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It and what was the purpose in crafting and releasing such a tweet. it did create a huge mess for the president as a consequence of it. it's not true. it's just not true. he did know it. >> why are you convinced that was a mistake and he did not know about lying to the fbi. why would that be out of the realm of possibilities in your view? as opposed to it being a slip. >> anything is possible and i should be careful in this administration of making definitive statements, but at the time only people that could have possibly known about this where the fbi agents with director comby and sally yat...

There are a number of documents associateded with me that are in the public record and the memorandum i wrote with director comby is in the public record and appointing the special counsel is in the public record and what i issued is in the public record and a written version of the statement that i delivered to -- >> were you aware of the justification for his firing? >> pardon me, senator, i answered many questions in the closed briefings. of the 100 senators. >> but you're not answering this question. >> as i explained in those briefings, senator, i support mr. mccabe on this, we have a spe...

Much -- more envelopes or any kind of context about what his motivation was for writing that memo and only left many of us with more questions about who ordered the firing of donald -- of director comby. >> what are you referring to? >> his explanation that can be found in public and on classified briefing is that this is something that can be left for special counsel mueller to -- to discover, and he would refuse to answer those types of questions. >> he was afraid if he said anything it could undermine mueller's new investigation, is that what he was suggesting? >> that's what he's suggestin...

So many in the public are probably saying why do democrats believe comey now? >> let me tell you what my position has always been, and i've said this, too, to director comby in hearing. i've always said he's a good man. i think he made some bad judgments, and i think a lot of people feel that way, but keep in mind we had an fbi investigation. very have one, that is ongoing, and allegedly the president sits down with mr. comey and talks about job tenure and at the same time talks about loyalty to him and then, of course, we have this whole issue of asking whether he could just drop the investig...

Acting director andy mccabe is a consummate professional with a great represent owtation, and he is backed up by dave bowdich. these are both career agents who have the same integrity and bravery as director comby. >> and president trump's firing letter to comey, he said that comey informed him on three separate occasions that he wasn't under investigation. that seems like an odd thing for an fbi director to tell anybody given that you wouldn't know where the investigation would lead. are you skeptical of that? >> i was not privy to any of those conversations, and i must say that would seem ou...