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of you on. and mike, first to you. you saw once comey sort of inserted himself in the public specter last summer, you saw this already as a lose/lose for him. tell me why. he definitely had become the story. so any discussion about any investigation, whether it was done by the bureau or the house and sept, he say sort of front and center in a way that is not what you would expect. but also, you know, frankly, his shelf life was limited regardless of who was going to win the presidential election. by that i mean does anyone think that somehow hillary clinton after what director comey did particularly in that appearance at the podium was going to keep his job for any length of time if hillary had won? so i think the window was closing on james comey.
an independent director of the fbi. and i think we need a more serious investigation in congress. i d like to see everything done by the book, and i think that s the best thing for the country. quickly, mike baker of all the names floated, who do you think is the best next guy or gal to head the fbi? well, i think even pointed to something hoor here. it s gut tabe an independent, someone not perceived as someone associated with the trump campaign previously. and that s going to be the problem. i think it would be another self-inflicted wound, my guess, from the trump administration. i think so far of all the names that have been floated the one that would fit the bill best for all of us who would like to see someone in that position who could be perceived by both sides as an independent, would be ray kelly. i think kelly is bringing his own problems. i think democrats would look at him as being too aggressive in
just say sarah when she was pressed on why fire him now, because we now that he praised, candidate trum did in july, she was saying that was candidate trump then and this is president trump now. carl, did you hear that? i did. and that s what i was going to interject. in fact, there are very credible reports in the the new york times and the wall street journal, and the washington post that indeed when he became knowledgeable comey had asked for more funds into investigation into collusion between the trump campaign and the russians. and there are reports out of the white house from trump people, those are the sources in this information, that the president became enraged and went through with this firing. so all of circumstances here add
advisefer. and you have henry kissinger at the white house today. i don t know if even holly could write this. let s get the basics, and that is that this is terribly dangerous moment in american history. the president of the united states has repeatedly made clear he does not want a legitimate investigation into the possible collusion of his aides and campaign with a hostile power. this is unprecedented in our history. a president who himself has attempted to impede the legitimate investigation of essentially looking into whether or not people around him and perhaps himself have colluded in some way with the enemy. and we need to be clear about what that means. there has been a coverp, as you heard me say on your show and others for a while.