That is the personal background on director call me. Statement from the white house. It reads, today donald j. Trump informed james comey he has been terminated and removed from office. Onsident trump acted based the clear recommendations of both a Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein and attorney general Jeff Sessions. The fbis one of our nations most cherished and respected institutions and today will mark a new beginning for our crown jewel of law enforcement, said president and drop President Trump. Issued from the press secretary. Lets go with some of your calls. We go to west virginia, our lines for west virginia. Thats republican. Want james comey, i just to say that he was guilty then and just as guilty now. We will take that as your comment and go to scott in pennsylvania. What you think of the firing of the head of the fbi . I will be honest with you. The first thing that came to my mind was coverup. I will agree with senator schumer, and my thoughts were concurred 100 with
Meantime, the president is the doing a lot of work overtime, going after the media right now. Now questioning the need for White House Briefings as we presently have them. That he is concerned that the way we go about them one gotcha moment after another. Maybe the best way for the media to proceed Going Forward is to give a written he question. They will give you a written response to make sure everything is accurate. He had it with all of this. But for the timebeing, White House Briefing is on. Less than an hour, sean spicer will do the duties today. Blake burman with the latest from the white house. Reporter speaking of work, sean spicer will have the work cut out for him at the White House Press briefing later today, after President Trump set out series of tweets this morning, one click after the next generated one headline after the next. Kind of went through one of them a little while ago there as relates to the president questioning the need for press briefings. The president tw
Bureaus year long investigation. Which republicans say helped Clint Clinton and lower standard. Comey was cool and confident. No ground toally critics of his view of the case. Of attacks main line was not the clinton should have been indicted, although they that quite a bit and frustrated by comey on that point. Harped on was this. Clinton was not entirely truthful in her past statements emails including under oath. The chairman of the committee, from utah, he was going to send her referral to investigate clintons testimony which she gave under during the Benghazi Committee hearing. Did you look at the Clinton Foundation . Im not going to comment on the existence or nonexistence of investigations. Foundationclinton tied into this investigation answer that. Ing to mark that was a mom shell. When that is one thing have really seized on. The other thing, they seized on is his question of clintons truthfulness. Do . , overall, how did comey how did the republicans do and what is the bottom
Todo list before the end of the year. And time is running short. Shepard we will see how the president response to that. He is also working on getting support or a tax cut bill with a visit to capitol hill today. Some lawmakers are not yet sold, and the polls show the American People are very much against it. We will explain why on both fronts. Lets get to it. Breaking news with Shepard Smith reporting live from the fox news desk. Shepard out of nowhere, alive look at the white house where the president is about to speak in a minute now. This was not scheduled. It was not on the agenda, we are expecting to have a White House Press briefing from Sarah Sanders as is often the case around this time in the afternoon. Abruptly a short time ago, this was canceled instead, the president himself will speak on an extremely busy and consequential newsday. We are waiting for a reaction to north korea watching yet another Ballistic Missile. Another challenge what is already a make or break day for
This brings the total death in the country linked to e cigarettes to be six. Well watch for this update in houston. Well have news on it as soon as it happens. And we have breaking news right now as well. This has just couple from the president s twitter feed. I informed john bolton last night that his services are no longer needed. I disagreed with his suggestions as with others in the administration and its a twopart tweet. I have to click. Go to the next one. Forgive me. Im reading this real time. The therefore i asked for his resignation which was given to me this morning. I thank john for his service. I will be naming a new National Security adviser next week. National security adviser john bolton is out. A couple of things have developed this week. You know, you see the president alluding to it, but not specifically saying, but we do know that that secret meeting with taliban leadership was called off this week. As the president points out, theres been a number of times when they