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reporter: we do know that something that president trump had been considering, what we re being told by senior administration officials the deputy attorney general was confirmed two weeks ago, he had time to look over james comey s turn your, and we have seen the letters which are essentially an indictment of the handling of hillary clinton s emails. they said they no longer had faith in comey s ability to lead the department, they took this recommendation and he drafted this letter. but there s questions about the timing of this, why this is all happening now, it s information that president trump has celebrated in the past, but it s serge not new information. the letter that the president sent to former fbi director comby. can you explain what it cede said? reporter: i want to read you the portion that i think is particularly confusing in president trump s letter to comey, in this he s dismissing him. he said that while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three se ....
jesse: he is being looked at right now for not registering as a foreign agent. juan: that s a scandal in and of itself, he had a million dollars from turkey and then opposing any action that would not benefit a turkey as a u.s. official. jesse: that is not the focus the investigation. juan: trump said this was a witch hunt, you re doing the opposite. kevin mccarthy said it is a joke, i bet the russians are paying trump, this was last summer. i don t want anybody to say that someone is paying me. there was big news today that seems to me when you have rod rosenstein who was the deputy attorney general and acting attorney general because jeff sessions has recused himself tell people he knew comey was going to be fired, when he said the memo as a basis for comey s firing. he was set up and used as a stooge. greg: i m sorry, all of these errors are not political errors, their human errors. when trump says to comey, he s a good guy, go easy on him, that s a boss does. k ....
while 30% say it has given them a less favorable one. 61% said it had no impact. and finally, this is the most troubling number 46% said they feel that president trump fired comey to slow down the russia investigation. and 38% buy the original explanation from the white house, that it was done over legitimate concerns over how comey handled the hillary clinton e-mail issue. and there s a report that a frustrated president trump is considering firing many of his top white house aides. it adds up to a week, at best, the administration has a communications problem. or at worst, it is facing accusations of obstruction of justice. i was going to fire comey. donald trump contradicted his white house aides and his vice president, adding to questions as to why the president chose to fire fbi director james comey when he did. no one from the white house. that was a d.o.j. decision. he took the recommendation but the president needs to back off and let the investigation go forwa ....
carried political and potentially legal peril. the strategy, the advisers agreed, should be for donald trump jr. to release a statement to get ahead of the story. they wanted to be truthful, so their account couldn t be repudiated later if the full details emerged. but within hours, at the president s direction, the plan changed. flying home from germany on july 8th aboard air force one, trump personally dictated a statement in which trump jr. said he and the russian lawyer had primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. when they met in june 2016, according to multiple people, with knowledge of the deliberations, the statement, issued to the new york times, as it prepared a story, emphasized that the subject of the meeting was, quote, not a campaign issue at the time. the claims were later shown to be misleading. further down in the washingt wa post story, quote, as special counsel robert mueller investigates potential obstruction as part of his broad ....
the coffin for president trump to fire him. bret: tonight, new questions. did the president hint at comey s firing a month ago? we will see what happens. it s going to be interesting. bret: what happens next in the russia investigation? catastrophically compromise the investigation. the investigation going on in the intelligence committee. bret: we have all of the angles covered. a special edition of special report starts right now. good evening. welcome to washington. i am bret baier. the reality tv star billionaire businessman who made you are fired a catchphrase used it this afternoon and what is turning out to be one of his most controversial moves yet. president trump s dismissal of james comey has rocked washington. democrats tried to link the action to the investigation of a possible connection between the trump campaign and the russians before the elections. demands for a special prosecutor are louder tonight and democrats are jumping to watergate compa ....