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Were going to continue our breaking news live coverage of this. I wanted to amplify for you what andrea was just telling you about the Wadirector Comey former Director Comey found out about this, the New York Times account of this is just stunning. He was addressing a group of fbi employees in los angeles when the television in the background flashed the news that he had been fired. In response, mr. Comey laughed. He said he thought it was a fairly funny prank. And then his staff started securing around in the background, told mr. Comey that he should step into a nearby office. Mr. Comey stopped addressing the group. He proceeded to shake hands with the employees he had been speaking to and he stepped into a side office where he confirmed that he had been fired. At that point, he had not heard from the white house. Sho ....
Completely organized yet. but chuck schumer stepping out their early, putting all the pressure on rod rosenstein, but he has the power to name a special prosecutor and that was where chuck schumer was tonight, that we now must move to special prosecutor, that will be the only way to restore confidence as this move to fire comey today is allegedly to restore confidence, according to this memo. you know, that has been the democrats line and handful of republicans line from the very beginning that an independent investigation separate and apart from this department of justice, special prosecutor ought to be the one looking into this because this idea that jeff sessions can recuse his way into independence on this and the way he ll make people feel confident about prosecuting decisions as clint was just saying, is farfetched. it s hard to get there. this ought to be pursued ....
He has the power to name a special prosecutor and that was where chuck schumer was tonight, that we now must move to special prosecutor, that will be the only way to restore confidence as this move to fire comey today is allegedly to restore confidence, according to this memo. you know, that has been the democrats line and handful of republicans line from the very beginning that an independent investigation separate and apart from this department of justice, special prosecutor ought to be the one looking into this because this idea that jeff sessions can recuse his way into independence on this and the way he ll make people feel confident about prosecuting decisions as clint was just saying, is farfetched. it s hard to get there. this ought to be pursued independently. when you pull the public on this, people will say you would prefer that there was a nonpartisan investigation on this, not something from one of the agencies and frankly not ....
It tries to cite bipartisan support for firing comey. there s no such thing they re citing pieces by eric holder who disagreed with the way he handled the e-mail investigation, but he never said fire him. in fact, he said in his that he thought comey was an honorable guy. they re going to be fair in their proceedings going forward. but the people that are being cited in here, some of these democrats that are being cited in this memo, never said that president trump should fire comey. and, even if they had said he should fire comey in november or in january or, you know, all of these other dates on the things are cited, they re from months ago. there s no explanation as to why those firings might be happening now. lawrence, the thing that i am the thing i am really hung up on and none of our guest have been ....
Letter that 100 or so fbi and former justice department, former fbi people signed around the time of the comey letter saying they thought it was wrong. as you point out, those are that is not a contemporary endorsement of rosenstein s decision to fire comey. that was criticism at the time. there s a little bit a little bit of a break there in terms of the logic of the letter, but rosenstein cites them for support of his position that the fbi director was way off on the wrong track. pete, just before you go, give us a little bit more of a sense of the shock level at the justice department and the fbi with this news as it came into today and how that shock is being processed as the evening wears on. well, you cited what the new york times account of how comey found out about that which is consistent of what we ve been told. recall that the fbi director ....