Reportedly requested Additional Resources for the trumprussia investigation. Basically, we dont know what kind of resources he was asking for, whether it was money or man power or other fbi resources, bake amy, he wanted to put more fire power into that investigation. Laugh the wall street journal reported james comey accelerates his own personal peace of work on the investigation. He previously had been briefed weekly on the progress of the trumprussia investigations. In the couple of weeks before he was fired, though, james comey had started taking daily briefings on that investigations, according to wall street journal. But then he was fired, with the president now admitting what he was thinking about when he fired james comey is that darn russia investigation. That fake russia investigation, how much he wants it to go away. No you the fbi director has been fired, now we have crossed this rubicon where the president is under active investigation under serious counterintelligence cha
Investigation. Basically we dont know exactly what kind of resources he was asking for, if it was money or man power or other fbi resources. But basically he wanted to put more fire power into that investigation. Thereafter the wall street journal reported james comey accelerated his own personal pace of work on the investigation. He previously been briefed weekly on the progress of the trump russia investigations in the couple weeks before he was fired though, according to the wall street journal, james comey started taking daily briefings on that investigation. But then he was fired. With the president now admitting what he was thinking about when he fired james comey was that darn russia investigation, that fake russia investigation and how much he wants it to go away. Now that the fbi director has been fired, now that we have crossed this rube con as country where the president is under active fbi investigation on incredibly serious counterintelligence charges, and he has fired the
President was firing him. What we dont know is what exactly has changed in these intervening months because as bharara say, he was told in november at truch tower, that he could stay and the president told him to go up to the cameras and tell him that was the case. But now, we know something has changed and he has been fired. Now, a career prosecutor in the Southern District Attorneys Office will take his place. June kim. Will be the one who will and in his jus now, but we are not hearing much from the white house about how all of this transpired. Sean spicer today referreded us to the Justice Department and they didnt have to say other than he is no longer u. S. Attorney. Thank you. Preet bharara was one of just 46 u. S. Attorneys asked to step down, but his rule specifically as the u. S. U attorney in manhattan is one, if not the most high profile law jobs in the u. S. Want to talk about that with sarah gannon, shes been following this story all day for us. When you look at all the a
Investigation. Basically we dont know exactly what kind of resources he was asking for, if it was money or man power or other fbi resources. But basically he wanted to put more fire power into that investigation. Thereafter the wall street journal reported james comey accelerated his own personal pace of work on the investigation. He previously been briefed weekly on the progress of the trump russia investigations in the couple weeks before he was fired though, according to the wall street journal, james comey started taking daily briefings on that investigation. But then he was fired. With the president now admitting what he was thinking about when he fired james comey was that darn russia investigation, that fake russia investigation and how much he wants it to go away. Now that the fbi director has been fired, now that we have crossed this rubicon as country where the president is under active fbi investigation on incredibly serious counterintelligence charges, and he has fired the
Innocent civilians. This is not the type of conduct that the United States or allies can accept. The president still remains open to working with the russians on areas of mutual concern. Our rich edison is at the state department. Rich . Good afternoon, harris. More Russian Diplomats are headed home. Nato has Just Announced that its kicking seven Russian Diplomats out. This brings the total to about two dozen countries and entities kicking out nearly 150 Russian Diplomats from their organizations and nations. The russians are promising a retaliation here. The foreign minister said, quote, rest assured, we will respond. The reason is that no one would like to tolerate such obnoxiousness, and we wont either. He claims the United States used colossal pressure and blackmail to convince other countries to kick out diplomats. Back in december of 2016, the u. S. Kicked out 35 Russian Diplomats in response to election interference. Russia waited till that summer, and required the United States