not the attorney the fbi director s job to go out and announce that no case should be brought and then to go into a discourse on why it is that whoever was under investigation done wrong. paul: and that s exactly what james comey last july 5. right. paul: now, comey s defense ex post facto is that the attorney general at the time, loretta lynch, was conflicted because she had met on a tarmac with bill clinton, the husband of hillary clinton, and that compromised her x. that s why he did what he did. yeah. paul: is there justification for that? well, that may be true. first of all, that s not his determination to make. but secondly, even if it were true, there is in the office somebody known as the deputy attorney general who is there for precisely the situations in which the attorney general has to recuse herself, as she probably should have in that case. paul: she hadn t formally recused herself. no. paul: and you have to formally
thousands of classified information, show there wasn t hundreds or thousands of classified e-mails that were forwarded, the fbi director said. there were 12 that now we contain ex post facto classified information but wasn t marked classified. when you say something like that, you have to be very specific, right? there s no question natural you re an fbi director. you have the responsibility to conduct some very serious investigations into issues that impact on all americans, and and the result of that responsibility. i think you ve got to be very careful about what you say and try to protect your integrity and credibility in that investigation. secretary panetta, thanks so much. nice to be with you, wolf. thank you. more on the breaking news right after this.
on my word. and that s notable. the pressure will be overwhelming. donald trump and steve bannon, they re creating this grievance movement. this will be their hot button. ted cruz needs to make himself relevant again. he needs an issue to set himself up. this will be his issue. the pressure will be overwhelming particularly because conservatives and republicans have convinced themselves think how many things they have embraced, think how many things they ve rationalized by telling themselves it s the court, it s the court. it won t go away after the election. ex post facto psychologically, you ve done all these things to get yourself to support this person. you can t just give it up. right. to charlie s point, i agree there s a split among the leadership and this may never come to pass because donald trump could be elected president and the senate will if it s a republican-controlled senate, probably confirmed as nominee. but this split i think is
themselves think how many things they have embraced, think how many things they ve rationalized by telling themselves it s the court, it s the court. it won t go away after the election. ex post facto psychologically, you ve done all these things to get yourself to support this person. you can t just give it up. right. to charlie s point, i agree there s a split among the leadership and this may never come to pass because donald trump could be elected president and the senate will if it s a republican-controlled senate, probably confirmed as nominee. but this split i think is indicative of this sort of deeper thing which is just that the pressure of trumpism if trump doesn t win will move into that body very quickly. absolutely. that s why you see this jockeying, as charlie mentioned, where ted cruz wants to find an issue where he can elevate himself again. curry favor among those he may have lost while wavering on the endorsement of donald trump.
terms of the expectation, the cops are unwise enough to get theseselves into these situations, they don t have, again, automatic protection, every time they engage somebody, they could be indicted that makes their job unique and the idea that we are going to look at a video, ex post facto, when they are in these sometimes life and death situations and say for eight seconds, it was okay, the ninth second was not okay, i think we have to take a step become on that and have a police industrial complex, tasers, tasers selling cameras and they are pushing this stuff. tasers may make the police more violent. no the sure about that. so we have to have some real, honest conversations, probably not a great time to have a full-scale conversation about this. well, mayor, i m curious, just listening to what eugene just said, curious what your response is. i think eugene makes a good point, i think in far too many places around the country, there s a knee jerk reaction, get cameras on police as