JEFFREY LORD: If the story is accurate, there will be a big deal. The question is, is it accurate? The two quotes from that memo, as presented in The New York Times, from the president, “he is a good guy, I hope you can let this go.” Comey replies, “I agree, he is a good guy.” The narrative seems to be that the president overstepped, that the president is doing this. There is no narrative here that James Comey was bargaining to keep his job. I don't know that he was. But does that indicate that?
JEFFREY TOOBIN: That's not the whole thing, Jeff. You didn't read the whole quote, though.
LORD: That's what it -- I copied it from The New York Times.
TOOBIN: It's more than that. He says, “let it go” a couple times.
LORD: That is not Richard Nixon saying to Elliot Richardson, “you do this or you're fired.”
[...]
ANDERSON COOPER (HOST): You can interpret it in the most benign way, which is, “yeah, he's a nice guy, and I hope you can let it go.” You think he's singing Let It Go?
LORD: My point here is, we are once again in high-tech lynching mode here. These media circuses happen. Calrence Thomas, Bill Clinton, I might add --
COOPER: But this is not a media circus. This is the president of the United States in the Oval Office excusing the Attorney General --
LORD: Did he say go do this?
COOPER: Excusing his vice president and talking to the director of the FBI.
