so, listen, you said this doesn t vindicate the president but comey is feeling like it vindicates him, certainly, right? he s acting like it. i think that tweet showed a little bit of chutzpah, as my people say. i think he was reaching there. look, he did wrong. there is no getting around he did wrong. it s not on par with the president demanding loyalty and trying to shut things down. he took information about an ongoing case and tried to leak it through a friend. by the way, why would he give it to an outsider. a friend to give to the media. we saw the clip. to me that shows he knew he was doing something wrong. he may have had good motivations but you still have to follow the rules, especially when you re the director of the fbi. let s talk more about vindication with a slap on the wrist. go ahead, shawn. sorry. no, no, listen, don, i agree with elie that he did wrong and people are going to judge him for what he did. the american public has every right to judge james comey fo
a bad example for the 35,000 members of the fbi, i think it s also the case we have to look at what his motivations are. if the message is they don t want other members of the fbi to do that, we can t look at that separate and distinct from why james comey did this. there were legitimate concerns that he had, and i think that the investigation that mueller did and the other investigations that are going on are legitimate investigations to look at what we still don t understand about this president s behavior. but comey tweeted this, elie. he says, i don t need a public apology from those who dename me, but a quick me with a, sorry, we lied about you would be nice. so, listen, you said this doesn t vindicate the president but comey is feeling like it vindicates him, certainly, right? he s acting like it. i think that tweet showed a little bit of chutzpah, as my people say. i think he was reaching there. look, he did wrong. there is no getting around he did wrong. it s not on par wit
from talking to individuals, from using public resources to discover information that s needed for the entity or individuals that are paying for said information. of course with anything like that you will have some type of information that won t be completely accurate but that doesn t take away from the completion of the document. back to the point i made earlier, it doesn t vindicate president trump completely. i kind of see republicans playing a political side as well as democrats. you re going to look at it through the lens of your particular party affiliation. north korea s willingness to reengage with the united states. i want to ask you about a tweet from president trump about his daughter who traveled to south korea for the winter olympics closing ceremony. he said my daughter just arrived in south korea. we cannot have a better, or smarter, person representing our country. at a time when there s concern about the fact that she does not have a permanent security
surrounding people. what is striking to me is there is no effort to appeal to moderate minded people, people in the middle or undecided at all. it works in the short term when you say things to your core group like we re vindicated in a document that doesn t vindicate you at all. you can persuade your core group to believe that. but there s nothing to the rest of the country. that s a self-defeat that has happened quite early. neera, i wanted to show something that the the russians paid for specifically. the indictment said they asked a u.s. person to wear a costume portraying hillary clinton in a prison uniform. we have that photograph, i
allegedly staged pro and anti-trump rallies on the same day to keep up the confusion. with a budget of more than $1 million a month, the russians even communicated with unwitting members, volunteers, and supporters of the trump campaign, all while hiding their true identity according to the deputy attorney general. there s no allegation in this indictment that any american had any knowledge. reporter: rob rosenstein specifically citing only this indictment. though the president s taking a broader view, after months of calling the russia investigation it was a hoax. reporter: now he seems to feel vindicated tweeting the result the election were not impacted. the trump campaign did nothing wrong. no collusion. but the indictment doesn t vindicate anyone. what an indictment does is it charges people, and in this case, organizations with federal crimes. but there s no vindication simply because you re not mentioned. reporter: the special counsel investigation course a lot