that. appreciate it. we join of a principal deputy chef press secretary who is coming live from the white house. hearing all kinds of expeditions from different sites for the firing of james comey. sum it up for us. why was he fired today? >> it's real simple. director comey had lost the confidence of the rank-and-file within the fbi. he certainly lost the confidence for members of both sides, republicans and democrats in the house and the senate and frankly most importantly he lost the confidence of the american people. this was a guy who was being question it day after day after day whether he was capable of leading the fbi. i think we saw based on his testimony last week, he no longer was in the president was presented with a pretty clear and direct and very strong recommendation by the deputy attorney general who a lot of people probably don't know, but the fbi director actually reports the deputy attorney general. that attorney deputy made the recommendation, the president made a...