doesn t show where these guyguys were at. i don t know what does. tucker: tells you everything, exactly right. congressman, thanks for everything. we appreciate it. thank you. tucker: a few weeks ago we see how james comey sees himself. knight at the round table. much better person than you could ever hope to be. and yet today s ig report reveals the true jim comey and very different image. jonathan ratcliff represents texas and he joins us tonight. congressman, thanks for coming on. you bet, tucker. tucker: knowing what we know now about comey reading this report today my first thought was how could barack obama have kept this man in place? yeah. i think, you know, i think the conclusions of a lot of folks looking at this report today was that jim comey was a really, really bad fbi director. and i think was that underscored by the unfortunate spectacle that we just saw his successor, jim wray hold a press conference chris wray hold a press conference where he had to apol
to make sure if that doesn t show where these guys were at, i don t know what does. tucker: tells you everything, exactly right. congressman, thanks for everything.r: we appreciate it. thank you. tucker: a few weeks ago we learned how james comey sees himself. knight at the round table. much better person than you could ever hope to be. and yet today s ig report reveals the true jim comey and it s a very different image. john ratcliff represents texas and he joins us tonight. congressman, thanks for coming on. ani you bet, tucker. tucker: knowing what we know now about comey,no reading this report today, my first thought was how could barack obama have kept this man in place? yeah.h. i think, you know, i think the conclusions of a lot of folks looking at this report today was that jim comey was a really, really bad fbi director.y and i think was that underscored by the unfortunate spectacle that we just saw his successor, jim wray hold a press conference chris wray hol
ivanka trump. both of whom i m told are likely to be maintaining washington, d.c. and maintain some role, in some form, whether informal or formal where they ll be advising the next president. and donald trump has said that he believes using twitter is his best resource, basically to get around what he calls dishonest reporters. remember the last time that he did hold a press conference for our viewers was back in july. that was during the dnc. that s when he basically invited russia to hack into hillary clinton s e-mails. he welcomed them releasing her e-mails. and now he is saying that it s absolutely, completely untrue that russia would have anything to do with it. anyway, nbc s peter alexander in washington, kristen welker in west alice, wisconsin, and cal perry at trump tower, thank you all for joining me. and today we re asking you this microsoft pulse question. rex tillerson has been with exxonmobil for over 40 years, ceo since 2006, but lacks government experience. is he qu
hold a press conference to their credit but then cut it off in the middle of a lot of people wanting to ask questions, particularly when the questions were getting pretty tough. i would expect that he s a savvy and ambitious politician. he knows that he worked for duke energy for 2 years and people know that about him if they know nothing el. it would seem to me he s not managing this well in terms of seeming independent from duke and seem like he s handling this issue aggressively. that s just my observation from here. from within the state, how does it seem to you? this is certainly a big moment for him. this is a very big moment. as you said, big aspirations. just in his second year as governor of the state. and how is this going to play? how is this going to affect his political career moving forward? as for that press conference today, you mentioned it, yes, i was there and the reporters, we probably had never 45 plns or an hour worth of questions. and the tone today from the
voluminous documents today, what s your sense about what federal prosecutors are looking for here, and what felonies may be involved here? as you mentioned, this is a 94 page subpoena that came down today, they re looking for illegal payments, sweetening, greasing of the wheels. and they re looking for a legal payment to state employees who cannot accept any kind of bribe or anything that would compromise their judgment. of course, the state, the department of environmental and natural resources is supposed to be policing duke and making sure that the clean water act is being is in effect, duke isn t violating the clean water act. and we ll see what they find if anything. in terms of governor mccrory and how he s managed this issue, we saw him get asked about this issue when he was holding press availabilities. we saw his administration today hold a press conference but then cut it off in the middle of a lot of people wanting to ask questions. he knows that he works for duke ener