To help grow your business. Another way we have your back. The powerful backing of american express. Dont do business without it. Welcome to kasie d. C. Im kasie hunt. We are live from washington every sunday from 7 00 to 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Tonight, publish or perish . James comey is out with a bombshell new book as the feds release a report deeply critical of Andrew Mccabe. Were joined by congressman jim himes of the House Intelligence Committee who says the president doesnt have the right to shine james comey shoes. Plus sanctions coming for russia after america strikes targets in syria. But what remains to be seen is the american strategy. Beyond declaring mission
accomplished. But first, the week begins full of questions. What do the feds have on Michael Cohen . Who is back in court in just a few hours. Stormy daniels will be there, too. How will the president react to james comey interview tonight . And how much longer will Rod Rosenstein have an office in the Department Of Justi
sweeping across the various districts, why wasn t the decision taken to halt the withdrawal at that point, when it seemed like [inaudible]? you re talking about the withdrawal of 2500? because that s what we re talking about. those 2500, you have to separate the 2500 from the infantry battalion, the 82nd airborne units, those are different type units. that 2500 that drew down, those are advisors. those aren t the kind of guys that do those. those are two different operations. one is withdrawal of forces which we were directed to withdraw under the conditions that existed in late spring, early summer, that s a retrograde of force. we had to close 11 camps. had to transfer those camps to the afghan security forces, etc. that s one option. one operation. the second operation is the neo. that s triggered then by a series of deteriorating conditions that occur in late july, early august, and then the
the report doesn t back this up at all. i want to get into the issue of woos there political influence on james comey or not. comey himself has given two different explanations. the first one was during testimony on capitol hill. listen. one of my junior lawyers said, should you consider that what you are about to do may help elect donald trump president? and i said thank you for raising that. not for a moment. because down that path lies the death of the fbi as an independent institution in america. i can t consider for a second whose political fortuned will be affected in what way. we have to ask ourselves, what is the right thing to do. 11 months later, george stephanopoulos asks james comey a similar question. take a listen. at some level, wasn t the decision to reveal influenced by your assumption that hillary clinton was going to win and your concern that she wins, this comes out several weeks later, and then that s taken by her
a, he did push back. there is a difference with the mayor and president of the united states. in a one-on-one meeting which is inappropriate. that s fair. you need to separate the decision to go in front of the cameras on the hillary memo and interactions with trump. they both anger people on both sides of the aisle. people who came to the interview last night for an understanding of what happened in a deeper understand. they will be frustrated. an ongoing investigation. comey has his hands tied. he could not give new information about what we know about the president or russia probe or anything. even the hillary clinton e-mail situation. it was an interview about why. you said he is a man who admitted he made mistakes. he doesn t think announcing that hillary clinton e-mail probe was a mistake. it was. it was something that this bureau has never done before. listen to the sound. wasn t the decision to reveal
clinton blames the announcement for her election loss, she wrote in her book that she felt shived by comey. his expectation that clinton would win played into his decision to reveal the new information. wasn t the decision to reveal based on the assumption she was going to win? it must have been. i don t remember consciously thinking about that, it must have been. i was operating in a world where hillary clinton was going to beat donald trump. i don t remember spelling it out, but it had to be, she s going to be elected president, and if i hide this from the american people, she ll be illegitimate the moment she s elected, the moment this comes out. brianna, first to you, you