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It's not the function of the director to make such an announcement. the director should have said the fbi had completed its investigation presented its finding to federal prosecutors. the director now defends his decision, and he said this last week, by asserting he believed attorney general loretta lynch had a conflict. but the fbi director is never empowered to supplant federal prosecutors and assume command of the justice department. compounding the air, the director ignored a long-standing principle. we do not hold press conferences to release derogatory information about the subject of a ...

We are also told if this off-camera gaggle happens, we may be able to carry the audio live. we will be able to give you real-time information as opposed to having to relay it. we are still continuing to work our sources, get the nuances. was it any one thing that happened maybe in recent weeks that sealed the deal on this? because the president, i don't want to say the president was ambivalent because clearly had strong feelings but when you took a look at the relationship between the two men in the days after the inauguration and when the president met with the heads of law enforcement at the...

Patently absurd. this is one person. it is the director. the investigation is going forward both at the fbi and in the senate intelligence committee in a bipartisan way. so i don't think there's any link at all. >> bret: this comes, obviously, senator, after the focus of sally yates, then acting attorney general who was fired, testifying about michael flynn and the warning she gave about the national security advisor that he might be compromised or could be blackmailed by the russians. the questions focused on the 18 days it took from that notice to him actually being fired. is that a concern ...

Sharing some text with people inside the bureau. there was no indication at the bureau he believes that director comey was going to be fire this afternoon by the president. he indicated that if comey had a heads up, it would have been telegraphed in some way internally and he would have taken the opportunity to tell the fbi workforce first. but apparently that was not the case. i am struck by this letter that has been released by the white house to director comey and there are several things here that jump out at me. one is that they decision, according to the letter, to fire the fbi director ...

Divisions are within the bureau about director comey sort of polarizing figure. those for and against. we also discussed what the succession might look like with comey effectively fired by the president. he said if it was standard procedure, it would be the deputy director andrew mccabe. andrew mccabe would come to this position, critics would argue, with a lot of baggage. that goes back to 2015 when his wife received $700,000 for a state senate run that she eventually lost, and that money came from virginia democrats and specifically a pac controlled by a longtime clinton ally, terry mcauliff...