that the director comey asked for more resources, for more money, and this is coming from hill and judiciary sourcing. so all of this coming together does not lead you to conclude that the white house motive, the rapid firing, fearing within a day, less than a day, of getting the information according to the memo, the president fires the fbi director without handing him a notice or saying anything in person. you add all of those things together, and then to me, the question is the timing relative to what they said was the basis of the decision. it talked about things that mr. comey did last summer and fall.
robby mook, thank you very much for being part of our coverage this afternoon. we appreciate it. robby mook appearing from capitol hill. katie, to the question everyone had initially yesterday, why nowsome that is the big qution it s a question that s remained unanswered by this white house. they haven t come up with a sufficient answer. i ve been speaking to associates of donald trump, aides of donald trump, and they say this should have happened on day one, he should have fired him after he was inaugurated. after all, comey was somebody who was a target from both parties. up and down during the campaign. he did not do so, there by giving him his full confidence. last week, sean spicer said comey had donald trump s full confidence. so what happened in the last few days? this is a large question. we have our own reporting that said fbi director comey went to
preexisting conditions have to be covered. there was a back and forth. jimmy kimmel came back on the air last night and he said. this i want you to respond. since i am jimmy kimmel i would like to make a suggestion as to what the jimmy kimmel test should be. i will keep it simple. jimmy kimmel test shouldable no family denied medical care emergency or otherwise because they can t afford it can that be the jimmy kimmel test? [cheers and applause] steve: well, that s the bar. totally legitimate test. let me give you test. before obamacare we had 10% in the individual market in risk pool. 8 or 9 plans to chose from. open network go to any doctor or hospital they wanted to. premiums and deductibles were cheaper then than whether a they re under obamacare. other 90% of wisconsinites had even cheaper health insurance. focused or support for the people who needed it the most. that lowered the cost of premiums for everybody else. we think we have better
all of the pressure that was on him on russia and what it has done is actually focused on his connections with russia. but i think more importantly here, fredricka, is that the behavior of this president this week has turned him into a one-man mass weapon of mass destruction because he single-handedly is now going to be responsible for the destruction of american leadership, the destruction of american credibility, the des rukz of american trustwort trustworthiness, the destruction of american values on a global scale. we have become the laughing stock of the world because this president continues to think and put out there something that is true and is absolutely false. so jason, respond to that because the issue of trustworthiness you know, carl bernstein was on the air last night who said, you know this president is a liar. he said you know, he s a liar
he recovered donald trump s issues in the 1980s when he was with the the philadelphia inq inquirer. he could only speculate where the forms came from. seen them in the mail over the transom and nothing improper about journalists, if you haven t solicited something getting it over the transom. let me point out it s entirely possible that donald sent these to me. he has leaked over the years all sorts of things. it was that reporter s instinct that it s possible the president actually fed those to him. when you kind of look at how the sto story tells itself it tends to back that up. the president said an effective income tax rate of about 25% because of the alternative minimum tax. mitt romney, by comparison, paid 14% and took heavy fire about that during the 2012 campaign. as maddow prepared to go on the air last night, the white house acknowledged the document s veracity and put out a long statement saying this.