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Fbi was investigating hillary clintons e-mails. >> if you knew that letter would elect donald trump you would send it? >> i would. down that path lies the end of the fbi as an independent force in american life. if i consider whos fortunes will be affected by a decision, were done. bere another player in the tribal battle. >> joining us now matt miller and david lionheart. matt we have a short amount of time to discuss this massive comey media wave we are in here. your reaction generally to what...

Morally up fit to be president. i say that because someone who is able to see moral equivalence in charlottesville or speak and treat women like theyre pieces of meat and to lie constantly and who appears to lack an external moral framework, that collection of attributes make someone unfit to be a leader, no less the president of the united states. >> thats james comeys interview with "usa today." heres some of what he said to abc about the comments that the fbi was investigating hillary clinton...

Perhaps lowering his own credibility in order to deal with whats coming his way, im not sure it enhances his reputation. i do need to read his book because my guess is that he -- these portions that were selected are what are most newsworthy, but omit the buildup to his positions of leadership, integrity, principle, standards of that nature. i want to reverserve judgment a take a look at the book more closely. >> hes been criticized for his handling of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation an...

Worth her time as an investigator knows where investigation is going when it comes to intent. how do you know where its going? yeah, perhaps. but how do you know for sure unless you talk to the person to find out what they were thinking to decipher what their intent was? ainsley: good point. steve: when you write the exoneration letter before you talk to somebody not under oath you can do that. he also revealed that its very important in his line of work never to be political. he did admit that ...

Bush administration under george w. bush. he clashed with dick cheney over things like enhancing interrogation tactics, nsa wiretapping or surveillance. that was really interesting because again, thats 14 years ago. theres more distance. less sort of in the moment. less political heat around it. so comey is more self-critical, more honest about what happened. >> vince, let me show you a montage finally of george stephanopoulos questions. here he is. >> to those that say you should have brought h...

Messed around his whole life and has no moral compass at all. >> he also says if he knew that he was going to be helping to elect president trump, he still wouldnt have done anything differently. because as you say, as chuck says, his interest is to the institution and to the kind of the basic standards that are outlined, whoever the effect of that may turn out to be. >> i have a sense, i think i wrote this somewhere today, i did on a tweet, that if this president goes down in history as a falle...

Intelligence community that russia had meddled in the election. >> it also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, okay? >> the investigation first came to light in the spring with the hacking of the democratic national committee server. >> u.s. intelligence agencies believe russian cyber spies hacked into computers belonging to the democratic national committee. >> they realize what theyve been looking at is an incredibly complex tactic directed by the kremlin designed to...

Really find it hard to believe that you are as stupid as anybody thats pushing these conspiracy theories. james comey did anything out of anybody to elect donald trump. so david ignatius, we move along. lets talk generally about the former fbi director james comey. and i will just politely say robert mueller the third he is not. you look back at his actions, the bizarre press conference after deciding not to indictment hillary clinton, the letter ten days out without language that bends over bac...

Clinton would win the election was the factor in his speaking out then. >> i dont remember consciously about thinking about that, but it must have been. i was operating in a world where hillary clinton was going to beat donald trump. i am sure it was a factor. i dont remember spelling it out, but it had to have been. that she was going to be elected president and if i hide this from the american people, she will be illegitimate the moment she is elected. >> if you knew that letter would elect do...

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