the night he was fired, eventually, people like kellyanne conway came out and said, the real reason he was fired is because he did such a bad thing to hillary clinton eight months ago. it was very implausible. it was not really believable. but that was the explanation. then the president gave an interview to lester hold and said the real reason is because of the russia investigation. again, that came from his own mouth. the problem there is he can t very well deny he said it and he can t deny his tweets and he can t deny what he said to the russian ambassador, which apparently was recorded somewhere where he said, comey was a nut job and i had to get rid of him. all of that that is admissible evidence in an investigation. if some day somewhere there s a trial, it s admissible there, too. matt, now if the washington post is correct based on their five sources and the president is under this investigation, i
comey. who do you believe? i m going to go with track record, which is fbi director comey since just based on today, i have no idea if there s any truth to anything president trump said. it doesn t make any sense to make that loyalty pledge. any president that understood the relationship of the fbi, the department of justice to the president and their role, which is to the public first, to serve the public first, it s fidelity, bravery, integrity. that s the motto of the fbi. director comey is going to follow that. he s not going to respond well to being pressured like that. even having the invite to dinner, which you heard director clapper talk about, made him uncomfortable. he s going to have issue with that, and every time trump, i think, tried to bring him under his umbrella, comey would naturally push himself away. so you don t think that he requested the dinner? you don t think that s plausible? no, not at all. the president said twice now he said it in interviews with
trump wanted to erase the headline. even the lester hold interview he point blank said everything s about russia, trump russia while he was thinking about firing comey. i think that was an incredible revelation in the lester holt interview because he was thinking about the story, which he calls fake. which is what the white house laegs all the surrogates on the night he was fired with said this had nothing to do with russia. and the staff has found themselves in this situation many times before. i mean, they started out, for example, when the president said his crowds were bigger at the inauguration than barack obama s. the voter fraud issue, wire tapping issue. you had a white house staff who suddenly had to justify what the president was saying. they had to come up with a fake narrative. you just wrote an article, no one can save trump from himself at cnn.com. is there no one who can say to the president, you know what? let s get all the stories.
and this past weekend when the president was at his golf course in bedminster, new jersey, he really said look, i ve had it, comey has to go. the russia thing was hanging over it. he was bothered because every time comey would come out in public the question was always russia and that s the thing that trump wanted to ephrase the headline. even the lester hold interview he point blank said everything s about russia, trump russia while he was thinking about firing comey. i think that was an incredible revelation in the s lester holt interview because he was thinking about the story, which he calls fake. the surrogates on the night he was fired had nothing to do with russia. and the staff has found themselves in this situation many times before. i mean, they started out, for example, when the president said his crowds were bigger at the inauguration than barack obama s. the voter fraud issue, wire tapping issue.
geneva. you brought it up that needs to be discussed between tillerson and officials. you have been in north korea who has been there. lester hold was nearby. you have been in the north recently. that country said threatening things as we know for a very long time. this is a critical moment. even then the military exercises, they did take place a couple of times a year. the ones that were scheduled in april and they see those as a huge provocation. it is true on the last occasion