i d love to be a great father and grandfather. people make their judgment over time. you have been very sensitive to the criticism that some people have made that you have an infatuation with your own sense of integrity. you acknowledge you have a big ego but you don t like that specific criticism. i don t understand the disconnect. i think the ego is about your intense of integrity, don t you think? isn t that the biggest i see it as the same. i agree with you. but i m a little sensitive to it because i ve spent my whole life trying to make sure it s not ego driving my decisions. and the decisions made here whether you agree or disagree with them weren t made by me alone. i put together a team of people who argued and fought and debated and didn t abide my rank or position to make a good decision together so i m responsible for these decisions but i didn t make these decisions in a vacuum and little defensive about it but these decisions were made by me with a group of people ar
sense of integrity. you acknowledge that you have a big ego. but you don t like that specific criticism. i don t understand the disconnect because i think the ego is about your spence of integrity, don t you think? i see it as the same. i agree with you. but i m a little sensitive to it because i spent my whole life trying to make sure that it s not ego driving my decisions. and the decisions we made here weren t made by me alone. i put together a team that argued and fought and debated to make a good decision together. i m responsible for the decisions but i didn t make them in a vacuum. that s why i m a little defensive about it. these decisions were made by me and a guardrail. you re an interesting public figure because i don t know anyone so reviled by the hillary clinton partisans and the donald
stephanopoulos interview. that said, i ve read the book cover to cover, and i need to give it some context. jim is an old and dear friend of mine. he was my boss. he was also my colleague. but like all human beings, he s flawed. he s headstrong. he has a big ego. sometimes he rushes to judgment. but in the 25 years i ve known that man, brian, he has always told the truth. always, about everything. even when it s painful, even when it makes him look bad. and so what i ask some people to do is rather than read what the pundits are saying about jim and the book, actually read the book. it s well written. it s a good story. there s a ton of detail about lots of chapters in his life, not just about president trump. and so i don t think we re going to learn anything new about the investigation, but you may see a few things about jim comey that surprise you, and it may change your opinion of what he did and
is attacking comey left and right. so there s a real effort here to play hardball politics. chuck, i ask you as not just an fbi veteran who got quite a bit of exposure to james comey, but as a lawyer yourself, when you look at him with george stephanopoulos in this abc interview, do you say to yourself, well, he can t answer that fully? well, he s holding back on that answer. mueller will get to hear his actual answer. is there a lot of that as you watch something like this? not that much, brian. i think it s right that there aren t a lot of revelations with respect to the investigation that came out of the stephanopoulos interview. that said, i ve read the book cover to cover, and i need to give it some context. jim is an old and dear friend of mine. he was my boss. he was also my colleague. but like all human beings, he s flawed. he s headstrong. he has a big ego. sometimes he rushes to judgment. but in the 25 years i ve known that man, brian, he has always told the truth.
stephanopoulos in this abc interview, do you say to yourself, well, he can t answer that fully? well, he s holding back on that answer. mueller will get to hear his actual answer. is there a lot of that as you watch something like this? not that much, brian. i think it s right that there aren t a lot of revelations with respect to the investigation that came out of the stephanopoulos interview. that said, i ve read the book cover to cover, and i need to give it some context. jim is an old and dear friend of mine. he was my boss. he was also my colleague. but like all human beings, he s flawed. he s headstrong. he has a big ego. sometimes he rushes to judgment. but in the 25 years i ve known that man, brian, he has always told the truth. always, about everything. even when it s painful, even when it makes him look bad. and so what i ask some people to do is rather than read what the pundits are saying about jim and the book, actually read the book. it s well written. it s a good story