there's a james comey tweet that got a lot of attention. democrats, please don't lose your minds and rush to the socialist left. this president and his republican party is counting out to do exactly that. there is no point of middle but also, the democratic party has moved to the left on some issues but it is not clear that that is anything but a winner, particularly in many of the districts that they struggled to lose last time around. >> first of all, james comey has no credibility. he knee capped hillary clinton so nothing that he says, so all the concern from joe lean, oh, no, she beat a 14-year incumbent. whatever the democrats have to be, this is what is interesting. the democrats figured this out. whatever we have to do to win is a who we'll be. if you're center left, far left, i'll say this. this is the most serious issue and the biggest indicator that enthusiasm access matters. you look at all the special elections. voter suppression doesn't screw up a county commissioner race. you've seen state senate and state house. those are ge

this is an extremely disturbing thing to see both he and james comey supposedly impartial government officials carrying out their jobs in very important areas in intelligence gathering and law enforcement express the kind of extreme bias that they've shown now which i think reflects quite accurately on what they were doing back in 2016. maria: so he's on your list of witnesses to have into interview >> absolutely. maria: who else is on that list? >> well, we're going to go through, we've received a list from the intelligence committee of literally dozens of people we're going through that list now and determining which ones are our priority. i think i would rather leave it at that but certainly we'll also be talking to director comey and former attorney general lynch. maria: let me ask you about lisa page. i know that you had behind closed door meetings with her but apparently during that hearing, you have discovered more information that you want. can you tell us anything about the lisa page testimony and what you learned? >> well it was a private confidential interview but i will s

comey. here's part of what they write. they write mr. mueller is examining whether the actions add up to attempts to obstruct the investigation by both intimidating witnesses and pressuring senior law enforcement officials to tamp down the inquiry. ken, this to you. the bottom line is often when there's an obstruction of justice case, the investigation focuses on things that were done in private, in secret, behind closed doors, including perhaps a loyalty oath demand from president trump to james comey. this is notable because it's what the president was saying publicly. >> you're absolutely right, peter. normally when someone is the subject of a complicated criminal investigation, they are instructed by their lawyers to remain silent, not to talk about it in public. obviously donald trump has been doing the opposite. he's been tweeting regularly, denouncing the investigation as a witch hunt and denouncing particular pleasuayers in it, including jeff sessions and james comey. what "the new y

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saying it firing of james comey saying it damaged his reputation and the white house manipulated him. here is what rosenstein has said in public. >> with regard to the russia investigation, do you stand by your recommendation to fire james comey? >> i've testified several times about this and yes i do. >> joining me now, the daily beast betsy woodruff, kenneth white and paul butler. i want to get your reaction on this report from all of you. what do you make of this news about how rod rosenstein felt he was thrown under the bus by the white house? >> i've known rod rosenstein for a long time. we started together at the department of justice. normally this dude is cool as a cucumber. he's not emotional. he's rational and to see him go in at the congressional hearing as he did yesterday tells us a couple of things. he's mad as hell and he's not taking it anymore. that's bad news for president trump. he's kind of boxed in, the president is. if he fires rosenstein then he is providing more evidence of obstruction of justice. if leaves him in, then trump has someone who is supervising the

i'm not a fan of james comey. but at least when he goes into the theater, he acts and he emotes and nods his head and behaves like someone who is measured. >> he showed respect for the process. >> strzok look like a guy who knew he was getting away with it. a kid who knows he won't get in trouble because his parents with a big donor to the school. or his big brother showed up so he won't get beat up. so he's mouthing off. kennedy: we'll have more with the panel later on. first up. a trade war appears to be under way. now china is pushing back against president trump's tariffs. it's a big game of chicken. but how much will it cost you? thomas massie after the break it's easy to think that all money managers are pretty much the same. but while some push high commission investment products, fisher investments avoids them. some advisers have hidden and layered fees. fisher investments never does. and while some advisers are happy to earn commissions from you whether you do well or not, fisher investments fees are stru

. >> did you at any time urge former fbi director james comey in in way, shape or form to close or back down the investigation into michael flynn and also -- >> no. no. next question. >> let's talk about this. we bring in cnn legal and political commentator ken cuccinelli. the former virginia attorney general and editor for the "weekly standard," bill kristol. ken, rudy giuliani says trump's ask is not out of the ordinary. when he was a prosecutor family members and friends of defendants asked him to go easy on people. but this is the president of the united states talking to the fbi not to prosecute one of his friends. isn't that a little different than what mayor giuliani is talking about. >> certainly it is different and the behavior isn't different and i think the president is right in that it was structured as not an order as both sides describe it so the unusual feature you've zeroed in on is that he was the president talking to the fbi director but i don't think the request is unusual, particularly in light of what we know of the michael flynn plea, frankly. >> bill, it's been ha

apparently mccabe and james comey don't have security clearances any more. they were read out as soon as they left the bureau. so the fact that they would do this at the -- potential to the detriment of what future officials might know, i don't think they care. i think this -- i think this is political. in this case. and it doesn't sound like there's anything really standing in their way from doing it. >> what jumped out at me, susan rice, who was president obama's national security adviser, she's on that list, as well. and i said to myself, why is she on that list? well, she was on one of the sunday talk shows yesterday, critical of the president. all of a sudden she's on that list. >> well, and you know, look, she's the previous national security adviser. you would assume that the current national security adviser and the previous national security adviser might want to consult with each other on issues of national security that both are informed on, because it makes sense. and this way, you cut off that kind of communication. so the current national secur

as we reported, he wanted to see charges filed against james comey. he is very angry with these criticisms. this president is someone who has shown a vindictive streak at times. the president has wide and vast powers over classification. most presidents have not taken away unilaterally the security clearances of others who they dislike. the president has wide purview to classify, declassify. he could do this. >> he could do this. i will say it's notable that general michael hayden, former director of nsa tweeted, i don't go back for classified briefings and won't have any affect on what i say or write. we have new sound in. i think we have it. let me know if we don't. from jeff sessions. we have it. he was speaking to a group of conservative high school students this morning. i want you to listen to this. >> lock her up. >> lock her up. lock her up. lock her up. >> i mean, the fact that you have the head of the department of justice, the attorney general here laughing and also chanting at one point, lock her up, of course, one would assume regarding h

among them, former cia director john brennan, former fbi director james comey and four o. sarah sanders today reading from a carefully scripted statement. our terry moran then asking the white house, is the president threatening to punish these figures because they have been critical of the president? and what the white house then said when asked if former president obama and vice president joe biden could be next. abc's terry moran leading us off from the white house. >> reporter: an unprecedented threat from the white house podium, press secretary sarah sanders reading from a prepared statement, announcing that president trump was preparing to strip security clearances from some of the fiercest critics of his approach to russia. >> the fact that people with security clearances are making these baseless charges provides inappropriate legitimacy to accusations with zero evidence. >> reporter: sanders mentioned six high-ranking former national security officials, including former fbi director james comey, former obama national security adviser susan rice and former cia chie

john brennan, also former fbi director james comey and several others. nbc's chief white house correspondent hallie jackson is in washington with a growing backlash over that move. >> reporter: it is an unprecedented threat aimed at some critics of the commander in chief. the white house now considering stripping the security clearances of six former intelligence officials. >> they politicize and in some cases monetize their public service and security clearances. >> most of the officials have worked for both democrats and republicans and have been tough on president trump publicly. >> isn't the president doing exactlai the president doesn't want all the people doing? >> no, the president is not making baseless accusations of improper contact with a foreign government and accusing the president of the united states of treasonous activity. >> reporter: that may be a reference to john brennan, former cia director and nbc news national security and intelligence analyst who called utin nothing short of thimir treasonous. >> i equate it to the betrayal of one

director james comey was always pretty well known but when donald trump fired him last year it boosted his footprint to measure a place this week he's my guest here in berlin where he's promoting a book even as he faces a new challenging series it's supposed to nation and violating procedures and the run up to the twenty six again presidential election so what's the truth. james comey welcome to covering some thank you for having me when you all touring europe selling your book there's a storm of criticism in washington over actions that you and the f.b.i. took in the run up to the presidential election in twenty six the most from the inspector general at the justice department where you are likely very politely told to get lost you didn't miss anything and you didn't apologize for anything are you white or the way. that i am a flawed human i hope like we all recognize that we are and i think i meant what i said about the inspector general i respect their work i respect their criticism you just don't agree with me well that's a fair number of things i said i agree with but the two big

but i do think that james comey bears some of the responsibility for why this is happening because after the clinton e-mail investigation, he gave huge amounts of information to congress. now, granted, the investigation was over, at least they thought it was at that point. but he gave them the fbi interviews, the so-called 302s that joyce and nina know all about, the raw interview -- >> what time frame was this? >> this was shortly after his testimony. >> okay. >> after his july news conference. i think he thought that it would -- members of congress would read this and say, oh, i get it, i see why james comey did what he did. what he did was create 535 g-men that thought they can now get access to these documents. >> as somebody who covers congress every day, that image i find mildly terrifying. >> it should be grossly terrifying. >> g-men, oh, boy. so, trey gowdy has been somebody who has gone back and forth on this, he drew a lot of attention when he defended mueller's investigation. but he had some pretty tough words in this hearing. take a look. >> russia attacked this country. they

but you have james clapper and john brennan and james comey who are hyper partisan. they are the ones -- james comey stood before congress, as you well remember, congressman jay fitz, and talked about how objective politically agnostic he was and he is sitting here tweeting, telling people to vote for democrats, which is fine. you can have free speech. you can be completely against the president. you can have any political opinion you want what we know what the surveillance state was capable of. we know the power these people have and the backdoor searches they were able to do on millions of americans and lord only knows where that information has gone. it seems like in some cases, they are in fact using it to their economic and monetary advantage. >> dana: juan, i will let you respond. >> juan: there is no evidence he abused to any economic advantage. sarah huckabee sanders said they have monetized it. what did they do? do they get a security briefing from somebody and then sell the information to the russians? i don't think so. i don't even think she really meant t

trump fired james comey essentially for this. so, you know, again, mueller is building a masterble case here. the next shoe to drop will be americans colluding with russians and we'll see what happens. >> adrian, do you think, adrian, when you hear about the indictment of these 12 russian intelligence officers, do you feel that it had an outcome on the election in some tangible way? >> i do. because essentially what the russians were able to do is number one so discord or at least perceived discord between clinton and sanders supporters through propaganda, through a lit kn litney of other tactics john's e-mails were hacked, the media covered them like it was the most important news of the day 45 to 50 days before the election. we also know 1,000 other reasons how the russians influence the process but it made a huge impact. i do think it matters and i do think mueller is getting to the bottom of this. >> if the shoe was on the other foot, kerry, wouldn't all we would be hearing is the russians stopped trump? >> look, the only per

. >> an ousted fbi director james comey had to throw in his two cents saying all that believe in this country's values must vote nor democrats this fall. policy differences don't matter right now. history has its eyes on us. gentlemen, is this an appropriate thing for a former intel chief to jump in here and do this? i want to start with scott. because i think these things actually play in donald trump's hands. >> i don't think they play in the hands. but what is your issue with what they have said, your gop colleagues have said, what democrats have said and what we watched? we watched a president that did not denounce russia. 13 of his government agents were just indicted by mueller. they have had -- we have -- >> under the obama administration. yes. >> and they said they attacked our election system and our president, gop president, denies it. then he gets on a consequential -- >> jason: i think -- >> he's does nothing about it. >> jason: it's too strong to say he denies it. he said he misspoke. >> misspoke? >> jason: you know donald trump doesn't -- >> on the world stage he misspok

for instance, james comey. he has a conversation with him, asks him questions about the investigation, et cetera, makes public comments as well. do those public comments and those private meetings, whatever pressure was perceived to have been placed by the president on comey or sessions in those private meetings, whether that adds up to an attempt to either obstruct the investigation or perhaps tamper with witnesses. if you are publicly attacking people involved in this investigation, that could under some circumstances provide evidence of that. i should say the president's lawyers have said that all these questions that are under scrutiny here, including the president's firing of james comey, were very much within the president's power. he is the president. he can do that. that's in effect the president's lawyer's defense. >> you make a very important point. "the new york times" says specifically that mueller is examining whether the actions, the tweets specifically, add up to attempts to obstruct the investig

he got a hold of the entity laptop and somehow mysteriously waited three weeks to tell james comey or andrew mccabe we still have the answersai there. he is implicated in this dossier. he might have dealt somewhere with david corn who wrote russian roulette and others. he's in the middle of everythin everything. >> i don't want to make him more significant than he is. on the michael flynn case, michael flynn pled guilty. he didn't have a gun held to his head by peter strzok, he pled guilty and is cooperating. he was not the sole investigator to close the hillary clinton case, he was not the sole investigator to open the investigation. i think as the public learns about more of the evidence we saw and more evidence that bob mueller is reviewing, they'll have more confidence in what the fbi did to start this investigation. >> brian: you were prepared and you did bring up those things in your introduction. you did say something else. when things got totally out of control and we didn't have enough cameras to cover all 72 of you, we said let's bring steve bannon back in and let's question

five months after this video was shot, james comey was fired. we later learned that, he gave memos, some containing classified information to a columbia law professor and his two lawyers. at least one of them documented a conversation with a president was given to a times reporter. on may 12th 2017, the president tweeted, james comey better hope there are no tapes of his conversations before he starts looking for the press. the house secretary said that twitter line inquiries wiry smacks of desperation. >> if we are starting to investigate people for mean tweets in washington, d.c., we will need a whole lot more special councils. the mueller probe is so baseless they are literally down to trolling tweets. >> a source told fox news that the twitter issue was discussed many months ago when the lawyer doubtless acting as a trump's personal attorney. he insisted the president was well within his authorities as the head of the executive branch to terminate those positions. >> sandra: catherine herridge in washington. here now, jonathan turley, consti

james comey did not violate any laws. the other thing i think the inspector general report demonstrated for us all is that james comey told the truth. jimmy, avon park, florida, line for democrats. caller: a national treasure is "washington journal." thank you so much. has i believe that putin tapes. peepee also, follow the money. putin's got trump wrapped around his finger. also, when obama came in, the republicans wanted to make him a one-term president. the separation, bipartisan separation, came from. host: we will take your comments. congresswoman, if you want to pick up on anything from that? guest: it is good to hear from someone from my home state. host: is avon park your district? guest: it is not my district, but it is florida. you know, everybody -- as i said earlier, i think everybody in this country, who is paying attention, regardless of your party affiliation, has to wonder why the president of the united with a russianet after 12just days ofsians working on behalf that russian dictator were indicted for in

it was aimed to undermine james comey's credibility. that memo argues he can't be trusted as a witness. what do you make of this pretty clear concern over what jaemes comey could say? >> i think the time to worry about comey is relatively over. donald trump's public relations campaign is working. we've seen research that is stating that americans are increasingly growing upset with this probe. they want it to end, and the public opinion is waning from for mueller as well. of course, with republicans we see that in greater numbers than for democrats, but 57% of the americans are expressing worry that donald trump will do the right thing when it comes to dealing with this probe of mr. mueller. two break it down and get to the nitty-gritty with mr. mueller, it's time to talk about what the americans are thinking and donald trump is discrediting and denying this probe from the white house and he's doing well in that. and so i really think we ought to stop talking about mr. comey and really focus on what americans think and they're growing m

comey that prompted the hiring of mueller. so that potential act of obstruction is the birth of this investigation. >> gloria borger, john dean, jeff toobin thank you very much. >>> more now on the deathly silence from the white house and what more is behind cohen's decision to put that tape out there. (vo) this is not a video game. this is not a screensaver. this is the destruction of a cancer cell by the body's own immune system, thanks to medicine that didn't exist until now. and today can save your life. ♪ ♪ chicken! that's right, chicken?! candace-- new chicken creations from starkist. buffalo style chicken in a pouch-- bold choice, charlie! just tear, eat... mmmmm. and go! try all of my chicken creations! chicken! does your business internet provider promise a lot? let's see who delivers more. comcast business gives you gig-speed in more places. the others don't. we offer up to 6 hours of 4g wireless network backup. everyone else, no way. we let calls from any of your devices come from your business number. them, not

brenon, haden, and james clapper. my foe, former fbi director james comey and andrew mccabe. and former national security add havadviser susan rice, they have all been highly critical of the president, which is fine, they have every right. but why do the

take a listen. >> did you at any time urge former fbi director james comey in any way, shape or form to close down -- >> no, no. next question. >> not the first time we have heard giuliani contradict something that president trump said on camera to the nation. >> no. which is why i continue to be perplexed why the president's legal team or i suppose i should say the president continues to think it is a good idea to have rudy giuliani in this role. i think that's something that is extremely perplexing to me and i'd also say that when rudy giuliani says, look, when i was a prosecutor, there were family members, other people -- very different than the president of the united states. it is not the same thing. >> quick break. >> rudy worked for ronald reagan. ronald reagan never called rudy saying go easy on this guy. he is close to me. that would be obstruction of justice if reagan did that just like it was when trump did that. >>> eight of the boys are out. what about the four remaining and the coach in the cave? tom foreman says why this might be the most dangerous mission yet. tom? >>

what does the average fbi agent, the rank and file, what do they think when they see james comey say vote for democrats! >> can we just get back to being agents and doing our jobs without all the political discussion? that's what the rank and file agents are thinking. we don't want our directors to be political. we want to have the public's trust and do the job that they're doing right now. >> you're right. my grandfather was a career fbi agent. i can't thank those men and women enough for what they do and how they do it. gentlemen, thank you. what are the democrats really after when it comes to russia? rush limbaugh has a theory. stay with us. after when it comes to >> jason: so what are the democrats really after when it comes to the russian obsession? rush limbaugh put out an interesting theory yesterday. >> when the they lose, it can't be because they have been rejected by voters. no, there has to be some nefarious reason. there has to be tampering or meddling or collusion. and in the process, they haven. done a great job of making so many millions of americans question the integ

two of them sources say are andrew mccabe and james comey no longer have security clearances having been fired from the trump administration. normally, top officials keep clearance so successors can consult with them. take the case of michael flynn. the president's former national security adviser. he was fired by the obama administration, but allowed to keep clearance even as he led those lock her up chants. >> the president's plan seems to be unplanned likely at the suggestion of rand paul. he is considered a big vote in the supreme court battle. we have more from cnn's jeff zeleny on what "the wall street journal" calls a dumb idea. >> reporter: dave and christine, the officials have been critical of him and his presidency. this has never happened before. it is something we are told the white house is considering. in the briefing room, sarah sanders acknowledged the president was considering it when she said this. >> the president is exploring the mechanisms to remove the clearances because they mondetie security clearances of being influenced by russia which is inappropriate. >> repo

even "if he shot james comey." ( laughter ) so there it is. the president can commit any crime he wants. he's a one-man purge. ( laughter ) which will make a great new campaign slogan: "trump 2020. i could kill you in your sleep." ( laughter ) ( applause ) ( piano riff ) "it's true, i could do it. these hands, these hands." but giuliani says not to worry, adding, "if he shot james comey, he'd be impeached the next day." ( laughter ) of course, of course. that would require house republicans to impeach trump... and is this-- i'm being told we have a clip from the future of paul ryan responding to trump shooting james comey. >> it's what he does. we kind of learned to live with it. >> stephen: okay. ( laughter ) just what he does. ( applause ) ( piano riff ) and, folks, it's not just this whole, "my client is above the law" thing. it's been a tough time all around for the former mayor rudy giuliani, because last week he celebrated his birthday watching his favorite team, the yankees, and this happened. >> announcer: the new york yankees wish a h

this shows, dossier and circular cooperation, shows incompetent and corrupt fbi under james comey and shows doj and fbi and intelligence community were so partisan they would jettison previous protocol, use this partisan propaganda to unleash the surveillance state on private u.s. citizen on u.s. soil. this should be troubling to every american. >> i know it is in your interests to malign our federal law enforcement, to lift up your conspiracy theories -- >> these are not conspiracy theories. this is true. >> carter page wasn't surveiled until after he left the trump campaign. that is another proof that the republicans have been lying. trish: can i -- what do you think happened? what is the worst-case scenario? what down in your gut think actually happened? hang on a minute. >> i think russians were very successful in misinformation campaign, in stoking racial tensions. i do believe they had an impact on those through that propaganda campaign that was massive and we've seen these multiple indictments come from it. i also -- trish: so you think they stole the election? >> i think they

james comey, andrew mccabe, peter strzok. all these people are violating our trust in government institutions and nothing is being done to them. nobody is holding them to account. they are not holding themselves responsible and it's shameful. >> sandra: lastly, but how is your lawsuit? how are things going with that? >> it's been a difficult uphill battle. my lawyers, they came after him and they took his license to practice law in an on going have to represent myself in court, so i had to redo the paperwork, but i will be submitting it very soon and you will see plenty of defendants on there that are well-known names because all these people need to be held accountable. this lawsuit is not about anything other than pointing out the double standard of justice and the fact that these people apparently are above the law, but they shouldn't be. if i have to fight it in court, that's what i'm going to do. >> sandra: kristian saucier, thank you for coming on and telling your story. >> thank you, thank you for having me on. >> sand

james comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. better hope, it sounds like a threat the white house incysted at the time it was meant in no way to intimidate comey. like i said, it sure sounds that way to allay person. especially when we learned comey running the russian investigation at the time said trump demanded of him in those private conversations. >> so he asks you what you want. then says what he wants? >> that i expect loyalty. i need loyalty. >> jeff zeleny continues our coverage tonight. you have breaking new details about the president's reaction to all of this. what's been called this ultimate nightmare tonight? >> reporter: we do, the president in the mid-west today, trying to change the subject and talk about other matters. i am told about someone familiar with him, he was new jersey when he was leaving washington. he is coming back angrier. he has been watching these news accounts all day long as he is traveling on air force one and holding four events. this is someone as you are describing. there is no one

james comey is a republican appointed by donald trump. director wray is a republican appointed by trump and robert mueller is a life-long republican. all i can find are statements that you've have been arraigned on today. i want to ask you about the statements. in the spring of 2016, senator ted cruz called donald trump a coward, a pathological liar and a serial flanderer. is this attack on trump by senator cruz a part of a deep state conspiracy that you organized? >> no. >> on april 8, august 8, senator rubio said that trump was unworthy of being our president. were you a part of it? >> no. >> speaker paul ryan said i'm not going to defend donald trump, not now or not in the future. is this part of a deep state conspiracy that you organized? >> no. >> former secretary of state rex tillerson called him a moron. scott pruitt said he's an empty person. general mcmaster referred to him as a dope and an idiot. karl rove call him an idiot. duncan hunter said he's an a-hole but he's our a-hole. the director of the national council called him as

director john brennan, james comey, former tops by director of national intelligence james clapper. former national security advisor susan rice as well as former deputy fbi director andrew mccabe. >> the president is exploring the mechanisms to remove security clearance because they politicize and in some cases monetize their public service and security clearances. >> the issue came up at the briefing after republican senator rand paul tweeted that he would ask president trump to pull brennan's clearance. after the helsinki summit brennan tweeted that the president actions were treacherous. >> being influenced by russia against the president is extremely inappropriate and the fact that people with security clearances are making these baseless charges provides an appropriate legitimacy accusations with zero evidence. >> michael hagan seemed to brush off the threat writing i don't go back for classified briefings, won't have any affect on what i say or write. clapper said it's kind of a sad commentary for political reasons. a friend of comey's asked the former fbi director whether he

then he gave trump cover, the l alibi to fire fbi director james comey. second, the resistance emerges to trump as he grabs the chance to change the supreme court for generations and by doing so, drive his own reelection. good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. as the only person with ultimate authority over the special counsel's probe, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein is the only person standing out there between president trump and robert mueller. his defense of mueller and the justice department have made him a prime target of the right wing. however, rosenstein has -- was also instrumental to the white house in may of last year when president trump decided to fire fbi director james comey. it was rod rosenstein who ultimately drafted that memo that the president used to justify comey's firing. in an explosive story tonight, "the new york times" is now reporting that rosenstein told colleagues he believed he was used. quote, in the days after the fbi director james comey was fired last year, rod rosenstein repeatedly expressed anger about

former fbi director james comey. former director of national intelligence, james clapper. andrew mccabe and the former national security adviser, susan rice. i just want to be clear here almost all of these individuals have worked for both republican and democratic presidents for years in government. to get to the top of the organizations, the cia, the fbi, the -- the only exception is susan rice. what they actually all have in common is not their politics. what they have in common is that they have criticized this president. here is a small sample. >> i really do wonder whether the russians have something on him. i think his behavior was just unbelievable. >> i don't think he has a full appreciation of russian capabilities, russians' intentions and actions that they are undertaking in many parts of the world. >> what his motivations are, i think is a legitimate question, one that i trust that the special counsel is investigating. but the policies that this president has pursued globally have served vladimir putin's interest. >> yet the white house insists that the threat

entre ellos estÁ james comey. la lista fue ampliada luego que un senador dijera que pedirÍa la revocaciÓn para brendan. tambiÉn hubo advertencias para irÁn. donald trump enviÓ un fuerte mensaje al presidente de irÁn diciendo que enfrentará consecuencia por amenazar a estados unidos. los iranÍes rechazaron los dichos. tenemos las reacciones que ha generado. reportera: el ultimÁtum de donald trump fue directo, nunca mÁs vuelvas a amenazar estados unidos o sufrirÁs consecuencias. esto escribiÓ el domingo el mandatario. la advertencia fue en respuesta a las provocaciones del presidente de irÁn que dijo que el presidente estadounidense no deberÍa jugar con la cola del leÓn porque podrÍa desatar la madre de todas las guerras. para este analista, la amenaza de donald trump es parte de una estrategia de presiÓn para irÁn. lo Único de podemos hacer es dividir esta alian reportera: esto se tildÓ pcoló secretario de estado criticÓ fuertemente al rÉgimen iranÍ y amenazÓ con subir las sanciones puestas

comey or by asking james comey to go easy on michael flynn or raising the possibility he might pardon people, those thing things nor crimes and the things described as russia collusion are not crimes by him, even though other people who hacked dnc e-mail serves committed crimes. the big that that people talk but, those things are not crimes. >> you got it absolutely perfectly. wish you were reviewing the week and wish you lived on martha's vineyard because if you ask my friends what this book is about, they would have a completely, completely different point of view. think the first 28 pages lays it out completely and very clearly, and both of those positions are contentious. the vast number of scholars completely disagree with me. in fact 198 i disagreed with myself. i wrote that impeachment was, i thought, because that was the common wisdom at the time -- a broader criteria. when i went to do the research, when clinton was impeached, i adviseed president clinton on his legal case when he was impeached. i did to research and came to the conclude that you require a crime. everybody lo

[ cheers and applause ] really, james comey? you want to weigh in on things when there's an election coming up? you feel like that's gone well for you in the past? [ laughter ] th's like michael jordan saying, "i think i'm going to take another shot at baseball." [ laughter ]re i meanly. >> really, james comey? you're worried the democrats are going move too far to the left? really? i don't know if you remember, but we were just about to have e boring, moderate democrat for a president until you decided to open your mouth a week before the election, you big dumb scare crow. [ laughter ] >> really? >> really!? and as far as i'm concerned, the democrats can vote for a bg in the shape of che guevara and you got nothing to say about it! [ laughter ] really! >> seth: really? and really, you're telling democrats not to lose their minds? i don't know if you've noticed, but the party inower is locking babies in cages, the president talks about vladimir putin the way jay-z s taout beyonce. [ laughter ] and the white house has more employ

comey just fire him? should he have, adrian? >> you know, i think that there is still a lot to be seen in this situation? >> harris: do you wish that he had? >> i wish that he had in the sense that, now, i feel that this is only playing right into the narrative that the deep state, the republicans on the far right are pushing that -- >> harris: it is hard to keep away from that? >> it plays right into it, which is what is so unfortunate and only does more to tak take away trust from the fbi and what needs to happen from the fbi standpoint but the peter strzok strzok testimony this afternoon, and by the way this is also why we need to see the testimony be released from -- that he gave a couple of weeks ago in front of the committee that was really pressed today to have that released. but we need to know more information and we need to have this information out there so that public trust can be restored in the fbi, because that is where the real problem is to me. >> harris: well, okay, public trust. but how

james comey is a republican appointed by donald trump. fbi director wray is appointed by donald trump, and robert mueller is a lifelong republican. this would have to be a republican conspiracy. i am looking for evidence of a republican conspiracy, all i could find were the kind of statements you have been arraigned on today. i want to ask about those statements. in spring of 2016, senator ted cruz called donald trump a, quote, sniffling coward, a pathological liar, and serial fill and derer. was this attack by senator ted cruz a coordinated part of a deep state conspiracy that you organized? >> no. >> august 8, 2016, senator marco rubio said donald trump was, quote, unworthy of being our president. was this attack part of a deep state conspiracy that you organized? >> no. >> in october of 2016, speaker paul ryan said i am not going to defend donald trump, not now, not in the future. was this part of a deep state conspiracy that you organized? >> no. >> former secretary of state rex tillerson called donald trump a moron. scott pruitt said

james comey is a republican appointed by donald trump. fbi director wray is a republican appointed by donald trump. and robert mueller is a lifelong republican. so this would have to be a republican conspiracy. so i'm looking for evidence of the republican conspiracy. and all i could find were the kind of statements you've been arraigned on today. i want to ask you about those statements. in the spring of 2016, senator ted cruz called donald trump a, quote, sniveling coward, a pathological liar and a serial fi philanderer. was this part of a deep state conspiracy that you organized? >> no. >> on april 8th, 2016, senator marco rubio said donald trump was unworthy being our president. was this attack part of a deep state conspiracy that you organized? >> no. >> in october of 2016 speaker paul ryan said i am not going to defend donald trump, not now, not in the future. was this fleeting outburst of moral courage part of a deep state conspiracy that you organized? >> no. >> rex tillerson called donald trump a moron. scott pruitt said he's an

trump is thinking about revoking the security clearance of , jamesennan, james comey clapper. het is his complaint and can do this? >> nothing specific was cited, just that there had been politicized national security clearances and there was no allegation they had leaked information or disclosed it, but they have been critical of donald trump and john brennan has been biting in his criticism. the president wants latitude in granting clearances and there isn't supposed to be, in the clearance process, the way for fortical views -- leeway political views and it shouldn't matter, if you are up for the job. several people named by the president have said they don't get briefings right now and that they have just simply been speaking out and the clearance or lack of it does not change their feelings about the president. >> why do they have clearances? >> it isn't clear that they do. james clapper says that it is urtesyf a of co and people who have been involved in discussions with foreign policy have been brought in discuss what they know and views on things with the current admin

. >> those include former fbi director james comey. a spokesperson says the president wants to diverse attention from the russia investigation. >> they have politicized and in some cases monotized their public service and security clearances. >> it's all a deflection. >> comey lost his security clearance when he was fired from the fbi. >>> this morning a crucial development in the nuclear negotiations between north korea and the u.s. a monitoring group says satellite images show pyongyang starting to mismantle a site. another group believes this is an important first step towards fulfilling the commitment made by kim jong-un during his summit with president trump in singapore. some say this does not represent a material step toward denuclearization. >>> the twin wildfires fueled by winds up to 50 miles an hour are burning through seaside resorts in greece. at least 60 people are dead, many discovered hugging each other outside a compound consumed by the fire. more than 150 are in hospitals now and the greek prime minister declared thre

. >>> former fbi director james comey urging all who believe in this country's values to vote for democrats in the upcoming mid term elections. the lifelong republican tweeting last night this republican congress has proven incapable of fulfilling the founders design. comey continues to be the target of hash criticikr harsh critici clinton e-mail probe. >>> cnn projected she has defeated bobby bright. she had been viewed as vulnerable. she insisted that then nominee trump step aside after the "access hollywood" tape came out. she's been a reliable vote for the president and. >>> secretary of state mike pompeo announced sunday that the u.s. and north korea agreed to start the search to find americans who never returned from the korean war. president trump made it a key pledge last month. >> there were concerns about progress on this front because there had been a meeting the north koreans didn't show up for. this is something that many families who lost loved ones -- >> nothing concrete from north korea at this point. >>> 11 minutes past the hour. more than 1,000 survivors of the las vegas m

director james comey just advised the democrats to steer clear of socialism. democrats please please don't lose your minds and rush to the socialist left this president and his republican party accounts going you to do exactly that now this comes just after his recent tweet in which he said that the only way to support american values was to go democrat. all who believe in this country's values must vote for democrats this fall policy differences don't matter right now history has its eyes on us now james komi fits in with a big cast of characters these are former intelligence officers who are now telling us what we should be thinking about politics i know we're not nazi germany all right but there is a commonality there and a fear on on my part that we have standards we have to live up to having some understanding of the levers of power that or available to a president if. he chooses to there to resize them from those. downright scary and and disturbing there's a big question first of all in terms of those who are on mr trump's team whether they can continue