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,
when you have is not a matter of mrs. clinton or mr. trump. it s a matter of can we trust our law enforcers and the fbi to conduct investigations. can we trust our judiciary to be unbiased? i served as a soldier since 18 and then entered political life after retiring from the service. we have political opinions but we always put the nation ahead of ourselves. here, we have the american people that have been shaken and their confidence about the highest judiciary aspects of government. melissa: what did you think about the tone from inspector horwitz. do you feel like he understands how serious this is? he said it was really disturbing, do you feel like it s getting to the heart of the matter nor do you feel like there was a long period of time where people thought comey was a straight shooter and that turned out not to be the case? how do you feel about horwitz himself at this point? we have nothing but high
fact that we found out today that he himself was using a personal gmail account to conduct government business. even hillary referenced vat in a tweet today. and if you, like i, thought comey came off as incurious in television interviews for that stupid book of his, check out this tweet. he said today in a tweet i respect the doj. ig office which is why i urge them to do this review. the conclusions are reasonable even though i disagree with the them. people of good faith can see an unprecedented situation differently. i pray no director faces it again. thanks to ig s people for hard work. he lost me at people of good faith. notice by the way how he makes himself out to be the victim here. it s unbelievable. comey should change his middle name to hubris. the man has learned absolutely
think in two months or two years, whatever the case may be, you ll see donald trump rip the guy a new one. so it all depends where donald trump is at that particular time. you think it is that simple? verified wasn t in the language in the document they signed. but, joe, do you think that using this type of language for a guy who had people executed, his brother, 100,000 people in gulags, the starvation of the people there, you think that is tactic that might bear fruit? i think the least reassuring thing is we will just see where donald trump s head is. this is more than a tactic. he s vouching for kim. he s saying it s okay to imprison 100,000 people. it s okay to persecute people on religious grounds. it s okay to kill people because, trust me, i ve got this. and this isn t the first time. remember in the campaign when he was asked about putin. we don t have to remember. we can watch it right here.
didn t notice. we don t know the circumstances. it was not he said, look, i didn t need to do that. he did not need to go that far he did not believe to provide a rationalization for why comey should go. there a lot of reasons why people thought comey should be fired, some of them legitimate about the way he handled the clinton e-mail investigation. but the question about the president and comey s firing has always been what did it mean about the russia investigation. what were the true motivations about the president. and that s what bob mueller wants to ask the president about. what was your intentions when you had comey fired. what was really behind that. and the president is probably the only person that can answer that question, although the president s lawyers will tell you there s white house memos and officials who can give you an idea what he was thinking. you also report that the president s the president had drafted his own letter explaining the justifications for fi