although we did not find clear evidence that secretary clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information. brian: how ironic is this? a democratic strategist with a clinton campaign for a while. robin, what do you think about these revelations about how the inspector general has a problem with some of the classification and the use of james comey s memos? it is really hard to wrap my brain around this. honestly, comey s fall from grace has been stellar. this is somebody who was widely regarded on both sides of the aisle, until the 2016 election, and now, as a veteran army ranger who served in the ranger regiment, i was awarded a top secret security clearance. i know very well everything that goes into that, the responsibilities that carries., he seems to me too smart of a man to make a mistake like this. then agai
turns out there is a very different reading of this than the one that jim comey was giving us up until now. brian: it s unbelievable. if he had any brains in his head, one interview, get off the stage.e. the more he talks, the more news unfolds, the more he backs into itself into a corner. now his battle s with andrew mccabe, because they both can be telling the truth because both of their stories t diverge. i look forward to your next article and i ll talk to you soon. thank you. brian: meanwhile, the memo news sparked a twitter response from the president. i didn t even know he had a twitter account. jonathan turley is a lawyer. he knows the answer to that. professional of constitutional law at george washington university, over $70,000 a year, i looked at that. they don t offer much aid. it s a deal. brian: you are there so it makes it worth it. what do we learn now, jonathan, that we didn t know before this
brian: tom, you are wondering, it wasn t just that the columbia professor got the memos dropped off to him, you are wondering if comey gave them to robert mueller. did comey get the blessing to talk about them? we ve also sued for the fbi and doj to figure out how it is that comey was allowed to use this material in his book. it was either private or classified or confidential and he shouldn t have been able to use it. and mueller certainly have to have been involved in blessing that operation. you know, donald trump has a lot of enemies, and it s mueller, comey, the deep state, the fbie and doj, and it s andrew mccabe. two of those people are facing jail time. the irony, quickly, brian, comey is in the same legal boat as hillary clinton right now. the mishandling of classified information is a significant legal liability for him and it was for her. you have to wonder whether he exonerated her because he was doing the same thing. brian: it was so quick, tom. it was, okay, i m fir
double russian investigation, don t you think that is the last thing the american people want see? when the democrats are saying, robert mueller should be left alone? this is a comprehensive investigation with a bottomlesss pit of funds to research? yeah, there is also something called statute of limitations they needed to file suit on before those expired. normally, you are right, they would wait until the criminal investigation with robert mueller but in this case, when you look through this series of torts and charges filed, i read the entire filing, there are statute of limitations, they need to file now. this is an appropriate time to do so. remember, a civil suit has a different standard for evidence, you just had tom fitton on. this is about the preponderance of evidence. really important for the dnc, the discovery phase, they can find out all kinds of great things they can use. brian: robert mueller is not doing much discovering. he s got 19 indictments, cutting
wants to go after the leakers, make an example of them. and just because jim comey decided that he was entitled to take these documents, which arguably, by the way, are fbi property, they were in his possession, then decided that he alone is entitled to the public interest to leak everyone who leaks has some sort of motivation like this, and it doesn t justify what he did. brian: four memos out, two of them taking another look at. meanwhile, his deputy, andrew mccabe, clearly is in trouble. he told multiple lies. he is going to be skewered. we ll find out if the criminal referral will result in charges. looking at comey in particular, i have a real problem, for example, his pull aside in the oval office. very similar to the pull aside in trump tower. you have a new person in politics was used to running a major organization. if you know more about how it is done, how about this, instead oi jotting it down after you leave, mr. president, i shouldn t really be one-on-one with you. let