the washington post points out today, quote, by now comey s memos are well-known. they described, among other things, how trump had pressed comey for loyalty and had asked him about letting into of an investigation into former national security adviser michael flynn. here s some of what we heard about the i.g. report tonight on fox news. the report shows that from the very beginning of the trump administration comey pursued a partisan political agenda and that he did it in the sleaziest, most feline possible way. and as it turns out, america s self-proclaimed superpatriot is nothing more than a dirty, corrupt former bureaucrat that will be in serious significant legal jeopardy as this all unfolds. this is the ultimate weasel. i mean, he knows what he does, and to try to blame it off on other people that i didn t leak. he used a mule, mr. richmond, and that s what i call it. that s what he s trying to portray himself as, somebody disconnected from this. he s not. james comey kno
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it said that comey shared one of the memos with a friend and he had that friend leak its contents to the new york times. that particular memo that was leaked, the report noted, did not contain classified information. comey also, according to the report, shared four memos with his private attorneys. one of which contained information that was retroactively classified at the lowest level. the i.g. report reads in part, quote, by not safeguarding sensitive information obtained during the course of his fbi employment, by using it to create public pressure for official action, comey set a dangerous example for the over 35,000 current fbi employees, and the now former fbi employees who similarly have access to or knowledge of nonpublic information. we should note that this is the second inspector general report to criticize comey s conduct in presidential politics. the first was for his unilaterally-held news conference in that letter he
the president s tweets, he won t face prosecution. tonight s reaction and what majority leader. and what all of this means for president donald trump the 11th hour on a thursday night starts now. good evening once again. from our nbc news headquarters in new york, i m steve kornacki in for brian williams who has the night off. day 952. and today we got a highly anticipated report from the doj s internal watchdog that found former fbi director james comey violated policy in his handling of memos on his interactions with the president we also learned in the report that the doj has declined to prosecute comey over this episode. the report found that he violated policies by keeping four memos in a personal safe.