Sample 05-15-17 Why Last Week Was Such A YUGE Deal

The Randi Rhodes Show

Randi Rhodes

Business, Government

4.8 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2017

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The firing of FBI Director James Comey was a YUGE deal. The Lester Holt interview will prove to be Trump’s Kryptonite.

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0:00.0	Hello, it's Randy Rhodes. Here's a clip from our show and go to Randy Roads.com for the whole thing and a podcast. Buy a Stinking podcast.
0:06.8	Believe it. Knock knock. Who's there? It's a segment of your imagination.
0:12.7	Turn up your mind.
0:16.4	He's a showboat. He's a grandstander. The FBI has been in turmoil. You know that. I know that. Everybody knows that. You take a look at the FBI a year ago. It was in virtual turmoil, less than a year ago. It hasn't recovered from that. Monday you met with the Deputy Attorney General Rob Rosenstein.
0:37.6	Did you ask for a recommendation?
0:39.7	What I did is I was going to fire, call me, my decision.
0:43.9	It was not.
0:44.9	You had made the decision before they came in the room.
0:46.0	I was going to fire Come Me.
0:47.7	Oops.
0:48.7	There's no good time to do it, by the way.
0:51.3	They were around.
0:52.3	Because in your letter, you said I accepted their recommendation, so you had already made the way. They were around. Because in your letter, you said I accepted their recommendation.
0:55.0	So you had already made the decision.
0:56.0	Oh, I was going to fire regardless of recommendation.
0:58.0	So there was really relevant.
0:59.0	He made a recommendation.
1:00.0	He's highly respected.
1:02.0	Very good guy, very smart guy.
1:04.0	The Democrats like him, the Republicans like him.
1:07.0	He made a recommendation.
1:09.0	But regardless of recommendation, I was going to fire Comey.
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