let's get right to the first set of possible charges against james comey -- comey involving his handling of the hilary clinton e-mail investigation. the charges we are talking about are obstruction of justice and perjury. let's get some insight now from you about those charges and then we will debate them. >> perjury is pretty well known the traditional elements are knowingly false statement under oath in a proceeding whether before congress, a grand jury, obstruction is more open ended. it's one of the prosecutor's best friends. traditionally the elements include falsification of documents concealing evidence or making a false statement. but it also has a broader category, the interfering with the proper administration of law. the key to obstruction is showing a corrupt intent. what would have been an improper purpose of james comey? well, consider that he's recently said that in october 2016, he was considering the political presidential inevitability of hilary clinton as a factor in a decision he made. >> about that investigation? >> about that, was he in fact influenced or is a facto

he called on james comey a leaker and a liar, which is ironic given other developments we'll talk about in a second. he also called comey weak and an untruthful slime ball. we'll have much more on that in just a moment. first, cnn's evan perez joins you right now on this very busy morning, evan. as we hear for the first time, again in his own words out loud, james comey with some of the answers and details in his book. >> this book is coming out next tuesday, but already pieces of it have leaked out in news accounts and "good morning america" playing some of that interview. it appears comey is going a lot further in that interview and perhaps than what he said in the book, which is called "a higher loyalty ." i think the idea of this book was to talk about leadership and loyalty, but clearly there is some score settling happening here between the former fbi director and the president of the united states. let me set the scene a little bit to january 2017, when comey and the intelligence community chiefs go to brief the incoming president about threats facing the nation and, of course, c

. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert, president trump is hitting back at byard fbi chief james comey. as we go "outnumbered overtime," i'm harris faulkner. the president firing back after james, he took aim him. he called the president "morally unfit to be president" and said he should be voted out of office. the president tweeted this... among the other revelations in the exclusive interview, comey leaves the door open to the possibility that the president committed a crime, watch. >> was president trump obstructing justice? >> possibly, there is certainly some evidence of obstruction of justice. i continue to believe there was forced to the fbi general councils argument that we were going to have to look at the president. you will inevitably have to look at his conduct because he was the head of the campaign. >> harris: he also said he did not inform the president the dossier was from his political opponents. >> i talked about additional material. that have been financed by his political opponents? i don't know the answer to that. >> harris: meanwhile, when asked if the president w

the james comey comments? will he address tensions around his own job and whether he should stay in the speakership. we're monitoring all of this for you. to florida now, kaitlan collins is there near the president's mar-a-lago resort. kaitlan? >> reporter: well, if things couldn't get more complicated in this news cycle, now james comey is weighing in on michael cohen, the president's attorney. of course, after fbi agents raided michael cohen's house, hotel and office, you'll recall that president trump said he thought it was disgraceful and an attack on our country and james comey, in his opinion, said that means the president doesn't understand how the united states justice system works. >> it shows me he doesn't know or doesn't care what the rule of law looks like. nobody broke into anybody's office. it doesn't happen. the fbi gets a search warrant from a federal judge and conducts itself professionally, completely, and politely by the counsel of the people involved. it is a total distortion of the way thi

there are people watching the program that are not intense james comey fans. i would ask -- i think this is what ben is asking. separate two things what you think of comey's judgment, you can have whatever opinion you like, and what you think about his truthfulness. a lot of people are truthful with bad judgment a lot of people have good judgment but aren't truthful. what we are seeing tonight is james comey is a truthful man. that's his reaction to the president, the president gave him the creeps, as he gives a lot of people the creeps. the line of donald trump that he quotes about vladimir putin is almost certainly an example of the president seeing it on tv and representing it as his own experience. if this is he said versus he said, we have one of the most truthful men in the america and one of the least truthful men in america. >> matt miller, how do you see the release of the memos affecting the investigation. >> i don't think there will be much impact on the investigation. if you look at the stuff in these memos, the vast majority of it, other than the t

james comey is in an interesting position. ou've been following the entire last year and a half and using evidence of obstruction or other things but for many reasons, comey's firing is the beginning of the obstruction inquiry and he can't really fully tell people whether or not everything he prides himself and donald trump was evidence of it. remember, we're talking about obstruction. i'm a former federal prosecutor. that was never the end game for me. if i had an obstruction case, that was part of the underlying investigation. it would be a kin to having an armed robbery and all of a sudden charging someone with speeding away from the crime. it wouldn't satisfy anyone in the public. it is evidence in part of that but it's not the end game for mueller if that is his entire probe. it would be ironic and odd if that was the end game. is it circumstantial evidence? in part. >> jason miller, i'll give you a chance to respond. on the obstruction issue and on the larger impression of james comey's impression of the president that yo

as it turns out, james comey's "higher loyalty" is to james comey. tonight we will break down some of the most egregious moments from last night's interview. we will show you the questions that clinton sycophant george stephanopoulos should have asked last night in his softball sitdown interview. this was by far the worst interview i have ever seen. also tonight, we'll analyze friday's u.s.-led military strikes in syria. it is time for assad to wake up. the weak, ineffective days of doing nothing of obama are long gone. we will have that and so much more in tonight's important breaking news opening monologue. ♪ we have to start tonight with this. today, for hours and hours, the media has been absolutely apoplectic and hyperventilating over some breaking news that i have been listed in court today as a client for long time trump attorney michael cohen. take a look what i mean. >> he stood up and he said the name "sean hannity." >> how did he say it? >> sean hannity. >> sean hannity. >> sean hannity. >> sean hannity. >> sean hannity. >> sean hannity. >

when you look back at the tenure of james comey as fbi director, how do you assess his performance in that role? >> i think director comey attempting to do what he thought was right at any given time. it doesn't mean at times his judgment may not have been totally on point. i think his purpose was to do what was right. i think he got fired by president trump not because of any errors or judgment. i think he got fired because he wouldn't be absolutely loyal in the context the president insist upon people including in the highest ranks of the law enforcement in our country. >> your committee is holding confirmation hearings for mike come p pompeo to replace rex tillerson. you had an exchange with him. let me play that and ask you about it. >> i spoke with special counsel mueller who interviewed me, requested an interview. i cooperated. >> you have spoken to special counsel mueller? >> that's correct. >> what was the subject of the conversation? >> i'm not going to speak to that. >> did the special counsel tell you not to speak about these things? >> i have cooperated with multiple inves

so i don't think james comey is lying in this book. he's saying important things that we need to pay attention to about president trump. so i want to acknowledge that it is important and i'm glad he's coming forward with the truth. but however, he writes a lot about leadership. and i think good leaders admit when they made a mistake and a lot of mistakes were made in this election because people thought hillary clinton would win. i made decisions because i thought she would win and other people made decisions and this is an example where he made a mistake. the justice system should not change the way it behaves or making choices about what it does based on the new york times election needle and that is what he did. i'm glad he's admitting this in the book but i hope he used the book tour to help us learn what happened and do better in the future and not just use the book toward -- to talk about the things we're just talking about. >> and everyone stick around. we have more to talk about. about this book and more. the breaking news from

it was my great honor to fire james comey. see a strategy developing there. in the book, comey describes his first meeting with the president before mr. trump took office, happened at trump tower here in tiny town u.s.a. the topic moscow's meddling in the 2016 presidential election. comey writes he was surprised that the incoming president and his team did not ask any investigation north. how do we stop the russians the ghex time. quote thee were about to lee the country attacked by foreign adds advisory sear. yet, they had no questions about what the future russian threat might be. james comey claims instead it turned into a investigated session about how to spin this news to the public. james comey talked about the meeting to abc news. >> he also said you were struck by what they didn't ask. >> very much. no one to my recollection asked so what's coming next from the russians? how might we stop it? what's the future look like? it was all what can we say about what they did and how it affects the election that we just had? >> shepard: not new information but

james comey is not. he's in credibly cunning and capable of the lacks sincerity and is out to get the president. the fact that james comey was creating contemporary as moment -- memos was a setup. they are trying to create evidence from the very beginning if you look at these text messages from the day that james comey was fired between struts and paige and others is so clear they had a plan all along in case the people wanted donald trump to disrupt him and discredit him and delegitimize the duly elected president of the united states. that's why this is an important fight. way bigger than donald trump or the current members of congress. it's ensuring the leader of this country is picked by the people and not by the bureaucrats and folks in washington d.c.. trish: this concern about the deep sea and how deep it is an encased we may be learning right now in the present that it's pretty deep. let me ask you what you are doing to fix some of this because i know you've been very active on that front. you ar

i don't think there's any question about that with james comey. so, you know, i think he reese acts against trump who is the opposite of those things on a visceral level. you can see in trump's tweets today -- there is things that comey did that were wrong, but trump fundamentally doesn't understand the idea that comey was too hard on hillary, his idea that the only reason that comey could have taken polling into account is he somehow want to do curry favor with hillary clinton, where really the opposite is the case. there were sweeping statements about the state of economy, how much resonance do you think they'll have in you talk about his innate sentence of -- he was going to serve a ten-year term. the fbi director has a ten-year term, so he can't be swayed. how much do you think that will resonate? >> you know, in? ways everyone is so dug in that it's hard to see how much people sway one way or the other, but again, his sense -- i want to say this, whether or not this is about personal rehabilitation, i would say that any person of decency or pa

and so that is a problem that james comey -- james comey has to live with. day, that is not -- that is absolutely not why donald trump fired comey. he fired him because of the russia thing. he said it himself. and he wanted to obstruct justice and protect himself and his family and his top aides. >> that is not true -- >> he said -- >> no, james comey never once said that. >> i'm talking about donald trump. >> donald trump said -- >> he said that to lester holt. >> and there is one thing about james comey and what he did but that is not why he fired james comey. >> and jackie, i want to get your response and kellyanne conway in october of 2016 when everybody sitting in the different chairs and the hillary clinton people were attacking james comey and kellyanne conway tweeted astonished by the all-out assault on comey by team clinton, suggesting he is a partisan interfering with the election is dangerous and unfair. >> there is say tweet for that. it is a genre of i feel like twitter and -- and it is hypocritical. of course. because they're all guns blazing at

i don't think this is what james comey had in mind. >> it's amazing, jim comey's book is full of fallacies. we will now have the opportunit opportunity. hopefully they will find him lying under oath in front of congress. he has to go back and change his statements on multiple occasions. he was very clear to congress that he gave information he obtained when he was director of the fbi to a law professor to make sure that information got out to the media. that's a penalty. i don't understand why you have a person who's been gone for almost a year that is not followed up with or prosecuted for that potential crime. >> harris: had a guest on the "outnumbered" couch today say maybe he should stop by the inspector general's office for his book tour. how things were run under james comey the fbi, was there something in the bloodstream that allowed bias and an anti-president trump core to be going on? did it change the way the fbi and potentially anything it touched, like the doj, to operate differently? >> the leadership of the fbi was a disaster. we see page and peter strzok, individuals who wan

together the southern district of new york which none were by bill clinton by the way and so actually james comey opened the investigation as a constitutional lawyer that would give pause. >> could you bribe the president? >> but she did. i know that. >> but i do not think it isn't. >> so when james calmly tells the story about scooter libby do you believe he is writing? >> everything i have seen suggest he absolutely perjured himself and he lied to go to the criminal process and here is the other reasonable doubt then you also have judith miller who was the other one as charged. >> but when she did. >> but that is very clear and got back his law license based on he had his law license taken away. >> but all that seems to me you know the facts of that case. >> shame on you for saying that. he is with the president. >> but that should be wonderful so now you're saying he wasn't convicted of anything? >> a going back to our higher loyalty. [laughter] james comey right everyone seems to question everybody's loyalty and motivation most often. >> is that true? >> i am not really in the political scene

now, in just moments, we're going to show you some of james comey's blatant lies and contradictions brought to light by these memos. we will also break down how comey may tonight be in serious legal jeopardy and we'll also explain how these revelations are just one more layer of proof that president trump never colluded with russia in any way, shape, manner or form or did he ever attempt to obstruct justice in any way. also tonight, after president trump's significant diplomatic progress aboard and huge economic successes right here at home. the democratic party is desperate to keep this false trump-russia narrative collusion alive by turning to their favorite weapon. let's start a frivolous lawsuit. what a sham. it's time for the democrats to face the music. these insane conspiracy theories are now falling apart right before their eyes. sit tight, we are covering all of this, plus there is yet another pathetic moment from hillary clinton all in tonight's breaking news opening monologue. most? >> being threatened with a subpoena finally deputy attorney general rod rosenstein released james

james comey was only his own friend. he looks in the mirror and he sees two james comeys. he likes both of them. >> and the democrats are obviously going to play this card about obstruction of justice now because it's politically expedient. you go back to the election and you have harry reid, the minority leader saying on record, that james comey violated the hatch act. so now democrats will embrace this theme of being pro comey -- >> and mark meadows asked trey gowdy to take a look at the texts. >> and what trey gowdy said, i think it should be handled why the i.g. you have to look at what james comey is doing with the mueller investigation. >> it's all irrelevant -- >> i think you're right. they are irrelevant. what the mueller investigation found is they're completely different. to put them together is a mistake. >> accountability is important. moving along. today the country is remembering the life of former first lady barbara bush. a live report from near the family home in houston and the former president, george w. bush and laura bush sharing their thoughts on the o

the united states about prostitutes in moscow. >> john, that interaction changed everything for james comey. they had a multiple additional interactions, many more than comey says he ever really wanted with the president of the united stat states, one-on-one interactions and obviously the relationship soured thereafter. look, we spent some time back in 2016 looking into these allegations. i was in europe trying to follow up on whether or not these things had occurred, but we could never figure out -- we could never get there. and so these allegations sort of stayed under wraps until that day that comey decided to brief the incoming president about the salacious parts of this dossier, along with other parts of it that alleged the russians had compromising information on him. look, there's also parts of this book as well as he talks about the hillary clinton e-mail investigations and acknowledges, according to people who have read the book and news accounts of the book, he acknowledges that perhaps there are things that he could have done differently. although he still sticks by that july new

four separate tweets on james comey. >> an all-out attack on james comey on twitter. he goes so far in one of these tweets as to suggest that the former fbi director should be behind bars. take a look at this one. the big questions in comey's badly reviewed books are not answered. like how come he dave up classified information? jail. why did he lie to congress? jail. why did the dnc refuse to give up the server? and he goes on and on and on. this, george, is like campaign. the president and the white house are treating james comey like the president treated his political opponents. lyin' ted cruz. crooked hillary. you now have sleazeball james comey. and he's also using the republican national committee. they have set up a rapid response operation to deal with comey's book and with his interview tonight. >> and pierre, hillary clinton supporters are not happy with james comey either. they're convinced his decision to reopen the e-mail investigation cost hillary clinton the white house. here is part of james comey's explanation for the decision. at some level, was the

it's not surprising to me that james comey also believes that that's possibly obstruction of justice well. >> could comey's new book which is just out create problems for this ongoing mueller investigation? >> it could, but i'm not going to do what the republican national committee chairwoman did and talk about a book that i have not read so i'll wait to read it and then happy to talk about it. >> do you buy james comey's ex-practice nice for his handling of the clinton e-mail investigation announcing he was re-opening that investigation only 10 or 11 days before the presidential election? >> in 2016, i was on the house oversight committee and james comey came to our committee and testified with a question -- with the opportunity to question him and i disagreed with his policy judgment but i could also tell from that questioning that he had integrity, i trust him and while i disagree with him i trust the things he says and does whether or not i would have done the same thing. >> comey also says president trump shouldn't be impeached because in his words it would let the american peop

i also think it's significant, rach rachel, that each of these witnesses that corroborate james comeyas been the subject of either firing or disciplinary action or attack by the president or his allies. so you look at baker, who was the prior general counsel for comey has been the subject of attack. vicky, the chief of staff has been the subject of attack. comey has been fired and the subject of attack. boente and mccabe was fired before his pension could vest at the urging of the president. so all of those witnesses who corroborate james comey or are in a position to do so, have been in the situation of efforts to undermine them. and i don't think that's a coincidence. >> let me ask you specifically when it comes to dana boente. it remains a mystery to me, and it may be absolutely innocent. it may have nothing to do with this overall russia scandal. but it remains a strange story to me that dana boente was removed from the justice department. nbc and msnbc's reporting is that boente, although he resigned was directed that he should resign. both as head of the national security divisi

only five days into fired fbi director james comey's book rollout, the inspector general is investigating whether comey released any classified information when he shared his memos with a friend who leaked the contents to the new york times. comey's former deputy andrew mccabe is threatening to sue president trump for wrongful termination and defamation of character and the dnc is suing russia, wikileaks, julian assange and the trump campaign, top advisers who attended the trump tower meeting and more. alleging that they all conspired to interfere in the 2016 campaign. meanwhile president trump and the white house have been attacking comey and his memos that paint the president as rather self obsessed and at times without concern for boundaries that separate the white house from the justice department. cnn's jeff zel traveling with president trump in west palm beach and he attacked comey saying he leaked classified information and we don't know that to be true but the inspector general is looking into it. >> reporter: that is right. the internal watchdog group of the justice department is

he then refers to james comey as a slimeball. there are a few questionable portions of that tweet, but i do want to play some sound from sarah sanders in which she was asked about comey's claim that he doesn't remember consciously making hillary clinton's poll numbers a factors in his decision. listen to this. >> look, it's been very clear that james comey is a self-admitted leaker. he lied to congress. he's been inconsistent -- >> what did he lie to congress about? >> look, he said that he opened the hillary clinton investigation on its merits. now we're finding out certainly that it had something to do with the political landscape. i find it outrageously unbelievable that james comey, the man who takes copious notes and remembers details of every conversation he had, cannot remember why he would have specifically opened an investigation into a presidential candidate, particularly of someone he thought might become the president. >> clearly the fbi reopened that investigation because there were previously undisclosed e-mails that

donald trump should give james comey flowers or candy or something. ade president president. mr. trump made mistakes and hillary but for the first time in modern or american history fbi director twice weighed in attacking one of the kabd dates. both we now know under investigation. hillary cleared. trump under going. trashing my friend and my candidate -- i have no love for comey. that's a difference. he is not a liar. i don't know that he lied but the problem is he told the truth selectively attacking hillary clinton and not revealing that trump under investigation, too. >> it is going to be an interesting week next week with comey's first interview sunday night with george stephanopoulos. we have one with him live on thursday on "the lead" one week from today and i cannot imagine what president trump is going to do. >> yeah. i mean, we can -- a parallel might be the "fury and fire" book and the white house caught flat footed around that book. didn't have a real coordinated response. of course, the white house eventually did have a response. they nick

today's attack directed at former fbi director james comey. and thank you for joining us. >> james comey is releasing a tell all book this week. >> reporter: in the span of two hours sunday morning president trump fired off five tweets about former fbi director james comey. one read "slippery james comey, a man who always ends up badly and out of whack (he is not smart!), will go down as the worst fbi director in history, by far!" president trump fired james comey last year citing his handling of the fbi's investigation in to hillary clinton's use of her personal e- mail while secretary of state. in a book james comey disclose why he reopened the investigation so close to election day. >> she will be elected president and if i hide this from the american people she will be illegitimate the moment this comes out. >> reporter: president trump saying he was making decisions based on the fact he -- "the democrats sent a very political and long response memo which they knew, because of sources and methods (and more), would have to be heavily redact

and here's what james comey writes. in addition to president trump requesting loyalty he said and i quote, he then went onto explain that he has serious reservations about mike flynn's judgment. that's the first time we've heard the president express those types of sentiments at least to james comey. but comey also describes a february 14th meeting in the oval office where trump allegedly kicked everyone out including attorney general jeff sessions. and on that comey writes this. president trump returned to the topic of mike flynn saying that, quote, flynn is a good guy and has been been through a lot. he misled the vice president, but he didn't do anything wrong in the call -- in the call with kislyak. he's a good guy, i hope you can let this go. i replied i agree, he's a good guy but said no more. now, don, comey also goes onto describe a conversation he had with former chief of staff reince priebus on february 8th. and in that situation comey says the two were alone and he asked me, meaning comey if this was a privat

let me ask you about james comey. another tweet by the president. >> there's so many. >> james comey illegal leaked classified documents to the press in order to generate a special counsel. his misspelling not ours. let's talk about these memory knows and how they came out. the strategy of republicans in the house to get them released, not made public necessary, but made available to congress. a lot of people saying that that backfired. >> it's a partisan issue about whether or not that backfired. if you ask republicans on the hill they're saying it looks there's no obstruction of justice. this shows he was just someone rightly and normally concern a inflammatory. nancy pi loescy says this shows the opposite. legally how this will impact mueller's investigation, i think it's too early to say. because robert mueller's team has been so tight lipped about how they're going to use james comey. but i offer that james comey leaked part of the memos himself because he wanted a special counsel. he's someone who is very well v

in this issue, i do not believe james comey did things purposely. i think he made colossal errors. >> all right. james and julian and tal, thank you for being with us. >>> busy morning. the president's legal team filed papers that side with mr. trump's personal lawyer michael cohen arguing that attorney/client privilege must be obtained. the legal brief filing creates the spectacle of the president argues against the justice department in favor of the business associate. cohen is set to appear in court this morning. sara murray has more on that. >> reporter: good morning, christine and dave, the long time personal attorney michael cohen who is under criminal investigation is lated to appear in -- is slated to appear in court in new york today. it would be awkward than previously anticipated. that is because the adult film star that cohen paid to silence the story is slated to appear. stormy daniels' attorney says this has nothing to do with provoking michael cohen. >> this is a serious matter for her. she wants to make sure that the american people k

and is a close friend of james comey's.k the president was taking a shot at comey? do you think he was send ag signal that he doesn't consider lying to the fbi a crime? he is trying to -- how do you interpret it? >> that is certainly the impression that is given. there is not much other explanation for out of the blue to decide to pardon scooter libby and went outside of the process of the justice department. it's not clear to me that scooter libby's lawyers were advocating for their client to be pardoned. even president bush for whom scooter libby worked decided to commute the sentence. president trump says that he barely knows the guy. given how many thousands of people are out there and my office used to process the requests, how many thousands of people may have been prosecuted in a way that was overaggressive where charges were piled on who want to get on with their lives in a way that maybe the president can help, none of those people have gotten a pardon. this person who the president doesn't know who allows him to m

the white house accusing james comey of being a disgruntled employee and saying he has absolutely no credibility whatsoever. but as part of this media tour, comey was on talking about a whole host of issues including criticisms from the left and the right to the comments he's made in his book but also this, when the president accused the fbi of breaking in to his personal attorney's office and home, here's how james comey responded to that charge. >> it shows me he either doesn't know or doesn't care what the rule of law looks like. nobody broke into anybody's office. it doesn't happen. the fbi gets a search warrant from a federal judge and conduct itself professionally, completely and politely by the account of the people involved. it's a total distortion of the way things work. >> reporter: so now james comey appears to be delving into some new issues and perhaps seeking to get even more reaction from this president. we are here in florida where the president is just a few miles away at his mar-a-lago resort. it's going to be a fairly busy week for him. he's going to be dpregreeting

and the house judiciary committee pressing for james comey's private memos. the same memos that comey is using to attack the president. today is the deadline. so will the doj turn them over or not? >> mr. comey is out grandizing himself. he's out for revenge. he's really talking about a higher view of himself than i think the american people have. but they need to have all the facts. >> tech: at safelite autoglass we know that when you're spending time with the grandkids every minute counts. and you don't have time for a cracked windshield. that's why we show you exactly when we'll be there. saving you time, so you can keep saving the world. >> kids: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace ♪ wgreat tasting, heart-healthys the california walnuts.ever? so simple, so good. get the recipes at walnuts.org. here's something you should know. there's a serious virus out there that 1 in 30 boomers has, yet most don't even know it. a virus that's been almost forgotten. it's hepatitis c. hep c can hide in the body for years without symptoms. left untreated it can lead to liv

shery: james comey -- david: james comey's book hit shelves on tuesday but we are hearing what is ineople getting advance copies and reading -- writing reviews. this triggered by a twitter response to the president who said, james comey is a proven l eaker and liar, everyone in washington said he should be fired before he was fired, leak acid -- classified information which he should be prosecuted for and is a week and untruthful slimeball. there was, as time is proven, a terrible director of the fbi and his handling of the crooked hillary clinton case and the events surrounding it will go down as one of the worst botched jobs of history, it was my great honor to fire james comey. one of the most longest presidential tweets. we welcome our white house editor coming to us from washington. we know that the president is trying attention. -- paying attention and he will help james comey sell books. the other reaction? >> they are trying to discredit james comey. the book is a list next week. we have a copy ourselves. there is not a lot new in the book. i said it is a letdown, news wise.

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james comey caught up in it. maelstrom coming ahead of the fired fbi leader's bombshell interview and tell-all book. >> i don't remember spelling it out, but it had to have been that she's going to be elected president, and if i hide this from the american people, she'll be illegitimate the moment she's elected. >> give me a break. the guy knew exactly what he was doing. he thought hillary clinton would win, and he thought this would give him some cover. >> stormy monday. why the porn star and the trump attorney accused of buying her silence will be heading to the very same courtroom tomorrow. >> she's going to attend at 2:00 on monday. i think monday afternoon could prove to be very interesting. >> but a stormy encounter may be the least of michael cohen's worries and the president's as well. >>> and then, the strike on syria. what does the president mean mission accomplished? the division in washington over just what the missile attack did accomplish. and good day to you. i'm richard lui in for alex witt here i

where as someone like james comey, a lot of it is baked in. if you saw the interview, either kind of solidified the thoughts you had about comey one way or the other. now, as mark points out, this book tour is a -- there is a lot of interviews to come. if the president doesn't react to this interview, he's got lots of time and lots of different avenues which to react to in the next couple of days and weeks. >> and so does james comey as you're pointing out, mark. this isn't just the president, of course, in his twitter followers and the fact he's president, loudest mouthpiece possible, but this is -- if you just look at this week, he has interviewed tomorrow, he has interviews today, tomorrow, wednesday, thursday speaking to cnn. no matter what, this isn't going away for either person and do you think it now becomes less about the book and now about who is going to levy the next, i don't know, personality attack? >> it is a good question because these are two strong personalities in president trump and in james comey. i think one thing that has

george steph nobody loushe was . >> that's james comey. has nothing to do with george. has everything to do with what comey is doing and how hi's doing it. his whole rollout is political. almost like a campaign for a politician. >> thanks you for being here >>> president trump putting putin on notice with the strikes in syria. so are we on a collision course towards another cold war with russia. >>> plus, reverend franklin grand, marra ey maria bartiromoa carter live, all coming up live. don't go anywhere. . >>> welcome back. well the white house putting putin on notice following the strikes against syria. >> our message to russia is yen u ooh oreyou're on the wrong sif history. >> russia has had four years to get this out of syria and failed to do that. >> we call on russia to take a hard look at the company it keeps. >> putin firing back saying, quote, the u.s. makes the already catastrophic humanitarian situation in syria even worse and brings suffering to civilian ps current escalation around syria is destructive for the entire international system. so are we on coll

it's a massive contradiction for james comey. 's not the only confounding answer this guy has given. here's comey claiming that he'ss never been asked ofun hillary clinton obstructed justice in her email case on a radio interview in d.c. this is unbelievable. take a look. >> why wouldn't smashing cell phones and the destruction of thousands of emails during an investigation clearly be p obstruction of justice? >> that is a great question. it's the first time i've been asked that. the answer is, it would dependnd upon what the intent of the people doing it was. lots of people smash their cell phones so they are not resold on a secondary market and your personal stuff ends up in somebody else's hands. if you smash your cell phone, knowing that the investigators want it and they have a subpoena for it for example, that is a different thing and can be obstruction of justice. >> the law requires intent? >> yes, not just intent, the prosecutors demonstrate corrupt intent. >> sean: seriously? he was never asked if clinton and her team ob

james comey. many of us know him personally. all of us respect him as a highly professional and ethical person who has devoted more than 20 years of his life to public service. the letter addressed the publicly stated reason that president trump fired james comey. while we do not all necessarily agree with the manner in which he dealt with the conclusion of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation, we sincerely believe that his abrupt and belated termination for this conduct occurring months later and on the heels of his public testimony about his oversight of the investigation of russian interference with the 2016 presidential election has the appearance, if not the reality of interfering with that investigation. we are republicans, democrats, and independents. the letter was signed by 180 former assistant united states attorneys and united states attorneys in the southern district of new york. the final sentence says "as former prosecutors, we believe the only solution in the present circumstanc

now, in just moments, we're going to show you some of james comey's blatant lies and contradictions brought to light by these memos. we will also break down how comey may tonight be in serious legal jeopardy and we'll also explain how these revelations are just one more layer of proof that president trump never colluded with russia in any way, shape, manner or form or did he ever attempt to obstruct justice in any way. also tonight, after president trump's significant diplomatic progress aboard and huge economic successes right here at home. the democratic party is desperate to keep this false trump-russia narrative collusion alive by turning to their favorite weapon. let's start a frivolous lawsuit. what a sham. it's time for the democrats to face the music. these insane conspiracy theories are now falling apart right before their eyes. sit tight, we are covering all of this, plus there is yet another pathetic moment from hillary clinton all in tonight's breaking news opening monologue. most? >> being threatened with a subpoena finally deputy attorney general rod rosenstein released james

james comey is a proven leaker and liar.irtually everyone in washington thought he should be fired with a terrible job he did until he was in fact fired. he leaked classified information, for which you should be prosecuted. he lied to congress under oath. he is a weak and untruthful slimeball who was, as time has proven, a terrible director of the fbi. his handling of the creek and hillary clinton case and the events surrounding it will go down as one of the worst botched jobs in history. it was my great honor to fire james comey says the president. what you make of that? >> neither one of them are doing themselves any favors about anything that has to do with an investigation with comey as a witness and the president as a potential subject. the fbi prides itself on being objective finders of facts. we don't have opinions, we find the facts and we present them in an objective manner. particularly, there are strong rules against fbi officials talking about information that the fbi collects. >> martha: what do you think about

but no one is above the law, even james comey. so tonight, is he guilty of federal crimes, we ask that. in a moment top lawyers for the prosecution and defense goes head-to-head in the next revolution special as we put james comey on trial. >> welcome to this special edition of the next revolution. i'm steve hilton. i'm joined live in new york by the best legal team in television standing by to cut through the spin and politics and focus on the three areas where there are grounds to believe that james comey may have broken the law. his handling of the clinton e-mail investigation, his role in leaks of confidential government information, and the actions he took in connection with that infamous russia

call to james comey acted in id outrageous way. >> it was an outrageous mistake. >> melissa: president trump's g.o.p. allies launching an ad campaign attacking the former fbi chiefs credibility, labeling him "lying comey." they labeled him as a self-serving narcissist. david avella is chairman of gopac and former g.o.p. strategist. suraj patel is a candidate for congress in new york, democratic strategist. >> i think this web site is absolutely beneath the president of the united states to tweet something about a private citizen. >> melissa: he's got the book. we are at this point where it's very embarrassing on all sides. we all concede that. what does it achieve and does the g.o.p. try to counter it? does that work? >> the president has tried to attack the messenger time and time again instead of addressing the message. the president fired james comey because of an investigation and he admitted that to lester holt days after he did the firing. it is disingenuous of them to say democrats wanted this or whatever. but i think it's crazy is when i say black lives matter, this very presid

donald trump and james comey seem intent not just trump and james comey seem intent notjust on defendinging the other‘s. so, do get in touch and tell us what you think about james comey had to say. also, later in this programme, we will be going live to washington, dc to get more reaction to that interview. do get in touch with us and we will share your views as well. the arab league hasjoined calls for an international investigation into the use of chemical weapons in syria. the united states is preparing new sanctions against russia, targeting companies supplying damascus with chemical weapons capability. president putin meanwhile warned that any further western missile strikes against syria would cause international chaos. lebo diseko has more. this is the man who says he is convinced donald trump —— says he convinced donald trump —— says he convinced donald trump to change his mind on syria. just weeks after mr trump said the us would soon be pulling out, france's resident and partner in those strikes on syria says he managed to get the us to commit to stay in long—term. now mr trump