Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged with two counts of obstruction of justice, and false statements, but a third count is still pending. President Donald Trump has called him "one of the worst human beings this country has ever been exposed to."
00:01:31.900As the person that reported out, how significant is this moment?
00:01:35.800I'll use the words, Chris, that prosecutors and federal investigators are saying to me tonight, which is simply chilling.
00:01:46.320Chilling because a seasoned prosecutor who was appointed by the Trump administration, chosen by Donald Trump and his allies, looked at the facts in this case and said there wasn't a sufficient, reasonable basis to bring it.
00:02:01.040And was resisting bringing it, was pressured to resign or be forced out, thrown out, thrown out on the curb.
00:02:17.200Chris, for the past two weeks, we have been gaslighted by MAGA, saying that we're too extreme, that our language is too extreme, that you can't use this kind of language.
00:02:26.740Well, if you don't want us to use extreme language, you should not do extreme stuff.
00:02:30.460If you don't want us to call Donald Trump an authoritarian, he should not act like an authoritarian.
00:02:36.020And the reality is, today, it's ironic that Erdogan was in the Oval Office with the president because Erdogan in Turkey did exactly the same thing that Donald Trump is now doing.
00:02:47.960People who investigated him, he prosecuted.
00:03:36.680Although, honestly, for me, it's a tie between All Too Well, 10-Minute Version and Exile featuring Bon Iver.
00:03:43.320Taylor Swift has grown up with my family and provided us a soundtrack, really, as we've grown ourselves and learned and adapted and dealt with adversity and celebration.
00:04:47.680Now, Comey is a longtime law enforcement officer, a longtime lawyer.
00:04:51.060For a lot of people, this is going to put them into significant amounts of debt in legal bills.
00:04:55.960There are some incredible attorneys out there trying to protect folks that do this stuff.
00:05:00.140But, you know, now you've been before, you know, your case has been before a grand jury.
00:05:04.460You've got to have a lawyer, a litigator.
00:05:06.620Right. Litigators are very, very expensive, especially, I assume, in a federal criminal trial.
00:05:10.680And now you've got to go before a judge.
00:05:12.900You've got to be arraigned, all those other things.
00:05:14.780I hope that the judge in this case, whoever draws the case, you know, will will dismiss this these charges if they believe them to be egregious.
00:05:22.760But I think we should see that Comey as the top of the pyramid, certainly not the bottom.
00:05:26.880Like a lot of you, I struggle with how to stand up to bullies without letting their meanness infect me and change me.
00:05:35.220You may have seen that the governor of California has been generating a lot of attention lately by posting on social media in a satirical way where he mocks Donald Trump and his all caps megalomania and his absurdity.
00:05:47.880And I find it very funny, hilarious, even sometimes.
00:05:52.480But I've got to be honest, it also leaves me with a strange feeling at times because I don't want us to become like Trump and his followers.
00:06:01.400There are far more decent, honest, kind people in America than there are mean jerks.
00:06:08.820This is really a reminder of how much retribution and revenge has been a driving factor in the president's in the president's presidency, not only in his campaign where he really promised to go after his enemies.
00:06:21.140But even after he won, he continues to pursue this relentlessly.
00:06:25.180And you've laid out that timeline of him posting that true social directly to Pam Bondi and later telling reporters that he wanted her to act quickly.
00:06:34.500He's made this very clear that he wanted an urgency here.
00:06:38.340And that is something that potentially could come back to bite the prosecutors in this case is his statements to this effect.
00:06:44.040And this is really a break for a president that we have seen for decades now, but the White House has not been involved in Justice Department actions.
00:06:52.020And that clearly seems to be not the case tonight.
00:06:57.000We can't stop people from being jerks.
00:07:00.000What we can do is stop it from hurting us, from changing us.
00:07:05.420At my second Taylor Swift concert in Hartford, Connecticut, 14 years ago this summer, she sang a song about this topic, asking, why you got to be so mean?
00:07:18.600And she spoke directly to the nasty people.
00:07:45.740The increasingly autocratic, increasingly entirely presidentially driven policy agenda that Donald Trump is putting forward, I think, on the questions of the Kimmel story is of a piece with the Comey story.
00:08:02.600The weaponization of the Department of Justice, the weaponization of the Department of Justice, the politicization of that.
00:08:08.160And all of the things you saw in the wake of Charlie Kirk's tragic, undeniably tragic murder when you saw J.D. Vance and others.
00:08:17.420These things have not gone away, saying that the administration is going to war with what they call the radical left and plans to weaponize government in all kinds of ways against what J.D. Vance has talked about, against left wing, what they call left wing NGOs that they're now starting to talk about as if they were sponsors of domestic terror.
00:08:45.980And I take some comfort in the fact that Jimmy Kimmel got back on the air and gave us that momentary reprieve.
00:08:53.220But I don't think that their campaign against broadcasters and free speech is over, not by a long shot.
00:08:58.340And it feels this has been a very, very sobering week at the end of a string of very, very sobering weeks since this administration got underway back in January, eight months ago.
00:09:07.480This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:09:15.320Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
00:09:20.540You're just not going to free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
00:09:24.820The people have had a belly full of it.
00:10:00.380It's Friday, 26th September in the year of our Lord, 2025.
00:10:04.240The President of the United States is leaving to head up to the Brighter Cup.
00:10:08.400Just had a gag where we're going to play that momentarily.
00:10:11.120John Solomon joins us with a massive scoop of big breaking news.
00:10:16.160But I have to say, as I bring John Solomon on, not only is Comey a bad cop, he's a weirdo.
00:10:21.600I want to give a hat tip to the Denver crew at Real America's Voice and my own incredible production team here in the War Room for intercutting his Taylor Swift video from, I guess, two weeks ago with his very emotional plea last night.
00:10:42.060And that's from a grown-ass man, you know, about Taylor Swift.
00:10:46.720And you couldn't tell the difference in the two.
00:10:48.440John Solomon, first your thoughts on Comey.
00:10:51.500I know you know this situation very well.
00:10:53.560Then I want to get to your scoop, sir.
00:10:55.560Well, listen, the truth of the matter is the people that say that James Comey is lying is his inner circle team.
00:11:06.420It was James Baker that affirmed it in an interview with the Postal Inspection Service that we broke on your show a few weeks ago.
00:11:14.560And in that case, remember what James Baker said to the government.
00:11:17.880He said that James Comey authorized me to leak classified information to the news media to his chief of staff, James Rubicki.
00:11:24.820And we don't know yet what Rubicki's account is, but I suspect those three men are going to be the main state's witnesses against James Comey.
00:11:41.920So James Comey is going to face justice probably at the expense of his own inner circle who couldn't lie when confronted about what he had done with the leaking to the media.
00:11:51.760The Taylor Swift thing, I have a little bit different take.
00:11:53.900I do find it extremely weird to have an FBI director talking about being a Swifty.
00:11:58.120But, hey, everyone's entitled to their music.
00:12:00.180But I think there's something more cunning going on.
00:12:02.560I think you have to always calculate James Comey as being a calculating guy.
00:12:07.340He's going to need to raise a lot of money for his legal defense fund.
00:12:11.640He's about to undergo a really significant legal defense expense.
00:12:15.320I think he was setting up millennials and others to say, see me as a victim.
00:12:55.420Before we get to your scoop, before we get to your scoop, I want updates on Bolton because there's a whole wave of stuff that is happening now and coming to the forefront.
00:13:03.040The media said yesterday Bolton looks like his office had secret or top-secret documents.
00:13:11.840In his office, they found a secret and confidential classified information, including information on WMD, which is very sensitive.
00:13:20.980Anything we know about WMD around the world is a very sensitive piece of information.
00:13:25.180And so this is no different now than the precedent sent two decades ago when Sandy Berger, the former national security advisor for Bill Clinton, in a story I broke when I was at the Associated Press, tried to seek classified documents out of the archives, stick them in his socks and his pants and try to walk out with them, and he got indicted.
00:13:46.720You are the national security advisor.
00:13:48.540You know you have no right to take classified documents with you.
00:13:51.960The fact that they found those documents in his office and that they found earlier information in his email accounts related to the book suggests that he did something knowingly and willfully.
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00:17:01.180So, John, the story you broke is massive for what it discusses and then also massive for how you learned out about it and what's been been hidden for years.
00:17:12.760Just take us from the top and walk through, sir.
00:18:53.100It's something that Congress needed for oversight, and Chris Wray's FBI kept it from me.
00:18:56.960But the more important issue, long term, to all my colleagues in the FBI who have tried to dispute that the FBI has a political bias problem,
00:19:06.360this episode, this review, ended up exposing more than the fact that an incompetent FBI sent a lot of FBI agents to the Hill without gear and protections,
00:19:15.800and then didn't want to admit that to Congress.
00:19:18.260It uncorked a decade of frustration among scores of FBI agents in the Washington field office that their agency had become clearly politically biased.
00:19:53.920And for that reason, Congress was most likely not given this document, because it would have affirmed what Jim Jordan and what Devin Nunes and what Barry Loudermilk and all the people who have been investigating have been saying,
00:20:12.200No, that's not political talking for him.
00:20:14.100He would have known at the moment he gave that answer in 2023 that this after-action report raised a serious amount of concern.
00:20:22.780If he didn't know, he wasn't in charge of his agency, because this was a very important document, the learnings and the failures of January 6th.
00:20:30.080This document is significant, not just for giving us the answer we were long denied how many agents responded, how did they respond, but it's more important that it is an affirmation from the frontline agents of the FBI that they had recognized their agency had become politically corrupted, politically biased, politically incompetent.
00:20:50.600And they were crying for help in 2021, and that help was kept for them until Donald Trump won the election and Kash Patel was installed.
00:20:58.380Now, on the 275, Steve, I want to give you one possible legal implication.
00:21:03.760Many of those agents who responded were in the WFO, and they most likely afterwards participated in the prosecutions of J6 defendants.
00:21:13.940They probably executed affidavits in court cases.
00:21:18.920It is incumbent upon FBI agents to self-disclose under the Brady and Giglio standards.
00:21:23.660You've got to play fair by the rules standards for FBI agents.
00:21:27.540If you were a witness to a crime that you disclose that, otherwise what you say is, I looked at this video footage, and I looked at this evidence after it occurred, and this is what I found.
00:21:37.020But if you don't describe the fact that you might have been at the scene and witnessed some of this, you may have engaged in a Giglio and Bradyo violation.
00:21:45.280We don't know yet the names of the agents, but given that there are 275 of them, one of the exercises that Congress could do right now is to find out how many of those agents subsequently filed affidavits and did not disclose they were eyewitnesses, potential victims at the Capitol.
00:22:02.040That could result in a lot of appellate issues.
00:22:04.660It may also provide new fodder to defend President Trump's decision to pardon a lot of those defendants.
00:22:11.480This may have been a cheating scandal in the court system, so that we don't know yet.
00:22:15.980But from my experience doing Brady and Giglio issues as a reporter, there is a red flag blinking here today.
00:22:25.080One of the things when I first talked to you when you had this story and you were doing your additional reporting to release it,
00:22:32.600the thing that shocked you was the amount of anguish, vitriol that agents had about the way the department was being run,
00:22:42.320the way they thought it was over-politicized, it was against conservatives, really quite blunt statements.
00:22:50.260Don't we have an obstruction of justice?
00:22:53.000I mean, the Oversight Committee was trying to do oversight.
00:22:56.120They knew they had a ticking time bomb at the FBI.
00:22:58.700We had not just J6, you had the grandmothers praying the rosary, you had the people arrested for praying the rosary,
00:23:05.880you had the Catholics, you had all these different MAGA folks rounded up by the FBI.
00:23:11.880Is there legal, does the issues that the agents had with the way the department was being run,
00:23:21.860did Chris Wray obstruct justice by suppressing this report?
00:23:25.880It's kind of shocking that nine months into Cash Patel's, or President Trump, Cash came in later,
00:23:32.400his reign at the FBI, we're now just getting this.
00:23:35.860Doesn't this rise to the level of at least an investigation on obstruction of justice?
00:31:01.720Some of the strategies that Cash and Dan have had there has been to take people who were the bad actors who are very close to pensions and say, hey, you're not going to get your pension.
00:31:12.820You're going to get fired if you don't tell me exactly what the hell went on here the last 10 years.
00:31:17.020They've been able to squeeze out secrets from the former insiders of the Comey-Ray world.
00:31:41.380It still needs a long-term redirection.
00:31:43.980And that's where, as Devin Nunes has proposed, a blue-ribbon commission of experts, including people.
00:31:50.080I think they ought to put on this blue-ribbon commission, people who are wrongly pursued, victims of the FBI have passed as part of the blue-ribbon commission, because there's no better perspective how to fix something than somebody that was wronged by the institution.
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00:45:21.460So right there in the gaggle, President Trump said that more indictments are likely coming against corrupt deep state officials after Comey and will include potentially other high-ranking politicians.
00:45:35.460America's Mayor Rudy Giuliani and I think the greatest prosecutor we've had in this country's history.
00:47:09.460So if you want to defuse some of these, let's say, oh, hypothetically, let's say that people were funding Antifa, Black Lives Matter, to do those riots.
00:48:41.460I want to tell you, I just want to make sure we're clear on this.
00:48:45.460You're saying that the little two page indictment on the lying to Congress and the obstruction of justice is just the appetizer when it even comes to Comey.
00:48:53.460But you're because you're saying more things are going to come on Comey.
00:48:56.460Are you also anticipating when President Trump said that statement right there that you're going to have more indictments in a broader conspiracy investigation about Russiagate, about trying to remove him as president, about trying to destroy his presidency in the first term?
00:49:14.320Do you think that's what Trump's talking about?
00:49:42.760This is a question of justice and deterrence.
00:49:45.760And if he didn't do it, he wouldn't be a president.
00:49:48.760If he had nothing to do with this, but this was on his plate, he would have to do the same thing.
00:49:54.760Otherwise, he'd be a lousy president and we'd have this all happen again.
00:49:58.760The only thing that's going to stop these people because they are thoroughgoing criminals, very similar to the mafia people I prosecuted, very similar to the terrorists I prosecuted, and certainly just like the corrupt politicians I prosecuted.
00:50:25.760Its history is boss tweet and slavery.
00:50:29.760Why someone wants to belong to it and not change its name, at least, I have no idea.
00:50:34.760Is the potential of these broader things, because last night the historical reaction by people like Andrew Weissman and others, McCabe and these guys, because it's not just about Comey.
00:50:46.760They understand what's coming, they understand what their crimes are, and they understand where this is going, sir?
00:50:53.760Well, the one thing I don't see yet, but I don't know the inside of it, I want to see the one really great prosecutor.
00:51:00.760What I mean by a great prosecutor is the one who can flip people.
00:51:04.760People think of a great prosecutor as a great trial lawyer, a great investigator.