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Night massacre, this is not as big in scale and scope, but it is very nixonian. and i dont find the story that the white house is putting out credible. i think there are -- i think fundamentally that what happened was the president and sessions and perhaps rosenstein, but certainly sessions and the president decided that comey had to go. they looked for a pretext. they found deputy attorney general who could write a pretext for them and they went with it. there is no chance in the world that tod...

>> rod rosenstein is a distinguished prosecutor. i interviewed him when he was in baltimore. he had a very good reputation here and how he could afix his name to that disgraceful memo, this total lie. this pretext. absurd memorandum that suggests that -- that the basis for firing jim comey is the hillary clinton investigation is one of the many mysteries that abound here today. but keep in mind, this is what we just have to keep in mind here because everything that donald trump does becomes norm...

This is happening. >> thats right. because its may of 2017. donald trump spent the entire campaign praising jim comey for what he said about hillary clinton. >> he criticized -- >> and now -- >> let me finish. >> now hes firing him for that exact bayer. nonsense. it is not true. this is a pretext. donald trump did not fire jim comey because he was too nice to -- he was too mean to hillary clinton. >> no, its because he lost -- >> unbelievable. >> he lost the confidence of law enforcement and we ...

Clear that the reasons given for firing comey are pretext. theyre excuses. theyre not true. theyre further lies from this administration and the real reason is to stop what might have been, what appeared to be an honest investigation and the only way around it is to have a -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> do you think -- again, are you -- do you think that director comey is the only person who can carry out an investigation at the fbi? >> i think director comey was the only person other than a spe...

For a press conference that he held in july of 2016? i mean, this is the most preposterous pretext. he was investigating the white house. he was just fired by the white house. this doesnt happen in the united states, except on october 20, 1973 when richard nixon fired archbald cox. if anyone thinks a new fbi director will come in and the agency will just take over and continue their investigation, as if this had never happened, thats not how it works. they will put in a stooge who will shut down...

And why the doj officials recommended that he be fired. if you read the memo written by the deputy director of the justice department, deputy attorney general, it reads like it was written by chuck schumer and hillary clinton. he said "we do not hold press conferences to release derogatory information about the subject of a decline criminal investigation." the director laid out his version of the facts the news media as if it were a closing argument without a trial. its a textbook example of wha...

Services, contraception was the issue there. and the case on hobby lobby. controversial order coming tomorrow. >> bret: it will be a big deal for those organizations. thank you. stephen colbert has long been known for the intellectual quality he brings to his stand-up comedy but an on-air rant against president trump this week saw the late-night talk show host dissenting to a level of vulgarity seldom seen on network television. james rosen has the story and the fallout. or lack thereof. >> when...

1832/33, south carolina was causing problems, they wanted to pick and choose which federal laws they wanted to obey called nullification. it was seen as a pretext for about a future battle over slavery and i think what -- you know, the president, like all presidents or most presidents, sees as he wishes to be seen. that is, he looks back to history for inspiration and -- but more often look for sanctioned for a given moment and if you listen to what he said there and what he said in the past abo...

Mountainsides across that country. so reince priebus said one thing, donald trump is saying another thing to bloomberg. are they now scrambling to back the president up for this comment? >> reporter: i think that sean spicer will have to answer a lot of questions about this. this just broke a few minutes ago. this is a former candidate, now a president who very much marches to the beat of his own drum. so i wouldnt be surprised if there are a number of conversations going on about what specifica...

His word just two months ago. i mean, this is a person who has always done whatever works for him in that moment. kind of a goldfish politically with a five-second memory. he is never going to be shamed by pretext, by pointing out past hypocrisies. and this is a person, even though people believed, wanted to believe that there are some things that seemed like they really were deeply held beliefs to him, his position on immigration, his talk about china, his foreign policy. to see him sort of aba...