that time and just as a piece of housekeeping, because it seems my mental arit arithmetic is a e rough, the transcript is 235 pages and we re talking about 240 times according to congressman gowdy that the fbi director could not remember, could not recall or just didn t know the information in the course of that interview. eric: fascinatinge= to see who the other two names could be. i m sure that will be made public at some point. we ll have much more on what happened to the hillary clinton e-mail probe as well as the russia investigation when we come back on our live coverage of james comey s transcript from his hearings, right after this. (whispers) with the capital one venture card. you ll earn unlimited double miles on every purchase, every day. not just airline purchases. (loud) holy moley that s a lot of miles!!! shhhhh! what s in your wallet? - shhhhh! -
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questions. he did disturbingly say that the firing of james comey was okay. i m not sure exactly why he thought that was okay. i would like to see him expound on that. i can read you why he said, and i ll quote, he said that james comey, quote, did not recognize established limits on his power as it pertains to the hillary clinton e-mail probe. so it goes to the intent of the president of the united states. if the reason donald trump fired james comey was because he thought james comey was mean to hillary clinton, violated regulations and hurt hillary clinton, that s one thing. but donald trump didn t say that. he actually went on national tv and said he fired james comey because of trussia investigatio. that s very different. i would like to see what william barr s views would be. and finally, you don t get a vote on this because you re not in the senate, however, i want your take on heather nauert, the president s pick this morning to replace nikki haley as u.s. ambassador to t
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to the hillary clinton e-mail probe, and on comey he says this, jake. quote, i think it s quite understandable that the administration would not want an fbi director who did not recognize established limits on his powers. it is telling that none of the president s critics are challenging the decision on the merits so defending the firing of comey there, jake. he aligns with president trump a a number of these issues, and i think he s also said some things that hillary clinton and bill clinton should be investigated more when it comes to the uranium one deal f.there is a nomination of bill barr and he goes before the senate, i would be expected he d be asked about when he was attorney general last time for gooush, what and how his role was on signing off on pardons that bush senior issued for some reagan officials about iran-contra. people are very concerned about pardons president trump might issue. certainly that s been one of the pieces of bill barr s tenure that has come under c
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