under unprecedented circumstances. brian: case closed. good. sorry for booking you, ari. no intrigue there. do you know what was missing? three words. we were wrong. that was missing from the entire op-ed. he actually writes in there that they had reason to believe that carter page was an agent of russia. he wasn t. none of what they investigated turned out to be true. why does james comey. humble man he is say we got it wrong and we put our nation through two years of misery alleging these people colluded with russia. brian: peter strzok emails business as usual. lisa page emails the way in which they talked about northbound policy. the way a that andy mccabe agrees with comey. the way brethren nathaniel and comey agree on the dossier. the way loretta lynch call comey a liar. i mention all these people on the same team. ainsley: calling trump supporters, making fun of them. they made the walmart comments. these are fbi investigators.
something he talked about a lot. he made a point of this in his trip to asia in november of trying to build some of these relationships with the prime minister of japan. the president of china. he likes to do it in washington too, invite members of congress to golf with him to visit him at mar-a-lago. he s all about touting these relationships. as we just cited in all those sound bites. let s talk about james comey, his former fbi direct hero. this is what drer director. this is what he said. many things have found out about comey that would never have been found out if i didn t fire him. what is he referring to, rebecca? it s not completely clear what he s referring to. i mean, i think he has repeatedly called comey a liar and a leaker, as he did in our interview. i think he s referring to what comey himself has testified to congress, that he passed memos
of his conversations with the president to a friend to leak to the news media, because he believed those notes were alarming and lead to the appointment of a special counsel. but i think what came across the most from the portion of our interview that discussed comey is how angry he really still is over the whole thing. he was really eager to dive into comey. we didn t ask questions specifically why he fired comey or what he thought since then. but he was very eager to talk about it. and swung from saying that it was the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who had written a memo at the white house s urging that was critical of comey saying he was in charge. he s the reason that comey was fired to saying that he wants this credit for firing comey. and i think what really came across is that he feels like there is a lot of hypocrisy in how washington has talked about the firing. well, he talks about it. i think, he obviously, gives
and there have been times when i ve wanted to call director comey a liar when we were having him in front of me in terms of sworn testimony. when he said he didn t know if hillary clinton was sophisticated enough to understand what a classified marking was, i had a hard time believes that. but i didn t call director comey a liar. when we look at this, what we need to make sure of is that we keep it in context. and for me it s all about getting to the truth. you know me. i ll go after my own party as much as i will the other party. but the other part of that, wolf, is this. the president said that he wasn t under investigation. in sworn testimony, the director said that he wasn t under investigation. well, if they really suspect collusion, why wasn t he under investigation? he said the president s not urn under investigation, but he didn t rule out others associated with the campaign and that s still a problem. and we want to get to the bottom of that. we are a nation of laws, rules
with the families of these american heroes. staying on top of this story we ll bring you any updates as we get them. politics deadline is set, the intelligence committee is giving the house two weeks to turn over any recordings of the president s conversation with james comey. senator diane finestein asking the judiciary committee to investigate the possible obstruction of justice in the days leading up to comey s firing. he claimed the president wanted a pledge of loyalty. the president not backing down, labeling comey a liar, a leaker and saying he would quote, 100% testify under oath about the discussions he had with them. all of this as rebendered special counsel robert mueller is staffing up, building the equivalent of a small u.s. attorney s office with legal