This In The Middle Of The Comey Hearings

BREAKING: Speaker Paul Ryan says FBI director needs to be independent, says Trump unfamiliar with protocol, `just new to this'

— The Associated Press (@AP) June 8, 2017

My first bullet point this morning that Trump doesn't understand that he is not the boss of everyone in the federal government is now the Republican defense of his pressuring the FBI Director. That is, he simply didn't know he shouldn't do that.

Edit: Trump's lawyer responds with a written statement about the Comey hearing. It does not start off well: