we need to have an independent review. i am, though, concerned on why the president would pick this particular time to fire mr. comey, just as we ve had other information about subpoenas being issued in regards to those close with mr. trump, involving russia, where we now have reports that mr. comey had sought some additional funds from the department of justice in order to do the russian investigation. and mr. trump is now meeting directly with the foreign minister of russia, as if nothing has changed. all of that raises alarm bells to me, that i would like to get answers. senator ben cardin of maryland, thanks very much for joining us. thank you. with james comey out now at fbi, some on capitol hill are calling for a new independent investigation into russia s election meddling, maybe even a special prosecutor. we re going to talk about that and more, republican senator rand paul of kentucky. he s standing by. he ll join us, live. plus, who should replace comey as the next fb
frankly, it s startling democrats aren t celebrating this. another one i want to ask you, too. i think there s a dwo question limit around here. following on that, you said he made a lot of missteps and mistakes. back at the end of october this president was applauding the fbi director when he reopened the investigation into hillary clinton s e-mail. so he seemed quite happy with him at that point. what changed? i think the president s position. one, he was a candidate for president, not the president. those are two very different things. once you take over leading the department of just, that s very different from being a candidate in a campaign. as you guys all known, there s a clear distinction between those two things. i think also having a letter like the one he received and having that conversation that outlined the basic just atrocities in circumventing the
fired. but what we do know, wolf, is that this investigation is full-fledged. it s moving full steam ahead. and just in the last couple of weeks, the eastern district of virginia u.s. attorney s office has issued subpoenas to associates of michael flynn, who, of course, was attached to the trump campaign and was president trump s former national security adviser. so that case indicates a significant escalation in this investigation. and it will continue. there s still that question of, what, now will happen to the russia probe? folks i ve spoken to in the fbi will say, we re not going to blink, we ll continue to move forward. but there s a big question mark about who the new fbi director will be and what happens then? and gloria, you ve been doing a lot of reporting on this. what s the latest you re hearing? look, i think what we re getting is a lot of reporting and a lot of denying out of the white house. we reported, i reported earlier this morning that roger stone was among thos
department of justice. so i think a lot of people on both sides lost confidence, myself included. what do you say to the critics about talk about, now, the timing of the firing, that it comes in the wake of the latest reports, including from cnn, among others, that just the other day, he was asking for more resources, more money, to help the fbi in this russia investigation, the department of justice, the spokesperson there, denying those reports, but that he wanted more resources to get involved in this investigation, and then all of a sudden the president fires him. all i know is what the department of justice says. and you can say they re dishonest, but they re saying that never occurred and is not accurate. so i think we have to at least listen to what the people are saying or are involved. but i would say that there are a lot of reasons why we should get new direction at the fbi. for a long time, i thought that our investigations and tried prevention of terrorism hasn t gone s
and how flynn handled disclosures about payments from clients tied to foreign governments including russia and turkey. flynn was paid $45,000 for making an appearance in moscow to celebrate russia today, that s the russian-funded news outlet that the u.s. intelligence agencies say helped disseminate stolen e-mails in order to damage hillary clinton s campaign. what does it tell us about the state of this investigation? up to now we ve only gotten some small peeks into what the fbi and federal prosecutors have been doing, anderson. the former fbi director james comey told lawmakers in march there was this ongoing investigation into possible coordination between trump campaign associates and russia. and last week he testified that the investigation was being overseen by those prosecutors in alexandria and the justice department s national security division. detaina bente, the u.s. attorney in alexandria whose office issued those subpoenas we re talking about, is also overseeing the i