lynch, but it was another person named loretta lynch. so, it was a complete -- >> and debbie wasser man schultz was named in it. when the washington post contacted her she said she didn't know any of these people. did the fbi contact her? >> finally the washington post had a conversation with her about this. all of the contacts that should have been made in the four months that the fbi had access to this memo didn't get made until after director comey announced his decision on -- not to prosecute hillary clinton. >> this is the way it looks to me. it looks like this very damning information about the attorney general which turns out to be false, was one of the reasons director comey bypassed her and had that july fifth press conference, although he included the fact that bill clinton had met with loretta lynch on the tarmac. he said he didn't trust her, but they never bothered to talk to loretta lynch until a month later and she offered to tell all. on the record, essentially. and they never bothered to contact anybody else. and now dire

and fbi policy as stated by loretta lynch, don't impact an election. comey last week confessed that i felt mildly nauseous at the idea i might be impacting an electio election. it wasn't catastrophic to conceal the fact that the investigation was now looking into the letters that were being put on anthony weiner's server. right? the fact is, this man violated the policy, democrats -- they worn him out. when does president trump act? the democrats won act because they feared it would be seen as a political action help hillary clinton. trump acts in the midst of this investigation as things are getting hot with mike flynn, as things are getting hot with carter page, things are increasingly apparent -- subpoenas, grand jury investigations, increasing pressure on trump leading potentially towards impeachment. >> is only getting hot in the mainstream media, juan. i do think there's a lot of corruption swirling around come comey. he handed out immunity like candy during this investigation of the clinton email investigation. he let her invest wow associates d

and fbi policy as stated bygo loretta lynch, don't impact an election. comey last week confessed that "i felt mildly nauseous at the idea i might be impacting an election." it wasn't catastrophic to conceal the fact that the investigation was now looking into the letters that were being put on anthony weiner's server. right? the fact is, this man violated the policy, democrats -- they worn him out. when does president trump act? the democrats won because they feared it would be seen as a political action help hillary clinton. trump acts in the midst of this investigation as things are getting hot with mike flynn, as things are getting hot with carter page, things are increasingly apparent -- subpoenas, grand jurywh investigations, increasing pressure on trump leading potentially towards impeachment. >> it's only getting hot in the mainstream media, juan. i do think there's a lot of corruption swirling around comey. he handed out immunity like candy during this investigation of the clinton email investigation. he let her associates destroy their own canan

they are saying he did it as a way of protecting loretta lynch. a week prior to that, loretta lynch had the meeting with bill clinton on the tarmac. her credibility was in shambles. she should have been the one to make the call. instead of putting her in that position, this is him taking the bullet for her. doesn't make it any better? do you buy that? >> i think loretta lynch should have dropped out of it but the deputy attorney general, eric is correct. he has the information he turns it over to the number two guy at justice. they make the call as to whether or not to prosecute for the fbi does not make those decisions. it's an investigative body. i think he went out there, and excuse me, he was a big hotdog out there. he laid this garbage on hillary while at the same time says were not going to prosecute. >> is that where he went wrong? do you think president obama should have fired him? >> at that point, i think president obama would've killed hillary's campaign if he fired him. >> do you think you should have gotten fired? he would have gone s

fbi director was fired for usurping the authority of then attorney general loretta lynch, but he announced the results of the investigation into hillary clinton's emails last july. the president's opponents were quick to make the firing about him and not the fbi director. there were handshakes from his police escort on the tarmac in los angeles as james comey boarded the fbi jet for the final time. while it was the president who fired comey, white house or the state was the newly minted deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who had lost confidence in comey. sources say rosenstein, confirmed 14 days ago, assessed the situation and determined that comey should be replaced. democrats who had recently praised's integrity, could not question the man, only the timing. >> the first question the administration has to answer is why now. if the administration had objections to the way director comey handled the clinton investigation, they have those objections the minute the president got into office. but they didn't fire him then. why did it happen today? >> exactly when comey's tenure became a pr

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i guess loretta lynch gave him the green light to do that. should there be a greater chain of command so you don't get this sort of cowboy mentality here where you've got the fbi director interpreting constitutional law? >> no, thas exactly right. a law enforcement officer is responsible for one thing, that is to determine the facts, nothing but the facts. they then present it to, you know, prosecutors, professionals in that area who then make the decision as to what the call's going to be, whether there was a crime that's committed, whether there's sufficient evidence to prosecute for that crime. and, yeah, james comey has demonstrated over the last year that he believes he can do all of those things. that's not his job. he's overstepped the bounds of his authority, and it's now come back, you know? and he's now being held accountable. you cannot have people running rogue in the department of justice or at the fbi. charles: representative hoekstra, thank you very much. you really -- >> thank you. charles: we appreciate you calling in your ex

know who loretta lynch. >> doesn't know her.d come up with that. i think the bigger problem for comey is that he forgot he was the fbi director. he is not the deputy attorney general. he's not part of the justice department. his job was to do the job of the fbi director and he always would say, i make my decision and i don't worry about consequence. and that could -- that is a lie. the guy overthinks consequence of his decisions. are you supposed to make a decision on the facts that he has before them and let the chips fall where they may. he was doing the job not just of the fbi director, at one point he was the deputy attorney general for bush. i think he thought he was still the deputy attorney general. it is not his job to worry about the attorney general or to worry about whether or not his investigation was going to look -- was going to look as if it had been influenced by the attorn general. that's the attorney general's problem. >> ramesh? >> it does seem as if to take on jen's point he took on the burden of being the om

and we are beginning to also understand the depths of distrust between jim comey and loretta lynch.irector and the attorney general is one of the most important working relationships in the u.s. government and we are beginning to understand the extent to which jim comey just didn't trust that he could listen to or trust the decision making and independence of loretta lynch throughout this process and that's a really troubling precedent that we're beginning to understand. >> but to your point, brooke, if, indeed, the special counsel bob mueller is doing the most comprehensive look at russia's meddling in the election, then you are right, it will be curious to see if there are contemporaneous notes about comey's thought process surrounding this memo. >> david, thank you. garret, thank you as well. more on our breaking news today. another rejection to the president's travel ban in the fourth circuit court blocking the ban. what this means politically and what the white house's next steps legally are. more on cnn. d into the paint store feeling like you should really know more than you

who knows what bill clinton said to loretta lynch in that conversation? they said they were talking about gulf and grand kids. he didn't buy. that he said there's no way. he believed bill clinton was somehow trying on influence the investigation. >> he said it was bad judgment. those were his words. bad judgment. i thought somebody was joking but it's not a joke. it is a very serious thing, he said. hillarclton is so guilty. it shows what's happening with our laws and wh our government. he said that in denver, colorado on, july 1st. he also said it a number of other times. for donald trump to do that and then to assume that there is a completely different set of rules for him may be surprising to many folks but this is the way he has operated. it is just a fact with him. rules don't apply to him in the same way they apply to others. he ultimately knows best. the confusing part is not only that, but the time line of this. you had sarah huckabee sanders say faye donald trump made this decision back on wednesday when the fbi director was in front of that wil

his testimony also led to new questions about former attorney general loretta lynch. and her role. and he pushed back on some presidential speculation. the controversial spending bill that had republicans rising up for what was in and not in the bill has now passed the house and heads of the u.s. senate. the biggest news today, new progress toward a health care reform bill that republicans seem to be rallying around tonight and a vote that may be coming as soon as tomorrow. we will show you what's changed in the last several hours. mike emanuel starts us off. >> good evening. after weeks of struggling to come up with enough support, republicans were say there's no real momentum. house majority leader kevin mccarthy says they're getting very close and some predict a vote could come as soon as tomorrow. >> i support the bill with this amendment that's going to be included as part of the rules package when we consider this tomorrow. >> upton is offering help with those with pre-existing conditions on paying their premiums by providing $8 billion over five years. after a white house me

really, you want to sing at a think >> he was also asked about loretta lynch and her infamous meetingith bill clinton, talking about their kids and grandkids. that was the middle of a campaign that hillary was being investigated and then of course loretta lynch made an announcement shortly thereafter? watch this. >> what i struggled with in the spring is how do we credibly complete an investigation of hillary's emails if we conclude there is no case there. the normal way to do it we would have the department of justice announced it. a number of things went on some of which i can't talk about yet that made me worry department leadership could not credibly complete the investigation and declined prosecution without grievous damage to the american people's confidence in the justice system. in the nightcap capper was i'm not picking on the attorney general loretta lynch, her meeting with president clinton on that airplane was the capital for me. >> sean: it was the capper for you but you won't condemn what loretta lynch did and you praise her? that's tarmac meeting was a slap in the face

fbi director was fired for usurping the authority of then attorney general loretta lynch, but he announced the results of the investigation into hillary clinton's emails last july. the president's opponents were quick to make the firing about him and not the fbi director. there were handshakes from his police escort on the tarmac in los angeles as james comey boarded the fbi jet for the final time. while it was the president who fired comey, white house or the state was the newly minted deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who had lost confidence in comey. sources say rosenstein, confirmed 14 days ago, assessed the situation and determined that comey should be replaced. democrats who had recently praised's integrity, could not question the man, only the timing. >> the first question the administration has to answer is why now. if the administration had objections to the way director comey handled the clinton investigation, they have those objections the minute the president got into office. but they didn't fire him then. why did it happen today? >> exactly when comey's tenure became a pr

and the capper was -- i'm not picking on loretta lynch -- but her meeting with hillary clinton on the plane was the capper for me. >> let's talk about that moment between president clinton and the former a.g. >> you heard him talking about it that it was the capper but i'm told in these classified sessions, comey didn't even mention the plane incident. instead, he told lawmakers that the russian information was the primary reason he took the unusual step to announce the end of the clinton probe. i can tell that you gloria borger has heard that there are other issues and factors as well that played into it. >> okay. dana, extraordinary reporting. thank you. i've gone eric with me now, someone who has covered the fbi and james comey for years and years. eric, my question to you is, the fact that comey was inspired to hold this news conference last july, announcing this into the probe, the clinton probe, to beat any leak of the fake russian documents, having covered comey as much as you have, does that decision surprise you? >> it was a stunner, to be honest. >> it is? >> it kind of chan

whatever you may think of loretta lynch and she was a lowly attorney general by virtue of her conductshe should have been given the opportunity to make the decision or to delegate it to someone else in the department. james, had no work right to do that. he knew and everybody else knew it. he interjected himself because he wanted to be a hero. he wanted this to be about james comey. he wanted to save hillary quentin's candidacy. he did it for political and self-aggrandizement reasons. >> tucker: it did seem like there was a lot of -- a lot of the statements that you made were not used to seeing that from fbi directors. have you seen it from fbi director? >> i have never, ever seen in fbi director behave this way, speak this way, look this way, carry himself this way, just think back in your mind. can you conceive of j. edgar hoover getting in front of a congressional committee and mouthing the words that james comey melt? >> tucker: if you're right that comey is motivated by his grandiose sense of himself, then he is now a free agent. he can do whatever he wants. his contracts been te

host: the former attorney general loretta lynch under the obama administration?he does not work for the trump administration. caller: i was not aware of that, but i felt like she was part of that scandal. anyway, that is my feelings. i am glad it is over with. next,sandra is up attleboro, massachusetts, independent. faker: is this trump's news for our truth? we need the truth. that is what we fought for our independent, to fight for the truth of our country. we are going to shut our amounts what trumpmouths to thinks and trump wants. probably like the idea of syria being armed, turkey does not like that. we are making bedfellows all over the place that are horrible, that decisions. we need help. -- bad decisions. we need help. host: we will be talking about that decision to arm the syrian rebels with missy ryan in our 9:00 hour, so stick around for that. harry, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, republican. caller: i think it is going to backfire on the democrats. if they had anything on trump it would have exposed. anything they do now is for political. knowing how trump

whatever you may think of loretta lynch and she was a lowly attorney general by virtue of her conduct, she should have been given the opportunity to make the decision or to delegate it to someone else in the department. james, had no work right to do that. he knew and everybody else knew it. he interjected himself because he wanted to be a hero. he wanted this to be about james comey. he wanted to save hillary quentin's candidacy. he did it for political and self-aggrandizement reasons. >> tucker: it did seem like there was a lot of -- a lot of the statements that you made were not used to seeing that from fbi directors. have you seen it from fbi director? >> i have never, ever seen in fbi director behave this way, speak this way, look this way, carry himself this way, just think back in your mind. can you conceive of j. edgar hoover getting in front of a congressional committee and mouthing the words that james comey melt? >> tucker: if you're right that comey is motivated by his grandiose sense of himself, then he is now a free agent. he can do whatever he wants. his contracts been

that should have been left up -- even if loretta lynch would have prosecuted her, that should've been left up to her to make that decision and not director comey. this is why the deputy attorney general right now is making this decision and asked the president to fire director

fbi director was fired for usurping the authority of then attorney general loretta lynch, but he announced the results of the investigation into hillary clinton's emails last july. the president's opponents were quick to make the firing about him and not the fbi director. there were handshakes from his police escort on the tarmac in los angeles as james comey boarded the fbi jet for the final time. while it was the president who fired comey, white house or the state was the newly minted deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who had lost confidence in comey. sources say rosenstein,

broke with policy and talked about it is because bill clinton met with loretta lynch and undermined the public's confidence in the investigation. now, the irony about doing it at this particular time though, charles, is that the entire left -- which as of 15 minutes ago probably wanted comey to go for supposedly hurting hillary clinton at the end -- will be appalled and will say this is the biggest scandal since -- charles: oh, no, this is certainly going to fan those flames. rich, i do want to ask you, though, i mean, you have sympathy for him, and yet he spoke publicly about something perhaps he should not have. and then he laid out this amazing, amazing rationale for indicting hillary clinton and decides not to. >> yeah. charles: so he creates this firestorm, a circular firing squad at himself, and he compounds it every single time he opens his mouth. >> yeah. the answer is he never should have owned his mouth. that would have been the right decision. just stick with policy. we have policy and practices for a reason. and i think the justification for not recommending an

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was recommendingt charges when it was a decision that had to rest with the justice department and loretta lynch. he colored outside the lines. he brought disrepute to the bureau, and this attorney general and previous attorney general on both sides of the aisle had concluded he had lost his ability to effectively lead what is the preeminent law enforcement agency in the world. >> bret: obviously what these letters are focused on and you point out the concern about the first move, he could have been fired right away. when president trump took office if that was the genesis of it. comes in the context of this latest testimony which the fbi had to walk back today. let's take a listen to what the fbi director james comey said about huma abedin's emails. >> they found thousands of new emails. they found classified information on anthony weiner. somehow her emails are being forwarded to anthony weiner, including classified information by her assistant, huma abedin. >> she forwarded hundreds of thousands of emails. >> bret: they had to come out with a letter that essentially said it wasn't a hun

for their part, republicans wanted to know about the bill clinton/loretta lynch meeting on the tarmac in arizona. that did play into comey's decision initially to tuck about the investigation o'ver the summer and sat into motion this chain of events that hillary clinton yesterday said was responsible, nothing less than the cause of her defeat on november 8th. steve. >> all right. mike, as you're giving us that report, we are watching, you can see at home there on the lower right hand corner of your screen, we'll blow it up so you can see it, the vote on the bill to keep the government open. there it is, by the way. see that tally? it just hit 216. now it's well over 216. that's the magic number. that thing has the votes officially in the house. it will pass. the tally 218-77. looks like about 70 republicans voting against it, 69 republicans voting against this, but mike, we're a little slow getting up to 216 there, but they've now crossed that threshold. so this is i guess the only suspense left here is if donald trump after that tweet yesterday -- >> yeah. >> -- suggesting a governme

. >> i'm not picking on the attorney general loretta lynch, who i like, but her meeting with president clinton on that airplane was the capper for me. i then said, do you know what? the department cannot, by itself, credibly end this. the best chance we have as a justice system is that i do something i never imagined. two actions. speak or conceal. i don't think many reasonable people would do i differently than i did no matter what they say today. >> sandra: katherine herridge is live outside the hearing. what did we hear in general about the decision to reopen the clinton e-mail probe 11 days before the election? he was asked multiple times about that. >> reporter: the fbi director james comey testified that clinton's aide routinely sent e-mails to her husband, anthony weiner to get them printed out. in the process when the fbi got inside anthony weiner's computer -- you know what it's like after these hearings. everyone is clearing out. anyway, when the fbi got inside anthony weiner's computer as part of a separate investigation, they found thousands of clinton e-mail, many were new

loretta lynch actually hadn't been co-opted by the dnc.tainly he would have provided some assessment of the accuracy of that information. for then a separate question about a forgery. document designed for release. so it is not clear the extent of what comey knew and when. but in the past he held back information to really preserve the appearance of integrity and appearance for the fbi. >> you work with classified information, john kirby, at pentagon and state department, your whole career. retired rear admiral. he didn't want it release even knowing about the fake document because it could undermine sources and methods and that would undermine u.s. security. is that realistic? >> it is. i think that is clearly a justifiable reason to hang on to that and to be careful with it. i also wunder wonder to agree a contends that there is tension between loretta lynch and jim comey. that he wouldn't share some of the stuff with her. i find that really interesting. >> and it doesn't answer the question of course of comey, received a lot of criticis

there are some who thought jim comey fell on a grenade that had loretta lynch's name on it. i'm within that group. loretta lynch failed in her meeting with bill clinton and jim calmly decided to take it upon himself now are seeing perhaps that was part of the price he had to pay, being paid back today. so i think the fbi will move forward. i hope. going to senator schumer's comments earlier, his call for special prosecutor only gets us partway there. somebody's going to have to be named as a replacement director for the fbi, and good luck to the person who raises their hand for that job, good luck to them. >> martha: what he think about andrew mccabe, who was a deputy now and may very well be put forward for that job? >> i don't see andy being put forward for the job. his already been the subject of criticism, questions about his wife running for local office here in d.c. and some money that came from the local governor's office, so i think there are concerns that that may disqualify andy and probably doesn't want to put himself through that. i think you're going to have to

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now, for republicans, and editorial boards who rightly condemned loretta lynch for meeting bill clinton on the tarmac over the summer, to talk about golf and kids and grandchildren, wonder if those republicans are going to be just as critical of the president of the united states asking the fbi director if he was under criminal investigation. that -- i mean, hillary clinton -- what if -- what if bill clinton, what if it came out that bill clinton got on the airplane with loretta lynch and asked the status of the e-mail investigation. and the president just admitted that he did this and we know that since that's an admission against interest as we would say in the court, we know that part is true but we know the other part is a lie. because jim comey has sworn under oath that donald trump is under investigation, and we heard again today by the acting director of the fbi that it's an investigation that they take very seriously. that -- i know a lot of people are going to be focusing on all the lies that trump white house told yesterday, as it pertains to donald trump making the recommenda

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was the infamous tarmac meeting of bill clinton and loretta lynch. >> i struggled of a number of thingsdepartment of leadership could not complete the investigation without grievance damage of the american conference of the justice system. i am not picking on the attorney general, loretta lynch, her meeting with bill clinton on that airplane was a capper for me. >> in retrospect, what's your take on that? >> there was nothing false about what he just said. because at the beginning, he did reference that there are things that you cannot talk about yet. the meeting probably had some sway in the decision making. clearly, this russian intelligence fake document did have a tremendous way over his decision making and it is unfortunate buothat the russian were so successful last year, this year with fake information. >> multiple sources tell cnn until this day that russia is trying to spread that false information as you mentioned. ideas the u.s. through elected officials and american intelligence and law enforcement operatives and still nor attein to cloud the vitamin iinvestiga. right now co

keep in mind loretta lynch recused hill h herself or at least removed herself.n't a formal recusal because she met on the tarmac of the spouse of an ongoing investigation. this is how i would distinguish the two fact charges. he said he was not going to pursue charges against hillary clinton. that's a little bit different than having the conversation on front end of the investigation, though in this case he has told us on front end, the last time we had a public hearing, that there was an investigation either intelligence or quasi-criminal investigation into matters surrounding russia's efforts to interfere with our election. i viewed his press conference with secretary clinton as explaining his non-charging decision. if he wants to do that at the end of the investigation with russia, he's welcome to do so. it's unusual to have that press conference on the front end of an investigation. >> the president tweeted last night ahead of today's testimony, fbi director comey was the best thing that ever happened to hillary clinton in that he gave her a free pass for ma

>> it's an e-mail apparently, a democratic staffer saying don't sweat it, loretta is not going to push it that hard and the question is was the fbi aware of it. if it leaked, if the russians got their hands on it as a stolen or hacked e-mail, would it make the fbi's job more complicated. my understanding is that that didn't play much of a role in this. and of course we have to remember -- i don't know how much mr. comey is going to be expansive about his discussion of the hillary clinton investigation for this reason. the justice department inspector general has an investigation going of the entire handling by the fbi of the clinton e-mail investigation. so there's not a lot he can say because of that iq investigation. he has talked about this some in recent weeks say it was a difficult time if are the fbi but it has to be nonpartisan. can't be viewed as a partisan tool or playing favorites 37 but in terms of getting into the weeds i'm not sure how much he'll go there because of iig investigation. once loretta lynch had the meeting on the tar mac with big clinton before the fbi announc

arena making statements to shape the investigation and ultimately trying to take the call away from loretta lynch. doing an about-face and making another statement which then really unfairly cast a cloud over the election of donald trump when instead they should have been focused on the real reason that he won and why hillary clinton was defeated, because she was a horrible candidate and working-class men and women were left behind. lou: the attorney general rod rosenstein is a career prosecutor, the longest-serving u.s. tourney in american history and it shows in his letter to the attorney general, he lays out a complaint that is without any question persuasive and complete and it's clear that this goes back to july when director comey chose to go public and to be sort of cassandra and hamlet at the same time and basically try to talk about concealment by the fbi. by the time you get back to his recent testimony he wasn't just pulling information from the public to accept the traditions of the fbi, he was concerned about it in concealed. a value laden word is the deputy attorney general sa

i think the analogy could be drawn to what happened with loretta lynch. we assumed she was improperly approached by bill clinton and that he may, or even the fact that he might have asked was, as you showed in the clip earlier, something that trump himself has called a disgrace. there is a line here, apparently what we hear from grassley and feinstein, it happened, which clears away one question. the other, should it have happened? i think that's still a question. >> bret: we are dealing with nuance, semantics, people say things differently. is president trump under investigation? well, the trump campaign clearly is under investigation but he indicated president trump was not, according to senators and the president. >> there have been multiple sources saying trump himself is not under investigation. the claim is that trump is a russian agent that is guilty of treason. that's the hysteria we are in. having that clarified is important. it is worth noting donald trump is not the most reliable narrator. it's uncertain about whether he described what comey sa

and the capper was -- and i'm not picking on loretta lynch, but her meeting with president clinton on the airplane was the capper for me. >> how, dana, did that meeting really factor into his decision? >> well, in the classified sessions that i mentioned with lawmakers, i'm told that comey didn't even mention that airplane incident with loretta lynch and bill clinton. instead, he told lawmakers that this russian information was the primary reason he took -- not the only reason but the primary reason he took the unusual step to announce the end of the clinton probe. and, look, i will tell you that since we reported the story, we're getting a lot of response, as you can imagine. but this is fascinating, especially when it comes to the whole notion, brooke, of russian misinformation that not only went on then but we're told continues to go on even as we speak with an attempt after an attempt to get u.s. elected officials and others inside the government that is not right to cloud up the probes that they are doing right now. >> nick ackerman, when you sat down, you said, this is scary. >>

the russian related issue claimed to show that then attorney general loretta lynch had been compmizedted e-mails between then dnc chair saying that lynch would mick the fbi probe go away. now, according to one official in classified briefings comey told lawmakers he was afraid the information would drop and undermine the investigation. but comey did not tell lawmakers that he doubted the accuracy of that information even in a classified setting. now, according to sources close to comey the fbi director felt that the all of a suddenty of the information. >> if you remember in public comey said the reason is breaking protocol and having that news conference in july is because the former president, bill can clinton, wound up going to then attorney general loretta lynch before and having that conversation which see considered to be inappropriate. >> that's right. that is the public explanation. he did that as soon as and as late as may 3rd. the last time he testified as fbi director. but in his sessions, comey didn't even mention that incident. instead he told lawmakers this russian inves

so it's very clear that the justice department under loretta lynch would never indict hillary clinton i just have to interject. i understand that was a piece it was back in july when they talked about this probe. that was when the president was initially doubting, i suppose, james comey's ability to do his job. but yet it took him all these many months to follow through. do you question that at all? >> no, i don't question it. because we know that the deputy attorney general had conducted a search and he put a letter forward and the president made his decision based upon that. and i think very clearly what we've seen is a highly politicized from the previous administration whereby a highly politicized department of justice written loretta lynch actually sat on a tarmac in a private meeting with the former president billclipten why his wife was running for the president of the united states while she was under investigation for the e-mail server. >> but candidate trump agreed was agregious and was the reason why he fired comey but then president trump praised. how do you phrase that? >

maria: so, if jim comey knew that his boss loretta lynch dide hillary clinton conflict, really did not do it, everybody in the fbi knew because you knew where the donations were going, what should he have done, step down, i'm not going to have this on my shoulders? >> first of all, the minute that attorney general lynch met in private on an airplane with bill clinton, she should have been rescued and comey's assignment and the former u.s. attorney general who explained this, at this point comey's job was to report to deputy attorney general who at the time was yates. it's not comey's job to take it upon himself as fbi director the job of the attorney general. that's what he did. maria: yeah. >> i think that was an enormous power. i frankly lost total faith in comey at the hearing about a week ago where he goes off on how it almost made him nauseous to make him do this and that. the director of the fbi ought to be somebody who knows what they are doing and are prepared to defend it and does it with dignity. maria: yeah, that was too much. mildly nauseous. what an ego. we appreciate your

then attorney general loretta lynch had been comprised in the trump investigation because of e-mails a political operator saying that lynch would make the fbi clinton probe go away. according to one government official in classified briefings comey told lawmakers he was afraid the information would drop and undermine the investigation but coby did not tell lawmakers he doubted the accuracy of the information. according to sources close to comey the fbi director felt the validity of the information didn't matter because if it became public they had no way of discrediting it without burning sources and methods. think about the chain of events all of this help set off. when comey held his conference announcing no charges against comey, he also took the in appropriate step of calling her extremely careless. clinton aids are convinced that her reputation was damaged to voters and she never recovered, that probably would not have happened without russian internal revenue servi interference. the fake information is still a major issue. multiple sources are telling us russia is still trying

if loretta doesn't have her medication, she will die.usands of people like me who are watching their kids get sicker and sicker and we can't do anything about it. and people are actively working against us to let our kids just be sick because they're a drain on the system. >> a spokesman for mchenry said says the deputy sheriff in the billing asked anderson to leave and the congressman's staff was fought involved in her removal from the premisings. we'll be right back. if you want to stay on top of your health, one simple thing to do -- is take the pledge to go and get screened for the cancers that might affect you. so stand up to cancer and take the pledge at getscreenednow.org it only takes a minute to take care of yourself, and nothing rhymes with "org"... >> welcome back too "hardball." it was only a week ago house republicans gathered with president trump at the white house to celebrate the pass annual of the health caring a. james comey threatened to de rail the house agaenda house republicans are demanding an independent investiga

jim comey came out and said he wasn't going ahead with charges against hillary clinton, allowing lorettae that decision, he said in part, although we did not find evidence, there's evidence they were extremely carolinas in their handling of sensitive highly classified information. there is evidence that secretary clinton or any reasonable person should have known it was no place for such conversation. we all know he wasn't going to charge her but he slammed her in these comments. do you think that if this document didn't exist anything would be different right now? >> it would be completely and utterly irresponsible of me to speculate on whether this so-called memo, which would be a false document, manufactured, because it's not addressing anything that's valid or factual. it would be irresponsible of me to speculate why director comey made decisions and what he made those decisions on related to the dismissal or his belief that the case against secretary clinton should not be pursued. what is clear is that the russians were doing everything they could in a wide variety of ways to influe

publicly declare that the clinton probe was over last summer without consulting then attorney general loretta lynch. you may remember that earlier this week "the washington post" reported on this intelligence and the doubts about its credibility. the fact that comey felt that he had to act based on russian disinformation is a stark example of how russian interference really did impact the decision making at the highest levels of the u.s. government during the 2016 campaign. the russian information claimed to show that then attorney general lynch had been compromised in the clinton investigation because of e-mails between the then dnc chair debbie wasserman schultz and a clinton campaign operative saying lynch would make the fbi clinton probe go away. according to one government official in classified briefings comey told lawmakers that he was afraid that this information would, quote, drop and undermine the investigation, but comey didn't tell lawmakers at the time that he doubted the accuracy of the information even in a classified setting. according to one government official the fbi direct

attorneye former general loretta lynch, under the obama administration? she doesn't work for the trump administration now. aware of that.t anyways, i felt like she was part of all of that rigmarole , you know? anyway, that's my feelings. i'm glad it's over with now. all right, sandra, massachusetts, good morning. caller: i would like to know one thing. is this the trump fake news or our truth? we need the truth. independence,our to fight for the truth of our country. we are going to shut our mouths to what trump thinks or what trump wants. yet we want his taxes to be put out. we don't like probably the idea of syria being against. turkey does not like that. we are making horrible bedfellows all over the place. bad decisions. we need help. thank you. stick around. later in the show we will be talking about the decision to arm the rebels. we will be talking in the 9:00 hour about that and you can learn more. harry, pittsburgh, live in for republicans, go ahead. -- line for republicans. go ahead. caller: it's going to backfire on the democrats. anything they