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,
justice department normally works, everything in it dated today and apparently no prior thought given to it. when you look at the underlying firing document, which is the rod rosenstein document. based on what he find, i think he should be fired. the president s letter said you should be fired, there s some stuff attached to this if you want to know this. it s all in this letter, which is very ry thin. and comes it s titled the title of his memo is, restore restoring public confidence in the fbi. that s the mission of this memo. and that s what we re going to do today. we re going to have the president under investigation of fbi, fire the director of the fbi to achieve the goals of this memo, restoring public comments in the fbi. and to have that firing by the president who is under investigation by the fbi, to
rod rosenstein document. based on what he find, i think he should be fired. the president s letter said you should be fired, there s some stuff attached to this if you want to know this. it s all in this letter, which is very very thin. and comes it s titled the title of his memo is, restore restoring public confidence in the fbi. that s the mission of this memo. and that s what we re going to do today. we re going to have the president under investigation of i, fire the director of the fbi to achieve the goals of this memo, restoring public comments in the fbi. and to have that firing by the president who is under investigation by the fbi, to have it be carried out as if he is doing it to defend the honor and the legal dignity of hillary clinton from last year, his opponent in the presidential