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People in -- who are echoing what jason is saying, trying to make it sound as if the mtd himself is an innocent bystander in this firing, that actually he just accepted what sessions and rosenstein said when in fact this would not have happened had the president not wanted it to happen. so it was a decision i believe was in search of a rational. >> let me ask you. when you see the letter from the president of the united states to drosh comey, you are hereby removed from office effective immediately -- this is not the way these things are usually done. usually they say i accept your resignation...

Plus to see president trump write that letter to include in the letter that director comey had told him on three separate occasions that he was not tied to the russia investigation was bizarre at the very least. but there is with one big winner in this, erin. i think we need to look at it right now. the winner is vladimir putin. you know they're laughing -- >> oh, come on. >> -- in russia they are looking at us right now and saying look it, what we did by affecting the election, by to youing with their election continues to have dominoes drop. and that is true. there's no argument about that. ...

When you read that your jaw does have to drop. the first reason they're putting out is hillary clinton's e-mails and -- and he was mistaken. le. >> i know. >> the president of the united states praised comey for making that decision. >> comey -- look, it's no doubt that he has soured on comey since he's been office, the reason is clearly because of the russia investigation which he calls a hoax, right? he could have fired him on january 20th if he had wanted to. there was no reason he -- i mean, if he felt this way. and i also have no doubt that rod rosenstein bloefs what he wrote, because the...

Answer. some of the people i have talked to obviously are senior officials at fbi headquarters and they even had a mixed set of feelings about whether he had caused the fbi to become too much in the spotlight politically, starting with the july 5th press conference, the series of hearings that he testified in, where he was extremely critical all summer and fall of hillary clinton and the idea that it was politicized even back then, before the letter. most people thought the letter was justified, that they were going to reopen and get search warrants, that they had to notify. but i can't imagin...

That aggravates this president more than anything at all. as you were reading in that shortlered e letter there, it's just about five paragraphs longs, by the president saying he was essentially vindicated by this russian investigation, saying he was not a target of this investigation, he is trying to sort of essentially set the record straight or close the books on this, erin, but that is something that will definitely not happen. the books on this will remain wide open, regardless of who has the fbi. this is going to keep this story alive, if nothing else, for some sometime to come. interest...