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Clearly the attorney general and deputy attorney general and the president knew about it. fbi director learned about it a short time ago, and bret, this goes back to last year which is really the most surprising part of it. writing a memorandum for the attorney general, the deputy attorney general rob rosenstein said as you and i have discusse discussed, talking about jeff sessions, "i cannot defend the director james comeys handling of the conclusion of the investigation of secretary clintons...

This doesnt sound like someone whos very confident that the investigation is not coming near them. and they will go to that point. with backup, is there "there there"? we have heard there is no evidence of collusion from clapper. we have heard sally yates say she couldnt talk about it. it was classified. obviously jim comey knew all of it. >> its another reminder that we have to ask this president over and over again what hes thinking. as a reminder, less than a month ago on april 12, he set on ...

This show. your reaction. >> i was flabbergasted, to say the least. i think the presidents action is outrageous. i think the fact we have seen the fbi director fired, the acting attorney general fired, current attorney general having to recuse himself. from an administration who says there is no there there. we need a special prosecutor appeared we need everybody to step up and say weve got to get to the bottom of where the facts lead us. candidly, this excuse some of your commenters have made, ...

Our reporters, talking about how he is worried that the fbi investigation will be terminated. he is saying that that democrats will ramp up calls for a special prosecutor he says he has been trying to get answers from jeff sessions and rod rosenstein about, will they continue the investigation into russia and the links between possibly president trump and his associates. >> bret: some of those democrats were calling for comey to be fired after the clinton moves he made prior to the election. in ...

That he had to recuse himself in the russia investigation specifically, saying that the trump firing of comey shows how far into the administration is over russia investigation. do you share that view? >> well, the bottom line is i think attorney general sessions removed himself from the michael flynn investigation on the russian hacking. with that being said, he still responsible for the work performance of his people. he is making a decision. i can sit here and say it should have never been do...

Its not the function of the director to make such an announcement. the director should have said the fbi had completed its investigation presented its finding to federal prosecutors. the director now defends his decision, and he said this last week, by asserting he believed attorney general loretta lynch had a conflict. but the fbi director is never empowered to supplant federal prosecutors and assume command of the justice department. compounding the air, the director ignored a long-standing pr...

We are also told if this off-camera gaggle happens, we may be able to carry the audio live. we will be able to give you real-time information as opposed to having to relay it. we are still continuing to work our sources, get the nuances. was it any one thing that happened maybe in recent weeks that sealed the deal on this? because the president, i dont want to say the president was ambivalent because clearly had strong feelings but when you took a look at the relationship between the two men in ...

Patently absurd. this is one person. it is the director. the investigation is going forward both at the fbi and in the senate intelligence committee in a bipartisan way. so i dont think theres any link at all. >> bret: this comes, obviously, senator, after the focus of sally yates, then acting attorney general who was fired, testifying about michael flynn and the warning she gave about the national security advisor that he might be compromised or could be blackmailed by the russians. the questio...

Sharing some text with people inside the bureau. there was no indication at the bureau he believes that director comey was going to be fire this afternoon by the president. he indicated that if comey had a heads up, it would have been telegraphed in some way internally and he would have taken the opportunity to tell the fbi workforce first. but apparently that was not the case. i am struck by this letter that has been released by the white house to director comey and there are several things her...

Divisions are within the bureau about director comey sort of polarizing figure. those for and against. we also discussed what the succession might look like with comey effectively fired by the president. he said if it was standard procedure, it would be the deputy director andrew mccabe. andrew mccabe would come to this position, critics would argue, with a lot of baggage. that goes back to 2015 when his wife received $700,000 for a state senate run that she eventually lost, and that money came ...