democrat who watched comey s testimonies, his interviews, read his book, i come away deeply disquieted when an f.b.i. director effectively makes his own rules, his own laws, and his own judgments using polls, using perceptions of what the attorney general should or should not have been doing. i m disquieted and i want this investigation to run its course to see if what the president said this morning on fox & friends is, in fact, the case and whether charges are warranted. rick: critics have said jim comey is not doing himself any favors with this book tour. he is not. i agree with doug. i think james comey. i also read his book. he brought a lot of this on himself. what he has done is politicized this process and doug is right. if you want an investigation to go forward the last thing you should do is politicize it. comey is acting more like a candidate for public office than a law enforcement officer.
president trump: he is a liar. not only on this stuff. he has been leaking for years. he has probably been using his friend, the so-called professor who turns out to be f.b.i. clearance which he never said. he lied about that. he never said that in congress. he said he gave it to a friend. he gave it to a friend to leak classified information. rick: president trump sounding off this morning responding to new details about former f.b.i. director james comey after comey went on defense about the leaking of memos he wrote about conversations he had in the oval office. let s bring in our panel former advisor to president bill clinton doug shown and kris wilson a former ted cruz campaign pollster. thank you for being here. jim comey last night said that he didn t leak, he gave the memo to a friend to give to the press. isn t that the same thing? i would think so. i mean, i have to tell you as a