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Pointing out that the recommendation came from a man who was recently praised by democrats. >> bret: john roberts, thank you. by all accounts, very few people in the fbi saw this coming. but james comey had become a magnet for controversy with another serious blow to his credibility just to coming a few minutes before his dismissal was announced. catherine herridge has that story. >> half-dozen former fbi agent told fox news tonight that the bureau was blindsided by the decision including the fb...

>> the utter hypocrisy on comey. the other part of this is, again, as opposed to what nixon and watergate invoked every minute and a half by democrats, this is a scandal in search of a crime. after all of this time, show us the evidence of a crime. if there were any of that, i think there would be a real firestorm over real stuff. right now, its a firestorm gotten a lot larger. again, over allegations of collusion that nobody has been able to demonstrate actually occurred. >> bret: to be fair, s...

Syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. lets start with the first panel about why, why he was fired. james. >> james comey was fired because, due to many sets of eyes, in the congress, within the ranks of the fbi they are in the great american public, and most notably at the white house and in the department of justice, james comey had become a law unto himself. this was most clearly demonstrated in this series of times where he gave congressional testimony where james comey seemed to make up ...

>> does the president still have the full confidence in fbi director james comey? >> i have no reason to believe -- i have not asked him. i have not asked the president since the last time we spoke about it. >> last time he did have confidence but youre not sure. >> i dont want to start speaking on behalf of the president without speaking to him first. you and that is one way to answer it. sean spicer at 2:00. democrats pounced with a familiar line. this is senator leahy. "the presidents action ...

Campaign trail eight days before the election. he said comey had real guts re-invoking the hillary clinton email scandal. it will be interesting to see if trump can explain that now and give a different answer. >> bret: president trump now, then candidate trump. take a listen. >> is it too late to ask him to step down? >> no, its not too late, but i have confidence in him prayed well see what happens. its going to be interesting. >> that is why i am asking for >> i want to good, fair chance. it ...

How seriously we take leaks of classified information but i dont want to confirm it saying that we are investigating. >> as recently as march, comey thought he would be around a lot longer. >> you are stuck with me. >> comey testified last week that late in the presidential campaigns when wrestling with whether to speak to congress about the clinton investigation or conceal details, he prayed for a third door, but it wasnt there. today comey was shown the door. >> bret: thank you. brit hume has ...

frustration, sean. within the fbi too. when he came out with the this. there was enormous frustration within the fbi as well when they came out with this. when the director chose not to go further with the investigation with hillary clinton. i think that was really the issue here. there is a lot of discontent within the fbi and within the administration. they wanted to rectify this. >> the idea here is very straightforward to me. the documents that were produced for the attorney general and t...

Got to this point. >> before james comey became the seventh director of the fbi, he was born in new york, raised in new jersey and married to his college sweetheart prayed he prosecuted martha stewart while serving as the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and in 2003, the 68" comey was nominated by president george w. bush to be the deputy attorney general. the next year, colby had a showdown with top administration officials because they tried to get a hospitalized attorney ge...

Political figure in modern american history. he acts on a whim. thats why the statements from the press secretary at 2:00 can never be relevant at 5:00. he makes decisions very quickly on his gut, and i would say with this move, he played some political jujitsu. for regular americans not in washington and not following every single light of our james comey and sally yates, they know james comey is a guy who cost hillary clinton the election. that is how hes defined. i think trump smartly knew th...

Campaign trail eight days before the election. he said comey had real guts re-invoking the hillary clinton email scandal. it will be interesting to see if trump can explain that now and give a different answer. >> bret: president trump now, then candidate trump. take a listen. >> is it too late to ask him to step down? >> no, its not too late, but i have confidence in him prayed well see what happens. its going to be interesting. >> that is why i am asking for >> i want to give everybody a good,...