this to people, trying to make them see the world through his eyes. the funny thing to watch here in washington is that it s both sides that don t like him, but they also sort of like him for other reasons. i mean, for the democrats, you know, without his firing you probably wouldn t have mueller. and they really saw his firing as a huge issue that unleashed enormous amount of things about trump. so, the thing about comey is he doesn t fit into one small thing. it s too complicated. do you sense remorse from comey about how he handled the clinton investigation at all? i don t. no, none whatsoever. the one thing that he talks about, and he goes into great detail, is the decision not so much the july news conference where they said she shouldn t be charged, but that she did bad things is the letter that he sent to congress in late october saying, woops, we found some more e-mails. stand by. we ll let you know whether there is anything good in there or not. that s the one where
have died in a seven-year brutal civil war. most of those people have died not by chemical weapons but by very crude weapons, these barrel bombs and by simply being shot and blown up by the syrian army. that s not going to change. assad is only going to continue to widen his grip on syria. this war is probably wrapping up. the question is what really was accomplished? certainly i don t think mission accomplished is necessarily even just strictly a military term. certainly this president doesn t seem to be commander in chief first amongst all the other things that he seems to be, kasie. phil rucker, cal perry referenced that split between bolton and mattis and the white house. how did this unfold from a national security decision making point of view? the president does seem to be legitimately happy with his decision here. yeah, so, there was never really much of a debate over whether to strike back on syria from late saturday night last week when the president was first briefed by
sure you re prepared for what s expected and even what s not. and that kind of financial confidence can help you sleep better at night. with the right financial advisor, life can be brilliant. wasn t the decision to reveal influenced by your assumption that hillary clinton was going to win and your concern that she wins, this comes out several weeks later and then that s taken by her opponents to sign that she s an ill-legitimate president? it must have been. i don t remember consciously thinking about that, but it must have been. i was operate not guilty a world
reaction by trump and his folks when they were briefed in january of 2017 when they were first told about the hack. and they first respond and say, hey, how are we going to deal with this politically? but besides ythat you had comey testify on capitol hill for many hours and covered a lot of these things. pete williams, what s your take on that? do you think i was supplierp comey would be willing to come out and say so much when he is potentially a witness in the investigation. it seems the opposite, whenever you re talking about these investigations on television, you know, we very often hear your sources cannot speak about an ongoing investigation. i think the message that comes through is mr. comey is still upset about being fired. probably rightly so. i think the things that we learn about are some of the explanations for his decision and surprisingly some of the reaction to it, especially on the clinton e-mail investigation. i will say one other thing, kasie. there was a rac
now, his people obviously disagree with that, but the fact is, in my interview with christopher wray he indicated he didn t have any problem with mccabe s firing. the fbi s office of professional responsibility signed off on it. so did the senior guy at the justice department. it didn t look very good that the ultimate decision was made by jeff sessions who was repeatedly criticized by the president, but this report is not very helpful to andrew mccabe. michael schmidt? what mccabe has done here is pretty shrewd. he has gotten into trouble with the inspector general with these career folks that signed off on this. but he s tried to paint himself as sort of a mini comey. i m a victim of this administration. i have been wronged. i have a higher loyalty. and, of course, the president i don t know if he missed it or whatever, takes mccabe and comey and throws them together in the same tweet yesterday, and then that allows mccabe to continue the narrative of, look at what this out