Decision. Before the trip next week possibly . Even that is possible. Those comments on air force one a moment before the president gave the commencement address at Liberty University this morning. Did he weigh in on this fbi firestorm . You decide. In my short time in washington, ive seen firsthand how the system is broken. A small group of failed voices who think they know everything and understand everyone want to tell everybody else how to live and what to do and how to think. But you arent going to let other people tell you what you believe especially when you know that you are right. We have Team Coverage tracking this story. Lets bring in ryan nobles live for us at Liberty University where now the crowd has cleared out. So ryan, have the President Trumps comments evolved any further on his decision to fire comey and this private dinner that happened just seven days after inauguration . Reporter a really hasnt and the president didnt offer any insight into his Decision Making process here at Liberty University focusing just on a message of encouragement for the graduates here. So were still left to wonder exactly what the president was talking about in this tweet that really sent shockwaves through washington where the president wrote, quote, james comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. The white house has been pressed repeatedly over and over again asked specifically is there someone or some thing recording conversations in the oval office, in the residence, anywhere in the white house. And were not getting any straight answers on that. And in fact the president was asked about this specific topic last night on fox news, and this is how he answered. What about the idea that in a tweet you said that there might be tape recordings. Why talk about it. I wont talk about that. All i want is for comey to be honest. And i hope he will be. And im sure he will be i hope. Our reporting tells us that james comey and associates close to him telling our justice team that he is not at all worried about this conversation that he had with the president , that he is prepared to be honest when the time comes. Hes turned down an opportunity to testify in front of the Senate Intelligence committee on tuesday in a closed session, but we imagine at some point we will get james comeys side of the story. Meanwhile the president says he is moving closer to picking his next fbi and as you showed on the plane coming down here to lynchburg, and we know there are four candidates being interviewed, senator john cornyn, andrew mccabe, alice fisher who is an attorney worked in the george w. Bush administration, and judge Michael Garcia who works in the court of appeals in new york city. So a lot of work in the president to do before he heads out on a big overseas trip. Thank you so much. So this whirlwind questions, contradictions, doubts and answers swirling around the white house this week starting with the dismissal of the fbi director james comey. And then ending with President Trump publicly threatening comey in a tweet. Jeff zeleny has the latest. Reporter President Trump adding new fuel to the fire today in his escalating fight with the fbi. Making a veiled threat on twitter to james comey. The president saying the fired fbi director better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. Stunning words from the commander in chief directed at the nations former top Law Enforcement official. The man who was leading an investigation into potential collusion between the Trump Campaign and russian operatives before being fired tuesday. The president refused to answer the question he raised himself in an interview tonight with fox news. What about the idea that in a tweet you said that there might be tape recordings . I cant talk about it, i wont talk about that. All i want is for comey to be honest. And i hope he will be and im sure he will be i hope. Reporter White House PressSecretary Sean Spicer also refused to answer whether there is a rorgd system in tecording oval office or whether the president is taping his conversations there or elsewhere. Ive talked to the president and the president has nothing further to add on that. Reporter when asked again and again, sean spicer ended the Daily White House briefing with a question whether any tapes exist still hanging in the air. Spicer disputed the suggestion the president s warning to comey was a threat. That is not a threat. Hes simply stating a fact. The tweet speaks for itself. Im moving on. Reporter but its unclear whether the president is moving on. He aimed another one at comey today after making his feelings clear thursday. Look, hes a showboat, hes a grandstander. Reporter at issue the dinner President Trump invited comey to. And there was the president asked his fbi director about loyal loyalty. He told me you are not undecembunder investigation. Reporter the president s obsession with the Russian Investigation is what led to comeys firing. Tonight the credibility of the president and his advisers is in question as the white house becomes increasingly consumed by chaos and crisis of leadership. The president is isolated andage talts e agitated associates tell cnn, he finished a full week barely seen at the white house before making this brief afternoon appearance with the first lady. What a friendly beautiful group. Reporter but his views have been heard in a roaring twitter storm. He acknowledged conflicting excan plan nations in the time line of comeys firing offering no apology, but bluntly conceding accuracy seems optional. As a very active president with loots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at the podium with perfect accuracy. He went on to say maybe the best thing do would be to cancel all future press briefings and hand out written sponlgss fresponses. Today at least that didnt happen. A full house today. Reporter the press secretary was back at the podium after a perilous week for the administration. The attempt to make it more of a game of gotcha. Reporter and the president is frustrated by his Communications Team telling fox news he might take matters into his own hands. Sean spicer, he is a wonderful human being. Is he your press secretary today and tomorrow . Will he be tomorrow . Well, hes doing a good jorks but he gets beat up. Will he be there tomorrow . Hes been there from the beginning. Reporter for now spicer remains in place, apparently just in time to be lampooned again on saturday night live. Melissa mccarthy spotted today in midtown manhattan filming this weeks episode. Jeff zeleny, thank you so much. Lets talk more with my panel. Back with us, ryan nobles, were also joined by david swerlic and Nic Robertson on. The wawashington post is reporting that trump is known to record conversations at trump tower and even listen in on talks at maralago. So i guess the suspicion is wouldnt he be recording conversations at the white house, too . Yeah, there is a even evolving debate about the heldity of the recording at the white house, the tendency that im hearing so far from legal experts seems to be on the side of its possible that that is legal. The president has said hasnt said much about it. And certainly the implication of the president s tweet was that he may have been reporting conversations including between him and director comey, although i did hear Michael Smerconish this morning say another theory is that he was sort of threatening comey with the possibility that comey might have been recording those conversations. That being said, i dont know any Legal Authority that would suggest that it would be legal for the president to ser repetitiore sur rep tissuely record folks at maralago before he was president and maybe not even after he was president. Its not clear if that is considered a secure government facility, but im not an expert on that. That will play out. But i think the bigger issue here is about the optics and politics and the really terrible week that the white house had in terms of bun gelling its rollout of this, casting further cloud of suspicion, not the legal particulars at least not yet. And i wonder, too, if the see quents of events has led this president into a place of isolation and if that is indeed the case, if that how much more problematic that makes it for his leadership of the white house, leaderhip of the republican party. At least in the case of this week, its selfinflicted. I mean everything that rolled out this week was this unique combination in the Trump Administration of uberous and inexperience or even if you want to say amateur hour. Even if you were going to fire director comey which no matter what would cast a cloud of suspicion, why go out there and hang everything one day on the Rod Rosenstein memo and then the next day directly contradict that and suggest all but say to lester holt that President Trump wanted to do this related to what he feels is a bogus russia investigation. But here is the catch. To your question in terms of the politics, hes still at 41 in the Gallup Daily Tracking which is not much different from where he started on inauguration day. Hes always been between 45 and 35 . There is a base of support that so far is not willing to let go of President Trump and will stand by him even though the optics are so bad. And ryan, youre in lynchburg, virginia. The president just wrapped up his commencement address to the graduates of Liberty University there. And you cant help but notice in his language he used a lot of words of foreshadowing because he was talking about, you know, the future, painting a picture of the future of some of these graduate, they will be assigned to fixing broken government. I mean, he is maintaining this, know, jargon that a lot has to be fixed, so it sounds as though he feels like he is undeterred if not defiant in how he is running the white house. Youre right. And this crowd ate that up. The president certainly at times seems fatigued by what is happening inside washington. The criticism that he has received from people inside the beltway. But when he leaves and goes into these areas of the country where the support that david was talking about remains so many lid, it seems to give him energy. He received a standing ovation from the first moment that he was on stage. There were no protesters in this crowd. There were plenty of people with a make America Great again hats on. He was well received. And i think that makes him feel as if the work that he is doing in washington is for the greater good. And what he told this crowd here is that when you are being deterred by people, embrace that outsider status. He said its only outsiders that change the world. So he continues to view himself as an outsider. And if we can take anything from this message here today, i dont expect him to change vours acou anytime soon. So receptive audience there, but what about on the global stage. What are people thinking and feeling about all that has happened this week, the sequence of events and the president s handling . Its a u. S. Domestic issue, so youre not finding governments around the world making comments but it, but put yourself in the position of theresa may fighting an election, she was actually meeting with President Trump the day before about that dinner with the fbi chief james comey. She was embarrassed by President Trump immediately after that trip because of the travel ban that reflected badly on her quick to form a strong relationship with him and now shes in an election campaign. This issue comes up and you have the leader of the opposition who frankly isnt doinging very well here, but he is lambasting the Prime Minister again for her relationship with President Trump saying that britain shouldnt acquiesce its security to the United States, ie, well have a good relationship, but it wont the relationship the Prime Minister wants. Its critical that the Prime Minister take in the opportunity of what has happened to President Trump and political points will be scored around the World Leaders who put themselves close to President Trump. That would be the concern. So some of the optics look very bad. You think as well about what theresa may said when she was in washington and then philadelphia at the republican retreat when she talked about russia, she talked about engage but beware. What did we hear from the white house this week from sources she gave him a warning. And what did we hear from white house sources this week, that they felt that they were tricked by the russians release of the photographs, that the russians were essentially lying. So you have somebody who is giving advice like Angela Merkel has as well and then it reflects badly on them. So this is how World Leaders will have to camly bra calibrat leader who has pluses but maybe minuses, too. And those photographs of a meeting between President Trump, Russian Foreign minister and the Russian Ambassador to the u. S. The day after the firing of comey, optics also very questionable. And in fact, david, there were many people who were polled on the president s handling of the firing of james comey and you can see right here, according to this gallup poll that at least among the gop, 79 approve and again on party lines 14 of democrats were in on which position of that. 78 p 78 disapprove as a whole. So is this how it will go as it pertains to talks about the Ongoing Investigation of russian ties to the white house, will that be along partisan lines as well as the ckoconfirmation the next fbi director . Perfect point about the next fbi director. I do think this is the way it will go for the foreseeable future. The problem for democrats going forward, if you look at the phone numbers and see how 78 or 79 of republicans are standing by the way President Trump has handled the firing of director comey, democrats should disabuse themselves of the notion that there will be some sea change in republican support or that republicans in congress will start standing up ram rod straight against President Trump or that there would be an impeachment in the offing anytime soon. That is something democrats need to sort of think of as a dwreep a dream and get over it. On the republican side, they have to realize even though they are standing by trump right now, that everything the president has done if the last week and a lot of things in the first 1 on 100 or 120 days has allowed the democrats to oppose him at every turn. Hes made it ease for democrats to say were not helping you at all with pushing your agenda in congress including no appear who he nominates for fbi director. I dont expect democrats to take it easy on that nominee when they come before the senate for confirmation. Still likely to go through with the republican majority. They will pass, yes. Already. St all right. Stay with us. Appreciate your inputs. Ady. All right. Stay with us. Appreciate your inputs. Coming up, it was a week to remember. Former director of National Intelligence saying he never ruled out possible evidence of collusion between the Trump Campaign and russia. This as the president says hes not under investigation. And more calls are pouring in for a special prosecutor. Well comb through all of that next. Im dr. Kelsey mcneely and some day you might be calling me an energy farmer. Energy lives here. People would ask me that we traveled,ntries what is your nationality and i would always answer hispanic. So when i got my ancestry dna results it was a shocker. Im from all nations. It puts a hunger in your heart to want to know more. 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Jim sciutto has the story. Reporter the nations former top spy says that he has never ruled out evidence of collusion between Trump Associates and russia during the campaign. Directly contradicting President Trump who tweeted just hours early when James Clapper himself and virtually everyone else with knowledge of the witch hunt says there is no collusion, when does it end. In an interview with ms innocent, the former director of National Intelligence says he believesmf. There was no evidence that came that rose to that level at that time that found its way into the Intelligence Community assessment which we had pretty high confidence in. That is not to say that there wasnt evidence, but not that met that threshold. Reporter but during the White House Press briefing, sean spicer insisted it is James Clapper who is changes history. Now saying i wasnt sure about it. The burden seems to be on him, not us. Reporter director clapper also expressed doubts about mr. Trumps version of a dinner with fired fbi director james comey. He wanted to have dinner because he wanted to say on. He asked for the dinner . The dinner was arranged. I think he asked for the dinner. Reporter but clapper says trump invited comey. He had been invited to the white house. Reporter and former fbi chief was uncomfortable with the invitation. In a difficult position to refuse to go, but i do know he was uneasy with it just for the appearance of compromising the independence of the fbi. Reporter the dinner came just one day after then acting attorney general sally yates warned the white house that then National Security adviser Michael Flynn could be compromised by russia. That timing raising concerns about white house interference in the fbis Ongoing Investigation into whethe Trump Campaign associates colluded with the russian government. Cnn has learn tlad comey wed th taken aback when trump asked him to pledge his loyalty and he instead promised to always be honest with the president. In fact fbi employees pledged to be loyal only to the u. S. Constitution, not to any individual including the president. All of us in the fbi are focused, hyper focus is on faility to the mission, not faility to a poll tesch shn, not faility to any person. Reporter the president claims coq assured mr. Trump that he was not under investigation related to the russian probe and that coq asked him to keep him on as fbi chief. A course says that comey did not ask to keep his john and just three days earlier trump told coq he would stay on. N and just three days earlier trump told coq he would stay on. Bn and jus three days earlier trump told coq he would stay on. And just three days earlier trump told coq he would stay on. And hes not worried about any taped recordings of their conversations. James comey was invited by the Senate Intelligence committee to testify next week. We learned that he has turned down that invitation. Im told by someone with firsthand knowledge of his thinking that he wants to take some time off and lay low for a while. Jim sciutto, cnn, washington. Lets talk more about this with my panel. With me now, page pate and also our cnn political commentator. So we heard clapper say he has never ruled out possible evidence of collusion between the Trump Administration and ties with russia. But how difficult is to prove collusion . It can be very difficult. I mean, collusion itself is not a crime. What they are looking sat whether there was a conspiracy, an unlawful agreement between people in the trump team and people with the vush thrussian government. It could be done by hacking Hillary Clintons emails. And we heard publicly he urged the russians to hack her e maltmalt mails, that could be an agreement to accomplish an unlawful purpose. Is it equally difficult to prove obstruction if as people dissect the tweet if about there are tapes or no tapes that the president would use language that some are interpreting as threatening language to james comey that before you go talk to the press or anything, remember there are tapes . I dont think weve heard enough yet to get to the point of obstruction. But it is critically important if there are tapes to know what is on those tapes. He we need to know what trump and comey talked about. To commit the federal crime of obstruction, there has to be an official proceeding and were past that, clearly there is an investigation, subpoenas have gone out, but then you have to show criminal intent. Did trump intend to influence corruptly influence that investigation. What weve seen and heard so far i just dont think its enough to get there. And so david, you have 20 democrats attorney generals calling on road Rod Rosenstein appoint an independent prosecutor. One of those prosecutors was on cnn this morning explaining why he signed take letter. Its clear that were talking about a serious investigation. Youre talking about the potential of meddling in a democratic president ial election with the russians. What we need is a thorough investigation that doesnt have anything to do with politics or partisanship. The only way we can do do what times during president elects tenu president clintons tenure, and that is to hire a special counsel who has not been hired by the president and cannot be fired by the president. Its only that type of special counsel who can restore the Public Confidence in the justice system. So david, is there any way of knowing the loyalties of rosenstein and whether he would appoint an independent special counsel . So my own view is were at a stage where would it be appropriate for a special counsel. Deputy attorney general rosenstein is not obligated to do so. And everything that ive heard, i dont know him, i have not interviewed him, but everything that ive heard about him, everything that ive read about him, we have a piece by someone who knows him tomorrow in the outlook section of the washington post, someone extolling his credibility and his honesty and integrity, everything about him says that hes a stand up upright guy with high degree of intelling xwritsity and professionalism. That being said, in my view, fred, he got rolled by President Trump. He was asked to produce that memo and it seems to me that if you look back on everything that has happened in the last two years, what could he have thought . Not applying the legal standard, using a common sense standard, what could he have thought that he was preparing that memo for. I want to be clear, he didnt break the law. Nothing he did was dishonest. But why would you prepare that if you didnt think the president was going to use it as a pretext for what we saw last bike. Except that reportedly he was upset that he was the unwitting fall guy. Webike. Except that reportedly he was upset that he was the unwitting fall guy. Ebike. Except that reportedly he was upset that he was the unwitting fall guy. Ike. Except that reportedly he was upset that he was the unwitting fall guy. Ke. Except that reportedly he was upset that he was the unwitting fall guy. Except that reportedly he was upset that he was the unwitting fall guy. So if that is the case, he might be looking at the letter of the law which would mean he would lean toward a special prosecutor. I trust that he will appoint a special prosecutor. He is the man that everybody says he is. Hes worked for republicans, democrats. And youre right, he works and is i think upholding to the ruled of law. He is the type of person that is willing to be independent, to stand up to this president. H has to realize that the only way to restore credibility in this investigation is to bring in someone from the outside. Ive heard some legal analysts talk about the federal witness protection and as we talk about that tweet and whether its threatening or not, and if this has laid the ground work for the case of comey potentially being treated as a witness who would need some sort of federal protections. Is that off the charts, do you see that as reasonable . I think its probably off the charts. I think President Trump sometimes tends to be full of bluster. I dont think he really intends to threaten the former director of the fbi. But putting pressure on a potential witness either in a congressional hearing or in a department of justice investigation, that can be obstruction. All right. Page, david, thank you so much. Appreciate it. James clapper will weigh in again on all of this tomorrow morning on state of the union. Former director of nargs al intelligence sitting down with jake tapper at 9 00 a. M. Only here on cnn are. Are. Re. E. The things they love to do most on these balloons. 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This is ransom wear that takes over peoples executers a ersco literally demands 300 in bitcoins to get access to your files again. And this is actually affecting peoples lives because we had hospitals that you were mentioning that had been hit and so they were having to cancel outpatient appointments for instance. The interesting thing here is a security researcher has actually inadvertently or accidentally you could say stopped the spread of the virus. But were not out of the woods yet because if youre computer was already infected, you might show up at work on monday and see one of these messages demanding the 300 in bitcoins and a lot of researchers are afraid that there could be plenty of copycats out there and other strains of this virus. And so this use of the bitcoin currency, thats what makes if so difficult to really hunt down the villains here. It makes it very difficult to trace where the money is going, where it is even come from. And that is why they are choosing to use bitcoin. And its interesting because the experts arent pointing their fingers at anybody yet, but i just want to bring back that map that you showed at the beginning of this segment because if you look at it, it shows that there are infections all around the world. Nobody should assume that the russians or the chinese are to blame here. The places that have been worst affected are taiwan, ukraine, and russia. So russia one of the biggest victims here. Likely according to many sources a group of cyber criminals really just looking for money, not a state or a government. Samuel burke, thanks. Donald trumps firing of james comey had washington spins this week. What about the rest of the country . We check in on how his supporters outside the beltway took the news, next. After a couple years if nothing gets done, then i dont think he will have any supporters left. R whos stared down the best in her sport. 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Reporter to more than 50 years, henry lewis has sold chevy cars and trucks in canton, texas. You wrote this book for your grandkids . Yeah. Reporter full of life lessons. But in his stair sbpare time, h wrote a book for his granddaughter and he says page 10 can help explain a lot especially trumps firing of james comey. Hes a showboat, a grand stander. Reporter if your presentation is on a sixks txthe level, it will be listened to and appreciated. Do you think donald trump has mastered that . I think donald trump would agree with that statement. You know, we may make him a book. Reporter lewis still strongly supports trump. Hes not bothered by the president s tweets seeming to threaten comey. But lewis acknowledges some of trumps antics are starting to wear thin. It bothers me a little bit. I mean, i think hed be better served if he were more president ial, if you take the high road and more president ial. Reporter but your faith in him is still solid . Yeah, hes a businessman and thats what the country needs a i voted for him and id vote for him again. Reporter canton, texas sits in the heart of van zandt county, the antique shopping capital of the world, where donald trump won 85 respect about of the vote. We found support still runs strong. Carol runs her own antique shop and this exchange with her offered unique insight into why trumps most ardent supporters havent lost faith. With all the crazy headlines weve seen, if you replaced the name trump and you put in hillary or obama, do you think his supporters would have the same reaction, dismiss things like the russia investigation, questions about taxes . No. No. Because there is so much hope with trump being in office. I think that is what drives people to believe in him. Because hes a businessman. He gets stuff done. That is a proven fact. Reporter she voted for president obama in 2008, didnt vote in 2012, and then voted for trump. She says the clock is ticking and that Trump Supporters can handle the draw madrama as long gets done on issue like health care. Is that a sign there is a crack in trumps armor . After a couple years if about nothing getting done and its drama all the time, then i dont think hell have many supporters left. Reporter Donald Trumps act might not seem president ial to even some of his supporters, but in the antique shops of this east texas town, the act hasnt gotten old yet. Ed lavendera, cnn. And the Electronics Ban at airports, airlines are scrambling to iron out the new protocols. Details next. Ugh, no bars. Oh no, looks like somebody needs a new network. When i got this unlimited plan they told me they were all the same. Theyre not. Verizon has the largest, mostreliable 4g lte network in america. Its basically made for places like this. Honey, what if it was just us out here . Right. So, i ordered you a car. Thank you. You dont want to be out here at night cause of the, uh, coyotes. 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Those comments coming moments right there on air force one moments before the president gave the commencement address at Liberty University in lunchburg, have lunch bu lynchburg, virginia. Lets go to ryan nobles. Everyone is cleared out, enjoying their day as graduates. So what more do we know about the fbi interviews taking place not far away in the nations kapts at the departme capital at the department of justice . Reporter no doubt this was a few tumultuous week. And our sources telling us that many staffers are a little bit rattled by this, that there is definitely a bit of fatigue by everything that has taken place and that the president is really hoping to get things back on track by trying to find an fbi director that will bring some sort of con on census in washington, someone that republicans in the senate can can