Sticking up for his boss, calling the dismissal of the right at the right time. Congressional democrats, some of whom have called for comeys head following the clinton email investigation or demanding a special prosecutor. John roberts joins us from the north lawn. Good evening. In this tangled web of claims and counterclaims, one thing that we did learn today that was new, the firing of james comey had more to do with what President Trump was thinking that we were first legibly. 24 hours after firing james comey, the white house today dramatically shifted the narrative. Initially officials insisted they Deputy Attorney general made the recommendation in recent days. Today the Deputy Press Secretary said the president has been thinking about it for months. In regard to the termination of the former fbi director comey, the president over the last several months lost confidence in director comey and frankly he had been considering letting director comey go since the day he was elected. D
Will do for you. Is that what you are paying for u parents . We will make america safe again. We will make America Great again. God bless you and good night. I love you. Were the kids in america everybody. Brian that is the delphi Lacrosse Team. That is how they choose to come out on their home field the American Flag with the voice of the president giving a speech at a rally. Ainsley how dare them. That is so offensive. Brian he wasnt saying dont vote Hillary Clinton. He was talking about america. Ainsley how Great America is. The president of the United States. Brian yet, the Lacrosse Team has to backtrack and apologize for anybody they offended with those words. Outrageous. Steve we dont know if anybody was actually offended. We know they have preapologized for using donald trump who is by the way to the whhorror of some democrats the president of the United States. Brian he won. Ainsley we are going to dive into this throughout the show this morning. We will replay that video for y
Calling todays vote a major victory. For his part, President Trump called the bill something very, very incredibly well crafted. Lets watch. I went through two years of campaigning, and im telling you no matter where i went, people were suffering so badly with the ravages of obamacare. As far as im concerned, your premiums, theyre going to start to come down. Were going to get this passed through the senate. I feel so confident. This is, make no mistake, this is a repeal and a replace of obamacare. Make no mistake about it. Coming from a different world and only being a politician for a short period of time how am i doing . Am i doing okay . Im president. Hey, im president. Can you believe it, right . Do you believe it . Thats an amazing statement. Anyway, the house passed the socalled American Health care act by a vote of 217213. It took 216. They didnt waste any votes on this. Moments afterwds, House Democrats began chanting this warning. This is on the floor of the house to replican
Alison, is a political backfire along the lines of trump vodka, trump steaks, not going well for the white house this morning, because we have new details this morning which paint a startling picture of a scorned President Trump increasingly consumed by a nowformer fbi director whose russia investigation was simply picking up too much steam for the president s comfort. A source close to comey telling cnns jake tapper, james comey was fired for two reasons now. Okay, here come the two reasons. First, comey never gave the personal loyalty. Urance of and second, the fbi investigation into possible collusion by team trump with russia, that was accelerating, so that may explain the timing of all this. Sources are telling cnn that comey was fired just a week after asking for more resources to investigate the russia connection. The white house for its part denies comey made that request. Regardless, there is progress reported in that probe. A Senate Committee issuing a subpoena to former Nati
And now we learn details on the real reaction by comey to his dismissal. And his reaction to Donald Trumps suggestion that there could be tapes of his chats with the president. Well start with that in a moment. Also, late this week, attorney general Jeff Sessions now has a new directive for federal prosecutors across the country. Charge suspects with the most serious offense you can prove, translation, treat nonviolent, less serious drug offenders with long mandatory sentences. Once again, dismantling president obamas criminal justice legacy. More on that in a moment. But we start from the fallout of the firing of fbi director james comey. Joining me now, congressman hakeem jeffries, democrat of new york, and the New York Times reporter yamish al cinder, msnbc contributor. Congressman, the president fires the fbi director. And he fires him without a phone call, without a meeting. In fact, he was speaking on the west coast, arguably 3,000 miles away, to fbi personnel, when one of them s