that these sort of rollbacks will be challenged. they have questions about it. shell, for example, specifically saying that they re going to continue to operate in a way that would roll back the use of these sort of emissions. they plan on working to cap these emissions because they understand the impact on the environment, fred. all right. we ll leave it there. rene marsh, thanks so much. i m fredricka whitfield. thanks for joining us. inside politics with dana bash starts right now. welcome to inside politics. i m dana bash. john king is off today. it s days away from hitting, but getting stronger by the minute. dorian now forecast to be a category 4 hurricane with florida in its crosshairs. james comey is on the defensive today after the justice department s watchdog concludes the fired fbi director violated agency policy and set a dangerous example by leaking
attacking james comey. they are going to say there are violations here. he broke departmental policy. this is all part of the cover-up. it probably is good for the former director that he s not going to be charged with a crime. but the same arguments are going to be made against him now, i think. it does seem like there s something in this report for everyone, for both sides, and they re going to continue to make those points that they have been for the last two years now, so everyone will go back to their political corners and keep regurgitating those same talking points. i don t think he s going to get his apology. and here s a republican who john kennedy, who was on this morning on fox, is somebody who is a partisan republican but sometimes calls it like it is. in this case he was being pretty partisan. listen to what he said. just because it s not criminal in the opinion of the department of justice doesn t mean it s not sleazy. now, in terms of mr. comey s
but it s not so clear on the classified aspects of it. in fact it appears from the inspector general s report that he didn t release any classified information to the media, and those memos were classified after the fact. so what happened is after comey writes these memos, these memos get out there, the fbi then takes a look at these memos and said there s a couple of words here, a couple of things that should be classified on the lowest level, confidential. so they looked at everything at the department of justice. given all the facts, they decided there wasn t enough to bring charges against the former fbi director. i think jim comey made his peace with this a long time ago. i mean this is on balance somewhere between neutral and good news for him. it means there s not a lot of ammunition if the president wanted to try to pursue something on the classified or, quote, leak front. but, you know, this has certainly had reputational implications for jim comey. it s created divisions an
or places that would have before will have it worse now. okay. well, that sounds like an impact. thank you so much for your expertise. appreciate it, brian mcnulty. up next, james comey is facing a tough report from the justice department s inspector general who says the ex-fbi director violated agency policies. that s after a break. those darn seatbelts got me all crumpled up. that s ok! hey, guys! hi mrs. patterson. wrinkles send the wrong message. sorry. help prevent them before they start with new downy wrinkleguard.
people were all on comey s side. but slowly, as the drama started to unfold and more information was getting out, people started to turn on comey. i don t think he has the support of some of the high-level people that he once did at the fbi. even the rank and file. i think people were very upset he did this the way he did it. in comey s mind, and this is comey, he has a history of doing this. he felt he couldn t trust anybody. he couldn t go to anyone in the administration about this, at the department of justice. jeff sessions was the attorney general who he didn t trust. he didn t trust rod rosenstein who was the deputy attorney general at the time. he couldn t raise these concerns to anyone internally. his ultimate goal was to get a special counsel appointed. so he does this, he gets this out there, he gets this information out into the public sphere. and then what does rod rosenstein do? immediately turns around and appoints a special counsel. so i think looking back, i think peopl