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Understand something very important. this administration does not play by the same rules and that s, i think, what this firing shows. ainsley: why couldn t the president have fired him without rod rosenstein though. why was it important to have him in place that. would have been a bad idea. you have needed somebody in place who was senate confirmed. the senate confirmed pinner makes all the difference. ainsley: got it? this is part of the effort to delegit might trump. russia costing the election. comey costing miller the election. now it s wisconsin voter i.d. always excuse for bad candidates. steve: j. christian before you go. i know a lot of the republicans are celebrating that they fired comey. what about democrats? do they have reason to be happy that comey is out. well, this have been calling for him to be fired for so long it shows that you hypocrisy is not in short supply in washington. now that the democrats are outraged, they finally got what they wanted with comey s fi ....
a lot of people think he shouldn t have been reuped on the transition. he passed that hurdle when president trump said okay, you can stake around james comey. ainsley: the democrats asked for this. they demanded it at one point. then they get and it now they don t want it just because many people are saying the president wants it. and they are going against every single thing that he wants. steve: the president has a brand new nickname for schumer now. take a look at the tweet from last night. crien chuck stated recently i do not have confidence in him, james comey, and act so indigny napolitano. #drain the swamp. brian: not time for nicknames. if you want to write schumer being disingenuous. when you do the nicknames, it diminishes the impact of the moment. and i think diminishes james comey s career. whatever you think about him. he left a huge high paying job to spend the next 10 years as fbi director. ....
Ainsley: suck it up buttercup? brian: i want you to hear from senator susan collins. she got the call too last night. here is what she said. the president did not fire the entire fbi. he fired the director of the fbi. and any suggestion that this is somehow going to stop the fbi investigation of the attempt by the russians to influence the elections last fall is really patently absurd. brian: that hasn t stopped it do you agree? listen to susan collins. she has got a lot of common sense. she looks at things independently and she is 1,000% correct in what she said. she can speak for me on that point. ainsley: all right. senator grassley. thank you for joining us. goofed to see you. thanks. bye. steve: let s hand it over to abby who has headlines for us. ash an i do want to bring you headlines. this is a twist. congresswoman maxine waters ....
Did you wish he did it when he took the job in november, officially came on board in january? i think you have to give a business person who has never been in politics, never been a general, never been in government, even though you are outstanding businessman, it takes a while to get used to what the presidency even if you were a senator going into the presidency, there would be a lot to learn, but there is a lot more to learn for a businessman becoming president president of the united states. give the president a little bit of leeway. not being in government. steve: senator, let me ask you this, i don t know if you have watched any of the televisions or read the papers, they were saying the firing was nixonian, as echos of watergate with the saturday night massacre stuff like that. for the people writing those headlines what is your message to them? my message to them is suck it up and move it on. ....
What do you make of the law enforcement firing yesterday james comey as head of the fbi? well, i was a police chief for 20 years in two different jurisdictions. the truth is that these jobs are you serving at the pleasure of the mayor in most cases or the president in the case of the phis of the fbi dir. i know there is a 10-year term associated with this. you go to work every day knowing that you might have to step down. that you might have to rethink your position if you lose the support of the people who are duly elected. and the fbi is in the executive branch and these things happen. james comey is a great guy but the truth is we serve day-to-day as police chiefs. steve: so as things go, is this a big deal or not a big deal? well, it s certainly a big deal. the fbi director has a 10-year term and that has been interrupted. so, the president needs to discuss why he did that but in the final analysis. it s the president s call. steve: sure, absolutely. i have got to ask you abo ....