disaster. he lied, lied, lied. mccabe was totally controlled by comey. mccabe is comey. no collusion, all made up by this den of thieves and low lives. i m guessing he wrote that himself. joining me at the table, evan mcmullen, former chief policy director for house republicans. most recently he ran for president as an independent. alicia m alicia menendez. betsy, reporter for daily beast and contributor. reverend al sharpton, action network and politics nation here on msnbc. michael and joyce are still being held hostage by the 4:00 p.m. let s start with you, he have evan. mueller special counsel investigation and how the fbi how james comey, how mccabe handled themselves led the fbi with regard to the hillary clinton e-mail investigation, those two things are
spouse dead and the person deny say what, just goes oh, yeah. had he you don t have the immediate emotional reaction you feel like there is a there there. that bothered comey. i want to go back to the erosion had and the politics of personal destruction. it s not anything new. clinton/starr. the dnc went after starr. it has been going on and getting worse and worse and worse. that s why we are here. that s what the american public was sick of the part of politics we all hate. the white house is talking approximate, sarah huckabee sanders the white house spokesperson called comey a disgraced partisan hack. partisan is not the issue here. t s life long republican. the fbi director is a republican. the deputy attorney general is a republican. partisanship is not part of the
in case you missed it, there is much to debate about james comey. are his meetings with president trump believable? did he handle it appropriately? do you know what is without question? his impact on our national political lexicon. i ve seen the tweet about tapes. lordy, i hope there are tweets. james comey brought lordy back. sure there were the initial headlines all those months ago. unlike the flash in the pan that was cofefe, lordy has staying power. he s made it part of the staying power. lordy, ian bremer is so glad his book isn t coming out next week. comey has spawned a cottage industry of lordy merchandise. how bay lordy t-shirt or coffee tumbler. comey is my homey is also available as a t-shirt. so how long will this latest buzzword stick around in the d.c. bubble? lordy only knows. that s all for tonight.
had substantively with his firing was that it happened before the full inspector general s report was released. that was the concern. honestly, there s a lot of criticism of mccabe from within the bureau. if you talk to retired agents, you ll hear a lot of criticism the way he handled this. mccabe is definitely viewed as no angel in many corners. that said you can t separate his firing from the way the president talked about him before and after his firing. and one question i think that comey has to be asked as he s doing this block buster media tour this week, what does he think of mccabe? does he think mccabe deserved to be fired on the merits? does he think mccabe lied to him? that is an important question i hope somebody brings up with comey. joyce, let me get your voice on this question. so, i don t think i would take issue with the substance of an inspector general s report. someone is always unhappy with the inspector general investigates and reaches a finding. but one of th
don t think so. so i said nothing and nobody else said anything either. but the white house has already launched its coordinated response as phil rucker just reported to comey s new book. james comey is a proven leaker and liar. virtually everyone in washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did until he was. in fact fired. he leaked classified information. he is an untruthful slime ball who was as time has proven a terrible director of the fbi. his handling of the crooked hillary clinton case and the case surrounding it will go down as one of the worst botched jobs in history. it was my great honor to fire james comey. and just last hour sarah huckabee sanders responded to the book from the press secretary s podium. this is nothing more than a poorly executed p.r. stunt by comey to desperately rehabilitate his tattered reputation and enrich his own bank account by peddling a book