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At the fbi to get a press release out. in this case you have the president of the united states trying to manipulate the fbi director. it gets no worse than that. remember the outrage just last year when former president bill clinton visited loretta lynch on that airplane. exactly. now you ve got the president of the united states whose campaign is under investigation summoning the fbi director to the white house to discuss that and to get his loyalty. more on that dinner, current and former fbi officials tell nbc that the white house summoned comey to dinner shortly after the inauguration. the piece says the president is not correct, the white house called him out of the blue. comey didn t want to do it. he didn t even want the rank and file at the fbi to know about it. the former official adds that comey tried to stay away from the russia investigation during the dinner telling the president, look, sir, i really can t get into it and you don t want me to. the new york times r ....
You said last week the president had full confidence in his fbi director. what changed? the recommendation that came today and the rationale behind it. so the president made the decision today? yes. look, i think when you receive a report that is so clear and a recommendation by someone like the deputy attorney general, you have no choice but to act. president trump made the right decision at the right time. to accept the recommendation of the deputy attorney general and the attorney general, to ask for the termination, to support the termination of the director of the fbi. because of the actions that the deputy attorney general outlined to the president that were endorsed and agreed with by the attorney general, the president made the right decision at the right time. this is the action that a president takes when he is told ....
Pressed he said it s okay if it increased the deficit because it may only last for, quote, two years. adding, you understand the question prime the pump. the reporter answered yes, twice. trump continued, because i haven t heard of it, i just came up with it a couple days ago and i thought it was good. prime the pump is not the first thing that trump was the first to come up. seems he was the first person to question why the civil war happened. i mean had andrew jackson been a little later, you wouldn t have had the civil war. he was a very tough person, but he had a big heart and he was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the civil war. he said there s no reason for this. people don t ask that question, but why was there the civil war? why could that one not have been worked out? the white house, as you may know, is known as the people s house, has been for a long time. ....
Country, across this globe. we have a diversity of opinions about many things, but i can confidently tell you that the vast majority of fbi employees enjoyed a deep and positive connection to director comey. i can speak to my own personal experience. i ve heard from countless members of the fbi that are grateful and thankful for the president s decision, and i think that we may have to agree to disagree. i m sure there are some people who are disappointed. i certainly heard from a large number of individuals, and that s just myself and i don t even know that many people in the fbi. roughly 48 hours into his new role, the acting director of the fbi has thrown cold water on a number of claims made by the white house to justify president trump s decision to fire james comey. as the new york times s matt apuzzo points out, the chance of countless fbi agents to call the white house to complain about ....
Indirectly yesterday with lester holt. the larger question is still there, which is the question of why this administration is doing so much in so many different ways to try to prevent there from being an aggressive and independent and far-reaching investigation of his campaign, his associates, and possibly the president s own connections to russia. jonathan turley, you are our resident legal expert, although donny has been a defendant many times, he s not qualified to speak on this. i want to ask you about the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. what are his options this morning? this is a guy who took the position just about two weeks anegotiati ago, immediately was thrust to the center of this crisis. he was asked to basically be the fall guy for donald trump and donald trump then contradicted that version of events. what can he do today to preserve his own integrity but also for the country. that s a good question because obviously his integrity has taken a major hit by be ....