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Former fbi director james comey set to testify before the senate intelligence committee on thursday. i want to bring ambassador former director of the cia and john dean the former white house counsel for president nixon whose the author of conservatives without conscience. good to have both of you on. im going to get to comey in just a minute. i want to get your take on the breaking news. this federal contractor under arrest for allegedly leaking classified information to an online media outlet....

House counsel for president nixon, who is the author of "conservatives without conscience." good to have both of you on. im going to get to comey in just a minute. i want to get your take on the breaking news. this federal contractor under arrest for allegedly leaking classified information to an online media outlet. the report supposedly details a 2016 russian military intelligence cyber attack on a u.s. voting software supplier. whats your reaction to this story? >> this is just the first big ...

Our president trump lawyering up that as former cia director john brennan publicly tells congress hes worried -- he worried about contacts between russian officials and the trump campaign. lets bring in bob behr, the former obama white house counsel and cnn contributor john dean, the former nixon white house counsel and the author of "conservatives without conscience." good to have you here. john, ill start with you. watergate was a story that developed by a drip, drip, drip of reporting and lea...

Naming of this special counsel that is going to essentially have a dragnet and can poke into all sorts of things in terms of this administration and this president. and that is worrisome for a white house staff that has already been so beleaguered these past months. >> and that is part of the presidents speech, complaining how badly he has been treated by the media, and here you go, the people who are going to put their lives on the front lines as well. now i want to bring in john dua dean, auth...

Number of things were disturbing across the last 72 hours in connection with the jim comey firing. but as you might have heard, he was administered some kind of loyalty oath, a personal loyalty oath to donald trump. you know, we need the next fbi director to, first of all, pledge loyalty to the constitution and the laws of this country, not to any individual and not to the president because were a nation of laws after all, not of men. >> congressman, thank you for your time. i appreciate it. >> ...

Lot of what james comey could say. a lot of people see him as sort of self-serving. its interesting that parallel between the sort of two people who see themselves as principled investigators. >> very very and knew their roles and were pursuing their roles. i dont think weve heard the end of comey. whats happened is trump has made him into a potential key witness. i mean, what happened at that dinner in january that trump now says he taped or hinted he papd and comey would like that tape out. >>...

That particular position and confidence that the fbi remains independent. what really was disturbing -- a number of things were disturbing across the last 72 hours in connection with the jim comey firing but as you might have heard, he was administered some kind of loyalty oath, a personal loyalty oath to donald trump. you know, we need the next fbi director to, first of all, pledge loyalty to the constitution and the laws of this country, not to any individual and not to the president because w...

"conservatives without conscience." good evening to you, mr. dean. thank you so much for joining us. what did you think of the hearing today? >> well, you know, there was more detail we received. we knew about the meeting. we knew at the warning had come in earlier and this is just further evidence this white house is not inclined to really deal with this issue. what they keep doing is just stalling, stonewalling, if you will. the tweets are not responsive. thats why everyone thinks theres somet...

"conservatives without conscience." >> heres whats happened, the career people who are in those various offices, 46 offices around the country, someone has been designated to step forward and run the office. but what theyre not getting is any policy from washington. so every time something thats controversial happens in that office or troublesome at all, they have to turn to washington. they always have regular connections for washington. the offices dont run well until they get ahead of the off...

Trumps tweets appear to have no basis in fact and that he and other officials have no idea what the president is talking about. but it just so happens i have someone with me today who knows quite a bit about presidents and wire tapping. john dean is former white house counsel to president richard nixon and author of "conservatives without conscience" which i recommend everyone go back and re-read. i read it before but i think its time to re-read it again. sir, the comparisons that president trum...