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
And saying very forcefully and teachers that this Trump University was anything but that. It was to get him rich at the expense of poor and elderly americans. Katy tur out in San Francisco again prior to a trump event there tonight. And Nicole Wallace, while were watching this young woman giving the introduction in the understanding that we may have to drop out of this any moment to take the speech, it did strike me, federal judges are very powerful individuals in our country. They are nominated by the president. They serve for life. They are approved by the senate of the United States. When youre on the federal bench, it is a position of significant power and privileges. For donald trump to take on a federal judge is dicy. Its dicy in the same way that taking on a prisoner of war is dicy. He called john mccain not his kind of p. O. W. And donald trump i think as katy said, it could be a turning point. When we watch how he 1307bds to Hillary Clintons speech today, well know whether hes
Public, the democrats and their lap dogs, the fake news Mainstream Media are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence. Actually, throughout my life my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. Crooked Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard, and as everyone knows, went down in flames. I went from very successful businessman to top tv star, to president of the United States. On my first try. I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius, and a very stable genius at that. All of that via twitter this morning from the president of the United States and all of this as cnn learns two senior white house officials were involved in pressuring Jeff Sessions to not recuse himself from the russia investigation. Not only did white House Counsel don mcgann pressure sessions, but so did former chief of staff Reince Priebus and express secretary sean spicer. One official telling cnn, i think its fair
political meeting place. to be successful a candidate must use the medium and use it well. richard nicken prefers informal no holds barred discussions. new hampshire was the first time we saw a new innovation in televised campaigning. richard nixon s aides would gagts era group of ordinary citizens and have them instead of media asking questions. any further questions. and they made it look like richard nixon was this brave truth teller willing to face down any critic when in fact it was completely stage. he discusses the issues with citizens of new hampshire. lawlessness. crime. is a major problem in this country today. and we talk about civil rights, you know what the most important civil right in this country is, it s the right to be safe in the streets, to be safe in your home. nixon s campaign in new hampshire was a classic.
investigation, or subject to inquiry and have people close to them, family members or members of the administration in there. i think at this point we have a situation where when you put all the pieces together, you look at the whole thing in context, that you get much closer to some obstruction. if this is the case, most likely the mueller team already knows this, looked into it further, or perhaps could it be potentially influential for the congressional reviews? my point is bob mueller has been well into this a long time. probably the president now is particularly embarrassed. today you have him defending his own sanity, not unlike richard nicken did when he said i want to tell you all i m not a crook, but we know where that ended up. i m guessing that may be where we end up with president trump as people question his competency and credibility as president. whatever the implications for priebus and spicer, if they were indeed involved in this pressuring of sessions?