1 00:00:07,227 --> 00:00:09,569 [cheering, applause] 2 00:00:09,669 --> 00:00:12,933 [Stephen Colbert] Yeah. I just, uh... 3 00:00:13,033 --> 00:00:15,335 I just-- There's so many Comey stories. 4 00:00:15,435 --> 00:00:17,097 They're ju-- they're an emotional roller coaster, 5 00:00:17,197 --> 00:00:19,740 I just don't know what to think about James Comey. 6 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:21,582 First he seemed like he's the good guy, 7 00:00:21,682 --> 00:00:23,784 then he seemed like he's the bad guy, 8 00:00:23,884 --> 00:00:25,827 then it seemed like he sacrificed himself 9 00:00:25,927 --> 00:00:27,268 to save other people. 10 00:00:27,368 --> 00:00:29,270 Oh, my God. 11 00:00:29,370 --> 00:00:31,713 -Is James Comey Severus Snape? -[laughter] 12 00:00:31,813 --> 00:00:33,114 ♪ dramatic music ♪ 13 00:00:33,214 --> 00:00:35,357 I was on the way to winning... 14 00:00:35,457 --> 00:00:39,120 It was, in fact, a big October surprise. 15 00:00:39,220 --> 00:00:42,044 T-That's not the FBI. That's not what the FBI is supposed to do. 16 00:00:42,144 --> 00:00:44,326 [commentator] It is clear they have no idea 17 00:00:44,426 --> 00:00:45,968 what these e-mails are. 18 00:00:46,068 --> 00:00:47,329 [Rudy Giuliani] Jim Comey... 19 00:00:47,429 --> 00:00:48,771 ...reading of the law is completely wrong. 20 00:00:48,871 --> 00:00:50,452 I consider this decision an outrage. 21 00:00:50,552 --> 00:00:51,854 You chose to make public statements 22 00:00:51,954 --> 00:00:53,936 about one investigation and not another. 23 00:00:54,036 --> 00:00:56,579 There would be political ramifications to your comments. 24 00:00:56,679 --> 00:00:58,541 Do you have any regrets, 25 00:00:58,641 --> 00:01:01,604 or are there any things you would do differently? 26 00:01:05,568 --> 00:01:07,470 ♪ slow, somber music ♪ 27 00:01:07,570 --> 00:01:09,933 ♪♪♪♪♪ 28 00:01:23,307 --> 00:01:25,309 [door opens] 29 00:01:27,792 --> 00:01:30,094 You're wondering why there isn't any cake. 30 00:01:30,194 --> 00:01:31,856 Afternoon, Mr. Rosenstein. 31 00:01:31,956 --> 00:01:33,698 Two reasons. 32 00:01:33,798 --> 00:01:36,341 One, I don't really like cake. 33 00:01:36,441 --> 00:01:41,146 And two, I hate false ceremony. 34 00:01:41,246 --> 00:01:43,848 Thank-yous are for Mother's Day. 35 00:01:46,171 --> 00:01:48,073 Ah, Hoover. 36 00:01:48,173 --> 00:01:52,438 There's a lesson in Hoover's story, Justin. 37 00:01:52,538 --> 00:01:56,842 Director of the FBI is afforded an almost cultlike status. 38 00:01:56,942 --> 00:02:00,005 To resist that takes discipline. 39 00:02:00,105 --> 00:02:02,108 Humility. 40 00:02:04,030 --> 00:02:07,193 Hmm. As opposed to... 41 00:02:10,717 --> 00:02:14,100 You know what they do every year on the Fourth of July? 42 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:16,303 Jim Comey and his family? 43 00:02:16,403 --> 00:02:19,266 -No. -They gather together and read 44 00:02:19,366 --> 00:02:22,169 the Declaration of Independence aloud to one another. 45 00:02:24,331 --> 00:02:26,533 That's not in his book. 46 00:02:27,895 --> 00:02:29,917 He just found a way to make sure 47 00:02:30,017 --> 00:02:32,419 that everyone knows. 48 00:02:34,021 --> 00:02:36,564 That's Jim. 49 00:02:36,664 --> 00:02:38,926 In governance, there are people who do the work, 50 00:02:39,026 --> 00:02:41,449 and there are showboats. 51 00:02:41,549 --> 00:02:43,211 -[taps book] -Jim... 52 00:02:43,311 --> 00:02:45,613 was always a showboat. 53 00:02:45,713 --> 00:02:46,815 [alarm clock beeping] 54 00:02:46,915 --> 00:02:48,256 [turns off alarm] 55 00:02:48,356 --> 00:02:50,719 [birds chirping in distance] 56 00:02:55,684 --> 00:02:58,587 [sighs deeply] 57 00:02:58,687 --> 00:03:01,750 Don't worry. He can't pick me. 58 00:03:01,850 --> 00:03:04,053 They think I'm a Bush guy. 59 00:03:10,259 --> 00:03:12,261 [pills rattle] 60 00:03:20,430 --> 00:03:23,833 I know. They each make such a different statement. 61 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:32,042 Yeah, but which tie? 62 00:03:33,684 --> 00:03:36,106 -Ta-da! -He goes gold. 63 00:03:36,206 --> 00:03:37,348 -Very nice, Dad. -Handsome. 64 00:03:37,448 --> 00:03:38,509 You owe me a buck. 65 00:03:38,609 --> 00:03:39,830 Have a great day. 66 00:03:39,930 --> 00:03:42,033 -Say hi to Barack for me. -Me, too! 67 00:03:42,133 --> 00:03:43,474 [President Obama] Governor, I'm told you got 68 00:03:43,574 --> 00:03:44,675 24 dead and over 200 injured. 69 00:03:44,775 --> 00:03:47,358 Do we have that right? 70 00:03:47,458 --> 00:03:49,360 I've ordered Janet Napolitano at DHS 71 00:03:49,460 --> 00:03:51,883 and Craig Fugate at FEMA to coordinate with your team 72 00:03:51,983 --> 00:03:53,605 to provide any assistance you might need. 73 00:03:53,705 --> 00:03:56,248 Just, uh, just hang in there-- help's coming. 74 00:03:56,348 --> 00:03:58,290 All right. 75 00:03:58,390 --> 00:04:00,472 Come on in, Jim. 76 00:04:06,278 --> 00:04:07,419 Good to meet you, Mr. President. 77 00:04:07,519 --> 00:04:09,421 -You, too. -I should confess, sir, 78 00:04:09,521 --> 00:04:11,303 I supported John McCain. 79 00:04:11,403 --> 00:04:12,745 And Romney. 80 00:04:12,845 --> 00:04:14,847 I know. 81 00:04:16,048 --> 00:04:17,510 Come on. 82 00:04:17,610 --> 00:04:19,612 So... 83 00:04:20,613 --> 00:04:21,995 Why... 84 00:04:22,095 --> 00:04:24,397 should I hire you to run the Bureau? 85 00:04:24,497 --> 00:04:26,399 Why shouldn't I pick, say... 86 00:04:26,499 --> 00:04:27,961 oh, someone who supports 87 00:04:28,061 --> 00:04:29,963 my criminal justice reform initiative? 88 00:04:30,063 --> 00:04:31,765 Uh, you could, Mr. President, 89 00:04:31,865 --> 00:04:34,808 and that's an issue on which reasonable people can disagree. 90 00:04:34,908 --> 00:04:38,012 But I believe stiffer sentencing laws have, on the whole, 91 00:04:38,112 --> 00:04:39,573 made the country safer. 92 00:04:39,673 --> 00:04:41,255 A lot of Americans aren't dead today 93 00:04:41,355 --> 00:04:43,818 because the guys who might have killed them were locked up. 94 00:04:43,918 --> 00:04:47,662 Well, still, it might be easier for me to have an FBI director 95 00:04:47,762 --> 00:04:50,465 -who agrees with me. -Well, that's true, but... 96 00:04:50,565 --> 00:04:52,747 you've always struck me as one of those leaders 97 00:04:52,847 --> 00:04:55,990 who gains just as much from thoughtful disagreement. 98 00:04:56,090 --> 00:04:57,472 Hmm. 99 00:04:57,572 --> 00:05:00,435 You garnered a lot of attention for a... 100 00:05:00,535 --> 00:05:03,318 well, taking on the Mob as prosecutor 101 00:05:03,418 --> 00:05:05,080 and defending the DOJ in '04. 102 00:05:05,180 --> 00:05:06,602 I suppose that's true. 103 00:05:06,702 --> 00:05:08,824 Do you need a lot of attention? 104 00:05:11,266 --> 00:05:13,409 That's not a huge driver for me. 105 00:05:13,509 --> 00:05:16,492 No, uh, interest in politics down the line? 106 00:05:16,592 --> 00:05:18,614 -None. -Good. 107 00:05:18,714 --> 00:05:20,376 Politicians are awful. 108 00:05:20,476 --> 00:05:22,138 -[chuckles] -Advisor of mine says 109 00:05:22,238 --> 00:05:24,300 you were a... an outstanding deputy A.G. 110 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:26,062 -Thank you. -He also says 111 00:05:26,162 --> 00:05:29,426 you can be self-righteous and, uh, morally superior. 112 00:05:29,526 --> 00:05:33,029 Your advisor sounds like an excellent judge of character. 113 00:05:33,129 --> 00:05:35,352 [laughs softly] What else do I need to know about you, Jim? 114 00:05:35,452 --> 00:05:37,194 What do you... what do you think your weaknesses are? 115 00:05:37,294 --> 00:05:38,755 Well... 116 00:05:38,855 --> 00:05:42,079 um, sometimes I can be impulsive and... 117 00:05:42,179 --> 00:05:44,682 convince myself I'm being decisive. 118 00:05:44,782 --> 00:05:46,844 How's your health? Any recurrence? 119 00:05:46,944 --> 00:05:49,166 None, sir. Clean scans for seven years now. 120 00:05:49,266 --> 00:05:50,808 Hmm. Because, uh, 121 00:05:50,908 --> 00:05:53,130 there's no pressure in any private sector job 122 00:05:53,230 --> 00:05:55,133 equivalent to the burden of national security. 123 00:05:55,233 --> 00:05:57,175 -That's understood. -The director can be 124 00:05:57,275 --> 00:05:58,937 a whipping boy for Congress. 125 00:05:59,037 --> 00:06:00,618 And you certainly wouldn't make 126 00:06:00,718 --> 00:06:02,700 what the private sector can pay you. 127 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:06,044 Given all that, why would you want to come back to government? 128 00:06:07,846 --> 00:06:11,510 When I was, uh, 16... 129 00:06:11,610 --> 00:06:14,713 a man in a knit cap broke into our house 130 00:06:14,813 --> 00:06:17,316 and put a gun to my kid brother's head. 131 00:06:17,416 --> 00:06:20,459 He said, "You move, and I will blow his head off." 132 00:06:22,221 --> 00:06:25,885 The guy had been terrorizing our neighborhood for months. 133 00:06:25,985 --> 00:06:29,168 They called him the Ramsey Rapist. 134 00:06:29,268 --> 00:06:32,692 I showed him where my parents kept their few valuables 135 00:06:32,792 --> 00:06:35,355 and begged him not to kill us. 136 00:06:36,996 --> 00:06:39,059 For some reason, he didn't. 137 00:06:39,159 --> 00:06:41,681 Just locked us in the basement and left. 138 00:06:46,486 --> 00:06:49,930 I slept with a butcher knife in my bed for years. 139 00:06:52,012 --> 00:06:55,196 The guy was never caught, so I had this... 140 00:06:55,296 --> 00:06:59,480 "what if" tape in my head. 141 00:06:59,580 --> 00:07:02,283 "What if he comes back? 142 00:07:02,383 --> 00:07:05,787 What if my sister is home when he does?" 143 00:07:07,348 --> 00:07:10,412 I'd been... 144 00:07:10,512 --> 00:07:12,514 powerless. 145 00:07:15,517 --> 00:07:17,859 ♪ slow, somber music ♪ 146 00:07:17,959 --> 00:07:20,342 ♪♪♪♪♪ 147 00:07:20,442 --> 00:07:22,444 Money is nice. 148 00:07:23,685 --> 00:07:25,848 Stopping bad guys is better. 149 00:07:30,092 --> 00:07:32,915 You know, uh... 150 00:07:33,015 --> 00:07:35,878 if you were to get this job, 151 00:07:35,978 --> 00:07:38,321 conversations like this would be impossible. 152 00:07:38,421 --> 00:07:41,444 The president and the FBI director... 153 00:07:41,544 --> 00:07:43,647 have to be at arm's length. 154 00:07:43,747 --> 00:07:45,969 One day, uh, you might be called upon 155 00:07:46,069 --> 00:07:48,492 to investigate something someone in my party may have done 156 00:07:48,592 --> 00:07:51,054 -or someone on my staff or... -You. 157 00:07:51,154 --> 00:07:52,616 [laughs] 158 00:07:52,716 --> 00:07:55,499 Well, for those investigations to be credible, 159 00:07:55,599 --> 00:07:57,741 well, we cannot be close. 160 00:07:57,841 --> 00:08:01,345 Mr. President, I hope I can look forward to years 161 00:08:01,445 --> 00:08:03,908 of not being close with you. 162 00:08:04,008 --> 00:08:05,590 [man] Good morning, Mr. Director. 163 00:08:05,690 --> 00:08:07,692 [Mueller] Mm. 164 00:08:08,653 --> 00:08:12,237 [Mueller] All the field officers regard us with some suspicion. 165 00:08:12,337 --> 00:08:14,239 New York gripes the most. 166 00:08:14,339 --> 00:08:16,241 They think they're their own Bureau. 167 00:08:16,341 --> 00:08:18,203 How have you handled that, generally? 168 00:08:18,303 --> 00:08:21,927 [laughs softly] I tell them, "If you're not happy, leave. 169 00:08:22,027 --> 00:08:24,650 There's plenty of people that want your job." 170 00:08:24,750 --> 00:08:28,774 You can't run this place if you mind being resented. 171 00:08:28,874 --> 00:08:30,936 We do stand-up meetings, 172 00:08:31,036 --> 00:08:33,299 so I don't have to waste time 173 00:08:33,399 --> 00:08:36,822 while they sit and then get back up again. 174 00:08:36,922 --> 00:08:38,925 [Mueller sighs] 175 00:08:39,645 --> 00:08:41,507 But... 176 00:08:41,607 --> 00:08:43,990 you're gonna have to make changes. 177 00:08:44,090 --> 00:08:46,713 There's not a lot of talent in the pipeline, 178 00:08:46,813 --> 00:08:48,475 not even for deputy. 179 00:08:48,575 --> 00:08:51,998 You need somebody who's ready politically. 180 00:08:52,098 --> 00:08:54,881 The FBI is the world of the bank shot. 181 00:08:54,981 --> 00:08:57,925 Director Mueller, this is the promotion for the SAC 182 00:08:58,025 --> 00:09:00,607 -in the Kansas City office. -Okay. 183 00:09:00,707 --> 00:09:03,030 Keep your eye on Cyber. 184 00:09:04,471 --> 00:09:08,055 We're hugely vulnerable to a coordinated attack. 185 00:09:08,155 --> 00:09:09,457 -Bob? -Yeah? 186 00:09:09,557 --> 00:09:12,420 Shouldn't we discuss what you're signing? 187 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:15,303 -What for? -That's a senior executive 188 00:09:15,403 --> 00:09:17,745 who's going to be reporting to me in a week. 189 00:09:17,845 --> 00:09:20,108 Can I know who he is and why you're promoting-- 190 00:09:20,208 --> 00:09:22,210 You want it, take it. 191 00:09:26,294 --> 00:09:29,858 I don't want it; I just wanted to discuss it. 192 00:09:32,181 --> 00:09:34,964 A word of advice, Jim. 193 00:09:35,064 --> 00:09:38,367 If you've been doing this for ten years, 194 00:09:38,467 --> 00:09:42,692 and a president asks you to stay on for another two, 195 00:09:42,792 --> 00:09:44,654 say no. 196 00:09:44,754 --> 00:09:47,176 [Comey] You should know that I have 197 00:09:47,276 --> 00:09:48,858 several expectations of you. 198 00:09:48,958 --> 00:09:51,100 I expect you to work hard, 199 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:53,223 because you owe that to the taxpayer. 200 00:09:53,323 --> 00:09:56,106 I expect you to exercise good judgment. 201 00:09:56,206 --> 00:09:59,429 Being here means you have the power to do good, 202 00:09:59,529 --> 00:10:02,673 or, if you abuse that power, great harm. 203 00:10:02,773 --> 00:10:05,996 I expect you to find joy in your work. 204 00:10:06,096 --> 00:10:10,161 You are part of an organization devoted to doing good, 205 00:10:10,261 --> 00:10:13,604 protecting the weak, rescuing the taken, 206 00:10:13,704 --> 00:10:15,606 and catching criminals. 207 00:10:15,706 --> 00:10:19,650 That is work with moral content. 208 00:10:19,750 --> 00:10:23,214 Doing it should be a source of great joy. 209 00:10:23,314 --> 00:10:25,777 And I expect you to protect this institution's reservoir 210 00:10:25,877 --> 00:10:27,979 of trust and credibility, 211 00:10:28,079 --> 00:10:30,642 which makes possible all of our work. 212 00:10:32,484 --> 00:10:34,586 I expect you to fight for balance 213 00:10:34,686 --> 00:10:37,429 in your lives. 214 00:10:37,529 --> 00:10:39,471 You are all driven by our mission, 215 00:10:39,571 --> 00:10:41,994 and you are used to absorbing stress. 216 00:10:42,094 --> 00:10:45,798 That means you need more time with your loved ones, not less. 217 00:10:45,898 --> 00:10:47,159 So... 218 00:10:47,259 --> 00:10:51,344 I order you to love someone. 219 00:10:52,825 --> 00:10:54,968 It's the right thing to do. 220 00:10:55,068 --> 00:10:57,470 -It's also good for you. -[scattered laughter] 221 00:10:59,072 --> 00:11:02,616 Crime in any form makes people feel powerless. 222 00:11:02,716 --> 00:11:04,718 Let's fix that. 223 00:11:12,926 --> 00:11:13,948 Oh. No, no, no. 224 00:11:14,048 --> 00:11:15,749 I'm-I'm okay. I'll wait. 225 00:11:15,849 --> 00:11:17,852 Thanks. 226 00:11:18,933 --> 00:11:20,935 Hi. Jim. 227 00:11:22,977 --> 00:11:24,358 Pam. 228 00:11:24,458 --> 00:11:26,040 What do you do here? 229 00:11:26,140 --> 00:11:28,222 Counterterrorism analyst. 230 00:11:29,784 --> 00:11:32,527 What did you do before? What-what drew you here? 231 00:11:32,627 --> 00:11:35,851 9/11. I was an analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald. 232 00:11:35,951 --> 00:11:38,413 Missed work that day because of the flu. 233 00:11:38,513 --> 00:11:40,515 Thanks, Pam. 234 00:11:41,436 --> 00:11:43,338 Thank you, Pam. [chuckles] 235 00:11:43,438 --> 00:11:45,821 Saved my spot. [sniffs] 236 00:11:45,921 --> 00:11:47,543 What do you do here? 237 00:11:47,643 --> 00:11:50,386 Hmm? Uh, computer tech, Counterintel. 238 00:11:50,486 --> 00:11:53,589 What were you before? What-what called you here? 239 00:11:53,689 --> 00:11:55,271 I worked for Monsanto. 240 00:11:55,371 --> 00:11:56,873 Hated it. 241 00:11:56,973 --> 00:11:58,915 What do you do here? 242 00:11:59,015 --> 00:12:00,476 I'm the director. 243 00:12:00,576 --> 00:12:01,838 Oh, yeah? 244 00:12:01,938 --> 00:12:04,000 The director of what? 245 00:12:04,100 --> 00:12:06,803 In his first two years at the Bureau, 246 00:12:06,903 --> 00:12:10,247 Jim did everything you'd expect a Boy Scout to do. 247 00:12:10,347 --> 00:12:12,449 He visited all 56 field offices 248 00:12:12,549 --> 00:12:14,571 and dozens more overseas, 249 00:12:14,671 --> 00:12:17,294 charming each and every one 250 00:12:17,394 --> 00:12:20,618 of the Bureau's 37,000 employees. 251 00:12:20,718 --> 00:12:22,460 He was adored. 252 00:12:22,560 --> 00:12:24,021 Loved. 253 00:12:24,121 --> 00:12:25,743 Nothing slowed him. 254 00:12:25,843 --> 00:12:28,586 There were, you know, kidnappings... 255 00:12:28,686 --> 00:12:30,788 lone shooters, terror plots. 256 00:12:30,888 --> 00:12:33,391 [reporter] ISIS is not your parents' al-Qaeda. 257 00:12:33,491 --> 00:12:35,593 The FBI nabbed at least six people. 258 00:12:35,693 --> 00:12:38,877 The battle between Apple and the FBI. 259 00:12:38,977 --> 00:12:40,679 Iran hacks into the control system 260 00:12:40,779 --> 00:12:42,481 of an American dam. 261 00:12:42,581 --> 00:12:44,803 [Rosenstein] Yet his sunniness was undimmed. 262 00:12:44,903 --> 00:12:46,164 Until... 263 00:12:46,264 --> 00:12:47,326 [Giuliano] Good morning. 264 00:12:47,426 --> 00:12:49,488 [others] Morning. 265 00:12:49,588 --> 00:12:52,451 What did the analysts pull together? 266 00:12:52,551 --> 00:12:54,814 What's in the PDB? 267 00:12:54,914 --> 00:12:56,615 [McCabe] Got a potential issue in the U.K. 268 00:12:56,715 --> 00:12:58,658 Getting chatter that AQAP is going to hit 269 00:12:58,758 --> 00:13:00,780 another airliner bound for the U.S. 270 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:03,302 JTF is reporting, uh, 271 00:13:03,402 --> 00:13:05,305 chatter in New York indicating the same thing. 272 00:13:05,405 --> 00:13:06,986 We don't know yet where they'll be flying from 273 00:13:07,086 --> 00:13:08,548 or what techniques they'll be using. 274 00:13:08,648 --> 00:13:09,949 Do we have a time frame on this? 275 00:13:10,049 --> 00:13:12,632 Nothing specific, just increased chatter. 276 00:13:12,732 --> 00:13:14,514 Is it something the boss needs to brief the A.G. on? 277 00:13:14,614 --> 00:13:17,077 -Not yet. -What else? 278 00:13:17,177 --> 00:13:19,519 Operation in Detroit that's ready to go down. 279 00:13:19,619 --> 00:13:21,762 Guy at a mosque there told an informant yesterday 280 00:13:21,862 --> 00:13:24,084 he was planning to target a Jewish children's center. 281 00:13:24,184 --> 00:13:25,085 Do we have enough to charge? 282 00:13:25,185 --> 00:13:26,727 -Yes. -Do we have the right 283 00:13:26,827 --> 00:13:28,409 resources on the ground, good takedown plan? 284 00:13:28,509 --> 00:13:30,211 We do. We'll give them to you off-line. 285 00:13:30,311 --> 00:13:32,333 Okay. Let's skinny down for the director. 286 00:13:32,433 --> 00:13:33,334 [door opens] 287 00:13:33,434 --> 00:13:36,738 Mark, we got an I.G. referral 288 00:13:36,838 --> 00:13:38,139 on Clinton and her e-mails. 289 00:13:38,239 --> 00:13:40,241 We're gonna have to open a case. 290 00:13:42,443 --> 00:13:44,446 Say more. 291 00:13:46,608 --> 00:13:48,870 -Boss. -What's up? 292 00:13:48,970 --> 00:13:50,272 Got a referral 293 00:13:50,372 --> 00:13:51,753 from the intel I.G. 294 00:13:51,853 --> 00:13:53,855 about Secretary Clinton's e-mails. 295 00:13:55,337 --> 00:13:57,339 We're gonna have to open a case. 296 00:13:57,820 --> 00:13:59,481 Say more. 297 00:13:59,581 --> 00:14:02,164 Secretary Clinton's aides didn't hand over her e-mails 298 00:14:02,264 --> 00:14:04,727 to government records-- is that a failure 299 00:14:04,827 --> 00:14:06,008 or is that an oversight? 300 00:14:06,108 --> 00:14:08,131 Well, it's a failure to comply with the law 301 00:14:08,231 --> 00:14:10,013 that the secretary had to know about, 302 00:14:10,113 --> 00:14:12,055 that her aides had to know about. 303 00:14:12,155 --> 00:14:15,018 And it's a pattern of deception that began from before 304 00:14:15,118 --> 00:14:17,941 she became secretary until her last day. 305 00:14:18,041 --> 00:14:19,543 But I am a little bit worried 306 00:14:19,643 --> 00:14:21,865 about the-the security of those e-mails. 307 00:14:21,965 --> 00:14:24,187 Uh, they would've been, uh, 308 00:14:24,287 --> 00:14:26,830 prime targets for cyber, uh, attacks. 309 00:14:26,930 --> 00:14:29,553 They haven't given us e-mails for nine of the ten 310 00:14:29,653 --> 00:14:31,355 senior aides that she had. 311 00:14:31,455 --> 00:14:33,197 It's been over a year. 312 00:14:33,297 --> 00:14:34,638 Well, let's start from the beginning. 313 00:14:34,738 --> 00:14:36,801 Everything I did was permitted. 314 00:14:36,901 --> 00:14:39,203 "Did she mishandle classified information 315 00:14:39,303 --> 00:14:41,165 by using her personal e-mail system 316 00:14:41,265 --> 00:14:43,668 while serving as Secretary of State?" 317 00:14:49,634 --> 00:14:50,896 You know you're screwed, right? 318 00:14:50,996 --> 00:14:54,019 I do not see a positive outcome here 319 00:14:54,119 --> 00:14:56,121 no matter what we find. 320 00:14:58,163 --> 00:15:00,926 Just do it right. 321 00:15:04,610 --> 00:15:06,612 Welcome to your new home. 322 00:15:08,654 --> 00:15:10,796 I want to say something before we start, 323 00:15:10,896 --> 00:15:13,739 which I know you all already know. 324 00:15:15,021 --> 00:15:17,764 Whatever this investigation yields, 325 00:15:17,864 --> 00:15:22,048 history will look at what we do here through a microscope, 326 00:15:22,148 --> 00:15:24,851 so our work needs to be letter-perfect. 327 00:15:24,951 --> 00:15:26,893 No leaks, everything buttoned down. 328 00:15:26,993 --> 00:15:30,537 We cannot cut corners, cannot screw this up in any way. 329 00:15:30,637 --> 00:15:33,140 Is that clear? 330 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:37,585 Now, this is not going to become some kind of octopus. 331 00:15:37,685 --> 00:15:39,667 We're not gonna chase down spills 332 00:15:39,767 --> 00:15:42,390 to the ends of the earth, which could take a decade. 333 00:15:42,490 --> 00:15:44,632 We're looking for "corrupt purpose." 334 00:15:44,732 --> 00:15:48,716 Did Secretary Clinton knowingly break the law 335 00:15:48,816 --> 00:15:51,119 either by using a personal e-mail server 336 00:15:51,219 --> 00:15:53,121 to handle classified information 337 00:15:53,221 --> 00:15:54,683 while serving at State, 338 00:15:54,783 --> 00:15:57,045 or by directing the deletion of e-mails 339 00:15:57,145 --> 00:15:59,548 from that server? Period. 340 00:16:01,029 --> 00:16:03,252 I want to be briefed on this thing every day. 341 00:16:03,352 --> 00:16:04,693 Pete? 342 00:16:04,793 --> 00:16:07,736 We have three primary lines of inquiry. 343 00:16:07,836 --> 00:16:09,738 One, the collection and examination 344 00:16:09,838 --> 00:16:12,581 of e-mails that traversed Secretary Clinton's servers. 345 00:16:12,681 --> 00:16:14,463 Her attorneys have produced some of those, 346 00:16:14,563 --> 00:16:18,548 but 31,830 e-mails deemed too personal 347 00:16:18,648 --> 00:16:21,551 by her attorneys to submit to the State Department 348 00:16:21,651 --> 00:16:23,433 have been wiped from her current server. 349 00:16:23,533 --> 00:16:25,755 Two, interviews of relevant witnesses 350 00:16:25,855 --> 00:16:27,797 who wiped all those files off Secretary Clinton's 351 00:16:27,897 --> 00:16:29,399 server using BleachBit. 352 00:16:29,499 --> 00:16:32,122 Three, Secretary Clinton used these devices overseas, 353 00:16:32,222 --> 00:16:35,445 often within the borders of sophisticated adversaries. 354 00:16:35,545 --> 00:16:37,768 So... analysis. 355 00:16:37,868 --> 00:16:40,611 Did that lead to classified information being compromised 356 00:16:40,711 --> 00:16:42,293 by hostile cyber actors? 357 00:16:42,393 --> 00:16:45,336 Intrusion analysis has already begun. 358 00:16:45,436 --> 00:16:47,979 OTD will image all of Secretary Clinton's devices, 359 00:16:48,079 --> 00:16:50,942 including the two servers we currently have in custody. 360 00:16:51,042 --> 00:16:52,944 And a filter team will remove any material privileged 361 00:16:53,044 --> 00:16:55,346 by attorney-client, medical or marital, 362 00:16:55,446 --> 00:16:57,188 and attempt deduplication. 363 00:16:57,288 --> 00:16:58,990 We are also sending preservation requests 364 00:16:59,090 --> 00:17:02,874 to the State Department, the CIA, DIA, DOD and EOP 365 00:17:02,974 --> 00:17:05,197 for e-mails from Secretary Clinton 366 00:17:05,297 --> 00:17:08,080 or the clintonaccount.net domain. 367 00:17:08,180 --> 00:17:09,882 Are there any questions? 368 00:17:09,982 --> 00:17:13,245 Yeah, are we stuck with the two chickenshit prosecutors 369 00:17:13,345 --> 00:17:15,768 Justice has assigned or can we demand somebody 370 00:17:15,868 --> 00:17:17,369 with actual balls? 371 00:17:17,469 --> 00:17:19,091 We're looking into that. 372 00:17:19,191 --> 00:17:21,093 Those two are zeros. 373 00:17:21,193 --> 00:17:22,535 Is there anything else? 374 00:17:22,635 --> 00:17:24,016 [Giuliano] Do you have all the resources 375 00:17:24,116 --> 00:17:25,338 you need? Do you need anything 376 00:17:25,438 --> 00:17:26,739 pushed up the chain across the street? 377 00:17:26,839 --> 00:17:27,941 [Strzok] We'll let you know, Mark. 378 00:17:28,041 --> 00:17:30,043 Thank you. 379 00:17:31,204 --> 00:17:32,385 Okay, now I'm pissed off. 380 00:17:32,485 --> 00:17:34,187 Midyear's gonna be run out of NSD at headquarters 381 00:17:34,287 --> 00:17:36,630 by a deputy-- how the fuck is that supposed to work? 382 00:17:36,730 --> 00:17:38,552 Fucking D.C.-- those guys couldn't find 383 00:17:38,652 --> 00:17:40,554 an elephant in the middle of Yankee Stadium. 384 00:17:40,654 --> 00:17:43,237 And the prosecutors down there are even worse. 385 00:17:43,337 --> 00:17:45,719 Boss... we have venue on this one. 386 00:17:45,819 --> 00:17:47,441 -You gonna put up with this? -Gee, fellas. 387 00:17:47,541 --> 00:17:50,124 You having trouble finding joy in your work today? 388 00:17:50,224 --> 00:17:51,766 Relax. 389 00:17:51,866 --> 00:17:53,728 Everything comes through here eventually. 390 00:17:53,828 --> 00:17:55,409 -Right? -Fucking A. 391 00:17:55,509 --> 00:17:57,772 Fucking A. 392 00:17:57,872 --> 00:17:59,253 Tell me about Midyear. 393 00:17:59,353 --> 00:18:00,855 Do you have all the resources you need? 394 00:18:00,955 --> 00:18:02,297 Sort of. 395 00:18:02,397 --> 00:18:04,219 Hillary's lawyers are slow-walking everything, 396 00:18:04,319 --> 00:18:06,781 and no one at Justice is doing anything to stop it. 397 00:18:06,881 --> 00:18:09,144 Her lead guy is David Kendall. 398 00:18:09,244 --> 00:18:12,467 One of the prosecutors used to work for him, so... 399 00:18:12,567 --> 00:18:14,109 there's an intimidation there. 400 00:18:14,209 --> 00:18:16,071 Midyear team's getting frustrated with it. 401 00:18:16,171 --> 00:18:17,873 I'll take care of it, thank you. 402 00:18:17,973 --> 00:18:19,995 How's Judy? 403 00:18:20,095 --> 00:18:21,637 She's good. 404 00:18:21,737 --> 00:18:23,839 So this 18 months you signed up for, 405 00:18:23,939 --> 00:18:27,303 how would feel about making that 24 months? 406 00:18:30,106 --> 00:18:32,548 Now I understand the picnic setting. 407 00:18:34,310 --> 00:18:37,133 I need to make some actual money, boss. 408 00:18:37,233 --> 00:18:38,655 We're strapped. 409 00:18:38,755 --> 00:18:40,537 Apartment here, house in Atlanta, 410 00:18:40,637 --> 00:18:42,659 two college tuitions. 411 00:18:42,759 --> 00:18:46,343 If I want to get home, I have to drive ten hours because 412 00:18:46,443 --> 00:18:48,445 I can't afford to fly. 413 00:18:49,526 --> 00:18:51,528 I'm sorry. 414 00:18:53,330 --> 00:18:55,833 But I've got no one to replace you, Mark. 415 00:18:55,933 --> 00:18:57,675 No one's ready. 416 00:18:57,775 --> 00:18:59,437 And the Bureau can't function 417 00:18:59,537 --> 00:19:02,099 without a deputy who commands the respect you do. 418 00:19:04,662 --> 00:19:06,664 I made her a promise, boss. 419 00:19:13,231 --> 00:19:15,093 We're steaming towards an iceberg. 420 00:19:15,193 --> 00:19:16,535 You know that. 421 00:19:16,635 --> 00:19:18,857 Do you see anybody who's ready to step in 422 00:19:18,957 --> 00:19:21,340 and do the job at your level, day one, no drop-off, 423 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:23,442 nothing gets missed? 424 00:19:24,723 --> 00:19:27,206 Just six more. 425 00:19:30,409 --> 00:19:32,191 [Claire] Mom, you can breathe. 426 00:19:32,291 --> 00:19:33,793 -She's gonna win. -You don't know that. 427 00:19:33,893 --> 00:19:35,875 -Who's gonna beat her? -Trump. 428 00:19:35,975 --> 00:19:37,397 Trump? 429 00:19:37,497 --> 00:19:38,678 He's an idiot. 430 00:19:38,778 --> 00:19:39,879 But he's a man. 431 00:19:39,979 --> 00:19:41,241 And male voters are gender-loyal 432 00:19:41,341 --> 00:19:43,243 in a way that women aren't. 433 00:19:43,343 --> 00:19:45,605 And he isn't being investigated by anyone. 434 00:19:45,705 --> 00:19:46,806 Yeah. 435 00:19:46,906 --> 00:19:48,969 What's up with that, Dad? 436 00:19:49,069 --> 00:19:51,091 If she broke the law, wouldn't you want to know? 437 00:19:51,191 --> 00:19:53,093 No, not really. 438 00:19:53,193 --> 00:19:55,976 -Me, neither. -[phone ringing] 439 00:19:56,076 --> 00:19:57,938 Hey, Mark, what's up? 440 00:19:58,038 --> 00:19:59,860 Boss, sorry to hit you on a Sunday. 441 00:19:59,960 --> 00:20:01,942 Uh, you got a second? It's important. 442 00:20:02,042 --> 00:20:04,044 Okay. 443 00:20:06,527 --> 00:20:08,549 -Go. -Russia. 444 00:20:08,649 --> 00:20:11,312 Some anomalous behavior concerning the election. 445 00:20:11,412 --> 00:20:13,995 What kind of anomalous behavior? 446 00:20:14,095 --> 00:20:16,998 [camera shutter clicking] 447 00:20:17,098 --> 00:20:18,840 [Giuliano] We think they're trying to sabotage 448 00:20:18,940 --> 00:20:20,682 Secretary Clinton's campaign. 449 00:20:20,782 --> 00:20:22,804 How? 450 00:20:22,904 --> 00:20:25,187 Ever spend much time on Facebook? 451 00:20:55,458 --> 00:20:57,461 [woman laughs] 452 00:21:10,074 --> 00:21:12,076 [mouse clicking] 453 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:19,344 Donald Trump clearly, uh, is-is scheduled, 454 00:21:19,444 --> 00:21:21,786 at this point, to win the Republican nomination. 455 00:21:21,886 --> 00:21:24,429 It's not just that he's ahead by so much. 456 00:21:24,529 --> 00:21:26,111 It's the ways in which he's ahead. 457 00:21:26,211 --> 00:21:29,314 The Trump supporters see Trump as political chemo. 458 00:21:29,414 --> 00:21:32,638 He may be toxic, he may kill every healthy cell 459 00:21:32,738 --> 00:21:34,440 in the bloodstream, 460 00:21:34,540 --> 00:21:37,643 but he is the only cure for the cancer that is Washington-- 461 00:21:37,743 --> 00:21:39,165 Okay. 462 00:21:39,265 --> 00:21:41,487 Secretary Clinton was a part of 81 e-mail chains, 463 00:21:41,587 --> 00:21:45,451 containing 193 e-mails ranging from confidential to top secret, 464 00:21:45,551 --> 00:21:47,894 all sent from unclassified systems. 465 00:21:47,994 --> 00:21:49,896 That's staff failure. 466 00:21:49,996 --> 00:21:51,377 Tell me why. 467 00:21:51,477 --> 00:21:53,700 On sensitive material, staff is supposed 468 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,623 to include headers or footers with classification markings. 469 00:21:56,723 --> 00:21:58,265 That's how these things get flagged. 470 00:21:58,365 --> 00:22:00,507 It's standard. Her staff didn't do it. 471 00:22:00,607 --> 00:22:02,950 But she knew the material was sensitive 472 00:22:03,050 --> 00:22:05,112 and she knew the systems were unprotected. 473 00:22:05,212 --> 00:22:06,513 Let's chase that down later. 474 00:22:06,613 --> 00:22:08,515 Where are we with Huma Abedin's e-mails? 475 00:22:08,615 --> 00:22:11,158 I asked. Justice doesn't feel the need to get a warrant, 476 00:22:11,258 --> 00:22:13,441 because Abedin's work for Clinton was 477 00:22:13,541 --> 00:22:15,483 "administrative in nature 478 00:22:15,583 --> 00:22:18,566 and she was never an originator of classified materials." 479 00:22:18,666 --> 00:22:20,128 But she could have been a forwarder 480 00:22:20,228 --> 00:22:22,250 of classified materials; she could have taken stuff 481 00:22:22,350 --> 00:22:25,053 off of classified systems and dumped it down. 482 00:22:25,153 --> 00:22:27,335 They're just too fucking scared to walk 483 00:22:27,435 --> 00:22:29,017 into Williams & Connolly and tell David Kendall 484 00:22:29,117 --> 00:22:31,419 to stop obstructing this investigation. 485 00:22:31,519 --> 00:22:33,522 That's a pretty big word. 486 00:22:38,126 --> 00:22:41,110 Hey, are you in on Midyear, the Hillary case? 487 00:22:41,210 --> 00:22:42,271 Yeah. 488 00:22:42,371 --> 00:22:43,432 Godspeed, brother. 489 00:22:43,532 --> 00:22:45,534 I hope you nail that bitch. 490 00:22:49,178 --> 00:22:50,279 [beeps] 491 00:22:50,379 --> 00:22:52,381 [door opens] 492 00:22:54,263 --> 00:22:56,526 They have obfuscated every step of this process, 493 00:22:56,626 --> 00:22:59,209 and I don't blame them-- they should use every legal 494 00:22:59,309 --> 00:23:00,490 advantage at their disposal. 495 00:23:00,590 --> 00:23:02,692 I blame our snowflake prosecutors 496 00:23:02,792 --> 00:23:04,334 -for letting them do it. -Where are they, by the way? 497 00:23:04,434 --> 00:23:05,776 -Where's Bob? -Uh, Bob won't be able 498 00:23:05,876 --> 00:23:07,137 -to make it tonight. -Why not? 499 00:23:07,237 --> 00:23:09,139 He's in his office, uh, crying. 500 00:23:09,239 --> 00:23:10,260 Is there any pizza left? 501 00:23:10,360 --> 00:23:12,362 Over there? I mean... 502 00:23:13,323 --> 00:23:14,264 Uh... 503 00:23:14,364 --> 00:23:15,746 [chuckles] I-I asked him 504 00:23:15,846 --> 00:23:18,068 to push Hillary's team for the PRN server, 505 00:23:18,168 --> 00:23:20,030 and apparently Kendall yelled at him. 506 00:23:20,130 --> 00:23:23,034 Our line prosecutor is crying in his office 507 00:23:23,134 --> 00:23:25,156 because a fancy lawyer yelled at him. 508 00:23:25,256 --> 00:23:27,358 This is what I'm talking about, Pete! 509 00:23:27,458 --> 00:23:30,522 -She's not wrong. -Yeah. 510 00:23:30,622 --> 00:23:32,043 [Toscas] Every day, I hear from another 511 00:23:32,143 --> 00:23:34,406 disgruntled member of the Midyear Exam team. 512 00:23:34,506 --> 00:23:37,849 And every call has this assumption under it. 513 00:23:37,949 --> 00:23:39,851 That somehow Justice isn't engaged here. 514 00:23:39,951 --> 00:23:41,533 If you want those calls to stop, 515 00:23:41,633 --> 00:23:43,936 -stop slow-walking everything. -Listen, Mark-- 516 00:23:44,036 --> 00:23:46,658 In a case this high-profile, there are bound to be tensions. 517 00:23:46,758 --> 00:23:49,662 Sally, my team feels their investigation is being impeded. 518 00:23:49,762 --> 00:23:52,425 And my team feels their work is being second-guessed. 519 00:23:52,525 --> 00:23:54,907 Our strong consensus is that Secretary Clinton's attorneys 520 00:23:55,007 --> 00:23:56,429 have not been operating in good faith 521 00:23:56,529 --> 00:23:57,830 with this investigation, 522 00:23:57,930 --> 00:23:59,192 that they're being allowed to obfuscate 523 00:23:59,292 --> 00:24:01,194 by the line prosecutors here at Justice. 524 00:24:01,294 --> 00:24:02,876 You think I'm not doing my job, Jim? 525 00:24:02,976 --> 00:24:04,397 You think I'm getting played? 526 00:24:04,497 --> 00:24:06,199 I think you're risk-averse, Bob. 527 00:24:06,299 --> 00:24:08,301 Crying in your office doesn't help. 528 00:24:13,106 --> 00:24:15,889 Every document or device we've requested, 529 00:24:15,989 --> 00:24:17,251 we're going to get. 530 00:24:17,351 --> 00:24:18,572 Her attorneys are only going to be 531 00:24:18,672 --> 00:24:19,813 as helpful as you push them to be. 532 00:24:19,913 --> 00:24:21,295 We're trying to be careful. 533 00:24:21,395 --> 00:24:23,177 -Can you be careful faster? -That's what I'm talking about. 534 00:24:23,277 --> 00:24:25,279 Thank you, everyone. 535 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,584 Loretta, uh, one other thing. 536 00:24:29,684 --> 00:24:31,466 The Bureau's been getting bombarded with questions 537 00:24:31,566 --> 00:24:33,668 about whether or not we're investigating Secretary Clinton. 538 00:24:33,768 --> 00:24:36,991 It's starting to feel silly to keep issuing a "no comment." 539 00:24:37,091 --> 00:24:38,673 People are openly talking about it in the press, 540 00:24:38,773 --> 00:24:41,436 and even Secretary Clinton herself has referred to it. 541 00:24:41,536 --> 00:24:45,040 So I'd like your permission, i-if asked, to acknowledge it 542 00:24:45,140 --> 00:24:48,103 with, "We don't comment on investigations." 543 00:24:52,548 --> 00:24:54,049 Fine. 544 00:24:54,149 --> 00:24:56,812 But I think it would be better 545 00:24:56,912 --> 00:24:58,914 to refer to it as a "matter." 546 00:25:00,836 --> 00:25:02,738 Why would we do that? 547 00:25:02,838 --> 00:25:05,982 Because we don't comment on investigations. 548 00:25:06,082 --> 00:25:07,904 But if we're trying to establish 549 00:25:08,004 --> 00:25:09,666 that we're treating this like any other case, 550 00:25:09,766 --> 00:25:12,108 wouldn't it be helpful to use the same language 551 00:25:12,208 --> 00:25:13,710 we'd use on any other case? 552 00:25:13,810 --> 00:25:16,012 I'm trying to thread the needle here. 553 00:25:17,574 --> 00:25:19,196 I think "matter" does that. 554 00:25:19,296 --> 00:25:21,718 Okay. We can make that work. 555 00:25:21,818 --> 00:25:23,820 Good. 556 00:25:26,343 --> 00:25:27,565 Oh. Hey, Jim. 557 00:25:27,665 --> 00:25:28,766 Hi, Rod. 558 00:25:28,866 --> 00:25:31,168 -Uh, budget meeting. -Oh. 559 00:25:31,268 --> 00:25:33,771 -How you been? -Fine, fine. Good to see you. 560 00:25:33,871 --> 00:25:37,135 Would you ever want to come talk to my team about leadership? 561 00:25:37,235 --> 00:25:39,497 I bring guest speakers in for them now and then. 562 00:25:39,597 --> 00:25:41,099 -Various topics. -Mm. 563 00:25:41,199 --> 00:25:43,261 Leadership's a big focus of yours, isn't it? 564 00:25:43,361 --> 00:25:45,303 It is. 565 00:25:45,403 --> 00:25:47,145 Well, then, would you? 566 00:25:47,245 --> 00:25:49,508 I'm sure that they would appreciate it. 567 00:25:49,608 --> 00:25:52,070 Uh, right now, their idea of leadership is me. 568 00:25:52,170 --> 00:25:54,673 We've got a Child Exploitation Force 569 00:25:54,773 --> 00:25:56,155 right down the street from there, don't we, Mark? 570 00:25:56,255 --> 00:25:57,596 I could visit both in the same day. 571 00:25:57,696 --> 00:25:58,877 -Make it a twofer. -Sure. 572 00:25:58,977 --> 00:26:01,040 Yeah. Great. Contact my office, 573 00:26:01,140 --> 00:26:03,202 -will you, Rod? -I sure will, Jim. Thanks. 574 00:26:03,302 --> 00:26:05,084 -Mm-hmm. -[clears throat] Mark. 575 00:26:05,184 --> 00:26:06,646 ♪ slow, dramatic music ♪ 576 00:26:06,746 --> 00:26:08,167 [newswoman] After primary wins 577 00:26:08,267 --> 00:26:10,610 in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, 578 00:26:10,710 --> 00:26:11,771 the Trump campaign 579 00:26:11,871 --> 00:26:13,773 is charging towards Super Tuesday. 580 00:26:13,873 --> 00:26:16,296 Um, it would be messy, and it would be bloody, but if you... 581 00:26:16,396 --> 00:26:19,299 For those who say Donald Trump cannot win, you're wrong. 582 00:26:19,399 --> 00:26:21,061 Want an entertainer in chief? 583 00:26:21,161 --> 00:26:23,463 Someone who will say whatever he wants to, 584 00:26:23,563 --> 00:26:25,305 you know, to make it... make it all about him? 585 00:26:25,405 --> 00:26:26,707 He is heading towards the nomination, 586 00:26:26,807 --> 00:26:28,509 but he is in conflict with his party. 587 00:26:28,609 --> 00:26:30,150 What people are saying now is, "Please, 588 00:26:30,250 --> 00:26:32,353 everyone get together so we can keep this front-runner 589 00:26:32,453 --> 00:26:35,396 from winning and destroying the Republican Party." 590 00:26:35,496 --> 00:26:36,697 [newswoman] Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton 591 00:26:36,777 --> 00:26:39,440 remains saddled with accusations of impropriety 592 00:26:39,540 --> 00:26:41,402 stemming from the FBI's investigation 593 00:26:41,502 --> 00:26:43,084 into her use of e-mails 594 00:26:43,184 --> 00:26:45,126 while serving as Secretary of State. 595 00:26:45,226 --> 00:26:47,008 One party insider saying 596 00:26:47,108 --> 00:26:49,050 the only primary that matters now 597 00:26:49,150 --> 00:26:51,453 is the Comey primary. 598 00:26:51,553 --> 00:26:53,555 ♪♪♪♪♪ 599 00:26:57,559 --> 00:26:59,061 Got a minute, boss? 600 00:26:59,161 --> 00:27:00,943 Sure. What's up? 601 00:27:01,043 --> 00:27:02,584 [sighs] 602 00:27:02,684 --> 00:27:05,507 Twenty-four months. 603 00:27:05,607 --> 00:27:09,271 Now that your days of actual hard work are over... 604 00:27:09,371 --> 00:27:10,873 -[scattered laughter] -Congratulations. 605 00:27:10,973 --> 00:27:12,975 -Thank you. -[applause] 606 00:27:20,743 --> 00:27:22,745 [indistinct chatter] 607 00:27:29,593 --> 00:27:32,296 [Page] Huh. There it is. 608 00:27:32,396 --> 00:27:35,459 -Hi, Peter. -Hey, Lisa. 609 00:27:35,559 --> 00:27:38,782 I'm sorry if I spoke out of turn in the brief today. 610 00:27:38,882 --> 00:27:40,624 Those two are idiots, 611 00:27:40,724 --> 00:27:42,747 and you should shitcan them pronto. 612 00:27:42,847 --> 00:27:46,430 Anyone else not up to your standards? 613 00:27:46,530 --> 00:27:48,312 Well, now that you ask, yes. 614 00:27:48,412 --> 00:27:50,114 There's a couple of losers in the WFO 615 00:27:50,214 --> 00:27:51,356 that are really slowing us down, 616 00:27:51,456 --> 00:27:53,238 and the A.G. is no great shakes, either. 617 00:27:53,338 --> 00:27:54,919 How about the commissioner of baseball? 618 00:27:55,019 --> 00:27:56,721 He's retarded. 619 00:27:56,821 --> 00:27:58,403 [Strzok chuckles] 620 00:27:58,503 --> 00:28:00,525 I mean, you either have the designated hitter 621 00:28:00,625 --> 00:28:02,627 in both leagues or not at all. 622 00:28:04,029 --> 00:28:06,031 Do you want some punch? 623 00:28:18,284 --> 00:28:20,406 Got a flight to catch, boss. 624 00:28:21,848 --> 00:28:23,189 Thanks for the swell party. 625 00:28:23,289 --> 00:28:25,311 Thanks for the two years. 626 00:28:25,411 --> 00:28:27,634 I got Andy up to speed on a few things. 627 00:28:27,734 --> 00:28:30,296 He'll do a great job. The guy's so smart. 628 00:28:32,579 --> 00:28:34,681 He'll learn how to connect better with people. 629 00:28:34,781 --> 00:28:37,364 And he can reach out anytime he needs to. 630 00:28:37,464 --> 00:28:38,846 So can you. 631 00:28:38,946 --> 00:28:40,948 I'll be taking you up on that. 632 00:28:45,753 --> 00:28:48,215 You ever want to talk through the endgame on Hillary, 633 00:28:48,315 --> 00:28:49,537 just call. 634 00:28:49,637 --> 00:28:52,620 He said while slipping into a lifeboat. [chuckles] 635 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:54,722 -[chuckles] -No. Thanks, Mark. 636 00:28:55,563 --> 00:28:57,845 I owe you. 637 00:29:07,055 --> 00:29:08,637 Don't be a stranger. 638 00:29:08,737 --> 00:29:10,319 Be good, Althea. 639 00:29:10,419 --> 00:29:12,421 [chuckles softly] Okay. 640 00:29:15,344 --> 00:29:17,326 [Page laughs] 641 00:29:17,426 --> 00:29:20,189 [Page] Oh, my God. 642 00:29:24,674 --> 00:29:26,576 [Giuliano] Couple things before I go? 643 00:29:26,676 --> 00:29:27,977 Sure. 644 00:29:28,077 --> 00:29:31,180 Oh, yeah. Found these under the desk. 645 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:32,982 Yours, right? 646 00:29:33,082 --> 00:29:35,084 [both chuckle] 647 00:29:36,526 --> 00:29:38,829 Keep an eye on Russia. 648 00:29:38,929 --> 00:29:41,351 I know how much bandwidth Midyear is eating up, 649 00:29:41,451 --> 00:29:43,313 but I don't like what I'm seeing. 650 00:29:43,413 --> 00:29:44,755 I agree. 651 00:29:44,855 --> 00:29:46,637 Every field office, we got Shorty and Boo 652 00:29:46,737 --> 00:29:48,198 running around, looking for Hillary's e-mails. 653 00:29:48,298 --> 00:29:50,661 -Meanwhile, we're under attack. -I'm with you. 654 00:29:52,102 --> 00:29:54,445 One other thing. Completely unsolicited, 655 00:29:54,545 --> 00:29:56,547 but I got to say it. 656 00:29:58,109 --> 00:30:00,451 Your counsel's gonna become a problem, 657 00:30:00,551 --> 00:30:02,533 -I think. -[McCabe] Lisa? 658 00:30:02,633 --> 00:30:05,537 People complain to me about her. 659 00:30:05,637 --> 00:30:08,460 She rubs some the wrong way, I know. 660 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:10,942 -Opinionated people do that. -She's divisive. 661 00:30:11,042 --> 00:30:12,904 She creates issues where there don't need to be any. 662 00:30:13,004 --> 00:30:14,066 I don't let her in my briefings. 663 00:30:14,166 --> 00:30:15,267 She's smart. 664 00:30:15,367 --> 00:30:17,149 She helps me get shit done. 665 00:30:17,249 --> 00:30:20,032 -And I like a contrarian voice. -Hey, dummy. 666 00:30:20,132 --> 00:30:23,515 Are you hearing me? She creates problems. 667 00:30:23,615 --> 00:30:26,238 She rips everyone a new asshole in meetings, 668 00:30:26,338 --> 00:30:27,720 and as soon as the boss is around, 669 00:30:27,820 --> 00:30:29,642 it's, "Sir, may I raise a concern here?" 670 00:30:29,742 --> 00:30:31,043 People hate that. 671 00:30:31,143 --> 00:30:32,445 You better get snapped in to this. 672 00:30:32,545 --> 00:30:34,547 [McCabe exhales] 673 00:30:38,952 --> 00:30:42,515 -Anything else? -Yeah, there is. 674 00:30:43,957 --> 00:30:47,461 [exhales] This is a lunchpail culture. 675 00:30:47,561 --> 00:30:50,023 Driving a blue Porsche, 676 00:30:50,123 --> 00:30:52,466 wearing matching blue cuff links 677 00:30:52,566 --> 00:30:55,869 may not be the best message for you to send. 678 00:30:55,969 --> 00:30:57,751 These were a gift from Jill. 679 00:30:57,851 --> 00:31:00,354 -They're on your wrists. -Mark. 680 00:31:00,454 --> 00:31:03,177 I didn't get here by dressing well. 681 00:31:07,181 --> 00:31:09,524 Take care of the boss, will you? 682 00:31:09,624 --> 00:31:13,088 He thinks that being right will save him. 683 00:31:13,188 --> 00:31:14,729 It won't. 684 00:31:14,829 --> 00:31:16,531 And as smart as he is, 685 00:31:16,631 --> 00:31:19,594 his political instincts are not good. 686 00:31:22,638 --> 00:31:25,020 Good night. 687 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,122 Mark. 688 00:31:28,203 --> 00:31:30,326 I'll talk to her. 689 00:31:33,609 --> 00:31:36,112 ♪ lively, up-tempo music ♪ 690 00:31:36,212 --> 00:31:38,614 ♪♪♪♪♪ 691 00:31:40,737 --> 00:31:43,059 [breathes deeply] 692 00:31:52,028 --> 00:31:54,030 Hmm. 693 00:31:55,752 --> 00:31:57,754 [door opens] 694 00:32:01,839 --> 00:32:04,021 Ah, General. Good to see you. 695 00:32:04,121 --> 00:32:06,123 [Flynn] And you, Sergei. 696 00:32:11,048 --> 00:32:13,311 General Flynn, President Putin. 697 00:32:13,411 --> 00:32:16,634 I very much appreciate the invitation, Mr. President. 698 00:32:16,734 --> 00:32:19,697 And the-the courtesy of this visit. 699 00:32:24,182 --> 00:32:26,284 [speaks Russian] 700 00:32:26,384 --> 00:32:27,966 "A colorful 701 00:32:28,066 --> 00:32:30,289 and talented man." 702 00:32:30,389 --> 00:32:32,531 [chuckles] Well, he is that. 703 00:32:32,631 --> 00:32:35,534 Um, I understand, uh... 704 00:32:35,634 --> 00:32:38,818 you're not a fan of our current president, 705 00:32:38,918 --> 00:32:41,621 Mr. Obama. 706 00:32:41,721 --> 00:32:43,703 -[chuckles] Neither am I. -[Putin laughs] 707 00:32:43,803 --> 00:32:45,625 We think you should enjoy the gala. 708 00:32:45,725 --> 00:32:48,308 Julian Assange is hosting via satellite, 709 00:32:48,408 --> 00:32:51,431 and Jill Stein will be at your table. 710 00:32:51,531 --> 00:32:55,035 She's also running to be the U.S. president. 711 00:32:55,135 --> 00:32:57,317 Well, I guess that pretty much sums up 712 00:32:57,417 --> 00:32:59,559 how you folks feel about Secretary Clinton, 713 00:32:59,659 --> 00:33:00,561 -doesn't it? -[Putin chuckling] 714 00:33:00,661 --> 00:33:02,663 [speaking Russian] 715 00:33:04,064 --> 00:33:05,446 Come. 716 00:33:05,546 --> 00:33:07,047 Let's. 717 00:33:07,147 --> 00:33:09,049 ♪ slow, dramatic music ♪ 718 00:33:09,149 --> 00:33:10,651 ♪♪♪♪♪ 719 00:33:10,751 --> 00:33:12,753 [indistinct chatter] 720 00:33:22,243 --> 00:33:24,245 Caught me. 721 00:33:24,686 --> 00:33:26,067 There's been a cyber breach 722 00:33:26,167 --> 00:33:27,669 of the Democratic National Committee. 723 00:33:27,769 --> 00:33:30,272 Looks like the hack went all the way up to Podesta. 724 00:33:30,372 --> 00:33:32,234 Foreign actors or domestic? 725 00:33:32,334 --> 00:33:35,237 Malware led us to a string of code that we've seen before... 726 00:33:35,337 --> 00:33:37,359 emanating from Russia. 727 00:33:37,459 --> 00:33:39,762 [sighs] 728 00:33:39,862 --> 00:33:41,884 All right, let's start recruiting sources. 729 00:33:41,984 --> 00:33:43,245 Find out more. 730 00:33:43,345 --> 00:33:44,887 What the hell are they up to? 731 00:33:44,987 --> 00:33:46,088 [Downer] So, uh, 732 00:33:46,188 --> 00:33:48,491 you were saying, uh, Russia? 733 00:33:48,591 --> 00:33:49,892 Russia. 734 00:33:49,992 --> 00:33:52,095 Wow, are those guys smart. 735 00:33:52,195 --> 00:33:55,018 Do you, uh... You know Professor Mifsud? 736 00:33:55,118 --> 00:33:56,659 Joseph Mifsud? 737 00:33:56,759 --> 00:33:58,261 -Uh, no, afraid I don't. -Huh. 738 00:33:58,361 --> 00:34:01,064 -Is he Russian? -Maltan. Or Maltese. 739 00:34:01,164 --> 00:34:03,266 Maltanese. He's from fucking Malta, 740 00:34:03,366 --> 00:34:05,389 but he has connections in Russia. 741 00:34:05,489 --> 00:34:08,592 All the way up to Putin. 742 00:34:08,692 --> 00:34:11,195 We've been talking for months. [clears throat] 743 00:34:11,295 --> 00:34:12,516 What about? 744 00:34:12,616 --> 00:34:14,618 Hillary. 745 00:34:15,659 --> 00:34:17,201 In what context? 746 00:34:17,301 --> 00:34:19,003 Russia's got dirt on her. 747 00:34:19,103 --> 00:34:22,046 Lots of embarrassing stuff. Thousands of e-mails. 748 00:34:22,146 --> 00:34:23,808 And they made them all available to us. 749 00:34:23,908 --> 00:34:26,050 Well, how did they get them? 750 00:34:26,150 --> 00:34:29,094 Hacked straight out of the DNC 751 00:34:29,194 --> 00:34:31,296 and the Clinton campaign. 752 00:34:31,396 --> 00:34:33,138 And the Russians are making them available to you? 753 00:34:33,238 --> 00:34:34,780 "We have dirt on Hillary, 754 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:36,902 and we want to help." That's a quote. 755 00:34:37,002 --> 00:34:38,503 They said they could release it anonymously, 756 00:34:38,603 --> 00:34:40,666 some big data dump on the Internet 757 00:34:40,766 --> 00:34:42,748 timed to do maximum damage to her. 758 00:34:42,848 --> 00:34:44,430 Who else knows about this, George? 759 00:34:44,530 --> 00:34:46,872 That's the beauty of it. 760 00:34:46,972 --> 00:34:48,974 No one. 761 00:34:49,575 --> 00:34:51,317 God bless America. 762 00:34:51,417 --> 00:34:53,419 Indeed. 763 00:34:55,301 --> 00:34:57,203 We should go to France. 764 00:34:57,303 --> 00:34:58,765 Okay. When? 765 00:34:58,865 --> 00:35:00,166 2024? 766 00:35:00,266 --> 00:35:03,990 Oh, good. Good. That's good. Distract me. 767 00:35:07,033 --> 00:35:08,895 Everything looks great, Mr. Comey. 768 00:35:08,995 --> 00:35:10,737 The doctor doesn't see any hot spots 769 00:35:10,837 --> 00:35:13,660 -or signs of recurrence. -That's wonderful. Thank you. 770 00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:14,982 You're still taking the aspirin? 771 00:35:15,082 --> 00:35:16,263 Every day. 772 00:35:16,363 --> 00:35:17,945 Good. Don't want any more blood clots. 773 00:35:18,045 --> 00:35:20,147 -See you in a year. -He still has numbness 774 00:35:20,247 --> 00:35:23,230 -in his fingertips and his feet. -That's common. 775 00:35:23,330 --> 00:35:25,593 -The chemo. -[Patrice] Ten years out? 776 00:35:25,693 --> 00:35:26,994 Are you getting enough rest? 777 00:35:27,094 --> 00:35:29,157 -No. -I think so. 778 00:35:29,257 --> 00:35:31,579 [chuckles] How you doing on stress? 779 00:35:33,301 --> 00:35:35,884 I don't imagine Hillary's making that any easier. 780 00:35:35,984 --> 00:35:38,006 I'll tell ya, I don't know how you keep your cool 781 00:35:38,106 --> 00:35:40,529 in the face of that kind of arrogance and entitlement. 782 00:35:40,629 --> 00:35:42,210 I think I'd explode. 783 00:35:42,310 --> 00:35:43,492 Actually, he makes it a-- 784 00:35:43,592 --> 00:35:44,813 Thanks for the good news. 785 00:35:44,913 --> 00:35:46,695 We'll see you next year. 786 00:35:46,795 --> 00:35:48,897 Everyone's got an opinion, you know? 787 00:35:48,997 --> 00:35:50,499 And the right to voice it. 788 00:35:50,599 --> 00:35:52,741 That "Crooked Hillary" stuff is sticking to her. 789 00:35:52,841 --> 00:35:55,144 Now it's part of your colonoscopy results. 790 00:35:55,244 --> 00:35:57,246 [chuckles softly] 791 00:35:58,928 --> 00:36:01,831 You know... 792 00:36:01,931 --> 00:36:03,313 it's been a good day. 793 00:36:03,413 --> 00:36:05,755 Let's just celebrate. 794 00:36:05,855 --> 00:36:07,317 In Paris? 795 00:36:07,417 --> 00:36:09,419 Love you. 796 00:36:16,066 --> 00:36:17,367 [exhales] 797 00:36:17,467 --> 00:36:19,049 ♪ soft, hypnotic music ♪ 798 00:36:19,149 --> 00:36:20,811 [Rosenstein] The Midyear team's investigation 799 00:36:20,911 --> 00:36:22,453 of Hillary Clinton ground on. 800 00:36:22,553 --> 00:36:25,816 They issued 56 grand jury subpoenas, 801 00:36:25,916 --> 00:36:29,140 conducted 72 voluntary witness interviews. 802 00:36:29,240 --> 00:36:31,382 Search warrants, court orders, 803 00:36:31,482 --> 00:36:33,024 immunity agreements. 804 00:36:33,124 --> 00:36:35,707 They got every last one of her laptops, 805 00:36:35,807 --> 00:36:38,309 examined them all, and found... 806 00:36:38,409 --> 00:36:39,631 Nothing. 807 00:36:39,731 --> 00:36:41,953 No crime that any reasonable prosecutor would charge. 808 00:36:42,053 --> 00:36:44,636 We think she's guilty of great neglect and carelessness, 809 00:36:44,736 --> 00:36:46,638 but we don't see anything indictable. 810 00:36:46,738 --> 00:36:49,161 The systems at State are so arcane, 811 00:36:49,261 --> 00:36:50,642 if you wanted to charge her, 812 00:36:50,742 --> 00:36:53,045 you'd have to charge 150 other people, too. 813 00:36:53,145 --> 00:36:55,207 After poring through the relevant case law, 814 00:36:55,307 --> 00:36:56,849 we've reached the same conclusion. 815 00:36:56,949 --> 00:37:00,413 Neither the Espionage Act nor Volstead apply here. 816 00:37:00,513 --> 00:37:03,336 And we think it's time to start asking what the endgame 817 00:37:03,436 --> 00:37:04,697 on this might look like. 818 00:37:04,797 --> 00:37:06,499 In the middle of an election, 819 00:37:06,599 --> 00:37:07,940 something this visible, 820 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,263 I don't think DOJ can put out a statement reading, 821 00:37:10,363 --> 00:37:12,946 "We looked at it. We're not prosecuting Secretary Clinton. 822 00:37:13,046 --> 00:37:16,349 Case closed." I think we need to explain our thinking on this 823 00:37:16,449 --> 00:37:18,151 to the American people via the press. 824 00:37:18,251 --> 00:37:20,073 -We feel that way, too. -But... 825 00:37:20,173 --> 00:37:21,755 there is a very real downside 826 00:37:21,855 --> 00:37:24,398 to having the A.G. make a statement on this. 827 00:37:24,498 --> 00:37:27,201 It cannot appear to be partisan in any way. 828 00:37:27,301 --> 00:37:28,682 We thought the right approach might be 829 00:37:28,782 --> 00:37:31,685 for you and the A.G. to make the statement jointly. 830 00:37:31,785 --> 00:37:35,169 We hold hands and jump off the bridge together. 831 00:37:35,269 --> 00:37:37,491 How would you feel about that? 832 00:37:37,591 --> 00:37:39,494 [Baker] As I see it, you got a few options-- 833 00:37:39,594 --> 00:37:41,336 all of them terrible. 834 00:37:41,436 --> 00:37:43,938 You can make a joint statement with the A.G., as requested, 835 00:37:44,038 --> 00:37:45,780 which is... terrible, 836 00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:47,502 uh, because there's a widespread belief, 837 00:37:47,602 --> 00:37:48,944 rightly or wrongly, 838 00:37:49,044 --> 00:37:51,787 that Loretta is overly friendly with the Clinton campaign. 839 00:37:51,887 --> 00:37:55,510 So standing beside her makes the Bureau seem complicit as well. 840 00:37:55,610 --> 00:37:59,274 Two, you can fall back on department norms, 841 00:37:59,374 --> 00:38:02,638 just issue a brief statement declining the case and move on. 842 00:38:02,738 --> 00:38:06,202 That's terrible if our goal is to show the public 843 00:38:06,302 --> 00:38:08,124 we really did try to make a case against Hillary, 844 00:38:08,224 --> 00:38:09,926 aggressively, thoroughly. 845 00:38:10,026 --> 00:38:12,448 Then there's the idea of me making the statement on my own. 846 00:38:12,548 --> 00:38:14,290 Well, which is the worst idea, by a mile. 847 00:38:14,390 --> 00:38:16,813 The Bureau doesn't do that. 848 00:38:16,913 --> 00:38:20,737 Ever. It-it would violate a sacred norm 849 00:38:20,837 --> 00:38:22,819 in a culture built on norms. 850 00:38:22,919 --> 00:38:25,662 And, in my opinion, it would look horrible. 851 00:38:25,762 --> 00:38:28,765 But it's the only one that allows us to tell the truth. 852 00:38:30,807 --> 00:38:32,669 Loretta would never just stand there 853 00:38:32,769 --> 00:38:35,152 and allow me to explain what Hillary did 854 00:38:35,252 --> 00:38:38,135 and why we think it was dangerous. 855 00:38:41,979 --> 00:38:44,522 This is a first attempt at a statement. 856 00:38:44,622 --> 00:38:46,804 It represents our outer boundaries 857 00:38:46,904 --> 00:38:48,206 in terms of transparency. 858 00:38:48,306 --> 00:38:50,048 Uh, I really wish you hadn't done that. 859 00:38:50,148 --> 00:38:52,050 Anything committed to writing is discoverable. 860 00:38:52,150 --> 00:38:54,893 I'd ask you to assess three things: 861 00:38:54,993 --> 00:38:58,537 the accuracy of the facts laid out in the draft, 862 00:38:58,637 --> 00:39:02,541 any policy or other limitations around making such a statement, 863 00:39:02,641 --> 00:39:04,903 and the wisdom and mechanics of presenting it 864 00:39:05,003 --> 00:39:07,106 to the American people. 865 00:39:07,206 --> 00:39:08,787 All right? 866 00:39:08,887 --> 00:39:11,190 ♪ soft, somber music ♪ 867 00:39:11,290 --> 00:39:13,813 ♪♪♪♪♪ 868 00:39:15,214 --> 00:39:17,196 Is there anything on your mind? 869 00:39:17,296 --> 00:39:20,840 -Why? -A little bit quiet. 870 00:39:20,940 --> 00:39:25,405 Maybe a dead-end, politically motivated investigation 871 00:39:25,505 --> 00:39:29,469 on a certain female presidential candidate? 872 00:39:32,512 --> 00:39:33,413 [exhales] 873 00:39:33,513 --> 00:39:36,777 Do you ever worry about my ego? 874 00:39:36,877 --> 00:39:38,298 Why? 875 00:39:38,398 --> 00:39:40,621 Has it not been feeling well? 876 00:39:40,721 --> 00:39:42,723 ♪♪♪♪♪ 877 00:39:44,725 --> 00:39:47,728 Do you want to tell me something? 878 00:39:49,210 --> 00:39:51,572 Just that I love you, Treecy. 879 00:39:53,214 --> 00:39:55,517 -[Page] So, how'd the 302 go? -[Strzok] Awesome. 880 00:39:55,617 --> 00:39:57,559 -He lied his ass off. -Of course. 881 00:39:57,659 --> 00:40:00,562 Guy went from "I was never inside the SCIF" 882 00:40:00,662 --> 00:40:03,645 to "I may have removed the trash from there twice..." 883 00:40:03,745 --> 00:40:05,567 -Mm. -...to "I troubleshot the fax 884 00:40:05,667 --> 00:40:06,929 in there a couple of times" 885 00:40:07,029 --> 00:40:11,453 to "Every time there was a secure fax sent, I sent it." 886 00:40:11,553 --> 00:40:13,335 It kills me that people lie to our face 887 00:40:13,435 --> 00:40:14,657 when they know that we know 888 00:40:14,757 --> 00:40:17,860 -that they're lying. -I know. 889 00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:21,864 Meanwhile, there's a Russian inside everybody's computer, 890 00:40:21,964 --> 00:40:24,867 and nobody's talking about it. 891 00:40:24,967 --> 00:40:26,950 [inhales] 892 00:40:27,050 --> 00:40:28,511 It's been an hour. 893 00:40:28,611 --> 00:40:29,953 We should log in. 894 00:40:30,053 --> 00:40:32,255 [grunts softly] 895 00:40:34,778 --> 00:40:37,040 ♪ soft, somber music ♪ 896 00:40:37,140 --> 00:40:40,344 ♪♪♪♪♪ 897 00:40:43,227 --> 00:40:45,689 Sorry. 898 00:40:45,789 --> 00:40:47,211 It's good to meet you all. 899 00:40:47,311 --> 00:40:49,133 Thank you for coming such a long way. 900 00:40:49,233 --> 00:40:50,534 We are happy to help. 901 00:40:50,634 --> 00:40:52,216 Natalia, the floor is yours. 902 00:40:52,316 --> 00:40:54,058 The floor...? 903 00:40:54,158 --> 00:40:56,220 Oh. [chuckles] I apologize. 904 00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:58,142 That's an American expression. 905 00:40:58,242 --> 00:41:00,265 It means we're ready to hear 906 00:41:00,365 --> 00:41:02,667 every single disgusting detail 907 00:41:02,767 --> 00:41:05,250 of the dirt you have on Hillary. 908 00:41:07,772 --> 00:41:10,595 Amen. 909 00:41:10,695 --> 00:41:13,118 Some days, our job is chasing Russians. 910 00:41:13,218 --> 00:41:16,722 Let's talk about the Magnitsky Act. 911 00:41:16,822 --> 00:41:17,923 On others, 912 00:41:18,023 --> 00:41:20,366 we chase monsters. 913 00:41:20,466 --> 00:41:23,349 And Jim had to do a lot of that. 914 00:41:25,231 --> 00:41:26,732 [vibrating] 915 00:41:26,832 --> 00:41:28,935 [phone ringing in distance] 916 00:41:29,035 --> 00:41:31,738 [phones ringing] 917 00:41:31,838 --> 00:41:34,180 ♪ slow, dramatic music ♪ 918 00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:36,643 ♪♪♪♪♪ 919 00:41:56,183 --> 00:41:59,146 [indistinct police transmission] 920 00:42:01,108 --> 00:42:04,312 [camera shutter clicking] 921 00:42:09,397 --> 00:42:11,900 Assemble the first responders for me, would you? 922 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:13,622 I want to thank them. 923 00:42:13,722 --> 00:42:16,084 [helicopter blades whirring in distance] 924 00:42:20,769 --> 00:42:22,771 [camera shutter clicking] 925 00:42:23,692 --> 00:42:26,055 ♪♪♪♪♪ 926 00:42:35,705 --> 00:42:38,027 [phone ringing] 927 00:42:39,829 --> 00:42:41,371 Not a good time, Andy. 928 00:42:41,471 --> 00:42:42,372 Sorry, boss. 929 00:42:42,472 --> 00:42:43,373 Just... 930 00:42:43,473 --> 00:42:45,475 It's about the A.G. 931 00:42:50,721 --> 00:42:53,223 -[staffer] Uh, General Lynch? -Mm-hmm? 932 00:42:53,323 --> 00:42:55,626 Former President Clinton is here. 933 00:42:55,726 --> 00:42:57,227 He'd like to, uh... 934 00:42:57,327 --> 00:42:58,989 pay his respects. 935 00:42:59,089 --> 00:43:00,871 Here where? 936 00:43:00,971 --> 00:43:02,633 On the tarmac. That... 937 00:43:02,733 --> 00:43:04,735 That's his plane. 938 00:43:06,737 --> 00:43:08,739 What should I tell him? 939 00:43:11,142 --> 00:43:13,044 Well... 940 00:43:13,144 --> 00:43:15,166 [exhales] 941 00:43:15,266 --> 00:43:16,448 Show him in. 942 00:43:16,548 --> 00:43:17,889 [Tanya Rivero] An impromptu meeting 943 00:43:17,989 --> 00:43:20,332 between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President 944 00:43:20,432 --> 00:43:23,335 Bill Clinton is raising questions of impropriety 945 00:43:23,435 --> 00:43:25,978 amid the ongoing FBI criminal probe 946 00:43:26,078 --> 00:43:28,100 into Hillary Clinton's e-mail server. 947 00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:29,662 [reporter] At the Phoenix Airport Monday night, 948 00:43:29,762 --> 00:43:32,545 the former president saw Lynch's plane on the tarmac. 949 00:43:32,645 --> 00:43:35,468 ...doesn't wait to-to schmooze 950 00:43:35,568 --> 00:43:37,790 with the attorney general who's gonna decide whether 951 00:43:37,890 --> 00:43:39,752 -his wife is indicted or not. -I... [groans softly] 952 00:43:39,852 --> 00:43:40,993 ♪♪♪♪♪ 953 00:43:41,093 --> 00:43:43,216 [door opens] 954 00:43:44,937 --> 00:43:47,520 [Comey] The A.G. has just announced 955 00:43:47,620 --> 00:43:50,924 that she will not recuse herself from this investigation. 956 00:43:51,024 --> 00:43:53,727 But she will accept our findings, whatever they may be. 957 00:43:53,827 --> 00:43:56,169 Meaning this is now on us. 958 00:43:56,269 --> 00:43:57,691 What a profile in courage. 959 00:43:57,791 --> 00:44:00,174 [Comey] I no longer believe that I can credibly stand beside her 960 00:44:00,274 --> 00:44:03,657 to announce that Justice is closing the Clinton case. 961 00:44:03,757 --> 00:44:06,260 This bureau and the whole department 962 00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:09,423 will look utterly compromised and partisan. 963 00:44:09,523 --> 00:44:12,266 Does anyone see it differently? 964 00:44:12,366 --> 00:44:13,588 No. 965 00:44:13,688 --> 00:44:15,770 Mm, we all agree on that. 966 00:44:17,812 --> 00:44:20,755 But I think the public is now going to demand an explanation 967 00:44:20,855 --> 00:44:23,398 for our declining the case. 968 00:44:23,498 --> 00:44:27,542 So I'm going to go ahead and deliver the declination alone. 969 00:44:29,264 --> 00:44:30,966 [man clears throat] 970 00:44:31,066 --> 00:44:32,968 Um... 971 00:44:33,068 --> 00:44:35,791 That could go really wrong, boss. 972 00:44:37,072 --> 00:44:38,013 For a million reasons. 973 00:44:38,113 --> 00:44:39,975 I mean, it is just so not what we do. 974 00:44:40,075 --> 00:44:41,617 I get that, Andy. 975 00:44:41,717 --> 00:44:44,060 And conventional wisdom might mitigate against it. 976 00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:46,662 But this is not a conventional circumstance. 977 00:44:46,762 --> 00:44:49,105 This is a 500-year flood. 978 00:44:49,205 --> 00:44:53,229 If we let Justice issue a one-sentence declination now, 979 00:44:53,329 --> 00:44:56,233 it will place a corrosive doubt about our investigation 980 00:44:56,333 --> 00:44:58,155 and, more broadly, the rule of law 981 00:44:58,255 --> 00:45:00,237 into the public square. 982 00:45:00,337 --> 00:45:02,559 Even standing next to her at this point 983 00:45:02,659 --> 00:45:04,281 will make our work look suspect. 984 00:45:04,381 --> 00:45:05,642 And it isn't. 985 00:45:05,742 --> 00:45:07,004 Then why not call a special prosecutor 986 00:45:07,104 --> 00:45:08,365 and take it off our plate? 987 00:45:08,465 --> 00:45:12,169 That would be brutally unfair to the Clinton campaign. 988 00:45:12,269 --> 00:45:16,214 A world-class FBI team just investigated her for a year. 989 00:45:16,314 --> 00:45:18,015 And there is not one of us who believes 990 00:45:18,115 --> 00:45:21,139 there is a prosecutable case here. 991 00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:23,942 Calling for a special prosecutor would suggest just the opposite. 992 00:45:24,042 --> 00:45:26,785 It would be a lie. 993 00:45:26,885 --> 00:45:28,987 Trisha. 994 00:45:29,087 --> 00:45:31,269 I... [stammers] 995 00:45:31,369 --> 00:45:33,111 It's fine. Withdrawn. 996 00:45:33,211 --> 00:45:36,315 No. I-I want to hear your thinking. 997 00:45:36,415 --> 00:45:38,957 Well, I guess what I'm thinking is 998 00:45:39,057 --> 00:45:41,640 grand juries are secret for a reason. 999 00:45:41,740 --> 00:45:43,722 We don't comment on the propriety 1000 00:45:43,822 --> 00:45:45,244 of a subject's conduct, 1001 00:45:45,344 --> 00:45:49,649 especially during an election year. 1002 00:45:49,749 --> 00:45:51,531 [Priestap] DOJ's given that kind of detail 1003 00:45:51,631 --> 00:45:55,014 about conduct in uncharged cases when the public needs it. 1004 00:45:55,114 --> 00:45:56,376 They did it after Ferguson. 1005 00:45:56,476 --> 00:45:58,778 But the Bureau's never done it. 1006 00:45:58,878 --> 00:46:01,541 This is going to expose you to enormous fire. 1007 00:46:01,641 --> 00:46:02,822 Unnecessarily. 1008 00:46:02,922 --> 00:46:04,344 It-it will look political, 1009 00:46:04,444 --> 00:46:09,029 when our entire intent is to appear apolitical. 1010 00:46:09,129 --> 00:46:10,911 People in D.C. know I'm apolitical. 1011 00:46:11,011 --> 00:46:12,272 They know I'm not a hack. 1012 00:46:12,372 --> 00:46:13,594 In any other year, that might matter. 1013 00:46:13,694 --> 00:46:14,715 But not now. 1014 00:46:14,815 --> 00:46:16,917 [Rybicki] Would Justice know ahead of time 1015 00:46:17,017 --> 00:46:18,399 -what you'd be saying? -No. 1016 00:46:18,499 --> 00:46:20,001 I wouldn't want any appearance of coordination 1017 00:46:20,101 --> 00:46:21,883 between the Bureau and Justice on this. 1018 00:46:21,983 --> 00:46:24,045 We have to appear completely independent. 1019 00:46:24,145 --> 00:46:27,048 What if Loretta or Sally ordered you not to do it? 1020 00:46:27,148 --> 00:46:28,530 Then I would do as ordered. 1021 00:46:28,630 --> 00:46:31,773 But that's why I don't want it to get out. 1022 00:46:31,873 --> 00:46:34,336 There's still the option of standing beside Sally 1023 00:46:34,436 --> 00:46:35,537 to do this. 1024 00:46:35,637 --> 00:46:37,619 There is a valid argument for that. 1025 00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:39,301 She's my immediate superior. 1026 00:46:39,401 --> 00:46:41,463 But she also reports directly to Loretta, 1027 00:46:41,563 --> 00:46:43,685 who is now tainted. 1028 00:46:45,727 --> 00:46:47,670 I have looked at this from every angle. 1029 00:46:47,770 --> 00:46:48,671 They're all terrible. 1030 00:46:48,771 --> 00:46:50,272 Horrible. 1031 00:46:50,372 --> 00:46:52,074 Once you embrace that, 1032 00:46:52,174 --> 00:46:55,017 this option becomes easier to accept. 1033 00:47:02,585 --> 00:47:05,088 Well... 1034 00:47:05,188 --> 00:47:08,271 if anyone can pull it off, boss... 1035 00:47:10,313 --> 00:47:11,935 ...it's you. 1036 00:47:12,035 --> 00:47:13,457 [Rosenstein] If he'd just been 1037 00:47:13,557 --> 00:47:15,098 a little humbler, 1038 00:47:15,198 --> 00:47:17,301 a little less certain that his morality 1039 00:47:17,401 --> 00:47:20,024 was somehow all that mattered... [inhales] 1040 00:47:20,124 --> 00:47:23,127 the world wouldn't know my name today. 1041 00:47:26,170 --> 00:47:28,553 Do you see? 1042 00:47:28,653 --> 00:47:30,435 Sir, may I raise a concern? 1043 00:47:30,535 --> 00:47:31,676 Sure. 1044 00:47:31,776 --> 00:47:33,758 Paragraph three of your draft. 1045 00:47:33,858 --> 00:47:35,440 "Grossly negligent." 1046 00:47:35,540 --> 00:47:38,723 I think it's confusing to use a term with a legal definition, 1047 00:47:38,823 --> 00:47:42,247 especially as we're not charging her with gross negligence. 1048 00:47:42,347 --> 00:47:45,170 Let's say "extremely careless." 1049 00:47:45,270 --> 00:47:48,173 Copy that. 1050 00:47:48,273 --> 00:47:50,496 If the country ever starts to distrust 1051 00:47:50,596 --> 00:47:53,659 the Bureau's intentions... 1052 00:47:53,759 --> 00:47:56,342 it's a bell that can never be unrung. 1053 00:47:56,442 --> 00:47:59,925 Jim, none of this can be unrung. 1054 00:48:01,007 --> 00:48:02,028 Mark it up. 1055 00:48:02,128 --> 00:48:04,470 And be brutal. 1056 00:48:04,570 --> 00:48:05,832 Let me reframe this for you. 1057 00:48:05,932 --> 00:48:08,955 We rescue a mom and three kids from an abusive father, 1058 00:48:09,055 --> 00:48:10,957 and you tell her that her children 1059 00:48:11,057 --> 00:48:13,560 cannot attend her school because of a paperwork error? 1060 00:48:13,660 --> 00:48:15,862 -[door closes] -Uh... 1061 00:48:16,943 --> 00:48:20,027 Do you see the disconnect there? 1062 00:48:21,748 --> 00:48:23,750 That's great. 1063 00:48:25,753 --> 00:48:26,694 Thank you. 1064 00:48:26,794 --> 00:48:29,136 I'll see you Monday. 1065 00:48:29,236 --> 00:48:30,698 Maybe you should be running the Bureau. 1066 00:48:30,798 --> 00:48:31,859 You just happened to be 1067 00:48:31,959 --> 00:48:33,301 -in the neighborhood? -I just... 1068 00:48:33,401 --> 00:48:35,403 no, I couldn't stand the idea of you eating alone. 1069 00:48:37,165 --> 00:48:39,527 You're gonna get clobbered, Jim. 1070 00:48:40,808 --> 00:48:43,491 Eh, got a ten-year term, don't I? 1071 00:48:44,572 --> 00:48:46,234 ♪ quiet, pulsing music ♪ 1072 00:48:46,334 --> 00:48:49,057 ♪♪♪♪♪ 1073 00:48:53,261 --> 00:48:55,564 I think we should add: "Had these same e-mails 1074 00:48:55,664 --> 00:48:57,606 "been sent on a state.gov system, 1075 00:48:57,706 --> 00:49:00,409 the FBI never would have investigated this matter." 1076 00:49:00,509 --> 00:49:02,131 Let's not say "matter," huh? 1077 00:49:02,231 --> 00:49:04,093 I would also change "It's reasonably likely 1078 00:49:04,193 --> 00:49:07,016 "that states hostile to the U.S. gained access to her servers" 1079 00:49:07,116 --> 00:49:08,938 to "It's possible" that they did so. 1080 00:49:09,038 --> 00:49:10,259 Forensics can't take us any farther than that. 1081 00:49:10,359 --> 00:49:12,222 I don't think we should say that the president was 1082 00:49:12,322 --> 00:49:14,464 one of the people she was e-mailing with. 1083 00:49:14,564 --> 00:49:16,946 There's no reason to make the GRU's job any easier. 1084 00:49:17,046 --> 00:49:20,350 Replace it with, uh, "senior government official," 1085 00:49:20,450 --> 00:49:22,192 "another senior government official." 1086 00:49:22,292 --> 00:49:25,155 Who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? 1087 00:49:25,255 --> 00:49:28,719 It's important to say why the FBI can, in good faith, 1088 00:49:28,819 --> 00:49:31,722 recommend to DOJ that no charges be brought here. 1089 00:49:31,822 --> 00:49:33,564 Not just because no reasonable prosecutor 1090 00:49:33,664 --> 00:49:35,045 would bring such a case, but because 1091 00:49:35,145 --> 00:49:36,927 it's the right thing to do. 1092 00:49:37,027 --> 00:49:40,091 But that's not the tone of this statement at all. 1093 00:49:40,191 --> 00:49:43,174 The tone is: "I'm now going to prove the Bureau 1094 00:49:43,274 --> 00:49:45,617 did not take it easy on Hillary Clinton. 1095 00:49:45,717 --> 00:49:47,779 And I'm going to do that by telling you 1096 00:49:47,879 --> 00:49:50,462 what a horrible thing Hillary Clinton did, 1097 00:49:50,562 --> 00:49:52,584 even as I'm recommending against prosecution 1098 00:49:52,684 --> 00:49:53,985 in her case." 1099 00:49:54,085 --> 00:49:56,228 [Page] Look, if she had followed normal protocol 1100 00:49:56,328 --> 00:49:57,709 from the beginning, then we wouldn't have spent 1101 00:49:57,809 --> 00:49:59,791 a year fighting with her fucking lawyers. 1102 00:49:59,891 --> 00:50:02,274 Why does she get coddled now for breaking protocol, 1103 00:50:02,374 --> 00:50:03,716 and possibly the law? 1104 00:50:03,816 --> 00:50:06,078 Because we've decided not to charge her. 1105 00:50:06,178 --> 00:50:10,483 And I have real concerns about criticizing uncharged conduct. 1106 00:50:10,583 --> 00:50:12,845 And-and I also think that this statement 1107 00:50:12,945 --> 00:50:14,207 might violate the department's 1108 00:50:14,307 --> 00:50:15,848 election year sensitivity policy. 1109 00:50:15,948 --> 00:50:18,491 We are not supposed to do anything 1110 00:50:18,591 --> 00:50:21,414 within six months of an election if it might affect the outcome. 1111 00:50:21,514 --> 00:50:23,817 No, that only applies to election-crime cases. 1112 00:50:23,917 --> 00:50:25,899 Well, then the policy isn't broad enough, 1113 00:50:25,999 --> 00:50:27,861 but it should at least guide us. 1114 00:50:27,961 --> 00:50:30,584 Trisha, half this country thinks these e-mails are 9/11. 1115 00:50:30,684 --> 00:50:32,025 We have to go big here. 1116 00:50:32,125 --> 00:50:34,068 Don't you think she crossed the line? 1117 00:50:34,168 --> 00:50:37,031 I think her behavior was appalling. 1118 00:50:37,131 --> 00:50:40,634 I think that she's been told that she's so smart for so long 1119 00:50:40,734 --> 00:50:44,118 that she didn't think that normal rules applied to her. 1120 00:50:44,218 --> 00:50:46,921 But it's not our job to say so. 1121 00:50:47,021 --> 00:50:49,624 I also think the director's gonna get slaughtered for this. 1122 00:50:53,187 --> 00:50:55,590 You may be right, Trisha. I don't know. 1123 00:50:58,233 --> 00:51:00,235 Does everyone agree with her? 1124 00:51:00,956 --> 00:51:02,978 I think the piece is superb. 1125 00:51:03,078 --> 00:51:05,661 I think the A.G. put us in a box, 1126 00:51:05,761 --> 00:51:07,763 and this is a credible response. 1127 00:51:11,687 --> 00:51:14,710 [Comey] Anybody else? 1128 00:51:14,810 --> 00:51:16,352 I'm with Trisha, boss. 1129 00:51:16,452 --> 00:51:18,674 I-I think you're underestimating 1130 00:51:18,774 --> 00:51:21,497 how poisonous the political climate is at the moment. 1131 00:51:25,862 --> 00:51:28,024 I'm not a politician. 1132 00:51:35,392 --> 00:51:37,394 [phone ringing] 1133 00:51:40,357 --> 00:51:41,859 Yes? 1134 00:51:41,959 --> 00:51:43,541 [Comey] Good morning. I wanted to let you know 1135 00:51:43,641 --> 00:51:45,302 that I've called a press conference for today 1136 00:51:45,402 --> 00:51:46,944 to announce the Bureau's recommendation 1137 00:51:47,044 --> 00:51:49,787 on Secretary Clinton. 1138 00:51:49,887 --> 00:51:51,709 And what will you be recommending? 1139 00:51:51,809 --> 00:51:54,112 I'm sorry, but I'm not going to answer that. 1140 00:51:54,212 --> 00:51:55,833 It's, uh, it's very important 1141 00:51:55,933 --> 00:52:00,258 that I not have coordinated this in any way with DOJ. 1142 00:52:01,499 --> 00:52:03,361 Do you understand why? 1143 00:52:03,461 --> 00:52:06,164 Today? This morning? 1144 00:52:06,264 --> 00:52:08,427 Yes. At 11:00. 1145 00:52:16,635 --> 00:52:19,198 Thank you for letting us know. 1146 00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:24,904 ♪ pensive music ♪ 1147 00:52:25,004 --> 00:52:27,006 ♪♪♪♪♪ 1148 00:52:41,822 --> 00:52:43,824 ♪♪♪♪♪ 1149 00:53:02,123 --> 00:53:04,125 Good morning. 1150 00:53:04,485 --> 00:53:06,067 I'm here to give you an update 1151 00:53:06,167 --> 00:53:08,229 on the FBI's investigation 1152 00:53:08,329 --> 00:53:11,032 of Secretary Clinton's use of a personal email system 1153 00:53:11,132 --> 00:53:14,636 during her time as Secretary of State. 1154 00:53:14,736 --> 00:53:18,200 After a tremendous amount of work over the last year, 1155 00:53:18,300 --> 00:53:20,603 the FBI is completing its investigation 1156 00:53:20,703 --> 00:53:22,685 and referring the case to the Department of Justice 1157 00:53:22,785 --> 00:53:25,448 for a prosecutive decision. 1158 00:53:25,548 --> 00:53:29,892 What I would like to do today is to tell you three things: 1159 00:53:29,992 --> 00:53:33,016 what we did, what we found, 1160 00:53:33,116 --> 00:53:35,698 and what we are recommending to the Department of Justice. 1161 00:53:35,798 --> 00:53:36,920 [Kate Bolduan] His announcement caught 1162 00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:38,141 a lot of people off guard. 1163 00:53:38,241 --> 00:53:40,023 You know how Washington works. Not knowing 1164 00:53:40,123 --> 00:53:42,145 the theme of a... of a press conference 1165 00:53:42,245 --> 00:53:43,627 is not something that's very typical. 1166 00:53:43,727 --> 00:53:44,948 Sean, your candidate, Donald Trump, 1167 00:53:45,048 --> 00:53:46,670 the presumed Republican nominee just tweeted. 1168 00:53:46,770 --> 00:53:48,432 He said, "The system is rigged. 1169 00:53:48,532 --> 00:53:51,075 General Petraeus got in trouble for far less. 1170 00:53:51,175 --> 00:53:55,319 Very, very unfair! As usual, bad judgment." 1171 00:53:55,419 --> 00:53:56,520 [Manu Raju] Republicans believe that 1172 00:53:56,620 --> 00:53:58,082 he made the wrong decision 1173 00:53:58,182 --> 00:54:01,005 in not referring this case to the Justice Department. 1174 00:54:01,105 --> 00:54:03,488 They believe that she was given preferential treatment 1175 00:54:03,588 --> 00:54:05,249 in that decision to not 1176 00:54:05,349 --> 00:54:07,572 prosecute this case even further. 1177 00:54:07,672 --> 00:54:09,934 They say this is a clear violation of federal law, 1178 00:54:10,034 --> 00:54:12,057 so expect to hear questions about why 1179 00:54:12,157 --> 00:54:14,099 Comey made this decision. 1180 00:54:14,199 --> 00:54:16,061 And from Comey's perspective, he believes... 1181 00:54:16,161 --> 00:54:18,944 Are you sure you want to watch this? 1182 00:54:19,044 --> 00:54:20,786 Everybody else is. 1183 00:54:20,886 --> 00:54:22,347 [Boris Epshteyn] ...that what Comey stated 1184 00:54:22,447 --> 00:54:24,870 is that Hillary Clinton should have been fired from her job. 1185 00:54:24,970 --> 00:54:26,592 By who? President Obama, if she were still... 1186 00:54:26,692 --> 00:54:28,994 [weather reporter] ...and high temperatures moving back 1187 00:54:29,094 --> 00:54:30,796 just in time for the weekend. 1188 00:54:30,896 --> 00:54:32,838 Those are your local weather headlines. 1189 00:54:32,938 --> 00:54:34,921 And now... 1190 00:54:35,021 --> 00:54:38,084 At least I'm finished with her e-mails already. 1191 00:54:38,184 --> 00:54:41,327 Daddy, I don't think so. 1192 00:54:41,427 --> 00:54:44,611 [crowd] Lock her up! Lock her up! 1193 00:54:44,711 --> 00:54:50,337 Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up! 1194 00:54:50,437 --> 00:54:52,859 The latest e-mails released by Wikileaks suggest that 1195 00:54:52,959 --> 00:54:55,783 top officials at the Democratic National Committee 1196 00:54:55,883 --> 00:54:59,026 planned to undermine Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign. 1197 00:54:59,126 --> 00:55:01,629 We have more material related to the... 1198 00:55:01,729 --> 00:55:04,311 Hillary Clinton, uh, campaign. 1199 00:55:04,411 --> 00:55:07,875 The FBI is now investigating the hack that led to 1200 00:55:07,975 --> 00:55:10,598 the leak of Democratic National Committee e-mails. 1201 00:55:10,698 --> 00:55:13,621 That's Sporyshev, Podobnyy. 1202 00:55:15,303 --> 00:55:17,766 -How recent are these shots? -Within a week. 1203 00:55:17,866 --> 00:55:19,868 Really? 1204 00:55:23,391 --> 00:55:24,533 Okay, Russia. 1205 00:55:24,633 --> 00:55:26,635 -Bill? -[clears throat] 1206 00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:32,581 Who picks these file names? 1207 00:55:32,681 --> 00:55:35,244 [McCabe] Randomly generated in C.I. 1208 00:55:38,207 --> 00:55:42,472 His name's George Papadopoulos, advisor to the Trump campaign. 1209 00:55:42,572 --> 00:55:43,913 We've just learned that in March, 1210 00:55:44,013 --> 00:55:45,875 Papadopoulos told an Australian diplomat 1211 00:55:45,975 --> 00:55:48,037 that the Russian government had dirt in the form of 1212 00:55:48,137 --> 00:55:49,759 e-mails on Secretary Clinton, 1213 00:55:49,859 --> 00:55:52,242 and had offered it to the Trump team. 1214 00:55:52,342 --> 00:55:53,483 Say more. 1215 00:55:53,583 --> 00:55:55,565 Diplomat didn't think much of it 1216 00:55:55,665 --> 00:55:57,327 until last week, when he saw that the Russians 1217 00:55:57,427 --> 00:55:58,609 had hacked the DNC. 1218 00:55:58,709 --> 00:56:01,011 How high up is Papadopoulos? 1219 00:56:01,111 --> 00:56:04,054 He had a hand in writing Trump's first foreign policy speech, 1220 00:56:04,154 --> 00:56:05,656 the Mayflower Hotel address, 1221 00:56:05,756 --> 00:56:06,937 which was basically a love letter 1222 00:56:07,037 --> 00:56:08,939 to the Russian government. 1223 00:56:09,039 --> 00:56:10,381 Okay. 1224 00:56:10,481 --> 00:56:12,503 If Russia were going to make other contacts 1225 00:56:12,603 --> 00:56:14,105 inside the Trump campaign, 1226 00:56:14,205 --> 00:56:16,347 who would be their likely targets? 1227 00:56:16,447 --> 00:56:17,548 [all] Carter Page. 1228 00:56:17,648 --> 00:56:19,310 [Comey] Carter Page. 1229 00:56:19,410 --> 00:56:21,953 [Priestap] Yeah, we briefed you on him in '14, 1230 00:56:22,053 --> 00:56:23,675 when he was working at Merrill Lynch Moscow. 1231 00:56:23,775 --> 00:56:26,238 The GRU recruited him as an asset. 1232 00:56:26,338 --> 00:56:27,959 The guy's a dope. 1233 00:56:28,059 --> 00:56:29,841 He was living in his car not long ago. 1234 00:56:29,941 --> 00:56:32,604 But he was the first member of Trump's national security team. 1235 00:56:32,704 --> 00:56:33,846 He's blinking red. 1236 00:56:33,946 --> 00:56:36,248 How high up is he? Who does he report to? 1237 00:56:36,348 --> 00:56:39,632 In Russia or on the campaign? 1238 00:56:42,394 --> 00:56:43,696 You know General Flynn. 1239 00:56:43,796 --> 00:56:46,979 Fired by President Obama two years ago. 1240 00:56:47,079 --> 00:56:48,341 He was paid $45,000 1241 00:56:48,441 --> 00:56:50,223 by Russia Today last December 1242 00:56:50,323 --> 00:56:52,345 to speak at their gala in Moscow, 1243 00:56:52,445 --> 00:56:53,987 where he sat next to Putin. 1244 00:56:54,087 --> 00:56:57,430 He was also paid to lobby for Saudi Arabia and Turkey. 1245 00:56:57,530 --> 00:56:59,152 Now a senior advisor to Trump. 1246 00:56:59,252 --> 00:57:00,754 We tried to bump him with a CHS. 1247 00:57:00,854 --> 00:57:01,915 We're not getting anything. 1248 00:57:02,015 --> 00:57:03,837 Let's see if we can develop anything else. 1249 00:57:03,937 --> 00:57:04,838 Who's next? 1250 00:57:04,938 --> 00:57:06,920 You know Paul Manafort. 1251 00:57:07,020 --> 00:57:09,363 Also under criminal investigation 1252 00:57:09,463 --> 00:57:11,465 since 2014. 1253 00:57:12,746 --> 00:57:14,088 He's on the payroll of Russian oligarchs, 1254 00:57:14,188 --> 00:57:15,449 Oleg Deripaska 1255 00:57:15,549 --> 00:57:17,692 and Dmytro Firtash, for ten million a year. 1256 00:57:17,792 --> 00:57:20,094 He's got close ties to Konstantin Kilimnik 1257 00:57:20,194 --> 00:57:22,176 of Russian intel, and he served 1258 00:57:22,276 --> 00:57:24,138 as a paid lobbyist to a bunch of Russian-backed officials 1259 00:57:24,238 --> 00:57:25,540 in Ukraine. 1260 00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:28,022 Now he's serving as Trump's campaign chair. 1261 00:57:28,122 --> 00:57:30,185 Also blinking red. 1262 00:57:30,285 --> 00:57:32,147 Why are there four guys with ties to Russia 1263 00:57:32,247 --> 00:57:33,308 on one campaign? 1264 00:57:33,408 --> 00:57:35,911 Maybe Trump doesn't vet people very well. 1265 00:57:36,011 --> 00:57:38,193 Maybe he does. 1266 00:57:38,293 --> 00:57:40,716 We're starting to see propaganda about Secretary Clinton 1267 00:57:40,816 --> 00:57:42,918 from Radio Sputnik and Russia Today 1268 00:57:43,018 --> 00:57:46,442 showing up verbatim in Trump's stump speeches. 1269 00:57:46,542 --> 00:57:49,045 I don't know that it's coordinated, but... 1270 00:57:49,145 --> 00:57:52,088 Obviously, we're going to keep this extremely close-hold. 1271 00:57:52,188 --> 00:57:54,490 Any connection between Russian efforts 1272 00:57:54,590 --> 00:57:56,572 to influence this election and the Trump campaign 1273 00:57:56,672 --> 00:57:58,935 is a very serious and explosive matter. 1274 00:57:59,035 --> 00:58:01,458 I don't want it mentioned in morning briefings. 1275 00:58:01,558 --> 00:58:03,880 Thanks, everyone. We'll skinny down now. 1276 00:58:08,125 --> 00:58:10,307 Can someone find out why I keep seeing 1277 00:58:10,407 --> 00:58:13,310 Rudy Giuliani on TV saying things about our investigations 1278 00:58:13,410 --> 00:58:14,752 that he shouldn't know? 1279 00:58:14,852 --> 00:58:16,794 We suspect another leak at NYO. 1280 00:58:16,894 --> 00:58:19,757 Well, plug it, will you? Before I go rip-shit? 1281 00:58:19,857 --> 00:58:21,859 Yes, sir. 1282 00:58:22,940 --> 00:58:25,483 It really frosts me. 1283 00:58:25,583 --> 00:58:26,804 Yes, sir. 1284 00:58:26,904 --> 00:58:28,766 [McCabe] You've got a leaker in your office. 1285 00:58:28,866 --> 00:58:30,929 Want to give me some context, Andy? 1286 00:58:31,029 --> 00:58:34,092 Rudy Giuliani is on TV nonstop since the declination 1287 00:58:34,192 --> 00:58:36,194 predicting things that he shouldn't know. 1288 00:58:37,876 --> 00:58:39,297 Now, I know you've got a bunch of Hillary haters 1289 00:58:39,397 --> 00:58:41,219 up there pissed off that we dropped her case. 1290 00:58:41,319 --> 00:58:42,781 You've got to shut this down, Bill. 1291 00:58:42,881 --> 00:58:44,783 You sure it wasn't one of the formers? 1292 00:58:44,883 --> 00:58:46,425 They've got the ties to Rudy. 1293 00:58:46,525 --> 00:58:48,667 The formers wouldn't have access to the kind of intel 1294 00:58:48,767 --> 00:58:50,109 that he's revealing. 1295 00:58:50,209 --> 00:58:52,191 Could be SDNY. He's got ties there, too. 1296 00:58:52,291 --> 00:58:54,353 Let me level-set this for you, Bill. 1297 00:58:54,453 --> 00:58:55,595 Reign your guys in. 1298 00:58:55,695 --> 00:58:57,156 You fire people if you have to, 1299 00:58:57,256 --> 00:58:59,659 but get your office's shit together. 1300 00:59:00,740 --> 00:59:02,742 Will do. 1301 00:59:05,785 --> 00:59:07,787 Thanks. 1302 00:59:11,231 --> 00:59:12,332 Ma'am? 1303 00:59:12,432 --> 00:59:13,814 Hello, Justin. 1304 00:59:13,914 --> 00:59:15,896 I thought you might want another soda. 1305 00:59:15,996 --> 00:59:18,999 Oh, no. Just one a day. But thank you. 1306 00:59:20,521 --> 00:59:21,822 Have a seat. 1307 00:59:21,922 --> 00:59:23,704 Really? 1308 00:59:23,804 --> 00:59:25,806 Sure. 1309 00:59:32,373 --> 00:59:34,555 Mind if I ask you, ma'am... 1310 00:59:34,655 --> 00:59:37,559 what is that in the frame? 1311 00:59:37,659 --> 00:59:41,202 That was from my first trial ever. 1312 00:59:41,302 --> 00:59:43,485 Pro bono case when I was 1313 00:59:43,585 --> 00:59:45,487 at King & Spalding. 1314 00:59:45,587 --> 00:59:48,290 An all-white jury that found for an African-American woman 1315 00:59:48,390 --> 00:59:51,854 named Lovie Morrison against a... a white family 1316 00:59:51,954 --> 00:59:55,177 trying to steal her land in Barrow County, Georgia. 1317 00:59:55,277 --> 00:59:58,440 And that cloth was the deed. 1318 01:00:00,923 --> 01:00:02,945 I had never tried a case before. 1319 01:00:03,045 --> 01:00:04,787 I didn't even know where to stand. 1320 01:00:04,887 --> 01:00:07,150 My star witness was a bootlegger's wife. 1321 01:00:07,250 --> 01:00:09,112 But... 1322 01:00:09,212 --> 01:00:12,595 that jury did right anyway. 1323 01:00:12,695 --> 01:00:14,758 And you remember that next time somebody tells you 1324 01:00:14,858 --> 01:00:17,320 this country can't be its best self. 1325 01:00:17,420 --> 01:00:19,703 Or the law doesn't matter. 1326 01:00:21,545 --> 01:00:24,368 Thank you, ma'am. 1327 01:00:24,468 --> 01:00:26,690 I'll let you get back to your work. 1328 01:00:26,790 --> 01:00:28,792 Night, Justin. 1329 01:00:35,680 --> 01:00:37,221 [thunder rumbles] 1330 01:00:37,321 --> 01:00:40,985 [Priestap] Boss, we've now been presented a dossier 1331 01:00:41,085 --> 01:00:44,349 concerning Russia and its possible connection to Trump. 1332 01:00:44,449 --> 01:00:46,351 We've not independently corroborated 1333 01:00:46,451 --> 01:00:48,273 any of the conclusions here, but... 1334 01:00:48,373 --> 01:00:50,275 they come from a highly credible source, 1335 01:00:50,375 --> 01:00:53,158 ex-MI6, who has a history of cooperation with the Bureau 1336 01:00:53,258 --> 01:00:54,960 and the rest of the I.C. 1337 01:00:55,060 --> 01:00:57,222 Then let's hear it. 1338 01:00:59,064 --> 01:01:01,967 The dossier asserts that Putin began cultivating Trump 1339 01:01:02,067 --> 01:01:03,689 as an asset more than five years 1340 01:01:03,789 --> 01:01:05,451 prior to his entry into politics. 1341 01:01:05,551 --> 01:01:07,573 They traded favors with him. 1342 01:01:07,673 --> 01:01:10,536 They aided his Miss Universe pageant. 1343 01:01:10,636 --> 01:01:12,618 They offered their help in future Trump real estate deals 1344 01:01:12,718 --> 01:01:15,542 within Russia, including the Trump Tower in Moscow. 1345 01:01:15,642 --> 01:01:18,264 And granted him access to hundreds of millions 1346 01:01:18,364 --> 01:01:21,708 in loans from banks controlled by the Russian oligarchy 1347 01:01:21,808 --> 01:01:23,550 just as U.S. banks had declared Trump 1348 01:01:23,650 --> 01:01:25,392 to be an unworthy credit risk. 1349 01:01:25,492 --> 01:01:27,754 It was a years-long effort to... 1350 01:01:27,854 --> 01:01:31,839 recruit and maintain Trump as an asset of the FSB 1351 01:01:31,939 --> 01:01:34,121 with the long-term goal of... 1352 01:01:34,221 --> 01:01:37,625 using him to sow discord and disunity within the U.S. 1353 01:01:39,787 --> 01:01:42,370 The dossier further asserts that since last year, 1354 01:01:42,470 --> 01:01:46,294 the Trump campaign has "accepted a regular flow of intelligence 1355 01:01:46,394 --> 01:01:50,178 from the Kremlin on his political rivals." 1356 01:01:50,278 --> 01:01:53,261 Again, we have not corroborated any of this independently, 1357 01:01:53,361 --> 01:01:56,264 and it should be noted that the original financier 1358 01:01:56,364 --> 01:01:58,507 of the dossier was a Republican "Never Trumper," 1359 01:01:58,607 --> 01:01:59,948 and the funds to finish the dossier 1360 01:02:00,048 --> 01:02:02,911 then came from the Democrats. 1361 01:02:03,011 --> 01:02:05,013 Go on. 1362 01:02:08,737 --> 01:02:11,641 The dossier holds that the FSB's main leverage 1363 01:02:11,741 --> 01:02:13,803 over Trump is likely blackmail, 1364 01:02:13,903 --> 01:02:16,446 made possible because the Russians had videos 1365 01:02:16,546 --> 01:02:20,650 of Trump engaging in "perverted sexual acts" 1366 01:02:20,750 --> 01:02:22,652 when he stayed in the Presidential Suite 1367 01:02:22,752 --> 01:02:25,936 of Moscow's Ritz-Carlton hotel in 2013. 1368 01:02:26,036 --> 01:02:31,001 Specifically, a "golden showers show." 1369 01:02:34,645 --> 01:02:37,247 I'm-I'm sorry. What-what does that mean? 1370 01:02:39,530 --> 01:02:44,275 It means, uh, they defiled a bed that Barack and Michelle Obama 1371 01:02:44,375 --> 01:02:48,339 slept in during a state visit by urinating on it, sir. 1372 01:02:50,061 --> 01:02:52,403 -I see. -Again, the Bureau has not yet 1373 01:02:52,503 --> 01:02:55,326 been able to independently corroborate the claim, 1374 01:02:55,426 --> 01:03:00,252 or any of the conclusions here, but... given what we now know 1375 01:03:00,352 --> 01:03:02,854 of Trump's complicated financial ties to Russian banks, 1376 01:03:02,954 --> 01:03:05,297 his loans from known oligarchs, 1377 01:03:05,397 --> 01:03:08,620 his ongoing attempt to get that tower built in Moscow, 1378 01:03:08,720 --> 01:03:10,903 the dossier does provide a plausible, 1379 01:03:11,003 --> 01:03:14,066 if alarming working theory: 1380 01:03:14,166 --> 01:03:16,368 Russia has compromised Trump. 1381 01:03:19,051 --> 01:03:22,395 That supposition does not leave this room. 1382 01:03:22,495 --> 01:03:25,158 Let's just find out if it's true. 1383 01:03:25,258 --> 01:03:27,520 How aggressively? 1384 01:03:27,620 --> 01:03:29,122 The harder we pursue, the more likely we are 1385 01:03:29,222 --> 01:03:30,403 to burn our source. 1386 01:03:30,503 --> 01:03:32,245 We can't think that way on this one. 1387 01:03:32,345 --> 01:03:34,848 We can't take the traditional, years-long C.I. approach. 1388 01:03:34,948 --> 01:03:36,410 -Why not? -Because what if candidate Trump 1389 01:03:36,510 --> 01:03:37,971 becomes President Trump before we've determined 1390 01:03:38,071 --> 01:03:39,893 whether or not any of this is true? 1391 01:03:39,993 --> 01:03:41,655 If he takes office 1392 01:03:41,755 --> 01:03:43,257 and we still think he may be a Russian asset, 1393 01:03:43,357 --> 01:03:44,778 how do we share intel with him? 1394 01:03:44,878 --> 01:03:46,380 How do we vet his national security nominees? 1395 01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:48,642 Just find out if it's true. 1396 01:03:50,805 --> 01:03:52,907 Get me Jim Clapper. 1397 01:03:53,007 --> 01:03:55,390 Mr. President, as you know, for the past year, 1398 01:03:55,490 --> 01:03:57,472 we've been watching the Russians engage 1399 01:03:57,572 --> 01:03:59,914 in a multifaceted influence campaign 1400 01:04:00,014 --> 01:04:04,679 concerning our election, directed by Putin himself. 1401 01:04:04,779 --> 01:04:06,321 Cyber espionage, 1402 01:04:06,421 --> 01:04:09,885 propaganda across all social media platforms, 1403 01:04:09,985 --> 01:04:13,208 hacking DNC e-mails and then releasing them 1404 01:04:13,308 --> 01:04:16,732 at the moment of maximum damage. 1405 01:04:16,832 --> 01:04:18,734 Now, the goal of this effort, in our assessment, 1406 01:04:18,834 --> 01:04:21,857 had been to harm our democracy, 1407 01:04:21,957 --> 01:04:26,863 weaken Secretary of State Clinton's future presidency. 1408 01:04:26,963 --> 01:04:29,305 We can now say with a high degree of confidence 1409 01:04:29,405 --> 01:04:32,108 the Russians have a third goal. 1410 01:04:32,208 --> 01:04:35,472 They are trying to secure the election of Donald Trump, 1411 01:04:35,572 --> 01:04:37,674 by any and all means. 1412 01:04:37,774 --> 01:04:41,198 -Who else knows about this? -It's extremely close-hold. 1413 01:04:41,298 --> 01:04:43,900 A very small circle within the I.C. 1414 01:04:46,223 --> 01:04:48,365 Does it make sense to alert the public of this attack? 1415 01:04:48,465 --> 01:04:51,008 Sir, w-we have some disagreement on that. 1416 01:04:51,108 --> 01:04:53,410 Mike and I think it's the right thing to do. 1417 01:04:53,510 --> 01:04:56,053 But there is a compelling argument against it. 1418 01:04:56,153 --> 01:04:57,495 [Comey] It might achieve 1419 01:04:57,595 --> 01:04:59,096 the Russians' goals by undermining 1420 01:04:59,196 --> 01:05:01,979 the public's confidence in our electoral system. 1421 01:05:02,079 --> 01:05:06,144 Well, I'm determined not to do that. 1422 01:05:06,244 --> 01:05:09,107 Do the Russians know we have this? 1423 01:05:09,207 --> 01:05:13,792 Mr. President, I'm not entirely sure that they care. 1424 01:05:13,892 --> 01:05:15,434 [Rosenstein] Crossfire Hurricane 1425 01:05:15,534 --> 01:05:17,996 suddenly became priority number one. 1426 01:05:18,096 --> 01:05:20,479 Then came Anthony Weiner. 1427 01:05:20,579 --> 01:05:21,680 [commentator] Anthony Weiner caught 1428 01:05:21,780 --> 01:05:23,883 in yet another sexting scandal. 1429 01:05:23,983 --> 01:05:25,925 The disgraced former congressman, husband 1430 01:05:26,025 --> 01:05:29,128 to longtime and powerful Hillary Clinton advisor 1431 01:05:29,228 --> 01:05:32,251 Huma Abedin, humiliated once again, 1432 01:05:32,351 --> 01:05:35,174 this time on the front page of the New York Post. 1433 01:05:35,274 --> 01:05:36,856 Abedin said, "I have made the decision 1434 01:05:36,956 --> 01:05:38,858 to separate from my husband." 1435 01:05:38,958 --> 01:05:41,261 Trump couldn't resist weighing in on the separation, 1436 01:05:41,361 --> 01:05:43,263 accusing Clinton of bad judgment 1437 01:05:43,363 --> 01:05:46,066 for having someone like Weiner in her orbit. 1438 01:05:46,166 --> 01:05:47,948 Elaine, we notice that Weiner 1439 01:05:48,048 --> 01:05:50,951 has now deleted his Twitter account, 1440 01:05:51,051 --> 01:05:52,513 about five and a half years too late. 1441 01:05:52,613 --> 01:05:55,676 ♪ slow, dramatic music ♪ 1442 01:05:55,776 --> 01:05:57,778 ♪♪♪♪♪ 1443 01:06:00,381 --> 01:06:02,383 [cabinet door opens] 1444 01:06:16,918 --> 01:06:18,820 ♪ suspenseful music ♪ 1445 01:06:18,920 --> 01:06:20,922 ♪♪♪♪♪ 1446 01:06:27,089 --> 01:06:29,832 Holy shit. 1447 01:06:29,932 --> 01:06:33,035 [Sweeney] There are 141,000 e-mails 1448 01:06:33,135 --> 01:06:35,918 on the laptop that might be relevant to Midyear Exam 1449 01:06:36,018 --> 01:06:39,722 associated with seven domains, primarily state.gov, 1450 01:06:39,822 --> 01:06:45,088 clintonaccount.net and clinton-foundationfund.net. 1451 01:06:45,188 --> 01:06:48,091 Now, as I said, NYO only has the legal authority 1452 01:06:48,191 --> 01:06:50,093 to look at the material on the Weiner laptop 1453 01:06:50,193 --> 01:06:53,617 relevant to the sex crime charges against him. 1454 01:06:53,717 --> 01:06:55,259 We can't look at any of the Midyear stuff, 1455 01:06:55,359 --> 01:06:57,341 nothing to which Abedin was a party. 1456 01:06:57,441 --> 01:06:59,263 Andy, it's our feeling here that, uh, 1457 01:06:59,363 --> 01:07:01,105 you're gonna have to get a new warrant. 1458 01:07:01,205 --> 01:07:03,908 Okay. CD and NYO personnel should connect on this, 1459 01:07:04,008 --> 01:07:05,349 figure out what you have there. 1460 01:07:05,449 --> 01:07:06,951 Hopefully it's all just duplicates 1461 01:07:07,051 --> 01:07:09,153 -of what we've already seen. -Duplicates? 1462 01:07:09,253 --> 01:07:10,755 [Sweeney] Uh, the time frames overlap with the periods 1463 01:07:10,855 --> 01:07:12,797 you're looking at here. I mean, this is very much 1464 01:07:12,897 --> 01:07:14,679 -in the Midyear lane. -We did such 1465 01:07:14,779 --> 01:07:16,881 a thorough scrub before, this is likely all duplicates 1466 01:07:16,981 --> 01:07:18,483 -of what we've already seen. -Okay, Andy, we-- 1467 01:07:18,583 --> 01:07:21,086 Listen, Bill, can we take this off-line? 1468 01:07:21,186 --> 01:07:23,728 I have to get to Quantico. I'll call you from the car. 1469 01:07:23,828 --> 01:07:26,732 -Sure. -[Page] What a shitshow. 1470 01:07:26,832 --> 01:07:29,294 I don't think it's a crank lead, but there are all kinds 1471 01:07:29,394 --> 01:07:32,177 of process issues attached to it and technical issues, too. 1472 01:07:32,277 --> 01:07:33,619 My guess is it's something 1473 01:07:33,719 --> 01:07:35,341 we wait until the first of the year to deal with. 1474 01:07:35,441 --> 01:07:37,343 -Hmm. -Anyway, I'm, uh, 1475 01:07:37,443 --> 01:07:40,266 -I'm going up there tomorrow. -You're a dick. 1476 01:07:40,366 --> 01:07:42,268 Leaving me here with all this fake e-mail hysteria 1477 01:07:42,368 --> 01:07:43,870 while you're lounging on the Acela? 1478 01:07:43,970 --> 01:07:45,271 Well, somebody's got to do it. 1479 01:07:45,371 --> 01:07:48,334 Like I said. Dick. 1480 01:07:52,459 --> 01:07:55,422 [Page] Trump can't become president, right? 1481 01:07:59,706 --> 01:08:01,608 Right? 1482 01:08:01,708 --> 01:08:03,010 No. He won't. 1483 01:08:03,110 --> 01:08:04,732 We'll stop him. 1484 01:08:04,832 --> 01:08:07,134 "We" as in the Bureau? You just gave me a boner. 1485 01:08:07,234 --> 01:08:10,658 No, "we" as in the public. 1486 01:08:10,758 --> 01:08:13,260 That's who you're counting on? Oh, honey. 1487 01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:15,663 [laughs softly] 1488 01:08:15,763 --> 01:08:17,064 [Page grunts] 1489 01:08:17,164 --> 01:08:19,067 ♪ pensive music ♪ 1490 01:08:19,167 --> 01:08:21,169 ♪♪♪♪♪ 1491 01:08:33,301 --> 01:08:34,963 [McCabe] I just got a call from NYO, 1492 01:08:35,063 --> 01:08:38,187 asking where we were on the Anthony Weiner laptop. 1493 01:08:41,910 --> 01:08:43,893 Where are we on the Anthony Weiner laptop? 1494 01:08:43,993 --> 01:08:45,374 We're behind. 1495 01:08:45,474 --> 01:08:47,376 We were unable to begin the carving process on the laptop 1496 01:08:47,476 --> 01:08:49,338 in New York last month due to legal limitations. 1497 01:08:49,438 --> 01:08:50,980 We needed either a new search warrant 1498 01:08:51,080 --> 01:08:53,102 or a modification of the prior one. 1499 01:08:53,202 --> 01:08:55,585 And did we seek a new warrant or a modification? 1500 01:08:55,685 --> 01:08:58,989 No. There was a miscommunication. 1501 01:08:59,089 --> 01:09:02,833 But we now know that the laptop contains 347,000 e-mails, 1502 01:09:02,933 --> 01:09:06,416 including backups of Secretary Clinton's BlackBerry e-mails. 1503 01:09:08,458 --> 01:09:09,840 Her BlackBerry e-mails. 1504 01:09:09,940 --> 01:09:11,482 -Yeah. -The ones we did not have 1505 01:09:11,582 --> 01:09:13,203 access to in round one. 1506 01:09:13,303 --> 01:09:14,925 The ones that might prove criminal intent? 1507 01:09:15,025 --> 01:09:16,247 Yes. 1508 01:09:16,347 --> 01:09:18,689 I see. 1509 01:09:18,789 --> 01:09:22,413 So we are now 15 days before a presidential election, 1510 01:09:22,513 --> 01:09:26,337 and we have to go through 347,000 e-mails 1511 01:09:26,437 --> 01:09:28,620 to determine if one of the candidates in that election 1512 01:09:28,720 --> 01:09:30,422 needs to be indicted, 1513 01:09:30,522 --> 01:09:33,064 and we could have had that answer a month ago? 1514 01:09:33,164 --> 01:09:34,906 Yes, sir. 1515 01:09:35,006 --> 01:09:37,008 [phone vibrates] 1516 01:09:45,778 --> 01:09:47,820 [sets phone down] 1517 01:09:50,583 --> 01:09:53,786 -Was that Andy? -Yeah. Why? 1518 01:09:54,867 --> 01:09:56,869 So is this. 1519 01:09:57,830 --> 01:09:59,832 I'm aware. 1520 01:10:00,393 --> 01:10:02,095 -And? -And I think it's crap. 1521 01:10:02,195 --> 01:10:03,817 A story like that brings an unnecessary vector 1522 01:10:03,917 --> 01:10:05,458 of suspicion upon the Bureau. 1523 01:10:05,558 --> 01:10:07,581 He must have told you about the contribution, right? 1524 01:10:07,681 --> 01:10:10,424 I mean, he'd have to have, before he had anything to do 1525 01:10:10,524 --> 01:10:12,926 with an investigation into Hillary. 1526 01:10:17,331 --> 01:10:20,754 Jill should never have run, anyway. 1527 01:10:20,854 --> 01:10:24,598 No Democrat was ever gonna win in Loudoun County. 1528 01:10:24,698 --> 01:10:27,522 It was long before he became a deputy, and he's doing fine. 1529 01:10:27,622 --> 01:10:28,843 He's working his tail off. 1530 01:10:28,943 --> 01:10:30,725 Jim, don't go Jimmy Stewart on this one. 1531 01:10:30,825 --> 01:10:33,928 He's an operator. Mr. Porsche. 1532 01:10:34,028 --> 01:10:36,791 No law against driving a Porsche, Treecy. 1533 01:10:43,398 --> 01:10:45,400 Doesn't it make you angry? 1534 01:10:47,522 --> 01:10:49,425 Anger doesn't help. 1535 01:10:49,525 --> 01:10:51,867 [McCabe] Boss, the Anthony Weiner laptop 1536 01:10:51,967 --> 01:10:54,029 that NYO recovered last month. 1537 01:10:54,129 --> 01:10:56,032 [Comey] Okay. 1538 01:10:56,132 --> 01:10:59,595 It contains e-mail metadata from Secretary Clinton. 1539 01:10:59,695 --> 01:11:01,597 From her BlackBerry domain account, 1540 01:11:01,697 --> 01:11:04,480 which she used in her first three months at State. 1541 01:11:04,580 --> 01:11:06,402 As you know, these were the e-mails 1542 01:11:06,502 --> 01:11:09,385 we did not have access to in our initial investigation. 1543 01:11:12,469 --> 01:11:14,291 I-If any e-mails were going to indicate 1544 01:11:14,391 --> 01:11:17,975 criminal intent on her part, it would be these. 1545 01:11:18,075 --> 01:11:21,378 I see. And we discovered these last month? 1546 01:11:21,478 --> 01:11:22,980 Yes, sir. 1547 01:11:23,080 --> 01:11:24,622 I did mention it to you initially. 1548 01:11:24,722 --> 01:11:26,984 I imagine you didn't index it. 1549 01:11:27,084 --> 01:11:28,386 No. 1550 01:11:28,486 --> 01:11:30,107 Andy, you can drop off now. 1551 01:11:30,207 --> 01:11:31,549 I don't need you on this call. 1552 01:11:31,649 --> 01:11:33,551 -Yes, sir. -[line clicks] 1553 01:11:33,651 --> 01:11:36,654 -Sir, would you excuse me? -Of course. 1554 01:11:39,978 --> 01:11:41,119 What do you need? 1555 01:11:41,219 --> 01:11:43,081 Permission to seek an expanded search warrant. 1556 01:11:43,181 --> 01:11:46,124 You got it. How fast can you review and assess 1557 01:11:46,224 --> 01:11:47,486 -these extra e-mails? -Several weeks. 1558 01:11:47,586 --> 01:11:49,287 [Comey] The election's 12 days away. 1559 01:11:49,387 --> 01:11:51,089 -Can we bring in more bodies? -[Priestap] We determined 1560 01:11:51,189 --> 01:11:52,171 that that would be ineffective. 1561 01:11:52,271 --> 01:11:53,252 Outsiders wouldn't know 1562 01:11:53,352 --> 01:11:54,333 -what to look for. -And our chance 1563 01:11:54,433 --> 01:11:56,175 of resolving this by November 8? 1564 01:11:56,275 --> 01:11:58,017 Zero. 1565 01:11:58,117 --> 01:12:00,119 Okay. 1566 01:12:00,519 --> 01:12:02,021 Do it as quickly as you can. 1567 01:12:02,121 --> 01:12:05,484 Do it well, always well, no matter how long it takes. 1568 01:12:07,126 --> 01:12:11,170 Now, does Congress need to be advised of this? 1569 01:12:14,013 --> 01:12:17,918 We just told Congress in July that this was all over. 1570 01:12:18,018 --> 01:12:20,000 That is now materially untrue. 1571 01:12:20,100 --> 01:12:23,924 We are reopening our investigation. 1572 01:12:24,024 --> 01:12:25,926 If we conceal that fact, 1573 01:12:26,026 --> 01:12:27,648 will it look like we sat on information 1574 01:12:27,748 --> 01:12:30,511 to benefit one campaign over another? 1575 01:12:34,915 --> 01:12:37,058 All right, I want all of you to take a break for an hour. 1576 01:12:37,158 --> 01:12:38,619 Get out of this room, get some air. 1577 01:12:38,719 --> 01:12:41,222 Then we'll reconvene so I can hear your thinking. 1578 01:12:41,322 --> 01:12:42,824 [clears throat] Sir, 1579 01:12:42,924 --> 01:12:44,706 the FBI has never commented 1580 01:12:44,806 --> 01:12:47,068 on the reopening of an investigation. 1581 01:12:47,168 --> 01:12:49,991 It might very well be unfair 1582 01:12:50,091 --> 01:12:51,833 to Secretary Clinton in terms of due process. 1583 01:12:51,933 --> 01:12:54,436 We wouldn't be publicly commenting on it. 1584 01:12:54,536 --> 01:12:56,598 We'd be notifying Congress. A letter to the chairs 1585 01:12:56,698 --> 01:12:58,160 of the eight appropriate committees 1586 01:12:58,260 --> 01:13:00,442 -in the House and Senate. -I understand, but-- 1587 01:13:00,542 --> 01:13:02,404 But, uh, this close to an election, 1588 01:13:02,504 --> 01:13:04,046 that will almost certainly leak, 1589 01:13:04,146 --> 01:13:05,768 so notifying Congress 1590 01:13:05,868 --> 01:13:08,331 is tantamount to notifying the public. 1591 01:13:08,431 --> 01:13:11,334 So we should conceal it? Lie by omission? 1592 01:13:11,434 --> 01:13:14,737 Well, what if we announce and then don't find anything? 1593 01:13:14,837 --> 01:13:17,740 What if we don't announce and then find criminal intent? 1594 01:13:17,840 --> 01:13:19,622 [Strzok] Even if we did conceal it, 1595 01:13:19,722 --> 01:13:20,984 -NYO would leak it anyway. -[Priestap] Mm-hmm. 1596 01:13:21,084 --> 01:13:22,986 We'd look sneaky and ineffective. 1597 01:13:23,086 --> 01:13:24,988 -We don't know that. -Of course they'd leak it. 1598 01:13:25,088 --> 01:13:26,390 That place is a sieve. 1599 01:13:26,490 --> 01:13:28,512 And they hate Secretary Clinton. In five minutes, 1600 01:13:28,612 --> 01:13:30,874 Rudy Giuliani would be screaming it on Fox News. 1601 01:13:30,974 --> 01:13:33,677 He's a former prosecutor and a former U.S.A. 1602 01:13:33,777 --> 01:13:36,000 -So? -So he knows better. 1603 01:13:36,100 --> 01:13:37,521 Well, that's hysterical. 1604 01:13:37,621 --> 01:13:39,804 This whole campaign is a job audition for him. 1605 01:13:39,904 --> 01:13:43,007 What was the saying at SDNY, boss, about him back in the day? 1606 01:13:43,107 --> 01:13:45,650 "The most dangerous place to stand in the world 1607 01:13:45,750 --> 01:13:47,692 is between Rudy Giuliani and a microphone." 1608 01:13:47,792 --> 01:13:49,454 [Strzok] Right. 1609 01:13:49,554 --> 01:13:51,556 One hour. 1610 01:13:54,399 --> 01:13:56,301 ♪ slow, dramatic music ♪ 1611 01:13:56,401 --> 01:13:58,403 ♪♪♪♪♪ 1612 01:14:04,529 --> 01:14:06,532 [door closes] 1613 01:14:08,694 --> 01:14:10,696 Thoughts? 1614 01:14:13,699 --> 01:14:15,801 My fear is how partisan we'll look 1615 01:14:15,901 --> 01:14:18,244 if word gets out and we've said nothing. 1616 01:14:18,344 --> 01:14:20,246 Saying something would be worse. 1617 01:14:20,346 --> 01:14:22,008 And we don't know, categorically, 1618 01:14:22,108 --> 01:14:24,330 -that NYO will leak it. -Weiner's lawyers could leak it. 1619 01:14:24,430 --> 01:14:26,333 DOJ could leak it. It's not close-hold. 1620 01:14:26,433 --> 01:14:28,815 [Comey] That's my fear, too. We don't announce, 1621 01:14:28,915 --> 01:14:31,178 and three days before the election, word leaks. 1622 01:14:31,278 --> 01:14:33,460 "The FBI has reopened the investigation 1623 01:14:33,560 --> 01:14:37,024 on Hillary Clinton, not told anyone about it." 1624 01:14:37,124 --> 01:14:38,826 Where does that put the credibility 1625 01:14:38,926 --> 01:14:40,227 of this institution? 1626 01:14:40,327 --> 01:14:42,069 Another scenario. 1627 01:14:42,169 --> 01:14:44,432 Hillary's just been elected. 1628 01:14:44,532 --> 01:14:46,994 A Republican-controlled House is drafting bills of impeachment 1629 01:14:47,094 --> 01:14:48,836 before she's even sworn in. 1630 01:14:48,936 --> 01:14:52,080 Now imagine we find something incriminating. 1631 01:14:52,180 --> 01:14:55,483 We present those findings to House Judiciary. 1632 01:14:55,583 --> 01:14:58,727 They ask us when we first found these e-mails, 1633 01:14:58,827 --> 01:15:01,169 and we'll be obliged to say that we learned of them 1634 01:15:01,269 --> 01:15:03,452 a month before the election. 1635 01:15:03,552 --> 01:15:05,494 And the world will conclude 1636 01:15:05,594 --> 01:15:08,176 that we actively concealed this from the American public 1637 01:15:08,276 --> 01:15:10,139 in order to tip the election. 1638 01:15:10,239 --> 01:15:12,821 Where does that leave the credibility 1639 01:15:12,921 --> 01:15:14,303 of this institution? 1640 01:15:14,403 --> 01:15:17,226 Any letter that you put out at this juncture 1641 01:15:17,326 --> 01:15:20,069 is going to be interpreted by the public 1642 01:15:20,169 --> 01:15:23,513 to mean that we've found new evidence of wrongdoing. 1643 01:15:23,613 --> 01:15:25,675 If I don't inform Congress on this, 1644 01:15:25,775 --> 01:15:27,997 I should be fired. Run out of town. 1645 01:15:28,097 --> 01:15:31,481 But, boss, what if our doing this 1646 01:15:31,581 --> 01:15:35,305 results in the election of Donald Trump as president? 1647 01:15:41,351 --> 01:15:44,314 That's a great question. Thank you for asking it. 1648 01:15:48,759 --> 01:15:52,263 Down that road lies the death of the FBI 1649 01:15:52,363 --> 01:15:54,725 as an independent force in American life. 1650 01:15:56,767 --> 01:15:59,390 If I ever start considering whose political fortunes 1651 01:15:59,490 --> 01:16:03,154 might be affected by a decision even for a second, 1652 01:16:03,254 --> 01:16:05,256 we're done. 1653 01:16:07,058 --> 01:16:09,060 You still disagree? 1654 01:16:10,502 --> 01:16:13,245 I know you believe in telling the truth. 1655 01:16:13,345 --> 01:16:15,087 I do, too. 1656 01:16:15,187 --> 01:16:18,771 But there are all kinds of truths out there. 1657 01:16:18,871 --> 01:16:21,894 We're also, for example, 1658 01:16:21,994 --> 01:16:23,696 investigating the possibility 1659 01:16:23,796 --> 01:16:26,819 that Trump's campaign is in bed with Russia. 1660 01:16:26,919 --> 01:16:27,940 But that's intel. 1661 01:16:28,040 --> 01:16:29,542 But it's a truth. 1662 01:16:29,642 --> 01:16:33,306 And concealing one truth and publicly announcing another 1663 01:16:33,406 --> 01:16:35,388 is selective honesty. 1664 01:16:35,488 --> 01:16:36,910 Isn't it? 1665 01:16:37,010 --> 01:16:39,152 Trisha, I told Congress and the country 1666 01:16:39,252 --> 01:16:40,954 that this case was closed. 1667 01:16:41,054 --> 01:16:44,077 If that's revealed to be a lie, 1668 01:16:44,177 --> 01:16:47,501 how would they ever believe us again? 1669 01:16:49,983 --> 01:16:51,985 [cooing softly] 1670 01:16:55,389 --> 01:16:57,591 -[door opens] -[Strzok] Hey, boss? 1671 01:17:01,115 --> 01:17:02,977 [Giuliani] A-And then, I think he's got 1672 01:17:03,077 --> 01:17:04,659 a surprise or two that you're gonna hear about 1673 01:17:04,759 --> 01:17:06,180 -in the next two days. -Right. Rudy-- 1674 01:17:06,280 --> 01:17:07,982 I-I mean, I mean, I'm talking about 1675 01:17:08,082 --> 01:17:10,585 some pretty big surprise. 1676 01:17:10,685 --> 01:17:11,666 -[laughs] -Stay tuned. 1677 01:17:11,766 --> 01:17:13,768 [turns off TV] 1678 01:17:14,689 --> 01:17:16,431 -He's gonna leak it. -If he hasn't already. 1679 01:17:16,531 --> 01:17:18,273 -That's likely true. -[scoffs] 1680 01:17:18,373 --> 01:17:20,556 A second ago you were telling him not to do this. 1681 01:17:20,656 --> 01:17:21,957 I'm trying to find some door 1682 01:17:22,057 --> 01:17:23,599 other than the one that leads to hell. 1683 01:17:23,699 --> 01:17:26,642 [Comey] As I see it, we only have two options here: 1684 01:17:26,742 --> 01:17:29,845 speak or conceal. 1685 01:17:29,945 --> 01:17:33,489 One is really bad, the other catastrophic. 1686 01:17:33,589 --> 01:17:35,832 That's right. 1687 01:17:36,913 --> 01:17:39,896 Welcome to really bad. 1688 01:17:39,996 --> 01:17:42,699 Is this a conversation or a decision he's already made? 1689 01:17:42,799 --> 01:17:44,621 The official line is "The director believes 1690 01:17:44,721 --> 01:17:46,263 he has a duty to inform 1691 01:17:46,363 --> 01:17:48,265 the appropriate congressional committees." 1692 01:17:48,365 --> 01:17:52,709 That's not quite "I alone can fix it," but it's close. 1693 01:17:52,809 --> 01:17:55,032 And to me, that means he's going to do it. 1694 01:17:55,132 --> 01:17:57,354 Unless you order him not to. 1695 01:17:57,454 --> 01:18:01,519 And then he does it anyway, and we have to fire him. 1696 01:18:01,619 --> 01:18:05,082 Or he resigns and people find out why. 1697 01:18:05,182 --> 01:18:08,286 Or the contents of the letter are leaked and we've exposed 1698 01:18:08,386 --> 01:18:10,969 ourselves to an obstruction of Congress investigation 1699 01:18:11,069 --> 01:18:12,610 for preventing him from correcting 1700 01:18:12,710 --> 01:18:14,652 -a misimpression. -But you're his boss. 1701 01:18:14,752 --> 01:18:16,695 You can order him to stand down and deal with the consequences 1702 01:18:16,795 --> 01:18:19,337 if and when they come. 1703 01:18:19,437 --> 01:18:21,620 Loretta, he's taking a beat here. 1704 01:18:21,720 --> 01:18:24,102 To me, that means he's giving us the option to step in 1705 01:18:24,202 --> 01:18:26,185 and make the decision for him. 1706 01:18:26,285 --> 01:18:30,029 Mm-mm. We cannot be perceived to be leaning on him. 1707 01:18:30,129 --> 01:18:32,711 The best way to convince him not to do it is to convince 1708 01:18:32,811 --> 01:18:35,034 the people close to him to stop him from doing it. 1709 01:18:35,134 --> 01:18:36,355 You agree? 1710 01:18:36,455 --> 01:18:39,479 I think norms and policies matter. 1711 01:18:39,579 --> 01:18:41,240 And I think Director Comey believes 1712 01:18:41,340 --> 01:18:43,643 that his own ethics are now worth more 1713 01:18:43,743 --> 01:18:47,127 than the norms that have always steered us. 1714 01:18:47,227 --> 01:18:49,549 You want to bring him in? 1715 01:19:02,523 --> 01:19:06,907 Tell Director Comey we think this is a bad idea... 1716 01:19:07,007 --> 01:19:08,629 -Yes. -...but we do not wish 1717 01:19:08,729 --> 01:19:10,891 to discuss it with him. 1718 01:19:13,935 --> 01:19:15,837 [knocks on door] 1719 01:19:15,937 --> 01:19:18,600 [Comey] Hey. 1720 01:19:18,700 --> 01:19:22,003 -Hey, Dad. -Got a minute? 1721 01:19:22,103 --> 01:19:24,105 Yeah, definitely. 1722 01:19:28,590 --> 01:19:30,592 Abs... 1723 01:19:33,555 --> 01:19:35,457 ...your father's about to get punched in the face 1724 01:19:35,557 --> 01:19:37,940 in public again. 1725 01:19:38,040 --> 01:19:40,262 Thought I should warn you. 1726 01:19:40,362 --> 01:19:44,907 It's not something I'm looking forward to, but I'll be fine. 1727 01:19:45,007 --> 01:19:46,549 Another press conference? 1728 01:19:46,649 --> 01:19:50,473 No, but the effect will be the same. 1729 01:19:50,573 --> 01:19:53,676 Worse. 1730 01:19:53,776 --> 01:19:56,880 Are you doing the right thing? 1731 01:19:56,980 --> 01:20:00,584 I think so. Pretty sure. 1732 01:20:02,626 --> 01:20:05,449 Then that's it. 1733 01:20:05,549 --> 01:20:08,492 -I love you, Dad. -[laughs softly] 1734 01:20:08,592 --> 01:20:10,494 I love you, too, babe. 1735 01:20:10,594 --> 01:20:12,756 Oh, I'm proud of you. 1736 01:20:14,799 --> 01:20:16,801 Thanks. 1737 01:20:22,567 --> 01:20:24,869 [Patrice] It's too close to the election. 1738 01:20:24,969 --> 01:20:27,132 It's much too close. 1739 01:20:29,174 --> 01:20:31,716 -Do you want him to win? -I can't talk about this 1740 01:20:31,816 --> 01:20:33,438 -with you anymore, Treecy. -Jim. Jimmy. 1741 01:20:33,538 --> 01:20:35,721 -I can't. -What are you doing? 1742 01:20:35,821 --> 01:20:37,923 Now, I would never ask you to prosecute someone 1743 01:20:38,023 --> 01:20:40,966 or not prosecute someone in my life. 1744 01:20:41,066 --> 01:20:42,608 I wouldn't do that. 1745 01:20:42,708 --> 01:20:44,450 But you have four daughters. 1746 01:20:44,550 --> 01:20:46,452 Now think about what it would mean for them 1747 01:20:46,552 --> 01:20:48,935 to see a woman become president. 1748 01:20:49,035 --> 01:20:51,858 Now think about what it would mean for them 1749 01:20:51,958 --> 01:20:56,703 to see her lose... to him. 1750 01:20:56,803 --> 01:20:58,545 And you would have to live with that. 1751 01:20:58,645 --> 01:21:01,828 And they would have to live with that, forever. 1752 01:21:01,928 --> 01:21:03,670 Please don't make it seem like my choices 1753 01:21:03,770 --> 01:21:06,153 are between loving my daughters or doing my job. 1754 01:21:06,253 --> 01:21:08,635 This is not your job. 1755 01:21:08,735 --> 01:21:11,879 Swinging elections is not your job. 1756 01:21:11,979 --> 01:21:14,201 -But protecting the Bureau is. -No. 1757 01:21:14,301 --> 01:21:17,004 You went there to put bad guys away. 1758 01:21:17,104 --> 01:21:21,208 The Ramsey Rapists of the world. 1759 01:21:21,308 --> 01:21:23,491 Not to help them become president. 1760 01:21:23,591 --> 01:21:24,932 You have no idea what I'm dealing with. 1761 01:21:25,032 --> 01:21:27,615 -Then tell me. -I can't. 1762 01:21:27,715 --> 01:21:31,880 You are going to convince everyone that she is Crooked... 1763 01:21:37,525 --> 01:21:39,528 ...Crooked Hillary. 1764 01:21:40,969 --> 01:21:43,952 And then what? 1765 01:21:44,052 --> 01:21:46,054 I'm begging you... 1766 01:21:47,336 --> 01:21:50,960 ...for once in your life, don't do your duty. 1767 01:21:51,060 --> 01:21:54,403 Just let it go. Please? 1768 01:21:54,503 --> 01:21:57,326 ♪ slow, somber music ♪ 1769 01:21:57,426 --> 01:21:59,168 Honey, I can stand the whole world 1770 01:21:59,268 --> 01:22:01,851 being mad at me, I really can. 1771 01:22:01,951 --> 01:22:03,953 But not you. 1772 01:22:04,394 --> 01:22:07,197 Then listen to me. 1773 01:22:09,679 --> 01:22:12,082 Jimmy. 1774 01:22:13,163 --> 01:22:15,165 Dad. 1775 01:22:27,138 --> 01:22:28,479 ♪ suspenseful music ♪ 1776 01:22:28,579 --> 01:22:30,581 [phone chimes] 1777 01:22:53,205 --> 01:22:55,207 [door opens] 1778 01:22:56,849 --> 01:22:58,351 [Comey] Morning, Rod. 1779 01:22:58,451 --> 01:23:00,353 Can't tell you what an honor this is, Jim. 1780 01:23:00,453 --> 01:23:01,994 The whole office is so excited. 1781 01:23:02,094 --> 01:23:04,297 -Flattered to be asked. -Right this way. 1782 01:23:07,220 --> 01:23:08,561 By now, 1783 01:23:08,661 --> 01:23:11,204 you all know Jim Comey's résumé. 1784 01:23:11,304 --> 01:23:13,807 Former U.S. attorney in SDNY. 1785 01:23:13,907 --> 01:23:15,889 Former deputy attorney general. 1786 01:23:15,989 --> 01:23:19,132 Currently director of the FBI. 1787 01:23:19,232 --> 01:23:22,576 He is a man of utter integrity and patriotism. 1788 01:23:22,676 --> 01:23:25,219 He's also the reason I am a U.S. attorney. 1789 01:23:25,319 --> 01:23:27,821 Jim selected me for the post 12 years ago, 1790 01:23:27,921 --> 01:23:31,125 which I guess means he owes all of you an apology. 1791 01:23:35,169 --> 01:23:37,832 I wanted him to speak with you today 1792 01:23:37,932 --> 01:23:40,074 about an obsession of his: 1793 01:23:40,174 --> 01:23:41,516 leadership, 1794 01:23:41,616 --> 01:23:43,398 especially as seen through the lens 1795 01:23:43,498 --> 01:23:45,680 of the firestorm he experienced this summer 1796 01:23:45,780 --> 01:23:47,322 during the Bureau's investigation 1797 01:23:47,422 --> 01:23:49,524 of Secretary Clinton. 1798 01:23:49,624 --> 01:23:52,327 Please welcome my friend and colleague, 1799 01:23:52,427 --> 01:23:53,569 Jim Comey. 1800 01:23:53,669 --> 01:23:55,671 Thank you, Rod. 1801 01:23:58,834 --> 01:23:59,735 Thanks, Rod. 1802 01:23:59,835 --> 01:24:00,976 I'll try to live up to that. 1803 01:24:01,076 --> 01:24:03,179 Um, first, 1804 01:24:03,279 --> 01:24:06,342 I want to thank each of you. 1805 01:24:06,442 --> 01:24:08,704 You came here to do good. 1806 01:24:08,804 --> 01:24:12,428 You've all made sacrifices to keep that promise. 1807 01:24:12,528 --> 01:24:16,032 You stay up late working on a summation to explain why a... 1808 01:24:16,132 --> 01:24:18,435 drug dealer or child pornographer is guilty. 1809 01:24:18,535 --> 01:24:22,439 You chase materials to organize court exhibits 1810 01:24:22,539 --> 01:24:25,923 that some yo-yo from the Bureau mislabeled. 1811 01:24:26,023 --> 01:24:27,204 [scattered laughter] 1812 01:24:27,304 --> 01:24:29,566 And you shrug pleasantly when people speak 1813 01:24:29,666 --> 01:24:33,050 of the "awesome resources of the federal government," 1814 01:24:33,150 --> 01:24:35,453 as you eye the fancy supplies at a law firm 1815 01:24:35,553 --> 01:24:36,894 and think about swiping some stuff 1816 01:24:36,994 --> 01:24:38,255 to take back to your office. 1817 01:24:38,355 --> 01:24:39,737 [laughter] 1818 01:24:39,837 --> 01:24:43,141 Despite obstacles, you do the work. 1819 01:24:43,241 --> 01:24:45,303 You protect people. 1820 01:24:45,403 --> 01:24:47,405 That's noble. 1821 01:24:48,606 --> 01:24:50,028 What makes that work possible 1822 01:24:50,128 --> 01:24:52,871 is a reservoir of trust and credibility, 1823 01:24:52,971 --> 01:24:55,474 a reservoir that was built for us 1824 01:24:55,574 --> 01:24:58,236 and filled for us by those who went before us in this work, 1825 01:24:58,336 --> 01:25:00,159 many of whom we never knew. 1826 01:25:00,259 --> 01:25:03,242 Our obligation is to protect that reservoir, 1827 01:25:03,342 --> 01:25:05,444 to keep it full or make it fuller, 1828 01:25:05,544 --> 01:25:09,528 for those who will follow us into public service. 1829 01:25:09,628 --> 01:25:13,533 The problem with reservoirs is that it's hard to fill them 1830 01:25:13,633 --> 01:25:16,896 and one tiny hole can drain them. 1831 01:25:16,996 --> 01:25:19,899 And that's what happens if our vigilance fails, 1832 01:25:19,999 --> 01:25:21,501 if, even for a second, 1833 01:25:21,601 --> 01:25:23,263 we ever put anything-- 1834 01:25:23,363 --> 01:25:26,466 politics, partisanship-- 1835 01:25:26,566 --> 01:25:30,370 above the primacy of truth and justice. 1836 01:25:32,973 --> 01:25:34,795 I love the Bureau. 1837 01:25:34,895 --> 01:25:37,278 I love its mission. 1838 01:25:37,378 --> 01:25:39,960 That guides me every day, 1839 01:25:40,060 --> 01:25:43,724 in everything I do. 1840 01:25:43,824 --> 01:25:47,288 And if it leads me to make mistakes, well... 1841 01:25:47,388 --> 01:25:49,931 [chuckles softly] 1842 01:25:50,031 --> 01:25:51,693 I know they'll be honest ones. 1843 01:25:51,793 --> 01:25:52,714 [DeMarco Morgan] The presidential election 1844 01:25:52,794 --> 01:25:53,735 was rocked Friday 1845 01:25:53,835 --> 01:25:56,418 by news that FBI Director James Comey 1846 01:25:56,518 --> 01:25:58,500 had sent a letter to congressional leaders 1847 01:25:58,600 --> 01:26:01,143 announcing that he was reopening the investigation 1848 01:26:01,243 --> 01:26:03,465 into Hillary Clinton's use of a private 1849 01:26:03,565 --> 01:26:05,547 e-mail server while Secretary of State, 1850 01:26:05,647 --> 01:26:07,910 following the discovery of new e-mails. 1851 01:26:08,010 --> 01:26:10,312 [reporter] Democrats are blasting the FBI director, 1852 01:26:10,412 --> 01:26:12,675 saying he's essentially throwing Donald Trump 1853 01:26:12,775 --> 01:26:16,399 a softball with just days to go before the campaign ends. 1854 01:26:16,499 --> 01:26:18,481 The Clinton campaign and Democratic lawmakers say 1855 01:26:18,581 --> 01:26:19,722 the move was political. 1856 01:26:19,822 --> 01:26:21,884 They're calling for more transparency. 1857 01:26:21,984 --> 01:26:23,806 Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta 1858 01:26:23,906 --> 01:26:26,369 held a heated conference call with reporters Saturday. 1859 01:26:26,469 --> 01:26:28,892 Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat and the vice chairperson 1860 01:26:28,992 --> 01:26:30,974 of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 1861 01:26:31,074 --> 01:26:32,816 said she was shocked to read Comey's letter. 1862 01:26:32,916 --> 01:26:35,379 [Clinton] He doesn't know whether the e-mails referenced 1863 01:26:35,479 --> 01:26:38,382 in his letter are significant or not. 1864 01:26:38,482 --> 01:26:40,824 I'm confident, whatever they are, 1865 01:26:40,924 --> 01:26:44,308 will not change the conclusion reached in July. 1866 01:26:44,408 --> 01:26:48,713 Therefore, it's imperative that the Bureau explain 1867 01:26:48,813 --> 01:26:51,475 this issue in question, whatever it is, 1868 01:26:51,575 --> 01:26:53,838 without any delay. 1869 01:26:53,938 --> 01:26:55,480 [reporter 2] According to officials, Director Comey 1870 01:26:55,580 --> 01:26:57,402 does not plan on providing any public updates 1871 01:26:57,502 --> 01:27:01,366 about the investigation until it is done. 1872 01:27:01,466 --> 01:27:04,169 That means no piecemeal updates on how many e-mails 1873 01:27:04,269 --> 01:27:06,211 were discovered that related to the investigation 1874 01:27:06,311 --> 01:27:09,615 or anything else specific until a conclusion has been reached. 1875 01:27:09,715 --> 01:27:12,498 So that means we will likely not hear about it 1876 01:27:12,598 --> 01:27:16,342 from Director Comey until after the election. 1877 01:27:16,442 --> 01:27:18,744 ♪ somber, suspenseful music ♪ 1878 01:27:18,844 --> 01:27:20,846 ♪♪♪♪♪ 1879 01:27:38,625 --> 01:27:40,967 [Strzok sighs] 1880 01:27:41,067 --> 01:27:42,689 [Strzok] We got through all the e-mails, boss. 1881 01:27:42,789 --> 01:27:44,651 The wizards downstairs built a program. 1882 01:27:44,751 --> 01:27:46,533 There's nothing here. 1883 01:27:46,633 --> 01:27:48,375 No new evidence of intent. 1884 01:27:48,475 --> 01:27:51,539 You're sure? This is not just fatigue talking? 1885 01:27:51,639 --> 01:27:53,541 We double and triple-checked each other's work, 1886 01:27:53,641 --> 01:27:55,543 and every e-mail. 1887 01:27:55,643 --> 01:27:57,185 Our conclusion is solid. 1888 01:27:57,285 --> 01:28:01,669 And our feeling is that the Bureau is obligated 1889 01:28:01,769 --> 01:28:05,593 to write another letter to Congress, advising them. 1890 01:28:05,693 --> 01:28:09,237 I want you all to go home and get some sleep, 1891 01:28:09,337 --> 01:28:12,240 with my deepest thanks for your hard work. 1892 01:28:12,340 --> 01:28:16,084 No one in America appreciates it, but I do. 1893 01:28:16,184 --> 01:28:19,568 [Quijano] With about 48 hours to go before the polls 1894 01:28:19,668 --> 01:28:21,810 begin to close, there's breaking news tonight 1895 01:28:21,910 --> 01:28:24,013 from FBI Director James Comey 1896 01:28:24,113 --> 01:28:25,855 on those recently discovered e-mails 1897 01:28:25,955 --> 01:28:28,537 connected to Hillary Clinton's private server. 1898 01:28:28,637 --> 01:28:31,821 Comey sent a letter to a congressional committee today 1899 01:28:31,921 --> 01:28:34,664 saying the FBI's review of the additional e-mails 1900 01:28:34,764 --> 01:28:36,946 has not changed the Bureau's decision 1901 01:28:37,046 --> 01:28:39,429 not to prosecute Secretary Clinton. 1902 01:28:39,529 --> 01:28:42,152 A Clinton aide says her reaction to the Comey letter 1903 01:28:42,252 --> 01:28:45,756 was understated, and she hasn't mentioned it here in Cleveland. 1904 01:28:45,856 --> 01:28:47,998 They believe the word will get out 1905 01:28:48,098 --> 01:28:51,442 whether Clinton talks about it or not in these closing days. 1906 01:28:51,542 --> 01:28:53,003 It's really, it's not a huge part. 1907 01:28:53,103 --> 01:28:54,405 Mm, it's an important part. 1908 01:28:54,505 --> 01:28:55,726 -Eh... -You get two songs. 1909 01:28:55,826 --> 01:28:57,168 -I think it's awesome. -Two songs. 1910 01:28:57,268 --> 01:28:59,610 -Me, too. -Okay, Dad. 1911 01:28:59,710 --> 01:29:01,712 [soft laughter] 1912 01:29:02,433 --> 01:29:04,595 Go Hillary. 1913 01:29:05,957 --> 01:29:07,959 [rock music playing faintly] 1914 01:29:37,710 --> 01:29:39,612 ♪ suspenseful music ♪ 1915 01:29:39,712 --> 01:29:41,714 ♪♪♪♪♪ 1916 01:29:46,599 --> 01:29:48,601 [indistinct chatter] 1917 01:29:53,527 --> 01:29:54,828 [Patrice] You got your I.D.? 1918 01:29:54,928 --> 01:29:56,830 Yes, I have my I.D., Mom. 1919 01:29:56,930 --> 01:29:59,073 ♪ slow, contemplative music ♪ 1920 01:29:59,173 --> 01:30:01,315 ♪♪♪♪♪ 1921 01:30:01,415 --> 01:30:03,317 Go ahead. 1922 01:30:03,417 --> 01:30:05,239 I'm so proud of you. 1923 01:30:05,339 --> 01:30:07,121 -You gonna join us, Dad? -Nah. Nah. 1924 01:30:07,221 --> 01:30:08,523 Well, you can, you know. 1925 01:30:08,623 --> 01:30:10,645 No, it's not something an FBI director should do. 1926 01:30:10,745 --> 01:30:12,206 You're still a citizen. 1927 01:30:12,306 --> 01:30:15,229 The point was to see you cast a vote. Go. 1928 01:30:17,952 --> 01:30:20,355 -You okay? -Yeah. 1929 01:30:22,477 --> 01:30:24,479 Treecy. 1930 01:30:26,802 --> 01:30:28,804 I wanted to stop the bad guys. 1931 01:30:29,725 --> 01:30:31,927 Brilliantly done, brother. 1932 01:30:34,570 --> 01:30:36,572 Go. 1933 01:30:47,784 --> 01:30:49,165 [Dana Bash] Now, Wolf, I have-- Wolf, I have 1934 01:30:49,265 --> 01:30:51,007 a little bit of information, but I just want to be sure 1935 01:30:51,107 --> 01:30:53,290 -that I have it right... -Mom? 1936 01:30:53,390 --> 01:30:54,891 [Wolf Blitzer] All right, go ahead, John. 1937 01:30:54,991 --> 01:30:56,613 [John King] To just go through this, as you go 1938 01:30:56,713 --> 01:30:58,074 through these, again, you go through the outstanding states. 1939 01:30:58,155 --> 01:31:00,497 Wisconsin, you see the lead, you're looking for the-- 1940 01:31:00,597 --> 01:31:02,139 to try to find the Democratic votes 1941 01:31:02,239 --> 01:31:03,660 and the math's just not there. 1942 01:31:03,760 --> 01:31:05,623 Uh, and that, you know, again, if it was one state, 1943 01:31:05,723 --> 01:31:06,864 you'd say, "Okay, they're gonna be 1944 01:31:06,964 --> 01:31:08,586 extra careful about one last state." 1945 01:31:08,686 --> 01:31:10,348 You go back to Michigan, it's very hard for the math, 1946 01:31:10,448 --> 01:31:11,749 and I just want to pop this up, Wolf. 1947 01:31:11,849 --> 01:31:13,391 It is not inconceivable 1948 01:31:13,491 --> 01:31:15,513 that Donald Trump catches up in Minnesota. 1949 01:31:15,613 --> 01:31:17,355 Uh, you know, Minnesota, the one state 1950 01:31:17,455 --> 01:31:19,837 Walter Mondale won, uh, in the Reagan sweep. 1951 01:31:19,937 --> 01:31:22,080 Uh, now, it's-- you know, the math is hard still... 1952 01:31:22,180 --> 01:31:24,282 -[Blitzer] All right, stand by. -...but this is a sweep. 1953 01:31:24,382 --> 01:31:25,644 [Blitzer] Dana, you were, you wanted 1954 01:31:25,744 --> 01:31:27,566 to be precise, so go ahead. 1955 01:31:27,666 --> 01:31:30,889 [Bash] That's right. Uh, CNN can report that Hillary Clinton 1956 01:31:30,989 --> 01:31:34,733 has called Donald Trump to concede the race. 1957 01:31:34,833 --> 01:31:37,456 She has called Donald Trump to say that 1958 01:31:37,556 --> 01:31:38,777 she will not be president. 1959 01:31:38,877 --> 01:31:40,779 ♪ dramatic, haunting music ♪ 1960 01:31:40,879 --> 01:31:43,602 ♪♪♪♪♪ 1961 01:31:47,607 --> 01:31:49,609 Boss. 1962 01:31:50,970 --> 01:31:53,693 The networks have all called it for Trump. 1963 01:31:59,059 --> 01:32:01,061 Thank you, Bill. 1964 01:32:21,522 --> 01:32:23,885 ♪♪♪♪♪ 1965 01:32:52,595 --> 01:32:54,497 ♪ dramatic, soaring music ♪ 1966 01:32:54,597 --> 01:32:56,599 ♪♪♪♪♪ 1967 01:33:25,910 --> 01:33:28,312 ♪♪♪♪♪ 1968 01:33:55,941 --> 01:33:57,944 ♪♪♪♪♪ 1969 01:34:20,567 --> 01:34:22,469 ♪ atmospheric music ♪ 1970 01:34:22,569 --> 01:34:24,571 ♪♪♪♪♪