We will bring you a live update. Another gaffe for president ial front runner joe biden, hes being factchecked by the Washington Post which said almost every detail of a gripping war story that hes been telling for years is wrong. Hello and welcome to fox news night, im Shannon Bream in washington. Trace gallagher without the right and left are reacting to todays report on james comey but we kicked things off tonight with chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridg Catherine Herridge. The fbi director is held to a High Standard because he sets the tone for over 35,000 employees. He set a dangerous example but despite that the dust Justice Department has declined to prosecute. The Justice Departments internal watchdog has concluded former fbi director james comey violated his own agencys policies and employment agreement in his handling of memos, documenting in part to private conversations with the president about the russia investigation. We have previously faulted comey for acting unilaterally and inconsistent with department policy. What is not permitted is the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive investigative information, in order to achieve a personally desired outcome. After being fired by the president in may 2017, he later told congress he believed the memos for his property to share. I understood this to be my recollection recorded of my conversation with the president is a private citizen. I felt it very important to get it out. The Inspector General found the memos were government records, his characterization as personal records finds no support in the law. To get the contents of the memo to the New York Times to kickstart the special counsel investigation, he used a Columbia Law School professor as an intermediary. Before he was fired, he testified on the hill. Have you ever been on anonymous source in news reports about matters relating to the trump investigation . Never. Have you ever authorized someone else at the fbi to be on anonymous source in news reports about the trump investigation . No. The report found he kept the fbi records in his home in a personal safe, the report states that memo two was ultimately determined to contained classified information, he used his personal scanner and email accounts to provide electronics of memos to one of his personal attorneys, three days later, that attorney provided by personal email account copies to other attorneys. On twitter, comey claimed vindication because the ig found no classified information was shared with the media. In one of his last appearances, fox news pressed comey on whether he handled classified information. If theres classified information when you share those memos . Something like that. Whether you think it does or not im not going to talk about it one way or another. This is the second time he went beyond his authority as a fbi director. A legal analyst told him it should be the decision to prosecute, he remains an essential player into two pending a investigations. Shannon james comey is claiming vindication as President Trump calls him thoroughly disgraced, republican lawmakers say they think this report is just the tip of the iceberg. Trace gallagher is here with the latest reactions across the spectrum. Both the white house and the president went after comey at full force. Hes a proven liar and leaker and the president said never in the history of our country bensalem thoroughly disgraced and excoriated than james comey. He should be ashamed of himself. In response, cia chief john brennan stood up for comey, saying he has far more decent, ethical, and patriotic than you could ever hope to be. It is only because the attorney general and republican senators refused to put country above party that you are not in a world of trouble and hurt their protective cocoon is all y temporary. Many republicans on capitol hill believe james comey is just the first in a series of blows aimed at fbi and doj officials. Special report georgia congressman said we should dismiss any talk that his actions were noble. He wasnt acting as captain america, he was acting as a gutter agent at the fbi. As he later admitted to congress, it was to prompt the appointment of a special counsel. Shannon plenty of media reaction. Some surprising, most of it not. On Chris Matthews show, a reporter indicated a doj official indicated that james comey was out to save the country. If he were to charge him, its like punishing someone for speeding to put out a fire. On cnn which largely defended him all day, a legal analyst stuck in this dig, watch. I wouldnt be quite as smug, it still was a very report that said you had an obligation to relinquish any files you had. Instead of issuing apologies, these days when you get caught, it appears to be an opportunity to gin up the spin. Shannon as it often is in washington, thank you very much. Digging deeper, the ig report unveiled an extensive plan to roll out the unverified allegations from the steele dossier on then president elect trump by comey. From the report, baker and mccabe said they agreed at the briefing needed to be oneonone so that comey could present the salacious information in the most discrete and least embarrassing way at the same time, we were told they did not want the president elect to perceive the oneonone briefing as an effort to hold information over him. That is a reference to the first director of the fbi j. Edgar hoover and his willingness to blackmail political leaders. Lets bring in Fox News Contributor byron york and former Trump Campaign aid carter page, welcome to you bot both. You have written extensively about this today as you said americans now know how the Mueller Report ended. They dont yet know how it started. We have a little piece today, more to come. It shines a light on a key incident, it happened on januar. Donald trump was the president elect, the background is the dossier which had an unsubstantiated allegation that President Trump had been in a Moscow Hotel Room and acts, the intelligence chief go up to new york city to brief the president elect on the findings, their findings of russian interference in the 2016 election. They all leave the room except comey who stays oneonone with the president and tells him about this moscow stuff. At the first time the president ever sees the director of the fbi facetoface, the messages we know about you and those in moscow. Jim comey had earlier said the reason he told the president elect, he knew the information was out there, it was embarrassing, he wanted him to know this, telling him for his own good. The fbi Investigative Team had meticulously planned this encounter they had met top executives and had met before hand, they made a plan for comey to right down the memory of everything he had said. He began typing on his secure laptop in the car as it moves. They had set up a prearranged a secure video teleconference when comey reaches the Fbi Field Office and they go and he meets with his top executives Via Teleconference and the cross fire hurricane people. At this meeting, he says he told the president elect we are not investigating you. Then he left immediately and went to meet with his investigators. Shannon theres a piece today that spells it all out that you wrote, if people havent read the whole report they should read this so they should get the rest of that story. In the meantime we are waiting for the rest of the Inspector General reports that will be a separate portion that looks into the fisa applications that were used to get government surveillance approved on you. Attorney joe digenova has been talking about this and his prediction, heres what he said. We know that the fisa warrants were illegally obtained. If, in fact, the report is issued in its full form, there will be no prosecutions because the comey report was held up, this one when they came out today until they decided whether or not to prosecute comey. Shannon what do you expect, will you be disappointed if no one faces prosecution over what was done to get that surveillance . All i wanted from the very beginning is the truth to come out. I think as they showed on Sean Hannitys show tonight, this is the tip of the iceberg as joe digenova and Victoria Toensing were saying. Basically, this was just a few pages of these personal actions in this report. He has a short summary here of his notes and if you compare that to the massive fisa warrant which is still completely blacked out, theres a lot more to come. Based on everything we have been hearing for a long time, there are some huge revelations that are going to be forthcoming and its a terrible moment for the fbi but a great moment that the Inspector General has taken a massive step forward and is starting to reveal some of these wrongdoings. Shannon senator Lindsey Graham said this, the first of what i expect will be several more ugly in rebukes regarding their actions and biases toward the Trump Campaign in 2016. Any timeline that you have that your sources are giving you on this . We are talking late september early october, the fbi got a warrant to wiretap carter page repeatedly. We also know they used an informant named stefan halbert. They also sent an undercover agent to try to get information out of george papadopoulos, the question a lot of people has is is that it . Are there other things the fbi did to spy on the campaign, everyone is expecting the answer to that in this report. Shannon we know you most assuredly are standing by, thanks for joining us both of you. President trump canceling his weekend trip to poland, as Hurricane Dorian gained strength tonight. Forecasters are warning it could make landfall as a category four, lets go right to the weather center, tracking this aroundtheclock. Lots of variables on that strength to bring it to a category four on landfall, the storms go through fluctuations and well see what happens. Here you go, we have wins now 105 miles per hour, its sustained winds, category two. Hurricane hunters have been flying in and out of there throughout the evening but continue to do so overnight. They are finding wins stronger and pressure continues to drop. We will continue to see the storm continued to strengthen, they will bring it to category three, then category four remains that way, then it slows down a lot. They are officially calling for landfall monday evening, take a look at what happens by tuesday. A slowmoving storm, a lot of moisture is going to fall in the same spots over and over. Weve been talking about these hurricane models, good agreement and it takes a track theres a lot of differences in the models. One of them brings a landfall monday evening, the other one doesnt do that until sometime wednesday. Theres a lot of disagreement and a lot of variables at play, thats making the forecast difficult. What youll notice as this is thursday, youll still have the storm over florida. Rain event and wind event, no matter how we slice this especially for florida, it will likely be starting early on monday, that is labor day. Not a great last weekend here, we could be talking about a major hurricane right around the sure. After that, very heavy rain into georgia and the carolinas. Shannon Nasas Kennedy Space Center preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Dorian with the expected winds of 130 miles per hour, nasa is trying to protect its massive mobile launcher. A launchpad head. The mobile launcher is so tall, it will be affected by the wind of the hurricane. Shannon they are preparing to possibly move that launcher inside. Meanwhile, theres a new dorianrelated line of attack on President Trump tonight, he lies in one of the likely hurricane paths, will former canadian Prime Minister tim campbell saying im rooting for a direct hit on maralago, she explained shes angry about President Trumps Climate Change policies. Fired fbi director says people should say they are sorry for lying about him. Attorney bradley moss weighs in, next. Limu emu doug hour 36 in the stakeout. As soon as the homeowners arrive, well inform them that Liberty Mutual customizes home insurance, so theyll only pay for what they need. Your turn to keep watch, limu. Wake me up if you see anything. [ snoring ] [ loud squawking and siren blaring ] only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Yeah. Yeah, this is nice. Hmm. How did you make the dip so rich and creamy . 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Thats not true, since its not classified, its not a violation of the espionage act but its still a violation of the rules and principles which govern all Justice Department attorneys. Everything in a murder file is not classified but the government is not supposed to go around leaking selectively to the New York Times or to the local newspapers what information we find it damaging or not. This is the fundamental problem with director comey who was given great power and responsibility, he chose to flout the rules because he thought he knew better and was on a crusade against President Trump. Shannon the wall street journals Editorial Board gets to that point his higher virtue. The American Public is finally getting an honest account of the real james comey. An fbi director so in awe of his own righteousness that he believed none of the rules apply to him. Hes not going to face in a criminal prosecution but that seems like a common theme and one of the reasons people get so frustrated with the government we go through this whole thing, we hear the litany of all the things they have done wrong but yet theres no punishment. There was no criminal liability for leaking or otherwise providing unclassified information. That was always the thing here, people kept typing this up. James comey is going to have a big reckoning it was never going to happen because it never happens in this situation and that was made clear in the ig report. He didnt provide classified information or any classified memos to the media and the one memo who had something come he gave it to the lawyers, there were six words he originally deemed it unclassified and was unoriginal authority. That would be a horribly weak case, it would never fly. Im sure people find this troubling, i understand if james comey was someone who would ever wanted to work in government again especially in a position requiring a security clearance, the report would be a problem for him, it would pose a problem on ever getting cleared again. As a matter of criminal liability, nothing there was violated. Shannon the Washington Post writes this, the doj declined prosecution which by trumps own standards is an exoneration, they could not find that he broke the law. Are they both now on level playing ground when it comes to this . Or are there other things call me could possibly be facing . I think the case of trump in the case of comey are utterly different, trump didnt commit any kind of collusion with russia as mr. Muellers special counsel investigation found. I want to take issue with one thing i heard just now. Jim comey did not violate criminal law but everything he did, if he had been on fbi agent or a simple Justice Department attorney, he wouldve been fired on the spot by the attorney general and he would have deserved it because you are not allowed as a Justice Department attorney to take the stuff and spread it all around because you feel like it. We give information and cooperate with prosecutors because we expect them to