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opinion senior executive editor and host of bloomberg's crash course podcast. lucky for us, they are all msnbc contributors. let me show you former fbi director jim comey on trump aka the mob. >> how strange is it for you to sit here and compare the president to a mob boss? >> very strange. and i don't do it lightly. i am not trying to, by the way, suggest that president trump is out breaking legs and shaking down shopkeepers, but instead what i'm talking about is that leadership culture constantly comes back to me when i think about my experience with the trump administration. >> andrew weissman, people up close and personal to donald trump and something that comes through in the transcripts that have been released by the january 6th select committee, people who interacted with trump describe him the way jim comey and mark pomerantz seem to. you have investigated his inner circle. does that ring true?
>> it does. and i remember hearing jim comey say that and even though i was going to be working on the special counsel investigation, i remember at the time thinking that that was a lot of hyperbole by jim and sort of poo-poo'd that. and the more i looked into it, i unfortunately really had to agree that, and again i think it's important to note that he is not saying that he is like him in terms of the kind of murder and equating the types of crimes to what the former president did. but in terms of what he expects in terms of loyalty, the disregard for the rule of law, the idea that, you know, you owe everything to him and not to the constitution in any way, unfortunately i do think that