defend the decision, they say privately, white house officials, they were with the president on getting rid of comey. so, mika, nobody had the guts to tell donald trump what a horrific idea this was because they knew it was, as bob said, an animating idea in his head. he had to get rid of comey because comey would not give him a loyalty oath and he would not drop the russia investigation. and these obsessions are what s going to bring him down. because these obsessions can t be stopped. there are no measuring forces in the white house. not one. and, john heilman, can you name one, if there were to be one? i think it might be on the foreign policy team, but i don t think they have that direct d - day-to-day access. it s not jared. it s not ivanka. it s not reince. it s certainly not sean spicer. we all agree steve bannon might
loyalty of the director of the fbi and when he didn t get it, he fired him. maybe he lied, that jim comey cleared him three times of any suspicions in the russia investigation when comey s people say
associates, political associates and white house associates. on that same day, donald trump calls over the deputy attorney general after the request for more resources comes in. and donald trump orders that deputy attorney general to fire james comey after james comey h has, that very today on capitol hill, say i m going to expand this investigation. i ve been getting briefings every day. i m getting more and more concerned about collusion between russia, vladimir putin, donald trump, the white house, trump s business empire, all the associates directly or indirectly. it happen ed on the same day, mika. and yesterday morning, we saw the white house caught in a lie. as i said earlier. their lies of the early morning had burned off by noon, saying that this was the deputy attorney general.
focused, moving forward, we ve got a job to do. as mark said, don t expect just because jim comey is gone, that somehow all these agents assigned to the russia case are going to sit on their hands. all right. as we wrap up this block, joe, what s your gut at this point? my gut is that donald trump has just made a lot more enemies inside the fbi. there were a lot of conservatives inside the fbi and the cia that supported donald trump for their own reasons. i talked to a good number of them. i talked to one yesterday who was absolutely stunned and said this is the sort of thing that happens in turkey. this is the sort of thing that happens in russia. it s absolutely frightening. as we have mccabe going to the hill, he needs to answer the question about why he s leaking to white house chiefs of staff about what he s testifying to in closed-door sessions in
department says there was no discussion of funds or resources during the may 1st meeting. multiple fbi insiders tell pete williams they believe comey was fired because he would not end the russia investigation. the wall street journal reports comey had dug into the probe, going from weekly briefings to daily ones, concerned over potential evidence of collusion. joe, where do you begin? you begin with the timeline. think about this. on monday, james comey goes to capitol hill. and he lets everybody on capitol hill know, including the deputy attorney general, that he s going to need more resources. he s going to need more agents. he s going to need more money. he s going to have to expand the russian investigation and the ties to donald trump s business