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Said i accepted their recommendation. >> yeah. >> you had made the decision. >> i was going to fire regardless of recommendation. >> he made a recommendation, hes highly respected. very good guy, very smart very. the democrats like him, the republicans like him. he made a recommendation, but regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. >> mike viquera on capitol hill, you asked the senator about that. what did he have to say? >> reporter: trump impuned the character of james comey. i...

Respected comey and i was offended at the presidents comment. when the president told lester holt that comey was a showboat and a grandstander. andrea, we should add that the report yesterday that the committee asked jim comey to testify behind closed doors on tuesday, jim comey now a private citizen, the concern by both burr and werner to reporters, no response yet by jim comey. of course they woulded have hav to talk about, andrea. >> were all going to wait to hear from jim comey whether or no...

Of the day that we can have bipartisanship in supporting. >> i have confidence in richard bird that we with the members of our community are going to get to the bottom of this. if you get nothing else from today, take that statement to the bank. >> take it to the bank. were going to get to the bottom of this. those are the leaders of the senate intelligence committee and therefore the leaders of the senate intelligence russia investigation. richard burr is the republican chairman, mark werner is...

Obama won the state but mark werner has a challenge this year. i watched him campaign at the planking, a famous old tradition of virginia politics. very republican leaning. many people came up to me afterward why did you vote for that bill? warners response to them was, i did, but ive outlined several fixes to it. he was pretty adept at pivoting and moving away. he talked to reporters afterwards and we asked him, what are you going to run on from your senate record this year? and he brought up a...

Together. will senate majority leader harry reid bring that to the floor. senator joe manchin appearing on the show moments ago. >> senator reid understands quite well there needs to be changes. if you cant make the deadlines, you know that the consumer is not willing to accept the product. were trying to basically change the product. >> is he going to bring it to the floor, though? have you spoken to him. >> we have spoken to him, yes, sir -- yes, maam. we have spoken to harry and the leadershi...

Constituents head to the polls. thanks for joining me. we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me, kristen. >> senator, when you were governor of your state, george w. bush won it handily. now after two wins for president obama and an expected victory by terry mcauliffe, is there a permanent shift going on in what was a swing state? is it turning more blue. >> i think virginia is a toss-up state, fiscally conservative and socially moderate. i think the contrast in this race was virginians seeing ...

If we hit the numbers well be fine. if we dont long-term success of the program is important to me and not setting up a system thats not going to be able to kind of numerically work would be a problem. >> senator mark werner, i know its going to be a busy day for you. thanks for taking time to join us. >> thank you, kristen. >> as voters head to the polls on super tuesday, well have much more special election day coverage coming up. joining me next new jersey senator bob menendez. i started part...

Is this a messaging problem for the white house? >> they got busted, i think deservedly so for leaving out that qualifier. it is important to it a step back. president obama said if you like your insurance you can coop it. that does apply to the majority of the people with health insurance, whether from your employer or people who dont have health insurance at all. where he was wrong and the qualification he left out was regarding that 5 to 6% in the private health insurance market. a lot of the...

Now support same sex marriage. very different picture than ten years ago. >> the argument thats raised in that editorial is one of a message thats been coming out in the last few days, partly to downer what jonathan was raising. this notion that it is really hard to marshal evidence arguing against, arguing that prop 8 should be upheld. so the message has been coming out. the court should take it slowly. there will be a big back lash and they should decide the case the way pete said they might. ...

Lower corner of your screen. we will bring you there as soon as it happens. now to another fox news alert bus were moments away from what could be a contentious confirmation hearing for cia director john brennan. expected to face questions on enhanced interrogation and revelation about drone strikes and the argument the president has is whether or not he has the legal authority to essentially kill whom ever he wants where he wants and watch also for questions about the terror attacks in benghazi...