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Much bad info for so long, including the president. president trump tweeting perhaps never in the history of our country has someon been more thoroughly disgraced an liaand he's a leaker >> reporter: comey has become a political lightning rod for the right. >> this report confirms it. mr. comey is a meathead he's a political hack. he hurt the fbi badid what he at an extraordinary political moment >> we are better off as a nation for james comey having kept these memos and i think they will be important well after this administration wraps up >> reporter: the white house tonight is accusing com...

Example by not safeguarding sensitive information during his time leading the fbi that's specifically referring to memos comey wrote about hi reactions to president trump, describin being asked for loyalty and to let go of a former investigation into former national security adviser michael flynn. comey shared one of the memos with a friend to share with a reporter with th revelations triggering the appointment of special counsel robert muler in 2017. >> i thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. >> reporter: the report says comey was not permitted to information in orde...

Variety of reasons, but i asked him to because i thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. so i asked a close friend of mine to do it. >> reporter: the i.g. determined that he never provided classified information to the media but did determine that his records were official records and should not have been removed from the fbi. it said one of the memos comey shared with the attorneys was later found to contain information classified as confidential, the lowest level of secrecy. comey contended before congress in june 2017 that everything he wrote down was unclassified. >...

Responded to that, are you kidding me, when he was speaking about, that's what he told the agents that came to his house, he reviewed the memos and their classification markups on his back porch so basically, you know, he kind of said look the things that you guys are tacking up here is confidential classification is a little bit ridiculous. he didn't further engage with him because the agents that brought it to him aren't the ones that did the classification. it did seem a little bit kind of ticky-tack as far as some of the things that were classified later on. it's important to note of the m...

At that time he he was fired and turned out a lot of things that he said were untrue. as a prosecutor i was told that many times, can you give the man a break. >> just a reminder here in the former fbi director's memos comey claims the president said quote i hope you can let this go. let's talk to peter waner. he served in three republican administrations, reagan, bush 41 and bush 43. nice to have you on. first up, jewel july saying one thing one week and another thing another week on a central piece this investigation. what say you? >> i would say that giuliani has had and seen better days. t...