action, the director owes the american public and congress a clear explanation of why there is a double standard. reporter: long after the election in january this year, comey testified before the senate intelligence committee. when asked whether the fbi was investigating connections between the russian government and the trump team, he would only say we never confirm or deny a pending investigation. i didn t say one way or another. you didn t say. my intention. didn t say one way or another whether there is an investigation under way. correct. comey emfa sized the investigation into clinton s e-mails had been closed already and was no longer pending or open when he spoke about it days before voters went to the polls. and now, with donald trump s latest suggestion president obama had his trump tower phones wire tapped during the campaign, the fbi director is back in the headlines. comey apparently incredulous over trump s wiretap claims and asked the staff to reach out to
it is interesting, regarding comey. until the campaign last year, the director of the fbi was not known as partisan lightning rod, served republican and democrat administrations. do you give him any benefit that his intentions were in the right place? i think he was trying to do the right thing. assume he was trying to do the right thing. i think where things went ape little bit off, was the fact that he broke protocol when it cam to sequest came to secretary clinton. there are rules in place you are not supposed to talk about a candidate or election during a certain period during the election. he chose to break that, but now we are seeing all kind of information come out, that he had on now president trump. but then again, let s just get this entire issue of russia out of the political space. and with some independent people who can objectively tell us what happened. do have to ask. do you have confidence in the director s ability to oversee an investigation. i think the argum
and the reaction to wiretap allegations highest profile director since j. edgar hoover, hillary clinton s former campaign manager, his own opinion of the director. first this from randikaye. reporter: fbi director james comey reveals he is re-examining hillary clinton s e-mails. months earlier, comey decided not to recommend criminal charges. but the move to take another look so close to election day, was in response to thousand of e-mails found on disgraced former congressman anthony weiner s server in a separate investigation. comey wrote, the fbi learned of existence of e-mails that aper to be pertinent to the investigation. i m confident that whatever they are will not change the conclusion reached in july. therefore it is imperative that the bureau explain this issue in
at any evidence on this issue. so they re waiting for the was to present some of that as part of their ongoing investigations on capitol hill. now, adam schiff, top democart on the house intelligence committee will ask this question to james comey and top intelligence officials on march 20th which is going to be the first hearing of the house intelligence committee on the issue of russia, and russia meddling. at the moment right now, republicans are at a loss of what the president of the united states is talking about. take a listen. have you seen any evidence to support the president s claim that he has been wiretapped by the previous president. yeah, i have not. i have not seen that evidence. will you look into the allegation of wiretapping the president wiretapped by president obama. i think, i think all of that its part of the investigation. do you believe the president when he says that? well like i said it needs an investigation. so we can find out what the facts are.