job tonight after he refused to take the covid vaccine according to a report from espn. this followed the m enough all mandate that all tier one employees are fully vaccinated and the league s warning that teams could forfeit games if there is a team outbreak. with all the talk in washington, d.c., this friday night about a possible national mask mandate, the attorney general s office in washington state is reportedly floating the idea of a vaccine mandate for the departments and planes. quoting the new draft policy here, the best way to ensure the safety is to implement a policy requiring all employees and volunteers as a qualification for fitness and continued employment to be fully vaccinated. breaking the story, kt ph seattle talk radio host, jason rantz. great to see you. good to see you. mike: to the washington attorney general comey turned a
exactly what took place, any episode in which you made that clear? yes, i was one of the people who said he would resign. i was not read into the program at the time. my recollection is that i had a conversation with then acting attorney general comey who shared with me not the classified contents of the program but that there was an ongoing dispute about a particular program that was constitutional and legal in nature. he explained to me some of the people who were read into the program who all felt the same way he did and their willingness to resign. knowing those people and having worked side by side with those people and knowing these were hardly shrinking violets in the war or terror, there was no hesitation in my mind as to where i stood. i stood with them. i said i would i want you to let me know if you get to the
exactly what took place? any episode in which you made that clear? yes, i was one of the people who said he would resign. i was not read into the program at the time. my recollection is that i had a conversation with then acting attorney general comey. who shared with me not the classified contents of the program, but that there was a ongoing dispute about a particular program that was constitutional and legal in nature and he explained to me some of the people who were read into the program who all felt the same way he did and their willingness to resign. having worked side by side with those people and knowing these were hardly shrinking violets in the war on terror, there was no hesitation in my mind as to where i stood and i stood with them. if you get to the point where
attorney general ashcroft has recused himself. so the senior official in the trump campaign and administration are connected to this russian investigation and attorney general was forced to recuse himself. i do think this is the situation that we should do what then attorney general comey did in the investigation. appoint a special council. i think my successor has a big job ahead of him. i don t think i m going to be giving him advice from the cheap seats how he needs to do it. let me ask you this. we know about general flynn s
cheney will find the weakling, the weak character, the person who got in our way who didn t let us do this the right way, the way us real men of the bush administration wanted to do it, and in this instance, it happens to be ashcroft who s playing that role for him. i actually think in this case he s pinning it on comey, because he has comey essentially misleading fbi director bob mueller into opposing this thing. what cheney cares about most of all is his view of the world, his believes, his idea that the world s a dangerous place, that hard men have to do ruthless things to protect us even if we don t understand the threats ourselves, and so when he gets down to the facts of important cases, they are not always right, because the facts have to serve as narrative. bart gellman, thank you very much for reading the book for us and for joining us tonight. thank you. coming up, no matter what the president chooses to do on