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Testimony on capitol hill in which he said he felt nauseous about what happened. but he wouldnt change what he did. >> the agency had to correct a statement he made huma abedins emails. everything james said about james comeys credibility problem is true. i think in the days to come the why is going to be blurred if there is reaction within the fbi if we learn that inside the trump white house this did come from trump and not come up from president trump himself and not a recommendation made on ...

>> the mission. upholding the constitution. the fbi can -- the the presiden fire an fbi director. i would be sad to leave this mission and businesspeople. >> boston college as a leader on thinking and educating on these issues. its a great place to have it. hope you will do it many more times. you are stuck with me for another six and a half years. i would love to be invited back again. >> bret: well, no. james comey, fbi director, fired today by president trump. he was in l.a. about ready to gi...

Got to this point. >> before james comey became the seventh director of the fbi, he was born in new york, raised in new jersey and married to his college sweetheart prayed he prosecuted martha stewart while serving as the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and in 2003, the 68" comey was nominated by president george w. bush to be the deputy attorney general. the next year, colby had a showdown with top administration officials because they tried to get a hospitalized attorney ge...

Judgment that he was mistaken. almost everyone agrees the director made serious mistakes. its one of the few issues that the united states people of diverse perspective -- which we saw comments from the left, when they didnt like what comey was doing -- then he goes on to say the director was wrong to assert the attorney generals authority, announces conclusion that the case should be closed without prosecution -- it is not the function of the director to make such a denouncement. at most, a dir...

>> i have not asked the president. >> the president showed no reluctance or regret in firing company. in his letter writing "while i greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that i am not under investigation, i nevertheless concur with the judgment of the department of justice that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau." some democrats, pennsylvania senator bob casey called the firing "nixonian." others claim that president was trying to derail the russia inves...

fbi failed to move on issues that were so clear. why it is theyre not investigation that came to a conclusion other than him acting as the attorney general -- that was not his job. regarding the email service? i go back even further than that. what about the fake investigation that the fbi engaged in with those irs cases? i litigated those cases and had former clients participating inn the so-called fbi investigation. this is -- james comey without disrespect to the fbi -- the fbi does do gre...

Syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. lets start with the first panel about why, why he was fired. james. >> james comey was fired because, due to many sets of eyes, in the congress, within the ranks of the fbi they are in the great american public, and most notably at the white house and in the department of justice, james comey had become a law unto himself. this was most clearly demonstrated in this series of times where he gave congressional testimony where james comey seemed to make up ...

How seriously we take leaks of classified information but i dont want to confirm it saying that we are investigating. >> as recently as march, comey thought he would be around a lot longer. >> you are stuck with me. >> comey testified last week that late in the presidential campaigns when wrestling with whether to speak to congress about the clinton investigation or conceal details, he prayed for a third door, but it wasnt there. today comey was shown the door. >> bret: thank you. brit hume has ...

Sides, republicans and democrats in the house and senate. most important, he lost the confidence of the american people. >> the presidents attitude toward comey has been a roller coaster. last july, he was incensed at comeys decision not press charges against hillary clinton. >> today is the best evidence after that weve seen that our system is absolutely totally rigged. its rigged. >> after comey reopened the investigation in late october, president trump did an about-face. >> it took guts for ...

Collusion. is there a basis for what the president tweeted and fourthly and very importantly is the unmasking of a u.s. citizen which will jeopardize our surveillance programs. >> bret: knowing what you know how can you get the answer to the first part if theres an investigation happening? >> this public hearing will be dicey for lots of reasons, bret. director comey cannot discuss an ongoing investigation but that assumes the investigation is ongoing and it may not be. they may have concluded t...