michael flynn, nsa. they are trying to get some records but the fact that theree are subpoenas being issued, it takes it to a different level of that investigation. the fact that you have that breaking news conference what you were just talking about. the leaks have only just begun.r exactly. we are not alone in reporting this but coming from several sources, inside and outside. bret, specifically, that it s business records of associates of michael flynn as it relates. to the russian investigation. exactly. there are multiple prongs of this investigation that we don t really know, where exactly they are all going. i think we will have a better sense of that. the administration, the president is adamant that there
are no ties. his lawyers being sent to lindsey graham, saying there are no russian business ties from donald trump. thanks, bret. there will be a live edition of special report. he will be smashing. the comey firing is dominating the news coverage today. there s a lot of reaction. take a look. this is an extraordinary moment in american history. you bet it is, it s a grotesque abuse of power by the president of the united states. this is the kind of thing that goes on in nondemocracies. when there is an investigation that reaches near the president of united states or the leader of a nondemocracy, they fire the people who are in charge of the investigation. this is a president using his power to prevent himself being thrown under the justice system we all have to deal with. he fires the investigator. a little whiff of fascism tonight.
he was put there by loretta lynch when she left the attorney general at the time with president clinton on that tarmac on the private plane in arizona.bo when that happened, his avenues about what choices he had about coming forward our own or not, as he explained in the recent hearing on capitol hill, were kind of limited. some of the fbi say he was boxed into a corner. others say he went too far. he was over his skis in a way he dealt with it. it s outside the way the fbi deals with that. if you look at all of the letters that were put out by the trump administration tonight, they make the case that it s tough to read all that and go back to trump praising comey about how he handled the emailto investigation. t and that he was a welcomed member of the it s worth pointing out that at at 109 days, you have a president who has hired his national security advisor,
we have a situation where the fbi director is badly damaged politically. that is no small thing, if he ib the primary investigator. we ve also had a situation which people don t like to talk about as much, where we have had to attorney general s, first loretta lynch beginning t lat summer when she took herself out of the clinton email probe and now attorney general jeff sessions who has taken himself out of the russian investigation. if you don t have an attorney general i don t say that s politically, i say that s in a neutral way, they are not in complete control of their department. when you take those two factors together, people have said to me this is extremely bad for the country. there needed to be some action. do you think the investigation continues? are the agents saying it will continue? everything that has been indicated to me is that the investigation will continue and it may wrap up at some point, soon this year. but the accusation against the former fbi direct
you just spent 5 minutes doing that. i would say half of it is nonfactual. y you are the definition of fake news. the last sentence in the letter by trump, when he said te call me i wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors that is like a rejection letter you get when you submit an article to a flight magazine. you know? s not that i would know. have you done that?t? i m not saying that i didn t not do it. whenever they wish you luck on your future endeavors, that means we will never be speaking to you again. let s hope in terms of the seriousness of it, some trust is restored because there is going to be pressure now for an independent investigation. we will see where it goes. i think all he wants is to get settled. the investigation is going to continue whether or not director comey is in place. we had the breaking news