Gorka is out. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Why did the president of the United States fire a former fbi director james comey. Thats the question thats the heart of the investigation being led by special counsel Robert Mueller. Whether the president himself committed criminal obstruction of citizens. Today we learned for the first time the president himself wrote down his reasons for firing comey in a letter he planned to send him on the day of the firing. A letter drafted with the help from white house aide be steven miller. That letter was never sent to comey he has frequently failed to restrict the president from his impulses found contents of this letter to be so problematic he convinced him not to send it. That letter is now reportedly in the hands of the special counsel Robert Muellerer. What i says, we dont know for sure. According to the wall street journal, they wanted him to state that he, donald trump, was not personally under investigation. The Administration