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Reporter we do know that something that President Trump had been considering, what were being told by Senior Administration officials the Deputy Attorney general was confirmed two weeks ago, he had time to look over james comeys turn your, and we have seen the letters which are essentially an indictment of the handling of Hillary Clintons emails. They said they no longer had faith in comeys ability to lead the department, they took this recommendation and he drafted this letter. But theres quest...

Derogatory information. he also said that the dismiss e dismisschool of the fbi director needs to be done carefully. but we have to have a director who understands the gravity of mistakes and pledges never to repeat them. that is what happened. this has nothing to do with the campaign six months ago, this has everything to do with the performance of the director since donald trump has been in the white house. he is not the subject of an investigation and we appreciate the time and the platform t...

>> reporter: we do know that something that president trump had been considering, what were being told by senior administration officials the deputy attorney general was confirmed two weeks ago, he had time to look over james comeys turn your, and we have seen the letters which are essentially an indictment of the handling of hillary clintons emails. they said they no longer had faith in comeys ability to lead the department, they took this recommendation and he drafted this letter. but theres q...

Feinstein, whos on the full judiciary committee. it was just a few minutes before the news became public that they got that information. what i was told, that back at the white house, thats maybe not as shocking that the fbi found out that he was fired while watching television while he was speaking to the fbi, it give you a window into why that was allowed to happen. i was told by a source familiar with conversations inside the white house that they were surprised by the political explosion her...

Meeting with agents in a field office. and thats apparently how he found out. there were news reports that broke that he was being fired. its unclear how he was directly given the information still, since the letter dismissing him was taken to the fbi here in washington and comey was in l.a. >> is it possible he saw it on news reports? >> reporter: it is certainly possible, again, not the best way to be fired. >> thank you. introducing our panel, jeff toobin, i got to start with you, is this nor...

Thats important is because the intelligence committee spends a lot of time meeting with people in the fbi, in the intelligence community, trying to gather evidence and trying to gatter information. because comey has been more forthcoming than other past fbi directors on various issues. including on this russian concern that this could impact highway the investigation is going to go forward. now other republicans that sit on the committee have not gone that far, marco rubio who sits on the commit...

Republicans here too are gr grappling with this news and uncertain how this will impact investigations on capitol hill. >> what does this do to the senate intelligence committees investigation into russia? >> theyre still going to move forward, im told, theyre still going to interview witnesses, they have asked for records of a number of trump associates to lay out exactly the context with russian officials campaign officials during the campaign season, and two responses so far including from ca...