radical groups like isis and excuse and recruitment tool to come and tell people that the west is lying and they don t care about you. we are in the process of having some really dangerous things going on in syria in the next few months because the iranian regime and the russian things they want, and as long as they keep thinking they can win with the military option, they ll keep on killing civilians, and, therefore, extremist groups will keep on recruiting people and we ll be just waiting for another disaster to happen. thank you for your time. we really appreciate your perspective. thank you. jam comey now opening up about his controversial decision just 11 days before the 2016 election. what influenced him to go public about the new clinton e-mails at the end of the election cycle? that s coming up. you re live in the cnn news room.
general rob rosenstein. all three worked for federal law enforcement. their loyalty is to the law. does this show president trump misunderstands his role here? when comey had a problem with this, he was the most powerful arguably law enforcement officer in the world. he should have looked right back at the president and said let me get this clear what you re asking, mr. president, if in fact he had this concern. but this concern only came about after he was no longer employed. he didn t express that until after the president got rid of him. arguably, i don t think comey is the best one to use in that. but all great leaders need people around them. when you re leader of the free world you need people you can trust, and carry your message, not the message they have. it could be a government bureaucrat or somebody you chose to try to help you, if they start coming in andpetting in what they think is important over what you think is important
often away from the president and doing things on her own. she doesn t have to be enclose proximity to him. and i think that is very helpful to her in the position she holds. here s part of the former fbi director jam comey s testimony where he talks of the president approaching him to take a loyalty pledge. listen to this. the dinner was an effort to build a relationship, in fact he asked specifically of loyalty in the context of asking me to stay. as i said what was odd about that we d already talked twice about it at that point, and he d said i very much hope you ll stay, i hope you ll stay. i got the sense my job would be contingent upon how he felt excuse me, how he felt i conducted myself and whether i demonstrated loyalty. so aundre, as i said, some people who are are loyal to him, he gets rid of them. james comey, attorney general jeff sessions, deputy attorney
we heard from some republicans including paul ryan who say that president in his approach to jam comey, they re not outright denying james comey s account. but they re saying that president in his approach in saying that he hoped this plin thing would go away just didn t know any better he didn t understand the protocols when it comes to the president s relationship with the fbi director. what do you make of that? if andy mccarthy is right, i have never known for him to be wrong on a matter like this comey did not get involved in the president didn t get involved in obstruction of justice because there wasn t any corruption involved. that s a statutory matter. do you think the president should have known better and not staying alone with the fbi director? i practiced law for 22 years. i haven t been practicing for the last few years. dinlt know what t bui i didn t know what the criteria were for being able or not being able to use something like this
attorney general, loretta lynch, had previously assured someone within the clinton campaign that the handling of classified information wouldn t go too deeply. and it was this revelation that led to this pivotal moment with comey back in july. although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes of handling classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. opinions are irrelevant and they were all uninformed because we did our investigation the right way. only facts matter and the fbi found them here in an entirely apolitical and professional way. james comey, this is according to the washington post sources reportedly felt he had little choice but to step around the department of justice and announce the end of the clinton investigation because he feared that if loretta lynch