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We have a situation where the fbi director is badly damaged politically. that is no small thing, if he ib the primary investigator. we ve also had a situation which people don t like to talk about as much, where we have had to attorney general s, first loretta lynch beginning t lat summer when she took herself out of the clinton email probe and now attorney general jeff sessions who has taken himself out of the russian investigation. if you don t have an attorney general i don t say that s politically, i say that s in a neutral way, they are not in complete control of their department. when you take those two factors together, people have said to me this is extremely bad for the country. there needed to be some action. do you think the investigation continues? are the agents saying it will continue? everything that has been indicated to me is that the investigation will continue and it may wrap up at some point, soon this year. but the accusation against the former fbi direct ....
The work of rod rosenstein who is the deputy attorney general. he came into the job after being confirmed by a vote of 94-6, not quite unanimous but obviously a lot of democratic support and a started reviewing this case and assessing the situation. he had some concerns about all of this prior to taking over as it deputy attorney general. he thought comey acted absolutely improperly about what he said in that hour-long press conference about hillary clinton in july of last year. that she had classified emails on her server, that she shouldn t have done it but at the same time he didn t think that it warranted pressing charges. rod rosenstein said at that point, comey really had usurped the authority of loretta lynch. would it really buried comey was what he said last week in testimony in front of the senate ....
Make that judgment if you are the investigator and tell the prosecutor what to do. he should have allowed that to go straight to loretta lynch without the interference of his personal that is where this started to really unravel for him. joining us now is john roberts. john, catch us up on the day. where were you when you heard the news? dana, you know this all too well. when there is nothing on the schedule, that is when you have to be prepared for something big to happen. i had gone earlier there today like you want planning a press conference, right? that s when you have to get your antenna up. i guess it was 5:40 in the afternoon. for the very last time, he is heading back to washington from los angeles. we are told by white house officials that this really was ....
Jim comey was in a tough spot. 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. 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 clay case that is tough to read all that and go back to trump praising comey about how he handled the email investigation. and that he was a welcomed member of the investigation. it s worth pointing out that at ....
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 himselft 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 clarke to replace mr. comey? i would be absolutely ....