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a lot of them, targeted at one donald trump. reaction from fox news contributor rachel campos duffy. nassau county democratic chairman, and washington examiner susan ferrechio. what do you make of these protests, under democratic and republican administrations alike, they devolved into political protest, whatever the political dejury. for dem these protests are good thing. they excited their base. we see he how an excited base can change election results in recent special elections where democrats had much better turnout, that what matters comes to elections. the turnout. helps democrat with their own momentum issue. they were stumbling around after losing to trump. the base being excited like this, given them more of a footing. emboldened them on capitol hill from spending fights to health care bill. overall, it has been a win-win for the democrats. i think for republicans they haven t quite figured out a way to answer back to this in a powerful way, in articulate ....
while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate to occasions that i am not under investigation, i nevertheless concur with the judgment of the department of justice that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau. it is essential that we find n leadership for the fbi that restores public trust and confidence in its vital law enforcement mission. i wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors, signed donald j. trump, president of the united states. let me go to you first, attorney general jeff landry. listen, you understand the job as well as anyone else, obviously, on a larger scope. many have been scratching their heads why this hadn t been done earlier. apparently, the tipping point was the flip-flop and the conflicting information whether or not huma abedin had sent hundreds, perhaps thousands of mailto her husband s laptop or just a handful. how could they get that wrong? yeah, it s amazing that they did if, in fact, that was true, and evi ....
woodruff: all that and more on tonight s pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions: this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. woodruff: our lead story is just breaking now: president trump fired james comey as director of the f.b.i. press secretary sean spicer just made the announcement moments ago. here to tell us what we know at this moment, our own john yang. john, this looks like a bolt out of the blue. what have you learned? jonathan: it was absolutely out of the blue. it was after the white house press was told there would be no more news developments for the night. sean spicer walked into the briefing room with a very brief statement saying that president trump had fired james comey on the recommendation of the attorney general jeff sessions and the deputy attorney g ....
good morning. it is 8:00am in singapore, 1:00am in london, and 8:00pm in washington, where the white house has confirmed president donald trump has fired his fbi director, james comey. mr comey was leading the agency charged with investigating the trump campaign s alleged links with russia. the white house said mr comey had been dismissed on the recommendation of the attorney general, jeff sessions, and his deputy. the white house released the letter that was sent to mr comey. in it, president trump said the fbi director was not able to effectively lead the bureau. he went on to say he was hereby terminated and removed from office, effective immediately, and that it was essential to find new leadership. but the move has sparked anger. us senate democratic leader chuck schumer told president trump he was making a big mistake. he had these words for deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. the first question the administration has to answer is why now. if the administrati ....
i call this hearing of the senate environment public works committee to order and like to defer to the ranking member. i thank the chairman. i apologize to our witnesses, some of whom come quite a distance. the democratic leader in the senate has called for an emergency caucus meeting to discuss the issues leading up to the dismissal of james comey as fbi director and to discuss how we might move quickly to insure that a special prosecutor is assigned and put to work right away. and if i have the opportunity to return at the end of our caucus meeting, i ll come back and perhaps some of my colleagues will as well. i appreciate the chairman s understanding of this and giving me the chance to give an opening statement first. thank you this is important stuff. i am interested to learn more from our state witnesses about your experiences with the endangered species act. the roles that states play, the partnerships they ve cultivated and the lessons you ve learned, challeng ....