are. and because he kept talking and saying in an embellishing way the things that comey begins to talk about here, he may have put himself in a precarious legal position. in here also, you have the president ask comey about mccabe. right? again and again. many times. many times. what does comey say? mccabe s a good guy, he s honest, he s not a leaker. i wonder there s a piece right here where comey says i d like to find a leaker, nail him to the doors, a message to the agency. now that mccabe is facing criminal charges here if that s going to hold true. i m sure president trump is very upset that andy mccabe allegedly leaked a negative story about hillary in the closing days of the election. i m sure that s what trump is upset about. maybe not. i ve known andy mccabe for a long time. he worked for me on the new york s.w.a.t. team for the fbi in the early 2000s.
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he writes the president, quote, brought up the golden showers things then writes this. the president said the hookers thing is nonsense, that putin told him, quote, we have some of the most beautiful hookers in the world. back now with the panel. gloria, you brought this up as being odd just because as far as we know the president never actually did talk to vladimir putin. well, you know, during the campaign, he said he didn t. we know that he got a congratulatory call from putin, et cetera, but the president saying this in february is kind of, it s just kind of interesting because it sounds like it occurred at some point, you know, at some point in the past. and i think that the president went out of his way to ask comey to disprove this. to effectively act as his private investigator and disprove this and comey said to him, you know, it s hard to disprove a negative. if it it s hard to disprove
unless he got more information. you admit in the book you made two mistakes in the clinton investigation. one is the phrase extremely careless to describe the handling of classified information. you said that was a mistake. what phrase should you have used? i don t know. even in hindsight i haven t come up with how to capture it s more than mere sloppiliness and trying find a way to describe something that was above just ordinary carelessness. leaving a document on a counter at a restaurant or something and criminal misconduct. you don t have a phrase that would have been i still don t. you might expect i ve kind of suppressed the effort since then. after you were fired president trump tweeted there might be tapes of the private conversations. you said you asked your friend to leak some information about your interactions with the president. not classified information but information about your interactions with the president and you say you did this testified you did this
the department of justice and the fbi did, as well as quite different. very early stage counterintelligence investigation of americans, not donald trump, a small group to figure out is there a connection of those people and the russian effort. separate from the russian effort and conversations of whether to publicize that i don t know what we would have said. we weren t investigating donald trump. we had just started. i think there actually wasn t serious serious consideration given to it and not appropriate under the policies. early stages in october 2016. but you disclosed it in march 2017. that s only five months later. was there such a difference? only in a general way. i mean five months later we informed congress there was an invest and the reason is the acting attorney general decided there was such pressure of congress senator grassley holding up the confirmation of the deputy attorney general