the question here is are memos that jim comey wrote down because he was concerned about how the meetingoing to be talked about later by the president considered classified information? and if the fbi was in fact conducting an investigation into russian interference into the 2016 election would those notes in and of itself be part of that investigation and would the details that comey went into be classified. and now, when we get neat situations like we've had over the past six months would the president tweets something and then everybody kind of shifts folk us to what it you also have to remember there are things going on outside of that spotlight. and that things going on right now is the investigation by the special counsel robert mueller. we had reporting in the last couple weeks that muller is working on obstruction of justice case looking into whether or not the president firing jim comey was, in fact, obstructive act, which he could then bring criminal charges on. also, remember, let's talk about the last 24 hours of news segment. you opened up 5@630 tonight and flurry of activit

so jim comey has -- i mean, just a base level. i think already got them pretty easy on misdemeanors. the question is how many felonies could you add up at this point? liz: you know, jordan, comey's actions some critics have said what kind of message are you sending the rest of the intelligence community that you, such a high level individual leaked -- and the flip side of that too is leaking is par for the course, clearly because james comey was so comfortable doing it. and we have former house oversight chair jason chaffetz saying comey repeatedly downplayed the security level of his memos. let's take a listen. >> the fbi director multiple times has testified and in his public comments has said whether or not they're marked as classified does not matter. it's the content. regardless, you cannot take a government record and just hand it out to your buddy. liz: i mean, we're talking also about people who oversee our nation's secrets. does this show comey's disregard. >> absolutely. i mean, he is -- these are individuals at the highe

but i'm not ready to accuse jim comey of releasing classified information without evidence. you know, this whole story about allegations of subversion and treason without regard for evidence. and that is if you look in wikipedia the definition of mccarthyism. we've really got to slow down and try to not put so much fire behind these investigations where there's really no evidence that a crime or something wrong's been committed. >> meanwhile, we continue to see leaks coming out of the white house. let's talk about that for a moment because representative says the house oversight committee is bringing in big names to investigate the leaks. and people want to know if ben rhodes is one of those people who has been questioned former national security advisor to president obama, is he calling his former colleagues who are currently working at the white house, obama holdouts and leaking information? is he helping to leak things? what do you think about the leaks coming out of the white house in the intelligence community? how do you stop it? >> well, you know, i think you do inves

william: the famous jim comey. ,esse: the now famous jim comey from such roles as being fired as theirector i donald trump. he was in a different role. he had just become the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. that is the premier job for a law enforcement officer of corporations and wall street. the southern district is the prestigious office, the department of justice. it was true. he was replacing a legend in the office, mary jo white jesse:. who became the security and exchange -- mary jo white. a lot of characters in my book have cameos and then reemerged in the trump years. he says i'm going to give you a speech, but before i do, how many of you guys have never lost a case? a bunch of hands shoot up. these are the best of the best of the best. they have gone to the best law schools, think of themselves as the best trial lawyers in the country. they are very proud of their records. he says me and my buddies have -- have a name for you guys. you are the chicken bleep club. william: what did he mean by that? jesse: you can't be just about winning. your ambition is

but the key point here from the jim comey story is that jim comey had made clear that he was going tot, that he didn't answer those questions the right way as far as we could see, and then the next thing you know, the president who later said i fired him because of that russia investigation. >> do you think part of it is just his going back to his businessman perspective where, if you hire someone, you can fire someone? maybe -- >> that is one way to think of it, but when you're the president of the united states, you take an oath to the constitution, and the constitution says all kinds of things, including that we don't have foreign interference in our democracy and the constitution talks about the independent judiciary, and we have a system in which these law enforcement people are -- they are beholden to the law. >> i want to ask you about one of your colleagues, senator john mccain, who has just been, as we learned and everyone was so surprised to learn he's had a brain tumor removed and he'll be undergoing treatment. so many concerns for him on capitol hill and you just spoke to

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i'm sure that he has read jim comey's memos, he knows whether or not there with classified material inws whether or not it was appropriate to release them and he doesn't want to prejudice anybody by commenting on them. as a general proposition, yes, when he worked for the government and you prepare a memo, it belongs to the government, but if this is a memo that jim comey prepared to refresh his lack collection and there's nothing classified, there is nothing wrong with what he did. >> dagen: if it has to make do with mueller, could he pursue mueller if he thought he was out-of-bounds in his investigation? >> judge andrew: he is mueller's only boss on the planet and miller reports to hi him. he is involved and the hiring, firing, and budgets and what he presents to a grand jury. he decides on how much leeway he wants to give him. >> marie: comey also had to testify publicly under oath about those memos, so that information was probably coming out one way or another, but i keep going back to the fact that the comey memos, robert mueller even existing is a special counsel, none of this w

that special counsel, according to jim comey is doing an investigation of obstruction of justice.ng this now? why are you bringing an article of impeachment? robert mueller hasn't even reported his postage stamp yet. this was his answer to the question. shouldn't you let mr. muller finish his work before you go and file this impeachment. >> obviously we need to let mueller, you know, finish his work that work may indeed show additional high crimes and misdemeanors or additional support in evidence for the two that i've identified to you but we already have credible sworn under oath testimony from james comey who is not some hillary clinton, bernie sanders wild eyed democrat. this is a man who wanted to be part of the trump administration. >> reporter: okay. so reality check here. this article of impeachment, the way this congress is constituted with republicans in charge is not going anywhere folks. the republicans are not going to move in on this at least while they're in charge. sherman himself told us jim and shawn this is an effort for him to move the ball but to be clear this

the predicate is jim comey, jim comey's statements about hillary clinton.the election and all things russia. if i had my druthers this would be about christopher wray, qualifications to be the fbi director, does he have the right temperment, the right experience, all those other things. like you said was set up today austria man for political speak for different centers to make their argument to a person who will not acknowledge that which he does not know. he hasn't been in charge of the russia investigation. he hadn't read mails that were, that are subject of so much coverage yesterday. bob mueller has got the investigation now. and so part of what christopher wray's job is to look narrowly about that which is going to be in his lane, and that didn't address a lot of what these senators wanted to bounce off him. trish: hopefully it doesn't leak, right? that was the comey situation. outrageous, outrageous that he kept those moment mess. not necessarily that the kept the memos. i don't have as much problem with that as i do the idea that i would call up a b

but particularly coming on the heels of jim comey. and that was not lost on these senators, particularly the democrats. i want to play for you an exchange that he had with patrick leahy, a veteran of this committee on the question of loyalty. >> my loyalty is to the constitution, to the rule of law and to the mission of the fbi. and no one asked me for any kind of loyalty oath at any point during this process, and i sure as heck didn't offer one. >> you would not give one if asked? >> correct. >> if the president asked you to do something unlawful or unethical, what do you say? >> first i would try to talk him out of it. and if that failed, i would resign. >> obviously unspoken backdrop of that was the alleged conversations that the president had with the guy he fired, james comey, asking him to do things that james comey felt uncomfortable about. >> well, right. and one of the things that you take away from the exchange that he had with senator graham and also this exchange with senator leahy, is that he understands the stakes are hi

>> so obviously i don't speak for jim comey, but i will say this.n donald trump makes a suggestion like that, the word that comes to mind is p projections. and jim comey did testify under oath that he felt like the president was trying to exercise leverage over him. and so, you know, you have two people -- >> so you think he just turns everything around, you're a puppet of russia, no, you're the puppet of russia. you're not qualified to be president, no, you're not qualified to be president, that sort of thing. >> i will just say this. one of them is under oath. the other of them is not. and last week before the president said this, i ran a little google poll which people can find on law fair. google surveys. it's actually a scientific poll, albeit a very simple one about who people believe about their interactions, president trump or jim comey. 17% of americans believe the president. so i think you can say, look, one of them is under oath and the other one is 17% of americans believe about his interactions with the fbi director. >> thank you very m

the president fired fbi director jim comey, and admitted on national television he was thinking quote about this russia thing when he did it. then, after special counsel mueller was appointed to lead the investigation, allies of the administration went on television to defame his character, to sell his reputation, shameful pole ploy of a great man who has a great record of nonpartisan public service a man can have in this country. m now, the president continually berates and humiliates his former friend, maybe still spring, who knows, but his attorney general, his great ally in his campaign, man on twitter, jeff sessions was one of president trumps earliest friends and for supporters in congress. not only does that at the character which assured us, i cannot imagine any american likes the way senator sessions was treated whether you agree ot disagree with him. bu it raises questions about whether the president wants the attorney general to resign so he can appoint a new attorney general willing to fire specialn counsel mueller. if such a scenario were to pass, we would have a constitu

you know, when he fired jim comey, that was a red line that he crossed. and they failed that test.y were supposed to stand up for the department's independence then and push back against the president and they didn't do it. this is another big test for them and the institution. are they going to allow donald trump to trample all over the independence of the investigation, or of the justice department, or are they going to stand up and say this isn't the way the system works in america. if they don't do it, there's one left in the executive branch, it will have to come from congress. >> one last quick question before you go. you wrote recently, some days ago, that something like this might happen. given your precedence that the president has just done this, do you know what happens next? >> i think we're headed for a massive clash. it's clear donald trump is not going to respect this investigation. i don't think it's a coincidence that he launched this attack after the investigation got close to his son. we found out yesterday that bob mueller is looking at his son. he's making clea

comey, you -- president comey -- >> reporter: faltering publicly while grilling former fbi head jim comeyg to have to help me out here. >> i'm a little confused senator. >> reporter: cbs news chief medical correspondent, dr. jon lapook. >> the front of the brain is important for communication. any abnormality there could cause a change in behavior. >> reporter: mccain's health crisis is holding up a vote that could affect health care for millions of americans. without him, republicans have no shot at passing their obamacare replacement bill. so the president wished mccain a speedy recovery today. >> because we miss him. he's a crusty voice in washington, plus we need his vote. >> reporter: mccain is one of about a dozen republican senators who haven't said where they stand. he's been getting an earful from arizona's republican governor, who is worried about the bill's deep medicaid cuts. anthony, supporters of the bill worry that those kinds of concerns are going to be amplified in this process gets dragged out while he recovers. >> a crusty voice. that may be the nicest thing the preside

but listen, that's a bombshelby jim comey. the whole country watched him testimony, supposed to be some big super bowl like event. we learned him say i felt as a private citizen i should release this information. oh, but i also gave it to my friend so he would leak it to the media with the expectation it would trigger special counsel. what was in that information? apparently it contained classified information. >> right. i just think it's humorous that -- >> having nine conversations with the president. >> look, if it's true -- >> this doesn't concern you at all? >> absolutely. >> that the fbi director is doing what hillary clinton did the year before? >> it all concerns me. >> being so willy nilly with classified, confidential information? >> it all concerns me. i just have to smile at the suggestion from the same white house that calls unnamed sources not a legitimate basis for journalism, now you're leaning on it so heavily because it suits you. it all matters to me. but the president saying that he wanted to work with russ

he referred to jim comey as a nut job in that meeting as well. but also the fact that, you know, we don't really know what donald trump looks like on the world stage with someone who, as jill noted, is very skilled and practiced at this. this not vladimir putin's first rodeo on something like this. i think as much as what they say, how they look, the body language, we know this is a thing with donald trump with the politics of the handshake onward, i think all of that stuff will be scrutinized and rightly scrutinized because vladimir putin gets it. he gets this is theater at some level, and he will be ready not just for questions about what was discussed, but for how it looked. and so i think donald trump -- look, he has a real challenge on his hands, not just with putin but with the broader meetings. in his last trip to europe, he didn't exactly -- i know this will make his supporters happy, but he didn't exactly wow european leaders, so i think there's real questions meaning the broader g-20 summit with trade, migration, with it being in german

from the jim comey a nut job to what did or didn't happen in moscow. how do you think we all know about the jim comey's nut job remark? stay tuned. i'm sure trump is. vladimir sure is. "all in" starts now. >> nobody really knows for sure. >> the president goes to eastern europe to denounce american intelligence. american media and the last american president. >> why did obama do nothing about it? the presses's remarksable performance on foreign soil. his dark speech and what it means for his meeting with vladimir putin. new signs that protest pressure is to stop the health plan. and investigating the unending cycle of gun violence. >> around here, you ain't nobody until you kill somebody. "all in" starts right now. >> good evening from chicago. i'm chris hayes and we are 14 hours away from president trump's high stakes meeting with russian president vladimir putin at the g-20 summit. tonight, inning has learned in a bre will have one official by his side. that will be secretary of state rex tillerson getting the russian order of friendship from putin i

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from the jim comey a nut job to what did or didn't happen in moscow.he jim comey's nut job remark? stay tuned. i'm sure trump is. vladimir sure is. "all in" starts now. >> nobody really knows for sure. >> the president goes to eastern europe to denounce american intelligence. american media and the last american president. >> why did obama do nothing about it? the presses's remarksable performance on foreign soil. his dark speech and what it means for his meeting with vladimir putin. new signs that protest pressure is to

fbi personnel, can a new director be as independent as he needs to be given the fact that jim comey lostr apparently an attempt to influence him? .on: time will tell these are very challenging times for the fbi, challenging times in our government. tomorrow, we get a sense of whether this congressional committee feels like they can trust what comes out of christopher wray's mouth. when he would like you provide us tomorrow our assurances about how he would view government , not only from the senate judiciary committee, but other committees on capitol hill , how he sees the relationship between himself and the attorney general, how he sees the relationship tween himself and the president of the united states. i would certainly expect to hear ways, relivet, in the last few months, where mr. wray's asked specific questions about how he would respond if given a similar set of circumstances at the white house that jim comey faced. david: would you similarly expect him to say what communications he has had with the president himself on that question? or: i think we will see one more of the sen

no one's coming up with anything including jim comey. start going the grand jury route because miller has access to a grand jury as special counsel, than the president has a big decision to make. >> meghan: there stacking the deck in their own favor. how is that legal? >> judge jeanine: it is legal because -- if i'm a judge, and the defense attorney comes in and he says to me, the prosecutor is doing x, y, and z, i have the ability to say, you know what? you off the case. or i'm going to recuse myself. there is no judge who is overseeing this. it is donald trump who has the power to end it. i'm sure this is a very delicate balance. he doesn't want the saturday night massacre, but he is the only one who can change it since now they've got mueller in the middle of this. >> trish: he's in a tough spot spot. president trump weighing in on allegations that he had blackmailed a reddit user who created a video showing the president body slamming a mocked up cnn character. mr. trump had to say and what the network may have broken the law -- we d

but the investigation is only in part about why jim comey was fired. there is a lot more to the investigation focusing on the russia contacts. trish: you talk about russia contacts. you might have a pandora's box as far as the clintons are concerned regarding the uranium deal she did with russia. when you think about what happened in the obama administration and the protection hillary clinton was afford by members of the obama administration. something even james comey mentioned in his testimony. why is that being ignored? >> that's a separate question. whether there are other thing that should be investigated doesn't tell us whether bob mueller is doing a good job in his investigation of the usualu issues. those are outside of bob mueller's pemueller's purview. trish: if i'm jeff sessions, the a.g., i won't encourage the team to look into that? >> a decision was made under the last administration by jim comey not to pursue charges against hillary clinton. that was highly controversial. if jeff sessions were to reopen that that could be problematic. tr

, this was the conversation that jim comey had with the president that first meeting, and he's sitting there, this is insane. >> melissa: you saw the joint press conference is coming up in france. we'll bring that to you with the french president and president trump. republicans are huddling in a closed-door meeting to talk about health care bill. mitch mcconnell is hoping to vote on it next week, despite opposition from some members of his own party. the question remains, can they pass this bill? ♪ [vo] progress is seizing the moment. your summer moment awaits you now that the summer of audi sales event is here. audi will cover your first month's lease payment on select models during the summer of audi sales event. (woman vo)o) my husband didn't recognize how tour grandson.eeth. (woman 2 vo) that's when moderate alzheimer's made me a caregiver. (avo) if their alzheimer's is getting worse, ask about once-a-day namzaric. namzaric is approved for moderate to severe alzheimer's disease in patients taking donepezil. namzaric may improve cognition and overall function, and may slow the wors

examples were put out about the firing of jim comey was about.e president said he fired jim comey because of the russia thing. level of credibility from the senior levels really is suspect and i think suspect regardless of which political party you belong to. >> that june 2016 meeting with the russian lawyer included eight people. will your committee seek to call all eight of them to testify? >> i would like to hear from all of these individuals. whether we'll be able to get the russian nationals to come over and testify is an open question. i sure as heck want to talk to all of them. >> do you think trump junior and kushner will testify in open session so the public can hear them? >> they have said they're anxious to work with the committee. again i'm going to take them at their word. it will be interesting to see whether they'll be willing to testify in open hearing or closed hearing. end of the day we've got to get the information and then we have to share the information with the american public. the american public deserves to know how the r

then you have this reporting from jim comey's memo that trump urged the fbi tried to jail reporters.aid he should jail journalist who's publish classified information. it was an act of intimidation which would likely be unconstitutional. a huge scandal if it was one thing any other president did. and then this week for your response, officials saying jeff sessions now due to announce in the coming days a number of criminal leak investigations, based on news accounts of send i have the intelligence information. what do you see going on here? >> what i see going on here is, you know,resident trump himself has been decrying leaks, criticizing sessions for not opening criminal leak investigations. so sessions is bowing to him had. and president trump would not be the first president to encourage criminal leak investigations. president obama surprised me and everyone by initiating more criminal leak investigations than any president before him. so i don't find it surprising. i find it alarming that the president during the campaign talked about, quote/unquote, opening up the libel laws an

trump asked why sessions did not fire the acting fbi director trying to tie him to jim comey and hillary clinton. it comes after days of attacks in which trump has called sessions very weak, referred to him as beleagued, said he was very disappointed in sessions. tonight we have some new reporting from "the washington post" saying trump is talking privately about the idea of a recess appointment waiting until congress leaves town on summer vacation to replace sessions. quoting here, still raging over sessions' recusal from the justice department's escalating russia investigation. trump has been talking privately not so privately anymore about how he might replace sessions and possibly side step senate oversight for people familiar with the issue said. two of those people, however, described trump as musing about the idea rather than outlining a plan of action. and "the new york times" tonight reports from sources that white house aides including priebus and bannon believe they have talked trump down from firing sessions, but "his anger was deep, they added, and nothing was certain when i

whatever you think of jim comey and people have plenty opinions about jim comey, the way he was treated by the president, i don't care who you are and the way you think about different political parties, was very acceptable about a man who ran the fbi well, had great respect for the fbi. so not surprising, that's an honorable man. b what caught my eye was the fact that story came out today. we know president trump, one of his quirks is anything related to mueller or the fbi or the russia investigation just makes his head explode, so i wonder if this is an uncomfortable moment. i am keeping my fingers crossed that general kelly will.i. impo some order and keep a respectable relationship with the president. i suspect all of that doesn't help. >> james comey was informed he was out as the fbi director bypassing a tv on his way out in los angeles. that was very irritating not only to him but to others. let's get a reaction to the russia sanctions bill. the russia president vladimir putin now says he will make the u.s. reduce its embassy and consulate staff in russia by 775 people, including

yes, he did get rid of jim comey but outside of comey, you have sean spicer who he basically asked toough he appointed scaramucci to the communications director job and you have mike flynn who he fired because he lied to, he, mike flynn lied to mike pence but trump repeatedly said i wish we hadn't fired him. he doesn't like to fire people. what he's doing here is making it so uncomfortable for jeff sessions that he hopes jeff sessions resigns. you shouldn't -- chris, sorry, i'll is ai this quickly. chris, you shouldn't treat your attorney general like this. you shouldn't treat anyone like this. if you have an issue with someone you should deal with it privately and say you either have to go or stay or change this conversation. not just attack him to the point where you force him out. this is bullying. >> look, he's trying to back channel the saturday night massacre, that's what's happening. if sessions resigns, then you appoint someone else who then assumes power. >> that's right. >> and says the special counsel thing is really a terrible distraction and as chris said, you know, i'm g

president, you fired jim comey because he dropped the ball on hillary so why don't you take that evidenceand see whether or not the grand jury diets indicts her evidence of guilt overwhelming the lindsey graham senator graham argument we don't go after political opponents for vengeance purposes we should let this rest my view the evidence of guilt overwhelming jim comey was wrong to usurp the role of the attorney general announce publicly she is not going to be investigated president trump could change that with a phone call to jeff sessions the other request made about mrs. clinton is there appears to be some evidence of interaction between her campaign, and foreign entities to make then candidate trump look bad, remember receiving quote anything of value closed quote from a foreign national or foreign government running campaign is a felony allegations against donald trump, jr., same allegations made against a john podesta not personally but people working for him in the clinton camp that is the complicated mess we are confronting this morning republicans want mrs. clinton gaitdz becaus

jim comey back in the news, melissa, this afternoon as deputy press secretary sarah huckabee sanders camara press briefing, that they feel comey should be he quote, thoroughly investigated. this relatings to "the hill" article, that jim comey memos he made between himself and president trump, "the hill" reports that some of those contained classified information. that caught the eye of president trump on this day who tweeted out the following early this morning, writing, quote, james comey leaked classified information to the media. that is so illegal. here with sanders at the off-camera briefing just a little while ago. >> i think there are a lot of questions out there. and a lot of reports where it indicates that director comey may have leaked classified information. that certainly is a threat to the national security and violates policy and law. i think it is something that should be investigated thoroughly. reporter: now to the defense because the white house on this day had to defend donald trump, jr. after the president's oldest son admitted to a meeting with a russian attorney

trump's obsession with loyalty, as you pointed out, it was a big theme of his interactions with jim comey. this is why he's mad at sessions. mr. scaramucci, the new communications director said, you know, cabinet members have to have the president's back. no, not the attorney general. the attorney general's job is to be independent. the president doesn't get that. >> that's not how it went down, though. there's an important factual issue. it's not that jeff sessions realized this is taking place and i need to recuse myself. jeff sessions gave a botched answer during his confirmation hearing. when was that confronted with that, he recused himself and didn't give the president a heads up in the process. so in the president's mind, i am saying i don't think it was because jeff sessions realized there was some issue at play. it was an issue that he created. >> but that makes trump's position even more bizarre. >> i understand what you're saying. >> it's not -- it's because there was this intervening fact of a botched testimony. >> correct. what sessions did, most people think was the right th

when he went to jim comey and said, i want a loyalty oath from you, i want you to pledge loyalty to me us to have a patronage hip a relationship and i want you to drop the russia investigation and leave mike flynn alone, comey was horrified because the rule of law in that conversation was being broken like a dry twig. the president does not understand what the rule of law is. the president in his previous existence as a businessman, growing up here in new york, doing real estate deals consistent lly flouted the law d now he's under the mistaken impression that he's above it and the fbi is there to do his bidding. bobby mueller is independent. he's a special counsel and under the law he can work his will without the president's interference. the president goes after him, that's a second obstruction of justice. firing jim comey is one, messing with bobby mueller is two. >> your title is getting better all of the time. get better with age. tim, thank you for being here. appreciate you time. >> anytime. >>> much more to come here tonight. senator al franken is going to join us live as the

the fbi needed a new director after the president fired jim comey.f the white house called him, it's not surprising he would be willing to at least entertain the idea of stepping into the breach once more, but the notion that that was a job he was agitating for i find hard to believe. i also find it interesting that the white house had such confidence in robert mueller that they were willing to consider him as fbi director one day, why the next day all of a sudden they don't think much of him at all. >> and a man, robert mueller, who is not just a decorated individual in service to the country, but a registered republican, was roundly praised by republicans when he was made special counsel. robert, just in terms of the rules of the game, you were referring earlier to what the constitution lays out with the ability to check the president. of course, we have impeachment proceedings. and if you are impeached, then as president, you are vulnerable to criminal procedures. could a president -- >> that's the mix on process. >> so could a president be indict

to i herity the top law enforcement agency after president trump abruptly fired hi predecessor, jim comey. >>> president trump is once again coming to his son's defense, this time after donald trump jr. appeared on fox news. this morning the president tweeted his son was quote, open, transparent and innocent. he called the probe into the meeting between donald trump jr. and a russian lawyer, the greatest witch hunt in political history. the lawyer that met with the president's son claims she is not a government official. the kremlin has denied reaching out to the lawyer and denying all alligations. >>> meantime the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell is ready to unwrap the latest bill repealing much of president obama's health care law tomorrow. it will likely keep tax hikes on wealthy americans to help finance the expanded coverage and adds that he will begin trying to muscle the bill through the senate next week. >>> still to come here on "action news" at noon, one of the marines killed in the plane crash was from knowledge. the new details emerging. >>> and new doubts now about the

and he has deep history with bob mueller and also with jim comey. >> right. it's very interesting. you're really talking about a worl of three fbi directors. you have mueller and comey still there. he'll be walking in as really the junior fbi director in some ways. and there's pluses and minuses to that. one, he'll constantly have to be deal with these questions about other investigations that really he doesn't entirely have control over. and the same point, though, they may give him a window of are opportunity where he's not being pounded on so hardly he can start to set his own direction at the fbi. i think what's most important at this point is that he clearly states his vision for how he wants to gorn and that he tells the fbi, the members of the fbi, i have your back and i'm here to represent and protect you and your best interests as we pursue very independent investigation regardless of the political pressures that are out there. i think that's what the fbi people want is some sort of certainty, because there's been a lot of attacks launched against them either by the public

but again, anytime you talk about jim comey and the involvement of the fbi in this case, you have tod e-mails off of the state department system and on her personal server. he's not a factor in this election if she doesn't do that, that move with the private server that almost nobody else she could think of would have pulled. stuart: i read your book, read it cover to cover very quickly. it was a very readable book, and i was interested in the entire summit. what struck me was that hillary clinton held a staff meeting for all of her staff well into the campaign, well into the primary season, and she asked for ideas from her staffers, like that gentleman on the screen, what should i have as my message? she asked her staff what should i be talking about. what's my vision. i was astonished to hear that, actually. >> and, stuart, it's interesting. it's not just people in politics who look at that and say that's astounding. people in business, in all walks of life have wanted to talk to my co-author and i about particular, this particular passage and the lack of a mission. hillary clinton

first donald trump fires jim comey.ow he is asking jeff sessions essentially to resign and with kind of a threat that if you don't, you'll be fired and it is all heading towards robert mueller and his investigation. that's what this is all about. that's what it's always been about. it is about the russian investigation and these footsteps that keep getting closer to the oval office. what the president is doing is basically setting the stage for a constitutional crisis. he's setting the stage for this entire city and country to head into a political twilight zone, where he is repeating the history of richard nixon and unfortunately we know how that ended. and, so, this is playing out not exactly but very closely down the line with the nixon years and it is really going to be an issue that brings democrats and republicans together. >> okay. so i understand that you and donald trump have very different reasons for thinking what may be the same thick. but i must ask you this. you have been so critical of attorney general se

to move forward with a congressional investigation on loretta lynch and things that came out in jim comey'sestimony. i don't know what's going to happen to jeff sessions. i don't believe he's going to resign. ultimately the president may get his wish. people will look into hillary but it will be congress, not the doj. >> ken, does this make sense to you the president is doing this so publicly? >> flow, i wouldn't use that phrase it makes sense. i will say that jeff sessions is showing people he's a standup person when it comes to the rule of law and the constitution and respecting the office he holds. and i have to also say that it is nice to hear after eight years so much of the largely left media establishment defending the role of the attorney general as somewhat independent. the last attorney general's for president obama did his will, but president obama and they were much smoother about not doing all this public junk that we're seeing almost daily from the president directed at attorney general sessions. >> i mean, to your point, you had director comey testifying about loretta lynch t

. >> so this has to do, i'm assuming, with the firing of jim comey that donald trump's own actions after russia gate had already taken place. is that what you're talking about? >> exactly. mr. comey was fired. the president confessed on national television on prime time he made it clear that this was being done because of the investigation. he went on to intimidate him with a tweet. these are things that are impeachable. when these things are all added up, they're impeachable. the president has to come before the bar of justice, and the only place that that bar of justice exists is the house of representatives. each member of the house can file a resolution for impeachment. i was proud to join representative cher man with his articles of impeachment. but i will be filing articles, unless, of course, the judiciary committee acts on what's been filed already. and if thshd, then there won't be a need. >> that's the question, though. do you think there's any chance at all that the republican controlled house of representatives is going to ever impeach this president? >> well, the house of re

, about whether jim comey had leaked, whether he's getting a book deal, and everyone tried to get himk to the subject of whether don junior should have had this meeting and what about all these subsequent stories which are different from the initial version? ? >> the president will get a big bill from yesterday. >> why don't we try to get through some of this point by point with you. from what you know about what has been said publicly about this meeting now, do we know everyone that was in that meeting? do you know everyone who was in ta meeting? was it six, eight? how many russians were there? >> thanks for having me back. we are seeking in our committ committee's investigation to understand exactly who was many the meeting, what -- who was involved in setting up the meeting and what follow-up took place. it's very hard to imagine that this was just a one-off meeting. when you read the e-mail correspondence it seems that there's prior knowledge that exists. and you certainly would have to think that they would have followed up, especially with don junior saying in one of the e-mails