day when attorney general jeff session announce his recusal from the campaign related inquiries, donald trump publicly said while touring an aircraft carrier he didn t think it was appropriate, he didn t want sessions to recuse himself which isr itself is grounds for recusal. we have a president who is only pushing forward and using brut force the words on twitter, the words of his office which might be inappropriate or unlawful. we don t know yet. that is the message being sent loud and clear across the federal government. if you are hoping that rod rosen steen is going to suddenly make a conversion it would be in counter-veiling force from the pressure he is getting from the president. nothing in anything he wrote today that he is leaning that way. ken, delany we talked about how this bomb landed at the fbi. but it s also a big shocker to the investigative staff on the house intelligence committee,
unit which investigates things like international money laundering asking them for documentation that they got about president trump himself or people associated with him. that request went into treasury today. mark warner made public disclose sure of that request today. it was hours after that that we got word that the fbi director had been fired. this is it s a fast moving story, he s right in the middle of it. but it s very hard to know where the investigate sort of the accountability, authority, and accountability comes from here on out if they keep canning people to get close toyota. please stay with us for a few more minutes, we ll bring in experts who know a little bit more than we do, you can present some of these questions to them. justice correspondent is joining us now. clint wauts, he s a fellow at the foreign policy research institute and former fbi agent. he s also an msnbc contributor. pete, where do we go from here, what does this do to an on going fbi investiga
have it be carried out as if he is doing it to defend the honor and the legal dignity of hillary clinton from last year, his opponent in the presidential election of lock her up fame. the idea that he would be acting as president because he was so concerned she might have been unfairly me lined by the fbi and that s why he needs to be fired in the middle of his counter intelligence investigation and trump ties with russia. it s astonishing and part of the way that we ll know whether or not it s wise, that they re trying to get away with this, is whether or not people credit what they say as being the reason for what they do. i have always believed that this administration is much easier if you cover them as a silent movie and you ignore what they say and watch what they do. so often what they say is it s a smoke screen. and rachel, this home me is going to be really dissected, i think tomorrow.
this is ironically a decision that should have been shared by most democrats, leader of nancy pelosi, all talked about how he lost the confidence to lead the fbi. that is not the reaction that sean spicer wants from chuck schumer. they re saying that the mission of this memo, rosenstein s memo which was to restore confidence restore public confidence in the fbi, but the op way to do that now is a special prosecutor. and i think that is, legally, one of the only ways that american public will ever know whether this was fully investigated. we do live in an era, you ve reported and been in involved in washington for a long time. my view, this is the most significant and potentially damaging thing that donald trump has done since he assumed the office of the presidency, not because we know exactly why he did it, although several of your
very bad 2018 election for them. get this on your own terms. get this where it can be investigated by other people. take it off your docket and rewrite the health care bill and get to work on taxes. let s get more senate reaction on this and this happened moments after the news of the comey firing first broke today about 15 minutes after that i spoke with senator mark warner, he s a top democrat on the senate intelligence committee. joining us now, virginia senator mark warner, vice chair of the senate intelligence committee. thank you for joining us, your reaction to the firing of the fbi director? it s pretty outrageous. and here is what we know, lawrence, we know that this president has now fired the deputy attorney general in terms of ms. yates. he s fired nearly ever u.s. attorney. he s now fired the fbi director. he had his national security adviser have to resign because