MELISSA: COMEY ON THE HOT SEAT.
FORMER FBI DIRECTOR CLAMMING UP
ON CAPITOL HILL DESAI LENSED BY
HIS ATTORNEYS WHILE TESTIFYING
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.
HERE NOW IS CONGRESSMAN
DARRELL ISSA, ONE OF THE
LAWMAKERS WHO QUESTIONED HIM
TODAY.
HE SITS ON THE HOUSE OVERSIGHT
JUDICIARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS
COMMITTEE.
SIR, I HEARD YOU SAY EARLIER
TODAY THAT HIS LAWYERS WERE SORT
OF GLEEFULLY TELLING HIM NOT TO
ANSWER QUESTIONS.
>> I THINK WHEN IT WAS
SPECIFICALLY THE FBI'S LAWYER.
IN OTHER WORDS, IT IS STILL THE
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE BLOCKING
JUSTICE, IF IT IS BEING DONE BY
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE'S
REPRESENTATIVES HERE IN
CONGRESS.
MELISSA: WHAT WERE THE QUESTIONS
YOU ASKED THAT HE WOULDN'T
ANSWER?
>> I WANT TO BE CAREFUL TO KEEP
THE NO SPECIFICS RULE UNTIL THE
TRANSCRIPT COMES OUT BUT THEY
CLEARLY INVOLVED THE GENERAL
CATEGORIES OF HILLARY CLINTON,
AND DECISIONS THERE.
LORETTA LYNCH AND DECISIONS
THERE.
AND VERY MUCH THE FISA
INVESTIGATIONS.
THOSE WERE SOME OF THE AREAS.
THE THING THAT IS CREATING A
PROBLEM IS OF COURSE EVERYONE
KNEW, INCLUDING THE FBI AND THE
ATTORNEYS, AT DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE, WHAT THE QUESTIONS WERE
GOING TO BE AND SO TO SURPRISE
US BY COMING UP WITH VERY BROAD
PROHIBITIONS, TO BE CANDID, WE
COULD HAVE JUST EASILY NOT HAD
THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IN THE
ROOM, STUCK TO THE SUBPOENA THAT
CHAIRMAN GOODLATTE ISSUED, AND
GOTTEN PAST SOME OF THIS BUT
THEY'RE NOW ESSENTIALLY FORCING
US TO GO TO THE DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE, NEGOTIATE A LOT MORE
INFORMATION BEING ALLOWED, AND
BRING COMEY BACK BECAUSE HE SET
AN ARTIFICIAL, SURPRISED WITH AN
ARTIFICIAL I HAVE TO LEAVE AT
4:15, WITH THESE NON-ANSWERS
CLEARLY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE
NOT GETTING ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
THEY HAVE.
AND IF YOU NOTICE TODAY, WHAT
WAS, WHAT CAME OUT FROM
"JUDICIAL WATCH" AND THE
TERRIBLE VIOLATIONS OF PROTOCOLS
THAT WERE DONE BY THE DEPARTMENT
OF JUSTICE, WHEN THEY WERE
LOOKING AND FBI, WHEN THEY WERE
LOOK AT HILLARY CLINTON, IT IS
VERY CLEAR THERE WERE STILL
PROBLEMS THERE AND THE NEW
ATTORNEY GENERAL HAS A LOT TO
FIX.
MELISSA: I MEAN, IF HE IS JUST
GOING TO EVADE NO MATTER WHAT,
HE NEEDED SPECIFIC TERMS.
YOU GUYS DID IT.
NOW YOU HAVE TO GO BACK AND
RENEGOTIATE, SEALS LIKE HE WOULD
HAVE ANOTHER SURPRISE ROADBLOCK,
THAT HE DOESN'T WANT TO
COOPERATE.
SO WHERE DO YOU GO FROM THERE?
WHAT IS THE POINT OF TRYING TO
DO THIS AGAIN?
>> WELL, FIRST OF ALL GETTING
THE TRUTH FOR THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE YOU KEEP TRYING UNTIL YOU
GET IT.
LET'S REMEMBER THAT COMEY WAS A
MAN WHO CAME BEFORE CONGRESS
VOLUNTARILY AND LIED TO US ABOUT
HIS NEED TO GET A BACKDOOR INTO
APPLE PHONES, MILLIONS OF PHONES
THAT HE WANTED TO BE ABLE TO
ESSENTIALLY UNLOCK AND LOOK AT
REMOTELY.
YOU KNOW WAS LATER PROVED TO
CLEARLY NOT CHECKED OUT HOW TO
UNLOCK ONE PHONE FROM THE SAN
BERNARDINO KILLER.
THIS IS A MAN WHO PLAYS FAST AND
LOOSE WITH THE TRUTH AND NOW
SITTING BEHIND THE DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE THAT IS STILL
STONEWALLING THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE.
MELISSA: BUT YOU KNOW HE IS NOT
IN THE POSITION ANY LONGER.
SO WHAT IS THE POINT OF
CONTINUING DOWN THIS PATH AS
OPPOSED TO, TRYING TO EITHER GO
INTO THE DEPARTMENT REFORM IT,
CHANGE WHO IS THERE, CHANGE THE
RULES AROUND IT?
I MEAN SEEMS LIKE THIS PATH IS
NOT THE MOST DIRECT PATH IN
ORDER TO, YOU KNOW, GET TO
JUSTICE WITHIN THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT?
>> WELL, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU
HAVE TO GO TO EACH OF THE AREAS
THAT NEED TO BE DISCOVERED OR
REFORMED.
IN THIS CASE REMEMBER WE'RE
STILL SPENDING, WE, THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE, ARE STILL SPENDING
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS EVERY MONTH
SIGNIFICANTING COLLUSION, IF YOU
WILL.
AND BY THE WAY THAT HAS CLEARLY
BEEN UNDERSTOOD IS NOT A LEGAL
TERM.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS
COLLUSION UNDER THE LAW.
COMEY COULDN'T ANSWER WHAT
COLLUSION WAS BECAUSE IT IS NOT
A TERM THAT HAS A LAW ATTACHED
TO IT.
BUT THE FACT IS, THAT WE'RE
STILL SPENDING THAT MONEY.
THE SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR IS
INVESTIGATING BASED ON, THESE
WERE A LOT OF OUR QUESTIONS
OBVIOUSLY, BASED ON THIS FALSE
NARRATIVE OF THE, THE SO-CALLED
STEELE DOSSIER WHICH WAS OUT
RIGHT LIED PAID FOR BY THE
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE
AND HILLARY CLINTON THAT IS
STILL GOING ON.
SO HE MAY BE OUT BUT THE
PREDICATE, THE FALSE PREDICATE,
THE LIES TOLD TO A FISA JUDGE TO
GET IT IS STILL SOMETHING THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE DESERVE MORE
THAN JUST A PROMISE IT WON'T
HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE.
PEOPLE HAVE TO BE HELD
ACCOUNTABLE TO A LYING TO A
FEDERAL JUDGE.
THOSE PEOPLE LIED TO A FEDERAL
JUDGE KNOWINGLY ARE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES.
MELISSA: WHAT DID HE KNOW BEFORE