position as fbi director. on may 9, 2017. the white house exns the decision as a response to his handling of the clinton e-mail investigation the previous year. the following day there s a new explanation. most importantly, the rank and file of the fbi had lost confidence in their director. according to to official agent surveys he s popular in the bureau. as his replacement tells a senate committee. director comey enjoyed broad support. within the fbi. many in washington have their own suspicions. i was pretty upset when i heard that comey has been fired. it seemed like the president was trying to take player off the field when it came to the russia investigation. the fbi director was fired. the acting attorney general was fired. those are really dangerous circumstances for the justice system. and then, two days after
investigation that is proper. the question is, if he thinks this, if the president thinks this, why wasn t he gone on january 20 when he was inaugurated? why now? perhaps you know because the. the president. the president. he will full confidence in him after january 20. everybody stand by. everybody stand by. i want to go back it jeffrey toobin. in this memorandum that the deputy attorney general put out may 9, 2017, rod rosenstein, subject restoring public confidence in the fbi. he was confirmed, i think 94-6, not that long ago. he came into this administration as you know, former u.s. attorney in baltimore. highly respected. it s his memo they are putting out now for justification for this extraordinary decision.
deputy ag who sent this memo to ag jeff sessions on may 9, 2017 tharkts provided the justification for president trump to fire comey. in the memo, rosenstein is sharply critical of comey s handling of the clinton investigation. he ignored another longstanding principle. we do not hold press conferences to release derogatory information about the subject of a declined criminal investigation. and there was this. the way the director handled the conclusion of the e-mail investigation was wrong. as a result, the fbi is unlikely to regain public and congressional trust until it has a director who understands the gravity of the mistakes and pledges never to repeat them. having refused to admit his errors, the director cannot be expected to implement the necessary corrective actions, unquote. that language sounds just like the scolding of comey in the ig report. so here s my question.
on the written recommendation of the justice department. and who made that written recommendation? rod rosenstein. remember, it was rosenstein as deputy a.g. who sent this memo to a.g. jeff sessions on may 9, 2017, that provided the justification for president trump to fire comey. in the memo, rosenstein is sharply critical of comey s handling of the hillary investigation. quote, the director ignored another longstanding principle, we do not hold press conferences to release derogatory information about the subject of a declined criminal investigation. and there was this, the way the director handled the conclusion of the e-mail investigation was wrong, as a result, the fbi is unlikely to regain public and congressional trust until it has a director who understands the gravity of the mistakes and pledges never to repeat them. having refused to admit his errors, the director cannot be expected to implement the
does it bother you, i know you are a member of the media, but does it bother you that the fbi director admitted to purposefully leaking fbi documents to a friend and private citizen with the intent it would go to the new york times and in the hope that they weren t fbi classified documents. they didn t have a chance to be classified. he leaked them too fast. i agree with attorney general lynch on jim comey. there are parts of the book where he goes after condoleeza rice, loretta lynch. what is his problem with powerful women? a lot of it is bad for clinton and loretta lynch. it s bad for loretta lynch because he is trying to settle scores. rod rosenstein may 9, 2017 says that the fbi director, quote, should not have asurped the