Brendan

Well, it's a great question, and I'm glad that James Comey is striking a tone of defiance.

I think that's exactly right.

I completely understand why a person would feel afraid in this moment, no matter who you are.

But just as there are reasons for fear, I think that there are reasons for defiance and even reasons for hope.

One of the things that I find encouraging here is that

this administration wasn't able to secure an indictment on its first proposed charge, which suggests that even only seeing the government's evidence, that these grand jurors rejected them.

So, you know, the fact that they've got an incredibly weak case, I think, is a reason for hope.

I think the other reason for hope is that this is a terrifically incompetent administration generally, and it seems like an incompetent leadership that's coming into the Eastern District of Virginia.

and pursuing it very aggressively, I don't think that they're necessarily going to pursue them particularly well.

Yeah, I think so.

People have to remember what is the substance of these lies?

What were they for?

These news stories that were put out there that were leaked to the press, the thrust of them was that Donald Trump was under the throes of a foreign government.

He was a Russian agent.

Think of the national security implications of implying that your own president is a spy for a foreign country.

Would that be tolerated in any normal country?

You cannot let that go on.

You can't have an FBI director doing these kinds of things and engaging in these sorts of manipulations and lying to Congress about it and getting away with it.

ONE THING I THINK WE'VE LEARNED DURING THE RUSSIA GATE PERIOD IS THAT JAMES COMEY HAS A PECULIAR SORT OF VANITY THAT I THINK IS OFTEN HIS UNDOING.

HE OFTEN THINKS THAT HE'S BEING CLEVER WHEN HE'S NOT.