Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour.

I'm David Remnick.

Hello.

Hey, Jeff. How are you?

Hi, David.

Jeffrey Tubin is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a former federal prosecutor.

He writes for us about legal matters

large and small and in this case, very, very large. Jeff, I'm calling to talk about the obvious.

The first reason we heard for the firing of James Comey was that it had to do with Hillary Clinton's

emails. And as of now, it's Friday morning, we've already heard a few other reasons. And who knows

what we're going to

hear in the coming days?

From watching you on CNN, I get loud and clear that you think we've heard from the

White House so far is absolute baloney.

I would say baloney, bogus, untrue, all of those synonyms sum up how I feel about the stated justification

for the firing of James Comey.

What's the real reason?

Because I think he has grown increasingly frustrated, angry about Comey's leadership

of the

russia investigation and this was a way of cutting it short

so what does this mean during the campaign a lot of donald trump's critics

warned

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