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I m going with comey. the things that comey disclosed at that hearing are going to have ramifications for months and maybe years to come. and may eventually be the thing that brings down trump s presidency. ten months after that testimony, congress received comey s original memos about his interactions with the president. tonight, the justice department handed over the comey memos, presumably are still important evidence in an investigation that we believe is still under way. the memos were released as part of the broader war on the justice department waged by donald trump and allies and unfortunately for those folks but the memos prove is that jim comey s story to which he testified to under oath, written about in the book, holds up. the memos are importantedly consistently with the sworn testimony and could be crucial ....
Because they re constantly raising their hands. that wasn t jim comey. he would smile, but when the professor called on him, he usually knew the answer. soon after law school, he and patrice marry and he joins the district attorney s office in the southern district of new york. at 6 8 , comey quickly makes his mark. my first impression was that he was very tall. and he was, i came to know, super smart, very funny, and just a charming individual. comey meets a set of like minded frids who form cle knit group that will last for decades. we sort of grew up together in the offices of assistant u.s. attorneys. there s a lot of people there who take themselves very seriously. we were not amongst that group. always looking to get a good laugh and to see the humor in things. we re all of the same ilk, not being motivated for any sort of personal gain or any sort of ....
i m just very, very sorry that a small personal matter has been able to be blown out of all proportion. what jim tried to do was to make sure that because the defendant was famous, we weren t treating her differently than we would someone else. stewart is convicted for lying to investigators and serves a five-month sentence. but comey emphasizes to his assistants that it s not all about winning cases. jim would have a talk with the new assistants, he would sit down with them and tell them how the reputation of the office depended on them doing what was necessary. if you come in here as all of my assistants do to report a verdict and you have to tell me it s an acquittal, i don t care, as long as you did the right thing and gave it your best shot. attorney, comey is tapped by president bush for deputy attorney general, the number two position in the department of justice. but almost immediately and long ....
U.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. it s the same office where he began his career more than a decade earlier. part of our mystique is, we win almost all of our cases. and when we bring a case, people take a deep breath. but theffice faces new challees sin he was last there. when jim ca in, ts was in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, where in the weeks and months after, there is a burning smell that permeated the office. and so jim s challenge was to get everybody through that. and i think he did that by lifting their spirits and knowing that they had somebody like him who was going to lead the charge. comey s experience in the khobar towers case has prepared him for the fight against terrorism. but there s much more happening in the southern district. they had the dot-com bubble bursting. and in the wake of that, a whole series of white collar catastrophes. ....
Those are really dangerous circumstances for the justice system. and then, two days after comey is fired president trump sits for an interview with lester holt for nbc nightly news. regardless of recommendation i was going to fire comey knowing there was no good time to do it. in fact, when i decided to do i i said tmyself, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. it s an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election. a day later the president addresses his former fbi director via twitter. james comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversations. for the president to threaten tapes that don t seem to exist, and if they did exist would probably back up jim comey s side of the story is a pretty weak attempt at intimidation. ....