Done was particularly striking. Director comey is a respected career Law Enforcement official, Public Servant. He was fired essentially through the press. He found out that he had been fired while he was speaking to fbi personnel in los angeles. There were press reports that a letter had been delivered to the fbi headquarters. Thats about as brazen and aggressive a way as you can fire somebody. As you referenced here, President Trumps letter saying you have told me three times im not under investigation just seems to protest too much the idea that theres nothing going on here other than sort of clearing the decks. I will remind you, director comey is just in the third year of his tenyear term. If this really was the reason for his firing, why wasnt he fired in the first few days of the Trump Administration . What happens now . Democrats can wring their hands and say there should be a special prosecutor. How does that happen unless its from the department of justice, from Rod Rosenstein
D. C. We begin with that incredibly important decision facing donald trump. Should he okay a major u. S. Troop buildup in afghanistan . The recommendation is from his senior military and Foreign Policy advisers to send in at least several thousand more troops into the 16 year old war to fight a resurgent taliban. The this comes after what the Washington Post calls a sweeping policy riew based on the president s preference to, quote, start winning again. Peter alexander joins us from the white house. When might the president make a decision, pete centpeter . Good question. No decision has been made. One could come soon. There was some reporting today that suggests that decision would be made before the president s visit to brussels. His nato meeting thats scheduled to take place on may 25th. Just a few weeks from now. This is significant though for a variety of reasons. Not the least of which is the president , who sort of ran on this America First policy, one that advisers suggest is s
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