In the good graces again. He titled the book a higher loyalty. Meaning that he unlike you is a man of principle. Accountable only to his god and conscience. In contrast to your grubby political concerns. James comey is the last honest man in america. He makes that point every time he appears in public. A as man of integrity, james comey would like you to know despite the fact he has no evidence to support the claim, hes certain that Vladimir Putin has been blackmailing trump since day one. I never thought the words would come out of my mouth but i dont know whether the current president of the United States with the prostitutes peeing on each other in moscow in 2013, its possible but i dont know. Tucker possible. Hes not sure. Its possible. That is when you run the f. B. I. You deal with thicks that are possible. Even after the d. O. J. Inspector general report came out, destroying comeys credibilities and the claims he forted over the years he persisted he published a smug oped in the Washington Post claiming to be vindicated of all wrongdoing. Why would james comey do is a that . Its like he didnt think you had the internet and couldnt read the report for himself. Maybe hes so used to being treated as untouchable he believed that he was. But in end as always happens the reality intruded. The i. G. Report didnt actually vindicate james comey. Instead it revealed frightful abuse of power for the f. B. I. That he ran that should terrify americans left, right and center. Ing specter general horowitz summed it up on capitol hill. Watch. We identified significant inaccuracies and omissions in each of the application. Seven in the fist application. Total of 17 by the final renewal application. Tucker one omission that could be a mistake. It happens. 17 of them . That is not a mistake. That is either malice or gross incompetence or combination of both. Either way its not reassuring. In the end, someone as beloved by the news media as james comey had to answer for the 17 omissions. Over the weekend, comey appeared on fox. He said this about the i. G. Report. Hes right, i was wrong. I was overconfident in the procedures that the f. B. I. And justice had built over 20 years. I thought they were robust enough. Its incredibly hard to get a fisa. I was over confident in those. He is right. There were sloppiness. 17 things that should have been in application or discuss and characterized differently. It was not acceptable. So he is right, i was wrong. Tucker its incredibly hard to get a fisa. Really . How incredibly hard is it, jim comey . How many have been turned down in the past 15 year . You dont have the numbers do you . Not many is the real answer. But that wasnt even the most damning part of the interview with that liar you just saw. At one point jim comey was asked if lying to fisa court to spy on american citizen might merit professional consequences. Here is how he responded. If you were still there and all of this came out and it turned out it happened on your watch, would you resign . No, i dont think so. There were more mistakes more consequencial this in my tenure and the important thing is to be transparent about it. Tucker think about it. There were worse mistakes than knowingly using partisan lies to spy on american citizen but jim comey wont tell you what they are because he believes in transparency. Did you catch all that . That was all in one sentence, by the way. Sentence that contradicts itself. Did anyone notice . Nobody seemed to. We need new Inspector General to find out what he is talking about. How worried should we be . Can we trust the f. B. I. Is no longer used as Political Tool from the left . We are joined by the author of ball of collusion the plot to rig an election and join presidency. Andy, thank you for coming on. Do you have any idea what former director comey meant when he said, i have seen worse mistakes happen under my watch but i cant tell you what they are. What do you think they are . If that is so, tucker, its frightening. I thought it was a pattern of distancing himself from the investigation that up until now we had every reason to think he was intimately involved in. Tucker so why would we revise the view of that . How could he not have been intimately involved in it . Im not revising my vu view f it. I dont think its possible for an f. B. I. Director not to be involved in the investigation of this. The magnitude of this, common sense tells us, you would want to be involved. We know that he was involved in meetings with incumbent president and the president elect where he was going to be asked about the investigation. So any head of the f. B. I. Would want to be brought up to speed if he wasnt already up to speed. We know that when we went to see trump at trump tower on january 6, the f. B. I. Actually treated that an investigative opportunity in the russia investigation where he was acting as if he were a case agent and he was going to write a report for the investigation as he sped his way away from the meeting with trump. There is a lot of reason there to understand that he was involved. Plus, under the fisa law he had to certify that the surveillance that they were looking for was for foreign investigative purposes. And that there werent any lesser intrusive means to get the same information they were looking for. So the law doesnt let him off the hook either. Tucker so as you noted, he is running the f. B. I. He is going to speak directly to the president elect of the United States. Unbeknownst to the president elect the meeting is part of an investigation. Comey is claiming he wasnt really involved in that investigation. I mean that just seems like it cant be anything but a lie. Can it . Not only that, tucker, but six days after that, they went back to the fisa court to get the first renewal application of the fisa surveillance which it seems to me they clearly did because they wanted to get that button down and done before trump took office. When he could have been in a position to shut the investigation down. So all of this looks to me like it is pretty strategic all along the way. Tucker really quick, do you sincerely believe that they sincerely believed that donald trump might have been a russian agent . Yes. I dont think i think tucker that with the steele dossier, steele was pushing on an open door. I think they were predisposed to think the worst of trump. I dont believe they would have had a situation where they would swear under oath that the Trump Campaign might be in a Cyber Espionage conspiracy with the kremlin unless they believed there was a good chance it was true. Tucker to believe maybe trump had a weird personal life or wasnt good at managing casinos okay. But that he working for the russians . They are idiots obviously, i would argue. Well, there was no evidence to support that. Tucker right. Exactly. So weird. Thank you for that. I appreciate it. My pleasure. Tucker the former Deputy Assistant director of the counterterrorism at the f. B. I. And he joins us. Terry, thank you for coming on. I know that you have been concerned over the last couple of years about what jim comey public appearances are doing to peoples perception of the f. B. I. , to the bureaus credibility. Do you think this interview he did over the weekend helps or hurts . It doesnt help at all but i think everybody is glad hes gone. Jim comey has told so many stories and he has painted his own storybook land if you want to call it that, tucker, in the last couple of years. He kind of walks around and he lets us all know the facts of what is going on in the little land of his. Two reports from the i. G. And the mueller report, now we know that he didnt have the facts right. I think all along, though, the gnawing suspicion that many of us have had, especially former agents and the people who used to work on the senate floor is that there was a major, major breakdown of discipline inside the f. B. I. At the highest level. This isnt so much about case agents. In fact, in the i. G. Report there is a great example of a case agent asking a very germane question. Then he was essentially lied to by a highlevel official. So those are the kind of things that are not going to go away. We still really with all this paper and all this reporting, we still dont know why that occurred. But we can i think have some pretty good ideas. Tucker how distressing is it to you to watch the former director of the f. B. I. , the most powerful Law Enforcement official in the United States, in the world likely, lie . Clearly lying. Hes clearly not telling the truth. How damaging is that to the bureau . Its terribly damaging. Especially when you are standing in front of the seal that says fidelity, bravery and integrity. And since we preach that from the minute an agent comes in an academy or any f. B. I. Employee. Not just f. B. I. Agents. Any employee, support employees. I dont think we will recover from that easily. Im spoiled. I worked for many years with freese as the f. B. I. Director. With comey it is minimized and there is a lot of work done to bring them back to life. Tucker what a shame it is. Terry, you have been here since the beginning. We appreciate it. Thank you very much. Youre welcome. Tucker, thank you. Tucker according to joe biden, he sid this in public, president obama would endorse him. He is chomping at the bit to do so. But biden wanted the 2020 race to be a fair fight so he asked for barack obama not to endorse. Here it is. Why hasnt president obama endorsed you . You served together for eight years. Because i have to earn i want to earn it on my own. Did he offer to endorse you . I asked him not to. We didnt get there. He said okay. I think he thinks its better for me. Tucker sad. You can jump on joe biden with all four paws youre lying its much more poignant than that. The only reason obama is not saying anything about biden to avoid embarrassing biden. But indirectly, he is saying it, actually. An event in singapore, the obama said the problems of the world are due to old people, usually old men not getting out of the way. Not clear who he is referring to. In fact he said that women are categorically better leaders than men purely on the basis of their sex. Richard is an attorney and former adviser to the other dynasty, bill and hillary clinton. Thank you for coming on. Sure. Tucker for many levels here but for obama tell us that women should be in charge, im old enough to remember when we learned that the Obama White House was paying women 88 crept cents to y dollar they were paying men. That is not speculation. That is actually true. Why didnt obama govern according to this precept if he believed it . Its interesting. First of all, he is not going to go to a private meeting in singapore for which there is no audio or video to deliver a political message about our president ial campaign. Tucker wait. We hearted it, didnt we . Ronald reagan didnt endorse george h. W. Bush until may of 16988. That would be next may relative to now. So this notion that somehow or other what is obama doing, clearly he doesnt like biden. That is nutty. Tucker if i could say Ronald Reagan was the sitting u. S. President at the time. A little different. Barely. Obama is the most recent democratic president. Tucker look. He is sending a clear message. You know as well as i if we wanted to endorse biden he could have. This whole thing would have been over with. He isnt. Now he is saying women should be in charge. This is the man paying 88 cents on the dollar to women. A good deal for him, i guess. Why arent democrats on the cusp of nominating a female if they are so progressive . Seriously. Remember the Supreme Court nominees were not the 88 cents on a dollar types. Right . That obama put on the Supreme Court. This is not somebody who tucker he put mediocre people on the court. These are people shirke peopt shirk away from advancing women and he didnt harass them. Tucker why didnt he pay them as much as men . Historically they are under paid and that is a shame. Tucker why didnt he pay them more . Its a function of where they were when he paid them. The ledbetter act people are always saying you give them the same number. You are using the dodge conservatives use. I dont know if you represent the republican party. I think not on this. Definitely not. The democrats who have far more females in the senate, house, governor, mayoral seats are not outraged by what obama said. Tucker im not outraged by what he said but i wonder if he going to posture and jump up and down as some sort of fake feminist then he should pay women as much as men. Im the only person to point it out. That is my job. Really quick. Why arent democrats if theyre as woke as they claim to be, as obama says he is, why do they bother with biden or bernie . Elderly white guys they say they hate every day but on the cusp to nominate one. Democratic voters skew older in primaries. Bernie has supporters from the 2016. And i think what if you had barack obama here hed say yes, joe biden is older than id like. But so is trump. I think that trump poses a threat to the longterm viability of the United States as we know it. If it takes joe biden to beat him, god willing that tucker why dont they nominate Stacey Abrams . This feels sexist to me. She didnt get in the race. Tucker blame the victim i cant believe you are blaming Stacey Abrams. They talked about joe biden being dead man walking on this network but he is advancing his lead with the democrats. Tucker you are right. That is true. Richard, hard to believe but you are right. Good to see you. Occasionally. The impeachment saga taught america a lot about how joe biden used his fathers name to get rich in ukraine. But there is another way that biden family enriched itself. By shilling for credit Card Companies. True. Weve got the details. Way more interesting than anything that happened in ukraine. Our eyeopening report is after the break. Here, it all starts with a simple. Hello hi how can i help . A data plan for everyone. Everyone . Everyone. Lets send to everyone wifi up there . Uhh. Sure, why not . Howd he get out . a camera might figure it out. That was easy glad i could help. At xfinity, were here to make life simple. Easy. Awesome. So come ask, shop, discover at your local xfinity store today. Tucker well, thanks to impeachment proceedings now in progress, we now know a lot more than we thought we would about Hunter Bidens business dealings in ukraine. Biden apparently received millions from a Foreign Company to do work he wasnt even theoretically qualified to do. The purpose of paying him all that money, of course, was to influence his father whod a the time was Vice President of the United States. And in charge of overseeing reforms and wait for it, ukraine. It was a payoff. That was the definition of a corrupt arrangement obviously. Dont let the liars in washington, the ones eager to protect their own corruption tell you it wasnt. It was. But that is not the only scandal that hunter biden participated in. In fact, its not even the worst scandal. Here is a far bigger one. One that nobody in washington wants to talk about in part because it implicates them. Here it is. Immediately after graduating from law school, biden took a lucrative management track job at m. B. N. A. , the delaware based credit card company. Hunter biden worked at mbna for three years. Even after he left the company the checks kept coming. From 2001 to 2005, mbna sent hunter biden more than 100,000 a year for doing, well, its nettlier what he its not clear what he was doing. How do you get a job doing no work . It helps to have a father in the senate. Doing bidding for the credit card company. Hunter biden met that requirement. For decades biden was the enthusiastic servant of the Consumer Debt society. He was so shameless about it he was referred to the senator for mbna. He carried their water on capitol hill. In 90s the cost of healthcare skyrocketed for most people and Many Americans turned to high interest debt to stay afloat. I was a lucrative period for lenders. Credit Card Companies worried too many people might try to escape the debt through bankruptcy. So they turned to the congress to make it more difficult and protect their business. One of the worlds sleaziest and the most destructive businesses. Joe biden was eager to help them. Middle class joe was an eager backer of a law designed to hurt the middle class. Because everything in washington is irony. The law was called the bankruptcy abuse prevention and Consumer Protection act of 2005. Like so many bills that congress passes, everything about the title was a lie. There was no epidemic of bankruptcy abuse in america at the time. The bill did nothing meaningful to protect consumers. No. Instead, the beneficiaries of the law were credit Card Companies. That is why they spent 100 million to get it through the congress. Before the bill was passed judges determined if a bankruptcy filing was abusive and should be dismissed. Thanks to lobbying from the highinterest lenders the standard was changed to rigid means test of filers income. It gave judges leslieway to consider facts of a particular case. I also imposed burdensome paperwork requirement and put liability on bankruptcy attorneys. The result was exactly what the credit Card Companies had intended. Filing for interruption took longer and cost more. Therefore, this was the real point, fewer people could afford to do it. So in the bills provisions were obviously cruel, the new law prevented young people discharging Student Loan Debt through bankruptcy. Even unwise and unfair loans from private lenders. Bankruptcy could not erase them. That meant that 18yearolds who had been pressured for taking on life destroying amount of the Student Loan Debt could never get rid of the debt. They were stuck with it forever. Think about that for a moment. Americas middle class was beginning to crumbable in the face of the rising education cost. In the end it did crumble, as you know. What did congress do . Congress rushed in to side with the creditors and make the crisis far worse for normal people. Joe biden was part