yes or no? the answer is, no, not yet. jason carroll is out front live at that town hoall. pretty strong views. reporter: very angry people in this room tonight, erin. this congressman came here tonight expecting to talk about health care. you remember this is the same person who helped to craft that amendment to the bill, which would allow states to apply for the waiver to cover people with pre-existing conditions. he was ready to come here tonight to deal with that. after the president fired the fbi director, he immediately or very soon found out he was going to have to come here tonight and answer for this president. and now we have comey fired. if that isn t enough to convince you that the legislature cannot
he was asked about comey s firing. here s how hi answered the question. we have nothing to do with it. president trump is acting in accordance with liz competence and law and constitution. and what about us? why we? i m going to play hockey. he saw him not taking that seriously there, senator. what do we have to do with it, sort of laughing it off? do you believe that russia and vladimir putin did not influence trump s decision to fire jim comey? look, i mean, the severity of that question that we re asking in america today whether a foreign power who does not have our enters, who s irnds mining our foreign policy when it comes to places like syria is somehow influencing the president. the mere fact that that question is being asked on cnn demands
breaking news. the senate intelligence committee issuing that subpoena to general flynn. they want documents that he has refused to hand over, even though others like paul manet forth did hand over requested documents without subpoena. how significant is this first move? it s a start. michael flynn has said he would not provide testimony or documents without receiving immunity. this is going to be a slow moving process. they don t want to give him immunity and they re not going to do it. right. these investigations take a lot of time. especially when the senate, mitch mblg continental has given the intelligence committee extremely limited resources to conducts this investigation. what about those resources, jason? that s a big question, right? we re learning tonight that trump was frustrated that comey was quotes unquote his own man.
sanction, some come-uppance for that. the fact that we have a president of the united states whoogs firing someone, with who is engaged in an active investigation into them, it erodes public trust. comey has been fired. he s no longer head of the fbi. what i think should be a nonpartisan issue, the urgency now for us to make sure that we have an investigation that s independent, that is out of the political chain of command. we have an attorney general who said he was going to recuse himself. we have a president whose own individuals, his own campaign team being investigated and we have the severity of the russians attacking our election process. right now let s leave cold temperatury aside. the decision has been made. what i m calling for is is a special prosecutor, which i think the must be knees urgently right now. i m going to play for you what b putin said told.
president was growing increasingly agitated at his fbi director starting with a hearing last wednesday. you remember the fbi director said the decision back last year over the clinton e-mails made him mildly nauseous. that did not sit well with this. . he was stewing over this over the weekend i m told. he told his advisors he sees comey as his own man and does not trust him to lead this fbi investigation. will there was some dissent iin views, i m told. the president disagreed and now he s looking for a new fbi director. thank you very much for being here. appreciate it. there s still one question tonight above all others for president trump. because he wasn t doing a good job. very simply. reporter: those sparse words is all the president had to say about why he fired fbi director james comey.