During the segment, both confirmed that their unnamed sources inside the White House believe Former FBI Director James Comey was sacked for "violating the chain of command" - a charge that goes against White House statements claiming Comey was sacked for mishandling the probe into Hillary Clinton's emails.
In a tweet on Tuesday night, Trump took aim at Schumer. Democrats quickly accused Trump of using Comey's handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation as a pretext and called for a special prosecutor into the Russian Federation probe.
US President Donald Trump's sacking of FBI Director James Comey has set up a crucial test of America's democratic institutions, and the response will determine whether the country's system of checks and balances can operate effectively in a moment of constitutional crisis.
"That's 100% accurate", Stone agreed. But it is illogical for Trump to use that as a pretext now for firing the director. At the Justice Department, the person who'd appoint a special counsel for Russian Federation is Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein - the same Rod Rosenstein who wrote a three-page memo the White House is using to justify Mr. Comey's firing.
"Trump praised him for the work on the email investigation, so that's not it", said Austin Berglas, a former FBI supervisory agent on hacking cases. Testifying to Congress in March, Comey confirmed the FBI was investigating the Trump campaign and batted away the president's claims that former President Barack Obama had wiretapped his telephone. The probe overseen by the House Select Committee on Intelligence is now a tangled mess, given the move by chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R) of California to secretly visit the White House to view documents he said might help prove Trump's accusation that he was wiretapped by President Obama during the campaign. At the time Comey said it was "a big counter-intelligence and criminal investigation", Feinstein said.
"Nixon had to fire his [attorney general], and I recommended it", Buchanan said, adding that Nixon "had no other choice" than to fire a cabinet member who refused an order during such trying times.
Some Republicans said Comey's firing will be a fresh start, while others called Trump's dismissal bad timing.
As reported by CNN, Trump fired Attorney General Sally Yates and Preet Bharara, who was United States Attorney for the Southern District of NY, while both of whom were investigating the Trump administration.
United States intelligence agencies concluded in a January report that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered an effort to disrupt the 2016 election that included hacking into Democratic Party emails and leaking them, with the aim of helping Trump.
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Sanders quoted Scarborough as saying there wasn't any evidence of collusion between the Trump administration and Russian Federation, but Scarborough corrected her to say that he did not see an "obvious" link.
If Comey offered the president such assurances, in the early days of a sensitive Federal Bureau of Investigation probe of possible ties between Trump campaign officials and the Russian government, his disclosures were inappropriate under Justice Department protocols.
On the floor, some could be seen having animated conversations, and Senator Richard Burr, the North Carolina Republican who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee, was among them.
Republicans, many of whom have fallen into line behind Mr Trump after initial reluctance, sought to distance themselves from the President.
"I have said from the get-go that I think a special prosecutor is the way to go, but now with what's happened it is the only way to go", Schumer said Wednesday on the Senate floor.
Dismissing Mr. Comey in early May could lead one to believe the Trump White House is attempting to scuttle the investigation. Even some House and Senate Republicans criticized Comey's dismissal Wednesday, saying the timing made no sense and that the upheaval would complicate the ongoing investigations.
While Democrats uniformly condemned Trump's decision and demanded an independent investigation, the public reaction among the Republican majority in Congress was more mixed - and cautious.
In brief remarks to reporters, Trump said he fired Comey because "he wasn't doing a good job".
The manner of Mr Comey's sacking was just the tip of a rather explosive iceberg.
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