The fisher director who is the only person who is independently leading this moving forward when you dont have him doing that you need an outside group doing it. Republicans should call for that shouldnt be a partisan thing. Cnn live coverage of this breaking news is obviously going to be continuing all night. Jake tapper along at 11 00 p. M. Eastern with a special report. First don lemon and cnn tonight with the latest. Anderson thank you very much our breaking news tonight, President Trump bombshell firing of fbi director james comey. This is cnn tonight im don lemon lets put it as plainly as we can. The president of the United States has fired the man investigating his campaigns ties to russia. Fired him. Shocking confusion tonight on capitol hill. Around the country and around the world. Now questions being raised of whether there is a coverup going on. This is definitely not politics as usual. We have said it before but its
look at this very brief letter the president sent to the
is if there s not a sinister motive is the other alternative. are you troubled by this? very much so. am i troubled? jon? very much so. i think that it s i think they wanted a result and they found a pretext for it. and i think that we have a real question going forward about the separation of powers. and the rule of law. and i i haven t been someone who s, you know, thrown myself in with tauthoritarian narrativs but this is not a step in the right direction. a serious question that was quickly here, staff writer for the new yorker said where are comey s files right now? who controls them. that is important. it is indeed. what would happen in a circumstance like this is very much unlike what happened with