jim comey is the one that allowed a dossier to get a warrant to spy on the american citizens and jim comey is the guy who leaks sensitive information, broke the rules to the fbi, leaked sensitive information to t"the new york times" to his friend for what reason? to get the special counsel who put the country through a is a forward based on a false accusation. jim comey owes the country for an apology because he put us through this for 2 1/2 years. we know he did it. we know he did it because he was out to get the president based on what happened at the january 6 meeting that you talked about at the trump tower where he talked about the dossier and it says on page 17 of the report, they did it to try to get information, trap the president, all the while, he was telling the president, you're not under investigation. >> beep go. >> that's a guess. >> laura: that's -- >> he's responsible for the whole darn 2 1/2 year thing. >> laura: that's an extremely important point. molly, at the beginning of the angle, you were nodding about something that you thought was important that probably ha

what is the state of jim comey today? >> the inspector general clearly thinks comey has a big mouth. this is the second inspector general report that is critical of him. the first the inspector general says he should have never had that press conference a few days before the 2016 election making those accusations, reopening the investigation against hillary clinton. that was the wrong way to handle that. here again, the inspector general thinks comey handled this the wrong way. in fact, nicolle, but for comey's actions, we probably would not have had a special counsel. we probably would not know all of the evidence of trump's criminality that the mueller report reveals. so i think in the long run, history will judge mueller -- will judge comey as, yes, having a big melt but in some ways being responsible for a little bit of transparency and accountability in the trump administration. >> ashley parker, i asked you before about how having this sort of doj fight on his hands seemed to benefit trump and his supporters. it cer

that's who said he was screwed up jim comey. it wasn't a republican congressman. >> jason: i think you and i were both on that bandwagon but you are right. horwitz, an impeccable credential appointed by obama and confirmed unanimously by the united states and a pretty even call me praise the inspector general. he's now been on the receiving end of two inspector general reports and more to come. >> he's a two-time career offender. three strikes and you're out. >> jason: well, he's out now thank goodness. mr. gowdy, thank you for joining us. now yesterday's rebuke of james comey was just a narrow sliver of what's to come because michael horowitz is still set to release his wider probe into a fisa abuse and u.s. attorney john durham is currently investigating serious irregularities in the handling of the fbi's original russia investigation. plus, sources tell fox news that prosecutors are nearing a decision on whether to charge a former fbi director andrew mccabe, wg director andrew mccabe on charges of lying to federal agents. joi

in the end, jim comey wrote seven memos like this. at least two of them contain information the government later classified as secret. but comey leaked the information nonetheless. in the words of the inspector general, "by not safeguarding sensitive information obtained during his afghan women and by using it to create publicfo pressure for official action, comey set a dangerous example for the over 35,000 current fbi employees and the many thousands more former fbi employees who have similarly had access to our knowledge of nonpublic information." all of which is putting it mildly. jim comey was the most powerful law enforcement official in thet country. there was virtually nothing he couldn't do. he used his power for political ends and there's nothing more corrupt than that. of course we suspected that already. more than a year ago comey announced it to the world, in nofact. in april 2018 interview with george stephanopoulos, comey admitted he had the origins of the steele dossier from his boss, the president, watch. >> did you te

very narrow in scope, dealing specifically with only one issue, that is former fbi director jim comey and his memos. in just a moment, we will break down all the details in what was a devastating rebuke of the former fbi director. today's narrow ig report is, yeah, small in scope, the big report by the inspector general on fisa abuse is expected to be detailed, brutal, and devastating in its conclusions. we can tell you, we expect that report to determine that those fisa warrants, the four warrants on carter page, the back door spying on the trump campaign, transition, then presidency, where, in fact, illegally obtained. that's what we are expecting. remember, comey signed three of the four applications, and the original one, which was october 2016, before the election. but he told before something else in january before he became president. today, they released only a narrow sliver of information, and it's brutal, a small part of what will be coming in the weeks ahead. still to report, a stunning and harsh rebuke to the former fbi director, but let's be clear, this report is exactly

to some extent it confirms to what a lot of us long believed about jim comey that he's a partisan. what does it add to the story? >> one of the most shocking aspects that is new is to look at these similarities between the coordinated effort to thwart all of the rules of proper investigation, investigation ie conduct, how similar the crimes he committed were to the crimes he was supposedly investigating committed by hillary clinton and we all know at the end of that, he decided despite the fact she had broken all of the rules, he decided that he would file no charges. i have a hard time seeing how you can make any argument other than that he believed there are certain people who are above the law and those people are people like jim comey and hillary clinton. you bet if a lower level fbi -- by the time this thing is over with, we will probably see this come to fruition. a lower level fbi agent or a regular american citizen or another government employee committed this level of crimes, they would go to jail. >> tucker: that's exactly right, some are facing jail now because it's the

but that didn't include "the new york times." >> ashley parker, jim comey is

jim comey should be ashamed. joining us now with reaction, the president's attorney jay sekulow. there are a lot of different aspects of this, i thought the words were harsh were devastating, this is a tiny sliver, he signed the three of the four fisa warrants, he also in my view was involved in protecting hillary clinton in that investigation. what level he may have and what may be the bar report is anyone's business but i counterintelligence operation has to be started by a president, that would be obama. on all three of those issues, tell us where you come down. >> i look at the 70 pages, this is a 70 pages of bad news for james comey. let's start with factual determinations by the office of inspector general, and inspector general that was appointed by president obama. the biggest one, james comey said these were his personal recollections, here's the conclusion of the office of the inspector general. the memos were fbi records, once that determination is made, it puts in play various statute rules and regulations of the department of justice. another conclusion from the repo

paul: he's lucky he didn't have jim comey as his prosecutor, jim comey. what are we going to do next here? what are we looking for next? from the ig. >> this is definitely a sign that the ig is wrapping things up. i think it was really notable that he took the time to actually issue a report as long as this on just one aspect of comey's behavior. i think that suggests to us that when he does release his report, which i'm hearing is going to be in the next couple of weeks, his bigger reports looking at the fbi's broader counter intelligence investigation and the fisa process, that it is going to be very comprehensive and that we can expect that nobody just because they have a title or held an important rank or position is going to be spared from a lot of scrutiny. paul: this will involve looking into the fisa court, the warrants against the trump campaign ad vicar, ca carter pa. tensions in the middle east escalate as the israel, iran shadow war breaks out into the open. this was me six years ago... and this is me now! i got liberty mutual. they customized

in response former cia chief john brennan stood up for comey and went after the president saying jim comey is more decent, ethical, honest, competent and patriotic than you could ever hope to be. only because the attorney general and republican senators refuse to put country above party that you are not in a world of trouble and hurt. but there protective cocoon is only temporary. that would like to remind brennan that protective cocoons run both ways and many republicans on capitol hill believe james comey is only the first in a series of blows. on special report georgia congressman doug collins said people should dismiss any talk that his actions were noble. >> we need to get it out of our heads, jim comey was not acting as captain america, he wanted his own agenda. >> is comey admitted that agenda was the appointment of a special counsel. shannon: plenty of media reaction. >> some surprising most of it not. on msnbc's chris matthews show, doj officials say he was out to save the country. >> if you were to charge him and declined to charge him it is like punishing someone for speed

the real problem is jim comey and not donald trump. this ig-report is a damning indictment of someone who was an fbi director and created many abuses that hoover did against martin luther king. spreading information to damage and harm people when he was not going to prosecute him. this is a guy who should never had been -- i have to say after reading the ig-report. one of the most important things donald trump did and the best thing for the country was to fire jim comey. >> laura: john. thank you very much. i want to go to the 2020 political scene. two of the top contenders joe biden and elizabeth warren are making headlines for different reasons. warren is gaining momentum. her crowd sizes are attracting attention. a new poll has her up 9 points over biden. biden is under fire for his g f gaffes and a war story that never happened. frank, i want to get your reaction to media members playing defense still for biden. >> the theme of the story may be right, but he didn't get the details right. >> so what? >> it's not like he made up some

i've told super patriot jim comey, i'll say it again. jim, you have the right to remain silent. my advice now more than ever, you need to shut up. take my advice. this is a big discovery. i'll be honest. as far as the sins of jim comey and things that i think are important, the legality issues of it, this is the low-hanging fruit. this is the least important. what he did on pfizer and elsewhere will be far more important to the american people over time. >> well, it's part of. comey took the fbi files that he had on president trump. kept them at his home, which is illegal. he used them for political purposes paired he leaked them to "the new york times" ." coincidentally, his friend robert mueller, disappointed. look, no leak of the memos. no special counsel. this is a pretty big deal. now, we know for the first time that the fbi was investigating his creation and handling of these memos. they show up at his house, they are interviewing him, and he still has these memos. come on guys. this is a violation of president trump's rights. he keeps them there at his house. he doesn't t

jim comey, because he did not like donald trump, broke all of the rules. it's not just like speeding. these are the basic rules that govern the justice department. what did we get in exchange? two years of wasted time and effort, not just the cost of the mueller report to our whole political system.keeping him frh his jobob of running the countr. it's been a disaster for the country. >> laura: john, the host of "hard ball," chris matthews. >> you know how they knew hitler was coming? they leaked stuff to churchill about the military build-up of the germans. sometimes there is a justifiable cause. >> laura: churchill and hitler.? >> i can't even tell what he is talking about.this is, again, il problem here was jim comey and not donald trump.as you sais incredible, this ig-report is a damning indictment of someone who was an fbi director and created many abuses that hoover did against martin luther king. this was spreading information from fbi files to damage and harm people when he was not going to prosecute him. this is a guy who should neverh. i have to s

>> well, there two lenses through which to view jim comey's conduct. the legal lens. this report focused on the fact while policies were violated the law was not violated. then i think there is a broader lens, an ethical lens, which is did jim comey do the right thing in speaking about about the president's obstructive conduct? the first manner in which he spoke was anonymously. he did that, of course, because he had just been fired by the president and i think he rightly felt if he were to speak out publicly and go to the microphones and explain the fact that the president tried to get the fbi to drop the investigation of mike flynn that, in fact, the president would dismiss it right away because, of course, the president was out there explaining and justifying his firing of jim comey. so first he spoke anonymous. but shortly thereafter, after the special counsel was appointed because of that anonymous speech, jim comey spoke publicly. he testified in front of the senate. he's also spoken out publicly in other fashions as well. and by the way, in all of his public st

story number one, teflon jim comey strikes again. this guy is amazing. you covered it in the beginning of the show very well but hega leaked classified information. leaks it, then says, what did he say, i didn't release it, i communicated it? which, this guy is the king euphemisms. but get a load of this one. he didn't know it was classified? no, it was retroactively classified. he tweeted out something the other day with the word bro in it. o like, hey bro, you were the fbi director bro. you didn't know it was classified information? you may want to put that on your resume for your next job, you have a trouble distinguishing what classified information is. just a pro tip from us here on the show. >> tucker: all the people are going to jail for less than that.in dan bongino, thanks for that. appreciate it. >> you got it, buddy. good to see you. >> tucker: that is it for us tonight and for the week. tonight's last special is out of time. we will be back though, 8:00 p.m. on monday and every weeknight, the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity,

yes, jim comey violated the department rule at the time but he did so as a whistleblower. a whistleblower blowing on the whistle for some of the most disturbing conduct you can imagine by the president of the united states. the idea that it's important at all that he violated these department rules just seems to me very short sighted and narrowly -- reflects a narrow view of the world by bureaucrats and inspector general's office. >> matt miller, justice and security analyst with a different take from folks you heard from on the show. matt, thanks fog ber on the phone. i want to get ainslie who has been sifting through the report and bring more from what she's reading. what have you got? >> when all of this was first leaked to the media, it was after comey was fired as fbi director. that's an interesting question they get into. they slap comey on the wrist for the way they preserved these documents, whether or not they were fbi documents or personal documents. comey says he considers the majority of these memos, including the big one we're talking about here, where he's ta

, we do know that jim comey was reportedly reprimanded for lacking candor by the inspector general. meanwhile, his former hand man, andy mccabe, was actually fired by the fbi. get this, for lying. look at this. the so-called facts first network cnn just hired mccabe. clearly, honesty is not something valued by fake news cnn. joining is now his reaction is florida congressman matt gaetz and former u.s. attorney brett tolman. thanks guys for joining us. congressman, i will go to you first. while we are on the mccabe thing, what better way to reestablish credibility at a network that's promoting this debunked, disgraced collusion hoax for two years, than to hire one of the key figures in it, who is actually under investigation for lien? is almost like a bad joke being played on america right now. >> well, if it's "facts first" for cnn's motto, it may very well be "indictments second," because you got andrew mccabe who was probably the target of the criminal investigation and this is a troubling trend for cnn. they also hired andrew gillum and recent reporting suggest that andrew gillum

but this request is coming from x, y and z. >> you think jim comey knew? >> 100%. >> patrick byrne, we will do our damnest to track all of it down. you say you will provide the names. they did not say you gave them the identities of anybody in their statement. they said you had certain operational knowledge that would not have been public. we will continue to do our work. the channels are open with you. i want the truth to come out. i appreciate you telling your side of the story here tonight. >> thank you chris. it has been an honor. i am going to lay low. best of luck to everybody. good news for republicans and democrats. the republicans are wrong. the democrats did not just dream up the russian investigation. the fbi did. that i had me jumping up and down saying there was a problem and looking at it. the republicans are wrong to say that it was fabricated out of nowhere. what they are right about though is that it was actually being politicized. anyway, i am very sorry. i am going to lay low. best of luck. honorable for you to have me on. >> i am not te

super patriot himself, jim comey. as we all know by now, comey signed off on the very first fisa application against donald trump and his campaign associate carter page and we also now know he signed two other fisa applications, all based, the bulk of information, the bought and paid for phony russian dossier, bought and paid for by hillary clinton. he swore three times that the evidence in those applications were true, accurate, and verified. in reality, in truth, none of it was any of the above. none of it was true, none of it was verified and comey was lying. now, the first fisa request relied on hillary's bought and paid for dirty dossier, russian dossier, that wasn't true. neither was the second or third warrant. it was all based on the phony dossier. none of it accurate, none of it verifiable. it was all unverifiable garbage. comey knew the intel was b.s. he was warned specifically on multiple occasions by multiple people in multiple sources. no serious attempt was ever made to verify the dossier's claims that h

>> i never believed this was the strongest case we could make against jim comey but i think this behavior of his is certainly not blessed. you had the obama appointed inspector general, the field it was so concerning, even though that prosecution didn't occur, it doesn't mean it's good conduct and it's indicative of a broader dynamic under jim comey's leadership and that is the fbi believed their role wasn't to investigate crimes and make decisions. it was to shape public opinion through the press. that's why you continue to see andrew mccabe who was jim comey's deputy face potential criminal penalties as a result of his own leaks. >> bill: do you think this reveals anything about what bill barr will do in his job? >> based on my conversations with bill barr and his testimony, i'm fully confident he is going to get to the bottom of this in response to a question by senator john cornyn, he said he is not certain that the steele dossier wasn't part of russia's misinformation campaign and if americans participated in injecting that opposition brief church, lies from russians into our deliber

attorney and a good one and i hired jim comey so i know jim comey. >> laura: so you are responsible. >> the president always reminds me i'm responsible for jim comey. but the reality is comey's conduct was outrageous for a prosecutor in any decent prosecutor, starting with a completely fixed hillary clinton investigation. that was a sellout, a fix from day 1, a disgrace. and i don't think jay hoover ever did that. i think if you take us through the steele dossier, steel debt affidavits, and steele dossier was validated and putting his ne under oath and straight up perjurer. >> laura: the fisa court -- >> he has been a much jail for much less than that. >> laura: it does not reveal dossier funded by the president's opponent, material fact. >> i was there for the beginning of the fisa court. and one of the first. and that is a sacred duty because nobody gets to respond. i did hundreds of affidavits for regular wiretaps, mafia people. someone challenged those eventually in court, but when i did a pfizer affidavit, it was my responsibility for the court. that man lied, straight applied.

yesterday the former ceo of overstock.com made some incredibly startling allegations about jim comey. even claiming that comey encouraged him to have a romantp with an alleged russian spy in the lead up to the 2016 election. take a look at what he told our own martha maccallum yesterday yesterday. >> a few weeks before the republican convention, about the time that trump became the nominee they came back and said boy, did we make a mistake. i want to be clear they said this. they said the united states never, ever asked this of somebody could never asked a citizen to conduct a romantic relationship in order to get information. this is such a national security emergency we need to ask you to do this. you want to see a former director his pants? part of me, go stick a television camera on peter strzok or let's just say james comey and say the name patrick byrne. you will see a former director of the fbi -- his pants. fired fbi director jim comey's claim those claims ridiculous and while he can't currently prove these allegations against county and others, we do know that jim comey was w

i have a feeling that if somebody that worked for jim comey at the fbi had done this very thing and jim comey found out about it, that person probably would've been fired or at least put on the suspension. but his tweets, i have to say, it's good to be on offense view can be. even when it looks like you should be on defense, he's just on offense and he learned that from our recent politics. it works. >> juan: he learned it from president trump. >> dana: not only bad. if you look at hillary clinton, she walked -- jim comey basically said she did all these terrible things and she walked out and said i'm good. how dare anybody say i did something wrong? >> juan: i was thinking democrats are angry and jim comey because ten days before the election he came out and sent a letter to congress saying i'm going to reopen this investigation, never mentioning there was an ongoing probe into trump's campaign. do you think right now when you look at this and you say you know, he was talking to the president and the president was asking him to go light on mike flynn, do you see any way to justify his

jim comey. in that same hearing he reads from an e-mail that he got where he replied to another u.s. attorney. the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. well, he gave that e-mail to the committee to ask him about it. jim's been promoting himself as this paragon of virtue for his whole career, but it finally blew up in his face. david: john, when you were at the fbi, did you hear any reports on comey that would indicate to you at that time that he was dangerous? >> i wouldn't use the word dangerous, but i certainly had the opportunity to work directly with director comey, and i had seen him in action. i would agree with my colleague, that the fact is that director comey seemed to be interested in director comey. the fact that he goes out on twitter and says that he deserves an apology. director comey wants an apology. i'm sorry you were director of the fbi. it's not been good for anybody. david: yeah, well, he's also essentially denying he was a leaker when he

story number one, teflon, jim comey strikes again. this guy is amazing. you covered and in the beginning of the show very well but he leaked classified information. leak sick, then says, what it he say, i didn't really say, i communicated it? which this guy is the keim of lucent euphemisms. but it was retroactively classified. he tweeted out something you have at it with the road bro in it. like hey bro, you were the fbi director bro. you didn't know it was classified information? you may want to put that on your resume because you have trouble distinguishing what classified information is pure just approach it from us here on the show. >> tucker: all the people are going to jail for less than that. dan bongino, thanks for that. i appreciate it. good to see you. and that is it for us tonight and for the week. tonight's last special is out of time here we will be back though, 8:00 p.m. on monday and every weeknight the show that is the sworn enemy of line come lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. it has a great weekend. ♪ >> welcome to this specia

jim comey will not be prosecuted and that's exactly what shawn was talking about here. they could not establish that he had sort of criminally intended to violate the laws regarding classification. but again to be -- so anyway, sorry, i lost my train of thought because i'm still reading this. what we know is that laws governing classification to be taken seriously and so on, but again, we shouldn't get caught up in this question of comey's conduct being -- >> criminal. they did make a decision a short time ago and we knew that going into it. thanks to both of you as always. >>> after she failed to make the next debate, another democrat has now pulled out of the presidential race, we're going to speak to a candidate who is sfaing in, even though she is also missing that debate. tulsi gabbard is talking about why she's continuing to fight and why she thinks the process is flawed. do you have concerns about mild memory loss related to aging? prevagen is the number one pharmacist-recommended memory support brand. you can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. pr

according to solomon, the report will conclude that the fired fbi director, jim comey, leaked classified information, and showed a lack of candor. let me break this down. he violated 18 usc 793. that's a felony. it's called the espionage act. and he lied over and over again. look at your screen. james comey, likely broke all of those laws, at least for, according to the fox news legal analyst, our friend, craig jay. hewitt you might remember, you know papadopoulos has been on the show, and his wife, he had to go to jail for a couple of weeks? he was convicted of lying peered he went to jail. lieutenant general flynn, convicted of lying, he is awaiting sentencing even though interestingly enough, the fbi agents who interviewed him didn't think he was lying. but after he couldn't afford his attorneys and he was going bankrupt and had to sell his home and after being set up by a bragging, super patriot jim comey, laughing at the fact that he was taking advantage on day four of the new administration, something he would never do in the obama abortion administration, after his deputy andrew m

did jim comey read this report? no one who don't act out his intelligence. i don't think he's a meathead. but his sick devonian's inability to any self-examination, it's embarrassing. that tweet is such an embarrassment. members of the comey leadership team are cited as "shaken, stunned, disappointed" when they found out of his leaking to a professor in "the new york times." he failed to surrender seven memos he wrote. he kept some in his home safe. after he got fired, they had to come to his house and get them back. he still sits there, all 6'9" of him, and sends that tweet as though he's been exonerated. democrats don't like him. republicans are disgusted by hi him. most law enforcement people will be disgusted by this report. >> katie: should i follow up on that? >> dagen: yes, you should. >> katie: he is still a leaker leaker. the long inspector general report repeatedly verifies that. it verifies that james comey claimed these memos he wrote about his conversations with president trump were in fact fbi government property, not personal property that bel

jim comey spoke publicly. he testified in front of the senate. and he's spoken out publicly in other fashions as well. in all of his public statements, both anonymous and public, not a single fact has been disproven. the mueller report validated independently every single fact that jim comey put on the public record. >> yeah. and frank, it does seem like an unusual situation. i guess i'm curious. maybe with the benefit of hindsight. could you look back and see a way for comey to have achieved what he was trying to achieve that would have lived within the rules of the doj and the fbi to establish? >> well, let's understand the context. it even says in the ig report, he told the ig, i'm doing this because i could not trust the white house. i could not trust the president. and as jeremy said, all of his mistrust was actually right on the money. he ended up getting fired soon after did this. so what would i have done? i've thought about this. there is a possibility you could have provided those memos to the house or senate. intelligence committees. y

. >> i think it points to the culture that jim comey created as director of the fbi. there was a culture of leaking. there was a culture of the highest executives at the fbi, the director, putting their own self interests ahead of the interest of the country. i think it's dangerous with the created at the fbi. where they could make the decision, inconsistent with fbi policy and doj policy, to put their own self interests -- in this case, leaking was memos -- in order to cause a chain of events that the opponent of the special counsel was a result. >> molly: i want to highlight one portion from the report. comey had several other lawful options available to him, which he told us was his goal. making the disclosure. what was not permitted was the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information obtained during fbi employment in order to achieve a personally-desired outcome. and yet, by taking this action, he essentially got with he decided. there doesn't seem to be a big repercussion to this. so how do we hold people accountable when they have these very powerful jobs?

this report is expected to be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to jim comey. we will get the fisa, full fisa abuse report by the inspector general. as we have long reported, jim comey is playing a starring role in that investigation. remember, he has signed three of those fisa applications. all of them, he had been warned about. all of them, the bulk of the information, hillary clinton's bought and paid for russian dossier. blakely, russian disinformation from the get-go. this was for the purpose of spying on a presidential candidate and the president of the united states. they were also used in an attempt to destroy a duly elected president. on what are the origins of the russia probe. this report will dig into how america's powerful tools of intelligence were used and abused against president trump campaign paid and then, president trump. and also, whether in fact illegal spine incurred. they were designed to circumven circumvent. that will be a bombshell. james comey is also. also, andy mccarthy, as he points out in a brand-new book, there is no such thing

i was specifically told, this request is coming from jim comey at the request of somebody. who i'm not going to name. do not assume it is the president. do not assume -- it was president obama. do not assume that. that came out -- absolutely. this is all the stuff. >> and you have their names. >> oh, yeah. this is the kindergarten style. >> when they respond they're going to say, we like patrick byrne. he was good in business but this story is 100%. >> they're not going to do. that i promise you. they're going to no comment. they will not come out and deny this. >> if they come out and deny this -- >> do you have anything in writing? >> this is the silly part. >> not that silly. this story is so wild. >> chris -- >> you have to have some proof. >> i'm light years beyond all the world you're talking about. this is all fed into the doj on april 5 and april 30th. nine days later, on may 9th, they moved maria butina from an isolation cell in a unit in virginia to the nicest women's camp in the federal system. and -- >> how do you know? >> and on may 14, john durham was appointe

jim comey promised us he never did that. but on page 60 the inspector general finds that jim comey engaged in unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information in order to achieve a personally desired outcome. that out come was to get in this case a special counsel to stop donald trump. it calls into question literally all of the actions and all of the decisions made by jim comey. brian: we tend to talk at each other now. people say, i support this person or that person, this party or that party. i think it is important to understand, he screwed up the hillary clinton investigation. he, he blindsided the attorney general, barack obama's attorney general, the way he interviewed her, had agents interview her on 4th of july weekend. that press conference he had. almost everything he did made a difficult situation worse. now it is revealed that he had an agenda, for whatever reason, he does not, did not like the president united states. steve: he was going to save the country. brian: for 2 1/2 years he put the country through hel

jim comey did not violate criminal law but everything he did, if he had been on fbi agent or a simple justice department attorney, he would've been fired on the spot by the attorney general and he would have deserved it because you are not allowed as a justice department attorney to take the stuff and spread it all around because you feel like it. we give information and cooperate with prosecutors because we expect them to keep it secret and confidential so they can use it to solve crimes, not to make someone look better. if he had wanted a special counsel appointee, he could've just gone out in front of the fbi building and say i think trump is unfit for office and there should be a special counsel -- he would've achieved his goal. >> shannon: this is what john kennedy said about it toda today. >> just because it's not criminal doesn't mean it's not sleazy. >> this is the new standard it's already been set, it doesn't matter if they break the law as long as there's no cops involved. if this is why the trump administration lowering the ball, it it's coming back to him in a karmic way.

why do folks like jim comey and hillary clinton continued to get away with saying things you would never get away with, military men and women never get away with, joe digenova answers that question. cornel west and dr. drew pinsky are also here. first, radical renegades gone wild, that's the focus of tonight's first angle. just last week, nancy pelosi assured us that any disagreement in her own party was just a family squabble. >> i have some level of confidence and joy in seeing diversity in our caucus. in a family you have a difference but you're still family. >> laura: more like the corleone's or the manson's -- watching the debate it didn't have a feel of a family reunion to me. a majority of the democrats on stage trashed the recent standard-bearer barack obama. he's one of the most beloved political figures on the planet but he is written off as a cautious technocrat who was unable to deliver the fundamental change, the radicals really wanted and still want. now aoc plus three have led to the reappraisal of their leftist activism. remember when i said back in january, conservative

z. >> so you believe that jim comey knew that you were being asked to do these things in the name of the united states government. >> not only knew. i was specifically told this request is coming from jim comey at the request of somebody who i will not name. do not assume it is the president. it was -- president obama. do not assume that. that came out. absolutely. this is all the stuff. >> and you have their names? >> oh, yeah. this was all -- this is the kindergarten stuff. >> i have to believe, they'll say we like patrick byrne, he was good in business but this story is 100%. >> no. they're not even going to do that. i promise you they'll no comment. they will not come out and deny this. if they come out and deny it -- >> do you have anything in writing? >> listen. this is the silly part. >> it's not that silly. this story is so wild. you have to have some proof the. >> i'm light years beyond all the world you're talking about. >> do we have a response from james comey? from law enforcement? >> so right now we've reached out to everyone. we've reached out to james comey, peter str

. >>> i was specifically told this request is come from jim comey at the request of somebody. do not assume it was president obama. do not assume that. >> he gave him his say. we gave him his say, and then we had to do the reporting on it. we have new information. we also have maria butina's lawyer here. we are going to bring the lawyer in. what do they know? what do they think? and the responses were relevant parties. next. i...decided to take the dna test. and i...was... shocked. i'm from cameroon, congo, and...the bantu people. new features. greater details. richer stories. get your dna kit today at ancestry.com. let's see, aleve is than tylenol extra strength. and last longer with fewer pills. so why am i still thinking about this? i'll take aleve. aleve. proven better on pain. she's staying in a rainforest tree house? that's my dream. you dream big for a man on a plane to omaha. and she's zip lining with little jon? what! it's lil jon. even he knows that. thanks, captain obvious. you're with big jon. i'm steve. don't hate-like their trip, book yours with hotels.com and ge

. >> i think jim comey made his peace with this a long time ago. i mean this is on balance somewhere between neutral and good news for him. it means there's not a lot of ammunition if the president wanted to try to pursue something on the classified or, quote, leak front. but, you know, this has certainly had reputational implications for jim comey. it's created divisions and changed his reputation. but in his view, i think he thought it was worth staking his reputation on this. he felt that his goal was more important than the fallout over that. what's the point of having a decades-long reputation if you can't use it for something. he thought putting the president in check, i guess, or taking that stand during the campaign was more important and this just means that there's not going to be kind of a leak investigation. >> comey basically said in a tweet today, a few tweets, he said doj i.g. found no evidence that comey or his attorneys released any of the classified information contained in any of the memos to members of the media. this is comey s

he was deputy director of the fbi after jim comey, your friend and former boss as well. was fired. there's an open question not just about whether or not donald trump was obstructing the russian investigation but whether by obstructsing it, by firing jim comey he was carrying out either wittingly or unwittingly the wishes of moscow. talk about just how threatened donald trump was by andy mccabe and his leadership in the fbi. >> sure, andy told the world he was opening an investigation on the president's role with respect to the mueller investigation and russian interference and told us that the president was a subject of that investigation. so the president must have felt very threatened by what andy mccabe did. by the way, nicolle, what andy mccabe stood for. probably a good point to insert by bias, andy is a friend of mine. i think he's a man of integrity. but the attacks of the president on andy were merciless, absolutely extraordinary. once andy was fired, the president publicly celebrated that firing. so what andy is essentially alleging is the timetable for his firing was acc

final thoughts from all stars stay with us. ♪ dagen: president trump just tweeting on jim comey. the fact that james comey was not prosecuted for the absolutely horrible things he did just shows how fair and reasonable attorney general bill barr is. so many people and experts that i have watched and read would have taken an entirely different course. comey got lucky. >>> final thoughts from these all-stars. >> let's jump back to the markets real quick and say look, if you're out there worried about the markets, you need to take the long view. it's about the next 10,000 days, the next 27 years of your life. you can't get rich trading, day trading, momentum trading. be careful out there. look out over the long run. dagen: think about the things you can control. so for example, how much you're spending. if you are feeling nervous about your cash position right now, maybe cut your spending. in the meantime, personally i'm looking out for the next week to see what's going to happen with the job numbers, too. i want to see what that means for this market. i think we can expect more vol

. >> i heard you say on fox if you go put a camera in jim comey's face and say the name patrick byrne you are not going to like the reaction it gets. >> that is the z. that is mr. z. >> you believe that jim comey knew that you were being asked to do these things in the name of the united states government? >> i was specifically told this is coming at the request of mr. comey. do not assume it was president obama. do not assume that. >> you have their names? >> yeah. yeah. this is the kindergarten stuff. >> i have to believe when they respond they will say we like patrick byrne. he was good in business. but this story is 100% fugasi. >> they are not going to do that. they will no comment. if they come out to deny this. >> do you have anything in writing? >> this is the silly part. >> this story is so wild you have to have proof. >> chris, i am light years beyond the world you are talking about. >> sara, do we have a response from james comey or law enforcement? >> so right now we reached out to james comey, fbi, doj, we don't have a response from them. cnn hasn't independently corrobor