i'm jim comey, historically republican.help donald trump and hurt hillary clinton because she's democrat. but what the politics of the city were in october when he's considering sending that letter to congress announcing essentially the clinton investigation is open again, there was a deep awareness that hillary clinton was likely to win, that, you know, the very day they are debating whether to send this letter or not, jason chaffetz, the republican on the hill, is saying he's got years of hearings teed up in anticipation of a clinton presidency. i think there was a real sentiment if at the fbi, if they didn't -- if they told the public the clinton investigation was closed, they found there were more e-mails relevant to the case, they started looking at them. she t elected and later they found something and then told thpublic, hey, by the way, we found these e-mails and knew about them before the election. we didn't tell you about it. sorry. they were going to get destroyed as an agency. now that's a political consideratio

>> first off, jim comey has not sat for an interview on this typical with us or anyone else.ucted dozens of interviews with people in all walks of life to get a sense of what the discussions were around him. i think he feels like he made the least bad decisions that he could have made given the be a circumstances he faced. i think that's what he would say. and whether that influenced an election or not, i'm not sure they feel that's a knowable thing. they think they made the least bad decision. >> the thing the consistently comes through even if you don't see james comey is a partisan actor, his actions and words will be received on various sides of the political spectrum. he seems acutely tuned to republicans criticizing him for being helpful to hillary clinton in some way, particularly with the expectation that hillary clinton would win that election. i think the reason that is so resonant is because it gives rise to concerns about how he will -- if he continues to be motivated by those things that that will shade the way he conducts the investigation into trump. is that a

>> i'm preplexed by what jim comey has done.ft all these fell any on the table for hillary clinton. he never looked at the congressional testimony that was fictitious and made up. he had no problem saying that the president has been under investigation since july for this so-called russian b.s. whicthink is total b.s. but thene wouldn't answer the question whether this leak which is a major deal is being investigated by the f.b.i. it's nonsensical his comments and flip-flopping. i don't understand it. it has to change. there has to be some changes. maria: is it too late to ask him to step down? >> i think the president is a little bit in the box while the so-called phoney russian connection. it's the fifth column marching down the road trying to diminish the administration and trying to stop everything they do. maria: it already has. there is no evidence of collusion. >> the deputy director of the f.b.i. told county was b.s. and so did clapper. maria: president trump's missile strike in syria sending a people just can't get enou

. >> there is a lot of reporting that jim comey launched an investigation into possible collusion and russian hacking all the way back to july. regrets that the obama white house did not blow the whistle sooner than october 7th when they made the announcement of the investigation. >> you were the deputy national security advisor. >> fbi investigationing are not briefed to the white house when they involve criminal matters in the united states. perhaps if it was a terrorist property. i think it is something that people don't understand. and we have seen it mischaracterized how it operates. they make their judgments on their own. they're not directed by the white house. essentially if jim comey launched that in july, that is bagsed on his own judgment if is not something that would have been directed out of the white house. >> and with devin nunes, the house intell chair, and all of the suggestions of what he had done, gone to the white house, we don't even know precisely from himself, at least, who was involved and whether or not the intelligence agencies would be ta ta tasked, but wha

so there was this growing sense at the fbi that only jim comey could be the one with the credibility d the gravatas of learned investigation. and comey has always succeeded at center stage in these big moments. >> just weeks after comey announces a comey investigation is closed, they open to possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia but says nothing about it. >> back to back. what you've got to remember is that the fbi in the 2016 election was more deeply involved in the presidential campaign than really any time since water gate. no sooner had comey thought he had pretty much closed the door on the hillary investigation in that july press conference that you played and here he has all these new accusations surfacing over trump and russia and he's back in the middle of things. and then of course he'd reinsert himself back to hillary. so, try as they might to get themselves out of the politics business, they were deep into it. >> do you think hillary clinton also thought there was a double standard as she was treat would trump and what people thought about her verses don

paul, you, bill, wrote about jim comey saying that he's more important than anyone else because he'sgative power and he's -- and the house intelligence committee folks, they're complaining that comey hasn't been very cooperative. >> look, the problem that we have is that jim comey is in the position of determining legitimacy of trump presidency. i agree with kim on this issue with devin nunes. it's insane people are talking about leaks to devin nunes. heavies the -- he's the head of house intelligence committee. maybe he made procedural mistakes. look, there's an effort to discredit him, getting to recuse himself. loretta lynch did not recuse herself after she met with clinton on a much more serious matter involving her. this is an effort not to find out what devin nunes says. looks, he's the only one in all of this who has been very specific. he's read reports, he has seen names, he actually hasn't gone too far. he doesn't even know whether this was incidentally collected, you know, he just knows -- he wants to find out was it collected and he's also said it's not related to russia

lou: the real question i have as we are about to wrap it up here is why in the world isn't jim comey ex-director of the f.b.i.? i can't imagine why the president want to keep him on that job with these questions. they are really not questions. but these slurs against his integrity and one could argue his basic competence it's extraordinary that he has a job or as he put it another 6 1/2 years in the directorship of the f.b.i. charlie hurt, gayle trotter, thanks for being with us. we appreciate it. up next. president trump taking swift action in syria. his administration blaming assad's allies for the chemical attacks. >> the iranian government bears heavy responsibility. it h proppedp and shielded the brutal dictator for several years. the russian government also bears responsibility. lou: naming names. john hannah joins us next. authorities are investigating another terrorist attack in europe. a hijacked truck ramming inhe a busy department store in stockholm. stay with us. we'll be right back. dear predictable, there's no other way to say this. it's over. i've found a permanent esc

and when you look at somebody like jim comey, the fact of the matter is that he's going to do what isht. i am biased because i work closely with him, but he's a man of sterling integrity. he's the guy for the job. and it's really about resisting that pressure. but at the same time, yeah, there's going to be some frustration that we can't just do the job and let the cards fall where they may. >> what happens when there's pressure to do the job fast? really, we want answers faster than, i'm sure the fbi wants it really fast, but sometimes the investigations as jim comey said to congress, take years. >> they can. that's correct. and it's not that you resist it, you just ignore it. you continue to press forward. you continue to check the block, so to speak, to perform all the steps that you need. because on the one hand, this is an intelligence gathering operation activity. on the other hand, if there is evidence or indications of criminal activity, we've got to build that case. and if you don't do it properly, if you don't do it by the numbers, if you don't meet the elements of the crime

what we have seen from her is blaming of russia and jim comey, the fbi director, and the media.ll external to one of the benefits of that for her campaign team is it prevents people from looking under the hood, as we have in this book, seeing what was wrong internally. she described it to one friend as she lost because of the kgb, fbi, and the kkk, the last part meeting -- meaning the voters she described as deplorables. reporter: as opposed to herself. the book is "shattered," thank you very much. tim: just before we go, let's finish today's program saluting peggy whitson, who has broken the record for most days in space by a u.s. astronaut. she got a call from the oval office for her efforts. >> white house, this is mission control, houston. please call station for a police check. >> do you hear me? >> yes, sir. we have you loud and clear. >> that's what we like. great american equipment that works. and this isn't easy. >> it's actually a huge honor to break a record like this. it's an honor for me to be representing all the people at spaceflighte this possible. water is such

while jim comey did not have a prosecutable crime that he could go after, i don't think there were verymany people that would say her setting up the server outside the state system was a good call. if you look at the stuff about russia, we're learning more about that now. but we knew a fair amount about it before the legal conclusion and she talked about it in the debates. she talked about donald trump -- she called him a russian puppet, 17 intelligence agencies had told us all that russians were trying to influence the election, particularly hacking into the dnc servers. the thing you never hear about democrats is any talk about the obama care price spikes that consumerers were made aware of right before that comey letter. i think it's hard to disaggregate all those things. a change in any one of these things could have tipped the balance. i think one of the questions you have to ask is if one fifth of donald trump voters thought he was unfit, wouldn't they have been available to her? >> the vr this is a piece of decline journalism, a piece of instant history. both of those are fraught

so in 1787, you couldn't figure out what jim comey was saying to mike lighter for the past 10, 25 years. you could listen to that moment or look at his papers and not have everything. second, in those days of a court or magistrate approving that search want in 1787, that privacy protection that he had didn't cause any problems for anyone else. and one of the criticisms of what went on with the iphone experience was that by asking for a backdoor for one, you're not just impinging on that individual's privacy appropriately, but potentially impinging on everyone else who used an iphone on their privacy. so how do you think about those and probably other differences from the compact that was struck in 1787? >> you've pointed to two things that made this a hard debate. but to take both of them there's no doubt that there is more digital dust about all of us out there than ever before. couldn't even imagine 30 years ago. and that we're able to communicate in ways that were unimaginable. i have two reactions to that. one is the bad guys are able to communicate in ways that were unimaginable 30

while jim comey did not have a prosecutable crime to go after i don't think very many people say hering up a server outside the state department system was the right call. this was something that was if you look at the stuff about russia, we are learning more about that now, but we knew a fair amount about it before the election. she talked about it in the debates. she talked about donald trump -- she called donald trump a russian puppet. 17 intelligence agencies told us all that russians were trying to influence the election. and the other thing that you never hear right now from democrats is any talk about the obamacare price stieks that consumers were made aware of. i think it is hard to disaggregate those things. a change could have tipped the balance. one question you have to ask is if one fifth of donald trump's voters thought he was unfit to be president weren't they available to her if she had run the right campaign? >> jonathan and amy are authors of a piece of deadline journalism and instant history. both of those are fraught but the readers and orders of the book seem to t

director jim comey reportedly not cooperating with anyone, now he's on his own.illary clinton and her husband were cashing in on the sale of u.s. uranium to russia. money, cash, was actually crossing hand. where was the republican outrage, the hearings, the demand for recusals, the ethics investigation? susan rice lied about benghazi, bowe bergdahl, knowing nothing about the unmasking of michael flynn and days later she admit she did unmask but it wasn't for political purposes. 2014 she says all chemical weapons stockpiled in syria removed. guess not. if you need more, rice was the director of african affairs during the genocide in rwanda and she objected to the word "genocide" because of the effect it might have on the democratic mid-term elections. the woman is a liar. these are liars with no shame, no remorse, no accountability, and no recusals. you republicans aloud it and now you are buckling to these partisan side shows, taking away from our president the support he needs to get the job done. he's shown you how to do it. so strap in, budge and start fightin

it was my staff telling me that jim comey had just confirmed , who issident trump currently under investigation with russia, and i could not believe that to the same senate who said, our president obama as not legitimate to nominate supreme court justice, was moving forward with hearings for someone who was under investigation from russia. last reason. the the very last reason we needed to object to neil gorsuch. for a lifetime appointment. we know he is terrible on rights,rights, workers writes --hts, lgbt what's and we know that running through every one of his decisions is a characteristic --t we cannot have in that that we cannot have. a lack of compassion, ability to understand our lives, and certainly a lack of ability to judge our destiny. we will not have it. we do objects. here with us today, we have one of the very first courageous senators who came out to stand with the people. she is on the senate judiciary committee. she asks the hard questions and his neil gorsuch swarm and seed. seat.irm in his she is going to stand with the people and filibuster his nomination. [applause] >> ple

the hearing a couple weeks ago when my phone started going off and it was my staff telling me that jim comey had just confirmed that president trump was currently under investigation with russia. i could not believe in that whont that the same senate had said our president obama was not legitimate to nominate a supreme court justice was moving forward with hearings for someone who was under investigation from russia. that was the last reason we needed to object to neil gorsuch for a lifetime appointment. we know he is terrible on women's rights. we know he is terrible on workers rights. we know he is terrible on voting rights. we know he is terrible on lgbt writes. we know that what runs through every single one of his decisions is a characteristic that we cannot have. that is a lack of compassion and ability to understand our lives and certainly a lack of ability to judge our destiny. we will not have it. we do object. here with us today, we have one of the very first courageous senators who came out to stand with the people. she is on the senate judiciary committee. neil gorsuch squirm and

jim comey, not one tinsella of evidence -- tinsella of evidence to support that allegation. >> what is it. >> a ruse to confound? >> i think there is a concern that russia tried to meddle in our elect, probably not first or last, he should be prepared it will happen, the evolution of story that somehow trump was in bed with moscow and rigging the election today, that is where no er evidence has emerged, kind of unfortunate so much of focus on, that i think that people look at civil liberty questions, it something that affects a much broader part of the population. lou: sues susan rice it appears almost certainly did unmask american citizens and with impunity more than once. where are civil liberty advocates here, why are they not speaking out? and why not more people in particular, people who are elected to presuffe preserve our rights and liberty, why not expect bigger concern and anger toward those. >> funny 2011-2016 before a trump presidency envisioned, libertarians raised several concerns about what barack obama was doing, eliminating your privacy protect, if you talked to someone

jim comey is involved in it directly.he prosecutors would be deeply involved in investigation like this. they authorize subpoenas when someone needs to go to theify is a correspondent and get a fissa warrant as they didn't for corey page. it's something mary mccord and her staff would have done. they would be involved day-to-day on the developments of this case and providing direction for how it should go forward. she reports to the deputy attorney general, someone who's also an acting person right now. but really, that's in a briefing capacity. they brief him every now and then. she's hands on day-to-day in this. >> now that she's leaving, this administration has been very slow to nominate people for senior jobs who will now be in charge if that position goes unfilled? i think it would be hugely troubling if they put a political appointee who had not been nominated or confirmed by the senate into this job to investigate the president. it has to be a career person. eventually it has to be a special council, but short of t

remember, heading into the vote, it seemed like hillary clinton would win, but when fbi director jim comeyeleased his letter saying he would reopen the investigation just before ele election day, it threw everything into chaos. the market likes certainty, and everyone was certain that hillary would win. but the big spike up into the stratosphere, going from 13 to 22 and that's right there. in short, the vix's move up was out of whack with the move down, sebastian would have expected a 5% to 7% decline given the action in the vix. he says we tend to see this kind of behavior your when the market is worried about what might happen, not what is happening. next up, let's zoom in with this pair of charts showing the s&p 5 money and the volatility index over the last nine months. first sebastian points outa when comey news dropped right before the election, the vix pulled from 18 to 13. the vix sold off. in short the vix plummeted about 50% in less than a month, the s&p rallied like crazy. the fact is this is a great example of the vix forecasting. in other words we're always trying to find some

neil gorsuch a couple weeks ago when my phone started going off and it was my staff telling me hat jim comey had just confirmed that president trump was currently under investigation with russia. i could not believe in that moment that the same senate who had said our president obama was not legitimate to nominate a supreme court justice was moving forward with hearings for someone who was under investigation from russia. and that was just the last reason. the very last reason we needed to object to neil gorsuch for a lifetime appointment. we know he's terrible on women's rights. we know he's terrible on workers' rights. we know he's terrible on voting rights. we know he's terrible on lgbt rights. and we know that what runs through every single one of his decisions is a characteristic that we cannot have. and that characteristic is a lack of compassion, a lack of ability to understand our lives, and certainly a lack of ability to judge our destiny. so we will not have it. we do object. and here with us today we have one of the very first courageous senators who came out to stand with the peo

interviewed the replacement for fbi director and i can tell you there was no one more impressive than jim comey. whatever anybody things i have to assume he did what he had to do and we don't know why but i assume the best of intentions on his part and i don't know that that is what drove people at the polls. i there was something more fundamental. >> as fake news has been developing, it started slow during obama's search. how perceptive was he in the administration of its development? >> no one called it fake news, really, answer the question. are you muslim? there is nothing wrong if he had been but were you born in the us and he was, so to us it was sort of we were exasperated but i don't think we saw it ever as what it would become, which is insane. it is good that facebook is addressing how that stuff gets populated on social media along with twitter and google. we were never like this is fake news, we would just, fox. it didn't seem like a movement, just seemed like something we could silo off. >> a totally frivolous question. what was the most fun day you had at the white house? >> i don

we know that because of jim comey, the head of the fbi. when it comes to that particular much, they want to keep it in an intelligence community. when anything comes up, let's hold and open public hearing on it. let's get to the heart of the issue. what did the russians do, who was involved if anybody? >> is this part of the main act? is this a die version? what is going on here regarding this accusation, the ak cue station of leaking. >> i put it in the same category of the wiretapping of trump tower. it was totally false, even republicans concede it was false. now comes the question of was there a leak of information when it came to unmasking the identity of people. it is a good question, but not the central question. what were the russians doing and who was involved on the american side, we ought to get out before the american people as quickly as possible. >> i want to ask you about what mitch mcconnell said this morning out the threat of the nuclear option. given the filibuster threat from the democrats. let me play that for you. >> i

kelly said case after case being opened up, the fbi in this country, the counterterrorism cases, jim comey have said that all 50 states have investigations going on now but no, we can never, ever let our guard on. >> martha: in terms of the traffic that goes back and forth, and training of potential terrorists, we know what the publications that isis puts out, many of these people can radicalize at home. it's so difficult to get to the root of this. the increased action against isis in iraq and syria, doesn't make anybody any safer in other parts of the world? >> it has to. it makes it so much safer. but on the other hand, you have all these trained isis fighters in syria, 10,000 europeans, i believe, is the latest count we have. if they are driven out, they will be back in europe. many of them are froe decent war privileges, which means people in those countries can go to the u.s. without having a visa. we put certain precautions in place, but that relies on european intelligence knowing who has gone to syria and who hasn't. the outcome of this is -- a, it's a the status of sizing movemen

was it two weeks ago when they had the hearing and they had jim comey and admiral rogers? said no evidence of wiretapping, everybody praised the devin nunes and said isn't he great. now he's going over to the white house saying there is smoke over here and he is the worst guy ever. this is so political. could that house intelligence committee get anything done that people will believe? >> it takes a lot of gall for congressman schiff to come plain nun else is undermining the mobile history of the house intelligence committee. i was on that staff for five years it was very political on many occasion. let me read you a quote from the first chairman of this committee. he was criticized by the former cia director as a jackass and his staff as a rag tag publicity-seeking group. if you watch that hearing last week, all they did was use to it roll out unsubstantiated cheap shots against president trump. they are not interested in an objective investigation. i think nun else is. tom: where is the answer going to come from? even if he's serious there will be people who will throw p

a lot of things that jim comey did that was inexplicable in this campaign.nly upset everybody when he decided he wasn't going to move forward to try to get charges against hillary clinton. and then he upset the democrats for reading an indictment against hillary clinton's character. when looking at all of the comey moves, they all trace back to this e-mail server that she set up and whether or not it was criminal, i don't think there were many people who thought it was a good idea from a good governance standpoint and certainly not a lot of people thought it was a good idea from a political standpoint to do that. that's an own goal. the news of that came out and it allowed those who questioned her honesty to have something to point to for the entirety -- >> and it took her too long to tackle that issue, to have a definitive answer about that issue. >> that's right. she resisted and resisted. she and bill clinton are basically giving a lecture to their aides because they were angry and not figured out a way. >> i think it's important, there's another nugget w

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in the book but what their analysis and investigation about why they think they lost other than jim comey's something i think we're still hungry for. >> jason, what is your take from the other side of the aisle, the winning side? >> it might surprise you a little bit here. very much agree with what hillary was saying. i think books like this are completely disrespectful to candidates who run for office and disrespectful to the opponents on the other side who worked so hard. we woke up every single day and fought to try to elect president trump and beat hillary clinton but now the election is over and these insider back biting off the record off the record accounts that set up to tear down people like secretary clinton and robbie muke are terrible for the political process. we're talking about stopping north korea and potentially a nuclear iran and this terrible deal that needs to get ripped up and these folks are out there talking trash. it goes to this cash me out culture. i think it's terrible. >> i will say, though that -- >> are you kidding me. hold on a second, hillary. the president

the fbi has been compromised by jim comey how politically it acted with regard to this investigationd the clinton investigation. so the head of the fbi got so twisted up in knots about what he should disclose to congress and the public, there are questions about where he will come down, where the fbi and ultimately the justice department will come down. that's the issue that we face here. >> guys, thank you very much for all of the information. >>> another headline for you this morning, the trump administration sending a message to north korea docking a nuclear powered zubov tsuzubosub off so. is it going further? we have a live report next. it's being in motion. in body, in spirit, in the now. boost® high protein it's intelligent nutrition with 15 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for when you need a little extra. boost® the number one high protein complete nutritional drink. be up for it ♪ ♪ i'm dr. kelsey mcneely and some day you might be calling me an energy farmer. ♪ energy lives here. then you're a couple. think of all you'll share... like snoring. does your bed do

and i can tell you that there was no one more impressive than jim comey and i have to assume he did whatever he had to do, and we don't know why. but i assume the best of intentions on his part. and i don't know that that is what drove people at the polls. i think there was something even a little bit more fundamental. >> as fake news has been developing, it's started slow during the obama administration. how was he in the administration during the development of? >> no one called it a fake news back then. they were like no, really. answer the question. were you born in the u.s.? and he was. so to us, it was sort of like we were exasperated, but i don't think that he saw it ever as what it would become, which is insane. it's good that facebook is addressing how some of that stuff gets populated on social media along with some of the others like twitter and google i guess. but no, we were never like this is fake news. it didn't seem like a movement. it just seemed like something we could cite low. >> what was the funnest day that you had at the white house? >> i don't know if you are ready fo

that is relationship between jim comey as fbi director and then attorney general loretta lynch. ames of it, she did not want comey to name it quote, an investigation. he wanted to to be called quote, a matter. it reminds me of going to jamaica there are no emergencies there it is a situation. >> they got it covered. back to democrats and messaging, 2018 will be a big election, who will control congressional the end of the day? you hear tom peres speaking, you wonder is that really going to get people motivated to get to the polls? i think they have work to do. >> more swearing. >> all right, other headlines. >> starting a fox news alert, polls are open in france, watching this one, voters casting ballot for next president in first round of country most high stakes election. la pen casting their votes, the election is days after a terror attack in paris, many analysts believe could government the conservative la pen, taking a hard-line on immigration. >> a flight atten attendant unin defending the american airline employee, showing that employee nearly hit a baby and threatening t

a nonpolitical person we've got to do better with the american people and stop blaming the fbi, jim comeysian intervention i think they got a problem. >> your wish is our command. her loss -- we'll play more of what she had to say. >> certainly misogyny played a role that has to be admitted and it's a pretty simple, but unfortunate phenomenon. with men, success and ambition are correlated with likability. so the more successful a man is, the more likeable he becomes. with a woman, guess what? it's the exact opposite. there are things we could have done better, there are things i could've done better, but i think it is fair to say that the outside intervention, the combination of the comey letter on october 28th, wikileaks which played a much bigger role than i think many people understand yet, had the determinative effect. i don't want anybody running campaigns or the republican party to have their communications stolen, which is what it was. it was a theft. it was a more effective theft even than watergate back in the day. >> gloria, what do you think? >> it's hard to deconstruct that. s

maybe eventually we'll get an answer to that from jim comey. >> we will wait. thanks, rachel. >>> well, when bill clinton fired missiles during his presidency, republicans questioned that they questioned whether that was to distract attention from the monica lewinsky scandal, and that was a legitimate question. you couldn't possibly get through covering that story without having that question come up. because the president was deeply involved in the scandal. and the missiles changed the subject as the missiles always do. missiles always change the subject. and so tonight we have some questions about the motivations of everyone involved. in what has happened inside syria. >> the united states took a very measured step last night. we are prepared to do more. >> she is clearly telegraphing a deeper involvement in syria, which again, several days ago was not a key priority for the trump administration. -- the strikes on syria? >> thank you very much. >> i'm dentist trustful of how quickly he switched. i don't know what his motivations were. >> it is frankly not hel