comey denied the three times he told president trump that he wasn t under investigation. julie: was this rattling? i think it was. it s very obvious, he does this fairly often, go out and stir up controversy. we ve been talking about this now for six weeks as a result of this and it takes a lot of attention away on the many things the president would rather be not talking about that are not going so well in the administration. julie: president trump also said you don t know what is out there, he doesn t have any tapes, who knows. it s almost like he is still sort of leaving it out there. comey should feel like every american feels, we ve been spied on by the fbi for years now. the fbi director is feeling what it feels to be an american private citizen. i don t care about the fbi director being startled or
knows. julie: president trump on fox and friends this morning saying he did not control his conversations with former fbi director james comey. let s bring in our panel. thank you very much for talking to us. even for trump actually announce other recordings didn t exist, newt gingrich came out and basically said that he realized all along he was bluffing, that is the presidents ammo. he actually said i think in his way, he was trying to rattle comey. i love it. we have an fbi director who is in a leaker. he started this and to the president wanted to make sure he was consistent in his statement. lisa reports coming from cnn before the tape allegation that
how close are these two men, catherine? the relationship between robert mueller and james comey has been under the microscope since may when mueller took over the russia investigation. this video from 2013 shows james comey as he was nominated for fbi director, taking over for robert mueller who had held the job for 12 years. the president has disputed comey s characterization of their private conversations, specifically over national security advisor mike flynn. he told fox this morning he is taking a wait and see attitude over whether mueller should recuse himself from the current investigation. he is very good friends with comey, which is very bothersome. robert mueller is an honorable man and hopefully he ll come up with an honorable solution. on the president s tweets
because these not rel well and he s in the attached to reality. joe, you mentioned couple weeks ago, we talked about during the campaign he would do some verbs things that morally are crept and you go, okay we know that comey knows what he said in that room, that was not going to rattle comey. not on was it legally putting him in a very precarious situation, it was dumb. it was dumb. and comey said, lordy, i hope there are tapes. what he doesn t doesn t realize is that what he s doing now is causing the exact opposite reaction from the people he s fighting now. you push comey, you see what happens. you push mueller, you see what happens. nowies going on this morning on tv talking brk you know,
he, what was his purpose in doing that first tweet? then he kept it hanging out there. he continued to tease it one after the other. it is pretty clear that his intention was to try to rattle comey. he was trying to do some kind of one upsmanship. if you re to believe jim comey about what prompted him to release the memos, it was that tweet. that s what caused this special prosecutor. he needs to know what the job is. this isn t a game of cat and mouse. he is the leader of the nation. a whole different deal. some of the clips you played aefrgs private citizen. all right. pre candidate. six years ago now. so it is a very different thing. he is no longer running the trump organization. he has to represent all the american people and you re right, i don t think he knows the difference between those two things.