Questions but at least an opportunity to speak to him about this extraordinary turn of events on capitol hill. Perhaps what was most striking about the testimony of fired fbi director james comey is that he accused the president of the United States, plain and simple, of lying. Comey, even went as far as to suggest that he prepared memos about his conversation about the president because he anticipated the president lying about those interactions. List listen. Theres no doubt. Its a fair judgment, its my judgment that i was fired because of the russia investigation. I was fired to change, or the endeavor was to change the way the russia investigation was being conducted. Comey made it clear that he was making what might be described as one of the noisiest exits by a lawyer in the history of government law. He essentially took one of the key memos. Perhaps the key memo that he prepared and delivered it to a Law School Professor in hopes that that professor would, inturn, leak the memo t
Coming. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Breaking news tonight after days of increasingly troublesome headlines. Cnn learned that white house lawyers began researching impeachment procedures. Sources say the white house only considers impeachment a distant possibility at this point. Also, the noork times is reporting that President Trump bragged to Russian Foreign minister and Russian Ambassador of the oval office about his firing of fbi director james comey saying it removed great pressure from the russia investigation. The report also says mr. Trump called comey crazy and also, im quoting him now, a real nut job. Tonight, the white house is back tonight telling the story raising new question bets president s intent on firing comey at the same time. And speaking out about how the then fbi director tried to keep his distance from the president because comey was so disstushe
Republican senator. It is wednesday. Im bill hemmer. How are you doing . Sandra good morning, ifm owe sandra smith. Republicans dominating control of the senate. Hyde smythe beating out mike espy by nearly 8 last night making the republican the first woman elected to congress from the state of mississippi. Here is what she told supporters last night. I am so grateful. Im so humbled for the honor you have given me to elect me as your United States senator. It shard to describe the feelings tonight for me and my family. Tonight in this victory the reason we won is because mississippians know me and they know my heart and thank you for stepping up, mississippi. Bill that victory gives republicans 5347 edge in the Upper Chamber and thats where we stand now. Sandra Jonathan Serrie is live from jackson with more this morning for us. Good morning. Good morning, sandra and bill. Cindy hydesmith is wasting no time getting right back to work. She is on an early flight back to washington, d. C. T
If you look at the stock market as a measure, we know how President Trump likes to do that. The chinese stock market has fallen by more than the u. S. Stock market. Of course, it will have tremendous impact in the economy and along a lot of Donald Trumps core supporters. Reporter mr. Trump silent about scott pruitt. The epa administrator resigning, effective today. Inquiries in extravagant spending that cost taxpayers millions. Fancy lotions and maxwell fun. Urge you to resign. Could his replacement be worse for the environment . This little girl. She is 8. She hasnt seen her mom in 55 days. This is an unprecedented situation. What about the other 3,000 . Lets go get those kids back with their parents. The agency is conducting dna tests by taking a cheek swab of every child. We are concerned this information could be used to track the families and children for the rest of their lives. Translator we have to suffer a lot of pain, she says. Its difficult not knowing how they are. The trad
The party of the president today. Well take to you houston live with the former president s casket ready for special air mission 41 this hour. Youll see those images here. The service all week including washington will probably affect a shutdown showdown that was supposed to happen friday if congress doesnt cut a deal. Who is the wild card on that and when could it come to a head again if the deadline is extended. Were gearing up for a busy week for special Counsel Robert Mueller. New charges may come against Paul Manafort and we might learn more about the lies former National Security adviser Michael Flynn told federal agents. Were breaking that down later on in the show with our team here and ready to go on this monday morning and all week long. We start, of course, in houston right now where state Funeral Services are set to begin for the nations 41st president. The plane usually called air force one, today special mission air force 41. Its waiting to take former president George He