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Rosenstein. >> by accepting the recommendation of the deputy attorney general to remove director comey as the head of the fbi, because of the actions that the deputy attorney general outlined to the president. the president made the right decision at the right time. >> there was a lot of that. another point generating questions tonight from this interview today. did the president cross a line when he called james comey to ask if he was personally under investigation as he said he did. and the reason we know the president did this, is he admitted it on video. >> when you're under investigation,...

The jurisdictional statement to that person and say here's what i'm asking you to investigate. these people or these things. and that's how it would work. >> they'd have subpoena power and all those broad powers? >> that person would have all the power that the united states attorney or any other senior justice official would have to conduct those investigations. the there's a third one that's not actually written in the regulations. it's the one ironically that jim comey himself used when he was the deputy attorney general to appoint pat fitzgerald to investigate the scooter libby events in 2...

Decided comey was a goner. the president maids the admission in an interview with lester holt. it drove the news cycle today and continues tonight. here now are the salient portions of that conversation. >> monday, you met with the deputy attorney general rose steen. >> yes. >> did you ask? >> i was going to fire comey. my decision. >> you had made the decision before they came in. >> i was going to fire comey. he made a recommendation. regardless of recommendation i was going to fire comey, knowing there was no good time to do it. and in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i...

This "in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, i know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story" and a reminder tonight of the lengths the administration went to to push a false narrative that a deputy attorney general citing clinton's e-mails recommended to the e-mails that comey had to go and so the president acted upon its. >> i think the president was p given a recommendation by the deputy attorney general who the fbi director reports to. >> i would point them to the three letters that were received today, a letter by president donald trump, the le...

Three-page justice department memo from two days back saying that comey was fired as head of the fbi because he'd been mean to hillary clinton, that was never really the reason. the president said today he was going to fire him regardless. but we digress. this was an eventful day. 112 of the trump presidency. we've learned that the administration's full-court press this week from sean spicer briefing in the dark between two bushes on the white house lawn to the vice president on capitol hill, the full-court press to say that comey was fired because of miss handling the clinton e-mails, that wa...