the political parties now, we were jim comey's press of conference. we remember the fbi agent who desmirched a republican presidential candidate, yet put in charge of investigating that same candidate. we remember that agent said he could smell republicans at a walmart, promised to stop a republican from becoming president and he had a plan in case the republican won, we remember how the fbi and doj handled secretary clinton. no search warrant on her house, no seizure of documents. former director admitting he tried something with a republican white house he would have never tried with a democrat white house, he sat back and soaked up the audience applause, for those wondering why republicans see a double standard from the fbi and doj, wonder no more. facts should matter equaly, no matter who is going investigated, main americans believe that is no longer the case, they believe the blindfolded slipped, that lady justice is peeking. and fbi treats republicans different from and worse than democrats. they are just two more institutions, ruled by politic

unless hillary clinton and jim comey do life sentences for what they did, right? many violations of the espionage did they commit? they don't have the protections of a former president. then you know what is goiing going on here, gain, they go at it. i'll be right back. heyyy! (steins breaking) your cousin. ♪ from boston. ♪ it means, “ok-to-beer-fest”. another sam octoberfest? nein. make it ten! i like this guy. (cheers) >> tech: cracked windshield? don't wait. go to safelite.com you can schedule service in just a few clicks. it's so easy. and more customers today are relying on their cars advanced safety features, like automatic emergency breaking and lane departure warning. that's why our recalibration service is state of the art. we recalibrate your vehicle's camera, so you can still count on those safety features. all right, we're all finished. >> customer: thank you so much. >> tech: thank you. don't wait--schedule now. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ mark: welcome back america. we're with our friend newt gingrich, newt gingrich, here we ar

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jim comey.im comey stepped up to the mic in july of 2016 and makes a statement as a prosecutor i'm sure it made you and i know we do with ratcliff and others, so to say he said no reasonable prosecutor would make this case. basically implying on the attorney general at the time was not strong enough to take advice because they were already compromised member that meeting on the tarmac with bill clinton. what we find out a little bit later, three weeks way to get peter strzok and these others who then began this based on a clinton directive to taint president trump with a rush or connection. we now know this because documents were released later, this was even brief to president obama. we now know that this was the tactic being used. but what is bad as you and i both in employed, political campaigns we run our narrative, you never expect the federal government at the highest level to participate in it. i think that is where this whole thing started. it goes back to 2016, the st. peter, all of the

i do think actually hillary ran a primary campaign, but probably wins without jim comey. jim comey makes a slightly random decision that he has to make this letter public in october 28 because he got attacked for, you know, making other things, doing other things and i agree with barbara the underlying and should have been had by eight points, so it shouldn't have mattered. but still it did matter in the real world. it was a very big deal that that the republicans picked up 12 how seats in 2020. people like me were wanted to say, trump's disaster, trump's disaster. you got trump at the top of the ticket, you're finished, you cannot win anything. they eventually lose georgia, but on election night they are up in the senate. it was very hard afterwards for people like me to make the case, honestly, and it would have been honest to say trump has just destroyed the republican party, really. and they've recruited even more women and minorities. it's a big mistake for anti trump people to say inevitably it is all going to fail. i think ultimately, i do think republicans will ge

jim comey himself, after getting fired by the former c president comeyom, of course, leaked privileged material to the new york times through a friendhde in order to smear donald trump. of course, comey homeas has nevy raided by the fbi, by the way. neither was hillary clinton's house in chappaqua and she grossly mishandled classified informationshssly, then attempto cover her tracks. she d deleted thirty three thousand emails. h nobody had ever heard of bleach. bleach. what it is now. comey gave her a free pass then, even though he found evidence of serious crimes, including that the fact that her servers were hacked by foreign entities that putoi our country at risk. our country at risk. hillary. take a lookary.. rs secretary clinton'son use of a personal email domain was both knownasas by a large numbef people and readily apparent. she also used her personally email extensively while outside the unitedde states , including sending and receiving work related emails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries. given a combination of factors we assess, it is possible that hostile act

he could pull a jim comey, he doesn't have the authority to do it, but technically he's got the powerhen the evidence seized remain sealed until it's introduced as part of a criminal proceeding, but he can step up and say this is what we've got. this is what we've got on trump -- that's all that matters on all of this and they won't do it because again, they're looking for january 6th. >> dan: let me say in closing, hillary didn't comply when they smashed blackberries with hammers. i want to put that in there. hammers, they smash them with hammers, that's not complying. up next, the fbi trump warrant is out. but where's joe biden? ♪ ♪ substitute teaching. i honestly feel that that's my calling-- to give back to younger people. i think most adults will start realizing that they don't recall things as quickly as they used to or they don't remember things as vividly as they once did. i've been taking prevagen for about three years now. people say to me periodically, "man, you've got a memory like an elephant." it's really, really helped me tremendously. prevagen. healthier brain. better

christopher wray should take a page out of jim comey's book.en he was investigating hillary clinton we'll talk to you about procedures that we normally wouldn't because there is such great public interest. we are talking about a former president. when we compare the clinton email server to donald trump not a good comparison. thousands of emails where the f.b.i. said they couldn't say for sure that foreign actors hadn't accessed that email account and said the personal email to other people others could have accessed that. unless you say trump is selling secrets i don't know what else they have. if they had a big bombshell i imagine it would have come out by now. it is interesting and certainly some people are being and saying that has been done politically. >> harris: it is under 90 days before the mid-term elections. >> it is worth pointing out jacqui heinrich reported it is possible the secret service was the one who called the f.b.i. and said there are classified documents in mar-a-lago. >> harris: we won't read the tea leaves on any of that

. >> dagen: if ray starts talking, he's pulling a jim comey. no one wants to be jim comey. >> kayleigh: that didn't go over well. very true. brooke, you know, i think you've got to put this in the broader context of the fbi generally where larry nasser who sexually assaulted young girls, the fbi slow walked and investigated him and holding him accountable. the tea party groups, lois lerner, they had to be called kicking and screaming, the d.o.j., in looking at pro-life facilities. all of these questions people say where are the priorities? 1/3 of portland rioters, the case is dropped. we're going to go after a former president. >> brooke: yes! absolutely. the weaponizization of all forms of government right now, we have the d.o.j. who used the patriot act to go after parents but there's two words to describe this, it's not only unprecedented, it's completely unnecessary. all they have to do is issue a subpoena. you mentioned they met in june. we said he turned over 15 boxes. we said the room was under padlocks but also the national archives the

if you're jim comey, you leak confidential government material to a friend, to the media mob, you get a free pass. if you're a high ranking trump hating bureaucrat who lies to a fisa court, you'll also get a free pass. if you're a top fbi investigator who vows to use his power to stop a free and fair election, we'll stop it, we've got an insurance policy, you will a get a pass also. if you're hunter biden, you can sell access to the federal government, to china, to russia, to ukraine, and even implicate your own father, the big guy, over and over again, and you're going to get a pass. no early morning raid on hunter biden or joe biden. that will probably never happen despite the prima facie case against him. and if you're joe biden, you can leverage one billion taxpayer dollars to get a ukrainian prosecutor fired investing your crack addicted son who was making millions of dollars and he had no experience with ukraine oil, energy, gas, whatsoever. nothing's going to happen. on the other hand, if you are a conservative, watch out. if you're roger stone, you commit a process fine, you l

in essence fbi was operating under jim comey as an entity to itself. in this investigation was allowed to continue. for me it was a concern because at the time trey gaudi and interment were looking into this and beginning to build out. i don't know if you remember this. as soon as mueller was named as a special prosecutor. in the back of my mind i said you could tell this is what they want. in a democrat latched onto it. he became, you cannot speak ill of robert mueller. that's where he began. and it struck mccabe, overpaid. they became famous and we were looking at the text messages e-mails and the insurance policies. it was so by a spring and then it summed up to be a very partisan investigation. but they missed one thing. by the time the mueller investigation was completed and they gain control of the house which is the time the mueller investigation. this was not the same robert mueller. he had put around him partisan people that attended the day, many of us knew and the collusion was not there are really democrats couldn't take a right for me that

and to your comments with neal earlier about not repeating the sins of jim comey, it is really important to remember here that it is donald trump who made the search public. not the fbi. not merrick garland. so when you have the target of the search making it pun, the interest of saying oh, we don't want to hurt the civil liberties of the target of the investigation by casting aspersions, that carries a lot less weight to acknowledge then that there in fact is an investigation because the target of the investigation has himself made it public. so i'm sure that weighed in on merrick garland's decision today. i'm going to take the other side of the wager from neal and say that i do think that he's going to talk about the search. i think it's pretty hard to come out and not say something. even though i'm confident that everyone will be left with a lot of questions because i don't think he's going to go into a lot of detail. but i think it's pretty hard to come out, not say anything and neal will certainly at the end, when this is over, you know, chastise me if i got this wrong. >> we will s

now he pull it jim comey, he doesn't have the authority to do it. but technically he does have the power to do it in evidence seized is remained sealed untilr it's introduced as part of a criminal proceeding. but he could step up and sayis this what we got, what we got on top, that's all that matters of this.se again, th and they won't do it because again, they're looking forey januaries, as you said in closing saying hillary clinton complied when they literally smashed blackberries with hammers is really like laughable. smh i just wanted to put that in their face hammers. they smash themsh the best of what happens. that's not complying. i'm pretty sure that's not part of the process of next the fbi's trump cards out. but where's joe biden, the president's island and on vacation. >> nice no one ever a this suzanne. no one but these hushpuppy breaded fish strips you transported to a classic southern fish fry. one bite of those fries and oh, you're back at all these these we have the meat for asthma. there's primitivist with symptoms. strike your airw

think of the difference between jim comey and this. comey leaked the memos with the purpose of getting a special counsel to investigate president trump. that's what he did and now they are rated president trump's home, so the double standard, we are all sick and tired of seeing it, frankly i'm sick and tired of talking about it, but it is real and it is wrong. >> laura: i want to remind people of this passage from a "new york times" piece last spring. as recently as late last year, mr. biden confided to his inner circle that he believed former president trump was a threat to democracy, should be prosecuted on while the president has never communicated his frustrations directly to mr. garland, he has said privately that he wanted garland to act a lot less like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor. so "the new york times" publishes that. but we are all supposed to believe that there is an impenetrable wall between the doj acting as an independent force for good law enforcement and ron klain and, you know, every other senior figur

the thing that i don't think he will do, katy, is anything close to what jim comey did. i don't think he will in any way say anything that is disparaging directly of the former president, even if it may be by inference something that we all can sort of read the tea leaves. but i don't think he's going to go down that road of giving his own personal views of what happened here. >> neal, i'm curious about what you think about the pressure from inside the justice department. by the way, we just got a two-minute warning to attorney general merrick garland, so don't go anywhere. but the pressure within the justice department for merrick garland to say something was very loud among republicans and some folks out there who just want to know more. but there are, according to sources who spoke with kristen welker, my colleague here at nbc news, there were people within the justice department who were saying hey, listen, we've got to get out there and say something about this. >> to resuscitate the tradition of trying to have, you know, open dialogue with people who think differen

certainly he has thought about jim comey. he interesting things you talked about is comey's stru struggle. merrick garland doesn't seem to have those kinds of struggles. his egois very different. he wants to follow the rules because he believes the rules serve a purpose to uphold the law and prevent the department from being taken over by politics and being politicized. it's a very important difference between he and comey, and an important difference between he and donald trump and it's to be seen how the public ultimately comes down on whether or not they believe that what merrick garland is doing is right. >> david, one of the things that -- i'm going to stick with comey for a second here because what's your view very quickly? do you think trump's going to run again? you think he's going to run again, right? >> i'm in the distinct minority that i don't think he will. now, this may change it, but listen, our democracy's hanging by a thread because of his small brittle ego because he lost to joe biden. he's the front runner b

on your show, he brought up the name jim comey, who is no paragon of virtue, argued we took -- he hadormation about the russian dossier. one thing i think he did write his he had a lot of criticism. he came out very publicly on the hillary clinton email case. "i'm going to include more detail about our process they am i ordinarily would. why? the american people deserve those details." he talked about those emails, eight top secret, 36 secret." i am making the point that he listed excruciating detail and went on to say that while the doj will make a final decision, though there is evidence for potential violations of statutes, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring a case." to his credit, he brought out the exact rationale. i don't agree with it, but that was his rationale. the american public could make their own political judgment. >> how much do you think people look at this case -- and dimension to this word, which was perfect. how much do you think the american public believes are attorney general merrick garland that this would be -- to this case? >> we know s

mishandling a ton of top secret, classified materials on unsecured private servers because even jim comey acknowledged crimes were committed and no reasonable prosecutor would bring a case, same people that let her get away with clear obstruction of justice. she deleted 33,000 e-mails and devices were destroyed with hammers. here is craig and trump attorney, let's get your reaction to breaking news issue the sheer number of whistleblowers coming forward and number two, what reminder and convenient time to remind people that work in the fbi, what their responsibilities are and they are not allowed to talk to congress, are you allowed to tell the police? is that the policy? >> evidently that is the policy, sean, that is called interference with law-abiding citizens. i'm proud of the whistleblowers and the president is incredibly proud of people that took their oath seriously. the fact they are coming forward and saying there is something wrong with what is happening in the fbi and fact they believe in the constitution and the oath they took to defend it and being law-abiding, i commend them

i think people should be treated the same without regard to political ideology, i remember that jim comey press conference well. i want to ask you about something you care about and have, our foreign policy, we're at one year mark in afghanistan after the withdrawal, i want to play a clip from general mckenzie. >> in your opinion was the withdrawal a mistake. >> i advised against withdraw, my re me recommendation and opinion, i realize the taliban could have chosen to attack us, i do not believe, that we would have been forced to add more forces to maintain a 2500 force level in afghanistan. trey: where are we one year later after the withdrawal? >> we're more exposed to another attack than we've ever been, the taliban are back in charge of afghanistan, al qaeda and isis are thriving in afghanistan, they desire to hit our homeland, joe biden canceled the residual force entrance policy to make sure they can't gather up over there to hit us here, president biden said he has no regrets about what he did in afghanistan, he is a fool if he believes that. i have a lot of regrets about what he d

when it was pointed out to jim comey, no, that's not what the statute said, they pivoted to this beingl charge that if we prosecuted her it would be an unconstitutional selective prosecution where she was not getting equal protection of the law. it is very hard for them to take a different position with respect to trump. well, we have a two-tiered justice system. just because she did not get prosecuted does not mean she won't go after him. here they have a problem that they did not have with hillary. you are dealing with the one official in the government that is de- classifying information. they like humiliating former president trump with this raid saying he has all this information down there that he should not have. prosecution is a very different thing. i think that they have a big problem with that. they can play offense if they go to congress. if you go to congress and say we need to fix what president prompted here, they can have a field day talking about them. you actually have to prove the case. even in washington. >> we just cannot have due process in congress. >> it seems l

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apparently charging hillary with a crime was unthinkable according to jim comey the former fbi directorod old jim, superior jim, take a look. >> given the importance of the matter, unusual transparencies in order. although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of evidence, no reasonable prosecutor would take such a a case. >> sean: no reason -- reasonable prosecutor. unlike hillary clinton who tried to destroy evidence, donald trump was complying with federal officials prior to the raid and hear what he handed over multiple boxes as many as 15. the fbi and doj were at mar-a-lago, the national archives noted his cooperation and the statement back in february and the former president met with the federal officials from the doj and other agencies in june. show him the rest of the documents and asked him to put a padlock on the door securing the documents at their request and he also said come back for whatever you need any time you need to. because his last name is donald trump, not biden, obama, clinton, hunter, it wasn't enough. the fbi when jud

the best example is what jim comey did back in 2016, which at the time i remember thinking it's a reasonableng he's doing. you have the investigation into the hillary clinton private e-mail server. they weren't going to charge her, so comey is going to get out and explain in public everything that went into it. that turned out to be a disaster. some people think it influenced the course of the election. merrick garland and chris wray are absolutely not going to go there. >> is there political risk here for democrats that they could overplay the raid in that if it's over classified documents and there's limited information the public gets to know, does this give trump an opportunity to paint himself as the martyr victim that he oh so loves to be in politics? and could it be something he turns to his advantage? >> well, i think we've seen the tactics in the first couple days of this, that trump is goingo cast himself as thevictim. that what he always does. i' never seen someone who on on hand insists he's the toughest guy, while at the same time he'slways the victim. how is that even possible?

we have seen my predecessor at the cia politicize and weaponize the cia, we saw jim comey who was a counterpart fbi without the cia director give away the funds and take notes and leak them to the press. we have watched the justice department under merrick garland go after her parents terrorists who are trying to make sure that their kids get to school, no reason to give them the benefit of the doubt. and has not been official, what they did runs square against the central pieces which is about transparent equal application of the law especially when you do it again someone who was your former and could potentially be again your political opponent. we don't see this in america, this is not something that should go lightly and it is bigger than what just happened last week. >> laura: mr. secretary, we had hillary clinton's people destroying thousands and thousands of emails. this is when donors to the clinton foundation were trying to get into talk to mrs. clinton. you were secretary of state. imagine if you had done anything approaching what was going on when she was secretary of state. i would

. >> he was named by donald trump to replace jim comey.aying that the fbi and justice department don't just go storming into former president's houses. there has to be a search warrant signed off on by a federal judge. we'll come to know in the coming days what they were looking for and the precision with which they sought to find it. but there is a reason and we don't know it yet, difficult to talk about it, we don't know yet why they felt it was necessary to go to mar-a-lago while trump wasn't there looking for very specific things that appear to be connected with documents that were at least at one point classified, that they may have believed to be on the premises. but we don't know those details so difficult to talk about it, but let's keep it in context. this is not just a power grab by a justice department. this is trump's own former choice to lead the fbi and actions of an agency where they obviously thought out the implications of this and decided that it was necessary to do it anyway. >> let's talk about a big primary today, four

as for jim comey, the fbi director at the time, well, he bragged about the fbi. >> you look at this whiteow and it's hard to imagine two fbi agents standing up in the state room. how does that happen? >> i sent them. [laughter] something i probably wouldn't have done or gotten away with in a more organized investigation, more organized administration. i thought as early enough, let's just send a couple guys over. [laughter] and so we placed a call to flynn and said we are sending a couple guys over, hope you will talk to them. he said sure. nobody else was there, they interviewed them in a conference room in the white house situation room and that is what he has now pled guilty to. >> what did he think they were going over there for? >> i don't think he knew. we didn't tell him. >> will: to them it's comedy. two americans, a banana republic. the classified documents prove the fbi knew the clinton campaign invented many of the russian collusion allegations. they were the pretext for the entire probe. james comey went ahead with that comedy, without banana republic action anyway. that is wh

the editorial board has a piece outlining wha happened and former secretary clinton's case with jim comeyaying the likelihood of trouble , but we're not going to prosecute, we couldn't get the prosecution. they say this tonight, we didn' like the clinton standards, but we didn't establish it. if mister garland can't make a compelling case that mister trump's transgressions are reader with enough clear and convincing evidence, the better judgment is not to prosecute an put the country through the trauma of a political they will suspect as a case of unequal justice. how does the attorney general wade through these waters now? >> it's absolutely correct for the public is not stupid here, we have a memory of what has gone on, and if the justice department has any true interes in restoring confidence of a large part of the population that has not liked what it has seen the last few years, it can take three discrete steps right now, step one, stop any positio of the special master, they can say we don't think it's necessary, but we have no problem we have nothing to hide let this independent ob

. >> the morale in the fbi definitely took a hit after the firing of jim comey. i think that was the watershed moment that made everybody kind of focus on this issue of the possibility that the administration is really trying to have a direct impact on how we did our work. >> reporter: throughout the russia investigation and afterward, trump continued to berate the fbi for how the investigation played out. >> these were dirty filthy cops at the top of the fbi. >> reporter: trump complain texts between two fbi employees were biased against him. >> look at these horrible fbi people talking about got to get him out, insurance policies. >> reporter: but one analyst says donald trump wasn't alone among presidents who believed the fbi should be holden to them. >> that is something that has long frustrated presidents going back to nixon and johnson and even john f. kennedy that the fbi was not necessarily loyal to them personally. >> reporter: after lambasting the fbi again following the mar-a-lago search, there are incidents that he might have softened a bit toward the

everyone recognizes that nobody wants to do a repeat of what happened when jim comey talked about it with hillary clinton. what you hear internally is that we have to say something because this search which is trump is calling a raid was done in the most polite way so to speak, right? they went in without raid jackets, no faooin fbi markings them, they came in close to 10:00 a.m. not the mark of what they usually do. and secondly it is achieving it open for the former president to claim that there was evidence being planted and it also really undermines the work that is being done because the work that being done is not only supported by this report of a witness but we also know that from talking to people that there is additional evidence that led them to take this step. so obviously they can't speak to a lot of this, but there is something that the attorney general can say to try to at least reassure the public that what is being done is being done for the right reasons. and that is his job. >> and kim, what evan was getting at is there has been conspiracy theories now thrown out b

. >> the morale in the fbi definitely took a hit after the firing of jim comey, i think that was themoment that made everyone kind of focus on this issue of the possibility that the administration was really trying to having a direct impact on how we did our work. >> throughout the rush investigation, and afterward, trump continued to berate the fbi, for how that investigation played out. >> these were dirty, filthy comps at the top of the fbi. >> trump complained that text between two fbi employees investigating the russian were biased against him. >> look at these horrible fbi people. talking about, we gotta get him out, insurance policies. >> but one analyst says, donald trump was not alone among presidents who believed the fbi should be beholden to them. >> that is something that has long frustrated presidents going back to nixon and johnson and even john f. kennedy. that the fbi was not necessarily loyal to them personally. >> after lambasted the fbi again, following the mar-a-lago search, there were hints in recent days that trump might have softened a bit towards the bureau. t

listen, if you are hillary clinton and this is 2016, she and her campaign would say that jim comey andr by all of their announcements so close to election day. we also know we have chuck grassley saying that there is fbi agents in the dozens who want to whistleblower over the investigation or lack thereof into hunter biden. that you have fbi agents that were conspiring against trump on their cell phones. so, there is enough there that i think that if we want to restore faith and trust in the fbi, which i absolutely do, if you want to do that, someone has to admit that there is a company culture problem. and it's not the american people's fault for being skeletal. skeptical. >> bret: wants to tone down the temperature and willing to do whatever it can take. at the same time, pushing back against all elements of the search and the raid. meantime, one year after afghanistan, the u.s. withdrawal from there, take a listen. >> >> does the president regret the decision that he made to pull the united states out of that country? >> absolutely not. the way we have been able to rally the west, r

he could always go get jim comey to kind of usurp the decision and have the fbi director say where no, bret, the doj says we are in the first inning. if it were just about documents, well, you have them back. but doj's position is we are in the infancy of this investigation and i think that's got people wondering what else is there? >> bret: i want to turn to this other topic and that's student loans and the reaction to that forgiveness plan if you want to call it that. here is larry summers who has been quoted on both sides numerous times depending on where he comes out. take a listen. >> i did not support large scale student debt relief because i thought it was using federal resources to make transfers, hundreds of billions of dollars and i would have liked those resources put to better use helping people who were poorer, who were more in need and who would use the money to invest more in the future of the economy i thinks that it does add to demand which does increase inflationary pressures. >> bret: he went on to say to say he thinks it's highly inflationary, depending, obviously

and that's one of the concerns that people have, and so, everyone understands that the members, jim comey and what happened in 2016. talking about uncharted conduct. nobody wants to repeat that. but there is a place between that and just complete silence which is what we have right now. i think that's where officials are trying to grapple with. as you and i've talked about is, they're kind of in a catch 22, which is no matter what they say it's probably going to be twisted. but right now, the only people talking or the former president and his allies. and they are portraying it in a way that is really harmful to the greater -- to the purpose of justice. >> you certainly see the confidence as being described as shaken. i do want to get it back to you one moment, kim, but i do wanna follow but stuart for a second, because i love to know what your reaction is to evans reporting that fbi agents were trying to avoid some spectacle in the search, and also the mistrust that is now being talked about even the accusation of planting evidence. what do you make of this? >> well, first of all, i thin

. >> compare that to hillary clinton of classified documents in a server that jim comey admitted wasccessed by a foreign adversary. so her conduct was far, far worse. in it she was not charged. quick structural national security advisor told cbs trump would often get intelligent briefings and he would ask those briefer certificates of the sensitive documents were asked of the story was true he said is accurate, john. jon: lucas tomlinson live in washington. thank you lucas. president biden is celebrating gas prices dipping below $4 a gallon for the first time since march. critics point out gas is still nearly twice as expensive as it was this time last year. meanwhile, new photos show hunter biden vacationing with his family while in the middle of a federal tax investigation. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has details for some south carolina, jacqui. chris good evening to you, john p present by the signs bill next week follow it with a big celebration at the white house with lawmakers on september 63 is already using the legislative when to campaign against republicans. >>

under jim comey, as well as some of the other examples you mentioned going back to j. edgar hoover. but i think since trump's appointee as fbi director came in, there has been no real evidence of any corruption going on. now, maybe there is. maybe we will find out. we have to be vigilant. you are right to be skeptical. >> jesse: i'm skeptical because we saw what they did with this gretchen whitmer kidnapping situation. we saw them get involved in targeting parents that raise their voices at school board meetings. so i'm not ready to give ray a pass, ron. i do have to go and i love your books. and i recommend them highly. they are very well researched. >> well, you are right as usual. thank you. >> jesse: thank you very much, ron. see you soon. >> bye-bye. >> jesse: joe biden just had a big deplorable moment, worse than hillary. that's next. >> jesse: plus, we also asked people what they thought about fauci retiring. >> what is the best piece of advice that dr. fauci has ever given? >> the best advice? um -- ♪ in addition to the substitute teaching. i honestly feel that that's my cal

a counterintelligence investigation into him, i think, in 2017, looking at whether the firing of jim comey a foreign adversary. i wonder if you can speak about the questions that were never answered about donald trump as he was president, because he went through and purged his fbi and justice department until he ended up with bill barr atop it. >> you know, i think that's a hard thing to answer, because i think the reality is, the biggest -- the best way to answer that question is figuring out why. why did he take the documents that he did? because it was very clear in the affidavit that he was asked multiple times for these documents, and he gave them back sort of in dribs and drabs, so i think we're looking at a mixture of documents that could possibly incriminate him in doing something nefarious with national security, but then i also think that we can be, just like what phil was saying, looking at things that really sort of interested him. so, i want to know why he kept what he kept, and because that's going to tell me what he really planned on doing with what he kept. >> harry, the co

that was the violation that jim comey committed as fbi director in the case of hillary clinton to a greatl of criticism internally from justice and externally from the political world and the democratic sphere. they can't really comment as much as commentators and pundits may want a comment from them. it's not appropriate for them to comment in any fashion. and yet, you have an unrestrain unrestrained amount online, threatening comments, in fact. kevin mccarthy, you have to say an outrageous attack on merrick garland. brace yourself when we take over. clear your calendar, we will investigate you. merrick garland is the most careful, judicious to a fault some would say attorney general in this case. >> it's -- your point about them not being able to comment is particularly true in a case involving national security and classified documents and potential counterintelligence issues. they are hamstrung. it's worth pointing out the context here as these republicans make these charges. the fbi was reeling from the fallout of the trump russia investigation where an fbi lawyer was prosecuted and

it started back with public perceptions, half of the country thinking joe jim comey did the right thing, have them thinking he did the wrong thing, saying that no prosecute reasonable prosecutor would prosecute hillary clinton in the email case. then hear both sides saying that's wrong, that debacle. now it's a no win situation. i'm just telling it based on my 25 years with the fbi, they keep their head down, they work with federal prosecutors, they are not politicians, they don't talk about who they voted for or law around the watercooler. they are just trying to do their job, and if there's evidence of crime and a judge signed off on an affidavit, and you got yourself a search warrant. >> frank, you and i talked about the work that leads up to this, we talked about the work, once the work that leads up and the days following ahead? >> we are engaged in conjecture, and i definitely appreciation ken delaney and his admonition that we don't know exactly with this is about it. but whatever case it is about, first and foremost before they leave the property tonight, if they're still there

that continued in his criticism of jim comey, director comey, who he fired and transferred to criticismdy mccabe, transferred to me, who was fired. so you saw this constant attack that wasn't limited to the fbi, but then extended to all these folks across the administration. there just was a constant stream of attack by the president, and it can't help but create among certain groups within the united states a question about whether or not the government is, in fact, neutral. i can tell you, and anyone of those folks can tell you that, in fact, it is. that's why i was so glad to see attorney general garland up there at the podium saying the buck stops with me. i approved this. this is, at the end of the day, the way the department does it. we did niit in a measured which. and i think he's trying to be as transparent as regulations allow him to push back on this nonsense that we have heard from jump and his enablers for five years now, trying to undermine that the u.s. government is, in fact, a decent, honorable group of civil servants trying to do their job and do it well. >> thank you

this is the same organization, the same fbi that brought you, let's see, andrew mccabe and jim comey, peter strzok, lisa paige, the russia collusion hoax, the mueller witch hunt, the phizer court fraud and lies to the fisa courts, predawn raids with guns drawn, 30 people at a time, fake news cnn cameras at roger stone's raid then the paul manafort raid then other trump associates. the same organization that let hillary clinton off the hook for mishandling a ton of top secret and classified materials on an unsecured private server, multiple servers actually. because, according to comey, no reasonable prosecutor would bring a case. the same people that would let her get away with obstruction of justice deleting 30,000 e-mails acid washing her hard drive with bleach bit and destroying any devices that might have those e-mails with hammers and removing sum cards take a look. >> we did not findest secretary clinton or her colleagues intended to, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive highly classified information. although there is evidence

everyone, everyone who i think was a justice department official was very upset with jim comey when he proceeded to talk about his political views of hillary clinton when they were declining to prosecute. that's something the justice department does not do. the put up or shut up rule which is you either indict or you just don't say anything. so merrick garland is, you know, compelled, i think, because of the civil liberties concerns not to give too much information about what is happening. so that's the conundrum. you saw it play out. you have one side very, very quiet and the other side that is free to pontificate and make claims under the first amendment, they're entitled to do. it isn't equal fatting on both side. >> what can you tell us from what you're hearing inside the justice department? >> yeah. by the book, is the rule. the rule going with this. it has been very difficult to confirm basic facts about a lot of this. the fact that this sort of unprecedented raid, nothing came out about it at all ahead of time is significant. and the fact that it is so difficult to get any sort