On Thursday's edition of MSNBC's 'Morning Joe,' host Joe Scarborough cited an anonymous allegation from this New York Times story stating FBI director James Comey on Monda met with deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, two days before he was fired, to ask for additional resources for the FBI's Russia election interference investigation.



DOJ Spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said since then that this claim is "totally false."



Scarborough takes the debunked allegation and speculates: "Rosenstein, this sainted figure, according to Trump hacks, gets this information, passes it along to Jeff Sessions, who passes it along to Donald Trump -- we are almost certain -- and then what happens? Donald Trump suddenly decides that Comey must be fired at once."



"If the U.S. Senate doesn't investigate this deeply, and make sure the FBI is given every penny that the former FBI director was asking for, this is a Constitutional crisis," Scarborough concludes.



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Transcript of Scarborough's argument:





JOE SCARBOROUGH: The lies of yesterday morning got burned off by noontime. By the late afternoon, some great reporting from a lot of great newspapers, a lot of great journalists. What did we find out yesterday morning? All the Trump apologists, all the people spinning, all the White House hacks, all came out and said he had to do this because the deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein had a memo, and the memo was so incredible, he had no choice. What if he had not followed that memo? Imagine the scandal. That's all we heard. Then we find out two things.



First, that James Comey, the FBI director, went to Rod Rosenstein, the sainted figure according to people in the Trump administration, whose wisdom and knowledge came down from Mount Sinai and could not be ignored.



What did we find out? Actually the president of the United States called him on Monday into his office along with Jeff Sessions and said, I need a memo to justify my firing of Comey.



What makes this even worse, Mika, is the fact that is the same man, Rod Rosenstein, and this needs to be investigated on Capitol Hill, this is the same man, right there, the man you see leaving his house yesterday morning, had a meeting with the FBI director, with James Comey.



James Comey let that man in that car know that he needed more money, more resources, to expand the investigation between Russia --Vladimir Putin-- and Donald Trump.



Rod Rosenstein, this sainted figure, according to Trump hacks, gets this information, passes it along to Jeff Sessions, who passes it along to Donald Trump -- we are almost certain -- and then what happens? Donald Trump suddenly decides that Comey must be fired at once.



You're going to be hearing a lot of stories saying 'This Anger has been rising for months,' 'He wasn't even sure if he should fire Director Comey or not.'



He only fired him in rapid succession with these letters―the request, the letter, and the firing―because he knew that because he knew that Comey was about to kick this investigation into overdrive.



If the U.S. Senate doesn't investigate this deeply... and make sure the FBI is given every penny that the former FBI director was asking for, this is a Constitutional crisis.