Show for it, period. Instead chairman bird is a tool for the panels top democrat, senator mark warner. They urged reporters to tune in to a News Conference promising the committee will make news in the russian investigation. What did they produce . More grand standing and bird and warner said they have no evidence that the Trump Campaign in any way coordinated or colluded with russia and they presented all of this in big posters to show how they wasted taxpayer money and claimed to have intrude more than 100 witness and holding 11 open hearings and the result is it nothing. And the committee obviously should realize it is time to shut down their witch hunt, but senator bird cant face reality. Now, it is safe to say that the inquiry has expanded slightly. And initial interviews and document review renerated hundreds of requests on our part for information and identified many leads that expanded our initial inquiry. Lou the senator thinks he is being cute. It is pure grand standing by se
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Graduate from college. Like, hes not just a genius. Hes also awesome. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Attorney general rod rosenstein. I was going to fire comey. Theres no good time to do it, by the way. They because in your letter you said i accepted their recommendations. So you had already made the decision. I was going to fire regardless. Reporter that directly contradicts the process outlined by Vice President pence, counselor kellyanne conway, and Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders, who said the president acted tuesday after receiving a memo from rosenstein. And i personally am grateful that we have a president who is willing to provide the kind of decisive and strong leadership to take the recommend aches of the Deputy Attorney general. He acted decisively today. He took the recommendation of his Deputy Attorney general. The Deputy Attorney general made that recommendation. Reporter the president also said he asked comey if
That is not accurate. Charlie the administrations credibility has been called into question. Joining me now from washington is bob costa from the washington post. I am pleased him back on the program. Bob, what damage you think this is doing to donald trump, if any . Bob it is doing damage to him on several fronts. Within the white house, it has used some tumult. The staff, in some respects, felt unprepared for this, the president made a personal decision with the attorney geral and white house counsel. But more broadly, thpay on capitol hill im just walked over from capitol hill they fe ty were given a curveball this week by this decision. They were not ready to talk to the president s decision or defend him in an articulate way. It gives disruption to his entire agenda as he tries to pursue health care and taxes. Now, all anyone is talking about in washington is russia and former director comey. Charlie why do they think he did it . Bob he did it because, based on my reporting and th
That is not accurate. Charlie the administrations credibility has been called into question. Joining me now from washington is bob costa from the washington post. I am pleased him back on the program. Bob, what damage you think this is doing to donald trump, if any . Bob it is doing damage to him on several fronts. Within the white house, it has used some tumult. The staff, in some respects, felt unprepared for this, the president made a personal decision with the attorney geral and white house counsel. But more broadly, thpay on capitol hill im just walked over from capitol hill they fe ty were given a curveball this week by this decision. They were not ready to talk to the president s decision or defend him in an articulate way. It gives disruption to his entire agenda as he tries to pursue health care and taxes. Now, all anyone is talking about in washington is russia and former director comey. Charlie why do they think he did it . Bob he did it because, based on my reporting and th