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we re going to continue our breaking news live coverage of this. i wanted to amplify for you what andrea was just telling you about the wadirector comey former director comey found out about this, the new york times account of this is just stunning. he was addressing a group of fbi employees in los angeles when the television in the background flashed the news that he had been fired. in response, mr. comey laughed. he said he thought it was a fairly funny prank. and then his staff started securing around in the background, told mr. comey that he should step into a nearby office. mr. comey stopped addressing the group. he proceeded to shake hands with the employees he had been speaking to and he stepped into a side office where he confirmed that he had been fired. at that point, he had not heard from the white house. shortly after that, rachel, after all of that, it s been on television, a letter from the president was delivered to the fbi s headquarters just 7 blocks from ....
that he basically hadn t read the whole interview and the reporter said no, i did include that stuff. but that is by far not the most important part of what we heard from the two of them. it is striking the reversal that we saw from the president on every front except for immigration. reporter: that s right. i think a lot of people are referring to this as damage control. i m not sure if that is what it is, but i do certainly have whiplash because just 24 hours ago, this interview was coming out last night about 12 hours ago and this president blasting theresa may on her own turf in his own words, in an audio recording that you can hear the president make these remarks himself. and he is saying that it is not true, he did not criticize her when in fact we all realize that he did, saying she didn t take his advice for leaving the european union for brexit. and saying that one of her greatest political rivals boris johnson would be good at her job. now, the president was ask ....
whatwe that means, it s to use e power of the office to obtain an improper personal benefit while ignoring orfi injuring the national interest, or acts in ways that are grossly inconsistent with and undermine the separation of powers that is the foundation of our democratic system. now, this question of whether the president engaged in abuse of power came up before when this congress considered the impeachment of president nixon. and president nixon famously said, if the president does it, it is notde illegal. and this body rejected that because that s not so. that goes directly contrary to what the founders said. but president trump has said the same thing in responding to the prior investigation by the department of justice and defending his conduct. here s what he said. i have an article 2 where i have the right to do whatever i want as president. that he has the right to do whatever he wants as president. that is as wrong as when president nixon said a similar thing. t ....
president zelensky decided that they were not going to issue thatt statement that rudy giuliani wanted to include burisma in the 2016 elections, there was no white house meeting. it soon became clear to them that the security assistance was also at risk. and that took on a renewed importance for them. well, following the 25th call, the t july 25th call, ambassador sondland and volker worked closely with mr. giuliani and the ukrainians to help draft a statement that the president could make, president zelensky. wasn t that right? yes. and the report said they worked closely and there were also phone calls with the white house around the same time that they werear working closely. do you know what that statement was supposed tou say according to mr. giuliani and the u.s. officials? well, the key difference is that it had to include that ukraine would do the investigations of burisma which equalled theic biden investigatn in the 2016 ukraine interference. but was there ....
usaa. what you re made of we re made for tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. after president trump takes aim at the head of the cdc, dr. robert redfield, and what he said about a potential vaccine and timeline, the nation s top doctors tonight come to dr. redfield s defense. and what dr. anthony fauci is saying about when millions of americans will likely get a vaccine. the president offering his own timeline, much closer to the election. and all of this as the u.s. now nears 200,000 american lives lost. tonight here, a reality check. abc news reaching out to the leaders, the scientists leading more than a half dozen vaccine trials. so, what do they say about when there could be a vaccine and when americans could get it? also, the new obstacles for schools. new york city schools and the setback. and the pastor who told members of his own congregation they didn t have to wear masks now reportedly in the icu, battling the virus. the remnants of hurri ....