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>> THAT'S TREASON.
THAT'S TREASON.
THEY CONSTITUENT WIN THE
ELECTION.
AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED.
>> Martha: SO JAMES COMEY IS
BACK IN THE NEWS AGAIN
TONIGHT.
IS HE BLASTING PRESIDENT
TRUMP'S SO-CALLED DUMB LIES
AS HE PUTS IT ABOUT BIAS
WITHIN THE INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY.
AND A DELIBERATE ATTEMPT TO
KEEP HIM OUT OF THE WHITE
HOUSE.
HE WRITES THIS IN A NEW
OP-ED IN THE "THE WASHINGTON
POST," QUOTE: INVESTIGATE
THE INVESTIGATORS IF YOU
MUST.
WHEN THOSE INVESTIGATIONS
ARE OVER, THEY WILL FIND THE
WORK WAS DONE APPROPRIATELY
AND FOCUSED ONLY ON
DISCERNING THE TRUTH OF VERY
SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS.
THERE WAS NO CORRUPTION.
THERE WAS NO TREASON.
THERE WAS NO ATTEMPTED COUP.
THOSE ARE LIES AND DUMB LIES
AT THAT WRITES THE FORMER
FBI DIRECTOR.
TREY GOWDY FORMER HOUSE
OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN
AND NOW A FOX NEWS
CONTRIBUTOR JOINS ME NOW.
ALWAYS GOOD TO SEE YOU.
THANKS FOR COMING IN
TONIGHT.
>> YES, MA'AM.
THANK YOU.
>> Martha: WHAT'S YOUR
REACTION TO THAT?
>> I DON'T USE THE WORD
TREASON.
IT'S A CRIME TO WHICH YOU
COULD BE PUT TO DEATH.
I'M PRETTY JUDICIOUS IN HOW
I USE IT.
COMEY GOES ON IN THAT OP-ED
TO TALK ABOUT THE GOOD MEN
AND WOMEN OF THE FBI.
AND THERE ARE LOTS OF GOOD
MEN AND WOMEN AT THE FBI.
MOST OF THEM WOULD NEVER
TARGET A POLITICAL CAMPAIGN
AND HOPE THAT IT LOST
100 MILLION TO NOTHING.
MOST FBI AGENTS WOULD NEVER
BELITTLE POLITICAL
SUPPORTERS OF SOMEONE ELSE
AND SAY THEY COULD SMELL
THEM AT A WALMART.
THEY WOULD NEVER PROMISE TO
STOP A POLITICAL CANDIDATE.
THEY WOULD NEVER SAY THEY
WERE DESTABILIZING FOR THE
COUNTRY OR CALL THEM AN
IFING IDIOT.
THEY WOULD NEVER USE
UNFAVORED INFORMATION.
GIVE IT THE U.S.S.
GOVERNMENT AND SUBMIT IT IN
A FISA APPLICATION BUT,
MARTHA, EVERY FBI AGENT THAT
WAS INVOLVED IN 2016 DID
THAT.
THAT WAS DONE BY THE FBI.
COMEY HAS NO ONE BUT TO
BLAME BUT HIMSELF.
NO ONE TO BLAME BUT HIMSELF
IF HE IS CONCERNED ABOUT
WHAT THE INVESTIGATION IN
2016 MAY UNCOVER.
MOST FBI AGENTS WOULDN'T DO
ANY OF WHAT I DESCRIBED.
UNFORTUNATELY THE ONE HE
PICKED DID ALL OF THAT.
AGENCIES NOW GETTING NERVOUS
ABOUT WHAT THE NEW
INVESTIGATION THAT BILL BARR
HAS MAN AT A
HAS MANDAT A
HAS MANDATEA
HAS MANDATED MIGHT FIND.
>> DEPENDS ON WHETHER OR NOT
THEY HAVE DONE ANYTHING
WRONG.
MOST PEOPLE WHO HAVE DONE
NOTHING WRONG GETS NERVOUS.
THE GREAT IRONY IS WHEN I
SEE HEADLINES LAMENTING THE
POSSIBILITY THAT CLASSIFIED
INFORMATION IS GOING TO BE
DISSEMINATED BY BILL BARR, I
MEAN, THINK BACK, MARTHA IN
2016, 2017, RIGHT AFTER
TRUMP BECAME PRESIDENT, WHO
IS DEDISSEMINATING THE
CLASSIFIED INFORMATION?
IT WAS THE "NEW YORK TIMES"
AND "THE WASHINGTON POST."
THAT'S WHO WAS SHARING
CLASSIFIED INFORMATION.
NOBODY WAS CONCERNED ABOUT
IT THEN.
BILL BARR IS THE DULY
APPOINTED, NOMINATED
CONFIRMED ATTORNEY GENERAL.
I THINK THAT HE KNOWS ENOUGH
TO INVESTIGATE WHAT PARTS OF
THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
DID NOT MEET OUR HIGH
EXPECTATIONS.
THE NOTION THAT ANY ENTITY
IS ABOVE OVERSIGHT, ABOVE
REVIEW, SO I AGREE WITH
COMEY.
LET'S DO INVESTIGATE THE
INVESTIGATORS.
IT WILL BE HELPFUL IF HE
WERE A LITTLE MORE OBJECTIVE
WILL THE -- I MEAN, IMAGINE
THE FRUSTRATION, MARTHA,
WHEN YOU READ THE LEAD AGENT
THAT WAS PUT ON THIS
INVESTIGATION PROMISED TO
STOP YOUR CAMPAIGN?
CAN COMEY NOT AT ALL
UNDERSTAND HOW SOMEONE MAY
NOT HAVE CONFIDENCE IN AN
INVESTIGATION RUN BY SOMEONE
WHO TALKED ABOUT AN
INSURANCE POLICY ON THE
LIKELY --
>> Martha: HE SAID THEY'RE
JUST TEXTING.
THOSE ARE PERSONAL FEELINGS.
AND PEOPLE ARE ENTITLED TO
THEIR PERSONAL FEELINGS.
HE BELIEVES HE NEVER LET
THAT YOU KNOW, BLEED INTO
HIS WORK AT ALL.
>> LET ME DISABUSE HIM OF
THAT.
REMEMBER AT THE END WHEN
THEY WERE DECIDING WHETHER
OR NOT TO JOIN THE MUELLER
TEAM.
PETER STRZOK SAID MY CONCERN
IS THAT THERE IS NO THERE
THERE.
NOT MY HOPE.
NOT MY JOY.
NOT MY EXPECTATION.
MY CONCERN IS THAT THERE IS
NO THERE THERE.
THEN HE MUSED IT IF THIS WAS
LEADING TOWARD IMPEACHMENT
HE WOULD BE INTERESTED IN
IT.
THIS IS A CAREER FBI AGENT
WHO IS SUPPOSED TO DEDICATE
HIS CAREER TO INVESTIGATING
RUSSIA.
THAT WAS NOT ENOUGH FOR HIM.
TO INVESTIGATE WHAT RUSSIA
WAS DOING TO US WAS NOT
ENOUGH FOR PETER STRZOK.
HE WAS NOT INTERESTED UNLESS
IT WAS GOING TO LEAD TO THE
POLITICAL OUTCOME OF
IMPEACHMENT.
THAT'S ABOUT ALL YOU NEED TO
KNOW ABOUT PETER STRZOK.
IF IT'S ABOUT FINDING OUT
ABOUT RUSSIA, COUNT HIM OUT.
IF IT'S IMPEACHMENT OF
SOMEONE HE WANTED TO LOSE
100 MILLION TO NOTHING?
COUNT HIM IN.
>> Martha: EVERYTHING YOU
JUST STATED, YOU KNOW, THOSE
ARE FACTS.
AS WE KNOW THEM.
THAT HAVE RULED
THAT HAVE ROLED
THAT HAVE ROLLED OUT.
THEY NEED TO BE LOOKED AT
AND THAT'S PART OF WHAT IS
GOING ON HERE.
LET ME TAKE A BIG TURN HERE
AND GET YOUR THOUGHTS ON ONE
OF THE MANY, MANY CANDIDATES
RUNNING FOR THE DEMOCRATIC
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION ERIC
SWALWELL WHO IS, YOU KNOW,
SORT OF BEMOANING THE FACT
THAT HE IS -- ANOTHER WHITE
GUY AS HE PUTS IT.
HE SAYS I MAY BE ANOTHER
WHITE GUY BUT I KNOW THERE
ARE GAPS IN MY KNOWLEDGE OR
IN MY EXPERIENCE AND I KNOW
WHEN TO PASS THE MIKE.
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT
THAT?
>> WELL, ERIC IS CLEARLY
RIDING A WAVE ALL THE WAY UP
TO ZERO IN THE POLLING.
I NOTICED THROUGHOUT HIS
POLITICAL HISTORY HE RAN
AGAINST TWO WOMEN THAT I
KNOW OF, SO IF HE IS
CONCERNED THERE AREN'T
ENOUGH VOICES IN CONGRESS OR
IN THE CITY COUNCIL HE WAS
ON.
HE DIDN'T HAVE ANY QUALMS
ABOUT RUNNING AGAINST TWO
QUALIFIED WOMEN BACK THEN.
THIS IS WHAT I KNOW AND
LUCKILY WHAT MOST OF OUR
FELLOW CITIZENS KNOW.
LOGIC, OBJECTIVE TRUTH, A
PASSION, EMPATHY, A NO
RACIAL OR GENDER SCRIPTURES.
IF YOU ARE A GOOD PERSON, I
WANT YOU GOVERNING ME
REGARDLESS OF ANY OTHER
CHARACTERISTIC.
I THINK IT IS A SAD
REFLECTION ON OUR POLITICS
IF PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY
APOLOGIZING FOR THINGS OVER
WHICH THEY HAVE ABSOLUTELY
NO CONTROL AT ALL AND I
THINK MOST OF MY FELLOW
CITIZENS REJECT THAT AND SEE
THIS AS JUST ERIC PANDERING,
TRYING TO CLIMB ALL THE WAY
UP TO 1% IN THE POLLING.
>> Martha: ALL RIGHT.