independent is important and all that went out the window tonight. i don't think the white house had any idea how much they were sacrificing with this move today. >> you pointed this out. donald trump -- there is a stated rationale for why he fired james comey. we know that donald trump doesn't believe enthat rational. he said over and over again that jim comey was doing a great job investigating hillary clinton and now we learn today that james comey was fired because he was too mean to hillary clinton. who believes that donald trump thinks that? so it can't be that. there's got to be another reezb and the only other possible reason is he was getting too close to trump himself or people around him in this russian investigation. >> i think one of the things --