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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 inte...

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 ...

Has been said over the course of the past several months, there is plenty of support, bipartisan support for what the president did. >> if i had a hearing about why he should be fired, comey, the first witness i would call would be sheer mercy can tell me why he thought he would be fired, should be fired. there are 20 democrats at different times that called for mr. comey to step down as fbi director. this is what gives hypocrisy a bad name. >> jenna: let's bring in our panel, democratic strategist don calloway and rasmussen report political analyst amy holmes, great to have you. there's a lot...

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 effusive...

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 a...