the tarmac to the whole russian involvement. so, really good people, people who had spent their entire careers making good decisions in very difficult situations faced challenging circumstances. and the i.g. concludes that they didn t get everything right. i think comey is certainly on record as respectfully disagreeing with that. the real problem moving forward is that we live and i say we as a country, we re now living in this hyper-charged partisan environment where everything has to be about politics. and the problem is we re forced to take a side. democratic or republican, one way or the other. we now need leadership that allows us to move forward and to say that not all issues are partisan. here we have a criminal justice system that should not be destroyed. it should be supported by our political leade political leadership. and americans should be encouraged to see these judgment issues for what they are. this was not a choice between hillary or trump. these were difficult iss
talk about whether it was jim comey s decision to when i said in the last block he s the anti-mueller, i mean i think the way he announced his dee silcis not to bring charges against hillary clinton is exhibit a. instead of letting it present itself, he chided her. he seems to have created his own, whatever you call it, hornet s nest here politically speaking. indeed. so, first to address the first issue, this should be the headline coming out of this and i m certain it won t be discussed on another network whose name we shall not mention, which is that the hillary case was properly decided on the law. right. and that s the head lineup, number one. number two, no evidence political biases existed or if they existed they impacted decision making in a negative way. let s talk about what this report says about jim comey now. it s no surprise that we re learning that literally, and there is strong language in here, that the i.g. finds that
decisions we received. one trump ally said to me today that the president is likely to overplay his hand with this report as he often does by trying to paint the mueller investigation with the same brush as the i.g. report. this source saying, quote, bob did the right thing by firing the agents in question and chris wray looks good now for replacing the senior fbi leadership. this source s point, most of the individuals criticized in today s report are long gone. let s get into it with the reporters covering it and some of the our favorite experts and guests from the washington post. develin barrett, frank figliuzzi former fbi assistant director to counter intelligence is back. former u.s. attorney joyce vance is here at the table with us. matt miller, former chief spokesman for the justice department and rick steng l, former secretary of state for public diplomacy and former managing editor for time magazine. frank, since you re the only former fbi person, senior former member of seni
my favorite role so far? being a non-smoker. no question about it. talk to your doctor about chantix. well, he was focused on the release of the i.g. report today, the president got some more bad legal news, that once again reveals the shady nature of his business and charity dealings. the new york state attorney general filed a lawsuit against the trump foundation and its directors which happen to be the president and his three oldest children. the attorney general accuses trump of using the foundation as one of his personal checkbooks alleging, quote, a pattern of persistent illegal conduct occurring over more than a decade that includes extensive unlawful political coordination with the trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing transaction s to benefit mr. trump s personal and business interests, trump is accused of using the charity s money to settle legal disputes
you this friday afternoon. it involves andy mccabe, who was remember the number two at the fbi who was not too long ago fired after some 20 plus years working with the fbi. fired by the ag jeff sessions, and so this whole thing has been under review by the ig. the inspector general. we have the full report back from the ig. let me read the first graph. this is key here. the ig report serves a basis for mccabe s termination 26 hours before he was scheduled to retire with the full law enforcement officer pension and health insurance. here is what they say. the rushed to judgment, the rush to terminate mr. mccabe was unprecedented, unseemingly and cruel. his treatment was far more harsh and far less fair than he deserved and his reward for the loyalty he showed to his country over the course of his career was a truncated form of administrative due process including the lack of any right to appeal outside the doj.