with all you ve got going on right now. we will stay on top of the latest developments. great, thanks so much. chris: up next sunday group to discuss the situation in syria and where the u.s., our allies in europe and adversaries in russia and iran go from here
chris: i mean anyway, let s turn to the new book from james comey, the former fbi director, you may have heard about it. here is what he says about president trump s preoccupation with the steele and contention that he spent time with prostitutes in moscow, here is mr. comey. i honestly thought never thought the words would come out of my mouth but i don t know whether the president of the united states was in moscow peeing with prostitutes. it s i don t believe. chris: we got this on facebook, is there any new information on this book or is it just comey as employee attacking president trump, marc, how do you answer? i don t think there s anything new in the book, one of the things that i found unique that the former director talked
bombs. chris: jonah. i think john bolton s position is one that we need to give some credence too, at least acknowledge in so far as he s not for nation building and democracy spreading but he is america first, interventionist america first and he sees, i believe, the syrian civil war as a way to bleed russia resources, the way to bleed iran s resources, diminish their role in the region and that s one of the reasons he was more eager to get involved in this as a way to push back on iran. chris: how do we bleed russia s resources, iran s resources without bleeding our own which we have seen in afghanistan and iran? that s the pickle. [laughter] having limited strikes and that s why secretary mattis pushed for such limited targeted strikes. chris: couldn t you argue that this morning as putin wakes up at the kremlin, homeai wakes up, that wasn t so bad.
arizona. most what i read on libby s pardon is they thought it was overzealous prosecutor. okay, there s a way to deal with that. don t hire overzealous prosecutors, he was convicted if memory serves me correctly of a false statement and obstruction of justice. those are things that you want to dissuade people from doing all of the time. i think everyone know the president has pardon powers and i don t know if he wants to send the signal except low-witted people. [laughter] chris: i want to turn to one of your big issues and that s the way the fbi has handled the clinton investigation and trump investigation. former fbi director james comey he or she a new book out and you may have heard of it and one of the questions, he s going to have an interview on abc tonight, one of the question is what he told the president elect when he talk today him at trump tower in january about the steel dossier and the fact that it had
rosenstein because he wants to get to bob mueller and that s the way he s going to do it, taking the advice of steve bannon which i will strongly recommend against, no, i don t think that s appropriate. does he have the power to get rid of rosenstein, yes, he does. do i think it s wise, i don t. chris: in the midst of all this, the president fired peter libby, former dick cheney aide, undercover officer case, given the timing, congressman, are you at all concerned that the president is sending a message to people, associates who may be under fire from bob mueller, just listen, if you protect me, then i will protect you with a pardon if it comes to that? well, i would hope most of the folks involved in this already know the president has the power of pardon. he s showed that with arpaio in