with respect to his testimony, i think there is ample evidence there that he had mishandled his position and the authority that he was given as director of the fbi. this to me does not, as a surprise that it happened. quite honestly, as a former prosecutor i was expecting it to even happen sooner in terms of it being a problem with the public trust. and someone that really overstepped his bounds and assuming the role essentially as loretta lynch. it is not that comey is gone because you can make a case that you should have been fired a long time ago. be immediately back in july. but why now? what did rod rosenstein see that sally yates didn t see when she was the deputy attorney general? if he was going to be fired for what he did, it was such an egregious violation of his position there as director of the fbi, why didn t sally yates
mr. comey? i would be absolutely appalled. i want to pick up on something kimberly was talking about. rosenstein comes out today and it says basically that democrats and republicans have lost faith in this fbi director because of his actions. for very different reasons. republicans obviously saying you should have recommended an indictment of hillary clinton because you lay down a laundry list of things that she was guilty of committing some crime and then decides no, we are not going forth. democrats see him as influencing the election. and fbi policy as stated by loretta lynch, don t impact an election. comey last week confessed that i felt mildly nauseous at the idea i might be impacting an electio election. it wasn t catastrophic to conceal the fact that the investigation was now looking
despite the president made that decision. leave the letter clean. he s president of the united states. this is well within his discretion to do. if he felt that he could no longer we will hear more about reasons behind it. he can no longer serve with confidence to have the trust of the american public, then he is compelled to do that. i have no quarrel with the decision he made. he could have been made sooner. when director comey put himself in the role of attorney general loretta lynch. as a prosecutor, that is her decision whether or not to file or bring charges against hillary clinton or anyone associated with her. it s not the decision of the fbi director. hang on, just a second. you can answer. i ve a question. i was going to ask how do you feel when donald trump appoints sheriff clark to replace
he was put there by loretta lynch when she left the attorney general at the time with president clinton on that tarmac on the private plane in arizona.bo when that happened, his avenues about what choices he had about coming forward our own or not, as he explained in the recent hearing on capitol hill, were kind of limited. some of the fbi say he was boxed into a corner. others say he went too far. he was over his skis in a way he dealt with it. it s outside the way the fbi deals with that. if you look at all of the letters that were put out by the trump administration tonight, they make the case that it s tough to read all that and go back to trump praising comey about how he handled the emailto investigation. t and that he was a welcomed member of the it s worth pointing out that at at 109 days, you have a president who has hired his national security advisor,
and other senior law enforcement personnel on both sides of the aisle to canvass their opinions. they felt that the fbi director had in fact lost his wife. lost his way. one, the investigation at the justice department into fbi director comey and loretta lynch, the former attorney general and the handling of the clinton emails. the feeling was, the findings would be extremely negative for both. negative for comey, taking on that prosecutorial role and also for loretta lynch, having that conflict. here is why it matters in the most basic sense. i ve been told repeatedly that if the united states is separate and distinct from other countries, it s because we are a nation of laws. there s one set of rules for the little guy and the big guy.