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Loyalty, ask him to quash the investigation of his friend. comey then was fired under false pretenses, based on a memo that was written by rosenstein that was for a reason that turned out not to be the actual reason comey was fired. what was his recourse, to go to rosenstein? at that point i think comey was dealing with a difficult situation. he did not follow policies and procedures. but in the -- in our history were as replete with people that we wanted the public to know about, the personally...

About lying about whether he was leaking things to the press and something thats never been looked at enough in all of this and where the fbi needs to let out a little bit of dirty laundry is the whole reason comey had to go do all the things he had to do with hillary is because people were leaking stuff to the press. andrew mccabe was leaking about an investigation into the clinton foundation. and he was trying to counteract other leaks. this was an organization trying to constantly protect its...

Looked at enough in all of this and where the fbi needs to let out a little bit of dirty laundry is the whole reason comey had to go do all the things he had to do with hillary is because people were leaking stuff to the press. andrew mccabe was leaking about an investigation into the clinton foundation. and he was trying to counteract other leaks. this was an organization trying to constantly protect its reputation and was resorting to leaks to do that and i frankly just wish -- >> im shocked. ...

And what he had said to the u russians. i interviewed a white house official two nights ago who said a whole new reason which i never heard. maybe i just missed it. the white house official the other night says the reason comey was fired because comey leaked information. it seems a whole new reason just kind of suddenly popped up with. >> yes, this white house is not great at staying on message. what we saw the first night when comey was fired that they had agreed on what the message was and the...

Points to hillary investigation and other issues but when he is in a private moment or lashes out, it is i fired comey because of the russia investigation. i didnt want it. and firing him released the pressure. it didnt in the end because we have robert mueller. >> what is interesting about his russia comments back then, it contradicted the day comey was fired and a lot of white house folks were pushed out in front of cameras in order to say he was fired because basically the way he treated hill...

To 10%. a lot more to get the deduction. heather: you cant get 10% more back. >> this year if you spend 7.5%. heather: thank you, we appreciate it. if you havent done your taxes, get it done, running out of time. thank you. eight minutes until the top of the are, taking cheap shots at the present, james comey pushing his new book but havent we heard it all before? >> james comey is a dirty cop who was compromised from the beginning. heather: a former us attorney says the chads are the reason com...

Corrupt leadership. this is the corrupt leadership that took us through 9/11, the quote, unquote, corrupt leadership that caught spies and helps us capture terrorists every day. if theres a terrorist attack tomorrow, they will all be leaning on those same fbi officers and trying to use them to protect this nation. this is a disgusting disgrace that donald trump would allow this to happen. but hes engineering it. >> two ways to look at this. so clint watts, one of them is the idea that this is an...

Comey is he was too mean to hillary clinton, that accusation goes -- bogus, not true. real reason is because he was getting too close to the president on the russia investigation. and miller is a central figure in creating the public explanation for why comey was fired. so its extremely important to determine how that public explanation was put together and whether there is a basis to challenge that or whether it really does seem like it was the real reason comey was fired. but just because mill...

Director position as someone who should be completely neutral? >> it doesnt look like it right now. he seems to view the position as one that he fills and that serves at his pleasure, which is the truth by law. i mean the fbi is hired and fired by the president, but the tradition has been that -- that this is treated as a nonpolitical position, and that -- i mean prior to this the on fbi director whos ever been fired was fired for cause for having misused bureau resources. so this is something e...

He asked for that. that dinner was arranged. i think he asked for the dinner. he wanted to stay on as the fbi head. i said ill consider it. well see what happens. we had a nice dinner. at that time he told me you are not under investigation. he said it once at dinner and twice during phone calls. >> did you call him? >> one case i called him and one case he called me. >> did you ask? >> i asked him. i said if it is possible would you let me know am i under investigation. he said you are not unde...