Reporter we do know that something that President Trump had been considering, what were being told by Senior Administration officials the Deputy Attorney general was confirmed two weeks ago, he had time to look over james comeys turn your, and we have seen the letters which are essentially an indictment of the handling of Hillary Clintons emails. They said they no longer had faith in comeys ability to lead the department, they took this recommendation and he drafted this letter. But theres questions about the timing of this, why this is all happening now, its information that President Trump has celebrated in the past, but its serge not new information. The letter that the president sent to former fbi director comby. Can you explain what it cede said . Reporter i want to read you the portion that i think is
particularly confusing in President Trumps letter to comey, in this hes dismissing him. He said that while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that i a
them what s in the document, that is still a leak, no? well, not to get tangled up in it. leak is unauthorized discloche of classified information. really? that s it. that s how i looked at it as an fbi officer. i gave it to a friend. as awe private citizen i could do that and did that. and he announced days before the 2016 election that the fbi was reopening its you probe into hillary clinton. you can t conceal a huge change in facts when you have told them the opposite is. as between bad and catastrophic, you are always going to have to choose bad. the former fbi director addressing new reporting related to the so-called russia dossier that shows trump stayed in moscow in 2013 despite allegedly deny to go comey that he stayed overnight. it is always significant when
this letter says while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that i m not under investigation, he goes on to say that he agrees with the decision to let go comey. but i mean, clearly, this white house is under investigation, the people around the president, the people around the president are under investigation. you would agree with that, yes? no, i don t. i know that some are obsessed with james comey said that there was an ongoing investigation. the president is not under investigation, i m around the president. i m not under investigation, i can name several people in that same situation. you can name an investigation that s going on right now around the people who are close to the president of the united states? the president himself is not the subject of investigation and most importantly, are you talking about the folks who were involved in the campaign? yeah. okay, well you said the
today. you don t think it looks odd at all that the psz president of the united states fires the guy looking into the people round the president. he s been told he s not under investigation. well, the president s letter yes, gratuitously says i greatly appreciate you informing me i m not under investigation, he then goes on to say he agrees with the decision to let go comey. clearly this white house is under investigation. the people around the president are under investigation. you would agree with that? no, i don t. james comey said there s an ongoing investigation. the president is not under investigation. i m not under investigation. i can name many people in the same situation.