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Revelations from tonight's "the new york times" account describes how a white house lawyer dribterately misled president trump about whether he had the authority to fire fbi director james comey. >> according to thooimts, a deputy to the white house council assigned a junior lawyer to research that very question. and the staffer determined that nothing was stopping president trump from removing comey. quoting "the times" here, but mr. dylan who had earlier told mr. trump that he needed cause to fire mr. comey never corrected the record, withholding the conclusions of his research. wow. all rig...

Himself from that extension of investigations, yet he may be participating in the selection of the next fbi director. not a problem in your view? >> well, this is the reality. removing comey is not going to deter the fbi from pursuing its investigation. you want somebody in there that's going to have an effective ability to lead that department. the bureau, though, is a law enforcement agency filled with remarkable agents who want to investigate, whether it's russia, violent crime, drugs, terrorism. that's their role. whoever it is need to -- regardless of who is responsible for selecting need...

Forward with impeachment. you have to have enough people in congress to do it and given the make up of congress these days i don't think it's possible. it's important to point out you don't have to show that the president committed a crime to impeach him. everyone is talking about whether or not this is obstruction. ostruction is a federal law that's very difficult to prove. you have to have certain elements in place before you can someone charge with a federal crime of obstruction but you don't have to charge him with a crime to impeach him. >> so, comey being fired doesn't impede the investi...

Organizations including those two and others it seems obvious as a prima facia level they're trying to cover up the truth of what happened in i instance, more warrantly whimportantly wh trying to cover up by removing comey, donald trump is trying to cover up whatever is at the heart of the russia story. it's still a huge open question what that is does it touch the president or only his associates? does it touch his businesses? does it touch his family? is it personal? is it financial? is it sexual? i don't know. the way they're bebehaving, lie firings, they're behaving like people who have so...

>> i say this is someone who is very constructively critical of president trump during the primary. and i've never been a big fan of james comey but is he ever going to win with the left? i think that's a big question here. first democrats did not like james calmly. they wanted him out to trump now fires him and they're still unhappy. like no matter what the administration does, there's always perpetual outrage and if anyone thought that somehow the president was removing comey as a way to cover his backside, you have andrew mccabe now who stepped up in his place and i wouldn't exactly describ...