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Hypothetical question. >> and sense i gave yator is gl. thank you very much. july 21, 1993. i certainly don't want you to have to lay out a test here in the abstract which might determine what your vote or your test would be in a case you have yet to see that may welcome before the supreme court. that was wise counsel by senator lee in the ginsburg confirmation. very directly, did you ever knowingly participate in stealing anything from senator leahy or any other senator? >> no. >> did you ever know that you were dealing with anything that was stolen property? >> no. >> as to the terrorist s...

Would be more -- they can't even focus in on the nsa report and that's why you aren't seeing the coverage. yes, if it would have been president bush let's remember. president obama spent his eight years blaming president bush. it could have been front and center and president bush began with the terrorist surveillance program. >> when you politicize it it's one of the reasons people are paying less attention. i think the idea is that you know what? the intelligence agencies have been trying to get more power because they want to be able to stop the next terror attack. >> they don't have the te...

Another and were really the two central figures in what is now the famous 2004 hospital room incident involving john ashcroft and the bush white house and a showdown over the nsa's terrorist surveillance program. >> tell us more about that. they show up at his hospital room in the middle of the night but go on, tell us about that. >> this was something that unfolded over the first couple of month of 2004, culminating in march when this program known as code name stellar wind was due to expire. and james comey believed under the justice department's rules it was unconstitutional and illegal and...

Donald trump needs to know about bob mueller and james comey." what's the answer? what does he need to know? >> these are two men who actually have had very parallel lives over the last 20 years. they have risen into the elite ranks of the highest levels of the justice department and worked actually very closely together in the years after 9/11 when james comey was deputy attorney general and bob mueller was fbi director. they have a partnership that's longstanding, deeply trust one another and were really the two central figures in what is now the famous 2004 hospital room incident involving ...

Affected details of this memo wp within a very tight circle of department of justice and fbi officials. that had to be a very tight circle indeed of andrew mccabe was not included in it. i want to close at one point about dreams comey and one one t about donald trump. james comey was formerly deputy attorney general and the bush-cheney first term. at a certain point, his boss, the attorney general, became ill and allocated his authorities come his powers, to the deputy attorney general, james comey. it became time to reauthorize the terrorist surveillance program, right after 9/11. comey refus...