by name, about members of the bureaucracy, you know, not the cabinet level, but these are not even sub-cabinet. these are sort of senior level career bureau kracrats in the justice department. for them to be named by the president is an unbelievable breach of every protocol we thought we knew about the way the president interacts with law enforcement. it also reflects, and let s just be frank about this, it reflects the fact that the president believes that the fbi should do his political bidding. and there s a group of people that run the fbi who actually have this quaint notion that the fbi should be an institution that enforces the law and protects the national security of the united states in certain types of domestic national
enforcement people by this administration. look, i think it is very clear that the president personally has it in for a group of people he says is close to comey or comey s senior management team and i think the president also very clear, by the way, the president, you don t have to take my word. the president tweeted about jim baker and andy mccabe and that is a remarkable thing for the president to be tweeting about members of the bureaucracy, not the cabinet level but these are not even subcabinet. these are sort of, you know, senior level career burro cats