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
criticism as well. do you think that there is going to be a movement, i know congressman swal well and others are talking about mnuchin as somebody that needs to be impeached. do you think that s the move they need to take? we move in a dlib ratieliber. mnuchin s appearance and he answered every question that was put to him should give us confidence that we should give more opportunity for this to play out. it doesn t mean we should hold him 100% accountable for following the law. my opinion and the opinion of every orr lawyer that i know he is refusing to comply with the lawful requirement that the secretary of the treasury shall provide tax returns period. full stop, you cannot read any excuses into that and his assertion that executive privilege may apply or does apply to that situation is completely incorrect. executive privilege applies only
putting this north korea they are saying that the rhetoric caused the fallout. this is what bob menendez said about all of it. take a listen. art of diplomacy is a lot harder than the art of the deal. i ve always said it is a lack of a strategy and depreparation needed. before you agree to enter into such a high profile summit. this is the example of what happens when you don t understand the nature of the diplomacy that has to take place, the deep preparations that have to take place before you even agree to enter into such a summit. senator menendez there. we heard from congressman swal well echoing similar sentiments. what do you make of that, lack of strategy? do they have a point there? they do. i don t agree with bob menendez on much, but there is no strategy. the strategy is the president wanting a big pr moment for political reasons. so historically we ve had a bipartisan policy with north korea which is because they are kind of an outlaw regime that desperately wants c
companies. but some lawmakers like republican senator susan is collins yesterday on meet the press have pointed out a move like that could wreek more havoc on the current system. she is just one of a number of members of coming pleading for a bipartisan solution to fix the problems with obamacare. and this afternoon we saw one idea emerge when a group of what claims to be 43 house democrats and republicans called the bipartisan problem solvers caucus release their own proposal aimed at stabilizing the insurance market. joining me now is a republican congressman of new jersey, a member of the problem solvers caucus and also democrat swal we will of california. and gentlemen, it is wonderful to have you both on at the same time. i m going to start here in the stud weo with congressman lance. you go the a proposal where you talk about bringing those cost-sharing reductions payments under congressional oversight and appropriations. you also want to adjust the
find any sort of solution for health care and that they should just essentially move on? i think we should move on to tax reform, but that doesn t mean we can t do two things at once. i think the debate on tax reform should begin and should begin immediately when we return to session in september. but that doesn t mean we can t continue to work on health care. congressman swal we will, are you concerned at all about those voters in your party who may say i don t want you to help this administration get anything done? i don t want anything that could have potentially the label of trumpcare succeeding? no. i think most of my constituents understand that if there s something wrong with the pilot, the whole plane goes down. so we have to root for the success of the country and also we shouldn t just let him bluj on the affordable care act so that he s so unpopular. this actually hurts people if he s able to do that. so as leonard said, we do have to find ways to make it work. and i a