comey s firing to the russia investigation helped spark this counterintelligence probe. here is one of those moments. 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 russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story, an excuse by democrats for having lost an election that they should have won. the second instance is a draft letter that president intended to send to comey listing the reasons that he was irtooing h in firing him. his lawyer blocked trump from sending it. according to the new york times. the white house is calling this bombshell report, quoting now, absurd, and it sparked an angry tirade from the president via twitter this morning. so let s check in now with cnn s white house correspondent boris sanchez. so what more is being said from the white house, boris? hey there, fred, yes,