investigation. when in fact the investigation is continuing without skipping a beat. so that goes forward. but the fact is it was a highly politicized nature, both the fbi and doj regarding secretary clinton s unauthorized use of a private server were classified government information that was easily assessable by russia, by china, by iran, by north korea. if i may jump in, there s a tweet just now from the president. he tweeted as follow. dchls have been complaining for months and months about director comey. now he has been fired they pretend to be aggrieved, phony, hip krts. but congress woman, telling the truth if hillary clinton were to have won, if she were to have won the presidency and she just fired the fbi director investigating her campaign, how do you think republicans would
evidently just last week had gone into the justice department asking for more resources saying he wanted to push this investigation forward. i think believing the just s department was going to support him and help make that happen, an investigation that would help get to the bottom of the issue of donald trump, the trump campaign and the russians. reporter: did you think this was a coverp? i think there s just no doubt given the typing. the reason comey was fired is that donald trump wants to cut off any investigation into any connections that he has with his campaign and connections to the russians. reporter: the justice department denies that rosenstein actually asked for more that that was asked for more funlds. well, if the justice department wants to deny that, then my view is that the
nixon. 73, my bad. in 1973 richard nixon had his underlings fire archibald cox because cox wanted tapes which would incriminate the president. yeah. at that point it was john dean s word against the president s word and the president knew that he could be incriminated by the tapes and he didn t want the special prosecutor to have them so it was an obstruction of justice. in this instance we don t know enough about where the fbi investigation is leading to know if trump in an awkward clumsy way is trying to obstruction justice. one of the big differences here is that cox was hired to investigate watergate. james comey was hired by president obama to be a very good non-partisan fbi director. there is someone under comey, i m sure, who is running the russia hacking investigation. what we have to watch for now is whether the white house interferes in any way. we know that comey asked for
and got a man named leon jaworski and turned out he put country in front of president, and he was a really tough prosecutor and continued what cox had done so the white house by changing the characters didn t affect the investigation at all. we have to see whom the white house chooses to be the new fbi director. i anticipate a very tough confirmation hearing. a lot will have tough questions, not just from democrats but republicans, too. and even now just listening to manu raju interviewing the two, you know, democratic senators, and they are saying they may, you know, slow things down. things might creep to a halt. they want the special prosecutor but dana bash said, back on planet earth, please, we don t know if that will help in this case. we should be proud of what fbi professionals did in 1922 and 73 and 74. they pushed back against richard nixon s white house. they pushed back against an attack of an fbi director who
up to the appearance apparent execution of a cover up at the level of the president of the united states. i m not saying, again, he has obstructed justice. but he has made clear to members of his own party, to members of the opposition, to members of his staff who will tell you this, he does not want a real investigation into what happened with the russians and this election including what happened between people around him and the russians. if there were an innocent explanation for all of this, one would think that the president of the united states would say let s have a special prosecutor. let s have an independent inquery, let s not fire the director of the fooeb, let s get to the bottom of this. we have seen the opposite from donald trump. meanwhile, back on planet earth, yes i mean carl is talking about a sort of, you know, utopian democracy compared to where we