independent is important and all that went out the window tonight. i don t think the white house had any idea how much they were sacrificing with this move today. you pointed this out. donald trump there is a stated rationale for why he fired james comey. we know that donald trump doesn t believe enthat rational. he said over and over again that jim comey was doing a great job investigating hillary clinton and now we learn today that james comey was fired because he was too mean to hillary clinton. who believes that donald trump thinks that? so it can t be that. there s got to be another reezb and the only other possible reason is he was getting too close to trump himself or people around him in this russian investigation. i think one of the things
and say he didn t agree with anything. the last two years. you don t know. there s two very important things to point out here. nobody tonight is out there campaigning and cheering and saying we need to have doirecto comey in that position. people might disagree with the timing of it. i ll say that jason. no one feels more wrong. you even tweeted that you ll feel bad. i m not shedding any tears for him from a personal standpoint but i think he would have been the most independent fairest person to conduct this investigation. do you know why? he s a lightning rod for how he mishandled the hillary clinton investigation. i have no sympathy for jim com comey. but i have no doubt he wouldn t have pulled any punches with respect to this investigation. i have no confidence that this investigation will proceed now. pelosi wanted him go.
we he have to ensure now that the congress exercises the role of checks and balance to ensure that a president cannot fire the person conducting an investigation of that person. and that is after president trump himself called the investigation a taxpayer funded h cherade and a hoax. so we know this is in many ways a cover up. it s an obstruction of justice and it is something that ultimately could turn into russiagate because that s the subject of the investigation that jim comey was probing this white house and the campaign that donald trump ran to win the job. but senator you call it a cover up. do you know that for a fact? or you just suspect that? a lot of democrats have a lot of
he has put people in his administration that are supported by both sides of the aisle. there s people in there respected by everyone in washington d.c. with the exception of steve ban non. so let me ask you what if that happens? what if there s a fbi director appointed to he replace comey. two answers to that question. number one we have already seen that sometimes you put them in a politically appointed situation where they owe their job to the president of the united states. they can be put in a compromising situation. they re leading an investigation into their boss and it becomes unworkab unworkable. with all due respect to him if he knowingly submitted this memo for the purposes of carrying out a firing of jim comey he s in the wrong too. everyone stick around.