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Involved with the hillary clinton email investigation, remove from the mueller investigation. today it comes out that cnn reports he was one of the ones who prepared her -- or helped to draft the comey letter. if thats true, then this guy -- "they development potentially throws a wrench in theories that strzok is auto undermined drop in the run-up to the election and that special counsel robert millers russia investigation is tainted by antidrug bias." >> this is a coordinated leak to try to tak...

No one doubts strzok was going to the motions and the clinton investigation. judicial watch has sued for the documents. strzoks name is all over them. no one would suggest that the fbi investigation was anything other than a sham, given comeys decision to not want to prosecute her. its not a conspiracy theory to review government texts where mr. strzok is talking about having an insurance policy in case president trump won. early on in the year, he and lisa page are concerned about having the fb...

>> jon: the federalist has -- it gets a little inside baseball, but they had an interesting take on this james comey incident. given comeys history of secretly colluding with democratic officials to craft a disputed narrative that makes everyone but himself look awful, in order to oust a top republican who didnt sufficiently count out comey, there little reason to assume the events transpired way comey and his friends allege. trump is the reason neither of them currently has a job. this delves i...

Day 140 for president trump, here it is in 60 seconds. >> president trump, of course, was sigh lebt on twitter yesterday. now tweeted, quote, despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication. and wow, comey is a leaker. >> do you have any comments on mr. comeys testimony yesterday? >> thank you. >> sessions should resign as attorney general. >> hes a leaker. hes a washington leaker. >> they will be folg filing a complaint with the d.o.j. inspector general and the senate ...

>> of course, that only raised more questions about the possibility of obstruction of justice. given comeys testimony before congress -- >> were conducting an investigation to understand if there is any coordination between the russian efforts and anybody associated with the trump campaign. >> reporter: a friend of james comeys spoke to anderson coop better how comey thought personal contact with the president was inappropriate. >> this is a guy with a story to tell. i think if i were trump that...

In his memo, comey said the president told him, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. he is a good guy. i hope you can let this go. a source told cnn, comey was concerned that the president was trying to stop the investigation. >> did you at any time urge former fbi director james comey in any way, shape or form to close or back down the investigation into michael flynn? also, as you -- >> no. no. next question. >> reporter: despite that, just days after firi...

I hope you can let this go. a source told cnn, comey was concerned that the president was trying to stop the investigation. >> did you at anytime urge former fbi director james comey in any way, shape or form, to close or back down? >> no. no. next question. >> reporter: despite that, just days after firing comey in may, president trump dropped this bombshell. suggesting he let comey go because of the russia investigation. >> when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this...

Jurortive term, but the political forces in the executive branch, and thats why the director is given a tenure term, so it is guaranteed that youll span presidential administrations to make sure that youre leading in a way thats not influenced by the political winds. >> richard painter, to you, with your hat on as a former white house ethics lawyer. is there, given comeys comments about why fbi directors have ten-year terms and why they have to be beyond politics or even the appearance thereof, ...

Director told him three times he was not under investigation. could you conceive of any plausible scenario in which that might have happened? >> no. i cant imagine why the director would say that other than his testimony where he confirmed that they had some active investigation going on with his campaign. thats the only time he did that, and director comey is particularly careful, as we just heard with his words. hes not going to make these statements which put him in a position of his own comp...

Testimony where he confirmed that they had some active investigation going on with his campaign. thats the only time he did that, and director comey is particularly careful, as we just heard with his words. hes not going to make these statements which put him in a position of his own compromise. >> given comeys level of skill in navigating this that you have identified, matt, and its really a remarkable thing to go back and look at his 2007 testimony when he talked about that famous night at the...