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You had a weaponization of the tools provided to the justice department. i believe in equal scales of justice regardless of your last name or political affiliation when you are at the highest levels of the d.o.j. and f.b.i. it is clear as day. look at some of the text messages that have been released, some of the contradictions that have been provided with regards to testimony before congress. the tarmac meeting that took place between a.g. lynch and the former president and right after that all...

When they come in and get to know washington. the president says he hires the best people. but someone like jim comey whos known to keep notes in many important situations and bob mueller with the hospital situation, i cant imagine that someone would have mentioned to him, you need to be careful when youre talking to law enforcement, department of justice, these are agencies you need to keep at arms length to begin with, youre not going to bring them in close to you. i cant imagine that someone ...

She was not totally free and clear. and actually that moment begins this entire drama that were still in. and so i think what he says about loretta lynch is interesting, and he clearly sort of reserved judgment of her until the book came out. >> well, speaking of attorney generals and recusals and all of that, rick wilson, he is upset -- trump is upset about attorney general jeff sessions recusing himself. hes never forgiven him for that. and he wants loyalty from his attorney general, the exact...

Our breaking news tonight cnn has a copy of james comeys memos detailing his conversations with president trump, and were going through them page by page. so juliet this is for you. this is again in the meeting at the dinner. comey writes, at about this point he asked me to compare a.g. holder, a.g. lynch. i thought i thought a.g. holder was smoother and sophisticated than a.g. lynch. i replied they were and it illustrated in my view a messteak presidents makeover and over again because they rea...

And gonzalez and he listed bobby kennedy. what do you think of that? >> it was interesting. i thought it was a moment trump seemed really aware of history. a lot of memos shows trump meandders through history thats really hard to follow. this is typical comey. he sounds like hes given a sermon. and i think the other aspect is obviously comey in the book is pretty harsh on loretta lynch, the a. g. im not quite sure honestly how to think about it. loretta lynch might have been better off completel...

Smarter and more sophisticated than ag lynch who i added was a good person. he added ag holder and obama were quite close. i said they were, and it adds to a mistake in my view, presidents come to justice, they try to bring justice close which makes things worse because an independent doj and president are good for the country. >> this is the problems that the president created for himself and what additional problems he would create for himself were he to do something foolish like firing rod ro...