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Inspector general or another media issue. the fact is that report -- and i have been reading investigative reports for 21 years is not the product of any investigation im familiar with. >> do you think you were railroaded? were people trying to please the president in the conclusions they reached? >> theres no question what conclusion the president desired from that investigation. he made it clear from the twitter account and the ig delivered the result he was demanding. do i know there was dire...

Thinking of delivering to the director firing him, and it was that letter that the group gathered to discuss on may 8th, the day before jim was fired. >> and in it it includes his desire to fire him in part because he employed awe as his deputy? >> thats correct. jims failure to fire me is cited as a reason why the president was firing jim. >> and that letter was written by the president before you were ever interviewed by the inspector general, correct? >> that is correct. >> thats pretty remar...

Organization we shared with the media. my activities and involvement, transacting day-to-day on numerous media requests across the spectrum. that is not activity any right thinking well informed person would -- >> who is the other person? the director? >> yes. >> you dont consider your discussions with "wall street journal" to be leaking. i dont consider any authorized dissemination over my course of deputy director to be leaks. they are not leaks. >> we will read about the decisions leading up ...

The letter that the president wrote purportedly himself justifying the firing of jim comey. >> what does it say? >> in a rambling four-plus pages, it goes through all of the different reasons why hes firing the director of the fbi. i am not going to go through all of those with you but i will tell you one of them is he claims to want to fire the director of the fbi because of his failure to fire me. that was a letter written long before the ig had concluded their investigation and drawn their, i...

What was interesting is mccabes explanation of why he went to and spoke to a newspaper reporter about the clinton investigation. and his whole point in doing that was to make sure that the facts were right. that the information getting out there was not going to be wrong and inaccurate and he felt it was his duty to make sure that the right information concerning that investigation was in the newspaper. >> appreciate it. former director of national intelligence and retired air force lieutenant g...

One thought in mind. >> what is that? >> dont jump to conclusions. you saw politicians do it here. you saw people in the news media do it here. given the work we do, were on live tv. react immediately, tell us whos guilty. it just is such a great lesson, this story. you have to take a breath, see what the evidence turns out to be because, first of all, its just the right thing to do. second, you can wind up looking like an idiot as several politicians have, it seemed, in light of what happened h...

Andrew mccabe did brief the gang of 8, leaders on both sides of the intelligence committee and members of the house and senate. obviously they can respond and say, yes, the briefing took place, no, it didnt or i objected or, no, i didnt. thats an important part of the story. the fbi had reason to believe there was something to investigate. they didnt reach conclusions. but thats their job is to protect the country from threats, particularly counterespionage threats. the fact that congress was br...

What was interesting is mccabes explanation of why he went to and spoke to a newspaper reporter about the clinton investigation. and his whole point in doing that was to make sure that the facts were right. that the information getting out there was not going to be wrong and inaccurate and he felt it was his duty to make sure that the right information concerning that investigation was in the newspaper. >> appreciate it. someone in position to know about threats and how presidents respond to the...

Did you order a counter-intelligence investigation into the president? >> i did. >> is that tantamount to saying you felt there was reason to suspect that he was a national security threat? is that what it means? >> it is saying that we had information that led us to believe that there might be a threat to national security. in this case, that the president himself might, in fact, be a threat to the united states national security. >> those are remarkable words. we have heard a lot of comments a...

I think what it shows us how much the left and so many people in the media have such a disdain for the millions of americans voted for president trump. my question to democrats and also candidates like kamala harris and cory booker who are so quick to believe the story, how are you supposed to flip the 22 counties in wisconsin that went from obama trump? the counties in iowa that went from obama trump? when you loathes and have celeste dont like such disdain for those voters. >> jon: i will agre...