THEY'VE GIVEN HIM A BREAK.

>> Jon: NEW REACTION CONTINUES

TO POUR IN ON A SCATHING

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

INSPECTOR GENERAL'S REPORT ON

JAMES COMEY.

THE IG FORMS OF FORMER FBI

DIRECTOR AND HIS MEETINGS WITH

PRESIDENT TRUMP.

"THE NEW YORK POST" RUN PAGE

BLARING LEAKER OF THE FREE

WORLD.

LET'S BRING IN OUR HEADLINER,

FORMER INDEPENDENT COUNSEL AND A

FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR.

YOU ARE A GUY WHO COULD TAKE

APART SOME LEGAL ISSUES AND MAKE

THEM VERY SENSIBLE.

I MISS ANYTHING IN THE COVERAGE

AND THE ASSESSMENT OF

INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT?

>> A 60 PAGE REPORT, IT'S SO

COMPREHENSIVE AND THAT IS SO

DEVASTATING WHAT WAS VERY

REVEALING TO ME WAS WELL

JIM COMEY WHILE HE WAS

PROTECTING THE FBI, HE WASN'T AT

ALL AND THAT'S THE CONCLUSION OF

AN HONEST CIVIL SERVANT NAMED

MICHAEL HOROWITZ.

COMEY VIOLATED TIME AND AGAIN

FBI RULES, REGULATION, PROTOCOL.

>> Sandra: THEY DECIDED NOT TO

PROSECUTE, WHY NOT?

>> THERE IS NO PROOF OF HIS

LEAKING CLASSIFIED INFORMATION.

SOME OF THE MEMOS THAT HE

PREPARED FOR CLASSIFIED BUT HE

AT LEAST WAS CAREFUL IN TERMS OF

WHAT HE LEAKED AND ESPIONAGE

LAWS AND THE OTHER LAWS THAT GO

TO PROTECTING DECLASSIFIED

INFORMATION IS FAIRLY LIMITED.

HE WAS PROFESSIONALLY WRONG,

MORALLY WRONG, SELF-RIGHTEOUS

AND DID NOT COMMIT A CRIME.

>> Sandra: A PIECE, SHE WRITES

HE CLEARLY DETESTED MR. TRUMP

FROM THE START.

HE ABUSED HIS POWER AND USE THE

HIS SNEAKY TRICK TO UNDERMINE

THE PRESIDENCY.

IT SHOULD DISTURB AMERICANS THAT

A MAN WHO IS NOW BEEN REPEATEDLY

ADMONISHED FOR ACTING

UNILATERALLY HELPED POSITIONS OF

POWER FOR SO LONG.

BASED ON THE RESPONSE FROM THE

DOJ THAT HE WILL NOT GO TO JAIL

IT WILL NOT BE PROSECUTED, WHICH

WOULD DETER THIS FROM HAPPENING

AGAIN?

THE MATTRESS TO HAVE A

PROFESSIONAL REPUTATION SELLING

THE WAY THIS REPORT DEVASTATES

JAMES COMEY, IT REALLY DOES.

AND THIS IS NOT PERSONAL, YOU

DELIBERATELY SET OUT ON A

PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT AND HE KNEW

IT TO BE WRONG.

THAT IS TO SAY, THE REPORT MAKES

IT VERY CLEAR THAT NOT ONLY AN

EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONAL AND THE

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND THE FBI,

HE HAD BEEN SPECIFICALLY TRAINED

AND THEN HE HAD FURTHER

TRAINING.

THE REPORT IS SO VALUABLE

BECAUSE IT JUST DOCUMENTS TIME

AND AGAIN THAT HE WAS SO WILLFUL

AND WHAT HE WAS DOING IN

PREPARING THESE MEMORANDA AND

THEN ESPECIALLY THE LEAKING OF

THE MEMORANDA TO

"THE NEW YORK TIMES" THROUGH HIS

ATTORNEY AND A FRIEND AT

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.

ABSOLUTELY UNPARDONABLE SO HE'S

BEEN CALLED OUT.

>> Jon: THE PRESIDENT TWEETED

THIS, "THE FACT THAT JAMES COMEY

WAS NOT PROSECUTED FOR THE

ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE THINGS HE

DID JUST SHOWS HOW FAIR AND

REASONABLE ATTORNEY GENERAL

BILL BARR IS.

SO MANY PEOPLE AND EXPERTS THAT

I HAVE WATCHED AND READ WOULD

HAVE TAKEN AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT

COURSE.

COMEY GOT LUCKY."

IS MR. PRESIDENT RIGHT ON THAT?

>> I THINK BILL BARR IS A

CONSUMMATE PROFESSIONAL AND EVEN

THOUGH HE'S BEEN UNFAIRLY

CRITICIZED IN CONNECTION WITH

THE MUELLER REPORT, WHAT WE SEE

NOW IS HE IS A STAND-UP GUY WHO

MAKES THE TOUGH DECISIONS AND HE

IS GOING TO MAKE IT BASED ON THE

FACTS.

HE DID THE RIGHT THING.

>> Sandra: FORMER DEPUTY

GENERAL ROD ROSENSTEIN APPEARED

TO TAKE A SHOT AT FORMER FBI

DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY IN THIS

RESPONSE ON TWITTER.

HE SAID IT IS IMPORTANT TO

FOLLOW ESTABLISHED POLICIES AND

PROCEDURES ESPECIALLY WHEN THE

STAKES ARE HIGH.

WE SHOULD BE MOST ON GUARD WHEN

WE BELIEVE THAT OUR OWN

UNCOMFORTABLE CIRCUMSTANCES

JUSTIFIED IGNORING PRINCIPLES

RESPECTED BY OUR PREDECESSORS.

HE WAS TALKING EARLIER, SOMEONE

WHO HAD KNOWN JAMES COMEY FOR

SOME TIME, ALSO SAYING HOW LONG

HE HAS KNOWN JAMES COMEY AND

JUST THE SHEER DISAPPOINTMENT

FOR SOME OF THEIR COLLEAGUES AND

FRIENDS OF THE PAST.

>> THE REPORT ITSELF OR

MICHAEL HOROWITZ DOCUMENTS THE

FACT THAT THE PEOPLE WHO WORKED

WITH JAMES COMEY'S, NAMES THAT

WE ARE FAMILIAR WITH SUCH AS

PETER STRZOK WERE DISAPPOINTED

TO LEARN WHAT HE HAD DONE IN

TERMS OF THE LEAKING TO

"THE NEW YORK TIMES," THAT THEY

WERE SHOCKED THEY WERE

SURPRISED.

SO THIS HAS BEEN A RECKONING FOR

JIM COMEY IN TERMS OF HIS.

>> Sandra: YOU WOULDN'T KNOW

THAT BY LOOKING AT HIS TWITTER

FEED BECAUSE HE ALMOST

INSTANTANEOUSLY REACTED ON

TWITTER FOLLOWING THE RELEASE OF

THIS REPORT CLAIMING

VINDICATION.

>> THAT WAS VERY ODD BUT THERE'S

THE OLD EXPRESSION, NONE SO

BLIND AS THOSE WHO WILL NOT SEE.

THIS REPORT IS DEVASTATING TO

JAMES COMEY'S CONDUCT IN THE

MOST IMPORTANT KIND OF PART OF

HIS WORK AND THAT IS HIS

RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PRESIDENT

OF THE UNITED STATES, DULY

ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE, SO THE

DESCRIPTION THAT SHE ARTICULATED

UNFORTUNATELY FOR THE COUNTRY,

WE WANT HONEST FBI AGENTS AND

LEADERS.

>> Jon: IT APPEARS THAT HE HAD

BEEN READING UP ON THE

STEELE DOSSIER WELL BEFORE HE

TOOK OFFICE.

HE FELT THAT THIS WAS NOT GOING

TO BE SUITED TO THE OVAL OFFICE

THAT HE WANTED TO TAKE STEPS TO

IMPUGN HIM AT THE VERY LEAST.

IF A METHOD IS PUTTING ONESELF

ABOVE THE PROCESS, SUCH

CONFIDENCE ON YOUR OWN JUDGMENT