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Hey folks, another busy week of news to make sense of. The Inspector General's report

concluding that former FBI director James Comey violated bureau policy by disclosing

memos of his interactions with President Trump. The New York Times report that the Justice

Department is close to deciding whether to charge former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe

for lying to federal agents and Attorney General Bill Barr's decision to book a Trump

hotel in DC to host a family holiday party for some $30,000. I talk about all this with

Anne Milgram on the Weekly Cafe Insider podcast when we break down the news and take stock

of what's happening. Today we're making a clip from the most recent episode available

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But it is important to your point that at the time Comey took the memos and shared the

memos initially, there was no classification. The FBI then goes back and does what they

often do and they classify it. They then alert him that it's been classified. But at the

time of these actions, it's important to know that it's very clear that Comey didn't

believe any of it was classified. And again, one word ends up being classified, which

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