those are really dangerous circumstances for the justice system. >> and then, two days after comey is fired president trump sits for an interview with lester holt for nbc "nightly news." >> regardless of recommendation i was going to fire comey knowing there was no good time to do it. in fact, when i decided to do i i said tmyself, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. it's an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election. >> a day later the president addresses his former fbi director via twitter. james comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversations. >> for the president to threaten tapes that don't seem to exist, and if they did exist would probably back up jim comey's side of the story is a pretty weak attempt at intimidation.