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As the douglas factors, and one of the factors to me stands out. what was the harm to the fbi's reputation? here, the harm, i think, is incalculable. a senior executive who certainly should know better, wrapped within an adulterous affair. none of this is good for the fbi. writ large, for retired folks like me. i think that harm, i think, gave the deputy director plenty of latitude to say, termination. >> and gave president trump fodder on a daily basis. he tweeted about him, the fact that he had delegitimized the fbi. >> to that extent, the president's tweets are accurate in the minds of many...

Held to a higher standard. that's all there is to it. we were expected to operate above and beyond the call of duty. integrity was an integral, central part of our role, of our service to the united states government. i agree with chris wray and the assistant director's decision. >> following up, the president tweeted about ten times just in recent days on this topic, including about the attorney-general. they were all in on it. clear hillary clinton framed donald trump for things he didn't do. on "fox and friends," if we had a real attorney gener-general, witch hunt never would have started. ...

Michael cohen. according to new reporting they were conducted by the fbi public construction unit. searching rooms where michael cohen was staying as well as his office. and his home as well. the warrants stem from a matter referred by the russia special counsel and overseen by a trump attorney and connected to the stormy daniels case. her attorney michael avenatti joins us now. just from your unique vantage point what do you make of what went down today? >> anderson, this is a very, very serious matter, needless to say. and as i predicted last week, it appears that the noose is tightening aro...

Wrong. nobody broke into michael cohen's office and nobody, not even the president is above the law. a dozen fbi agents armed with search warrants legally seized documents from cohen's office. his hotel room. a source telling cnn those documents are related to stormy daniels. another source telling cnn the search warrant was very broad and included bank records for president trump to use this as an attack on him and the country. also telling cnn that the cohen raid sent the president over the edge because his attorney is like a surrogate family member. >> it's a disgrace. it's a real disgrace....

If rosenstein resigned rather than do it, the next person in line, the associate attorney general, that person would then have to decide whether to do it. that is the pattern that went on in the saturday night massacre when richard nixon fired archibald cox. you had the attorney general elliott richardson refused to do it. you had the deputy attorney general refused to do it, and finally robert bork, the solicitor general, did it. basically, the president would have to work his way through the hierarchy in the justice department until he found someone to do it but he couldn't do it directly hi...