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Interview is this a revenge tour for him? >> i wouldnt say it is a revenge tour at all of i think its finally time for him to tell his story. ever since june of 2017 during the famous hearing where he was asked some tough questions and provided some enlightening details over what happened over the haas year we havent heard from him since then. now its time for him to come out. obviously he has written a thoughtful piece has taken time to tell his story. its time for someone who has been this the...

Matter to all americans, like the way our justice system deals with americans of color. the statistics are shocking. in 2016 blacks represented 12% of the u.s. adult population but 33% of the sentenced prison population. whites accounted for 64% of adults but 30% of prisoners. but the numbers are just part of the story. this is about the impact on peoples lives, people like platinum selling rapper meek mill, i talked with him a while ago in a jailhouse interview. first, stephanie elum has his st...

For 50 years under republicans and democrats. not one leader of the justice department going back six administrations supported comeys right to decide 11 days from an election to make a litt political judgment. that narcissism, that all about jim comey comes through in the stephanopoulos interview. its all about i. and its not about you are accountable and you failed to follow the rules. you dont get to decide what rules to follow, mr. comey. you are the fbi director. and you violated those rule...

Being extremely careless but then didnt bring an indictment or recommend an indictment. thats a violation. he should have been fired for that alone. secondly, he doesnt get to decide because hillary clinton is going to win to violate a policy of the justice department for 50 years under republicans and democrats. not one leader of the justice department going back six administrations supported comeys right to decide 11 days from an election to make a political judgment. that narcissism, that all...

Stephanopoulos said, you also had your eye on carter page. he had also been working with the trump campaign. comey says, correct, stephanopoulos says, what was your concern there? then comey, says, was he in any way coordinating with the russians as an effort to influence our elections? we hear the word collusion all the time. collusion is not a word that is familiar to me from my work. comey continues and says, if is anybody conspiring, helping the russians accomplish their goal of interviewing...

To new york? >> whats the relevance? >> he is sitting fbi director. he wanted to keep his job. brief the president-elect before that. it took him two months. >> you come when called. >> it took a year for him to say that he is clearing his conscience. if you have vital information in the national interest you come forward before your book. this man had no political instincts. he was wrong about the election as were many people. last night he tells george stephanopoulos i didnt vote because the f...

Because he is working for the american people and pushing back on monsters like bashar al assad. >> do you think it is possible that by going after james comey and talking about him that you are actually helping him sell books? >> i think he has his media rounds. he will be on cnn this week as you have advertised. he had the big interview with george stephanopoulos. we will sell his books. look at the salacious details he has put into excerpts. this is somebody who wants a pay day. he has taken ...

Comey for lots of reasons. i saw jim comey last night and i said this guy swung an election? he struggled to answer basic questions. he also admitted that he is fbi director injected partisan politics and his belief that that person that lost the election should have won that he believed that she would win. he was operating under that premise. and then he tells george stephanopoulos he didnt -- she hurt herself. christopher, she was never at 50%. >> certainly higher than trump was. that is not t...

President, like you can pick an issue and just run with it. pick the relish, pick the mustard, its all a mess. >> who should they be focusing on? which is the voter democrats should be looking at to turn out to make the real difference for them in the next set of elections? >> we need to get people to the polls. i also dont really believe in the mythical independent voter that they exist anymore. the world is wholly partisan. comey called it like he didnt want to wear gang colors. that was one o...

>> you know, if it was branded into my forearm, it can be anymore vivid to me. no, no, no, look, it was a time when we were under a lot of scrutiny and mike schmidt, my colleague, was also under scrutiny and he was right. >> can say one more thing about jim comey. one thing i found very striking about all of this, the one thing he did last night was on the questions where he is a central witness now, on the question of did donald trump obstruct justice, he did not stray one iota from his congres...