I want the investigation speed up.

I greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that I am not under investigation.

I was going to fire him regardless of recommendations.

Look, he's a showboat. He's a grandstander. The FBI has been in turmoil.

I think he asked for the dinner. And he wanted to stay on as the FBI head and I said, 'I'll, you know, consider. We'll see what happens.'

As I was making the decision to fire Comey I was thinking about the Russia Trump story.

I want to find out if there was a problem with an election having to do with Russia or, by the way, anybody else, any other country. And, I want that to be so strong and so good and I want it to happen.

Well, I don't know if it's an FBI or if it's -- there's so many investigations. I don't know if it's an FBI investigation or if it's Congress, if it's the Senate and the House --

Look, he's a showboat. He's a grandstander. The FBI has been in turmoil. You know that, I know that, everybody knows that.

I know I'm not under investigation, me personally I'm not talking about campaigns I'm not talking about anything else. I'm not under investigation.

I want very simply a great FBI director.

I want to get to the bottom. If Russia hacked, if Russia did anything having to do with our election I wanted to know about it.

I think we had a great discussion having to do with Syria, having to do with the Ukraine and maybe that discussion will lead to a lot less people getting killed and will leave ultimately to peace.

I have nothing to do with Russia. I have no investments in Russia, none whatsoever.

I was going to fire Comey. My decision. It was not --

I said to myself, I said, 'You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story. It's an excuse by the Democrat for having lost an election that they should have won.'

If Russia or anybody else is trying to interfere with our elections, I think it's a horrible thing and I want to get to the bottom of it.

I'm looking to do a great job for the country. I'm looking to create jobs. I'm looking to create strength and security.