to chuck schumer he got the phone call about the firing of jim comey and he tried to explain to the president why it was a bad idea. and in schumer s account he said the president didn t seem to understand how big a firestorm it was about to uncork. and on the other side of the screen we re taking a look at what is happening inside that hearing room. it s set to start any minute now. we expect to see the top republican and democrat give their opening statements, statements from the witnesses here who you see getting seated. there s rod rosen stestein, pet williams is watching all of this along with us and reporting this mark on the new fbi pick. i want to get your thoughts on how this might play out amongst the rank and file in the fbi and what you are looking for today from these folks getting seat as we speak. in terms of the raik and file, they re relieved that this is somebody with law enforcement experience, knowing the fbi and is not a political figure. on the other hand it s
reporter: sure, yeah. it s almost difficult to get through the entire list of things that we re dealing with up here today on capitol hill. the headline as far as the fbi director goes, and i think this speak to a broader theme that we ve been talking quite a bit about is it does not seem that members of congress who would normally be informed about a new fib dire fbi director had any awareness this happened. chuck grassley, somebody who gives a lot of weight to manner, protocol, doing things the right way was not told in advance of this he walked down this hallway and said i learned about it from the eet li everybody else this morning. i asked him is that disrespe disrespectful? and he said the same thing, i found out in a tweet. did not look super pleased of that being the case. chuck schumer did not know, diane feinstein didn t know in advance. it s a little different than