hillary clinton was going to win the presidency and that actually impacted his his judgment about announcing that they were reopening the investigation? well there is there is apparently in this book quite of o a bit of him with wreft wrestling with self-doubt. the questions and examining what he might have been thinking at the time. and quite self-serving moment listening to the conversation on twitter there is a lot of democrats who haven t forgiven him for what they see as a double standard he applied. it is interesting to see partisan on both side attacking comey for actions. the democrats who believe that he is responsible for hillary losing the and the republicans who are mad. i never answered your question about this was this an appropriate book should be era should the fisher director look i haven t read it just seen the excerpts. it sounds like the kind of kiss and tell book which is not really appropriate for someone
came about and why you think it is important. it is important because americans need to defend the rule of law and protect the mueller investigation as best as we can. republicans unfortunately have been silent. the official republican organizations, the rnc, is attacking comey in a totally unseemly and inappropriate way. they can defend the president if they can t but going after the former fbi director? just childish, but also very i mean it is embarrassing. decent republicans need to speak up. they ve been quiet so far but silence can g acquiescence is as bad. we can say it doesn t really solve the problem if he fires
what i was hearing was jim comey was the one who went to trim tower trump tower. maybe he did that to set the president. previously they were attacking comey. now they are attacking now they are attacking john brennan. now they are attacking clapper. president trump and his cronies are attacking everybody in the intelligence community. they have no evidence. they bring up the dossier which is not verified but still there, gosh, i wonder if anyone sees a pattern here. melissa: i see a pattern in that clapper is the one who said the nsa wasn t collecting our data in congressional testimony. he said they weren t collecting and saving the metadata and listening in on our phone calls and later turned out the nsa was doing that. he has a history of lying and important situations. i don t know. is not a big stretch to think he
agreements not only oppressive, but constitutionally repugnant. and notes unlike employees of private enterprise such as the trump organization or trump campaign, white house employees have first amendment rights. i never thought i was violate agnone disclosure. a vow. and what about pierre salinger, all these guys wrote books over the years. everybody who has been in the white house has written a book. it s part of why you sign up, right? trump clearly wants to replicate what he had at the trump organization. and that is a time when former employees left his employee and went out and wrote books that he got very upset about. he is used to this. they wrote his books too. he never wrote a book. i know a person who didn t read them that would be him. i don t think he did anyway. how do you explain? he seems like a guy who isn t worried about saying stuff about trump. he is bad-mouthing him all weekend, attacking comey,
allowed to go ask political the political affiliation and opinions of career people. austan, what about the exoneration letter? this is amazing. i made three points, and you addressed none of them. i you addressed point number six. sean: austan hang on. for the sake of our audience, answer point by point. .1, the exoneration letter. point number one was about the tweets. should we have an independent fbi and justice department? yes, we should, the law requires it. attacking comey sean: two. okay, you re wrong, we don t have an independent federal fear of investigation, they work for the executive office of the president. i don t know where you got that from. this exoneration letter, part number two, what is your take on the evidence? should we be giving back the