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President Obama to nominate James Comey to lead FBI

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Rachel Maddow reports the breaking news that President Obama will nominate James Comey, former Deputy Attorney General under George W. Bush, to head the FBI, and remembers the bizarre story of the hospital bedside drama in which Comey thwarted the Bush administration's domestic spying plans and even threatened to resign over the matter.