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

president trump has fired james comey as director of the fbi.leased with james comey particularly because of this ongoing investigation of the trump campaign and any connections with russian operatives. [tim] trump had the power to fire comey. the question is whether it was wise. and the answer is simple, no, because the firing of comey creates a crisis. the justice department has just announced a special counsel to lead a new investigation into russian influence in the election and whether there was coordination with members of the trump campaign, the department naming former fbi chief robert mueller as special counsel. [chris] robert mueller, he was seen as the g-man, the g-man. if there was ever anybody that you didn't want on your trail, it was robert mueller. [gloria] mueller remains silent, instead letting his work speak for itself. the mueller investigation, in short, was examining two things. one was possible conspiracy between the trump campaign and russian officials, and the other was possible obstruction of justice of that probe itsel

blame james comey. a good way have been the reason she. lost was a, hypothetically, she called me, i'd accept that. i understand that she is angry, feels cheated, and believed she actually won when she didn't. that is pretty much the worst of it on trump. he truly believed he won. he was looking to get it rectified. that is free speech, that is america. what these people are doing is russia. i am telling you, abraham lincoln is growing in his grave, and the ghost of joseph stalin is dancing in the streets with what these weaponized prosecutors are doing to our political system. they did it to me, a democrat, john edwards, a democrat, did it tremendous, a democrat, it sounds like there is no criteria on which a prosecutor can ever go and prosecute an investigation, as long as somebody is -- that capitalist test on these matters. i find the conversation far more expansive, but let me just say when it comes to the rolling of the graves and the dancing in the street, i get the impression that the anger is directed at what happened lead up to j

that's what james comey did 245 times under oath under devon newness's intelligence community. rew ma cake, james clapper not only lied under oath they did admittedly so. they admitted they did without consequences. donald trump makes a phone call, and what happens? he's impeached. joe biden makes a phone call. he doesn't threaten to delay, he says he's going to cancel and he doesn't look for corruption he adds to at this time, he fuels it, nothing happens. he takes documents as vice-president and as senator for a decade and a half, three locations, nothing. he sends the fbi after donald trump. the american people, you know, they're sick of the conclusion of 2016 farce, they were sick of the russian disinformation laptop of 2020 and they can't even wait until 2024. and i think at some point people are going to conclude that if they don't say something and rise up, they're not going to have a country left >> sean: you expressed in the sale column a thought i've been making, to be the blunt biden is one more serious fall from physical incapacity. i've been saying, he's one fall aw

you can even remember as early as james comey, he was fired for james comey. the ukraine crawls to president zelenskyy. he makes the statements and then he has all these public conversations about what they said, what they mean, sometimes he contradicts himself. he says different things. if you are an attorney, as you know, katie, the last thing you want is your client going around talking about a case. possibly saying inconsistent things. making promises that can't be kept. saying that there is evidence that is not evidence. all that does is damage your case. it is hard to imagine that if there was exculpatory evidence. the evidence was out there that would prove the donald trump had not committed a crime, it would have gone unnoticed or an stated by lawyers or by representatives. or by donald trump, themselves. all of these years leading up to these indictments. >> it specially in fulton county, maya. that was a two and a half year investigation by fani willis. one last question before we go to break. we are gonna stay unfolding county right now. rudy giulia

and james comey's just begunnnt. the deposition phase. and i came away from that yesterday thinking this begun phaseis going get undeni this is a corrupt influence peddling, bribery based regime, that is going to be undeniable to democrats and that will be the problem in front of their face. they'll get to the problem of it will be m in fro, but they're going to have to deal with the problem of joe biden. of kamal , i think of joe biden. and we played the tape so often, probably people mad of me if i played it again. we do have it racked up, butthi i won't play it, tommy, ofme if joe biden as a candidate. but we alsain. o joe biden as president repeatedly saying not one time did i ever talk to hunter, my brother or anyone else, for that matter, about the farm business deals only in ne else the forethe last week ad that evolve into we stand by our position that joe biden was never in busines s with hunter. then we've got this timing in this phone call in december 2015 leading up to the moment joe biden leverages $1,000,000,000, he gets the

but according to james comey, no reasonable prosecutor, whatever prosecute would chargae hillary clinton. no rage, no mug shots. a hillary clintoids or sn. comey said this about five years before the fbire the raidd mar-a-lago and the justice department charged trump for basically the exact same thingst top secret classified documents that they thought were mishandledhing. but he was the president. she was the secretary of state. joe bidey ofn also accused mishandling as senator, vice president, top secret material stored it in his garage. the pen. biden center university in delaware, his beach house. and guess what? did it in some cases for decades. naturalld y, joe biden, no consequences, no mug shot, no raidd, nothing.ncil just a secretive special counsel investigation going cou nowhere fast. now, this special counsel, does anyone remember his name? robert. her completely m.i.a. biden's attorney general, merrick garland. using these investigations to protect his boss, the big guy, part of joe's branch ofs se government. >> the executive branch shieldinlding administration frm having t

t and from the congress in the multiple investigations, including james comey. >> james comey still doesn't have these documents today. it's remarkabl doesn'tthese. i think i have a pretty goodde idea where you're headed, john. and in other words, o it's -- it's going to be all blown up. the whole big lie about this money being withheld fori expe one reason and i expect another reason will be proven. will bis that a fair guess?ss >> i think you got a very good guess. don >> john solomon, just to news.com, editor in chief soe now, here was more reaction, chairman of the house oversight ghcommittee, james comer is with us. >> okay. did that call, sirus., on decemd 4th of 2015 take place with hunter, with burisma, burisma partners in dubaiiden to joe biden. di placed ? l take yes. five days or understating five days later, on decemberh do 9th, a joe biden go to ukraine and give a speech before the parliament. >> yes, he did. is that the same day that joe biden bragged about beforewn the council of foreign relations when he said,ion do you're not getting $1,000,000,000, you'vellyou havd 6 hours

form a former top official in eric holder department of justice, and worked closely with him, and james comey weisman who all over msnbc spewing his stupidity and smith a wife a democrat activist and obama sycophant. pressures and threatening witnesses, bankrupting criminal targets leaking campaigns with friendly reporters. like habberman at "new york times", and "washington post" and cnn and so forth. let's step back. this d.a., in atlanta, as well as jack smith, what are they doing or done, alan dershowitz wrote an important rees piece for daily mail. >> he says: >> this is normal. in 2000, florida state officials were lob t lobby to recount and select the counties. it goes on: >> trump was entitled as a candidate to ask a georgia state official, trump was told, that in and of these republican counties, that the votes were not in yet, they can't find the ballots and votes he said can't you find whatever it is 11 or 12 thousand votes? that is it! and continues: >> you understand the extent to which criminal activity is criminal activity, the biden administration. the department of justice. m

but according to james comey, no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute or charge hillary clinton. nraids or mug shots of hillary clinton. comey said this five years before the fbi raided mar-a-lago and the justice department charged donald trump for basically the exact same thing. top secret things are mishanded and she was the secretary of state and naturally joe biden and no mug shot and no raid and nothing. just a secret of special council and going nowhere fast. now, this is special council and does anyone remember his name, robert herr? completely mia and biden's attorney general merrick garland using the investigation to protect his boss, the big guy. part of joe's shielding the administration and answer any and all questions and it's beyond a complete farce and it's dangerous to republic and david wise newly appointed special council and continuing to investigate hunter biden is wise is the same prosecutor that feel and let the statute of limitations run out with serious felonies and during a five year probe that was little more than a stall tactic and planning and wise tri

pete: when james comey went to the podium and said no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a locationnges as a political candidate, where's the reasonable prosecutor in this? >> i asked the same question, where's the reasonable prosecutor. why is this reasonable, under hillary clinton it was not. the problem is a pattern of overseeing politicization of the committal justice system, going after vigorously, republicans, conservatives, democrats and progressives, they almost give them a pass and turn a blind eye. look what is happening with hunter biden, no charges, no charges, yet donald trump, four indictments and four months, almost as if they are treating him as if he's on the fbi's most wanted list. it appears -- that is not right. will: why is this? pete: if you know the fbi, you were there for many years fighting crime. is it full of democrats at the top? do they have a preference for a certain party? why would it slant in this direction in your opinion? >> there are two fbis. it's obvious to those that work there. fbi one, individuals that came to the fbi to serve, protect americ

james comey and others at the fbi lied to the american public, to congress, to the fisa court.they tried to drive trump from office with a hoax. and now they see the same sort of things unfolding. the unprincipled prosecutors whose sole goal is not the merits of the case they are bringing. but they hope to gain a conviction or to smear and sully trump sufficiently to enable joe biden to win. the mantra is biden cannot win legitimately on his own, so we will help him by hook or by crook. that is what is behind these foreign indictments. >> do you agree with that matt whitaker? >> yeah, i do. remembered remember they have now scheduled this first trial on the day before super tuesday where 15 states plus american samoa are going to go vote. if you are thinking you can prepare for a trial and visit 15 states in the lead up to super tuesday, that will be impossible. obviously what greg is saying is right. these are all planned and coordinated in order to try to prevent donald trump from being strong enough to win the election in november. knowing the guy like i do, i don't think th

2022, john kelly says trump wanted to get the irs on james comey and also in 2022, cassidy hutchinsony is thick. we see this a lot with trump and his world. it's almost saying it's like projecting out what maybe they have been doing on to other people. >> and the argument from trump and his allies isn't that the department of justice shouldn't be weaponized. it's saying we should weaponize the justice department against liberals. he says i'm going to be your candidate of are the ri bugs and go after the biden crime family and the democrats that have been weaponizing government for a long time. this is a revenge strategy he's taking. it seems to be what animates the base of his party. it seems to be why you're hearing this from other republicans because they know that a number of voters within the republican party are animated by this. they are energized by the idea we could use government for our end and our enemies and trump did that during his first term. he's pledging to do it openly if he wins another term. >> it is interesting there's this undercurrent of using the underdog. now

and i go back to july 2016, top secret classified information or hillary service, james comey, -- noble prosecutor would prosecute. negating the fact that 33,000 other emails that were subpoenaed would do would be destroyed and devices were destroyed as well. seems like a pretty strong case for obstruction. certainly, her home was not rated for the locations of joe biden were classified information. you know, what i'm hearing the most from the radio listeners and people that i, that watch this show, professor, they really believe that we don't have equal justice in this country right now. or equal application of our laws. we have a dual justice system. is there a merit to those claims? i believe there is. >> i'm afraid there is. and the public isn't buying it. this week, they saw more evidence on the body corruption scandal. but heard from the iris investigator saying that the investigation of hunter biden was fixed. and they allowed major felonies to lapse when they didn't have to. against the president's son. and they ended up bringing a couple of anemic misdemeanor instead of purs

behind closed doors oversight chair james comey was asked about, i want you to take a listen to thischange. >> do you believe that this is now officially the joe biden bribery allegation, do you believe that you'll be able to prove that? jim corner. >> sure, i hope so. i do believe there is a lot of smoke and where there is smoke, there is fire. >> you on the oversight committee, republicans think they scored some kind of victory this week with governors testimony. the answer is, i sure hope so. what is your response to that? >> again, it is really, really unfortunate that the chairman of our committee is making these comments. and we are thankful that he is brought essentially conspiracy after conspiracy to the oversight committee. finally, the transcript got released on those conversations with archer, with the witness. we all read, it is been the transcript -- there was zero connection, zero connections between hunter biden's business dealings and the president. there was zero evidence, zero connection of any sort of payment. and this was literally said by the witness and yet, cor

of his presidency, just seven days into his term, he infamously pressured former fbi director, james comeyobsession to who was loyal are disloyal as a fixture of his four years in office. it dominate the behavior of a lot of people who work for him. it produced a never-ending stream of headlines like the. the second thing to know is, as much as donald trump demands loyalty from other people, people who work for him, people around, him he gives it to you, basically, no. one asked vice former vice president, mike pence. three years of scandal, pence, literally and figuratively, stood behind trump. no matter what he said or did. in return for all of those years of steadfast servitude, loyalty, and standing, donald trump watched and did absolutely nothing when the january 6th mob stormed the capitol chanting, hang mike pence. trump even let the people who actually did faithfully carry out his scheme hang out to dry. apparently untrue form, donald trump is not paying his bills. stiffing the lawyers that he sent around the country to do all of his dirty work. including the most loyal of them all

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

i know you try to stay precise and you know a lot of people in the donning and represented james comeyy giuliani and eastman. >> eastman here. we've got him at the middle there because he was searched. why eastman? >> basically what he did was he was orchestrating this whole operation, which he knew was a butchered legal theory that was being used to give a veil of legitimacy to a plot to engage in the crimes that jack smith charged, namely to -- the scheme to deprive people of having their votes counted. they knew that while there was disputes in different states, but none of them were being upheld. they were told there was no fraud. they said, let's try to create this scheme. we'll throw a veil of legal legitimacy on it. and that legal legitimacy, as you hear from the professor who's responded to the whole memo, which is a complete butcher job and mismatch of a bunch of legal stuff that at the end of the day was being used to orchestrate this fraud. >> hmm. john eastman of course was also a little more outspoken than others. people say, i was just lawyering. well, you got up in front

james comey and others finan at the fbi lied to the american public, to congress, to the fise ama court, and they all got away with it. they tried to drive trump from office with a hoax, and now they see the same sort of thing unfolding unscrupulous, unprincipled prosecutors whosel sole goal is not the merits ofe the they're bringing, but they hope to gain a conviction. or to smear and sully trump sufficiently to enable biden to win. the mantra is biden can't wintie legitimately on his own. so we will help hily m by hook orse by crook. >> and that's what's behind . ese four indictments you agree with that? matt whitaker yeah, yeah, i do. >> and remember, they've nowav scheduled thise first trial on the day before super tuesday where 15 states plusr american samoa are going to goyo vote. and if you're thinking you can prepare for a trial and visit 15 states in the lead up to super tuesday, i mean, that's going to be impossibln th so obviously, what gregg saying is absolutely right. this is all planneatd and coordinated in order to try to prevent donalordinated trumpm being strong enough

they did meetings with james comey at the white house and entrapped stafford's.y went on with this impeachment by asking questions about ukrainian corruption involving joe biden which we now know especially after the testimony yesterday was a very valid question to be asking. you had the accusation for members of congress of russian collusion for years which is special counsel which the entire country had to go through did not come up with the end. it's also denying an election. they did everything to delegitimize the fact that he had been elected by the american people to be the president. they did that behind the scenes using the legal system. it is the same thing they do with the supreme court. he try to get the supreme court to do things when they can't get what they want through congress. image of the priorities of the department of justice. i've talked to prosecutors who are still there. they have been taken off very serious child trafficking cases, child cases to come deal with that january 6th case. offer violent offenders. for trespassers on the capital.

what james comey has don ce is followed the money, then put a timeline together.it is very clear is what's going on. hunter biden was selling access to his father. ts fathere's nothing his fathen say tonight. he went to the dinners he go t on the phone calls. it wasn't the illusion of access. it wasn't th access.t and if you have any doubt, we can just maybe send this over to congressman goldman tomorrow. there's an email from vadym pozharskyi. the ukraine, burismathere rain l who said, great seeing your dad last night. that is an actually, he saw joe biden at the dinner. he stayed fo.r the whole dinner, by the way. joe biden stayed for the whole dinner. it's no longer illusio n all of s these spin jobs that the biden white house and their acolytesby been giving. they're being pierced by things called facts, stubborn facts. that'ss called. the white house is getting testy. >> oh, great reporting, as alway s. , just >> john solomon, just the news.com. thank you. newsy shame chairman cuomo's investigation is now striking a nerve at the white house and they're now la

now he's designated special counsel and in the same way you may recall james comey brought in patrick fitzgerald to investigate the leak. in addition to what was already the case, it makes him a little bit harder to fire. it also requires that at the end of his investigation, david weiss' investigation, he's required to file a confidential report in the same way that bob mueller did, and also if it turns out at the end of the day that david weiss makes a decision and merrick garland disagrees and overrules him, he has to let congress know. >> jonathan: doesn't this signal this will be a longer investigation? this is going to go to trial. >> the whole thing was going to be wrapped up a few weeks ago and that's not the case, and the government moved to withdraw which is parallel to an indictment. that doesn't usually happen unless bigger, larger charges and more counts will follow. this could take quite some time now. >> jonathan: you're familiar with special counsels. so why do you think weiss asked for this? >> i think this is not a great moment for the department of justice. you had

we have heard that argument with james comey, right? and hilary clinton.wouldn't one of their arguments be that, you know, you can't insert this kind of a case into a political year this close to primaries, et cetera, et cetera, and that's why it out to be postponed? >> we are 4 5/859 days -- who is counting -- from the actual election. you are talking about -- yes, they will make that argument. i think strategically, jack smith anticipated, of course, by being differential or going along in some respects to the trial date set in mar-a-lago, cognizant of that because of the nature of those charges, the classified documents, the idea of trying to get multiple codefendants' counsel up to speed. it's different. it this could go faster, i think. >> i think you are right. the decision to not name those co-conspirators was a very important decision made by the special prosecutor, to try to narrow and focus in case, and to eliminate additional potential reasons, valid or it not, for delay. >> stand by. we have a lot more to assess and discuss. i want to go back t

judicial appointment discussion or whether it's an investigation with hillary clinton and home and james comey and all of that, brett, you know it's interesting to look at this as well. you know, there's sort of a political line of thought that the biden team would like to run against president trump that he beat him last time. they feel that he is the person who can beat him again. lot of water under the bridge since then, and now his numbers are going up based on this. relentless um, whether you think it's accurate or not . it is a relentless pace of prosecution. do you think that changes their feelings about it? that's a good question. i think that they still would like to run at the end of the day against the former president. i think they feel president biden is best position there, and there are a lot of variables about the others, but he is strong not only in the gop primary but increasingly strong in the general election that new york times sienna poll just out this week had it dead tied and other polls are tracking that. i just want to go back to that news conference really quickly. y

the house oversight chairman james compan comey said make noe this investigation is about joe biden. shannon: let's find out that's going happen lucas tomlinson thank you very much. rich: admitted republican contribution over the hunter biden probe the president faces probes for impeachment investigation let's bring in congress when their ice of california a member of house judiciary committee paid congress and thanks so much for joining us this afternoon. on the special counsel news, hunter biden went what critics call the sweetheart plea agreement to now facing special counsel investigation. they been calling for special counsel is this good enough? no it's not. the reason it's not as the guideline for special counsel is supposed to be somebody who is picked because they are independent they are outside not somebody who has a long track record of first of all as of 2018 until today of allowing families to expire. then working out a plea agreement that was too good to be true misdemeanors only. i'm been in the plea agreement something the judge discovered was a get out of jail free

those who investigated trump, have the universally proven their critics right, jim comey, andy mccabe, peter strzok, jameser, andrew wiseman were all empowered to investigate trump, all have and retain a d hatred of him. if you're looking for fairness or independence do not pick investigators or prosecutors who love or hate the targets of their investigation. everyone on the side of jesus, my mom and my wife are capable of doing something wrong, something unlawful, as such is the nature of humankind. that includes former president trump, he like the rest of humankind is fully capable of committing criminal acts but the public must have confidence in the objectivity, the fairness, the historical equality, the confidence, the independence of those investigating prosecutors. many people in this country do not believe in the objectivity of prosecutors anymore and that is true actually on both sides of the political aisle. our last question comes from sharon from murray kentucky. >> hey trey, what is your opinion on the best way to deal with the corruption of washington? >> send a better people. politics is no

. >> i quote, -- -- >> please have the director comey, not james or tony or jim, have him call me tonight. i am sitting here with my father. we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. if i get a call or text or anyone involved in this other than you, i will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge, that you will regret not following my direction. i am sitting here waiting for the call with my father and quote. that is a fact. i don't make that up. . that's not my opinion. that's not rhetoric. this is a message from hunter biden. >> it's a search warrant from a backup i. >> my phone, your phone? >> it was from hunter biden. >> it was from hunter biden. i >> thank you. it was linked to hunter biden. >> now, mr. shipley. where the bidens complicating a deal with the fcc timeframe? >> i would have to stick to my transcripts. i don't know if i describe that. i think that is a portion of the whatsapp message. however, i do believe the full chain. if it's, relevant we can turn it over t