what more do you want to hear about the election, about his role in that election? what i d really like to here is james comey express remorse for having such a biased view that hillary clinton was going to be the inevitable candidate and so far it doesn t seem that he s taken that approach. there s the typical washington blame game where it s everybody s else s fault by the actual person who was leading the charge and that s what we re seeing with james comey here. sabrina, what s your impression of james comey? at this point there was a time in 2016 when a lot of republicans had affection or respect for the former director of the fbi. it seemed like that changed at some point here over these last many months. situate him politically, how do you view him at this point? i think that s one of the problems that all of these operators are supposed to be working in a nonpartisan fashion and it appears as though politics is leaking into every aspect of government and so even someone l
where hillary clinton was going to beat donald trump so i m sure it was a factor. i don t remember spelling it out but it had to have been that she s going to be elected president and if i hide this from the american people, she ll be ill-legitimate the moment she s elected, the moment this comes out. the director of strategic communications for hillary clinton, sabrina shaver, both of them joining me. just get your reaction to that back and forth between them. with the hillary clinton e-mail matter for lack of a better term. david, listening to james comey actually admit that he thought hillary clinton was the inevitable choice and was going to win the election is really hard to hear. that was a bias that we face throughout the entire campaign. we faced it from many members of the media during the primary, we witness it had during the
general election as well. to actually hear those words come out of the mouth of the fbi who chose to reopen the investigation 12 days before the election which many of us strongly believe is what caused us to lose the election is hard to hear. sabrina, let me have you weigh in on this as well. the president is weighing in on. slippery james comey, a man who always ends up badly and out of whack. he is not smart, will go down as the worst fbi director in history by far. once again there s someone here in washington that s trying to capitalize their position just one person. right. i think in this case he s doing himself some harm, certainly. if his ultimate goal is to cooperative with mueller s russia investigation he s going to damage that as well. let me get to your perspective, adrian and what we can learn from this book. the book comes out on tuesday.
as an american it s kind of scary to see. sabrina, as we try to figure out the reason why the president is acting the way he is, they called hope hicks the president s closest west wing confidanteand she acted as a defacto therapist. she s linus with the blanket. is there a link, do you think, between her resignation and all of this turmoil that s erupted the last few days? certainly that s the suggestion. i think there s something interesting about the fact that the white house is having trouble keeping communications directors in place. that is worrisome because they do help drive the narrative out of the white house. i think it s concerning that some sort of more aggressive trade policies are being made in the wake of this. you do wonder if some of this is wearing on the president. that being said, again, i feel like it s important to go back and remember that a lot of republicans voted for trump
issue when you have nepotism. especially when jared and ivanka are not getting paid. since they are foregoing a salary, they seem to think that maybe they can instead, you know, by pass some certain rules that are very standard when it comes to being federal government officials. look, again, this is a very disturbing trend that we ve seen time and time again. mueller is closing in on his investigation and we know more and more that he s looking into jared kushner so, again, i think this is something that is only going to make voters more concerned when they go to the ballot boxes in november. what about the audio recording, sabrina, that was obtained by cnn in which the president comments about china s president xi being president for life even if he s joking. is it responsible? i think that is irresponsible, alex.