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Comey is behind closed doors answering questions from house lawmakers, gowdy, goodlatte, ratcliffe and others. here is jonathan turley, sound bite four that comey is a leaker himself and ill ask you a question after this. >> the one i would ask and drill down on is his leaking of those memos after he left the f.b.i. he was tasked with finding leakers, and the minute it became something to his advantage he became a leaker. >> bill: that appears to be turleys main question. what is yours? >> look,...

Flynn and the president was consumed by allegations of the dossier. and the president brought up the golden showers thing and said it bothered him. he said the hookers thing was nonsense but putdin told him we have some of the best hookers in the world. and he discussed putting reporters in jail. the president wrapped up our conversation by returning to the issue of finding leakers and it may involve putting reports in jail. they spend a couple of days in jail and make a new friend and ready to ...

He said well, i wrote this book because america is looking for ethical leadership. really? so, the ethical leadership is him. he is saying america needs me. i am selling me. but the problem with that pitch is that when the comey was fire fired, he removed a seven memos from the fbi. in my view, and appropriately. i was fbi material into it to an of those memos are now needing to be declassified. now, it is just like a book. he could have given it to congress, or the investigators, but instead, t...

Say we are accepting stolen information from the person who took an oath. the same oath i did. >> if we could pull back for one second. >> no. >> this would seem to reflect that the doj with, department of justice, is getting serious about finding leakers within the u.s. government within the intelligence agencies as president trump and many republicans and even democratic lawmakers have said is a serious problem that needs to be addressed. this is a fact they are taking this seriously. >> dana,...

One, they have got to find a way to push their agenda forward. actually three tracks. second thing they have got to deal with the leakers and third thing which seems to be happening now is the president is probably going to continue to shake up his communications team to help him get in front of it. we saw yesterday the director resigned, more to come. what is happening here they are not getting in front of these leaks with providing the real facts of the story. they say fake news, fake news, fa...

>> leland: you bring up an interesting point. and the united kingdom, the as of the were clearly so upset, its illegal to publish classified information in the united states, all you have is information about the leakers. we get classified information, penalty. nonclassified information, 18 -- also ten years in prison and simply lying about it earns you five years in prison. every white house has had the laws on the books and every white house has at one time or another said lets go after leaker...