Thats one day after he suggested patriotic Russian Hackers might act, quote, behalf of their country. He wont judge President Trump for quitting the Paris Climate Accord even though he supports is. Is he messing with trump now . Plus you know whos going to be to go some talking soon . James comey. The white house is trying to muzzle him. Lets talk about all of this. Get to National Political reporter maeve, cnn contributor john dean. Good evening to all of you. Timothy, fbi, former fbi director James Comey Testifies on capitol hill where hell certainly be asked whether President Trump pressured him to drop the russia investigation. How consequential do you think this could be for the Trump Administration . This could be huge. After all james comey could lay the basis for a charge of obstruction of justice plchlt de. Mr. Dean with part of our group tonight and when he testified in 1973 he made a case the president was involved in a coverup. If mr. Comey lays out the case he was pressure
Alison, is a political backfire along the lines of trump vodka, trump steaks, not going well for the white house this morning, because we have new details this morning which paint a startling picture of a scorned President Trump increasingly consumed by a nowformer fbi director whose russia investigation was simply picking up too much steam for the president s comfort. A source close to comey telling cnns jake tapper, james comey was fired for two reasons now. Okay, here come the two reasons. First, comey never gave the personal loyalty. Urance of and second, the fbi investigation into possible collusion by team trump with russia, that was accelerating, so that may explain the timing of all this. Sources are telling cnn that comey was fired just a week after asking for more resources to investigate the russia connection. The white house for its part denies comey made that request. Regardless, there is progress reported in that probe. A Senate Committee issuing a subpoena to former Nati
All right. Here we are continuing on. Youre watching cnn. Im brooke baldwin. Two major live events happening this hour. One, live pictures there at the west wing. The president will speak from the white house for the very First Time Since news broke. The special counsel will now investigate whether his campaign had ties to russia. So were watching and waiting for that. Hes doing that with the colombian president. Meantime, up on capitol hill, you can see the microphones set up. Were hoping to hear from some of the senators. The man who appointed Robert Mueller is the Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein and he is briefing all 100 senators in a closeddoor meeting as i speak. And he is expected to reveal what he knows about why President Trump fired former fbi director james comey. But first, lets get to more breaking news because sources are telling cnn that former senator Joe Lieberman is the frontrunner to replace comey as fbi director. Lets begin there with our senior White House C
First comey never gave the president assurance of personal loyalty. Second, investigation into possible conclusion by team trump into russia was accelerating. That may explain the timing. Sources tell cnn comey was fired a week after asking for more resources to investigate the russia connection. The white house for its part denies comey made that request. Regardless, theres progress reported in that probe. A Senate Committee issuing a subpoena. First the white house doggedly defending its rationale for comeys firing. Deputy press secretary Huckabee Sanders using blunt language to describe the investigation into the handling of Hillary Clintons email. I think one of the big catalysts that we saw was last week on wednesday. Director comey made a pretty startling revelation that he had essentially taken a stick of dynamite and thrown it into the department of justice by going around the chain of command, having a letter like the one that he received, and having that conversation that out
That happens next . Plus im going to end up paying more than i pay right now in taxes, all right . So, there we have the president claiming what he would pay under his tax proposal. Will that really happen . And what about you, what about your taxes . Plus, north korea tessing the white house once again with another Missile Launch. But what happened this goround leaves some critical questions. All that right here, right now on msnbc live from washington, d. C. Good to have you with me. As President Trump and those with him celebrate 100 days in office and this very important marker, very few last year predicted this day would come. Big and bold promises were made from a thencandidate trump during the campaign. Today the president remains on defense, unable to close the deal on one of his Biggest Campaign promises, repeal and replace the Affordable Care act in his first 100 days. Unfortunately, because of the hard time that the republicans have had getting their hands around this thing,