Firing of fbi director james comey. Comey sent a letter to his former colleagues at the fbi last night saying, he is not going to dwell on the president s decision. The Justice Department is denying reports that comey recently asked for more money and manpower to investigate alleged ties between russia and the trump campaign. And the Senate Committee looking into possible ties between the campaign and russia has subpoenaed former National Security adviser michael flynn. And President Trump is now citing Job Performance as his motive. Abcs janai norman has the latest from washington. Good morning to you, janai. Reporter kenneth and diane, good morning to both of you. So, the questions still lingering, why was comey fired now . Could this be tied to the russia investigation . Some lawmakers saying the answers arent quite adding up. Less than 24 hours after firing the man leading the investigation into russian meddling, President Trump welcomed russias ambassador and foreign minister to t
Jeff pegues, thank you very much. Were john dickerson, our chief washington correspondent is with us. John, the Political Climate on all of this, this is quite a surprise. Its quite a surprise, and obviously, there was already a considerable amount of back and forth and political blood in the water on the russia question this week alone, and now you have a situation where, i mean, if you read the letter explaining why comey was let go, its thick with criticism of his handling of Hillary Clintons email situation, that was something obviously deeply political. Now this week hes released, hes in the middle. The fbi is investigating connections between russian meddling in the election and the trump campaign, so the political ramifications here will be will be constant, and whoevers going to handle this election this investigation next will have to handle this super charged atmosphere. John dickerson, thanks very much. Were going to be following the details and the developments on this brea
Fireball that enveloped a construction project. Just seeing the embers falling down, it looked like snow and fire. They were all over the place. Deja vu all over. Reporter rick is the developer. Hes living a recurring nightmare today. It started with a phone iend. He said got to get down here. Its happened again. The same phone call from the same owner ten months ago. The complex burned down july 6 at the same stage of construction. We had at least 15 million in the first fire. Reporter investigators say the fire was exacerbated by heavy winds, embers reached into neighborhoods as far as four miles from the site. Two blocks away, another home caught fire, burning the whole back side. The Fire Department said the cause is still under investigation, but neighbors say they think they know what happened. I think somebody is setting the fires. Why . I dont know. I bet who torched it last night torched it in july. Reporter surrounding streets were closed as crew tried to decide how to take d
At one point the dow was actually up triple digits. The closing numbers, the Dow Jones Industrials Dow Jones Industrials added 56 points to 20,663. The nasdaq rose 43. And the s p 500 was up eight. Bob pisani spent the day at the New York Stock Exchange figuring out why stoc [ bell ringing ] reporter yesterdays selloff was a oneday event, at least so far. Traders had been nervous going into the open because yesterday a lot of big institutional traders were selling stocks. The concern was that the big players would continue to sell today. That did not happen. Wall street strategists also do not appear ruffled by the wild ride yesterday. None of them were taking future stock gains, at least not yet. Jpmorgan told clients they were still raising earnings estimates because corporate guidance has really been strong. Elsewhere, an accident in times square in the middle of the day that caused the death of one pedestrian caught the attention of traders. But it does appear to be an accident and
And in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Schiff, for five minutes. Mr. Speaker, on may 16, a group of Peaceful Protesters gathered at a public park outside the turkish ambassadors residence in northwest washington, d. C. They came from a variety of backgrounds, armenian, kurdish, yazidi and more. But they shared a common concern about developments in turkey, including the crackdown on political opposition and free speech in that country and turkeys continued denial of the armenian genocide. About a mile away, turkeys president , erdogan, was received warmly by President Trump at the white house. The protesters felt and rightly so that they had to exercise their First Amendment rights and raise their voices in dissent, the very dissent that has been squelch by erdogan in his own country. What happened nex