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Life, Liberty & Levin 9/28/25 FULL END SHOW | BREAKING NEWS TRUMP September 28, 2025
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00:00Hello America, I'm Mark Levin and this is Life, Liberty and Levin Sunday. Thanks for joining us, the Comey scandal.
00:09You're hearing a lot, especially from former federal prosecutors and others, that this is really a bad indictment against Comey because, well,
00:18we have McCabe who's untrustworthy according to an Inspector General report of the Department of Justice.
00:24McCabe is the former Deputy Director of the FBI. And you see, McCabe leaked information to the Wall Street Journal to cover his tuchus,
00:34and I'll get to that in a minute. But, you see, the problem here, they're telling us, is that in this back and forth with Ted Cruz,
00:43Ted Cruz is really talking about the authorization by Comey, the Director of the FBI, for his Deputy Director, McCabe,
00:51to have leaked to the Wall Street Journal. And everybody's pointing out, well, it's not exactly what McCabe said.
00:59McCabe talked about an after-the-fact leak. He said Comey knew it, but he actually authorized it after the fact.
01:06On May 3rd, 2017, in this committee, Chairman Grassley asked you, point-blank, quote,
01:13have you ever been an anonymous source in news reports about matters relating to the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation?
01:21You responded under oath, quote, never. He then asked you, quote, have you ever authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source
01:30in news reports about the Trump investigation or the Clinton administration?
01:35You responded again under oath, no.
01:38Okay. Now, that's accurate. I went back and looked at his prior testimony.
01:42So that is a blanket statement.
01:46He was never a source for the media, ever.
01:50In the Clinton investigation or the Trump investigation.
01:54That's what he said. Now, let's look in the indictment.
01:57On or about September 30, 2020, in the Eastern District of Virginia, the defendant, James B. Comey Jr.,
02:03did willfully and knowingly make a materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statement
02:08in a matter within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the government of the United States
02:12by falsely stating to a U.S. senator during a Senate Judiciary hearing that he, James B. Comey Jr.,
02:18had not authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports
02:23regarding an FBI investigation concerning Person 1.
02:27Person 1. Number 2, that statement was false because of James B. Comey Jr. then and there knew
02:32he had, in fact, authorized Person 3 to serve as an anonymous source in news reports
02:38regarding an FBI investigation concerning Person 1.
02:41Now, let's pick up the clip where I left off.
02:45Go.
02:46As publicly and repeatedly stated,
02:48that he leaked information to the Wall Street Journal and that you were directly aware of it
02:54and that you directly authorized it.
02:57Now, what Mr. McCabe is saying and what you testified to this committee cannot both be true.
03:03One or the other is false.
03:06Who's telling the truth?
03:08I can only speak to my testimony.
03:10I stand by what the testimony you summarized that I gave in May of 2017.
03:15So your testimony is you've never authorized anyone to leak.
03:18And Mr. McCabe, if he says contrary, is not telling the truth.
03:22Is that correct?
03:23Again, I'm not going to characterize Andy's testimony, but mine is the same today.
03:27Now, I want to go to an Inspector General report.
03:32August 2019.
03:34Office of Inspector General.
03:36Report of investigation of former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey.
03:40Disclosure of Sensitive Investigative Information and Handling of Certain Memoranda.
03:45Now, I don't have enough time to read it all,
03:46and you probably don't have the patience for me to read it all, but just a few pieces.
03:50Part C.
03:51Comey failed to immediately alert the FBI to unauthorized disclosure of classified information.
03:56Comey learned of the FBI's classification decision regarding memo two
04:00when the FBI allowed him to review copies of all seven memos
04:04with classified banners and markings in preparation for his June 8, 2017 congressional testimony.
04:10Once he knew the FBI had classified portions of memo two,
04:13Comey failed to immediately notify the FBI that he had previously given memo two to his attorneys.
04:19And it goes on.
04:20The FBI did not learn that Comey had shared any of the memos with anyone outside the FBI
04:24until Comey's June 8, 2017 congressional testimony.
04:28Now, why am I reading things like this to you?
04:30Because we're getting reports that, well, the prior Inspector General report involving McCabe
04:35said McCabe is sketch, and he is.
04:39But it basically said Comey, Comey was telling the truth.
04:44Well, in this Inspector General report, they're saying nothing of the sort.
04:48This goes to character.
04:50This goes to believability.
04:52It goes to pattern.
04:54But there's more.
04:55Conclusion, item six.
04:57Congress have provided the FBI with substantial powers and authorities to gather evidence
05:01as part of the FBI's criminal and counterintelligence mission.
05:04The FBI uses these authorities every day in its many investigations to allegations of drug
05:09trafficking and so forth and so on, host of other threats to national security and public
05:13safety.
05:14And in the process, the FBI lawfully gains access to a significant amount of sensitive
05:18information about individuals, many of whom have not been charged, may never be charged,
05:22or may not even be a subject to the investigations.
05:25For this reason, the civil liberties of every individual who may fall within the scope of
05:29the FBI's investigative authorities depend on the FBI's ability to protect sensitive
05:33information from unauthorized disclosure, it says later.
05:36However, after his removal as FBI director two months later, Comey provided a copy of Memo
05:414, which Comey had kept without authorization, to Richmond, a Columbia Law School professor,
05:47friend of his, with instructions to share the contents with a reporter.
05:50For the New York Times, had his friend leak a story, a document to the New York Times,
05:56which in fact wrote a story.
05:58Memo 4 included information that was related to both the FBI's ongoing investigation of
06:03General Flynn and, by Comey's own account, information that he believed and alleged constituted
06:08evidence of an attempt to obstruct the ongoing Flynn investigation.
06:12Later that same day, the New York Times published an article about Memo 4, so they followed through.
06:17Comey Memo says Trump asked him to end Flynn investigation.
06:22Former director Comey failed to live up to this responsibility.
06:26By not safeguarding sensitive information obtained during the course of the FBI, his FBI employment,
06:31and by using it to create public pressure for official action, Comey set a dangerous example
06:36for the over 35,000 current FBI employees and the many thousands more former FBI employees
06:42who similarly have access to or knowledge of non-public information.
06:45Comey said he was compelled to take these actions if I love this country and I love the Department
06:50of Justice and I love the FBI.
06:52However, were current or former FBI employees to follow their own strongly held example and
06:57disclose sensitive information in service to their own strongly held personal convictions,
07:02the FBI would have been able to dispatch its law enforcement duties.
07:05So he retains memos.
07:07He gives out information on the memos.
07:09He does, in fact, have somebody leak on his behalf and has leaked before.
07:14What was not permitted was the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive investigative information obtained
07:20during the course of FBI employment in order to achieve a personally desired outcome.
07:25This is August 2019 by the Inspector General.
07:33Let's go on.
07:34The testimony you heard there, a little bit, with Ted Cruz was in 2020, subsequent to this report.
07:47During the 2020 testimony, you heard Comey double down to the Senate that he had not been authorizing
07:52leaks to the press when he was FBI director atop sensitive 2016 investigations.
07:59He had previously testified in 2017 that he hadn't authorized leaks.
08:04In 2020, Comey said, I can only speak to my testimony.
08:07You heard him say it.
08:08I stand by the testimony you summarized I gave in May of 2017.
08:12In part, if not altogether, he's responding to Cruz, who's sort of focusing in on McCabe.
08:19So there's a couple of points I want to mention here.
08:22This man is a very sleazy character in history, Comey.
08:26So those who are writing in National Review and elsewhere saying, well, look, the Inspector
08:30General in the prior case is holding up McCabe is, you know, really unbelievable and so forth.
08:37The next year, he wrote a report on Comey and his violations with sensitive information
08:43and leaking and so forth, which raises serious questions about his believability, which I'm
08:48sure the prosecutors have looked at and the prosecutors will likely use.
08:53Now, McCabe has said Comey was aware of the leak and approved of it after the fact.
08:58And you heard Comey's response.
09:01He was not involved in any leaks.
09:04In any leaks.
09:06And so we're hung up with this word authorized, aren't we?
09:10Authorized leaks.
09:12Was Comey aware of the leak?
09:14Was he told about the leak?
09:17It's a very significant question, too.
09:19Remember General Flynn?
09:20Remember his situation?
09:22He was set up by Comey.
09:23Absolutely set up by Comey.
09:25An FBI leaked to the Washington Post on January 12th, 2017, regarding conversations between
09:31Flynn and Russia's ambassador.
09:33That was used as an excuse for the FBI to interview the incoming head of the National Security Council,
09:40who was Flynn.
09:41So they show up.
09:43The purpose, though, was to entrap Flynn during the transition.
09:46In fact, a note handwritten by then FBI counterintelligence head Bill Prestap asked, quote,
09:54What's our goal?
09:55Truth?
09:56Admission?
09:57Or get him to lie so we can prosecute him or get him fired?
10:00They had no reason to interview Flynn.
10:02Flynn was interviewed without a lawyer.
10:03He was not warned about false statements.
10:06That's routine.
10:07In fact, the usual procedures used in interviewing a high-level or incoming high-level individual
10:12were bypassed.
10:13Comey even bragged about it.
10:15Wrote about it, said he wouldn't do it in other circumstances.
10:18Flynn was charged with false statements.
10:20Oh, the irony.
10:22And he spent $7 million in his defense.
10:24He went broke.
10:26And they were threatening to prosecute his son.
10:28So he pled to one count of false statements.
10:31It was completely set up.
10:32President Trump pardoned him based on Bill Barr's recommendation as well.
10:37This is who we're talking about.
10:38This is Comey.
10:39So for those legal analysts out there that say, well, McCabe wasn't believable.
10:44No, McCabe is not believable.
10:46But neither is Comey.
10:47I'll give you another example of a few months ago, July 23, 2025.
10:52Here we have Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence.
10:55And she says a treasonous conspiracy led by President Obama and his national security team, including James Clapper, John Brennan, and James Comey, to manipulate and manufacture intelligence that promoted a contrived false narrative, falsely claiming Putin aspired to help President-elect Trump's election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.
11:16Now, they knew it was a lie.
11:18They knew Clinton was the one putting together this dossier.
11:21They knew it.
11:22Brennan knew it.
11:23Comey would find out about it.
11:25He knew it.
11:26They all knew it.
11:28Obama knew it, which is why he ordered a new CIA report with the result that he wanted, which was the opposite of the truth.
11:37And that launched the whole Russia collusion issue.
11:40Comey was in on it.
11:41President Obama directed the creation of this January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment after President Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, and it served as the basis for what was essentially a years-long coup, writes Gabbard, correctly, against the duly elected President of the United States, subverting the will of the American people and attempting to delegitimize Donald Trump's presidency.
12:03These are the people we're talking about.
12:05Now, the question to me is this, when Comey said he never, ever leaked information to the media, ever, in the Clinton case or in the Trump case, is that true?
12:23These former federal prosecutors who are like a conga line of dancers now, who all say the same thing because it's kind of a network where they read each other's stuff and they regurgitate it.
12:35They give the benefit of the doubt to Comey?
12:39I don't think so.
12:41And remember, his testimony in 2017 and otherwise was that he never, never spoke to the media or leaked to the media about these things.
12:52That's his responses to Senator Grassley.
12:56And he referred to that when the question came up about, we think it's McCabe, could be others, could be other instances, I don't know.
13:05But in the McCabe case, even if it's McCabe saying he was aware of it, Comey, and subsequently authorized it or accepted it, isn't that bad enough?
13:18Well, Mark, it's bad enough, but is it criminal?
13:21Is that a false statement?
13:22Yeah, I think so.
13:24Read the false statement statute.
13:27Intentionally misleading, too.
13:30False statement, intentionally misleading.
13:32Oh, and by the way, Martha Stewart.
13:34What does Martha have to do with that?
13:36Fox News.
13:37Martha Stewart's anger at James Comey for making her trophy criminal is understandable, her attorney says.
13:42Remember Martha Stewart?
13:43She went to prison for four or five months?
13:46Among other things, for what?
13:48Making a false statement.
13:49Hard to prove false statements, we're told, but James Comey was the U.S. attorney at the Southern District of New York when this took place.
13:58He was proud of it.
13:59Comey, who was behind the now-defunct 2016 Russia investigation into Donald Trump that the former president dubbed a witch hunt, writes Fox,
14:07was the lead prosecutor who indicted Stewart on charges of obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI in 2003.
14:14The charges came in connection with the FBI's insider trading investigation into her friend's company, Imclone.
14:20She said,
14:20I was a trophy, a prominent woman, the first billionaire woman in America, when charges were initially filed against Stewart, then 62, then U.S. attorney Comey, and during a 2003 news conference, that the case is about lying.
14:34Lying to the FBI, lying to the SEC, lying to investors.
14:38That is conduct that will not be tolerated.
14:41Martha Stewart is being prosecuted not because of who she is, but what she did.
14:47Oh, the irony.
14:48The specific language of the statute being cited here, the case involving Comey, 18 U.S. Code, Section 101A2, makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement of representation a felony.
15:02What the government is alleging here is a statement that Comey made referencing his, never, ever, do I deal with the media, talk to the, you know, leak to the media, unauthorized information to the media.
15:14They're saying here that statement was false because James Comey Jr. then and there knew he, in fact, had authorized Person 3 to serve as an anonymous source in news reporting regarding the FBI investigation concerning Person 1, as he knew about it, and then subsequently authorized it.
15:30I'm prosecuting this case.
15:33There's a lot to go for, by the way, a lot to use, but I would say to Mr. Comey, you knew about this, and you didn't do anything to stop it?
15:42Well, then you authorized it.
15:46Whether you formally authorized it and used the word authorized or used the word I authorized it the day after, if you knew about it and you didn't stop it, isn't that a problem?
15:58And if you knew about it, what did you do about it?
16:02Did you punish Mr. McCabe?
16:03Did you report Mr. McCabe?
16:06Or did you never know about it, ever?
16:08Did you ever even read the article?
16:11That has your name in it.
16:13Did you read it?
16:14It has McCabe's name in it, too.
16:16I read it.
16:18And when you read it, what did you say?
16:21Did you wonder who leaked it?
16:24Did you ask for a leak investigation?
16:28Comey was so busy with his own media operation, working with Obama, doing all these other things, that it's probably hard for him to keep everything straight.
16:40But this isn't a man who's clean.
16:43It's just not.
16:44There are many questions that can be asked of Comey that relate to this authorization issue.
16:50He has a bad history of using memos and the press, later using a friend and so forth and so on.
16:59So when you have people come on and they're saying to you, oh, the authorization came subsequent, according to McCabe.
17:06Actually, McCabe said more than that.
17:09He said that Comey was aware of it and a subsequent authorization, which seems like kind of weird wording to me.
17:16But if the director of the FBI was aware of it and did nothing about it, then I think it can be impliedly said he authorized it.
17:26Again, I'm not a special pleader.
17:29But there are prosecutors and there are prosecutors, some of whom are better than others.
17:35Trump's attack on Harvard is just the beginning.
17:51Trump and his allies don't just want to reshape our political system.
17:55They want to corrupt and seize control of our institutions.
17:58In 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt warned Americans to be aware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
18:12It was a warning that reflected what he saw playing out across the Atlantic.
18:17The fascists of Europe disempowering their people and corrupting their national institutions in order to enrich and empower themselves.
18:24Nearly a century after the rise of Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, Donald Trump is using their same tried and true tactics to corrupt America's institution and silent dissonance.
18:38Since returning to office, he has claimed the right to evaluate universities, viewpoint diversity, demanding that private institutions subject students and faculty to government audits of their personal beliefs.
18:50We can't treat this rising authoritarianism as a personal quirk or just another feature of our politics.
18:59Our republic, the very idea that we should live in a democracy, is facing a grave, grave threat.
19:07Harvard's president has rightly refused, making clear that the university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.
19:16That insistence on academic freedom has been met with swift government retaliation.
19:25Trump withheld congressionally approved research funding.
19:29His administration openly threatened Harvard's student visas and he directed the IRS to revoke Harvard's tax-exempt status.
19:37These attacks will disrupt a major economic engine, not just for Massachusetts, but for the entire country.
19:47Harvard is not an unrivaled leader in life-saving medical research.
19:51Our public investments in those breakthroughs have fuelled America's innovation economy, allowing us to lead the world in bringing academic research to the marketplace.
20:01This retaliation will cost lives, erode our competitive advantage and prompt a disastrous brain drain, a self-inflicted injury on which our rivals are more than happy to capitalise on.
20:14None of that matters to Trump, obviously.
20:18It's collateral damage in his larger war to centralise power, enrich himself and cultivate his ideas as fact under law.
20:25That's his first goal, centralising power is nothing new for Trump.
20:31He has long sought to expand his power and the expense of our political institutions, attacking his legitimacy of our elections and politicising our courts.
20:41The second self-enrichment...
20:42Oh, sorry, let's read you. I moved my foot.
20:49The second self-enrichment has defiled his first 100 days in office.
20:54Whether he's hawking cars at the White House, selling scammy crypto coins or openly manipulating the stock market, he's enriching himself, his family and his wealthy donors.
21:04All this while the American people and small business face skyrocketing costs due to Trump's tariffs.
21:12But the third goal, using government's authority to enforce his version of the truth.
21:17That's what these attacks on Harvard are about.
21:20Now, that's what should scare any American who believes in the objective truth, freedom of speech and the rule of law.
21:28Trump and his allies don't just want to reshape our political system.
21:32They don't just want to pocket some cash and call it a day.
21:34They want to corrupt and seize control of our institutions in order to dictate how Americans learn what we think and how we think.
21:43Look at how Trump has altered American society since January.
21:48If universities want to remain tax-exempt, they need to serve in academic arms of the ruling political party.
21:57If a news network wants to keep its broadcast license, it needs to report stories in the way the government wants them reported.
22:04If museums, libraries and theatres want to stay open, they need to toss out material that may offend the White House.
22:16If law firms want to represent clients with businesses before the federal government, they need to bribe the president.
22:23If colleges want to avoid being disappeared to foreign prisoners, they need to keep their political views to themselves.
22:31These actions will not stop at the gates of the elite institutions.
22:36Your personal freedoms of speech and liberty of force are just as much as a threat to Trump's power and he knows it.
22:45We can't treat this rising authoritarianism as a personal quirk or just another feature of our politics.
22:52Our republic, the very idea that we should live in a democracy, is facing a grave, grave threat.
22:58For the vast majority of Americans who believe our national identity is tied to the government of the people,
23:06this moment must serve as a call of unprecedented action.
23:10We all have a role to play in defending freedom, because being an American means suffering.
23:16No kings.
23:17No kings.
23:23Volvo recalls more than 450,000 vehicles over backup camera issue.
23:30Recall includes a range of vehicles from model years 2021 to 2025.
23:36Swedish automaker Volvo Cars is recalling more than 450,000 cars in the US and Canada
23:41due to the backup camera issue that raises the risk of a crash.
23:44The rear view camera image may not show up when the affected cars are placed in reverse,
23:50increasing the possibility of an accident, a Volvo Cars spokesperson told Fox Business.
23:56Volvo is recalling over 400,000 vehicles in the US and 40,000 in Canada.
24:02These include certain model year 2021 to 2025 cars.
24:07Yeah, it's going to be a fun one.
24:14Let's try, let's try.
24:17No, no, that's not happening, right?
24:21V-9-0, C-C, C-4.
24:23No, no, no, no.
24:25We're just going to say cars.
24:26We're just going to say cars.
24:28And R-model.
24:29R-models, yeah.
24:31We're just going to say vehicles, vehicles.
24:32So, this part, you just say the car models.
24:35Okay.
24:36Various car models, or Volvo.
24:38Various.
24:40Various vehicles.
24:41Vehicles, Volvo vehicles.
24:42Yeah, yeah.
24:43Yeah.
24:43Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
24:50Okay.
24:51We start from Volvo is recalling.
24:54More than 400 vehicles.
24:56Yeah, yeah.
24:5840, yeah, just say more than 400,000 in 40,000.
25:01Volvo is recalling over 400,000 vehicles in the US, and over 40,000 in Canada.
25:11These are a ton of different vehicles by Volvo.
25:15It's an insane amount, ranging from the year 2021 to 2025, the spokesperson said.
25:22To fix the issue, the automaker will perform a software upgrade on the vehicles.
25:26The software can be updated, free of charge, by a Volvo dealer, or through an over-in-the-air update.
25:34A remote update service in which software can be downloaded directly to your car, according to the Volvo website.
25:41Volvo has not received any reports of incidents occurring while driving or crashes related to the backup camera issue,
25:48according to a May 1st recall notice from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
25:54We encourage customers to contact their authorised Volvo retailer and have this recall repair completed as soon as possible.
26:03Volvo car said in the notice notification letters are expected to be mailed to Volvo owners on June 24.
26:10Impacted Volvo owners can also contact Volvo car customer service or reach out to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration vehicle safety hotline.
26:23The recall comes a week after electric vehicle maker Polestar recalled more than 27,000 Polestar 2 vehicles in the US because of a similar issue.
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