real story, he was thinking a while to give the deputy director a boot and surrogates including the vice president have been stating as the rationale. you will see he did perpetuate another story line about sally yates warning about michael flynn is no big deal, all contained in this next clip. take a look. were you angry with james comey when he went public and said he can t support your unsubstantiated charges of your predecessor wiretapping you? i was surprised he said it but i wasn t angry. there is a big thing going on right now, which is spying. you can call it anything you want, the unmasking and the spying. to me, that s the big story right now. that s a very very big story. you didn t take that as a sign of disloyalty? no. i didn t think of it as loyalty