moments ago, president trump responded to the reports finding saying perhaps never in the history of our country has someone been more thoroughly disgraced than james comey in the just-released inspector general s report. he should be ashamed of himself. joining me now ken, let me begin with you. it was in june of 217 when comey testified before congress and admitted for the first time that he gave those memos in question to a law professor friend. here s why he said he did it. watch. my judgment was i needed to get that out into the public square. so i asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. i asked him to do because i thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. i asked a close friend of mine to do it.
which he gives to his law professor friend as a leak to the media. that is a crime. with regards to what happened today, it s very, very clear. i was on the transition team with general flynn, i worked in the white house with general flynn. the call to the russian ambassador was utterly legal. the contents of the conversation were likewise utterly legal, requesting potentially the russian ambassador s support in a vote at the u.n. to prevent israel from being boycotted. how is that illegal? but the fbi had the full transcript of the discussion, so why did jim comey send those agents to the white house in flagrant denial of the white house counsel procedure? it was a classic entrapment ploy. judge jeanine: not legal entrapment in the sense that we prosecutors understand it, but
judge jeanine: joining us now is the author of why we fight. sebastian gorka. one of the things that seems to continuously come back at us is, james comey lying or being inconsistent in terms of his own answers regarding the same thin thing. for example, there had to be a coincidence that after the tarmac meeting between bill clinton and loretta lynch, there had to be a meeting between the chief justice and the fbi but nothing was ever mentioned about this. not only that but we know that james comey after his classified meeting, is briefing with president-elect trump, he gets into an fbi vehicle and on an fbi laptop, writes up a memo that is by nature classified, due to a summary meeting of the president in which he gives to his law professor friend as a leak to the media.
i did write that, sir. were you under duress. political endinxpression. were you under duress? asked and answered over and over. the gentlemen from south carolina controls the time. we re going to go into one other time period. may 17, 2017. bob mueller is appointed. your friend jim comey s been fired. already leaked the memos to his law professor friend and mueller is special counsel. do you remember how long is took for you to start talking about impeachment after bob mueller was appointed? i don t, sir. one day. one day. and you were talking about impeachment. and for anyone who may have missed it the day after his appointment, agent strzok, you did it again. five days later. now, how many interviews had you done as part of the special council team within the first five days. same answer as before. i can t get into details.
the signal reaches down here, too. so sophie, i have an xfi password, and it s daditude . simple. easy. awesome. xfinity. the future of awesome. on former fbi director james comey s law professor friend, you remember him, who was used as go-between to leak sensitive memos to the media. documents reviewed by fox news shedding new light on daniel richmond s role as an fbi special government employee. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington with more on this story. well, thank you. good afternoon. fbi records reviewed by fox news show daniel richmond was a special government employee for the fbi for at least 19 months beginning in june 2015. but the security clearance and badge access to the fbi building here with a, the records show richmond answered directly to director comey.