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
you don t use violence, you don t use violent rhetoric, you don t fire up a mob and you don t stop me and my colleagues from lawfully counting the votes. and if he is not held accountable for that, i am convinced, anderson, that he is gonna seek to do it again when he loses in 2024. so, again, this is about bringing something that s been a long time coming for donald trump that is accountability. if the judge rules in your favor, do you worry then in the future, any president can can be sued by anybody for anything? well, you know, the judge, in a moment that revealed just how difficult of a case this is, think he noted that this is a very difficult, complex case because thankfully we have never had a president do this before. we have never had a president use, you know, his social media to call people to washington and then tell them when they are there, they have to fight like hell and they should go to the capitol. thankfully, that s never happened before. so, i would say, and
you don t use violent rhetoric. you don t fire up a mob and you don t stop me and my colleagues from lawfully counting the votes. if he s not held accountable for that, i m convinced, anderson, that he s going to seek to do it again when he loses in 2024. again, this is about bringing something that has been a long time coming for donald trump, and that s accountability. do you i mean, if the judge rules in your favor, do you worry then in the future, any president can be sued by anybody for anything? well, you know, the judge in a moment that revealed just how difficult of a case this is, i think he noted that this is a very difficult, complex case because thankfully we have every had a president do this before. we have never had a president use, you know, his social media to call people to washington and then tell them when they re there that they have to fight like hell and they should go to the capital. thankfully that s never happened before. i would say, anderson, if the
using it could be training. it could be using for it could be training. it could be using for instructors who volunteered to actually train ukrainians, which could be one option ukrainians, which could be one option 0r ukrainians, which could be one option. or it could have actually been option. or it could have actually been a option. or it could have actually been a base for those who are the ukrainian been a base for those who are the ukrainian foreign legion. they could have been ukrainian foreign legion. they could have been holding foreigners there before have been holding foreigners there before sending them to the front line before sending them to the front line. eitherof before sending them to the front line. either of those is a possibility, because that is the main possibility, because that is the main sort possibility, because that is the main sort of big large empty base that they main sort of big large empty base that they had available at the time t
this one. and the nefarious is still entrenched. 78% of republicans think biden did not win legitimately. despite no evidence to back it up. well, that will that change? likely no. because instead of pausing to process the epic failure of finding fraud, the trumpered moved on. wisconsin, pennsylvania, florida working on similar recounts all with similar nonbases. and now texas, trump won texas. why would you want a recount there? governor abbott caving to trump s demands to keep undermining the vote. is that the goal? do they really want people to never trust an election again? can they really think that this type of fire and fury won t lead to more people acting on the same? you don t think that s a big reason that we got to january 6th? you don t fire up your army of supporters to attack the capitol