Were going to continue our breaking news live coverage of this. I wanted to amplify for you what andrea was just telling you about the Wadirector Comey former Director Comey found out about this, the New York Times account of this is just stunning. He was addressing a group of fbi employees in los angeles when the television in the background flashed the news that he had been fired. In response, mr. Comey laughed. He said he thought it was a fairly funny prank. And then his staff started securing around in the background, told mr. Comey that he should step into a nearby office. Mr. Comey stopped addressing the group. He proceeded to shake hands with the employees he had been speaking to and he stepped into a side office where he confirmed that he had been fired. At that point, he had not heard from the white house. Shortly after that, rachel,
after all of that, its been on television, a letter from the president was delivered to the fbis headquarters just 7 blocks from the white house,
prosecution of the former president. it comes alongside false claims that a jury verdict in a state trial by a brought by a local district attorney was somehow controlled by the justice department that conspiracy theory is an attack on the judicial process itself. we do not control the manhattan manhattan district attorney manhattan district attorney does not report to us the manhattan district attorney makes its own decisions about cases that he wants to bring under his state law so paddy this era excuse me, garland is being more aggressive and he has been in the past i had pardon me, wonders it s if it s for this reason so politico wrote this headline, merrick garland was biden s consensus pick. now everyone hates him rather than being revered as a straight shooter. garland s become reviled. he is a man alone on an island and washington, taking unyielding blowback from the right and left, the left thinking he s
to stick by his endorsement of mccarthy in a brief interview with nbc news correspondent garrett haake when i asked directly if he was taken by mccarthy, you did not clinch the gavel today after three full votes, mr. trump told me, we will see what happens, and ended our conversation. [laughter] you knew i was a snake when you took me in. so, republicans are in full disarray. it s not hyperbole. say, this is a level of chaos and his organization that is unprecedented to the modern era. it is simply the facts. there is no consensus pick to be speaker. it is not even clear at this moment of mccarthy will keep his name in contention. republicans have nominally controlled the house for less than 24 hours and they have nothing to show for it. it is has already devolved into historic levels of chaos. sayed kapoor has been tracking he joins me live from capitol
with nbc news correspondent garrett haake when i asked directly if he was sticking by mccarthy, you did not clinch the gavel today after three full votes, mr. trump told me, we will see what happens, and ended our conversation. [laughter] you knew i was a snake when you took me in. so, republicans are in full disarray. it s not hyperbole. say, this is a level of chaos and this organization that is unprecedented to the modern era. it is simply the facts. there is no consensus pick to be speaker. it is not even clear at this moment of mccarthy will keep his name in contention. republicans have nominally controlled the house for less than 24 hours and they have nothing to show for it. it is has already devolved into historic levels of chaos. sahil kapur has been tracking every moment of the drama. he joins me live from capitol hill. sahil