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but when you compare director comey s testimony yesterday, which was quite compelling, believable and composed to the ways the president conducted himself today at the rose garden, i think james comey is going to win any credibility contest. what is your problem with how the president conducted himself today at the rose garden? this is a serious investigation, he was standing in quite a prestigious place, the rose garden and was asked if there were tapings, he sort of swintimated there were and said that investigation could be coming soon. there is not a reality show. this is the president of the united states with allegations of obstruction of justice taking place. the president did say he was 100% willing to testify under oath. will you call on the special counsel bob mueller to depose the president of the united his side will be more believable? jeff sessions apparently was in the room, jared kushner was in the room. and apparently there s more to hear from admiral ....
cares. that itself was an interesting thing to watch at the time. presidential nominee absents himself from the party platform process. interesting. but what was way more interesting than that, what was riveting and bizarre to watch at the time that we couldn t make heads or tails of at the time was the trump campaign s one exception on the party platform. even hope the they let this other stuff slide, that was very much not in keeping with trump and the campaign, they did decide to get up on their hind legs and fight and intercede aggressively for one specific thing in the platform. one specific part of the republican party platform, and that was a thing about russia. there was a proposed plank for the republican party platform that said ukraine should get help from the united states up to and including lethal weaponry so ukraine could fight off russian incursions. and you know what, the trump campaign let everything else in the platform slide. even stuff that might theoretic ....
near travis air force base. we ll bring you the latest at 6:00. bye bye. tonight, breaking developments. protests and chaos at the g20. as president trump arrives, thousands descend on the summit. many fighting the global economy. police and protesters clashing in the streets. water cannons, tear gas and now mounting injuries. our team in the middle of it. also tonight, the meeting with vladimir putin is now coming with president trump now offering his toughest words yet aimed at russia. but when asked who meddled in our election, how the president responds on the world stage. the new findings tonight inside the airport disaster in chicago. the jet engine, the catastrophic failure. shrapnel flying. panic on board. we have surveillance video tonight. the veteran new york city police officer ambushed while sitting in a police vehicle. and the hot car and the dogs trapped. the urgent effort to save them, tonight, the president in his own words, warning he is consideri ....
carried political and potentially legal peril. the strategy, the advisers agreed, should be for donald trump jr. to release a statement to get ahead of the story. they wanted to be truthful, so their account couldn t be repudiated later if the full details emerged. but within hours, at the president s direction, the plan changed. flying home from germany on july 8th aboard air force one, trump personally dictated a statement in which trump jr. said he and the russian lawyer had primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. when they met in june 2016, according to multiple people, with knowledge of the deliberations, the statement, issued to the new york times, as it prepared a story, emphasized that the subject of the meeting was, quote, not a campaign issue at the time. the claims were later shown to be misleading. further down in the washingt wa post story, quote, as special counsel robert mueller investigates potential obstruction as part of his broad ....
the fisher director who is the only person who is independently leading this moving forward when you don t have him doing that you need an outside group doing it. republicans should call for that shouldn t 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 i m don lemon let s put it as plainly as we can. the president of the united states has fired the man investigating his campaign s 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 cover-up going on. this is definitely not politics as usual. we have said it before but it s look at this very brief letter the pre ....