the fbi should be recognized as a political agency the way other agenciness the federal government are. com comey made political decisions in the handling of clinton e-mail investigation, he made political decisions in the handling of the illegal leak investigation or non-investigation over what was done with general flynn s transcript and other information. he is as political a figure as herbert hoover in my view. thank you for talking to us. you re welcome. the president addressed the war on isis this week saying the u.s. troops are fighting like never before. but the war is not just a gruesome fight waged on the streets of iraq and syria. it is an attack on the hearts and minds. we see countless examples of young men and women lured by ice ills propaganda who return home indoctrinated. what turns a seemingly normal person into a potentially hate-filled killer? explores how a former catholic
going to do it next tuesday. we are about a week behind. we are about a week behind, but if we start next week, we could catch up. i hear you. but you could have done it in a closed meeting. why not do it this week? i think it s important that we talk to comey and rogers again first. they really are, alison, the two most important witnesses at least for three of the four tron chs. when you answer a hundred times, i can tell you, but i can t tell you in this for rom, why would you not bring them back to say, okay, we re in a different forum. answer those 100 questions and then we move on. that is the natural chronology and that s what i hope we do. you make a great point. why didn t it happen this week in a closed forum? it was scheduled, and then it was canceled. well, you made rogers and com comey. i think it s important we talk to them again. i m not privy to their calendars. they came last monday. perhaps they could not come this
deputy attorney general, wanted to go to the trump white house after the inauguration and let them know that the way pence, the vice president-elect and other administration officials in the incoming administration were mischaracterizing based on a conversation they mad with flynn, his conversation with kislyak, the russian ambassador. com comey, the fbi director, initially, opposed going to the trump white house, to let them know this conversation. after trump comes to office, sally yates, acting attorney general, makes the case again and convinces comey some time after the 23rd of january, and before the 31st, that this information needed to be passed on. so, they shared it with the
inaccurate evidence. former intelligence officials typically keep their security clearances and there s a public policy for that? it allows them to speak out about sensitive matters with successors or appear in congress. there are are operatives known to only a small number of people at an agency including the director. we are hearing from some of the former intelligence officials being targeted by president trump. former cia director john brennan is declining to comment right now, but his fomrmer deputy chif of staff says brennan has not made a penny off his security clearance and has not failed to speak out against the failings of trump. he tweeted yesterday, i just texted former fbi director james comey asking whether he even has a security clearance to revoke. nope, he responded. there s nothing for the president to revoke. com comey says he was read out when
administration was responsible for this, as he s suggested. he said, i don t have any proof of that. of course, that hasn t stopped him from saying so on twitter. wolf? we ll monitor all of this. jeff zeleny, thank you very much. before the president took aim at james comey, the fired fbi director, took a swipe at the president. he says president trump s promotion of unproven conspiracy theorys is putting the agency and the country at risk. comey tweeted this. facts matter. the fbi s use of confidential human sources is tightly regulated and essential to protecting the country. attacks on the fbi and lying about its work will do lasting damage to our country. how will republicans explain this to their grandchildren? that s the quote from james c b com comey. let s bring in seth waxman, who is joining us, julie hershfeld, and gloeria borger.