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And who is standing next to mueller? >> rod rosenstein. >> a guy who appointed mueller. suddenly the guy that they set up as the fall guy, as the patsy, suddenly he and mueller together -- >> his stellar reputation is speaking for himself. >> frightening front for donald trump. >> number of layers, especially around general flynn. willie geist, take it. >> joe in a time when there are so many questions about the president trying to exercise undue influence in the people investigating him, like j...

Former colleagues. saw the writing on the wall. this has scapegoat in this. im going to be the fall guy. he and trump had a kconversatio on monday. it is clear trump was unhappy with comey as fbi director and looking for an underpinning to the backbone to say this is why i did it. he wont say i fired him because he wasnt loyal enough to me. he was looking for that underpinning. it looks like rosenstein gave him that. david mentioned this, the idea that donald trump fired or wanted james comey fi...

Still hanging tough on his decision. taking to twitter last night to post a video of democrats who have been credit careful comey, tweeting this. the democrats should be ashamed, this is a disgrace, #draintheswamp. >> whoo. to discuss all the fallout from the firing of fbi director comey lets write in cnn politics reporter tal koeppen. a tall task for you this morning. "the new york times" by the way quoting 30 administration, department of justice, and other officials. so that will drive the...

Of the country. hes only pursuing the russia investigation. he probably feels bad about how he handled hillary clinton. hes going to come at me really hard. this is how you raise the spector of abusive power. if the president is taking on an fbi director in just such a way. i dont believe what the white house says, that he was following the advice of the justice department. >> chris, this is why it would be really important to hear from rod rosenstein. because obviously if the reporting is accur...

Because he was essentially made kind of the fall guy, the hench man in this whole comey firing. >> yeah, and you know, right now we dont have our own reporting on whether or not thats the case. but certainly its put a lot of attention on this individual whos just recently confirmed by an almost unanimous margin. there were a few, a handful of democrats who voted against him. now hes under the limelight. and you know, again, in terms of the white house miscalculating this rollout, there was not a...

Meaning comey, yusurped the powers. we talked about sally yates here. well, when director comey says he was put off by attorney general lynchs meeting on the tarmac with clinton, as the wall street journal points out, where was sally yates? she should have been doing that. >> now rod is telling the washington post i want to quit the job because the administration is making me the fall guy. he should quit. that letter on its face did not call for firing james comey. that was like what comey did t...

Embarrassed by their job. im joined by two of the authors of the "washington post," ashley parker, and robert costa. thank you both. yesterday it looked like and the day before, it looked like the president wanted everybody to think the president was simply playing an administerial role, that he was given a paper that said we got to get rid of comey because of what he did last year with hillary clinton, and sign off on it, mr. president. it will be done bureaucratically. today we find out that t...

Trump watch, thursday, may 11th, 2017. these are the times that try trumps soul. he spent the last several hours trying to regain a story -- regain control of a story he created himself. did he fire james comey? for two days he had his people paid by the government, working for him, putting out this story that he was only following the recommendation of the deputy attorney general. he simply accepted that guys recommendation. well, today when lester holt asked him for the truth, trump said he hi...

Theyre concerned certainly about the people that will be thrown off of health care. and they want to see the medicaid expansion end sooner rather than later. the good thing is we have mike pence in there rolling up his sleeves, working on the sausage making of making a bill that will work and donald trump as well. now for a fact, my former boss, ted cruz has had many meetings and conversations with the president and mark meadows with the freedom caucus, theyre doing the hard work that people sen...

Ago criticizing then nominee trump. here he was. >> his comments are not anywhere keeping with our partys principals and values. i am not going to defend donald trump not now, not in the future. you know the concerns i have of the nominee. i hope you appreciate im doing whats best for the members not me. >> david, why -- conservatives, a lot of conservatives are not thrilled. this is the opening ablct of a long play, but still why make paul ryan the fall guy here? >> because i believe the speake...