Pete someday, isnt it . Great to be here. Sandra i dont know what you mean. Lots of news to get to. We are following testimony from a whos who of Americas NationalSecurity Team on the most dangerous threats facing the u. S. Looming over the proceedings, the abrupt firing of james comey, less than 48 hours ago. The white house continue to defend the president s decision. Counselor to the president , Kellyanne Conway early on fox friends. We need and fbi director that is impartial, that has the trust of those at the bureau, the trust of people from both sides of the aisle in the house and senate and across the land. I think everybody has seen jim comeys performance since january. Just this week, the fbi had to correct his sworn testimony before the senate where he got wrong by a portion of thousands apparently, the questions about whom aberdeens email. Sandra democrats calling the firing unprecedented and has less to do with Hillary Clintons emails when more to do with russia. Democrat accented senator and former clinton running mate, tim kane. This is unprecedented. The notion that you would dismiss an fbi director who is in the middle of investigating the president and his team is without precedent. It demonstrates the fear of this white house. Sandra meantime, we are getting a first look at former director comeys farewell letter to his colleagues. John roberts joins us live. That was quite a letter. Good afternoon to you. Its interesting that the way director comey was talked about by the white house would seem to have gone well beyond just firing. They were trying to bury him and almost humiliate him to a degree, but his letter to the fbi, james comey showing the class that he has been noted for. He wrote i have long believed that a president can fire and fbi director for any reason, or for no reason at all. Im not going to spend time on the decision or the way it was executed. I hope you wont either. It is done, and i will be fine, although i will miss you and the mission deeply. I have said to you before that, and times of turbulence, the emergent people should see the fbi as a rock of competence, honesty, and independence. Whats interesting this hearing we been watching unfold for the last hour and a half or so is at the white house narrative was that jim comey had lost the confidence of the president , the Deputy Attorney general and most notably, the ranking fbi. The acting director of the fbi right now who was the deputy, Andrew Mccabe, contradicted that assertion just a few minutes ago. Listen here. I hold director comey in the absolute highest regard. I have the highest respect for his considerable ability and his integrity and it has been the greatest privilege and honor of my professional life to work with him. I can tell you also that director comey enjoyed broad support within the fbi. He still does to this day. I can confidently tell you that the majority, the vast majority of the fbi employees enjoyed a deep and positive connection to director comey. That was a sharp contradiction to the white house assertion that comey had lost the confidence of the fbi which may impact Andrew Mccabes chances of becoming the interim director. Certainly not the director itself. The white house at the same time, pushing back over fierce criticism from democrats on capitol hill over the firing of james comey. Pointing out the democrats for the last six or eight months have been calling for his head as well. Heres what Kellyanne Conway said earlier today. I think this entire episode has shown leadership by the president and it has shown hypocrisy that also the lack of message that democrats have. In this case, they insult and insinuate between them and their friends in the media has been quite a spectacle. Something it has evolved in the last 36 hours, thats the reason why comey was let go. You remember the Deputy Attorney general, Rod Rosenstein had written that letter saying this was all about what happened last year in terms of james comeys handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, but we have learned since then that the president himself was very unhappy with the fbi director going back to the day of the election when Sarah Huckabee sanders said yesterday, he thought about getting it of him back then. It would sort of contradict this idea that he was upset about the Hillary Clinton investigation because he had only a week before praised james comey. There were some rumors that rosenstein was thinking about resigning on tuesday night after he became the focus of the impetus for firing comey, but im told that is not true. The Communications Director of the department of justice said that never happen. Were going to hear an awful lot of stories about what was going on over these last few months as it relates to james comey and how this ultimately came to his firing. It would seem that as much as this represents a bottomup decision out of the fbi, it was more the topdown decision. It was the president who is very unhappy with james comey and it was up to his Deputy Attorney general and the attorney general to back him up in terms of his thoughts about firing comey. Sandra all right, john roberts on it for us. Thank you. Congress meant peter king on the couch today. Soso far, the white house handling of all this. Pete i think theyve handled it well. I personally got along with jim comey, but none of the president of the United States. He has a right to have his fbi director there. He believes that jim comey was too much out in front and you cant be prosecutor, judge, and jerry at same time. I can say this unequivocally. As far as i know, there is no evidence showing any type of russian collusion. I have not heard anyone say the fbi doesnt have enough financing or funding or resources to go ahead with the investigation. The fact is, the president should be out front and say that the president of the United States has the right to do what he wants. It has nothing to do with the investigation and the democrats are being hypocrites. Sandra was her take away so far from capitol hill on the testimony today . Be ten i think Andrew Mccain is doing the right thing. They have the resources and they will go ahead with the investigation. This does not interfere with the investigation. Mercedes clearly the white house has a chaotic rollout. Because we didnt see attorney general sessions come out the Deputy Attorney general come out and explain why the firing has happened. We want President Trump to have the apprentice moment, the moment where he brings in james comey. I think there was a lot of missed opportunities. The fact that you need to have your Communications Team in the white house very much involved in the internal proceedings and helping to develop the message and get the right target out there to explain why the firing occurred. What happens is you create a vacuum, the democrat to control the messaging and then they make comey the hero. Sandra want to stick on this topic because meantime, president from accusing democrats of hypocrisy over the firing of fbi director comey. Tweeting the democrats should be ashamed. This is a disgrace. Comey acted in an outrageous way. I think you should take a hard look at what he has done and i think it would not be a bad thing for the American People if he step down. Do you believe jim comey should resign questioning of course. Did you want to see him gone . Its actually true, the democrats have been very critical of james comey and many of us did call no, its classified and we cant tell you anything. All i can tell you is the fbi director has no credibility. Sandra the president calling democrats phony hypocrites. Harris lets stop on Maxine Waters because it will it, you dunes in the preamble of her walking up in the orchestration of her flying off. We clipped in the way it was, it was edited. Why thats important is because of something you said to me. That is how much of this is for show in the American People, where do we find the truth . Wheres the truth . Pete its going to be tough because so much of what we hear is classified and we can disclose it. The questions being asked and charges being made, we at the House Intelligence Committee hearing last month and jim comey was there in the democrats were asking name after name where they involved in the rush investigation . Everyone of those questions, jim comey said i cannot answer that. So much of this is for show. Its really unfortunate. I would hope the fbi can do something in the next six months to at least show at the status is. Sandra now some democrats are floating the idea of impeachment. Meghan there are floating impeachment election night. This is the problem with the Democratic Party right now. They cry wolf so much you dont know and its actually real and whether its a big legitimate. I think hysteria is overblown. I echo what mercedes just said. It was very sloppy and theres a lot of confusion going on. That being said, i have been calling for james comey to be fired for a long time. I think the American Public has distrust of him. He butchered every single thing from the Hillary Clinton not being indicted to just two days ago with huma abedin and misspeaking on the amount of emails. He wasnt doing a good job. I have many problems with things he did including the fact it a twitter and instagram account. He did too many interviews, too much racial pony. I think this is a good choice, but democrats, you have to be careful with how often your calling for impeachment because god forbid something really does happen, i dont think it will, but if it does, you completely lost any clinical capital whatsoever because everyone thinks you hate trump so much they are going to manifest anything to take him out . Stomach. Sandra the decision to fire comey reminds me of the Nuclear Doomsday clock. We should maybe have an impeachment clock and if we did, i think yesterday moved us about an hour closer to having that need. Meghan what crime has a committed question eczema needs to explain this. What warrants impeachment other than you dont support him firing james comey . Harris Hillary Clinton, she was pretty mad at him in 2016 when she didnt win. James comey was on her short list of reasons why she didnt win. The other thing in all of this, you want him to testify, you want him to do all these things, you lay out all the messages for him. He laid out that there is a gap, democrats are filling in with their own narrative in the absence of that enumeration. Mercedes the democrats are so focused on this russian prob probe. The first question out of the gate was what did comey President Trump, were you aware . Andrew mccabe couldnt answer that question. I think what mccabe was able to do in this hearing was say listen, this investigation is going to continue, the men and women are focused on this woman despite the fact that comey is gone, does mean the investigation will change. I think thats an Important Message to send to the administration. For the white house, americans arent going to agree with the president. Comey had to go. The democrats are using this as political leverage in trying to make the case. Harris how do they get away with that . How do democrats get away with being on tape and that was a little bit of that twominute tape and then having the face to be able to say or the gall to say, the president shouldnt have done it . Pete the media lets them get away with it and on every publics are tough enough to stand up. You asked what crime the president committed. What crime has anyone committed . This is investigation and search of a crime. The media gets away with it. I blame republicans. We should be out there defining the president. Harris why do you think theyre not . Pete because donald trump doesnt come from a political system, people dont know him, theyre not familiar with him. He does thing in his own way. Meghan his Communications Team makes my life harder every day and every way. Your 105 days and at this point, firing the fbi, you need to get a cracker jack team in place. Mercedes worked for president bush. You have been present in the white house had the decision been made and got on tv immediately after. Mercedes and the leaks. If our President Trump, i would be infuriated. It could be permanent Government Employees who are in there, but if you have members on the team who are leaking, that destroys the trust of the team and it also sabotages the president. Pete may be if you put comey to the white house, they wouldnt do that. Mercedes the problem becomes in the way it happens. Pete they have to get their act in place. Sandra to do something really interesting onerous during the show about the hearings in general. In getting out of them. Pete so much of this is just for show. You have democrats just repeating sound bites and you have republicans so afraid to ask questions, for the most part, they think this is going to blow up somewhere along the line and they dont want to get caught up. Harris if you cant walk with swagger, when will you . Meghan why are you elected if you wont defend our side as well . Pete also defending the presidency. That goes against congress. Sandra democrats now on the warpath after comeys firing. Chuck schumer calling for a special prosecutor and the russian probe. Just 1 of 3 demands hes laying out, how should republic and respond . Plus, is being called a nail in the coffin for obamacare. Another insurer drops out of the exchanges. Is obamacare officially dead . And what section of the g. O. P. Health care is better umbrellas you need one of these. You wouldnt put up with an umbrella that covers you part way, so when it comes to pain relievers, why put up with just part of a day . Aleve, live whole not part. Tell you what, ill give it to you for half off. Ykeep you sidelined. Ng thats why you drink ensure. With 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. For the strength and energy to get back to doing. What you love. Ensure. Always be you. Harris we are keeping an eye on the hearing with the Senate Selection committee intelligence. Their annual meeting on worldwide threats, and start a couple of hours ago and we expected to break at some point. We are monitoring it for the hot spot of news to come out of there and there has been some interest points because among those participating today is the acting fbi director, Andrew Mccabe and thats significant to note because tuesday night, the director of the fbi was fired, james comey. Thats been a topic along with some others in terms of the greatest threats to americans in america around the world. Meanwhile, we are continuing to watch the fallout over the president s firing of fbi director james comey. The senates top democrat is laying out demands that he says must happen right now. Watch. First, mr. Rosenstein should not be the one to appoint a special prosecutor. That responsibility should go to the highest career Civil Servant at the department of justice. Second, mr. Comey is needed now them ever to testify. Third, sessions and Deputy Attorney general rosenstein should testify separately and in classified settings if necessary and they should do it soon. Harris so far, republicans are not budging Mitch Mcconnell is rejecting calls for a special prosecutor. Paul ryan is saying congressional probes underway are already enough. I dont think its a good idea. I think the Intelligence Community is the one to do this. Dont forget that the methods and sources of our intelligence gathering are also at play here and we have to be very sensitive so we dont compromise and information as well. I do think that director comey was compromised. Clearly his superiors felt that way. The president made a decision. Harris can resort the brandnew face of the Democratic Party because we never see senator Chuck Schumer ever. Im surprised he speaking up. He has a long list of demands. Not only does on a special prosecutor, he wants to be able to pick them. Pete i asked Chuck Schumer to give one bit of evidence that a crime is committed at all. You dont appoint a special prosecutor unless you believe a crime is committed and if the people leading the investigation cannot do it. If theres any evidence, im not aware of it. For Chuck Schumer to be out there, thats whats wrong. The fact is, what theyre doing is wrong. The fbi is going ahead. Harris mercedes has her pen in the air. After cut you off. Mercedes i have to laugh a little bit because you can see the fundraiser for the democrats saying we have to go for a special prosecutor. We know how this works. You have be appointed by the attorney general or any is to be passed through congress. They passed the law or they have to vote on it. Its a lot more complicated than we think. These are unrealistic demands. Theres enough investigations going on at this point. Lets get to these conclusions of these investigations and if you think theres a need for special prosecution, go ahead. This is clearly, the political tactic of the democrats because for them, President Trump is guilty as charged in their eyes. He has been guilty since day one. They dont give him the benefit of the doubt. At the end, it really is abou