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They were calling for his resignation and calling for his firing, including schumer. including nancy pelosi. until i fired him. and once i fired him, everybody said, oh, why didn't you fire h h him? >> congressman, did he have a point? democrats including you were calling for comey to resign saying that he was not doing the job correctly as far as the investigation of hillary clinton and other things. >> he does in terms of fact that senator harry reid and i both called for his resignation in late october when he reopened the investigation into public and i thought it caused the defeat of hill...

>> it is not going to be open until we have a wall, whatever we want. >> democrats he says are not truly against the border wall, they supported physical barriers -- >> as soon as i said i want to build a wall they were all against it. it is like take another example. take comey. everybody hated comey, they thought he did a horrible job. democrats hated him. they were calling for his resignation, his firing, including schumer, including nancy pelosi. until i fired him. once i fired him everybody said why did you fire him? >> reporter: hundreds of thousands of federal workers impacted by the sh...

Of witch hunt, you would say it's money wasted. >> the president, unprompted, in speaking with reporters after his call to the troops, brought up james comey. listen to this. >> everybody hated comey. they thought he did a horrible job. the democrats hated him. they were calling for his resignation. they were calling for his firing, including schumer. including nancy pelosi. until i fired him. and once i fired him, everybody said, oh, why did you fire him, why did you fire him. >> he's trying to prove a larger point but i wonder what it means, if it means anything, that the president, unprompt...

As soon as i said i want to build a wall, they were all against it. it's like, take another example. take comey. everybody hated comey, they thought he did a horrible job. the democrats hated him. they were calling for his resignation. they were calling for his firing, including schumer, including nancy pelosi, until i fired him. and once i fired him, everybody said, oh, why did you fire him, why did you fire him? take a look at some of these people. this is what we're doing now. take a look at some of these people. literally the day before i fired him they were saying he should be fired. as s...

An mexican official familiar with the issue responded by saying, mexico will not pay for it, no matter how you spin it. multiple times the president said he would proudly shut down the government over this, and not blame anyone else, including schumer. >> i will take the mantle. i will be the one who shut it down. i won't blame you for it. the last time you shut it down, and i'm going to shut it down for border security. >> but we believe you shouldn't shut it down. >> joining mess david gergen and david axelrod. david gergen, you worked for a lot of different presidents, have you ever seen th...