said before becoming president is what he s trying to do as president. this is documented evidence now. it s an unequivocal clear piece of documented evidence that the president does want to mess with law enforcement any way he can. and whatever one thinks of james comey, we criticized his actions right here on this show, the reason comey matters is that he s key to the on have you been sh key to the obstruction probe. before trump fired comey, there was simply a russian collusion investigation inside the doj. firing comey raised the stakes because it raised the question of whether trump was pulling a nixon and obstructing an open probe, and that firing famously led to mueller s appointment, and comey backed up the rational for that appointment under oath, testifying president trump targeted him to change the russia probe. it s my judgment that i was
republic territory. everything that don mcgahn knows, bob mueller knows. he has an obligation to disclose, he s a lawyer. i m not doing primary reporting on this, i imagine he has it wrapped up to be the elements of obstruction. an angry statement there is different than a prolonged pattern to try to black ball, destroy the liberty of individuals or key witnesses involved in the obstruction probe. i think the new york times today has one of the biggest stories we ve seen in the entire mueller probe. the new york times the president has not shied away from publicly speaking out on james comey. comey is a leaker and he s a liar. and not only on this stuff, he s been leaking for years.
the times reporting that donald trump would go on to continue to privately agitate for these investigations of hillary clinton, obviously his chief rival in politics, and james comey, his former fbi director. this news i want to be clear is a scale way beyond anything else we have seen in legal controversies with donald trump. and that s saying something. you may recall, of course that he did attempt to get bob mueller fired. that was wrong. it may not have been lawful. that s something under debate. but there is a debate to be had there because the commander in chief has such big powers over his agencies like the doj. tonight i want to tell you, before we get to our guests, and we have great guests on this, this is a different category than even the removal of special counsel mueller. this is a report tonight for the first time that the president of the united states actively and explicitly tried to prosecute hillary clinton, a political opponent, and james comey, the key witness in
andy s very much been trying to paint a picture of himself as someone who was fired, retaliated against for political reasons to try to make any kind of indictment as painful a choice as possible for rod rosenstein in the justice department and any trial. you re hitting on something very significant, people may remember that mccabe stepped up to replace comey as acting fbi director. he had a reportedly fight with donald trump over the phone immediately over the treatment of comey and whether he got to take the fbi plane back and then trump privately turned to blast his wife for being a candidate for office to depict her as a hillary stooge and the rest and then ultimately got him run out of the fbi and tainted him as a potential witness in any obstruction probe. you re saying that obviously michael s not going to get into his sources, but you re saying at least the mccabe memo fits into this and has a different agenda? yeah, i m not just basing it on this story. there have been a n
andy s very much been trying to paint a picture of himself as someone who was fired, retaliated against for political reasons to try to make any kind of indictment as painful a choice as possible for rod rosenstein in the justice department and any trial. you re hitting on something very significant, people may remember that mccabe stepped up to replace comey as acting fbi director. he had a reportedly fight with donald trump over the phone immediately over the treatment of comey and whether he got to take the fbi plane back and then trump privately turned to blast his wife for being a candidate for office to depict her as a hillary stooge and the rest and then ultimately got him run out of the fbi and tainted him as a potential witness in any obstruction probe. you re saying that obviously michael s not going to get into his sources, but you re saying at least the mccabe memo fits into this and has a different agenda? yeah, i m not just basing it on this story. there have been a n