The coffin for President Trump to fire him. Bret tonight, new questions. Did the president hint at comeys firing a month ago . We will see what happens. Its going to be interesting. Bret What Happens Next in the russia investigation . Catastrophically compromise the investigation. The investigation going on in the intelligence committee. Bret we have all of the angles covered. A Special Edition of Special Report starts right now. Good evening. Welcome to washington. I am bret baier. The Reality Tv Star Billionaire Businessman who made you are fired a catchphrase used it this afternoon and what is turning out to be one of his most controversial moves yet. President trumps dismissal of james comey has rocked washington. Democrats tried to link the action to the investigation of a possible connection between the Trump Campaign and the russians before the elections. Demands for a special prosecutor are louder tonight and democrats are jumping to watergate comparisons. John roberts starts u
Thats all the time we have left this evening. Please stay with the Fox News Channel for all night, continuing coverage of this breaking news. The president firing the fbi director james comey, bret baier is next. We will see you back here. An important show tomorrow. Bret a massive political shock wave hits washington. I was flabbergasted, to say the least. The president did not fire the entire fbi. He fired the director. Speak with the goal was to act on recommendation of the Deputy Attorney general and the Attorney General. The administration has to answer the question why now . Bret President Trump writing the letter that he believes comey cannot lead the fbi. Essentially puts the nail in
the coffin for President Trump to fire him. Bret tonight, new questions. Did the president hint at comeys firing a month ago . We will see what happens. Its going to be interesting. Bret What Happens Next in the russia investigation . Catastrophically compromise the investigation. The investigation
other side of the board, house races, so much different. those suburban districts, educated women voters, not helpful. so, the question here tonight, the white house is still waiting for that fbi report, capitol hill waiting for it as well. we will not know how those three key senators will vote and the future of the kavanaugh confirmation until that fbi report comes out. but you know, despite the president s antics, many senators believe that he would just stay out of it as john cornyn, the number two republican in the senate said earlier today, mr. president, leave the confirmation fight to us up here, focus on your own thing. so they hope the president does not keep weighing in here, kate, but i think there s a decent chance that he will. fat chance that request goes through. thanks, jeff. van jones, former special adviser to president obama and the host of t the van jones sho and mark short, former director of legislative affairs for president trump. van, not mocking, just stati
republicans on the committee for the claim that republicans made that there had not been, in republicans terms, any whiff of an issue related to inappropriate sexual behavior or alcohol abuse by brett kavanaugh that might have been uncovered in these past background check investigations. and democrats are taking a big issue with this tonight. they say this is not accurate, but they are not expanding beyond that. we don t know what they re reverencing to and certainly they are, of course, very limited in what they can say because this is a private, confidential background check, but this only adds to the drama and the very tense moment up here on capitol hill as everyone is just waiting on bated breath in a holding pattern, essentially, waiting for this fbi report to hit and certainly we are hearing remarks from top democrats on that committee, the ranking member, diane dine feinn really taking issue with this new investigation, even before it even hits, she s questioning in a statemen
earlier background checks? there are witnesses who can corroborate and possibly substantiate those kinds of allegations. that still have not been interviewed and they need to be. senator grassley s staff responding tonight with this. nothing in the tweet is inaccurate or misleading. the committee stands by its statement, which is completely truthful. more baseless innuendo and more false smears from senate democrats. this bitter all-out war on capitol hill very clearly escalating, if it s even possible to, tonight. just as the fbi report on the new background check is expected to make its way to the white house and the hill for senators to soon see. sunland, is there anything more to what democrats are choorjing here tonight? reporter: at this point, kate, i think it s best to say we simply do not know. this is still a very veiled suggestion by democrats, but certainly a very big accusation coming from eight democrats on the judiciary committee and they are essentially calling