unpopular with most people. he had the very poor performance on wednesday. that was a poor, poor performance. he was grandstanding all over the place. he is a showboater. that same comey that the president didn t like, history has stressed him into the probe where weissmann works. and comey was quite public at the time in his praise for weissmann. i d like to thank andrew weissmann, deputy director of the enron task force who is standing around the room some place. i want to thank and congratulate andrew weissmann, let me thank the enron task force, in particular andrew weissmann, t head of the enron task force. he and his brilliant team were in houston today where their harsch hard work continues. you can you see weissmann off to the side while comey talks. he often avoided those microphones. that hard work as comey put it led to some hard calls like whether prosecutors should single out just bad employees or indict entire companies. now that s controversial because if it send
tonight, new details tonight from james comey s memos documenting his conversations with president trump. i want to bring in caroline polici, a federal and white colar defense attorney, david rohdes, scott jennings and alice stewart. alice, get to new york. you re kind of here. you re buying, i m flying. let s talk about the memos that that comey talks about a lot in his book. there s a lot of detail in these memos. let me get your take. scott, you first. what do you think? number one, these memos remind us that the flynn hire for national security advisor was stupid. i mean, this was unbelievable. number two, comey was no. keep that in mind. comey pretty consistent i think we heard most of this in
to keep track of what they re talking about. it s the feedback loop, trump talks about i want to charge the fbi and doj leaders and hillary clinton and others they re a den of thieves he calls them at one point, then the hosts pick it up and start talking about the same stuff. the case of hillary clinton, if you look back, i did at the time, i was in government at the time looked at the case law and the cases of when we prosecute people for mishandling classified information, it s when there s a deliberate transfer of classified information from one person to another, not when they re being careless. really this is just essentially saying she should be held to a different standard than anyone else because she s the political opponent of the president. she s the president of the united states sorry, that s on one channel. i forgot about that. everybody, thank you. when we come back, more details from james comey s memos about his conversations with
the perfect place to wrap it up. we ll talk about this on the other side of the break. i know we ve all been waiting to talk about this. coming up, comey talks about the controversial handling of the investigation and why he knew it was a no-one situation. you won t want to miss it. stick around. hey grandpa. hey, kid. really good to see you. you too. you tell grandma you were going fishing again? maybe. (vo) the best things in life keep going. that s why i got a subaru, too. love is out there. find it in a subaru crosstrek.
president is elected when he says the president told him to let the flynn investigation go and he said he s asking me his impression is to drop the critical investigation. is that possible obstruction of justice he s referring to? i don t think. i think it is obstruction of justice. i just think there is just no other way to describe what the president was doing if comey s account of the conversation is correct. he is trying to stop an investigation of a someone in the russia investigation and particularly when you combine it with all three meetings that comey talks about, i think in and of itself it is obstruction of justice. it was a crime committed in the oval office. now, whether comey is telling