Donald Trump actually said...

You know, the president is allowed to fire the FBI director as he did and he could have set in motion the firing of Robert Mueller.

No, not at all.

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, ...