i m not sure i agree with that, but i think we ll see james comey, school principal, in part of this book. comey says that he never saw president trump laugh, a sony according to comey of deep insecurity, his inable tore vulnerable and risk himself, which on reflection is sad in a leader and scary in a president. look, a lot of us have not seen a lot of self-deprecating humor from this president. this is a personal memoir, so he s free to make whatever remarks he wants. that honestly is less interesting to me than the questions about what the president said to him when about general flynn, and others. and his meeting with jeff sessions, which he also writes about, because he clearly told jeff sessions, you need to get between me and the president. you cannot leave me alone with
department, the fbi or the cia, looking at them, saying, i should ask you a personal favor because you work for me as president. he does not understand his responsibility as commander in chief. another point in the book, according to the new york post, comey notes that the president said it bothered him that there was a 1% chance that melania thought it was true, the allegations about the stuff in the hotel room in russia. to which comey went on to say, to what kind of man does a spouse conclude there s only a 99% chance her husband didn t do that? i mean, again, that is really harsh. sure. and this is, you know, problem is, this is the kind of marriage that the president has. and to phil s point, it s not the fbi s responsibility to lift the cloud, with regard to these allegations. and to gloria s point, this book, in large part, is about him getting revenge. this is more than anything about him getting revenge against the president for firing him. and while, talk about the pros
a career agent who served as his special assistant. there were two things about him that you knew. his professional life and personal life were closely tethered to the truth. that was his story. that was his hallmark. so for him to claim someone else is untethered to the truth, it s a big deal. all those that were in his orbit knew two things. everyone on his staff knew two things. first of all, you better give it to him straight. if he asks you a question, even if the answer is critical of him, you better give it to him straight. the second thing being, you better be tethered to the truth. every answer you give better be in line with the facts and nothing else. that s what he s used to. today in washington in this post-truth world, people choose facts whenever they re convenient. a lot of people look to him and say that s someone who s sanctimonious. when, in fact, that s the kind of person we would want. someone tethered to the truth. they said he s unethical. correct. as you l
phil, again, we have not read the entire thing, and again, it s on excerpts and those are often the most headline-grabbing, but what do you think the objective for comey is in this book? i think there are two objectives. number one, reporting as the fbi has done since its inception in 1908 about the facts of what he s seen at a historic moment in american history. i think there s a second objective that i m still struggling to understand, anderson, and that is, when james comey spoke about hillary clinton, when he spoke in a hearing and i think there was this was an element of his hearing in the spring of last year, about huma about day deba she had been cleared, he came across not as just a chief federal investigators, chief federal law enforcement officer in the united states, but as sort of the school principal for america. i have views on hillary clinton, we decided not to charge her. here are my views on how she treated national security information. we re seeing the same th
tell-all. this is really just scratching the surface. randi, thank you there s late word from pam brown and jeff zeleny, as well. white house officials telling them there are no plans at this point to respond to anything from the book tonight. people familiar with the matter said the white house and the rnc do not plan to respond to each individual report or allegation in the book. largely because they don t have the book and no less about these incidents, in many cases, than we do i want to bring in our panel. gloria, i mean, comey certainly does not seem to be pulling many punches here, in fact, he seems to be kind of poking the president, talking about his hand size and the white circles under his eyes from tanning. yeah, i think revenge is best served cold, and i think that is partly what this is. i mean, don t forget, this is a president who fired him. comey was fired in a way that no one would want to be fired. he didn t know about it. he was halfway across the country. i thi