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james mattis and jim comey.ey would not pledge his loyalty and james mattis walked away. >> he walked away because lives were at risk with the syria decision. what happens to these other men and women? >> it's incredible we know someone, a good friend of ours, who walked away from the administration, the highest ranking person in the justice department who left after the president suggested it was appropriate for law enforcement agents to rough up defendants as he was arresting them. he sent a letter to his employees worldwide, chuck rosenberg did, saying this is not what we do, and then he resigned. chuck rosenbergs are in short supply in this administration. >> you're kind to say that. it's not as uncommon as we imagine. i like to think there are lots of folks who have done or would do it. >> call me if you're out there and chuck is right, we'll put you at the table next to him. >> three quick quotes. >> please. >> donald trump is not a conservative republican. he's an opportunist, he's not fit to be the presi

jim comey told cbs that the fbi doesn't spy. the fbi's first ever assistant director of intelligence is here to tell us why the former director is lying to you. and raymond is here for seen and unseen. the media's race obsession over the royal baby. and frank will stop by on why the democrats are struggleing to get on message. first democrats hold america in contempt. -- that's the focus of tonight's anglin. oo "angle." democrats in the house judiciary committee revealed themselves again. it's a depressing spectacle to see elected officials acting like meth dealers. after pushing russian collusion for 2 years. they were finally busted. no collusion. and no obstruction. but democrats refuse to accept reality and continue to sell their poison to scandal addicts on the left. >> the collusion report of the mueller report recounts the constant interaction of trump operatives with russian adversaries. >> you think there is no collusion and no objection? you have not read the mueller report. >> mr. trump gets on the telephone with mr.

the ten days later, october 21st, oh, jim comey, mr. jim. 2016, signed off on the first fisa application against carter page swearing that steele was reliable and accurate, and that he verified the bulk of that information which was hillary's bought and paid for russian lies. remember, that is on top of the fisa applications. his verified application. the words are right on top. and tonight, we have brand-new just released handwritten documents uncovered by john solomon. the investigative reporter showing the state department official kathleen catholic actually sounded the alarm about steele to the high-ranking members of the fbi, jim comey's fbi over a multitude of issues all before the first fisa application went in. not only did she report the partisan nature of steele's research but accused him of giving the government blatantly false information and also leaking his material to "the new york times" and "the washington post," all too happy to of course printed. she raised all of these concerns well before christopher steele was the c

rosenstein would build a case against jim comey's handling of the fbi. >> rod rosenstein, this guyye who's served 2s in the justice department, a boy scout, he looks le a boy scout. and he thinks that comey has violated the justice department norms by talking too much about hillary clinton during the election. >> narrator: the president m wanted to as soon as possible. it was a rush job. rosenstein delivered it the next day. >> rod rosenstein's memo echd what a lot of the hiy clinton campaign people had been saying for months, that comey had inserted himself into th election, he'd made himself too public, he had taken on a role that did not really belong to him. >> the director ignored anothe long-standing principle: we do not hold press conferences toga release dery information about the subject of a declined criminal investigation. >> trump doesn't care about what comey did to hurt hillary clinton. but it becomes the excuse, or at least the initial e the white house uses to explain whyy ere firing the fbi director. >> narrator: donald trump hadre fired hu of people face-to-face on "

>> i have had many disagreements with jim comey.omey takes steps when he was part of the fbi that he probably shouldn't have. i think where we are and all of this. coming to congress to talk about and ask questions about understanding the perceived differences between his opinion of the mueller report and the interpretation that was done by william barr. the judiciary committees are the committee where that should happen. i would hope that all the members of the judiciary committee, especially senior democrats would actually go in and read the less redacted version of the mueller report that has already been provided. there is a version that only has seven lines marked out on the senior democratic leaders are able to view. let's hear from mueller. how are we going to deal with what republicans and democrats agree on. >> they are going to try to do it again in 2020. they are doing it with their allies and using disinformation to do that. we do not have a counter disinformation strategy. this is something i have been talking about sin

, it is don't be jim comey.o not expect op-eds for "the washington post." as he says he has done. on the other hand, by reopening the issue in the middle of the highly combustible debate over impeachment, he has inserted himself in the debate in the same way that james comey did in 2016. >> bret: we will talk about the highly combustible environment, candidates running off against president trump react to mueller's first comments on the russia report, and it is the letter i word that is coming out. ♪ play it cool and escape heartburn fast with new tums chewy bites cooling sensation. ♪ tum tum tum tums with new tums chewy bites cooling sensation. ♪ mmm, exactly!ug liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. nice! but uh, what's up with your partner? oh! we just spend all day telling everyone how we customize car insurance because no two people are alike, so... limu gets a little confused when he sees another bird that looks exactly like him. ya... he'll figure it out. only pay

because jim comey, time and time again, jim comey is the defender of democracy and freedom here. jim comey under oath before dianne feinstein, when she said, why didn't you come to us and tell us this, that you thought the president was obstructing justice, and he said, i guess i just lacked the fortitude to do so. jim comey could have gone that very first time. instead, he went back eight times. he would have gone to the hill. he had dianne feinstein and many other members of congress would have backed him up. >> let's talk about the fact that there is this different interpretation of these instances, because bill barr in his remarks to jan crawford at cbs makes it clear that while mueller laid out a case of ten or so potential acts of obstruction of justice, he didn't label them as such and say he would indict, but it seems very much that he thinks they might be. barr disagrees. this is what he said to cbs. >> many of the instances would not amount to obstruction. we didn't agree with the legal analysis. a lot of the legal analysis in the report. it did not reflect the views of

a town hall starring former fbi director jim comey, a pure white wash. ould've paid the network for schilling for him. spying, comey said? the fbi doesn't spy. it investigates. >> "the new york times" reported that the fbi send an investigator posing as an assistant to meet with a trump aide george stephanopoulos george papadopoulos in 2017? >> i'm not going to comment on a particular investigate of step because that's for the bureau to do. i'm not in the government any longer. the fbi doesn't spy to begin with by the fbi investigates. >> tucker: okay, jim. moments later after telling us, i'm not going to comment on current operations, comey changes his mind. says it was improper to comment specifically, but he did. why? he had to reply that spies invest getting president of campaigns is the most common thing in the world. totally normal in his words! >> sending an investigator undercover to meet with somebody who is connected to the campaign, they claimed he was later on just a coffee boy. that is an extreme step, no? >> that was the guy, papadopoulos, t

you would follow jim comey off a cliff as we used to say.erything he did in connection with the email investigation. i agree, he's a good person and has very strong moral values and i agree with what josh said. >> today rod rosenstein, was his last day at the doj, here's what he said. max, this is for you. >> i leave here confident that justice is in good hands. >> so with barr at the helm is justice in good hands? >> no. >> that was the shortest answer i've ever heard you give, but go on. >> and rosenstein, i think, is undermining his own reputation by the way he is leaving the job basically as a -- somebody who is validating what barr is doing. and remember, you know, he signed off on barr's very deceptive summary of the mueller report which mueller called him out on and barr was very careful to implicate rosenstein in all that because he wanted to make it seem like they agreed on all this stuff and rosenstein went along with that just as he went along when trump fired comey so, you know, i think -- you know, rosenstein's legacy is more am

office. >> trump comes tthe conclusion that, "i can't put up with this anymore, i'm going to fire jim comey."lt there's no conion. there's just gut instinct and raw anger. >> narrator: trump dictated a letter to comey. >> it is a rant, the originalt. dr nobody's original draft is that great, but this draft is donald trump unloading all of the reasons that, uh, comey has failed him. >> narrator: on sunday, donaldre trumturned to washington with the letter, determined to carry out his plan to stop jim comey once and for all. >> comey has been indicating that he knows so much more than d he's not...on >> comey opens up another investigation into trump... >> comey isn't backing down, he's said he wouldn't do anything... >> ...an active part obi investigation, was there collusion between trump associates... >> narrator: the next morning in the west wing, the word was out: trump was preparing to take the fateful step of sending the letter. >> word gets back to don mcgahn, the white house counsel, that this document has been prepared. and he freaks out. >> our understanding is that don mcgahn read

this paragon of virtue, jim comey, self-described commode paragon oflf virtue, stl be the fbi directorstill working for an administration that he thinks is too good for impeachment had he not been fired. >> jason: rod rosenstein, director a comey made a real snarky comment about rod rosenstein asr. he's going out e door. i've been highly critical of rod rosenstein along the way. i thought he had a lot of conflicts of interest and other questions. at thee same time, for director comey to make this kind of comments, i thought that was just wrong. >> he's always right, jason. he's always right. he's authored the script of what is right and wrong. there are plenty of days i disagree withh rod. i neverr call for impeachment. rod had a tough job. i appreciate his service to the country, even though on the days when i disagree with him. to take a shot at someone, to do it with a moral arrogance that jim comey does almost a everything, one reason he is not very popular right now. >> jason: director comey, two years ago, that he was fired. i think that was the right thing. the democrats conveni

jim comey did what he did. had he not done what he done, i don't think donald trump would be president today. had this been -- you know, right now we are seeing similar activities happening by this president's attorney general and i don't see congress doing anything about it. so it's very, you know, obviously something happened there. and we have to understand which jim comey we are going to trust. we only trust all or any of it. >> martha: would you want to investigate him for not telling the truth in front of that committee? >> i would say that you have got a problem. >> martha: chris and then matt, go ahead, chris. >> i don't know if he didn't tell the truth. i don't know if he willfully lied before congress. he did say that he was asked to word smith it by the attorney general of the united states. maybe she was saying i call it a matter and he was saying i call it a case. so, you know, there is a lot of there there and maybe they should both talk about it. >> it's sort of questionable to wonder which liar

required investigation, or do you look at it and you say, hey, the president did some stuff, fired jim comey, tried to influence the investigation. we opened the investigation and thus triggered the conduct, a lot of the conduct that subsequently becomes the subject of volume ii. how did -- what's the sort of jim baker read of volume ii of the document? >> well, volume ii, as many people have noted, is complicated. i think as people have explained, the team decided not to make a prosecutive recommendation because they said you couldn't indict a sitting president or they thought it was unfair to accuse the president of a crime and say they were going to indict him when he wouldn't have the opportunity to clear his name in a court of law in a reasonable time period. and so, anyway, that's what they did. when i read it, as many commentators have said, it's troubling, to say the least. it's alarming. it's -- i don't know, it's a -- even if it doesn't rise to the level of illegality, it sure looks like a pattern of corruption. a practice of corruption, a practice of trying to influence investigat

conduct legitimate review. >> rod rosenstein now that he's left the justice department has called jim comey partisan pundit. has comey been too out front? >> he's a private citizen with first amendment rights like the rest of us and can say what he wants to say. that's what i would say about that. >> jerry nadler was just on the hill and as you know nadler and pelosi were trying to quell the russian impeachment hearings. they are not getting the information they want. they might have a better leg to stand on legally if they start impeaecachment hearings. this is wa hat he had to say today. >> the president's policy and posture now is making it impossible to rule out impeachment or anything else. the letter we got from the white house yesterday is beyond outrageous. it said we could not investigate. we could not speak to mueller, mcgahn and we could not speak to anybody about this. they said we should shut the investigation. >> the white house does not seem to recognize or does recognize and doing this for political purposes that congress has a different mandate than mueller did. mueller was

jim comey goes a long way in explaining that. but the twin sort of downward spirals that are happening in full view of barr and of flood are really stunning today. >> they are. and i think, you know, you read the flood letter and it's sort of stunning in that respect. it's not just an attack on mueller. it's an attack that's filled with purple pros and -- it's insults and kind of invective that is unusual in the context that you're describing. this notion that bob mueller is someone who -- two years ago when he was appointed into this job as special counsel, universally praised, revered, beloved and spoken of in hushed tones by republicans, including people of the stripe of emmet flood. now you see this document that's not just designed to argue with him on the legal merriits. we could spend all day and people better qualified than me would point out the oddness of the argument he's making. he's taking mueller to task for not sticking to the letter, which is he should indict the president or decline to indict the president even t

jim comey says is normal and cnn backs him up so be quiet.f you don't agree with that, you are the enemy. >> they start to make little compromises to stay on the team, echo his words, usero the term spying, talk about collusion, or just to be silent. thinking that is what i need to do to survive. in the process, he has eaten our soul, they are lost. >> tucker: so ignore the obvious, agree with me or you have no soul. who talks like that? sort of persons who will say or do absolutely anything for power. a scary person talks like that. not long ago, jim comey was one of the most powerful man in the world. he could investigate you or anyone else at will. he could ruin lives if he wanted. sometimes he did. how did a person like that ascend to a position of such authority in our government?as what kind of system and promote a man like that? what kind of media would cover for him? those of the questions we ought to be asking tonight, if there was one jim comey and the federal government, that means there are probably many others and that should con

he thought jim comey was great. he now thinks he's a bleeping, bleeping bleep because he refused to bend to donald trump's corrupt will. the entire mueller report is about donald trump's effort to corrupt people around him. the trump story, right now, is about successful and less than successful efforts at corruption. he tried to use don mcgahn to carry out his corruptly intent effort of obstructing and thwarting this investigation. don mcgahn both participating extensively, we know from these footnotes it was 30 hours. if you read through all of them, it sounds like more than 30 hours of conversations. his presence in that interrogation room as well as his presence in the west wing where he sometimes stood is the only reason, the only reason that we're not talking about charges being recommended for donald trump. this is an elegant conversation. the reality is whether the democrats will say politics bedammed. donald trump tried to commit crimes. for reasons unknown didn't recommend charges be brought. where this go

under jim comey.orward in terms of making sure everybody knew that hillary clinton had been reckless i think was the language he used in terms of her server and the like. but he never mentioned oh gee, we've launched an investigation into whether russia has contacts inside the trump campaign. i would think most people on the right would say gee, that helped because that would have been so damaging to president trump's campaign. let me finish. and the second point here is that then you had a situation where what is the president of the united states doing? the dilemma is -- they asked mitch mcconnell to join them. he said no. why? joe biden said earlier this week because he thought it would not help the trump campaign. it was a totally political decision. >> you can make suppositions all you want. we now have evidence coming out. we have memos from the time before the election when the f.b.i. was determined to spy on the trump campaign. even though the information that they had was full of lies. just t

i regret what jim comey said and i disagree with it.e that bill barr will h continue to call them the way he sees them and be the honest person he is and don't bend to the pressures of washington d.c. >> laura: john, how high could this go? how far could this investigation go? there was a lot riding on who won the presidency. obama wanted to hillary to win and we had the whole deal with her server.rth we don't know where this could go. congress can't do the investigation that a u.s. attorney is trained to do correct? >> actually someone who worked on fisa applications i could tell you how high it could go. under the fisa law the attorney general has to approve the fisa application. if the steele dossier which was completely made up was used as a basis for a fisa application you have somebody high up in the fbi had to improve that and someone high up in the justice department had to approve and the attorney general has to approve that. it appears that the fbi tried to infiltrate the trump campaign. the attorney general guidelines only al

there's a lot of news off this jim comey town hall. and d. lemon has that on "cnn tonight". >> there is a lot of it. i was glabflabbergasted. he said knock the hell out of them and you see -- there you go. chris, i overlooked something. i got a big show ahead. i want to get you to talk about this a little bit more. when i mentioned the red sox who did and did not go to the white house, you seemed to get a little -- you wanted to get a little deeper and i didn't really go there with you. >> no, look, because, one, it's just so disruptive on so many different levels. team, team, you're awarding a team. the team holds together, sticks together through thick and thin, they are one, they are not color, they are not creed, they are team and then you find a way for something that becomes divisive and you see that everything is fragile and i think it's sad and it's troubling that some went and some didn't. >> would you have not gone? if we were on that team and i said chris, i'm not going. >> i wouldn't go. you can argue it both ways. i'm not judging

expected to slam the former fbi director jim comey.st time rosenstein will talk about his reaction to comey's firing which, of course, is part of all of this. evan perez is out front in washington. evan, look, there's been reporting about rosenstein and what he thinks about this or thought about that. this is the first time that rosenstein is speaking publicly. >> reporter: that's right, erin. until now we've heard accounts of exactly what went on when he was asked to write the memo that the president used in order to fire james comey, the director of the fbi. we've heard those accounts from everyone including from the mueller report, which was released just a couple weeks ago. now he has finished his term as deputy attorney general, almost 30 years serving inside the justice department. for the first time he is actually a regular citizen. he's now speaking in baltimore at an event he was speaking to two years ago right when after the firing of james comey. so we expect that he's going to be talking a little bit about perhaps respondin

. >>> mike schmidt, jim comey weighed in on this development tweeting this. investigate whatever you wish about 2016 but don't forget the people of the fbi but investigate and stop russian efforts in the to 20 election. what impact will loose talk about spying and disgraceful talk about treason on fbi analysts and agents -- any sense this has landed inside the fbi? >> no sense about what the current thinking inside the fbi is. but sort of a larger question about what is barr actually doing here? what kind of investigation is this? the justice department does criminal investigations. its inspector general looks at how decisions are made and whether they should be improved, sort of in the noncriminal area of how it functions. so what's going on here if there's not enough to do a criminal investigation. why has it not reached that level but they're still continuing to look at it? it's just sort of this larger thing that hangs over this. there's an inspecter general for the intelligence community that has the authority over all the departments and agencies to do

these were people that i worked with every day, especially jim comey, i've known him for years, he'sfriend, i care about him deeply. i think he's a fantastic leader and he got fired in a way that was terrible in a very humiliating way. so that was really hard. it was a traumatic experience to go through. quite frankly having it talked about endlessly in the media doesn't help. you have to like relive it every day, and there's like no escape because it's just on everywhere. it's been challenging. >> a formere today, it is surreal that the democrats are now the only party that defends the cia and the fbi. people say to me all the time, why are you so hard on the democrats? you're all we've got. that's it. >> it's so true, nicole. if you think about it, you see what the republican party used to be, about the rule of law, about being a patriot. now it's truly the party of donald trump. i did skmg something that i don't recommend viewers do, i took an hour or two looking at donald trump's twitter feed. it's filled with conspiracy theory, that's all it is. it is attacks after attacks after

. >> juan: it doesn't matter, jim comey, andrew mccabe were players in that decision. i would like to know what happened. >> melissa: yeah. >> juan: i thought horowitz. >> melissa: he can't investigate the very people you mentioned because he doesn't have jurisdiction over them. >> harris: subpoena that's what i thought. >> melissa: he can't do anything to them. he has no jurisdiction. >> harris: so if there was a crime or something that they have done wrong and that can be adjudicated and looked into outside of his purview, he can compel them by subpoena or they can volunteer. >> melissa: can't do anything to them is my point. there is nothing he can do to them. >> lisa: additionally, too, the inspector general feels like the inspector general's investigation too limited in scope and needs to go beyond that if you are interested in getting at the bottom you need to look at the does yea. very clear it was a pile of lies. you have the "new york times" admitting it was also possibly russian disinformation. so you would think if you were actually interested in russian int

i was not a public figure in that way. >> you are not jim comey. >> i am not jim comey, i'm not an electedfficial or anything of this nature. yes i was extremely it was unnerving and weird. it produced anxiety a physiological response that has gotten easier over time. now i am more used to it in that regard. it was bizarre and it did effect i think my professional career. >> talk is through that. what happens to a lawyer at the highest levels of government when the president points his finger at you and says, i am -- you in my world in my community? >> right. after director ray told me he wanted to replace me as general counsel i started looking for jobs obviously and i thought about leaving pretty much immediately. i went on a job search and i put in a plug for the art institute and it is a great organization and a wonderful place to work on the washingtonian list of the best places to work in washington dc. is a great place and i am working on national security and cyber security there. i looked around for a job and explored a lot of different options. i ended up in the think tank and lo

jim comey in folks in the law enforcement community and john brennan and copper in folks in the mediang the truth. i think there will be accountability. >> before you go, they reported important news this week because we basically got evidence that they wanted to destroy trump before the election. >> right. any, the biggest part of that story, we're just now seeing that. those are documents that should have been produced previously and they weren't. needless to say, they do go specifically to the point about the steel dossier, with the fbi new, assistant secretary of state, kathleen had a memo of her conversation with christopher steele. she discussed the dossier and one conversation, she determined christopher steele was not being truthful and the information in the dossier was demonstrably false and she communicated that to the fbi. our own government knew the source of the dossier was not credible and new to the dock you ca was not truthful before it was ever used to get an application to spy on american citizen page. this one of the things that has to be looked at. and will be loo

does he expect jim comey to be arrested? >> we will let the attorney general make that determination as he gets to the conclusion of this litigation. >> reporter: it is william barr, not donald trump who will ultimately decide if james comey's actions related to the origins of the russia investigation were treasonous. comey is responding. in an op-ed he said there was no treason, no attempted coup. those are lies and dumb lies at that. democratic strategists isaac wright and national press secretary for donald trump's 2020 campaign kaylee mcinerney, welcome to you both. i want to read more from that comey peace. he says go ahead, investigate the investigators if you must. when those investigations are over they will find the work was done appropriately and focused only on learning the truth of serious allegations. goes on to say no corruption, treason or attempted coup. that is what a lot of americans want to hear, nothing to hide, go ahead and do the investigation. everybody sees everything, we are all on the same page. >>

jim comey knows he's in deep trouble tonight. the problem with comey is i gave him this warning along time ago before the dopey book of his came out. you should get off twitter, stop writing dumb books, stay away from fake new cnn and you do have the goi presi special coul investigation. yeah, it's that professionally on private conversations you had with the president, to spur and stspecial counsel investigation. yeah, is that professionally the search for truth and justice at the fbi, jimbo? jim comey knows he's in deep trouble tonight. the problem with comey is i gave him this warning along time ago before the dopey book of his came out. you should get off twitter, stop writing dumb books, stay away from fake new cnn and you do have the right to remain silent. i keep suggesting you use it. because the truth is going to be revealed, and moments ago during a massive rally in pennsylvania, the president had this to say about the disgusting deep state corruption that took place under jim comey's watch under the biden-obama administ

super patriot jim comey. fisa abuse is just one part of what is lawless behavior and abuse of power. congressman radcliffe, he is now calling for an investigation into james comey tonight. take a look. >> jim is proud of himself but the inspector general found him insubordinate and many of us believe that he either is or should be under investigation for violating the espionage act, for recording his conversation with president trump in the oval office and intentionally leaking classified information to start is investigation. as you know, as a former federal prosecutor, i've worked with hundreds of fbi agents and over the last two years, they haven't used the word "proud" wants to describe jim comey. they use words like "embarrassed" and "ashamed." >> sean: we are not talking about the single premier law enforcement agency in the world -- single best intelligence agency in the world. not the 99.9%, but the upper echelon. they are the ones that abuse their power. the jim comeys of the world, self-righteous sup

. >> here's the thing about jim comey.irst time in history jim comey may have been 100% about something that happened. seems like the unifying thread between what jim comey does, he always comes out presenting himself as the independent man of integrity who is above politics. so he'll push back on democrats, on republican, and at the end of the day, he is the rock, the independent investigators. >> he's also chatty kathy, fbi director. i have never seen someone come out and spend so much time on television, on twitter, pontificating it is so annoying. i can decide if the threat is everyone is turning on each other now because they're getting closer in this investigation to how did the whole thing get started, or if everybody just hates james comey. because he is -- you got mccabe, they're turning on each other. now loretta lynch. they're turning on each other. wait, comey is each of those equati equations. >> the reason why they're turning on each other is because john durham, the u.s. attorney, has been appointed and ther

i but you know, jim comey has a lot of stuff to pay for. leand anyway dan thanks so much for being here. >> thanks judge and mooch is next on justice. back in a moment. -motor? -it's pronounced "mo-tour." for those who were born to ride, there's progressive. whip out the spf 'cause it's memorial day weekend and bookers are out here skipping and gliding and steaming and... eating dip. memorial day is coming. so book a place to stay and be a booker at booking.com. the latest inisn't just a store.ty it's a save more with a new kind of wireless network store. it's a look what your wifi can do now store. a get your questions answered by awesome experts store. it's a now there's one store that connects your life like never before store. the xfinity store is here. and it's simple, easy, awesome. welcome back to justice, trade talks with china hit a snag, the trump administration is imposing new tariffs and tonight, the president is tweeting about it saying, china felt they were beaten so badly at the negotiating table that they figured they just w

we need to know what jim comey's role was in all of this. andy mccabe reported to him. what was comey's role in that? >> sean: it is now inevitable, it is not a matter of "if" it is "when." we will know about the extreme, the power of abuse, the high-ranking bureaucrats, what they did to malign candidates, then president-elect, then president donald trump pretty late last week, the president granted attorney general barr the power to just classify material related to the ongoing investigation into the origins f the russia witch hunt. four separate occasions, the fbi nine months investigation, the house until committee investigation, the bipartisan senate committee, and now the mueller report. no collusion. the american people, you will see the truth with their own eyes, and it is not looking good to the few at the top that have abused their power. it is not "if" it is "when." we will see it. and the question will be who needs to be held accountable? you do not have to take my word for it. to the swamp is in full panic mode. the most holy over then thou jim comey knows be

why is jim comey jim comey doing town halls? he was fired two years ago. why is he doing that? >> are you asking me? >> martha: i am. >> darned if i know. this guy is tone-deaf. he goes out, opines about obstruction of justice by president trump. this guy messed it up, a guy presiding over the investigation of hillary clinton. did not have to make the decisions whether or not -- not the director of the fbi. he made that determination and did so before he interviewed her. after he decided that he was not going to charge her, which was not his right to me, that was the attorney general's possibility, he then trashed her which he did not do in this country. if he decided not to to indict, shouldn't be out there trashing her. then he did it at the end of the election, then presided in the end of the election, it was staffed with people like peter strzok who were vehemently anti-trump and were involved in sensitive matters involving the investigation of the trump campaign. this guy misted up it why he thinks we want to maybe he ought to go back and wait and let the fbi, the activiti

that's a hard one with jim comey and the firing. he could have fired him because it was politically embarrassing or it was the easiest way out politically. that's within his pursue. i think the other obstructive items that mueller report identified, ten of them, there's some that are more e lust rative. the conversations with mcgahn, trying to get his white house counsel to fire mueller. that gets to intent a little more. as you see the pattern, prosecutors look at a pattern, one instance hard to prove. two possibly. four? seven, ten? at some point you see a pattern of activity. but i think that horse has left the gate. there's not going to be a criminal prosecution by the feds with respect to obstruction. we're now into the congressional political realm and then possibly a state attorney general or two. >> all right. jeffrey -- our thanks to all of you. coming up, drama in washington and a brewing crisis abroad when the 11th hour continues. audible members know listening has the power to change us make us better parents, better lea

. >> he's expecting jim comey to be arrested?eral make that as we conclude that investigation. >> shannon: it's bill barr not president trump to see if jim comey's actions relating to the origins of the russian investigation were treasonous. comey responding in an op-ed saying there was no treason, no attempted coup. those are lies, and dumb lies at that but let's debate with welcome to you both. >> thank you shannon. >> good to be here. >> shannon: i want to read more from that comey piece. go ahead, investigate the investigators if you must. when those investing actions are over, they will find the work was done appropriately and focused on only discerning the truth a very serious allegations perry goes on to say no corruption, treason, or attempted coup. that's what a lot of americans want to hear. there's nothing to hide. go ahead and do the investigation. everybody sees everything. all on the same page. >> i think we should all look for more transparency right now. if they feel like they have to investigate the investigators

the contrast with jim comey, his successor as fbi director is so incredibly stark.elf. >> more on this as well. pierre, you cover the justice department every day. you cover robert mueller, william barr, two very different stories here. >> reporter: exactly, george. i was struck by the fact that mueller went out of his way to talk about justice department policy and that policy is that a sitting president can't be charged and mueller said et would be unfair to make a resolution to come to a determination as to whether charges should be filed. that's in direct contrast to what the attorney general did. he did make the call and he's criticized mueller for making that call. a stark contrast there. looking at mueller today is that he emphasized over and over again that the report speaks for itself and our sources were telling us for the last several weeks that mueller was very concerned about being called before congress, not being able to talk beyond the report and it would descend into some sort of political caircus. he wanted to make sure he came out today, stated th

look, jim comey, ari fleischer had it right, jim comey is known as a grandstander and showboat.'t need any reason to fire him. he had plenty. the fact that he put, he put everybody in a very bad position when he usurped the responsibilitied, duty, right of attorney general loretta lynch in department of justice. rosenstein, may of 2017, one of my favorite documents ever, because they lay out that he actually said people of differing views all agree on one thing that comey had mishandled the clinton investigation by running in front of the cameras. so, no, i'm not going to give them credit we already know people were running around trying to put their thumbs on the scale. so we know a little bit, we don't know everything. i think what happened after trump was elected during transition is probably what intrigues me most. which is after they were shocked and world was shocked that donald trump was elected and they were trying to undo the election or redo the election, of course they can't do that, but they were trying to declassify software, lower the classification, that is all yo

>> what is it that jim comey said in his op-ed for the times about eating people's souls a bite at a time. i think what rod rosenstein will say when he writes the history of this era is he made those legal decisions straight up the middle based on the law and the facts that's why he signed off on the fisas, that's why he selected bob mueller to be the special counsel for this investigation. but at some point something happened and a man who spent a lot of time thinking, writing about the rule of law decided that donald trump per son fied the rule of law, that's tough to understand. >> joyce vance thank you for spending time with us. >>> after the break, mayor pete versus vice president pence, round two. that's next. round two. that's next. (coughing) need a change of scenery? kayak searches hundreds of travel sites and filters by cabin class, wi-fi and more. so you can be confident you're getting the right flight at the best price. kayak. search one and done. with moderate to severe ulceratiyour plans... crohn's, can change in minutes. your head wants to do one thing... but your gut

you guessed it, his boss was jim comey. darryl west joins us, vice president and director of government studies at the brookings institution, also the author of "divided politics, divided nation: hyperconflict in the trump era." perfect example of that right here. greg, what do you make of what barr said? for us mere civilians, the right law versus the wrong law? >> well, good morning, stephanie. i think these comments have confused things even more, if that's possible. you have to remember, the whole point of the special counsel, of any special counsel, is to take the investigative decisions in a politically charged investigation away from the political appointees at the department of justice. and so the idea that despite the independent special counsel's findings and conclusions as to what the law says, that the attorney general and the deputy attorney general, both trump appointees, would weigh in and disagree and make decisions around the special counsel, incomplete undermines the whole point of appointing the special c