us. tucker: a surprised they call it that. you know for more than two years at one donald trump fired him from his job jim comey maintained he did absolutely nothing gone, growing at any level. he says that donald trump is a deranged mad men, likely a foreign agent and that he, jim comey, is the embodiment of moral rectitude, the last honest man in washington. if you are paying attention to quitter today y you saw comey making that case even today. but with the release we can say ,definitively it is all a lie. the report proves it. it is a devastating assessment, as catherine just suggested. the report shows that from the very beginning of the trump administration fee seven pursued a partisan political agenda and he did it in the sleaziest most feline possible way. for example, publicly comey has claimed that he met with the newly elected president in january 2017 in order to give them as much information as he could about the dossier as a courtesy. but according to several witnesses
beyond that, there s a couple of things that have come through in these memos. it doesn t say anything other than what we ve said all along. everything comey said is verified. there s no collusion. there s no collusion. you re not under investigation. the president simply says, why can t you tell the american people what you re telling me? and then lastly you just saw comey himself. before he even met with the president, he already had suspicions and prejudices against the president. so whatever he was going to write was going to be receive serving. at the end of the day, i don t think anybody in america except here in washington is paying attention to this. where do you think comey s book will be on the best-seller list next week? best-seller? who s talking about fire and fury now? no one is even talking about that now? i m asking you where you think i think it will be on the best-seller for a very short period of time. the book will be number one on the best-seller li
there s no collusion. everything comey said before is verified. there s no collusion. there wasn t a conversation about collusion. i think he would have brought it up. you re not under investigation. the president says why can t you tell the american people what you re telling me. you just saw comey himself. before he even met with the president, he already had suspicions and prejudices against the president. whatever he was going to write was svl serving. i don t think anybody in america is paying attention to this. where do you think his book will be on the best seller list next week. best seller? fire and fury, no one is talking about that. . where do you think it will be on the best seller list next week. it will be on the best seller list for a short period of time. it will be number one. it turns out james comey is a very good writer. he s lost what he lost this week a little bit was his not moral authority but he is now more like us, first of all, he s
draw comey in, extract pledges of loyalty, kind of put him under his umbrella and comey recystir resisti resisting. what does that say to you? i think it s because he saw comey as a threat. he knew these investigations were going, we know that now. prior to the inauguration, the trump team knew that flynn was under investigation. there s one versionf the story that says he asked flynn to the next national security advisor. so he was aware of these things. and he probably saw comey as a threat from the outside. and so in typical trump fashion from everything he s done in his life, i m going to try and saddle up to this person and make him under my umbrella, and i think it completely backfired on him. paul, i m going to talk to michael isikoff in a moment who has a pretty amazing story about the president reaching out to flynn. from a legal perspective, what kind of advice would you give to a client who says i want to reach out to him and talk to him. what would you tell him? i d t
there s one version of the story that says he asked flynn to be the next national security advisor. so he was aware of these things. and he probably saw comey as a threat from the outside. and so in typical trump fashion from everything he s done in his life, i m going to try and saddle up to this person and make him under my umbrella, and i think it completely backfired on him. paul, i m going to talk to michael isikoff in a moment who has a pretty amazing story about the president reaching out to flynn. from a legal perspective, what kind of advice would you give to a client who says i want to reach out to him and talk to him. what would you tell him? i d tell you what every criminal defense says to her client, should the heck up. but when the client is the president of the united states, especially this president, chris, i think that s a very difficult order for the client to follow. all right, clint watts and paul butler, thank you, gentlemen. thank you. great to be here.