May 9 2017 News Today

>> march, 201. sessions recused himself from overseeing the investigation. >> they said that since i had involvement with the campaign, i should not be involved in any campaign investigation. >> may 9, 2017, a startling development. >> a bombshell at the white house. >> trump fired fbi director james comb y, the man charged with overseeing the investigation. >> whats more, trump told nbc news he was considering the russia investigation when he was deciding whether to fire comey. >> i said, you k...

Hands of attorney general william barr. the probe lasted nearly 2 years. catherine herridge takes you back to the beginning and the timeline up until today.>> he unfortunately had to fly back to washington. unexpectedly. >> on may 9, 2017 president trump fired fbi director james comey while he was traveling in california. the white house released a memo from deputy attorney general ron rosenstein to justify the termination. media accounts they portrayed rosenstein just to ease into the job overs...

Against the opposing political party. >> that is what happened when the counter intelligence investigation of the trump campaign began in late july and continued on through presumably to director comeys firing and beyond. >> well, im not in a position to make a judgment on it. i think its strange to have a counter intelligence investigation of a president i dont know what the predicate is. >> rod rosensteins memo rekding the termination of james comey as fbi director was dated may 9, 2017. its e...

Is a russian agent. >> where is the evidence? we hear this over and over from democrats and theres no evidence of this, pretty clear senator warner tried to imply this in these meetings but keep in mind secretary of state to listen in the first meeting, i doubt the president would have said such with this -- ridiculous things in the presence of to listen and the second meeting was carefully communicated to senior officials, everyone knows what was discussed in helsinki. it was a discussion i thi...

>> thats what happened when the counterintelligence investigation of the trump campaign began in late july and continued on through -- well, presumably to director comeys firing and beyond? >> well, im not in a position to make a judgment about it because i dont know what the predicate was for it. i think i said its strange to have a counterintelligence investigation of a president. but im not -- i just dont know what the predicate is. if im confirmed, i assume ill find out. >> rod rosensteins m...

Your first big hearing youre bringing in a guy in front of congress going to prison for lying to congress so thats where the democrats are. the other thing in the himes interview this idea the dossier was never verified. james comey said selacious un verified they didnt check this all out and yet used it as a basis to get a warrant to spy on the trump campaign. maria: let me ask you about this new york times report, of course the fbi opened an inquiry into whether trump was secretly working on b...

In ferences the 2016 campaign at some point, although weve hs before. yet the investigation goes on. our chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is her life to take us in-depth on the important events and key people who change the course of this probe. >> good evening. documents, text messages and congressional testimony reviewed by fox news show eight days in may 2017 right after the fbi director was fired, they are pivotal period with no hard evidence of collusion, senior fbi and d...

Neither strzok for page have spobded to fresh comments on that deposition. >> sandra: there are texts about comeys firing under new scrutiny. >> this is important and im going to try to make it simple so its easy to understand. two hours after director comeys termination became public on may 9, 2017 there was a series of urgent text messages are strzok telling page we need to open the case we are sitting on with andy. andrew mccabe temporarily took over after comey. page replied we need to lock ...

Fired immediately and the president trump out to initiate an investigation into his actions, conversely on may 9, 2017 the same democrat made a yu turn and stated that quote, the firing of f.b.i. director comey by president trump is a terrifying signal of this administrations continued abuse of power on so many levels, end quote. additionally following the 2016 election another of our democratic colleagues insisted that comey should pack his things and go. however, a year later the same person i...

Today. without warning. suddenly. summarily. effective immediately. >> james comey is fired from his position as fbi director. on may 9, 2017. the white house first explains the decision as a response to his handling of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation the previous year. the following day theres a new explanation. >> most importantly, the rank and file of the fbi had lost confidence in their director. >> according to to official agent surveys comeys popular in the bureau as his replaceme...