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Be, you know -- >> i was a fan of pursuing leaks aggressively but going after reporters was tricky for legal reasons because the doj tends to approach it conservatively. he's saying that's never going to happen. but he also explains how the fbi gathers intelligence in part, if people running around telling the press what we do -- it seems to me they're talking about the leakers and not the prez. it seems to me comey's talking about the leakers and trump is talking about the press. >> i understand. but i would have hoped from comey he would have said mr. president, you can't do that. and he sai...

The justice department has strict rules about charging journalists and safe guards because we don't want the power of the executive, the power of the president to be used to go after the press, to discourage, you know, free speech and discourage dissent and discourage reporting about what an administration st. doing. that's literally how you get down to road to a dictatorship. that was the most frightening passage because it really suggested to me that at its core i think trump has some very anti-democratic tendencies. >> i read it a little bit differently than that, which is it seems to me co...

And the carelessness she displayed in the use of the private email server. she says she didn't understand it. it was a surprising way for the attorney general to be told by the fbi director of his decision. i think she said let's look for the book. let's see how he explains it. it will be very interesting. >> jesse: i think there's going to be a lot of backstabbing among people who used to work for each other. >> dana: i wonder if comey has any of those, kimberly has to remind me of the term but those contemporaries notes, what's it called? memo to file? >> kimberly: he referred to. >> dana: c...

President of the united states. >> that's big. something that is very welcome by the white house as the scrutiny of james comey. he's been on social media taunting the president. "beautiful long island sound, to paraphrase the buddha, three things cannot be long hidden. the sun, the moon, and the truth." i spoke to a top advisor of the president, he told me comey's recent posts have been "weird." people at the white house or say, does he want to become a swami or something? they are saying, if he wants truth, why doesn't he get to the truth with what happened to the clinton investigation, as t...

Talking about with all of the natural disasters that would be huge but let me make a quick point that comey probably did something stupid and there's something to gary's point is it worth going back and doing all of that and one thing is for sure. i don't think anybody would say comey was a hillary fan at what he did right before the election would put out the information he did, not that it might have cost her the election but i was in that election and it did affect it whether it meant to or that. >> dagen: fair enough thanks guys and emily. cashing in just over an hour from now lauren what ...