He claims he did it to force the creation of the special counsel to investigate the president s alleged ties to russia. We all know how that turned out. In the report, Inspector General said, on safeguarding Sensitive Information obtained during the fbi employment and by using it to create public pressure for action, he set a dangerous example of over 35000 fbi employees in the many thousands or more former fbi employees similarly have access to or knowledge to nonpublic information. But back in 2017 comey said the whole thing was no big deal. Did you show copies of your memos to anyone outside of the department of justice . Yes, my judgment was i need to get that out into the Public Square so i asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter and for a variety of reasons i asked them to because i thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. For a variety of reasons. Today the president went off on comey tweeting, never in the history of our country has someone been more thoroughly disgraced than james comey in the justreleased Inspector General report. He should be ashamed of himself and in a statement, the white house said james comey is a proven liar and leaker. The Inspector Generals report showed he violated the basic obligations of confidentiality that he owes the United States government and the american people. In order to achieve a personally desired outcome because he shamefully leaked information to the press in violation of fbi policies in the nation was forced to endure the politically motivated twoyear witchhunt. He disgraced himself in office for further political agenda in this report further confirms that fact. But yes james comey himself he seems to have reached a completely different conclusion in fact he claims he is a victim here. He found no evidence that comey released any of the classified information contained in the memos to members of the media. I dont need a public apology from those who defamed me but a quick message about sorry we lied about you would be nice. The d. O. J. Claims they have decided not to prosecute. What is the real story . Who is right james comey or the white house. Joining me tonight, special assistant to President Trump and Communications Director mark lauder. Im the leaker or the victim. Liar and leaker. Confirmed end of story. This knows what weve known for a long time. And jim comey put himself, his biased political interest ahead of the interest of the market people in the fbi and theres no shameful or disgraceful accusations you can make to a Public Employee than to tell them that they put themselves above the needs of the country and he should be inching forward. Obviously he is not ashamed and i dont know if well see more pictures of him in the woods but he says hes the one out in apology. So you know he admitted to everything he said. He did it for a higher purpose. Is that going to fly, obviously the media likes to buy into his narrative. Will it work . No because his higher purpose was his own purpose. Not the needs of the government or the Justice Department or the fbi. The ig report said you set a dangerous precedent for the tens of thousands of people that work in that department that think they can put their judgment, their part assemblies above the law, above the needs of our country and that is not something we can stand for. We know he liked to grassley when he said he did not put out any information to the public but why is he not being prosecuted . What is your theory . I will leave it to the professionals at the Justice Department to make the determinations. As we all know the prosecutors perspective its not just what we can say, you gotta be able to prove it in a court of law and that the hired stander. I think just exposing jim comey for the lying and leaking and disgraceful person that he was at the end of his tenure and fbi is good enough for the Justice Department and it is just the first chute of fall because lets not forget the ig has another report coming which will uncover the shady tactics that were used at the start of this false witchhunt. What you have to say about breaking news personal trumps assistant Madalyn Wester house was like no, she resigned but shown the door, what is going on there. She shared personal information about the president and his family . Im not aware of the details but im dissing the top of things. As a former person who worked in the white house and close to the president and Vice President , you always have to be very careful about the personal information that you have about the operations of the office and the information that you know about them as human beings especially when youre in a public setting and i know madalyn, i dealt with her on many occasions and have a lot of respect for her and if Something Like that was involved in im not sure, im going based off what you told me, thats something that violates the personal confidence that so many of us know in respect that when you are this close to those highly elected officials, you have to have a certain littl lef decorum that cannot be broken. Tom things a lot. Thank you. The president allies say comey, the South Carolina publican rescinded or said Inspector General report is a stunning and rebuke of a former director of the fbi. In louisiana republic senator john kennedy explained why. Fbi agents and fbi directors have political beliefs, sure they do. But theyre not supposed to act on them. The fbi should not be a political body. And mr. Comey acted like a political operative. While he was fbi director in everyday sense. It is just sleazy. It is important to note that comey is not out of the woods as taylor swift might say. We are still waiting on a result of a separate investigation into the origin of the russian investigation. Why is comey claiming vindication. Here with me tonight, on the Panel Attorney and Fox News Contributor emily comicco. And matt welch and david koller, editorinchief and author of the donald. Chris benford. Emily i know you want to get on this with your lawyerly point of view. We know he shared his memos with the media but he did it through his friend. Which the ig found it did not matter. This report has the serrated him. While they were using technical, they were saying what were you thank you. For example, it was my diary, they said there was no basis in law and it was also plainly stated in the statue that there is no such thing as official record and when he said i was just sharing it with my attorney whether its an official record or classify, its been wrongly held by the u. S. Supreme court and theres no such thing as a protection of sharing something classified or official with your attorney. I also point out when he said about it, it was because of the may country and i had this duty. And they said thats funny because everyone else on your Team Including baker and everyone else had various things proven up in them, called shocking, surprising, stunning and disappointing that you share these memos with your attorneys and with the rest of the world. There is a lot more from start to finish, everything that he claimed and believed is such a curse. May i answer . What, should he be worried, theres three investigations happening. The d. O. J. Is investigating but the origins in the u. S. Attorney in connecticut and high intelligence officials in the ig is investigating the fbi conduct. He is not in the clear yet. Tom what do you think he is not in the clear yet . This is a report that is just about comey and his behavior. But we will get into the fisa stuff later. They dont spend a lot of time prosecuting former highlevel officials in the security and National Intelligence realm for their constant lies. People get prosecuted for stuff you are whistleblowers on lower levels. So youre not surprised at all . Im not surprised that Hillary Clinton would be prosecuted in the james comey move that was controversial another direction in the fall 2016 for the same reason. She broke the letter of the law and the judgment was, we dont prosecute cases like this. Ill say this, i work in journalism, i like leaks. The triple ministration like every ministration, some cases more, leaks a lot, thats how you backstab one another and take advantage and all that kind of stuff. This particularly, i dont have a problem with. I want to know the contents of the meeting. But i think there is abuse happening in january of that year when they leaked the progress on a counterintelligence investigation into the president. That is a problematic leak. Youre talking about sensitive stuff that has not been decided upon in your saying and throwing out there to the press and Washington Post that there is a weird investigation into the president , that is where the abuse comes from. It is not a conversation with the president that the fbi director finds creepy. It doesnt bother me nearly as much as trade out somebody in the matter of a counter intelligence. Tom shouldnt bother the d. O. J. It should bother the d. O. J. , the terrible example to anyone to use this and be so selfrighteous. Maybe less in jesus and warned Martin Luther king junior compex. Its believabl unbelievable we t software. I dont think ever in his life President Donald Trump has treated the word excoriated himself. [laughter] i feel like the trump tweet was issued by the white house and if you look at the wording, cbs news went with comey vindicated. Even the New York Times criticized in the hills set a rebuke of comey and the way the media covered this should do what not to read. The panel returns later but the lineup for the next democratic debate is now set. Who made the cut . And who else did not make the cut. Hurricane dorian is barreling down the florida coast. We will get the latest on the storm next. Managers might seem the same, but some give their clients cookie cutter portfolios. Fisher investments tailors portfolios to your goals and needs. Some only call when they have something to sell. Fisher calls regularly so you stay informed. 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Chief meteorologist rick, life with more revealed there is still unfortunately so many possible scenarios with the storm, we like it when we have an agreement where models when things behave kind of according to plan. We do not have this with the storm. This is estimated rainfall over the next week. One of the things i want to point out, 28 inches of rain is Something Like that happens. We have a big flooding situation on our hands. The storm comes in from the west and makes a righthand turn and in this case, the one model run shows that among the eastern seaboard and it can make the turn a little bit earlier and we might be spared a lot of the rain along the coast and that rainfall goes further in lynn and the point is we dont know Everybody Needs to be watching this closely and this is the official or cast from the National Hurricane center and brings it up to a category three and by sunday i category for and then you will notice things move really, really slowly and thats why we think the rainfall total will be really extreme. The tropical models, they are not in an agreement if you get down to the details. I want to point out one of the most reliable models on monday, now monday night offshore, the other reliable model does not get to the coast until wednesday. We sel still have a lot of uncertainty and will talk about the storm for another week. Not good news if youre in florida and if youre in georgia and the carolinas, still be watching the storm as well. It could be something significant. Tom will keep our eyes on it. Everything is bigger in texas except the democratic debate lineup. Just ten candidates qualify for the third debate in houston. That happens at the last two debates. Among those who made it, sleepy joe biden. Elizabeth warren and everybodys favorite beto orourke. Near Pete Buttigieg punched his ticket but new york city mayor bill de blasio will be stuck outside the club arguing to let him in. Bill de blasio failed to meet the threshold of a 2 average and four National Polls and donations from 130,000 unique dozers. He will have company at his Tv Watch Party because hawaii congresswoman kelsey gabbert and mayor williamson and tom stier failed to make the cut. All of the nonqualifying candidates have vowed to make the next debate but should they all just take the hint like kirsten gillibrand. Here to discuss is washington examiner, political columnist, kristen anderson. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. A lot of people dropped out, was there anything special this week or the rules getting tighter . The rules are getting tighter and this week was the last week for qualifying polls to come out to get folks in. The nailbiter was tom stier going to get that last poll that would get him across the finish line and means we have two nights of debates. Backtoback events. He did not cross the threshold and we would only wind up with one night of debates. The folks hovering in the 1 , thats a catch 22, on the one hand the argument is we should be able to be upon the state, the race is just getting underway and a lot of democratic voters are not paying attention and thats 100 true. A lot of the democratic voters that are not paying close attention say they are not tuned in because the field is as large as it is. They want to see the field shrunk down to a smaller size before they begin to Pay Attention because its just too overwhelming. Its a catch 22 for those who are only at 1 . But the people whose attention they need dont want to Pay Attention while theyre still in. Are any candidates complaining, they agreed to these roles ahead of time or with a thrust upon them . Dmc has a big role to play in this and work with the network to figure out how they will stage the events. The dmc this time around was looking at what the republicans are dead for years ago and trying to avoid what they felt like was a undercard debate, democrats did not want that but you had a very larger republican field for a while. And the reason why democrats are trained to tighten the criteria is to get the field smaller. There are lots of folks especially some of the more moderate democrats who are not making the cut leaving joe biden and maybe Amy Klobuchar is the folks in the field who can still appeal to the more moderate wing of the democratic party. Otherwise you have the other eight still in there in the debate and theyre all fighting for the really progressive. Tom delaney has been making a point. He says im not going to get out of this race because my voice is needed. He is running against the democratic party. He says you guys have gone so far left. But that is not doing it as far as polls or getting support is it . The folks who are the most tuned in are the most progressive base court activist. I think its part of why so many of these folks who are moderate but not wellknown struggling to get traction. The voter that they want in court, either has decided i know joe biden, i like them all be a joe biden voter or they said, wake me up when youre down to five candidates. It is really hard, yet the first night of the second round of debates were Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren versus a whole bunch of folks who are trying to say, your plans do not work, you dont have enough money, this is not realistic but it looks like coming out of the contract is the bernie and elizabeth message that in the democratic primary is winning the day in the field. Tom they will go up against him. Thank you so much. Coming up apple admitting that his contractors listen to your siri recordings. You will not believe what they have reportedly heard. Here is a hint, everything. A new study says that marriage is actually better for your longterm mental health. I will explain why when the panel returns next. Oh, here we go. I know i cant play an instrument,