The decision to oust comey on rosensteins letter before conceding he had been contemplating it for weeks over the russia investigation. He made the recommendation. Regardless of the wreck m recommendation, i was going to fire him. I wish him well. Reporter comey did not actually reveal to sessions that the president pressured him to drop the flynn investigation. Thats because according to the new york times, comey didnt know who he could trust inside the Justice Department. Chris. Thank you, jessica. We will get the rest of the segment together and show it to you. Now to escalating tensions with President Trump and attorney general. A source close to Jeff Sessions said the two men had Heated Exchange was the attorney general offering to resign. This as the white house will not say if the president has confidence in one of his oldest supporters. Cnns joe johns live at the white house with more. Do you remember the heat that Jeff Sessions took coming out for trump in the campaign . Repor
Shortly to address whats taken place over the past 24 hours. Here are the tweets from the president of the United States posted yesterday i heard poorly rated morning joe speaks badly of me, dont watch anymore. Then how could low i. Q. Crazy mika along with psycho joe came to maralago three nights in a row around new years eve and insisted on joining me, she was bleeding badly from a face lift. I said no they stayed home to lay lou and i called and asked them to come in this morning to address this, to talk about the tweets and the reaction to them so they agreed to do so. They will be here at the top of our 7 00 hour before they do go away for the holiday weekend. Thats coming up in less than one hour. I asked mika to come in in particular because she does not need me or anyone else here to defend her, trust me, as anyone who knows her knows. Mika is smart, shes strong, she makes people in power uncomfortable and she fears absolutely no one. Youll be reminded of all that when mika and
Thousands of American Kids mostly doing the nations bidding all around the world. They dont have to be in uniform. You know, when i was a kid, every man in my life was a veteran. World war ii, korea. And there was the draft. These young people today, they dont do it for any other reason than their selfless sense of selfless devotion to this great nation. Absolutely. And you could hear a pin drop in that room when he said that. And who could or would argue with a gold star family about that loss and that devotion . So how did we get here . Thats also important. Why did the president s chief of staff even have to stand at that podium today . Where did all these claims of politicizing this controversy come from . The entire thing started with the man kelly works for. And thats donald trump, the commander in chief. But that was never mentioned during the press conference today. General kelly attacked florida congresswoman Fredericka Wilson for listening to the phone call to the widow and t
Disaster, as did the white house. Now, why is that a disaster . Its only a disaster if you view your job as basically protecting the president and not finding out the truth. These are the same democrats who never wanted to start an investigation. These are the same democrats who blocked our subpoenas or tried to block our subpoenas back in august. They tried to block our ability to go and get the records from fusion gps that led to a lot of discoveries in this investigation. So these are not honest actors. They were theyre not being honest actors. Ali, with a good morning to you. Lets get a sense of the mood at the white house now in the aftermath of the release of this memo. Well, good morning, alex. I think that the president actually was talking yesterday in the oval office as that memo was coming to be released to the public. And he said then its a disgrace whats happening in this country. He said people should be ashamed. So hes not necessarily tamped down on the politicization of
Us by our founders that drew waves of immigrants to our shores, that drove waves of troops to storm beaches a world away to storm democracy. It was those ideals that led generations of americans to march for workers rights and womens rights and Voting Rights and civil rights and lgbt rights, to expand the reach of our democracy. Lets get right to the controversy over the niger raid. Thirtytwo officialed telling james mattis he still doesnt have all the facts and wants to know why the body of Sergeant La David Johnson was recovered nearly 48 hours after the attack. Cnn correspondent Barbara Starr has more. Barbara. Reporter don, the pentagon says there was a search for the sergeant that no one expected. They had done 29 routine patrols in the area over the last six months. This time it was all out combat. The reason weave u. S. Army soldiers there ask not the peace corps because we carry guns. Ando its a reality. Its part of the danger our troops face in these Counter Terrorist campaign