Democrat wins in ohio, michigan, or give me a name. I like tim ryan in ohio, and i like my mayor out of palm beach out of miami in florida. Nick, katherine, harold, that will do it for hardball. Chris matthews is back here on monday. All in with chris hayes starts right now. Tonight on all in. He wanted to have dinner because he wanted to stay on. Dinner with comey. He mentioned that he had been invited to the white house to have dinner with the president and that he was uneasy with that. New reporting contradicting the president s claims. And tonight, new questions about oval office recordings. Did President Trump record his conversations with former fbi Director Comey . As the president threatens his former fbi director with tapes. Plus, as the Deputy Attorney general reportedly signals no
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The fisher director who is the only person who is independently leading this moving forward when you dont have him doing that you need an outside group doing it. Republicans should call for that shouldnt be a partisan thing. Cnn live coverage of this breaking news is obviously going to be continuing all night. Jake tapper along at 11 00 p. M. Eastern with a special report. First don lemon and cnn tonight with the latest. Anderson thank you very much our breaking news tonight, President Trump bombshell firing of fbi director james comey. This is cnn tonight im don lemon lets put it as plainly as we can. The president of the United States has fired the man investigating his campaigns ties to russia. Fired him. Shocking confusion tonight on capitol hill. Around the country and around the world. Now questions being raised of whether there is a coverup going on. This is definitely not politics as usual. We have said it before but its
look at this very brief letter the president sent to the
it s given comey a week to lawyer up. he has to. he has problems on his memos and i think as happens with all investigations, once they start looking into what the memos what s classified, they ll look at trailing emails and i think comey has got a lot more trouble than he ever expected because of what he did with the leaks and frankly with the fact that he put this book out, which i think has a number of passages in it which exposes him to legal problems. bill: wow. lawyer up. we ll wait and see where that goes. he will be on with bret later this week and thursday. check that out in special report. how was your trip to houston with the bush family and the celebration of life that happened on saturday, governor? you know, this may sound strange but it was the least sad funeral i have ever been to. i think it shows the power of barbara bush in decreeing that this should be a positive celebration of life and the
was just, what, last week, the week before, that the president pardoned scooter libby, convicted of lying in a case about leaking, the identity of an undercover cia officer. the other argument the president is making is that michael flynn, his former and fired national security advisers is being treated unfairly relative to that of james comey. here s the tweet on that front. the president says, so general michael flynn s life can be totally destroyed while shady james comey, the spelling error is his. shady james comey can leak and lie and make lots of money from a third-rate book that nerve shoer have been written. is that really the way life in america is supposed to work? i don t any so. what accounts for the president s rage? for one thing, on the issue of obstruction of justice, james comey can be very damaging for this president, given comey s account of how the president tried to stifle the invest into
very, very good friends with comey, which is worrisome. reporter: they deny it. it s part of the landscape as he investigated the president. in congress, we say politics infects and invades everything. reporter: it has. news of text messages of trump led mueller to remove a member of his team. i think they are devastating. they are beyond showing political preferences. it, very much, impacts people s perception of fairness. reporter: then the president declassified a document challenging the fbi s behavior. i think it s a disgrace, what s going on in this country, i think it s a disgrace. reporter: the intended message to mueller was clear, your investigation is contaminated. mueller remains silent, instead, letting his work speak for itself. he is the best hope to