now, the fact that comey leaked this memo comey university is not news. stified before the senate intelligence committee. comey at that hearing was asked whether or not he considered that classified information. he said it did not. he also was asked if this was the first time he had done this at that time he testified in fact it had. the question here is are memos that jim comey wrote down because he was concerned about how the meeting was going to be talked about later by the president considered classified information? and if the fbi was in fact conducting an investigation into russian interference into the 2016 election would those notes in and of itself be part of that investigation and would the details that comey went into be classified. and now, when we get neat situations like we've had over the past six months would the president tweets something and then everybody kind of shifts folk us to what it you also have to remember there are things going on outside of that spotlight. and that things going on right now is the investigation by the special c

comey. you have the usurpation of loretta lynch. you did have universalcriticism of james comey that gave the president an escape route. now you have the president of the united states on record with the "new york times" talking about his dismay with the attorney general over his handling of russia. that, my friend looks more like obstruction. remember, the end game here is to have somebody in place to be able to get rid of robert mueller, the one person who's charged with independence over the russian criminal probe. >> all right, guys. let me get you to weigh in on a tweet from the president. i think we might have it. put it on the screen. after consulting with my generals and military experts, please be advised that the united states government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the u.s. military. our military must be focused on desizive and overwhelming -- looks like there's going to be more to ucome. what is your response congressman? >> well i think that the lead of the statement is that he's listened to his

those memos were then given to the professor at columbia university and those memos contained classified markings, that is problematic for comey, he would be distributing information with classification protection and shouldn't be setting them outside the government. we have to see what he said he sent, a summery of some sort to columbia. >> i believe it is more than one. a good and important clarification. >> that's right. if the one memo he sent to columbia contains no classification information, then it's not a leak in the classified sense of the word. so, he's not really on the hook for that. we have to see how it flushes out. >> we are trying to do more reporting on this, jackie, the white house, kellyanne conway calls it a bombshell t president is tweeting. obviously, they may think it is important and distracts from the other story, donald trump jr. had a meeting with a russian lawyer. the other people in that meeting, jackie, fascinating, right? it's jared kushner who ran the data operation and who is still the son-in-law of the president of the united states and a senior adviser inside the white house. paul manafort,

comey who fired.nt trump that confirmation hearing gets under way 9:30 a.m. eastern. live on ourit companion network, c-span 3. >> up next on c-span, author and hear record university sociologist, william julius wilson. discuss race in america and what and residential segregation. the effects of donald trump's presidency on race relations. stanford university, this is about an hour. >> there's no way to introduce given hisnctly incredible accomplishments and undisputed status as one of the leadly public intellectuals. we can use more like bill. i will take you to the cloning well.e as i will catch here from biography and lengthy that communication director me.e for it was hardly a brief. if i used all the info he i would be speaking longer than the minutes assigned to bill himself. i cut down considerably. a 56-page cv. anythingpacked with trivial. i'll come back to his contributions. his title fromth honors. his titles and sociologist william julius wilson a university professor at harvard university. time of his appointment in 1995, national media covered harvard's dream african-american intellectuals. bill when he was at the university of chicago in a major force there as h

which goes into this bizarre history he's created, this alternative universe he's created where somehow rod rosenstein told him to fire comey and rod rosenstein also stacked him in the back by appointing mueller. the president's inability to put together basic chronology of what his own behavior lead to is part of what makes this interview so bizarre. we've seen rambling things from trump before, but i don't think he knows what he did yesterday let alone the consequences of what he'll do today. >> making him a defense attorney's nightmare and a prosecutor's dream. i want to share more of what he said when he was specifically talking about his conversation with vladimir putin. >> it was not a long conversation, but it was, you know, could be 15 minutes. just talked about things. i actually talked about russian adoption with him, which is interesting because that was a part of the conversation that don had in that meeting. >> okay. ewing my president trump decoder ring, adoptions means sanctions. does the president not understand that whether that meeting was 15 minutes or 50 minutes sanctions and adoptions are one and the sa

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. >>> columbia university law school professor daniel rickman says that president trump is wrong when he accuses former fbi director james comey of leaking classified information to the media. he is a friend -- he has a friend who shared with "the new york times" at least one of comey's memos with his meetings with donald trump. he tells cnn none of the memos given to him by the former fbi director were marked classified. in june, comey testified he wrote the memos to avoid using classified information. >> the dispute body over when president trump tweeted, "james comey leaked classified information to the media. that is so illegal." that tweet was based on a "fox and friends" story that incorrectly summarized a report by the hill claiming some of comey's memos contained top-secret information. "fox and friends" later issued a correction say, "comey's memos did not have top-secret info. "the report says, half were classified as secret or confident level, not top secret. >>> ten minutes past the hour. breaking news. 16 people killed when a marine corps plane crashed in mississippi. the fbi at the scene investigating. we are tol

comey. how can he testify and say, the arrogance of saying i gave this link to a friend of mine at colombia universityhe would give it to "the new york times," so i would give it to the special counsel. that is such a blatant public arrogant abuse of power, where's the investigation? why isn't comey in the process of being investigated? >> sean: all great questions, i've got to tell you. this is getting really ugly and the conflicts of interest and double standards are amazing. we'll take a break, will have more with newt gingrich right after this break. texas senator ted cruz will join us later in the studio, he'll explain how republicans can get to a "yes" on repealing, replacing obamacare and lowering premiums. later tonight. >> here's a news flash for the leftist mainstream media. just because you're obsessed with nitpicking personal habits doesn't mean the american people give a. >> sean: final word on this busy breaking news night tonight on "hannity" ." ♪ if you have moderate to severe ulcerative colitis or crohn's, and your symptoms have left you with the same view, it may be time for a differ

comey who was of course fired by this president, attacked repeatedly afterward. also robert mueller, the special counsel leading the investigation. almost universally hailed as man with impeccable credentials and integrity. trump said he can't be trusted because he interviewed the fbi director and didn't get job. then there's mccabe. he spent his entire career in the fbi and has no known political affiliation. and of course we come the jeff sessions. he was famously the very first senator to endorse trump and became a key member of his campaign. these are the people who the president is bullying and attacking and they have one thing in common and only one thing really, other than they might literally all be republicans, is that they're all tied to the russia investigation. have in turn all had their integrity questioned by the president. sessions of course, is no longer actively involved in the investigation, having recused himself in march from mueller's appointment which is precisely why the president is so furious at it. >> he should not have recused himself. if he was going on recuse himself he should have told me prior to taking office and i w

you'll remember that comey acknowledged that he did share one of his memos about his conversations with the president about the russia investigation. with that columbia university professor daniel richmond. richmond for his part, wolf, saying, look, he said nothing illegal happened here. that's first. and he said, second, nothing was passed on to him that was listed as classified. he said the president is, quote, simply wrong. he said no memo was passed on to him that was marked as classified. you'll remember when comey testified back in june, he said that he did all that he could to make sure that whenever he wrote that memo, that he would not include anything that was classified. going forward with that, just a short while ago then out comes this news report where there are allegations that comey did just that. that's what the president picked up on. >>> earlier this afternoon, the ranking democrat in the senate intel committee, he was asked about this. he was asked about comey. he was asked about the tweet. here's what he had to say. >> there are very few people that would know better how to draft a memo so it wouldn't fall into the classified area than jim

universe 2013 in moscow. he is the one who is having this email exchange with donald trump junior. josh, the question has been out there since james comey fired, since robert mueller was appointed special counsel, about whether or not the trim campaign and fact did collude with russi russia. do you believe that this raises any suspicion, whatsoever, i'm not this is evidence, the collusion to take place? so far, the fbi has been unable to provide any actual evidence. do you believe this does raise some suspicion of possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia? >> there's an awful lot of critics are going to jump to conclusions that this is a smoking gun. the reality is, as far as amending its own, absolutely nothing came out of this. if you're looking for collusion, there's nothing there. the problem at this poses for the trump administration and donald trump, jr., is that there was intense. he was willing to entertain the conversation and thus the piece of this puzzle that robert mueller has to get to the bottom of and figure out when they not anybody did actually collude. until they do that, we're just talking about complet

comey who president trump fired earlier this year. the confirmation hearing gets underway wednesday morning. you can see it live on c-span3. the arnold schwarzenegger institute for state and global policy at the university of southern california recently hosted a discussion on k-12 afterschool programs and how they can prepare students for the future work horse. we will year from the mayors of charlotte, north carolina and gary, indiana. this is about 45 minutes. i am going to lead everyone in a stretch. in my secret life, i am a spin instructor. this athletic panel meant a lot to me. before we get started, i wanted to say because i have had the honor of working with almost all of you in this room. after school is such a special place. it makes such a difference in the lives of the kids, and the families in the communities that we serve. it has a huge ripple effect. the reason we have been able to save and expand this program is because of all of you. and the tremendous leadership and voice of or -- arnold schwarzenegger down to some of the people that are not represented here, our staff. they create the dreams. i just wanted to thank you all. give yourself a round of applause. -- we have such an amazin

comey, the fellow who leaked to the "new york times," columbia university law professor daniel rich mondayo the press, no memos were classified at the time he received them. i have think he says they weren't given because i believe he read them to him over the telephone. >> right. steve: he also says this was not classified at the time and remains unclassified. >> how does this football professor know that by the way? steve: that was my question? >> how does this law professor know if it was classified or not? remember what james comey testified to on the hillary clinton matter? it's not always marked as classified even if it is classified? first of all, how did he end up with these memos? oh, james comey gave them to him. memos, again, i wanted to reiterate these. memo that's engaged in conversations with the president of the united states that he leaks to this law professor who leaks them to the "new york times" by reading them to him as if that means they are not liable because they were read. that's not the way it works. taking that property was violation of the law. that's the basis o

that james comey had to take to the president elect and say somebody's been circulating this and has some pretty salatiouc arguments against you. a lot of this may have to do with the universe pageant being held in russia and who he met or who he the family business was working with at the time and how ll of it now really seems to be coming into clear focus. and that's really why, people at home may be subsequent cull is this really a big deal. so what. the guy's son was taking meetings with people. any son who is working for his dad in this kind of capacity probably would but look this starts to really now fill in some details about this and starts to refute a lot of things that have been denied by trump or trump associates. and makes it much clearer now thaíñ calling his, complimenting his son and saying i admire his transparency. i typically would expect the president is not one who is shy obviously to lean into controversy when he's attacked, he fights back. of all people to be being drug over the coals his own son, family is very important to him. and i think that this is, i've been trying to talk to people who have been close to him to find out if they've had a conver

universe pageant in moscow. what went down at that pageant that is still dogging the trump campaign to this day? why is there -- it surfaces in dossiers. the president is calling comey interesting that this moscow pageant is still part of this story line. >> i think you're onto something. that's my gut. >> and i think it may go back before that as well. eugene, a lot to sort through here. one of the most fascinating parts is the call came within the white house. there's somebody inside the white house between saturday and sunday that i suppose called "the new york times" and said hey, you don't have your story right. actually, jared kushner, paul manafort and don junior were actually talking to this lawyer about collusion. >> it's an extraordinary change between saturday and sunday. and i think you're onto something there. why in the world unless he -- unless under extreme duress would donald trump junior issue a statement con fezzing to attempted collusion at the very least. i mean, it's just -- i've never seen anything like this. but then again, we've never seen anything like this completely unfit administration that demonstrates that fact every single day. this i