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dastardly enemy, and anyone who questions that, is probably a tool of vladimir putin and therefore, a traitor to our country. one current member of the house intelligence committee put it this way. why were the russians in the white house? and i mean that seriously. they had just attacked our democracy. they are being there is exactly what we have all feared all along, is that donald trump would say something to them that is not really in line with u.s. policy. they are not our friends. we should share nothing more than pleasantries, certainly not national security secrets. tucker: congresswoman stephanie murphy, a democrat from florida, went a step further than this. she demanded the u.s. government stop speaking to russia at all in any way. there is no such thing as appropriate contact with a hostile foreign government. no word on whether she applied that same standard to barack obama recent deal with communist cuba. nobody is arguing here, even a trump administration, ....
your government and the united states government seems to be miles apart on the syria issue, ukraine and other issues. did you feel that you ve cleared up any of those issues you mentioned earlier today since you ve had those discussions with secretary tillerson? we did discuss at length the future role for assad, whether it be in a future political process or not. clearly our view is that the reign of the assad family is coming to an end. and they have, again, brought this on themselves with their conduct and war these past few years. we discussed our view that russia, as their closest ally in the conflict, perhaps has the best means of helping assad recognize this reality. we do think it s important that assad s departure is done in an orderly way, an orderly way, so achieved. this is a very high legal hurdle in order to bring such charges against an individual, so i would not suggest to you that all of that evidence is in place. but i think the longer time goes by, it s p ....
united states immigration and customs enforcement will hold a press conference at 2:15 today. probably not too far away. to announce the results of a highly successful recent gang surge operation. the president has made enforcement of our nation s immigration law the top priority and today s announcement will under score not only that commitment, but his focus on targeting transnational gangs and prioritizing the removal of criminal aliens who pose a threat to public safety. also today secretary mattis met with the turkish prime minister to discuss a range of bilateral security issues and the secretary reiterated the united states commitment to protecting our nato allies and both leaders affirmed their support for peace and stability in iraq and syria. one other thing i wanted to point out. last night obamacare suffered another serious blow as aetna announced its decision to pull out of the nebraska and delaware marketplaces which ends their phar teus payings in exchanges comp ....
while 30% say it has given them a less favorable one. 61% said it had no impact. and finally, this is the most troubling number 46% said they feel that president trump fired comey to slow down the russia investigation. and 38% buy the original explanation from the white house, that it was done over legitimate concerns over how comey handled the hillary clinton e-mail issue. and there s a report that a frustrated president trump is considering firing many of his top white house aides. it adds up to a week, at best, the administration has a communications problem. or at worst, it is facing accusations of obstruction of justice. i was going to fire comey. donald trump contradicted his white house aides and his vice president, adding to questions as to why the president chose to fire fbi director james comey when he did. no one from the white house. that was a d.o.j. decision. he took the recommendation but the president needs to back off and let the investigation go forwa ....
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 look at this very brief letter the pre ....