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This is you questioning Comy back in 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:08.519 September of twenty twenty. This is the back and forth 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:12.120 between the two of you. Everyone listening. This is really 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.400 an important part of history now and going to probably 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:15.760 be an important part of this case. 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:22.000 To another topic. On May third, twenty seventeen, in this committee, 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:25.600 Chairman Grassley asked you point blank quote, have you ever 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:29.520 been an anonymous source in news reports about matters relating 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:33.079 to the Trump investigation of the Clinton investigation. You responded 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:38.040 under oath quote never. He then asked you, quote, have 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:40.480 you ever authorized someone else at the FBI to be 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:44.360 an anonymous source in news reports about the Trump investigation 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:49.760 or the Clinton administration? You responded again under oath No. Now, 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.720 as you know, mister McCabe, who works for you as 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:57.560 publicly and repeatedly stated that he leaked information to the 0:03:57.560 --> 0:03:59.960 Wall Street Journal and that you were a directly aware 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:04.880 of it and that you directly authorized it. Now, what 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:08.400 mister McCabe is saying and what you testified to this 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:11.800 committee cannot both be true. One or the other is false. 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:13.600 Who's telling the truth? 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:16.960 I just can only speak to my testimony. I stand 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.560 by what the testimony you summarized that I gave in 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:20.880 May of twenty seventeen. 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:24.000 So your testimony is you've never authorized anyone to leak. 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.479 And mister mccab if he says contrary, is not telling 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:28.599 the truth. Is that correct? 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.719 Again, I'm not going to characterize Andy's testimony, but mine 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:32.320 is the same. 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:34.400 Today, all right, I'm going to make a final point 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:38.480 because my time has expired. This investigation of the president 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.400 was corrupt. The FBI and the Department of Justice were 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:45.200 politicized and weaponized, and in my opinion, there are only 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:50.400 two possibilities that you were deliberately corrupt or willfully incompetent, 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:54.320 and I don't believe you were incompetent. This has done 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:58.360 severe damage to the professionals and the honorable men and 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:02.080 women at the FBI, because law enforcement should not be 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:03.400 used as a political weapon. 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.200 All right, So you listen to that, and then you'll 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.320 look at the indictment. Count one false statement to the 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:13.760 US Senate that he had not quote authorized someone else 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:17.320 of the FBI to be an anonymous news source. Count two, 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:21.520 call me obstructed the Senate Judiciary Committee's investigation through his 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:26.440 quote false and misleading statements. That is a big smoking gun. 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.120 Well it is. It's the basis of the indictment and 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:34.040 this will be the central focus of the trial. Now. 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.360 James Comy put out a statement tonight on Instagram, and 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.679 his statement is striking in that it is a political statement. 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.480 It is not a statement about the facts of the law. 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:45.919 So give a listen to what James Comby said this 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:47.560 evening in response to the indictment. 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:50.880 My family and I have known for years that there 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:55.040 are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:59.120 couldn't imagine ourselves living any other way. We will not 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:03.560 live on our knees, and you shouldn't either. Somebody that 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:07.280 I love dearly recently said that fear is the tool 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:11.960 of a tyrant, and she's right. But I'm not afraid, 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:15.800 and I hope you're not either. I hope instead you 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:20.160 are engaged, You are paying attention, and you will vote 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:24.640 like your beloved country depends upon it, which it does. 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.960 My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.200 I have great confidence in the federal judicial system, and 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.719 I'm innocent, So let's have a trial. 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:40.839 I love how he is a victim there and acting 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.919 like he's above all of this. But center, let's just 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:47.720 go back to three point thirty of twenty three. James 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:52.160 Comy tweeted out, quote, it's been a good day. That 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.440 is how I reacted to trumping and died in the 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.839 Alvin Bragg hush money case. So to act like he's 0:06:57.839 --> 0:06:59.760 some sort of guy that's above all this, look at 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:00.560 his own words. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.680 Well, his statement he put out in response to this 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.039 that could have been given by Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:10.960 or Keing, Jeffries, or any other political Democrat, and in fact, 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.520 he makes a call come out and vote. It's a 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.840 get out the vote message. This is a former director 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:18.760 of the FBI. But to give you a sense of 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:22.680 just how much he loathes Donald Trump, this is a 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.200 former director of the FBI who tweeted out to the 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:30.120 world a picture of shells spelling out eighty six forty seven, 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.760 in other words, slang for kill the current President of 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:36.680 the United States, Donald J. Trump. To say, calling for 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:39.360 the murder of the sitting president is not appropriate for 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:43.480 the former FBI director. In an ordinary time, that would 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:47.320 be such an obvious statement that nobody would even think 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:51.360 to say it. But that's just how much James Comy 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:56.720 loathes Donald Trump. And understand. When Trump became president the 0:07:56.720 --> 0:08:02.280 first time in January of twenty seventeen, President Trump unfortunately 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:05.440 made a serious mistake, which is he left James Comy 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:10.880 in office. In hindsight, on January twentieth, twenty seventeen, President 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.000 Trump should have called James Comy and said thank you 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:15.000 for your service to the nation. Your services are no 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:19.240 longer required. I am certain President Trump wishes he had 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:22.640 done that. I think the White House team believed that 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:26.640 Komy could focus on law enforcement could not be politicized, 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:32.720 and that assumption proved to be in error. James Comy 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:37.439 presided over weaponizing and politicizing the FBI. He was part 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:41.800 of weaponizing and politicizing the Department of Justice. And it 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:46.000 was because they hated Donald Trump, and frankly, they were 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:49.160 angry at the American people for electing him in twenty sixteen, 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:54.280 and so the FBI set out to try to attack 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:58.000 and to try to ultimately remove from office the President 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:03.040 of the United States. Now, again this should not bear saying, 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:07.120 but it is not the job of law enforcement to 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.160 determine the will of the voters. Is wrong, and the 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:12.920 elected president should no longer be president. But that's what 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.839 Comy presided over. And so when I listen to him 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:19.760 say I weep for the Department of Justice, it really is. 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:22.520 You know, there's a Yiddish word, hootspot. And I got 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.600 to say, James Comy really ought to have a T 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:28.600 shirt with that printed on it, because he is grieving 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.959 for the Department of Justice. Why because he has been 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.240 indicted for what I think is clearly a felony, and 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.960 we're going to break down in just minutes, Why exactly 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:41.160 this is a felony, what the crime is. And I 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:45.480 want to point out nowhere in his statement does Comy 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.160 get into the actual facts. Nowhere in the statement does 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.720 he get into what he did. Nowhere in the statement 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.200 does he get into the law. He just gives a 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:56.360 political statement. He will not be on his knees. He 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.880 calls Trump a tyrant who is ruling by fear. Look, 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.720 this is an indictment that was returned by a grand 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:06.040 jury in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and it was returned 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:11.840 because of I believe clear evidence demonstrating Comy committed felonies. 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:17.120 Senator, I want to bring up a point that no 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.880 one in the media has brought up so far about 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.839 this indictment. And I brought it up on CNN and 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:27.680 they were like all deer in headlights, there is something 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:29.800 about this case. And they were saying, Oh, this is 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:34.440 just political retribution by Donald Trump that clearly they weren't 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:36.400 going to bring this case. He had to fire the 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:39.320 person in charge of this office in Virginia, had to 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.720 put in somebody that would weaponize the DOJ. 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:44.920 Here's the fact that most people don't know. 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:50.240 James Comy's own son in law was literally inside the 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:53.880 prosecutor's office that was tasked. 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:58.320 Just think about this with indicting his father in law. 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:00.920 And so when you say it there and I look 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:02.960 at this, I'm like, man, the deep state got together 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:04.880 to protect James Comy at all costs. 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:08.120 And as soon as the indictment came out later in the. 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:12.840 Day, James Comy's son in law then gave his resignation 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:15.760 letter because I guess he just couldn't stop what was inevitable. 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:18.960 Well, and look, I think what should govern this case 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.800 is the facts and the law. And I believe James 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:26.160 Comy should have been indicted five years ago, and indeed 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.520 I called upon him to be indicted five years ago. 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:30.640 So let me lay out the facts and in December 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.840 of twenty twenty. So the questioning that we played in 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:37.160 the first segment was September thirtieth of twenty twenty. And 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:40.120 by the way, the reason the indictment was brought right 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.720 now is the statute limitations was going to run next 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:44.600 week and so they had to bring it before the 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.120 end of the statute limitations or they would not be 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.800 able to charge him. But on December tenth of twenty twenty, 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:54.080 here's the letter that I sent to Bill Barr, then 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:57.719 the Attorney General of the United States, and Christopher Ray, 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:02.480 who was then the director of the FBI. Days before 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:06.160 the presidential election in twenty sixteen, a Wall Street Journal 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:09.440 article quoted an anonymous source confirming the existence of a 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:13.240 probe into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:17.440 while serving as Secretary of State, an investigation that up 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:20.520 to that point, mister Comy and the FBI declined to confirm. 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:25.120 We now know that this leak was authorized by then 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:30.440 Deputy Director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe. Mister McCabe initially 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:33.760 told FBI agents under oath that he did not authorize 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.720 the leak and he did not know who did, but 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:41.160 when confronted later with contrary evidence, he confessed both to 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:46.960 knowing about and authorizing the leak. We do not know, however, 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:51.720 whether and to what extent then FBI Director Comy was 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:56.000 aware of and authorized this leak. After the fact, mister 0:12:56.040 --> 0:13:00.400 Comy has repeatedly stated, I'm sorry. Mister McCabe has repeatedly 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:04.840 stated that mister komy knew of and effectively authorized the 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.520 leak by approving it. He told the Office of Inspector 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:12.559 General that quote he and Komy discussed the October thirtieth 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:16.199 Wall Street Journal article in person on October thirty first, 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:21.120 twenty sixteen, and that at that meeting, quote he told 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:25.640 Comy that he had authorized ad slash Opa and Special 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:29.320 Council to disclose the account of the August twelfth call 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.600 and did not say anything in any way to suggest 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:38.320 that it was unauthorized. According to mister McCabe, mister Komy 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:42.480 quote did not react negatively, just kind of accepted it, 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:47.280 and quote thought it was a good idea that they 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:51.920 presented this information to the media. He again reiterated mister 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:54.880 Comy's involvement at a hearing last month at the Senate 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:59.560 Judiciary Committee. I asked mister McCabe. According to The Washington 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:04.800 Times April eighteenth, twenty eighteen, mister McCabe insisted that he 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.600 told his boss that he had authorized disclosure about the 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:13.080 Clinton investigation, but mister Comy has denied this claim, and 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.840 mister McCabe told investigators that mister Comy knew he had 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:20.440 authorized disclosure and agreed it was a good idea. Is 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:25.560 that accurate? Is that your testimony to this committee? Mister 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:31.960 McCabe replied, that is my recollection. Mister Comy, however, has 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:35.160 sworn under oath that he has neither authorized the leak 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:38.840 nor knew of mister McCabe's involvement. At a May twenty 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:43.000 seventeenth hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Grassley asked, 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:46.960 mister Comy, have you ever been an anonymous source in 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.720 news reports about matters relating to the Trump investigation or 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:58.000 the Clinton investigation. Mister Comy replied never. Senator Grassley then asked, 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:01.280 have you ever authorized some someone else at the FBI 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.120 to be an anonymous source in news reports about the 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:10.880 Trump investigation or the Clinton administration? He testified no. And 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:15.480 this October that a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, mister Komy testified, 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:19.400 in response to my questioning, quote, I stand by the 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:22.000 testimony that you summarized that I gave in May of 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:26.360 twenty seventeen. Mister Komy's denial in front of the Senate 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:30.120 is consistent with his statement to the OIG. He told 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:34.440 the OIG that quote, he recalled seeing this article, but 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.320 he did not know how the disclosure about the paidag 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:41.680 call in the October thirtieth article happened. He said that 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.880 he was quote very concerned about that part of the article. 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:49.560 Komy told OIG he considered the disclosure about the paidag's 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:55.240 call problematic because it related the sensitive FBI information. The 0:15:55.280 --> 0:16:00.200 OIG report continues, quote according to Komy, he discover us 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.200 the issue with mccab after the article was published, and 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:08.000 at the time mccab quote definitely did not tell me 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:12.320 that he authorized the disclosure of the paidag call. Comy 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:17.280 said that mccab gave him the exact opposite impression. Mister 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:20.440 Comy asserted that he took from whatever communication they had 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:24.280 that mister mccab wasn't involved in the leak. And here's 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:31.479 what's critical. Mister Comy and mister McCabe's statements are irreconcilably contradictory. 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.600 Mister mccab says that he told mister Comy of the 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:38.960 leak and that mister Comy approved, effectively authorizing the leak 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.400 after the fact. Mister Comy, on the other hand, has 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.120 said that he neither authorized the leak nor knew of 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:50.360 mister McCabe's involvement. One of them is lying under oath 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:55.040 a Federal crime eighteen USC. Section sixteen twenty one. The 0:16:55.120 --> 0:17:00.400 American people deserve to know who those are the facts, 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:05.720 and it is a simple binary choice. Either James Comy 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:09.880 lied under oath and committed to felony, or Andrew McCabe 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.640 lied under oath or committed to felony. Because what they 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:15.320 said is precisely opposite. There is not a world in 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:18.160 which neither of them committed a felony. And the only 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:23.000 choice is which one broke the law by bringing this indictment. Obviously, 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:26.800 the Department of Justice has determined it was James Comy 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:30.040 who lied under oath and broke the law, and that's 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:31.480 what the trial will be all about. 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:32.840 All right, Senator. 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:36.840 So here's what I've been hearing on online from the media. 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:39.639 They're like, hey, Donald Trump weighed in on this too much. 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:41.760 They're gonna get this thing kicked out before it even 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:44.159 goes to a judge. This is a waste of the 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:48.720 American taxpayer's dollars. And then if that's not enough, they say, well, 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:52.080 no one ever gets indicted and they actually go forward 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:54.680 and get a conviction on someone lying to Congress because well, 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:56.560 a lot of people lie to Congress, and even if 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:58.080 you did lie, it may have been a mistake. It's 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:01.359 gonna be very hard to get a conviction. Break down, 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:03.960 how this could roll out in court, what could happen? 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:07.359 Well, at the end of the day, the factual predicate 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:11.159 behind this crime is not terribly complicated. As I mentioned, 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:15.680 there's a direct contradiction between James Comey's testimony under oath 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:19.879 before the Senate and Andrew McCabe's testimony under oath before 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:23.960 the Senate. They cannot both be true. One or the 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:27.600 other is deliberately lying. And how do we know which 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:30.960 one is likely to be lying? Well, the FBI, in 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:34.720 all likelihood, possesses the information that confirms who's telling the 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:39.200 truth and who's lying. Indeed, if you look at the 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:44.159 account of what occurred, mckab initially told the same lie 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:48.680 that Komy did. Mckayb initially said he didn't leak the information. Yeah, 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:51.240 he didn't authorize it and he didn't know who did. 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:56.600 But then the FBI Office of Inspector General confronted him 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:00.080 with contrary evidence. I don't know what the contrary evidence is, 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.639 but they put in front of him, mister McCabe, you 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:05.800 said you didn't leak this information. Well, boom, here's the 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:09.000 evidence to the contrary And what did McCabe do oh crap, 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:12.320 you got me. Okay, you're right, I leaked it. I'm 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:15.280 the one who did it, and I talked to Comy 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:17.800 about it. I told him about it. So he admitted 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.800 that when he was caught in a lie. I don't 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:26.760 know specifically what confirming evidence the FBI in the Department 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:30.280 of Justice has, but they have enough that they caused 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:34.840 McCabe to reverse his first lie and instead to say, yes, 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.879 he did it, and Comy knew about it. And so 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:40.600 between the two, you know, it was interesting. When I 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:44.000 was questioning Comy, he said a couple of times, well, 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:47.840 I'm not going to characterize, as he put it, Andy's testimony. Well, 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:50.720 I get politically that's a smart move, not to characterize 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:54.600 Andy's testimony. But you know what, his entire legal defense 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:57.120 is going to be, McCabe is lying because he doesn't 0:19:57.160 --> 0:20:01.720 have an alternative. That's his only argument is when McCabe said, under. 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:04.000 Oath, good point that I know about it. 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:07.879 Comy's defense team is going to have to say McCabe 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:09.480 was lying. And by the way, mccab is going to 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:13.919 be the star witness at the prosecution. The prosecution is 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:17.480 going to put Andy McCabe on the stand and he's 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:21.600 going to ask them, did you leak it? Now, I'm 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:24.120 going to predict Andy McCabe is going to say, yes, 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:28.400 did you talk to James Comy about it? Yes? Did 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:31.520 he authorize it? Yes? And the reason I'm going to 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:33.160 predict he's going to do all of that is because 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:37.320 Andy McCabe testified to that in front of Congress, and 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:40.480 if he gives any other answer, he'll be indicted for 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:44.119 lying to Congress. So he can't have it both ways. 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:49.280 And I expect that Comy's lawyer will try to cross 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:52.760 examine him, and we'll try to argue McCabe is lying. 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:55.119 But it's very difficult to see why McCabe would have 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:59.200 any incentive to lie. He and Comy were thick as thieves. 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:04.840 He was only forced to admit the truth when confronted 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:07.760 with contrary evidence. Again, we don't know what that evidence is, 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:11.439 but presumably the FBI and the Department of Justice do so. 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:15.119 I don't know if it is contemporaneous phone calls, perhaps 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:17.399 with the reporters. I don't know if it is notes. 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:19.480 I don't know if it's emails. I don't know if 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:22.480 it's testimony from someone else at the FBI. Who said, Hey, 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:25.800 Andrew McCabe told me to do this. But it is something, 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:30.399 and it was something that was compelling enough that it 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:34.920 caused Andrew McCabe to abandon line number one. And and 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:37.760 so at the end of the day, this is not 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:42.400 a complicated factual case. This is not some grand tapestry. 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:47.600 It's a he said, he said, she said. But you 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:50.879 have both testimonies under oath, and it's going to be 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:53.879 a question of what additional evidence is there to confirm 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:56.720 who's telling the truth and who's not. I also think 0:21:56.800 --> 0:22:02.040 I will be surprised if James Comey's lawyer puts him 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:06.600 on the stand. Now, under our justice system, the prosecution 0:22:06.800 --> 0:22:11.560 cannot force a defendant to testify. But I'm going to 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:13.760 predict James Comy is not going to take the stand 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:18.280 because if he takes the stand, he can be cross examined, 0:22:18.320 --> 0:22:21.040 and he does not want to be cross examined, because 0:22:21.080 --> 0:22:26.760 this is someone who presided over weaponizing the Department of 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:30.120 Justice with the objective of taking out Donald J. Trump 0:22:31.000 --> 0:22:34.280 and getting under oath, getting cross examined by a skilled 0:22:34.320 --> 0:22:37.040 trial attorney, and again under oath. By the way, if 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:39.480 he lies in his trial testimony, he can be indicted 0:22:39.480 --> 0:22:43.040 and prosecuted again for lying under oath. Again, I don't 0:22:43.040 --> 0:22:46.760 think his lawyer will do that. And so at the 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:48.639 end of the day, look, the press is going to 0:22:48.720 --> 0:22:51.639 go on and on and say, well, Trump hates James Comy. 0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:55.440 That is certainly true, but being hated by the President 0:22:55.520 --> 0:22:58.439 is not enough to exonerate you from criminal conduct. And 0:22:58.480 --> 0:23:02.440 in this instance, I believe Comy should have been indicted 0:23:02.480 --> 0:23:06.280 five years ago because it was clear he had deliberately 0:23:06.400 --> 0:23:09.879 lied to Congress. And look, we started by playing my 0:23:09.960 --> 0:23:15.280 cross examination. This wasn't an absent minded lie. This wasn't oh, 0:23:15.280 --> 0:23:19.600 I'm not paying attention. This was careful, This was deliberate, 0:23:19.680 --> 0:23:23.159 this was strategic, this was planned. I believe this was 0:23:23.240 --> 0:23:26.960 James Comy saying, I face no accountability whatsoever. I can 0:23:27.040 --> 0:23:29.560 lie under oath and no one's going to hold me 0:23:29.640 --> 0:23:33.119 to account. And I think he feels he feels clever, 0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:36.680 but he also feels vindicated. Listen, James Comy was someone 0:23:37.840 --> 0:23:41.560 who I think fancied himself as j Edgar Hoover. He 0:23:41.720 --> 0:23:47.120 fancied himself as as an incredibly powerful director of the FBI, 0:23:47.840 --> 0:23:52.080 empowered to remove the tyrant. That's what he said in 0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:56.040 his statement tonight that he thinks Trump is a tyrant. 0:23:56.080 --> 0:23:58.359 And I think when the American people elected him in 0:23:58.400 --> 0:24:02.600 twenty sixteen, I think Comy was angry and he decided 0:24:02.640 --> 0:24:05.240 he would use the power of the FBI to remove 0:24:05.359 --> 0:24:08.920