know how to special counsel with special counsel when you ve written it so many times. your words matter. at this point how many times has he written about jim comey and the special counsel. still misspells it. somebody who has the best information in the world about all of this stuff, right, we don t even come close, he has is always going off what he hears in the media about this. jim comey says, you know, i really wanted to give it a push. he s kind of boosting himself anyway, right. part of his book tour. he knows that it was his firing, not what he did, but the president picks up on what the guy says as part of his book tour and that s more important than all the information he could have about this investigation from the people doing it. as you both know, he comes to conclusions and then he looks for information that can back that up. so his watching television, watching these interviews, watching fox news, he has decided that comey is corrupt and this is all wrong, and look
opioids, or when he is trying to sound he is focused on this crisis that is very revealing to say what he said. he s, obviously, very exercised as well about what s happened to james comey. the book tour. the memos that were released that james comey had written after meeting with donald trump. here s another tweet. james comey illegally leaked classified document to the press to generate a special counsel. therefore, the special counsel was established based on an illegal act. really, does anybody know what that means? i mean i don t know that he knows what that means based on that tweet. we don t actually know what that comey did was quote/unquote illegal. we do not know whether there was classified information that should have that was retroactively classified. that is being looked at. a difference between something being looked at and done the same way a big difference between a country saying they re going to denuclearize and actually saying that. we will get to that.
frustration that we believe that the scope has gone beyond what was intended to be investigations into meddling in the election. reporter: the president repeatedly declaring the investigation into collusion between the training caump camp russia a witch hunt and the bases of mueller s investigation, alleging comey leaked classified investigation to generate a special counsel and the russia probe was established based on an illegal act. after he was fired by mr. trump last may comey testified before the senate about his decision to have a friend leak his memos to the media. i asked him too because i thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. reporter: last week the former fbi director told cnn he still thinks it was the right thing to do. i was in a position given what i knew to do something that would be useful and important and so i did it. reporter: sources tell cnn the department of justice inspector general is now looking into comey s handling of the