Top Talker Rita Cosby Interviews Former Attorney General Regarding Comey Testimony
Following Thursday’s highly-anticipated and dramatic U.S. Senate appearance by former FBI Director James Comey, there have been an enormous number of expert comments made by attorneys, law enforcement officials, lawmakers and political strategists about Comey’s presentation. However, veteran newswoman, anchorwoman and Fox News Channel correspondent Rita Cosby managed to clarify — with the help of a former attorney general and legal scholar — the complicated case of political collusion, classified document leaks, “fake news” stories and other elements of the Trump-Russia probe.
Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was interviewed by WABC Radio Host Rita Cosby on Friday afternoon about the James Comey testimony and said he believes the President will now be interviewed by the Special Counsel, that he now cannot imagine that won’t happen after Comey’s testimony.
Former AG Gonzales also says he separately expects the DOJ Inspector General will also issue “a scathing report” on how AG Jeff Sessions and James Comey conducted themselves in this matter. He believes both made serious mistakes and put at risk the independence of the FBI by their lack of action after the President requested to meet privately with Comey.
The full interview runs 19 minutes, the timecodes for key parts are listed below. Here is the full audio.
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Timecodes for Key Parts:
*1:35 – says he believes President will be interviewed by the Special Counsel
4:45 – says Comey’s firing was disrespectful to him, finding out about it on TV.
8:10 – talks about Comey’s leaking contents of his memo, says he doesn’t believe in leakers
*10:07 – says it was “goofy” that Loretta Lynch made the request to change the verbage on the Clinton email investigation to a matter vs an investigation per Comey.
***10:15 – “The FBI does not have matters.” Says not good for Lynch. (at 11:11)
**12:09 – says both Sessions and Comey are at fault in the way they handled Coney’s private meeting with President, when President asked Sessions and others to leave the room in February. Both should’ve reported it and discussed it.
14:17 – says Comey failed in reporting this to leadership.
**15:39 – says he believes the inspector general of the Justice Dept will write a “scathing report” criticizing the actions of both Sessions and Comey “for failing to do their job and protecting the FBI.”
***17:44 – says Trump may have fired Comey because Comey would not publicly say Trump was not subject of an investigation.
18:30 – talks about new FBI pick by Trump, Christopher Wray, who worked for Gonzales, saying he is much more low key than Comey, very different style.
