foreign minister tomorrow. you know, 24 hours of bat optics, it only adds to it. there are legitimate reasons to meet with the foreign minister. lots of things to talk about. syria, et cetera. the day after this raises more questions. if i can add on to a point pamela was making, the president in his letter, kellyanne conway on our air, in unison making the point this investigation is going nowhere. it s done, it doesn t target the president. that is not true. you heard director comey in march saying we are looking at contacts between trump associates and russia, we re looking at the possibilities of collusion. there s no answer to that question. we know that s an open investigation. i spoke to democratic and republican members of the house and senate members whether to them collusion is an open question and they said in unison, that s what we re investigating, still in
appropriately. the only thing that changed here just to go back to jake s original question is that the russia investigation heated up and donald trump wanted a way to to get away from that, to take away the person who was leading the independent investigation. i don t think it s more complicated than that. rod rosenstein is a career employee. he s being used as a pawn right now. i don t think that he knows that m i don t know that for sure. he clearly knows it now. i don t think that was his intention but the fact that we are looking at his memo as if it is justy occasion that takes away from what trump said last year is ludicrous. you know, a couple of points. one, this will not stop or slow down any investigations going on at the fbi. none of the hundreds or thousands of investigations will slow down one bit. the same thing in the russian investigation that would have happened with director comey tomorrow will happen without him. that is going to go forward. this doesn t impair
white house who are confused that democrats who didn t seem to like what james comey did would object to his firing this evening. and no doubt there will be political finger pointing back and forth. so the fact is the american people deserve an answer to the question whether any americans coordinated or conspired with the russians who interfered with our 2016 election and aside from politics we have to get to the bottom of that and this is a big boulder obstruction in the road to getting that done. let me ask you point blank, do you believe the white house account that this happened because deputy attorney general rosenstein who only took office a few weeks ago, came in, examined what comey did during the hillary clinton e-mail server investigation, concluded that he did not have the confidence of the agency, did not have the confidence of the congress and had to go, told that to sessions who then told
financial financial dealings that michael flynn has had with both russia and turkey and it s all part of this broader probe into russia s meddling in the election and ties with trump campaign associates and it is a significant step and escalation in this investigation. and so the question now is, well, what s going to happen with the investigation now that the man who was head of the fbi, he was overseeing it will no longer be there and they ve been asking folks within the fbi about that and one person i spoke to tonight said it s going to continue. the bureau will not blink. we will continue to move forward. we are career agenerals, career prosecutors working on this case, but i imagine there are still a lot of unanswered questions. this could have a chilling effect of course but i think you ll see mounting and growing calls for a special prosecutor. i want to ask you about russia because it appears that president trump is actually going to meet with the russian
close to the oval office. but just to be clear, that s your suspicion. you don t have evidence of it. well, i think that s the question that we should be asking in the wake of this episode, because otherwise it really does not make any sense. let me read to you from the letter to comey from president trump. he wrote in an odd second paragraph of the letter, quote, while i appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that i am not under investigation i never theless concur with the judgment of the department of justice that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau. here is just for our viewers to remind them, here is what former fbi director comey said fewer than two months ago. take a listen. i have been authorized by the department of justice to confirm that the fbi as part of our counterintelligence mission is investigating the russian government s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. and that includes investigating