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>> jesse: james earl jones. not an australian girl. >> lisa: my mind is blown. >> jesse: self-identified as an australian girl. >> kimberly: that's what i thought you were referring to. >> greg: richard? >> greg: two, oprah winfrey or morgan freeman. >> greg: those are two obvious. everyone wants morgan freeman. >> richard: i said oprah first. >> greg: i would want morgan fairchild. i bet she watches "the five." >> kimberly: really liking bonno these days. very nice picture with george w. bush. he's against, you know -- . >> greg: kimberly guilfoyle. i was going to say judge janine. i love hers. everything is out there. coming up, greg! or it could be judge napolitano. it's not in the constitution. it's not in the constitution. >> kimberly: who else do you have, dobbs? >> greg: i'd do more but they're not here anymore. joseph o. if you were able to be in one conversation in history, which one would you choose? that's a good one. >> kimberly: these are hard! >> jesse: we did this one already. >> greg: did we? >> j

james comey. but do voters care? we'll ask them next. "watters world" goes in search not of sasquatch, but of hillary clinton. jesse: i'm with he kennedy: while the president is overseas, the democrats at home are focused on the firing of former f.b.i. director james comey. jesse recently spoke with a group of voters to see if it's a nothing burger. jesse: while the main stream media is apoplectic about the firing of james koasmy, i would say the american public doesn't care. if i went out on the street and asked who james i'm is, i would get probably 3 or 4. this is a scandal with no video, no audio, no sex, no dead bodies. it's a boring scandal. bret: it is a big story. potentially, potentially, if you have the president asking the f.b.i.or to move way from an investigation, an investigation where he is told he's not a target but is investigating the trump campaign and ties conclusion possibilities with russia, that's a big deal. jesse: bret may be right. but the problem is there are a lot of ifs in this whole thing and many in the media are running with and nothing else. raise your hand if you think this scandal

james comey was fired by director by the president on tuesday. now back to "watters' world". >> jesseirector, james comey and the mass hysteria that has followed the media and the democrats. we have heard things like who, impeachment, and cover-up. first, the mainstream media in total meltdown mode. >> there are many parallels to watergate. i have to tell you, i think all of the way back to the kennedy assassination to draw parallels. i was there as you know. i was felt that lee harvey oswald have been put on trial, a lot of the conspiracy theories that are circulating today would have been put at rest them. >> this is the kind of thing that goes on and non- democracies. i have not seen anything like this since october 20, 1973 when president nixon fired the watergate special prosecutor. >> the only winner tonight are sitting in the kremlin. >> i have a width of fascism tonight. >> jesse: remember a few months ago when both the media and democrats were attacking comey. something his investigation into hillary clinton's e-mails cost for the election. let's listen to the democrats than.

jesse. the fallout of what has become a mass hysteria over the firing of fbi director, james comey. i week of screening for president trump about the media and the democrats in washington. intron fashion, he fought back via twitter. send this to democrats. dems have been combining for months and months about director comey, now that he has been fired they pretend to be agreed, phony hypocrites. then the president took on media bias threatening to cancel press briefings altogether. * an indication team were attacked at every angle when they try to explain his decision. anderson cooper even rolled his eyes that kellyanne conway. >> i was on your show last year saying we're going out when michigan and how we're going to do it. here's what happened today. >> by friday, trump had had enough. tweeting this "as a very active president with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at the podium with the perfect accuracy. maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future press briefings and hand out written responses in the sake of accuracy" and exclusiv

jesse? >> i'm going with james earl jones. no-brainer. >> e she's not an australian girl. blown! >> i self identify as an australian girl. >> that's what i thought you were referring to. that's what i was originally thinking. >> i have two. either or both when fee or morgan freeman. >> those are two obvious. everybody wants morgan freeman. >> ice and opera first. >> i would like morgan fairchild. is that her name? thank you very much, kimberly. i bet she watches "the five." >> do you know what? i'm really liking bono these days. a very nice picture with george w. bush. he is against extreme poverty. >> kimberly guilfoyle... >> and irish background and i was going to say judge jeanine. i love her -- everything is a crisis. "greg gutfeld!" >> oh, my gosh,... >> or it could be judge napolitano. "it's not in the constitution" explanation mark >> who else you've got? >> i choose other people, but they aren't here anymore. [laughter] i will start -- >> we may not have a shell by monday. >> if you were able to be in one conversation in history, which one would you choose? >> thes

didn't need the recommendation of deputy attorney general rod rosenstein to fire fbi director james comey. jess showboat. he is a grandstand -- >> he is a showboat. he is a grandstander. the fbi has been in turmoil. we all know that. >> reporter: but on capitol hill, acting fbi director andrew mccabe shot down one of the white house's excuses for axing comey. >> is it accurate that the rank- and-file no longer supported director comey? >> no, sir. that's not accurate. director comey enjoyed broad support within the fbi. he still does. >> reporter: mccabe said he was unaware and couldn't confirm reports that comey had asked for more resources to investigate trump campaign ties to russia just before he was fired. >> that said, we don't typically request resources for an individual case. and as i mentioned, i strongly believe that the russia investigation is adequately resourced. >> reporter: deputy attorney general rod rosenstein came to capitol hill himself to meet with the heads of the senate committee doing its own investigation into alleged russian interference in the 2016 presidential electi

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i don't see why you are defending james comey. >> okay, jesse. look. we should be respectful of people who have dedicated their life to public service. >> oh, yeah. >> he has spent many hours of his life not doing anything else -- working at a law firm, the fact that the president decided to remove him is within the president's discussion but i don't think we need to trash his reputation by suggesting corruption. maybe it is incompetence but corruption would actually say or mean that he had some sort of gain out of this.ld >> i am not trashing his reputation. >> you are not? h >> you just spent 5 minutes doing that. >> i would say half of it is nonfactual. y >> you are the definition of fake news. >> the last sentence in the letter by trump, when he said te call me i wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors -- that is like a rejection letter you get when you submit an article to a flight magazine. you know? s not that i would know... >> have you done that?t? >> i'm not saying that i didn't not do it. whenever they wish you luck on your future

i don't see why you are defending james comey. >> okay, jesse. it looked. we should be respectful of people who have dedicated their life to public service. >> oh, yeah. >> she has spent many hours of his life not doing anything else -- working at a law firm, the fact that the president decided to remove him is within the president's discussion but i don't think we need to trash his reputation by suggesting corruption. maybe it is incompetence but corruption would actually say or mean that he had some sort of gain out of this. >> i am not trashing his reputation. >> you are not? >> you just spent 5 minutes doing that. >> i would say half of it is nonfactual. >> you are the definition of fake news. >> the last sentence in the letter by trump, when he said to call me i wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors -- that is like a rejection letter you get when you submit an article to a flight magazine. you know? not that i would know... >> have you done that? >> i'm not saying that i didn't not do it. whenever they wish you luck on your future endeavor

james comey why it shouldn't be controversy. pl our germany west bank joins with us mother. >> jess kwa raj major refrlgss from president trump todaystinging words directed at james comey in a 10 on interview with from the west wing president trump said comey firing had nothing to do with the russia investigation and everything to do with the fact that he was not competent or capable to be the fbi director. >> i was going to fire comey. my decision. >> you had made the decision before they came into the office. >> i was going to fire comey. >> >> in an exclusive with lester holt president trump says he would have fired fbi director james comey even without the recommendation of deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. >> the fbi has been the fisher in turmoil i know in everybody knows that. >> reiterating what the white house press secretary said yesterday. >> the rank and file of the fbi lost converse in the director. >> no, sir that is not accurate. >> but today on capitol hill acting fisher director andrew mccabe offered his side during a planned hearing before the senate intelligence committee. >> i can tell you also that direct

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mentioned in the book langston hughes and you mentioned james weldon johnson and, you also mentioned noah larson. we might think of the work as jesseman faw set to tried to present as latino in fiction. is there any information that ellis was familiar with tales of literature or tales of passing? >> that's a great question. that is a fascinating question. i have to believe he was although at the same time the tricky evident part of the book he is living in new york city during the harlem renaissance, right? i feel that on some level he's participating in that though he has to be very careful how much he gets involved in it because he is trying to hide certain aspects of his background. but it is, that is one of those sort of fascinating unprovable things. one of the themes i talk about in the book as a notion of him as a trickster which comes from african-american folklore. i have to believe these trickster stories which were really central to folklore from slavery and its aftermath in some ways i think informed his perspective on the world. that is sort of a leap of faith i'm making trying to contextualize his cultural background.

. >> jesse: up next, we will tell you why hillary might need some good lawyers. when we come back. ♪ >> kimberly: welcome back. with the jamesomey out of the fbi, does that mean hillary clinton should be worried about her email case being reopened? the acting director of the fbi revealed for the first time that some agents were upset the criminal case against ms. clinton wasn't pursued. >> i think morale has always been good. however, there were folks within our agency who are frustrated with the outcome of the hillary clinton case. some of those folks were very vocal about it. >> kimberly: also today catherine herridge talk to an fbi agent about relocating the hillary clinton investigation. in the five individuals associated with the case. dana, what do you make of these developments? >> dana: i am skeptical of former cia agents because they have to remain anonymous so they can communicate and both agencies use a lot of former fbi agents, cia agents to make their case. i don't exactly what will come of this. in the realm of possibilities, i could see it happening. but i will tell you this, i think the trump administration h

james comey. he said he'd already decided to sack him before receiving advice from thejustice department. let's get more now on our top story, the fallout from the sacking let's speak to jessewspaper — hejoins us now from washington. help us with this. in your analysis, how much of this matters and how much is white noise? any president is entitled to sack the director of the fbi and, if you believe president trump and his supporters, this is all the democrats having a ha rd this is all the democrats having a hard time getting over the election loss. of course, you are right. any president can fire the fbi chief at any point. the remarkable thing this week has been the almost hourly change in the narrative coming out from the white house surrounding the sacking of the fbi chief and the reason behind it. donald trump said today that the reason he made the call to fire james comey and it was not the decision of anyone else but him. of course, democrats and even some republicans raised alarm bells over this firing and, of course, came in the middle of an fbi investigation into the tram campaign. mr drunk quite clearly admitted that the russian investigation was on his mind whe

jesse watters, welcome on this busy news day. we'll bring it to you throughout the hour. we'll begin with president trump's headline making sit-down interview. she talked about the decision to fire james comey, whether the democrats will ever cooperate with him. and here's what he said about the canceling the daily white house press briefing. >> when we have those press conferences, we shouldn't have them. because sarah. >> a hundred years we have been doing that. >> there's never been action like this. we are getting higher ratings on those press conferences. >> would you seriously consider stopping these press sessions? >> we do it in a different way. we do it in a perfect way. >> in writing? >> ask a hundred questions, 50 questions, 20 questions, if they get one out of 50 just a little bit off, 5%, 10%, next day it's a front page story. press conferences for obama was on c span. these press conferences are the biggest thing on day time television. you see the ratings. they are blowing everything on day time television. what i would love to do is stop them. >> kimberly, he's still bragging about the ratings. >> well, he's right. it's the new "bold and beautiful." >> day time televis

>> jesse: i don't know what i believe from the "new york times" anymore because i don't trust it. the only people that know what happened is james comey and donald trump. the "new york times" says this happened. who knows? just the other day, "new york times" said comey asked for more resources for the russia investigation before he was fired and that was "fake news." >> gillian: now we know. >> bob: that's -- . >> gillian: unless there's now the recordings that the president mentioned. >> jesse: i don't believe there are tapes. i believe he said that to mess with people's heads and it's working as you can see from over here. he's having people chase squirrels and i don't think there's any tapes. if there were, then that's trouble. >> kimberly: i'll get you to respond, greg, in a moment. sean spicer answered an avalanche of questions at today's press briefing. take a look at this exchange in particular. >> did president trump record his quofertions former f.b.i. director comey? >> i think you're referring to the tweet. i've talked to the president and the president has nothing further to add on that. >> why did he say that? why

jess you guys both said it complete shom waves being sent over the news earlier this afternoon. calling it surprise would be a complete understatement as you mentioned now former fbi director jamesey was in los angeles to speak at a recruiting event but he is now flying home, a private citizen fired by president trump. fbi director james comey is out. he has been fired by president trump effective immediately. now according to a statement from white house spokeman sean spicer this comes after a clear recommendation from attorney general jeff sessions and the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. tonight democrats are outraged. >> it is troubling that attorney general sessions who had recused himself from the russian investigation played a role in firing the man leading it. >> and it is a brazen, craven attempt in my view to stifle the rule of law and an ongoing investigation that has the president of the united states pass a potential target. >> we obtained the letter that was sent to comey from president trump. the letter is dated today says in port parts it important to choose a leader able to restore and public confidence and trust to the fisher the president while i apprec

oval office with james comey, general flynn and the money he accepted, there are all kinds of things this could open the door to that could be very painful for this white house. if >> jesse: great got filled filled, you're next. >> there's so many lanes, there's more lengths of this, there might be nothing there. when you can't focus and instead it you're saying it could be this, it did this, it could be this, it's because there is no this. you're desperately trying to find all these little things, that's not what i want to talk about. i swear i can hear hillary clinton cackling in her makeshift shed out in the woods. i think this is for her a minor victory, a participation trophy after being slaughtered by trump in the election. if you remember in the book "shattered" right after she lost, the narrative that she wanted out, she lost because of russia. ever since then it has been about russia, russia, russia, now, that's what she got. the media is on board, everyone is doing her bidding, it's like she never went away. >> it was even more recent than the book shattered and more recent than election night. think about when she did that q&a, and flat out said i was winning.

jesse watters, welcome on this busy news day. we'll bring it to you throughout the hour. we'll begin with president trump's headline making sit-down interview. she talked about the decision to fire jamesher the democrats will ever cooperate with him. and here's what he said about the canceling the daily white house press briefing. >> when we have those press conferences, we shouldn't have them. because sarah. >> a hundred years we have been doing that. >> there's never been action like this. we are getting higher ratings on those press