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The Randi Rhodes Show

Randi Rhodes

Business, Government

4.8772 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Guest: Richard W. Painter. Prof. of law at the University of MN was the chief White House ethics lawyer for Pres. George W. Bush from ’05 to ’07. Currently, serve as vice chairman of CREW.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, it's Randy Rhodes. Here's a clip from our show and go to Randy Roads.com for the whole thing and a podcast. Buy a Stinking podcast. Believe it. Knock knock. Who's there? It's a segment of your imagination.

0:12.5

Turn up your mind. He's a showboat. He's a grandstander. The FBI has been in turmoil. You know that. I know that.

0:23.2

Everybody knows that. You take a look at the FBI a year ago. It was in virtual turmoil, less than a year ago.

0:32.0

It hasn't recovered from that. Monday, you met with the Deputy Attorney General, Rob Rosenstein.

0:36.8

Right. Did you ask for a recommendation?

0:39.2

What I did is I was going to fire Comey, my decision. It was not... You had made the decision

0:44.9

before they came in the room. I was going to fire Comey. There's no good time to do it, by the way.

0:51.0

Because in your letter, you said I accepted their recommendation, so you had already made the decision.

0:56.0

Oh, I was going to fire regardless of recommendation.

0:58.0

So there was really relevant.

0:59.0

He made a recommendation. He's highly respected.

1:01.0

Very good guy, very smart guy. The Democrats like him, the Republicans like him.

1:07.0

He made a recommendation. But regardless of recommendation, I was going to fire Comey.

1:11.6

Let me ask you about your termination letter to Mr. Comey. You write, I greatly appreciate

1:16.6

you informing me on three separate occasions that I am not under investigation. Why did you put that in there?

1:21.6

Because he told me that. I mean, he told me that.

1:23.6

He told you weren't under investigation with regard to the Russia investigation?

1:26.6

I've heard that from others. I think...

1:28.3

Was it in a phone call?

1:29.3

Did you meet face to face?

1:30.3

I had a dinner with him.

1:31.3

He wanted to have dinner because he wanted to stay on.

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