never do was put his finger on the scale of an election. this has never happened before in the history of our democracy. no justice official has ever done anything like this. can you see today this is no longer a partisan question when you have 100 former justice department criticizing him, former attorney general criticizing him saying this is the equivalent of kind of a reality tv of federal criminal investigation. and you have the former ethics lawyer, chief ethics lawyer of the white house saying he has, in fact, violated the hatch act. this is a very bad day for american democracy. that s how you see it. you see it differently. tell me how you see it. i don t think it s fair to compare him to hoover. everyone prior to this letter thought that james comey was a great guy. i never thought james comey was a great guy. i think he s misbehaved all year. what he should have done in july was, he should have announced
this if he didn t announce it, this is proof he does not have control over his own agency and he s not qualified to have this job. you ve lost your mind. do you realize president obama appointed this man as director of the fbi? he s presumed to be completely nonpartisan and objective. now you don t like the news you ve decided he s all of a sudden partisan. that s not true. james comey has been the only person in this entire mess who does not have a political agenda. and the idea that he s doing this with a political between you and the deputy attorney general of the george bush administration disagrees with you. if he s not partisan, how is it possible he s now accused formally of violating the hatch act by george bush s chief ethics lawyer? how is that possible? there s no violation of the hatch act. if you ve read the hatch act, you realize it requires the government to show that the intent was to cause some effect to the election. that s exactly what it does not say accor
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keep everybody on board and it raises a few questions and red flags, frankly, about how people are able to kind of live in an uncensored environment inside the white house and what they may be trying to squash down. yeah. julia ainsley, kristen welker, thank you very much. richard painter served as chief ethics lawyer under george w. bush. he joins me now. let s talk about this cease and desist letter that kristen welker was just mentioning. they re accusing that confidential has been disclosed. they re also talking about bannon violating a what is the order called, richard. help me. the nondisclosure agreement, i m sorry, that he signed during the campaign. does that nondisclosure agreement apply for when you re in the white house and when the president is the president? no, it does not, and in any event, the so-called nondisclosure agreement is a
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