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Were going to continue our breaking news live coverage of this. I wanted to amplify for you what andrea was just telling you about the Wadirector Comey former Director Comey found out about this, the New York Times account of this is just stunning. He was addressing a group of fbi employees in los angeles when the television in the background flashed the news that he had been fired. In response, mr. Comey laughed. He said he thought it was a fairly funny prank. And then his staff started securing around in the background, told mr. Comey that he should step into a nearby office. Mr. Comey stopp...

Was apparently pressing the attorney general on behalf of the president, as well, in this resignation was wanted over here at the white house. and so obviously the president now is getting what he wants. he's getting rid of jeff sessions, who had recused himself on the russia investigation. keep in mind, rod rosenstein, deputy attorney general, he was overseeing the russia investigation, because jeff sessions had recused himself. now that is no longer needed, matt whitaker is free to oversee this investigation in terms of how the justice department and the white house, how they both view it at...

Actual story is. the factual bases just does not merit special counsel, a. and an excellent point you just made, which i had almost forgotten about, the mercer-backed clinton fact book, the people who fund breitbart and bannon paid for this book. that was investigated by the fbi already. they have already been through that. >> yeah, been there, done that. doj and fbi career professionals said it's not there. >> do you trust -- there was a lot of interpretation yesterday about that sessions letter. at first i think people thought fox news ran with a headline that department of justice doesn't r...

Forgotten about, the mercer-backed clinton fact book, the people who fund breitbart and bannan paid for this book. that was investigated by the fbi already. they have already been through that. >> yeah, been there, done that. doj and fbi career professionals said it's not there. >> do you trust -- there was a lot of interpretation yesterday about that sessions letter. at first i think people thought fox news ran with a headline that department of justice doesn't rule out special prosecutor as if, well, it's just around the corner. i read the letter and others read the letter as sessions essent...

And then they also published the you're fired letter from president trump to james comey telling him he was out of a job. for the first 24 hours or so after they fired the fbi director, the rosenstein memo and the sessions letter created -- i think it's fair to call it a pretext for the white house to argue that comey wasn't being fired because he was overseeing the russia investigation. comey was being fired because of how he handled his public disclosures around the hillary clinton e-mail investigation right before the election during the campaign. that was the pretext they created for why c...