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>> questions are being raised, of course, if comey was concerned, why didn't he go to the attorney general? why didn't he resign? tell us what happened, and what you might know about why he handled this the way he did. >> that's a fair question. there's a lot about this that we don't know. if, you know -- the president may have actually committed a crime, some legal experts say, in what he said to mr. comey. did mr. comey then begin investigating it? how did they handle it? we don't really know what happened. all we do know is that comey didn't want the line agents and analysts who were workin...

Of reeling with his dismissal. many of the fbi agents that i have talked to and others here at cnn have talked to don't feel there was a moral problem unlike what the president have said and they don't see where that's coming from. no one was calling for a new fbi director. you know comey had sort of an interesting relationship with a lot of agents. he will call them and write notes and write letters and had a habit of reaching out to the everyday line agents and street agents and he made a point to visit different field offices throughout his time in the fbi. it is how he basically found that...

What kind of power does he have? >> put aside all the legal talk, this thing that's happened last night is the most independent and strongest thing that could have happened. this special counsel is a more independent, subpoena-driven investigation than anything else that was on the table. the talk about a 9/11 style committee would have been much more of a fact-finding thing. you get a report. maybe the public learns things. that's not bad. but this is stronger. so he is now going to be overseeing the same fbi line agents. that doesn't change. but he will make the calls of whether to issue mor...

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