the fisher director who is the only person who is independently leading this moving forward when you don t have him doing that you need an outside group doing it. republicans should call for that shouldn t 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 bombshell firing of fbi director james comey. this is cnn tonight i m don lemon let s put it as plainly as we can. the president of the united states has fired the man investigating his campaign s ties to russia. fired him. shocking confusion tonight on capitol hill. around the country and around the world. now questions being raised of whether there is a cover-up going on. this is definitely not politics as usual. we have said it before but it s
look at this very brief letter the president
a spokesman for manafort says it s 100% false to suggest this meeting including any discussion of contributions to the trump campaign or the republican party. when donald trump jr. talked about the meeting he called it nothing and manafort said he was on his phone most of the time. the whole contact took how long? 20 minutes or so. 20 minutes. and jared left after five or ten. yes. like she said and paul manafort. on his phone. the whole time. like i said it was pretty apparent this is not what we were in there talking about. it does appear manafort was on his phone to take notes. nbc s reporting says manafort ses notes typed on a smartphone described by one source as cryptic were turned over to the house and senate
think you know. i m not answering about any particular eggs vexes. i can t talk about that in a classified setting. i want to be careful in open setting. i carefully chose the words. like look i ve seen the tweet about tapes lordy, i hope there are tape
the question is who he can get confirmed into any of these jobs. or recess appointed. never a boring moment. my thanks to the squajeremy bas. i ll see you back here monday for deadline white house at 4:00 p.m. weird night in the west wing. let s play hardball. good evening, i m chris matthews in washington tonight. the american presidency is grim and chaotic. the new york times is reporting the chief of staff is offering to resign. the communication chief is in danger, and the white house secretary is gone altogether. president trump publicly addressed the growing west wing scandal for the first time today defending the former aide who s been accused of two ex-wives of
violent behavior. we certainly wish him well. it s obviously a tough time for him. he did a very good job when he was in the white house. and we hope he has a wonderful career, and hopefully he will have a great career ahead of him. but it was very sad when we heard about it, and certainly he s also very s
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crime. colluding about russians. you start analyzing the crime, the hacking is the crime. the hacking is the crime. the president it s a sign the president s legal team is is trying move the goal posts on the probe as the investigation moves closer to president trump s inner circle, he s trying to distance him from manafort. he was never involved in intimate business relationship with donald trump. the president s lawyer is doing the talking for the president on all things russia. all things michael chone and he s doing quite a lot of talk ing. jake. jeff, thanks so much. let s talk to our experts. laura coates, our former federal prosecutor, i want you to listen about what the crime might have been. i don t know if that s a crime. colluding about russians. start analyzing the crime, the hacking is the crime. the president didn t hack. before we get to the moving of the g