not much of that is surprising frankly to most people. i think that the focus really should be back on the substance of the memos and not the process foul that the oig found. the other side of this, glenn, clearly is what does this say to the fbi going forward? because what the i.g. found is that the argument that comey made that these were exceptional circumstances and so it warranted the leak given the stakes just isn t so. you know, i largely agree with greg, chris. i think there are two important takeaways. i think the one of the main points is that the ends don t justify the means. and that s a message that the i.g. was pretty clear on in the last ten pages of his report. i think the i.g. wanted to send a signal to all government officials that even if you think it s really important that you get information out and what could be more important than a president who is potentially
information, of breaking the law, or of even intentionally violating the department policy. he simply had, you know, no good choices. he chose to preserve the evidence in the way that he thought made sense at the time. and it turns out the oig disagreed with the details of that. greg brower, glenn kirschner, great to talk to both of you. thank you. coming up, controversy erupting after joe biden tells a moving war story on the campaign trail. but gets most of the details wrong. plus, the stage is set and it s going to be fascinating. we ll show you who s standing next to whom and what it could mean for the dynamic of next month s democratic debate. or hee look like? it looks like jill heading off on an adventure. jill has entresto, a heart failure medicine that helps her heart so she can keep on doing what she loves. in the largest heart failure study ever, entresto was proven superior at helping people stay alive
morning. greg, you worked directly with james comey. in the tweets over the last hour the president also said what this report shows is that a.g. barr is fair and reasonable. it also shows that he did some stuff wrong. how do you read it? i read the report as documenting the fact that this fbi director found himself in an unprecedented situation. he thought he had been a witness to potentially a criminal conduct on the part of the president. he created memos to memorialize those conversations with the president. as it turns out the i.g. report finds that director comey didn t handle those memos in exactly the right way under d.o.j. and fbi policies. the i.g. in so finding was simply doing its job but also found director comey did not intentionally violate policies, did not break the law, and did not lie about any of this.
lockups. how does something like this happen? yeah, kendis, it s hard to believe that this particular defendant was not on a suicide watch-type protocol while in custody. and beyond that, if he had been on a suicide watch, it s hard to understand how this could have happened. i mean, i think most you know, detention experts would tell you, if someone is on suicide watch, this simply does not happen. and so, all things considered. it is hard to understand how this could have happened. we ll leave it there with greg brower and katie phang. after a string of deadly shootings, 2020 candidates are on the campaign trail calling for action on guns. and left behind, children separated after hundreds were taken into custody by i.c.e. agents during a massive sweep in mississippi. what it all means for those
brower, former deputy counsel. certainly there is a pattern here. this is what happened to comey. you don t snap to, you don t click your heels, you re gone. that s certainly what mccabe is alleging in his lawsuit. i ll tell you, chris, having supervised a lot of this litigation at the fbi, these suits are very difficult for plaintiffs to win typically, but this is not the typical case, and the president i m afraid once again, i m afraid for the government s sake has so poisoned the well with respect to the mccabe firing that mccabe actually has something to talk about here. it just seems when i look around, i look at the sue gordon situation, another person was to be acting director of the dni, the director of national intelligence. if you re not a trumpee, if you re not a loyal soldier to him in partisan fashion, he wants you gone from anywhere. he wants the government completely cleaned out of what we think of as civil servants. that certainly seems to be the developing patter