Page 2 - Tenure Term News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Fired. >> this move by the white house was a try to kill the russian investigation, nothing more. >> tucker: why was looking forward to seeing you tonight because a lot of our viewers don't live in washington and they don't understand why people here think. they don't understand it is possible to be happy that a person got fired but simultaneously mad about it. they're kind of logical normal people. >> i don't know how you could defend the timing of this announcement. it's clearly part of a cover-up. >> tucker: [laughs] i'm not defending it but i'm glad to see you as always. good to see you. w...

Fired. >> this move by the white house was a try to kill the russian investigation, nothing more. >> tucker: why was looking forward to seeing you tonight because a lot of our viewers don't live in washington and they don't understand why people here think. they don't understand it is possible to be happy that a person got fired but simultaneously mad about it. they're kind of logical normal people. >> i don't know how you could defend the timing of this announcement. it's clearly part of a cover-up. >> tucker: [laughs] i'm not defending it but i'm glad to see you as always. good to see you. w...

Is the tenure term, ari, our way of attempting to keep fbi directors above the political fray and putting it out of sequence with presidential terms? >> that's exactly right. the ten year term is designed to make this a wholly nonpartisan position. it is different even in the attorney general in that respect. the only other time in history that an fbi director has been removed in the middle of their term was when president clinton fired william sessions in 1993. that was a very different scenario, i should note, in terms of thinking about it as firing for cause. because the office of professio...

Is the problem of secretary clinton. had she been forthright, had she been honest, had huma done what she was supposed to do, had they not taken hammers to devices, had they not deleted 33,000 e-mails to begin with, none of this would have happen. so they can be upset with director comey all they want to. senator reid can complain. but at the end of the day, this goes back to the negligence and the incompetence of secretary clinton who should have known better. she sent an e-mail out to employees at the state department saying what you should not do. she should have noun better. they can compl...

Bill clinton nominated him as a u.s. attorney in 1998. he was confirmed by the senate. unanimously, three years later, president george w. bush nominated him to be the director of the fbi. he was confirmed unanimously again. he served 12 years eventually as the sixth director of the fbi. president obama actually asked him to continue his service as fbi director beyond his tenure term for a couple more years, beyond the expiration of that first term. president obama then chose james comey to replace robert mueller. in 2013. when james comey began what was supposed to be a ten-year term as fbi d...