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Trump Fires FBI Director
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| Trump fired the FBI director and a lot of people aren't happy. | |
| Yeah, and a lot of them were calling for his head until he was fired. | |
| Right. | |
| Yeah, like Chuck Devon. | |
| That's right. | |
| Isn't that right? | |
| If you could hear this studio audience, this is a smart studio audience. | |
| That's exactly right. | |
| First of all, this is my personal view. | |
| I don't know why it took him so long to fire the guy. | |
| I think it should have been done on the 20th of January. | |
| Right. | |
| And may I ask a quick question? | |
| Don't most presidents, when incoming administrations, don't they usually get rid of? | |
| Not immediately. | |
| Not immediately, but as a president, as a senior investigator in your administration, you want somebody that you have a relationship with, you know, that's kind of. | |
| But doesn't the president have to appoint up to 3,000 people when he's president? | |
| Yeah. | |
| And fire. | |
| 4,000. | |
| And I mean, you remember Trump used to fire people? | |
| You know, you're fired. | |
| Well, he has to get rid of about 3,000 is what the number I heard. | |
| I'm not sure they could. | |
| It's over 4,000. | |
| Over 4,000. | |
| And he has to replace them. | |
| So now the same people that a few weeks ago were calling for James Comey to be fired. | |
| They're now saying the world has come to an end. | |
| The worst thing that has ever happened in America, there's a constitutional crisis. | |
| They're calling now. | |
| I know. | |
| And it's not, it's just an act of how the government works in America, and we hired a president by voting. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And he's doing what he said he would do. | |
| So your thoughts, General? | |
| There are a couple of things that have just come out in the last couple of days, last 24 hours, actually, on Comey. | |
| One is that he ultimately, the decision was made because Comey knows who was responsible for unmasking members of the Trump administration like Michael Flynn. | |
| And he won't tell, he won't say. | |
| He wouldn't tell. | |
| Do you know Michael by any chance? | |
| I've known him for a long time. | |
| Is he a good guy? | |
| He's a good guy. | |
| He's a good man. | |
| He's a good man, but he made a fatal mistake when he lied to Mike Pence. | |
| And that was a mistake that he couldn't recover from. | |
| The fact that during his recent testimony, he made a statement saying, well, if I had to do it all over again, I'd do the same thing. | |
| He said I would have done the same recommendation in July, not to prosecute Hillary, and then I would have brought the evidence forward. | |
| And he said, at that time, I had two choices. | |
| I could reveal it or I could conceal it. | |
| Well, when you got the top investigator in America saying I could conceal information, that means that you've lost perspective of who you are and what your job is. | |
| You're not a chief prosecutor. | |
| You're the chief investigator. | |
| You can't hide information. | |
| And I think that's more realistically, that's why he was ultimately fired, was that statement alone said that he had lost touch with what his job was. | |
| Right. | |
| And I have a question for you, General Boykin. | |
| Most of the time, we don't hear about people being fired in politics. | |
| Usually, I would say behind closed doors, maybe they're asked to resign or things like that. | |
| So do you think this was a message being sent that he was actually fired using the word fired in the media? | |
| I think Trump wanted to do this in the strongest terms possible. | |
| And you're right. | |
| Most of the time it's, well, we've asked for his resignation. | |
| He's submitted it. | |
| That's what occurs in most cases. | |
| I think Trump wanted to send a very strong message. | |
| Look, the FBI is so critical to our national security. | |
| And He's got to put a new leader in there. | |
| And I think he was sending a message, a very strong message to the FBI. | |
| Number one, because the morale of the FBI is very low. | |
| And I think he was saying, okay, all you hardworking agents out there on the street, I recognize you got a leadership problem at the FBI, and I'm going to deal with it straight on. | |
| You're fired, Mr. Comey. | |
| Now I'm going to find somebody that can do what's expected of the senior investigator in this country. | |
| Now, who would that person be? | |
| I don't know. | |
| Who is going to take that? | |
| Well, the news is speculating about all kinds of people, Trey Gowdy being one of them, you know. | |
| But I don't know. | |
| This is going to have to be somebody that has, in my view, more than just congressional experience. | |
| Trey Gowdy was a prosecutor. | |
| He's a good guy, and I know him. | |
| But we need an investigator, and that's why I think Comey got crossways with him. | |
| He's an investigator. | |
| We need the best investigator we can find, and somebody that is not going to go off the deep end and become a political creature. | |
| And let me just say that. | |
| You've seen a lot of that. | |
| We've seen a lot of that. | |
| And I, quite frankly, all you have to do is watch the testimony by Comey. | |
| And he's got a little arrogant streak in him that I think ultimately did not sit well with the president. | |
| I'm speculating on there, but I don't think that sat well with Donald Trump. | |
| I agree. | |
| I think it didn't sit well with too many people, Americans, who watched those. | |