dispute with him after he left the fbi, we had a business dispute, no at nice one, he wasn t he wasn t happy with what i did and i don t blame him, but i had to do it because that was the right thing to do, but i had a business dispute and he loves comey. you look at the relationship that those two so whether it s love or deep like, but he should he was conflicted. look, robert mueller should have never been chosen because he wanted the fbi job and he didn t get it and the next day he was picked as special counsel. so you tell somebody, i m sorry, you can t have the job and then after you say that he s going to make a ruling on you. it doesn t work that way. plus we had a business dispute. plus his relationship with comey was extraordinary. one other thing i will say, why didn t he investigate strzok and paige and mccabe and comey and
all the lies, and brennan and the lies, and clapper and the lies to congress and all of the things that happened to start this investigation? why didn t comey come clean? why didn t comey come clean and say the things that he knows are fact? why didn t mueller investigate comber, his best friend or his very good friend? and there are so many other things. here is a question, this is a study of russia. why didn t they invest the insurance policy? in other words, should hillary clinton lose, we ve got an insurance policy. guess what, what we re in right now is the insurance policy. [ inaudible question ] i think he is a total conflicted person. i think mueller is a true never trumper, he is somebody that dislikes donald trump, he s somebody that didn t get a job that he requested that he wanted very badly and then he was
he investigate strzok and page and mccabe and comey and all the lies and brennan and the lies? why didn t comey come clean? why didn t comey come clean and say the thing that he knows are facts? why didn t mueller investigate comey, his best friend? sandra: president trump responding last hour to robert mueller s statement which lit an impeachment frenzy on capitol hill. democrats reacting yesterday and this morning. john ratcliffe serves on the judiciary and intelligence committees and joins us now. thank you for your time. as a member, good morning. hemmer will appreciate that. as a member of the judiciary committee in the house, certainly you are watching every word that robert mueller said yesterday. what were your key takeaways? well a couple of things. i think the good news for every american is bob mueller put a stake in the heart of the
tell us about that period. what was it like? describe more, please. yeah, absolutely. you go to these eight days in may. from the time james comey was fired to the when you have robert mueller appointed special counsel inside the fbi we were left wonder was james comey removed because of the russia investigation? you have michael flynn the national security advisor who was obviously lying, he was fired. you have the president asking comey to go easy on him, and when he didn t comey was fired. so again the question was left, was he fired because he was trying to obstruct the russia investigation, or at least according to the reporting the bureau took steps to investigate that, what was going on. to look at whether trump obstructed justice by firing comey watch this and then we ll discuss. i was very concerned i was able to put the russia case on absolute solid ground indelible fashion were i removed that the
tell us about that period. what was it like? describe more, please. yeah, absolutely. you go to these eight days in may. from the time james comey was fired to the when you have robert mueller appointed special counsel inside the fbi we were left wonder was james comey removed because of the russia investigation? you have michael flynn the national security advisor who was obviously lying, he was fired. you have the president asking comey to go easy on him, and when he didn t comey was fired. so again the question was left, was he fired because he was trying to obstruct the russia investigation, or at least according to the reporting the bureau took steps to investigate that, what was going on. to look at whether trump obstructed justice by firing comey watch this and then