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His memo on the abuses by james comey in the hillary clinton case was used as a pretext. he didnt believe apparently this was the purpose for which his memo would be put. so he will answer questions about that next week, and were going to see whether he was being set up as a patsy to blame on this. for people scoring at home, he is a very important character. >> and hopefully his testimony will clear things up. do you agree that a special prosecutor shoos put in place? >> i think both there are ...

Comey. and so when i heard the first part of your show, who else is the president going to fire next, there are a lot of people working on these investigations that cannot be fired that will not be fired, and that are going to get to the bottom of this. >> senator, you were just describing the presidents explanation for why he fired james comey. he is admitting it was his decision that the rosenstein memo was a pretext and he made it in part because of the russia investigation. theres also these...

And so when i heard the first part of your show, who else is the president going to fire next, there are a lot of people working on these investigations that cannot be fired that will not be fired, and that are going to get to the bottom of this. >> senator, you were just describing the presidents explanation for why he fired james comey. he is admitting it was his decision that the rosenstein memo was a pretext and he made it in part because of the russia investigation. theres also these claims...

Trump said he was not waiting for rod rosenstein or the commission. rod rosenstein associates had told the press that he was not the pretext for doing this and is angry that people are putting this on him. so, this is just simply a indefensible place that trump put republicans and he makes it worse every time he pulls out his phone and tweets. lets not forget, he threatened the former fbi director to not publicly disclose what he -- you know, their conversations. were in a dangerous place here. ...

So he doesnt care about that. this was a pretext. and i think our colleague said the other night something that was well constructed, which is the right decision. in other words, there is a real basis to fire jim comey for undermining himself. wrong timing, wrong reason. and i think thats what has to be considered here. >> how could a no brainer turn into a nightmare? so many people dumping information on reporters about how this was about russia and trump was white hot and he was upset about th...

Against jim comey when the inspector general of the department of justice is already in the middle of just such an investigation and preparing his own report? why repeat that? why have that done at a different level? did rod rosenstein question that? did he question if he was being used here, whether he was being set up to be the reason or the pretext for why he was fired? i think the reporting from sara is very important because it gets to that very question. was he being used, and it sounds li...

Been handed an item reporting by "the washington post" tonight, saying the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, threatened to resign after the narrative emerging from the white house last nightcast him as a prime mover of the decision to fire comey. and that the president acted only on his recommendation. this is sourced, again, anonymity, a source close to the white house. so this would indicate that rosensteins name and weight was behind that three-page amalgam, the argument against comey,...

>> what i did, is i was going to fire comey. my decision. >> his decision. do you believe that rosenstein was manipulated by the president in any way or do you believe that rosenstein wrote a memo that hillary clintons e-mails are the reason jim comey should be fired? >> im sure he believes what he sent out in that memo, that comey mishandling the clinton investigation. i think that comey mishandled this investigation. if this memo was going to be used as a pretext of firing him, to give the pub...

Washington post saying the deputy attorney general threatened to resign after the narrative emerging from the white house last night cast him as a prime mover of the decision to fire comey and that the president acted only on his recommendation. this is sourced again. anonymity a source close to the white house. so this would indicate rosensteins name and rate were behind the three-page amalgram. that he resented it being compiled as his argument for firing. >> you would think when youre asked t...

To fire comey and that the president acted only on his recommendation. this is sourced again. anonymity a source close to the white house. so this would indicate rosensteins name and rate were behind the three-page amalgram. that he resented it being compiled as his argument for firing. >> you would think when youre asked to put something like that together by the president, you would expect they would understand this is going to be used as a pretext to fire the fbi director. he never said expli...