will be heavily involved in. to date, yes, comey made decisions. he s been faulted for those decisions. but in each of the ig investigations he s been found essentially to be a credible witness. and i think mueller found him to be a credible witness too. so nobody s questioning nobody s questioning comey s honesty and i think that s matters the most to comey. it s one of the things that matters most to comey. i think so far that particular aspect of his legacy has not been damaged. but we ve got another big part, another big part of his legacy coming up with the inspector general s investigation of the carter page five and how that was handled. it always continues, never ends. thank you all so much for starting us off. after the break, we turn to hurricane dorian with my friend al roker. that storm now expected to grow into a cat 4 hurricane as it hits florida over the weekend. and donald trump s love affa affair with the presidential power of pardon hits the brick
in the politics lead. former fbi director, james comey absolutely unleashed on president trump and republicans just moments ago. comey said president trump has damaged the fbi s reputation with his, quote, constant lies, and he attempted to shame republicans for staying silent about it. republicans used to understand that the actions of a president matter. the words of a president matter. the rule of law matters and the truth matters. where are those republicans today? at some point, someone has to stand up and in the face of fear of fox news, fear of their base, fear of mean tweets, stand up for the values of this country and not slink away in retirement. cnn s manu raju is live on capitol hill. and manu, you were there questioning comey as he came out of that closed-door hearing this afternoon. what else did he have to say? yeah. in addition to slamming republicans and the president for not defending the rule of law, he also defended the actions that he took as fbi director, in
strzok and lisa page were compromised in one direction toward a democratic presidential candidate and against another, then that also speaks to his emotional incompetence. he couldn t read people and couldn t ask basic questions about the funding of a compromised document just shows that he wasn t a competent person and he would have been fired by either administration. and he was asked by our bret baier whether or not there was any bias at the fbi. specifically from peter. he said no. how can you look at that and not see bias? the question now is moving forward. where are we going with this. we have not only seen the president questioning comey s credibility but comey going after the president. and now there s questions about mccabe, loretta lynch. this is not going away despite all the mudslinging that we see. he made the argument out of
revolutionary guard. all these can be targets if tensions between iran and israel flares into further conflict. netanyahu has long said his military will not tolerate iran establishing forward bases in syria. back to you. thank you. jon: breaking news this morning. former f.b.i. director james comey firing back at president trump during his first live interview since the launch of his new tell-all book. he calls the firestorm of recent tweets an example of how mr. trump misunderstands or disrespects the rule of law. some lawmakers are questioning comey s credibility. mr. comey misled the american people in both investigations, the clinton and trump investigation. with clinton at the urging of the attorney general calls the clinton investigation a matter not an investigation. then he allows the country to
julie: the fact that he had these conversations number one claims that he had memos that he had recorded right after the conversation, and then leaked to the press shortly thereafter, it does really question his credibility in this book and it seems it s just complete speculation and it s a fiction. it sounds like a fictional stor story. even some clinton supporters such as the former special counsel to president bill clinton when he was an officer of the commentary in the journal questioning comey s motives in all of this, calling him righteous and also handling the clinton investigation during the election cycle. so criticism coming from both sides but have also heard others saying it might be self-righteous but it may also be true. it s going to be a lot of impact with this book. julie: thank you very much. at the last we ve heard of james comey obviously. thank you very much. eric: to syria now. another national security council being held at this hour