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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 ....