nail this down and get it all right. to that end, here s where there s something wrong. there s one part of james comey s firing as fbi director that doesn t make sense. the new york times reported that just days before the president canned him, james comey had been trying to expand and add resources to the russia investigation. days before he was fired as fbi director, comey asked the justice department for more prosecutors and other personnel to accelerate the bureau s investigation into rush shaz interference in the presidential election. comey s appeal described by four congressional officials was made to rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general. that new york times story was first. it was subsequtly covered by multipleews organizations. the wall street journal that same night, mr. comey last week south more resources to support the bureau s investigation. he requested additional personnel from rod rosenstein.
this sized footing. . elizabeth: the president could call the fbi and say give me the information. but there is a report out there that there was surveillance of the russian computers talking to trump tower computers, worrying about the rush shaz helping with money. but now we have senator jeff grassly saying i m going it wait and sit on the election of the deputy attorney general. meghan: i worry about the levels this is going to get to. i think it s very difficult for people to dee listen great between who is political and what is the truth. sean spicer says he s extremely the confident that the white house has proof. i think sunshine is the best disinfect tant. the problem is as you noted earlier there s reason to believe that these in telly genes agencies would do things
if you re the secretary of state, what is your mission? it is first to make clear that our differences are real. and our views are based upon fact and principles which we support. but secondly to make clear that we seek no dispute. we don t want to worsen relations with russia or with anybody. and that we ought to be able to work constructively but that will take a change in policy by the russians. how do you work constructively when you have the u.s. saying it was assad and his regime who murdered dozens of people and you have russia saying we re not sure, we need an independent investigation? rush shaz interest in syria is long standing. they ve had a huge knave vnaval.