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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 bom...

Obstruct justice? >> well, he was asking the director to get rid of a case that the director was involved in. we just dont do that in america. our president doesnt tell the fbi director, the independence of the department of justice, who they do and do not investigate. and, you know, ana, he may not have been under investigation back in january and february of 2017, but i would sure be surprised today if he -- if that was the still the case. >> comey has talked a lot about the russia investigati...

That should comey says that donald trump was-- according to "new york post," comey writes that the president trump asked him to investigate allegations about a salacious tape supposedly that the russians had to reassure the first lady. your paycheck.

Explaining. heather: should comey come back? >> there was no meeting at all, he previously testified, both of them have a lot of explaining to do. >> i want to see that rejected paragraph too. appreciate it. time is 18 minutes after the top of the hour and we are not talking takeout. how the trump administration is thinking outside the box to reform the federal food stamp program and crossing the line, mocking vice president mike pence for his faith. >> mental illness if im not >> carly shimkus ...

Any reason we cannot share information fully as related to russia and another paragraph rejected, the president asked comey to inform if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the intel team, comey said he would. is that covering herself if it turns out it becomes public she didnt share information she was supposed to? >> covering herself and covering president obama. this is hearsay from president obama, she does something we did not, ...

With the feds to redact specific parts that raise concern. the memo will not be revised after the white house said it wouldnt allow the counter memo to be made public because of national security concerns. on capitol hill former assistant fbi director calling out james comey over the fisa warrant controversy. is someone who knows the workings of the bureau, the fbi director says he has never seen anything like this before. >> i was involved with numerous fisa orders as head of the fbi new york a...

Computer belonging to anthony weiner that contained thousands of copies can of clintons e-mails." he adds all available preversus post poll data indicates hillary clinton would have won the election had he not sent the letter. deputy attorney general rosenstein wrote i cannot defend the directors handling of the conclusion of the investigation of secretary clintons e-mails. i do not understand his refusal to understand the nearly universal judgment he was mistaken. im joined by lanny davis, form...

>> i think that he has some explaining to do. if trump february 14th says to him, hey, youve got to move past this flynn investigation, should comey have filed a crimes report? should comey have told the justice department? theres a lot of explaining of how they dealt with the white house that needs to be done. >> thats exactly what he did in the ashcroft case, too, he went home, he kept notes, wasnt revealed until he felt there was a need to reveal it. >> maybe he doesnt think his role is to co...

>> this is rod rosenstein he sent the letter to the memo to attorney general jeff sessions who by the way announced efts going to rekeyes him from the russia investigation or anything to do with hillary clinton as well. as you and i discussed he says i cannot defend the director handling fortunate conclusion fortunate investigation of secretary clintons emails the director was wrong to ewe turp the authority on july 25th 2016 and announced his conclusions that the case shb christed without prose...

Is if theres not a sinister motive is the other alternative. >> are you troubled by this? >> very much so. >> am i troubled? >> jon? >> very much so. i think that its -- i think they wanted a result and they found a pretext for it. and i think that we have a real question going forward about the separation of powers. and the rule of law. and i -- i havent been someone whos, you know, thrown myself in with tauthoritarian narrativs but this is not a step in the right direction. >> a serious questi...