he was at this point in time in legal jeopardy. and he hinted at information not yet known to the public about attorney general jeff sessions. our judgment, as i recalling, was that he was very close to and inevitably going to recuse himself for a variety of reasons. we also were aware of facts that i can t discuss in an open setting that would make his continued engagement in a russia-related investigation problematic. and though comey testified that as fbi director he did. in tell the president he was not being investigated comey revealed that he handed over his memos about his conversations with trump to the special counsel, which could mean now the president is being investigatesled for obstruction of justice. comey also dropped a political bomb about the clinton e-mail investigation last year when democrats accused him of mishandling big time. he said that obama attorney
the justice department and white house say the final steps in firing comey who husbandgot bac washington after being in the was, they say he met with jeff sessions and rod rosenstein and said he wanted to talk about his concerns that comey should be fired. rosenstein said he had reached the same conclusion and agreed to put his thoughts on paper which became the three page memo blasting comey s handling evof e clinton e-mail investigation. congressional sources say comey asked rosenstein last week for more resources for the russia investigation, but a justice department official says that request was never made. a spokesman says the president has been thinking since he took office that comey was not respected. rank and file of the fbi had lost confidence in their director. accordingly the president accepted the recommendation of
director. he never said explicitly that made that recommendation in that letter. and i think if that reporting is correct, then that s a sign that the deputy attorney general has bristled and gotten upset at the white house s attempt to spin this. at what vice president pence said today, well, this is basically all just a response to this memo, sort of taking agency away from the president in this way, because they think it insulates him from the critique. it seems rather obvious that he fired comey because he was upset at the russia investigation that he continued to push. so it was sort of an alibi. but in sort of providing an alibi for the president. it would seem that they alienated the deputy attorney general here. but as steve said, there is nobody in this white house capable of standing up to the president and pushing back on this right now. we re trying to figure out exactly who was in the real inner circle when this was happening today. chairman the chief of staff reince pri
sean spicer has lied. the vice president has lied. ms. sanders has lied. everybody who stands on the north lawn and talks about this has lied to the american people. it s the type of lie that requires the liars to believe the people they re lying to are stupid. because this is just plain as day what this is about. and the claims that it s about anything else other than the russia investigation are just completely ludicrous on their face. who else thought for just a second they had taken down your satellite signal? steve schmidt, it s great to have you voice back on the broadcast. thank you. eli stokols, thank you as well. another breck for us here. and coming up, what timing and the looks of it all as trump meets with the russian ambassador, the russian foreign
were involved in one of the congressional investigations to alert them to these requests that he was making. so the picture in sum really revolves around the russia investigation, much less so than comey s handling of the clinton e-mail investigation last year, which was the initial explanation from the white house. jonathan, what does all of it, any of it say about the style of donald j. trump? this is a president who has a businessman and on the campaign had unchecked power that is not the case here in washington. he has run up against the bulwark of federal agencies and the federal government. he has grown frustrated with that he is someone who has rebelled against the typical washington political norms that keep a president s power in place. whether that s musing openly about using the nuclear option to confirm his senate supreme court choice through the senate, or to a case like this, where an fbi director is a nonpolitical