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Expects, he needs to stand up and say that. if not, he might as well leave. >> this is what senate minority leader chuck schumer said about all of this in the last hour. take a listen. >> many americans must be wondering if the president is trying to pry open the office of attorney general to appoint someone during the august recess who will fire special counsel mueller and shut down the russian investigation. >> matt mill doesher, do you su that's what all this is about, president trump simply trying to fire shannon mulaire? >> i think ultimately that's where he's trying to get. he may want t...

That the fbi as part of our counter intelligence mission, is investigating the russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. and that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the trump campaign and the russian government, and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russia's efforts. >> so joe, just to button this down, the president saying that he is not a target according to jim comey by his own account, we don't know what jim comey would say about that conversation, is a major headline out of lester'...

Question. but what we learned today is that the president had, in fact, made up his mind before he had that meeting with the acting a.g. i think that is going to get lot of intense scrutiny here on capitol hill. it will undoubtedly raise calls for a special prosecutor from democrats that something that they continue to push for. it's a drum they continue to beat. no indication that they will be successful in actually getting a special counsel appointed. that's something the department of justice has to do. but andrea, this adds to i think the cloud of controversy surrounding this entire decisi...

They have great respect for jim comey. this from the individual who is the deputy fbi director, now the acting fbi director. so a unanimous verdict, put that together with reporting that pete williams has given us from the fbi, speaking to career officers, the rank and file, and even most republicans you talk to in the senate here this week thought very highly of jim comey. obviously the mistakes and the controversies that surrounded the events leading up to the election gave a lot of people pause. but at this point you can't find many people who aren't sympathetic at the very least to what ha...

It was only a couple of months ago when the president of the united states introduced extreme vetting to some these terror six, maybe seven originally of these terror laden nations. he wants to make sure since they have no paperwork that they are getting extreme vetting. until then, he wanted a temporary ban. the order put out there before the attorney general really got his job was ruled -- was not allowed to go through. the courts stopped it but, first, it was sally yates, the acting a.g. that stopped it. steve: that's right. and sally yates was fired because she did not support the presiden...