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Department was really understaffed for a long time. it took a a while for the attorney general to be confirmed and his deputy was just confirmed a week or so ago. it was the deputy who had been the career prosecutor who had been designated to do the analysis of the fbi director's actions and came up with the recommendation. >> bret: when you hear democrats, and growing number of democrats saying this sounds and feels nixonian, what do you say? >> he did not fire the entire fbi. he fired the director of the fbi in any suggestion this is somehow to stop the fbi's investigation of the attempt by ...

Accusations on anything or anybody, including our president. with that being said, this does not impede our investigation for what conversation he has had, fbi director with the president or his legal counsel, i do not know. we are just going about getting this information, the same as we well from sally yates. both of them are no longer employed under this president in the federal government. we will see where this investigation takes after we have always had the intelligence committee in the senate will follow the intel. the intel will give us the facts. we have to move on that and make deci...

Firing of james comey. >> bret: catherine, thank you. just encase people think washington is not doing anything, the senate did confirm a new fda director. food and drug administration. the vote was 57-42. he has pledged to move drug approval quickly. washington is overtaken by this news that president trump has fired the fbi director james comey, saying that it was his actions in the lead up to the election and the hillary clinton email investigation that caused to this decision tonight, pointing to letters from the deputy attorney general and the attorney general jeff sessions. we are waitin...

Essentially put the nail in the coffin for president trump to fire him. the letters point to language he used before the senate judiciary committee that he had a choice last summer due to either the public about the evidence he had or conceal it, referring to hillary clinton's alleged mishandling of classified information. the letters said conceal is a loaded word and it's not a word the fbi director should responsibly use. also indicates the fbi director in the opinion of not only this attorney general but former attorneys general in the clinton administration and bush administration also bel...

James, caused was recommendingt charges when it was a decision that had to rest with the justice department and loretta lynch. he colored outside the lines. he brought disrepute to the bureau, and this attorney general and previous attorney general on both sides of the aisle had concluded he had lost his ability to effectively lead what is the preeminent law enforcement agency in the world. >> bret: obviously what these letters are focused on and you point out the concern about the first move, he could have been fired right away. when president trump took office if that was the genesis of it. ...