the utter hypocrisy on comey. the other part of this is, again, as opposed to what nixon and watergate invoked every minute and a half by democrats, this is a scandal in search of a crime. after all of this time, show us the evidence of a crime. if there were any of that, i think there would be a real firestorm over real stuff. right now, it s a firestorm gotten a lot larger. again, over allegations of collusion that nobody has been able to demonstrate actually occurred. bret: to be fair, sally yates was asked about that and said there s a classified investigation going on. in the former director of national intelligence, clapper, said he reported up to his point. democrats are acting as if it s been shown, as of the way the only way to understand that
it gave the fbi a limited amount of time to investigate during the run up to the election. he knew he was under a clock, and then went loretta lynch met with bill clinton on that tarmac, it casts for the shadow on the ability of the department of justice and the fbi to come in the american public s eyes, run a thorough investigation. bret: do you buy the layout of the administration s actions saying it is tied to rosenstein s assessment that he was just approved. he looked at the details and it points back to the original july event as the explanation why he s getting fired. do you buy that this is the reason he s getting fired? i don t buy that. i think the timing lines up fairly neatly against that, but if jim comey committed a mortal sin in his position as fbi director, loretta lynch could have asked the president last july to fire him. she could have said i m going to fire you.
democrats tried to link the action to the investigation of a possible connection between the trump campaign and the russians before the elections. demands for a special prosecutor are louder tonight and democrats are jumping to watergate comparisons. john roberts starts us off from the north lawn. good evening. fbi director was fired for usurping the authority of then attorney general loretta lynch, but he announced the results of the investigation into hillary clinton s emails last july. the president s opponents were quick to make the firing about him and not the fbi director. there were handshakes from his police escort on the tarmac in los angeles as james comey boarded the fbi jet for the final time. while it was the president who fired comey, white house or the state was the newly minted deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who had lost confidence in comey. sources say rosenstein,
i have not asked the president. the president showed no reluctance or regret in firing company. in his letter writing while i greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that i am not under investigation, i nevertheless concur with the judgment of the department of justice that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau. some democrats, pennsylvania senator bob casey called the firing nixonian. others claim that president was trying to derail the russia investigation. insisted rosenstein appoint a special prosecutor. the ink was barely dry on the termination letter, and white house officials were saying it s time to get past the notion that the trump campaign colluded with russia. we have heard that time and time again. we heard it in the testimonies earlier this week. we ve heard it for the last 11 months. there is no there there. it s time to move on. white house feels that has plenty of political cover and
isis, telling 60 minutes he preferred the term loan rat to a lone. lone wolf. although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. comey revisited the server investigation. clinton has placed blame on-call meet for trump s win. the relationship with the winners seemed cordial enough. james. he has become more famous than me. comey s testimony about russian interference was not satisfying many in the g.o.p. because he wouldn t say for sure he would probe damaging leaks the white house police came from the last administration. can you assure them that if it s going to be investigated? i can t. but i hope people watching know