does he, governor? mike: he never has. when there are people being paid by the taxpayer who have that level of contempt for the people who pay their salaries. these people are talking about their bosses. in any place i have ever worked in my life it s a fireable offense. we need to know who these people are and they need to be given their notice and sent out the door. nobody should be getting money from taxpayers who have that level of contempt from the citizens who pay their salaries. i would like to see the ax fall on a bunch of these people. but you can never find the identities much these people. the names are always redacted. they put them in a rubber room or leave with their pensions. it s totally out of control. the president responding to attacks from the mainstream
does he, governor? mike: he never has. when there are people being paid by the taxpayer who have that level of contempt for the people who pay their salaries. these people are talking about their bosses. in any place i have ever worked in my life it s a fireable offense. we need to know who these people are and they need to be given their notice and sent out the door. nobody should be getting money from taxpayers who have that level of contempt from the citizens who pay their salaries. i would like to see the ax fall on a bunch of these people. but you can never find the identities much these people. the names are always redacted. they put them in a rubber room or leave with their pensions. it s totally out of control. the president responding to attacks from the mainstream
there. five-minute opening statement and took a number of questions. an moment for the fbi director there. he should have drained that room of questions and i think he did a pretty good job. ben is still with us. matt miller, former justice department spokesperson also still with us and my panel. let me get quick reactions. i ll start with ben. i think there are probably a lot of people in the fbi who are going to be anxious after that press conference. i think he used painfully clear a couple times, which sounded to us he wants that to be a fireable offense now. and he specifically said that after the opr process he won t hesitate to hold people accountable. and i think there are probably that noises like that tr the director in public, particularly a director who has been so
let s do this right now. the first thafact that comes through is is under comey, the fbi was obsessed with managing its media perception instead of just doing its job and let itin the chips fall. that s not illegal. that s not a fireable offense. but the report shows the fbi leadership obsessed with appearance and their own predictions of how a decision might play out in the political arena. consider this. 84 references to appearance in this report. 39 mentions of reputation. another 33 to perception. that s because there are many sentences in here in this exhaustive 500-page report about managing perception. although it finds no laws were broken and it finds that a lot of people exercised poor judgment and then defended their choices as essential to help manage the fbi s reputation. that, for example, is how the report treats loretta lynch s meeting with clinton. it note thas didn t discuss the case so it was legally okay, but
perfectly reasonable for supporters of the president the hook at fbi agents who are exchanging hate texts about their guy and say i have a problem with that. and it makes me worried about the fairness of the investigation. that s why bob mueller removed peter strzok from the investigation. i m curious, jennifer palmieri, this report says that james comey was insub ordinate. right. that s a word that would qualify as a fireable offense. in some ways does it justify president trump are s decision to fire comey? no, because we all know why the president fired jim comey. he you told us on this very network. he fired jim comey because he was being too aggressive on the russia investigation. but it is you know, why jim comey didn t think that lynch and yates could handle the fall ow from the right. from their investigation, i