a little while ago, sarah saunders, the white house spokesperson let us know how the decision was reached. the 00] know how the decision was reached. the doj lost confidence injames comey, bipartisan members of congress had lost confidence in him and the rank and file in the fbi. before the news broke, the president spoke to several members of congress to inform them of his decision. did that president direct rod rosenstein to write this letter? know, as i say, he had lost confidence injames comey and had considered letting him go since the daily was elected, but he did have a conversation with the deputy attorney general on monday where they had come to him to express their concerns, and the president asked that they put that recommendation and concerns in writing which is the letter you have received. why did he say in october that he had full confidence in him? he has questioned james comey‘s reason to stay at the fbi. i think one of the big catalysts was that last week, on wednesday, director comey made a pretty startling revelation that he'd thrown a stick of dynamite into the depart

what she said, sarah saunders, deputising for sean spicer on naval reserve activities at the back endey from his first day in office, and over time he gradually lost confidence in him, partly because he had thrown a hand grenade into the fbi headquarters. she said he committed atrocities. she didn't actually say what they were. they are sticking to the reasoning in those letters, that it was over the handling of the hillary clinton e—mail scandal and had nothing to do with the investigation into russian meddling and possible collusion with trump will stop why now? she said they wanted to give him a chance but he carried on making missteps. one question she was asked about was that did trump direct rosenstein to go away and write a letter asking for a decision that had already been made. she denied this. she said it was on the deputy‘s recommendation. denied this. she said it was on the deputy's recommendation. we have our correspondent now on capitol hill. a director at the fbi who is posted be not political has become so politicised, and judging from the people you been talking to on

. >> we're expecting sarah saunders here at 1:30 where she'll answer questions on all this. >> look forward. >> thanks so much. >> sue has the latest headlines. >> indeed, i do. thank you very much. here's what's happening. nato secretary meeting with british prime minister theresa may in london and he says the alliance is reviewing requests if additional troops to be sent in afghanistan. >> our biggest military operation ever is our operation in afghanistan. it's about fighting terrorism. about preventing that afghanistan becomes a safe haven for national terrorists. >> here at home, the u.s. postal service is hoping it can soon raise prices by a penny or more. this after reporting a quarterly loss $562 million. le legislation would allow a one cent increase. >>> and justin bieber arriving in mumbai for his purpose tour. the singer as you can see there, was welcomed by fans as he stepped out of the airport. he will perform before 40,000 fans a bit later today. that's the news, over to tyler, our own rock star with what's coming up on "power lunch." >> it was rumored about a week ago that b