little bit that may be the united states, my gosh, will turn out to be the most influential power right here in northeast asia. and they are moving to check it out. bret: in the meantime, we are still checking the russia probe on a lot of different fronts. the president tweeting today a number of tweets, but this one, not that it matters what i never fired james comey because of russia. the corrupt mainstream media loves to keep pushing that narrative, but they know that it is not true. that prompted a lot of looking into sound bites. like this one from nbc. regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey, knowing that there was no good time to do it. in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russian thing with trump and russia is a made up story, it is a excuse by the democrats for her lost incorporated losing an election that they should have won. bret: what is the deal?
the corrupt mainstream media loves to keep pushing that narrative but they know it is not true. david. well, everybody in the administration, the f.b.i. director included, is capable of being fired by the president of the united states, any president. you serve at the pleasure of the president. that s the way this works. he did not think that james comey was up to the job. he looked at the time at what he did during the campaign about the hillary clinton matter, right? and he saw i don t think this president had confidence in james comey from the beginning and look, if he had fired him on january 20th, right, the day he was inaugurated i don t think much of this would be made of anything. he gives the guy an opportunity to do his job correctly. the president didn t like it and he fires him. the mainstream media makes it about this and it was much bigger decision by this president. sandra: i want to get your reaction to some details coming in from our white house
that twitter page and he is communicates directly to a lot of people. and we obviously follow it very closely. i think i m not following exactly what he is saying there. if you look back at what he said to lester holt, he was pretty definitive in his sound bite, if you play the whole thing out in context. it definitely was a factor. either way, he has the right to do what he did and it s really rod rosenstein who wrote the real reason behind the recommendation for the firing of comey. so we ll see where this goes. i m sure there is more explanation from the white house. sandra: we certainly will. it seems to be something the president is staying on and tweeting about on the informant, bret. he tweeted this. the corrupt mainstream media is working overtime not to mention the infiltration of people, spies, informants, into my campaign. surveillance much? what is the president s message
establishment can t stand. therefore they want to set a trap where he will get something wrong about something he said in a meeting. we don t know if there is no evidence of collusion until bob mueller issues his report, we don t know anything. we know about the indictments thus far and the guilty pleas but we don t have a final opinion out of the mueller investigation so how can you say they ve given up on collusion at this point? rick: i want to get to a couple tweets. one from the president. not that it matters but i never fired james comey because of russia. corrupt mainstream media loves to push the narrative but they know it is not true. he also said the corrupt mainstream media is working overtime not to mention spies and informants into my campaign. surveillance much? steve. well look, there were a whole range of reasons that he fired comey with grounds to do so. one of them was the way he was handling the russia investigation and the president said that. in terms of the
to be made public that he was not a target or subject of the investigation. he had been very consistent about that. all of the witnesses have said that. it is not too surprising that he suggested the same mantra. it might be an obsession to be sure, but it is not a cover story. at least for people looking at it objectively. if mccabe wrote the memo, because he felt that the president was trying to create a cover story, it does raise the question how mccabe viewed the president and his motivation. so the memo may say a lot about both men. martha: here is one of the tweets that the president put out today. not that it matters, but i never fired james comey because of russia. the corrupt mainstream media loves to push the narrative, but they know it is not true. what everybody took off was a sound bite from nbc back in 2017. and in fact when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i