make sure that because the defendant was famous, we weren t treating her differently than we would someone else. stewart is convicted for lying to investigators and serves a five-month sentence. but comey emphasizes to his assistants that it s not all about winning cases. jim would have a talk with the new assistants, he would sit down with them and tell them how the reputation of the office depended on them doing what was necessary. if you come in here as all of my assistants do to report a verdict and you have to tell me it s an acquittal, i don t care, as long as you did the right thing and gave it your best shot. after 23 months as u.s. attorney, comey is tapped by president bush for deputy attorney general, the number two position in the dertment of justice. but almost immediately and long before he goes head to head with president trump, comey clashes with the bush white house. he learns about a controversial
he was at odds with the washington establishment. jim comey has managed to irritate, offend, enrage democrats, republicans, liberals, radicals, independents, which is great. he s trying to do a job as fbi director. his job is to protect and defend the constitution and the laws of the united states, which is messy, dangerous, dirty business sometimes. in the months after his appearance before congress, comey goes underground, speaking out only on twitter. but observers say his decisions have all followed his signature pattern. i think there s three factors that motivate him. one is the fact that he believes that he is right in what he is doing, and he is righteous in what he is doing. the second thing is that he is independent. he is not influenced by other people. and the third thing is that he s transparent. these three things are the reason why he becomes fbi
comey is fired. president trump sits for an interview with hlester holt. regardless of recommendation i was going to fire comey. knowing there was no good time to do it. in fact bh i decided to do it i said to myself, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. it s an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election. a day later the president addresses his former fbi director by twitter. james comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversations. for the president to threaten tames that don t seem to exist, and if they did exist would probably back up jim comey. is a weak attempt at timidation. that s what he was tryingo do. according to comey the tweet forces his hand. he will make the details of a conversation with the president public. giving one of his memos to his friend. from the get go, he thought
the room so he can speak with comey alone. jim comey looks sort of imploringly over his shoulder at the attorney general saying, don t leave me alone with him, please! something terribl is about to happen. he has a premonition. what happens, according to comey, is that trump asks him to back off the investigation of his national security adviser michael flynn, whom he fired a day earlier for lying about his conversations with the russian ambassador. the request raises questions. was trump asking comey to move past the flynn investigation because he was being loyal to flynn or is it because there s something that flynn knows? comey faces a new challenge two weeks later, when the president tweets that president obama had trump s wires tapped in trump tower. i have no information that supports those tweets and we have looked carefully inside the
have ramifications for months and maybe years to come. and may eventually be the thing that brings down trump s presidency. comey succeeded at the fbi by andrew mccabe. who was fired by jeff sessions in march 2018. just fwo days before he was planning to retire. like comey. mccabe is san important witness for the mueller investigation. a person close to mccabe says he kept notes on all his dealings with the president trump. comey s notes are a source for his long anticipated book. a higher loyalty. this is surely among the most anticipated books of the year. the republican national committee launches a counter attack to discredit the former fbi director. it s another illustration of the complete designation of the republican party standing for anything it was supposed to stand for. you have never been a fan. i m a former practicing member of the party. it never stood for character assassination of a man like jim