call with some united auto workers. although that union has already endorsed harris joining us now, larry sabato, the director for the center for politics the university of virginia, and editor of the book, the return to normalcy. the 2020 election, that almost broke america. larry, always good to have you on. thanks so much for being here with us. i want to talk first about this new abc ipsos poll that shows vice president harris with a slight lead, 50% to 46%. that's about where it wants so she didn't get a huge bump

disinformation dossier i ,which has beechn completely debunked, although it was thente usedly deb by, james comey and others, to get four or five such warrants to backdoor spy on donald trump. the candidate the president and she and all of her coconspirators had all of those who peddled their lies would never hold accountable. this is the very definition of election interference. hillary her campaign or even forced to pay a huge fine for lying about the dossieanr, calling it a legal expense. if she livede. in new york and they actually had equal justice under the law, she acn tried for that.ed hillary clinton, frankly, the queen hersel f of misinformation. and so, of course, she appears on the show as country on this country's, you know, number one, conspiracy show en massean dnc and spreads more propaganda and lies. now, of course, most democrats that don't really care about misinformationof cours or democracy or divisive rhetoric, they use it all the time. o now, these are merely tools t that they use to gain and hold on to poweoolsedr. it's a means to an end. and of course, when something bad

mean, if this had been four years ago, you'd have to hear five minutes about anthony fauci or jim comey when he goes off about russia. >> that's interesting. one of the 80 searing moments was the entrance on the debate stage. she strode over and shook his hand set her name. obviously they had they had never met. was that rehearsed? how is that decided? >> it's not a matter of rehearsal. i mean, it's a human thing to do before donald trump ran for president, you'd never even have a conversation about what barak, obama and mitt romney have. a handshake and hillary shook his hand. the first debate after he backs is hollywood in the second debate, she basically said, i'm not touching that guy. >> he had covid. >> she basically was the bigger person and she's like, you know, we're going to start this out. never met hi, i'm kamala and you know, what did maybe you can you know, damn well how to pronounce my name. maybe you should stop trying to keep the fox audience. this is, this is just admire, wanted to shake his hand. oh yeah. i mean, she clearly, you know, in her mind that was the right b

now you know, it's actually part of your dna watching wow, this is great for madly fast comey and loved him back so this has pickleball each trade for morgan stanley, we're ready for whatever good served up, you gotta will be trust on, on rather work on saving for retirement, college since you'd like to get schools, it's pretty good burned, right one seconds be practical jokers fall finale, thursday at ten on tbs set your dvr now are the big reason that we love sports. the yankees and the red sox, the lakers, celtics, and now we've got caitlin clark and angel reese, but what's different about this one? are the story lines and they seem to focus much more on racism and sexism. and the politics of their fan bases more than the basketball. now, does that mirror our broader society? does it mirror this very presidential race? will kari is here and she raised that very question in her podcast. so you say that this is a mirror of what we're living in society. >> i feel like sports politics, and culture always intersect. i think the story of caitlin clark and angel reese, the rivalry which rea

michael flynn in james comey and the fbi. host: if you can related to the top issue for 2024.hat is the point. caller: can you trust the democrats to do the right thing now? they have tried to kill the president of the united states. host: no, no, no. i will leave it right there. james on the democrat line. caller: this will rouse some feathers of the listening group. a long time ago i heard a statement -- i am 74 years old -- i heard a statement made that it does not make much difference to the president of the united states is and at the time i did not think much of that statement. as time has gone by i begin to think that. then along comes trump and that is all we have heard about since he won the first election is trump, trump, trump. you have to make the best choices you can. the choice today we have is you have to have rules, you have to have guidelines. trump has no guidelines. no matter how much you try to say the democrats are going to do this or that, they are going to do the right thing. trump has not done the right thing. it is not a matter of opinion. you cannot h

he's praising comey, because they were attacking hillary clinton.rk office throughout the 2016 campaign, backs written on the campaign say the new york office had a decided pro-trump and anti-hillary tilt. then, of course, the comey letter ten days before the election, many historians believe that letter in and of itself swung the election. so this agency, this fbi agency that trump supposedly hates so much right now, he actually loved it and praised it when it was going after his political opponent, right? >> that's true. and what i found is that the problem here is that there's so much hyper partisanship. i think we need nonpartisan public service in our law enforcement agencies, in the fbi and doj. we need non-partisan election clerks counting the votes, non-partisan judges. if we don't have that, it becomes a threat for our democracy. that's why, again, this fall will be such an amazing test for american democracy. >> in the time since you started reporting and writing this book, the supreme court came through with this immunity ruling, which ob

like firing james comey, was it because of the russia investigation. we also wanted to know and question him about the different context that members of his campaign had had with various russian or russian intermediaries, he made it clear through his lawyers that he was not going to testify willingly. we considered a subpoena. the difficulty is that, by the time of the investigation where a subpoena would have been the right thing to do, it was very late in the investigation. at that point, we had information from a lot of other sources about the president's intent and state of mind. and a subpoena would have dragged the investigation out for, possibly, a year or two. and we may never have heard from the president. and so, we made the decision not to subpoena him. >> so, aaron, given the pass passage of time, and it seems like a century ago that we were talking about this as a live news event. >> yeah. >> but given the passage of time and the events that occurred within that time, all the charges that could have been leveled against then president trum

firing jim comey terminating a federal investigation of mime mike flynn probably an official action. that much of what we did could have been investigated and real question about whether any of of that could be charged. >> andrew, sitting there all the work the group did, all the work is there out there, could still be looked at if not for the supreme court decision. how does that make you feel in terms of the effort and energy that not only you two but the entire team put into this investigation. >> look one reason we wrote the book is to show in i think very clear terms what the investigation was about, how we made the decisions we made during the period of time, and to look back at the facts that we looked at and-covered russia did. veer if a sweeping way russian military intelligence hacked into democratic party accounts and then spread stolen emails in order to hurt hillary clinton and help donald trump. we detail that in the book in a way to bring back what it was that we thought the investigation found. >> do you mite mind ifive add. central message of the book is it is critic

. >> president trump now facing outrage after firing comey. >> i did you a great favor when i fired thisssage. just counterpunch no matter what. i mean, and from the start, he just, you know, he always hits as hard as he possibly can, and harder than he's been hit, if he can. >> jewwill not replace us! >> mayhem in charlottesville... >> but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. >> i see charlottesville as very much of a piece with his lunge into the birtherism nonsense about obama. >> i think there's blame on both sides, and i have no doubt about it, and you don't have any doubt about it, either. >> it's a way of using race to cement his relationship with his base. >> what he's trying to do is make america hate again. >> it happens over and over again, where people say, "oh, my gosh, this is it. no president can survive this." uh, quite the opposite-- donald trump will prove at this moment and many others to come that nothing defeats him. >> dramatic end to a nearly five-month war with democrats. president trump has been acquitted in his impeachment trial. >> the

james comey was the subject of a leak investigation that trump wanted. the subject of a criminal investigation that trump wanted. michael cohen was put back in prison when he refused to not publish a damning book about trump. hillary clinton had to ultimately sit before john durham and ask questions from the special counsel about all the conspiracy theories that trump had pushed about the clinton campaign. when you look at the totality of this, and you look at what trump tried to do behind closed doors and the way that he also tried to push the justice department publicly, those things ended up happening. what we were trying to say in these thousands of words that we published was that, sure, people say if he comes back, he might do this, but we're saying, it already happened. this has already happened. that can be used as a template to see how he would act if he came back. because we know that the guardrails that were there or those people who tried to be guardrails in the first term would certainly not be there in a second. >> mike, the question is --