James Comey

Resignation because I had heard noise from different media sources that made inquiries of my lawyers, so I knew something was cooking.

And so I expected something.

If not this, I thought it would be something else.

So resignation, a little bit of surprise that is really going to happen.

We're really going to do this.

But those are my two reactions.

Yeah.

I think it's really important that people not become numb to this, not accept this as just another one of those Trumpian excesses we have to deal with.

This is really, really bad.

And the danger, even for me, is it happens enough times that it becomes a little bit of background noise.

Oh, oh, Comey was indicted again.

Everybody assumes that there's nothing to it, whatever it is, but we sort of move past it, and it's really important that we don't.

And so I can't talk about a particular case, but I can, and I hope everybody else does, talk about the danger inherent in accepting that that's how the Department of Justice should work.

Yeah, maybe.

I mean, I'm a bit of a mocker, and so I'm attracted to that approach to things.

But in this case, because I have such respect for both the concept and the reality of an independent judiciary, I want to make sure that judges know –

then I take it seriously because I take their role so seriously.

So I worry that if I try to be funny with it, John Stewart wanted me to come on his program.

One of the reasons I didn't was I don't want to joke about it because I don't want to send a message that we misunderstood as somehow disrespecting the process.

I'll let you handle that one.