you see it when he defends his investments. his son in 2008 said russia maybes up a cross-section of our assets. we see a lot of money pouring in from russia. at least at one point he could have been talking about rich russians buying houses and properties. can i take on jackie kent on this topic. you both made the point, you may be right, you may not be right. because we have the acting fbi director saying the investigation absolutely continues. you re right, the senator just said a couple of minutes ago the investigation continues. but what do we see in this reporting? what do we see from the president? one he thinks the whole thing is a waste of time. two, he found comey to be disloyal. according to the new york times, i know the president thinks that s all fake news, but he asked him will you be loyal? then he fires the guy who is doing this russian investigation. can t we just isolate on that? that s wrong. you shouldn t do that. i m surprised that both of you would defend
and anybody that dsh just let me finish this. i do believe that the head of the fbi should not be a public figure who runs out to the media every every few weeks and tells the newspaper he needs to be quiet need ton behind scenes needs to be above the fray he entered into the political theater. talking about partisan pligts and reporters your case dane for reporters i want to go to something i talked to conned lisa rice, former republican secretary of state today. the president today said something to the effect that he doesn t believe there is a problem with russia he didn t do anything with russia. former secretary of state bush former republican secretary of state told me today she believes in the intelligence community. and she says this investigation needs to continue. they need to get to the bottom of it your own republican. so do the president. the president said that in the interview. at what. all right but you don t believe anything he says. because he fired the
okay in the future. is it okay for the president of the united states to ask for loyalty from the fbi director? everyone should be loyal to our country. i think he should have his independence. but i want to get back to a point that kristin made earlier you don t think he should have a loyalty test, just to be clear. i don t know what you mean by a loyalty test. you are saying do you believe it s inappropriate for the president of the united states to say to the fbi director over dinner which was apparently a lovely dinner according to the president, will you be loyal to me? i think if he asked that question, if he did and it came from the new york times, so you know, automatically let s just answer the question. jake tapper reported yesterday also well, hold on. just let him answer. you do answer that. no, the context of that question or the conversation, so i m really i can t give a good answer to that. but i want to get to a point that was very im
misunderstand. do you think it s possible that comey does not agree with the interpretation that the president is putting forth yes, so every time this president sort of interprets things the way he wants to hear them. okay i think you re probably absolutely right. okay. loyal, he s certainly not going to say, okay, you re not under we have to go. as a matter of law you could be told you re not being investigated now, that could change tomorrow. where i do disagree with you, you re suggesting that the fbi director doesn t matter. we know in the clinton e-mail investigation who was more important than jim comey in making decision about what happened, how it was talked about we ll have to continue this discussion after this break on this roller coaster day here in washington, a lot more ahead. the explanation of james comey s firings untrue 48 hours after the firing the contradictions are hard to keep track of we will ahead. is to always keep track of your emp
i m saying i ve read the whole letter which i know all of you have. and it wasn t just focused on hillary clinton. that wasn t my argument. but i think, look, even if there is a major indictment to be made of james comey, there s no question, i think what he did during the election was inexcusable. and he potentially could be fired over what he did. the problem is when you have the person doing the firing who has his campaign being investigated by that person. so if it wasn t for that, let s just none of this ever happened. there was no investigation into the trump campaign and donald trump did what he did, i don t know that there would be a problem. ken, do you think this idea, if it s true the reporting that the president said, you know, will you be loyal to me the phrasing i don t buy. but i ll be very categorical. no fbi director would or should ever pledge fealty to a president. they have an obligation to be objective and independent, and i will say the most accurate