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
decision. tonight by the president. what did you say about that? i don t understand the timing. i mean you just mentioned this meeting with laugh hoff tomorrow. it s sort of it s at least a political era if he is completely innocent. do you believe he will come to regret in decision. i think politicly yes he has relit the russia fire. again if he is completely innocent he is just gotten all the suspicion going. energized the democrats it s an unforced political error. listen the new thing we got now he is meeting with lavrov what do you think the foreign minister. they could wait, roll it out given comey notice. he is meeting tomorrow with the russian foreign minister. democrats don t trust donald trump maybe that s gnat fair to him but this is going to energize democrats raise suspicions. this is a huge issue there was a comment earlier about the leaks. process there was a story
motivations of the president in why he did this. but the fact that he did this will disgrace his memory for as long as this presidency is remembered. there is only you know one- one day that will be remembered after january 20th so far in the trump presidency. and it s the day of the tuesday night massacre. in is the day that trump fired the head of the fbi. the only other time the head of the fbi has been fired was william sessions by bill clinton and that was politicly uncontroversial. so never in history have we had an fbi director fired by a president who was under investigation by the fbi. and it s just wrong. and it s obviously wrong. allen some are stay saying it a constitutional crisis for the president to fire the man investigating him do you grie with that. look i think there are four separate questions you have to ask. should comey be the director of the fbi? the answer to that is no. he shouldn t be the director.