Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170511:16:54:00
Agreed with his decision basically to fire james comey, but what's striking is how they were caught off guard by how big of a bombshell it was and received. they thought it would be simple to sort of push back on democrats who might be critical of this. obviously they had leaflets that they distributed about some of the comments, the criticisms by chuck schumer, the top democrat in the senate, but i think the white house, it's fair to say, was definitely caught off guard by this and notably one piece of information striking to me the following day, the day after the announcement was made durin...