done as a pretext to leak that to. one of the things i james comey says in his first memo is that, yes, james comey asked him to do it. he was doing it because he believed cnn wanted to run the story and they were waiting for an excuse to do it. it s very interesting that the excuse they chose was not james comey briefed donald trump, a very interesting coincidence, combined with what you mention, which is that the house permanent select committee on intelligence had findings that james clapper gave inconsistent testimony about his leaks, conversations with cnn about the dossier. also interesting in light of this new information. martha: answering some questions on that. jessica, james comey would say, i was trying to give him a heads up that this was out there. that was his duty to do that. i would say, though, i agree with mollie, what congress and peter king was saying. i think there is a tremendous amount of damage being done to our institutions from this comey book tour, what
it was clapper who told him to privately briefly incoming president about the unverified salacious claims in a trump dossier just before the inauguration. comey wrote, i said media like cnn had the men were looking for a new smoke. i said it was important that we not give them the excuse whether the fbi has the material. i said it was inflammatory stuff, they would give helpful reporting straight up from the source reported rate house intelligence committee republicans found that clapper provided inconsistent testimony about his contacts with the media. comey disagreed, saying you talk to media but only after he left government and we ll know a lot more soon because that report will soon be public. of the 15 page memos, documented by comey, eight contain classified information, highly sensitive or confidential level. that seems to be at odds with comey s congressional testimony after he was fired by the president. my thinking was, if i write it in such a way that i don t include an
spent time at the agency where bailey talked about russia and north korea and china and beyond. that includes the black suitcase named the nuclear football that could authorize a nuclear attack. there s nothing off the plate. that s the scary thing about cyber security. our adversaries are looking at any and every opportunity to get an advantage. with more on that tonight on special report , sandra. sandra: former dni james clapper making headlines for providing misleading testimony. what do we know about that? the up in finding from the house russia investigation. they found that james clapper whose job included protecting classified information provided inconsistent testimony about his contact with the media including cnn. a senior republican said he
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that the president immediately saw that moment at trump tower as a set up as with the president called it. even though no one bothered to tell him that the intel was actually paid for by hillary s campaign. on comey side, he says that he felt he had to tell the president-elect because cnn was about to go with the story. you know what, four days later, somehow cnn was able to verify that, yes, the president-elect had sat down with these gentlemen and have been briefed by clapper and comey and brennan. here s the cnn headline on january the tenth. and felt he was presented trump with claims of russian efforts to compromise him. remember this finding about james clapper from the house until report that at the time was slammed by critics. james clapper now a cnn national security analyst provided inconsistent testimony about his contacts with the media including cnn. so in his book, james comey