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All the media could talk about Tuesday night was how President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. As unfounded speculation about Trump’s assumed guilt swirled, CNN political commentator David Gregory was in a visible rage over the whole ordeal. At the end of the eight o’clock hour of Anderson Cooper 360, he declared that the firing was a display Trump’s “disdain” for the rule of law. But what was on full display was Gregory’s disdain for the Trump administration.
“I want to make a point about how absurd this night is,” he angrily told the rest of the panel partway through the nine o’clock hour. He railed against Attorney General Jeff Sessions for not standing up to the President. “So, at no time did he turn to the president and say, “You know, it would be inappropriate for you to fire the head of the FBI when the FBI is investigating your campaign by extension your White House for colluding with a foreign power,” he spat.
Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli spoke up and called Gregory’s visceral reaction absurd. “How is that absurd,” Gregory yelled across the table. “If you run an agency that runs investigations, which I have, that person does not day to day run the investigation. They are not in charge of the investigation. They manage the personnel and that's it,” Cuccinelli began to explain as Gregory proceeded to shout over him.
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