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?

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

he leaked them too fast. >> i agree with attorney general lynch on jim comey. there are parts of the book where he goes after condoleeza rice, loretta lynch. what is his problem with powerful women? >> a lot of it is bad for clinton and loretta lynch. >> it's bad for loretta lynch because he is trying to settle scores. rod rosenstein may 9, 2017 says that the fbi director, quote, should not have asurped the power of the attorney general loretta lynch and certainly shouldn't have gone in front of the cameras. >> so rosenstein you seem to be very proud of his work in the past. i'm taking that as an indication that he is in good standing in the white house right now if you keep referring to him. >> you just ignored the three page memo. >> i reported on it extensively at the time. the president is going out of his way to connect to illegal activity. >> you have to cover why he got removed. it was the recommendation of the deputy attorney general who was an obama appointee and had confirmed with over 90 votes. >> i understand that. what i'm trying to find out is if

no friends of jim comey. we know how the president feels about him. he said that he might have used different words in describing how hillary clinton handled classified documents in the e-mail investigation. what struck you about his level of self-criticism? >> you know, i think there are places here. again, pete's cheated on the test. he apparently has the book. i haven't read it. but i think there are some -- there are some clear passages here that suggest self-doubt, self-criticism, certainly in how he responded to the president during this dinner the two had at the white house. you know, there's self-doubt about how he processed the end of the clinton investigation and this public pronouncement on july the 5th. going forward in october, too. i think there are pieces that a critical reader is going to say, hey, i get that. i understand that. but you're right, stephanie, he has plenty of critics in this town, from both sides of the aisle. both of them have been, in ways, viciously critical of comey. i think

and jim comey is certainly positioning himself to try to be the authority voice here. but now you see the entire effort from the rnc and trump white house to try to knock down jim comey's credibility in an attempt to get the president on a more equal footing with him. jim comey clearly, watching the interview and the clips we saw with george stephanopoulos and looking at the book excerpts, sees it, it cemd sees it, it cem s sees it, it cemeems, his role t define donald trump in these terms of being completely unfit for the office it seems in jim comey's mind. >> i want to play one more piece of the -- of the -- one more piece of the interview. this is talking about his conversations, comey talking about his conversations with trump about the salacious allegations in this steele dossier. listen to this. >> about to meet with a person who doesn't know me, just been elected president of the united states by all accounts and from my watching him during the campaign could be volatile, and i'm about to talk to him about allegations that he was involved with prostitutes in mo

jim comey -- >> slow leaks. not big leaks. >> i don't know there there are any coming out of mueller. but in any event, comey was the one who in march started this investigation. so when he speaks about it, we are getting in some sense the first insider's view. he was only there from march to may, but we're getting an insider's view of the state of mind of the president and the reaction of that state of mind by the investigator. so he's sort of tipping his hand at least about how he was hearing this evidence and how that might impact how he would carry out the investigation were he in charge. now mueller has that investigation and we'll see whether he feels the same way that comey does about those subjective evaluations that larry has been talking about. >> reporting about the president's intentions to pardon scooter libby. larry, relevant? >> yes. you know, i think all of this is relevant to how he views the role of the president in terms of trying to let people go, how he views the loyalty of government offici

jim comey is a legend there. he's a legend within the fbi. special agents all over the country had immense respect, talk to anybody -- just about anybody who doesn't work at 1600 pennsylvania avenue, they will tell you that jim comey is an honest and good man. he did make a mistake by discussing the investigation? >> that's what republicans are doing now, they're running sound bites that you all made, things you all said after the election about james comey. >> no, kate, i'll stop you there. reality matters when you talk about the integrity of the fbi. lots of people, democrats, lawyers, judges, were very concerned by comey's breaking of protocol and publicly discussing the hillary clinton, remember it was the hillary clinton investigation that he discussed while there was an investigation of donald trump. so, we should have a conversation and i think jim comey is reflective of whether he made the right thing. the idea this man is dishonest, and, remember this is all part and parcel of the attempt that the white house is making to besmirch ro

i think it's all about jim comey. he thinks he's the only moral man in town but he went up to congress and lied on two separate occasions and i think what's a credibility gap with democrats and republicans. i for one am glad he and his department mr. mccabe are out of the fbi. i think america will be better served for it. >> the president also has a credibility issue, so why not leave this aside and say nothing in the president's only selling more books for jim comey. >> i guess except, stephanie, after a year and a half of a special prosecutor the president has grown tired over this request of russia collusion. he's had a special counsel almost his entire president vir it's time put the cards on the table, what do you have. >> i'm with you. put your cards on the table. >> if there's no collusion then let's move on. >> put your cards on the table, sit down and do an interview with robert mule, he sit down and show us your taxes and divest yourself from your businesses and don't have the family working in the white hou

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

jim comey is happy that he did. the most revealing moments of the interview come when comey describes the alleged russian plot against our democracy. comey claims repeatedly that russiaus wanted trump to beat hillary clinton in the election. if it was that simple, why did russian propagandists apparently attack trumpga as well? 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 s

cripple joam comey has been a disaster -- jim comey is a disaster. he is on the record telling congress he hid the information from the intelligence agency because it was sensitive. jim comey lost all credibility. >> i agree. you have got very congressional oversight. even if syria. if we keep going, the president should go to congress and make them a partner in this. judge jeanine: what is going on in the fbi? we'll talk about that with ♪ hey grandpa. hey, kid. really good to see you. you too. you tell grandma you were going fishing again? maybe. (vo) the best things in life keep going. that's why i got a subaru, too. love is out there. find it in a subaru crosstrek. does it look like i'm done?yet? shouldn't you be at work? [ mockingly ] "shouldn't you be at work?" todd. hold on. [ engine revs ] arcade game: fist pump! your real bike's all fixed. man, you guys are good! well, we are the number-one motorcycle insurer in the country. -wait. you have a real motorcycle? and real insurance, with 24-hour customer support. arcade game: wipeout! oh! well.

cripple joam comey has been a disaster -- jim comey is a disaster. he is on the record telling congress he hid the information from the intelligence agency because it was sensitive. jim comey lost all credibility. >> i agree. you have got very congressional oversight. even if syria. if we keep going, the president should go to congress and make them a partner in this. judge jeanine: what is going on in the fbi? we'll talk about that with former fbi lawyer vo: gopi has built her business with her own two hands. each unique piece comes to life in the same way... a messy, sloppy, splattery way. but now she's found a way to keep her receipts tidy, even when nothing else is. brand vo: snap and sort your expenses with quickbooks and find, on average, $4,340 in tax savings. smarter business tools for the world's hardest workers. quickbooks. backing you. and i'm the founder of ugmonk. before shipstation it was crazy. it's great when you see a hundred orders come in, a hundred orders come in, but then you realize i've got a hundred orders i have to ship out.

mueller is that person that jim comey sees when he looks in the mirror. he's the person that doesn't care about appearances. he doesn't care about political fallout. you heard jim comey earlier this week say he was making judgments based on worrying that hillary clinton might be an illegitimate president. >> politics were not on his mind. >> he said he leaked things because through an intermediary because he didn't want to have to go out and no comment to other reporters parked in the driveway. bob mueller goes by the book, so i think that the country if nothing else despite what you think about jim comey or andrew mccabe or donald trump or michael flynn, we can all have confidence in bob mueller and that's why it is important we uphold the integrity of this investigation. >> scott, let me ask you this. one thing that is new, there are few things new in the memo. one thing is comey and trump and this is my words here, they're hatred of leaks and the reporters who publish the information that come from leaks. and their desire to crack down on all of this.

the white house is going to war with jim comey. the republican party is going to war with jim comey. and as you saw on twitter this morning, the president himself is going to war with jim comey. >> joyce, just one quick last legal question for you on that. jim comey and andrew mccabe who we're going to talk about later in the hour, both men are both witnesses in the mueller investigation into potential obstruction of justice by the president. how do these attacks play into an examination of the president's state of mind vis-a-vis these two men? >> you know, these look like the kind of character attacks that are an effort at assassinating a witness before he is being cross-examined on the witness stand. these are not the actions that you would expect to hear from a president of the united states. i don't think even president clinton when he had to fire his fbi director for misconduct used this kind of language. so, it's hard to view this in an innocent context in a removed -- from the ongoing legal proceedings and the risk that both

but it also raises real issues about jim comey. the director of the f.b.i., here his number two person, the person he relied on, has now been accused of lying and has been forced to -- he has been fired. been an obama pointy. inspector general is independent appointed by the obama administration. it is devastating to mccabe and comey and raises issues about the top echelons of the f.b.i. not the rank and file agents who do a great job but the top level at the f.b.i. under comey seems to have either been mismanaged, corrupt and not doing the job the way the f.b.i. is supposed to do it. >> sandra: as americans we hear that and will anything be done about this? lied four times to the f.b.i. multiple times under oath? any accountability? >> there would have to be. the f.b.i. concluded general flynn had not lied in his statements to them and yet later on he was forced to plead guilty to lying. in this case where there has been actual finding by the f.b.i. that mccabe did lie, i don't see how he avoids prosecution. i don't want to get in

let me tell you about the two jim comey's. jim comey number one, in a marce record, by the way, all on youtube for anyone to see in front of congress, under oath, admits that he hated the sensitive donald trump investigation from congress for eight months, laura, and avoided the quarterly briefings, quarterly, every three months, for richard and some other people who may have a hard time figuring this one out. he had it in the public interest because it was sensitive. then he also admits that he leaked information to the press that would benefit him to start a special counsel investigation. on the same sensitive information. jim comey is a complete fraud. him talking about values is a joke. this guy should open up at a comedy club in new york city and get off this book to tour. he needs to get a lawyer asap and get off of tv. >> i agree with dan in one sense. comey should have disclosed to the public about what exactly it was that the trump investigation looked like. remember, he said i want to say what i said about hillary, w

cripple joam comey has been a disaster -- jim comey is a disaster. he is on the record telling congress he hid the information from the intelligence agency because it was sensitive. jim comey lost all credibility. >> i agree. you have got very congressional oversight. even if syria. if we keep going, the president should go to congress and make them a partner in this. judge jeanine: what is going on in the fbi? we'll talk about that with former fbi lawyer jay christian adams. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job from any one else. so why accept it from your allergy pills? most pills don't finish the job because they don't relieve nasal congestion. flonase allergy relief is different. flonase relieves sneezing, itchy, watery eyes and a runny nose, plus nasal congestion, which pills don't. flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances. most pills only block one. and 6 is greater than 1. start your day with flonase for more complete allergy relief. flonase. this changes everything. tripadvisor compares prices from over 200 booking sites to time to

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

they are going to go after jim comey and you saw how. they will say he is a liskpr can't be trusted and he doesn't know the president. will it stick? >>> it is time now for cnn newsroom with anna cabrera. >> good morning to you. i'm anna cabrera. john is running the boston marathon today. fireworks as you have just been listening. the president's team is in full attack mode. kellyanne conway fighting back here on cnn after fired fbi director james comey's explosive interview. %-p let me read the tweet. comey drafted the crooked hillary exoneration long before he talked to her, lied in congress to senator then based his decisions on poll numbers. minutes from now the president may speak on camera as he leaves the white house for an event in florida. let's bring in our panel. cnn legal analyst. huey burns for real clear politics and susan page, washington bureau chief for usa today. your reaction to what we just heard there with kellyanne conway. >> really striking inso far as it kind of shows that the white house is in full on attack mode

you have jim comey going out on a big book tour after say yg don't leak, i'm not sneaky and doing all of the above. more on that in a moment. and then you have michael cohen who the president believes is being treated unfairly at this moment. the methods really have disserved the president. he said in the cabinet room when he got word of the raid that he felt the methods were a, quote, disgrace. that should concern everyone. no one is talking about the contents of the documents. people are speculating. but the method should concern people. look at the dnc server. the fbi didn't bother to secure or search and here michael cohen is subject to a raid by the same organization. >> let me get back to the original question which is at its core what does the president have to hide that he is worried that michael cohen will flip over? what information does he have to give? >> that wasn't your original question respectfully. he is saying this is a fine family man. he thinks he is being treated unfairly. >> my initial question was what does he have to hide if the president didn't do anything wro

let me talk to you about the two jim comeys. on march 21 in front of congress under oath admits he hid the sensitive donald trump investigation from congress for eight months and avoided the quarterly briefings. every three months. he hid it in the public interest because it was sensitive but it's he also admits he leaked information to the press that would benefit him to start a special counsel investigation on the same information. jim comey is a complete fraud. him talking about values is a joke. he a should open up at a comedy club in new york city and needs a lawyer asap and get off today. >> i agree, comey should have exposed to the public about what exactly it was the trump investigation looked like. remember he said i want to say what i said about hillary, which will be illegitimate if she wins. that's the boat trump is in by virtue of comey not exposing the investigation. i'm sorry, dan, i agree that comey had an obligation to level with the public. if he was going to level with them about hillary, he had to about trump

i know jim comey. he is a decent and honorable man. i think his emotions got the better of him in this. >> speaking of unbecoming, of course there is the response from the white house and the president saying slippery james comey, a man who always ends up badly and out of whack he is not smart, will go down as the worst fbi director in history by far. that is not the most insulting tweet i could have read. is there a trickle down kind of ripple effect across all of the fbi? >> listen, i think this pejorative nature has to end. he was very mean. there was animas in his texts and tweets about james comey. don't go after an individual. my blood pressure is going up already. for the fbi director to react, i think james comey took that bait. he shouldn't do that. the director needed to be bigger than that. unform last night was not. so, again, it looks like two kids in the school yard hurling insults at each other. they said it's happening. now that's all going to get lost one more time. it gives the russians a seam of which thrp they are v

that's one consistent thing about jim comey, he's all about jim comey. go back and read today -- i want your viewers to know that may ninth, 2017 memo from the then and current deputy attorney general rod rosenstein is scathing. he basically says that comey needs to step aside because he has violated the protocols of the fbi and the doj by u usurpig the power of the attorney general, of breaking every protocol by going out and doing a press avail. he basically says it's textbook example what you're taught not to do. all he had to do was stand up and say we decline to prosecute. but he had to do this whole flurry, make himself relevant, look like the big guy on the block because he thought hillary would win. again, even with the dossier, to go to trump tower on january 6th and do a hang-back after everybody else is out of the room and never once reveal to the president-elect that this sewdossier is unverified, not completely verified and number two, that your political opponents funded it. how is this for mr. note taker, mr. details, he sure admitted a wh

as somebody who worked with jim comey and then for jim comey. it's a really sad day. because to hear jim sit in the interview and say that he considered the polling. when deciding -- >> he didn't say he considered. he said he was influenced. >> okay, george. when i worked for jim, if i said to him, 11 days before an election, that i was going to release information that could affect the election, one of the things that influenced me was polling, he would have fired me. he would have fired me on the spot. it is really disconcerting to me, as a guy who worked with him and for him, and have defended him on this air and other places over the years, to see the interview and what he's saying. it's exactly at they teach you not to do. the it's unfortunate that jim's -- was a good guy. a good family man. a good person. and was a very good prosecutor. he began to believe his own press clippings. and it's the biggest danger in public life. and the hubris he shows in the interview is extraordinary to me and not the guy i worked with or worked for. and it's sad. >> you worked wit

comey standard or jim comey precedent set in the hillary clinton email investigation. remember, he added an element that you have to harm -- have intent to harm national security. you can be grossly negligent. you can be extremely careless. you can take america's most sensitive national security information and leave them in a starbucks outside the kremlin, but under the most recent department case deciding this matter you can't be charged with the improper disclosure of classified information. >> harris: congressman ratcliff, fascinating conversation. glad you were here today. thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> harris: james comey continues his media blitz. he is now responding to the president's attacks. but he is not the only one going after the former fbi director. what hillary clinton's allies are now saying and whether the criticism is fair. stay close. you might take something for your heart... or joints. but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is the number one selling brain-health supplement in d

jim comey served -- he served with distinction. i have to tell you, i was out in the field when he held that press conference in the waning days of the election and it was devastating. at the same time, there was nothing groundbreaking at least from what i can determine in this book. and so it raises the question of why it is that the president and his tag team including the rnc came so strong on this one. i don't even understand it. you know, then to fire back with name calling, calling jim comey a slime ball, and then the rnc saying, oh, there was a lot of name calling going on. it really was -- seemed kind of ridiculous and overblown for what was revealed in the book. >> joyce, it seems like all of the debate and the political mud slinging aside, will endure long after the book tour is over is that comey leaves unanswered the two central questions of the mueller probe, did the president obstruct justice and does vladimir putin have something on him. >> and you know, really the data that was put together, the evidence on those qu

that's why jim comey talked to the president-elect about it. >> i think jim comey and fbi felt strongly the president-elect had a need to know and wanted to make sure he was aware of this information. it was not used this any way as the basis for the assessment about russian interference. also he wanted to make sure he understood it was the case. >> he's presented with this horrible information. he has to hi tthink the fbi is to get me. it seems that maybe there's way of ro jekti projecting and figu how this hit him. >> i think donald trump has a prism that he looks at the fbi and cia and intels through. i think he had some jaundiced view of what they might be doing to try to undermine his coming presidency. there's a lot going on in that transition period from election day to inauguration day. he probably did interpret this as one more indication that fbi and this individual appointed by barack obama is trying to hurt me. that was not the case. jim clapper and myself want to say we want to make sure the president-elect had much insight as possible into what the russians did to interfer

>> sarah -- the content of the president's attacks on jim comey here your attacks on jim comey, isn't all of that a bit unbecoming the presidency of this white house to go after him in such a personal way like that? kulg him a slime ball and a liar and a leaker? >>ic it's unbecoming for the person that is supposed to be the top law enforcement officials in the united states, the person that is supposed to protect the people this country to lie and leak classified information. certainly to falsify documents. i think that's a very big problem. and somebody who has created this problem for himself, i didn't encourage jim comey to go out and do a pr campaign. congress has asked jim comey to come and testify multiple times multiple times which he denied being able to do. yet he sat down with george stephanopoulos for five hours. if anybody created this problem it's jim comey and he should be the one held responsibility. >> right here. i want to keep going. >> i had two questions, if i could ask a second follow-up question. >> because it's friday. and you would be upset if i don't. >> you p

and he asked jim comey does the fbi leak? and jim comey said of course. a president is not going to like that. that's not going to sit well with any president, it doesn't matter what party, what the person's background is at all. general flynn's judgment, that was a very revealing -- >> what the president said about his concerns about his judgment you mean? >> yes, exactly. >> the reason i contextualize it, the president went like this to jim comey and said there's something wrong with his head because something that happened in front of theresa may. the reason i ask this morning the president tweets jim comey ruining flynn's life over nothing of the the president is the one who told jim comey to be concerned about flynn. the president is the one who fired flynn. a little disingenuous tweet to put flynn's fate on comey, no? >> well, look, there's going to be a lot of -- it's going to be back and forth. this is now politics. i really do wish the president, i think the country wishes the president would -- these things are distractions. don't let it distrac

yet at that moment when donald trump met with jim comey, jim comey came in and said, there's stuff in here that's serious and our intelligence agencies have looked at some of it and said it's real, it's fact. >> right. the dossier has aged well in the sense that parts of it have been publicly verified. what comes through in the memos is something that i think we have learned about james comey. good memory, bad judgment. and that's really on display throughout. and there are things in there that if you insert in a different president, one less objectionable who has done less to destroy their own credibility as donald trump clearly has, there are things in there that don't make sense. i think on hindsight the intelligence agency's decision to begin with a new rookie president who didn't have intelligence, government experience and do this dramatic briefling, if you've ever been out to dinner, john and you go to the bathroom and come back and you can tell everyone has been talking about you, you know how that feels. >> that happens literally every dinner i go to. i know the feeling. >> i

and yet at that moment, when donald trump met with jim comey, jim comey came in and said, there's stuff in here that's serious and our intelligence agencies have looked at some of it, at least, skpand said, it's real. it's fact. >> the dossier has aged well in the sense that parts of it have been publicly verified. what comes through in the memo is something we have learned about james comey. good memory, bad judgment. and that's really on display throughout. and there are things in there that if you inserted a different president, one who is less objectionable, who has done less to destroy their own credibility, as donald trump clearly has, there are things in there that don't make sense. i think on hindsight, the intelligence agency's decision to begin with a new rookie president who didn't have intelligence or governing experience and do this dramatic briefing. if you've ever been out to dinner, john, and you dgo to th bathroom and come back and you can tell everyone's been talking about, you know how that feels. >> that happens to literally every dinner i go to. >> so in hindsight,

it's also the same one jim comey repeated in george w. bush during a tenuous time in their relationship, to try to say he believes what he's done is right and he will let the political chips fall where they may. it's also really important to realize that there was a time here where rosenstein was very anxious. these people were getting calls in the middle of the night, he seemed to be very emotional. but now they say he's more resolved with the fact he thinks what he did was right and part of that is he thinks he did the right thing by firing jim comey. he says there are facts that will come out later and that history will prove him right. i am very curious, i think as we all are, to see what exactly those facts might be. but he seems to be at a point now where he believes what he did was right both on that front and in appointing special counsel robert mueller, something as you pointed out, he's come under pressure for by president trump. at this point he's just resolved to let things happen the way they may. >> do we know if there's a m

we know he is a quote friend of jim comeys. it's been revealed that something that jim comey never told anybody under oath up in congress. never bothered to tell the president, never bothered to write in the book never bothered to tell anybody until revealed this week that daniel richmond was a special government employee at the fbi thp this guy can come and go as he pleased at the fbi from the summer of 2015 until february of 2017. >> relevance. >> don't you think as a reporter, christopher -- relevant? it's a very germane fact. and this guy tonight talking about concealment. he was concealing an important fact. he called him a friend and columbia professor as did everybody else in the media. you got to start identifying this guy to who he was. special government employee at the fbi. 35,000 or so people work at the fbi. jim comey decided his friend should be there and decided that friend who just happened to be there at the fbi during the clinton investigation after trump won during the trump transition and into the trump admi

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are jim comey's notes that we're reading. it's not as though there's an additional source. where they are extremely valuable is if we look at them, think about the time and place that they were written, these are contemporaneous notes filed directly after the meetings with the president and some of these white house officials which i think give credence under our system of justice that someone who documents these types of meetings, these are valuable in the sense that they provide that possibly corroborating information. the one thing that strikes me, you asked about mike flynn, not only the sense you have the president saying, you know, no the directly, hey, dismiss this investigation, but kind of working up to it, working around it, if you will, but as laura mentioned a second ago, me as a former fbi agent, the most striking thing that i found in these memos so far beyond simply let's get rid of this investigation is the fact that you have the white house chief of staff asking the fbi director whether one of his colleagues,

concerns, but also solidarity with jim comey. we can put some of those emails on the screen. the first are from renee mcdermott who wrote this. i know you all know our director, but what is right and what is true. he made us better when we need it most. the next is from david calio's. i hope this is an instance of fake news. the third from michael bailey own, the events, we all feel the pain. these are people who are on comey's aside, he's now a political figure. if i investigate and i don't like this before or trump or hilary, why would i be nervous? >> these are people who express personal feelings with someone they worked closely with. let's go back to the watergate investigation. ken starr. let's look at people who are running investigation. all republicans. >> tucker: we weren't supposed be happy with that. these are not politicians. these are fbi agents -- comey has put them in an impossible position. they are now tied to comey. they are comey partisans. it's okay to think your bosses great, he was fired. now that he's made

you're going to hear more of the story directly from jim comey. he will ob cnn talking with jake one week from today on "the lead" at 4:00 eastern. >>> next, a strour doorman speaking out amid reports he was paid to keep quiet about his claim that trump party an illegitimate child. the payoff behind that next. >>> targeting rod rosenstein. the white house has a plan for trump allies to undermine the man who's overseeing bob mueller the russia investigation. >>> a very rough round one today for mike pompeo. >> senator, i don't recall. i don't recall, he's never asked me to do anything that i considered remotely improper. >> that testimony amid growing signs pompeo lacks the support to be confirmed as the next secretary of state. a senator with a crucial vote is "outfront" tonight. before discovering nexium 24hr to treat her frequent heartburn, claire could only imagine enjoying chocolate cake. now she can have her cake and eat it too. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartbu

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

you have a lot of respect for jim comey. just the sound bites i have played in that opening monologu monologue, i think from the issue of -- well, it's possible, speculating like any other pundit on television, that does an enormous disservice to the people still working in the fbi because everyone watching that is going to think, aha, jim comey didn't like him, he said he was afraid, during that first briefing, why did he feel uneasy? >> i agree with you, laura. i have a lot of respect for jim comey. my concern, too, is for the men and women of the fbi. the impact of the book, the timing of the book, the content of the book, and certainly, the content of some of these comments on how they are perceived by the public. that to me is the troubling part. jim comey is the former director of the fbi. he is certainly entitled to his opinions. he has a right to his opinions. i assume his book went through prepublication review at doj. and so now comes time for the reckoning. who believes that? who thinks he is self-aggrandizing? an

jim comey is not a guy who writes gossip books. you may not like what he did or his motivations, but he was the head of the fbi. does anything actually matter anymore? >> this is kind of unprecedented, this sort of a counter-campaign, as if we were running an election campaign. >> right. >> i can't help but think that mr. trump and his lawyers are looking ahead to -- saying this all went to an impeachment trial in the congress, what if it went to a regular trial and depositions? that's when the public, the jury of the public out there, can make a difference. and many of them are being prepped with this alternative narrative that says that it's mr. trump who is the victim of a vast fbi conspiracy. that's been promoted by the conservative press, promoted by his friends. now we have the republican party itself, the rnc, part of this machinery, to promote this questionable narrative. >> something that the president's been building on for months and months and months, is an attack on the institutions of this country, on the brewercracy,

corey: because jim comey is a slime ball. jim comey we know has lied under oath to congress. in the real world we call that perjury. there has been no accountability. howie: that's not an undisputed fact. corey: comey has testified many times before congress and had to issue multiple clarification to his testimony. he said he took information he received as the director of the fbi, gave it to a law professor so that information would be put out and the american people can see it. that's an undisputed fact and it's against the rules of the fbi and there has been no prosecution for jim comey. andrew mccabe who has been accused of lying three times under oath is also saying jim comey has been untruthful. now you have two liars lying about each other. my bigger concern is this. it reminds me of the fake book written by michael wolff. comey is going to make a fortune on it. >> just for the record, mccabe is not a felon. he was fired. corey: but he should be. i call him felon mccabe. howie: the justice department -- >> he lied three times under oath. howie: that's your assertion: >

jim comey, turnaround is fair play. i will point to frank -- prosecutorial zeal from jim comey, pursued by jim comey, exonerated and i want to point out frank quattrone was an investment banker, launched the fair administration of justice program at the university of pennsylvania from a $50 million gift from the bankers, that speaks to how jim comey conducted himself before he was fbi director. it was great to see you both. we are going to talk more comey coming up. he is answering questions, why isn't he talking to investigators. we have byron york on that coming up. talking about breaking up the golden state. voters get a chance whether or not to split california into three parts. the race for luxury on demand. mercedes-benz rolling out of plan to take competition from bmw and porsche. the first details on the new service straightahead. ♪ when you have something you love, you want to protect it. at legalzoom, our network of attorneys can help you every step of the way. with an estate plan including wills or a living

so, for jim comey, it's not surprising to me jim comey wrote a book, but the way he's speaking out and the way that john brennan is speaking out, to a lesser degree sally yates along those lines. i know this isn't really what we do, i feel this is important that i have to say this. i want you to respond and i want you to answer the question -- this is comey and kolbert talking about break ups. >> he's tweeted at me probably 50 times. i've been gone for a year. i'm like the break up he can't get over. he wakes up in the morning -- [ cheers and applause ] >> i'm out there living my best life. he wakes up in the morning and tweets at me. >> i think that's an oprahism. the response tweeted slippery james comey, the worst fbi director in history was not fired because of the phony russia -- heerre's the presiden contradicting himself. >> regardless of the recommendation, i was going to fire comey. there was no good time to do it. when i decided to do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. >> two points. one, and i want to bring thi

. >>> and it doesn't come out until tuesday, but msnbc has obtained a copy of jim comey's new book. >>> does the u.s. have a plan to respond to syria's latest chemical attack? if so, when will it be carried out. those are the big questions as president trump tries to keep the world guessing. >>> good morning, everyone. it's friday, april 13, i'm ayman mohyeldin. we begin with the exclusive reporting on the mueller investigation. the cooperation between the white house and the special counsel's belief to be damaged beyond repair by monday's raid of president trump's attorney. nbc news reports that months of talks collapsed and mueller's team is moving through without a presidential interview. one source said the president's lawyers wanted any interview to last only a few hours and were preparing to expand his legal team to prepare for it. they also wanted mueller to agree to write a report within at least three or four months after completing the interview. now white house special counsel ty cobb said it was untrue that talks have broken down and president trump weighed in with this tw

jim comey doesn't need to talk about that as much. leaving behind the threshold of i was unable to prove this thing, but maybe it's possible, especially with this allegation. the comey book as a lot of stuff in there about the president's physical appearance. it has repeated references to the trump orbit as being like an organized crime family. he's clearly going the tabloid route on the book-selling part of this because he doesn't need to really get into the substance that much. there are multiple investigations that are digging into all of this. >> some would argue, as we've seen with michael avenatti and the stormy daniels case, if you want to beat trump, you have to play trump. to your point, the conversations on capitol hill, here's trey gowdy. since he announced he wasn't running for reelection, he used a trademark trump term here for his take on comey. >> one thing director comey and i did agree on, we needed a better fbi. i can't think of anyone who is better politicizing the fbi than anyone else has. i'm really disappointed.