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 fisher director who is the only person who is independently leading this moving forward when you don t have him doing that you need an outside group doing it. republicans should call for that shouldn t 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 i m don lemon let s put it as plainly as we can. the president of the united states has fired the man investigating his campaign s 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 cover-up going on. this is definitely not politics as usual. we have said it before but it s
being investigationed there is ongoing investigation by the fbi. but again you want this to be about russia when this is about quote restoring confidence and integrity at the fisher morrell is low. you wanted this to be about restoring confidence in fbi but i m not sure many people believe this doesn t restore confidence in the fisher in fact a lot of people are raising questions saying it destroys people s confidence in the fisher about whoever the president may appoint is going to be in charge of an investigation into people who have been close to the president during the campaign. any potential collusion with russia. and today s actions had zero to do with that. i want to bring in a close confidante of president trump that s christopher rud ceo of news max news max testify zblap why tuning the president fired james comey. i think he made it pretty clear that he wanted to have someone he got a recommendation from a former clinton
we know at a. be pushing the fbi or any agency to turn their investigation one way or another. well the president i think is frustrated he has talked to me about this in the past and he said it very publicly, that they want to investigate everything relating to his administration or to mike flynn but when there is clear evidence of classified conversations he had with world leaders clear evidence of other classified discussion that is yates had with counsels office all of that stuff leaked is in the press it s illegal chl no one self the press saying let s investigate that. is there not a separate investigation from in investigation. hur it may be but why is the fbi and others not interested in pursuing those investigations? but there really hell bent. do they have a leonard i would not know i m not with the fisher the media is not with the fbi. you look like an fbi agent. i ve been told that before but i look very official. wouldn t be the fisher have a
of this is is horrible. i think i mean if we look at it, don, he the president treated flynn far better than he treated the fbi director. i mean the fisher director doesn t didn t even flow he was being fired. yeah. and while flynn had 18 days after the president even knew that he had lied to the vice president we ve got to get to the bottom of this. i think the fact that there is a grand jury and that questioning is now being opened up i think you re going to see a whole new escalation thereof case. i want to ask you going, congressman swal well i know both ever you congressmen have been privy to classified information and you know what s happening with the investigation. there is reporting tonight cnn and others as the washington post said reporting that the white house and the attorney general had pushed the fbi to pursue leaks rather than pushing them to pursue with the investigation was about and that