Page 46 - May 8th News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Publicly about what he said. it's a private meeting. but he did release some of the statements he gave which he defend defended himself. he also made clear what the white house initially told you and not true. my memorandum is not a statement of reasons to justify a for cause termination. my memorandum and not a sur -- it is a candid internal memorandum about the fbi director's public statements concerning a high profile criminal investigation. he went on to say i wrote it, i believe it, i stand by it. the white house used that as its initial -- this is essentially the entire justification. th...

There's no good time to do it by the way. >> because in your letter you said i accepted their recommendation. >> well -- >> you had already made the decision. >> i was going to fire regardless of recommendation. >> all right. this is what the deputy attorney general said in remarks to the house and the senate and i'm quoting him now, rod rosenstein, on may 8th i learned that president trump intended to remove director comey and sought my advice and input. notwithstanding my personal affection for director comey, i thought it was appropriate to seek a new leader. i wrote a brief memorandum to t...

And justly. >> did he say how he knew that he was going to fire him before the memo? >> he didn't say that. other than that may 8th he learned. >> does this take a back seat to -- >> there is counterintelligence investigations which go beyond any violation of law or any commission of a crime and those are critical investigations and i trust they will meet their responsibility. i think there's more to be done. i think there should be a bipartisan and independent commission that asks a fundamental question, what are we going to do the next time putin decides to come after us on an election. >> t...

Months. i think there will be a lot of smoke and no fire. >> gloria, david has a point. james comey did mess up in that hearing a few wednesdays ago. >> he did. >> he said things that he had to go back and correct the record, things that were not accurate about huma abedin and the hillary clinton investigation. >> right. and the president said he was unpopular and had poor performance on wednesday. i think we ought to look at the criminology here, because you had senators coming out of that -- rosenstein closed-door meeting today where the deputy attorney general said he knew on may 8th that t...

Controversial memos. >> reporter: questions about that that you referenced really seem to dominate much of the discussion in that private closed door meeting today. according to many senators who left the meeting, rosenstein said today that he could not talk specifically about why president trump wanted comey fired because and this is rosenstein's explanation, because it's part of bob mueller's investigation and senators said he wanted to give mueller wide latitude here and we are learning a little bit more about the time line here according to multiple democratic senators leaving that briefin...