lets have both of you gentle me back on. we ll keep on talking about this. thank you both for coming on tonight. we want to turn to the white house ominous statement about syria. just before we came on the air last night, warning that assad of syria would pay a quote of heavy prize for a chemical attack. this new warning was crafted by a tight circle includin including acknowledging the events were fast moving and they. reporter: minimal deliberations about the bold move. assad today staged a photo opt of an air base used by russians. russia is calling this new us warning a provocation. joining us tonight to talk about
we have learned that the russian news agency was permitted inside, not those from the u.s. white house press pool. so that is an issue that causes some consternation around here. that was off camera. and then there was a hurry-up, collect the pool, the group of rotating reporters and photographers, hurry up and get to the oval office where there was a meeting with henry kissinger, who served as secretary of state and former national security adviser to president nixon. and that is where president trump said when responding to a question that he thinks that james comey just wasn t doing a good job. kelly, i almost have to physically restrain chuck todd from jumping across the desk. you just did report, kelly, there s one news agency allowed in the trump-lavrov meeting and it belonged to vladamir putin? reporter: one might say it s an extension of the russian delegation. but yes, that is our understanding. we have been waiting for an
he met with rob rosenstein says he completely mishandled the investigation and asked for more staff and budget to be able to continue and to in essence expand the russian investigation. this is an investigation of ruia hacking on the investigation last year and the potential connections between the russian hacking of the election and members of the trump campaign. after that meeting, the fbi director mentioned this to members of congress with whom he has been in regular touch. that is just an additional fact in the steps leading up to this decision to fire him. i think a fundamental question that remain social security what is the genesis for the memo.
notice, firing him because of what he did with the clinton e-mails, it doesn t track. you kept hearing him say it was the right decision at the right time because there is so much focus on the timing of this. when we pressed him about the timing, he said the deputy attorney general con conducted this review on his own accord of fbi director james comy. i asked him, did they con destruct this review, and he dodged the review. but that have the critical question here in is an administration that knows they re getting a lot of backlash finish this decision. based our our decisions, they were eected democrats to be more supportive and they re
question. it s been said over and over, donald trump took a different route to the presidency than i guess pretty much every other occupant of the presidency. most of them kind of studied up on american history, because it was their line of work. studied up on the presidency and all things federal government. can it be said that he maybe had not immersed himself in the notion of ten-year terms, maybe had not thought through what a big story this would be, that taking out the fbi director is a thing that we tend to cover very closely if he did i ll tell you this, he is surprised that there respect more democrats greeting this with, well, comey deserved it. he thought he would get more on that. that seems to surprise him a little bit. but somebody close to him said, you ve got to remember, there s certain rules about donald trump that you have to remember. one of them is, he doesn t run from controversy, he runs to it. because he believes ultimately