Not seek reelection. Now backing Majority Leader Kevin Mccarthy as his successor. Good job as host. They finally figured out it only takes one woman to do the job of two men. [laughter] and just walk away to prove anything but you cant cry steve were you watching the American Country music awards last night . That is Kerry Underwood coming back after big accident. The first time w saw her and she killed it. Ainsley she is always great. She broke her rice, right . Steve and a scar in her face. So had you a choice last night. Did you want to watch the American Country music awards which were not political, also started with a tribute to the people who lost their lives in las vegas. Or did you want something that was pretty political where the former fbi director took a lot of shots at the current president of the United States as he tries to sell his book a higher loyalty. Brian you had to make a choice. It was done at 11 00 p. M. Eastern time and you had to be up pretty early. We had a chance to do what we do wait for the debates to be over and three hours later we are on television. Last night we all watched one hour of a fivehour interview really with james comey. This is the best of. I didnt see a lot of big surprises outside his assessment because i had a chance to read the book, too, this weekend. Outside his assessment of what he thinks of President Trumps worthiness to be president. Ainsley what i gathered from watching the interview last night was i didnt really learn anything new. Steve its a rehash. Ainsley other than the fact that his wife and four daughters went out to the womens march after the election and they really were disappointed that Hillary Clinton didnt win. So the family loves Hillary Clinton. He said he did not vote. Steve well, listen, i said it was a rehash. A rehash of leaks we got leading up to this and also we did see the book over the weekend. But, nonetheless, some of the highlights from last night that youll be seeing a lot of today, here is james comey talking about, among other things, how the current president of the United States really shouldnt have that job. Just an unfit guy, he says. Is donald trump unfit to be president . Yes. Not in the way i often hear people talk about it. I dont buy the stuff about him being mentally incompetent or early stages of dementia. He strikes me as a person above average intelligence who is tracking conversations and knows whats going on. I dont think he is medically unfit to be president. I think he is morally unfit to be president. The president who sees moral equivalence in charlottesville. Talks about it treats women like they are pieces of meat, lies constantly about matters big and small and believes it. That person is not fit to be president of the United States on moral grounds. The president must embody respect and adhere to the values at the core of this country. The most important being truth. This president is not able to do it. Is he morally unable to do that. This president does not reflect the values of this country. Brian he went on to say he doesnt think the president should be impeached and i will paraphrase because the American People must understanding what they did in electing him and must be punished for electing him. You voted for him. Evidence became president. Now you have to deal with him. Getting impeached would be an easy way out for the people. Steve he is blaming the people. Whoever voted for donald trump. You put this morally unfit man in office. Ainsley then he talked about how george was talking about why he opened the investigation into Hillary Clinton days before the election. He basically said i looked at the polls and Hillary Clinton was getting 50 , donald trump was getting 38 . I didnt think there waste any chance donald trump was not going to win. Brian why does that matter . Ainsley afterwards he was shocked that affected the election. Steve so, keep in mind, lady justice, the scales and all that stuff, you are not supposed to look at anything. He looked at polls. Was he ever political . It looks like he was but he says he was not. If you knew that letter would elect donald trump, you would still send it. I would. Down that path lies the death of the fbi as an independent force. If i ever start considering whose Political Forces will be affected by a decision, we are done. We are just another player in the tribal battle. Brian i think a lot of people and i dont know why comey didnt point this out. The reason why on october 27th he had to make a decision whether to announce to everybody the emails on Anthony Weiners laptop is all about Hillary Clintons decision to hire huma abedin who was told to go print these out, so she sent it back to her pedophile exhusbands laptop who was found in an investigation to have classified emails on that laptop. This is all Hillary Clintons decision that put that decision in james comeys lap. Now, if we found out president elect Hillary Clinton and its december 20th and all of a sudden this story emerges and we walk into work do you realize that they found confidential classified emails on Anthony Weiners laptop in october and they didnt tell us . He is right there would have been a controversy. But this is Hillary Clinton to blame. Ainsley George Stephanopoulos did play clips of Hillary Clinton saying she did not send classified information. He played clips of her lying. Brian he let of her off the hook. Ainsley yet this president is not morally fit. My wife told me dont be the whats what the phrase that she used when he was talking about abu ghraib . My wife told me basically he felt like he was so morally above everyone else. The title of this book is a higher loyalty. Steve we just heard a moment ago mr. Comey talking about you cant be political in this job and yet, chris christie, who worked for james comey as a u. S. Attorney says, look, its all about politics. Watch. When i worked for jim. If i said to him 11 days before an election that i was going to release information that could potentially affect the election and one the things that influenced me was polling, he would have fired me. He would have fired me on the spot. And it is really disconcerting to me as a guy who worked with him and for him and have defended him on this air and other places over the years, to see this interview and what he was saying. It is exactly what they teach you not to do. What we find out from your interview that he did. That jim comey did care about politics. So depressing to me as somebody who spent seven years in the Justice Department trying to make sure the Justice Department worked the right way. What he is proving in that interview is the president may in fact have been right to fire him. Brian one of the big loss the president has had not having him on his Transition Team and being in the white house. Governor christie makes a great point. I will add to this. He mentioned the polls. If james comey could count on the Justice Department to be fair, he wont go out and say Loretta Lynch was in the tank for Hillary Clinton and president obama wanted it that way. But he is saying i had to be the Justice Department because i did not trust Loretta Lynch to do what should have been done. Steve he was quoting the polls. He said conventional wisdom was that Hillary Clinton was going to win. I had to announce that there had been this secret investigation. Because, if it was later revealed that had gone on she would be illegitimate. In other words, he wanted to validate her presidency. Ainsley one last comment we havent mentioned, something that really bothered me. A guy talking about how this president is not morally fit and how Hillary Clinton would have been the better candidate. Something that really bothered me is he went after this president s appearance. He talked about. Steve he was petty. Brian all in the book. Ainsley tanning bed and half moons. His hair didnt look real. I think George Stephanopoulos, George Stephanopoulos should have pressed him on that. Steve and his necktie is too long. Brian tomahawks ab1 bombers. Hit syria along with the u. K. And france because of theitheir continued use of chemical weapons. What kind of message did we second . We thought 5 tomahawk as year ago would and it didnt. Was this enough to send a message to the russians, the iranians and syrians that there needs to be a solution here . I dont think so. Steve there is a story in the wall street journal this morning that says that the president of the United States was presented with three different plans. One would take out just their chemical weapons capabilities. The second one would take out a lot of syrias military capabilities and the third one would knock out supports of the russian operation over there and at the suggestion at mr. Mattis who was worried about involving russia anymore, he said lets go for the most limited, most specific targeting and thats exactly what they did. Meanwhile, later today, were going to find out what sort of russian sanctions will level against the former soviet union. Here is our ambassador to the United Nations nikki haley. Russian sanctions will be coming down. Secretary mnuchin will be announcing those on monday, if he hasnt already. And they will go directly to any sort of companies that were dealing with equipment related to assad and chemical weapons use. I think everyone is going to feel it at this point. I think everyone knows that we sent a strong message. And our hope is that they listen to it. Ainsley she said they dont have good friends. The friends that they do have are causing them harm. Steve were going to talk to senator joni ernst from iowa about this in about four minutes. In the meantime we have some headlines with sad news about barbara bush. Absolutely. Lets get you caught up on this for sure. Lets begin with fox news alert. Wellwishes pouring in from across the country for former First Lady Barbara Bush. The 92yearold deciding not to seek further help after heart problems and copd. She is quote surrounded by a family she adores and appreciates the many kind messages and especially the prayers she is receiving. Our thoughts go out to the family. Turning to extreme weather. One person is dead after a tornado rips through north carolina. The funnel cloud caught on camera in greensboro. The twister leaving a path of destruction. The city now under a safety emergency. Fierce winds and rain also knocking out power to thousands. Severe storms are now barreling east. Country musics biggest stars taking sin city by storm for the 2018 academy of Country Music awards. The show honoring the 58 lives lost in the massacre. Jason aldean who was performing when the shooting started paying tribute. We thought about starting with a sock. Its bigger than a single song. A song that bring us to our feet, make you want to pull someone close or just live in the moment. Nothing can that tak take that y from us. Jillian Carrie Underwood performing for the First Time Since her fall. Jason aldean taking home. And Miranda Lambert honored for song of the year tiananmen. Guys . Brian Chris Stapleton went and had twins. Ainsley he won a lot of awards. That one song about the beach writing in the sand i love that song. He had twins last night and i will think it was his birthday. Reba said happy birthday to him as well. Steve i hope he played the lottery as well. Next guest says Vladimir Putin should be held just as accountable for the chem attacks. 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Steve what do you think about what happened on friday night. It was a onetime only deal unless they are bad actors again then we will swoop in and do something else. Im glad we took the actions we did, finally. We were involved with these actions with the United Kingdom and with france. Kudos to our president for actually involving allied nations in this strike goings forward we do have to have those discussions in congress. Steve what about putin . Come on, is he pulling the strings over there something has got to happen to him and the people who were involved. We have heard from ambassador haley. We know that additional sanctions are going to come down. But that is part of those discussions that we need to have in congress. Very difficult situation having russia and iran involved in that region as well. Steve one of the conversations a lot of people are having is what we heard from the president. He has made it clear it was about a week before the chemical attack where the president said i would like to get out of there as soon as i can. Sarah Huckabee Sanders says the president stands by that it would be nice to get out as soon as we can. I think it would be great to get out as soon as we can. We do need regional stability. I know thats a difficult issue. But we are still combating isis is in reaj. We do have troops though are involved in syria. Thats their primary focus. What we see with Bashar Alassad is really kind of a secondary issue for us right now. It is one that we need to discuss again as congress. We need to update our authorization for the use of military force. Many of us believe that. The president has the authority to do what he did. Steve sure. Im glad that he did it anything additional to that we need to address this congress. Steve when it comes to the size and scope of the strike on friday night. Sounds like the president was presented with three plans and secretary mattis said okay, the big one is way too big for this. So lets go with the smaller of the three. It sounds like the president wanted something bigger. Was something bigger called for or was this just about right . I think right now, this was about right. Because we do have iran and russia involved as well. And thats where i think if the president wants to do more, again, we need to come back as congress and have those very hard discussions. Those are two countries that obviously make things very difficult for us. Steve sure, all right. Senator ernst, thank you for joining us from iowa. Absolutely. Steve the state of my birth. Best state in the union. Steve i love it, too. Thank you, maam. Meanwhile while much of the focus has been on james comey, insight into the firing of andrew mccabe. Dan bongino saw this coming and he said just you wait. He has news coming up next. 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