election, a new white house commission, we will find out, i will talk with the chairman of that commission. and the president s travel ban facing a new challenge tomorrow from the ninth circuit of court of appeals. it s it heading for showdown to the supreme court. attorney general of texas will join us live as we look right now in sunday morning futures. maria: search for new fbi director gaining steam this morning. president trump saying that the white house would name james comey s replacement as well as soon as this upcoming friday. the justice department is interviewing candidates, they interviewed eight candidates so far this weekend with a few other names reportedly in the mix. all of this taking place as james comey says he s willing to testify before congress, however, he only will do it in
version of what he said. if i were comey i would absolutely insist on testifying in public. i wouldn t trust either side because the democrats are going to take anything he says that seems to hurt trump and they re going to distort it and leak it. the republicans will take anything he says which seems to exonerate trump, they ll distort it and leak it. we live in a period unfortunately where we are surrounded by 24-day leaks and we are much better off to have these things out in the open. let comey tell his side of the story and just let it be out there. i m not worried about the kind of i can t tell you because this or that and frankly on some of the things that they won t tell you about because it affects the ability it goes to sources and methods, i don t want him to particularly say that in private either because you know it ll leak. maria: we know that there were leaks and we know that it is illegal to pass information on that is critical information to the media and where is the
mind to understand that she was really violating the law. you know, i mean, come on. maria: what was the point of the private server in basement anyway? to violate the law. have own communication. maria: convenience at home. releasing things on friday afternoons like the bad guys do and, you know, all this other stuff made no sense. smart guy, lacking in common sense, it just wasn t built to be the fbi director. maria: takes us back, what happened to the fbi that made it politicized over the years. a lot of people talk about the i talked about that but a lot of people don t want to hear this. bob mauhller. a front group in my view of the
maria: that s what you have been saying for several months now. look, granted jim comey was in a tough spot when his loss loretta lurch has meeting in tarmac with bill clinton and it was obvious where loretta lynch was on the election, where barack obama was on the election, they wanted hillary. they were never going to indict hillary clinton ever. so what was jim comey thinking five months down the road when he has the shallow investigation maria: incredibly careless and sent thousands of emails to anthony weiner, she had all of these things in terms of conflicts around her but we wouldn t recommend. well, because he made the point no intent which is crazy, you know, like a 100-mile train of intent and the notion that hillary clinton was not a right
you have a news media that s totally out of control and thinks it s more important than the president of the united states, more important than the constitution, it s more important than the rule of lu and at some point they ll be collision over that and i actually applaud what the president said in the last few days, i think it ll be healthy for the white house press corps to not have a daily opportunity to taunt whoever the spokesperson is. the game that we now have going on is really sick. maria: right. it weakness the ability of the american people to know what s going on. maria: i m wondering if that s one of the reasons the president fired james comey because we are constantly hearing about charade of investigation with no evidence whatsoever and yet where is the investigation of tun masking, where is the investigation of the passing of classified information to the media? is it happening? that s right.