Criticizing Comey News Today

Story. "the new york times" reports the fbi opened an investigation into whether the sitting president was secretly working for russia against the united states. at the heart of the probe, mr. trumps firing of fbi director james comey and evidence that he linked it to the russia investigation. >> i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story, its an excuse. >> the president responds by harshly criticizing comey and other fbi leaders. well have "new york times" repo...

Real either. here is the tweet. when lester holt got caught fudging my tape on russia, they were hurt badly. fudging his tape on russia? what the president is referring to is his may 2017 interview with lester holt. an interview where he contradicted his own white house on the reason for firing former fbi director james comey. his administration claimed comey was fired due to recommendation from deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. criticizing comeys handling of the clinton email investigatio...

Political opinions of ongoing elections. these were extreme opinions so i dont think well see much about that. look, i wonder whether well see anything about the close relationship between comey and mueller. we know these people were joined at the hip. if comey criticized i think the president will get ammunition for criticizing comeys protege and whether he should be the one to investigate comey. we may see more ammunition coming from that but one thing you can be sure is clear from whats alrea...

Did it. >> laura: heres what i think -- >> may i respond? that point, joels first point. first of all, there doesnt already have to be a crime. youve got to have an investigation before there is a crime. there does have to be a criminal investigation. its now clear. remember the charter says that mueller could look into anything in the investigation that james comey announced when he testified before congress. its now been made explicitly clear that comey, if you want to criticize somebody, i am...

>> here is what i think. laura may i respond to that point. which was joes first point. first of all there does not already have to be a crime. you gotta have an investigation. there does have to be a criminal investigation. it is clear, remember the charter said that -- mueller can lock at anything in the investigation that james comey announced when he testified before congress. it has been made clear that comey if you want to criticize someone im for criticizing comey. comey laufrped a crimin...

Wrote a lengthy memo, criticizing comeys handling of the clinton e-mail investigation and using that as justification for firing the former fbi director. white house aides frequently pointed to that memo over a 24-36-hour period, until the president himself speaking on nbc said he was going to fire director comey anyway. so, now you have the president refuting his own explanation. so, its a bit confusing, but certainly significant to see the president putting out a tweet like that. were hoping t...

Of wiretaps sy, i just said to pat, and hes not buying into it, but when its an enemy state trying to meddle in our election, it is different, more serious, more outrageous than republicans and democrats doing battle and one of them going way over the line. i am not excusing watergate. i am saying as i said last week, used to be that partisanship ended at our borders and we need to get back to that point in time. president trump mentioned the fbis investigation into russian meddling when expla...

Themselves from the russian investigation because of the nature of the nomination being done by the president? i dont think so, but it all depends on who he decides to nominate at this point. i also think its interesting that mitch mcconnell decided to take the white house line on this in terms of democrats who were criticizing comey, too, and oh, look now theyre upset about this. >> the bottom line is what comey was apparently fired for is something that the president praised him for on the cam...

Rally is he pulling in any new voters with this, do you think? >> i dont think he is. people who are still undecided are undecided because they want to make sure that the president they pick is going to be best for their own future, for the future of this country. donald trump can throw up his sleeves all he wants. his unfavorables are higher than hillary clintons. theres nothing he can do that throws mud on her that will helps him with any undecided voters. >> do you think hillary clinton is do...

Problem. is the fbi may wrap up the investigation quickly. maybe there is nothing that implicates hillary clinton or huma abedin. however, the republicans in congress have promised this will never go away. they promised they will have investigations and committee hearings and talk of impeachm t impeachment. is that fatigue that loyal democrats say i cant take more years of this. >> you know what? i wish republicans in congress would do their jobs instead of thinking of ways to obstruct hillary c...