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Department was really understaffed for a long time. it took a a while for the attorney general to be confirmed and his deputy was just confirmed a week or so ago. it was the deputy who had been the career prosecutor who had been designated to do the analysis of the fbi directors actions and came up with the recommendation. >> bret: when you hear democrats, and growing number of democrats saying this sounds and feels nixonian, what do you say? >> he did not fire the entire fbi. he fired the direc...

Accusations on anything or anybody, including our president. with that being said, this does not impede our investigation for what conversation he has had, fbi director with the president or his legal counsel, i do not know. we are just going about getting this information, the same as we well from sally yates. both of them are no longer employed under this president in the federal government. we will see where this investigation takes after we have always had the intelligence committee in the s...

Firing of james comey. >> bret: catherine, thank you. just encase people think washington is not doing anything, the senate did confirm a new fda director. food and drug administration. the vote was 57-42. he has pledged to move drug approval quickly. washington is overtaken by this news that president trump has fired the fbi director james comey, saying that it was his actions in the lead up to the election and the hillary clinton email investigation that caused to this decision tonight, pointi...

Essentially put the nail in the coffin for president trump to fire him. the letters point to language he used before the senate judiciary committee that he had a choice last summer due to either the public about the evidence he had or conceal it, referring to hillary clintons alleged mishandling of classified information. the letters said conceal is a loaded word and its not a word the fbi director should responsibly use. also indicates the fbi director in the opinion of not only this attorney g...

James, caused was recommendingt charges when it was a decision that had to rest with the justice department and loretta lynch. he colored outside the lines. he brought disrepute to the bureau, and this attorney general and previous attorney general on both sides of the aisle had concluded he had lost his ability to effectively lead what is the preeminent law enforcement agency in the world. >> bret: obviously what these letters are focused on and you point out the concern about the first move, h...

President praised one great reporting, as always. >> bret: chuck grassley putting out a statement. republican from iowa. "over the course of the last several months, general trickle comeys decisions had prompted concern across the political spectrum. the handling of the clinton email investigation is a clear example of how comeys decisions have called into question the trust and political independence of the fbi. in my efforts to get answers, the fbi under comeys leadership has been slow or fail...

Chuck grassley, the senate judiciary committee chairman. joining us from capitol hill, senator joe manchin from west virginia, a democrat on the intelligence committee. your reaction. >> it was shocking. i was walking up to do the interviewers with you all and i hear about it, and i start reading some of the letters sent back and forth from attorney general sessions to the president. that being said, i want you to know it will not impede the investigations we have going on in the intelligence co...

Reporting, it does look like the fbi director was caught offguard or blindsided by this decision. >> bret: to your point, we were expecting the fbi director to testify thursday on capitol hill. in another committee hearing. sean spicer was asked today whether the president still had confidence in fbi director james comey and his answer was "i havent talked to him." lets bring in jennifer griffin at the pentagon. >> i think whats most interesting. i have been reading the letter sent by rod rosens...

Sally yates say she couldnt answer the question because of the counterterrorism investigations, is clapper wrong? >> what clapper said was he couldnt comment opposed the release of the january 6 report. sally yates said a lot of the information was classified. this is the reason why we have to do this investigation bipartisan in candidly, from the liberal and conservative media, weve got to be willing to follow the facts. you have always been willing to do that and i compliment you on this. this...

Fbi director james comeys handling of certain aspects of the hillary clinton investigation. the review of his letter reviving the investigation days before the election. it will also probe the department of justice actions during that time as well. clinton and her supporters claim comeys actions basically cost them the election. this probe could breathe new life into some of those criticisms. in a statement comey said he welcomes the review. but thats just the tip of the iceberg today, which b...