under james comey? well, i've had questions nd concerns about some things hat he's said and i always wondered why nothing came of the e-mails, the situation with the one was ever no prosecuted for that. mean, there was confidential, classified information that were in some of the e-mails and approved to ren't have that, had it. kind of shake me some that nothing ever seemed to that.n from host: thanks for the call this morning. rose up next, denver, colorado. good morning. caller: good morning, c-span, call. you for taking my am calling to say that i am orry to see that f.b.i. director james comey has been and the timing of it and the season of it. a parallel to it with the video clip you have been showing where the president director or eted former director now, james comey, with a kiss on the cheek handshake, hand pat on his back. that to president where judasa judas, kissed the lord jesus on the and had the government of him harisees there to take nder arrest and lead to his crucifixion. host: rose,

i trusted james comey. i thought he had made some mistakes last fall but i never called for his resignation. i thought he was a straight shooter. frankly, i'm offended at the president's comments today. this is a continuing pattern of disrespecting the men and women who serve in our intelligence community. i think the president would be better served regardless of his views, supporting the ic rather than continually questioning, repeatedly calling into question the leaders' integrity. >> the president just told lester holt that he was going to fire director comey, whether or not that he had recommendation or not. and he called director comey a sh boat, a grandstander. do you agree with that? you just heard something different. >> i'm not going on speak for senator warner. i put out a statement the night of the director's he firing. i found him to be one of the most ethical, upright, straightforward individuals i've had the opportunity to work. he provided our committee more access to information than any di

would be dancing in the streets if hillary clinton had won, she would have immediately have fired james comey. >> well, that, of course, was deputy white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders on "morning joe." in documents released by the white house, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein cites comey's handling of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation as grounds for his dismissal. at one point writing, quote, i cann defend the director's handling of the conclusion of the investigation of secretary clinton's e-mails. well, here's somebody who's definitely going to have a choice reaction, former clinton presidential campaign manager, robby mook. robby, i want to get your reaction to sarah huckabee sanders. would hillary clinton have fired james comey? >> you know, hillary clinton wasn't elected president of the united states, donald trump was. i think this is a classic example of how the trump administration is trying to get us to debate, you know, what would hillary have done. let's go back to 2016 and relitigate the campaign and not keep the focus on the choice that donald trump ma

peter doocy has a look back at james comey's career and how he got to this point. >> before james comey became the seventh director of the fbi, he was born in new york, raised in new jersey and married to his college sweetheart prayed he prosecuted martha stewart while serving as the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and in 2003, the 6'8" comey was nominated by president george w. bush to be the deputy attorney general. the next year, colby had a showdown with top administration officials because they tried to get a hospitalized attorney general john ashcroft to reauthorize an nsa program from his hospital bed. >> i thought i witnessed and effort to take advantage of a sick man who did not have the powers of the attorney general. >> comey admits he was a registered republican for years but ended up being nominated to lead the federal bureau of investigation for a 10-year term by a democratic president. >> he doesn't care about politics. he only cares about getting the job done. >> comey confronted the rise of isis, telling "60 minutes" he preferred the term loan rat to

many people respected james comey. so it is unclear at this point why the president is coming out on the attack, especially in light of the fact he was considering the president visiting fbi headquarters today. we know plans are in place for him to go over to the headquarters. they have been making preparations for that at the bureau. but two officials telling us those plans were scrapped because of the timing of this and now the timing of these tweets, the optics of this and the relationship between the president and the fbi seems to continue to erode. the president not doing himself any favors with these tweets. >> how will this be received by the current eastbound membmembe. honesty is an unreasonable expectation. that is a message by the president this morning after the message released by the white house about why the fbi director was fired were proven to be untrue. as a active president with lots of things happen, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with about your sit. maybe we should cancel

>> this is what donald trump said about james comey during the campaign. let's play this. >> i have to give the fbi credit, that was so bad what happened originally, and it took guts for director comey to make the move that he made in the light of the kind of opposition he had when they're trying to protect her from criminal prosecution. i respect the fact that director comey was able to come back after what he did. i respect that very much. good job by the fbi. i have respect that the fbi has given it a second chance. as you know, the fbi, and i give them a lot of credit, because they're fighting force they're not supposed to be fighting. i was never his fan, but what he did, he brought back his reputation. he brought it back. he's got to hang tough, because there's a lot of people want him to do the wrong thing, what he did was the right thing. >> so now your white house is saying that what he did was wrong, but previously as a candidate, donald trump was saying it was the right thing. >> you're comparing two things that don't belong together. thanks for

james comey was let go because of his handling of hillary clinton's e-mail case, at this hour there are protests underway across the country. this is sky fox over senator diane feinstein's office in san francisco. we have live team coverage tonight and reaction from california lawmakers. we are in oakland where another protest is taking place, first we go to the nation's capitol and lauren. >> reporter: good evening, the white house is pushing back hard on the idea that former fbi director james comey was let go because of the russia investigation, they are saying that the president lost confidence in a man many on both sides of the political aisle wanted to see gone. >> he was not doing a good job. >> reporter: today president donald trump offered little insight into his decision to fire former fbi director james comey, the optics of sitting next to henny kissinger seemed a strange choice to some considering the comparisons to water gate. >> you will hear calls for a new investigation. >> reporter: the democrats on the senate floor this morning made a plea to ron rosenstein to appoint

the democrats have said some of the worst things about james comey including the fact that he should but now they play sad. comey lost the confidence of almost everyone in washington, republican and democrat alike. when things calmed down, the president says, they will be thanking me. james comey will be replaced by someone who will do a far better job, bringing back the spirit and prestige of the fbi. the president's communications people have been out, too, both last night and today and they've been very careful to try to cite some other issues rather than the president's russia investigation as the reason for the comey firing. back to you. >> all right. joe johns at the white house. thanks very, very much. >> the president as you heard joe say says this will bring back the prestige and spirit of the fbi. what's the mood there? today let's bring in someone that knows, evan perez, you've been working your sources and you also have new information. what are you learning? >> poppy, one of the things that unifies people at the fbi right now is simply shock. even people who weren't thril

james comey could testify to both committees. so why isn't he? why is he picking the senate intelligence committee over the senate judiciary committee? which actually has jurisdiction over the fbi and the justice department. the reason is the senate judiciary committee is frequently a partisan circus compared to the senate intelligence committee. the senate judiciary committee has 20 members. the intelligence committee has only 15. that means there are 11 republicans on the senate judiciary committee and only eight republicans on the senate intelligence committee. the senate judiciary committee has a large group of republican senators who don't want to focus on the real issues that james comey is there to testify about. james comey knows that ted cruz on the senate judiciary committee and john cornyn and orrin hatch on the judiciary committee and chuck grassley on the judiciary committee and senator kennedy of louisiana on the judiciary committee would once again reliably push whatever trump talking points they think will work that day. ted cruz

remember, that was how president trump's letter was phrased to james comey. it's what we heard from sarah huckabee sanders, what we heard from vice president pence. take a listen. >> did you ask for a recommendation? >> what i did is, i was going to fire comey. my decision. it was not -- >> you had made the decision before they came in the room? >> i was going to fire comey. there's no good time to do it, by the way. they -- >> because in your letter you said i accepted their recommendations. you had made the decision? that i was going to fire regardless of recommendation. >> there was -- >> he made a recommendation. he's highly represented. very good guy. very smart guy. the democrats like him, the republicans like him. he made a recommendation but regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. knowing that there was no good time to do it. and, in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story, it's an excuse, by the democrats for having lost. >> there's no good time

they are no fan of james comey.n herself just recently said that if the election happened on october 27th the day before, you know, comey's public statements that she would have won the white house. we heard from brian fallon last night. >> the timing and the nature of this firing that the trump administration is announcing now belies any possible explanation this has anything to do with the clinton investigation. the only thing i think could have further deteriorated confidence and eroded faith in the confidence in the fbi of james comey remaining there is firing james comey. now donald trump has done that. >> twilight zone. i was as disappointed and frustrated as anyone as how the e-mail investigation was handled. but this terrifies me. are you surprised by the reaction from the clinton team? >> not at all. all things legal are not expedient. legally donald trump had the authority to fire james comey. even though barack obama had appointed him to a ten year term, the president, the sitting president has the author

director james comey. plus, i sit down with maine senator susan collins to talk about the comey firing and the fate of the republican's health care bill as it makes its way to her side of capitol hill. and, searching for hope in havana. why cancer patients are making the trek to cuba for a promising medication. >> i'm surprised mick's still here. so, i do believe that outside of divine intervention, there's some sort of scientific basis to what he's doing. >> woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

after president trump accused his predecessor of wiretapping him, james comey was flabbergasted. the president told associates was outside the realm of normal and even, quote, crazy. so some stunning words coming from director comey and we know it was comey's denial of any wiretapping that continued to incense the president. >> also for the fact they were leeked o e leaked out over the past 12 hours. let's talk about this. here is our panel. we are in a different place this morning than we were yesterday. all the reporting now seemed to indicate that james comey was fired because of the russia investigation. either he was pushing too hard or president trump was sick of it. what does that mean for us going forward? >> well, a couple things. i think we have to take a step back and give pause to what is unfolding right now in realtime, quite frankly. we have a narrative out of the white house that we're learning is actually wrong and false initially and the fact that white house was saying it was the deputy attorney general who basically made the decision that we should see director

that paper trail from director comey includes a memo written by james comey on february 14th immediately after he met one on one with the president in the oval office. that memo reportedly says that president trump told director comey to shut down the fbi's investigation into the national security adviser mike flynn. mike flynn had resigned the day before that meeting because of his undisclosed contacts with russian officials. now two people who say they have read comey's memo say the memo quotes the president directly from that conversation saying about the flynn investigation, quote, i hope you can let this go. so there is a lot to this story. the white house is denying this conversation took place. james comey would probably be a pretty good witness if it came down to a he said/he said disagreement about whether or not this conversation happened. particularly if he contemporaneously documented the contents of that conversation when it happened and he can prove it. but it's possible the white house could also prove it in terms of their side of the story. if they are not erasing that pr

peter doocy has a look back at james comey's career and how he got to this point. >> before james comey became the seventh director of the fbi, he was born in new york, raised in new jersey and married to his college sweetheart prayed he prosecuted martha stewart while serving as the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and in 2003, the 6'8" comey was nominated by president george w. bush to be the deputy attorney general. the next year, colby had a showdown with top administration officials because they tried to get a hospitalized attorney general john ashcroft to reauthorize an nsa program from his hospital bed. >> i thought i witnessed and effort to take advantage of a sick man who did not have the powers of the attorney general. >> comey admits he was a registered republican for years but ended up being nominated to lead the federal bureau of investigation for a 10-year term by a democratic president. >> he doesn't care about politics. he only cares about getting the job done. >> comey confronted the rise of isis, telling "60 minutes" he preferred the term loan rat to

james comey is out. his replacement and what should we look for in that candidate. >> someone who is a face to america. someone that a lot of american people would recognize. has obviously a high degree of integrity. is from law enforcement. my suggestion is ray kelly, the former police commissioner from new york city. that's a face that america knows. when you are taking a look at the threats we face internally. the threat from terrorism. cartels, gangs, a big city police commissioner like ray kelly would be an excellent choice. there is other good people out there. that's not a bad place to start. steve: pete, why did comey have to go. >> comey had to go. he lost the confidence number one of the political class here in washington. you know, you have been playing some of the hits over the last six, seven, eight months of people on the democrat and republican side of the aisle who said what is this guy doing? he is doing things that an fbi director should not be doing. he has lost the confidence there. h

james comey has shown a lot of m ista kes james comey has shown a lot of mistakes over the last year,from many of the comments from democrats including senator schumer, that he should be gone. frankly i think it is startling that democrats are not celebrating because they have been calling for it for so long. i think this needs to question limit. back in october, this president was applauding the fbi director when he reopened the investigation into hillary clinton's e—mail. he seems happy with it at that point. what changed? the president's position. he was a candidate, not the president. 0nce you take over leading the department of justice, that's you take over leading the department ofjustice, that's different from being a candidate in a campaign. there's clear distinction between those two things. also, having a letter like the one he received, having that conversation which outlined the atrocities in circumventing the chain of command in the department ofjustice. any person of legal mind and authority knows what a big deal that is, particularly in the justice department, particula

i'm going to try to figure this out before james comey testifies. it is bizarre that this isn't settled yet and it's not just weird, it's important. this is a thing that goes to motive. if firing the fbi director was to try to stop the russia investigation, his accelerating and expanding that investigation right before he got fired, maybe that was the trigger for firing him. that's part of the narrative now. what if it isn't true? just about every major news organization in the country will be making a correction if that story is wrong or the justice department is going to have to eat its hat, including the acting director of the fbi and the acting attorney general on this issue. one of these two sides has to be wrong. we'll figure it out. that does it for us tonight. now it's time for "the last wor withawrence o'donnell." i'm sorry i ate your first minute. >> you've ramped us right into that comey hearing that is on the schedule but without a precise date yet. we just have a feeling it's going to be in early june and that has to be one of the quest

chaffetz asked that investments in expand that inquiry to also look at james comey being fired as fbi director: now four democratic senators asked that same inspector general to look not just at the firing of comey but whether or not jeff sessions is actually recused from matters involving the trump campaign. which he said he was. they also ask him to look into whether the fbi investigation into trump-russia is adequately resourced. that has all been asked of the inspector general's office at the department of justice. these offices are notoriously tight-lipped. we don't know exactly how pointed these investigations are that are underway, but we know they are underway. from the point of view of president donald trump, independent investigations? really? if he doesn't like that idea, these investigations happening in the inspector journey's office at defense and justice, he has to know or he's learning quickly it's actually within his power as for the fire those inspectors general. he could just fire them. if he does so, of course that would be more bombshells. of course at this point

one person who would be really great to hear from on this is james comey. tonight we learn that we might get that opportunity. senate intel announced that the former director james comey has agreed to testify at an open hearing. this is a thing that goes to motive, right. if firing the fbi director was to try to stop the russia investigation, his accelerating and expanding that investigation right before he got fired, maybe that was the trigger for firing him. that's part of the narrative now. but what if it isn't true? just about every major news organization in the country is going to be making a correction if that story is wrong. or theustice department is going to have to eat its hat, including the acting director of the fbi and the acting attorney general on this issue. one of these two sides has to be wrong. we'll figure it out. that does it for us tonight. see you again monday. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." lawrence, i'm sorry i ate your first minute. >> oh, no because you ramped us right into that comey hearing that is o

sarah huckabee sanders is saying yes hillary clinton would have fired james comey. at do you think? >> comey would have been hauling his stuff out of the fbi's office in a banker's box about noon on january 20th if hillary had been inaugurated. the simple fact is he was going under hillary. it was just a given. that's why robby mook won't answer the question, he knows it's true. >> we don't know it's a given. kurt, i'm curious, what do you make of the times of this, the fact that senators burr and warren may have asked to speed up the investigation. liz: all right, all right, all right, all right, kurt, answer, that go ahead. >> i understand that the fbi director doesn't do investigations himself. he has entire teams doing it. he's the head of an agency, there's a team doing the investigation, nothing will change. the investigation will go on. liz: and jessica, final point, i hear what you're saying donald trump supported james comey and so did jeff sessions and i know what you mean about positions change, but clearly robby mook wanted to have it both ways when you s

not disputing he mishandle james comey the clinton e-mail investigation. y are questioning the timing and motives and reasoning of why now. we should be clear about all that. with director comey out? where does the investigation stand right now? all decisions about appointing independent counsel to investigate particular cases now rests with deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. that's because attorney general jeff sessions a trump campaign surrogate and adviser recused himself on matters related to trump and russia. congress could% a bill create agnew office of independent counsel, as it did in 1978 but it expired in 199. >> is statute was launched a dozen times most famously kenneth starr investigation into president clinton. bill clinton signed a re-authorization of the original law in 1994 with several alleged scandals brewing. >>> if the president is looking to ease concerns about his campaign's ties to russia today's meeting with russian foreign minister sergei lavrov may not help in that capacity. the white house confirming the sit down in the oval

president trump has defended his hugely controversial decision to fire the head of the fbi, saying james comey not been doing a good job and his replacement would do a "far better" one. white house officials have been suggesting the president had lost confidence in mr comey over the past several months. he'd been leading an fbi investigation into links between the trump campaign team and russia. here's our north america editor, jon sopel. this is a fox news alert. fbi directorjames comey has been fired by the president of the united states. the term breaking news is bandied around with abandon. last night, it was justified. because, at fbi offices, the first they knew that their director had been fired was when it flashed up on their tv screens. and james comey, who was in los angeles addressing staff, knew nothing about it either until an aide handed him a note and the letter sent by president trump was brutal. at least they left him the governmentjet to fly back to the east coast, a private citizen, a turbulent career cut short. and today the president was unrepentant. reporter: why did you

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they are also likely to make statements on the president's firing yesterday of fbi director james comey. the president tweeting several times today about that, including saying that "james comey will be replaced by someone who will do a far better job bringing back the spirit and prestige of the fbi." we expect to hear more about that at the white house briefing coming up at 1:30 this afternoon. the president at this hour meeting with the russian foreign minister this morning, sergey lavrov, who is also meeting with secretary of state rex tillerson. also this afternoon, the democratic policy committee holding a hearing on the trump administration's health care plan. they plan to hear from citizens who might be affected by the loss of coverage under the current health care law. we will wait for this hearing to get underway. there was a vote underway right now in the senate, procedural vote on moving forward with some legislation. the hearing should get underway shortly. the senate judiciary committee getting set t for nomination hearing this morning for several people, including noel fra

does donald trump not stand by everything he said during the 2016 campaign now about james comey? >> absolutely. here is the thing, joe -- >> absolutely he did not stand by his praise of comey. >> that's not what i said. i said the director of the fbi reports to the attorney general. >> i need clarification here. does the president of the united states stand by his praise of james comey from last year, especially september, october, november of last year? >> knowing the president, i would say yes, he does. >> okay. thank you so much. >> that's interesting. >> david praised him. >> so sarah, you made reference repeatedly to the report by the deputy ag rob rosenstein. who asked him to make that review? who asked him to undertake that review? >> i'm not sure it was requested. all i know is that the director reports to him. i would imagine that is part of the process of him coming on board and taking it over that position. >> this is a crucial issue. was this an independent effort on this part? did he talk about it with jeff sessions? >> sean spicer says it was self-started. i'm sure y

markets are mixed following firing of james comey. er after swearing in of the south korean president. nancy, good morning. can you take us through the global markets? >> good morning, lewis. that abrupt dismissal of fbi director comey keeps investors on edge. the most immediate was in the u.s. dollar trending slower, they recovered some losses on the green back. expect equities to open lower on wall street according to u.s. futures. although the comey firing may not have immediate impact on markets according to some investors, it is a larger concern it could once again distract from putting through pro-growth agenda in congress, specifically talking tax reform. that's the uncertainty that may weigh on investors' minds. keep an eye on walmart. according to sources, telling "the wall street journal" they could be set to pay a $300 million settlement for foreign bribery allegations, goes back to a five year investigation, the government has been exploring. this sum said to be far less than the near 1 billion dollar section sought by offi

rosenstein who wrote the memo that was first credited by the white house as the reason for firing james comeyter, when reporters discovered who was in that meeting, the senators were asked this question -- >> did director comey come up at all in this meeting? >> director comey did not come up. he was not the subject of it. >> here is chairman burr's explanation for having that meeting with the deputy attorney general in the middle of a very important intelligence committee hearing. >> since the committee has an investigatn going on that is very similar to what the department of justice has going on, we felt that there was a great need to set up a process for deconfliction so that when we had witnesses that we needed to talk to, we made sure we weren't stepping on top of anything that might be an active investigation. >> here is what senator warner had to say. >> i think it was a productive session, but i still have concerns about mr. rosenstein in terms of his role in the comey departure in terms of the memo. i expressed -- and this is where the chairman and i just disagree in terms of the ne

we're watching the fallout from the firing of the fbi director james comey. to hear the president tell it, it's cut and dry. his critics are not convinced. >> there's a great many outstanding questions about the circumstances of director comey's dismissal. >> why did you fire director comey? >> because he wasn't doing a good job. very simple. >> and reports that director comey just asked for more money to investigate russia's meddling. that plus senators from both sides will join us live. who will run the fbi next? let's get to it. first on the fox news deck, seven days ago, the president's spokesman said president trump had full confidence in fbi director comey. yesterday the president fired him. today another spokesman said the president lost confidence in him and considered firing him from the day he was elected president. the change, according to the white house, president trump questioned comey's reasoning for staying at the fbi. >> i think one of the big catalysts that we saw was last week on wednesday director comey made a pretty starting revelation th

first, a senior white house official telling fox tonight it is, quote, coincidental, this firing of james comey happened on the same day as the huma abedin news. as you know, when comey testified earlier this week on capitol hill, he said there were hundreds of thousands, i believe, he said of e-mails that were forwarded from huma abedin to anthony wiener. it turns out that that was an overexaggeration, and comey had been in the headlines on this day because of that. and there was a lot of questions as to how the fbi might go about it, how they might correct the record and is so forth. but the white house, their line tonight is this is merely coincidental. secondly, the white house press secretary sean spicer was asked about whether or not the president still has confidence in jim comey, and as it relates to -- it was brought up in the context of these abedin e-mails and the testimony, and spicer said, yes, as far as he knows the president does have confidence in him. however, he did hedge a little bit by saying, well, at least as it relates to the last time that i talked to him. interesting on

james comey called it extreme carelessness.e any legal distinction in your mind as an attorney general? >> it is clearly gross negligence. any time you talk havingng classified information, that can jeopardize lives. we should've started this off by saying there are so many great men and women around this country and the federal bureau of investigation, who do great work every day. and hopefully they will have a new permanent leader soon. they have jeff sessions at the helm of the attorney general's office. they are going to continue to do great things and it will be up to them to investigate it. not the white house. >> sean: pam bondi, good to have your back. your insight and analysis. we appreciate it.te when we come back, we need your help. a very important question of the day, as "hannity" continues. your insight and analysis. we appreciate it. we appreciate it. liberty mutual stood with me when this guy got a flat tire in the middle of the night, so he got home safe. yeah, my dad says our insurance doesn't have that. what?

when you tune in or read the headlines, president trump has done nothing but take shots at james comeyck to that nbc interview when he talked about how he was grandstanding to just the press conference yesterday at the white house. >> yeah. it's unfortunate because jim comey is a very, very decent and honorable public servant and has been for a long, long time. he and i were prosecutors at the same time in the 1980s, he in new york and i in washington, d.c., and anyone who has ever worked with him has the highest regard for his integrity and his legal acumen. to do this is really unfair. it's not nice and it's unbecoming of the president. but beyond that, the thing that is amazing to me is that when you think that you're going to fire the fbi director, which is going to lead to a special counsel and that special counsel turns out to be bob mueller, you have to be in an oh my god moment here because what you just did to yourself is going to come back to you and haunt you for a very long time, i fear. >> on the "oh my god" moment, that's what i asked garret. you wrote the book on mueller

months, we thought this was all rosenstein's doing, when was it the president lost confidence in james comeyit's been an erosion of confidence. i think director comey has shown over the last several months and frankly the last year a lot of missteps and mistake. and i think certainly as you've seen from many of the comments from democrat members and concluding senator schumer, they didn't think she should be there. they thought he should be gone. frankly, it's startling democrats aren't celebrating this. >> another one i want to ask you, too. >> i think there's a dwo question limit around here. >> following on that, you said he made a lot of missteps and mistakes. back at the end of october this president was applauding the fbi director when he reopened the investigation into hillary clinton's e-mail. so he seemed quite happy with him at that point. what changed? >> i think the president's position. one, he was a candidate for president, not the president. those are two very different things. once you take over leading the department of just, that's very different from being a candidate in a

james comey has been fired.ur own charlie gasparino, he has been talking to sources within the fbi, and he has some exclusive information for us next. do not forget charlie told you just a couple of weeks ago that it looks like comey's days could be numbered. he joins us next en this guy gote in the middle of the night, so he got home safe. yeah, my dad says our insurance doesn't have that. what?! you can leave worry behind wheniberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. abreak through your allergies.? try new flonase sensimist allergy relief instead of allergy pills. it's more complete allergy relief in a gentle mist experience you'll barely feel. using unique mistpro technology, new flonase sensimist delivers a gentle mist to help block six key inflammatory substances that cause your symptoms. most allergy pills only block one. and six is greater than one. new flonase sensimist changes everything. trish: all right. everyone, the firing of james comey shocking a whole lot of folks, but i'll tell you one

we do not know if james comey will appear at that hearing. furthermore, we also heard today from the senate intelligence committee, advice chairman mark warner i want to say saying he too wants odom hear but listen to how it's played out. the change of tone on both sides the hawks and the will on this investigation. >> the great concern by republicans and democrats alike is this notion of the president constructively obstructing justice, literally asking the head of the fbi director to drop the investigation into his connections to russia, michael flynn's connection to russia >> did he ask? did he order? did he get his opinion? there's an awful lot. i'm not going to sit here and pass judgment or basically condemn or convict them until i see the facts and that's being on intelligence committee is what we receive. >> reporter: so there we are. a momentous day here at the fbi. we should tell you that late this afternoon, there was another big development apparently a new name has been added to the list of potential new fbi directors. that name b

it was about james comey's poor performance. >> why did you fight director comey?asn't doing a good job. he was not doing a good job. >> top aides are surprised by the firestorm the firing of comey created because democrats dating back to the final days of the last presidential campaign have been slamming comey, chuck schumer, senate democratic leader who did not call for him to be fired but did say he had lost confidence in comey's leadership because of how he handled the hillary clinton email mess, the president went to twitter and said dems have been complaining for months and months about director comey, now that he has been fired they pretend to be aggrieved, phony hypocrites, that from the president. one of his spokespeople sarah huckabee sanders took the podium at the white house and piled on. >> the president had lost like i said lost confidence in director comey and had been considering letting director comey go since the day he was elected. >> new this morning the senate intelligence committee now saying they have issued a subpoena to michael flynn, natio

people close to james comey are now saying that comey was asked for loyalty to the president.e would not guarantee that. without being at that dinner, as none of us were, you know, whose version of it do you find more credible at this point? >> well, i find it incredible than anybody would, that a sitting president would ask the fbi director if he was under investigation, but i believe it happened. there is -- you can say to the president, you're not under investigation, but that doesn't mean that you're not investigating the russians and his name hasn't come up. you can honestly look at him and say, well, you're not under investigation, but that doesn't mean your name's not all through the files. i still think james comey probably wouldn't have answered that question. i wouldn't have answered that question. it's not in the fbi culture to say yes or no, you are or are not under investigation. >> and page, there are questions of legality -- was a law broken? was it, you know, by the letter of the law obstruction of justice to ask that question, if it was asked? and if the answe

now he's threatening james comey.y had better hope there's no tape of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. that comes as the initial account of the white house why and how he was fired lies in shambles due to a heap of fallshood fall falsehoods of in new and

because here we now see a completely different versions of a conversation that took place between james comeynd donald trump, whether -- whether the president asked comey to close it down. that could easily be determined if there is a tape, and it can easily be determined whether there is a tape, but some -- somebody with some authority, whether it's the house committee, the senate committee, the fbi itself, has to -- has to take action and send a letter or a subpoena to the white house and ask was this or any other conversation taped. >> here's another couple of sentences, and dana bash, i want you to react from this "new york times" story. mr. comb he been in the oval office that date with other senior national security officials for a terrorism briefing. when the meeting end the president told the vice president and the attorney general jeff sessions to leave the rome except for mr. comey. alone in the oval office, mr. trump began the meeting by condeeming the leaks saying he should consider putting reporters in prison for publishing classified information and mr. trump then turned the dis

thereafter "the wall street journal" reported james comey accelerated his own personal pace of work on the investigation. he previously been briefed weekly on the progress of the trump russia investigations in the couple weeks before he was fired though, according to "the wall street journal," james comey started taking daily briefings on that investigation. but then he was fired. with the president now admitting what he was thinking about when he fired james comey was that darn russia investigation, that fake russia investigation and how much he wants it to go away. now that the fbi director has been fired, now that we have crossed this rube con as country where the president is under active fbi investigation on incredibly serious counterintelligence charges, and he has fired the head of the fbi in the middle of that fbi investigation, specifically because he said he was unhappy with that investigation, now that we have crossed that previously unthinkable rube con as a country, you know the world didn't end. we still got to do stuff. we still have to figure out how to make the most of

in a house full of women and an office mainly women, i'm used to being outnumbered. >> harris: james comey firing came from following recommendations. the president speaking publicly just a few minutes ago. watch. >> reporter: why did you fire director comey? >> he wasn't doing a good job very simply. >> harris: and the past hour, vice president mike pence was asked if comey's firing had anything to do with the current investigation into russian election interference and possible collusion between the trump campaign in the kremlin. here's his answer. >> let me be very clear. the president's decision to accept the recommendation of the deputy attorney general and the attorney general to remove director comey as head of the fbi it was based solely and exclusively on his commitment to the best interest of the american people and to ensuring that the fbi has the trust and confidence of the people of this nation. >> harris: with all that said, democrats are demanding a special prosecutor to be appointed as they question the timing of comey's firing. the leader of its unlettered democrats, chuck

is not only disappearing as president trump would like it to, it is accelerating this coming as james comey seeking more resources for the russia probe. the wall street journal's sources say beginning three weeks ago director comey began receiving daily instead of weekly updates showing potential collusion. unquote. if the firing thought it would go away his logic seems to have boomerang boomeranged. the first he -- new statement completely contradict others made a few hours ago. first the white house says first the president lost confidence in director comey. after watching his testimony the president was strongly inclined to move him on monday met with the attorney general and deputy attorney general and they discussed reasons for removing him and recommendations were sent to the president. that very clearly suggest that's this was the president's call. and that is the complete opposite of the story the white house was telling until candidly just a few hours ago when they said the president was merely heeding the advice of deputy attorney general rosenstein deputy conway said that to ande

prufrm firing off an apparent threat to the ousted fbi director, trump tweeting james comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. trump's warning coming as the president is facing scrutiny for his private conversations with comey before he was fired. today the president is refusing to explain what tapes he was referring to. and whether he's secretly recording conversations in the white house. >> i won't talk about that. all i want is for comey to be honest, and i hope he will be, and i'm sure he will be, i hope. >> reporter: as comey was overseeing the investigation into possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia, trump says he asked comey repeatedly for reassurances that he wasn't under investigation. >> and did you ask him am i under investigation? >> i said if it's possible, will you let me know am i under investigation, and he said you are not under investigation. >> reporter: those conversations which quickly raised ethical red flags coming twice in phone calls and once over dinner. when trump says comey was vy

the hot topic, of course, the firing of fbi director james comey. vice chairman of the senate intelligence committees mark warner said he has invited comey to testify this coming tuesday. let's go live to chief white house white house correspondent john roberts. >> these things start 15 minutes late than they are right on time. there is something that happens at this white house, you don't really know the timing of it, is it rich with irony or actually the president poking a finger and his opponents eyes, but democrats have accused him of trying to scuttle the russian investigation by firing comey, so what does he do? meets in the white house with sergey lavrov and sergey kislyak he was the russian ambassador to the united states at the center of the whole michael flynn controversy. he is accused by democrats of being makes a direct nixonian, so what does he do? meets with richard nixon's secretary of state henry kissinger. irony or a finger in the eye? we don't know but at the oval office meeting, the white house gave the press pull his reasoning fo