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
on immigration. he has inverted shimsz into the races. he has been an aggressive campaigner, wanted to go out on the campaign trail. i think the president raised the stakes of this election on himself because he put himself out there and injected issues that won the 2016 election for him into this mid terms and if they lose the house he is putting himself in the position of being blamed for those losses. i think republicans had a crisis of kids confidence in 2016 thinking that donald trump understood the voters better than they did. if they lose the house having campaigned on trump s issues, immigration, border security, against the media, they may regain confidence and think 2016 was a one off. we do know our voters. entitlements, the typical paul ryan-type issues are the ones that resonate and lose confidence that trump has his finger on the pulse of republican based voters. right now trump nationalized
tell us again, sarah sanders how we re never allowed to criticize the general. and then we didn t talk about how he treated the gold star widow. and on and on. who is this person? you had another general coming out saying i don t recognize him. well it s very easy to present only elements of your character when you re the general. when you re in charge and you re with a president who has a fetish about people with stars on shoulders, who is going to challenge this man s reputation until he reveals it? so now we see, he has characterlogical problems. who is strong enough to stand up by the standard set by the president himsz. we forgot stormi daniels, people are traitors. and treasonous. that s what you write with in your piece. you said the trump presidency reduces everyone to the level he operates. and that applies to john kelly now. is that applying to him. it sure does apply to him.
general ethics. john kelly falsely smeared a congresswoman. tells as you failure to compromise on slavery causes civil war. protect add wife beater. tell us again, sarah sanders how we re never allowed to criticize the general. and then we didn t talk about how he treated the gold star widow. and on and on. who is this person? you had another general coming out saying i don t recognize him. well it s very easy to present only elements of your character when you re the general. when you re in charge and you re with a president who has a fetish about people with stars on shoulders, who is going to challenge this man s reputation until he reveals it? so now we see, he has characterlogical problems. who is strong enough to stand up by the standard set by the president himsz. we forgot stormi daniels, people are traitors.
reporter: the president unveiled his imsz plan in front of the cameras. would you comment on russia sanctions, please? but when it came to one of the biggest pieces, mr. trump chose to remain behind closed doors. the president signed passed overwhelmingly in congress and then protested in a statement that this legislation is significantly flawed, labeling portions that limit his ability to lift sanctions on russia as clearly unconstitutional provisions. the president s response one day after the white house conceded he weighed in on a misleading statement about his son with a meeting for w a russian attorney strikes some republicans over the top. i m kind of chuckling. that s such a trumpian statement. the legislative branch has a role in this. we re exerting that role. reporter: the president was forced to swallow the sanctions bill as questions are raised about his credibility that boil down to his overall trustworthiness. take what happened on monday even the president of