real problem. dan, to your points later in the show we will have ian prior on. he just left the justice department. he was a spokesman for attorney general sessions. i had him on dana perino show yesterday and i asked him what s taking so long when it comes to bruce ohr, comes to james comey and the leaks. andrew mccabe. they are out of their job, some of them. but no charges for what appear to be crimes in some cases. well, it takes time. have you got to go through this and that. i m thinking it didn t take any time with michael cohen. all of a sudden his life is turned upside down. how is it on one side of this story and i would like you to talk directly to ian pryor who is coming on later. how is it that the justice department appears to be moving with lightning speed on one side of the story? because, ed, it seems crystal clear at this point that they have triaged their desires and responsibilities. and there are people in the justice department who, at the top of that peer mid
this is what the intelligence community does. and i ve been trying to essentially make this point for 18 months now as we ve been told we are required patriotically to accept whatever they say. i spent three years reporting on the nsa. they constantly said it would be a crime if we divulge this, it would endanger people as we reported on it. nobody was ever hurt. there were trying to cover themselves and their own wrongdoing and not the national security of the country and that s the same here. you have people like mark warner and inside of the fbi and justice department who don tar want us to know the name of the informant, not because they rere worried about national security, but because they are worried about themselves, and that s why they are using the language they always use. you will be engaged in espionage, you will be jeopardizing lives. this is what they always say and the reason why i think the medib deserves criticism is the medias knows better than anybody that when th
president s criminal defense are together. and that s not my inference. that s what john dowd said on the record. he s calling for this in response to what jeff sessions did late last night. to go back to betsy for a moment, did you take this statement, i pray that betsy woodruff from the daily beast. i pray that acting attorney general rod rosenstein will follow the courageous and brave example of attorney general jeff sessions and bring an end to the alleged russian collusion investigation based on the corrupt dossier. did you take that, as a reporter, as a message to rosenstein or simply a comment upon what the president, i guess, hopes rosenstein will do? that s a good question. you know, if the white house wants to communicate their wishes to rosenstein, they can. the deputy attorney general is one of the only officials in the justice department who, in my
they were shocked by this firing. when you hear about fbi agents being shaken, it makes you wonder whether or not it will derail them at all in their investigation. you guys seem to be reporting more on a reaction of resolve, anger and maybe even a desire to get revenge. yeah. i think revenge is a little strong. look, there are career professionals in both the fbi and justice department who, for all practical purposes, are lifers at this. while they were certainly surprised and upset about what happened to jim comey, you know, i think it was interesting, i would say among the people i talked to, i would say 75% of the reaction was anger and 25% was a kind of fear, a kind o wariness, does this mean we will actually pull back? i don t want to pull back. maybe there will be some collective caution that this firing produces.
professionals in both the fbi and justice department who, for all practical purposes, are lifers at this. while they were certainly surprised and upset about what happened to jim comey, you know, i think it was interesting, i would say among the people i talked to, i would say 75% of the reaction was anger and 25% was a kind of fear, a kind of wariness, does this mean we will actually pull back? i don t want to pull back. maybe there will be some collective caution that this firing produces. to be honest, most of the folks i talked to in the law enforcement intelligence base today were determined not to do anything differently, and, if anything, were more motivated today than yesterday. andrew mccabe the fbi deputy director now elevated to the acting director of the fbi. in our opening segment i