Donald Trump actually said...

I haven't giving it any thought. I've been reading about it from you people, oh, I'm going to dismiss him. No, I'm not dismissing anybody.

Regardless of recommendation, I was going to fire Comey, knowing there was no good time to do it, and in fact when I decided to just do it, ...

Now they're saying, 'Oh, well, 'Did he fight back? Did he fight back?' John -- you fight back, oh, it's obstruction.

You know, you can't really argue that you didn't start a fire when someone else blew out the match.