On Tuesday night, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway appeared on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 to defend President Donald Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey. Conway and host Anderson Cooper battled for over ten minutes on the timing of the firing and the fact that Comey, as mentioned by Cooper, was heading an investigation into Trump campaign officials’ ties to Russia. At one point during the unfriendly exchange, Cooper can be seen rolling his eyes at the former campaign manager.
As noted by Business Insider, both the White House and the Justice Department claim Comey was axed over his handling of Hillary Clinton’s private email server during a July presser, in which he recommended no charges be brought against the former Secretary of State. “Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein said in a letter Tuesday that Comey ‘was wrong to usurp the Attorney General’s authority on July 5, 2016, and announce his conclusion that the case should be closed without prosecution,’ and added that ‘the FBI Director is never empowered to supplant federal prosecutors and assume command of the Justice Department.'”
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