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Were going to continue our breaking news live coverage of this. I wanted to amplify for you what andrea was just telling you about the Wadirector Comey former Director Comey found out about this, the New York Times account of this is just stunning. He was addressing a group of fbi employees in los angeles when the television in the background flashed the news that he had been fired. In response, mr. Comey laughed. He said he thought it was a fairly funny prank. And then his staff started securin...

When you have -- is not a matter of mrs. clinton or mr. trump. its a matter of can we trust our law enforcers and the fbi to conduct investigations. can we trust our judiciary to be unbiased? i served as a soldier since 18 and then entered political life after retiring from the service. we have political opinions but we always put the nation ahead of ourselves. here, we have the american people that have been shaken and their confidence about the highest judiciary aspects of government. >> melis...

Fact that we found out today that he himself was using a personal gmail account to conduct government business. even hillary referenced vat in a tweet today. and if you, like i, thought comey came off as incurious in television interviews for that stupid book of his, check out this tweet. he said today in a tweet "i respect the doj. ig office which is why i urge them to do this review. the conclusions are reasonable even though i disagree with the them. people of good faith can see an unpreceden...

Think in two months or two years, whatever the case may be, youll see donald trump rip the guy a new one. so it all depends where donald trump is at that particular time. >> you think it is that simple? verified wasnt in the language in the document they signed. but, joe, do you think that using this type of language for a guy who had people executed, his brother, 100,000 people in gulags, the starvation of the people there, you think that is tactic that might bear fruit? >> i think the least re...

Didnt notice. we dont know the circumstances. >> it was not -- he said, look, i didnt need to do that. he did not need to go that far he did not believe to provide a rationalization for why comey should go. there a lot of reasons why people thought comey should be fired, some of them legitimate about the way he handled the clinton e-mail investigation. but the question about the president and comeys firing has always been what did it mean about the russia investigation. what were the true motiva...

And i think that cohen is having the biggest reality check of his life. >> cohen is also sending a message to his former boss, hey, dont count on me. pardon, that would be a different story. i just think -- i totally agree. the gravity of the cohen thing has not underestimated from the beginning. the sdny isnt separate -- theyre both part of the justice department. they share evidence, tactics of strategy. its all one big investigation. when you get a magistrates warrant to do a no-knock search,...

A monologue about comey. >> tonight, comey is already in hot water after comparing the president to a mob boss. >> reporter: thats apparently how he described the president to abcs george stephanopoulos and the interview kicks off sunday. >> appalling analogy and remind comey what a real mob boss looks like and you would think he would understand that. >> reporter: the president didnt always think so poorly of comey. from this hand shake early in the administration to the glowinging words on the...

Russians continued to reach out to her even after the election ended. >> pick up on where natasha left off. the reality is even if they crafted a statement to the press that wasnt 100% accurate, theres no crime in that. why would that be of interest to lawmakers today who are questioning hope hicks? why would they want to get to the bottom of that trump tower meeting? >> youre right, kristen, lying to the press is, in and of itself, not a crime. its not something we should countenance as an amer...

Know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. >> they were left to cleanup the inconsistencies. >> i went off the information i had when i answered your question. >> another voice adding the confusion and convictions, vice president mike pence saying the firing was not related to the russia investigation. >> let me be clear, that was not what this is about. >> then perhaps the strangest twist of the entire saga came a day after comeys firing. in the oval office of all places ...

From the time he was the president-elect until jim comey was fired for not performing his job well, he had nine separate conversations with the president in multiple meetings. the difference is that this president is hands-on, but wanting to make sure the justice department is available, and he made a decision as commander in chief to relieve a person in duty that was no longer capable of running the fbi. >> tucker: thats for sure. youll get no disagreement from me. democrats thought comey was o...