INSTITUTION AND TO ANSWER

QUESTIONS IN A RESPECTFUL WAY.

YOU WILL SEE I DID THAT IN THE

TRANSCRIPT.

YOU’LL SEE THAT IF YOU GET A

TRANSCRIPT OF MY RETURN VISIT

WHICH WILL BE WEEK AFTER NEXT

AND THEN THIS WILL BE OVER.

>> Bill: THAT WAS JAMES COMEY

ON FRIDAY AFTER TESTIFYING FOR

SEVEN HOURS.

THE FIRED F.B.I. DIRECTOR NOW

CALLING PRESIDENT TRUMP A

CO-CONSPIRATOR IN THE CROSS

HAIRS OF MUELLER’S RUSSIA PROBE

AS WE GET NEW DETAILS ON THE

INVESTIGATION THAT FROM A

TRANSCRIPT.

MATT GAETZ WAS THERE AND WHAT

DID YOU LEARN FROM JAMES COMEY?

>> HIS AMNESIA IS VERY

SELECTIVE ON ANY FACTS THAT ARE

UNFAVORABLE TO PRESIDENT TRUMP

HE REMEMBERS THEM WITH GREAT

PARTICULAR TEE.

WHEN YOU TRY TO CREATE FOUR

CORNERS AROUND WHO KNOWS ABOUT

THE COMMUNICATIONS, WHO CAME

INTO POSSESSION OF DOCUMENTS,

THE ACTUAL DETAILS.

THEN COMEY BECOMES MORE HAZY ON

I THINK IT REALLY SPEAKS TO

WHAT WILL HAPPEN GOING FORWARD

IN THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS AS

WE GET FARTHER AWAY FROM THE

EVENTS THAT HAPPENED WITH ALL

THE WITNESSES YOU CAN SEE

MEMORIES START TO FADE AND

BECOME INCONSISTENT.

THE LEAKING OF COMEY, THE LYING

ABOUT IT TO CONGRESS,

INCONSISTENCIES WITH THE PERSON

THAT CAME AFTER HIM, ANDREW

MCCABE RAISES A LOT OF

QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW THE F.B.I.

WAS OPERATING DURING COMEY’S

LEADERSHIP.

>> Bill: HE WAS NOT FORTHCOMING

IS WHAT YOU’RE SAYING.

>> YEAH, IT IS CONCEIVABLE HE

MAY HAVE FORGOTTEN THINGS BUT

IT IS REALLY IRONIC AND BIZARRE

TO THINK HOW CLEVERLY HE IS

ABLE TO HAVE THOSE LAPSES IN

MEMORY SO AS TO BLOCK THE

OVERSIGHT THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO

DO.

>> Bill: POINTED QUESTION.

WAS HE HIDING SOMETHING OR JUST

HOLDING BACK OR SOMETHING ELSE?

>> I THINK THAT HE DID NOT WANT

TO DETERMINE HIS

TO GIVE US THE TOOLS TO BE ABLE

INCONSISTENCIES.

THERE IS A SPECIFIC EVENT THAT

--

>> Bill: WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

>> HE HAS THIS CONVERSATION

WITH THE PRESIDENT ALLEGEDLY

ABOUT MICHAEL FLYNN AND

MEMORIAL IZES IT IN A MEMO AND

THE TALKS ABOUT IT WITH SENIOR

LEADERSHIP.

HE REMEMBERS WITH GREAT -- WHEN

ASKED HOW DID PEOPLE REACT HE

WASN’T ABLE TO GIVE VIEWPOINTS

THEY OFFERED.

HE NEVER TOLD JEFF SESSIONS,

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.

SESSIONS HAD NOT RECUSED

HIMSELF AT THIS POINT SO WE SEE

THEMES WITH COMEY THAT WERE

REINFORCED BY THE INSPECTOR

GENERAL.

COMEY VIEWED THE JOB OF THE

F.B.I. DIRECTOR AS SOMETHING

DIFFERENT THAN IT’S CALLED.

HE THOUGHT IT WAS APPROPRIATE

TO BECOME A POLITICAL HACK TO

CREATE LINKS AND PERCEPTION

AROUND THEIR ACTIVITY AND

REALLY WE WANT AN F.B.I. THAT

INVESTIGATES THE FACTS AND THEN

PROVIDES INFORMATION TO THE

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.

WE DON’T WANT IT TO BE AN

EPICENTER OF POLITICAL ACTIVITY

AND COMEY IS ON THE TRAIL.

YOU SAW HIM YESTERDAY.

I THINK HE WILL BE VERY

INVOLVED IN THE REELECTION

CAMPAIGN IN 2020.

ONE OF THE REASONS I THINK

PRESIDENT TRUMP NEEDS TO PICK

MARK MEADOWS TO BE CHIEF OF

STAFF.

HE UNDERSTANDS THE FACTS AND

TIMELINE AND MAKE SURE THE

WHITE HOUSE IS PREPARED TO GO

TOE-TO-TOE WITH A POLITICALLY

ENGAGED JAMES COMEY.

>> Bill: DO YOU THINK MARK

MEADOWS WILL GET THE JOB?

>> I THINK THEY HAVE A GOOD

RELATIONSHIP.

MARK SPENDS A LOT OF TIME AT

THE WHITE HOUSE ALREADY.

I THINK IT WOULD BE PRETTY

SEAMLESS AND A BIG MISTAKE TO

BRING SOMEONE IN AS CHIEF OF

STAFF WHO IS A GOOD MANAGER BUT

WHO HASN’T LIVED THE TIMELINE

AND THE FACTS AND THE DETAILS

THE WAY MEADOWS HAS.

HE WILL BE ABLE TO DEPLOY

COUNTER MEASURES TO PROTECT THE

INSTITUTION OF THE PRESIDENCY

AGAINST WHAT I BELIEVE IS A

VERY ILLEGITIMATE ATTACK FROM

THE LEFT AND FROM ELEMENTS OF

THE F.B.I. AND THE DEPARTMENT

OF JUSTICE.

>> Bill: TWO MORE SPECIFIC

QUESTIONS.

TREY GOWDY’S OFFICE RELEASED

THIS OVER THE WEEKEND.

MR. COMEY STATED I DON’T KNOW

166 TIMES AND ANSWERED I DON’T

RECALL 8 TIMES.

DID THAT STRIKE YOU AS

EXCESSIVE?

>> IT WAS A BIT.

I COULD SENSE GOWDY’S

FRUSTRATION AS HE WAS ENGAGED

IN THAT INTERVIEW.

WHAT WE HAVE TO DO NOW IS TAKE

THAT TRANSCRIPT AND BOUNCE IT

AGAINST OTHER STATEMENTS COMEY

MADE TO THE INTELLIGENCE

COMMITTEE.

THERE MAY BE SOME

INCONSISTENCIES IN THE

TREATMENT OF MICHAEL FLYNN.

AS FLYNN WAS TALKING TO THE

F.B.I. THERE WAS NO INDICATION

HE WAS LYING AND YET THAT’S

WHAT’S CREATED THE LEVERAGE

AGAINST FLYNN THAT’S RESULTED

IN COOPERATION.

>> Bill: IF YOU WERE TO GO TO

35,000 FEET AND VIEW OF THE

REPUBLICANS DO YOU THINK HE

MATTERED THE CLINTON EMAIL

MATTER AND THE PRESIDENTIAL

CAMPAIGN OF DONALD TRUMP IN

2016?

>> VERY CLEARLY A DOUBLE

STANDARD.

>> Bill: DO YOU BELIEVE HE

FAIRLY ASSESSED THE REASONING

FOR THAT DURING THAT SEVEN

HOURS?

>> NO.

I THINK THAT THE DEMOCRATS WERE

GIVING COMEY A SEVEN HOUR CAT

BATH.

THE DOCUMENT CAME FROM THE

INSPECTOR GENERAL, A DEMOCRAT

APPOINTED BY OBAMA.

HE SAID VERY CLEARLY THAT JIM

COMEY DID NOT FOLLOW THE

PROTOCOLS AND PROCEDURES OF THE

F.B.I.

THAT RESULTED IN PEOPLE WHO HAD

A STRONG PRO-HILLARY CLINTON,

ANTI-DONALD TRUMP BIAS MAKING

THE DECISIONS NOT JUST ON THE

HILLARY CLINTON INVESTIGATION

BUT THEY THEN MIGRATED TO THE

DONALD TRUMP INVESTIGATION AND

AGAIN AT THAT 35,000 FOOT LEVEL

REMEMBER COMEY SAID EVEN WHEN

HE WAS FIRED, NO EVIDENCE OF

COLLUSION.

THAT SQUARES WITH WHAT LISA

PAGE TOLD US, 10 MONTHS IN

THERE WAS NO THERE THERE.

HERE WE ARE STILL NO EVIDENCE

OF COLLUSION.

COMEY SAID IT, PAGE SAID IT.

>> Bill: HE IS BACK IN A WEEK’S