Now the knives arenr out. Whats the realnrconi story . L r the investigation. What happens to the multipronged investigation inti russias election interference and its contacts with the trump camp. Democrats are demanding an independent special prosecutor. Will they shut down the senate until they get one. And the optics. Could it look any worse . Hours after firing comey the president was all smiles as he met with russias ambassador to the United States, a key figure in the investigation and with russias foreign minister who early joked to reporters about the fbi directorss firing. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news. President trump sends off shock waves with sudden firing of fbi director james comey in the middle of an investigation into russias election meddling and the trump camps russian contacts. The president said he acted because comey, quote, was not doing a good job although the president often praised comey and the white house a week ago stressed tha
An important moment there. Lets get over the important place right now. Jeff zell anneny has more on th. The white house put out a statement on the chemical attack yesterday, but this could be the first time we hear from the president since putting out that statement. What are you hearing from the white house . The white house is drafting comments right now that the president will be delivering later today early this afternoon in the rose garden, and it will be about syria. It will be about the chemical attack and this will be fascinating to watch what the president says specifically about this. Yes. Because he said in a statement yesterday he called it reprehensible, but of course, the question is what does this administration intend to do with the assad regime . He had some criticism of president obama, of course, that syria red line and we have not yet got a full sense of what this president believes and in fact what his policy toward a syria. So we will get a much more, you know, d
President had nothing to do with that statement. He said the statement was worked on by donald trump, jr. And his lawyers and we know he said this because he said this on the tv, a lot. So he didnt have anything to do with the statement that don junior put out . No. The president was not did not draft the response. The president was not involved in the drafting of the statement. I wasnt involved in the statement drafting at all, nor was the president. The president didnt sign off on anything. The president wasnt involved in that. So if the Washington Post was right, the president s attorney was misinformed or not being accurate. The white house made the claim that nothing was inaccurate in donald trump, jr. s original statement, even though it had to be updated several times when the email chain was released. There was no mention of adoption in the emails, just dirt on Hillary Clinton. And also the white house confirmed that the president did weigh in on the statement. The statement th
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Good morning, everyone, and welcome to a special early start. Ill dave briggs. Im christine romans. It is thursday, july 6th. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. We welcome all of our viewers in the u. S. And around the world. A busy morning. In about 15 minutes, President Trump will speak at a joint press event with the polish president in warsaw. Its part of a brief stop in poland before the president heads to the g20 summit in germany. He has meetings scheduled inhamburg with russian president Vladimir Putin and other leaders. North koreas recent sabre rattling, the issue hanging heavily over the g20. Ambassador nikki haley taking russia and china to task for failing to curb north korean aggression after pyongyangs tests this week of an apparent icbm. More in a moment. Our coverage of the president s trip begins with White House Correspondent sarah murray live in warsaw. Good morning. Reporter good morning. This is certainly going to be a highstakes trip for President Trump. His visit in