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
comey, the fact that they were not prepared for the fallout. we re talking about fallout. we re talking about the fact that this has not happened in this way since richard nicken s administration. talking about the fact that republicans is who are loathe to criticize the president like the senate intelligence chair richard burr putting out a statement and issuing a tweet saying he is concerned about this. that kind of reaction they were clearly not expecting mindboggling that s the case. gloria i want to bring in dana you may not have it because you were just mentioning burr. but jeff lake a republican from gloria peting out i was food trying to find a acceptable rationale for the timing of the firing and i just can t do it. it s not just democrat it s republicans as well. it is republicans. remember you know jeff flake was not a donald trump republican. but richard burr was a donald trump republican. and i think right now you know
done. leaks to the new york times in particular was mindboggling. uma: indeed. congressman, thank you for joining us. you are standing by for further information. we re all waiting what the president has to say at 1:15 eastern time. thank you for joining us today. we have appreciate it. anytime. uma: as we have been saying any moment now we ll be briefed by the united nations about what inspectors found in syria. when that happens we will bring it to you live. as soon as it begins? plus, should president obama have to consult congress as we have been asking for any attack on syria? we re going to ask member of the house foreign affairs committee. congressman ileana ros-lehtinen after the break. stay with us. okay, listen up! i m re-workin the menu. mayo? corn dogs? you are so outta here! aah! [ female announcer ] the complete balanced nutrition of great-tasting ensure. 24 vitamins and minerals, antioxidants, and 9 grams of protein. [ bottle ] ensure®.
in fact, the attorney general you just heard talk when the previous democrat governor pardoned people for which there had been no publication at all, jim hood didn t say a word. bret: okay, governor, you heard. in our case we made the effort to do the publications, some of the newspapers ran them late. bret: you heard the family member who was speaking out there to the media. former federal prosecutor, now a law professor says giving free the convicted murders without notifying the families the symbolism of this, the message to the family is so insensitive and insulting to the memory of the murder victims it s mindboggling. do you regret any of them? well, first of all, i do regret that though the department of corrections sent out the notices to be published before the 30-day deadline they didn t realize some of the newspapers would not actually run them for several days.
you just heard talk when the previous democrat governor pardoned people for which there had been no publication at all, jim hood didn t say a word. bret: okay, governor, you heard. in our case we made the effort to do the publications, some of the newspapers ran them late. bret: you heard the family member who was speaking out there to the media. former federal prosecutor, now a law professor says giving free the convicted murders without notifying the families the symbolism of this, the message to the family is so insensitive and insulting to the memory of the murder victims it s mindboggling. do you regret any of them? well, first of all, i do regret that though the department of corrections sent out the notices to be published before the 30-day deadline they didn t realize some of the newspapers would not actually run them for several days.