Fmr FBI on Comey testimony: 'Wanted to rinse myself ...

TO ANYBODY.
THAT IS STILL A CRUCIAL QUESTION
FOR THE FORMER FBI DIRECTOR TO
ANSWER.
>> WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND
STIPULATE SO JIM COMEY'S HONOR
AND CHARACTER.
NOBODY QUESTIONS THAT.
I READ THIS AND I LITERALLY
WANTED TO RINSE MYSELF OFF
AFTERWARDS.
I FELT COMPLETELY DISGUSTED,
BEGINNING WITH THAT FIRST
AWKWARD HAND SHAKE THAT WE SAW
ON CAMERA WHEN DIRECTOR COMEY
AND THE PRESIDENT MET AND IT
STARTED AS A HAND SHAKE, TURNED
INTO A HALF HUG.
YOU COOL TELL HOW UNCOMFORTABLE
DIRECTOR COMEY WAS.
I WENT THROUGH THIS LINE BY
LINE.
THE ONLY PROBLEM I HAD WITH
DROSH COMEY'S ACTIONS.
I'VE SPOKEN ON AIR MANY TIMES
ABOUT PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES OF
THE ISSUE CAN COME DOWN AND SAY
WE DISAGREE OR WE SUPPORTED HOW
HE HANDLED.
.
MY QUESTION IS WHY DIDN'T HE GO
TO HIS SUPERIORS.
I THINK THIS EXPLAINS WHY.
HE KNEW THAT ATTORNEY GENERAL
HE KNEW THE FOLKS WERE ONLY LF.
GOING TO BE THERE FOR A SHORT
PERIOD OF TIME.
HE WAS CONCERNED ABOUT
INFLUENCING THE RUSSIAN
COLLUSION INVESTIGATION.
HE DIDN'T WANT HIS AGENTS OR
PROSECUTORS --
>> HE SAID HE DIDN'T WANT THEM
TO BE AFRAID TO GO AHEAD.
SO HE SAID NOTHING.
>> YES.
>> AND YOU BUY THAT?
>> I DO BUY THAT ONLY BECAUSE AS
YOU LOOK THROUGH THIS DOCUMENT,
THIS STATEMENT FOR THE RECORD --
AS DAVID POINTED OUT, THIS IS
UNCOMMON FOR THIS TO BE RELEASED
BEFORE HI TESTIFIES TOMORROW.
THIS IS A TESTIMONIAL DOCUMENT.
IN 25 YEARS IN IN THE FBI I WAS
FORBIDDEN FROM PUTTING MY PRN
INTO A TESTIMONY YAM DOCUMENT.
THIS IS RIFE WITH OPINION.
>> HE SAYS MY INSTINCT, I
FELT --
>> YEAH.
>> THERE'S ANOTHER POINTS.
>> YES.
>> HE DID GO TO HIS SUPERIOR.
>> YES.
>> HE GOES TO ATTORNEY GENERAL
SESSIONS --
>> UH-HUH.
>> -- AND SAYS B DON'T LEAVE ME
ALONE IN A ROOM.
THE WEIRDNESS OF THAT IS THAT HE
EXCUSES VICE PRESIDENT PENCE,
ATTORNEY GENERAL SESSIONS FROM
THE ROOM.
TALK ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS OF
GUILT.
>> SO --
>> WHY COULDN'T HE TALK IN FRONT
OF HIM BECAUSE HE KNEW WHAT HE
WAS DOING AS INAPPROPRIATE.
>> I WANTS TO READ THE QUOTE.
I THINK THE WORD -- COMEY IS NOT
A GUY WHO USES, INSANE VESHS,
EXCEPT FOR IN THIS CASE.
LET ME READ IT.
SHORTLY ARVEDS I SPOKE WITH
ATTORNEY GENERAL SESSIONS IN
PERSON TO PASS ALONG THE
PRESIDENT'S CONCERN ABOUT LEAKS.
I TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO
IMPLORE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO
PREVENT ANY FUTURE DIRECT
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE
PRESIDENT AND ME.
IMPLORE IS THE WORD HE USED.
>> IMPLORE.
>> HE GOES AHEAD AND LAYS OUT A
COUPLE PHONE CALLS BETWEEN HE
AND THE PRESIDENT.
THE PRESIDENT DID NOT HEED THAT
ADVICE IF HE RECEIVED IT FROM
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.
>> THIS ALSO PORTRAYED SOMEONE
IN JAMES COMEY WHO FELT LIKE HE
COULDN'T GO TO ANYBODY.
HE SAID AS HE WROTE IN HIS
TESTIMONY HE DIDN'T WANT TO,
QUOTE, INFECT THE INVESTIGATION,
SO HE HAD TO WALL OFF THE PEOPLE
WHO WERE DOING THE
INVESTIGATESING.
HE GOES TO HIS SUPERIORS.
HE GOES TO SESSIONS.
HE GOES TO VENTA AND HE DOESN'T
GET AN ANSWER ABOUT WHAT TO ZOO.
SO IT PORTRAYS THIS PICTURE OF
JAMES COMEY AS SORT OF TRYING TO
FIGURE OUT WHAT THE WRITE THING
TO DO IS HERE AND THERE SEEMS TO
BE VERY FEW PEOPLE HE CAN
CONFIDE IN EXCEPT HIS LEADERSHIP
TEAM WITH WHOM HELP ENTRUSTED,
YOU KNOW, HIS NOTES AND HIS
MEMORIES OF THESE MEETINGS.
>> I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT
THAT HE SHARED IT WITH HIS
LEADERSHIP TEAM.
AS GLORIA'S JUST POINTED OUT
BECAUSE THAT HAS BECOME A
CONTEMPORANEOUS TELLING TO OTHER
PEOPLE ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING.
THIS ISN'T MAPD AFTER THE FACT
AFTER HE WAS FIRED.
HE TOLD PEOPLE THEN.
BUT WOULD YOU EXPAND ON YOUR
SENTENCE YOU FELT LIKE YOU HAD
TO RINSE OFF?
>> I WAS GOING TO ASK THAT.
WAS IT JAMES COMEY THAT MADE YOU
WANT TO RINSE OFTEN OR --
>> NO, NO, THE DIVISION OF A
SMALL TABLE IN THE GREEN ROOM
WITH THE PRESIDENT AND THE FBI
DIRECTOR SEATED THERE HAVING A
QUIET LUNCHEON WITH TWO NAVY
STEWARDS WAITING ON THEM AND
DIRECTOR COMEY FEELING
UNCOMFORTABLE --
>> THIS IS THE LOYALTY PLEDGE
WHEN THE PRESIDENT ASKED FOR THE
LOYALTY PLEDGE.
>> DO THIS FOR 48 YEARS -- DAVID
YOU CAN SPEAK TO THIS -- DPIB
DIRECTOR HOOUFR PULLED PUPPET

Fmr FBI on Comey testimony: 'Wanted to rinse myself ...

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