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A constitutional crisis. >> is this not a little bit overblown? >> some of the people you have our reporters are some of the people you have ever partisan senators, folks like that. i'm not going to hold us to account for the people we put on the air saved by what other people put on the air. some of that, the whiff of fascism totally overblown. on the other hand, i do take exception to the idea that this is hysteria. some cases i shake my head and think it's over the top. yes. the fact that we are continuing to talk about it a week later. the first time in history that a president has fired a...

Not adhering to the law in the way he might, if another person was being pursued by the fbi. >> such a great point. something that is not part of the requisite for proof. again, an example of them overstepping. more questions for you, catherine. we will begin with juan. >> i was thinking about the history here and remembering that bill clinton had fired bill sessions back in 1993. there were some ethical questions. that's the sole case we have of a president firing in fbi director. but that you have the case of bob mueller during the george w. bush years, he threatened to quit unless the secre...

>> such a great point. something that is not part of the requisite for proof. t again, an example of them overstepping. more questions for you, catherine. we will begin with juan. >> i was thinking about the history here and remembering that bill clinton had fired bill sessions back in 1993. there were some ethical questions. that's the sole case we have of a president firing in fbire director. but that you have the case of bob mueller during the george w. bush years, he threatened to quit unless the secret surveillance program was stopped. as you recall, the white house backed down at that mo...

Pete williams has more. >> reporter: chris, this is the first time that an fbi director has been fired by a president sans h since 1993. that was the only other time when president clinton fired bill sessions over some allegations of impropriety in the way sessions was accused of using bureau money to make improvements at his house. but never before has a president fired an fbi director over something this big. the letter you cite from the president is important because the president is basically saying, i'm not firing him because he's investigating me. and we've never heard any indication tha...

Clinton gets elected after this, would she clean house? replace him or others or would he beat her to the punch? >> i don't think there is any way hillary clinton politically could fire him. now she would have the legal right as president. keep in mind her husband bill clinton did fire the head of the fbi when he was president, he fired bill sessions and named louis freeh to replace him. as it turned out, bill clinton wound up having a very frosty, even poisonous relationship with louis freeh so this kind of relationship between the ps and the fbi director is not unprecedented but i think clea...