security clearance such to allow him to lawfully receive the contents of these memos. this may not be too popular here but i thought he was compelling with anderson cooper. brian: was his argument solid. i think bret baier is going to ask him some more challenging questions in an entirely different format. steve: judge, he was saying that you know, it s not a leak if it s not classified. that s not right. it s not a criminal leak. he has a very narrow definition of leaks. not all leaks is criminal. that s what he was talking about. if it s not classified. it s not criminal. at the time this occurred, by this i mean professor richman reading to selected members of the media, selected nonclassified portions of one of the memos, james comey was a private citizen. so he could. brian: he covered himself? judge: yes, i thought he covered himself. but legally he did cover himself. the guy has a security clearance. that s why he got it. yes. brian: the guy turns around and tells the pres
united states ostensibly the leader of the free world. he hasn t said a word about it. a lot of this stuff about comey is a bit of a distraction. i think this is how donald trump operates. when you talk about all this press stuff that s going on back and forth, he believes his greatest chance of successes distract twr shiny object. what do you think the republican party stands right now on the question of whether they understand putin s motives, whether they understand the ramifications of what trump just did by firing james comey. four exemptions, john mccain, jeff flake, most republicans seem to sort of fall if line. i think they ve been put in an untenable position. you have a new president, he is acting in ways that either they re going to have to separate themselves from him, if anything goes wrong, if the story of the ongoing investigation is bad, they are in trouble going into 2018 because they are allied united with him in a partisan
to answer, that the people are behind him. so, you know, the critics are the critics. we get into a lot of press stuff with him, which is interesting. then he goes off on that. but he believes that most americans support what he does. what he s doing. all right, bill, we can t wait to watch it. four o clock this afternoon for ten minutes and then your show monday night and tuesday night. thank you so much for waking up and telling us about this interview. appreciate it. all right, guys, buy. thank you. bill, who you pulling for? sorry. is he still there? i bet he would say the patriots. why do you say that? spent a lot of time in massachusetts. he did indeed. just thinking. and i also think he s going to want a marching band. he s a little jealous. meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of sports fans descending on houston this weekend for the biggest night in football, including vice president mike pence and former president george herbert walker
john roberts. anyway. greg, there s three names that are being bandied about. i have them here. sheriff dave clark. ted nugent. that s not the list i have. i came up with this list last night at a bar. judge william pryor, judge neil gorsuch of denver, and judge thomas hardiman of pittsburgh. neil gorsuch seems to be the leading contender. i am pretending to know what i talk about. thanks, wikipedia. according to the press stuff that came out, his background. he has a sterling legal and academic credential. he has a keen legal mind. they say this about every person. judge napolitano had nice things to say about him. i would like someone to say he s okay, average student, kind