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His conditioning, but he is not sure how much 2016 predictions affected him. >> i thought if i hide this, she will be -- >> he says that he is ego driven and unethical. the white house counter punch, attack comeys credibility. >> he knew exactly what he was doing. he thought hillary clinton would win and this would give him some cover. >> but comey whose tenure term was not up until 2023, he says the election outcome would not affect his job, which is why he

His lifetime been a dedicated and respected and heroic public servant. he after college volunteered to serve as a marine in vietnam where he was wounded in combat. he attended law school and devoted most of his career as a federal prosecutor with the exception of brief stints in private practice he served as united states attorney in two districts in massachusetts and northern california and served in many other departments as he lost his position as the head of the criminal division when presid...

My instincts told me that the one-on-one setting and the pretense that this was our first discussion about my position meant the dinner was at least in part an effort to have me ask for my job and create some sort of patronage relationship. that concerned me greatly, given the fbis traditionally independent status in the executive branch. i relied that i love my work and intended to stay and serve out my tenure term as director. and then, because the setup made me uneasy, i added that i was not,...

Its a matter of post-kennedy administration, post-johnson administration tradition. i suspect historians will go back and find very often that president -- >> that doesnt justify it. >> the law changed. thats why they created a tenure term for the fbi director. if you wanted to defend this on the grounds the behavior of kennedy-j. edgar hoover was appropriate, you cannot behave the way john f. kennedy and bobby kennedy behaved in 1962. >> it is not whether it was appropriate or justified. my poi...

Jurortive term, but the political forces in the executive branch, and thats why the director is given a tenure term, so it is guaranteed that youll span presidential administrations to make sure that youre leading in a way thats not influenced by the political winds. >> richard painter, to you, with your hat on as a former white house ethics lawyer. is there, given comeys comments about why fbi directors have ten-year terms and why they have to be beyond politics or even the appearance thereof, ...

Fired. >> this move by the white house was a try to kill the russian investigation, nothing more. >> tucker: why was looking forward to seeing you tonight because a lot of our viewers dont live in washington and they dont understand why people here think. they dont understand it is possible to be happy that a person got fired but simultaneously mad about it. theyre kind of logical normal people. >> i dont know how you could defend the timing of this announcement. its clearly part of a cover-up. ...

Fired. >> this move by the white house was a try to kill the russian investigation, nothing more. >> tucker: why was looking forward to seeing you tonight because a lot of our viewers dont live in washington and they dont understand why people here think. they dont understand it is possible to be happy that a person got fired but simultaneously mad about it. theyre kind of logical normal people. >> i dont know how you could defend the timing of this announcement. its clearly part of a cover-up. ...

Is the tenure term, ari, our way of attempting to keep fbi directors above the political fray and putting it out of sequence with presidential terms? >> thats exactly right. the ten year term is designed to make this a wholly nonpartisan position. it is different even in the attorney general in that respect. the only other time in history that an fbi director has been removed in the middle of their term was when president clinton fired william sessions in 1993. that was a very different scenario...

Is the problem of secretary clinton. had she been forthright, had she been honest, had huma done what she was supposed to do, had they not taken hammers to devices, had they not deleted 33,000 e-mails to begin with, none of this would have happen. so they can be upset with director comey all they want to. senator reid can complain. but at the end of the day, this goes back to the negligence and the incompetence of secretary clinton who should have known better. she sent an e-mail out to employee...

Bill clinton nominated him as a u.s. attorney in 1998. he was confirmed by the senate. unanimously, three years later, president george w. bush nominated him to be the director of the fbi. he was confirmed unanimously again. he served 12 years eventually as the sixth director of the fbi. president obama actually asked him to continue his service as fbi director beyond his tenure term for a couple more years, beyond the expiration of that first term. president obama then chose james comey to repl...