fired fbi director james comey s actions. senate judiciary chairman chuck grassley says four of the seven memos comey wrote about his interactions with president trump contain classified information. comey admitted to sharing some of those memos with his friends. it s called leaking. that friend was a columbia law professor who leaked some of the contents to the media. grassley is now asking the justice department about when the memos were classified and by whom. back from outnumbered, steve cortes. and a communications consultant and former senior aide to democratic senator chuck schume senator chuck schumer. steve? your thoughts? my thoughts are, let s add to this to the list of fireball offenses for james comey. the first we know of was drafting the exoneration memo for hillary clinton months before the investigation even commenced. what he is shown to us is that
in every way. the fact he wrote exoneration memo for hillary clinton before the investigation had even commenced is reprehensible. the fact that he leaked to a friend. by the way, how about be a man and come public yourself and say i need to for the good of the country i need to make this public? he operates in the shadows. he is a highly partisan man. he has shown himself, i think to be incredibly dishonorable. to me it s one of the worst episodes in fbi history if not the worst. > maria: j. edgar hoover. the president should have fired him on january 21 when he did. katie: the president could have saved himself heartache if he would have taken the evidence and fired him. the classified information they are talking about here, serious questions about whether and chuck grassley is asking whether this professor still has the memos if he returned them to the fbi. what the content was, what the reporter saw. you know, was it physical information or as we just pointed out was it just
hillary, you are good at it, and you are the epitome of public corruption. the fix? your friend barack obama in april 2016 there was no malicious intent on your part to expose our classified documents. shortly thereafter the washington post mimics obama saying there is no malicious intend and our secrets were never in danger. and weeks before 17 witnesses and the target herself are questioned, jim comey writes an exoneration of you as a criminal target using the same words. except malicious intent is not an element of the crime, folks. and anyone who tells you that a prosecutor drafts an exoneration memo of the target before the investigation is complete has
says that comey should come again before congress to explain himself. he needs to come back to the committee for a couple of reasons. had you predetermine the result before the interview contrary to your testimony? i want to inform the public of as much as possible. because this does not add up. i smell a rat. and i m convinced that that s not how you inform the public. how many times what we have these people come up to capitol hill and they see say these words? i can t talk to you about that. there s something here. guy: you have to ask james comey. that is right from senator graham. harris: in public or private? guy: either one. if he questions him in public, maybe i can answer these things in public, that s up to the committee, but more questions need to be asked. one thing that is interesting to me, as you look at the time frame of this, if james comey drafted this exoneration memo in
the behest of james clapper who privately told the president about the fake dossier so they could leak it to the press and the world. who are you going to believe? take a look at this chart? they are all here is. james comb why it head o jam. mr. leaker had to admit he did so. comey lied before congress when he testified he briefed the president about the dossier because he learned the media was about to report on it. in truth comey briefed trump for the purpose of getting that dossier out to the public. comey said the investigation of hillary was thorough. in truth he wrote an exoneration memo long before the essential witnesses were interviewed. and the deputy director andrew