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
basically what we need in this whole process is integrity, transparency and if anything wants to see what transparency and integrity is all about, all we have to do is rewind the tape of sally yates and clapper yesterday. those are the type of public servants who make sure that we preserve this democracy and preserve our system of justice. congressman swalwell some republicans right now are saying well wait hold on a second director comey was disliked by democrats too nobody was happy with him what s your response to that. well with whether people were happy with him or not he came to congress in march and told congress and the american people that the president s campaign was under criminal and counterintelligence investigations. at that point unless director comey commit add crime he should have been untouchable that s the only way we could have an independent prosecution an independent search for the truth
preserve this democracy and our system of justice. some republicans right now are saying hold on a second director comey was disliked by republicans too. whether people were happy or not, he came to congress in march and told congress and t american people that they were under intelligence investigations. at that point he should have been untouchable. that s the only way we would have an independent search for the truth by the fbi and the president has violated that principal of independence and i m very concerned for our country. don, it is not normal for one whose under investigation i