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Said i accepted their recommendation. >> yeah. >> you had made the decision. >> i was going to fire regardless of recommendation. >> he made a recommendation, he's highly respected. very good guy, very smart very. the democrats like him, the republicans like him. he made a recommendation, but regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. >> mike viquera on capitol hill, you asked the senator about that. what did he have to say? >> reporter: trump impuned the character of james comey. it wasn't just as vice chairman of the senate intelligence committee, but the republican chairman ri...

Respected comey and i was offended at the president's comment. when the president told lester holt that comey was a showboat and a grandstander. andrea, we should add that the report yesterday that the committee asked jim comey to testify behind closed doors on tuesday, jim comey now a private citizen, the concern by both burr and werner to reporters, no response yet by jim comey. of course they woulded have hav to talk about, andrea. >> we're all going to wait to hear from jim comey whether or not he agrees to testify. but we still haven't heard his part of the conversation. >> reporter: that...

Of the day that we can have bipartisanship in supporting. >> i have confidence in richard bird that we with the members of our community are going to get to the bottom of this. if you get nothing else from today, take that statement to the bank. >> take it to the bank. we're going to get to the bottom of this. those are the leaders of the senate intelligence committee and therefore the leaders of the senate intelligence russia investigation. richard burr is the republican chairman, mark werner is the democratic ranking member. they say their project in the senate is totally different than the ...

Obama won the state but mark werner has a challenge this year. i watched him campaign at the planking, a famous old tradition of virginia politics. very republican leaning. many people came up to me afterward why did you vote for that bill? warner's response to them was, i did, but i've outlined several fixes to it. he was pretty adept at pivoting and moving away. he talked to reporters afterwards and we asked him, what are you going to run on from your senate record this year? and he brought up a number of things. his work with the gangs, his efforts to pass, you know, legislation on debt, in...

Together. will senate majority leader harry reid bring that to the floor. senator joe manchin appearing on the show moments ago. >> senator reid understands quite well there needs to be changes. if you can't make the deadlines, you know that the consumer is not willing to accept the product. we're trying to basically change the product. >> is he going to bring it to the floor, though? have you spoken to him. >> we have spoken to him, yes, sir -- yes, ma'am. we have spoken to harry and the leadership, that there needs to be substantial changes. these are good, honest, qualified changes to happe...