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
Anybody else. Im going to read from the transcript here. Why didnt you go to your direct report, mr. Morrison, your response, because mr. Eisenberg had told me to take my concerns to him. And then i asked you, did mr. Eisenberg tell you not to report, to go around mr. Morrison . And you said, actually, he did say that, i shouldnt talk to any other people. Is that right . Yes, but theres a whole theres a period of time in there between when i spoke to him and when he circled back around. It wasnt that long a period of time, but it was enough time for me to enough time for you to go to talk to someone who you wont tell us who it is, right . Ive been instructed not to, representative jordan. Heres what im getting. The lawyer told you not talk to any other people, and you interpret that as not talking to your boss, but you talk to your brother, you talk to the lawyers, you talk to scare keec kent and talk to the one guy schiff wont let us tell you who it is. Representative jordan, i did my
Mr. Eisenberg, he told me to take my concerns to him. And, theres a period of time in it wasnt that long a period of time, but it was enough time for me to enough time to talk to someone who you want i will assume it is, right . Ive been instructed not to, representative jordan. Hes what im getting. He told you not to talk to any of the people and you interpret that as not talking to your boss. But you talked to your brother, you talked to the lawyers, you talked to secretary kent, and the one guy adam schiff will let you tell us who he is. Is that right . Representative jordan, i did my job. Im not saying you didnt. All im saying is the instructions from the lawyer where that you shouldnt talk to
anybody, and you interpret that as dont talk to my boss, but im gonna go talk to someone that we cant even ask you if that individual is. That is incorrect. I just read what you said. I shouldnt talk to any of the people. The time of the gentleman has expired. Im sorry, mr. Chairman, that seq
you want to break this down, chad? good evening, sean. well, the president came to the capital for the second time in a month and he failed to close the deal. the stagecraft of a presidential bid visit did nothing. they can t even convince progressives to support the bipartisan infrastructure built. they are holding the bill hostage. if they vote on the bill today, i am a no. that has not changed. i have held steady with what we talked about as progressives, at least some of the progressive caucus up until now. we don t have that right now. also a bit bamboozled because this was not what i thought was coming today. democrats can t pass the bill, liberals both, they lack the votes. democrats don t trust democrats kyrsten sinema and joe manchin. i don t think we have really heard any sort of commitment and
you want to break this down chad? good evening, sean. well, the president came to theb capital for the second time in a month and he failed to close the deal. the stagecraft of a presidential visit did nothing.nd they can t even convince progressives to support the bipartisan infrastructure built. they are holding the t bill hostage. if they vote on the bill today, i am a no.. that has not changed. i have held steady with what we talked about as progressives, at least some of the progressive caucus up until now. we don t have that right now. also a bit bamboozled because this was not what i thought was coming today. democrats can t pass the bill, liberals both, they lack the votes. democrats don t trust democrats kyrsten sinema and joe manchin. i don t think we have really heard any sort of commitment and