have to keep repeatedly telling him not to contact flynn. this is i m sorry. you re at new york magazine now. this is a remarkable sort of development if you just look at the flynn subpoena in and of itself and signals that there s nowhere to go here but forward on this. right. i think donald trump did not like the way that things were proceeding, and he wanted to put a stop to it. this is the most trump thing that has ever happened since he took office basically. and it really does have trump written all over it. it s very difficult to believe their news story that this was not his idea. michael, this is a quote from ken dilanian, my colleague, from someone in intelligence. it s former senior intelligence official. the way this was done i think was done to send a message to the fbi agents left behind. it s not that they removed him. it s they did it in the thuggish and most humiliating way possible. instant execution. the bodyguard delivers the letter to headquarters. i think th
it s an insult to some level. there s something just toxic, insidious about that. it s using the tools of democracy in bad faith. democracy is absolutely helpless against somebody who does that. is it helpless? don t we have strong institutions in courts? the muslim ban was a shock event and the courts constrained him in a way you want them to constrain him. we have institutions with checks and balances. what happens when those institutions historically are used to oppressor people and you have a person like donald trump that comes in and tries to destroy those institutions. we re in an interesting position. on the one hand we have to recognize the fbi has done terrible things with muslim communities, black communities, back before there was a before the current period. literally founded in the
so now the next step is where do we go from here? so you think that the reason for the firing was the way that james comey specifically handled hillary clinton s e-mail investigation as reflected in the memo by rod rosenstein? you think that s actually the reason? i m not able to read the minds of attorney general jeff sessions or president donald trump or the others that may have been involved in this decision-making process. i m in a position where i accept at face value that was written in the explanation was to why comey needed to be fired. if there s more evidence that surfaces that suggests that there was a different reason, then we need to examine that at the time that we get that information. but right now all we have are the correspondence by two people in the justice department, one is the attorney general, and the very brief statement by the white house, president trump, that a termination was occurring. so that if seems important,
if you re the president of the united states and you just fired your fbi director while he was leading the investigation into your campaign for potentially colluding with russia, and after you had just asked for more resources to conduct that investigation, what would you do the very next day? if you re donald trump, you meet in the oval office with ruia s top diplomat, foreign minute store sergey lavrov, a man who standing next to secretary of state rex tillerson reacted with mockery when our own andrea mitchell asked about comey s firing earlier in the day. does the comey firing cast a shadow over your talks, gentlemen? you are kidding. you are kidding. along with lavrov, trump also invited into the oval office the russian ambassador, sergey kislyak, whose name might be familiar. michael flynn was fired for lying about the nature of his repeated conversations with kislyak. sally yates said what he was doing in those conversations was problematic.
they give awards for being hot and 100 years old? we ll take 2! [ laughing ] xfinity x1 gives you exclusive access to the best of the billboard music awards just by using your voice. the billboard music awards. sunday, may 21st eight seven central only on abc. if you re the president of the united states and you just fired your fbi director while he was leading the investigation into your campaign for potentially colluding with russia, and after you had just asked for more resources to conduct that investigation, what would you do the very next day? if you re donald trump, you meet in the oval office with russia s top diplomat, foreign minute store sergey lavrov, a man who standing next to secretary of state rex tillerson reacted with mockery when our own andrea mitchell asked about comey s firing earlier in the day. does the comey firing cast a shadow over your talks, gentlemen? you are kidding. you are kidding. along with lavrov, trump also