sad day for the fbi. we re showing our viewers, josh, a picture you took of jeff zeleny on the air almost exactly at this time right here in the situation room when he broke the story that comey had been fired. jeff, walk us through the news you were getting at that moment because it seemed al qaeda unbelievable at the time. but clearly it was a warning shot. it was, indeed. no question. it is exactly a year ago at this hour i remember running out to our camera position on the north lawn of the white house, which is about i would say about 30 yards or so from the white house briefing room, sean spicer, white house press secretary at the time was reading from a folded piece of paper that he had indeed the fbi director had indeed be fired. the a sense of disbelief in the white house. the context of it was this is about a week after james comey was on capitol hill and was testifying and this is a something the president was
and iran is saying the same thing. they are still trying to negotiate with the europeans but no question, having the u.s. leave the deal leaves a big hole and as sam said, this puts pressure on the europeans, on our closest allies. i don t see russia or china feeling the same pressure. they will likely continue doing business with iran. of course secondary sanctions that are being threatened about european countries and their companies have have a lost ceo s putting the pause on any future investment they will make in iran. and of course the leaders from europe, whether it is angela merkel who doesn t have a close relationship with donald trump or macron who does, all of them are left wondering what happens next and what this means for their own country and what it means for the e.u. the e.u. is the u.s. largest trading partner and it seems they are once again being thrown under the bus. everybody stick around. there is more news we re following. including more about the
a while ago at the white house, sarah huckabee-sanders dodged questions about reports of hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments made by multiple corporations to michael cohen. supposedly for insights into the trump administration s thinking. sanders said she hasn t heard specific concerns from the president on this topic. let s bring in our experts. and sanders said the payments made to michael cohen have nothing to do with the president or the white house. what do you make of that? well, i think at this point she s clearly trying to warn the president off from this news. and somen some ways trying to protect her selves from get herself ahead of a story or reporting something later turns out not true. so that is what we saw the press secretary do over and over again today and saying any question should go to outside counsel and
to gina haspel for her confirmation battle. and one year later, after president trump fired james comey, we ll talk to the correspondent who broke the story right here in the situation room. and the fbi special agent with comey when he learned the news. i m wolf and you re in the situation room. even as president trump pushes for a break-through with unusual armed north korea, he s issued a new warning to iran. i ll speak with richard blumenthal of the judiciary committee and our correspondents are standing by with full coverage. but straight to the chief white house correspondent jim acosta, the president is talking tough about iran and may soon be talking directly with north korea. that is right. just as president trump is trying to deescalate tensions with north korea and welcoming home the american prisoners detained by the regime, he is
deal and the presidentialo and ludicrous behavior wasn t unexpected and this man s corpse will be worm food. whatever happens in north korea or iran, mr. trump seems to expect only positive coverage from the media. in a tweet the president revealed what was long suspected he sees negative news as fake news. 91% of the network news about me is negative. fake. why do we work so hard in working with the media when it is corrupt. take away creddin shalls? the president defended his hostile detour of the press last year. aren t you concerned you are urnd minding the people s faith of the freedom of the press when you call stories you don t like fake news. why not just say it is a story i don t like. i do that. i do that. you are undermining confidence in our news media, isn t that important. here is the thing. i understand. and you are right except i know when i should get good and when i should get bad and sometimes i ll say, wow, that is going to be a great story and i ll get kill