Im Shannon Bream in for bret baier. Were coming to you from fox news world Head Quarters in new york. Israel and hamas, the war. Is it President Bidens vietnam . One presentingsive senator says yes. We heard from a Security Expert that said the u. S. Is in a second cold war and falling behind. Congressional democrats have high hopes for new marijuana rules. Henry cuellar and his wife are charged with conspiracy and bribery in connection with a federal probe in their ties to azerbaijan. Rich edson has more. Prosecutors accused Henry Cuellar and his wife from receiving bribes from an azarbaijan energy company. T they centered 60,000 for pushing initiatives. The Bribe Payments were allegedly laundered pursuant to sham consulting contracts through a series of Front Companies and middlemen in to Shell Companies owned by amel cuellar that performed no to little work under the contracts. In a state, Congressman Cuellar says i want to be clear, were innocent. The actions that i took were in Co
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
of the voting system with you we know this because a 25-year-old contractor and air force veteran named reality leo winner leaked classified information to the intercept website per the prosecutorers winner who once called trump a orange facist has arrested and will be tried unthe espionage act it s the first criminal leak case of the trump administration with us tonight two men knowing the nsa well having worked for the intelligence agency. our terrorism analyst malcom nance. 35 year veteran of the trade, navy intelligence homeland security, special ops, the nsa also the author of the timely book the plot to hack america, how putin and cyberspies a wikileaks tried to steal the election. the raj de is formerly assistant attorney general. imagine malcom i licensed to
reported tonight. but of course something of this magnitude happening could have a chilling effect among the investigators as you know don there are frohhing calls particularly from exactic lawmakers for independent prosecutor to take over the investigation. and rosenstein has said previously during his senate confirmation hearing that he would indeed appoint a special prosecutor if if enact necessary. i wouldn t be surprised if you continue to see these calls. um-hum. pamela, you also have some reporting tonight. regarding grand jury subpoenas have been issued in this fbi russia investigation. what can you tell us about that. that s right we learned that just in the last couple of weeks federal prosecutorers have issued grand jury subpoenas to associates of former national security adviser michael flynn seeking business records as part of the ongoing probe of russian meddling in last year s election. the subpoenas represent the
relevance into the clinton private e-mail server. comey sent a three-paragraph letter to congress on friday. and despite calls from the clinton campaign and from republicans to provide more conversation, comey will not say more while his investigators are doing their work. this morning, nearly 100 federal prosecutorers and high-ranking justice officials, have raised concerns about comey s letter to congress. it s inconsistent with prevailing policy. among the signers of the open letter, eric holder and former deputy attorney general, larry thompson. larry thompson served in the george w. bush administration. it says that comey s decision to bring up evidence of what may be an ongoing inquiry, just 11 days before a presidential election, leaves us boast astonishes and perpl