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About is the timing of it and not the fact that he needed to be replaced. i think thats important to point out. again, there were republicans who called for director comey to be removed. there were democrats -- it daent matter regardless of party. last year there was an avalanche of calls wanting him removed. it should have happened last year or early in this administration but final by the right decision was made. >> the big question, as to whether this is a coverup -- perhaps it is -- the big ...

Dana? dana, let me go to you. the news that you have -- and mark well get your reaction -- they did not think there would be a political explosion. they are shocked tonight that this is happening. >> thats right. my understanding according to a source fam with white house discussions is that when this was initially going down and made public, that the -- some senior people in the white house did not think that this was going to be the political explosion that it obviously is. its hard for us to ...

Special independent prosecutor, look into the details of this. our colleagues on the intelligence committee, as you just heard, both democrats and republicans are not going to step away from investigating this. we are going to get the answers for the american people. >> and do you believe that this investigation can continue at this point? >> well, my colleagues in the senate are going to investigate. and the judiciary committee is going to continue to investigate. what we had hoped was that the...

That the hillary clinton investigation had been stalled for so long that it was coming to fruition during the heart of the campaign, and 45that was as much hillarys fault as anybody elses if she would have cooperated earlier in the investigation. >> so in terms of the fbi and who is actually being investigated, i think this is crucial. in the letter from the president of the united states to director comey, donald trump writes, while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasi...

>> ever had a conversation like that with the president of the united states and assured him he was not under investigation yektly. >> there are guide lines in how investigations are to be handled with respect to the rest of the executive branch. those guidelines certainly do not allow the fbi director to go to the president and say youre clear. so i dont know what the president was basing that paragraph in his letter on, but if director comey said it, he would have been violating all sorts of n...

People in -- who are echoing what jason is saying, trying to make it sound as if the mtd himself is an innocent bystander in this firing, that actually he just accepted what sessions and rosenstein said when in fact this would not have happened had the president not wanted it to happen. so it was a decision i believe was in search of a rational. >> let me ask you. when you see the letter from the president of the united states to drosh comey, you are hereby removed from office effective immediat...

Plus to see president trump write that letter to include in the letter that director comey had told him on three separate occasions that he was not tied to the russia investigation was bizarre at the very least. but there is with one big winner in this, erin. i think we need to look at it right now. the winner is vladimir putin. you know theyre laughing -- >> oh, come on. >> -- in russia they are looking at us right now and saying look it, what we did by affecting the election, by to youing with...

When you read that your jaw does have to drop. the first reason theyre putting out is hillary clintons e-mails and -- and he was mistaken. le. >> i know. >> the president of the united states praised comey for making that decision. >> comey -- look, its no doubt that he has soured on comey since hes been office, the reason is clearly because of the russia investigation which he calls a hoax, right? he could have fired him on january 20th if he had wanted to. there was no reason he -- i mean, if ...

Answer. some of the people i have talked to obviously are senior officials at fbi headquarters and they even had a mixed set of feelings about whether he had caused the fbi to become too much in the spotlight politically, starting with the july 5th press conference, the series of hearings that he testified in, where he was extremely critical all summer and fall of hillary clinton and the idea that it was politicized even back then, before the letter. most people thought the letter was justified,...

That aggravates this president more than anything at all. as you were reading in that shortlered e letter there, its just about five paragraphs longs, by the president saying he was essentially vindicated by this russian investigation, saying he was not a target of this investigation, he is trying to sort of essentially set the record straight or close the books on this, erin, but that is something that will definitely not happen. the books on this will remain wide open, regardless of who has th...