Thursday on CNN’s “New Day,” just as former FBI Director James Comey was set to begin testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), a member of that committee, pointed out that Comey acted in two different ways under Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
Manchin went on to say that would be a question the committee would attempt to find out during the hearing.
“I definitely believe James Comey because if he documented everything, he wanted the world to know it sometime,” Manchin said. “Was he going to use it for whatever purpose — we’re going to find that out. I think Chris, you both have been editorializing and going through it pretty good this morning. I’ve been watching, saying why didn’t he operate one way under one scenario and not the other?”
“There’s a full investigation being done on the campaign before the election,” he continued. “And now we have post-election, and it’s completely different. Why? We’re going to ask those questions. If he can’t answer them in an open setting, in a classified setting, there is no reason why he won’t answer them, or he shouldn’t answer them, and we’ll press that.”
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