is when he s guilty he wants high-level people in the law and order wings of the u.s. government to say he isn t. yeah. to come out and do it in a very public way. i think the comey example is maybe the most parallel. so comey is telling him privately, look, sir, you are not a target of this investigation, at least not right now. but because comey won t go out and say it publicly after multiple requests, the president fires him. then insists on making that a part of sort of the firing letter. he doesn t even sort of try to hide behind the pretenses. he says thanks for telling me three times i wasn t under investigation. because it just so vexes him that jim comey won t go out and say that. maybe we are seeing the early signs of that with barr. this is not a session situation yet. but it certainly is parallel to some things we have seen in the past. that s right. the comey example is spot on. that is perhaps one of the largest reasons why he was fired. the president asked him
president s bodyguard walking into the fbi with this envelope. why was the president s bodyguard at the fbi. that was him delivering james comey s firing letter. what do you think? the real pathetic piece of this is that last piece about the bodyguard. all the preparation and secrecy that goes into this, conversations between lawyers and the president and the guy who likes to fire people can t have the courtesy to do it in person. stick around. there s more breaking news we re following, including new video showing practicing a drone assassination attempt on venezuela s president. it s a cnn exclusive. no matter when you retire, your income doesn t have to. see how lincoln can help ensure
a letter sent saying you re not going anymore is a bit of a shock for those planning to go. these are obviously chaotic times here on capitol hill. all sorts of cancellations recently. looking at a recent for dr. martin luther king s holiday where lawmakers are supposed to be out. the government is shut down for 27 days. there s no ongoing conversations. i asked nancy pelosi why they weren t talking. she insisted they were talking. the last time lawmakers were at the white house were eight days ago. the partial shut down has continued since then. so a lot of things have been cancelled. the president cancelled his trip to mar-a-largo over christmas. he s not going to switzerland. he was supposed to go for the world economic forum. he modified the delegation so he s no longer going there. these are most unusual times here in washington where a lot of leaders are talking passed one another or firing letter at
in trump years, that s actually eight years. the real casualties jim acosta. he had the 50 seconds of heroic outrage and it s been quickly forgotten, although we will bring it back in the next block. the winner here is pot smokers. your watching marijuana stocks go up. we implicitly knew that sessions was going to be a barrier to decriminalization and whatnot. i think it s going to make it easier. the i love that the firing letter was probably dated and signed ages ago. it wasn t dated. it was signed. i think may be trump does this with his marriages. they are like prenups. he has them ready. martha: today s the day. some folks look at this and say that he and jeff sessions had a great relationship early on. one of the first people to come on board. but it soured quickly when he
mixed messages coming from his team. i have to say i had a lot of contradicting of that memo and the claims by trump s team by a carrie, how does this all ho. reflect on the white house? sure. i think we need to look very specifically about the claims that are made in this reported memo because there have been some very broad and blanket statements and to my good friend adrian who i love and respect, but she said things that were way out of the bounds of what are specifically in the memo. specifically the memo says, you know, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein literally helped to write the firing letter of james comey and also when you look specifically at what james comey had said about the president, that he had testified to the senate intelligence committee that the president was not being investigated and also that he had told the president, on more than one occasion, you re not being investigated,