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Tightly held he kept it. he did not let his communication staffers know until right before he announced it and left them scrambling to genld it. that has left the white house in a position where theyre telling a number of different stories to try to explain how the president came to this bombshell decision. >> thank you very much. i want to go to our special panel, zeke miller interviewed president trump monday night. got an exclusive tour of the presidents residence. laura coats, david goldberg...

Inexplicable going back to his hurling of these unfounded accusations against president obama claiming that he was illegally wiretapped, charging congress to investigate that claim and now to continue with the firing of the person who was leading that investigation. so i think theres a lot more that we need to find out about just what went into this decision. it wasnt as portrayed plainly earlier in the week. this is something that began with rod rosenstein and continued with the attorney genera...

Donald trump and well hear the rest of the interview in a moment. i want to go to sara murray at the white house. this is the first time the president has spoken out since firing the fbi director. what you can see in that exchange is that in less than 48 hours, the presidents story about what led to comeys firing has changed again and again and again and completely, by the way, conflicts with the story that his own vice president gave. >> reporter: thats right. its a very different tale from wha...

Few days. they said it was rod rosenstein that made that decision and it was all him. is this a problem? >> no, i dont -- the recommendation was a serious one. clearly the president asked for recommendation and he got it. this has been on the table -- frankly, one mistake i think they made is not firing him the day after the president was sworn in. you should have done it immediately. you had all kinds of people in both parties and in the media, the wall street journal, etc., saying that he shou...

Investigation? he said, you are not under investigation. >> but hes given sworn testimony that theres an ongoing investigation into the trump campaign and possible collusion with the russian government. you were the centerpiece of the trump campaign. >> well, all i can tell you -- >> was he truthful -- >> i know that im not under investigation, me, personally. im not talking about campaigns or anything else. im not under investigation. >> lets begin there with sara murray. she was in that briefi...

Not involved with russia. i have had dealings over the years where i sold a house to a very wealthy russian many years ago. i had the miss universe pageant which i owned for quite a while. i had it in moscow a long time ago. but other than that, i have nothing to do with russia. >> one last question on this matter. did you ever -- >> and i have a certified letter, just so you understand. im not just saying that. ive given the letter to senator lindsay graham. he has the left and i think frankly,...

President ultimately makes the decision. but we know through the excellent reporting of my colleagues evan perez and pam brown that rod roserosenstein w not particularly pleased to have jim comeys firing pinned on him. i asked sarah sanders if that was a mistake. heres what she said. >> was it a mistake to try to pin the firing of james comey on rod rosenstein? >> i dont think there was an attempt to pin the firing of -- i think his recommendation was extremely clear. the president, though, make...

President trumps a bombshell decision to fire fbi director james comey. that, of course, is sparking your concerns about the future of the russia investigation. we will continue to keep an eye on it. we are also live at the white house with a daily briefing is set to start any minute now. we could learn more about the presidents decision to fire james comey and that search for his successor. after vice president pence came to capitol hill this morning and strongly defended the presidents decisio...

He should be meeting with the foreign minister, should be meeting with people like kissinger, and for them to try to attack him for doing his job, maybe they should spend more time doing their job that we would not have all the problems that we do. >> reporter: isnt it true that the president had already decided to fire james comey, and he asked the justice department to put together the rationale for that firing? >> no. >> reporter: why did he make the decision? >> he made the decision for the ...

>> jenna: fox news alert, we are awaiting the white house daily briefing to begin and president trumps firing of the fbi director will be front and center during that. along with any political ramifications to that move including what it means to the fbi investigation of potential ties between the trump campaign and russia. democrats renewing calls for a special prosecutor while some republican lawmakers are defending the presidents decision. >> james comey was a good man who made a bad mistake ...