so james comey, why a novel and why now? why now? first, because i was nudged over time by a former editor of a nonfiction work to try it and i resisted and resisted. but the farther i got from government service, the easier it became to think about crime and terrorism and espionage and so i decided to give it a shot and found it addictive. and harder than nonfiction. but a lot more fun. where did the storylines come from? my amazing spouse, my wife has great story vision and she throws stuff at the wall, as she says over coffee in the morning and she pitched this particular story and it sounded great to me. and then we fleshed it out and i set out to write it. so how much of this can we take? is based on your experience at the southern district and as fbi director? a lot is based on the southern district. it's not primarily based on fbi. my time at fbi, although it's informed by my knowledge of how the fbi works in investigation is, but it's mostly inspired by my time as a mob prosecutor in new york, but also brought to the current

he worked with fbi director james comey is head of the public integrity section. with fbi general counsel wiseman who you are quite familiar with this head of the public integrity section for just telling a man who is independent from the department of justice? does telling a man who is independent from the democrat party? he was chosen on the recommendation of lisa monica of the deputy attorney general who had multiple positions, senior positions in the obama department of justice but also primarily under eric holder. her deputy marshal miller worked with submissive for years in the u.s. attorney's office in brooklyn and recommended smith as the story goes sue who in turn recommended smith to american garlands. out of all of the people he could've chosen in america they go to the hague to bring back smith. because he is a hitman. judge barrow was a judge who oversaw all of these motions that were filed by the trump lawyers and the government. she rolled one 100% against donald trump. one 100% for the government. she has since retired but the damage is done. she w

found in the white house last week for a couple weekends ago oversight committee representatives james comey the chairman of that committee has requested a briefing from the secret service about that saga. they are going to continue to go down this path of oversight of the white house request just remind the viewers out there. >> cspan2 is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies and more including comcast. >> are you thinking this is just a community center? no it is way more than that comcast is part of 1000 committee centers to create wi-fi enabled soaked students from low income families can get the tools they need to be ready for anything. comcast supports he spent as a public service along these other television providers. giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> c-span is a place to turn to see this years national governors association meeting with comprehensive coverage. all sorts live from atlantic city on thursday beginning at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span three governors will address issues around youth mental health, paternal and infant h

we do know what happened with james comey and his deputy mccabe were both audited. the odds of those two people being audited out of all the people audited by the irs is almost impossible. there was an investigation that was supposedly done by the inspector general for the irs presented to the house committee on the finances and tax and claimed they could not find any such evidence. the fact remains, unlike what we did in watergate where we put people into the grand jury and followed the trail from nixon to the irs and could show what happened, that wasn't done here. there was no department of justice investigation of donald trump on what was clearly criminal activity. the problem is donald trump committed so many crimes that the department of justice doesn't have the time and ability to go after every single one of these. certainly i think, if they dug into the comey and mccabe audits, they would find out this is what happened to larry o'brien 50 years ago. >> peter strak, miss page, james comey and mccabe, what they have in common -- strak and page were not audite

the former fbi director, james comey, and his deputy, andy mccabe, where the subject of highly unusual and invasive audits after they left government. after they have been pushed aside at the fbi. while there has never been any evidence to tie trump directly to that, this is yet another example of trump talking about trying to use law enforcement powers for his own needs. >> kind of weaponizing the iris. i'm curious though. two things, when was this testimony given by john kelly? was there any indication in this testimony, as you kind of connect the dots here in this reporting, mccabe and james comey and the extensive audit by the irs, that there was a possibility that the former president had launched lows? and, or, put pressure on the irs to put those investigations into place on those two individuals? >> we do not know of trump doing anything, in private, that led directly to into an investigation or an audit. we know that he talked openly, often, about how he wanted the justice department to prosecute his enemies. that was something he tweeted about and he talked about. he did not

i remember calling the fbi director james comey. i called james comey and said ok, we take -- america has always taken people that were persecuted or need something. how are the syrians any different? he said, we are not able to that to them. i said well, then i can't take them. you are one job is to keep americans safe. always. when you've got the issue of the border, we will always have those laws that allow for people to come the proper way, if they have been persecuted. but that is not what is happening at the border. when you have so many people coming -- and it only takes one terrorist for something bad to happen. the other side of that is illegal immigration. illegal immigration for too long america has done quotas. that is the wrong way to do it. instead, go to where your businesses are and find out what they need. south carolina is an agriculture and tourism state. they can never get enough workers for those. iowa i imagine has something similar. you work with those companies and make sure those of the people that you bring

did james comey say no reasonable prosecutor will prosecute? did she also destroy 33,000 devices and emails? she did that. joe biden had four separate locations top-secret, -- any of the homes are locations where these documents were. my question is, why is it donald trump is getting a pile on of charges, had a full raid, they did the same thing he did and if their big argument now is donald trump might have tried to erase surveillance video, how is that different from cleaning hard drives and destroying the devices? >> it is not. what you have is what we have been talking about since january. i don't represent trump in this classified documents case, but i will tell you this. what you see is what i have been saying, a two-tiered system of justice. donald trump, they continue to pile on because he is leading the polls, 52%, the republican nomination. he is beating joe biden in the polls. they think the more they pile on in the more they attack him, the less likely he is going to become our president. people are not stupid. as a whole, they are

. >> this isn't hard for doj, this is the kind of thing people like james comey could do in their sleep to hunter and say we have you dead to rights on tax crimes, being unregistered foreign agent, sex crimes, drug crimes, gun crimes every crime under the sun and we will give you an immunity deal, nonprosecution agreement under one condition, you tell us everything, give us the instructions for every foreign bank account and transaction involving your father and that would be it and the entire immunity deal that got blown up was all about protecting president biden. rachel: this is what you would do if you wanted to know the truth about whether our current president is compromised by dirty deals with some of our worst enemies, china, russia and all the corruption happening in ukraine which many people believe is driving this corruption between biden's family and people in ukraine including this company burisma, that cover-up is driving a lot of the money going into the ukraine war. this is a serious matter and not hard to do. just a forensic search, they don't want to do it. will: maybe

this is the kind of things that james comey could deal with in their sleep. you would go to hunter and you would say we have you dead to rights on tax crimes, being unregistered foreign agent, on sex crimes, drug crimes, gun crimes, every crime under the son. we'll give you an community deal under one condition. you tell us everything and give us the instructions for every foreign bank account and every transaction involving your father joe. that would be it. this entire community deal that got blown up was all about protecting joe biden. >> what you are missing is why do that when you can charge donald trump hossa's mar-a-lago maintenance worker? that's the person. the maintenance worker. >> what is $50 million in bribery and foreign corruption and trading on america's national security compared to a animate janitor in a library dispute with the national archives? good lord, jesse. it is absolutely insane. this is why the american people are absolutely fed up. they are completely at their wits and when it comes to doj corruption. they are trying to put presi

higher honor james comey signing three of the fisa warrants when none of the information you gave was a verifiable, verified at the top of the warrant? are you proud tonight? the doj is now going from worse. and now merrick garland, he seems to care less. doesn't seem to care at all. let not your heart be troubled. if any charges against hunter ever make their way through garland's partisan doj, the white house press secretary has assured us that joe will not offer hunter a single pardon. take a look. >> they said a lot change yesterday. the presidential perspective, is there any possibility that the president would end up pardoning his son? >> no. i just said no. i just answered that. go ahead. >> just like when she said president biden had no involvement in her son's business deals. and joe said not one time i talk to my son or my brother or anybody that matter about there for in business dealings, not one time. joe biden has no integrity at all whatsoever. starts so simple, if we do not right the ship fell makeshift with the doj and fbi, we don't remain a constitutional republic. c

i fired james comey very early. people said you shouldn't of done it. they are given a term. they are give any term. very early. not immediately early but very early. early and a few months. i got rid of this guy and by doing that was like you threw a rock at a hornets nest. the whole thing collapsed. you saw the love letters back and forth with different people talking about the insurance policy. the insurance policy, that was against me. for some reason looses, darling, you may have an insurance policy. they will get me out one way or the other. you know what this is 30, 35 years of being put into government and you get there and initially i didn't know people in washington. i was there 17 times my entire life. i had never stayed over. never stayed over before this and all of a sudden line president of the united states and we have tremendous people don't forget, biggest tax cuts in history. the guest regulation cuts, rebuilt our military, took out isis. took out saul amini, al-baghdadi, the two biggest terrorists. we did was incredible, strong supporter with ever had. no i

the first thing out of his mouth was james comey did a carter page on the election. inspector general criticized the fbi and he said there were hundreds, even nadler said that there were hundreds. okay? then he was asked about the mark houck case. right to lifer. asked if he was familiar, a little bit. talk about how the jury came back in less than an hour not guilty. when did they start criticizing the feds going in with guns, helicopters, his family? he said no. the people involved have 40 years of experience. they were career agents. they came to the door, they did not storm the door and all of a sudden in order to defend the fbi, he knows all of the specifics which he said in the beginning he knew little of. january 6, what do you know about the covert agents? i need to be careful talking about whether we have confidential human sources. he wouldn't answer that either as opposed to saying no. okay? that turned up the burner. finally, with respect to that recent court case where the court has stopped the fbi specifically as an agency contacting the social media co

. >> i think it is unfair to compare what james comey did toological hillary right before the electionat the fbi has tried to do with republicans. i mean comey doesn't feel he did that but he really did put his finger on the scale there in a way that did really affect the 2016 election. there's lots of reporting that says hillary clinton might have won had it not been for that. i wouldn't say these are the same. chris wray is a republican and the fbi has been run almost completely, probably completely by republicans since its inception. i think this is a weird far right talking point. i don't think that there's much support for disbanding the fbi. >> i want to get to this. the new york post had this, falsely stating that covid-19 was targeted to spare jewish and chinese people. he said, we can't sharthe video. i'll put the video up onscre. covid-19 is targeted to attack caucasian and blacpeople. the people immune are jews and chinese. we don't know whether it was deliberately targeted or n but there are paper that's show the racial or ethnic differential impact. kennedy says the report

james comey said no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute hillary clinton. remember the 33,000 subpoenaed deleted emails and destroyed devices? no consequences there either. at the same time the fbi was perpetuating what was the worst russia collusion conspiracy theories against donald trump without a shred of evidence, and using hillary clinton's dirty dossier to defraud a fisa court and knew it was a lie from the beginning and author the author christopher steele a million dollars and he couldn't collect but they used that information before that fisa court and application. four years later in 2020 under christopher wray now fbi director the fbi continued to float the russia hoax all while pre-bunking what the fbi knew was a very true hunter biden laptop scandal to every big tech company in the country. they did it weekly. they met with big tech companies in the lead up to that election. they knew the laptop was real. they first had it in december 2019 and purposely misled social media companies telling them they may be victims of a misinformation campaign

smith may be saying is james comey of 2024. because when he's really going to do a show to the american people that this process is entirely unfair to president trump, but more importantly it's unfair to the american people who want to deal with particular issues and not get involved in this kind of retaliatory campaign against mr. trump who is acting in an official capacity in 2020. in carrying out his objectives. you know they started with plan b back in 2,060. there were now up to planet x. the x plan is not to use the criminal justice process to intimidate president trump and intimidate his his supporters to go after them. and that needs to stop. >> let's be clear that they denied that the justice department investigations are politically motivated and he said he appointed smith who recalled a veteran career prosecutor as with as well as a special counsel to give it a degree of independence from the critical appointees into that you say what? >> i say ultimately merrick garland has to approve this indictment. garland needs

james comey also a republican, right? these are republicans.is interesting that, you know, it's a tenured term because they want it to be less politicized. most have been republicans and conservatives. >> all of them. >> they're the police. they want to defund the police. now they're the ones saying defund the federal police. i want to ask you about this because you were investigator there. what the right is basically angry about is that they have all these conspiracy theories that trump made up. trump will truth social something. the only one who uses truth social. i have never quoted something else as truth social post. he screams something and some conspiracy and what jim jordan and them are mad about your former colleagues won't go and then investigate it, no matter how looney it is. is that how you read it, they want their conspiracy theories validated by a real agency? >> they want anybody to look at anyone other than trump. this is entirely trying to get the investigations surrounding trump shut down. there is nothing about the organizat

said there's upwards of a half dozen times at the end of that 2016 presidential campaign, after james comeyned that investigation into hillary clinton's private email server. now, trump did say this numerous times, saying there would be a possible constitutional crisis if hillary clinton were to be elected president. take a listen to just a few of those clips that we found. >> we could very well have a sitting president under felony indictment and ultimately a criminal trial. it would grind government to a halt. >> if she were to win, it would create an unprecedented constitutional crisis that would cripple the operations of our government. she is likely to be under investigation for many years. and also, it will probably end up, in my opinion, in a criminal trial. i mean, you take a look. who knows? but it certainly looks that way. >> so, we did reach out to the trump campaign, to his representatives, to ask about those old quotes, how he squares that with today. but we didn't hear back from them. >> of course that very same allegation is what led to those famous "lock her up" chants that

cnn dug up old comments from him back in 2016 when he reacted to the news that then-fbi director james comeyan investigation into his opponent, hillary clinton. watch what he said then. >> we could very well have a sitting president under felony indictment and ultimately a criminal trial. it would grind government to a halt. >> that is no longer a hypothetical scenario, right. i mean, he could be the nominee, he could be re-elected. and he could also be facing several indictments, including multiple federal indictments. >> that's right. and chris christie yesterday, i asked a question of him not just as an opponent but former u.s. attorney, whether or not donald trump should be treated like anybody else if he is convicted, meaning go to jail. and his answer was, yes. and that's going to be if he is actually convicted. we're a long way from that. if he is convicted, that's good to be a very big debate. it goes back to the clip of what he said about hillary clinton which wasn't close to that point. >> the irony of it for folks like you supported hillary clinton -- >> i literally was like oh, m

kelly has said in an interview with us in november of last year the trump discussed wanting to have james comey the former fbi director and comey's deputy, andrew mccabe, investigated by the irs. that is significant because as we reported last year, there as conducted these highly unusual invasive audits on both comey and mccabe. inspector general said they found no wrongdoing in how they were selected for that. there's no evidence that kelly said he did not act on when trump brought it up to him that he wanted for comey and mccabe to be audited, but what you have here is a pattern of trump discussing private his desire to use the powers of the federal government to investigate his rival. rnmentand in the case of comey d mccabe, they were audited by the irs. they were very invasive audits. in the case of -- he was subject to the criminal investigation that was done by john durham into how the fbi handled the russia investigation and general. now you cannot tie trump to forcing these investigations to creating them, but it sort of raises the question about if trump was saying it kelly was an act

he sent the letter to the chair, james comey saying this, that has not only failed of any wrong doingesident biden but in fact uncovered substantial evidence to the contrary. he says republicans are now doing what they accused democrats of doing. he said there is no there. the accusations that democrats are going down rabbit trails and that's what republicans are actually doing now. >> well, i believe and i do believe in transparency and all the evidence of the oversight committee should be released to the american people. they don't trust congress because often it is a bunch of political gains. trust the evidence that comes out. the evidence that we have seen is overwhelmingly piling up. some of it we can't share because it is confidential. for example, the 170 plus suspicious activity reports pointing to money laundering and bribery and racketeering and corruption and whatever. we have to go find the bank records and witnesses and other whistleblowers to prove it in other way. it is really important in my estimation no matter what side of the isle you are on, release everything. at

let's talk about this with a decorated former fbi agent who served under fbi directors james comey and robert mueller, and that's cnn's jaosh campbell. the fbi mentioned increased threats in the wake of the mar-a-lago fbi search, but the fbi is not only concerned about the fbi agents in that search. >> wray is concerned about all 30,000 fbi employees and that's why he mentioned wray standing up this unit to guard against threats to employees. words actually matter particularly to former president donald trump, you know, who has accused the fbi of all kinds of wrongdoing pertaining to that search at mar-a-lago. we know that after those comments and after trump accused him of malfeasance, a trump supporter actually went and attacked an fbi field office in cincinnati, and so we see just how real the issue is for fbi employees, having them on guard because of these words. throughout this hearing we saw wray trying to back down a number of conspiracy theories. there was an exchange happening just a few moments ago where this was a republican member essentially insisting the fbi was some kin

former fbi director james comey, and former deputy director andrew mccabe.n testimony from his former chief of staff, john kelly. or how trump without security assistant from ukraine while seeking to have the country open a probe into hunter biden. or you can fast forward to today, as we find a different kind of weaponization with one man roadblock, alabama senator tommy tuberville, holding up hundreds of military promotions as a self interested form of protest. my panel is back with me. tara, do you think that republicans recognize that cognitive dissonance thing, calling themselves the party of law and order? and then in the next breath, bellowing demands to defund the fbi, to defund the doj, a purge the government of anybody who is not but -- >> as i often say, cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug in politics. we are watching this unfold display. these people are shameless. they really are. there is no bottom for them. this used to be a part of what attracted me to being a republican early on, the strong stance supporting law enforcement, supporting n

. >> former fbi director james comey one said lordy, i hope there are tapes when referring to incriminatingnts by former president donald trump. and this week, we heard one that could be damning as part of his special counsel federal indictment. that recording is from july of 2021 with trump allegedly discussing a sensitive military documents he describes as a quote, plan of attack given to him by general mark milley to attack iran. >> this was done by the military, and given to me. i think we can probably, right? >> always opened his big mouth. trump claiming an interview who was just quote bravado, adding i was talking and holding up papers and talking about, them but i had no documents. i didn't have any documents. this is the new york times report special counsel's investigation is continuing despite trump's indictment with more subpoenas being issued. joining me now, joyce vance, msnbc legal analyst and former u.s. attorney. professor at the university of alabama school of law and the co-host of hashtag sisters in law podcast. joyce, your thoughts on the legal success of trump's most r

james comey decided not to prosecute hillary clinton despite overwhelming evidence she committed crimesll, it was the position of the fbi to not prosecute because they didn't want to interfere with what do you call this? the iowa caucuses are in six months. six months. i think the american public would expect to see this from cuba, from venezuela, from russia and china. but not here. the people expect us to have blind justice. they expect equal justice under the law. it's not the job of the doj or the fbi to prosecute joe biden's top political opponent who was leading in every single primary poll and the iowa caucuses are in six months. let the people decide. it's our job to uphold the constitution. as a westpoint grad, this is the constitution i've given my life to protect and i expect us all to uphold it. >> may i briefly respond? >> sure. >> number

so along with this reporting, it reminds us of some pretty substantial audits done to james comey, formerector of the fbi, along with andrew mccain, comey's deputy. what do you make of this new reporting and is there anything to possibly weaponize the irs with? >> right, so as we so often are forced to comment, we hear conservatives complaining about behavior by democrats, when they are really just protecting about their own behavior. because if there's anything that involves weaponization of the federal government it would certainly be sending the irs to investigate people you perceive as being your political allies. you know, that said, the sworn testimony says trump talked about doing this, but that there is no evidence that he actually followed up. the fact, though, that both director, comey and director mckay were subjected to what sometimes was called autopsy without benefit of death. this very detailed look into your finances, and that both of their wives were subjected to it too, because they had filed jointly. that is something that will require follow-up based on this reporting,

famous quote from fbi director james comey. lot of people never bought that, so they are going to question why is trump being treated differently. >> donald trump is being treated different because he had classified documents that were about nuclear secrets, preparedness of america's allies, and to your original question, if we have learned anything from the four years of donald trump's presidency and his campaign leading up to it and the campaign to get reelected, he's the master of projection. anything that he accuses someone else of doing, if it's hillary clinton, barack obama, you name them, he has either done it himself for real or would really like to do it. what we are discovering now is that he has done all of the things he has accused hillary clinton of doing -- actually done. the emails they found on secretary clinton's server, and a lot of them had to do with cooking recipes and appointments. none had to do with nuclear secrets and secrets about our allies. you just can't -- there's no parallel. there is no synergy.

investigation into her handling of classified information had been reopened by then fbi director james comeylf in the exact same predicament he wants anticipated for clinton, charged with 37 criminal counts for his retention of classified documents and -- donald trump is known for protecting his own political weaknesses on his opponents. but i don't think even he could have anticipated just how true his words would bring rain for himself. that is all the time we have for today. i am alicia menendez. i will see you back here tomorrow at 6:00 pm -- for more american voices. -- can voices -- we carry that spirit with us. because you can take alfa romeo out of italy. but you best believe, you can't take the italy out of an alfa romeo. i brought in ensure max protein with 30g of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks. uh... here i'll take that. -everyone: woo hoo! ensure max protein with 30 grams of protein, one gram of sugar. enter the nourishing moments giveaway for a chance to win $10,000. i need it cool at night. you trying to ice me out of the bed? giveaway for a chan

it's weird that james comey and andrew mccabe were subject to irs audits when then president trump wasthem, and of course trump was successful in getting doj to name a special counsel to investigate the fbi's role in the 2016 campaign, but as we all know, the durham investigation came up with nothing. so this reporting also says that trump tried to get the security clearances of these fbi officials revoked. this is consistent with trump trying to weaponize the federal government and especially the justice department for his own political and personal reasons, but i can't -- i doubt that this will go anywhere illegally because trump is already facing so many other criminal investigations. >> ken dilanian and paul butler, thank you so very much. >>> meantime, senate majority leader chuck schumer is asking the fda to investigate an energy drink popular among children and teenagers. the drink is called prime. it is backed by popular youtube stars logan paul and ksi. schumer wants the fda to look into the drink because of its dangerously high caffeine levels. the amount of caffeine in one 1

concern on the alleged interference in 2020. , they are concerned about the fbi interference in the james comeyetter in 2016. the fact is that voters went to the ballot box. regardless of what disinformation they were consuming. and they cast their ballots. those ballots were counted. any claim that interference makes an election invalid in 26 teen or 2020, it is really a delegitimization of a process from hundreds of thousands of americans across the country to make sure the ballots are counted. mary on the independent line. >> i have been in the u.s. for years, i have been watching carefully what is going on. i think what has not been addressed is the ballot harvesting. what really concerns me about that, is that gradually, over many years, loss have been changed in california to make it easier for people to vote. for instance, we have so many homeless people, they don't even have to have an address because it is supposed to make it favor for these people to vote. gradually, one by one, laws have been relaxed. we cannot ask people if they are citizens. that is against the law. but getting bac

we call the one-on-one dinner with the former fbi director james comey dinner with trump back in 2017ch comey said he was asked to pledge -- the justice department superseding indictment released last week also eludes to the idea of how important loyalty is to trump. here's apart from it. just over two weeks after the fbi discovered classified documents in the storage room and trump's office on august 26th, 2022, now are called trump employees, called trump employee five, and said words to the effect of, someone wants to make sure if carlos is good, unquote. in response, trump employee five told nauta that de oliveira was -- loyal and that de oliveira would not do anything to affect his relationship with trump. that same day, trump employed nauta and the pack representative that de oliveira was loyal. that same day, trump called de oliveira and told de oliveira that trump would get de oliveira an attorney, in court. now at that nauta and de oliveira are tangled in trump's web of lies and deceiving, finding themselves in difficult and perilous legal positions. according to filing from

we're called a one-on-one dinner former fbi director james comey had with trump back in 2017. during which comey says he was asked to pledge his loyalty to the president. call me gym your, and a few months later he was removed from his post. the superseding indictment last week also eludes to the idea of how important loyalty is to trump. quote, just over two weeks after the fbi discovered classified documents, in the story from a trump's office, on august 26, 2020, to nada called trump employee five and said words to the fact, a quote, someone just wants to make sure that carlos is good. carlos de oliveira. at which point trump told not indict trump was loyal and the de oliveira which is not to do anything to affect his relationship to trump. that same, day after nadia's request, trump -- confirmed in a tracker up with nada and the pack representative that de oliveira was loyal. that same day trump called the and told deliver that trump would get cielo vera an attorney. and quote. now that not angela where are tangled in trump's web of lies they found themselves in a difficul

he said this upwards of six times at the end of that campaign after james comey reopened that investigationhillary clinton's use of a private email server. listen to this clip here of donald trump talking about how he thought this scandal would engulf her presidency. >> her current scandals and controversies will continue throughout her presidency, and we will make it -- honestly, look, it's going to be virtually impossible for her to govern. >> and i think the thing we should probably note about this too is those commentcomments, t "lock her up" chant, that was all about the hillary clinton email scandal. >> and it's important, there are a lot of differences, as we know, about classified information dealing with hillary clinton and that private email server and the classified documents that were found at the former president's mar-a-lago home. you found some comments that i think are also interesting about when trump was saying specifically what he believed his powers were as president when it comes to classified information. >> yeah, that's right. and what's interesting is we have heard t

starting with james comey getting fired by donald trump. now you have new gop candidates running for office right now, running for the presidency saying they are ready to fire chris wray. how unusual is this in a historical context? >> politicizing the fbi is also part of the strategy. it actually favors the gop for americans to think and buy into the myth that the fbi is operating on a political motivation or mission when it couldn't be farther from the truth. all the people that have been investigated, arrested and convicted around trump have had that happen to them under an fbi director that was appointed by trump. under attorneys general that were appointed by trump. defies logic. people seem to be buying into this myth. it undermines the mission of the men and women who come to work every day simply trying to make our communities safer. >> ali, this isn't just noise. we are in the middle of appropriations season. talk about how this anti-fbi and anti-doj attitude expressed in the hearing by house republicans could affect the bureau's b

investigation into her handling of classified information had been reopened by an fbi director james comeysame predicament he once anticipated for clinton. charged with 37 federal criminal accounts for his retention of classified documents after leaving office. donald trump is known for protecting his own political weaknesses onto his opponents, but i don't think even he could've anticipated just how true his words would ring. for himself. that's all the time i have for today, i'm alicia menendez, i'm gonna see you back here tomorrow at six pm eastern for more american voices. stick around, there's more msnbc after a quick break. r a quick break. choosing a treatment for your chronic migraine - 15 or more headache days a month, each lasting 4 hours or more - can be overwhelming. so, ask your doctor about botox®. botox® prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine before they even start. it's the #1 prescribed branded chronic migraine treatment. so far, more than 5 million botox® treatments have been given to over eight hundred and fifty thousand chronic migraine patients. effects of

trump also went to james comey and pushed him to pledge absolute loyalty to trump and to find a way to let flynn go. ultimately he use the power of the presidency to pardon all these convicted criminals. unlike his blatant abuse of the rule of law and the relationship between the president and doj, there is no evidence that president biden has involved himself in the investigation into his own son, an investigation that's been overseen by trump's appointed attorney. and i appreciate the testimony of our witnesses. there is no evidence that he has received any kind of official favoritism in this prosecution for being joe biden son. on the contrary, they are more than 10 million americans who have filed taxes but failed to pay them, the exact crime he is pleading guilty to. the vast majority of these cases are -- they obtain convictions and sentences and fewer than 700 cases for tax crimes of any kind, a minuscule percentage. the fact that hunter biden faced a four-year criminal probe involving dozens of agents and prosecutors from the irs, the fbi, doj demonstrates to my mind at the ver

that's james comey who spoke about the election before hillary clinton. don't to it. is taking a lot of heat, he's measured, cool under pressure. i think he gets an a. >> some phil. some republicans have moved to impeach director wray and attorney general merrick garland. there is no evidence of wrongdoing in how the cases involving trump or hunter biden that republicans like to point to have been handled. how concerned are you about public trust in these agencies, these institutions? >> i am concerned. next time you go to a high profile investigation with a political climate, people will say who do we trust, the politicians or the investigators? i feel with the investigators, the politicians are saying trust us, i don't buy it, ana. >> philip mudd and ryan nobles, i appreciate the conversation, the reporting. thank you both for being here. >>> up next on "ana cabrera reports," millions under heat alerts right now and you'll never guess how hot florida's waters are. stay with us. w hot florida's waters are stay with us that's why subway's proffered by this champ. and

and now we turn our focus to a first time novelist, former fbi director james comey had previously written two nonfiction

this is the kind of thing that people like james comey could do in their sleep. mes comeyou would go to hunter e would say, we have you deaddead to rights on tax crimes, being an unregistered foreign agent ong crimes, on drug crimes, on gun crimes, on every crime under the sun. and we will give you an immunity deal, a nonprofit an comm fusion agreement under one condition. you tell us everything and youuu give us the instructions for every foreign bank account and every transactioynkn involvr your father, joe. and that would be it. and so thithat ws entire immunip deal that got blown up and we'll see if it stays blown up was all about protecting. all about protecting joe. about it. yeahiden, but, stephen, what yo missing is why do that? when then you can chargewh. >> donald trump's mar-a-lago maintenance worker. that's the person who's trying to what? maintenance worker? yes. what is $50 million in briberyt0 and foreign corruptionuption and trading on america's national security compared to a janitor in a library dispute with the national archives?l >> i mean, go

james comey said no, reasonable prosecutor, whatever. prosecute hillary clinton. remember the 33,000 subpoenaed deleted emails and destroyed devices. no consequences there either. no cand at the very same time, the fbi was perpetuating what was the worst russiae wors collusion, conspiracy theories all agains t trump, all without a shred of evidence. and using that falsea shre information. hillary's bought and paid for a dirty russian dossier all toy defraud a buys a court. and theyto d knew it was a lie m the beginning. and they even offered the author, christopher steele, $1,000,000 and he couldn't collect. buopher ston t they still use tt information before that fisa court and thattion applicationw four years later in 2020. fast forward under christopher i wray, now the fbi director. di to floatx ale the russia hoax all while pre bonking what the fbi knew was a very true hunter. biden laptop scandal.mpany to every big tech company inin the country, they did itch compa weekly. they met with big tech companies in the lead up to that election. nieshe lead up tthey

did james comey say no? reasonable prosecutor would prosecute? yes, he did. did she alsoy destroy 33,000prc emails and devicesut with hammes using bleach pit on the servers and the hard drive s? yeah, she did that. joe biden had four separate locations and top secret classified information. no ready to chappaqua, no rated any at any of the biden homess r or locations where these where these documents were. so my question is, why is it that donald is now getting a pile on of charges that had ha a full raid? they did the exact same thing that f he did. he >> and if their big argumentw is now is that donald trump might have tried to erase, surveilled house video, how is that any different from cleaning hard drives with bleach bit and destroying the devices? ying theit's not true. and what you have is what you and i have been talking about since january, february, whenever i started making these appearances. been talkitr, i don't represen president in the in this the classified documents case, but i will tell you this. what you see here is what i've been saying a

and now we turn our focus to a first time novelist, former fbi director james comey had previously written two nonfiction books about his career and the state of the us justice system. but he's turned his writing focus now to legal thrillers. book tv's

i often hear about the fbi interference with the james comey letter and 2016.s went to the ballot box regardless of the disinformation they were consuming and cast the balance and they were counted accurately. any claims the interference makes an election invalid in 2016 or 2020, it's the delegitimization of a process that is run by americans who make sure those ballots are counted accurately. host: calling from california, mary on the independent line. caller: hi. i have been in the united states for nearly 60 years. i have been watching very carefully what's going on. what hasn't been addressed is ballot harvesting. what really concerns me about that is that over many years, loss of been changed in california to make it easier for people to vote. we had so many homeless people here they don't even have to have an address because is supposed to make it more fair for them to vote. one by one laws of been relaxed. we can't ask people if they are citizens. getting back to ballot harvesting. some of the states had razor thin margins and we had to wait for weeks to

i often hear about the fbi interference with the james comey letter and 2016.s went to the ballot box regardless of the disinformation they were consuming and cast the balance and they were counted accurately. any claims the interference makes an election invalid in 2016 or 2020, it's the delegitimization of a process that is run by americans who make sure those ballots are counted accurately. host: calling from california, mary on the independent line. caller: hi. i have been in the united states for nearly 60 years. i have been watching very carefully what's going on. what hasn't been addressed is ballot harvesting. what really concerns me about that is that over many years, loss of been changed in california to make it easier for people to vote. we had so many homeless people here they don't even have to have an address because is supposed to make it more fair for them to vote. one by one laws of been relaxed. we can't ask people if they are citizens. getting back to ballot harvesting. some of the states had razor thin margins and we had to wait for weeks to

. >> as a result of the actions of the disgraced james comey and the fbi they have interfered with the elections and both 2016 and in 2020. will that interference happen again in 2024, by the fbi? >> the fbi will not be interfering in elections. >> they did in 2016. >> i don't know that that is what mr. durham found. i will tell you again that it was conduct today consider unacceptable -- >> you can be and now if you want. to >> i'm not in denial, sir. >> that is exactly what happened. last year the fbi gave a defensive briefing to my home senator, johnson. you can see the slide up there. that defensive brynn seeing was linked to the washington post. who ordered that briefing? >> so, defensive briefings, when it comes to election matters, including in the last administration a procedure so that by the last administration are an inter agency process coordinated by the director of national intelligence. the way that works is the inter agency concludes that a briefing is appropriate in the fbi has given information from whatever intelligence community agency supplies it and then we -- the