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Director james comey. it was a controversial choice, but kushner's attorney confirms he supported it. >> he wasn't the one who drafted it or conceived of the concept. but it did come about, he definitely supported it. >> the firing led to the appointment of robert mueller as special counsel in part to investigate whether trump and his aides including jared kushner had tried to obstruct justice. >> how instrumental he was in that decision was something investigators were interested in looking at. but that is the gold standard example of how jared has terrible political judgment. >> bannon used ...

It was a controversial choice, but kushner's attorney confirms he supported it. >> he wasn't the one who drafted it and conceived of the concept but when he did become involved, he definitely supported it. >> the firing led to the appointment of robert mueller as special counsel. in part to investigate whether trump and his aides including jared kushner had tried to obstruct justice. >> how instrumental he was in that decision is something that investors are interested in and looking at. that is the gold standard example of how jared has terrible political judgment. >> bannon used the comey de...

Comey, he is the former fbi director. he was the first one to inform then president elect trump of the dossier, of the many claims going on around him. and of course trump fired comey. eventually that firing led to the naming of a special counsel to take over the russia investigation. comey's former deputy, the deputy director of the fbi, andrew mccabe, he wrote a memo after comey's firing. he was documenting an apparent meeting he had with his boss, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, and in that meeting, rod rosenstein apparently recounted a conversation where president trump wanted him ...

Comey on this today. >> we did, and he's saying very different than president trump. comey is saying that the house intelligence committee itself is a wreck and their latest report a political document. >> look at what's happened. look at how these politicians have fallen for this junk, russian collusion, give me a break. i will tell you, the only collusion is the democrats colluded with the russians -- >> that is not my understanding of what the facts were before i left the fbi and i think the most important piece of work is the one the special counsel is doing now. this strikes me as a polit...

Comey's decision to announce, again that that were looking into someemails involving secretary clinton. he said because i was making decisions in an environment where hillary clinton was sure to be the next president, my concern about making her an illegitimate president had greater weight of than it would have if it appeared closer. >> what impacted could this have on his believable? >> especially when the protocol had been not to intervene that closing to an election. this is something that really continues to rattle democrats. and what's interesting about the trump presidency, is it tends t...