reading this report, are you going to apologize to jim comey? >> no, your opening remarks are right on target. you had to live through this 2 1/2 year saga because of one guy. jim comey. he opened the investigation in july of 2016. he put peter strauck in front of it. the same guy trump should lose 100 million to zero. that's the guy he put in charge. 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

director jim comey was roasted. thend inspector general found that he was in clear violation of the department of justice guidelines and his sworn duty in handling information related to his dealings with the president and the dossier. now comey's conduct was an affront to the standards expected of all doj employees and it's a stain on the long, proud history of the fbi.d but, tonight here's what you need to understand. comey, along with clapperbrennad perhaps others, franceyed themselves as super heroes, planted themselves as trump-resisting superhero, self-appointed saviors of truth, justice, and the american way. well, deep state actors, they looked the other way as comey abused his position. all the privileges and power of the fbi in a planned effort to destroy the man he had utter disdain for. donald trump.. now, comey comes from the rarified upper crust of elite washington lawyers. to them, trump from the outset was an uncouth real estate mogul turned reality star,r, the antithesis of what many of these self-annointed elites wanted in their president. now folks like comey them

now. >>> hi, everyone, it's 4:00 in new york. former fbi director jim comey on the offense today in the wake of a brand-new report from the inspector general at the department of justice. comey today suggesting he's owed an apology for those who defamed him saying he belonged in jail for declassifying information. he insisted he would not do anything different. comey today, i don't need a public apology from those who defamed me but a quick message i'm sorry we lied about you would be nice. and those two spent two years talking about me going to jail for being a liar and leaker, ask yourselves why you still trust people who gave you bad info for so long, including the president? the choice that's were under scrutiny included sharing a memo comey wrote about his bizarre interactions with donald trump n one of those memos, comey wrote about being asked to take a loyalty oath to donald trump. comey also detailed the president asking him to see to it to let disgraced national security adviser mike flynn go. the substance of those memos about comey's interactions with the president would

director jim comey. for years we've been hearing rumors about what he was up to in the opening days of the trump administration and now we know. if catherine herridge is fox chief intelligence correspondent and she joins us tonight. catherine. >> this is the second time the government watchdog found comey went beyond his authority as fbi director. the first known as the handling of the clinton email case. the inspector general said he violated fbi policy and agreement. "what was not permitted with the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive investigative information. if obtained during the course of fbi employment in order to achieve a personally desired outcome. inspector general mike lee horwitz says the memos documenting have a conversation withch the president, government records and not comey's to share with his lawyers or the media. after he was fired from he usedu a columbia law school professor is a cut out the contents of one memo to "the new york times." that law professor told inspector general he was the source for another "new york times" story by trump asking comey for loyal

nobody other than jim comey considers that to be personal. >> jason: do you think there was the accountability and the consequence? you know the criticism here is that if somebody else had done this, they would be in handcuffs. they would be going to jail. but is justice being fair and right here and is he being held accountable? >> well, i'm very sensitive to that. when our fellow citizens think we have a two track justice system, either for the famous or the not famous or the rich or the poor, then we are in trouble as a republic. i would tell my fellow citizens this. we have to have other ways of meeting on accountability other than simply indictments but hillary clinton was never indicted pitch was never charged therefore never guilty of a crime but yet the american jury in 2016 meted out a consequence. jim comey, whether he likes it or not, all of his pads in the southern district of new york from all of his past at the injustice, all of his time as an fbi director, some of which i agreed with, all of that will be forgotten. gone and history will be all of our judges but th

behavior of fire director jim comey. for years we've been hearing rumors of what he was up to in the opening days of the trump administration and now we know. if catherine herridge is fox chief intelligence correspondent and she joins us tonight. >> this is the second time they found he went beyond his authority, the first was in his handling of the clinton's email case. the inspector general said he and violated guidelines and his employment agreement. what was not permitted was the authorized disclosure of sensitive investigative information obtained during the course of fbi employment, in order to achieve a personally desired outcome. michael horowitz said the memos were not his to share with his lawyers or the media. after he was fired, he used a columbia law school professor to get the memo to "the new york times." he said he was the source for another "new york times" story about trump asking at comey for loyalty. on twitter, comey claimed vindication because no classified information was shared with the media. the justice department declined to prosecute and today the ig also

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 and what was a devastating rebuke of the former fbi director. today's narrow report is 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 back door spying on the trump campaign transition, then presidency were 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 but he told trump something else in january. today they released only a narrow sliver of information, it's brutal, a small part of what will be coming in the weeks ahead. it is a stunning and harsh rebuke to the former fbi director but let's be clear, this is exactly what a few weeks ago we told you exactly what it would be, we were not wrong. narrow, limited in scope with referrals that the ag has

an apology from most of america. only jim comey could turn a report that was this devastating into some sort of vindication. i think the ig did two important things here. one, he skewered this absurd claim that comey made that memos he took of official moments with the president were personal and therefore his to keep and leak. obviously, in doing so he did break any number of rules and regulations in his own employment agreement. the other important thing that the ig did was skewer this notion that comey was justified in doing this. pointing out that we have rules for a reason. you do not get to run the fbi on the basis of personal conviction and that even jim comey has to be expected to follow all those regulations. paul: kim, he said that the ig's report said the motivation that comey had here was self-serving. he wanted to get donald trump. he wanted to get an appointment of a special counsel. so that was for his own -- and yet comey couched it in a sort of grander vision of oh, i care deeply about the fbi, i care deeply about the country. but he was also -- he was really looki

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 speeding on their way to put out a fire. >> reporter: on cnn, largely def

for that damning ig-reporter on jim comey. john will unpack all of it. after saying he would not comment on a sitting president mattis is doing just that. this is a preach of the military code and raymond is here twice. first in follies and examines why elite are trying to shut down david's politically uncorrect special and we had him on the road in california. it's unreal this is happening in the united states of america. first, you would think that lacerating a inspector general report on jim comey would be big news. it is. a huge abuse of power. violating the department norms. much of the media just stuck their hands in the sand regarding the true take away. this is the same press that took every little whiff of trouble for president trump and inflated it. to prove our point we will look at what major media figures were obsessing on a year ago and what happened since. here's msnbc's ratings queen. >> the president's business is also implicated in the commission of felonies according to the criminal information filed in court with michael cohen's guilty plea. >> laura: that led

it was under review from the department of justice. jim comey signed those faisal warrants based on that dossier. >> bill: you're making a case that no prosecution on this for now, is that what i hear? >> if you believe the reporting you've seen, it's a lack of intent to commit a crime that resulted in this decision by the department of justice. as we illuminate more facts, we learn more about people's intent and why they do various things. it's our proposition that the trump-russian narrative wasn't the crime, it was the cover-up. the real crime when occurred wu had elements of the intelligence community politicizing a secret court and jim comey signed those warrants knowing there was not complete information included about george papadopoulos and carter page, that may be the true area where he has to be held to account. >> bill: let me take you back to april of last year, here is james comey quickly on abc defending himself. >> i gave that unclassified memo to my friend and asked him to give it to a reporter. that is appropriate. >> bill: so many thought this was not the end of it

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 statements, both anonymous and pub

, in my humble opinion. 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 h

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 behavior? >> greg: i will always give

james comey says and does does. jim foreman, at the forefront has released take statement on this ig report. he says it's a disappointing reminder the former fbi director put partisanship and personal ambition over patriotism. a top republican in the house. is it your expectation this will get spun politically and on a partisan level over the next 24, 48 hours or so? >> i think if you want to attack the former fbi director, who was the person who launched the entire investigation that came the mueller investigation, this report does give you a lot of fodder for that. it talks about how james comey's intentions behind the leaks of these memos were to create his own personal narrative. they counter this idea this was for the love of country and really say it had to do more with the love of his own image he was trying to save. there's a lot republicans can work with. at the end of the day, they don't have anything that's a prosecutorable offense. really he didn't do anything out of line with what a lot of whistleblowers do throughout washington, hallie. >> i'll let you get back to readi

there is not a lot of room for error -- unless you happen to be jim comey. if you are jim comey, you can do pretty much whatever you feel like it if you flagrantly break the law and brag about it, nobody will touch you. how do we know this? we know this because comey actually did that. shortly before he was fired from the fbi, comey wrote memos describing his meetings with his boss, the president. comey then lease those memos, some of which contained classified information. that is a crime. how do we know it is a crime? comey himself conceded that in an interview. watch. >> i think of a leak as an unauthorized disclosure of classified information. that is how i thought about it as fbi director. >> tucker: so, by comey's own admission, which you just heard, he committed a crime. comey was responsible for the funauthorized disclosure of classified information. tiyet, according to comey, this was legal because it wasn't w leaking. it was "communicating." >> but you did leak memos, i mean, is it okay for somebody at the fbi to leak something, an internal document, even if it's not classi

jim comey. patty and petty and vindictive is the regent reason roger stone has been treated more harshly than jeffrey epstein ever was. petty and vindictive sums up the entire russia investigation. and the effort to destroy donald trump's entire life. he abused the public's trust peered in 2016, he repeatedly injected himself into the political arena and by his own admission, he considered the political effect of his actions when he did so. his subordinates meanwhile, pete molly peter strzok and lisa page, low some people, repeatedly conspired to use fbi resources to sabotage the presidential campaign didn't like. then in 2017, there was a climax peered according to reports, call me lights of the press and his boss telling him he was not under investigation. in fact, comey wasn't maneuvering to begin an investigation. then with the leaks that he just admitted to on camera you saw, comey launched the rush holt investigation. there never was. it was never justified. it was always just a hillary campaign talk implant. an excuse for her to humiliate an election. everyone knew that. b

about jim comey, even claiming that comey encouraged him to have a romantic relationship 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. >> a few weeks before the republican convention, about the time that trump became the presumptive nominee, they came back and said, boy, did we make a mistake. russia, russia, russia. i want to be clear they said this. they said the united states never, ever asked this of somebody, 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 crap his pants? pardon 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. >> dan: fired fbi director jim comey's claim those claims ridiculous, and while he can't currently prove these allegations against comey and others, we do know that jim comey was reportedly reprimanded for lacking ca

himself, jim comey. as we all know by now, call me and signed off on the very first fives application against donald trump and his campaign associate carter page and we also now know he signed two other phase 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. in none of it was true, none of it was verified and call me was lying. now, the first pfizer 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. out of it accurate, none of it verifiable. it was all unverifiable garbage. call me the intel was -- he. he was born more specifically on multiple occasions and multiple people and sources. no serious attempt was ever made to verify the dossier's claims that he signed off on three times. comey used it in a way in order t

? >> well, you know, and let me say good things about jim comey, talented guy, nice fella, obviously now we know that he was in positions that he was not qualified to be in. you can see a progression if you look back in the history of jim comey, going back to 2004, when he had a conflict with the white house over a provision in the counterterrorism program. in the 2007 hearing, he engineers away it is not a hearing about that, it has nothing to do with that, but he engineers a way to tell that story in a long dramatic way. guess who is the hero in that story? 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 dange

. >> 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? >> not only knew but i was told that the request is coming from jim comey at the request of somebody. do not assume it is the president. do not assume it was president obama. do not assume that. absolutely. this is -- >> you have their names? >> yeah. this is the kindergarten stuff. >> when they respond they are going to say we like patrick byrne, but this story is 100% fugasi. >> i promise you they will no comment. they will not come out and deny it. if they deny it. >> do you have anything in writing? >> this is the silly part. this is wild. you have to have proof. >> chris, i am light years beyond the world you are talking about. this is all sent in to the doj on april 5th and 30th. nine days later, may 9th they moved maria butina from an isolation cell in virginia to the nicest

deep state. the fisa courts, all of it, first on the docket a previously unknown report on jim comey conduct written by i.d. mike borowitz. rudy giuliani and pam mangino -- dan bongino will be here to respond. two weeks after epstein suicide sean talked about this, but why does alan dershowitz now believe he is a victim of the meat too movement. here is the mikey is here to tell us about it but michelle obama in a new showtime series. but who might play the other first lady? and "good morning america" succumbs to advance in twitter mob, raymond arroyo will be all over it from "seen and unseen." but first from burlington to beijing that is the focus of the first of tonight's angle. in the media world that we live in with connectives hopscotch and across the country making multiple appearances a day, it is easy to miss the most revealing moment. case in point, speaking to the hill, bernie sanders praised china. >> they have made more progress in extreme poverty than any country in the history of civilization. they've done a lot of things for their people. >> laura: [laughter] yes, they've done

. 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 as a counterinte

have initially picked up. 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

-face, the messages we know about you and those in moscow. jim comey had earlier said the reason he told the president-elect, he knew the information was out there, it was embarrassing, he wanted him to know this, telling him for his own good. the fbi investigative team had meticulously planned this encounter they had met top executives and had met before hand, they made a plan for comey to right down the memory of everything he had said. he began typing on his secure laptop in the car as it moves. they had set up a prearranged a secure video teleconference when comey reaches the fbi field office and they go and he meets with his top executives via teleconference and the cross fire hurricane people. at this meeting, he says he told the president-elect we are not investigating you. then he left immediately and went to meet with his investigators. >> shannon: there's a piece today that spells it all out that you wrote, if people haven't read the whole report they should read this so they should get the rest of that story. in the meantime we are waiting for the rest of the inspector ge

prosecuting jim comey based on leaking classified information. these were memos that were largely an account of his perceptions and thoughts of his meetings with the president. so i think that from that perspective there was never really a case here. i think your other guest makes a good point here. look, in the intelligence community and the national security space, there's an understanding that there is a confidence and that confidence actually does extend beyond the classification categories that we have for official information. so when the report talks about setting a precedent that is one of concern, i think that there is some -- certainly some weight to that argument. now, i take issue with the idea that the -- that jim comey was concerned with sort of a personal outcome. i think that jim comey -- and this is someone who i've had a lot of respect for and have worked with for years, i think that with regard to his desired outcome that what he was really looking for is a way to make sure that these extremely extraordinary times with regard to these interactions he was having with the co

america's most holier than thou, super patriot, knows better than all of us, jim comey. "the hill"'s john solomon is reporting that the doj inspector general, michael horowitz, has in fact refered james comey for possible prosecution. this has now tonight been confirmed by the fox news channel. the full horowitz report is now imminent, its contents, i am told, should horrify every american. 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. that'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 four, according the fox news legal analyst, our friend, gregg jarrett. 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. he went to jail. lieutenant general flynn, convicted of lying, he is awaiting sentencing even though, interestingly enough, the fbi agents

to prosecute jim comey. brian? >> brian: a couple of things. 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 prop

law was not violated. but then i think there's a broader lens. an ethical lens. did jim comey do the right thing in speaking out about the president's obstructive conduct? the first manner in which he spoke was anonymously. he had just been fired by the president and i think he rightly felt if we to speak out publicly, go to the microphones and explain that the president tried on get the fbi to drop the investigation of mike flynn, in fact president would dismiss it right away. the president was out there explaining and justifying his firing of jim comey. so first he spoke anonymously. then he spoke there after. 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

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? >> he did, and he manipulated a system that

, if you go put a camera on jim comey's name and say the name patrick byrne, you won't like the reaction you get. >> that's the z. that's mr. z. >> so you believe jim comey knew that you were being asked to do these things in the nail 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'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

regarding jim comey saying the thing about the apology, he had this observation with laura last night. >> i country had to live through this two and a half year saga because of one guy jim comey. he opened the evaluatio investin in 2016. put peter strzok in charge of it. the same guy who said trump should lose 100 million to zero that's the guy he put in charge. jim comey allows the dossier to be used to to get a warrant to spy on an american citizen. jim comey leaked sensitive information to the "new york times" through his friend. so i'm not going to apologize. jim comey owes the country an apology because he put us through this for two and a half years. we know he did it. we know he did it because he was out to get the president. brian: jordan nailed it and he nailed it a year ago and everything he said is coming out correct. lisa: only james comey would be arrogant enough ask for apology for being eviscerated in this report. steve: he didn't get charged that's the hook is he hanging his hat on. lisa: low bar to have. steve: jillian joins us with a bunch of news today. jillia

you think ultimately, jim comey -- does pay a price for this behavior because he is not being -- he is not being charged by the justice department indicted by justice department for what is in this current ig report. >> right, he wasn't indicted inspector general sent criminal referral about leaking classified information the decision was that comey had not directly leaked classified information he didn't leak it directly to the media, some of this information was classified after the fact, of comey writing this stuff. of the and the justice department decided it wasn't a case they wanted to make. now as far as the bigger picture it was little surprising that the inspector general released this separate report on the comey memos because for a while there we thought it was going to be part of the big report we are still waiting on, about the origins of the trump-russia investigation. that you know we were thinking about getting in june, july now august is over. looks like maybe mid to late september. not sure. but the bigger question the biggest question i think in this is that hopef

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 get rewarded bas

charges against the former fbi director. >> 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 spe

anonymity now but i heard you say on fox, if you go put a cruise missile jim comey's face and say the name patrick byrne, you won't like the reaction he gets. >> that's the z. that's mr. 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 t

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 accelerated and his chance to respond to the charges against him were abbreviated. >> and, chuck, he was targeted by this president not just for what you just described what he represented and his leadership of the fbi but for his wife's political am

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 corroborated the claim patrick byr

? >> i know their names. 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's the president. do not assume it's -- president obama, do not assume that. >> wow. byrne did not offer further proof, but former fbi director jim combingy telling cnn -- jim comey telling cnn, that's ridiculous. the fbi doesn't work that way. he stepped down days after putting out a news release entitled "comments on the deep state." he claimed he aided the fbi's clinton and russia investigations, but came to believe they were more about spying on 2016 candidates. the strange announcement triggered a surge in stock price, more than 10% thursday on news of byrne's exit. >> wow. >> doesn't surprise me. >>> brazil's president says his country doesn't have the resources necessary to fight raging wildfires in the amazon rain forest. the rain forest is vast, two-thirds the size of continental europe and produces about 20% of the world's oxygen. the brazilian president, opposed by environmental groups, is pointing fingers over the cause o