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
served. doesn t you think the timing makes it look suspicious now. i don t think it s you keep making comparisons and other guests have on the show about watergate. that was the middle of a major investigation. i haven t made the watergate. but it s wg been going on throughout the night. and the truth is three times the director of the fbi told the president you re not there is no evidence. we know that director clapper has said there is no evidence. other officials disbelieved. testified of. collusion between the trump campaign and russias. that s the whole point of the investigation is not finished and also since you bring it up it was very strange thatted he said he would mention that in a letter that he sent out to the media and to the fbi. and actually to the fbi director notifying him of his. so everything we say is really have to be cleverly and carefully looked at one of the things you said earlier was that this was stopping the investigation. the presiden