Comey Has News Today

The release of former FBI director James Comey’s book coaxed Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times’s former, famously influential chief book critic out of retirement and, unusually, into the news pages of Friday’s edition: “James Comey Has a Story to Tell. It’s Very Persuasive.” Kakutani was given over 2,000 words and a full news page to offer praise for A Higher Loyalty -- Truth, Lies, And Leadership, though the book evidently has no bombshell news to offer. While other outlets quest...

posted by Hannity Staff - 4.24.18 Firebrand Congresswoman Maxine Waters raised eyebrows around the country Monday, doubling-down on her comments that James Comey “has no credibility” except when it comes to his outright attacks on President Trump. Waters was speaking with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes when she was asked to clarify remarks she made after Comey re-opened Hillary Clinton’s email investigation ahead of the 2016 campaign; saying “the FBI director has no credibility.” California D...

Republicans will just selectively leak my testimony. and the republicans didnt take that too seriously because comey himself had selectively leaked the contents of some of the memos he wrote about his contacts with president trump. so in the end comey is going the testify behind closed doors but well see a transcript soon. >> jon: what is he going to testify about? >> thats the big question. you know, comey has testified a lot before the house and the senate. he was fired in may of 2017. he has ...

James comey more or less honest? >> i think james comey is the, you know, ultimate professional in terms of law enforcement, legal issues and certainly briefing high level officials. hes no stranger to this. he understands how the system works and i think he understood the ramifications of the president saying that, regardless of whether or not it existed of having tapes in the oval office or not. hes been careful, comey has, about how he approached this. we have to see at the end of the day as ...

That he tried to get him to back off of the investigation of michael flynn. i believe that. >> are you confident? there are a lot of -- you know, theres a sort of reputation that comey has, and there is lots of frustration, anger at him at the handling of the election. robert mueller is another person who is widely viewed in a positive light, i would say. do you have confidence now that there is so much riding on muellers judgment and access and persistence, do you have confidence in mueller? >>...

Get to who is telling the truth. but i believe on this one, comey is telling the truth, and the president is absolutely lying that he tried to get him to back off of the investigaon of michael flynn. i believe that. >> are you confident? there are a lot of -- you know, theres a sort of reputation that comey has, and there is lots of frustration, anger at him at the handling of the election. robert mueller is another person who is widely viewed in a positive light, i would say. do you have confid...

Will the dus tjustice departmen to interfere in any way. the attorney general put himself in the hot seat by admitting when he wrote that memo that the president and the attorney general who is supposedly recused from this were agreeing with him to help him fire comey and then he made this false statement for comeys firing and in a way, hes the subject of an obstruction investigation himself since he was involved in that. >> i want to get you in here because why -- why rosenstein of all people w...

Can look into any attempts to thwart the investigation, are all really important criteria. and to have that special prosecutor, people would breathe a sigh of relief, because then there would be a real independent person overlooking the fbi director. so, i think the two are related. i think mark warners ideas a good idea, and i think it will get some broad support in our caucus. the key here, of course, is getting some of our republican colleagues to join us. were hoping, were waiting. we unders...

The question is why? if everybody has these meetings and if this is normal, why lie about something you do not have to lie about? >> one of the problems i think director comey has, in a normal campaign, i think the warning flags are just flapping in the breeze. this is a campaign so disorganized, so accustomed to rejecting any argument with absolutes, without a whole lot of fact base, that we may be seeing a lot of that here, too, as well. >> were going to hold you to the top of the hour. much m...