that wasn't jim comey. but when the professor called on him, he usually knew the answer. >> soon after law school, he and patrice marry and he joins the district attorney's office in the southern district of new york. at 6'8", comey quickly makes his mark. >> my first impression was that he was very tall. and he was, i came to know, super smart, very funny, and just a charming individual. >> comey meets a set of like minded friends who form a close knit group that will last for decades. >> we sort of grew up together in the offices of assistant u.s. attorneys. >> there's a lot of people tre who take themselves very seriously. we were not amongst tt group. always looking to get a good laugh and to see the humor in things. we're all of the same ilk, not being motivated for any sort of personal gain or any sort of political gain, but just there to fight the good fight for the good guys. >> comey's sense of justice and his sense of humor carry into the courtroom, where he prosecutes everything from interstate f

jim comey needs to be held to account. there are two jim comeys. there's the jim comey in front of congress that hid the fact that he was engaged in an illicit investigation against the president for eight months, eight months. i will put it up there -- and then by the way, so he hides that info, judge, but then when he could hurt the president by leaking memos, he unhides the information and leaks it to his buddies. jim comey is not a good guy. i'm sorry, folks. eric holder is just doing that, he wants to donald trump. he knows what's up here. he's just doing it to hurt trump. >> i said in open i said i think clapper is next. this guy clapper lied to congress when he said years ago we don't spy on anybody, not wittingly. i will keep going. the democrats seemed to have move from impeachment. they seem to just want donald trump arrested. take a listen. >> i hope where i interrogate him, and then i arrest him and then i escort him to jail. >> what if donald trump simply decides i don't have to follow the law, i refuse to be held under the law, no mar

that wasn't jim comey. he would smile, but when the professor called on him, he usually knew the answer. >> soon after law school, he and patrice marry and he joins the district attorney's office in the southern district of new york. at 6'8", comey quickly makes his mark. >> my first impression was that he was very tall. and he was, i came to know, super smart, very funny, and just a charming individual. >> comey meets a set of like minded frids who form cle knit group that will last for decades. >> we sort of grew up together in the offices of assistant u.s. attorneys. >> there's a lot of people there who take themselves very seriously. we were not amongst that group. always looking to get a good laugh and to see the humor in things. we're all of the same ilk, not being motivated for any sort of personal gain or any sort of political gain, but just there to fight the good fight for the good guys. >> comey's sense of justice and his sense of humor carry into the courtroom, where he prosecutes everything fro

as it turns out, james comey's "higher loyalty" is to james comey. tonight we will break down some of the most egregious moments from last night's interview. we will show you the questions that clinton sycophant george stephanopoulos should have asked last night in his softball sitdown interview. this was by far the worst interview i have ever seen. also tonight, we'll analyze friday's u.s.-led military strikes in syria. it is time for assad to wake up. the weak, ineffective days of doing nothing of obama are long gone. we will have that and so much more in tonight's important breaking news opening monologue. ♪ we have to start tonight with this. today, for hours and hours, the media has been absolutely apoplectic and hyperventilating over some breaking news that i have been listed in court today as a client for long time trump attorney michael cohen. take a look what i mean. >> he stood up and he said the name "sean hannity." >> how did he say it? >> sean hannity. >> sean hannity. >> sean hannity. >> sean hannity. >> sean hannity. >> sean hannity.

comey. on that date, dana boente was the acting deputy attorney general of the united states. attorney general jeff sessions was recused from overseeing the russia investigation and so dana boente on that date was in charge of overseeing all strands of the fbi investigation into the russia matter. now, special counsel robert mueller had not yet been appointed. that wouldn't happen until several weeks later after fbi director james comey was fired. so on the occasion of this call from which we have photocopies of the handwritten notes, you should know comey was still fbi director and he was phoning boente to report what had just happened between him and the president. comey would later explain to congress that he took notes himself on this interaction with the president and others, and he briefed other senior officials, senior law enforcement officials about this interaction with the president and others because he believed those interactions were, for lack of a better turn of phrase, sort of

mccabe was totally controlled by comey. mccabe is comey. no collusion, all made up by the den of thieves and low lives. low lives is probably right. >> what's interesting there is in fact, according to the inspector, this is the independent inspector general for the department of justice who has investigated andrew mccabe, particularly on this question of a leak to the "wall street journal" that in fact was saying that they were investigating hillary clinton. so this wasn't a pro-clinton leak. this was indicating that they were investigating the clinton foundation. but they say that, among other people, that mccabe mislead comey, his boss, the director of the fbi, mccabe being the deputy director, so they may -- the white house may draw some equivalence between the two. but, in fact, they weren't working in concert on this, because comey said he knew nothing about this and that mccabe, rather, had been involved in giving this information to the "wall street journal," which reportedly, even though the president said he lied three times, i th

and on that comey writes this. president trump returned to the topic of mike flynn saying that, quote, flynn is a good guy and has been been through a lot. he misled the vice president, but he didn't do anything wrong in the call -- in the call with kislyak. he's a good guy, i hope you can let this go. i replied i agree, he's a good guy but said no more. now, don, comey also goes onto describe a conversation he had with former chief of staff reince priebus on february 8th. and in that situation comey says the two were alone and he asked me, meaning comey if this was a private conversation. i replied it was. he then said he wanted to ask me a question and i could decide whether it was appropriate to answer. he then asked, quote, do you have a fisa order on mike flynn. don, that's extraordinary because this is just days before national security advisor mike flynn is fired. and this is the chief of staff asking the fbi director if they have a surveillance warrant on the national security advisor. and i also want to me

let's get right to the first set of possible charges against james comey -- comey involving his handling of the hilary clinton e-mail investigation. the charges we are talking about are obstruction of justice and perjury. let's get some insight now from you about those charges and then we will debate them. >> perjury is pretty well known the traditional elements are knowingly false statement under oath in a proceeding whether before congress, a grand jury, obstruction is more open ended. it's one of the prosecutor's best friends. traditionally the elements include falsification of documents concealing evidence or making a false statement. but it also has a broader category, the interfering with the proper administration of law. the key to obstruction is showing a corrupt intent. what would have been an improper purpose of james comey? well, consider that he's recently said that in october 2016, he was considering the political presidential inevitability of hilary clinton as a factor in a decision he made. >> about that investigation? >> about that, was he in fact influenced or is a facto

lying comey. through this website and digital ads, republicans are trying to undermine comey's credibility kicking off a media blitz for the new tell-all memoir. republicans are turning to democrats. >> made a mistake. maybe he's not in the right job. >> reporter: reminding americans there's plenty for all sides to dislike about the former top law enforcement official. the irony of republicans using democrats to discredit comey underscores the political contradictions around the former fbi director who trump fired nearly a year ago. >> why did you fire director comey? >> because he doesn't doing good job. very simply. >> reporter: a decision that changed the presidency setting into motion the appointment of special counsel robert mueller to lead the russia investigation and that cloud over the white house and weighing on his presidency. the president is already thinking about the plan to combat comey turning to an informal adviser sean hannity of fox news. minutes later, hannity launching a monolo

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agreement on with comey, don? >> listen, josh, there was a comment of the nature from vladimir putin in an interview with "bloomberg" in 2017. here's the quote. it says "trump is a grown man and secondly, he is someone who has been involved with beauty contests for many years and has met the most beautiful women in the world. i find it hard to believe that he rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world." josh, as you answer this, you're the former assistant, i should note, to comey. what do you make of that comment? >> wow. what can you say? you know, i harken back to a recent book from mike isikoff and david corn, "russian roulette," talk about then-citizen trump, trying to court putin, those around him, in order to work on possible business dealings and obviously the miss universe pageant and i think this shows this is a different world. this isn't the type of government, buttoned-up people that we're used to. there's a lot of extraneous details there t

versus comey or comey versus traump cump conversation. you look at the democrats that criticized former director comey. we saw mccabe throw him under the bus strongly in the i.g. report and loretta lynch. >> rloretta lynch was contradicting his account. >> she wanted to get ahead. >> she did. >> and reigns, former hillary spokesperson came out with some -- >> that's a good point you bring up because comey refer to this in the interview that democrats revowed hill for interactions. we have one sitting next to you here during the campaign and republicans since then and comey raises it. perhaps he said and i'm paraphrasing, we're flawed human beings doing our best to investigate both things. is that a fair -- >> a very good point and i'm glad you asked that. you would think someone is being criticized by republicans and democrats, they must be doing something right. what is different here is you're seeing people a lot of people looking and seeing a chris christie type. he's republican but an unimpeachable law and order type background, someo

mccabe was totally controlled by comey. mccabe is comey. no collusion, all made up by this "den of thieves" and low lives. i'm guessing he wrote that himself. joining me at the table, evan mcmullen, former chief policy director for house republicans. most recently he ran for president as an independent. alicia m alicia menendez. betsy, reporter for daily beast and contributor. reverend al sharpton, action network and politics nation here on msnbc. michael and joyce are still being held hostage by the 4:00 p.m. let's start with you, he have -- evan. >> mueller special counsel investigation and how the fbi -- how james comey, how mccabe handled themselves led the fbi with regard to the hillary clinton e-mail investigation, those two things are -- >> wait, let's put them together for a second. didn't he win because of the way jim comey handled the hillary clinton investigation in part? >> he isn't upset about the investigation into hillary clinton because he didn't handled it well enough. perhaps maybe because they didn't do more against hilla

comey convinced kelly to stay in the job, according to comey's account. kelly did stay in the job and two months later, he was appointed white house chief of staff. >> just important to know that. i expect john kelly will deny it. i think it's important to remind the nation that john kelly has lied on the record. >> one other thing that's important to point out, this whole memoir, the accounts of his interaction with trump, it's all based on contemporaneous notes that comey took as the fbi director. after every call, after every meeting, he would write a diary entry, so this is not a memoir he's writing a year after the fact. it's based on his notes in realtime. >> did he do that in every meeting he ever had as fbi director, or was this a trump-specific thing? >> he did it in a lot of meetings. as an fbi director and a prosecutor and in his line of work, he was trained to take detailed notes to rely on those notes, to observe things and remember things. but he felt as he began to interact with trump, he felt these were such odd interactions, he wanted to

that comey is a liar. someone is a liar and maybe both of them are liars. >> or none of them. >> although, i must say, that today, the inspector general "knowing and intentionally made" and they have evidence of that.e very powerful language. i would expect that mccabe would be charged, maybe as many as four different charges for four different lies., and comey may soon be sitting nearby in another court room facing his own charges. i count at least six potentialit criminal statutes that comey may have violated. >> sean: you agree with congressman desantis' letter. did you agree with him on that? >> absolutely. he nailed the law, in exactly the same fashion that you and i have talked about for months and we put on the screen all the different statutes, desantisis and the other members of congress cited the same statutes. >> sean: one question to professor dershowitz. we are almost out of time. this maybe is an area where wewe do disagree. i urge you -- i know that if i had subpoenaed my server and my email

what did comey actually say? when he presented this to the president in that room after that briefing, he asked the president to see him alone privately to share with him the unverified allegations. and the president immediately said do what you have to do to prove that they're untrue. call an investigation on me. and it was comey who said i don't know if that's a good idea, mr. president. but the president immediately says do what you have to to prove that these aren't true. do whatever -- i mean, and that just shows you that anyone accused of something, if they are actually guilty of it, they would say can we sweep this under the rug? can we cover it up a little? you are not going to say anything, are you? in fact the president had quite the opposite. he got out there and said we need to clear this up. we need to get it out there. i don't like any of this. this is concerning. what do you have to do? and that really shows you. they don't want to cover that part of it the president forcefully and immediately push

comey has contemporaneous notes. it would be -- >> and so ewe know in terms oof evidence of what happened between comey and the president, understanding why you just said that would be umpoimportant for criminal case. we know comey said he took notes and those memos were shared with other people and we believe the mueller investigation. we know, at least isin the case appears to have orally briefed in that moment and they took notes. i'm getting pretgy at reading boente's handwriting. it seems detailed including quotes. does the weight of them, the number of them matter? >> you can't really carbon date from a year ago. but you look at the notes. it's not just a sliver or a cut out. you see the notes were taken over time and you'd ask a jury to look that and realize those were over a series of weeks that it looks like they're in the flow of a narrative. and it's not like it was a perfect science about thus. but when you line up notes together and you show that they're contemporaneous, that's arer a way they do it. for

but i think that this is supposed to be a slap at comey, i guess, because comey did hire -- or point the special prosecutor who investigated libby. >> and there is that angle also, the possible angle he's sending a message about how he feels about people being investigated. thank you very much. much more to come with you in a little bit. we continue to follow breaking news this morning, a whole lot of it. more on the new book from james comey, including his thoughts on the clinton campaign and his fear of making her an illegitimate president. what does robby mook think about that? and we're minutes away from a hearing related to the fbi raids on donald trump's personal attorney michael cohen. also, we're following the latest developments out of the united nations, security council meeting happening right now. you're looking at live pictures from this meeting. u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley expected to speak shortly. stay with us. with a class leading 31mpgs nx combined estimate. lease the 2018 nx 300 and nx 300 all wheel drive for these terms. experience amazing at your lexu

comey unleashed. new excerpts from the fired fbi director slamming the president's character, accusing trump of being fixated with disproving specific lewd details in the russia dossier. >>> more breaking news, a cnn exclusive, inside a white house plan to discredit rod rosenstein. >>> a former trump tower doorman reportedly paid for his silence is now speaking out about rumors of trump and an illegitimate child. was the doorman another example of team trump paying hush money? let's go "outfront." >>> good evening. i'm erin burnett. "outfront," breaking news news, untethered to truth. a skating depiction of president trump from the former fbi director james comey. excerpts from his new book just being released. in the book comey ripping into the president, writing that he is "untethered to truth." calling the way he leads "ego driven and about personal loyalty." according to the "washington post," comey details his interactions with president trump, writing that trump pressured him about the investiga

the rnc launched a website approved by the white house calling lying comey back at him. >> comey already in hot water after comparing the president to a mob boss. >> reporter: for now, the president is indicating he's not ready to go to war with the investigators just yet. i have agreed with the historically cooperative disciplined approach we have engaged in. i have full confidence in ty cobb, my special counsel. aides insist the president is working on a response to syria's suspected chemical weapons attack. >> we'll see what happens now. we have to make further decisions. >> reporter: the president dialing back the rhetoric of earlier in the week telegraphed a strike on syria was coming but today he tweeted never said when an attack would take place. could be very soon or not soon at all. president was also in the defensive mood in the rose garden claiming he's still draining the swamp. >> i've been fighting to drain this swamp and sometimes it may not look like it but believe me, we are draining the swamp. >> reporter: now, source familiar with discussions over here at the white hous

according to comey. in one of the unclose tied memos, it includes a famous conversation where trump allegedly told comey quote i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go. to letting flynn go. there is new information, including a claim, that president trump told comey at a dinner at the white house in 2017 that he had quote serious he serious serreservations about comey. and lawmakers jumped on the news. nancy pelosi tweeting the release of the comey memos are further proof of trump's contempt for the rule of law. they are more indicative of what they don't say and former director comey never felt obstructed and never wrote he felt threatened. >> thank you, laura. as for the salacious details, those details about the visit to moscow that bothered him so much. here is just one quote. he went on at great length explaining he has nothing to do with russia. has a letter from the largest law firm in d.c. saying he has got even know income from russia. was not involved with hookers in russia. can you

james comey is not. he's in credibly cunning and capable of the lacks sincerity and is out to get the president. the fact that james comey was creating contemporary as moment -- memos was a setup. they are trying to create evidence from the very beginning if you look at these text messages from the day that james comey was fired between struts and paige and others is so clear they had a plan all along in case the people wanted donald trump to disrupt him and discredit him and delegitimize the duly elected president of the united states. that's why this is an important fight. way bigger than donald trump or the current members of congress. it's ensuring the leader of this country is picked by the people and not by the bureaucrats and folks in washington d.c.. trish: this concern about the deep sea and how deep it is an encased we may be learning right now in the present that it's pretty deep. let me ask you what you are doing to fix some of this because i know you've been very active on that front. you ar

agreement on with comey, don? >> listen, josh, there was a comment of the nature from vladimir putin in an interview with "bloomberg" in 2017. here's the quote. it says "trump is a grown man and secondly, he is someone who has been involved with beauty contests for many years and has met the most beautiful women in the world. i find it hard to believe that he rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world." josh, as you answer this, you're the former assistant, i should note, to comey. what do you make of that comment? >> wow. what can you say? you know, i harken back to recent book from mike isikoff and michael corn, "russian roulette" talk about then-citizen trump, trying to court putin, those around him, in order to work b on possible business dealings and obviously the miss universe pageant and i think this shows this is a different world. this isn't the type of government, buttoned-up people that we're used to. there's a lot of extraneous details there

james comey is somebody who is relatively unknown. >> are you more worried at the rnc about james comey or michael cohen? >> i am worried about the mid term election. i want to make sure we keep this comeback for the country. the country has turned around under president trump. i saw it in michigan. people who had lost hope and feel like they were stuck and wages are going up and paychecks are bigger. jobs are coming back to this country. manufacturing is coming back to this country. i want to make sure we keep majorities that continue to keep this comeback alive. that's what i think about every day. that is my focus is these mid term elections. >> i have to ask you about what has been going on with the finance committee. michael cohen who is being investigated by the fbi in terms of his payments to this porn star stormy daniels. steve who was an important official at the rnc in terms of fundraising, he is being investigated. he lost his position because of so many sexual harassment claims against him. this guy elliot brody who impregnated a "playboy" model while he was married skpu ran

reporter: sarah, about content of the president's attacks on jim comey, your attacks on jim comey, isn't all that a bit unbecoming of the presidency of this white house to go after him in such a personal way like that? sarah: i think it's -- reporter: slime ball and liar and leaker? sarah: it's unbecoming for the person that's supposed to be the top law enforcement official in the united states, the person that is supposed to protect the people of this country to lie and leak classified information, certainly to falsify documents. i think that's a very big problem. somebody who created this problem for himself. i didn't encourage jim comey to go out and do a p.r. campaign. congress has asked jim comey to come testify multiple times which he denied being able to do. yet he found time to sit down with george stephanopoulos for four hours. i think anybody that created this problem it's jim comey and he should be held responsible. reporter: two questions. second follow-up question. sarah: because it's friday and you would probably get upset. reporter: you've probably seen this tweet. a tweet

we are doing what comey did. i also issued a tweet last night during the show to try to help some of these idiots in the abusively biased news media actually understand my monologue which they weren't understanding. so fake news, please, i am trying to help you follow the bouncing ball. i said this is the comey standard, and i'm sure that you are upset that the former fbi director literally, he was commenting and comparing a sitting president to the mob. murderers, drug dealers, involved in extortion, loan-sharking, prostitution. by the way, breaking tonight, now we have more details. abc news reported that they actually mobster that comey was comparing the president who was none other than sammy groove on o. an infamous hit man responsible for 19 murders. that is the fbi director comparing the president of the united states. other felonies of course. despite my very clear analogy, you have to really try hard not to get it about comey's ridiculous comparison. this still caused many in the mainstream media to beco

that was what jim comey was echoing. >> can you tal negatively about jim comey like you did in tweets? >> let's stick to who matters. i'm just asking questions. >> there were parts last night where i was trying to grasp the relevance. i am in the oval office more in a day than this guy was in his limited career. >> he was conducting an investigation that gave him a lot of insight into a lot of different things. >> who was in the investigation? >> he often was put off by the president and he was avoiding him because he was worried about the president trying to compromise him again like asking for loyalty. >> he would have invited somebody else. he loved the taste of power and you know it until he didn't have it anymore. there he was at dinner alone with the president. >> he was asked by the president to go to dinner. are you supposed to say no? >> should i bring my wife? should i bring andrew mccabe ? should i bring peter and his wife? should i bring these people at the highest level of the fbi who are investigating hillary clinton and who were for hillary clinton against donald trump?

why did he show such a mass tri of comey one, comey two, comey three in the hillary investigation. i'll pass you back the ball because you're our moderator today. why is donald trump so fixated on how the fbi works and whether it can be used to indict hillary clinton and whether the number two at the fbi is a threat to him personally. i don't think that has much to do with the unverified part of the dossier. i wonder what else he knows that relates to michael cohen proceedings in new york -- >> that's where i'm going. >> that relates to the things done by manafort and gates. why is donald trump, before there is even a mueller probe, so fixated on that. that comes through in the comey memo in a that is shocking. >> i agree with you. it is powerful and does point to the long history of donald trump, the kinds of businesses he did in new york, the kinds of businesses he did around the world. some of the things we are about to right on the precipice of getting into in terms of the michael cohen case and the relationship largely unexplored by a lot of people that donald trump has had wi

one of the comey memos is james comey put

comey documented that. the president said the hookers thing is nonsense but that putin had told him, we have some of the most beautiful hookers in the world. they actually had that conversation according to the president. comey notes that the president did not say when putin had told him this, and i don't recall -- well, the rest is redacted. in last night's interview with rachel maddow, comey said he took that claim seriously. >> he told you that he'd had a personal conversation with president putin about hookers? >> yes. >> did you believe him, or did you think he was speaking hyperbolically? >> he didn't seem to be speaking hyperbolical hyperbolically. >> do we otherwise know that the president had had conversations with vladimir putin at this point? >> i can't recall. i think there was public reporting that he had spoken to vladimir putin as sort of a welcome, congratulations on taking office thing at that point. i'm not suggesting they talked about how beautiful the hookers are in russia, but i do know

why is it trump or comey. they have a narrative of events, they're not in opposition to each other, except comey is making it this way throughout this media tour this week. >> he is being asked about it. these memos, that's why, scott. >> he's no longer the investigator or the antagonist in that job. he's the witness, which i think is what's unseemly about all of this. >> did they come back? maybe? we'll be right back. thank you, you don't. at&t gives you more for your thing. your getting the best but paying way less thing. now get 50% off a smartphone. more for your thing. that's our thing. visit att.com has been a problem for me. mouth i'm also on a lot of medications that dry my mouth. i just drank tons of water all the time. it was never enough. i wasn't sure i was going to be able to continue singing. i saw my dentist. he suggested biotene. it feels refreshing. my mouth felt more lubricated. i use biotene rinse twice a day and then i use the spray throughout the day. it actually saved my career in a way.

most of of it backfiring on comey. he's fatigued in what i think he thought would be a wonderful promotion. >> jim comey is the poster boy for sanctimonious moral hypocrisy. he accuses the president of being morally unfit to be president because he lies. then he says he himself is flawed and we know he lied and he leaked. jesus said before you try to take the spec out of someone else's eye, you ought to remove the board in your own eye. lou: the hypocrisy of the so-called fake news media as the president rears to it, 95% of the national left-one media. they know they are fabricating nonsense and untruths. yet they go on with considerable energy to attack this president without pause. >> and without result. they always think they have the smoking gun. first it's russia, then the michael wolff book, then stormy daniels. and it has had no effect. i told the president his evangelical support is at 78%. virtually unchanged from the election 1 months ago. it's drying his ebb anies crazy and it's fun to watch. lou: at this st

comey reportedly writes in the book that trump wanted comey to investigate the allegations. comey reportedly writes, he brought up what he called the golden showers thing. adding that it bothered him if there was even a 1% chance his wife melania thought it was true. the paper said that comey goes on to write, in an apparent play for my sympathy, trump said that he has a beautiful wife and the whole thing has been very painful for her, he asked what we could do to lift the cloud. the former fbi director reportedly writes that trump offered varying explanations and a phone call as to why there was no tape. i'm a germaphobe. there's no way i would let anyone do that. >> i'm not sure how to follow that up. >> reporter: sure. comey writes when he met trump, the 6'3" president-elect looked shorter than he did on television. his face appeared slightly orange, comey reportedly writes, with bright white half moons under his eyes, where i assumed he placed small tanning goggles, and impressive by coifed bright blond hair which looked to be all his. "the post" says comey observed the

with comey. it obviously didn't turn out well for him. >> he responded to one of your reports this week saying, if i wanted to fire him in december, i would have. >> that's lovely. we reported he was worked up about comey over a specific news report. turned out to be erroneous. sorry, mueller. he was worked up about mueller over an erroneous news report that his records were seized from deutsch bank. they were able to walk him back from it. this has been a thread repeatedly over many days. he talks about, this should be shut down. he doesn't think mueller has integrity. he doesn't think the special counsel should have ever been appointed. he's more focused in his conversations with people on rod rosenstein. if you saw action, i think it would be there. but i think even there, i have been told repeatedly, they don't expect he'll do it because it opens up a confusing line. >> there are big problems with that. you now do not have rachel brand. the number three. if rod rosenstein were to be fired. th

mccabe was totally controlled by comey. mccabe is comey. no collusion. all made up by this den of thieves and low life s. weird because he said they issued the mccabe report which is a total disaster. not sure what he is talking about. the report argues that mccabe, quote, lacked candor, including under oath, on multiple occasions in connection with describing his role in connection with the disclosure to the "wall street journal" and that this conduct violated fbi offense codes. the oig, the office of the investigator general also concluded that mccabe's disclosure of the existence of an ongoing investigation in the manner describe in this court violated the fbi and the fbi media policy and constituted misconduct. pete stuff. he breaks it down for us. pete, what's the skinny on this? >> well, two things about the president's tweet. let's look at it again. first of all, he says mccabe lied. that's certainly basically what the i.g. report, the inspector general report concludes. but then the president says mccabe was totally controlled by comey. what's in

i want to stick with comey. comey had been drawn into politics because donald trump tried to demand personal loyalty and that is what the book is about. trump said i need loyalty, i expect loyalty, i want your loyalty to which comey said i will give you honesty. he said i want loyalty. he said i will give you honest loyalty which is ambiguous. should have just said i don't owe you loyalty. i/o loyalty to the constitution of the united states, the rule of law. now he is scrambling to say i will stand up for rule of law, the donald trump presidency is a threat to america which is how we end the book, this is a forest fire, and assault on the rule of law, and assault on the constitution, on the way the fbi and law enforcement have always governed themselves in our history. that is what he is trying to say, not for partisan reasons. obviously he, like atty. gen. sessions and the vast majority of people at the fbi are republicans. it is not a partisan plot. >> it seems to me you do have to look at some of the things

but take a listen to what then candidate trump had to say about james comey in 2016 when comey reopened the fbi investigation into hillary clinton's mails days before voters went to the polls. >> and i have to give the fbi credit. that was so bad what happened originally. and it took guts for director comey to make the move that he made in light of the kind of opposition he had where they are trying to protect her. it took a lot of guts. >> so it seems that when comey's actions help donald trump and the republican party, he received praise from donald trump and the republican party and criticism from the democrats and when the opposite happen, the opposite happened. isn't that hippo crat cal to democrats and republicans too. >> the president gave james comey an opportunity and met with him. that is true to the president. he had people who are critical of him that he brought into the he had three meetings, that is it, with james comey, three in person meeting and spent time with him and as he got to know james comey and worked with him he concluded this is not somebody fit for office and

think for a moment about who james comey is. he is a white man with a postgraduate degree, he is a lawyer. he is the embodiment and a lifelong republican. he is the embodiment of the kind of voter that donald trump has been driving away from the republican party, even as he has brought them greater strength among blue color and evangelical and rural whites. now, james comey may orpersonals out there making a case that is more direct and unvarnished than we are hearing from most of the leading democrats. and it's basically saying in a sentence, donald trump is not morally fit to be president and he's a threat to the rule of law. and i think that hearing that argument stated so unequivocally from someone who looks like them and who shares many of their life experiences i think is a reconfirming kind of perspective that deepens this historic deficit that he's facing with the voters who look most like james comey. >> and then he goes one step further and he says, the russians may have dirt on him and potentially the president of the

the president tweeting calling comey a slimeball, a leaker and a liar. >> comey will forever be known as a disgraced partisan hack. >> last friday, press secretary sarah sanders reading from a prepared statement. >> this is nothing more than a poorly executed pr stunt by comey to desperately rehabilitate his tattered reputation and enrich his bank account. republican national committee, lyingcomey.com to discredit him. the tension between the president and comey is not likely to flame out anytime soon. in the time of division and dissent, comey says that perhaps a little heat is a good thing. >> terrible things happen in forest fires. but i am an optimistic person. i see already things growing and flourishing that, that, didn't before this fire. i see the kids marching in the streets. including my own kids, about guns. i see parents talking to their kids about truth telling. and prejudice and bias and respect. that was not happening three, four years ago. and so there is a lot of good growing. >> for comey it all comes back to his ideals which he says, are fundamentally american. >> p

comey does not just that. instead, he acts as though he knows for certain that they were acting on trump's behalf.f. we don't know that for certain. comey is passing on speculation as fact. if comey and the fbi wanted to get to the bottom of a russian plot against our democracy, whym didn't the bureau investigate the dnc service to make certain that russia really hack to them? regale us what you hear, we've never seen any evidence h that the government f russia directed the theft of data for most servers or from john podesta's email icon for that matter. we take on face. everyone repeats it likes it's true. why should we believe that without actual proof? because people likeca jim comey say so, because our intel agencies never lie to us? right. comey's main piece of evidence that the president is a russian stooge is that he never heard trump criticized by married put and, even in private conversations. i don't know what's behind that, comey says. byblos location is that trump is unpatriotic, a traitor to ameri

mccabe was totally controlled by comey. mccabe is comey. let's bring in our panel joining me at the table, evan mcmiller, former cia operative. most recently he ran for president as an independent. alicia me minute dez. michael and joyce are still being held hostage. letic let's start with you evan. >> the president's con fleeting the russian investigation, the mueller and counsel investigate about how james comey and sessions handled themselves with the hillary clinton e-mail. >> wait wait, didn't he win because of the way jim comey handled the hillary clinton investigation? >> absolutely. clearly he isn't upset with comey and mccabe for the investigation of hillary clinton. if only perhaps maybe because they didn't do more against hillary clinton, it didn't go the way the president wanted it to go, that investigation. the president's upset with comey and mccabe because they were investigating him at the fbi. this is the issue. he's con flating the two. it'll be a great fogger for conspiracy news and elsewhere but the two velez v no relati

libert lou: james comey, james com, jamecomey,james comey, a victime book tour. if you're ready to cohis rate with the find fbi director, recounting the physical suffering he's facing to endure his tortured divorce from the republican party and the promotion of his book. >> because i think it is raw in the sense that i find it really painful to relive. reading that book, doing the audio book left me physically drained. but i really don't feel a sense of airpg. i'm verof anger. i'm very worried. the republican party has left me and many others. i think they've lost their way and i can't be associated with it. these people don't represent anything that i believe in. lou: you know, mr. comey, we've noticed that. we have noticed that. president trump today talking about the russia collusion hoax and the possibility of removing special counsel mueller and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. >> this was a, really a hoax created largely by the democrats as a way of softening the blow of a loss. this is a hoax as far as the investigation nobody has ever been more tra

listen to how comey describes this. and of course as you just mentioned, comey also implies that he didn't exactly believe that the allegations were completely untrue. listen to what he said. >> he says he may want me to investigate it to prove that it didn't happen and then he says something that distracted me because he said if there's even a 1% chance my wife thinks that's true, that's terrible. and i remember thinking how could your wife think there's a 1% chance you were with prostitutes peeing on each other in moscow? i'm a flawed human being, but there's literally zero chance my wife would think that was true. so what kind of marriage to what kind of man does your wife think there's only a 99% chance you didn't do that? and i said to him, sir, when he started talking about i may order you to investigate that. i said, sir, that's up to you, but you want to be careful about that because it might create a narrative that we're investigating you personally. second, it's very difficult to prove something didn't happen.

says that comey is a liar. someone is a liar and maybe both of them are liars. >> >> or none of them. >> although, i must say, that today, the inspector general said that the lies of her "new "knowing unintentionally made" and they have evidence of that. very powerful language. i would expect that mccabe would be charged, may be as many as four different charges for four different lies. and comey may soon be sitting nearby in another court room facing his own charges. i count at least six potential criminal statutes that comey may have violated. >> sean: you agree with congressman desantis' letter. did you agree with him on that? >> absolutely. he nailed the law, and exactly the same fashion that you and i have talked about for months and we put on the screen all the different statutes, desantis on the other members of congress cited the same statutes. >> sean: one question to professor dershowitz. we are almost out of time. this may be as an area where we do disagree. i urge you -- i know that if i had subpoen

one of the comey memos is james comey putting together the

on february 8th, 2017, when comey is talking to president trump, comey recounts, quote, putin had told the president, quote, we have some of the most bufrl -- beautiful hookers in the world and he remembers putin telling him that. just a few days before on january 17th, putin said this in a press conference about the dossier which had been published at that time after buzzfeed -- take a look. >> it is hard to believe that he ran to a hotel to meet with our girls of a low social class. although they are the best in the world -- >> the best in the world. and cnn covered this comment when it happened, i'm sure all of the other media did and as a trump watcher and observer, do you think saw this on tv an internalized it this is what putin told him, we have the most beautiful prostitutes in the world or do you think he had been told that by putin. it is tough to know but what does your gut tell you? >> i have no idea. that does seem like the kind of thing trump would do because this is a period where he was still portraying himself as close to putin. there is a string of exaggerations that

comey unleashed. new excerpts from the fired fbi director slamming the president's character, accusing trump of being fixated with disproving specific lewd details in the russia dossier. >>> more breaking news, a cnn exclusive, inside a white house plan to discredit rod rosenstein. >>> a former trump tower doorman reportedly paid for his silence is now speaking out about rumors of trump and an illegitimate child. was the doorman another example of team trump paying hush money? let's go "outfront." >>> good evening. i'm