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designed to save you money. click, call or visit an xfinity store today. paul: well, james comey gets set to kick off his book tour sunday. president trump is wasting no time firing back at his former fbi director tweeting on friday: james comey is a proven leaker and liar. virtually everyone in washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did until he was, in fact, fired. he leaked classified information for which he should be prosecuted, he lied to congress under oath. he is a weak and untruthful slimeball who was, as time has proven, a terrible director of the fbi. his handling of the crooked hillary clinton case and the events surrounding it will go down as one of the worst botch jobs of history. it was my great honor to fire james comey. we re back with dan henninger and bill mcgurn. so, bill, first, anything new we
paul: well, james comey gets set to kick off his book tour sunday. president trump is wasting no time firing back at his former fbi director tweeting on friday: james comey is a proven leaker and liar. virtually everyone in washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did until he was, in fact, fired. he leaked classified information for which he should be prosecuted, he lied to congress under oath. he is a weak and untruthful slimeball who was, as time has proven, a terrible director of the fbi. his handling of the crooked hillary clinton case and the events surrounding it will go down as one of the worst botch jobs of history. it was my great honor to fire james comey. we re back with dan henninger and bill mcgurn. so, bill, first, anything new we
untruthful slime ball. the white house in full damage control tonight. abc s senior white house correspondent cecilia vega is there. reporter: a seething president trump today launched an all-out assault on his former fbi director. calling james comey a proven leaker and liar. saying he leaked classified information, for which he should be prosecuted. and that s not all. comey, the president said, is an untruthful slime ball whose handling of the crooked hillary clinton case will go down as one of the worst botch jobs of history. his aides jumping in the fray, press secretary sarah sanders had a written statement ready to go. reporter: the president came out swinging today calling james comey a liar, a leaker, a slime ball. is he worried about what he s saying? not at all. the american people see right through the blatant lies of a self-admitted leaker. reporter: in his new book comey calls the trump presidency
now, we had been told that the white house itself and the president were not going to respond directly to this, they were going to leave that to the rnc. that is not what has happened. the president is in this and in this big now. abby philip at the white house for us. abby. reporter: that s exactly right, john. the white house was supposed to be leaving this to the rnc, but president trump unearthing some of his anger and frustration at james comey this morning in a series of tweets. this is really personal, john. here s what the president wrote. james comey is a proven leaker and liar. virtually everyone in washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did until he was in fact fired. he leaked classified information for which he should be prosecuted. he lied to congress under oath. he is a weak and untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible director of the fbi. his handling of the crooked hillary clinton case and the events surrounding it will go