jim comey, who now we know, who testified under oath that he is the leaker was uncomfortable giving information to jeff sessions? by the way, guys, i don t know, i m not a big name dropper type, but i know a few people. when you talk to people like jeff sessions, this guy is universally respected behind the scenes as an honorable, decent man. make no mistake with this jeff sessions what jim comey did to fuel the fire. you are watching the live time political assassination of good and decent man. on very serious note. this is a disgrace. this is shameful what s happening to this guy. this is a good man, they are lying about jeff sessions, good for him, sessions for going up there and fighting back this week. we will see what he has to say. sandra: dan, he is fighting back and putting out words last night. he wrote a letter in response to all of this saying quote in light of reports regarding mr. comey s recent testimony before before the senate select committee on intelligence it is imp
associates painting a bad picture of president trump and the administration? yes. and what i think is the enormous, big juicy scandal on this whole thing is what hasn t leaked? jim comey never leaked the fact, we just found out recently that lorreta lynch asked him to refer to the clinton email investigation. by the way, where actual crimes were committed, the trafficking of information as the, quote, matter like the federal bureau of matters as someone laughingly said to him that never leaked. we never had any leaks about the massive scandal of unmasking of trump officials by the obama administration, which has already admitted none of that leaked. but what leaks, pete? the idea that president trump hoped an investigation would go away against mike flynn? you know what? i hope the traffic ticket would go away, too. it doesn t mean i prescribed the cop. i mean, it s ridiculous. clayton: dan, let me play real quick before we move on. i want to play total devil s
senate intel committees chairman burr and vice chairman mark warner, let me quote, based on the information available to us we see no indications that trump tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the united states government either before or after election day 2016. let me add to that over on the house side we heard from manu raju in his interview on the rank member adam schiff has had conversations with the fbi chief jim comey and met in closed door sessions and ultimately said he will echo the same sentiments, but quite simply that president trump was not wiretapped by president obama. all of that said, let s go to our man there in the briefing room jim acosta our senior white house correspondence and may i first ask, they re late. where is sean spicer?
said last night that he will be providing there would be additional information coming forward. there is a ton of media reports out there that indicate that something was going on during the 26 election. i believe he will. jim. were you just quoting sean hannity there. the house and senate intelligence committees are i get you re going to the fbi director, you re citing sean hannity. you also look over you tend to overlook all the other sources because i know you want to cherry pick it. no, no, but you do. but where was your concern about the new york times reporter? you didn t seem to have a concern with that. we have done plenty of reporting on all of this, sean. you want to cherry pick one piece of commentary. the president to the russians that has all been looked at. how do you know all this? how do you seem to be such an expert in this? i m saying that this has been looked at, sean how do you know it s been looked at? hold on, where is i m sorry,
this. to suggest that you re stating unequivocally you somehow right, and sing we ve already cleared that up. and he said exactly that. but the president has already said clearly when he referred to wiretapping he was referring to surveillance. so but it sounds like, sean, you and the president are saying now, well, we don t mean wiretapping any more. that s not true any more. so now we re going to entertain other forms of surveillance. what s it going to be next? jim, i think that s cute but at the end of the day we ve talked about this for three or four days. what the president had to quote wiretapping in quotes, he was referring to broad surveillance. and now you re basically going back. we talked about this several days ago. the bottom line is that the investigation by the house and the senate has not been provided all of the information and when it does hold on. news reports, not evidence i m saying the president addressed that last night and said there is more t