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Be surfacing now after he's been fired. why wasn't he apprising anyone of this, what he had his supporters obviously see as an apparent obstruction of justice by the president. why wasn't he apprising any one of it's in a more timely way? >> bret: the calls on the hill for, if there are tapes, to hear them, see the transcripts. to have comey testify. they are going to increase. we have tried to make to get republicans to come out and talk to us. and there are not republicans willing to go on camera tonight as of yet and we will see if that changes. this story, before we confirm all of it, if i...

Director who was fired but what matters is going on on capitol hill. they call comey before a hearing and he starts to testify, it's an entirely different matter. >> bret: over the past couple days, since the tweet about tapes, the press secretary sean spicer has been asked repeatedly at the white house briefing if there are tapes, can they confirm. there really hasn't been any answer on that front. >> no, i mean, it's completely ambiguous. we don't know if the president was just hurling a hollow threat at the fbi director or maybe he does have some sort of recording, whether it's telephone co...

Affected details of this memo wp within a very tight circle of department of justice and fbi officials. that had to be a very tight circle indeed of andrew mccabe was not included in it. i want to close at one point about dreams comey and one one t about donald trump. james comey was formerly deputy attorney general and the bush-cheney first term. at a certain point, his boss, the attorney general, became ill and allocated his authorities come his powers, to the deputy attorney general, james comey. it became time to reauthorize the terrorist surveillance program, right after 9/11. comey refus...

The fbi. there is a paragraph in the middle of the story that hasn't gotten enough attention he in which he reports that when mr. trump was meeting with james comey in the oval office, he began the discussion by condemning leaks to the media and suggesting that -- i'll quote from the story "that mr. comay should report putting reporters in prison for publishing classified information." at that point, he turned to the issue of flynn. this conversation allegedly came one day after flynn had been fired. it is interesting that he would take comey into his office alone, jeff sessions, his attorney ...

Accurate? and who is going to look at the united states as the pinnacle of virtue and a paragon of western leadership when this kind of damage is hanging over the chief executive. it is in our interests and their interests and his interests to get to the bottom of this. >> bret: why do you think director comey didn't resign? >> i have no idea. i think director comey didn't believe there was any substantial grounds for what he would resign. >> bret: if the president was asking him, as you suggest, this memo says, to stop an investigation, perhaps he would have resigned at that point. >> based o...