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That would have lived within the rules of the doj and the fbi to establish? >> well, lets understand the context. it even says in the ig report, he told the ig, im doing this because i could not trust the white house. i could not trust the president. and as jeremy said, all of his mistrust was actually right on the money. he ended up getting fired soon after did this. so what would i have done? ive thought about this. there is a possibility you could have provided those memos to the house or sen...

Aid policies by keeping four memos in a personal safe. it said that he shared one of the memos with a friend and he had that friend leak its contents to the "new york times." that particular memo that was leaked, the report noted, did not contain classified information. comey also, according to the report, shared four memos with his private attorneys. one of which contained information that was retroactively classified at the lowest level. the ig report reads in part, by not safeguarding sensiti...

That accuses the former director of sort of architectural sorts of things that the body of the report doesnt really support all that much. and so it actually feels like there is a weird disconnect between the first kind of 3/4, 4/5 of it, and then the last bit of it. the bottom line of the report is the thing the inspector is most upset at comey about is that comey blew the whistle on trumps effort to shut down the mike flynn investigation. and you kind of have to eread through the lines that th...

Law enforcement agency to take. >> natasha, there has been a lot of fear about the independence and integrity of the doj under this administration. the obvious pressure the president has brought to bear on it to exculpate people that in his circle to investigate people he views as enemies. you and ben have both written about this. how do you view this report in the context of the fears about adverse pressure being brought to bear on this institution? >> yeah, well, there was a lot of fear after ...

Information obtained during the case of fbi employment in order to achieve a personally desired outcome. ironically, the whole thing is a bit like comeys own treatment of hillary clinton when his fbi found she did not knowingly email classified info on her personal server and did not merit charges. but comey went on to opine at length about what he thought of her conduct. joining me now with more on that, natasha bertrand, national security correspondent at politico and msnbc contributor ben wit...

Trump are now turning their attention to what president obama knew about the early stages of the russia investigation. during an interview last night, before the release of the ig report, senator lindsey graham, the cheryl of the judiciary committee said it is a plan he wants answered each week. >> stuck between white house wanting to know any detail. does that mean barack obama, the president at the time, should be asked what he knew and when he knew it about all this? >> i cant imagine an inve...

Matt from the "washington post" points out today, by now, comeys memos are well known. they described among other things how trump had pressed comey for loyalty and had asked him about letting go of an investigation into former national security advise every michael flynn. >> the report shows from the very beginning of the trump administration, comey pursued a partisan political agenda and he did it in the sleaziest, most feline possible way. >> it is a turns out, americas self-proclaimed super ...

Scale. but it also is setting precedent for doj and fbi policies. what happens when the next rank and file member has an issue whether with its with their direct superior or one up and we see the politicization that we just did from the ig report, where do they go? how does this affect the doj and the rank and file people? >> i dont fault the ig for noting technical violations of policy in the employment agreement here. i think, you know, in the dispute between the ig and comey about who owns th...

Andrew mccabe, the ig report on andrew mccabe that -- sorry, go ahead, ben. >> i was actually referring to a different one. i have a kind of open mind about his report on andrew mccabe. i was talking about the one about the clinton email investigation and the sort of judgments that the team and that comey made in that regard. the mccabe one, i actually dont know how much of that report is fair and how much of it is unfair, in part because there still has been no forum in which mccabe. >> right. ...

Today the department of justice released its inspector generals report into the conduct of former director of the fbi james comey. comey had been accused repeatedly by the president and his allies on trump tv of leaking classified information. the report says there is no the report says there is no evidence that happened. quote, we found no evidence that comey or his attorneys released any of the classified information contained in any of the memos to members of the media. they also found no cri...