no. that s why it s so important that he was the guy that was named a. couple of other things about his career. first of all, he seem to be a modest guy. he doesn t give press conferences, he doesn t do leaks, he s not a showboater, and he believes people that have done wrong like the fbi agents that dan mentioned, it s no excuse if you re powerful, you can t break the law. but at the same time, he s not someone who s going to gin up a case. he, apparently, is not a thuggish prosecutor in that way. he s hard-nosed but supposedly a straight arrow, and i think that s a what we need in a situation like this to provide the public with a little bit of comfort to think that somebody apolitical is taking a look at this. paul: huge chunk of the public, tens of millions of people suspect that, in fact, law enforcement officials and intelligence officials did attempt to surveil and undermine
unpopular with most people. he had the very poor performance on wednesday. that was a poor, poor performance. he was grandstanding all over the place. he is a showboater. that same comey that the president didn t like, history has stressed him into the probe where weissmann works. and comey was quite public at the time in his praise for weissmann. i d like to thank andrew weissmann, deputy director of the enron task force who is standing around the room some place. i want to thank and congratulate andrew weissmann, let me thank the enron task force, in particular andrew weissmann, t head of the enron task force. he and his brilliant team were in houston today where their harsch hard work continues. you can you see weissmann off to the side while comey talks. he often avoided those microphones. that hard work as comey put it led to some hard calls like whether prosecutors should single out just bad employees or indict entire companies. now that s controversial because if it send
month. they sat on it. if this that letter had been sent when they were reviewing them, then hillary clinton most likely still would have won the election. they were dropped when all of these women came out on sexual harassment charges on donald trump and i said and i think it was like probably a month, month and a half beforehand. i said you know if they had dropped these ten days before, said it in real-time if they had dropped these ten days before, he wouldn t recover from it. so comey drops a letter ten days before. and i m sorry, i don t know what s going on in james comey s mind, i know he s a showboater, but anybody that knows anything about politics knows, you drop something like that ten days before there s no recovering. it s, you know, in a different way, it s like the
you know, and even if you think that james comey is kind of a showboater and showed questionable judgment in the handling of the clinton e-mails and perhaps went into areas he shouldn t have gone into, just step back for a moment and think about how remarkable that scene was last night. the former fbi director deputy attorney general, u.s. attorney, a republican appointee, talking about the president of the united states as a mob boss. talking about the president of the united states as being ethically unfit to be president. now, we ve had these conversations. it feels so many times over the last couple of years but this is not normal. this is an extraordinary moment, and frank is absolutely right. one thing that came through to me was that james comey could be wrong about a lot of things. he may have made a lot of mistake but is a man of extraordinary integrity who cares deeply about the rule of law and the principle that no one is above the law. i think that s the chapter we re about
competent, capable director. he is not. he is a showboater. he is not doing the job. he s not the right guy. i hold director comey in the absolute highest regard, his considerable abilities and his integrity. and it has been the greatest privilege and honor of my professional life to work with him. joining me now is peter baker, new york times chief white house correspondent, analyst for msnbc and nick, reporter for bloomberg news. peter, let me start with you. put this in context if you could, the role that andrew mccabe played in the russian investigation, what he said about potential ties that russia may have had with the election. that s exactly right. andrew mccabe has been a thorn in the president s side, as the president sees it, for now more than a year. he has been somebody who has testified on the hill in ways that made the president angry.