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Decision, inconsistent with fbi policy and doj policy, to put their own self interests -- in this case, leaking was memos -- in order to cause a chain of events that the opponent of the special counsel was a result. >> molly: i want to highlight one portion from the report. comey had several other lawful options available to him, which he told us was his goal. making the disclosure. what was not permitted was the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information obtained during fbi employment in ...

Reaction. >> i believe for a long time, and this report concern dominic confirms that, mr. comey is a meathead. he is a political act. he hurts the fbi badly. two fbi agents and fbi directors have political beliefs? sure they do. but they are not supposed to act on them. the fbi should not be a political body. >> dagen: in spite of a criminal referral by the ig, the department of justice declining to prosecute jim comey. brian? >> brian: a couple of things. did jim comey read this report? no one...

Memos that comey took to document his conversations with the president and he testified that he leaked some of those documents in order to kick start the special counsel investigation. some of those memos contained classified information so the question before the inspector general was whether he had mishandled classified information. that would have been a violation of 18usc793f. the show how things come full circle, it was the same statute he investigated hillary clinton over for the mishandli...

Leaking? >> i told you before, compare the coverage cnn gave the mueller report to the horowitz report. if you have any doubt as to where these folks are coming from, i have good friends at cnn who try to be good, but cnn has just hired the alleged architect of criminal conspiracy against the trump campaign, so how much time and attention do you think they are going to give the horowitz report when they hired that guy that horwitz is investigating? >> sean: let me ask you about -- we have and we...

>> they decided to split the report regarding former fbi director comeys leaking of the so-called comey memos to a friend of his which were leaked to the new york times, the fact of the matter is this is the same issue the department of justice already decided not to prosecute mister comey, a bit of irony because that, with regard to the hillary clinton investigation when he held a news conference that he wasnt going to recommend indicting her for violating the espionage act but theres a lot mor...

Statement under oath. he signed under perjury. its a five year statute. how many people did he put in jail for single -- she made a full statement. >> laura: what about the leak of the document. the memo to the file, his own file, he he writes memos and then gives it to his pals, "the new york times." >> the leaking could be more unethical than illegal. i think there was a conspiracy, however, to frame trump. i think there is a conspiracy to frame trump. >> laura: the players were? >> i cant nam...

>> the inspector general found that there was seven memos documenting in part the private conversations with the president. they said they were not personal memos as comey told congress but they were in fact government records and he had no authorization to remove them. his characterization otherwise was not supported by the law. to get the contents of a memo to "the new york times" to start the investigation, the report found comey used a columbia law school professor as an intermediary. earlie...

>> its a crime because its a false statement under oath. he signed under perjury. its a five year statute. how many people did comey put i. martha that stewart, she made a statement to the f.b.i. >> laura: what about the leak of the document. the memo to the file, his own file, he he writes memos and then gives it to his pals "the new york times." >> the leaking could be more unethical than illegal. i think there was a conspiracy, however, to frame trump. i think there is a conspiracy to frame t...

Without running afoul of these administrative principles on the department of justice. >> one of our team members points out people who blow the whistle as julie in aly talking about, do so often and off in violation of their department poll tice, doesnt always necessarily mean they acted wrongly. is that an assessment you agree with? >> look, i think you have distinguish between whistleblower and leaking. whistleblower is defined to channels in the agency, department of justice andphobic in thi...

Accused the former fbi head of doing maybe a few times. >> what james comey did was illegal. >> the crime was committed by comey. comeys lying. and he lied. he is a liar and a leaker. look at the leaking and look at the lying. comey admitted he leaked. ♪ i planned each charted course ♪ ♪ each careful step ♪ along the byway ♪ much more ♪ much more than this ♪ i did it my way (announcer) verizon is americas most awarded network and the only one with the galaxy note10 5g. right now, w...