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Valerie jarrett wanted him gone. >> thats not true. >> he wrote last year after the whole e-mail debacle james comey should not simply be fired as the director of the federal bureau of investigation he must be barred from any form of public service. so much hate from the left and now to hear this is terrible. >> he would have been credible for firing him. >> the difference is having worked in the obama white house when he went out and made that statement on october 27th our jaws all dropped as w...

President decided to fire the fbi director because of how haenhe handled the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. thats their public line. theyre saying essentially that he fired jim comey for the very conduct that candidate donald trump praised james comey for. so how do they intellectually connect those dots, or can they? >> first of all, this is not a white house or an administration that necessarily bothers to connect dots or bothers with consistency, even. but i do think that the events of...

>> neara tan den, i wanted to get your response the sarah sanders asking tonight, come an, when are you going to just quit these investigations. >> i think the reality of this is that this is really what the game is for them. the game is for them -- i think she actually told us their plan here is to end the investigation. they want to end -- this is why they took the action today. it is laughable that this memo happened today and the president acted. any normal processes would take wes, maybe --...

All along. weve been working on border security all along. weve been working on rebuilding the military all along. been working on dodd-frank legislation. all of these things at the same time and now we sequence when we bring the bill through congress. the when there is concern in white house about the ability to muster republican votes. we have talked for this before. democrats often seem more united legislatively to get things through. you have said its the will of the house but youre not the ...

These investigations. >> i think the reality of this is that this is really what the game is for them. the game is for them -- i think she actually told us their plan here is to end the investigation. they want to end -- this is why they took the action today. it is laughable that this memo happened today and the president acted. any normal processes would take weeks, maybe -- at least days. so the reality here is that of course donald trump with his myriad tweets yesterday and his behavior over...

Suggest that the court said that theres no deference given to the president, is a little bit eroanous here. what she was saying, is i dont have the basis for me to make a straight faced arguments in court that this actually will pass congressional muster at this point and the court supported that. and if national security was in fact the real motivation, which she argued that it was. then why hasnt the vetting take on place. well, you had a 90-day ban to talk about the vetting and those processe...

Thinking, and the kremlin, as he watches sally yates on television, and jim clapper, talking about the russian covert action? what would they think about that? >> let me first state im appalled by what the russians did and should find a way ultimately to punish it. vladimir putin is getting tremendous satisfaction watching us tear apart our own system. he is an eye for an eye kind of person. so weuestioned -- specifically, hillary clinton questioned the legitimacy of his election in 2012. now he...

Not vetted with essentially sean spicer and the white house casting blame for any possible -- any possible problems on the previous white house for having grant him security clearance. today jim clapper saying, actually, incoming security advisers have a much higher standard of vetting, is that your understanding of how things work. >> yes, there are two processes, chris, first you have the security clearance. so can you be trused with the countrys secrets, basically, thats something thats done ...

Spicer and the white house casting blame for any possible -- any possible problems on the previous white house for having grant him security clearance. today jim clapper saying, actually, incoming security advisers have a much higher standard of vetting, is that your understanding of how things wo. >> yes, the are two processes, chris, first you have the security clearance. so can you be trused with the countrys secrets, basically, thats something thats done by security professionals, the depart...

Would engender the trust and confidence of the people whom i ser served. i want to thank this subcommittee for conducting an impartial and thorough investigation of this vitally important topic. the efforts by a a foreign adversary to interfere and undermine our democratic processes and those of our allies pose as a serious threat to all americans. this hearing and others this subcommittee has conducted and will be conducting the future are an important bipartisan step in understanding the threa...