On Thursday, David Remnick interviewed the former F.B.I. director James Comey during a live taping of @NewYorkerRadio: “I think he has an emptiness inside of him, and a hunger for affirmation, that I’ve never seen in an adult,” Comey said about Trump. https://t.co/icg4vjdQFi pic.twitter.com/yTUpELJbAk — The New Yorker (@NewYorker) April 20, 2018

James Comey sat down for an with New Yorker editor David Remnick on Thursday night, and said that he found the author of the infamous Trump dossier to be reliable.

Christopher Steele, a former spy hired by oppo-research firm Fusion GPS to compile the so-called Steele Dossier on Donald Trump, has had his work assailed by allies of the administration as salacious and unverified. Much of the dossier — including the claim that the Russians possess a tape of Trump peeing on Russian prostitutes — does indeed remain unsubstatiated.

In Comey’s live New Yorker interview, he was asked if he considered Steele “creditable and reliable” — and he responded, “Yes.”

Is Christopher Steele considered creditable and reliable according to your sources? “Yes,” James @Comey says. — New Yorker Live (@newyorkerlive) April 19, 2018

He noted that he was nervous to break news of the dossier to the president:

Was James @Comey nervous to tell Donald Trump about the Steele dossier? “I was about to meet with the new President and talk about prostitutes in Moscow…” — New Yorker Live (@newyorkerlive) April 20, 2018

Comey also reflected on the mistakes he may have made as FBI director, including criticisms over how he handled the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.

“If I could change time, Hillary Clinton wouldn’t have used a private email server. Anthony Weiner certainly wouldn’t have a laptop—maybe wouldn’t have even been born,” he said.

“If I could change time, Hillary Clinton wouldn’t have used a private email server. Anthony Weiner certainly wouldn’t have a laptop—maybe wouldn’t have even been born,” James @Comey says, to applause. — New Yorker Live (@newyorkerlive) April 19, 2018

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