korea? south korea tv has been running with the live imagesment north korea put out a statement about the pompeo visit. with kim jong un. and that was so striking. because it said it s quoted kim jong un congratulating pompeo on his appointment to the position of secretary of state. from the cia director position. saying he warmly and sincerely greeted america s new top diplomat. the fact you have this language coming from north korea state media. which months ago was talking about enveloping american cities in fire. how rapid the diplomatic changes have been in just a matter of months here. jeff zeleny to you.
hillary clinton did were crimes and they were never investigated, and you had jim comey that did the worse thing that happened in the election for hillary clinton, and you are forgetting do you remember during the probe, hillary clinton and her supporters were making this same argument you are making right now, these people in the fbi hate me and they are all coming up to comey and saying she has to be investigated, and i don t remember you being concerned about that. chris, there is actual evidence that hillary clinton got special treatment. it s literally a reading of the e-mails from andy mccabe saying hillary clinton is going to get special treatment. these are not opinions on my part, they are the actual messages that people in the fbi were sending to one another. you made the point that mueller was interviewed for his old job back, the fbi director position,
different argument though so if you look at the framework that was put in place, this is such an important thing to outgoing director, he would have had a deputy director. as i understand it, this woman was the chief of staff. he made the chief of staff in a deal right before he left the deputy director to make her the acting director. so there s an issue with the acting director. he would have done this and had a deputy director in place all along. in his letter that s not the administration s in the past few days, i have come to recognize appointing the current chief of staff to the director position would minimize operational disruption and provide for a smooth transition given her operational expertise. it s clear the administration would have opposed the deputy or the chief of staff, even if there was a deputy in place. what they want is nick mulvaney to come in because he has consistently sided with the banks against the consumer agency. very critical of thi
this someone that the president thinks he can influence, thinks is that his intent, to get someone who is malleable enough to do what the president presumably wants done with this investigation? and it s going to be all the more important that the person selected and nominated and presumably taking over for the in the director position has this firm steely independence and the facts and this is a proven track record, right? we re not talking about somebody who says they will. i want to see somebody who has shown they will. and i think it s more important to have that independence than ever. what happens to jared kushner? if all we know is that he s under fbi scrutiny, does he go back to work at the white house tomorrow like hunky-dory, no problem? we had learned from the new york times there was obviously a rift between jared kushner and steve bannon, sort of that steve bannon camp had put out there that jared could be a big
early as this evening as he already met with the fbi agents conducting the investigation and been brought up to speed and given them directions what they should do next. a g.o.p. source said rosenstein had thrown president trump over board by appointing the special council. do you agree stewart? to some extent. that s a difficult question to really respond. i m going to pass on that one. jeff you want the to take it on? i think he anybody in the department of justice or the fbi their loyalty is to the constitution and rule of law. that s a tough question but that s where the loyalty should be. the president met with four candidates in the fbi director position. joe leeberman. andrew mccabe. richard mcfeely. what do you make of the