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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore Show.
Hey, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
Jimmy.
This is Jake Tamper.
Oh, hi, Jake.
From the lead with Jake Tamper.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, right.
On CNN.
Yes, I know.
Hi, Jake.
Jake Tamper.
Anyway, I just wanted to bring up.
Another journalist and kind of wax philosophical about these earth-shattering events that are unfolding before our very eyes.
You mean how the Keystone Pipeline spill is almost 10 times worse than originally thought, even though TransCanada, the energy company that owns it, swore this could never happen.
The fuck you talking about?
No, dummy.
The impeachment.
Are you watching this right now?
The impeachment?
No, I'm not watching it.
It's amazing, isn't it?
It's the drama of it all.
No.
Of history happening.
And us, the media, simple tribunes of the people reporting from afar, protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution, which, in turn, is being bravely protected by the impeachers.
Well, that's one way to look at it, Jake, I guess.
It's the only way, Jimmy.
The only way to justify our importance, the media, CNN, is to extol the importance of what we are showing on cable television, which is the impeachment of a president who is elected largely due to our own efforts.
It's a humbling thing to watch.
Yes, you seem very humble, Jake.
Thank you.
I do feel humble in the presence of these brave lawmakers bravely upholding the Constitution they bravely swore an oath to hold up.
Yes, very brave of these people to publicly act out a sham they know full well won't have an effect on anything and certainly won't lead to Trump's removal.
You're right, Jimmy.
The utter selflessness of it.
You know, since mainstream corporate Democrats don't really do anything substantially for the American people anymore, their only political strategy is to frame themselves as the good guys.
All they have for 2020 is say, see, we impeach the bad man because he's a bad man and we're good.
My hope, Jake, is that the American people will finally see through this charade and vote for true leftists and progressives who actually care that entire cities don't have drinking water and that people are dying because they can't afford to be sick.
I agree, Jimmy.
People will see the truth that the Democrats are risking everything for this impeachment.
No, yo, you're not listening to me at all, are you?
Oh, I am listening to you, Jimmy.
But I am hearing to history being made on CNN.
Yeah, and the best part to me is you and MSNBC just eat it all up.
If you're on the side of the fake good guys, then you get to be TV good guys.
Is that the idea?
Heavy is the head that wears the crown of smug self-satisfaction, Jimmy.
Yes.
You know, I would imagine so, Jake.
You know, I'm surprised you don't have neck problems.
Well, actually, I've been shadowing Chris Cuomo at the gym, and he's taught me his patented neck-thickening exercises.
Anyway, I better go, Jimmy.
I need to prepare for my hour of moralizing, lionizing idiots, and also making this about me somehow.
Me, gazer upon history.
Geezer upon history.
Okay, best of luck, Jake.
I'm gonna go smoke a bowl.
Ha ha ha ha!
Ha ha ha ha!
Establishment media sucks, all gaslighting, so good luck.
Bullshit we can't afford by fomenting this.
Watch and see as the jack off the median speeds and jumps the medium and hits them head on.
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Hey, let's get to the jokes before we get to the jokes, shall we?
Hey, you think your family's bad during the holidays?
Have you seen the impeachment hearings?
Am I right?
Come on.
I'm just kidding.
I'm glad our democracy's being restored.
And it's tragic how Donald Trump has tarnished the good name of impeachment by committing war crimes Congress ignores and presidents never get punished for.
Hmm.
Did you know nine years ago, this week, Barack Obama ended Don't Ask, Don't Tell?
Yep.
So now patriotic Americans would no longer have to live a lie in order to kill foreign civilians for oil.
Come on, you saw that punchline coming, but it's still funny.
Hey, did you hear that?
The debate, the Democratic debate, which was canceled twice over union strikes, is back on.
And I'm super happy about that because we learned so much from all the other debates.
Corey Booker now also, he wants to change all the rules on the debates.
That's right.
We finally found an issue that Corey Booker is passionate about, changing the rules so he can talk about nothing for one more debate.
Isn't that nice?
Isn't that nice?
Hey, did you hear Pete Budicig came out with a new slogan?
A chicken in every pot and a tessel in every wine cave.
That's true.
That's true.
Hey, what's coming up?
Chris Wallace absolutely destroys lying Jim Comey, former FBI director, over the multiple, multiple lies the FBI told to the FISA court to spy on a presidential campaign.
Plus, Bernie unendors Jank Uger.
Plus, we got phone calls today from Jake Tapper, George Clooney, Barack Obama, plus a lot lot more.
That's today on the Jimmy Dore Show.
Hello.
Tommy!
Merry holidays.
Guess you miss this.
It's Barack Obama.
Barack Santa Claus.
Obama.
And I'm calling to share my holiday gift list.
Just a few practical items, all $10 or less.
The best one?
Healthcare for you or somebody you care about.
Build it up and pull your pants up.
Only $10 or less.
Yeah, I know.
I tell people, only $10 or less.
That sounds great.
Will it cover everything I need anywhere I go?
Even better.
You get to choose from 175 insurers.
That's a total of 175 different companies with their own rules, their own doctors, their own co-pays, their own drug formularies.
Now, that's choice.
How is that choice, Brock?
Let me explain it to you like you were an infant having a crying fit because you couldn't get your chocolate milk.
Okay.
R-75 insurers times different doctors times different premiums, co-pays, and deductibles depending on where you live, how old you are, how much money you have, if you have a car, how sick you are.
That comes to over 17 million variations.
You got to navigate through before the deadline.
Yeah, but that sounds too complicated.
What's complicated about variety, Jimmy?
Wouldn't you like a doctor who just graduated from Bermuda medical school?
Yeah, I didn't know there was a medical school in Bermuda, honestly.
When you see your list of doctors who may or may not know they're on the list, you find yourself asking that question a lot.
That's called choice.
Remember.
You have to make a decision that will impact the lives of you and your family by December 15th.
But December 15th came and went already.
Uh-oh, don't get cancer.
And guys, pull your pants up.
You see, that's another thing I never got.
Why are there enrollment periods?
Why can't people just get the health care they need when they want it?
Hoops.
Get me?
Americans don't appreciate anything unless they're made to feel degraded and humiliated through every step of the process.
Yeah.
They're like kids, only with cancer.
Now, I want my medicine.
Not yet.
Jump through the hoops first.
Pull your damn pants up.
Ladies, I'm not letting you off too easy either.
That's just that doesn't seem right, Barack.
Okay, all right.
Let me slow it down so you can understand.
Take a look at this helpful 2020 patient-centered benefit designs and medical cost shares chart.
Oh, geez.
What?
The 2020 PCBD and MCS chart.
Follow me?
No, I don't follow you.
Look, you impatient nitwick.
The different plans have their own colors.
You got your platinum, gold, enhanced silver 94.
We don't like enhanced silver, right?
Yeah.
You got enhanced silver 87, 73, and regular silver silver.
Bronze, it's like we're all getting medals, right?
See how neat this is?
Then there's the minimum coverage.
And what's that again?
That's the thing where if you get sick, it's almost like having no coverage at all, except you lose all your savings.
Yeah.
I don't think I like this gift idea.
Pay attention to the asterisk.
What asterisk?
All those little star symbol thingies next to your number costs.
They mean something.
What if there's two of them next to a copay amount?
That just means your pharmacy also has a deductible you have to meet.
It's like a big puzzle.
Get your kids to help you.
Yay.
My eyes are too weak to read all the fine print, buddy.
Do any of these plans include vision coverage?
Good news, Jimmy.
Obamacare offers consumers a pathway to quality vision care.
What?
What?
What does that mean, a pathway?
It means a big fucking note.
But we will show you the pathway.
Guys, get it together.
Guys, get it together.
Then none of this is good news, is it?
I never said you could keep your good news, Jimmy.
Go on and see the adult in the room.
Remember, the deadline to sign up is 10 days ago.
And Merry Christmas and whatever to you and your loved ones, if you can still see them.
So here it comes.
So the Bernie Sanders campaign endorsed Jenk Uger.
And apparently they did absolutely zero research before they decided to endorse Jenker Uger.
They apparently did zero.
Here we go.
Sanders revokes congressional endorsement of Young Turks founder Jenk Uger.
Why?
Did Jenk do something in between when you endorsed him and now?
No.
It's the same old stuff.
It's the same old stuff.
Here's where Bernie Bernie tweets it out.
He says, Jenk Uger has been a longtime fighter against corruption.
However, he says, however, our movement is bigger than any one person.
I hear my supporters who are frustrated and understand their concerns.
Jenk today said he is rejecting all endorsements for his campaign, and I retract my endorsement.
What a sad, sad, sad, sad, sad, sad, sad.
This is the guy who's going to fight the establishment for you.
And he rolls over every freaking time.
He did it with Matt Orphala.
Matt Orphala made a video that showed the smears that people do in social media and in the press on Bernie Sanders are not true.
And so he made a video about it.
It was the greatest video ever.
It got millions of views.
Everybody loved it.
Bernie Sanders' campaign reached out to him to hire him.
And then some hit job person corporate who hates Bernie Sanders does a hit job on Matt Orphala, take stuff he says out of context, just like they did to Bernie Sanders, and they smear him with it.
And Bernie throws him, Matt under the bus.
I can't stand up for a guy who just stood up for me.
So my thing is, you didn't know anything about Jenk Uger before you endorsed.
Again, this is his campaign.
This isn't Bernie.
This is his campaign.
Again, if Bernie wins the Democratic nomination, it's going to be because of Bernie, because people like Bernie and they like his message, because his strategists are some of the worst in the world.
They roll over.
They can't decide whether they actually are anti-establishment or they want to knuckle under to every Rando on Twitter.
You're supposed to be a revolutionary.
So here's the story from the Uger said on Friday that he appreciates the support from Sanders, Kanna, Rokana, and Nina Turner.
So those are Sanders' two co-chairs.
They all endorsed him, but will not be accepting any endorsements in his house campaign.
Besides Sanders, Uger has also won.
There it is.
Roccana, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Obviously, so this is the stuff.
So it's the same stuff.
So it's the same.
So this is why, you know, it's the same.
You know how they did to Tulsi?
They just repeat the same smear over and over, no matter how many times it's been explained.
Yes.
Yes, Tulsi met with Assad.
She also met with his opposition.
This is called diplomacy.
She's on the Armed Services Committee.
So no matter how many times you explain that, Steve Schmidt and everybody on MSNBC is going to stand there and say she's an Assad toady right in front of Michael Moore, who won't say a word.
In fact, he'll join in.
And now they're doing it to Jenk Uger and Bernie Sanders.
And Bernie won't even stand up for Jenk.
That's how it looks to me.
And that's not Bernie.
It's his campaign or whatever.
I don't know.
I don't want to blame Bernie for it.
But it's his campaign.
And so either it was a mistake to endorse Jenkin in the first place, or it's a mistake to knuckle under right now to the same old smear tactics.
It's a mistake one way or the other.
And it's just sad.
If you're going to make a mistake, I'd rather have him make a mistake being bold.
Not the same old knuckle under.
So this is what the, so this is what they're upset about.
This is stuff that Jenk Uger wrote, I think, 19 years ago on a blog when he was trying to be Howard Stern.
He said, obviously, the genes of women are flawed.
They are poorly designed creatures who do not want to have sex nearly as often as needed for the human race to get along peacefully and fruitfully.
So that says a guy who can't get laid, and he's trying to write a funny, trying to write funnily about it.
What he's really saying there is, I'm a nerd and I can't attract women.
That's what he's saying.
He's saying, obviously, it's not me.
So I don't know.
I've explained this a million times.
I don't feel like doing it again.
So anyway, Uger, also another Uger, also another post outlining the rules of dating, including that there must be orgasm by the fifth date.
So he said that.
So his response was, first of all, I wrote that stuff 19 years ago.
I deleted it 15 years ago, Uger said.
I deleted it not because I thought I'd get caught or someone would find it.
I deleted it because I didn't believe in it anymore.
Jenk used to be a right-wing meathead.
This is not me.
I was trying to be a stupid, politically incorrect Republican.
So I wrote those things.
I knew were offensive.
Uger also defended himself this week from remarks he made in a 2013 episode of his show in which he ranked women on a scale from one to 10 based on how likely men would be to perform oral sex on them, among other things.
Uger told the Los Angeles Times that he should not be criticized for having frank conversations about sex.
I agree, but of course, they're going to take everything out of context and they're going to, and in the hashtag MeTooEra, that, you know, a guy like Jenk Uger, who's who prided himself on speaking frankly about everything and was doing a podcast that was half political and half pop culture, that you could take anything he says out of it.
He talks for two, three hours a day on error.
You can take anything he said out of context.
And that's what's happening.
But the bigger point is that the Sanders campaign, again, making tactical errors.
This is an unforced error.
And if you can't stand, again, I don't, it's just, if Jenk Uger is too toxic for the progressive movement, you guys are, you know, what are you doing?
Who does this appeal?
I don't get it.
Anyway, there you go.
And now Jenk knows what it's like to be smeared repeatedly in a political campaign over garbage.
So now he knows how Tulsi feels.
Now he knows how Tulsi feels.
And people bring up the same goddamn BS to her over and over and over and over, even though she's answered those questions for a year straight now.
So anytime she gets on TV, they're going to have a puke like Steve Schmidt, who is MSNBC's lead interviewer on Tulsi now, I guess.
The guy who brought us Sarah Palin, that's their go-to guy for information.
They asked Steve Schmidt's opinion, a guy who foisted Sarah Palin on us.
They go to him.
He's going to smear Tulsi.
And then people on the left repeat it.
So I'm sure there's people on the left repeating this stuff on Jenk.
Maybe at some point people on the left stop doing that.
Maybe at some point people on the left stand up.
There's such snowflakes on the left.
They so can't wait to throw each other under the bus at the drop of a hat for stuff like this.
Unbelievable.
They're not upset that Jenk pushed Russia Gate for three years.
They're not upset that he was evidence-free conspiracy theory about Russia Gate for three straight years.
They're not upset about that because Bernie does the same thing.
They're not upset that they're reigniting McCarthyism in America.
They're not upset about that.
Isn't that interesting?
But this is it.
This is what they're upset about.
Okay, there you go.
And of course, Bernie's campaign.
You know, I love Bernie.
I love how he's been consistent.
I hate how him and his campaign can't stand up at all.
They wouldn't stand up for Nina Turner when they kicked her off the convention stage.
And who did they have talk in the convention?
They kicked off a black woman and put on Michael Bloomberg, a billionaire racist, who instituted stop and frisk.
He got to talk, not Nina Turner.
Bernie didn't do anything.
They ripped his delegates their credentials, wouldn't let them in to the convention hall.
Bernie didn't do anything.
They turned the lights off on them and put sound cannons on his delegates at the convention.
He didn't do anything.
So after they do all that, he goes on a unity tour.
Does it still stand up?
So anyway, and then the ultimate irony was Matt Orthola.
So when this first came out with Jenk with the Justice Democrats, when they first smeared him with this, he should have never stopped down.
Correct.
He should have never stepped down from the gym.
This is what you get.
You're never going to stop apologizing.
Once you start apologizing for stuff you're not supposed to, you'll never stop.
And it'll never be enough.
So this is the kind of weakness.
Sorry, Steph.
Go ahead.
Well, the whole idea is that we're taking all of this stuff out of context.
That I can pull my support because of something that he was being provocative.
I mean, how many things can you take out of context?
Right.
And what was our country like 19 years ago?
Ellen is still dancing with war criminals on the afternoon TV.
Again, this is Jenk's fault when he resigned from the justice.
And the Justice Democrats as an organization threw Jenk under the bus, which showed that they're also feckless.
I don't know if that's the right word.
I liked it, though.
You used it.
It was.
I don't think I used it correctly.
It was nice.
Look at it up, Ruby.
Look it up, feckless.
I don't think I used it right.
Was he feckless using feckless?
I mean, all the everything they say about the lefties having no spine, this whole situation reveals it.
Jenkins had no spine when he resigned from the Justice Democrat.
It was a thing he founded.
It's too bad.
All I know is it's too bad.
It just goes to show you that, you know, The Republicans know how to get.
I'm going to do a story next about how the Republicans just rolled Nancy Pelosi in every House Democrat who voted for the NDAA.
But they're really outraged about Trump.
But they're outraged about Trump.
And guess what they did?
They gave Trump everything he asked for in the NDAA.
And they're really outraged at Trump.
Yep.
That's how they show their outrage.
That's how they show their outrage.
They give Trump more money for his military than he asks for.
$131 more billion dollars for the military under Trump since Trump was elected.
Do you know that?
The military budget has been up to $131 billion since Trump took office.
But we don't have enough money in our country to cover every citizen.
For health care or college or people homeless.
We don't have any money to take care of our people, our brothers and sisters that are living on the street.
And nobody's doing anything about it.
Anyway, this is so there you go.
So I'm so mad at an old block.
I'm just 15 years ago, Jimmy.
I can't stand it.
Again, this is what they feed into.
This is what the Justice Democrats feed into when they did that to Jenk.
And then Jenk rolled over and took it.
And now Bernie's rolling over for Jenk.
So if you don't stand up at some point, this is what the left does.
They all roll over.
Jenk rolled over and then Bernie rolls over.
They just keep rolling over.
If you guys would stand up at some point, I think it would be attractive to people.
If you would stand up, stand up against the CIA and the FBI during Russia Gate.
Maybe do that.
Stand up against the FBI and the CIA and they're talking points about Syria and Venezuela and Bolivia and Iran and Libya.
How about you do that?
How about you start standing up against people instead of going along with the establishment's fucking talking points?
Well, I think that's how about you stop pushing McCarthyism, which is an establishment tool that they're now using against Bernie Sanders.
How about you start standing up to these people?
Sorry, Spanish.
I certainly think that's the appeal for me of Tulsi Gabbard.
Yes, she stands up.
Yes, right?
She didn't knuckle under when Hillary Clinton called her Russian.
She said she's the queen of warmongers.
What did Bernie say when they called her when Bernie when she said Bernie was being boosted by Russians?
What did Bernie say back?
I don't remember.
I don't remember.
It didn't make the news.
And I think I also was pretty tickled when she said, did she say that we're not Saudis bitches or something?
Yes, that's right.
He said that to Trump.
So there's a real that Trump was Saudi's bitch and that the soldiers are not, he's not our pimp and we're not his whores, right?
That that's something very close to what she said about him.
See if you can find that.
You know, again, and Bernie's going to go up at the next debate and tell everybody how friends he is with all the people we hate, which gets you nothing.
And Michelle Obama will tell me that she was struck to the core when she heard those awful things about Trump grabbing pussy, except she's not.
But she has the same values as George W. Bush.
But she has the same values as a torturer and a war criminal.
Values?
Now you know why we have Trump.
So again, this is, you know, Jenks didn't stand up for himself when the Justice Democrats came for him, and now Bernie won't stand up for Jank.
And that just keeps going.
Bernie wouldn't stand up for Nina.
He wouldn't stand up for his own delegates.
Bernie wouldn't stand up for Matt Orfala.
Now he won't stand up for Jank.
Jimmy, Tulsi's tweet was, hey, real Donald Trump colon, being Saudi Arabia's bitch is not, quote, America first.
Ah, so there you go.
So that's the ugly story of the left being rolled constantly by their enemies because that's who did this.
This is the enemies of progressives.
These are corporate Democrats coming at Jank and Bernie's endorsement.
That's what this is.
And they roll right over for them.
Sad.
So impeachment, the whole point of the Democrats having an impeachment trial and having the impeachment hearings or whatever they've been doing, the whole point of it is to convince the American people that the impeachment is right.
Because right now, before the impeachment hearings, it was like 50-50 in the country.
And you can't do an impeachment with 50-50.
You can't do that.
So the whole point of it was like, well, after we make our case, after the Democrats make their case, the whole country will be on board.
Well, that's not what's happening.
In fact, the more people hear about the Democrats' case for impeachment, the less people are for it.
And that idea just cannot be accepted on CNN.
So here we are.
So here's CNN having a hard time accepting facts.
Here we go.
Here we go.
So David, give us a read on where the polls are right now with impeachment.
Because you told us earlier that the support has softened a little bit among Democrats.
Yeah, I mean, John showed the numbers.
This is a country.
By the way, whenever I see this guy, I always think of, you're killing me, Larry.
We're divided on this.
45% support impeachment and removal.
47% are opposed.
But if you do look at by party, Allison, you're right.
You see a decline from our last poll in Democratic support from 90% down to 77%.
You see Independents holding roughly 70 there and a slight decline among Republicans.
I would just note that that November poll was taken right on the heels of that House Intelligence Committee hearings, all the public evidence being put forth to the American people.
And probably because of how damn it.
So he just said they took this poll right after all the evidence the Democrats had was made public.
And so, and everyone's, it went down.
So it went from 10% of Republicans for impeachment, went down to five.
47% of Independents went down to 45.
90 Democrats went down to 77 after the Democrats made their case with all their damning evidence.
Well, sorry, that's not going to apply at CNN.
The evidence is Democrats probably were at their most enthused, engaged, and in supportive mode of impeachment.
In the week since then, it's been much more political warfare.
But let's be clear.
Overwhelmingly, Democrats are supporting this overwhelmingly Republicans.
I'd just say to my twin brother that I don't believe that poll for one second.
I mean, which landlines did they call for crying out loud?
I don't, he doesn't believe that poll.
Here we go.
To my twin brother, that I don't believe that poll for one second.
What part the hell?
The 90 to 77 percent.
You know, it's just I don't believe it.
Like, it makes no sense that that number would change like that.
It's a subset.
It's a subset of the poll.
And the margin of error when you look at just Democrats is like 6.7% in here.
It's not a wild swing.
It's just where the movement is in the poll.
I don't know what's not to believe.
That's what, you know, you call people up on the telephone, you get their information, you pump out a survey.
This is what those that we hold.
I get it.
But I get it.
I mean, I have no evidence to say that this poll is wrong.
And that's just how it works here at CNN.
I mean, I mean, it's hard-hitting analysis from CNN because I said so.
You know, life has shown us that polls are sometimes wrong.
And, David, that poll is wrong.
Just because I said so, okay.
I think this is called Fredoing the news.
This is just like when Jake Tapper says Medicare for all costs more than the current system we have because I say it is.
I say it's more expensive and you're a doo-doo head.
That's just the way it is.
That's their level of analysis right here.
Do you see this?
I was waiting for him to say life is like a box of chocolates.
I really thought he was going to say that.
And he was just like, life is like a box.
Sometimes a poll is like a chocolate and you don't know what's in it.
So I don't believe you.
That kind of sums it up, right?
Like on the whole results.
I don't believe any of the results.
I don't believe any of it.
I can't.
No way is Donald Trump going to win.
No way.
That's what that is.
This CNN more like CNN.
Am I right?
Am I right?
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Thank God James Comey got interviewed on Fox News because if he would have got interviewed on MSNBC, you know what would have happened.
They would have pretended like everything James Comey was saying was true because MSNBC are liars.
They lie for the establishment.
That's what they do.
Fox does too, but not in this case.
And again, what you're going to see in one of the silver linings on the gray cloud that is a Trump presidency, one of the silver linings is that the right wing are now finally becoming critical of the FBI and the intelligence community, right?
They're always the defenders.
They're the ones who pushed for the FISA.
I mean, it's bipartisan, but they were always even more so.
Democrats are supposed to be the defenders of civil liberties and blah, blah.
But now the Democrats are completely defending and being the attack dogs for the establishment and the FBI.
And it's the Republicans who are exposing the FBI's lies and malfeasance and general corruption.
And on accountability, by the way, that's what there's that also.
So, because who's going to investigate the FBI?
You know, you got to wait for the Inspector General to do it.
They're not covering themselves.
They're doing a fine.
I know, I know.
So he went on with Chris Wallace, and let's just watch this.
Former FBI Director James Comey, Director, welcome to Fox News Sunday.
Thanks for having me.
You have been taking something of a victory lapse since the IG report was released earlier this week.
The question is whether or not it's justified.
Here are you and the Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, answering the same question.
Do you think this is a vindication?
It is.
I mean, the FBI's had to wait two years while the president and his followers lied about the institution.
And it's just amazing to watch him say things like that because what the Inspector General's report revealed is that James Comey's FBI are liars.
That while he was the head and overseeing this investigation, the FBI was lying repeatedly, violating the Constitution and the rights of American citizens and spying on a presidential campaign.
That's what the Inspector General.
So he's still running around calling someone else a liar.
It's kind of rich, isn't it?
Now, it's going to be hard for me not to stop this every 30 seconds or even 10, but I'm going to try because everything he says pretty much is a lie.
And Chris Wallace does a pretty good job.
He misses a couple, but everybody misses a couple.
And so, but in general, Chris Wallace does good journalism here.
And why is it able to be done on Fox News?
Because the facts line up with their political point of view right now.
So that's why they're able to do such good work now, which is nice.
Okay, here we go.
Finally, the truth gets told.
Does your report vindicate Mr. Comey?
It doesn't vindicate anyone at the FBI who touched this, including the leadership.
The IG says you should feel no vindication.
Well, maybe it turns upon how we understand the word, what I mean.
I mean, I take vindication to mean that I did a lot of horrible shit and I'm not going to go to jail.
He means vindication that I did a lot of horrible shit.
I mean, this is hilarious.
Hey, what's the definition of is?
Is.
Depends on what you mean by is.
What did you mean by is?
Where are you going with is?
That depends on what you mean by vindication.
Let's see what he thinks it means.
Is that the FBI was accused of treason, of illegal spying, of tapping Mr. Trump's wires illegally, of opening an investigation without justification, of being a criminal conspiracy to unseat, defeat, and then unseat a president.
Okay, almost all of those things are true.
Almost all.
There's one or two of them that he said.
He's had a bunch of stuff in there, but almost all of them are true.
Isn't that amazing?
And he's with a straight face.
That's a sociopath, by the way.
He is a sociopath.
That's how sociopaths lie.
Very convincingly.
And he sounds like a Boy Scout most of the time.
The most earnest liars in the world are sociopaths.
So watch, here we go.
All of that was nonsense.
I think it's really important that the Inspector General looked at that and that the American people, your viewers, and all viewers understand that's true.
But he also found things that we were never accused of, which is real sloppiness.
And that's concerned.
Sloppiness.
Lying to the FISA court, he's referring as sloppiness, not sloppy.
Changing the wording on a Pfizer warrant intentionally to say that Carter Page was working with the CIA to change it to say he wasn't working with the CIA.
Those aren't, that's not sloppy.
That's intentional.
The fact that the Inspector General didn't come out and say you guys intention, that's just because he's trying to save your ass.
But he did tell everybody in there that you guys lied repeatedly.
Here it comes.
Chris Wallace gets him.
As I've said all along, has to be focused on.
If I were a director, I'd be very concerned about it and diving into it.
Well, sloppiness may be a euphemism for what it is he found.
One of his big concerns is the way the FBI handled the FISA applications and the warrants that allowed you to surveil Carter Page, who was a former foreign policy advisor to the Trump campaign.
Again, here is what you said about the FISA process and what the Inspector General Horowitz said this week.
Take a look.
I have total confidence that the FISA process was followed and that the entire case was handled in a thoughtful, responsible way by DOJ and the FBI.
Now, did you want, first of all, he answers that in a very slimy way.
That statement is very smarmy.
And because he goes, I have complete confidence.
So when it's revealed that what he's saying is a lie, he can then say, well, I was overconfident.
Not that I was lying or I should have known better.
He's like, well, I guess that was a watch because that's what's going to happen.
Identified significant inaccuracies and omissions in each of the four applications.
Seven in the first application and a Total of 17 by the final renewal application.
So let me just tell you what just happened.
That was James Comey saying that our FISA applications were 100% above board.
100%.
That's what he said.
That's the Inspector General saying you guys lied seven times in your initial application.
And by the third time you guys applied, you had 17 lies or omissions in it.
It got worse as you guys went along.
17 significant errors in the FISA process.
And you say that it was handled in a thoughtful and appropriate way.
Yeah, he's right.
I was wrong.
I was overconfident in the procedures that the FBI and justice had built over 20 years.
I was overconfident that the guys, that our system worked.
I guess it's our system.
It's not a person.
It's not me.
I'm the head of it.
This is amazing, right?
I thought they were robust enough.
It's incredibly hard to get a FISA.
I was overconfident.
Again, this is the one that Chris lets go by.
It's not hard to get a FISA.
The numbers, these aren't the exact numbers, but these are pretty close to what the exact numbers are.
I don't know why I don't have them in front of me.
I should.
But for instance, let's say there was 1,000 FISA applications for a warrant last year.
The court approved 997 of them.
So it's not hard to get a FISA warrant.
That's a blatant lie.
And Chris Wallace lets it go by because he's probably trying to catch up to the other five lies he just told.
Well, and that's why I was overconfident.
You know, I just thought and got a pretty good chance.
And I actually filled it out very sloppily.
And then I actually yelled vindication in spike to football.
I was very overconfident.
Here we go.
That was because he's right.
There was real sloppiness.
17 things that either should have been in the applications or at least discussed and characterized differently.
It was not acceptable.
And so he's right.
I was wrong.
Not only was it not acceptable, Mr. Comey, but when the Inspector General asked those people why they had all those sloppiness on their FISA applications, their answers were unsatisfactory, meaning they didn't have a reason, which means they did it on purpose.
But the IG won't go that far because he doesn't want to be the guy putting freaking FBI guys in jail or seem like a partisan.
But he will tell you that they lied.
So now you guys can do with it what you want.
He's presenting this to the Congress.
Do with it what you want.
Sound like you're a bystander, an eyewitness.
You were the director of the FBI while a lot of this was going on, sir.
Sure.
I'm responsible for that.
That's why I'm telling you.
I was wrong.
I was overconfident as director in our procedures.
Sure, I'm responsible.
And by taking responsibility, it means just saying it on TV, but nothing actual and concretely.
I didn't get fired from it.
I'm not losing a pension.
I'm not being prosecuted in a court of law.
I'm not nothing.
So by responsibility, I mean doing absolutely nothing.
And it's important that a leader be accountable and transparent.
Which he's not accountable, nor is he transparent.
He's not what accountability are we holding on?
Nothing.
You're not being charged with the crime overseeing lying to a court, a secret court.
Nothing.
There's no accountability.
I were still director.
I'd be saying exactly the same thing that Chris Ray is saying, which is we are going to get to the bottom of this.
Because the most important question is, is it systemic?
Are there problems in other cases?
One of the central issues is the.
So I'm really, he acts like he's really worried about this.
He's not.
Because, hey, the one thing I want to know is this systemic?
Is it happening in other cases?
What kind of an ass wipe does he think we are?
The thing I'm worried about is that, you know, we lie on the regular to the FISA court because no one ever checks on us.
And now for the first time, someone did check and they caught us lying all over the goddamn place.
I mean, that entire segment of the interview was just, I mean, really tragically funny.
Yeah.
Because basically, Chris Wilson was just like, yeah, you know, you were the dude in charge, right?
Like, you're almost, you're being a little passive here.
You were like the guy.
And he's like, yeah, you mentioned that.
I was the guy.
And I was concerned and I take responsibility.
Yeah.
And I wonder if it's happened before.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I want to make sure it's not happening all the time.
What?
But I have lots of confidence in the system.
Yes.
If you're in charge of shit, are you responsible for stuff?
I don't know.
No one told me.
What do you mean by responsible?
Well, it depends on what that word means.
Role that the steel dossier played, which was OPPO research paid for by the Democrats.
What role it played in getting the FISA warrants to surveil page.
Again, here's your version.
And again, here's the Inspector General.
My recollection was it was part of a broader mosaic of facts that were laid before the FISA judge to obtain a FISA warrant.
And we concluded that the Steel reporting played a central and essential role in the decision to seek a FISA order.
Horowitz says it wasn't part, as you told Brett Baer, it wasn't part of a broader mosaic.
He said it played an essential role in establishing probable cause.
In fact, he says, if it hadn't been for the Steele dossier, the FBI probably wouldn't have even submitted a FISA application that had been reviewed in April of 2016, or August rather, of 2017.
They decided not to do it.
They get the Steel dossier.
They do it.
It wasn't part of a broader mosaic.
That's what you said, sir.
I'm not sure he and I are saying different things.
I am.
And guess what?
Everybody else watching is sure of it.
Isn't it weird how everybody could be sure of that except the guy who's actually saying it?
Isn't that weird?
It's almost like you're lying and trying to bullshit everyone.
Isn't it weird that your whole claim to fame is that Trump is a liar?
And it turns out that now everybody in the world can see what a bullshitter, gaslighting liar you are with zero integrity.
Zero.
James Comey's a criminal.
He's got zero integrity.
What his report says is that the FBI thought it was a close call until they got the steel report, put that additional information in, and that tipped it over to be probable cause.
It's a long FISA application that includes steel material and lots of other material.
I don't think it's a good thing.
That's not what it says.
Well, I think you are, sir, because he's saying, you're saying it's part of a broader mosaic.
It's just one element.
He's saying it was the tipping point.
It's what brought it over.
That doesn't make it part of a broader mosaic.
It makes it the centerpiece of the whole FISA application and the ability to surveil Carter Page.
Yeah, I don't understand him to be saying that.
I could be wrong.
Hey, this guy's saying you're a criminal.
I don't understand that he's saying that.
No.
So that'd be like if me and you went to a buffet and I'm like, I am so excited there is pizza on this buffet that is central and essential to me.
I'm going to load up on pizza.
And you were like, pizza's not that big of a deal to me.
I mean, I guess it's part of it, but I'm excited about all this other food.
And then we bring our plates back and I have like eight slices of pizza and you have all kinds of stuff.
You have like maybe one slice of pizza, but you got salad and you got rice and you got fruit or whatever else.
And James Comey's like, that's the exact same plate.
You both are eating pizza.
I don't see a difference.
What's the difference?
There's pizza, pizza on one, pizza on the other.
I guess I'm misunderstanding what you're saying about pizza.
I don't understand what pizza even means.
Are you using an S or a Z?
Is vindication a topping?
I don't know.
Is it gluten-free?
Because if vindication has gluten, I can't have it.
I got his quote here.
He says, we concluded the steel reporting played a central and essential role in the decision to seek a FISA warrant that it pushed the FISA proposal over the line in terms of establishing probable cause.
I mean, he says what he says.
And so James Comey's like, boy, every time I've told this lie before, no one's ever quoted the IG report.
Every time I lie like this, and I do this, this face of like, somehow I'm a victim who's trying to figure out, hmm, this fucking face he's doing through the whole interview is hilarious.
This puppy dog, like, well, I don't, what do you mean?
Or it's means something.
Yeah, and I agree with his characterization.
I'm just confused.
I don't see the disconnect between the two of us, and I'm sorry that I'm missing it.
Well, you don't see a difference between it's part of a broader mosaic and it played an essential role in establishing probable cause?
It was one of a bunch of different facts that were assembled to apply to the court.
It was the one that convinced the lawyers that they had enough now with that added to the pile to go forward.
It seemed that you were minimizing the role of the Steele dossier.
Yes.
And he's saying it's a lot more important than you light along.
Okay, if I was, then I'm sorry that I did that, but I meant it was one part of the presentation to the people.
Yeah, I mean, I guess we were all just confused.
It's not, nobody's being criminal, intentionally criminal.
I mean, I'm just, I'm not actually lying.
I just don't even know what words mean.
Well, we're talking about that one weekend.
We were all hammered, right?
I forget the central thesis here.
What is this?
Mr. Magoo is running the FBI?
This is Mr. Magoo.
This is, remember when Mueller was interviewed about the Mueller report and he looked just like this?
Like, I don't know.
What are you talking about?
That's beyond my purview.
I don't know who that guy is.
Well, it's right here.
You said it.
I don't remember saying that.
Do you see the people who are investigating Trump and pushing Russia Gate?
Do you see what they look like when they're actually questioned?
Did you see what Mueller looked like?
Do you see what this liar looks like?
He got destroyed on Fox News.
Here we go.
It was not a huge part of the presentation to the court, but it was the fact, according to his report, that convinced the lawyers to go forward.
All right.
Then there's the issue of how reliable the Steele does.
I like Chris Wallace.
All right.
I think we've humiliated you enough over this.
You've lied five or six times straight to our face.
And I guess we'll just move on because everybody can see what you're doing.
Now let's move on to something else that's horrible and you're going to try and deny and gaslight me about it.
Despite how many times I call you sir, you're still trying to say that central and essential means nothing.
Yes.
The Steele dossier, in fact, was.
On January 6th, 2017, in the Trump Tower, you brief Donald Trump, president-elect, about the Steele dossier.
That same month, the FBI talks to Steele's main Russian contact, the main person on whom he based the dossier, who says, according to the IG report, quote, Steele misstated or exaggerated the primary sub-source's statements in multiple sections of the reporting.
Director Comey, not only do you fail to go back to the president-elect or president after January 20th and tell him, oh, you know, that report I briefed you on?
Turns out it's bunk, but the FBI goes back and renews its FISA application three more times.
And by this point, the FBI knows that the Steele reporting is not credible.
Yeah, I think you're mischaracterizing both what the FBI knew and what Mr. Horowitz says in his report.
They didn't conclude the reporting from Steele was bunk.
They concluded there were significant questions about the reliability of some of the sub-source reporting.
That's not what they said at all.
That's not, he's, again, lying.
He's using terms like sub-source and to tech.
And that's all to throw you off.
But guess what?
Chris Wallace is smarter than Jim Comey, and he does not get thrown off.
Well, it also depends on what they mean by bunk.
They could be referring to a bed.
We don't know yet.
We don't know yet.
That should have been included in the renewals.
But when I briefed the president, I briefed him on a small part of it that I told him I didn't know whether it was true or not.
I didn't care.
I just needed him to know about it.
I think you're mischaracterizing.
Steele isn't, or rather, Horowitz isn't saying that the sub-source, the Russian contact, was unreliable or was inaccurate.
The Russian contact said to the FBI, Steele is unreliable because he misrepresented.
Steele misstated or exaggerated the source's statements in multiple sections of the report.
He's saying, I told him one thing and he wrote something else.
The FBI knew that.
Yeah, but that doesn't drive a conclusion that Steele's reporting is bunk.
I mean, there's a number of tricky things to that first.
Bunk and tricky, Jimmy.
Do you see him trying?
Do you see him trying to still stand by somehow?
Again, this reveals the hubris and unaccountability inside our intelligence community.
So this is huge.
This guy, how did he not know he was going to get taken apart by Chris Wallace?
The facts are not on your side.
How do you not know this?
Hubris.
Because he's been bullshitting people for fucking 30 years.
And so is every, and everybody he knows has been bullshitting the press and leaking whenever they felt like it.
And if they can't leak, they're going to intimidate a guy or they'll plan a false story.
That's what they do their whole career.
They're not defending the Constitution or even America, this guy.
And so this guy is so full of hubris and so used to being like this.
That's why this is happening.
That's what this is on parade.
Unaccountable people inside of our government, the permanent state.
And they try to pretend like one doesn't exist.
And you know who does that?
MSNBC.
And Chris Cuomo, Fredo.
You're interviewing the sub-source after all the reporting has become public.
And so as a counterintelligence investigator, you have to think, is he walking away from it?
Because it's now public.
And that has to go into your assessment.
It hadn't, I mean, if it had become public just barely, this is in January of 2017.
This isn't two years later.
Right.
This is when it blew up, when it was published by whatever the outfit is buzz feed, it was all over the news and had become a big deal.
And so did you know all of this?
All of what?
What are you, five years old?
What are you talking about?
What are you, a 12-year-old kid who got caught?
Are we on TV?
Yeah.
What are we doing?
Did you know about all this?
All of what?
What?
Literally, are you like a 12-year-old kid?
All about what?
I know you are, but what am I?
All about what, he says.
What's the definition of this?
What's all this?
What's what?
What's what mean?
And they say Trump is a liar.
Do you see how hilarious this is to more than half the country?
More than half the country.
Do you see how hilarious this is?
Do you see how this props up Trump?
Do you see how now when Trump says fake news that it's going to land even when it's not fake news?
That's why it lands because guys like this, who are held up by the left as some kind of virtuous defender of our democracy is actually a puke and a liar and a breaker of our Constitution and a brazen, brazen frigging liar.
More brazen than Trump.
Because Trump doesn't, Trump knows you think he's bullshitting.
This guy thinks he's been getting it past people his whole life.
And he's not getting it past Chris Wallace.
It was all over the news and had become a big deal.
And so did you know all of this?
All of what?
Everything that we're talking about here.
Did you know everything that we're talking about, you fucking asshole?
What do you think?
All about what every, what do you think?
Like at that point, he's like, oh, my God.
He stopped calling him sir at that point.
Yeah.
He's like, you know what?
Enough with the sir.
Yeah.
Everything we're talking, what do you mean?
What am I?
And watch Comey keep speaking.
Can you imagine Trump saying that and how everybody would laugh at him?
Everything that we're talking about here.
Did you know that in fact the Steele report was the key for probable cause?
Did you know that the FBI had talked to the Russian contact and he said what Steele said he had he had told him was not true?
Did you know this?
You're the FBI director.
First, again, the report will speak for itself.
I don't believe the FBI concluded that Steele's reporting was bunk after talking to a sub-source.
but no, I didn't.
As the director, you're not kept informed on the details of an investigation.
So, no, in general, I didn't know what they'd learned from the sub-source.
I didn't know the particulars of the investigation.
This isn't something it's the most important investigation in the history of the FBI.
We're looking at treason by a president, and I was busy.
I was doing other things.
Does anyone believe that?
Does anyone believe that he wasn't keeping track on this investigation?
A guy who's now his whole career is based on hating Trump.
Are you?
Does anyone believe that you believe that, Ron?
Do you believe that, Steph?
It depends on what your definition of busy is.
He may not be saying different things.
I believe as bad as he is at lying, is as bad as they are about serving the American public.
Correct.
Exactly correct.
Investigation, sir.
This is an investigation.
Yeah, I'm not going to get away with sub-source.
I didn't know the particulars of the investigation.
This isn't some investigation, sir.
This is an investigation of the campaign of the man who is the president of the United States.
You just been through a firestorm investigating Hillary Clinton.
I would think if I were in your position, I would have been on that, you know, like a junkyard dog.
I would have wanted to know everything they were doing in investigating the Trump campaign.
Yeah, that's not the way it works, though.
That's not the way it works.
What we do is we get someone who can lie and deceive the court and do a phony investigation based on political bias.
And then I have, you know, plausible deniability.
That's what he's watched.
That's not how it works.
We set it up so I have plausible deniability, and no one is ever held accountable, except maybe there are people in a low-level guy, maybe.
That's how we have it.
That's how it works.
How it works is I've never held account.
I'm never responsible for anything.
You're sitting on top of an organization of 38,000 people.
You can't run an investigation that's seven layers below you.
You have to leave it to the career professionals to do, to the special agents who do this for their lives.
And if a director tries to run an investigation, it'll get mucked up in all different kinds of ways.
Well, good thing you didn't try to get involved in the investigation so it didn't get mucked up.
You think you could have made it worse?
You think it could have made this investigation worse?
The fact is you were.
I'm going to state my theory is the fact is you were involved.
Of course you were involved.
The most important investigation in the history of your life.
You're going to be off doing something else.
You liar.
What a liar.
And his or her responsibilities and the impossibility of reaching the work that's being done at the lower level.
And then there is, I have left for laughs, the worst misconduct.
In August of 2016, just two weeks into the investigation, the CIA tells the FBI that it actually has a relationship with Carter Page, that when he has these meetings with the Russians, he actually goes back and he tells the CIA about it.
But you never tell the FISA court that.
And in fact, in 2017, an FBI lawyer doctors a document.
The CIA said, oh, Carter Page, he's a source.
And he puts in the application.
He's not a source.
Yeah, I got to take issue with one of the, I'll answer the question, but one of the predications of your question, the Inspector General did not find misconduct by any FBI people.
He found mistakes and negligent and oversight.
No, no, no, no, no.
That's not true.
In the case of Kevin Klein Smith, he has referred it for a criminal investigation.
Right, but that's not been resolved.
What?
He did.
He said one guy's criminal.
He should go put this guy in jail.
Yeah, but that's not.
You mean they haven't had the court case yet?
That's exactly, again, does he honestly think nobody sees through this?
I just think, I mean, you know, the FBI is a lot like a dip.
There's at least seven layers, and I was above.
I'm like the sprinkled cheese on top.
On top.
So really, you got to get into the sour cream.
I fall off the chip, really.
So you can't blame me for anything.
He has referred it for a criminal investigation.
Right, but that's not been resolved.
This business with the lawyer changing some email to a partner on the team.
I mean, you make it sound like it's not much.
It's important.
Oh, no, it's very important.
It's very important.
I mean, not a source.
A source to not a source is a big bar.
Remember how we got here?
The FBI was accused of criminal misconduct.
Remember, I was going to jail.
Yeah, that's criminal.
I love how he tries to pretend like, well, what you're talking about is it is criminal.
That's why the guy's going to have been referred for prosecution.
Hell, and lots of other people are going to jail.
on this network said it over and over and over again.
The inspector general did not fund You should be going to jail, Jim.
Just because you aren't doesn't mean...
Misconduct by FBI personnel did not find political bias, did not find illegal conduct.
That's true.
The Inspector General found significant mistakes, and that is not something to sneeze at.
That's really important.
But the American people, especially your viewers, need to realize they were given false information about the FBI.
It's honest.
It is not political.
It is flawed.
Would you agree that the FISA court was also given false information by the FBI?
I think that's fair.
The FBI should have included the police.
I think that's fair.
It's fair to say that we lied to the secret court.
You know, that thing that we said would never happen.
We do it all the time on the regular.
In fact, we did it 17 times in one application.
You know, when he said that our investigation was flawed, I sit there and I think to myself, facts aren't flawed.
Facts are facts.
So you either have the facts or you don't.
And if you say your subsources, the dossier was dependent on the subsources and it's flawed.
Well, then you can't depend on the dossier for that information.
And when I hear James Comey say, you know, I was supposed to go to jail.
I was like, yes.
You should go to jail.
And why aren't you?
I agree.
All right.
Push to the lawyers so they can make a decision.
Information that you just said, things like that, that another agency had not a source relationship, but some kind of contact relationship.
I want to get to three last questions.
And one of them has to do with how serious what this is.
You've talked a lot about mistakes or sloppiness.
Horowitz concludes three separate teams made significant errors in four separate FISA applications.
Three hand-picked teams.
Remember that.
This isn't three random teams of FBI agents.
These were hand-picked by the tippy-top people at the FBI.
And they all were unbelievably grossly negligent or intentionally committing crimes.
You know, it's weird.
The sloppiness is contagious.
It's really, it's a thing we do.
We have a career on Fridays.
And I guess that's just when this went down.
On one of the FBI's most significant cases, I mean, the investigation of President Trump and his campaign.
I have to keep correcting you.
President Trump was not being investigated.
His campaign was not being investigated.
Four Americans, two of whom were no longer associated with the campaign, were being investigated.
Okay, that is a verbal bullshit tactic he just used again.
When you put a tap on Carter Page's phone, now anybody Carter Page talks to, you listen to their phone calls too.
So anybody Carter Page talked to inside the Trump administration means you listen to their phone calls.
So it's called a two-hop rule.
You don't only get to listen to what Carter Page is doing, but anyone Carter Page talks to, you can listen to their phone calls now too.
So if he talked to anybody in the Trump administration, they listen to their phone calls.
This is a tap on the fact.
There were FBI agents who went in and interviewed people inside the Trump campaign, and they wore a wire when they did it.
They're supposed to be briefing them.
He was asked how he explains it.
Horowitz, here he is.
It's unclear what the motivations were.
On the one hand, gross incompetence, negligence.
On the other hand, intentionality.
Gross negligence, or they intended to do it.
They intended to lie to the FISA court.
You were in charge during a lot of this, sir.
And you signed the FISA applications.
Sure, I think I signed at least two or three of them.
He doesn't conclude that there was intentional misconduct by these career special agents.
He just says it's one of two things that he can't decide.
Gross negligence or it was intentional misconduct.
Well, that's what he said.
I've read his report.
He says, We are not concluding that there was.
Are you pretending that we just didn't all just see the video?
This is a pathological, sociopathical liar.
That's who Jim Comey really is.
Because he talks like a puppy eyes and he gives you this thing and he did, and he speaks really about it.
He's a sociopathic liar.
And this is the guy who's supposed to investigate Trump.
And his investigation's all full of criminality and lies and misleading the court and lying about your own source.
You know what they did to Carter Page?
Carter Page was working for the CIA.
The FBI threw him under the bus, said he wasn't.
So what's the takeaway?
Never work with the FBI or the CIA ever because you never know when they're going to turn around and stick a knife in your back.
And he's also diluting or diminishing the import of him signing a FISA warrant.
I agree.
When he says, that's like, did you take out the trash?
Sure.
Hey, did you commit a felony and do something horrible and lie to a court?
Sure.
Did you take out the garbage?
Sure.
Like, really?
So here, let's go.
Well, that's what he said.
I've read his report.
He says, we are not concluding that there was intentional misconduct by FBI.
Did you hear what he just said here?
I did.
I don't know the context of that.
It was asked specifically, how do you explain it?
And he said, gross negligence or intentionality.
Yeah.
Well, I'm sorry.
He doesn't find intentionality, but that doesn't make it any less important.
As director, you are responsible for this.
I was responsible for this.
And if I were still there, I'd be doing what Chris Ray is doing: figuring out, so how did this happen?
And is it systemic?
Because that's the scariest thought.
Oh, yeah.
Like, hey, I like how he pretends that he's concerned that people are lying to the FISA court.
Isn't that a little bit?
I would be like, wow, we got to really get to the bottom of how he lied in this investigation to Trump.
He acts like he's concerned.
Sir, are you lying right now?
Yes, he's lying.
I need to get down to my what I'm doing.
That might be fair.
And I'm concerned.
And we should get to the bottom of this.
Sure.
This is remarkable.
If you were still there, if all of this came out and it turned out it happened.
Now, if there's anything that reveals James Comey to not only be filled with hubris, but reveals that he's lived in an unaccountable bubble his entire life.
And he doesn't even understand what accountability means because he's been so unaccountable his entire life.
They've been acting as above the law his entire career.
That's what the FBI does.
They've been acting above the law, lying to courts when they feel like it, smearing their own informants, lying to them, lying to the public, leaking to the press when they need to, smearing someone else.
That's what the FBI does.
That's why James Jim Comey is a piece of garbage.
And that the FBI, you should always be suspicious of them.
And that's why the left propping them up because they have Trump derangement syndrome is, again, deleterious to the left, you idiots.
Again, the silver lining of this is that Trump has gotten the right to see that the FBI and the CIA need to be watched and not trusted.
Right here, this is the ultimate question.
This question here is going to show you how James Comey has lived his entire life in a bubble of unaccountability, and it's led to him to have unbelievable hubris to where he unwittingly reveals his corruption.
Watch this.
If you were still there and all of this came out and it turned out it happened on your watch, would you resign?
No, I don't think so.
There were mistakes I consider more consequential than this during my tenure.
And the important thing is to be transparent.
No, because guess what?
You think this is bad?
People think I should resign over this?
We did way worse shit than this.
And it happened a few layers below me anyway.
I mean, I might fire an intern or two.
That's all I do.
Isn't that stunning, Ron, that he just admitted that people wanted, they think he should resign over this.
And he looks at Chris Wallace and says, no, Chris, I've done way worse shit than this.
I wouldn't resign over anything.
I'm a sociopath, Chris.
Did you not just see the interview you did with me where I tried to bullshit you to your face as if you would accept it?
Like you're as dumb as my kids?
I like how he said, oh, yeah, we've done way worse than this.
There's been way worse than this.
And a few minutes prior, he was like, I just hope this isn't systemic.
I hope this is a one-time thing.
We've done way worse, by the way.
Hope it's not systemic.
George Cloody.
Hello.
Hey, champ.
Hey, you're one of those news guys, right?
Yeah, I guess that might be true.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, then, guess what?
The 9 million pound Riverside Estate I share with my wife, Amal, and our twins, Murray and Jared, was just flooded during some rains.
I mean, we were soaking in it.
Hey, you know, there's a lot more to that phone call, but we don't have time in today's podcast.
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