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
of law, who is going to take the fub and go do what they need to be doing and i think for all the people freaking out tonight, talking about investigations, look, this is not going to change anything about the investigation. did you proximate cause comey when he came out and said we have some information about the investigation? if you stay around long enough he s going to find a way to make everyone in town mad. so i m sure at a certain point i probably liked some of the things he was doing but this all adds up that he s out there trying to rationalize what he s doing. we need an fbi director who s going to enforce the rule of law. i m actually going to agree. nothing has changed since then. he made the decision. all he s done is come out to explain the decision that he s made, so nothing has changed with his decision making. he did it, you praised him and now you re saying that he should