community, the personnel who were working these agencies, they have not themselves split. the way in which the cia united around gina haspel put aside and the country s issues about interrogation policy to say this is a strong leader, we think we can unite behind her, the way in which chris wray, appointed by president trump to head the fbi has been a true leader for the bure bureau. the worst thing while the president is attacking these institutions is that they split and there s no sign of that whatsoeve whatsoever. and there s another thing that must be said. donald trump attacks the intel agencies, it s dangerous to attack the institutions that protect our constitution republic. at the same time he has put in
prosecutor. then we await the a.g. s report. the department of justice is being scrutinized by horowitz. i think that the timing is the issue, not that he does not have a right to write a book. of course he does. he s an american citizen now. he s not in public service anymore. it s just the timing. okay. when you speak of a potential perjury trap, are you worried about comey s reputation, the bure bureau s reputation, or both? yes. when james comey was fired on may 9th of last year, i came on cnn on may 10th and i talked about it. i lauded comey for his probity. reputation. and i contrasted him with the president and some of the issues of moral turpitude that surrounded the current president. i also lambasted the president for the very i ll give him the benefit of the doubt ham handed but something more
bure bureau s top intelligence experts, and he played a lead role in investigating hillary clinton s e-mail server, he s part of the group that decided not to recommend charges for her. finally over the summer, he helped oversea probes into the russian operatives and trump campaign associates. the fact that he later joins mueller s team for a brief period of time is being used to say the entire russia investigation has to be tainted because he trashed the president in his text messages. what about the role in the flynn investigation. what more do we know about that? earlier this year, my colleague evan perez reported that the fbi agents who interviewed flynn, initially weren t in favor of pursuing charges against him for lying in his interview with the fbi back in january. but were also now learning from sources that that same peter struck, the same one part of
on the decline well before the paris accord, well before barack obama s own presidency. one of the big reasons behind it is natural gas has been way up, coal has been way down. that has been going on regardless of the paris accord and what ends up happening with it. what are the chances of this move, mark, rebooting the coal industry, as the president appears to be hoping it ll do? probably not a lot when you look at the trends. some people could end up being helped. the long term trend of coal jobs in this country, they re on the decline. renewable energies are on the way up. mark murray in our washington bure bureau. thank you for the friday fact check. the word of the day has been, what, russia, paris? there s another word of the day. can you spell it? the girl you re looking at can. the winning word. we ll introduce you to this 12-year-old champ after the break.
contact me for help. e-mailing my office on april 14th of this year asking that i visit her restaurant in california. that was stephanie gosk reporting. the trump campaign released a statement from zervos first cousin, it hereads, for almost decade my cousin would talk about how much she looked up to mr. trump and viewed him as an inspiration. a success story she wanted to copy. summer would also talk about how kind and caring mr. trump was on the show. that statement written on behalf of the trump campaign in an foer effort to refute one of his accusers. danny freeman from our d.c. bure bureau, good morning to you. is clinton staying off the campaign trail before the debate, is that part of the distinct strategy to stay out of the way as trump deals with his controversy? reporter: well, good morning. while it s true we may not seen