Understand what the intention was there and whether thats an offense. Michael mukasey served as the 81st attorney general of the United States under president george w. Bush. Judge, welcome. Good to be here. Paul so lets focus first on whats the appropriate behavior for a Senior Justice Department official like the fbi director in interacketting with the president of the United States . Because when you go in to the oval office, its intimidating thing, i guess. How is he supposed to behave when the president pulls him aside and says Something Like he said with Michael Flynn . The same way he would behave any place else. Yes, the idea of the oval office is intimidating and maybe in fact intimidating for the first few times you are there. For the first 15 minutes. [laughter] if you have been a u. S. Attorney in two districts, if you have been the Deputy Attorney general, if you have been for a number of years the director of the fbi and youre intimidated by being in the oval office, youre in the wrong job. Paul how should he have reacted to that . If he thought what he says he thought, then he should have said, mr. President , we cant have this conversation. Paul and if he said he thought he was being directed to shut down that portion of the probe, the flynn probe, he should have said we cant have this conversation and talked to the attorney general . Sure, talked to the attorney general. I dont think that it would have been reporting a crime. But he should have talked to the attorney general immediately simply so that somebody else was aware of what had happened when everybody left the room. Paul what about this idea that james comey has talked about . He used the word. He said the has traditionally been independent of the executive branch. Is that true . No. Its not true. The fbi is in the executive branch. And it is not independent. There is a very funny story about ramsey clark when he first became a. G. Showed up on a saturday and wearing a sport jacket and stopped in the hall by a watchman who said can i see your i. D. Well, im the attorney general. Thats fine. Show me your i. D. He said no, im the attorney general. He said i dont care if you are j. Edgar hoover yourself, show me your i. D. Thats some peoples i. D. Of the fbi being independent but its not. Paul so the fbi director and the Justice Department are part of the executive branch or subject to the political accountability of the president of the United States. Yet, there is some tension there because you dont want political actors directing investigations or saying stop that investigation. So there is some tension. There is some art to this . There is. You dont want political actors doing that. At the same time, if there are, for example, reasons state why an investigation should be stopped, if somebody is investigating a relatively minor crime, committed by some foreign diplomat or committed by somebody with whom, in whom the president has a much larger interest, he would be perfectly proper in saying i want that investigation shut down there. Are bigger things at stake here. Paul was the president s behavior in your mind improper, im not saying illegal but improper first . Sure, sure. Paul shouldnt have acted that way. There are a lot of things that you dont do not because its against the law but simply because you dont do them. Thats one of them. Paul what about this question of obstruction of justice. Do you see any of that in the facts that comey laid out . No. Paul why not . The obstruction of justice statute insofar as it is relevant requires that the president acted corruptly if he acted by force, which obviously he didnt. He acted corruptly that means doing something lawful by unlawful means or doing something unlawful. He didnt do either one of those. It wasnt that he took a bribe in order to shut down the investigation. It wasnt that he offered a bribe in order to shut down the investigation. He acted apparently out of concern for flynn, perhaps even out of concern for himself. Thats not corruptly. Paul what about the chain of events which is that he said i would hope to let this go and then later, some months later, he fired comey. Is that a kind of chain of events that he was trying to shut down the probe by firing comey . If you want to shut down the probe, you dont shut it down by firing somebody to whom the people conducting the probe report. Paul i think thats been proven by the fact of all the uproar. Correct. Its just not thats not just the way you shut down a probe. Paul if comey is kind of having it both ways here. Look it, i have helped direct it shut down the probe. On the other hand im not saying it was obstruction of justice. If he really felt it was directed, okay, he was being told, look, you must do this. Why didnt he have an obligation to go back to the Justice Department, tell his superior at the attorney general and maybe tap out a Resignation Letter saying i cannot work for somebody who is directing me not to investigate something . Thats certainly an alternative and, in fact, he, if you recall when he was Deputy Attorney general he had that famous hospital scene paul yes. He did threaten to resign unless they changed out the program. Paul i think he typed out the letter in advance of that meeting. And, in fact, he was joined with the man who was now supposedly investigating all of, this Robert Mueller, the two of them both threatened to resign. Paul that is right. And then comey clearly said, but if comey had said i believed there was obstruction at the time, then he really would have had to have talked to the attorney general and maybe resigned. Threatened to resign. Right. Paul you would think he would . Right. Paul paul what do you make of him going back to the fbi as he testified, telling a half dozen or 10 colleagues about this and then keeping it quiet, essentially sticking his notes into a drawer and then keeping it quiet from everybody until he was fired . Thats whats known as having an ace in the hole. Not only did he create a memo, he created a memo that was, by design, not classified, so theakd have it leaked eventually. Gave it to somebody else to leak so that he wouldnt have his fingerprints on it immediately. And assured that, according to his own statement that a special prosecutor or special counsel would be appointed. Thats an extraordinarily devious thing to do. Paul okay, but bottom line, if, based on the facts that we know now, there is not an Impeachable Offense or indictable offense in what we learned . An Impeachable Offense is what Congress Says is impeachable act paul its a political act . Its political act. Gross neglect of duty or gross abuse of power neednt be a crime. I dont think this rises to impeachable act but thats for congress to decide. It is not a crime. Paul all right, judge. Thanks very much for being here. Good to be here. Paul much more to come as we break down the comey testimony. Should the former fbi director have voiced his concerns about the president earlier or even resigned . Our panel weighs in next. Why didnt you stop and say, mr. President , this is wrong . I cannot discuss this with you . Thats a great question. Maybe if i were a stronger, i would have. Tech when you schedule with safelite autoglass, you get time for more life. This family wanted to keep the game going. Son hey mom, one more game . 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Dan, does this selfdescription of comeys behavior, i didnt have the selfpossession to address the president directly and tell him this is inappropriate. Does that wash in your mind . I dont think it washes in my mind, paul. But more importantly doesnt wash in the minds of the American People. Everybody who watched that. I would include even democrats. Look, there was something about the comey narrative that just didnt quite add up. And that exchange with senator rubio was a perfect example. Virtually everybody listening to his description of what went on in the oval office, certainly anybody who has been around washington would have said something improper happened there, youre the director of the fbi, and he could have walked out of that office. Gone over to the white House Counsel, and said the president has just done something improper. Let me tell you. You have to go in and explain to him that this sort of thing cant happen or even have gone to the attorney general. And to say i dont know, i was so startled, strange. Paul even if he didnt want to go to the white House Counsels office maybe the white House Counsel is intimidated. The attorney general of the United States is his immediate superior. Deputy attorney general. But then the attorney general. And you should do that and he said he didnt want to do that because he thought, joe, that the attorney general was going to recuse himself from the russia probe. Well, did he know that at the time . Right. I mean, thats the big question. How did he know that . Its another. Paul he couldnt have known because he recused himself two weeks later, right . Right. I mean, unless he is a fortune teller. His whole narrative is sort of i was so stunned, i just couldnt i couldnt i didnt have the composure to do anything. But then he goes back, he writes a memo to himself. He discusses it with a half dozen of his senior deputies. And then reserves all this information for himself. Doesnt inform the public. Doesnt tell any of his superiors. Just doesnt add up. Paul lets take a clip of an exchange with senator rich and jim comby. I mean this is the president of the United States with me alone saying i hope this. I took it as this is what he wants me to do. Not i didnt obey that but thats the way i took it. You may not have taken it as a direction but thats what he said. He said i hope. Those are his exact words, correct. You dont know of anyone who has ever been charged for hoping something. Is that a fair statement. I dont as im sitting here. Thats crucial as obstruction as judge mukasey made clear. And i mean, do you think that looking at all of this there is, i mean, the democrats are obviously many of them going to say this is obstruction. But, what about the ultimate impact here . Is that going to play politically, do you think . No. I dont. I mean, they are going to try to make it. But this was a pretty devastating blow that jim comey ultimately made to the democratic case that there was obstruction. Because you look at the exact words and he has them down there in black and white and even he had to admit under testimony that the clear meaning of those words hope was not a direction. He could take it the other way and democrats can make a big fuss over that, but its pretty clear cut on a piece of paper. Paul all right. Dan . Yeah. I want to add one point here. Judge mukasey just explained to us that impeachment is a political decision, right, by the house of representatives. And the democrats have been trying to run this offense against donald trump as a political event. Jim comeys appearance was one of the most mellow dramatic political events in washington in years. And it just didnt live up to its billing. He did not make the case for them in a way they wanted to, that the president had done something in violation of the law. Paul all right. But there is still political damage, joe. Right. Paul agree with dans overall summary. Called him a liar. If you want to read the worst into it trump was kind of subtly imply do me a favor here. And there is a couple exchanges that comey described him as patronage relationship where i dont believe comey is a babe in the woods as judge mukasey said. This guy is a bare knuckled bureaucratic fighter who knows how to really put president s in their place, frankly. Right. I mean, look, this is a guy, consummate professional who has caused crises in every administration in which he served. You had the Bush Administration over wiretapping under obama you have Hillary Clinton email investigation. And improper exoneration of her in the summer. And now this. It leads me to believe that youre exactly right, that he knows what he is doing. When trump had this kind of tony soprano like behavior like maybe this case it would be nice if it went away. Comey was probably thrilled. This is exactly the kind of material that he can use as political insurance. Paul and he went back and typed out that memo and kept it as a kind of forming of political insurance. Never know when you are going to need that. No. He said explicitly he leaked it in the hopes of prompting a special counsel. Paul we want to get into that the next block. When we come back the white house goes on offense in an effort to move beyond the russia probe and keep the president s agenda on track. Is their strategy a smart one . No collusion, no obstruction. He is a leaker. But we want to get back to running our great country. Take on the mainstream. In nissans midnight edition, available now at americas best sales event. I love hanging out. With my friends. I have a great fit with my dentures. I love kiwis. Ive always had that issue with the seeds getting under my denture. Super poligrip free. It creates a seal of the dentures in my mouth. 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Were back with dan henninger, kim strossel and joe rago. Kim, i want to address this question of leaks first. We have a side of comey how he directed a leak of his memos. Lets look. The president tweeted on friday, after i got fired, that i better hope theres not tapes. I woke up in the middle of the night on monday night, because it didnt dawn on me originally, that there might be corroboration for our conversation, there might be a tape. My judgment was i needed to get that out into the public square. So i asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with the reporter. I didnt do it myself for a variety of reasons but i asked him to because i thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. Paul kim, thats pretty remarkable not the fact that he leaked through a cutout. That happens all the time in washington we should tell our viewers that but the fact that comey said he deliberately leaked it to trigger a special counsel probe. The deliberateness of it. Also, the ease with which he describes the process that he went through to leaking. Because, this is now part of the discussion in washington is was this the first time that he did this . You know, if you think back and you step back, the last six months of drama almost all of it has come from anonymously sourced stories, often mostly wrong but from different members of the intelligence community. And its a very disturbing question about where all of these are coming from. And i think it opens a new question in to comey himself and whether or not he has ever even done this before. Paul it sounds to me like he is looking for political i mean, he really does he wants mueller to be able to nail trump. Thats the implication i take out of this. He wanted that special counsel, and he has teed mueller up to be able to conclude that there was obstruction of justice. Thats how i read it. Look, if you want to be really cynical, you could make the argument he never corrected the president about what the appropriate behavior should be. Instead he went and took all of these secret memos, kept building up his dossier and now he is tossing it all over to bob mueller. Maybe this was his goal all along to bring down a president. Paul and, dan, i dont think there are tapes. Remember when donald trump tweeted that better watch out if there are tapes and comey referred to that in his clip there. But, the kasowitz has now denied flat out that trump ever asked for loyalty. So, i doubt that there are tapes. Yeah. It doesnt look like it. And it seems like the loyalty oath subset minor issue here. But there is a couple of things that have gotten sort of joined here that i think need to be separated. Comey established that trump was not the target of an investigation involving the russian penetration of the campaign. What was involved in this conversation was the probe of Michael Flynn, right . Paul right. The Michael Flynn probe is not the russian probe. Flynn may be involved in that but these are two separate things. So if he has established that the president was not a target, now we know that as a matter of fact unless at some point further on the new special counsel decides to pull the president into it. But i think that was the big thing that donald trump was looking for. Paul we also have something that came up regarding the clinton the Obama Administration, the Lorreta Lynch was involved. Lets listen. At one point the attorney general had directed me not to call it an investigation but, instead, to call it a matter. Which confused me and concerned me. Paul he said he felt queazy about that but went ahead and described it as a matter anyway. What do you make of that . Sounds like there was a little political pressure in the Obama Administration for comey to down play the email probe. Well, the contradiction here is even as comey sort of conjures up the independent fbi which, you know, a sovereign Law Enforcement agency is antithey call to democracy and political accountability. If he truly thought the fbi was independent, then Lorreta Lynchs political interference in the clinton investigation should have prompted the exact same kind of blowup that he had over donald trump and the russian investigation. But it didnt suggest that he was more concerned about preserving his job than his professed principles. Paul so bottom line here with all of this it seems to me that this didnt live up to the political hype but it did do some harm to trump. The real threat to him now, to president rumps president ial fus Robert Mueller and the special counsel probe, because we never know where that can go. And clearly comey was teeing mueller up to maybe do some damage to the president. All right. 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The vote coming just days after britains third terror attack in less than three months. But a National Security front and center in the final week we are joined from london. So thersea may is going to try despite being a minority now tried it form a government with the irish unionist. Is she going to be able to pull that off. The queen has authorized her to try to do that. Obviously now the ball is in her court to be able to get a Firm Commitment from the Democratic Union party the smarter small Northern Party and then to be able to convince them and to be able to convince others that she is able to lead the party. Whatever government emerges there is still a chance that she will remain Prime Minister when the dust settles. It would be fragile and weak. She went into the selection she did not had to call until 2020. I have a 20point lead over labor. All the labor voters. Its a perfect time for this. A reasonable about how could she stay as Prime Minister and leader of the party after she led them into an election against that and lost seats. They are actually notoriously brutal. Once they feel like a labor leader is ineffective. So unlike the labor side which for years have hung onto Jeremy Corbin who was seen as unelectable but now hes feels triumphant. It tends to be pretty ruthless. I wonder and i imagine that the process is underway to try to think of alternatives whether that means bringing George Osborne back to put forward a more traditional progrowth government. As opposed to thersea mays vision of working close workingclass. They go after the big bad Business Practices and so forth. Its all very fluid. He was the chancellor of the x checker. Even a practicing journalist and enough he wants to get back into politics. How did she lose a 20point lead quacks. I think there was a couple of factors. I think that the brexit focus that her government put forward have become tiresome in the sense that brexit would in some ways a settled question is going to be tough in brexit negotiations. Where she came short was putting forward a vision of what would a post brexit version look like. As i mentioned it was this idea put forward by a clever but now seem to be discredited campaign who suggested a pre fractured era of emphasizing social solidarity. And being okay with raising taxes and all about regulation in fact when government is needed to step in. That vision did not work. It didnt really find buyers. We the terror attacks in the last two weeks. What role did that play. Did that help or hurt her. I spoke with the Party Insiders ahead of the election and theyre so confident that the fact that they seem to be facing a low grades urgency with three attacks in 72 days. That would help her because for all of her other shortcomings as she put herself forward as a steady hand. 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