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Rules for him may be surprising to many folks but this is the way he has operated. it is just a fact with him. rules dont apply to him in the same way they apply to others. he ultimately knows best. the confusing part is not only that, but the time line of this. you had sarah huckabee sanders say faye donald trump made this decision back on wednesday when the fbi director was in front of that will senate judiciary committee. that was last week. the "new york times" said he made the decision befo...

Operations. the three of them are among the men who had very negative feelings about comey and talked about comey to the candidate and now the president. >> there are some "time" magazine reporting that has come out. they sat down with president trump for dinner in what is a story filled with, as you know, some juicy tidbits. your colleagues paint a picture watching news coverage of the firing. can you talk a little bit about where the presidents head might be at. what is his mindset today? >> m...

President was growing increasingly agitated at his fbi director starting with a hearing last wednesday. you remember the fbi director said the decision back last year over the clinton e-mails made him mildly nauseous. that did not sit well with this. . he was stewing over this over the weekend im told. he told his advisors he sees comey as his own man and does not trust him to lead this fbi investigation. will there was some dissent iin views, im told. the president disagreed and now hes looking...

Sessions recused himself from dealing on anything with russia. that the anger we sometimes have seen pop up just wasnt there. i think the republicans cared more about losing this than donald trump did. >> i think you are right in theory. when i spoke to him, his demeanor was pretty calm and he was very disciplined and on message and im not trying to take anything away from that, but we know based on history he has a habit of stewing for a little while. we are heading into a friday night and he l...

Obsessing over don lemon at cnn and stewing like a caged lion. let the guy loose. >> im getting ana a 2020 trump sticker for the back of her car. >> dont go crazy. >> i think everyone is exactly right. i thought he was in fine form today. that was his crowd. those were his themes. >> yeah. >> i think he was on message. he had that phrase, new american future. he talked about america first and winning. youre going to get sick of winning because we will winning so much. i think this was a good loo...

High-level people in our government trusted to ensure justice say this is unjustice and im not going to do it. >> i was told by several of his friends that he was stewing over the weekend about some of the response that prompted the series of tweets this morning. about the orders in general. were seeing a challenge of washington, the republicans on capitol hill they dont want to be backing this up publicly. trump believes this is his agenda, he wants it to happen. >> i think -- are going to slam...

Amendment, you wont prevent people from buying a gun. >> there is no perfect solution but there are marginal improvements. limit the size of magazines, that would have stopped jared loughner from killing as many people before he stopped to reload. make the background checks so its not automatic that you get it if its not completed in three days, that might have stopped dylann roof from having his guns. we have to do something. just because no solution is perfect doesnt mean theres nothing we sho...

>> he may have just gotten the name wrong. its unclear whether they even knew each other. there was some time when they overlapped at the station when he was a reporter and she was an intern. but, again, it was a brief comment that he was trying to say this proves the racial harassment that i endured at the station and it was a comment specifically where are you going to swing by for lunch? he took that to be offensive. >> do we know, drew, the outcome of these complaints? >> they were all prett...

Sitting on the shoulder saying kill kill kill all day long. they are recruiting and tasking at the same time. so again, for the fbi how can they ever figure out who exactly is sitting in their basement sitting and stewing and whos actually plotting? >> they can and they cant. the first thing you want to do in a case like simpson is you have somebody whos already got a known history. that to me is an easy one. thats what we call in the intelligence business a known. the guys already indicated hes...

Talked about. back to you, alisyn. >> thanks nick. thanks for all of that background. we want to bring in phil mudd to talk about this. our cnn counterterrorism analyst and former cia counterterrorism official. phil great to see you this morning. >> good morning. >> one of the gunmen left a twitter trail a mile long. >> yeah. >> he was communicating with isis fighters and calling for violence and just sort of stewing with them online. so what do investigators do with that? >> one of the challeng...