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Interim director for the fbi, and that could happen as early as today or tomorrow. that would be a decision taken by those two individuals at the senior leaders of the justice department. now at the same time, they have to search ultimately for the replacement for the fbi director. that is something that would be appointed by president trump and then would need senate confirmation. there is an additional wrinkle here. if it turns out that the individual appointed as interim director for the fbi ...

Within the fbi. he certainly, i think, lost the confidence from members of both sides, republicans and democrats in the house and senate. frankly, most importantly, he lost the confidence of the american people. >> jon: we should be hearing from her again in the next 25 minutes or so, deputy white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders, defending the presidents decision to fire the director of the fbi. for more on this, lets bring in john bussey,s associate editor of "the wall street journ...

Has been said over the course of the past several months, there is plenty of support, bipartisan support for what the president did. >> if i had a hearing about why he should be fired, comey, the first witness i would call would be sheer mercy can tell me why he thought he would be fired, should be fired. there are 20 democrats at different times that called for mr. comey to step down as fbi director. this is what gives hypocrisy a bad name. >> jenna: lets bring in our panel, democratic strategi...

Good. mike emanuel is live on capitol hill with the very latest. >> good afternoon, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is ripping democrats for questioning the judgment of the deputy attorney general who has just confirmed to his post several weeks ago, 94-6, and it was that deputy attorney general who called for an leadership change at the fbi. >> but we have now, mr. president, our democratic colleagues complaining about the removal of an fbi director whom they themselves repeatedly and sh...

Point, and i havent heard it today, what do you think about the american people being better off with this decision? >> we are probably better off because of this decision but to be clear, everything about this decision from the move to do it to the way it was managed, the timing of it is objectively bad, i totally agree with amy on the way to move forward here is to find a bipartisan way to do so, but we have to be very, very intentional with our words and what we are calling for. i really thin...

Well talk about the fallout from the tamir rice case and the outrage against police shootings nationwide. and trumps new target, hes not only lashing out at hillary clinton, hes dragging her husband into the war of words. were standing by to hear from trump on the clintons, sexism and whether the former president is fair game. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off. im brianna keilar. youre "the situation room." >> this is cnn breaking new...

Haul. the visit comes a day after donald trump took to the strip to rally support in whats a crucial state for the gop. ben carson swallowing much of the gop political coverage today. hes been criticized again for making a controversial comment, this time over the holocaust. meantime, republicans might have another target in the democratic race. sources close to vice president joe biden tell us hes meeting with his family this weekend at home in delaware. that gathering comes as the clock ticks ...

He released a statement saying he not interested in the job immediately after mccarthy pulled out. butch he had an opportunity in front of ul of us reporters to say a definitive no, i dont want to do it, dont want to add it was a soft moeas ryan to def netly backing away from it. all eyes will be on him. we dont know if hell speak up today. ryan is not somebody who makes a huge life decision at the spurt of the moment. he tushl likes to talk it out withes advisers, talk it out with his family so...

Our knowledge or comprehension." jose? >> and kate, tell me a little bit about what the mood was like, what the scene was like in that room. so many people. >> yeah. ive never done an interview that large before, jose, on any subject. and you can imagine the raw emotion that filled that room. i think what comes out tonight and what youll see on "dateline" is the interaction between these women, the support theyre giving each other. theyre crying, theyre holding hands. and the themes that come ou...

Conference meeting. obviously paul ryan is the man who has the house gop in a holding pattern right now because they will not make decision as to who willbe spoke what butch has not flks did to do it, many are aing he needs to get into this and save the race. iffy wants it, its there but he has to figure it out. speculation is hes probably going to go become to wisconsin this weekend. its dlg see hide away from the past but lot of poohing still a dogmatic no as well we staub?