james comey served three years, 247 days before donald trump fired him and replaced him with republican, christopher wray. president biden never considered tampering with chris wray's 10 year term as fbi director, which was scheduled to end in august of 2027. during this transition period, donald trump decided to do something no president has ever considered doing, which was select someone as the next fbi director and send that person around to senate offices to meet with senators to discuss being confirmed for a job that was not vacant or available. the president has the legal right to fire an fbi director for cause. the cause has to be put in writing. the cause that donald trump actually used as his reason for firing fbi director comey was the way james comey handled an investigation of hillary clinton. the world knew that that was a lie, the world knew that donald trump loved the way james comey investigated hillary clinton and made huge news about that investigation in the weeks and days leading up to the 2016 presidential election. today, fbi director christopher wray, who was appo

the russia investigation angered trump, and he fired james comey. now it's this investigation into trump. the classified documents, really, that i mean, he was already mad at chris wray, but but that was really a huge part of this. and it's just notable given, you know, typically fbi directors would not be pushed out before they're before their term, i think before james comey. it only happened one time. >> only one time, william sessions. and that was really the result of an investigation that had begun under the republican administration of george bush, and then kind of got handed off to the clinton. the results of which got handed to president clinton after he was inaugurated. so, yeah, the things that cost chris wray and james comey, their jobs were not wrongdoing was not corruption, was not a failure of performance. it was a failure to exhibit the requisite amount of loyalty that donald trump demands. and in kash patel, he's found the perfect fbi director for donald trump. the question is because he's got kash patel has that loyalty in spades.

that is why it was such a big deal when trump fired james comey. that was in his very first year in office and an ousting in the middle of the term was so suspicious it helped spark a probe that unearthed and convicted many crimes. trump replaced comey with christopher wray. it was a bid to control more parts of the fbi and what wray thought of the 10 year term since he thought he would be reporting to the president wanted to use the threat of a firing to take partisan control. we will get into the breaking news. i always try to give you the facts and context first and this only makes sense if you remember wray himself testified under oath that the 10 year term was the right approach for that independents. >> i think the fbi director has a ten-year term because there is a judgment made that the role of the fbi and the role of the fbi director needs to be one that is independent of partisan politics. >> wray saying undergrowth you have to be independent, hold strong to the term against those partisan pressures which were very clearly on display from

would need to fire current fbi director christopher wray, whom he appointed in 2017 after firing james comey. patel will then need to be confirmed by the senate before becoming the director of the fbi. trump also has named his pick for ambassador to france. he nominated charles kushner for the role. kushner is the father inin law of trump's daughter ivanka. he is a real estate developer on social media. trump called kushner a tremendous business partner and said he will be a strong advocate to represent america. back in 2005, kushner was sentenced to two years in prison for tax evasion. witness tampering and making illegal campaign donations. trump later pardoned kushner in 2020. the san jose state women's volleyball team season has come to a close, and as you likely know, we've been reporting it's been a difficult season because of controversy surrounding a member of their team. yesterday, the spartans lost their final match in the mountain west conference tournament, and it's an ace for colorado state. the rams rewriting their legacy. the spartans battled the colorado state rams in the cha

president trump firing fbi director james comey. the bombshell announcement, something that was completely unexpected to anyone, came just moments ago. a stunning development. it is lost on no one that the president just fired. the man who is leading an investigation into the trump campaign and whether it colluded with russians. >> that russian investigation angering trump in his first term after he left office, raised fbi, searched mar-a-lago. you see it there. they were looking for these classified documents that they allege trump took with him when he moved from the white house back to florida. that search, a significant part of why trump has turned on a director. he appointed. listen to how trump praised wray then and why he disdains him now. >> i believe that we will have a great fbi director. i think he's doing really well and we're very proud of that choice. i think i've done a great service to the country. well, i can't say i'm thrilled with him. he invaded my home. i'm suing the country over it. he invaded mar-a-lago. >> he

listen, if you look at james comey and chris wray, there has never been a period in our nation's historyre the fbi has suffered a greater loss of respect, where more americans doubt the fundamental integrity of the fbi, and it's because james comey and wrist wray presided over allowing the fbi to become a partisan cajole to be used to target parents at school board meetings, to be used to target people who chose not to take the covid vaccine, to be used to target president trump and to target the political opponents of joe biden and the white house. it is tragic, that is not what the fbi is for, that is not what the doj is for. i've got to say pam bondi and kash patel, i think together, are a very strong slate of nominees to go and restore integrity to both institutions. >> how do you place that up against the prosecutions of bob menendez, a congressman, a democrat from texas and hunter biden? are those political prosecutions as well or not? >> well, first of all, let's be clear, bob menendez was literally caught with gold bars and a stack of cash and his fingerprints taking bribes. at t

and it's because james comey and chris wray presided over allowing the fbi to become a partisan cudgel, to be used to target parents at school board meetings, to be used to target people who chose not to take the covid vaccine, to be used to target president trump and to target the political opponents of joe biden and the white house. it is tragic, that is not what the fbi is for. that is not what the doj is for. and i gotta say, pam bondi and kash patel together are a very strong slate of nominees to go and restore integrity to both institutions. >> how do you place that up against the prosecutions of bob menendez, a congressman, a democrat from texas, hunter biden? are those political prosecutions as well or not? >> well, first of all, let's be clear. bob menendez was literally caught with gold bars and a stack of cash with his fingerprints taking bribes. it's why he's not my colleague anymore. at that point, the evidence was overwhelming. look, major, i wrote an entire book entitled justice corrupted, how the left has weaponized the legal system. it broke down, it started sadly unde

james comey was investigating russian interference in the election.e time trump said wray was a model of integrity and guarding of the lot. since trump and republicans have soured on the fbi. they called it the deep state. including kash patel, he called it the deep state. he said he wants to fire multiple people across the fbi. amna: you talk to multiple current and former law enforcement officials including from the fbi. how are they responding? laura: multiple officials said they are disappointed but not surprised. multiple people said christopher wray should have stayed in the role and forced trump to fire him because they believe that would have more maintained in the bureau's independence and showed it is not partisan and this is a role that is separate from the president. a current official said the big question is what role will politics play in the fbi now and how they conduct investigations? amna: what happens next? laura: the current deputy director at the bureau, he is next in line to become the acting director of the bureau. that is if pr

once again, once upon a time, trump asked james comey for his loyalty.didn't get the answer he wanted. we know that. this time he's making sure that never happens again. joining me now democratic senator sheldon whitehouse who has thought about these questions a whole lot. so senator whitehouse, let me start here. i made my own case for the dangers of the loyalty trump engenders. i know you've thought about this a lot. do you disagree with any part? what did i miss in my overview there? >> well, i would start with the question that chris wray must be asking, which is, where is the gratitude? he provided complete cover for a fake investigation by the fbi of bret kavanaugh's sexual escapades and now all he gets -- all he gets is ushered out the door. one thing to be looking for i think in the future is trying to figure out what carrots and sticks might have been offered to chris wray to get him to violate the term of office that he accepted when he signed up, which has a real purpose of its own. it is intended to separate the tenure of an fbi director from

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and trump got rid of james comey and then robert jacobson we were hoping that we would set this they did not do that, they did not hold those accountable that had distracted with the fbi they were never held accountable, he comes in and it continues and continues to get worse, under this biden administration ray really was listening to merrick garland do whatever he said and whatever it was political we were taking orders from d.o.j. and the trust of the american people, they do not trust the fbi and i tell you half of the fbi really does not trust the fbi internally, what needs to happen they needed new director to come in their internally to the employee say we are broken i realize there's a lot of people doing amazing work at the fbi but there's a portion that is run the reputation for the entire organization and this must stop now not just to gain the morell of the fbi employees but want to go internally and say we have a problem, christopher wray continues to testify before congress over and over say everything is great at the fbi, nothing to see here, the fbi employees are

look at james comey and the mistakes he made. ask the clintons today about what he did and how he elected donald trump. if you look at what happened afterwards, there still a dossier, which we said from the very beginning, was nonsense. the carter page apps. they screw up. they are human beings. but there are people like republicans in the fbi and who like democrats in the fbi. in trump world, running around saying -- it's absolutely ridiculous. they have short-term or long- term memory loss. they don't know what it is now. it was the fbi. it was james comey who gave donald trump basically a life raft to paddle to shore and win the election 10 days before. it was over. until james comey did what he did. >> i think you might have heard about that from bill clinton a few days ago. when i sat down with the president. that lingers. >> they do not forget. >> is another interesting element to this. it is a little bit of blowback on the pressure campaign that's being brought on senate republicans. you have people like lisa murkowski com

and of course, trump fired the last fbi director, james comey, back in 2017. then he appointed christopher wray because comey was investigating was launching the russia investigation, was investigating trump and his family even though they contended at the time it was all because of the way comey handled the clinton email controversy. just a flashback to how republican senators dealt with that at that time, including the late senator john mccain why were you disappointed in the decision to fire mr. comey? >> because i believe that mr. comey is a good man, and i think he did his job well, and i don't think he deserved to be fired. >> when you fire probably arguably the most respected person in america, you'd better have a very good explanation. and so far, i haven't seen that. >> you don't buy the clinton email explanation that he mishandled the clinton emails. that's why he was fired i don't believe that that is sufficient rationale for removing the director of the fbi, but they claim they had a reason back then for firing james comey, even though they didn't s

and trump tried to get james comey to quash it. and that put andrew mccabe in charge of the bureau. trump then replaced mccabe with christopher wray, a guy he had high hopes for. >> i think the new head of the fbi, i think i've done a great service for this country. i think christopher will do a fantastic job as head of the fbi. nobody has greater respect for intelligence than donald trump. >> the guy looks 20 years younger. >> it is easy to forget now what that was all a huge scandal when it happened. and now, as trump prepares to settle back in behind the resolute desk with a vow to explicitly turn the country into something post-democratic, he wants to obliterate the norm he broke by replacing the fbi director he hired. >> sir, are you going to fire the current fbi director, christopher wray, who you appointed? >> i can't say i'm thrilled with him. he invaded my home, i am suing the country over it. he invaded mar-a-lago and i'm very unhappy with the things he has done and crime is at an all- time high. migrants are pouring into the country that are from prisons, i cannot say i'm

he came to be the director in 2017 after then-president trump fired james comey. that is when chris wray was nominated and confirmed by the senate. he has been in that role now for several years typically, fbi directors serve out those ten year terms and are not at the whim of whichever president may be in power. joining us now, democratic congressman john garamendi of california. congressman, thanks so much for being here with us. i first just want to get your reaction to this breaking news. we're getting tonight it's very, very troublesome throughout the entire campaign, people said, oh, he's just talking that's just political rhetoric. >> as trump said, i am your retribution and the revenge agenda. >> and now we're seeing it play out, not just not only with this nominee for the fbi, but also for the military. >> you take a look at all of the appointments they are part of a strategy that the president has laid out to put in place his campaign promises, which is retribution to seek revenge on his political enemies. >> and in his own words. >> mr. patel has made i

that wasn't trump, that was james comey before it was robert chris wray chris wray. but james comey mucked up hillary clinton's electoral run and he he he went after the president, president trump in his first term that in 2017, president trump could not he was like he stepped in dog crap and he just couldn't get rid of james comey. he hounded him. another guy. dog metaphor. but i think the fbi needs a cleansing. and i think christopher wray was heroic in in stepping down. but i also think that the bureau does need some profound introspection, heroic in stepping down. >> oh, yeah. >> i mean, look, are you going to wait for donald trump to come in and be humiliated and be fired? if you're chris wray? no, i mean, he absolutely had to do it this way. as for kash patel, i mean, trump thinks he's going to end the growing crime epidemic, dismantle criminal gains, stop human and drug trafficking. he also, though, has said that he's going to get rid of all the conspirators who he calls journalists, who were part and parcel to the 2020 election and reporting on what were the

we've been dealing with this since he fired james comey after james comey pointed out to him that individuals are loyal to the constitution and the united states of america, not one individual. project 2025 and donald trump are going to end that. and also, by the way, of course there will be open lines of communication between donald trump and whomever he puts at the head of the doj. hopefully it is not kash patel. but however it is will be, for all intents and purposes, just as bad and just as dangerous to individual american citizens who, as tim point out, have only been doing their job as public servants. >> tim, you pointed out that donald trump had not mentioned exactly what he would be looking for these people to go to jail for. but in the event that there's nothing connected to january 6th or the committee work these people have done that could potentially have them indicted and prosecuted, are we potentially still looking at a space where donald trump or others might urge for a deeper probing, the actual witch hunt that has been thrown around for as long as we've seen donald trump on

and trump got rid of james comey and then robert jacobson we were hoping that we would set this back on track and unfortunately they did not do that, they did not hold those accountable that had distracted with the fbi they were never held accountable, he comes in and it continues and continues to get worse, under this biden administration ray really was listening to merrick garland do whatever he said and whatever it was political we were taking orders from d.o.j. and the trust of the american people, they do not trust the fbi and i tell you half of the fbi really does not trust the fbi internally, what needs to happen they needed new director to come in their internally to the employee say we are broken i realize there's a lot of people doing amazing work at the fbi but there's a portion that is run the reputation for the entire organization and this must stop now not just to gain the morell of the fbi employees but want to go internally and say we have a problem, christopher wray continues to testify before congress over and over say everything is great at the fbi, nothing to

look at james comey and ask clintons today about what he did and how he elected donald trump.l dossier which we said was nonsense. they are doing the steel dossier and carter page oops, they screw up they are human, but there are people like republicans in the fb it and who like democrats in the fbi and trump world, running around saying what they are saying is just absolutely ridiculous, willie, because they have short- term or long-term memory loss. they don't know what it is now. it was the fbi this gave donald trump a life raft in a paddle to shore and win the election ten days before. it was over. until james comey did what he did. >>> up next, democratic congressman robert garcia will be our guest to talk about donald trump's comments about ending birth right citizenship and much more. that's straight ahead on morning joe weekend. straight n morning joe weekend. safari? hot air balloon ride? swim with elephants? wait, can we afford a safari? great question. like everything, it takes a little planning. or, put the money towards a down-payment... ...on a ranch ...in montan

trump tried to get james comey to quash the prosecution, when he failed, he fired comey which put his deputy, andrew mccabe in charge of the bureau. he launched investigation into trump's politically motivated firing of comey. trump replaced him with christopher wray, a guy that he had high hopes for. >> you had people, the new head of the fbi, i think i have done a great service for this country. i think that christopher will do a fantastic job as the head of the fbi. nobody has greater respect for intelligence than donald trump. but you have to have the right leaders, i think we have great leaders right now. >> he looks 20 years younger. it is easy to forget now, that was all a huge scandal when it happened, precisely because of the history, context, this does not happen. now as trump prepares to settle back in behind the resolute desk with about two explicitly turned the country into something post-democratic, he wants to obliterate the norm he broke by replacing the fbi director he hired. >> reporter: sir, are you going to fire the current fbi director, christopher wray, you appoi

notable here is that christopher wray, who donald trump chose as fbi head in 2017 after firing james comey yet finished his 10 year term . so trump would have to fire him in order to get kash patel into that post. tom and tim are back with me to unpack all of this. look, tom, we were talking in the last block about this, among his other faults, kash patel is a conspiracy theorist and he would be another one in a line of them who will be going to the trump administration, should he be confirmed. he also was an organizer or a key component of the january 6th insurrection. what is it say about having that type of personality in your next term? it just completely obliterates any recognition or culpability for anyone who is involved in that riot, as far as i'm concerned. >> yeah, i mean, donald trump has been trying to erase history and read con that whole business into just another day in washington, and unfortunately, he has been somewhat successful. at least some of it. but patel is, and i think tim is absolutely right, when it comes to the danger to our democracy patel is about as dangerous

. >> had hand picked wray after firing then fbi director james comey back in 2017. quickly soured on wray after the russia investigation. the classified documents search. in a comment that wray made after trump was shot in pennsylvania as he explained to kristen welker on "meet the press." >> i can't say i'm thrilled with him. he invaded by home. i'm suing the country over it. he invaded mar-a-lago. i'm very unhappy with the things he's done, and then when i was shot in the ear, he said, oh, maybe it was shrapnel, where's the shrapnel coming from, is it coming from heaven? i don't think so. >> we begin with nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, and "new york times" chief white house correspondent peter baker. ken, how is the fbi work force, the bureau reacting to the director resigning before the inaugural? >> there's a lot of concern and trepidation and sadness. chris wray was a relatively popular fbi director. he tried his best to steer the bureau through one of the most tumultuous times in its history as it was being attacked by republica

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when trump fired james comey, it was an earthquake that many thought would imperil his presidency. in kash patel who very few would suggest is qualified for the job, and republicans just going along with it. what's your read on the situation, including the latest from grassley? >> i can certainly understand why it seems surprising the warm reception he's getting. then you have to stop and think, if you're a republican senator, all of the stuff that kash patel has been talking about related to the fbi and the deep state and all of the conspiracy is pretty standard fare for republicans these days. those are not going to be seen as disqualifying views. those are views that most republican voters have right now. now, there is an element of this that i think a lot of republican senators who probably don't know kash patel quite as well probably think he's saying a lot of this with a wink and a nod or that it's a little performative. john cornyn referred to it as that's just hyperbole. i think kash patel holds these views deeply, there's conspiracies within the government trying to take d

he was appointed by president donald trump back in 2017 after trump fired then-fbi director james comey. wray took over during an incredibly tumultuous time at the bureau warning about china and iran sounding the alarm before it became popular in the intel and law enforcement community. he was also known, liz, for calling every police department across the country when an officer died in the line of duty. to the future now, kash patel, the trump-nominated fbi director and former aid to trump, he has been on capitol hill last week. he's on capitol hill this week. he told one of our producers that he is ready to go on day one and he will ensure a peaceful transition between the current fbi administration and his administration and the president-elect donald trump posting on truth social that it is a great day for america when christopher wray announced he is resigning stepping down here in the next few weeks in trump praised kash patel, his nominee. but it's not a done deal until he gets confirmed. liz: david spunt thank you so much. joining us now for his reaction, american ceo ned ryun.

the way it was when donald trump fired james comey back in 2017.oment for people at the fbi. and some people still haven't gotten over it. comey was a very popular director. chris wray is a popular director. so that was the calculus. historians will second guess because the argument on the other side is wray could have made donald trump fire him to underscore that this is a norm shattering moment. that this is the second fbi director that donald trump has pushed out before serving the ten-year term, undermining the whole idea of a ten-year term that's supposed to be independent of politics. but that was not the way chris wray decided to do it. it was a tough decision for him. he's got plenty of money. he doesn't need to go back into private practice. he was enjoying himself. at the same time, he spent years trying to keep the bureau out of partisan politics, but during the biden administration when the trump investigation surfaced, there was no way to do that. and chris wray approved the search of mar-a-lago and donald trump never forgot that and b

again, he was appointed by donald trump after donald trump fired james comey. these types of firings of fbi directors are exceedingly rare, yet here, if mr. trump carries out his promises, he will have twice fired an fbi director, cutting short these ten-year terms that were intended to breed this type of independence. so i think this would be extremely demoralizing within the fbi as well as the department of justice because the attorneys at the department of justice, whether they are battling transnational drug trafficking, human trafficking or counterterrorism or espionage cases, they work hand in glove with fbi agents. so having somebody like patel at the head of the fbi, particularly when you think about his willingness to do whatever the incoming president wants could impact what that office is asked to do. put that together with the immunity decision from the summer that gives donald trump immunity from official acts, corrupting his official acts, it's a dangerous combination and really will impact the morale of the men and women of the fbi. >> last year,

the first term, you may recall, it was widely i think believed that the reason for firing james comeyial cause of all of the grievances that kash patel i think has now latched on as his grievances, too. but then there was an effort to sort of paper over that with a memo that the deputy attorney general wrote actually talking about when james comey came out during the campaign in the summer and made public statements about why hilary clinton was not -- you know, he was not recommending charges for hilary clinton. this was him overstepping what the fbi director should do. that is a department of justice decision about prosecution, and so it was papered over as the cause for his firing, was about what he had done during the campaign. and the reason i raise that, because even at that time, even donald trump or his advisers recognized there should be some cause before you fire the fbi director. i don't really see that in what is being discussed by donald trump now. i mean his cause would be he's been the victim of witch hunts for -- and another four years after the first four years, so eig

supposed to be a trusted, reform minded insider to kind of restore trust of the american people after james comey had undermined that trust. he had republicans and democrats that were frustrated in the 2016 election cycle because they felt comey had overly politicized the fbi. so wray came in and was supposed to restore trust. i think objectively, anyone has to say that has completely failed. trust in the fbi is at all time lows. christopher wray made things worse, not better. so now you'll see a very consistent theme from the incoming trump administration. they're trying proven, trusted outsiders who know they intend to reform things. when donald trump said drain the swamp, he was over the target. and this time he's finding outsiders who are very committed to that. >> trump described wray as a man of impeccable qualifications. when he nominated him, he got confirmed by the senate 92 to 5. what is it that you say? he objectively did wrong? >> he failed to restore trust in the fbi. he was clearly politicizing it. they were weaponizing the fbi against all kinds of folks. remember not long ago it wa

there's a lot of criticism from from the previous leadership of the fbi, james comey, and the way how he handled the office, especially when donald trump first took office in the in the first term. so inside the fbi, chris wray has been seen actually a very as a as a very thoughtful, as a very quiet leader, someone who is trying to restore the reputation of the of the fbi. that has obviously not worked out that well for especially among republicans who have been very critical of a number of things, including, of course, investigations of donald trump. the mar-a-lago search is something that donald trump himself raised in his interview over the weekend with with nbc. so there's a lot of concern because you have heard from kash patel, who is the the incoming president's pick to run the fbi next. you've heard that they're planning to try to they want to go after the former president. the president's political enemies. and so inside the fbi, there's a lot of concern that the bureau is going to be turned essentially to go after trump's enemies and take its eye off the ball on things that a

. >> there's a belief that since, uh james comey put his thumb on the scale with hillary clinton, um that we that we've had a politicized fbi and they want to end that the fbi has always been kind of your heartbeat you know, if everything's going fine you never even think about it um, that's what the fbi should do. it should be below your sensory level and only come out in, you know, when when it's absolutely necessary. and they want a change. >> so they want a change. and from what i hear from you is they want to move on from the idea that they're being, you know, politicized. ever since james comey investigated hillary clinton, but is putting kash patel really going to do that? i mean, he has been outspoken about the fbi saying that he's going to fire the deep state within it and get rid of the headquarters and so forth i mean, is he really the one to to bring in the new leadership that fbi agents are looking for? >> well, i guess i guess i should have couched that. i didn't necessarily say that kash patel was the change. they were looking for, but they are looking for significant

trump having fired james comey and now wanting to fire christopher wray. i think really uh, is very disruptive to the orderly management of the fbi and to jurisprudence in america. i mean people have to be able to rely on the fbi for being a neutral source of investigation of and of jurisprudence in america. and i just think all of this upends that. and americans really need to be very careful about supporting these kinds of appointments. and the disruption they're going to lead to and, congressman, i have to ask you about the other big news of the morning. >> president biden pardoning his son, hunter, something that he said over and over again, he would not do something that the white house said over and over. he would not do. what is your response to that i have a mixed response. >> as a father myself and as someone who knows joe biden, i can sympathize with his perspective that his son was, you know, subject to vigilante justice. i certainly witnessed that in republican depositions of hunter biden and his attorney but having said that, what other father

fbi or saying that the biggest criminal syndicate operated from within the fbi by the likes of james comey and company. does that give you a moment of pause at all? >> well, i'm not familiar with the context of this, of this discussion that you just showed, but i'll say this. i think cash is in every sense, right to be calling out the team there at the fbi that back in 2016, you know, used a clinton, you know, fabricated dossier as an excuse to come and spy on the trump campaign. the whole context and pretext for this russia thing that hampered the trump campaign for the first several years of his administration. all of this emanated from the fbi. all of it needs to be cleaned up and even if you look forward to 2020, the fbi collaborated with tony blinken and the so-called 51 intelligence experts to hide hunter. hunter. hunter biden's back. excuse me. hunter biden's laptop. they went out and front ran that story to a major, major social media organizations to basically say it's going to be russian disinformation fbi was complicit in this. there really is a lot that needs to be cleaned up.

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trump actually handpicked wray to replace james comey after he was fired. here's abc news reporter perry russom with more from washington. >> today, fbi director christopher wray says he will resign in january at the end of president biden's term. wray making the announcement at an fbi town hall, saying he loves the mission and the people, but did not want to drag the bureau deeper into the fray. wray has led the agency since 2017. >> if i am given the honor of leading this agency, i will never allow the fbi's work to be driven by anything other than the facts, the law, and the impartial pursuit of justice. period. >> wray has three more years to serve in his ten year term, but will resign before president elect trump takes the oath of office. trump once called wray a model of integrity, but the words of praise soured in 2021. wray labeling the january 6th attack at the capitol as domestic terrorism. that attack, that siege, was criminal behavior, plain and simple. >> and it's behavior that we, the fbi, view as domestic terrorism. >> in march, trump accusin

wray was selected by trump in 2017 to replace james comey, but fell out of favor, especially after thehed mar-a-lago for classified white house documents in 2022. >> christopher wray has demonstrated too much independence and objectivity in the job for donald trump. >> trump also nominated two family members charles kushner, the father of trump's son in law jared kushner, is set to become the u.s. ambassador to france. and massad boulos, tiffany, trump's father in law, was named senior adviser on arab and middle eastern affairs. kash patel and charles kushner, still need to be confirmed by the senate, but massad boulos does not. in new york, c.b. cotton fox news. >> now to the middle east. the family of an israeli american young man held hostage by hamas met with israeli president isaac herzog today. the mother of 20 year old edan alexander of new jersey met with herzog in jerusalem. the meeting comes after hamas released a video of edan speaking under duress and referring to his 420 days being held by hamas. herzog told alexander's family now is the time to reach a deal with the milit

then president trump appointed wray in 2017 after firing james comey. but today the president-elect is celebrating posting on truth. social the resignation of christopher wray is a great day for america as it will and the weaponization of what has become known as the united states department of injustice. while democrats expressed disappointment >> provided really important public service and acted with integrity. pretty clear to me and i think should clear to the american people that donald trump won the republican lawmakers have urged wray to resign. i think that's fantastic. he should left a long time ago. he has faced criticism from gop members over his handling of investigations including classified documents. case is january 6 treatment of catholic citizens and 2 presidential assassination attempts. president elect trump intends to appoint kash patel has a new fbi director. patel has been critical of the so-called deep state and is expected to bring significant changes to the fbi's leadership and direction he met with senators on capitol hill mond

wray was selected by trump in 2017 to replace james comey, but fell out of favor, especially after the classified white house documents in 2022. >> christopher wray has demonstrated too much independence and objectivity in the job. for donald trump. >> trump also nominated two family members, charles kushner, the father of trump's son in law jared kushner, is set to become the u.s. ambassador to france, and massad boulos tiffany, trump's father in law, was named senior adviser on arab and middle eastern affairs. kash patel and charles kushner still need to be confirmed by the senate, but massad boulos does not. in new york, c.b. cotton, fox news. >> tomorrow is a big day for former house speaker nancy pelosi. the federal building in san francisco will be formally dedicated tomorrow. as the speaker, nancyelosi federal building, and she will be there to unveil the new signage. the building is located right on seventh street, across from the u.s. court of appeals, just about a block south of market. pelosi h repsented california's 11th congressional distct now for 37 years, and was the fi

democrats, you can see that in the way that they targeted president trump in his first term with james comeything has got to change and kash patel is part of this janitorial service, who's going to get in there and clean the sewer system out. right, so you're a former journalist — i guess we've already pointed that out. yes. you want to see retribution, do you, against these "enemies of the people" that trump has identified inside the media? he's also, of course, talked about retribution against people like his former adviser, generaljohn kelly, the former chairman of thejoint chiefs, mark milley, who he suggested might be executed for treason. you're right behind all of that, are you? no, i'm not for retribution. i think if you look back at the record, president trump has said most recently he is not going to treat people with retribution. but we do need to right things. well, what's kash patel there for, then? sir? what's kash patel there for, then, given that kash patel has specifically talked about going after the people in the media who lied, as he puts it, about the election and about

then president trump appointed wray in 2017 after firing james comey. today the president-elect is celebrating posting on truth. social the resignation of christopher wray is a great day for america as it will and the weaponization of what has become known as the united states department of injustice. while democrats expressed disappointment >> it provided really important public service and acted with integrity. pretty clear to me and i think should clear to the american people that donald trump won. the republican lawmakers have urged wray to resign. i think that's fantastic. he should left a long time ago. he has faced criticism from gop members over his handling of investigations including classified documents. case is january 6 treatment of catholic citizens and 2 presidential assassination attempts. president elect trump intends to appoint kash patel has a new fbi director. patel has been critical of the so-called deep state and is expected to bring significant changes to the fbi's leadership and direction. he met with senators on capitol hill mon

that's a good violation of firing james comey well before the ten year term was up as fbi director. so that's a case of norms. and i think this is the case with biden as well. there is no law broken here. it's not a matter of abuse of power, but it certainly is another violation of norms. and that's the kind of thing that democrats have been so hard on republicans. but now democrat himself is doing e same thing. so what does that mean for president elect trump? and his second term and his power? well, first of all, for biden, i think it's really a ding in his legacy. there's no other way, i think, to look at that. and for trump, what it says is, look, you know what this has done all the time. it happened during my administration. it happened now during biden administration. why can't i continue doing it the same way? so this whole idea of, of the of the minimizing institutions in this country, we've seen it happen. and this is one more step, one more in the armor of these institutions, which used to be really well guarded, especially the attorney general versus president. now, the w

he's a republican who then-president trump appointed to lead the fbi after firing james comey back in 2017. wray's term is not set to expire until 2027. but with his chosen successor already named, it appeared clear the president elect would move to push him out. in washington, alice barr, nbc news. a final farewell for a longtime bay area representative, congresswoman anna eshoo, spoke on the house floor today for the last time before she retires. representative eshoo announced she wouldn't run for reelection last year after three decades in congress. former san jose mayor sam liccardo will fill her seat starting next year. the congresswoman reflected on her tenure in congress, calling it an honor of a lifetime. that powerful position of enormous privilege. i was determined to be an ambassador to the future from silicon valley, from that district, drafting and passing 68 bills into l signed by five presidents. she got teary eyed during her speech today. representative sr-2 was elected to congress in 1992. 32 years ago, she became the first woman and democrat to represent california's

or james comey 2.0? recognize it's actually the underlying machine that was the source of the corruption itself. i believe the only correct answer will be to begin with shutting down an institution institution likethe fbi itself. we will move to the next institution. the u.s. department of education. this is annc agency that spends approximately 80 billion-dollar budget per year. telling local schools they cannot get those federal funds unless they adopt toxic or racial gender ideologies while denying in this part is less well known for denying federal funding for 10 -- 11% of the budget to engage in hunting or teach them how to practice archery. those have been basis for denying funding to schools were telling other schools they cannot get actual federal funding unless they adopt toxic divisive racial and racial quota systems in their hiring. this institution has driven the epidemic of inflation and college tuition is subsidizing for years college degrees, not doing basically thing you want to pursue on