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, I said to myself, I said, you know, this Russia thing with T..."

"I mean, he wouldn't have fired the FBI director if he cared about that."

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