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Director of the fbi serves at the pleasure of the president. the president made a decision to replace him as he has stated very clearly now, publicly. the president is now focused on making sure that he finds a replacement that has the leadership qualities to lead the fbi. thats it, plain and simple. cam? >> sean, one follow up on that real briefly. what you said tuesday doesnt match what the president was laying out yesterday. [ inaudible ] can you walk through why the discrepancy in terms of w...

Circumstance in which the sitting fbi director if he is asked, am i a target, that he says no, youre not. >> heres what i think happened. well hear if theres a tape and the district of clul is a one party consent tape so it is perfectly legal for the president to tape anybody hes having dinner with. my own view i dont think theres a tape. i think hes bluffing. i think he wants comey to think theres a time. i think the president said am i under investigation and comey did the usual answer. if you...

Wanted to give her the question that you promised her before, and then ill pick up from there. >> thank you. >> a courtesy exchange back there with questions. >> i want to ask you, president trump seemed to rely on james clapper this morning when he tweeted that virtually he and everyone else with knowledge of the witch hunt says there is no collusion. james clapper himself today told dri andrea mitchell, i dont know if theres collusion or not, i dont know if theres evidence of collusion or not,...

Its stories straight about why the president ultimately decided to fire comey. after administration officials initially said it was as the prompting of department of justice officials, now trump says it was his call and says he was thinking about the russia investigation when he made the decision. >> in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. its an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election, tha...

Accusations -- >> do you mind if i -- i think in this case, it is interesting how the story has changed. he made those comments several times over several courses of action. and to say the director of national intelligence, who stated unequivocally, what his position was on multiple occasions before today, and now suddenly is saying, i wasnt sure about it, that -- the burden seems to be on him, not us. >> he wasnt saying he wasnt sure, he was saying he wasnt [ inaudible ], but moving on to the -...

About the comb my fiey firing. >> president trump made the right decision at the right time to accept the decision of the deputy attorney general and to ask for the termination, to support the termination of the director of the fbi. >> but we learned yesterday from president trump that he had planned to fire director comey regardless of that doj recommendation. and then there was the time back in january when the vice president said this about general michael flynn. >> conversations that happene...

The fbi serves at the pleasure of the president. the president made the decision to replace mim as he has stated very clearly now, publicly. the president is focused on making sure that he finds a replacement that has the leadership qualities to lead the fbi. thats it. cam? >> one followup on that briefly. when you said tuesday, what you said doesnt match what the president was laying out. walk through why the discrepancy in terms of the decision? >> its always the presidents decision, thats it,...

I wanted to give her the question that you promised her before. >> thank you. i want to ask you, president trump seemed to rely on james clapper this morning when he tweeted virtually he and everyone else with knowledge of the witch hunt said theres no collusion. james clapper today told andrea mitchell, i dont know if theres collusion or not, i dont know if there is evidence of collusion or not. on march 5th when he was asked a similar question, he said not to my knowledge. can you describe the...

The bottom line is that the director of the fbi serves the president. the president made a decision to replace him, as he has stated very clearly now publicly. the president is now focused on making sure that he finds a replacement that has the leadership qualities to lead the fbi. thats it, plain and simple. cam? >> what you said tuesday doesnt match what the president was laying out yesterday in his interview. can you offer up why the discrepancy as to whose decision it was? >> its always the ...

Think in this case, it is interesting how the story has changed. he made those comments several times over several courses of action. and to say the director of national intelligence, who stated what his position was on multiple occasions before today. and now suddenly is saying, i wasnt sure about it. the burden seems to be on him, not us. >> he said he wassnt sure. >> youre acting like im a clapper spokesman. >> no. im interested in the discrepancy. >> i think thats a great thing to ask him. >...