The coffin for President Trump to fire him. Bret tonight, new questions. Did the president hint at comeys firing a month ago . We will see what happens. Its going to be interesting. Bret What Happens Next in the russia investigation . Catastrophically compromise the investigation. The investigation going on in the intelligence committee. Bret we have all of the angles covered. A Special Edition of Special Report starts right now. Good evening. Welcome to washington. I am bret baier. The Reality Tv Star Billionaire Businessman who made you are fired a catchphrase used it this afternoon and what is turning out to be one of his most controversial moves yet. President trumps dismissal of james comey has rocked washington. Democrats tried to link the action to the investigation of a possible connection between the Trump Campaign and the russians before the elections. Demands for a special prosecutor are louder tonight and democrats are jumping to watergate comparisons. John roberts starts u
Thats all the time we have left this evening. Please stay with the Fox News Channel for all night, continuing coverage of this breaking news. The president firing the fbi director james comey, bret baier is next. We will see you back here. An important show tomorrow. Bret a massive political shock wave hits washington. I was flabbergasted, to say the least. The president did not fire the entire fbi. He fired the director. Speak with the goal was to act on recommendation of the Deputy Attorney general and the Attorney General. The administration has to answer the question why now . Bret President Trump writing the letter that he believes comey cannot lead the fbi. Essentially puts the nail in
the coffin for President Trump to fire him. Bret tonight, new questions. Did the president hint at comeys firing a month ago . We will see what happens. Its going to be interesting. Bret What Happens Next in the russia investigation . Catastrophically compromise the investigation. The investigation
court. keep in mind this is the second version of the ban. the trump administration wants to halt travel for 90 days from six countries, iran, libya, somalia, sudan and yemen. last month the four circuit rule that this version likely violates the constitution but the supreme court now has newest justice on the bench, judge neil gorsuch and gives conservative tilt. president trump has safety and security of the country, he s taking bold and decisive action asserting an executive order to pause immigration from countries that have been compromised by terrorism or don t have the systems in place that we can be confident that when people apply to come here that they don t represent a
the only crimes that have been committed have been the leaking of classified information to deal with mr. flynn and others and what was notable about the subpoenas this week is that we have a new name of somebody who unmasked a trump official, we don t know who yet, which trump official. paul: are we sure samantha power unmasked? do we know that for sure? he would not be sending unless she hadn t done it. it s a very strong bet that that is indeed the case. paul: she has not commented on this, has she? not so far. we don t know. but we have had susan rice all but confirmed that she did, indeed, unmask trump officials and mr. brennan too. so it ll be interesting to see what she has to say because it s very difficult to come up with a
will say that i think this plays right into donald trump s plans. he wanted the media to oversight issue and oversensationallize it and paint at elitist issue. it s something that we should all be concerned about. kelly: brad, your thoughts. the present danger to the world and i wish the world can get together on issues like radical islam which is a direct threat to our country here and proliferation of nuclear weapons than climate change. president obama thought it was so important not only for the country but for the world, he would have called the procedure that would ratify by the senate. he didn t do that and president trump campaigned on repealing this terrible agreement for america that was inequitable, unfair, job-killer, so it s no surprise that he did it, but, of course, the media in america has