Friday, May 12, 2017

The Daily

The New York Times

News, Daily News

4.3 • 107.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The White House’s story about James Comey’s firing is unraveling. Among those contradicting the president is the president. Guests: Michael S. Schmidt, who has been reporting on the secret conversation that may have doomed Mr. Comey; Matthew Rosenberg, who followed Thursday’s testimony by Andrew G. McCabe, the acting director of the F.B.I. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is The Daily.
0:08.0	Today, Trump wanted an assurance, Komi refused to give it.
0:14.0	The secret conversation that may have doomed the FBI director.
0:18.0	And the White House's story of the firing is unraveling.
0:22.0	Among those contradicting the president is the president.
0:26.0	It's Friday, May 12th.
0:34.0	He's a showboat, he's a grandstander.
0:36.0	The FBI has been in turmoil. You know that.
0:40.0	I know that. Everybody knows that.
0:42.0	On Thursday, President Trump offered a new version of his decision this week to fire James Komi, the FBI director.
0:48.0	Here's what he told Lester Holt of NBC News.
0:52.0	I was going to fire Komi. My decision. It was not...
0:56.0	You had made the decision before they came in.
0:58.0	I was going to fire Komi. There's no good time to do it, by the way.
1:02.0	Because in your letter, you said I accepted their recommendations.
1:06.0	You had already made the decision.
1:08.0	Oh, I was going to fire regardless of the recommendations.
1:10.0	That's a reference to the White House's original claim that they decided to fire Komi just this week over the Clinton email investigation.
1:18.0	Based on the recommendation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein.
1:24.0	He made a recommendation. He's highly respected. Very good guy. Very smart guy.
1:28.0	The Democrats like him. The Republicans like him.
1:32.0	He made a recommendation. But regardless of recommendation, I was going to fire Komi.
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