From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is The Daily.

Today, the firing of James Comey has raised questions of a White House cover-up and drawn comparisons to Nixon's Midnight Massacre.

But there's another version of this that amounts to not much at all.

And an overlooked executive order that would seem to blur the line between church and state, the case four and against politics from the pulpit.

It's Monday, May 15.

On Saturday night, the writers of SNL captured a profound sense of outrage over last week's firing of FBI Director James Comey.

But that's obstruction of justice.

Sure. Okay.

Wait, so did I get him? Is this all over?

No, I didn't. Nothing matters. Absolutely nothing matters anymore.

But for many of the president's supporters, the real outrage is over all this outrage in the first place.

There is some hypocrisy there and the right has absolutely delighted in that. They're just loving this.

Jeremy Peters writes about conservatives and the right-wing media.

So putting aside all the contradicting versions of why President Trump fired James Comey,

is there a version of this past week in which the president did nothing at all that alarming?

Yes, and that version of events is playing out right now before something like half the country.

They are absolutely losing it. They're completely unhanged.

On websites like Breitbart and on highly watched networks like Fox.

First, they have to range liberal crackpots through at it again and they're using President Trump's decision.

Very important decision of fire the now former FBI director to push all kinds of brand new, completely insane, bizarre conspiracy theories.

We'll hear not stories about Donald Trump's ever changing and evolving explanation of why he fired Comey.

But you will hear stories about how during the NBC News interview with Lester Holt,

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