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
course, oh, struck and page laughing that loretta lynch put the fix and on the investigation to begin with and never me never mind the tarmac meeting and exoneration of being written may 2016, and not interviewed until july 2nd, but exonerated by comey july 25th, 2016. what do we know when that particular case? they never looked at real evidence and all popular regular procedure in the fbi was cast aside. they didn t tape it, they didn t record it, there is no three oh two s and she was allowed to bring in a witness and one other person to give her comfort while the fbi was supposedly interrogating her. john: that is right. listen in one day jerry nadler issued 80 subpoenas but the clinton campaign, or to mrs. quentin, you can see the difference in justice even in the way the republicans and the democrats on the house house have treated investigations at some point you need compel
the fix in on the investigation to begin with and never mind the tarmac meeting and exonerationon being written may 2016, and she is not interviewed until july 2nd, exonerated by comey july 25th, 2016. what do we know about that particular case? they never looked at real evidence and all popular regular procedure in the fbi was cast aside. they didn t tape it, they didn t record it, there is no 302s andd she was allowed to bring in a witness and one other person to give her comfort while the fbi was supposedly interrogating her. john: that is right. o listen, in one day jerry nadler issued 80 subpoenas but the clinton campaign, or to mrs. clinton, you can see the difference in justice even in the way the republicans and the democrats on the house house have treated investigations. at some point you need compel answers to get to the truth.
today. i am really not quite sure if the president of the united states even knows how any of this works. we have indicted russian intelligence officers who have carried out a cyber warfare attack against the united states. it was this channel, msnbc, on july 25th, 2016, that was the first channel to declare the united states under attack. two years later the president doesn t believe it, doesn t care about it, and he has left us completely vulnerable. back in 2016, president obama, his administration decided not to go ahead with the summit. i believe it was 2013 after russia decided to give asylum to edward snowden. in other words, there have been summits like this before that u.s. presidents have walked away from and there have been calls for that to happen this time around in light of what happened on friday. what s your reaction to that? is this a meeting that you think needs to go ahead? well, i think regardless, david, it is a meeting that will go ahead at this point calling
general michael flynn pled guilty to lying to the fbi. there is a lot of other important context to explain here. we will do that in just a minute. first, take a look at brand new text messages. start july 25th, 2016. page writes. rudy, the judge we are talking about. is on the foreign intelligence surveillance court. did you know that? and page adds just, you know, appointed two months ago. strzok. i did. and we talked about it before and after i need to get together with him so strzok and judge contreras know each other. page letter writes read through this, thought of it because you had to google foreign intelligence surveillance court judges and saw him there. i m telling you. strzok follows up with well she brought up a good point about being circumspect in talking to him in terms of not placing him in a situation where he d have to actually recuse himself. page then texts i can t imagine either one of you ever talking about anything in detail, meaningful enough