Were going to continue our breaking news live coverage of this. I wanted to amplify for you what andrea was just telling you about the Wadirector Comey former Director Comey found out about this, the New York Times account of this is just stunning. He was addressing a group of fbi employees in los angeles when the television in the background flashed the news that he had been fired. In response, mr. Comey laughed. He said he thought it was a fairly funny prank. And then his staff started securing around in the background, told mr. Comey that he should step into a nearby office. Mr. Comey stopped addressing the group. He proceeded to shake hands with the employees he had been speaking to and he stepped into a side office where he confirmed that he had been fired. At that point, he had not heard from the white house. Shortly after that, rachel,
after all of that, its been on television, a letter from the president was delivered to the fbis headquarters just 7 blocks from the white house,
investigation, kate. that was in 1999. nearly two decades ago. thank you so much. we will stay on this as divers are back in the water right now. appreciate it. coming up, it is what they do every day. that s deputy attorney general rod rosen steen on russia s continued attacks on the united states targeting u.s. elections. is the u.s. prepared? our next guest says no. president trump touches another third rail takes on another third rail of presidential sounding off on th federal reserve. tap one littler and up go your rates. what good is your insurance if you get punished for using it? news flash: nobody s perfect. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won t raise your rates due to your first accident. switch and you could save $782 on home and auto insurance. call for a free quote today.
he was given a reason by rod rosenstein. rosen stein. given a reason by rod rosen steen and acted on that reason. he could say he was going to fire him anyway, but he was given a reason, and it was justifiable. one of the reasons that wasn t played on that clip but is very interesting. the treatment of hillary clinton. one of the things that president trump s campaign continues to talk about is that hillary clinton s investigation ended before she was interviewed. this is the same argument in the reverse that they re trying to make with the president now that he shouldn t be interviewed. you should conclude an investigation before the president the person involved is interviewed. i don t know if that will come back to bite them politically, but legally it could. who s making the argument he shouldn t be interviewed? all of them? all of them. last night, rudy giuliani said, the president has to focus on north korea. he s talking about scope and timing. and a number of diff
him because of the russia investigation. and that s what prompted the mueller investigation. i understand scott s point, jim. why does the reasoning keep changing, though. if they ve gone down the road and given reasons. it sounds like there s a p panaply of reasons. in the beginning, it was because he treated hillary clinton badly, and the next day was russia. leaking is one that s come up of late. all of those things are reasons to relieve the fbi director of his duties. because he s investigating you, is that a reason? that s not it. he said that was the reason. he said i was going to fire him anyway. that s what he said. he didn t say that s the reason i fired him, i was going to fire him anyway. he was given a reason by rod rosen stein. given a reason by rod rosen steen and acted on that reason. he could say he was going to fire him anyway, but he was given a reason, and it was
if it was right and if it was wrong, their own loyalty perhaps to trump and their own sense of how this whole situation should be handled, i think will determine how they conclude about his what conclusions they make about his behavior. and if i could just add, when i is a that tweet, i nougt he was just saying how james comey, rod rosenstein robert mueller and rod rosen steen has jobs and everyone said i m going to fire them. but you re now laying out the rationale for why you could be firing them. basically it was stoorted from an illegal context. i wouldn t be surprised if months from now we go back to that tweet and say this is how he was dropping the crumbs on how to fire rod rosen steen. i saw three tweets about michael cohen and they seemed so directed at michael cohen, his long-time fixer. thanks to both of you. staying with the president s lawyer michael cohen and his central role in the stormy daniels matter and the russian