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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170511:23:09:00

tightly held he kept it. he did not let his communication staffers know until right before he announced it and left them scrambling to genld it. that has left the white house in a position where they're telling a number of different stories to try to explain how the president came to this bombshell decision. >> thank you very much. i want to go to our special panel, zeke miller interviewed president trump monday night. got an exclusive tour of the president's residence. laura coats, david goldbergin, chris saliza and jen sake. jeffrey lourd also here, former reagan white house political director. look. the bottom line here is that jeffrey, the president did completely contradict his own team today when he came out and said very clearly, you heard under pressing by lester, again and again he would have fired director comey no matter what. that's totally different than what they've said over the past

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170511:23:24:00

not involved with russia. i have had dealings over the years where i sold a house to a very wealthy russian many years ago. i had the miss universe pageant which i owned for quite a while. i had it in moscow a long time ago. but other than that, i have nothing to do with russia. >> one last question on this matter. did you ever -- >> and i have a certified letter, just so you understand. i'm not just saying that. i've given the letter to senator lindsay graham. he has the left and i think frankly, i assume he's going to give the letter out, but it says i am not involved in russia, no loans, no nothing. >> did you worry at all when you made the decision to fire comey when you did, day before lavrov was here in the white house around the russian ambassador, did you think through the optics and the way this would look? >> i never thought about it. it was set up a while ago, and frankly, i could have waited,

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170511:23:48:00

inexplicable going back to his hurling of these unfounded accusations against president obama claiming that he was illegally wiretapped, charging congress to investigate that claim and now to continue with the firing of the person who was leading that investigation. so i think there's a lot more that we need to find out about just what went into this decision. it wasn't as portrayed plainly earlier in the week. this is something that began with rod rosenstein and continued with the attorney general and the president only acted on the recommendations of these two within the justice department. >> yeah. >> that story has already been debunked by the president himself. >> it has been deputy bunked. here's what the president is saying now about exactly why he fired jim comey or exactly who fired jim comey. here he is. >> monday you met with the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. >> right. >> did you ask for a recommendation?

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170511:19:03:00

investigation? he said, you are not under investigation. >> but he's given sworn testimony that there's an ongoing investigation into the trump campaign and possible collusion with the russian government. you were the centerpiece of the trump campaign. >> well, all i can tell you -- >> was he truthful -- >> i know that i'm not under investigation, me, personally. i'm not talking about campaigns or anything else. i'm not under investigation. >> let's begin there with sara murray. she was in that briefing and had a couple of great questions. sara murray, talk to me about how sarah sanders tried to explain the shifting stories coming out of the white house on why comey was fired? >> brook, we are getting a very different explanation today from the president himself saying that he made this decision, even before he got recommendations from his attorney general and his deputy attorney general. that's not what we were hearing from basically every other white house official from the last two days. sarah huckabee sanders pretty much dismissed this and said the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170511:19:04:00

president ultimately makes the decision. but we know through the excellent reporting of my colleagues evan perez and pam brown that rod roserosenstein w not particularly pleased to have jim comey's firing pinned on him. i asked sarah sanders if that was a mistake. here's what she said. >> was it a mistake to try to pin the firing of james comey on rod rosenstein? >> i don't think there was an attempt to pin the firing of -- i think his recommendation was extremely clear. the president, though, makes the decision, the buck stops with him. nobody's ever tried to say that this wasn't the president's decision, that he wasn't the one that carried it out. and to try to conflate those things, it's just not what took place. >> reporter: now, again, this is just the latest instance, and we've seen it again and again over the last couple of days, of the white house struggling to get their story together on this bombshell decision.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20170510:17:05:00

interim director for the fbi, and that could happen as early as today or tomorrow. that would be a decision taken by those two individuals at the senior leaders of the justice department. now at the same time, they have to search ultimately for the replacement for the fbi director. that is something that would be appointed by president trump and then would need senate confirmation. there is an additional wrinkle here. if it turns out that the individual appointed as interim director for the fbi ends up being the president's choice to lead the bureau, they would then step aside and another interim director would be appointed, so we have a lot of changing of seats here at the bureau, and it is hard to argue against the idea that this will be disruptive to the russia case and other ongoing investigations. >> jenna: in the meantime, we take it step-by-step and continued to follow things as they come, thank you. >> director comey had lost the confidence of the rank and file

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20170510:17:06:00

within the fbi. he certainly, i think, lost the confidence from members of both sides, republicans and democrats in the house and senate. frankly, most importantly, he lost the confidence of the american people. >> jon: we should be hearing from her again in the next 25 minutes or so, deputy white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders, defending the president's decision to fire the director of the fbi. for more on this, let's bring in john bussey,'s associate editor of "the wall street journal" ." i'm guessing you were as surprised as anyone by that news late yesterday. >> i think most people were. the president has a very large clinical agenda to get through congress, tax reform, health care reform. this does, just as you said at the top of the program, it creates a political firestorm. it catapults russia even higher in the headlines. it was always very high, the question of what is there collusion between the trump campaign in russia during the campaign for united states. now it is back in the headlines

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20170510:17:11:00

good. mike emanuel is live on capitol hill with the very latest. >> good afternoon, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is ripping democrats for questioning the judgment of the deputy attorney general who has just confirmed to his post several weeks ago, 94-6, and it was that deputy attorney general who called for an leadership change at the fbi. >> but we have now, mr. president, our democratic colleagues complaining about the removal of an fbi director whom they themselves repeatedly and sharply criticized, that removal being done by a man, rod rosenstein whom they repeatedly and effusively praised. >> it is worth noting that some republicans have questioned the explanation and the timing for comey's removal as fbi director. that includes the chairman of the powerful senate intelligence committee. >> the timing and the reasons for this decision made little sense to me.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20170510:17:26:00

point, and i haven't heard it today, what do you think about the american people being better off with this decision? >> we are probably better off because of this decision but to be clear, everything about this decision from the move to do it to the way it was managed, the timing of it is objectively bad, i totally agree with amy on the way to move forward here is to find a bipartisan way to do so, but we have to be very, very intentional with our words and what we are calling for. i really think it is inappropriate for anyone to be calling for a special prosecutor which we continue to hear appeared we should be calling for a special independent investigative commission, it we need congress to pass the bill authorizing that commission, but a prosecutor comes when someone has been charged with a crime. that has not happened at this point, so legally and procedurally, we need a bipartisan commission to help us move past this firing into look forward into the russian investigation to see and help get the whole situation straight. >> jenna: that is an interesting point as well, let me ask a bit further about this. to date as of right now, we don't have any facts or evidence

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20170510:17:23:00

>> jenna: fox news alert, we are awaiting the white house daily briefing to begin and president trump's firing of the fbi director will be front and center during that. along with any political ramifications to that move including what it means to the fbi investigation of potential ties between the trump campaign and russia. democrats renewing calls for a special prosecutor while some republican lawmakers are defending the president's decision. >> james comey was a good man who made a bad mistake in the way he handled the clinton email scenario, and depending on who you were talking to one day, our democratic friends thought he was a night writing on a white horse, the next day, they thought he was the devil incarnate. >> the timing, of course, is right on the heels of the announcement there was going to be a grand jury to ask questions about the investigation into russia. to me, the timing of that probably was not the best, a little odd in my view in terms of when the white house did it. but i think if you look at what

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