Comey Responds to Hillary Clinton’s Criticism: ‘I Didn’t Put 300,000 of Her Emails in Anthony Weiner’s Laptop’

TAPPER: “Hillary Clinton recently gave an interview to The New York Times. She reflected on why some women did not support her in 2016, how Democrats failed to abort — protect abortion rights adequately. She, again, partially blamed you for her defeat for reopening the investigation into her email server, holding the press conference where you called her extremely careless without any formal criminal charges. She told the Times: ‘Once he did that to me, the people, the voters who left me were women. They left me because they just couldn‘t take a risk on me because as a woman, I‘m supposed to be perfect. They were willing to take a risk on Trump — who had a long list of, let‘s call them flaws, to illustrate his imperfection — because he was a man and they could envision a man as president and commander-in-chief.’ What did you think? What was your response?”

COMEY: “We were never trying to do anything to either of the candidates in 2016. We regretted being involved. We were just trying to do the right thing given the facts that landed on us.”

TAPPER: “And what would you say to Hillary Clinton if she were here right now? I mean, do you feel any regret or you think she‘s the one that made the decisions to do X, Y, Z?”

COMEY: “I regret being involved, but I didn‘t put 300,000 of her emails in Anthony Weiner’s laptop that the FBI then had to look at. And so, I hated the situation, but I bear her no ill will and I get the pain she feels, I‘m sure, about 2016. I hope we had nothing to do with the outcome, but we were just trying to do the right thing. And I still think we did the right thing.”