look, he s a showboat, he s a grandstander. the fbi has been in turmoil. you know that, i know that, everybody knows that. you take a look at the fbi a year ago, it was in virtual turmoil. less than a year ago. it hasn t recovered from that. monday, you met with the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. right. did you ask for a recommendation? what i did is, i was going to fire comey. my decision you had made the decision before they came in. i was going to fire comey. there s no good time to do it, by the way. they because in your letter, you said, i accepted their recommendation. well, they had you already made the decision? i was going to fire regardless of he made a recommendation, he s highly respected, very good guy, very smart guy. the democrats like him, the republicans like him. he made a recommendation, but regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. let me ask you about your termination letter to mr. comey.
comey. maeve reston, another voice, we want you to chime in. i don t know if it s the nice way to say the right hand isn t talking to the left versus one side is lying, we don t know. we can t prove it. but the real overarching question is how are the american people supposed to trust the words coming out of the white house? i think in a lot of cases, they can t. it has been a recurring theme with this white house, is that the communications staff get up and explains the president s decision, and then, you know, trump contradicts himself. i think that talking to my sources, they have said that president trump has been making calls for several weeks now, you know, asking what people think of the decision to fire comey. so, clearly, he has been thinking about this for a long time. it s just very puzzling why someone in the white house would have drafted that letter with a completely different explanation for the firing. and i don t see how the white house didn t think this was going
under investigation. there are questions over the voracity, a, of those statements, and b, the legality. on the voracity note, you know, as he shouldn t be discussing an open investigation, is that bs? brook, i have to start with just a reaction to sarah huckabee sanders at the white house podium today. because the account she gave is false and contradictory. we have to say that, in those very clear terms. that s not an opinion. let s just remember what is on the record. in fact, on paper. the president s letter dismissing comey on monday says, i have accepted the recommendation of the attorney general and the deputy attorney general. those are the president s words on paper. yesterday, the vice president said exactly the same thing. that the president accepted their recommendation to make this firing. and i don t have to remind you or our viewers, but sarah huckabee sanders and sean spicer aggressively and unequivocally on tuesday repeated the line that this began with the recommend