Commencements since becoming president. It comes after the white house fallout of the sudden dismissal of james comey during the fbi investigation into possible ties between the Trump Administration or rather trump campaign, i should say and russia. Now this is as four candidates prepare to interview today for the fbi director job. We have a team of political reporters and analysts standing by here. Lets begin with cnn washington Correspondent Ryan Nobles who is at the commencement. You see him there on the left. What are you hearing from the crowd there . I understand theres about 7,000 students and families who will be watching. What are they saying . What do they expect . Reporter well, this is expected to be a pretty friendly crowd for the president. This is a group of people and voters in particular that generally supported him during the election and, of course, here at Liberty University their president Jerry Falwell jr. A very influential evangelical leader that allowed the th
tens of millions of other american parents are in the exact same situation as me, sort of sitting around waiting for something to happen so that our kids have a way to be safe. anita: it is, it is very tense, i imagine, in your household. i know you are doing everything you can to stay safe, but it is good news to hear from dr. nesheiwat that new therapeutics are coming out next year, new antivirals for people who are both vaccinated and unvaccinated and need those things. they have to go to the hospital. so we ll see what the new year brings for the little ones. gillian: i know. terrible. anita: all right, well, over the last year, several democratic leaders faced criticism for their blatant hypocrisy during the covid pandemic. and now that includes one tribe squadmember at raising a cocktan a state she often criticizes. charlie hurt is on deck to react
their city. the fires erupted thursday outside of denver following an extremely dry fall and winter. so far nearly devoid of snow. at least one first responder and six other people have been injured, and the sheriff says more could be hurt or even dead at this point. but, gillian, as we take a look at these pictures, you can get a sense of how widespread this is. so many homes are leveled. this fueled by 100-mile-per-hour winds, extremely dry conditions, and people just in a state of panic. we heard in jeff paul s report that there was one woman who said it was as if a nuclear bomb had hit that town. gillian: terrible optics. these pictures we are getting, anita, are pretty devastating. you can get a sense of how powerful this fire has been in terms of scope and scale. look at this, entire neighborhoods are decimated. a few moments ago,
brennan and joe lockhart. three passes on the opening drive to antonio brown. then second quarter, catching a touchdown and celebrating in the end zone. this with a sexual assault allegation hanging over his head. what kind of look was that for the nfl? terrible optics. exactly what the nfl would not have wanted to happen. this is a league we ve talked about it many times. it s been five years and one week since the ray rice video, that terrible punch in the elevator. since then, every day the nfl has tried to explain to people and fans how important women are to the nfl, listen to women, pay attention to women. 45% of the nfl fan base is women and girls. this, wow. it is quite a statement. and i understand all of the pros and cons here, but it is a mess. and the nfl, it s the last thing
caught offguard by the decision to fire james comey and even vice president mike pence was rattled by the events this week. what do you make of that characterization of the morale in the white house this early on in the presidency? well, this president seems to be winging it a lot of the time. and the decision to remove the director of the fbi at a time when the fbi is under take an investigation of the 2016 campaign creates at the very least leaving aside legal and political issues. terrible optics. and the president normally works with his inner team, i mean previous presidents, republican or democrat would have worked with their team to come up with a communication strategy, a messaging strategy to prepare the american people, to explain why such a potentially controversial decision was made. and, obviously, it didn t happen in this case.