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
the election upside down maybe that s why dan an the white house wasn t expecting this to be a disaster. that s exactly right. for them. but you know rod rosenstein doesn t speak for the president who at the time these events occurred was applauding them. so, you know. is this a firing in search of a cause gloria. well i think it s a firing in search of a rationale, right. and and the rationale here was provided by the deputy attorney general. but and the deputy attorney general i m sure believes it as do lots of other people in this country, democrat and republican. but i don t know that donald trump really believes what the attorney what the deputy attorney general wrote. because he was applauding comey when he said that hillary clinton was reckless. he would have liked to have seen her indicted, sure. but you know i don t recall him