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Join me every thursday on the i like simon chill and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. To politicking im talking with lanny davis the former white House Counsel of president bill clinton and the author of the new book the unmaking of the president twenty sixteen how f. B. I. Director james comey caused Hillary Clinton the presidency he joins me from new york ok lets get into the title basically how did he cost her the presidency when everyone thinks its wisconsin and pennsylvania that cost of the presidency well what cost her pennsylvania michigan and wisconsin and a number of other states i dont make an argument i dont use adjectives or adverbs or rhetoric i proved statistically that it is beyond dispute. That but for james komi october twenty eighth letter Hillary Clinton is present United States and heres how i do it it took me months of research of all the polls that on the morning of october twenty eighth Hillary Clinton is up six Percentage Points nationally she won by three million popular votes she would have won by over seven million plus six in the battleground states lets just take the three you mentioned pennsylvania michigan and wisconsin on october twenty eighth she is ahead by substantial margins in those three states according to all the polls no. Nothing out of what i just said all of them and then within three days in the afternoon of october twenty eighth comes to call me letter an avalanche of headlines across the country Hillary Clinton under new criminal investigation on emails all the networks all the cables twenty four seven all the media three days later her lead has collapsed in those three states and South CarolinaNorth Carolina florida and arizona the entire electorate started to shift away from Hillary Clinton some of them stayed home many of them went over to donald trump and that is a simple fact of mathematics and it wasnt until two days before the election on november sixth that james komi said in effect a two sentence letter which he put out on sunday morning two days before the election. Sorry we looked nothing there six days they were able to look at all of the six hundred thousand emails and found the Hillary Clinton ones where she was mentioned nothing there that changed the decision on not to prosecute and yet it was too late by then all of her lead has collapsed and she lost the election and remember that on october twenty eighth in the morning she was winning by a greater margin then at that time and the election then barack. Defeated mitt romney so people who say she ran a bad campaign she made a lot of mistakes they were responsible for defeat too but the one decisive thing that we know statistically is that she would have won had james komi not intervened improperly and written a letter to congress which he didnt have to write all he had to do is go look at those emails and earlier three weeks before he could have done that and didnt and he cost her the presidency and gave the country donald trump done a good bit of Research Well done let me but the question is not did my question is why. So thats a mystery other than i never impugn motives because im not a psychiatrist i know that the character and conduct of james komi over the years is consistent with a pattern of extreme norses cystic belief that everything he does is right and he does not have to follow the rules that everybody else does for example there has been a rule for over half a century democratic and republican attorneys general dont do anything at the Justice Department within sixty days of a president ial election nothing wait till after the election dont do anything that might impact the president ial choices of americans he ignored you know about this he said well i had to ignore it because i wanted to keep my commitment to congress well excuse me mr homey. Youre not entitle to ignore rule you are appointed and you report to the attorney general and the president you dont get to not follow the rules he should have been fired by barack obama thats the only thing i agree with donald trump on but donald trump fired him as part of what appears to be an obstruction of justice motive as he told n. B. C. I fired him because of the Russian Investigation he should have been fired because he violated a fundamental principle that the Justice Department does nothing that might impact a president ial election couldnt hold the attorney general have done something. Well he did actually write an op ed and said that james comey was wrong and made a poor judgment but it was really learn how to lynch and sally yates who could have done something and but for their decision to not order him not to send his letter and they could have on october twenty seventh as i reported in my book they made a decision not to order him because they were worried about his grandstanding if they did and they thought hillary will win anyway what a sad understandable but said choice that gave Us Donald Trump when they didnt order him not to send the letter you suggested that there was such overconfidence that deep thought she would win anyway right so somebody very close to the to go she ations on the day he was considering writing that letter. Has told me and ive reported on many sides of this including senior people in the Intelligence Community that james komi wanted to protect his Political Rights in the congress and decided to send that letter even though the letter said we dont know anything we dont have any facts he specifically said that in his letter he wrote it anyway because he said there is no way that donald trump can get elected now he testified in may of two thousand and seventeen that he was not thinking that that letter might have affected the election a lot of people think that that excuse the expression pissed off donald trump one of the reasons trump fired but we do know that komi had a choice of not sending that letter going over to look at the emails before he sent a letter and he would have found in six days because thats how long it took them there was nothing there he could have done it in early october this country would have Hillary Clinton as president had he done that rather than being gamed by think Rudy Giuliani and other people who went on the air and predicted something was coming three days before the letter had to do the giuliani you know when he went on fox and said ha ha something is coming we now know that a cell of f. B. I. Agents in new york city were leaking information to try to pressure komi to change his mind the notion that donald trump in the right wing are now trying to sell that the f. B. I. Is a left wing pro Hillary Clinton conspiracy are you kidding me so its unfortunate that komi just didnt see the possibility that what he was doing would elect this reckless and dangerous man in my opinion whos president have you spoken to hillary about your book yes and. And and for before the inauguration of mr trump and talked about burying myself in my grief after the election and literally buried myself in data all the polls below the surface of. I told her i didnt just do you versus trump i did feelings towards you versus mr trump i did everything i could and the only thing i came up with was that you would be president had there been no komi letter and i want to know whether you think i should write that book and she said you would write that book a lot easier than i could because ill be blamed for blaming it on comi and we both agreed that lots of mistakes were made in the campaign no campaign doesnt make mistakes that might have caused her to lose but the last one on october twenty eighth in the morning she was going to be president and then called me write this letter and she encouraged me and has supported me and came to my book party in washington and did a very nice treat about the book yesterday but today. Is a popular thing figure among democrats. This is major nidal kind of a democratic hero. Youre great over the years digging right into the core ironies of life oh six the irony is right in the middle of writing my book in which i factually legally in all of the ways prove that james komi cost Hillary Clinton the election that he was too worried about politics rather than the rules and then just at the point that im ready to finish up the book donald trump fires him and he becomes a hero i had to decide should i continue this book and then i realized it was still a fact that james komi has to live with he wont accept that he made the wrong judgment but he cant deny my statistics thats why i think he said he would be nauseated if he thought he changed the election while he was nauseated and now he is being made to a hero because trump and all the right wing are trying to suggest that he was pro Hillary Clinton that he should a prosecutor or recommended a prosecution all these silly things when you think about the f. B. I. For pfizer judges the entire Justice Department are all part of a left wing conspiracy are you kidding me right now komi is liked by democrats simply because trump fired them and the f. B. I. And called me are being attacked as a good. I was going says a good journalist your mother journalist youre a partisan but youre a writer did you call me for a quote. I did i called everyone and i got everyone to sit down with me theyre not on the record and by the way i was editor in chief of the l daily news in my old the sunset is a great journalist and on c. B. S. And as the final four as you know so im a frustrated journalist and i did interview everybody many senior people in the intel it will not contain Justice Department and i called comi and i sent somebody very very close to him to ask please sit down with me and give me your explanation as to why you did what you did and he respects him for this he just declined once to tell his own version of the story in an in a book that i think hes working on and i resent that is you know i mean i dont im so im told i did speak to so many people close to him and there were many many articles written in the new yorker the Washington Post new that had quote friends of jim comi that had quote friends of jim comi explaining that he made his decision sincerely believing that he had made a commitment to congress and he needed to tell them about the find of the Hillary Clinton emails on the weiner laptop but when i read the actual testimony larry this is one of the non told stories that i dug up here was his exact sentence when he was asked when you come back to us and report to us if you find anything new and heres what he said if i find anything new in the emails investigation i will take a look and then decide thats all he said i will take a look question then why didnt you take a look if he had taken a look history would be different by a lot Hillary Clinton would be president because it took them six days to take a look and they determined nothing new here shes not going to be under criminal investigation but those headlines with eleven days to go Hillary Clinton under a new criminal investigation the polls and every other measurement she plummeted like a rock falling into a pond. Where do you think its going now with rosenstein and more than something well theres no question that if mr muller makes any effort at laying out a criminal case against donald trump that mr trump. Will either fire him or fire mr rosenstein and somebody else to fire him i believe that i have no doubt that that is the trump pattern of behavior which he makes abnormal unconstitutional conduct as if it were normal but it will be a constitutional crisis if he does that and i honestly dont think. Were right to have a military parade like the autocrats of the world china or russia do military parades that this man is not somebody who looks at our constitution as the supreme law of our country he more like and himself to putin into autocrat im not labeling him and im not attacking him is a simple fact that he mentions putin as a great leader who sits in on may day and looks at all the tanks rolling by thats not america he looks at the Justice Department as a law firm that should be loyal to him thats not america thats a Banana Republic our Justice Department is independent of politics in the white house at least it has been until mr trump so im very worried about a constitutional crisis in which this country is badly divided by a man that isnt looking at the constitution in my opinion just by his own words as the supreme law of our country let me thank you always great talking with you because we on the again and again congratulations on the book thank you larry hope you have me back i love being on your show who all was lanny davis and the book is the unmaking of the president twenty sixteen how f. B. I. Director james comey cost Hillary Clinton the presidency great read and thank you for joining me on this edition of politics remember you can join the conversation on my Facebook Page or tweet me at kings things and dont forget to use the politic he has tagged thats all for this edition of politicking. Despite its title and history the soviet union i know has dominated International Sport however little was known about the lives of those champions from the. Thought of you know. When on the charts number this at their. Birth the more mobile there with the ball for me just remember that if youre a drummer describe you will lose for the order of europe of what goes should the list will be reserved for your for the the first soviet a lympics team of one hundred fifty two when the polluted siege survivors concentration camp prisoners run from slime soldiers for your current baby in the us its good to go from there with corruption because you can watch the murderous your four hundred macbook on your worst move for going from one form. Or were going to have a fourth with you if you think that we are. On that though thats about the measures your bush will push through personal push little enthusiasm rules over you dont want to hurt them still more simply restating your love surely theres shipments of pm in the book you should duck only the us. I. Think. The headline. Dozens of russians have their hopes dashed just hours before the Winter Olympics start in south korea the court of arbitration for sport. Probably. More than seven hundred fifty thousand children are in need of basic medical services in the war in iraq. Republican lawmakers in the United States are threatening to cut funding to a Global Program after a link to americas most widely. Made by monsanto. Here in moscow on this friday youre watching r. T. International we have your latest world had. A last minute appeal from forty five russian athletes and two coaches against a ban preventing them from competing in the Winter Olympics has failed the court of arbitration for sports secretary general announced the ruling with just hours to go before the games get underway in south korea. Guss arbitrators of concert the process created by the i. O. C. To establish an invitation list of russian athletes to compete. From russia would not be described as a sanction but rather as an eligibility decision applicants did not demonstrate that the manner in which two special Commission System by the i. O. C. Was carried out in a discriminatory. So there you have it according to the court of arbitration for sport ridding the russian athletes of their olympic invitations isnt equal to punishment and cas is perfectly happy with the criteria that the i. O. C. Initially shows for these invitations the president of the World Antidoping Agency is pleased he says that the timing is great and that all the clean athletes should now be reassured the i. O. C. Are happy to they have applauded the verdict as you can see and this tweet though the russians are obviously totally devastated i dont know what to say im really disappointed i cant understand the cast decision first they cleared the athletes and now they say sorry you cant go to the olympics this is some kind of madness its terrible not just for fleets but for all of International Sport did i expect cas to reach this decision fifty fifty especially after thomas buck in one of his later speeches pressured the court of arbitration for sport after ruled in our favor he was literally threatening the court he was almost seeing he would dissolve the court if it route again in favor of russian athletes. Coach Albert Dempsey and co who was by the way one of those to the i. O. C. Was referring to all the things that were being said about the court of arbitration for sport ahead of the hearings including these statements by the president of the i. O. C. Council the decision is extremely disappointing and surprising care for. The i. O. C. We would never have expected this. Decision show says either you heard the need. For reforms in the internal structure of us here thomas bark was referring to the previous casts verdict and that requires a bit of background the forty seven russian athletes and coaches who were suing the International Olympic committee were from two groups thirty two hadnt been sanctioned by the i. O. C. Investigators as a result of the russian doping scandal at all fifty received a lifetime bans their medals were taken away by the i. O. C. A few months ago but then the very same court of arbitration for sport last week cancelled these lifetime bans the gas arbitrators unanimously found that the evidence put forward by the i. O. C. In relation to this matter did not have the same weight in each individual case this is one in twenty eight cases the evidence collected was found to be insufficient to establish thats an antidoping rule violation was committed concerned due to insufficient evidence the appearance of held the sanctions and notes and their individual results achieved in such reinstated so the decision that we have right now completely contradicts the previous one and. That is a real disaster for russia the athletes those who are banned and those who are still going to compete and young chang the coaches the fans they are baffled by how unfair it could get. Movement does not consider me an athlete who deserves to be a part of it without even providing an explanation ive never given a reason to doubt my honesty and my integrity. The games in korea are to be the first in my career together with my partner weve been working towards this olympics for many years it was my cherished dream. Lympics my dream and i was working towards this goal throughout my entire sports career ive given no reason to doubt. Discuss the preferred another host of a capital sport of moscows capital f. M. Alan moore joining us here great to see you today thanks for coming out of your perspective lets not talk about this cast decision here these are russian olympic athletes so what do you make of the latest decision by the court of arbitration for sport a couple weeks ago actually on the show and then we repeat here in our tea was that we knew that at least two of the athletes would be on balance i would say there is a custody issue because we spoke with one hundred lawyers and he said one hundred percent his two clients would not be bond they would be the bond believe that however we did put in the slayer and said that none of these athletes they will be allowed to take part in olympics because it is invite only so i think that this was dismissed i was going to happen we said on wednesday night on the show that this was definitely going to you know support youre not surprised by this no not in the least because this is a closed shop a lawyer from melbourne boys are living about Jackie Robinson said its like a guy getting banned from a club for. Either having an assault or an alleged assault he didnt go to court on balance so from the club the club will always say we dont want you back because dave retain the right to know these people and this is that is the sad thing is a massive business its a government within itself and they make the rules and sadly its a foreigner you know some of the people banned have had no pride up in convictions whatsoever and so understandably many might struggle to make sense of this ruling by kasey is is the decision is it based on sports or is it puts potentially link to politics as well i think is very much here i think its its no longer sport has been sport for a long time it really comes down to the fact that the i. O. C. Put their necks on the line by not going as hard as some people would have liked the people want to control the Olympic Movement and water of course as well these are not the you compared to your being us i dont think they want to take control of the whole. Money train but they want to grow you have to rule however. It is political to a large degree because if we say that the i. O. C. Are playing politics they want to keep control so they have to be seen to be very very strong yes one of these after leads have never tested positive for me that they havent doped however there are some who would not have dogs but theyve been tarred with a brush that is completely wrong and feeds into this kind of geopolitical narrative that russia is bad and good lets beat them with stick which is going to ask you about you know when you when you discuss the political sides to this how do you discuss the political side of this how has it become politicized. Very easily i mean like athletes russian athletes who are known have said that when you get into a lift. In the athletes village older athletes will get i would refuse to get on of the list because a they did make a joke are we going to be tainted wife how how did myself like you said to me by people you know from from art of from him jokingly kind of like you know like its bad and you know putin control never seen so and so its all linked and it all began when he said state sponsors and wanted state sponsored means its a government control