your reaction to the op-ed that jim come maine wrote. comey wrote. >> yeah. jim comey doesn't care. as jerusalem comey care -- jim comey cared number that he created the special counsel. his ego, when he got fired, was why jim comey cared enough to leak classified, privileged conversations with the president of the united states from the oval office to the new york times to create the special counsel. now the special counsel doesn't come up with the findings that jim comey wants, and he wants everyone to know that he doesn't care anymore. but at the same time, in that op-ed he wants to lecture you and me ask about the rule of law and restoring the reputation of the department of justice. getting a lecture from jim comey about the rule of law is like getting lectured by bernie madoff on how to invest wisely. donald trump wasn't the president when loretta lynch met with bill clinton five days before hillary clinton was cleared. and donald trump wasn't president when jim comey talked in the public square about conduct of hillary clinton for which she wasn't charged. maria: yeah. >> all

i have a special message for jim comey. for nearly two years, the united states of america, we have somehow managed to survive without the dedicated stewardship of our righteous moral savior, the ever so virtuous and honorable james comey. thankfully he's back and telling all of us we are the stupid, smelly, walmart shoppers of america. his colleague peter strzok, that's how he refers to us. he's telling us how to behave as the mueller witch hunt nears its conclusion. we are going to show you what the indignant, totally disgraced, fired fbi director had to say. we are going to remind you of all about james comey and why the president did the country a favor by firing him. all right, but first, we'll get to that in a minute. it's time for our ongoing hannity watch on the radical socialist democratic 2020 candidates. we start tonight with really more bizarre behavior from robert francis beto bozo or wor work. no table is safe in america. robert francis seems to force his way into every restaurant, every diner in the great sta

well, jim comey, i don't believe a single word you say. time now for a "hannity" history lesson on james comey and his role in all of this. he is the root of almost everything here. james comey, he was the one who totally mishandled and helped rig the clinton investigation. he's the one that allowed obama's attorney general loretta lynch to dictate how his agency was conducting the investigation. or should i say matter? which he allowed her to say when he knew it was supposed to be an investigation. he was leading it. jim comey, the one who oversaw s clinton's exoneration letter in may of 2016, three months before the investigation ended and three months before hillary clinton, other key witnesses, were even interviewed. what i call the exoneration before investigation.th by the way, it was he who allowed two other people in the room with hillary when she was being interrogated. supposedly. he's the one that signed off on changing the all important o language in the letter, the exoneration letter. "gross negligence" was taken out. that wou

jim comey's right. we need more details rather than less. it's an unprecedented time in our history. applying criminal standards to how we shape this mueller report will not work for us. >> alyssa, there's something about watching this white house brace for a real crisis. they don't pull off the easy days. they don't pull off trips to cemeteries on foreign trips to honor veterans. they don't pull off low-hanging fruit. they don't -- they don't utter, you know, platitudes about members of congress with cancer. i mean, they don't pull off the easy things. how are they going to brace for this? >> so this was something that, you know, i have worried about all along. being deputy chief of staff for operations, you know, working in the white house, everyone has their job. you have your role, you have your responsibility. you have your remit. the president's schedule is the organizing principle around what everyone is doing in the white house. they don't do anything. you don't know what anybody's doing. 50% of them are trying to save themselves. >>

you were making a point about jim comey. the weekend and then he comes out with this tweet of him in the woods, looking up and saying so many questions. it's bizarre. >> there are so many questions and i hope that jim comey has to answer all of them. jim comey said that he made the decision not to charge hillary clinton with mishandling classified information based on a review of the facts in evidence. lisa page testified that she wasn't charged because the department of justice said they could not consider gross negligence. we have a document that backs up lisa page's sworn testimony that that is in fact true. so those are the types of questions that jim comey's going to have to come back and answer under oath. it's those types of things that have really, maria, shaken people's faith and trust in our fbi and in the department of justice and i think bill barr's on a path to restore people's confidence in that by bringing accountability and i hope that he continues in that regard and i expect that he will. maria: it's extraor

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the op-ed, jim comey was director of the fbi, jim comey knew that he had flimsy evidence to actuallya warrant to wiretap an american citizen, he know that the dossier was unverified, he called it solicitous, for him to write op-ed, what's your reaction? >> they fired mr. steele, i'm disgusted by the fact that jim comey still has a platform. he's a proven liar. he took steps that would actually make the fbi political operation and not law enforcement operation, he has done more damage than anybody involved to the process. i don't care what he thinks about the special counsel. maria: it's incredible. andrew mccabe writing a book, going all over the place on book tour, these guys were complicit. running two interviews at the same time on hillary clinton investigation, they were told by the doj, we know this from lisa page testimony, stay away from it. >> called off. you had a president that intervened in an fbi investigation and that president was obama, it was not president trump, we are studying and investigating the whole wrong episodes here. we should be investigating what obama did

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i believe it started with jim comey. lots of folks saying he specifically leaked information hoping it would draw an investigation. so he is doing something aggrandizing himself, but maybe should go get a lawyer. maybe he should be brought in. maybe he should not get the hero's welcome on the phone about your. -- book tour. theysterday people said were unfairly treated in this investigation. >> he's right. >> you to consider hard for people at michael flynn, paul manafort? >> i haven't discussed that with him. >> justification after these conclusions? >> i haven't discussed it with him? >> do you believe these charges -- >> when i am president, i will let you know who i am pardoning. how about that? >> why shouldn't the country be elicited the president's written responses? because he is responding to questions it returned out were not particularly relevant or important anything. there no collusion, no obstructive conduct, no indictments. nobody named trump indicted. i know you want to keep -- i know a lot of folks want

it is not just jim comey who is still scratching his head. our own legal analyst chuck r e rosenberg is confused also. so is eric holder who hired mueller at one point, and adam schiff is defiantly saying there is undoubtedly collusion despite the findings that there was not enough evidence. let's try to cut through this collusion. doug berns is a federal prosecutor. phil bump, reporter, and doug, does it make sengs to you why he would punt on the issue of obstruction? >> no, i said coming out of the kate that after he reached the decision, it didn't make sense that he would say i didn't use the normal process with making a determination to whether or not it was obstruction. he is did it on the first part. i want to make a fairness point though, everybody kmujumped and said an independent counsel is to be separate from d.o.j. the independent statute lapsed, this is a special counctsel in d under the same umbrella. it makes it less -- never the less it is correct to say wait why didn't he make that decision, why did he let par do it. >> especi

you let hillary clinton have an extended tour, let jim comey say whatever he wanted. this liar and leaker who the democrats couldn't stand and then he was the second coming. you really have to reflect, folks. i mean, i don't know how else to say it. i'm here all the time talking, we make ourselves available. the president makes themselves available. i was asked ten times a day on tv in the 2016 elections after that final debate where hillary clinton basically admitted she is for infantcide. i was out six times a day, will he accept the election results. will you? will people who are there for the destruction of donald trump accept the election results in 2016 finally? will these democrats who chair powerful committees. will people in the media who aren't under oath in their anchor chairs, who have wasted all this time, all this money. and you know what really gets me, a very calm, very happy person. i'll tell you what gets my goat. you don't owe me an apology. you owe the country an apology. and i'm not talking all of you here. i'm talking generally. but let me make v

and those rules, except for jim comey, apply this way., you can put whatever you're willing to put in an indictment and have a grand jury sign off on. if you don't charge, keep quiet. you're not supposed to talk about people you're unwilling to charge. and that's, to me, was my principal objection to what jim comey did to hillary clinton. he killed her over the summer of 2016 without being willing to charge her. that's wrong. that's not what the justice department does. >> when you consider the facts that there were a number of trump associates involved in the meetings with the russians. >> 14. >> that's a fact. all of these folks, though, anybody close to republican politics, any operative would tell you most of these individuals, if not all of them, they could never survive in a christie campaign. would never have been hired or any other republican campaign. this is where i think -- >> it's an indictment of the president. >> this is a challenge for the president that he has had to deal with. some of this has been brought on by the hirin

i believe it started with jim comey. linking to lots of folks, saying he specifically leaked information hoping it would draw an investigation. i know he is out with the , he is doing something aggrandizing himself, but maybe we will have to hear from him again. maybe he should go get a lawyer. maybe he should be brought in. maybe he should not be given heroes welcome and a phony book tour. maybe he should be asked what happened under oath. reporter: you said people were unfairly treated in this investigation. is a newly considering pardons for people like michael flynn, paul manafort? ms. conway: i haven't discussed that with him. reporter: this he think there is justification after these conclusions? ms. conway: i haven't discussed it with him. reporter: do you believe these charges -- ms. conway: when i am president, i will let you know who i am pardoning. how about that? reporter: watched in the country be able to see the president's written responses? ms. conway: because he is responding to questions it turned out w

what's interesting to me, when i hear bob mueller or jim comey or andy mccabe described as republicans, it sort of makes me pause. i have worked with all of them, and i've got to tell you, not only did i not know what their politics were, i couldn't imagine having that conversation with them. that is something we leave at the doorstep always. >> it's a great point. i just meant they had been appointed by republicans as well as democrats for their high-level positions. >> right, and they served in many different administrations. the article jim comey wrote in "the new york times" is interesting because he says -- i think properly so -- it's not about the outcome, it's about the process. if the process is fair, if it's not obstructed, if the prosecutors and agents have access to witnesses and documents and if robert mueller is left to do his work, then whatever the outcome is the outcome is. that's the way we always think about our cases. it's not we're trying to get nicolle wallace. we're trying to get the truth. if the truth exonerates her, as of course it would, that's great. >> conce

robert mueller laid out enough evidence to explain the thing that none of us can understand, jim comey said he can't understand it. that's why he essentially left it as a jump ball over the issue of obstruction. the amount of information that someone like robert mueller would include in that, we would assume to be voluminous. we heard that word before. now we know it's over 300 pages. somewhere over 300 and less than 1,000 based on our reporting from "the washington post." that's a large range and i tried to get it narrowed down but had a hard time getting it nailed down. not only has he gone over the bare bones report to the justice department but it might reignite calls to see more trajz parnsy in this report. we know it's going to leave out grand jury information. it will leave out evidence that can be used and further investigations and further criminal proceedings that might spin off of this. i think now that we know there's so much more in there that explains what so far is unexplainable, the calls to see more of this report are just going to get louder >> let me follow up with y

jim comey was blasted for coming out and giving that press conference in the summer of 2016 and saying hillary clinton did not commit crime but then harshly condemning and characterizing her conduct. it seems mueller didn't even get that far, he didn't even get as far as to classify the conduct as criminal or not criminal. >> yes, and we don't know the reason why he didn't. we don't know if it was because he really couldn't reach a decision because he thought it was such a close call. we don't know if it's because he thought this was a more appropriate decision to be left to congress because he thought this was more in their per vipe. we don't know what is underlying that or the underlying piece of evidence that went into that. and you remember from barr's summary, there's only some of the obstructed act that's have been in the public's sphere. there are things ob stensively we don't know about that went into making that decision. >> ashley, you had your byline on amazing pieces about this moment for the president, where to him his experience is one of full exoneration, even though the

what's the motivation for him wanting to talk to bharara, what was the most vague for him firing jim comeyident's actions as it relates to lawyers in the justice department raise more questions than they answer. >> there's two communities in the united states that still know more than most average americans about what happened during trump's presidential campaign and thereafter, the intelligence community and the law enforcement community. and both of those communities had ample reason to be alarmed by information that they were gathering, the full scope of which we still don't know. >> and all of these people were doing what they entered these jobs to do. which is to enforce the law and protect the national security of the united states. it is good practice in a situation like that to gather evidence that can't be disputed, tape recordings go to that directly. i had two years of exposure to trump. people who worked for donald trump michael cohen and omarosa, taped him because they suspected he was taping them. >> as you say, you did it for your reasons. we're being told prosecutors never

jim comey. he was on nbc tonight. he was last seen gazing up at the redwoods.was on nbc tonight commenting. let's watch. >> if there are questions that haven't been answered in the hours and hours and hours of testimony i've given, of course ii'll answer them. i want it all done in the light of day. no more secret depositions. public hearings to serve the public interest. reif there are questions to be asked about how we handled this investigation or any other, let me know when you want me. >> laura: he's ready. >> okay, one is going to be in public and i'll give you a heads up. one of the questions i'm going to ask, did bruce ohr tell you you shouldn't trust christopher steele and how much time and attention did you put into verifying the dossier before you certified to the court that it was reliable. y there you go. think about it. come to the committee soon and give me the answer in public. you will testify, my friend, ine public, not behind closed doors and you will answer for your time as fbi director. >> laura: i want to get your take on another event tha

. >> jim comey doesn't care.as jim comey cared enough about the special counsel's conclusions he created the special counsel. now the special counsel doesn't come up with the findings that jim comey wants and he wants everyone to know he doesn't care anymore. >> bill: a bit of chaos on a cruise ship off the coast of norway, the viking sky tilting 45 degrees in choppy seas. look out below. it had engine trouble. mayhem on board. part of a ceiling fan falling down on passengers and 20 people injured. nearly 450 passengers rescued by helicopter. eventually the ship was towed to shore. everybody is okay. >> sandra: the college admissions scandal heads to court today. actresses lori laugh lynn and others on a long list of parents and coaches involved in the bribery scream that involves some of the country's biggest universities. >> on today's docket no parents but test administrators and coaches who allegedly accepted bribes from wealthy families to get those kids into elite schools. the man at theents of it all willi

you used the term, mark, undermining the authority of the attorney general by the way jim comey conducted usurped authority, and that's what the rod rosenstein memo said in may leading up to the firing of james comey by the president of the united states. i wish the president had taken this action much earlier. i think we would have avoided an enormous amount of grief had he, because jim comey -- and you and i are both alums of the justice department, and we know the hierarchy, and he knew the hierarchy. he had served in the justice department. so this was not inadvertent. he took the authority of the attorney general and assumed that foror himself. and then there may have been a very weak legal analysis going into the usurpation of authority; that is, a misreading of the statute. because mr. baker, the former general counsel, was, after all, the general counsel. he's the lawyer to the fbi. and so you would think that his view would carry a special weight in terms of the meaning of the statute, and he thought, according to these, thethought, testimony that we're now seeing, that she had,

opd he said, "i heard that you were one of the that did not support jim comey, you didn't agree with the s decisiat he'd made in the clinton case. and is that true?" nd i said, "no, sir, that true." >> seth: trump thinks he can je believing something. he's like one of those old-timey villains with black and white ir for eyes. [ laughter ] "you hated james comey." ed him." "no, you hated him." "what's wrong with your eyes?" "oh, they're transplants from a derner." [ laughter ] mccabe was worried -- [ applause ] mccabe was worried that the president was trying to interfere in the russia in stigation, which was obviously true. in fact, trump started to install loyalists who he knew he could control. like his recently departed acting attorney general matt whitaker. whitaker refushi to recuse elf from the russia investigation, and a few weeks ago, he even insisted the investigation was winding down. although he seemed super nervous about it. >> before you came into your current role, you were publically very critical of e special counsel investigation. now since you have received your bri

i argue he's in worse position jim comey found himself in. as least jim comey render an opinion, hillary clinton did not commit a crime. and mueller just said i have evidence on the side of the of of course instruction of justice and evidence on the other side. here you go. >> it is a mess. it's exactly what prosecutors don't -- i couldn't agree with frank more. you don't expect this is part of his charge. but, of course, it's so crucial to understand why. did he say i can't do it so you do it, ag bar? if he didn't say that, if he said instead, we need to serve it up to congress and that step was preempted in the middle by an attorney general who had seen it for 48 hours or a little bit more, then that is a real curveball in the whole process. why mueller made that choice and why barr made the choice both to pretempt it and why he chose the legal path he did to say there was no obstruction are screaming out to be answered and without those answers, the entire episode after 22 months of painstaking and thorough investigation ends it with this

that people really disliked jim comey and that they were very happy about this and that it was a greatat i was hearing from the president was not reality. it was the version of the events that i quickly realized he wished me to adopt. and he said, "i heard that you were one of the people that did not support jim comey, you didn't agree with him and the decisions that he'd made in the clinton case. and is that true?" and i said, "no, sir, that's not true." >> seth: trump thinks he can jedi-mind trick you into believing something. he's like one of those old-timey villains with black and white swirls for eyes. [ laughter ] "you hated james comey." "no, i liked him." "no, you hated him." "what's wrong with your eyes?" "oh, they're transplants from a derner." [ laughter ] mccabe was worried -- [ applause ] mccabe was worried that the president was trying to interfere in the russia investigation, which was obviously true. in fact, trump started to install loyalists who he knew he could control. like his recently departed acting attorney general matt whitaker. whitaker refused to recuse himse

the biggest issues are of course, jim comey's announcements in july about our conclusion of the case in a very public way that departed from president, and of course, jim's decision in october to notify congress about the reopening of the case because of the emails on the wiener laptop. i agreed with jim's decision to announce the case as we did in july. in retrospect, i think that would probably got that wrong. announcer: stephen recker is the creator of the book "rare images of antietam and the photographers who took them." next, stephen recker talks about how he became interested in collecting photographs of the antietam battlefield and shares pictures of some of the rare and previously unseen images he discovered. he also discusses what he learned about the battle of antietam and its aftermath from studying the photographs. this hour long talk took place at the shenandoah valley civil war museum in winchester, virginia. >> good evening.

nor in other words, we already know they fired jim comey. up to the house to decide whether or not that's part of a obstruction plot or not even without further evidence. we already know that at least the prosecutors believe the president of the united states has a candidate conspireing with his former attorney to violate campaign finance laws by paying hush money to keep them quiet for the election. these things are already known. what nancy pelosi is saying is that's not enough. that does not meet the standard she has set. her standard is compelling, overwhelming, and bipartisan. and that last one is the most important. critics may think what we've seen so far is compelling and overwhelming, but it's not bipartisan and as long as there are not 20 republican senators willing to look at this in the senate, then there's no point in going forward. that's what she's saying. it's going to take a whole lot, it seems to me she's saying to change that dynamic. it could change. she's given herself a big loophole if she wants to. for the moment she's

>> the most important thing is transparency and it's what jim comey has written about too. which is this is one of the most sensitive investigations in the history of the united states. parts of it have already implicated president trump in drengt wrong doing. that is said that he orb straighted the commission of campaign finance felonies. so given all of this back drop, given the fact there have been so many guilty pleas by the president's top inner serbal folks like michael flynn and the like, i think transparency is the most important thing we should be looking for. we need to see what the mueller report says as americans. >> isn't there a lot of latitude in that transparency? >> it's unclear to me what the puramteres or boundaries of most transparent are. >> you're right. the spells counsel regulations were written in general terms because they were written for a variety of investigations, not just of the president but lower level officials and not just crimes of the like. and the variety in which you might want a spells counsel and a conflict of interest or something l

jim comey, clinton, they are not the only ones who must be held accountable. obama's attorney general, we now know, loretta lynch also now needs to be investigated over the secret tarmac meeting with bill clinton. 45 minutes in a plane on the tarmac. this goes directly against the department's ethics handbooks, which requires the ag to avoid any appearance of impropriety and potentially 18 usc 1505, obstruction of justice.d we still have not been told what exactly did loretta lynch know? when did she know it? by the way, were the orders from the fbi really coming from the top of the doj? well, we have to ask. what did she know, when did she know it? what did barack obama know? when did he know it? let's not forget, we learnedkn last week, fbi lovers peter strzok and lisa page, they, too, need to be investigated for obstruction of justice. remember this text, page texted strzok july 2016, mocking lynch's statement about accepting the fbi's conclusions in the clinton email case, writing, it was "a real profile in courage" since she knows no charges will be broug

jim comey if he wanted to.ument for criminality there is sure he can fire him but he can't do it for an improper person. if he does to obstruct justice it's a crime. same issue going on here. sure, the president can issue pardons if he wishes to. but if he's doing it to obstruct justice it's still a crime. so that's what's at the heart of this article from "the wall street journal." >> earlier tonight on ari melber's newscast it was show and tell. i want to show what one of michael cohen's attorneys brought on show that we had not seen before. >> the first check, by the way, which was referenced in mr. cohen's testimony was a $70,000 check, which i have with me today. a copy of it i have with me today. a $70,000 check written on the donald j. trump revokable trust, which is also an interesting sidelight that the check was written on a revokable trust that was theoretically begun so that the president would have some separation between his life as a politician and his life as a civil servant. >> was that provide

informants in campaign engaging donald trump, jr.,. >> pete stroke goes to kri achieve andy mb kae jim comeyse wo not know we know a conversation with brennan strzok and page were concerned about that we ought to look at that more closely. maria: we want to know how far up to chain it goes to president obama and hillary clinton good to see you. thank you. >> we'll be right back. ♪ (indistinguishable muttering) that was awful. why are you so good at this? had a coach in high school. really helped me up my game. i had a coach. math. ooh. so, why don't traders have coaches? who says they don't? coach mcadoo! you know, at td ameritrade, we offer free access to coaches and a full education curriculum- just to help you improve your skills. boom! mad skills. education to take your trading to the next level. only with td ameritrade. is it to carry cargo... greatness of an suv? or to carry on a legacy? its show of strength... or its sign of intelligence? in crossing harsh terrain... or breaking new ground? this is the mercedes-benz suv family. greatness comes in many forms. lease the glc 300 for just

robert mueller was appointed special council i think nine days after donald trump fired jim comey, 22 months ago, they had a goal of finishing before the two year mark, they met their goal, they have been trying to wrap, i think, for about a week. folks are leaving, a few of the prosecutors have new jobs teaching and doing other things, their work is done. the mueller probe is officially over, that report has been handed to the attorney general, bill barr, former national security official telling me he becomes the most important person in the country. >> and we'll be talking about bill barr as much as bob mueller. he completed another tour of duty. it is time to go home. i'm sure they consult with the attorney general. there are loose threads, things to finish. i'm sure he will be asked to testify, but the pressure and the attention now switches to the attorney general and what he does with this thing. >> why don't we play what the attorney general said at his confirmation hearing. let's play that sound. i'm told we don't have that yet. our control rooms are still trying to figure it

she said perhaps people like jim comey ought to get more questions themselves. and it's also true that the white house is not going to be able to stop beating the drum on the investigation simply because there are other investigations. there is one up on capitol hill. there is one at the southern district of new york. and that also applies to this issue of obstruction that you have been talking about. since jim comey punted, one of the biggest questions we have is, is it settled or not? is the issue of obstruction on the president gone from view? that question posed this morning to sarah sanders. >> i frankly disagree with you and so does the attorney general and the deputy attorney general. the report found that they were unable to make a decision that went over tathe department of just wrs they did make a decision. the attorney general followed the legal process. he worked with the deputy attorney general who has been involved since the very beginning of this two-year absurdity. they made a decision that there was no obstruction. so that makes it a complete an

that came from leaks and accusations, i believe it started with jim comey. saying that he specifically leaked information hoping that it would draw an investigation. i know he's out with the redwoods or over that geopolitical and geological time he's doing something aggrandizing himself. but maybe we'll hear from him again. maybe he he should get a lawyer. maybe he should be brought in. maybe you shouldn't give him the welcome and phony book tour. maybe he should be asked what happened again under oath. reporter: people were unfairly treated in this investigation. considering any pardons for people like michael flynn, paul manafort? ms. conway: i haven't discussed that with him. reporter: does he he see any further just at this case that would be justified after these conclusions were released? ms. conway: i haven't discussed that with him. reporter: do you believe these charges -- ms. conway: what i'm president i'll let you know who i'm pardoning. reporter: why shouldn't the country be able to see the president's written responses? ms. conway: because he wa

jim comey is the walking, breathing, belching embodiment of personal interest.he wall street journal" has said, the editorial page, he has left a trail of legal messes wherever he has tried during his entire career. this is laughable. i want to point out, president trump never gave in to the left narrative that he was going to shut down the mueller report. he resisted that, they prodded him, they debated him, they goaded him into doing it. guess what? when this report drops i hope everybody says, "oh, president trump didn't get in the way of!" >> harris: i want to know how rod rosenstein really fits in. he's number two there. he delayed his departure. he has written this letter everyone is talking about today. who is listening to him? what does the new attorney general, william barr, have to say about all this? i have a question -- the attorney who wrapped up the investigation for kenneth starr and took over, robert ray, would remain next hour. i will ask him about that. how distracting is it heaven and were to say he's not leaving? >> lisa: stay tuned for that.

first, jim comey's professional reputation is on fire.verybody is forgetting here that it was jim comey's memos, the leak of those mamas that was meant as a push and incentive to start this witch hunt that ended up today like a dumpster fire. we now have nothing. another thing on comey, they base to nearly their entire investigation on the dossier. we now know according to comey himself he claims is salacious and unverified. not only does comey initiate a bulk investigation that leads nowhere based on a fake dossier, he also incentivizes them through the leak of illegal information to start a special counsel probe that leads to wha what? taxicab medallions? nothing? this is all we got? >> sean: based on no further indictments, i will ask you both, 20 seconds each, jason first, no further indictment, what is the worst that can be in there? innuendo, maybe people shouldn't have sat in a meeting or this piece of paper didn't look good? what? >> i don't think there will be much at all. remember, it was the inspector general who found director

and jim comey shouldn't have done it.was wrong to do it and it would be wrong despite the hysteria going on right now for bill barr to do something similar. the difference here is congress would be looking to subpoena that. hillary clinton couldn't be impeached. the president is the president. i think that's what this is going to come down to. maybe six months from now, maybe nine months from now is a fight in the united states supreme court based on a house subpoena over whether or not bill barr must turnover the entirety of bill mueller's report. >> do you think that the leadership of your party should do more to check this president's abuse of the truth to the american people? >> listen, i think the american people are in charge of holding him to account for that. because everyone is going to have a different view of it, chris. i know the way you feel. you feel strongly about it. i feel a little bit differently than you do about it and there's probably people out there that feel like the president is abused and beaten

like obstruction and he said he had russia on the mind when he fired jim comey. i've been dodging your question for 20 seconds now. i think it looks like that he found it to be a very tough and close question. on the one happened he probably saw there was a number of things that suggested there was obstructive intent and evidence of obstruction which is a very serious matter. and maybe he found things on the other side of the coin that mitigated that. and he decided, and this is speculation, that given the takes, how serious and how close a question it was, this is not for the special counsel to decide, it's something for congress to decide. and congress can hold the president accountable in a particular way. so he sort of punted to congress and then you had bill barr running on to the field grabbing the football and running in for a touchdown for trump because it did not seem to me that it was necessary for bill barr in the absence of bob mueller making a determination for bill barr who is a direct apointee of the president, not independent in the same a special

everyone is very concerned about the jim comey example from 2016 about hillary clinton and her e-mails, about sort of getting deep into the weeds why the justice department didn't pursue criminal charges in certain cases. but if mueller is supposed to tell a comprehensive narrative here, he is surely going to be talking about information that doesn't rise to the level of criminal charges. particularly in regards to the president himself. and as john dean was just saying, we don't yet know that the president has gotten a full clean bill of health from robert mueller's investigation here because one of the complicating factors is this justice department guideline that says the president cannot be indicted. so it is possible that the president might not be out of the woods legally yet, and certainly not politically yet depending on what's in this report. >> you have always said it's the narrative here that's so important. but when john dean references things like unwitting agent, you can obviously a situation like this which could be part of this narrative in this report. it's not indicta

the biggest issues there are jim's announcement, jim comey's announcement in july about our conclusion of the case, in a public way that departed from jim's decision in october to notify congress about the reopening of the case because the emails on the anthony weiner laptop. i agreed with jim's decision to announce the cases we did in july. in retrospect, i think that we probably got that wrong. >> watch book tv this weekend on c-span2. and the acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney is seapac. at we will ring that to you live. some of the conference from earlier today before that. >> good morning, cpac. thank you so much for inviting me to spain. movie,alism were a socialism would be friday the 13th. because it seems to always stock college coeds who all think that the death and violence is a scary story that never happened and they are so convinced that it will never happen to them that they mock the old person, the one person in town who saw it first hand, they call him crazy, a not who still believes in ghost stories. and then they are all dead. and then jason, his body di

and jim comey shouldn't have done it, it was wrong to do it. it would be wrong despite the hysteria that's going on right now for bill barr to do something similar. now, the difference here is that congress would be looking subpoena that. hillary clinton couldn't be impeached. she was a candidate for president. the president's the president. i think what you and i are going to see maybe six months from now, maybe nine months from now is a fight in the supreme court over a house subpoena whether bill barr must turn over the entirety of mueller's report. >> do you think that the leadership of your party should do more to check the abuse of power to the american people? >> i know you feel strongly about it. i feel a little bit differently than you do about it, and i think there are probably people out there who feel like the president is abused and beaten every day by a media that's unfair to him and has written more negative stories about him than any president in recent memory. >> with cause. >> chris, regardless we have to understand we're in t

and particularly because you look back at jim comey, what got him in trouble was he deviated from department, well, this case is so hot, people will need to know that we really looked at hillary closely and she did all these bad things even though we're not indicting her, and that ended up creating problems for him with both sides politically. and i think in retrospect, the department hooks at that and says, you know, the better answer is regardless of political pressure, do what you would normally do. and in a case like this, they'll protect all the 6e information, sources and methods, and they'll try to spare innocent people from getting smeared with uncorroborated allegations from the report. sandra: but as we know, there are calls, bipartisan calls, for the report to be released in its entirety. is that possible? >> not under department procedure, it shouldn't be. i mean, if the department declines to indict someone, the general -- you know, you either indict and go to trial or you shut up. that's generally the rule. you don't let the public now do -- i mean, if people take a step back,

will he or the new attorney general do a big news conference as former fbi director jim comey did?nd he seems to be saying in a way that you should do it like he did, go public. remember this? >> i have not coordinated the statement with the department of justice or any other part of the government. they do not know what i'm about to say. although the department of justice makes final decisions on matters like this, we are expressing to justice our view that no charges are appropriate in this case. >> martha: i sure do, fourth of july. comey all rights democrats were wrong about transparency then but republicans are wrong now. when they claim justice department rules for bid transparency about the completed work of the special counsel. it is difficult to imagine a case of greater public interest than one focused on the efforts of a foreign adversary to damage our democracy. and in which the president of the united states is a subject. here now, trey gowdy, former house oversight committee chairman and a fox news contributor now, good to see you this evening, great to have you with