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Leaders of the senate judiciary committee, which will hold the confirmation hearing for the new fbi director. but there is not time for such niceties when you're trying to stay ahead of a bad news cycle. joining us now peter winer, senior fellow at the ethics and public policy center. he worked in the last three republican administration, including as senior aide to george w. bush. peter, your reaction to the president's choice of successor to james comey. >> he seems to be a fine person, but it's irrelevant. this is an epic week. and it's not an epic week because mr. wray was appointed but be...

A man of impeccable credentials to be the new director of the fbi. details to follow. and details followed shortly before james comey's written testimony was released today. that's when the white house put out a statement about the nomination of a new fbi director. rushing the announcement this morning on twitter meant that the president of course ignored the protocol of informing the republican and democratic leaders of the senate judiciary committee, which will hold the confirmation hearing for the new fbi director. but there is not time for such niceties when you're trying to stay ahead of ...

Qualities that one associates with donald trump are not just ignorance and epic incompetence, though there is that. but it is that he is a person who seems to thrive on chaos and disruption and disorder. he draws a kind of psychic energy from it. and we've never seen anything quite like this in american political history to have a president do this kind of thing. this has been a race with people in the republican party and in the administration trying to keep a dysfunctional president from becoming a dysfunctional presidency. and they are losing that. and it was inevitable they were going to l...

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