the press had learned that he had had these meetings with a russian ambassador, a russian banker connected to the kremlin, and he had not put them on his security clearance forms. and very uncharacteristically he made a sort of impassioned argument to the president in front of people. i mean, jared's normal method of communicating with trump is to sort of corner him quietly, which really annoyed reince priebus, who was trying to manage the place. but this time in front of everyone he said to the president you've got to fire james comey and here are three reasons why. the fbi doesn't like him, the democrats don't like him, and the base will love it. you know, steve bannon, you know, wily strategist, disagreed with him on every single point.