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What do you say? >> well, you know, i dont think they are deliberately trying to flout the law here. theres always been question to me with this president of a lack of experience and not really understanding the job and not bringing in people who do understand how the white house works. this could have all been avoided, don. they certainly, all they have to do is look at history and see how easy it would be to replay what theyre getting tonight so i think theres two things that might be going on...

The fbi. that put the white house on notice that there was a criminal investigation, a counterintelligence investigation focused on the presidents inner circle. this is a very troubling development. >> democrats are calling the firi firing nixonian. does this just guarantee almost a special prosecutor? does this guarantee it doesnt go off the front pages but may have the opposite effect of what the white house may have intend snd. >> i think thats definitely the case. the obama administration an...

Why he was being tasked so early on with doing this investigation and did he fear that he was going to be used to create a pretext to fire comey that is simply not credible. the president doesnt care how hillary clinton was treated. he threatened to jail her, okay, as a candidate. so we know that that cant be right. the question i have, you know, there was a certain somebody in the justice department who got a lot of credit for standing up to what he thought was overreach by the executive blancr...

>> why? >> because theyre the foreign policy team. you a group of people close to trump, and the truth is, and heidi, you report there all the time, nobody tells him no. when i tell him nobody tells him no, nobody tells him no. >> who is the troubling thing about that premise. there are many things trump does that appear to be in the moment, snap decisions. if you look at the rosenstein letter, this doesnt look like something that was crafted overnight. this looks like a pretext. it looks like t...

Not work this time for the only other time it happened was 24 years ago, then-president boca did fired his fbi director william sessions, no relation to the current attorney general jeff sessions. there was a report then put together by the clinton justice department laying out ethical missteps by william sessions such as billing the government for a security fence around his home that did not actually provide security, just as the trump justice department released a report by deputy attorney ge...

Does goes to my reservations about special prosecutors, and the way i did it was when my line attorneys came to me with recommendations, unless they were outside of very severe boundaries i followed them. >> but ken -- >> the evidence tonight is that the president did that. now, you can suppose that the deputy attorney general cooked all this up, but he is the career person of those three. >> but heres the question -- >> i dont mind partisans. youre a former attorney general accusing me and mayb...

Where the prosecutor, the special prosecutor was doing exactly what the president had instructed him he did not want done. they prosecutor lost and they shutdown the special prosecution office. that was the massacre. >> john. since you mentioned that this is from the nixon library tonight. president nixon never fired the director of the fbi but he did fire the prosecutor and the deputy attorney general re-signed. will there be fall out from this? >> thats a great question and one of the things t...

For the events that led to today. there is the memo from the deputy attorney general, questions raised about when did that start, did someone in the white house ask for a pretext to get rid of director comey? if they did that, why did they do it in may and not in january. or at any point going back. and just a general point is theres going to be a lot of talk and there already is and the president just tweeted about this apparently about hypocrisy. hypocrisy is interesting but its not dispositiv...

Citing who white house advisors saying in recent days the president has increasingly been asking aides how can we shut down this russia investigation, the "times" reported that last week jeff sessions was given instructions to find a pretext to fire jim comey. so the reporting is seeping out even as jason come on and give the reason line here. there have been plenty of -- >> that is a highly questionable article with no sources. >> we understand that you both come at this from different perspect...

By the way, why is rosenstein ca tasked with doing this investigation while the ig at the department of justice is doing the very same thing? could it be that they wanted to bring in this guy with a great reputation to reach this conclusion, knowing thats how career prosecutors felt, so then they could use that as a pretext? >> all right. everybody, stand by. theres a lot more coming up. rosensteins only been on the job, by the way, for two weeks or so. thats another issue. were also learning, b...