THE REPORT DEMONSTRATES HE LIED.
THEY'VE GIVEN HIM A BREAK.
>> Jon: NEW REACTION CONTINUES
TO POUR IN ON A SCATHING
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
INSPECTOR GENERAL'S REPORT ON
JAMES COMEY.
THE IG FORMS OF FORMER FBI
DIRECTOR AND HIS MEETINGS WITH
PRESIDENT TRUMP.
"THE NEW YORK POST" RUN PAGE
BLARING LEAKER OF THE FREE
WORLD.
LET'S BRING IN OUR HEADLINER,
FORMER INDEPENDENT COUNSEL AND A
FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR.
YOU ARE A GUY WHO COULD TAKE
APART SOME LEGAL ISSUES AND MAKE
THEM VERY SENSIBLE.
I MISS ANYTHING IN THE COVERAGE
AND THE ASSESSMENT OF
INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT?
>> A 60 PAGE REPORT, IT'S SO
COMPREHENSIVE AND THAT IS SO
DEVASTATING WHAT WAS VERY
REVEALING TO ME WAS WELL
JIM COMEY WHILE HE WAS
PROTECTING THE FBI, HE WASN'T AT
ALL AND THAT'S THE CONCLUSION OF
AN HONEST CIVIL SERVANT NAMED
MICHAEL HOROWITZ.
COMEY VIOLATED TIME AND AGAIN
FBI RULES, REGULATION, PROTOCOL.
>> Sandra: THEY DECIDED NOT TO
PROSECUTE, WHY NOT?
>> THERE IS NO PROOF OF HIS
LEAKING CLASSIFIED INFORMATION.
SOME OF THE MEMOS THAT HE
PREPARED FOR CLASSIFIED BUT HE
AT LEAST WAS CAREFUL IN TERMS OF
WHAT HE LEAKED AND ESPIONAGE
LAWS AND THE OTHER LAWS THAT GO
TO PROTECTING DECLASSIFIED
INFORMATION IS FAIRLY LIMITED.
HE WAS PROFESSIONALLY WRONG,
MORALLY WRONG, SELF-RIGHTEOUS
AND DID NOT COMMIT A CRIME.
>> Sandra: A PIECE, SHE WRITES
HE CLEARLY DETESTED MR. TRUMP
FROM THE START.
HE ABUSED HIS POWER AND USE THE
HIS SNEAKY TRICK TO UNDERMINE
THE PRESIDENCY.
IT SHOULD DISTURB AMERICANS THAT
A MAN WHO IS NOW BEEN REPEATEDLY
ADMONISHED FOR ACTING
UNILATERALLY HELPED POSITIONS OF
POWER FOR SO LONG.
BASED ON THE RESPONSE FROM THE
DOJ THAT HE WILL NOT GO TO JAIL
IT WILL NOT BE PROSECUTED, WHICH
WOULD DETER THIS FROM HAPPENING
AGAIN?
THE MATTRESS TO HAVE A
PROFESSIONAL REPUTATION SELLING
THE WAY THIS REPORT DEVASTATES
JAMES COMEY, IT REALLY DOES.
AND THIS IS NOT PERSONAL, YOU
DELIBERATELY SET OUT ON A
PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT AND HE KNEW
IT TO BE WRONG.
THAT IS TO SAY, THE REPORT MAKES
IT VERY CLEAR THAT NOT ONLY AN
EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONAL AND THE
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND THE FBI,
HE HAD BEEN SPECIFICALLY TRAINED
AND THEN HE HAD FURTHER
TRAINING.
THE REPORT IS SO VALUABLE
BECAUSE IT JUST DOCUMENTS TIME
AND AGAIN THAT HE WAS SO WILLFUL
AND WHAT HE WAS DOING IN
PREPARING THESE MEMORANDA AND
THEN ESPECIALLY THE LEAKING OF
THE MEMORANDA TO
"THE NEW YORK TIMES" THROUGH HIS
ATTORNEY AND A FRIEND AT
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.
ABSOLUTELY UNPARDONABLE SO HE'S
BEEN CALLED OUT.
>> Jon: THE PRESIDENT TWEETED
THIS, "THE FACT THAT JAMES COMEY
WAS NOT PROSECUTED FOR THE
ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE THINGS HE
DID JUST SHOWS HOW FAIR AND
REASONABLE ATTORNEY GENERAL
BILL BARR IS.
SO MANY PEOPLE AND EXPERTS THAT
I HAVE WATCHED AND READ WOULD
HAVE TAKEN AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT
COURSE.
COMEY GOT LUCKY."
IS MR. PRESIDENT RIGHT ON THAT?
>> I THINK BILL BARR IS A
CONSUMMATE PROFESSIONAL AND EVEN
THOUGH HE'S BEEN UNFAIRLY
CRITICIZED IN CONNECTION WITH
THE MUELLER REPORT, WHAT WE SEE
NOW IS HE IS A STAND-UP GUY WHO
MAKES THE TOUGH DECISIONS AND HE
IS GOING TO MAKE IT BASED ON THE
FACTS.
HE DID THE RIGHT THING.
>> Sandra: FORMER DEPUTY
GENERAL ROD ROSENSTEIN APPEARED
TO TAKE A SHOT AT FORMER FBI
DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY IN THIS
RESPONSE ON TWITTER.
HE SAID IT IS IMPORTANT TO
FOLLOW ESTABLISHED POLICIES AND
PROCEDURES ESPECIALLY WHEN THE
STAKES ARE HIGH.
WE SHOULD BE MOST ON GUARD WHEN
WE BELIEVE THAT OUR OWN
UNCOMFORTABLE CIRCUMSTANCES
JUSTIFIED IGNORING PRINCIPLES
RESPECTED BY OUR PREDECESSORS.
HE WAS TALKING EARLIER, SOMEONE
WHO HAD KNOWN JAMES COMEY FOR
SOME TIME, ALSO SAYING HOW LONG
HE HAS KNOWN JAMES COMEY AND
JUST THE SHEER DISAPPOINTMENT
FOR SOME OF THEIR COLLEAGUES AND
FRIENDS OF THE PAST.
>> THE REPORT ITSELF OR
MICHAEL HOROWITZ DOCUMENTS THE
FACT THAT THE PEOPLE WHO WORKED
WITH JAMES COMEY'S, NAMES THAT
WE ARE FAMILIAR WITH SUCH AS
PETER STRZOK WERE DISAPPOINTED
TO LEARN WHAT HE HAD DONE IN
TERMS OF THE LEAKING TO
"THE NEW YORK TIMES," THAT THEY
WERE SHOCKED THEY WERE
SURPRISED.
SO THIS HAS BEEN A RECKONING FOR
JIM COMEY IN TERMS OF HIS.
>> Sandra: YOU WOULDN'T KNOW
THAT BY LOOKING AT HIS TWITTER
FEED BECAUSE HE ALMOST
INSTANTANEOUSLY REACTED ON
TWITTER FOLLOWING THE RELEASE OF
THIS REPORT CLAIMING
VINDICATION.
>> THAT WAS VERY ODD BUT THERE'S
THE OLD EXPRESSION, NONE SO
BLIND AS THOSE WHO WILL NOT SEE.
THIS REPORT IS DEVASTATING TO
JAMES COMEY'S CONDUCT IN THE
MOST IMPORTANT KIND OF PART OF
HIS WORK AND THAT IS HIS
RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES, DULY
ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE, SO THE
DESCRIPTION THAT SHE ARTICULATED
UNFORTUNATELY FOR THE COUNTRY,
WE WANT HONEST FBI AGENTS AND
LEADERS.
>> Jon: IT APPEARS THAT HE HAD
BEEN READING UP ON THE
STEELE DOSSIER WELL BEFORE HE
TOOK OFFICE.
HE FELT THAT THIS WAS NOT GOING
TO BE SUITED TO THE OVAL OFFICE
THAT HE WANTED TO TAKE STEPS TO
IMPUGN HIM AT THE VERY LEAST.
IF A METHOD IS PUTTING ONESELF
ABOVE THE PROCESS, SUCH
CONFIDENCE ON YOUR OWN JUDGMENT