is political and the way we don t want a leader of america s premier law enforcement agency to behave, end quote. is that true? i agree totally. i thought it was highly inappropriate he did what he did in july by taking that prosecutorial decision into his own hands and announcing once they did not they were not going to move with an indictment trashing hillary clinton. it was a grave mistake for him to get into the final stages of the campaign. tarnishing the f.b.i. by getting involved on what we know is a minor issue. he could have skated past the election without revealing they were looking into huma abiden s papers. i think it was wrong. i will tell you this. i used a term last night with martha maccallum that he was a hot dog. you referred to the incident in the bush administration. john ashcroft is gravely ill. so ill that he removes himself
manipulate the dialogue, change the cycle. at the same time, it justifies reason to think the white house counsel was not talking to the chief of staff or on up the line. it s interesting to me because we learned the white house let the national security adviser serve while he was compromised and there should have been, correct me if i m wrong, some probationary period, yet we re talking about, they were directing, as you said, to talk about a travel ban and also some concerns were why are they talking about leaking, which if there wasn t a leak, then we may not have known about michael flynn? well, i thnk think that s a big reason we ought to be talkital talking about intent counsel and independent investigation. it could take away the tarnishing of partisanship in this thing, what hatched in our democra democracy, what happened in the election, are there ties that shouldn t be there from the russians? here s what president trump tweeted in advance of today s hearing, said about
statu statute. he needs to read both parts of the statute instead of reading one out of context. she had an honorable career. and she followed through what she fledged epledged to do to confirmation hearing. if the president ordered her to do something she felt like was wrong or illegal, she did that. she lost her job because of what the attorney general asked her to do when she was a sitting senator. i applaud her for that. you can take this and spin it any way you want to and people can say folks are hacks and here again, i ll take my liberty here in a few seconds to ring my bell and say, if they think that every democratic appointee is a hack, let s have a special counsel that can move forward in this investigation, where we can take away and all of that tarnishing aside and get to the
on what she pledged to do during her confirmation hearing and that was to stand up to a president if the president ordered her as deputy attorney general at the time, of course, she was acting attorney general, but if the president ordered her to do something she felt like was wrong or illegal, so she did that and ultimately then she lost her job because she did exactly what the now present attorney general, attorney general sessions, asked her to do when he was a sitting senator. so i applaud her for that. i think that you can take this and spin it any way you want to and people can say folks are hacks and here again, i ll take my liberty of here a few seconds to ring my bell again and say if they think every democratic appointee is a hack, then let s have a special counsel, independent counsel, that can move forward in this investigation in a way we can take all that tarnishing aside and we can get to the bottom of what happened with the trump campaign, trump s advisers, and ultimate
them on the travel ban, a ban that has been pushed out without preparation or instruction to the field. it might have been a way at the same time for them to manipulate the dialogue and change the cycle a little bit. it justifies reason to think that the white house counsel was not talking to the chief of staff or up the line. it was interesting to me. we learn that the white house let the national security adviser serve while he was compromised. and they talked about the travel ban. why are they talking about leaking, if there wasn t a leak, we may not have known about michael flynn. that s a big reason we ought to be talking about independent counsel and independent investigation. it would take away the tarnishing of partisanship. what happened in the democracy? what happened in the election?