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Appointed. why wouldnt it be logical now to think huh, maybe he and clapper chatted about this. you know, we got to get this out. i mean, trump is rattled about this. >> set up artist is another persons, you know, whistle blower. here is a lifelong republican who was promoted by republican presidents and whose handling of the clinton email investigation at least his public handling of it arguably was very much to clintons detriment. got a motive to -- im not sure that he has got the motive to do...

Where did theyve get that from? where do they get that headline from. >> just think about it. jim comey this is a guy who never memorialized any conversation with barack obama. he never did with loretta lynch. even though he now says loretta lynch was conflicted. it was only from day one with donald trump. that meeting to me is very fishy. jim clapper, i and most of my republican colleagues believe is the one that actually leaked the existence of the meeting to cnn. but, why would comey have. >>...

Russian efforts to compromise him. where door they get that from? where do they get that headline from. >> just think about it. jim comey this is a guy who never memorialized any wufertion with barack obama. he never did with loretta lynch. even though he now says loretta lynch was conflicted. it was only from day one with donald trump. that meeting to me is very fishy. jim clapper, i and most of my republican colleagues believe is the one that actually leaked the existence of the meeting to cnn...

To think huh, maybe he and clapper chatted about this. you know, we got to get this out. i mean, trump is rattled about this. >> set up artist is another persons, you know, whistle blower. here is a lifelong republican who was promoted by republican presidents and whose handling of the clinton email investigation at least his public handling of it arguably was very much to clintons detriment. got a motive to -- im not sure that he has got the motive to do this set-up job that were speculating ab...

Diplomat, experts, there is no permanent secretary of state in place. >> in the range of people in government, in positions of authority, who have and can reflect accurately, donald trumps policies and the north koreans pay attention to them, mr. pompeo would seem to be one of a very small group of people qualified to check all those boxes. >> previous presidents, national security chief, to hammer out sensory diplomatic matters in the past including 2013 pres. obama, his director of national in...

Of state in place. speaking within the range of people who are currently in government, in positions of authority, who have and can reflect accurately americas policies, president trumps policies and the north koreans will pay attention to, mr. pompeo would seem to be one of a very, very small group of people qualified to check those boxes. >> previous presidents have sent their intel and national security chiefs to hammer out sensitive diplomatic matters in the past. including 2014, president o...

Thought it was too close to the election to sign on to a letter that jeh johnson and jim clapper sent on october 8 that they believed the russians were interfering in the election, because he felt that was too close to the election. he never explained, but i think disingenuously -- >> he never explained why, when it was admitted 11 days before the election. he said they found thousands of e-mails on anthony weiners laptop. if he wouldnt have released that information, and hillary clinton had bee...

>> let me make it worse for john right now by saying thats exactly the person i believe john kelly to be. that sounds exactly like the john kelly that i know. >> comey writes about -- doesnt reveal classified information in regards to then attorney general lorta lynch. comey writes that in early 2016 the government obtained information regarding lynch that he fears critics would use to raise doubts about the investigation into hillary clinton quote the source and content of the material remain c...

Hyperbole, saying the fbi is using a hit or attack on the country, is undermining what serve not just him but the entire country. thats dangerous and should not be tolerated. >> what do you think this book is supposed to do, can do, might do for what really matters about this. this is not written 20 years later. even clappers book, looking at his 50-year career. were in the midst of a probe. what are the expectations in. >> one, on the comey side, this is a picture that will be completedly direc...

Essentially a threat briefing with regard to the russians and what they have done to the american electoral process. and the result -- based not just on jims book. about you ive talked to others in the room -- is a conversation about how to spin this politically so that it doesnt do damage to the trump campaign, to the trump presidency. and then even latches on to an untruth, asking jim clapper to say -- and you need to tell folks this didnt have an impact on the election. and of course jim says...