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Unless i have one every two weeks and i do it myself. we dont have them. i think its a good idea. >> does he think its a good idea because he doesnt trust? we know this past week he was mad after the firing he sent kellyanne conway and others out on television. somebody get out there and defend me. does he think hes chief strategist, president, communications director, press secretary, vanadvanced guy? >> absolutely. you can blame the communications shop and reince priebus and you can blame ever...

President knew about the president upset with comey. but you know, this isnt the first time this has happened, don. its a pattern here. if you look from the very first full day in office, donald trump is talking about his crowd sizes at the inauguration, compared to barack obamas. sean spicer was sent out there to sort of spin that one. then, you know, we heard about voter fraud. 3 million voters. they were sent out there to spin that one. today we have a commission on that. the wiretapping. oba...

Believe. or the vice president was toeing the line because thats what they were told to do. ive got to believe that the vice president knew about the presidents upset with comey. but you know this isnt the first time this has happened, don. its a pattern here. when you look from the very first full day in office. donald trump was talking about his crowd sizes at the inauguration compared to barack obama. sean spicer was sent out there to sort of spin that one. then, you know, we heard about vote...

Key point. whether or not the resource issue was the straw that broke the camels back, possibly, probably. >> its hard to understand now that donald trump clearly seemed to have been stewing about james comey about a while or thinking about getting rid of james comey for a while to then believe that it was this letter that just ha happened to show up from the deputy attorney general outlining his atrocities against hillary clinton, that is what motivated the president. its a little bit like them...

Over this. to your point, sarah, how there needs to have great credentials. now we see tension there. >> and the narrative surrounding rods arrival at the department of justice being the catalyst for the decision is where the white house is inconsistent with the timeline. the white house said president trump has been stewing on the issue. he has long been pleasdispleaseh the fbi detectiirector. it was executed with such urgency that it doesnt fit with the argument that this was the result of lon...

Tell the 70-year-old knew by how to behave that firing the current fbi director in the middle of the russian investigation, no matter how tarnished his reputation is a bad idea. no one can tell him that no matter how furious is about an investigation that is growing and requiring more resources, trying to kill it, by striking at the fbi director is a very, very bad idea and that it might be interpreted as obstruction of justice. heres the question, is no one able to tell the president no? >> obv...

The hearing the topic of russia and they saw the fact that comey had this miscue involving e-mails which had to be cleaned up and did cause frustration at the bureau as an opening but this goes against the idea that it was just handed to the president by the ag and deputy ag concerned about quote/unquote atrocities. there are separate questions. one is whether the president had the authority to do this, which i know jeffrey and i talked about last night. he did have the authority. the question i...

President. there are a lot of things in that testimony that probably made donald trump very upset, but that was one of, if not the key point. whether or not the resource issue was the straw that broke the camels back, possibly, probably. >> its hard to understand now that donald trump clearly seemed to have been stewing about james comey about a while or thinking about getting rid of james comey for a while to then believe that it was this letter that just happened to show up from the deputy att...

Among other things. i also think in general watching the hearing the topic of russia and they saw the fact that comey had this miscue involving e-mails which had to be cleaned up and did cause frustration at the bureau as an opening but this goes against the idea that it was just handed to the president by the ag and deputy ag concerned about quote/unquote atrocities. there are separate questions. one is whether the president had the authority to do this, which i know jeffrey and i talked about ...

Department and he finally had to do it himself in testimony. with that, president trump saw a disloyal fbi director. he wanted somebody who was going to be loyal to him. clearly, jim comey was not going to be that person. in the weeks that followed that all the way up through this coming last weekend, hes been stewing about this, growing angry about a fbi director he felt was out of his control. not just about the wiretapping thing but also about the russia investigation. also about the fact tha...