Point made by Smerconish Saturday on CNN....
I have a viewer's like/dislike regard for Michael Smerconish; it depends on the day and the guest and...whatev.
But Saturday this, from Michael, caught my ear (I edited it for brevity):
Smerconish: The President's letter, the correspondence from the Attorney General, and the memo of the Deputy Attorney General - all have something in common. Each was dated May 9, 2017.
The President was asking us to believe that on May 9, Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General, provided Attorney General Jeff Sessions with a three-page memo.
And then, on the same day this memo was delivered to Sessions, Sessions immediately accepted Rosenstein's recommendation's, turned around and sent his own concurring letter to the President.
And then still, on that same day that the President gets Sessions' letter, he turns right around and writes to the director telling him, "You are hereby terminated."
It never made sense that such a momentous decision as firing the head of the FBI would be made by each of these three parties on a single day, particularly where there was no new information contained in the Deputy A.G.'s memo.
Indeed. Trying to get the government to do anything in a single day is unusual. Something as explosive as this would have other names on it for review, legally and politically. Is this legal? What's the impact? How is the wording? Does it conform to what we know? Etc., etc. That was not done here.
Here's the full transcript; the relevant part comes early: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1705/13/smer.01.html
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You have to explain who that is to the under 40 crowd, can you believe it?
I've truly underestimated this administration, they are so in sync. Astounding. 
