probably a bigger motive than anybody else. >> there were always, in my mind, dual motives for james fayedto contract the murder of his wife. one was the divorce. but one was to silence who he thought was going to be a witness against him, pamela fayed. >> did he just give this hit man that he hired the money and say go kill my wife? >> james fayed is a control freak. if he is anything, he wants to be in control, at all times. which is why he didn't want his wife, pamela, doing anything having to do with transfer licenses. the same mo is what drove this contract killing. >> reporter: and investigators believe that jim fayed exhibited that need for control, as he planned his wife's murder. he focused, they believe, on a particular fear of pam's. >> it was discovered that she had a phobia about knives. and she had believed that she -- if she was killed, that she was gonna be killed by someone with a knife. >> who expresses a belief that, if they're killed, they are going to be killed with a knife? i mean, that sounds like somebody who almost is foretelling their own death. >> and it's, also,

it turns out the fai knew the department of justice was planning on firing james comey before trump pulledining maine with the details of the breaking news, just the news founder john solomon investigative reporter. what do you got? >> listen, newly declassified documents that president trump made available his final day in office giving us an extraordinary window into that time may 2017 when the media was in a frenzy that trump might have to resign and there would be obstruction probe that russian collusion i was real. we know all those things were unfounded. but what we didn't know, the fbi was told the earliest days right after acting fbi director andrew mccabe took over for comey after fired. rod rosenstein told them, listen, guys, we didn't just do this firing. we began to plan for it in january. he and attorney general jeff sessions at the time were really the ones driving it and that the russia case had nothing to really do with it. in fact, the president went on to mention the russian case that comey come i don't want to put in there because that is not why we are firing them. the