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researchers stumbling onto the solution studying how tumors form. and that's the end of the story. so i'm not sure. we got to finish that story because i'm curious. brian: james comey out as head of the fbi u firing him. steve: big question why now and what does this say about president trump? here to discuss we have former department of justice officials jay christian adams joining us from our capitol. what's the message today. >> this is a message to institutional washington that this president doesn't fool around. that if you are out of line, no matter how entrenched you are. no matter how beloved you are by "the washington post columnists, he is going to deal with you. that sends a message to the bureaucrats throughout all the agencies that he is here to change the culture and did he it in a big way.
if you want to question the timing of comey's dismissal, the letter from the deputy compounded with the deputy attorney general hand it over to the white house recommend and put out this letter that says he is fired. is he finished. he is throughs, that's fine. what's an enormous leak to say is he covering up something with the russia investigation. if there is something next to the president saying mr. president, i understand you have plenty of reason to fire him. i think you should get rid of him. should we do it on tuesday in the late afternoon or should we wait to get our political ducks in a row and maybe wait for him to come back from the speech? ainsley: how do we know he didn't decide in january he wanted to get rid of him on january 20th so he wanted to wait because he didn't want to fire him immediately so the investigation would be halted. there is no evidence to determine that there was collusion. steve: right, i think the timing, if there is any timing it had to do with the deputy attorney general. when he signed on. keep in mind, is he actually
brian: all right. ainsley. ms-13 is gang made up mostly of illegal immigrants. most of them are here. the gang blamed for a string of murders here in new york suffolk county. now the trump administration is taking aim at them. >> we will prosecute gang members who commit crimes to the fullest extent of the law. >> and after they have been convicted, if they're not here lawfully, they are going to be deported. so i have a message for the gangs that target our young people, we are targeting you. we are coming after you. brian: now just a short time ago our next guest says he knows who to blame for ms-13 rise and points his fingers squarely at president obama. the former president of the united states. joining us right now is to explain is the sheriff of suffolk county demarc co. how did the president play into the -- of this gang. >> he started the unaccompanied minor program. and enhanced the unaccompanied minor program. with good attention but didn't
that is james comey in california, i guess heading to the airport in his automobile. steve: not a white ford broncho it was a black suburban. brian: everyone get out of oj's way and used a car now he was the former director of the fbi. everyone is jumping to conclusions well, he is out because the russia investigation was getting too close. you read the "new york times" and other trump critics. i have think think are two different entire things. nothing was leading towards the collusion towards the russians. in fact, it was going the ore direction. perhaps, that went into the thinking particularly after sally yates and james clapper said there is no there there. it was on a certain track, especially a week after james comey came out and said let me reveal my thinking into why i made the decisions i made in july and october. then the letters come in. and donald trump makes the move. ainsley: the white house is confident he couldn't effectively lead. one week the democrats hated
brian: what do you think about his decision to put in the dismissal letter although you told me three separate occasions i'm not being investigated. what was behind that? why do you think that was mess to put that in there? >> we don't know what was behind it. it was probably a private conversation between comey and trump. and what that does is once again, like i said before, trump doesn't play by the old washington rules. he doesn't play like previous republican presidents. previous democrat presidents. he doesn't go seeking the approval of that guy named wolf on another network or the congressional democrats. when he tweets out crying chuck schumer. it's a totally new ballgame. and institutional bureaucratic washington needs to be put on washington. brian: is that appropriate the nickname? >> look. it's accurate. whether or not it's appropriate i will leave to somebody else. but you know what's fascinating about this. while trump is reorganizing the order in washington, they're using a justification of deeply institutionalist.
>> the president waited until he had his team in place. that team did an analysis. they made the recommendation. steve: well, we start this hour with a fox news alert. donald trump has said you are fired on auto television show but yesterday he said it in a letter ousting the director of the fbi james comey. brian: he made a few calls first to some important people on capitol hill u as it revealed the former director told the president he wasn't under investigation multiple times. how do we know that? that was in the president's letter. ainsley: kevin corke is live from our nation's capitol with details. >> reportedly when he was first told about the dismissal former director comey thought it was a joke. certainly was not a joke. the president made that very clear in his letter to mr. comey. writing among other things that while he appreciated being informed on a number of occasions, three separate occasions, in fact, that he was not under investigation, he nevertheless concurred with
you are out of here for multiple of reason in a formal declaration rather than find out through somebody else. ainsley: that's why people were saying why did this happen? and sarah huckabee sanders she is the deputy white house principle spokesperson. this is what she said the reason was. listen. >> director comey had lost the confidence of the rank and file within the fbi. he had certainly, i think, lost the confidence from members of both sides, republicans and democrats in the house and the senate. and, frankly, most importantly, tucker, he lost the confidence of the american people. the president was presented with a pretty clear and direct and very strong recommendation bay the deputy attorney general who a lot of people probably don't know but the fbi director actually reports to the deputy attorney general. that deputy made the recommendation. the president made a swift and decisive action. and let director comey go. >> you think you are watching oj? you are not.
on both sides you could see legitimate criticism by the way he acts but no one thought he was insincere in how he was acting. ainsley: say that to stephen colbert, brian. the anymore names. brian: you are comparing the president with a bad talk show host? ainsley: a lot of people agree with him. chuck schumer liked him. brian: use a nickname to describe a leader? ainsley: i think it's outrageous. ainsley: you are entitled to that a lot of people agree with you. steve: ultimately, it is the actions of the federal bureau of investigation director. and ultimately the reason he got fired was because he usurped his authority. he did stuff he is not supposed to dos a the fbi director. and we have talked about this. i can't tell you how many people we have had on this couch who have said james comey should get fired. that was over the last year. when you saw the press conference starting in july, he did stuff nobody has ever done because you're not supposed to do it.
gentlemejoe degeneral have a whs on this show yesterday. 8 hours before james comey was fired said he should be fired. he said he was fbi director who acted like the president. meanwhile the montage of the media reaction last night went something like this. >> this is an extraordinary moment in american history. >> you bet it is, wolf. and it's a grotesque abuse of power by the president of the united states. >> a little whiff of fascism tonight is fair to say. >> absolutely. >> a little whiff of i don't care about the law i'm the boss. >> the timing now looks like it is connected to russia no matter what the president says. and this is where it's going to become a political hot potato. >> big question now involves the current fbi investigation into russian meddling and collusion between trump's campaign and russia. this is truly extraordinary. who runs this investigation. brian: the russia investigation was going nowhere.
they absolutely can. the statute of limitations hasn't expired. they can take a fresh look at the evidence. it would be unusual for the president to preside over the prosecution of the person he ran against. but the evidence of her guilt is overwhelming. brian: judge thing whether he can or shouldn't. whether he was popular and did things right. that's the an element of it the other thing did he with the investigation going on. nothing has emerged. the way did he it has republicans yesterday coming out and saying senator bird for example troubled by the special investigation outside prosecutor on the russian investigation. and you have justin amos saying the same thing. when you don't have republicans on the same page politically it doesn't make sense. >> politically it's dangerous especially for people like senator burr for who there is a great deal of respect in the intelligence community and law enforcement community. senator burr is one of the few people in congress that can go into i will use the phrase a