migration in the position of donald trump? we have heard his surrogates certainly on this broadcast every night all this week pretty much toeing the same line. well, the interview you did last night with anthony scaramucci, i saw that as a sign that trump world was coming around on this. incrementally, perhaps? yeah, but he wasn t challenging the idea russia was we hind the hacks then you had trump tweeting this morning, inaccurately, but again he wasn t challenging the idea, he was entertaining the idea that maybe russia was behind the attacks and i suspect that s because trump and his people have been briefed on this intelligence and they realize it s untenable for them to deny that russia is playing a role when the entire intelligence community is saying otherwise, brian. richard engel, as someone who has covered kinetic shooting warfare for over the past decade, what else is going on here? offer some context to americans
tweeted this out. you know, the question of where this came out. tweeted it out inaccurately. he said case reopened. which is not correct. there is no indication from the director at all that the decision not to prosecute hillary clinton is being reexamined. it isn t. and curt iken wald, you have written a ton about this, as well. there is a likelihood the supposedly new e-mails are duplicative, the same e-mails but just on a different device that huma abedin had before. so much about this that is unprecedented. you indicated in a sense comey tracked himself into having to do this. can you explain a little bit of your reasoning why james comey took this unprecedented step so close to an election? well, ultimately, comey has been engaged in a cascading series of mistakes. and what he did was, you know, when he started with the press conference, when he didn t simply, you know, make the traditional statements of the fbi regarding decisions on the investigation, it went on to
york times wrote a massive story attacking me. and the central witness they used said the story was false. that she was quoted inaccurately. she said i was a great guy. she had great courage, i ll be honest with you. she was an amazing person. and never made those remarks that i was a great guy, and made the remarks. when i read the story, i was sort of surprised, how could she say that? and she didn t say it. we demanded a retraction, but they refused to print it. just like they refused to take the comments from another source, who praised me in her book, or the words of another wonderful woman who said really nice things about me. they put other statements that she didn t say. they misrepresented. the story was a fraud and a big embarrassment to the new york times. and it was a big front page
that she was quoted inaccurately. she said that i was a great guy. i ll be honest with you, she was an amazing person. and never made those remarks. that i was a great guy, ander in ma , and never made the remarks. when i read the story, i was surprised she said it. and she didn t say it. we demanded a refraction but they refused to print it. just like they refused to print the comments from another source who praised me in her book. or the words of another wonderful woman who said really nice things about me. they put other statements that she didn t say. they misrepresented. the story was a fraud. and a big embarrassment to the new york times. and it was a big front-page story. front page, center, color picture. a disgrace.
beast who has been reporting inaccurately on mr. trump for years to get some publicity for itself. can you respond to that? we were given that statement last night. when we asked the campaign to cite any specific inaccuracies about our reporting, they couldn t come up with anything. i suppose their media critiques are as lousy as their legal ones. noah thank you for being with me this morning. thanks. you re welcome. the search for those two teenagers missing at sea is intensifying this morning. austin stephanos and ferryperry cohen have been missing for five days. their capsized boat was found sunday but in sign of the boys. family members saying the boys could have made floating devices with a cooler and an engine cover and life jackets missing from that overturned boat as the coast guard is refocusing its search. it s now 60 00 miles off