in 1999 senator schumer s position was no new witnesses, no new evidence. and now his position is we have to have new witnesses and we have to have new evidence. so there will be a lot of flipping positions from some democrats on this. bill: let me move to james comey quickly. you saw the interview with chris wallace on fox news sunday . roll this sound bite. runs 20 seconds. as a director sitting on top of an organization of 38,000 people, you can t run an investigation that is seven layers below you. if a director tries to run an investigation it will get mucked up in all different kinds of ways given his or her responsibilities and the impossible of reaching the work being done at the lower level. bill: you can t run an investigation at seven layers below you. i understand the f.b.i. has big matters. let me just get to the question whether it s terrorism investigations, really important stuff here. but what is more important?
called before congress and said this plans is what the fbi wanted. nobody else was involved. but then several democratic lawmakers wrote to the head of the gsa and said, hold on here. first of all, here is a photo of you meeting with the president about this project. this is the gsa director sitting in the middle. the one woman in the photo. and second of all, the democrat democratic lawmakers get ahold of the emails recounting what had at that meeting and putting those decisions into action and they include an official from the gsa sending an e-mail a few days after the meeting referring to what potus directed everyone to do, and end quote, potus orders. another official from the agency writes about delivering, quote, the project the president wants on the timetable he wants it done. what that meeting was about, what those presidential orders were about, what the president
of real estate tonight. you re here, you re first. let s talk about what s happening at the white house. there are two tools of your craft that we saw, one we saw today, one we haven t. the note to the podium, the calms director sitting in the west wing sends a note out to the press secretary which is handled discreetly. that happened today. number two is a washington classic, the walkback. what my boss meant to say. this is where it gets serious because we have seen days consumed by this incredibly weighty, historic charge of one president to another. yeah, and i don t buy the excuse that we shouldn t take the president literally anymore. that s like i have a five-year-old, and we take him literally. leader of the free world, it s time to take his words literally. and what he said literally was exactly what you started to show. accused the former president of committing a crime. what con funds to me as a former senior staffer and a white house
with the director sitting in a jail here in switzerland, his movie and his life remain on hold. as he faces possible extradition to the u.s. and years in broin, hollywood s biggest stars are circling in his defense. whoopi goldberg had this to say. whether an adult had sex with a child is called statutory rape. it s not called anything but rape. he was not charged i know it wasn t rape rape. it was something else. but i don t believe it was rape rape. in a statement to the los angeles daily news, harvey wine stein wrote, we are calling every filmmaker we can to fix this terrible situation. a petition has already been signed business stars as big as woody allen, martin scorsese, and david lirchl. but there are also those in hollywood who believe the director needs to answer for his crime. there is sort of a natural tendency to excuse bad conduct on the part of artistic people. reporter: polanski is a hollywood darling, acclaimed as