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To new york? >> what's the relevance? >> he is sitting fbi director. he wanted to keep his job. brief the president-elect before that. it took him two months. >> you come when called. >> it took a year for him to say that he is clearing his conscience. if you have vital information in the national interest you come forward before your book. this man had no political instincts. he was wrong about the election as were many people. last night he tells george stephanopoulos i didn't vote because the fbi director should be independent. you can't cast a private ballot in the mail? he didn't vote bec...

Because he is working for the american people and pushing back on monsters like bashar al assad. >> do you think it is possible that by going after james comey and talking about him that you are actually helping him sell books? >> i think he has his media rounds. he will be on cnn this week as you have advertised. he had the big interview with george stephanopoulos. we will sell his books. look at the salacious details he has put into excerpts. this is somebody who wants a pay day. he has taken private conversations with the president and monetized them. i think that is something that is discr...

Comey for lots of reasons. i saw jim comey last night and i said this guy swung an election? he struggled to answer basic questions. he also admitted that he is fbi director injected partisan politics and his belief that that person that lost the election should have won that he believed that she would win. he was operating under that premise. and then he tells george stephanopoulos he didn't -- she hurt herself. christopher, she was never at 50%. >> certainly higher than trump was. that is not the point. comey wound up disclosing the existence. >> don't just throw out sound bytes to go viral ...

President, like you can pick an issue and just run with it. pick the relish, pick the mustard, it's all a mess. >> who should they be focusing on? which is the voter democrats should be looking at to turn out to make the real difference for them in the next set of elections? >> we need to get people to the polls. i also don't really believe in the mythical independent voter that they exist anymore. the world is wholly partisan. comey called it like he didn't want to wear gang colors. that was one of the phrases he said in his book about the red or the blue. he opted for no tie when he talked t...

>> you know, if it was branded into my forearm, it can be anymore vivid to me. no, no, no, look, it was a time when we were under a lot of scrutiny and mike schmidt, my colleague, was also under scrutiny and he was right. >> can say one more thing about jim comey. one thing i found very striking about all of this, the one thing he did last night was on the questions where he is a central witness now, on the question of did donald trump obstruct justice, he did not stray one iota from his congressional testimony. there is no, he's being very, at this point, he's like -- nothing he said last nig...