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Comb comeys admissions come just days after michael horowitz stated in his report that there were significant errors and omissions by the fbis investigation team when it applied for a fisa warrant to monitor trumps former adviser carter page. >> he was right, i was wrong. i was overconfident in the procedures that the fbi and justice had built over 20 years. thats why im telling you i was wrong. i was overconfident as director in our procedures, and its important that a leader be accountable and...

>> all right. jeff lanza and tim natali, thank you for joining me today. >> thank you. with me is brad sherman. hes a democrat from california and a member of the foreign affairs committee. good having you here. >> good to be here. >> let me get your reaction to this admission of comey who said i did mishandle the investigation into the russia investigation. >> first, it was a process that shouldnt have taken place. there is an ex parte hearing where one side goes to the fisa judge and the oth...

Into a wire tap situation or a fisa situation. so it surprises me that this happened given the level of importance in this case and the level of management at the fbi and the department of justice going all the way down to the agents who were involved in writing that fisa. >> but it also gives fuel to the critics here. tim, there is no question that comey has been one of the most polarizing figures in politics to date. im wondering, are you surprised that comey wasnt as hands on with this as he ...

Seven layers down, as he explains, were writing the fisa application regarding mr. page. im surprised that mr. comey wasnt more involved in monitoring the investigation of associates of a campaign. the last time we know of when the fbi investigated the associates of a campaign was 1968. and the leadership of the fbi as well as the president of the united states were very much involved in the decision to investigate an associate of richard nixons campaign. they certainly had probable cause for do...

Vindication in that context. hes not talking about vindication in terms of the mistakes that were made and omissions that were made in the fisa application. >> nonetheless, what do you think this does, jeff, as far as comeys credibility? >> i think it definitely hurts his credibility as former director of the fbi. hes ultimately responsible, at that time he was, of the fisa warrants that are sent to the court. now, he has said, and its very clear to anyone, that you cant oversee in explicit deta...

For the values of this country and not slink away into retirement, but stand up and speak the truth. . >> bill kristol is with us to talk about what we just witnessed and that was james comb comey in the hallway on the hill today. what could end up being the moment of this day. and these days that would be saying a lot. bill is a veteran of the reagan and bush administrations. longtime journalist whos the former editor at large of the "weekly standard." something well get to. so, bill, do you th...

>> so phil ricker the question i guess becomes does that change any mind? will anything be different tomorrow because he said that today? >> you know, i dont know that any minds are going to be different on capitol hill tomorrow. its important to keep in mind the context of that impromptu statement from comb comey. he was coming out of a closed door hearing. he was dealing with questions from a lot of republican lawmakers about hillary clintons e-mails and some of the issues that president trump...

Will anything be different tomorrow because he said that today? >> you know, i dont know that any minds are going to be different on capitol hill tomorrow. its important to keep in mind the context of that impromptu statement from comb comey. he was coming out of a closed door hearing. he was dealing with questions from a lot of republican lawmakers about hillary clintons e-mails and some of the issues that president trump has been hammering. hes exasperated that there were not republican legisl...

Deputy attorney rod rosenstein as well as the russian investigation. not part of the russian inquiry but triggered by a referral and signed off by rosenstein and this morning, the president sent this tweet. much of the bad blood with russia caused by the fake and corrupt russian investigation headed up by the democrat loyalists or people who worked for obama. rosenstein who signed fiza and comb comey letter. >> the president has been clear that he has a deep concern about the direction of the co...

Campaign officials. she claims she would have won had james comb comey had not intervened. so lets take a listen to what she said about all this. >> i think that laws may have been broken. campaign finance laws, for example. the federal agent registration laws. i think its probably bigger than watergate because it is about the future. well, i think the determining factor was the intervention by comey on october 28th. >> did you make enough mistakes yourself to lose the election without all the o...