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Ashcroft in 2004 when the bush white house at the time wanted to extend the warrantless surveillance program. comey refused to sint legal authorization even though as deputy he was acting as attorney general at the time. the attorney general was incapacitated. he stood up to powerful forces before. and i think that's fundamentally what scared the white house. they said we cannot control this guy. if he comes after us, there is very little question do about it. >> but he scared them more in the job than out of the job. >> well thashgsz true. after being criticized by the trump white house, he e...

Coming up right after a short break. but what we're watching here at headquarters today are some top headlines. president trump wants to name quickly a new fbi director. so far eight are being considered including acting fbi director, andrew mccabe. lindsey graham told chuck todd that the president should someone within the fbi agency. >> he has a duty, an obligation to pick somebody beyond reproach, outside the political lane. >> in france, a transfer of power as emmanuel macron was sworn in this morning, vowing to heal the divisions in the country. the inauguration comes one week after his d...

He had been over the day before he sent that letter. he had been over at the white house. w. jeff sessions meeting with the president. how comey and ld that case is under investigation about it inspector general. rod rosenstein is supposed to be an institutionalist who this h. been there as a career prosecutor who would stand up for the department's independents and the integrity of the investigations. he just didn't. he caved to the president and gave the president the cover he needed to fire jim comey by the president's own words because of the investigation into the russia matter. >> it's s...

Investigation by mr. horowicz, rosenstein tipped his hand, "the timing of this decision is questionable. they, trump administration officials had, the opportunity to hang their decision on the back of the ig investigation. why they didn't only raises questions about their motives." that is usually a polite phrase for lying. and that is from a former assistant director of the fbi saying that trump administration had other motives for firing comey, not in rosenstein's letter. and trump's now admit thachltd chuck schumer racing the same basic problem. >> why didn't the president wait for the insp...

Than any one administration. that ensures they stay above politics. it is normal for the justice department to recommend the firing of an fbi director in the middle of an internal inquiry into the director? no. rod rosenstein sent that famous letter recommending his dismissal but note the blatant breech of protocol that doesn't admit that a doj inquiry into the clinton case was still open. you might have forgotten. inspector general michael horowicz announced a review of how he handled the communications about the clinton case. that review remains open today. it could find comey acted improper...