FOX NEWS The Story: Ratcliffe Discusses Comey Questioning

What was your takeaway? What's the big point of what you were asking James Comey about and what did you learn? Well Martha we continued to focus on the disparity and the dichotomy in which the same conduct was treated differently by Jim Comey's FBI in the Hillary Clinton investigation versus the Trump-Russia investigation and so we spent a lot of time probing former director Comey about why all of the departures from FBI protocols with very few exceptions seem to work in favor of Hillary Clinton and the folks associated with her and to the detriment of Donald Trump and the folks associated with him. We know what he says about that. He shakes his finger and says that you know Republicans ought to be ashamed of themselves, that he is just tired of hearing about Hillary Clinton's emails, that that is so yesterday. So why do you still think that this is so important? Well you know it's hard to argue with a witness like Jim Comey who's always right. You know Martha I have to confess you know I've lost all objectivity with regard to former director Comey in part because I was one of the folks that was defending him two years ago when all of this stuff started to happen but he's turned out to be every bit as duplicitous and sanctimonious as folks told me that he was. So you know we're just asking questions. We're trying to get a transcript of what really happened so that folks are treated equally under the law and I think folks looking at this objectively and fairly see that. I don't mind if Jim Comey is a partisan but don't pretend to be a fair and impartial umpire saying that out of one side of your mouth while out of the other side of your mouth you're telling people to use their last breath to stop Donald Trump and Republicans and to vote Democrat and to campaign door-to-door for Democratic candidates. It's disingenuous. So let me ask you this one of the things that you were pressing on we've been going through these transcripts and looking at some of the back-and-forth that you had with him and you were talking to him about whether or not President Obama was part of any of those back-and-forth email exchanges with Hillary Clinton and what happened to those emails. He claimed no there was never any classified information that flowed between President Obama who at times used a pseudonym I guess on some of his emails that correct me if I'm wrong on that to Hillary Clinton. Right he said he didn't recall if there was classified information but we were really trying to find out about the communications and as you saw Martha he confirmed that President Obama was communicating with former Secretary Clinton on an unclassified unauthorized server at least at one point in time while Secretary Clinton was in Russia so it was fair to ask those questions that wasn't any information that he volunteered and so we were really trying to probe into that because again the question here was was classified information mishandled and really the question that we had was why wasn't Hillary Clinton asked about that? She wasn't asked a single question in her interview about conversations. It's a fair question and it's something that many people have brought up to me and I think have discussed you know on their own wanting to know whether or not President Obama had any knowledge of this server or whether or not he received any information like that. You also pressed down on the date of the tarmac meeting between Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton and then a meeting that happened the very next day and information that Director Comey asked his people to pull for him right after that meeting happened. What happened with that exchange? June 27, 2016 Loretta Lynch meets on a tarmac with Bill Clinton. Director Comey asks for all of the emails between Secretary Clinton and President Obama. The exoneration memo that Jim Comey had written was changed to delete any references to President Obama from his public remarks and three days later the FBI sent a team of prosecutors and investigators in to question Hillary Clinton. She didn't get a single question about the meeting between Loretta Lynch and her husband. She didn't get a single question about her communications with Barack Obama on an unsecured unclassified server. These are questions that every American would have asked right out of the gate. Director Comey didn't know why they were asked, didn't know if it was a good didn't have a good excuse for why no one in that room asked those questions. He didn't follow up with Loretta Lynch. He didn't follow up with President Obama. He I mean it's surprising. It raises a lot of questions. I think those are very fair questions. Did he take those questions well? He wasn't responsive apparently. He didn't. You know Jim Comey gets red in the face and angry anytime you raise any questions that would question whether his conduct or his decisions raised doubt about his integrity. You know the story always has to end the same with former director Comey. He always has to be right and he always has to be the hero in the end and he doesn't think it's fair if you ask questions that would have the story in any other way and I think it's it's really sad and unfortunate and you know he walked out of that interview yesterday and was asked if he thought he had any fault or blame for damage to the FBI in the last few years and he said none whatsoever. That's the perfect sign-off for former director Jim Comey. I think that's his legacy. Congressman Ratcliffe, thank you. Great to have you with us tonight. You bet. Joining me now, Judge Michael Mukasey, former Attorney General under