disrespects our flag, to say, get that son of a bitch off the field right now. out. he s fired. he s fired! you know, the saddest thing is that because i m the president of the united states, i am not supposed to be involved with the justice department. i m not supposed to be involved with the fbi. i m not supposed to be doing the kind of things that i would love to be doing. but let me tell you, the one that matters is me. i m the only one that matters, because when it comes to it, that s what the policy is going to be. you ve seen that. you ve seen it strongly. joining me now after all that is shannon pettypiece, a white house correspondent for bloomberg news, dana milbank, a columnist for the washington post and jason johnson is a policy editor at the root. and an msnbc political contributor. i don t know where we go on that menu. i want to start with it, but what do you think, how s history going to encapsulize all that when they try to put together the first year of the donald
this in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, i know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story and a reminder tonight of the lengths the administration went to to push a false narrative that a deputy attorney general citing clinton s e-mails recommended to the e-mails that comey had to go and so the president acted upon its. i think the president was p given a recommendation by the deputy attorney general who the fbi director reports to. i would point them to the three letters that were received today, a letter by president donald trump, the letter by attorney general sessions and the underlying report rosenstein. by accepting the recommendation of the deputy attorney general to remove director comey as the head of the fbi, because of the actions that the deputy attorney general outlined to the president. the president made the right decision at the right time. there was a lot of that. another point generating questions tonight from t
my decision. you had made the decision before they came in. i was going to fire comey. he made a recommendation. regardless of recommendation i was going to fire comey, knowing there was no good time to do it. and in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know this russian thing with trump and russia, it s a madeup excuse of the democrats for losing an election that they should have won. this is an excuse. are you angry with mr. comey because of the russia investigation? i just want someone that s competent. i m a big fan of the finn. how is the white house going to answer this question tomorrow? the questions about his campaign and russia and the answer you saw. the quote from the president is
race on the surface but looks can be se seefing. 272 secretary clinton, 179 for donald trump. the dark blue solid dem, light blue lean dem. what is different, yesterday we had florida and nevada leaning democratic. new polling shows dead heat. we shifted them to thes to up category. that is what makes the race look tighter. if you look at the polling data you will understand how steep the hill is for donald trump heading to the final ten, 11 days of campaigning. start in iowa, a state where trump has been consistently ahead. new quinnipiac university data shows a tie, 44-44 percent and hillary clinton doing well in early voting in iowa. iowa maybe on the map for the democrats. now georgia, yet another ruby red state. like utah and arizona. donald trump should be well ahead at this point in the campaign. instead, quinnipiac university finds 44-43.
would change this race at this point in time. the only thing that would happen is if hillary clinton did what trump did. if she runs out on fifth avenue and shoots somebody is the only way she loses. i think you are right. democrats feel a corrupt president is better than trump. donald trump says it is rigged but he gave the game away. listen to this. the only one i really like are the ones who are winning. close your eyes then. these polls bill, something s going on. bill, something s going on. a moment of honesty from trump. any candidate behind in the polls say they are rigged or inaccurate until they are. of course. i think trump wants to surround himself in an echo chamber of winning and it s a hard place to be in trump land right now. that s like an umpire at a baseball game. if my team is losing the umpire is terrible. if my team is winning the umpire