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
i agree with you. is that you know they wanted to get rid of this guy and they got rid of him. and hillary sessions well i mean i don t know i am baffled by rosenstein s involvement. you poe him. i don t know him well but i interviewed him i heard nothing but good things about him. do you think rosenstein just at this point just came up said you know what i think he should be fired especially considering his testimony yesterday. i don t know. we can. i don t know what rosenstein s role in all of in is. but there has to be some person in the united states government who could just open their eyes and say, you know, you don t fire the fbi director when he is investigating you. you don t do this because the only other time there s been a comparable event in all of american history is october 20th, 1973, the saturday night massacre when president nixon