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Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast and we're here with a special episode about former FBI director James Comey.

Do you think the FBI's credibility is better or worse than it was a couple of years ago?

It's worse. But again, people can disagree about this and people I respect will.

But my judgment is it would be worse today.

Had we not taken the, picked the least bad alternatives.

That was James Comey in an interview with Morning Edition host Steve Innskeep and our own Carrie Johnson.

There is so much to discuss about Comey, his new book, his big media tour and what this all means.

I must m'halla political reporter. I'm Carrie Johnson, justice correspondent.

I'm Mara Laiasson, National Political Correspondent.

All right folks, so let us just jump right in.

Carrie, can you just remind us because it's been a little while how James Comey kind of became the hub of all this 2016 election drama?

Well, remember that the FBI was investigating Hillary Clinton for her use of a personal email server to do state department business.

In July of 2016, Jim Comey came out and said he would recommend no charges against Hillary Clinton.

Then the FBI and other investigators discovered a whole bunch of emails on the computer for Anthony Weiner,

the estranged husband, now former husband of one of Hillary Clinton's closest aides.

Comey notified Congress in October, in October before the election.

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