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>> now, if true, that would contradict comeys testimony and statements about his decision to exonerate hillary clinton. >> look me in the eye and listen to what im about to say. i did not coordinate that with anyone. the white house, the department of justice, nobody outside the fbi family had any idea what i about to say. i say that under oath and i stand by that. >> gowdy responding to meadows request last night on "the story." >> im going to sends it to the inspector general. im going to send...

Investigation. >> its all irrelevant -- >> i think youre right. they are irrelevant. what the mueller investigation found is theyre completely different. to put them together is a mistake. >> accountability is important. moving along. today the country is remembering the life of former first lady barbara bush. a live report from near the family home in houston and the former president, george w. bush and laura bush sharing their thoughts on the outpouring of support. >> i and our entire family a...

Checking. i think this is more about future special counsels and i think that we have to be very careful exhorting congress and the attorney general to appoint one every time theres some malfeasance or wrongdoing. >> in part because we have a situation there now where there needs to be a closer look what is going on in some of these agencies. for instance, the department of justice. so we dont want to pull it so far out of the scope that were not forcing them to do their jobs better as well and ...

American peoples voice. i think thats the voice that is missing. the people, congress and the senate deserve a right to vote. >> this president has a history of listening to the american people. >> i agree. thats why its time for a new -- >> i agree. >> and time for a new aumf. >> there was a report yesterday that putin kremlin officials to back off and deescalate actions with the evidence. maybe thats why the administration changed their tune to what haley say and what kudlow say. >> get on the...

Political situation on both sides of the aisle. democrats are not interested in preventing a constitutional crisis. theyre interested in protecting their political talking point of russia base thats all they have. republicans dont want the political headache of president trump firing robert mueller if he were to do that. but then you have to walk the line of the people who support president trump at the base level, his ardent supporters want president trump to fire robert mueller. so theres poli...

Mccabe should have been fired. he knew what mccabe was doing and leaking. he probably ordered a lot of that information to be leaked. that makes him a hypocrite. the problems for him is hes testified. you know, what has he told congress, what statements has he made in public that contradict each other and now you have not only republicans who feel that his hypocrisy and narcissism has launched this investigation. you have democrats that feel betrayed by this person who put himself at the moral t...

>> all right. so how problematic are some of these statements for james comey when there are texts and even his own admission in his book that hes hawking that contradict those statements? >> the question is what is in this book. everybody can read in the book to figure out how deep this is and how much of this book is fact and how much is fiction. beyond that, if you listen to congressman gowdy, his statement sealed it for me. he says this investigation falls squarely in the realm or in the cou...

With confidential information. the idea to put it back to the throws of congress and the jaws of congress to be leaked out to the american people, that is not the answer. >> so katie, should james comeys book tour include a stop with the inspector general? so he can set the record straight? because as he said, he assumed hillary clinton would win and he didnt want her to have an illegitimate presidency if there were 600,000 e-mails, potentially some classified on anthony wieners laptop. >> some ...

Its believed that james comey in sworn testimony that he lied to congress. theres literally documents that indicate the fact that they were coordinating over the exoneration level. the doj sailed there was -- >> also theyll look at -- outside of the coordination -- comeys push-back also on that is its routine for me to do that. well, its routine for me to write a letter like that and have something like that. he said that previously. so i dont know that the two can actually exist together. i don...

Transpires for the entire accessory jump. >> so you heard graham and others saying, katie, its strength that is leading this. so its peace through strength, a familiar term. >> yeah. go back to mike pompeos confirmation hearing that happened after this meeting, which is interesting to me, that he was being questioned about hes things after going to north korea -- >> but could he have said it then? >> right. but he was playing more of a state department role as the secretary of state when he make...