Peter Alexder News Today

White house, im peter alexder. this breaking news as we get a little better color from inside th west wing at the white house. this new information coming from my colleague after a conversation with a senior white house official describing an effect, how things went down over the last 24 hours or so. saying in effect as weve been reporting, the majority of white house staff including the most senior members of the trump team found out that comey was being fired moments before or as they watched ...

>> i am honored to become a wildcat. >> nbcs mariano ostensio was at the ceremony. that was quite the scene. you could hear the booing. what happened? >> reporter: so, peter, now behind me, you see families are heading home to celebrate, but before, inside the venue here at bethune-cookman university at the commencement ceremony, secretary of education betsy devos got on that stage and started to hear booing from the crowd. many in the student body also in the graduating class getting u and givi...

That donald trump was somehow satisfying the calls of the democrats to get rid of director comey when the refrain during the campaign, and im sorry, sarah sanders, he just dont guy idea that a candidate and the president are different. their refrain was lock her up. now theyre trying to get us to believe the democrats, that theyre trying to please the democrats because somehow comey mishandled this. and finally, peter, this is really an amazing indictment of the trump communications team. either...

Booing continued. >> wow. >> reporter: this was several days in the making, peter, since betsy devos was announced as commencement speaker today. there were calls for protests. we saw a dozen protesters outside. there was also several online petitions signed by thousands to get betsy devos to rescind her invitation today. many here saying, many students, that betsy devos shouldnt really be the person to give the commencement at a historically black college because shes said in the past that hist...