MORE COVERAGE HERE FROM
NORTHEASTERN FLORIDA.
SANDRA, BACK TO YOU.
>> Sandra: THANK YOU, BILL.
NEW INFORMATION FROM THE
WATCHDOG REPORT ON JAMES COMEY,
QUESTIONING HIS MOTIVATION FOR
BRIEFING PRESIDENT TRUMP ON THE
STEELE DOSSIER.
COULD HE STILL FACE CHARGES,
DESPITE THE DECISION NOT TO
PROSECUTE HIM?
THE RANKING MEMBER OF THE HOUSE
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
GOOD MORNING TO YOU.
WHAT IS YOUR THINKING ON WHETHER
OR NOT HE COULD FACE CHARGES ARE
THERE COULD EVENTUALLY BE AN
INDICTMENT?
>> WELL, I HAVE TO REMIND THE
AUDIENCE AT THE HOUSE
INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE
REPUBLICANS, WE SENT OVER EIGHT
CRIMINAL REFERRALS.
IT TAKING YOU BACK TO WHEN
JAMES COMEY TESTIFIED BEFORE
CONGRESS, HE WRITES A LOT IN THE
BOOK, TALKS TO THE MEDIA, BUT
WHEN HE ANSWER THE QUESTION TO
CONGRESS, HE DIDN'T ANSWER VERY
MANY QUESTIONS.
COULDN'T RECALL.
THERE WAS A LOT LEFT THERE.
WHAT THIS REPORT DOES IS IT
CLEARLY SHOWS WITH CLAIRVOYANCE
THAT JAMES COMEY, McCABE, ALL
OF THESE GUYS AT THE VERY TOP,
SO THE IG REPORT, EVEN THOUGH IT
DIDN'T LEAD TO PROSECUTION, IT
IS A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF
EVIDENCE THAT WOULD BUILD INTO
THE CASE THAT WE HAVE BEEN
MAKING THAT THERE WAS IN FACT A
CONSPIRACY EAR, AND THAT IS WHAT
THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SHOULD BE
LOOKING AT HERE.
>> Sandra: WHAT EXACTLY IS
THAT EVIDENCE?
>> WELL, WHEN YOU LOOK AT
MANIPULATION OF INTELLIGENCE OR
LYING TO THE FISA COURT FOR
POLITICAL PURPOSES, YOU NOW KNOW
THAT THE EVIDENCE THAT WE HAVE
IS THAT, HE WASN'T BRIEFING HIM
JUST TO GET HIM UP TO SPEED.
HE WAS ACTING AS IF HE WAS IN
AGENT WORKING.
THAT IS EVIDENCE THAT HE WAS
INVOLVED IN THIS.
HE HAS TRIED TO PRETEND THAT HE
IS LIKE A STEP OR TWO AWAY FROM
WHAT HAPPENED, HE PRETENDS THAT
HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT WAS
HAPPENING WITH THE INTELLIGENCE.
WELL, THE IG REPORT REALLY MAKES
CLEAR THAT THAT IS NOT THE CASE
WHEN YOU READ THROUGH 80 PAGES.
>> Sandra: SO THE DOJ DECIDED
NOT TO PROSECUTE.
YOU ARE SUGGESTING THAT DOES NOT
MEAN THAT THE FORMER FBI
DIRECTOR IS OUT OF THE WOODS
JUST YET.
BUT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO PRESS
YOU, CONGRESSMAN, ON WHAT
EXACTLY YOU KNOW THAT WOULD LEAD
TO THAT.
YOU ARE SAYING THAT THIS WOULD
COME DOWN TO THE DISTRICT
ATTORNEY TO MAKE THE DECISION
HERE.
>> YES, SO WE KNOW THAT
BILL BARR HAS ASKED THE U.S.
ATTORNEY TO LOOK AT EVERYTHING.
REMEMBER, IN THE MUELLER REPORT
THAT CAME OUT, EVEN THOUGH IT
EXONERATED DONALD TRUMP, IT
REALLY DIDN'T ANSWER THE VERY
BASIC QUESTIONS THAT WE HAVE
BEEN LOOKING TO AS HOUSE
REPUBLICANS, RIGHT?
WHO ARE ALL OF THESE CHARACTERS
THAT STARTED THIS INVESTIGATION?
HOW DID THIS BEGIN?
HOW DID WE USE OUR SECRET MOST
POWERFUL CAPABILITIES DESIGNED
TO GO AFTER FOREIGNERS AND BAD
GUYS, HOW DOES NAZISM GET TURNED
AROUND TO TARGET AN AMERICAN
POLITICAL CAMPAIGN FOR
PRESIDENT, NOT THE
PRESIDENT, NOT NHE
PRESIDENT, NOT NONETHELESS.
THAT IS WHAT NEEDS TO BE
ANSWERED.
FROM THAT, THE EVIDENCE THAT WE
HAVE GATHERED OVER OUR TWO AND A
HALF YEAR INVESTIGATION, WE HAVE
MADE SPECIFIC CRIMINAL
REFERRALS, TO DO THIS.
I WILL JUST REPEAT AGAIN,
SENATOR, COMEY ALWAYS PRETENDED
THAT HE WASN'T A PART OF THAT,
BUT IN FACT, HE SIGNED TO THOSE
IF YOU LOOK AT NOW THAT HE WAS
ACTUALLY BEING USED TO RUN IN, B
ACTUALLY BEING USED TO RUN IN, T
ACTUALLY BEING USED TO RUN IN, H
ACTUALLY BEING USED TO RUN IN, E
ACTUALLY BEING USED TO RUN IN, W
ACTUALLY BEING USED TO RUN IN, S
ACTUALLY BEING USED TO RUN IN, A
ACTUALLY BEING USED TO RUN IN, T
ACTUALLY BEING USED TO RUN IN, A
ACTUALLY BEING USED TO RUN IN, L
ACTUALLY BEING USED TO RUN IN, Y
INTERROGATING THE PRESIDENT.
USING THAT INFORMATION AND
FEEDING IT RIGHT BACK INTO THE
CROSS FIRE HURRICANE TEAM AT A
TIME WHEN CONGRESS NOR THE
PRESIDENT-ELECT KNEW THAT HE WAS
UNDER INVESTIGATION.
>> Sandra: FINALLY,
CATHERINE HERRIDGE HAS BEEN
DOING SOME EXTENSIVE REPORTING,
DIGGING INTO THE EXACT WORDING
AND INFORMATION IN THE REPORT
AND LEADING UP TO THE NEXT
REPORT.
BY LOOKING AT HOW JAMES COMEY
TREATED HIS NOTES FROM THE
TRUMP TOWER BRIEFING, HE TREATED
THEM LIKE HIGHLY CLASSIFIED FIZA
INTELLIGENCE.
WHY DID HE DO THAT IS THE
QUESTION.
>> THAT'S A VERY GOOD QUESTION.
IT IS INTERESTING THAT THEY
WOULD PICK AND CHOOSE THOSE
WORDS.
NOW, WHAT I BELIEVE IS THAT THEY
RAN THIS ENTIRE INVESTIGATION
UNDER COUNTER INTELLIGENCE
BECAUSE YOU CAN GO TO SECRET
COURTS, YOU DON'T HAVE TO REPORT
WHAT YOU'RE DOING, YOU RUN UNDER
A DIFFERENT SET OF GUIDELINES.
AND I THINK MOST AMERICANS
UNDERSTAND THIS.
IF YOU ARE UNDER SOME TYPE OF
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION, YOU
WOULD HAVE A GRAND JURY
INVOLVED.
SOME OF YOUR PEERS WOULD BE
INVOLVED.
WHETHER OR NOT YOU COULD GET A
WARRANT OR NOT.
BUT THE COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
INVESTIGATION LET THEM DO TWO
THINGS.
LET THEM RUN IT IN A VERY SMALL,
CLOSED CIRCLE OF PEOPLE.
WE NOW KNOW THAT COMEY WAS ONE
OF THOSE PEOPLE.
VERY CLEAR ABOUT WHO COULD GET
ACCESS TO THAT INFORMATION.
I WILL GO BACK TO WHAT I SAID.
IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE USED TO
TARGET SPIES, TERRORISTS.
A FOREIGNERS.
THAT IS THE KEY, AND I'M SURE
THAT THAT IS WHAT
CATHERINE HERRIDGE IS LOOKING
AT.
>> Sandra: I AM RUNNING OUT OF
TIME, BUT ACTING WITHIN OR
OUTSIDE OF HIS AUTHORITY, BASED
ON THAT ANSWER?
>> YOU KNOW, I THINK THE
QUESTION THAT WE NEED TO HAVE
ANSWERED IS HOW IS IT THAT THE
CROSS FIRE HURRICANE TEAM, THE
TEAM LOOKING INTO
PRESIDENT TRUMP, HOW DO THEY GET
TO DECIDE WHAT WAS CLASSIFIED OR