Playing sean spicer speeding around the streets of new york on the Briefing Room podium. Joining us now, is the former u. S. Ambassador to russia. And a former kgb spy whos the author of deep undercover. Good evening to all of you. Cnn learned today that Deputy Attorney general Rob Rosenstein doesnt see a need for a special prosecutor in the russian meddling, do you think thats the right decision . No, i dont. I think that the firing of comey and all the things that have happened in the last few days, just underscore the need for an independent prosecutor, or a 9 11 style commission, something that would elevate this to something that would have more credibility. Unfortunately, it looks like the republicans and the senate arent prepared to do that. I think theyre in effect bec e becoming accomplices after the fact to the trump administration. Look at these pictures, pictures like this with the foreign minister lavrov, joking about director comeys firing. Listen to this. Does the comey
The violence, right now it feels like james comey may be extracting his. Thank to loyalists around him, and what they are sharing over time with journalists. There is another New York Times article tonight about james comey. And it again mentions the memos he meticulously wrote after each encounter with President Trump. The headline is this. Comey unsettled by trump s said to have wanted him kept at a distance. Among other things, it says, quote, President Trump called the fbi director james b. Comey weeks after he took office and asked him when federal authorities were going to put out word that mr. Trump was not permanently under investigation, according to two people briefed on the call. Mr. Comey told the president that if he wanted to know details about the bureaus investigations, he should not contact him directly. After explaining to mr. Trump how communications with the fbi should work, mr. Comey believed he had effectively drawn the line. After a series of encounters he had wi
Good evening once again from our headquarters here in new york. In the waning minutes this day, 119 of the trump administration, we are thinking about that famous sequence in the godfather when michael corleone extracts his revenge. In a way, in slow motion and absent the bloodshed and violence, right now it feels like james comey may be extracting his, thanks to loyalists around him and what they are sharing over time with journalists. There is another New York Times article tonight about james comey. And it again mentions the memos he meticulously wrote after each encounter with President Trump. The headline is this. Comey unsettled by trump is said to have wanted him kept at a distance. Among other things, it says, quote, President Trump called the fbi director james b. Comey weeks after he took office and asked him when federal authorities were going to put out word that mr. Trump was not personally under investigation, according to two people briefed on the call. Mr. Comey told th
Questions but at least an opportunity to speak to him about this extraordinary turn of events on capitol hill. Perhaps what was most striking about the testimony of fired fbi director james comey is that he accused the president of the United States, plain and simple, of lying. Comey, even went as far as to suggest that he prepared memos about his conversation about the president because he anticipated the president lying about those interactions. List listen. Theres no doubt. Its a fair judgment, its my judgment that i was fired because of the russia investigation. I was fired to change, or the endeavor was to change the way the russia investigation was being conducted. Comey made it clear that he was making what might be described as one of the noisiest exits by a lawyer in the history of government law. He essentially took one of the key memos. Perhaps the key memo that he prepared and delivered it to a Law School Professor in hopes that that professor would, inturn, leak the memo t
Story as opposed to the inauguration and i was think being it then. I was thinking about it during this period of time. Theres really no right time to do it. But i mean, im okay with it. As you know, i have a decision to make and i have to make the decision. He agrees that i have the absolute right to do it. Everybody agrees. But the former director of National Intelligence is calling the president s behavior disturbing and issuing this ominous warning today. I think this many ways our institutions are under assault and thats the big news here is the russian interference in our election system. And i think as well our institutions are under assault internally. Internally from the president . Exactly. This as north korea once again fires a Ballistic Missile test overnight. Well discuss the sharp response from the white house. But first the president blaming much of the controversy surrounding the firing of james comey to a vendetta by democrats. But a new nabc wall street journal poll s