President Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey

The NPR Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 10 May 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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This episode: host/White House correspondent Tamara Keith, congressional reporter Scott Detrow, and justice correspondent Carrie Johnson. More coverage at nprpolitics.org. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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0:00.0	It's the NPR Politics Podcast and we're back for a second time today because, wow,
0:11.0	President Donald Trump has fired FBI Director James Comey.
0:14.8	I'm Tamer Keith.
0:15.8	I cover the White House for NPR.
0:17.3	I'm Scott Detro.
0:18.3	I cover Congress.
0:19.3	And I'm Carrie Johnson, the Justice Correspondent.
0:21.8	Carrie.
0:22.8	Wow.
0:25.5	We are glad to have you here with us.
0:27.0	I'm happy to be here, although this news keeps breaking unpredictably.
0:31.7	This I got to say of all the things that have happened since November 2016.
0:35.7	This one comes out of the blue.
0:38.8	And so your jaw dropped to not just ours.
0:41.8	Not just mine.
0:42.8	I'm hearing from sources inside the FBI that they had no clue.
0:46.6	This was happening, nor that it was happening today.
0:49.7	There's a lot of shock and surprise and uncertainty at the Bureau right now.
0:54.4	Wow.
0:55.4	A figure we should probably do our timestamp disclaimer here.
0:59.2	It is about 8.10 pm on Tuesday, May 9.
1:03.3	Things may have changed by the time you hear this podcast.
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