james comey, andrew mccabe, everybody knows about michael cohen. counsel for many years who was willing to do anything for donald trump, and then donald trump wants to bring the full wrath of the department of justice and the federal governdo michael cohen to keep him from exercising his first amendment rights. he saw to it presumably that michael cohen end up in solitary confinement for a couple of weeks. if he would do this thing to the director of the fbi, deputy director the fbi, his own private counsel, imagine what he would do to any ordinary citizen out there who dares to take a stand against donald trump. when he says dictator day one, everybody has to take him at his word. he means that ntu will feel as if he made his intentions clear all the more justified. let's not forget the supreme court in its roberts court wisdom has now said that the president of the united states has immunity from prosecution for actual crimes committed as president of the united states if they are perceived to be within the core functions of the presidency. under

one more thing, back in 2016 people were not talking about james comey and what he did two weeks before that to hilary. i am not going to say it will be a landslide, but i think that trump is going to get smoked. host: lee in new york. republican. good morning. caller: good morning. , lucero -- kamala harris said that her job was to find the root cause of illegal immigration and that was welcoming people with grandiose promises. many voted what she done about the 300 million missing children that are believed to be set -- sex trafficked and prisoners. guest: to the first caller i will say forecasting. and i do not particularly enjoy political forecasting myself. i think it ultimately does a disservice because we are going to find out what the results are. there is an election, and the pole is the -- the poll, the final one is election day and that is what matters. that said there has been a massive increase in the amount of polling that we have had, publicly available polling. some of it is good and some of it is not so good. it goes into these aggregates that we see. and i do not know.

trey: my first thought was yours about peter strzok and peter mccab and james comey and james baker and all fbi pros working against one candidate and for another. how do our viewers take the bureau seriously in light of what happened in 2016? >> well, polls show they don't take them seriously and crux of accusations of using allocations that russia disinformation, russia collusion or russia propaganda and was in facted a vanning one candidate and turning out to be completely false. the number of countries meddling and the lack of this administration taking them seriously because they're going back to the same well of claiming russia disinformation and meddling and they're ignoring iran and two people charged with attempting assassination and result of killing soleimani and they're directed their targeting of president trump and president trump department and his cabinet members and i know cheerily that's less concerned of beating the old drum of russia. trey: years ago, we were sitting elbow to elbow and jay johnson came in and said i tried to warn the states, i offered them help but t

michael flynn in james comey and the fbi. host: if you can related to the top issue for 2024.hat is the point. caller: can you trust the democrats to do the right thing now? they have tried to kill the president of the united states. host: no, no, no. i will leave it right there. james on the democrat line. caller: this will rouse some feathers of the listening group. a long time ago i heard a statement -- i am 74 years old -- i heard a statement made that it does not make much difference to the president of the united states is and at the time i did not think much of that statement. as time has gone by i begin to think that. then along comes trump and that is all we have heard about since he won the first election is trump, trump, trump. you have to make the best choices you can. the choice today we have is you have to have rules, you have to have guidelines. trump has no guidelines. no matter how much you try to say the democrats are going to do this or that, they are going to do the right thing. trump has not done the right thing. it is not a matter of opinion. you cannot h

my first thought was yours isetr about peter strzok and lisa page and anti-mccabe, james comey, jamesoyeesne working against one candidate for another. so how did the viewers take the bureau seriously in light of what happened 2016? >> the polls show they don'ton take the'tm seriously and the impact, because they have been the crux of accusations of using allocations that russia disinformation and russia collusion a rush up propaganda, impact, diminishing one candidate and completely falls to sound thaletet alarm nw really sounds incredibly hollow. what is also troubling here, tray a number of countries that are meddling and the lack' of this administration taking them seriously because they are going back to the same well claiming russian disinformation in russia meddling and they are ignoring iran's meddling and two people have been charged with attempting assassinations as a result of the killing of solaf money where it would have been directed, targetinirg president trump and president trump department, his cabinet members. clearly that rises to the highest level of election inter

now i read this article that in 2016 when trump won we had barack obama, james comey, joe biden and the whole team who wentz -- went after michael flynn. he was a retired patriotic general who was absolutely just a brilliant wonderful man who they lied, cheated and absolutely just destroyed his life, his family, costing him every dime. this is the f.b.i. in charge of this. host: let's take it in 2024. what is the top issue? caller: it is how much -- you don't want to remember about what the democrats did before. are they going to do it again? michael flynn and the f.b.i. -- host: i'm just saying relate it to what is the top issue of 2024 what points are you trying to make caller: can you trust democrats to do the right thing? they already tried to kill the president -- host: no, no. i will leave it there. james in indiana democrat lane. caller: good morning. this is going to rile some feathers of the learning group but a long time i heard a statement and i'm 74, i heard a statement it doesn't make were difference who the president is and at that time i didn't think were of it. but as ti

the james comey was a subject of a leak investigation that trump wanted.ump wanted. michael cohen was put back in prison when he refused to not publish a damning book about trump. hillary clinton had to ultimately sit before john durham and ask questions from that special counsel about all the conspiracy theories that trump had pushed about the clinton campaign. when you look at the totality of this, and you look at what trump tried to do behind closed doors, and the way he also tried to push the justice department publicly, those things ended up happening. what we were trying to say in these thousands of words that we published was that, sure, people say if he comes back, he might do this, but we are saying, it already happened. this has already happened. that can be used as a template to see how he would act if he came back. because we know that the guardrails that were there, or those people that tried to be guardrails in the first term, would certainly not be there in the second. >> mike, i guess the question is, well, there are many questions, but the

trump went after his political opponents he didn't want to every clinton investigated, he wanted james comey investigated. >> he wanted john kerry investigated so actually he already has a history of this and i expect that that would continue under no circumstances, you are promising america tonight. you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody except for day one. >> he says you're not going to be a dictator, are you i said no, no, no. other than day one as president, trump, chafed at restrictions on his executive powers and openly admired for an authoritarians who have no such limits. i think we're going to do tremendous things for both china and for the united states. and it is a very, very great honor to be with you it would be unthinkable before donald trump for an american president to show hero worship of foreign dictators. a lot of friendships have been made and this is been in particular aggressor redshift. >> he says there strong, they're tough. and he says quite clearly that that's somebody who i want to get to know often it's very striking because he will describe th

whether it was firing james comey after trump asked comey to drop the federal investigation into thel security adviser michael flynn or having his attorney general, bill barr, fire another attorney from the southern district. the man he appointed in 2020, after berman prosecuted trump's former lawyer, michael cohen, and opened several other investigations of people and banks in trump's orbit. >> the cardinal rule is that partisan political concerns are not supposed to enter any decision-making and that rule was repeatedly violated. now we managed to push back every attempt to interfere in our cases and we were successful every time. but it was difficult. it was 2 1/2 years of unrelenting pushback. >> unrelenting pressure, 2 1/2 years. trump was constantly pushing for prosecutions of his perceived enemies including hillary clinton and john kerry. he said this publicly. this is not some scoop. his attorney general bill barr also distorted the mueller report on the trump campaign russian contacts and appointed as special counsel to investigate the fbi investigators who looked into trump

. >> then fbi director james comey came out to announce the agency would recommend no charges to be fileds four months before the 2016 election. >> i'm going to include more detail about our process than i ordinarily would, because i think the american people deserve those details. in a case of intense public interest. and second, i have not coordinated this statement or reviewed it in any way with the department of justice or any other part of the government. they do not know what i'm about to say. >> caplan says comey stepped out of line with that announcement, and the fbi should not make those announcements because prosecutors could decide to go another direction with their findings. that risks confusing the public. >> there are many times that the fbi collects what they believe is sufficient evidence to charge someone. with that being said, there are just as many times as the fbi goes with all of this evidence that they believe is sufficient to charge someone. and the us attorney's office issues a declination, meaning they decide not to charge the person. >> ultimately, we won't find

. >> then fbi director james comey came out to announce the agency would recommend no charges to be filedhe department of justice. this was four months before the 2016 election. >> i'm going to include more detail about our process than i ordinarily would, because i think the american people deserve those details. in a case of intense public interest. and second, i have not coordinated this statement or reviewed it in any way with the department of justice or any other part of the government. they do not know what i'm about to say. >> kaplan says comey stepped out of line with that announcement, and the fbi should not make those announcements because prosecutors could decide to go another direction with their findings. that risks confusing the public. >> there are many times that the fbi collects what they believe is sufficient evidence to charge someone. with that being said, there are justs many times as the fbi goes with all of this evidence that they believe is sufficient to charge someone. and the u.s. attorney's office issues a declination, meaning they decide not to charge the pers

disinformation dossier i ,which has beechn completely debunked, although it was thente usedly deb by, james comey and others, to get four or five such warrants to backdoor spy on donald trump. the candidate the president and she and all of her coconspirators had all of those who peddled their lies would never hold accountable. this is the very definition of election interference. hillary her campaign or even forced to pay a huge fine for lying about the dossieanr, calling it a legal expense. if she livede. in new york and they actually had equal justice under the law, she acn tried for that.ed hillary clinton, frankly, the queen hersel f of misinformation. and so, of course, she appears on the show as country on this country's, you know, number one, conspiracy show en massean dnc and spreads more propaganda and lies. now, of course, most democrats that don't really care about misinformationof cours or democracy or divisive rhetoric, they use it all the time. o now, these are merely tools t that they use to gain and hold on to poweoolsedr. it's a means to an end. and of course, when something bad

. >> then fbi director james comey came out to announce the agency would recommend no charges to be filed to the department of justice. this was four months before the 2016 election. >> i'm going to include more detail about our process than i ordinarily would, because i think the american people deserve those details. in a case of intense public interest. and second, i have not coordinated this statement or reviewed it in any way with the department of justice or any other part of the government. they do not know what i'm about to say. >> kaplan says comey stepped out of line with that announcement, and the fbi should not make those announcements because prosecutors could decide to go another direction with their findings. that risks confusing the public. >> there are many times that the fbi collects what they believe is sufficient evidence to charge someone. with that being said, there are just as many times as the fbi goes with all of this evidence that they believe is sufficient to charge someone. and the u.s. attorney's office issues a declination, meaning they decide not to charge t

michael flynn in james comey and the fbi. host: if you can related to the top issue for 2024.hat is the point. caller: can you trust the democrats to do the right thing now? they have tried to kill the president of the united states. host: no, no, no. i will leave it right there. james on the democrat line. caller: this will rouse some feathers of the listening group. a long time ago i heard a statement -- i am 74 years old -- i heard a statement made that it does not make much difference to the president of the united states is and at the time i did not think much of that statement. as time has gone by i begin to think that. then along comes trump and that is all we have heard about since he won the first election is trump, trump, trump. you have to make the best choices you can. the choice today we have is you have to have rules, you have to have guidelines. trump has no guidelines. no matter how much you try to say the democrats are going to do this or that, they are going to do the right thing. trump has not done the right thing. it is not a matter of opinion. you cannot h

like firing james comey, was it because of the russia investigation. we also wanted to know and question him about the different context that members of his campaign had had with various russian or russian intermediaries, he made it clear through his lawyers that he was not going to testify willingly. we considered a subpoena. the difficulty is that, by the time of the investigation where a subpoena would have been the right thing to do, it was very late in the investigation. at that point, we had information from a lot of other sources about the president's intent and state of mind. and a subpoena would have dragged the investigation out for, possibly, a year or two. and we may never have heard from the president. and so, we made the decision not to subpoena him. >> so, aaron, given the pass passage of time, and it seems like a century ago that we were talking about this as a live news event. >> yeah. >> but given the passage of time and the events that occurred within that time, all the charges that could have been leveled against then president trum

james comey was the subject of a leak investigation that trump wanted. the subject of a criminal investigation that trump wanted. michael cohen was put back in prison when he refused to not publish a damning book about trump. hillary clinton had to ultimately sit before john durham and ask questions from the special counsel about all the conspiracy theories that trump had pushed about the clinton campaign. when you look at the totality of this, and you look at what trump tried to do behind closed doors and the way that he also tried to push the justice department publicly, those things ended up happening. what we were trying to say in these thousands of words that we published was that, sure, people say if he comes back, he might do this, but we're saying, it already happened. this has already happened. that can be used as a template to see how he would act if he came back. because we know that the guardrails that were there or those people who tried to be guardrails in the first term would certainly not be there in a second. >> mike, the question is --

. >> then fbi director james comey came out to announce the agency would recommend no charges to be filed to the department of justice. this was four months before the 2016 election. >> i'm going to include more detail about our process than i ordinarily would, because i think the american people deserve those details. in a case of intense public interest. and second, i have not coordinated this statement or reviewed it in any way with the department of justice or any other part of the government. they do not know what i'm about to say. >> caplan says comey stepped out of line with that announcement, and the fbi should not make those announcements because prosecutors could decide to go another direction with their findings that risks confusing the public. >> there are many times that the fbi collects what they believe is sufficient evidence to charge someone. with that being said, there are just as many times as the fbi goes with all of this evidence that they believe is sufficient to charge someone and the us attorney's office issues a declination, meaning they decide not to charge the p

james comey testified that trump asked him for a pledge of loyalty then requested that connie drop thenvestigation. the former investigator michael flynn. call me refused and trump fired him. trump also fired deputy fbi director and remicade because he saw an investigation that donald trump did not night. just days before he would've earned his full retirement pension. trump then demanded that the irs investigate comay and mccabe among others. well, that is not all. at trump's direction, the justice department dropped its case against former national security advisor flynn who had pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi. mr. kirschner, in your 30 years of experience, are you aware of any other situation where the department of justice withdrew a case after a defendant had admitted to the conduct under oath in court? >> i am not. >> let's move on. donald trump pressured overly the doj to reverse its sentencing recommendation for roger stone. after stone threatened cool cooperate against donald trump, trump granted him clemency. john durum wasted millions of dollars in a baseless and fruitles

one more thing, back in 2016 people were not talking about james comey and what he did two weeks beforeto hilary. i am not going to say it will be a landslide, but i think that trump is going to get smoked. host: lee in new york. republican. good morning. caller: good morning. , lucero -- kamala harris said that her job was to find the root cause of illegal immigration and that was welcoming people with grandiose promises. many voted what she done about the 300 million missing children that are believed to be set -- sex trafficked and prisoners. guest: to the first caller i will say forecasting. and i do not particularly enjoy political forecasting myself. i think it ultimately does a disservice because we are going to find out what the results are. there is an election, and the pole is the -- the poll, the final one is election day and that is what matters. that said there has been a massive increase in the amount of polling that we have had, publicly available polling. some of it is good and some of it is not so good. it goes into these aggregates that we see. and i do not know. we al

course, the final week to ten days, he moderated because he wanted to keep the attention on the james comeyter, which swung the election for him. so he just sat back and moderated. in this case, mika, you'll remember, about a month ago, we said, his numbers are staying the same. he has a very hard ceiling, and we said and other people had said, that donald trump could not win this election. he needed to make, and it was his goal to make kamala harris lose the election. he was going to have to destroy her, and this is what he thinks destroying her looks like. but calling somebody stupid that destroyed you in a debate, it's probably not the way to do it. especially when you can't answer the most basic questions about policy. he can't. >> here's a case in point. during a q&a session in michigan on friday, donald trump was asked by a voter about outsourcing and the future of the american auto industry. here now is the ex-president's answer about a totally different thing. >> nuclear weapons again? >> with many jobs being outsourced as we speak, what action will you take to ensure that our jobs