crime. new marching orders from the attorney general that reverses more obama-era mandates. we ll tell you what that s all about in a moment. shannon: you saw the reports over the mainstream media hinting at a link between james comey asking for more resources for the russian investigation and being fired. now the man leading the f.b.i. told the senate something else yesterday when he testified. what is fact and what is fiction? president trump: i also want to have a really competent, capable director. he is not. he is a showboater. he is not my man or not my man. i didn t appoint him. he was appointed long before me. i want somebody who is going to do a great job. there s nothing more important to me
checks and balances that electric at the underpinning of our drems. why are the republicans so reluctant to make that call for a special prosecutor? they re looking more and more uncomfortable as they sit there and continue to support the president of the united states specifically with regards to how he fired director comey calling him a showboater. these are not descriptions that the republicans feel comfortable hearing about a man who for every intents and purpose was described as very honorable. we expect to hear from comey at some point and he will be asked these questions and we will hear his side of the story as well. republicans may also, those who may be skeptical and wondering if they can distance themselves from the president at all about this may take some solace and some new polling out today that shows the majority of americans disagree with how the president handled comey s firing. we shall see. gloria you wrote a column on cnn.com today. let me read a couple sente
very personal, very critical making this seem like an urgent matter that he had to go. i wrote down those words, i watched your interview come in, i wrote down same things you just said, he called him a showboater and a grandstander, said this was my decision all along. he seems to speak with such conviction even though his aides were out with a completely different story yesterday. do you get the sense that in the moment this is exactly what he thinks or did you sense anything from anyone in the room about how they might be on shaky ground here? well, there are other people who spent a lot more time in that building across the street than i do, who probably have a better read on that, but i think we all recognize that sometimes they re not always on the same page. listen, we ve all known president trump even before he was president. he is his own man. and, you know, he makes his calls. he does things as he sees fit. and i don t know that he always necessarily communicates those th
time. exactly. but, you know, yes, you cannot take seriously what this administration spokespeople say. you just can t take it seriously. they were trying to cover for the president today. and the vice president was given a bucket of water to carry with a lot of holes in it. so he s got this all over his shoes right now, number one. the communication shop does as well. however this decision came down, it was clear that no one had command and control over it the night the president fired comey. but the president the central question really is what is the president afraid of? what does the president not want to reveal? because he has used every deflection device now for weeks now. he s trashed everybody. now he s calling, what, comey a showboater. a showboater. he s obviously obsessed about this investigation. less toter holt also asked president trump about one of the more bizarre lines in his termination letter to comey. let s watch this odd little
investigations into russia and whether they re leaked and otherwise. we ll hear from we believe speaker ryan momentarily. we re watching the empty podium there. do you believe it comes up today? they ve had a long relationship. he worked with paul ryan on reform when he was a lonely soldier and co-sponsored it and i m sure he s keeping him up to date. shannon: i haven t known dev devin nunes to be a showboater and he s quietly gotten work done. we have a piece in 2014 that laid out what devin nunes did as an intelligence committee