viewers in the united states and around the world. this is new day, it s 6:00 here in new york and we begin with breaking news. president trump has fired fbi director james comey. the timing and rationale for the abrupt termination for his handli handling of the clinton probe, that s what we re told, this is all puzzling. there are two main questions. why would the president fire the man investigating whether miss campaign colluded with russia during the 2016 election? and perhaps even bigger question is who among our leaders will step forward to secure the administration of justice in you re democracy. many republicans growing the joining calls to have an independent probe while democrats are drawing parallels to nixon and watergate, all of this as cnn learns that federal prosecutors have are issued subpoenas to associates of michael flynn in the fbi s investigation into russian meddling in the u.s. election. we have every angle of this huge story covered for you, so let s
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everybody agrees between 2.5 and 3 million jobs. that is good. neil: with all due respect, i don t know if everyone agrees with that. i wanted to get into the little brouhaha that caused allen simpson the condition leader who you urged the president fire for remarks that you said were unfriendly to social security recipients and he was saying we got a address this. his language was a little more blunt. you are saying we don t have to address it. neil, if people get on tv or get on the floor of congress and they say social security is going bankrupt, that happens to be a lie. just not true. according to the congressional budget office and the social security administration, they differ on a few years, social security can pay out every benefit owed to every eligible american until the year 2039 for the next 29 years. every benefit to everybody who is eligible.
turkish president erdogan. thank you, joe. joining us is david gregory and david drucker and editor a.b. stodda stoddard. david gregory, what was the biggest surprise of the weekend for you to start off the week? as we look forward, we have a president who still doesn t get it. playing this kind of petty politic game around. i thought everybody did not like comey. i thought it would be celebrated. not realizing the act of how he fired comey with the pre-text reason with contradictory answers. is this abuse of power that clapper is talking about? i think that is significant. whatever your feelings about the future of the investigation and about an fbi director is the right thing for the country, the fact you had a president fire the guy investigating him and we know through reporting, demanding a loyalty oath and