comey. >> maeve reston, another voice, we want you to chime in. i don't know if it's the nice way to say the right hand isn't talking to the left versus one side is lying, we don't know. we can't prove it. but the real overarching question is how are the american people supposed to trust the words coming out of the white house? >> i think in a lot of cases, they can't. it has been a recurring theme with this white house, is that the communications staff get up and explains the president's decision, and then, you know, trump contradicts himself. i think that talking to my sources, they have said that president trump has been making calls for several weeks now, you know, asking what people think of the decision to fire comey. so, clearly, he has been thinking about this for a long time. it's just very puzzling why someone in the white house would have drafted that letter with a completely different explanation for the firing. and i don't see how the white house didn't think this was going to become just an