i hear what you're saying as far as what robby mook is saying.he campaign manager asked if hillary would have fired comey as well and dodged that question. sarah huckabee sanders is saying yes hillary clinton would have fired james comey. what 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'r

. >> rose: saying that to robin mook, the chairman. >> right, he's basically telegraphing this to mook and to podesta and other people. and i think you know, there were other problems on the ground when you talk to state directors. they were saying they are sending us into battle without armour. we're not prepared. there's a lack of even lawn signs there on the ground. people, you know, there was something missing. >> rose: so bill, she had to choose between her husband, one of the most successful politicians of his time, of his generation, you know, and a campaign that was run by people she hardly knew before. and she chose them rather than her husband. >> she did. we think that this is a lot. we think this because we talked to people who said it. this largely results from her experience in 2008 when she ran against barack obama. and he ran circles around her on some things, on technology, on sort of the modern campaigning am people told her she was running an old-style political machine. and you know, bill clinton had gone out there and said some things that he had gotten in trouble

robby mook appearing from capitol hill., to the question everyone had initially yesterday, why nowsome >> that is the big qution it's a question that's remained unanswered by this white house. they haven't come up with a sufficient answer. i've been speaking to associates of donald trump, aides of donald trump, and they say this should have happened on day one, he should have fired him after he was inaugurated. after all, comey was somebody who was a target from both parties. up and down during the campaign. he did not do so, there by giving him his full confidence. last week, sean spicer said comey had donald trump's full confidence. so what happened in the last few days? this is a large question. we have our own reporting that said fbi director comey went to the justice department, went to rod rosenstein and said listen, we need some more resources. the doj is pushing back on that, but we're standing by our reporting when it comes to that. was donald trump just watching a lot of television and seeing the russian news not

campaign manager robby mook tweeting this. twilight zone.was as disappointed and frustrated. >> clinton's former press secretary brian fallon weighing in on cnn last night as well. >> the timing and nature of this firing that the trump administration is announcing now belies any explanation this has anything to do with the clinton investigation. the only thing that could have further deteriorated faith and confidence of james comey remaining there is firing koem. donald trump has now gone and done that. >> john podesta who chaired hillary clinton's campaign echoing the words of democrats who called comey's firing nixonian. podesta tweeting at trump didn't you know you're supposed to wait until saturday night to massacre people investigating you? reference is to president nixon saturday night massacre when nixon ordered the firing of watergate special prosecutor archibald cox which led to reis inations of the attorney general and deputy attorney general. >> this morning a range of other former officials with insight pushing back. former u.s.

joining us now is former clinton campaign manager robbie mook. robbie, good to see you. >> thanks. >> what do you make of the firing of james comey? >> look, i have a big bone to pick with james comey. i thought the way he handled the investigation on secretary clinton's e-mails last year was poorly done. however, what happened today was wrong, and it was wrong because no one in our country, particularly the president of the united states, should be above the law, and what happened was we know that mr. comey was overseeing an investigation into the president, the president and his attorney general, both of whom potentially are implicated in this investigation, made a decision to fire him. and they did so without appointing a special prosecutor to oversee this case. and as we've heard from this panel, the questions are now gushing out about whether this investigation was closing in on the president and this was his way of closing it down. >> the white house says this has nothing to do with the russian investigation. they point to this letter as yo

soledad: robby mook was all about data analytics and not so much polling. was that a fatal flaw? >> i think they did have a so when the data analytics were off, when they weren't getting info that was accurate from the data analytics, they didn't have a place to go. amie parnes: clinton was furious about that. and made it known, sounding the alarm that when he was campaigning that was getting a different feel on the ground and he was questioning why he was being sent to a number of places when he should have been sent to what he thought were the opposite in fact. , so he was really kind of bothered by it. soledad: how its feels versus how it is reading on paper. jonathan allen: the data analytics were used as a decider, as one of the sources told us in the book, used a decider not a tool, they used that to determine all kinds of things including where to send , candidates. one of the things they lost out on, or one of the things they were driven toward because they were so focused on the data was to turn out clinton supporters instead of persuading people. president clinton wante

former campaign manager, robby mook, told cecilia vega the president should not have fired comey. >>hink we're all so blown away at the gall that he would do this, how it appears he is simply holding himself above the law. >> this is about the future of the fbi's investigation into russia, that's what concerns you the most? >> that's what deeply concerns me. under our system, the president is not above the law. he can't fire somebody investigating him. >> reporter: voters were aware of the russia probe before the election but not aware of the possible involvement by trump associates, including the attorney general, jeff sessions. >> therefore i will recuse myself in the matters that deal with the trump campaign -- >> reporter: that's why democrats now say it's not right for the attorney general to recommend firing comey. the fbi director serves at the pleasure of the president. but his 10-year term gives him independence and power. the last time an fbi director was fired was nearly 25 years ago. 1993. the first year of the clinton administration. bill clinton ousted william sessions

well, hillary clinton's former campaign manager, robby mook, joins us with his reaction. and former attorney general eric holder weighed in tweeting his reaction last night writing, quote, to the career men and women at the department of juice a fbi, you know what the job entails and how to do it. be strong and unafraid. duty. honor. country. boom. >>> well, tomorrow, what timing, do not miss our own lester holt's exclusive one-on-one interview with president donald trump from the white house that will air tomorrow on nbc nightly news with lester holt. strained driver in a motor vehicle. sir, can you hear me? two, three. just hold the bag. we need a portable x-ray, please! [ nurse ] i'm a nurse. i believe in the power of science and medicine. but i'm also human. and i believe in stacking the deck. [ female announcer ] to nurses everywhere, thank you, from johnson & johnson. i got a mortgagecer ] offer from the bank today., whuuuuuat? you never just get one offer. go to lendingtree.com and shop multiple loan offers for free! free? yeah. could save thousands. you should pro

. >> reporter: robbie mook, hillary clinton's campaign manager tweeted, "if members of congress are patriots, they will call for a special prosecutor to take over this investigation, and that will call for it now." scott, clinton herself had no comment. >> pelley: chip reid, thank you very much. in a developing story, today workers started repairing a collapsed tunnel at the hannaford nuclear reservation in washington state. the tunnel contains railcars filled with radioactive waste and the ground above them caved in yesterday. so far there's no sign that the radiation has leaked. john blackstone is there. >> reporter: with a machine blowing mist to keep down dust, workers today began filling the gaping 400 square foot hole in the tunnel holding contaminated nuclear waste. basically pouring dirt back into this hole, is that the plan? >> they're refilling the hole, that's exactly right. >> reporter: mark heeter is spokesman for hanford. it doesn't sound like a fis kateed solution frankly. >> it has to be done carefully. that's the solution. >> reporter: much of the site was put on lockdown ye

joining us right now, former hillary clinton campaign manager robby mook.. >> your quick headline thought about all of this. >> well, it's incredibly disturbing. you know, i was -- i was first in line to complain about how director comey handled the e-mail inquiry last year. i have been outspoken on that. but this decision was incredibly frightening. >> so robby, is your issue with the timing and the way this all took place relating to the investigation? or with the credibility that he ultimately had or not? >> it's the former. i mean, i think there were serious questions raised about how he handled this. but the idea that the same day that we find out subpoenas are going out relevant to the russia investigation into president trump's campaign he decides to suddenly fire the director of the fbi because he claims he's upset about how he handled hillary's e-mails. the argument is absurd. and -- >> so you think the timing is -- this is a very -- you think it's a binary situation. that's the investigation, vis-a-vis, this happens. because it looks like from the

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. >> each mc -- mook there this was wholly appropriate.s still denying that there's a beautiful -- almost a his torr. >> caller: -- but there are many people who disagree with that and it's interesting because you know certainly one of the people who is highly respected in the administration, someone who has broad and deep support and respect from many maybes of congress but it has created a message and determine away from the message that the trump administration would like to as they embark on this general. >> i usually don't speak if this was okay for court. >> one can safely assort if it was not pell si project it and the white house would have pushed back against that notion. so. >> in this case basically let out information that put some of our allies or the intelligence sources at risk. let me go back to one thing and we keep talking about this but i was saying at the break, it is about russia. mike flynn, the investigation about russia, declassified or classified information coming out about jim comey. the meddling in the election

. >> joining us now is robby mook, hillary clinton's former campaign manager. have been busy following this, tweeting a lot about it, but i'm really interested in your first sort of gutteral reaction last night when you looked up and saw the news or you saw the tweet or saw this headline? >> you mentioned tweeting. my first tweet on this was that i did not think this voted well for the russian investigation. that was my immediate concern and particularly the fact that this firing happened literally on -- at the same time that we were learning that subpoenas were being handed down with regard to the russia investigation, and over time that concern has grown into a deep fear that the fundamental tenets of our democracy are breaking down here. the president is not allowed to be above the law. this is the third person who is investigating him or his associates who has been fired. you had a new york prosecutor, you had someone in the justice department and now the director of the fbi himself, and what's scary to me is that the president is trying to convince everyon

clinton's former campaign manager robby mook wrote on twitter -- "twilight zone. i was as disappointed and frustrated as anyone at how the email investigation was handled. but this terrifies me." to talk more about the firing of the fbi director james comey, the future of the fbi, and more we are joined by the pulitzer , prize winning journalist glenn greenwald, co-founder of the intercept. thank you so much for being with us. great to have you live in our studio here in new york. your response to president trump's firing james comey? ofin the 100 plus short days the trump administration, there have been many things donald trump has done that have been inacing and even heinous, but don't think there are many things that he is done that you could say were shocking given the things he promised to do during the campaign, as well as who he revealed himself to be inh during the campaign and the decade preceding that. this, however, is the only word you can think of for it is shocking. aside from the fact how rare it is for presidents to fire fbi director's -- something

. >> i've got jeremy bash back with steve kornacki and robby mook. robby. what's your reaction?portant to keep in mind that sally is now one of three people let go by the president who were involved in investigations of his aides and his campaign and potential collusion with russia. this is a disturbing pattern. i am proud that sally yates is speaking out, that she is clarifying for us what the white house knew and when they knew it, and we can match it up to when they made certain decisions. i think we need more of that. that's why we have -- subpoenas need to go out, people need to come in and we need to understand exactly how the decisions were made. >> the fact that sally yates is speaking now. we'll hear from rob rosenstein. the president's goal to put russia to bed? >> sally yates in the clip that the underlying conduct of michael flynn was problematic but may have violated criminal statutes. so he possibly disclosed classified nfr classified information to the russians on the morning that we were sanctioning them. the president has the legal authority to do it but it does

robby mook and everybody else said, no, there's a new kind of politics. no there wasn't. politics. you know who else was saying it? barack obama behind the scenes worried all along. he couldn't say it, but worried all along. i personally, i think comey had a huge impact in this campaign, but let others say it. back in july and august, you had the best minds in the democratic party saying she's going to lose this race if she's not careful. >> three weeks out we won this show and i heard from colleagues in michigan saying michigan was in serious disrepair. some democrats and republicans. my idea was dismissed by some in the campaign as foolishness, that they had this figured out. >> you tried to tell them three weeks out they were this trouble in michigan. >> it was real. i'm just telling you with the people i know on the ground. richard said it best, she should be talking about what she would be doing as president and the kinds of things the country should be focused on and that's the value she can offer now, as democrats struggle to reassert and reinvent and reimagine an