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Plus, under investigation we cantinnuendo. Where do the probes go from here . Our job is to be responsible, sober and focus only gatherering the facts. And what is next in a dizzying nine days of nonstop news . Watergate took nine months. This thing seems to be taking hours. This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good evening. Im katy tur in new york in for chuck todd. Welcome to mtp daily. It is 5 00 on the east coast which in recent days has been the hour for choice breaking news. Bomb shells, if you will. When did the fbi director james comey get fired . In the 5 00 hour. The Washington Post dropped its bombshell about the white house sharing classified information on monday. And yesterday during this hour the New York Times dropped its bombshell story. Needless to say, you might want to stick around. We begin with crime and punishment definitely the president try on ....
While i dont think precious the with us National Affairs analyst for nbc news, John Heilemann, professor at the university of Michigan School of public policy, former democratic congressman harold ford jr. Former fbi session agent and msnn msnncc, a lot of Different Things going on. Well, a lot of Different Things going on today, but you go back and you look at what the president did last night. It want a dang who is are prp but it was just so unbelievably inappropriate for the president here, what, nine months after he was elected to be going and showing all of his insecurities to a group of boy scouts. And bragging its rock replaying a game that he won six, nine, ten months ago. He talked about loyalty ....
Thought its contents were too problematic. This memo is said to have preceded the justification drafted by Deputy Attorney general rosenstein that donald trump cited in the letter dismissing comey. The white house used that justification immediately after comeys dismissal to explain the president s action. But trump cast a cloud over what his motives were when he made these remarks to lester holt back in may. 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 said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story, its an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election. The Washington Post also reporting today that trump has been feeling uneasy at the white house lately. Lashing out at allies and cabinet members. Trump reportedly at odds with h ....
Its been nearly a week since allegations against rob porter by two exwives, allegations he has denied and the administration has struggled to present a clear response to the allegations. When the initial story came out, the white house praises rob porter, wednesday morning photos come out, wednesday afternoon the white house continues to praise rob porter, chief of staff john kelly said he acted within 40 minutes of knowing the allegations. Can you explain that . As i said, and im going to repeat what i said earlier, that we learned of the situation involving rob porter last tuesday evening and within 24 hours his resignation has been accepted and announced. We announced a transition was going to happen, and within hours it did. I can tell you that a conversation took place within 40 minutes and beyond that i dont have anything else to underscore the question you saw there from that Washington Post reporter, here is white house c ....
More fisa applications on on behalf of the doj. Is this a big nothing burger . George papadopouloss information triggered the opening of an fbi counterintelligence investigation in july 2016 by fbi agent peter strzok. Hes also a favorite target of republicans because of his Text Messages with fbi attorney lisa page showing bias against trump. But we should also note that strzok also favored opening the clinton investigation. Democrats allege the memo compiled by republicans cherry picks information. Former fbi director james comey weighed in on the memos release a minute ago tweeting, thats it . Dishonest and misleading memo where he could the House Intel Committee, destroyed trust with the Intelligence Community, damaged relationship with fisa court and inexcuse bly exposed classified information of an ame ....