>> JAMES COMEY HAD A PERSONAL
VENDETTA.
HE BELIEVED HIS ROLE IN THE
F.B.I. WAS ONE THAT HE WAS THE
ULTIMATE ARBITER OF BEING JUDGE
AND JURY ON ANYTHING THAT HE
DID OR DID NOT LIKE.
>> ONLY IN WASHINGTON, D.C. CAN
YOU HAVE 70 PLUS PAGES OF BAD
NEWS AND EXPECT AN APOLOGY.
THE JOHN DURHAM AND INSPECTOR
GENERAL'S REPORT COMING OUT
WILL BE MORE DAMMING THAN THIS.
>> Bill: REPUBLICAN REACTION
LAST WEEK.
THE FIRED F.B.I. DIRECTOR
SAYING HE WAS VINDICATED.
WANT TO BRING IN OUR HEADLINER
TREY GOWDY FORMER SOUTH
CAROLINA CONGRESSMAN AND FOX
NEWS CONTRIBUTOR.
WELCOME BACK TO OUR PROGRAM
TODAY AND GOOD MORNING.
HOW ABOUT AN APOLOGY?
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT?
>> I DON'T THINK -- THIS IS
WHAT YOU WOULD BE APOLOGIZING
AND WHO YOU WOULD BE
APOLOGIZING TO.
SOMEONE WHO VIOLATED F.B.I. AND
D.O.J. POLICY AND VIOLATED THE
TERMS OF HIS EMPLOYMENT
AGREEMENT.
DENIES THE EXISTENCE OF AN
INVESTIGATION.
TRANSMITTED CLASSIFIED
INFORMATION AND WHEN THE F.B.I.
CAME TO HIS HOUSE AFTER HE WAS
FIRED HAD AMNESIA.
OH, BY THE WAY, THIS IS NOT THE
FIRST TIME JIM COMEY WAS DINGED
BY THE INSPECTOR GENERAL.
HE WAS DINGED IN THE CLINTON
INVESTIGATION BECAUSE COMEY
PLAYS BY HIS OWN SET OF RULES.
HE IS 0-2.
THE TWO MAJOR INVESTIGATIONS HE
HAD IN 2016 VIOLATED ALMOST
EVERYTHING YOU CAN THINK OF
EXCEPT A CRIMINAL STATUTE AND
THAT'S THE GUY THAT WANTS YOU
TO APOLOGIZE TO HIM.
>> Julie: A TWEET JAMES COMEY
WANTS AN APOLOGY.
D.O.J., IG FOUND NO EVIDENCE
THAT COMEY OR HIS ATTORNEYS
RELEASED ANY CLASSIFIED
INFORMATION IN ANY OF THE MEMOS
TO MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA.
I DON'T NEED A PUBLIC APOLOGY
FROM THOSE WHO DEFAMED ME BUT A
QUICK MESSAGE WITH A SORRY WE
LIED ABOUT YOU WOULD BE NICE.
HE BASICALLY SPIED ON THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION BEFORE AND AFTER
THEY WON THE WHITE HOUSE.
WHO SHOULD BE DOING THE APOLOGY
HERE?
>> WELL, I'M IN A UNIQUE
POSITION.
I NEVER SAID HE SHOULD BE IN
JAIL.
I'VE NEVER SAID ANYONE SHOULD
BE IN JAIL.
THAT WAS MY OLD JOB, NOT MY NEW
JOB.
I DON'T HIM AN APOLOGY.
BUT GO BACK.
REMEMBER WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP
WAS CRITICIZED ROUNDLY BECAUSE
HE SAID HE WASN'T SURE HE WOULD
SHARE INFORMATION IF HE GAINED
IT IN THE COURSE OF A CAMPAIGN.
HE WAS CRITICIZED ROUNDLY FOR
THAT.
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT WHO HE
WOULD HAVE CALLED IN 2016.
JIM COMEY.
IF THERE IS A BIGGER TRUMP
CRITIC IN THE UNITED STATES
THAN JIM COMEY I HAVEN'T MET
HIM.
JOHN BRENNAN MIGHT BE 1B.
PETER STRZOK, LISA PAGE, JIM
BAKER AND ANDY MCCABE ON
INDICTMENT WATCH.
THAT'S WHO THE PRESIDENT WOULD
HAVE CALLED IN 2016.
IF HE APPEARS TO BE A LITTLE
BIT RELUCTANT TO TRUST THE
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY AND LAW
ENFORCEMENT, THAT'S WHO HE
WOULD HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH IN
2016.
>> Bill: TWO DAYS AGO ARI
FLEISCHER WAS ON OUR SHOW
TALKING WITH JULIE DESCRIBING
THE JANUARY 2017 MEETING IN
TRUMP TOWER.
THIS IS TRANSITIONAL PERIOD NOW
INTO A NEW PRESIDENCY.
THE COUNTRY HAS VOTED TWO
MONTHS PRIOR AND FLEISCHER
CHARACTERIZED IT THIS WAY.
>> THINK WHAT JAMES COMEY WAS
DOING.
INSTEAD OF MEETING A NEW
PRESIDENT ELECT TO BEGIN A
RELATIONSHIP AND GET TO KNOW
ONE ANOTHER, HE BEGAN TO TREAT
THE PRESIDENT-ELECT AS IF HE
WERE PART OF A CRIME, A WITNESS
TO A POTENTIAL CRIME AND SOUGHT
INFORMATION.
THAT'S WHY HE FED IT BACK TO
THE TEAM.
EXTRAORDINARY ON TOP OF SO MANY
OTHER THINGS THAT SHOW
TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE JUDGMENT BY
JAMES COMEY AND HIS TEAM.
>> Bill: MY GUESS IS THAT
SUMMARIZES IT FOR YOU.
>> WELL, IT DOES.
I WOULD ADD TO THIS TO WHAT HE
SAID.
I WOULD LOVE JIM COMEY TO SAY
WHAT WAS THE EVIDENTIARY
EVIDENCE FOR YOU BELIEVING IT.
AT THE END OF WHICH ZERO
AMERICANS WERE INDICTED FOR
COLLUDING WITH RUSSIA AFTER TWO
YEAR.
YOU HAD A TWO YEAR LONG F.B.I.
INVESTIGATION.
YOU TAKE YOUR FIRST OPPORTUNITY
TO INTERVIEW THE SOON TO BE
LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD AND
YOU ARE GOING TO TRY TO BOLSTER
AN INVESTIGATION THAT WOUND UP
LEADING TO NOTHING.
SO JIM COMEY, WHAT WAS THE
BASIS FOR YOUR BELIEVING THAT
PRESIDENT TRUMP OR CANDIDATE
TRUMP COLLUDED WITH RUSSIA?
WHAT IS THE EVIDENTIARY BASIS.
SOME OF US HAVE BEEN ASKING
THAT QUESTION FOR TWO YEARS AND
ALL WE GET IS SOME OBLIQUE
REFERENCE THAT GEORGE
PAPADOPOULOS MADE IN A BAR.
THAT'S THE WHOLE REASON WE HAD
A TWO-YEAR LONG INVESTIGATION.
>> Julie: THAT WAS THE WHOLE
THEME OF THE F.B.I.'S BASIS.
THEY HAD NO BASIS.
THEY USED THE CHRISTOPHER
STEELE MEMO -- DOSSIER WHICH
TURNED OUT TO BE B.S. AND THAT
WAS THEIR BASIS.
SO THEY WERE GOING KNOWINGLY ON
B.S.
>> RIGHT.
THAT WAS THE BASIS IN THE FALL.
THAT WAS THE FALL OF 2016.
EVEN BEFORE THAT, WHEN THEY
QUOTE LAUNCHED THE RUSSIA
INVESTIGATION, IT WAS BASED ON
A COMMENT IN A BAR.
THAT DOESN'T EVEN GET TO THE
DOSSIER WHICH JIM COMEY
ADMITTED IN DECEMBER OF 2016
HAD NEVER BEEN CORROBORATED.
NEVER BEEN VETTED AND CERTAINLY
WASN'T VERIFIED.
LOOK, HE -- IF YOUR GOAL IN
LIFE IS TO AVOID INDICTMENT,
CONGRATULATIONS, JIM COMEY, YOU
DID IT.
MY GOAL IN LIFE IS TO HAVE
HISTORY SAY I WAS FAIR.
HISTORY WILL NOT JUDGE JIM
COMEY AS A FAIR F.B.I. DIRECTOR.
HE IS A PARTISAN WHO DELIGHTS
IN ATTACKING THE PERSON THAT HE
STILL WOULD BE WORKING FOR
RIGHT NOW, JULIE.
KEEP IN MIND IF HE HADN'T BEEN
FIRED HE WOULD STILL BE WORKING
FOR THE PERSON THAT HE THINKS
IS TOO UNFIT EVEN FOR
IMPEACHMENT.
>> Bill: THANK YOU FOR YOUR
TIME.
CONGRESS COMES BACK NEXT WEEK.
DO WE GET THE I.G. REPORT NEXT
WEEK IN ITS ENTIRETY?
YES OR NO.
>> THE NEW ONE THAT HOROWITZ IS
WORKING ON?
>> Bill: YEAH.
>> NO.
LINDSEY WILL GET IT BEFORE
ANYBODY ELSE.
I HEAR RUMORS, HOROWITZ IS GOOD
ABOUT KEEPING THIS STUFF TO
HIMSELF.
I DOUBT IT'S NEXT WEEK.
>> Julie: YOU ARE AS IN DARK AS
THE REST OF IT.
>> WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE
DARK.