but he lied, he leaked, he s a disreputable head of the fbi. he s af disgrace to the fbi. he usedce it for political purposes, the report demonstrates all of that. laura: clapper was on cnn tonight, did anyone ask him a question about it?not one quest. i m not sure if clapper knows where he is. brennan is the brains, clapper is the idiot. if you want me to guess who orchestrated this, clapper is not capable. i won t tell you who i think did. laura: rudy, here s what comey said when he was asked the reason for briefing trump backso in january of 2017 on that phoney june 2017, on the steele dossier. it was important for me to assure him we were not personally investigating him. and i didn t want him thinking i was briefing him on this to sort of hang it over him in some way. i was briefing him on it because we had been told by the media it was about to launch. we didn t want to be keeping that from him. and i was keen not to leave him
ethics review. you know it. he claims it wasn t a federal record, a sensitive federal record. he claims his memo to the file wasn t a federal record. that doesn t pass the straight face test, doesn t it? that s a lie. everybody will think i m making this up. i m disgusted with jim comey. i have been for over a year. this is disgraceful. and because we have this crazy anti-trump media, they make him ce laura: why aren t they made. they were led down the garden path, too. a disgraceful prosecutor. he s everything they ve been against for years. the out of control prosecutor who prosecutes people for his own ambition, this guy is a disgrace. left or right, he s a disgrace. and he s very dangerous. laura: but the noble goal that he and mccabe andstrzok by. you can do anything you can lie, you can cheat, you can try to get manafort to lie. 13 times you put him in solitary
comey oror his attorneys releasd information contained to any of the memos to members of the media. i don t need a policy to defame me, but a quick message of sorry, i lied about you, we ll be nice. sorry, jimmy, don t hold your breath. the ig report established beyond a shadow of a doubt that comey engaged in a brand personal vendetta against this president. and, in doing so, he abused his authority. and while comey must be breathing easier tonight given the ag decision not to prosecute him for this leaking, he s not out of the woods yet. the ig report on the fbi russian probe and the use of the fisa warrants is forthcoming. it s comey who signed the first fisa warrant to spy on american citizens. now, based on the dossier, he knew or should have known was not credible. that was filed with the fisa
memorialize the encounter during a car ride back to the office. ethis is all planned out. then, a day later, on january 11 cnn reported this. that the intelligence chiefs of the united states, when they briefed president obama thursday and president-elect trump on friday, they believed that the source of the dossier was credible and his sources were credible and they believed that a, the president-elect and the president should know that the russians were claiming they had compromised information on him. this is disgraceful. that opened, of course, the media flood gates and a wave of damaging and totally fraudulent fake news stories followed about the phony clinton finance field dossier. now, in the months that followed, comey memorialized his other meetings with the president. several memos were sent to his personal lawyer, daniel richmond, who, then, at comey s behest, shared the contents of at least two of them with the news media. why?
this key information that molly talked about. what they did at the january 6 meeting where they were trying to get information, trying to trap the president of the unitet states to give him a defensive briefing. by saying by saying in the immediate yeah, i don t want media, i don t want to interrupt you, but telling him he was a target. he wasn t a target.they lied to. they led him on, said he was a target. veand he said to investigator, e didn t want him to think we didn t want him to get all worried he was a target when molly said they had the hurricane cross fire ready with a secure connection to get debriefed comey.ct they re setting up the president, trying to ambush the president, saying you re not under investigation, even though they coordinated how they re going to do it. they were all going to show up., comey is going to stay, talk about the dossier. they were out to get him remember, in the previous