conversations. >> he obviously made a decision to stick that into the letter to make that public. were there any concerns he had that kind of conversation? >> no, charlie. >> how important was it to stop the leaks? >> i think that's probably one of the many factors. you can't deny somebody -- that that wasn't a problem. so i think that was one of the many reasons he no longer had the confidence of the president or the rest of the fbi. >> can we expect more firings from the justice department. >> not that i'm aware of today. >> going forward, does the president want the department of justice to shutdown what he's called the taxpayer funded charade investigation? >> he wants them to continue with whatever they see appropriate and see fit. just the same as he's encouraged the house and senate committees to continue any ongoing investigations. look, the bottom line is any investigation that was happening on monday is still happening today. that hasn't change. and in fact we encouraged them to complete this investigation so we can put it behind us and we can continue to see exactly what we've been saying for nearly a year. there's no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia, and we'd love for that to be completed so we can all move on and focus on the things that frankly i think all person as are concerned with. >> even if it wastes taxpayer money, he wants to continue? >> look, the president doesn't want to waste taxpayer money on this. let's put it behind us, let's move on, and let's focus on what we need to do to turn our country around. >> two questions. one, was the white house aware of the announcement and subpoenas of michael flynn had just gone out? >> no, nor should we have been? >> do you know anything about that process. >> no, i'd have to refer you to -- >> and does the white house believe if these investigations are going to proceed in these allegations of russian interference, do you support continued funding and support who to lead that investigation? who is going to be running that right now? are you confident that would be somebody else? >> right now i believe that would fall to the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, and we are incredibly confident in his abilities as i believe you can tell by the rest of the senate and the democrats are as well. given the fact he was confirmed 94 to 6 and had overwhelming praise from both sides of the aisle. i think there's complete confidence in him. and another reason so they can have director comey out of the way. nobody wants this to be finished and completed more than us so that we can focus on what we need to do here. >> the president said -- excuse me. sean spicer said just a week ago today the president has confidence in the director. so, again, i'm sorry if i'm not understanding this, but what has happened in the last seven days to shake the confidence? did sean lie at that point or what was happening in the last seven days? >> again, i think one of the big things that took place was the process on wednesday, again, not to -- since you guys keep asking the same question, i think it only fair to give the same answers. you have the deputy attorney general going around the chain of command. that's simply not okay. it's something not allowed n justice system, nor should it be. that along with the huge corrections that had to take place i believe in the last 48 hours, those are big problems in the final piece that pushed the president to make the decision he did. >> so does he regret not doing it earlier like on january 20th or january 21st? >> no, i think the president wanted to give director comey a chance, but i feel he made the right decision. >> why did he have one of his longtime security advisers hand deliver a letter to the fbi when the fbi director was in fact in los angeles? didn't he deserve a phone call or a face-to-face conversation? why did he decide to do it that way? >> he followed the proper protocol in that process, which is hand written notification. and at the same time no matter how you fire someone, it's never an easy process. and he -- so he felt like following protocol was the best thing to do. i'm not wear of the conversation. josh. >> was the president aware james comey asked for more resources in the russian investigation and did that factor into his decision? >> not that i'm aware of, and i think that would be a better question for the department of justice. >> on the campaign trail president trump said he actually praised director comey for having the guts to reopen the investigation. how is he moved by a letter that said that director comey was if anything too harsh on hillary clinton. why did that move the president to fire him? >> again, i think you're looking at two very different positions. the president was wearing a different hat at that time. those circumstances certainly change when you become the president. and when you go around the chain of command in the department of just, like i said before, when you throw a stick of dynamite into the department of justice, that's a big problem and one that can't be ignored. >> we already knew that, sarah. we already knew what director comey had done. >> i think wednesday was the first time we knew the director had openly and publicly made that statement and made that clear. >> statements today on the president's meeting with rob, did not include anything on the reported incidents of the violence in chechnya -- >> i'm sorry, could you speak up a little bit? >> the reason that wasn't reported in the read outwas because the president was concerned in the violence in chechnya? >> look, a lot of times there are some comments that wasn't part of the specific read out. i don't know because i wasn't part of that meeting. i'd have to refer you to the specifics of what i know was discussed zblch have you been briefed on this issue generally? >> that's something i'll have to get back to you. >> you said you want the russian investigation to continue at doj. would the white house oppose the appointment of a special prosecutor to continue the investigation? >> we don't think it's necessary. you've got a house committee, is a senate committee, and the department of justice all working on this. i don't think there's a necessary need at this point to add that. you've got the deputy attorney general who i had say is about as independent as it comes due to fact he has such bipartisan support. >> rank and file within the bureau lost faith with the fbi director, there was a special inside who wrote us who had the vast majority is in favor of director comey. this is total shock. this was not supposed to happen. the real ludsers here are the 20 people in the front line of the investigation because they lost the only person working here in the last 15 years who actually cared about them. so what's your answer to this? >> we've heard from countless members of the fbi that say very different things. in fact, the president will be meeting with acting director mccabe later today to discuss that very thing, the morale at the fbi as well as make an offer to go directly to the fbi if he feels that's necessary and appropriate. and we'll certain provide more information on that. >> he's asking for a voice in this election process. is that something the president supports? >> i haven't had that conversation. but i know at this point it's being run through the department of just, so i would refer you to them on what that process looks like at this time. >> who did the president consult before making the final decision? >> he spoke with spevl officials, but end of the day it was his decision. >> did he speak again with the deputy attorney general or the attorney general? >> i know that they spoke on monday, and believe the next follow up was actually in writing. they may have spoken as well, but i'd have to double-check to be clear. >> is it accurate to pull away from the information we have that monday night the president made the final call, said i want this in writing and then took that recommendation as the evidence he wanted to provide to fire james comey? >> my understanding is the final decision was actually made on tuesday, but the final conversation he had was on monday when there was an oral recommendation made and the president requested that he see that in writing to review it further. blake. >> sarah, thank you. you say you want to move on and focus on what americans care about. so let me ask you. you still have tax reform, spending bill, healthcare. >> pretty big list. >> pretty big list, right, but what happened yesterday you could argue just widened the divide and made d.c. politics more toxic. so how do you go about accomplishing all of those things with the heightened political environment we're in? >> frankly, i'm surprised it did create a divide since you've had so many republicans and democrats repeeltedly calling for director comey be gone. frankly, i don't think it matters what this president says, you're going to have democrats coming out and fighting him every step of the way. i think that's one of the reasons we've got to get back to focus ogon those issues and draining the swamp further. >> did he anticipate it considering some of the past statements? >> how could he have, considering the fact that most of the people that are declaring war today were the very ones that were begging for director comey to be fired? if hillary clinton had won the election, which thank god she didn't, but if she had and she had been in the same position, she had have fired comey immediately. and the very democrats that are criticizing the president today, would beal dedancing in the streets celebrating. so i think it's the purest form of hypocrisy. >> there's a comment that indicates the president has made the decision not to move the head quaters from tell vive to jerusalem. >> the president has not made a decision on that. >> also, the president -- warned the president against moving to jerusalem. does that play into his decision as he's considering this move? >> i'm not going to get into the decision making process here. all i can tell you is he's still reviewing it. john. >> yeah, thank you, sarah. two questions, both related to the selection of the successor to director comey. when president carter chose an fbi director he had a blue ribbon panel advising him. presidents clinton, obama interviewed several candidates. is the president going to follow this pattern, sore does he have have individual in mind at this point? >> right now i know there are several individuals being considered. and the first step will be determining the acting -- excuse me, the interim director. and that is being handled through the department of justice, so i would refer you to them for right now. >> and the other question i was going to ask was -- >> i fraught, you've got two. >> i've got two. and i'm pretty nice charlotte -- >> scarlet, but that's okay. it's a southern thing. >> her daughter had a birthday. >> just want to make sure we got that in again. happy birthday scarlett. gone with the wind, come on. >> i was going to sail it is a fact that the former association of fbiagies and veterans of the bureau generally prefer people who have been agents themselves, have a background in the fbi. only two former agents have been director in the last four decades. will the president consider current or former agents for the position? >> i would say that he's not ruling anything out at this point, but, again, as of today the department of justice is handling the first step in this process. >> could the attorney general, who has reaccused himself from the russia investigation, have any role in the selection of a successor? and given the fact that in his 100 day interviews, the president himself said he had confidence in director comey, at this podium the american people were told he had confidence in director comey, can people take at face value what the president says about personnel issues like this or his views on things if just two weeks later, he's out? >> absolutely, you can take full confidence in the words of the president. in terms of whether or not at or near general sessions should have a role, look, the fbi is doing a whole lot more than the russian investigation. i know everybody in this room and probably most of the media around the world would like to think that's the fbi's sole responsibility, but that's probably one of the smallest things they've got going on their plate of the 20,000 employees working there. so he should have a role in seeing who runs that agency. >> does the president have confidence in the acting director? >> yes, he does. >> and you mentioned earlier you're encouraging the fbi to move on from the russian investigation. is it appropriate for white house to be directing anything they're currently investigating? >> i don't think that was the nature or my comment was intend to director the fbi. i think we're fully compliant to help this process move along and see it completed so that, frankly, all of us can move on and focus on like things blake listed earlier. like tax reform, healthcare, instruct, those are big programs for this administration. and what we'd like to be -- the number one thing we're talking about today, every single day is not fbi investigations but things that, frankly, affect americans and american taxpayers every single day. >> what exactly was impicated at the monday meeting? was that because of the hearing last week and what he said there, or did the monday meeting with the president and doj officials come out of a longer process of consideration of comey? >> the department of justice officials were here for other business, not specifically to meet with the president on that. the topic came up, and they asked to speak with the president and that's how it moved forward. >> did he previously speak about the possibility of going this way with comey? >> not that i'm aware of, no. >> when the president was considering nominating rezstein, did he talk about rosenstein then? >> no, not that i'm aware of. >> the president's statement he talked to comey about whether or not he was being investigated raises several questions. can you talk about why you're not willing to add anymore to that about who asked for that and why that was discussed? >> who asked for what? >> the president seems oo be trying to exonerate himself in this. is there any reason why you won't add anymore? >> again, i'm not going to get into the specific details. i'll check and see if we have follow up on that. but at this point i'm not going to comment any further than that was spelled out in the letter. >> if you don't want to clarify your comment, why was it put in the letter in the first place? >> i think far above it my pay grade was it to be included, and i'm not going to get into the specifics of that. >> all right, it was a packed house there in that white house briefing and ohistoric news that the president has fired his fbi director james comey. you've been watching the prez briefing here. let's go through part of what you heard sean spicer. so we listened to sarah huckabee sanders there. david chalian, let me begin with you here as we walk through some of this. the and still the big question everyone is wondering is the why now. why now, if we just heard from sarah huckabee sanders challenging the president wasn't so sure about the fbi director essentially from day one, why did it take him several months to fire him. >> i think the time line here is what really became new in this briefing. it's quite different from what was portrayed last night from the white house after they released those letters. the point is back last july was when director comely went around the chain of command as sarah huckabee sanders said it, at doj and decided to announce the recommendation instead of lowing the attorney general to make that announcement there would be no prosecution against hillary clinton. at that moment, apparently donald trump had a problem with that. that's last july. he called that a catalyst. well, a catalyst starts a reaction. so obviously january 20th is when donald trump got the power to act on that and did nothing about it until yesterday. so it's unclear -- and when pressed about well, how do you square the public praise in october and november from donald trump for comey's actions, he said well, he was in a different position. he was adened dt thethen, and now he's president. well, he was akened dt when jim comey went around the chain of command. he was a candidate -- i don't know why it matters what job donald trump has to react to decide whether comey is capable of doing the job. donald trump thought he was until yesterday. >> yep, i want to go back to it time line and why it was then the catalyst and why now. but i'm got jeff zeleny. it's being talked about july was when the president wasn't so sure about james comey then. you asked the question despite mistakes james comey would have made, why didn't the president at least pick up the phone and scall him? >> that essentially is the question here. this fbi director who met several times with the president. the president said this fbi director told him on three separate occasions he wasn't a target of this russian investigation. and sarah sanders would not talk about that. the white house would not elaborate on that. but back to the common courtesy here of why the president did not alert the fbi director, there wasn't simply much of an answer. they said simply they were following the protocol of sending via letter. but i think david hit the nail on the head there when he asked about the time line, about why the president wouldn't do it on day one back in january? he said the president wanted to wait and see. let's watch. >> why did he have one of his longtime security advisers hand deliver a letter to the fbi when the fbi director was in fact in los angeles. didn't he deserve a phone call or a face-to-face conversation? why did he decide to do it that way? >> he followed the proper protocol in that process, which is hand written notification. and at the same time, no matter how you fire someone, it's never an easy process. and he -- so he felt like following pret following protocol was the best thing to do. >> again, she may be right no matter how you would fire someone it would certainly have ramification. but doing it this abruptly, i can tell you it took many people here in the white house offguard. it certainly took many people offguard. and the rank and file of fbi agents, it took them offguard across washington and indeed across the country here. so i think the white house is hoping this press briefing will dispel some of the questions. they had the vice president out earlier. but some central questions about why now? what was the urgency of doing this now, i think still linger here. and again kwaer not expected to hear from the president himself on this the rez of the day. again, brooke, so many questions about the why. >> yep. thank you, jeff zeleny. and to your point about the rank and file of the bury of investigations. i want to you on that. when you hear sarah huckabee saying the doj lost confidence in comey, the president lost confidence in comey, and the rank and file lost confidence in comey. is that true? >> certainly from not what i'm hearing. sarah huckabee said from the podium really without offering any basis that he had lost the confidence of the rest of the fbi and when asked about that, she said well, we've talked to a lot of people of the fbi. it's certainly not what a lot of people in the fbi, james comey widely respected person inside the bureau. so it's difficult to see what that comment is based on. she also made the statement the russian probe is probably in her words, the least of the hundreds of thousands of investigations the fbi is doing. not clear what she's basing that statement on. from what we were hearing jamds comey was not asking for less, but more. again, the statement from the podium without from what we can tell, base. it appears now the white house has their story to explain the firing, confusion yesterday back and forth. they have the story saying this was brewing for months, the president lost confidece, finally pulled the trigger yesterday. to be clear, and the my friends here, david and others who were listening yesterday, the story purely from the deputy attorney general. he worked this up. the president listened to that report, fired comey. so we're hearing today a different story than we heard yesterday to explain the firing of the head of the fbi. >> yep, and then you hear the layering of nia if hillary clinton would have won and comey would have been fired. if the roles would be reversed, that would be the purest form of hypocrisy. did you hear that? >> i did. they'd be up in arms if hillary clinton had done the same, to fire james comey. i think you see this story as jim sciutto said, evolving. it certainly changed from yesterday. it might change again. we'll possibly hear from james comey. you see a white house there caught flat-footed yesterday, clearly not ready for the blow back, thinking the democrats would cheer this, not questioning the timing, not seeing it as somehow related to the russia investigation. so there yesterday you had sean spicer for instance briefing reporters in the dark, in the bushes. >> in the dark in the shrubbery next to white house. >> yeah, not wanting to be on camera. and then youtd kellyanne conway trying to explain this. on the hill that was a white house caught flat-footed thinking in some ways this might go away, there'd be nothing to see here, and there won't be more questions. how they thought that -- they put the spotlight broiter on russia, and in many ways it seemed like they didn't think that would happen, which is peculiar. >> to the lack of communications and then the quick scrub with spicer in the dark, and even i would add to it the fact that a day later you have kissinger, nixon's secretary of state at the white house along with the guy, the senator of the probe, the ambassador of russia who led to the firing of flynn. >> rush lim bah was on the radio today saying this was an epic trolling. it's stranger of fiction. listening to this briefing, i feel a bit of simathy for sanders, for the press aide because they are in the dark. figuratively and literally, they are in the dark. there are some questions now about whether spicer new yesterday at this time this was about to happen, whether he was lying when he said he had no sense the president's position on comey had changed. but the idea is the simplest explanation is usually the accurate one, i come back to that. it's because i didn't want geor because i really late. the simplest explanation is usually the right one. >> so what's the simplest explanation here? >> it's that comeomy wept to attorney general's office last week, wanted more resources, was asked for a expansion of the russian investigation and maybe the president got angry about that. the white house is doing this dance, trying very hard to tell a very complicated story about this happened. and i think a lot of americans hearing that are going to go with the simp pls explanation, which is russia. >> very much more to this. thank you so much. some of you all i know are going to be sticking around. coming up democratic lawmakers are protesting come e's firing. we'll talk to one senator about what they want. next, also russian president vladimir putin, listen to this, interrupts his hockey game to comment on the firing of the fbi director. how he says this might affect the russian/u.s. relations. also betsey devaus was booed during a commencement speech and the moment some in the crowd actually turned their back on her. >> thank you so very much for this great honor and privilege. and two in the reserves. our 18 year old was in an accident. when i call usaa it was that voice asking me, "is your daughter ok?" that's where i felt relief. it actually helped to know that somebody else cared and wanted make sure that i was okay. that was really great. we're the rivera family, and we will be with usaa for life. usaa. we know what it means to serve. call today to talk about your insurance needs. it's my decision to make it's nbeauty last.ix. roc® retinol started visibly reducing my fine lines and wrinkles in one week. and the longer i use it, the better it works. retinol correxion® from roc methods, not miracles.™ whoa,i just had to push one button to join. it's like i'm in the office with you, even though i'm here. it's almost like the virtual reality of business communications. no, it's reality. intuitive one touch video conferencing is a reality. and now it's included at no additional cost with vonage business. call now and see why 3,000 companies a month are switching to vonage. business grade. people friendly. he's questioned director comey's reason for needing to stay at the fbi. he had countless conversations with members from within the fbi. i think one of the big catalysts that we saw was last week. on wednesday director comey made a pretty startling revelation that he had essentially taken a stick of dynamite and thrown it into the department of justice by going around the chain of command. when he decided to take steps without talking to the attorney general or the deputy attorney general when holding a press conference and telling them he would not let them know what he was going tasay. and that is simply not allowed. and somebody like the deputy doerj, rob rosenstein where everybody across the board has unequivocally said this man is 1 of upstanding character. when you take an action like that, when you go around the chain of kmanld in the department of justice, then you have to make steps and take action to make a recommendation to the president. and that's what he did. >> you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. we're continuing our special coverage here. you've got democrats now threatening a boy can you tell on capitol hill that could slow the senate's day to day operations. what exactly do these centers want among some items they're calling for a special prosecutor to lead this investigation now into the trump campaign's alleged ties to russia. speaking of democrats you've got senator bob casey there. tems how are the centers feeling? what did doo they want? >> thanks, brooke, and that's a question we are going to ask senator casey. senator casey, how far are democrats willing to go to press their demands for a special prosecutor? >> we've got to focus on this urgent issue, which means if we have to take steps to get the administration to focus on reporting a special council, i think it's necessary of them to do that. i asked them investigate the alleged lings between the trump campaign and the russian government before. but we keep hearing that they're not prepared to do that. 24 american people want answers, then this is one way to press them to do just that. >> so what are you doing? are you going to continue to address them and aderholt the senate effectively? >> even if someone out there says i agree with everything the deputy attorney general put in his memorandum, you could still say it was totally inappropriate to fire the head of the agency that's investigating the ties between this administration ask the campaign and of course the alleged ties to the russians. so unless we get to the bottom of this, we're going to continue to have a conflict. >> therea risk of democrats going too far and pressing your objections especially preventing important committee business from happening? >> i hope ult mely, and hope it happens in hours and not days republicans are going to help us. there are a number of republicans who have said in a bipartisan fashion, this firing is inappropriate. we have to get to the bottom of these questions. and we don't have to pass any bill to get a special council apoined by the justice department who will be totally independent of the justice department to get the answers to these questions. and i hope that leader mcconnell would have at least on monday or a very short order a meeting of all centers in one place so we can ask the attorney general questions about how this happened, ask the deputy attorney general and any other relevant official. >> and 10, one last question before we have to go. do you opposegy new fbi nominee until there's a special prosecutor named? >> i think it's going to be impossible for us to consider the next fbi director until we have a special counsel who is given the opportunity to investigate these questions. >> thanks. brooke, back to you. >> manu, thank you. senator casey, thank you. i've got jim sciutto joining me and now also the chief ethics lawyer for president bush, richard painter. and jim sciutto, the calls are growing louder. what is the justification for not having an independent prosecutor? >> there had already been calls for this because there was an apparent conflict of interest. the scope of it includes the president's associate, and now those calls even sharper because now the president fired the guy in charge of the investigation. that's the argument. the case against it you heard today is not necessary. you also heard richered bur saying, listen, we have an investigation. we are confident in it. this is enough, neft. of course this does not satisfy many democrats. you have heard from some republican lawmakers talking about an independent commission on the model of the 9/11 commission where you bring the parties together and you have something bigger than just the committees where it can be driven by the majority party, to some degree. less esoin the senate because there's only one senate apart. but you do have the republicans talking about an independent commission. where this ends up, it's difficult to see. because at the end of the day republicans, rather democrats can stone wall. but their influence is limited. how long can they stone wall? >> so if we're talking about potentially an independent commission or a special kprurt, how would that work? what would that look like? >> i've been saying we should have that for a long time. you could just look bake at the yat yates, clapper meeting the other day. my thought is they need an experienced prosecutor come in and take forward of the investigation. you need a prosecutor who can come in and is trained to think about an investigation almost in a 3-d way, like a doctor who is looking at a 3-d scan before they do an operation and decide how can they attack the tumor to get the best outcome. there's no question they need to move forward with that. >> what about the current attorney general jeff sessions, richard, the fact that we know he's ruaccused himself from this russia, trump associate probe because of his involvement with the campaign. but yet he's also the person who's recommending the firing of james comey, came up from the deputy attorney general on up to him, on up to the president. so what's sort of role is he supposed to be playing here? >> well, attorney general sessions had no business getting involved in this decision to terminate director comey. he had already ruaccused himself from the russian investigation. and this is a firing of the fbi director in the middlef a russian investigation,ites quite clear to me it is motivated by that. he was reaccused, he had already misrepped to the united states senate his own contacts with the russians. so he should be out of it. there needs poobe a special prosecutor, as there was in the watergate investigation. now, this is very different from watergate because watergate was a third rate burglary. it didn't involve espionage by russians or any other foreign power. we didn't have to worry about treason. we do here. americans are cooperating with the russian. we have someone who's head of our national security council for 18 days who had taken pay offs from the russians, working for the russians, hadn't disclosed that, lied about it, and the white house still hadn't fired him. this is a very serious station, much more serious than the watergate, which led to the removal of president nex nixon. so there's need to be an independent prosecutor to look at this. there needs to be a special prosecutor in the executive branch. and that needs foobe done now or the american public is going to have zero confidence. >> let me stay with you and ask you a question regarding the press briefing from the white house. and again, sarah huckabee sanders standing in for sean spicer saying, listen, this would be totally hypocrisy if hillary clinton had won and comey had been fired so publicly revealing this e-mail scandal, republicans would befurous, and democrats would be ocheering. do you agree? >> well, maybe i'm biased because i'm a republican, but i'll tell if hillary clinton had been elected president and then the fbi director had been investigating hillary clinton's campaign and she had fired the fbi director, i would be calling for impeachment immediately. we should not accept that from any president. we should not accept it from president trump. he has abused his power here. we need an independent investigation of the russian spying in the united states and whoever in the united states collaborated with the russians. and that is the top priority right now. it has nothing to do with hillary clinton or hillary clinton's e-mails. and we're really getting sick and tired of hearing about hillary clinton and her e-mails. and now a potential treason in this administration. >> richard painter, thank you so much. michael moore, thank you for your voice here as well. gentleman, appreciate it. coming up next after president trump fired director james comey what now is next for the fbi. we'll talk to a former special agent next. studies show that toms have the highest average earning potential over their professional lifetime. see? 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okay, okay, that was comey. so the vice president talked on the hill today, which was a rarity. president trump had said, quote, it is essentially we find new leadership for the fbi that restores trust and confidence in its vital law enforcement mission. as a form member of the intel community, do you take that personally? >> i do. putting aside the repug independent nature of the letter, he was so self-serving he said three times you told me i'm not understand investigation and then giving the guy walking papers and signing off -- >> we don't know that for sure. they were asked about that in the briefing and that was sort of a -- >> everything i heard said that was a true recounting of it. and i think the folks that worked in the fbi could probably take insult from that. because they're going to continue to do their job. under the acting director mccabe right now, nothing is going to change. that would have been pursued with the same vigor as it was have under director comey. >> we'll watch and see how that replacement process rolls out. coming up next here moments ago education secretary betsy devos, she was booed as she was speaking giving this commencement address at a historically black college. and some in the crowd turned their backs on her. don't miss this. ng beauty doesn't stop at my chin. roc®'s formula adapts to delicate skin areas. my fine lines here? 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>> i don't know. >> as louds as it was in there, things got so rowdy that he threatened the graduates he would mail their diplomas to them and end the commencement ceremony. we did see a handful of protesters outside saying they weren't trying to silence her, they just didn't think it was the appropriate venue. this wasn't a day log but more of a monologue. brooke. >> nick, thank you. all right, top of the hour you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. moments ago the white house added another dimension to the why piece here, why president trump fired fbi director james comey an act only done one before in american history? it president said before because comey, quote, wasn't doing a good job. the vice president said today it was based solely on the recommendation of attorney general jeff sessions and the deputy attorney general rob

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