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hearts we weren t going to kill them. that was training. that kind of training helped prepare them for the treatment that they got. john mccain was tortured. what they did to him in the hanoi hilton and other prisoner of war sites in north vietnam was torture. we ve never done that kind of thing. never condoned it. some of our allies may have done it but we department. the bottom line is, when congress made these things illegal, they re going to stay illegal until congress changes it. neil: when i hear the president said as he did today in this press conference and that he would defer i hope i have the right wording there to his defense secretary, what did you make of that? well, i make of it donald trump became famous for saying year you re fired. if he doesn t like that the secretary of defense won t do it i know these mean well. i know jim mattis very well. he was not going to issue that kind of order and he has the authority to issue though orders. he s no ....
be in the top five things that he accomplishes. an abc news poll, washington post also part of the poll, showing the president has just 42% approval overall, and an nbc news and wall street journal showing he has just 40%. but look at this. only 2% of the americans who voted for president trump say they regret it. his voters are still with him. nina, is that a bad sign for democrats if they aren t making mor more inroads and even what you listed doesn t seem to be intacting them very much. well, his team he can t continue to fworch with just the people who voted for him. he is the president of the united states and the president of all people, so that is a snapshot. what this means though, we shouldn t be playing politics either way with the needs of the american people. they want leadership and they want people to do things that really are in their best interests. so this is not sustainable just because his team, the people on his team support him. he has the worst appr ....
that s all the time we have left this evening. please stay with the fox news channel for all night, continuing coverage of this breaking news. the president firing the fbi director james comey, bret baier is next. we will see you back here. an important show tomorrow. bret: a massive political shock wave hits washington. i was flabbergasted, to say the least. the president did not fire the entire fbi. he fired the director. speak with the goal was to act on recommendation of the deputy attorney general and the attorney general. the administration has to answer the question why now? bret: president trump writing the letter that he believes comey cannot lead the fbi. essentially puts the nail in the coffin for president trump to fire him. bret: tonight, new questions. did the president hint at comey s firing a month ago? we will see what happens. it s going to be interesting. bret: what happens next in the russia investigation? catastrophically compromise the ....
special counsel? eventually can he fire everyone? i mean, it s going to be fascinating tomorrow. we re going to hear every one of those questions. what we don t know is how many answers we re going to hear. yeah. that we re not sure of. yeah. this question of executive privilege and what they re going the call executive privilege and such a i mean that s a difficult legal theory anyway. that s not a cut and dried thing even in the best of circumstances, i think we re going to get into appeals court territory pretty quickly tomorrow. and i have a feeling that jeff sessions isn t going to rely on the feelings pleading that we heard last week from dan coats and the director of nsa. it is my feeling that i shouldn t talk about this. i have discomfort. yeah. yes. i have a gavel. we will seattle. thank you, rachel. thanks. when president nixon fired the special prosecutor investigating him, he did it on a friday night and shocked headline writers who immediat ....
house this past week, but now the ranking member of the house intelligence committee is speaking out. talked with cnn today. where does their investigation go now? well, one of the big things that both the house and senate intel committees are trying to weigh is just how valuable michael flynn, the former national security adviser s testimony will be. of course, the big bombshell at the end of the week is that flynn said he is willing to testify if he is granted immunity for that testimony. he s offered this up to both of those committees. he has offered it up to fbi and the justice department, but it seems as though the committees in the congress are a little skeptical that there will be any real value in flynn s testimony, at least to the point where they would be willing to take that immunity. this is what adam schiff, that ranking member on the house intel committee, had to stay about it this morning on state of the union. we don t want to do anything that will interfe ....