president trump has been critical of james comey for letting hillary clinton off the hook him in his view. there is controversy now over whether comey prematurely dropped at a station -- drafted a statement exonerating clinton. my sources tell me there were ny interviews over months, with respect to the hillary clinton email investigation last year and career prosecutors came to the conclusion, more or less, that there was no criminal intent on behalf of hillary clinton to break any law with respect to her email server. so comey, anticipating a public outcry and the need for a public statement, before the end of the statement had begun thinking about it way to craft a statement. president trump used that as some kind of problem when he some kind ofm -- problem. when you talk to former and current investigators, that is standard practice, more or less. they don't view this as the controversy president trump is making of it. pedro: letter from john come , on our independent line. >> i was wondering why comey, and not sessions, said that hillary clinton, there was nothing further to be d

in heavily redacted documents acknowledged that james comey began to draft his announcement that hillaryarges in the email scandal two months before the f.b.i. even interviewed her. comey denied that he made any decisions about clinton before she spoke with the f.b.i. >> director, did you make the decision not to recommend criminal charges related to classified information before or after hillary clinton was interviewed by the f.b.i. on july 2? >> after. if colleagues of ours believe i'm lying about when i made this decision, urge them to contact me privately so we can have a conversation about this. all i can say, the decision was made after that because i didn't know what was going to happen in that interview. maybe she lied in that interview in a way we could prove it. >> steve: joining us for reaction, a former spokesperson for hillary clinton's campaign. adrienne, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me, steve. >> steve: you saw this today. does it make you hate james comey more or less? >> well, i'm certainly the last person in the world that will defend the way that james c

aleve pm for a better am. >> steve: today, the fbi heavily redacted documents saying that former james comeyannouncement that hillary clinton would not face charges in her email scandal two months before the fbi even interviewed her. in september 2016, comey denied he made any decisions about hillary before she spoke with the fbi. >> director, did you make the decision not to recommend criminal charges relating to classified information before or after hillary clinton was interviewed by the fbi on july 2nd? >> after. if colleagues of ours believe i am lying about when i made the decision, please urge them to contact me privately so we can have a conversation about this. all i can do is tell you again, the decision was made after that i didn't know what was going to happen in the interview. she may be light in the interview, no way we could prove it. >> steve: joining us now for reaction in los angeles, a former spokesperson for hillary clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you for having me, steve. >> steve: i want to ask you very directly, does

director james comey.ired director comey based on your recommendation and that of deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. within days the president admitted to lester holt on nbc news that he actually fired comey because of quote, the russia thing, end quote. it has also been report -- reported the day before he fired comey president trump summoned his top advisors and said he had prepared a termination letter. it is important, i believe, to understand what role you had in this process, including conversations with the president and others in the white house. last week the democratic members of this committee sent a letter making it clear we would be asking about director comey's firing at this hearing and that we expected answers or the assertion of a valid claim of executive privilege by the president. in conclusion, attorney general, your department, as you know, is incredibly important and you are as well. our country depends on a department that is independent, committed to protecting the rights and f

okay... >> harris: a calls for fired fbi director james comey to return to congress and testify prayed about new documents showing comey began drafting a letter on his conclusion in the hillary clinton email program months before interviewing several key witnesses including hillary clinton. house oversight committee trey gowdy among those demanding answers. speak of the chronology does not add up. his answers have been all over the map. both the intelligence committee and the clip you displayed from oversight. so we need to talk to him again. >> harris: here is the exchange that he was referring to back in september of last year. >> did you make the decision not to recommend criminal charges related to classified information before or after the reclaim ten was interviewed by the fbi on july the second? >> after prayed >> on going to need your help on understanding how that's possible. to me, the only way the interview takes place with the two central witnesses and the subject of the investigation is if the decision has already been made that all three people in that room are not going

instead, we have talked about a man named james comey. so it is donald trump who is on trial here today in this proposition. secondly, if we want to have a long debate over problems in the american, economy about the problems of inequality, we could have a very long debate about that and i would welcome it. but i do not think it is the left side of american politics that is dividing us in the way donald trump did on the day of charlottesville, when he tried to create a moral equivalence between clansmen and not seize -- clansmen and nazis and those who oppose them, because many of those who were in the streets opposing them were peaceful protesters trying to oppose the rise of this far right. and look at the rise of the far right itself. i believe this movement has empowered new forms of political action on the right, the far right end of politics, that i know kim and newt have to oppose in their hearts and their consciousness -- consciences. we see these movements empowered in our country and given airing. it is not just that for liberal

you mentioned james comey. what was his passion to totally support the previous administration hillary, when he originally -- what made him move totally to sabotage? >> percival, let me question your fundamental assumption. it is hillary's assumption that she was sabotage. the truth is that james comey looked at the emails and said that they show that she was fast and loose with national security to the point of criminality. but we can show that you are motivated to anything other than loyalty to the country or yourself and that you did not have criminal intent so we will not prosecute. and that is where it stood in early july. then in the middle of august, prosecutors for the fbi would nothing to do with the email scandal were investigating congressman anthony weiner. for sexting and they went to his computer and they saw all of the porn. underneath that they saw hillary's emails. 13,000 of them. she never turned over. which she turned over to huma abedin put them on her husband's computer.so she could tell th

>> i hope james comey doesn't run for anything, he's had his business in the public eye.next chapter of his life. >> harris: he is still part of an important investigation at this point. that we will be watching, that will make news and we will cover it as it happens. >> thank you for having us. >> harris: thank you very much, we will be right back with more "outnumbered overtime" as we await the latest developments in president trump's luncheon with republican senators on capitol hill. they are talking tax reform, they have to get it done. stay s close. en their windshield got chipped. so they scheduled at safelite.com. they didn't have to change their plans or worry about a thing. i'll see you all in a little bit. and i fixed it right away with a strong repair they can trust. plus, with most insurance a safelite repair is no cost to you. >> customer: really?! >> tech: being there whenever you need us that's another safelite advantage. >> singers: safelite repair, safelite replace. (avo) but you also have a higher risk of heart attack or stroke. non-insulin victoza® lowe

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we know that the president fired james comey, why did he fire james comey. did he do it to try to stop the investigation? reince priebus was talking to the president all the time, the white house chief of staff is physically there, especially this chief of staff. so any conversations we had with the president about why james comey was fired and how that will be explained to the public was a false statement put on. all of that is going to be central to what mueller's going to be asking. >> the former chief of the staff president has been interviewed by the former chief of investigation, the president of the united states its still have some affect on that working in the west wing. >> one immediate affect they're all lawyered up from top to bottom. we have information about other people that we know mueller wants to interview in the warehouse in his first group of interviews. including sean spicer. the spiring spokesperson. the communication director hill picks. and don mcbegan who is the white house counsel. that's the first group of people close to the presi

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he did not answer many questions especially about the firing of the fbi director james comey citing confidentiality in his conversations with the president. but he did offer this answer. >> specifically, what was your designated role in the decision to fire director comey? >> it is -- it's a matter that i can share some information about because the president himself has talked about it and revealed that letter. he asked deputy rosenstein and i make our recommendations in writing. we prepared those recommendations and submitted it to the president. senator feinstein, i don't think it's been fully understood the significance on the error that mr. comey made on the clinton matter. >> critical answer there. more on that in just a moment. here's the quote. as it has turned out, james comey lied and leaked and totally protected hillary clinton. he was the best thing that ever happened to her. joining us tonight from washington, michael crowley national security editor at politico and ken vogel, "the new york times" political reporter. two of the very best minds on this story. michael, back to that secon

then we have to ask, james comey. what did he know and why didn't he act? there's also questions about the phony dossier. how is it possible these same people didn't think it was necessary to tell you, the american people, tell congress that the clinton camp and dnc paid for it? we are working hard day and night. you deserve answers to every one of these questions. one other important thing we have to tell you about the night before we bring in our guest, we now have proof that intelligence wasn't the only powerful government entity that was weaponized by the obama administration. you may remember -- i talk about five forces against the president. one is the deep state. they weaponize the power of the intelligence to use against this president. the department of justice announced they reached a settlement with multiple tea party groups that were targeted specifically by the obama irs because of their political ideology. the settlement includes payouts to several key party groups and an official apology from the irs which now means their actions during the o

we know that the president fired james comey. why did he fire james comey? dy do it to try to stop the investigation? reince priebus was talking to the president all the time. the white house chief of staff is there, physically there, especially this chief of staff. so any conversations he had with the president about why james comey was fired and how that would be explained to the public was a false statement put out, all of that is going to be central to what muscle is going to be asking him. >> and jim, i mean, a former chief of staff to the president has been interviewed by the special counsel investigating the president of the united states. it's got to have some kind of effect on those still working in the west wing seking the president. >> one very immediate effect is they're all lawyered up, from top to bottom, they know they need that kind of representation. and we have some information about other people that we know that mueller wants to interview in the white house in his first group of interviews. they include sean spicer. of course, the fierld

obviously reince priebus was around when they fired james comey. the crucial interactions that we've been focusing on for some time between the president, jeff sessions, james comey, the fbi director, all of that has inflamed the concerns that we were talking about a moment ago. why did he fire james comey? what was his motivation? what was he trying to stop? reince priebus may have some insight in that. >> right. and the fact that he certainly argued against firing james comey, and he was the subject of a lot of attacks from donald trump in the press. you have to wonder that whole flip concept you're talking about. that's being reported in politico, as you know, josh. i also want to talk about what you say, twitter, under scrutiny for deleting data that could help investigators in the russia probe. what's that all about? >> yeah, what i was saying before, we've focused so much on what the trump people did, what manafort did what, mike flynn did, but i think that the investigation really needs to look at what the russians did. even if there were co

he wouldn't talk about conversations he's had with trump about the firing of james comey. >> all the snippet that's i listened to on and off during the course of the hearing, he said continuously, i can't remember and i can't say. he went back to version 1.0 of why comey was fired and said it was about the clinton e-mails and nothing to do with comey. decide whether they push him harder to get answers. >> this is what jeff sessions had to say about the then fbi director james comey. >> if that's the main reason the president wanted to fire him, why did it take so long? >> the investigation? >> no. to fire him. the president knew when he was inaugurated that comey jumped into the middle of the clinton e-mail investigation. took the job of attorney general over. that's the main reason he was fired. why did he wait so long to fire comey? >> i'm not sure he ever grasped the full import of that. >> and that's where the most interesting, i think peculiar to people elements of all this. that the official reason, the reason with jeff sessions is getting at in this hearing, the official reason

i also want to ask you about the firing of former fbi director james comey. it was an important moment for the department of justice and for this country. the american people have a right to know why he was fired, especially in the middle of so many high-profile issues going on, including the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. thank you, general sessions, for being here, and for your continuous service to the country. senator feinstein? senator feinstein: i do, mr. chairman. good morning, mr. attorney general. this is the first time you have appeared before this committee, and i want to say welcome. as a former member, you know well the oversight authority that we hold. as i mentioned that your confirmation hearing, i have a deep belief in the independence of the attorney general. although we have had attorney general to view their job as serving the president and as an extension of the white house, i do not believe that is the job of the attorney general. for the attorney general, his master is the people and the law. importantly,

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i mean, clearly he was the one who made the decision to fire james comey. you notice, you were talking about all of the cast of characters that fox news is trying to throw into this years old story and one of them was james comey. he's sort of out of place. all these other people were prominent democrats. james comey is a career law enforcement guy but he's thrown in there because they also have to smear his name because he is the person who was fired by the president and that conduct is at the center of what probably is going to be the most serious charge against the president of the united states. >> and matt, they also through in eric holder. it's not clear really what his connection to their conspiracy theory might be and of course hillary clinton. so they do seem to be sort of naming an all-star list of people that -- base that watches fox news dislikes. >> that's right. i think eric holder like hillary clinton, republicans can't quit either of them. hillary clinton they've been going after for 25 years. there's this crazy thing on the right now where

it wasn't just russia or james comey, it was a combination of factors. i'm not saying for everyone here who thanks russia and james, he was definitive factor, i'm not saying it wasn't, but there were other factors including the fact she didn't have a message from the beginning of her campaign. we detail, during her lunch speech she had more than a dozen advisors working with her to write this thing. none of them really understood the center of gravity of this message, they didn't understand where was going. she brought in advisors from president obama my speechwriter, his chief speechwriter to actually write it. he actually threw his hands up and said i can't do this because the speech is going nowhere. there was infighting on the top level of the campaign. her two top advisers didn't really care for each other so much. there's one area where they're basically telling each other how they feel about each other and their using words like passive-aggressive hillary clinton stopped talking to some of her top advisers. these are all problems that were swept un

same time there will be a lot of questions about how the attorney general sessions discussed the james comey firing with the president of the united states, and whether or not sessions is going to invoke any executive privilege to reveal conversations with the president over the comey firing, and expect questions from republicans as well as to whether or not there will be a separate investigation into comey's handling of the clinton e-mail investigation, and the president suggests there should be a separate investigation, and let alone all the other big issues left to answer like the immigration policy, and expect fireworks today, guys. >> we will be watching that very, very closely. this is an important hearing on capitol hill. jeff sessions spoke to the committee last spring and they have a lot of questions for him. >> they kept saying he was invoking executive privilege, and it was not that, and will he do that again? >> will he be asked about the latest statements from the president? >> no question. >>> and then more reaction from the florida center. of course, he was a constituent of th

as it has turned out, james comey lied and leaked and totally protected hillary clinton. he was the best thing that ever

lou: you have to know that james comey, the fired former director, is effectively a dirty cop.the dossier. we are learning that the agency built cases for fisa warrants based on that dossier. but this is a town, washington, d.c., from which i just returned -- and i have to tell you, it's a terrible thing when you are delighted, thrilled and relieved to escape the nation's capital. ed: i spent 25 years of my life living in that town. i visit it rarely today and feel the same way you do. comey took this report, an went into the president and he said, i have this information. now, if you are the fbi director and you have this information and you go to the president. you better darn well know it's factual information. and it wasn't factual information. lou: that seems like the least of the affronts here. the reason i say that is that the "freebie con" paying for this. paul singer. it wants that he wasn't for trump. he was a never trumper. his ultimate candidate, i believe is marco rubio. rubio is denying any knowledge of this. and he may not have known. but shame on them all for be

at one point, he stuck to the original explanation for president trump's decision to fire james comeyn though the president himself publicly later contradicted that original account. david, how effective was sessions in defending the president's firing of comey? >> wolf, in that moment, not very. he did, as you say, stick to this idea that the firing of director comey had to do with secretary clinton and the e-mail investigation going all the way back to the middle of last year, but then senator graham asked him what was sort of an obvious follow-up question. if that was the case, what happened between inauguration day and may that changed when director comey was actually fired? why did it take so long, he asked. the question that wasn't asked is then why in the president's may 9th letter did he reference the investigation and not sectar clinton? those questions still remain unanswered by attorney general sessions. >> the attorney general also didn't say that president trump invoked executive privilege, but at the same time, he refused to detail their conversations. how frustrating wa

james comey, who admitted leaking federal documents written on federal hardware admitted to doing so to trigger the creation of the special counsel, who was bob mueller who is his buddy. and what was the mission of the special counsel? to investigate russian undermining of our presidential election in relation to the trump campaign. and what do we find out this morning? paul map for the is charged with not disclosing his foreign bank account. >> sean: 2006 to '14. >> right. 11 years ago. that's how far they have to dig. and not registering adequately as a representative of foreign

to count that work tortured and twisted by james comey. and removing classified materials.

james comey led hillary clinton off the hook despite the overwhelming amount of evidence of wrongdoing. with all this new information, the big question tonight is who knew what and when? with a uranium one the fbi had mountains of evidence of russian bribery. did president obama know about this? was it in president obama's daily presidential briefings? that might have been told to the lawyer of the fbi informant. what it hillary clinton know and when did she know? did she know her husband, bill clinton, was being paid double his speaking fees for a speech in moscow? did she know bill asked for permission while in moscow to meet with russian nuclear officials? did she know eventually bill met with putin during the trip and advocated? he advocated that the uranium one deal be done and also was paid by a bank that had a financial interest in uranium one. how could both of them, obama and clinton, everything -- ever -- it's a good idea to give

. >> what really stinks here is mueller, rosenstein, andrew wiesman and james comey appear to have covered it all up, the uranium one deal. >> we have to have mueller fired. >> yes, robert mueller, i hope you're watching. oh robert mueller, are you awake tonight? robert mueller is now investigating anything involved with russia, how is that possible? to be fair and impartial, it's impossible because of his past role in this. he should resign immediately tonight. >> fox news has been relentlessly hiping a claim that hillary clinton sold out our national security by supposedly personally approving a

james comey led hillary clinton off the hook despite the

now, there is new evidence former fbi director james comey began drafting a statement clear ing hillarylinton months before the investigation was actually over and before he actually questioned her. some investigators say there's nothing unusual about this but emily you say we need to look into us. >> emily: yes, there may be nothing unusual about it but we need to know the content of the draft that was being circulated around may. hillary clinton herself was not actually interviewed until early july, yet we know from what the fbi has released in transcripts and in a document itself that james comey began circulating a draft of a statement that would clear the case that would conclude the case as early as april. that is highly highly worth looking into. he needs to come to congress to testify and explain the content of that draft and why it was being drafted before hillary clinton and other key witnesses were even interviewed over the course of the investigation. >> dagen: john, don't americans deserve to know the truth behind this and want congress to get to the bottom of it? >> john:

is that the president spoke with jared kushner, ivanka trump and priebus about his concerns with james comey, came up with his rational for firing comey and had stephen miller dictate a letter, which we know was later rejected by white house counsel don mcgan and the rhetorics, et cetera, that were made. there was a whole drama surrounding that later that priebus was also involved in, so that is definitely a top subject. another key subject i think that he'll ask about is trump's anger at jeff sessions and, you know, fury over the fact that jeff sessions recuse himself, i think those topics will be rife with potential evidence that mueller's team could use. >> as a prosecutor, how would you ask someone like reince about the state of mind of the president as to whether he had criminal intent, desire to obstruct an investigation or as trump's criminal lawyers have really hammered was just a very angry person, who wanted to fire someone. because you do have the right to fire but you don't have the right to fire in order to commit a crime. >> so if i was -- if i was talking to mr. priebus instea

i also want to ask you about the fairing of former director james comey. it was an important moment for the department of justice and for this country. the american paem hameramericant to know why he was fired, especially in the middle of so many high-profile issues going on, including the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. so thank you, general sessions, for being here. and for your continued service to the country. senator feinstein? >> thanks very much, mr. chairman. good morning, mr. attorney general. this is the first time you've appeared before this committee and i want to say welcome, but as a former member, you know well the oversight authority that we hold. as i mentioned, at your confirmation hearing, i've got a deep belief of the independence of the attorney general. although we've had attorney generals who view their job as serving the president and as an extension of the white house, i do not believe that's the job of the attorney general. for the attorney general's master is the people and the law, importantly, his

you have all of this on the table and then you have james comey who was in the thick of it when an fbis company ten x has bribery and shenanigans with russia. so to me there is a lot that could be investigated by this special prosecutors office and i hope they are looking at some of this stuff. >> well, jack, you just cued me for this conversation because what you are saying in line and echoes from the white house and the president all this week, they've been actually saying don't look over here at russia, i want to you look at hillary clinton. take a listen to sara sanders in the press briefing room this week. >> the president wants to see this completed. we think that we are continuing to see day in and day out as this investigation moves to completion that as the same as it started, there is still no evidence of collusion between the president and anyone. if any collusion took place, it would be between the dnc and the clintons and think we are starting to now see that all of the things that the democrats had accused this president of doing, they were guilty of themselves and i thin

and enter the cave of the fbi and probably james comey. they all knew about this. >> exactly what we are looking at. these are people who actually knew about this. now it's up to congress to ask those questions and find out why did you decide to allow this deal to go through with uranium one? what was the fbi actually looking at? >> sean: and influencing all of our uranium in this country? we will have more on this tonight. did the doj, did they deliberately jeopardize america's national security knowing all of this was going on, in other words the kickbacks, bribery, extortion, money laundering? allowing the steel to go through without presenting the evidence. how did hillary sign off on it and get all the money to the foundation? did they risk national security? >> there are things we don't know yet. they still voted to approve the deal after being told. >> sean: they told him about bribery, extortion and they still allowed the deal to go through by the russians in our own country? >> we don't know the answer to that and i can confirm to

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>> look, i think james comey is a whole other issue. i think the president had excellent reasons to fire him. his big mistake is waiting as long as he did. mr. comey was sort of distrusted by both democrats and republicans, by democrats who thought he cost hillary the election, but republicans who thought he wasn't really doing an investigation. we've learned so much since that news happened, since the director was fired. for example, we've learned that the director was exchanging emails with his staff about a draft statement exonerating mrs. clinton before the f.b.i. had even interviewed her. we learned about the steel dossier. the f.b.i. had some kind of relationship with christopher steel who put together this now discredited dossier. what we want to know is whether any of that information was used to get a fisa warrant and was it used when the f.b.i. director had doubts about its veracity? i think that the developments that we've seen say the questions you have are becoming far more relevant. i think at some point when congress gets

flashback to the stated reason why the president fired james comey in the first place. it was because comey had been unfair to hillary clinton. in ten months, does that not -- what happened? >> that is how you sum it up. you start in one place and end up in the other. the reality of it is, the attorney general has been on the bubble with this president for some time. still on the bubble with the president. and i think, you know, part of this is going to the hill to do some clean up with the members to, you know, patch up the relationship certainly and to sort of rebuild his brand in the administration. but it also doesn't take away from the fact that there is still these conflicts that are out there that the administration doesn't want to have to deal with. and the only thing they are hoping for right now is that he doesn't make it worse in any kind of answer that is he gives. >> well, we're going to see that when he gets questioned in the next three moninutes. and nick ackerman, i want to bring you in here. he was a u.s. assistant attorney. nick, do you foresee this he