'They will be sorry': 3 wildest moments from James Comey’s interview with Nicolle Wallace

James Comey, who was the director of the FBI under Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, is now giving his frank assessment of his former boss' second term — and insisting that he's not backing down despite facing a potential criminal prosecution.

Comey's Monday interview with MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace was his first national TV appearance after being questioned by the Secret Service over a social media post from last week that Trump argued was a threat against his life. The post in question was of seashells spelling out "8647," with "86" being a restaurant term for removing an item from a menu after the kitchen runs out of ingredients, and "47" signifying Trump, who is the 47th president of the United States.

The former FBI chief spoke about the controversy surrounding that post during his interview, and made several other eyebrow-raising statements during his interview with Wallace.

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1. Comey said it was "crazy" to suggest his photo of seashells was a threat

"I posted it on my Instagram account and thought nothing more of it until I heard that people were saying it was some sort of a call for assassination, which is crazy, but I took it down," Comey said. "I don't want to be associated with violence of any kind."

When Wallace asked Comey if he regretted the post, he said that while he "regret[s] the distraction and the controversy around it," he insisted the post itself was "totally innocent."

"In the Trump era, I've been investigated a lot, audited a lot, and so it's not my first rodeo," he said. "I'm, in some strange way, the relationship he can't get over. Maybe because I've lived a happy, productive life since leaving, but this has just been a distraction in that life."

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2. Comey called the "current leadership" of the Trump administration "depressing"

Wallace pointed out to Comey that in Trump's second term, agency heads were made up of "totally different people" in comparison to his first four years in the White House. She then played a clip of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard telling Fox News' Jesse Watters that Comey should be "behind bars" over his post.

"I hope people know enough about that particular person, that they understand where it's coming from," Comey said. "It says something more depressing about the leadership of our current administration. And I just shrug because that's ridiculous."

"One of the real problems we have in this country right now is the use of the president's power, aiming at individuals who don't have my background or experience like a Chris Krebs or any others that have been targeted, law firms being targeted," he continued, quipping that Trump's current administration was "Four Seasons Total Landscaping all the way down."

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3. Comey compared Trump to a mob boss

Later in his interview, the former FBI director criticized law firms that cut deals with Trump after being targeted in his executive orders. Wallace asked Comey if he had any trouble getting legal representation given all the firms that have agreements with the administration.

"I have great lawyers because they're my friends who've known me for years [and] know that I'm a knucklehead. And I love them, so they will help me," he said. "But the law firm business is a serious problem. We've seen law firms knuckle under, and that is a very bad thing. They shouldn't have done that."

"They must have never seen a mob movie," he continued. "Because you give the mob a piece of your bar, first thing they do is bring their friends in to drink for free. Then they burn it down for the insurance. They will be sorry they made a deal with this administration."

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