Wing . Hi ana, this is not a good week for moral when it comes to white house staffer. Particularly, the communication staff. We are talking about a press shop that did not know and kept out of the loop about the president s decision to fire the fbi director until practicely when ultimately contradicted by the president himself. That left people feeling dejected and rattled and thats how one official described that the Vice President , one of the official that is went out and spoke to the press and delivered this story line that the president was relying on the advice of the Justice Department specifically, this recommendation from Deputy Attorney rod rosenstein. The Vice President said that of seven times. Hes rattled once again finding himself in a situation where hes sharing in act rate rate inaccurate information. The president s tweet. It is not possible for my surrogates to stand at the podium with perfect accuracies. Maybe the best thing to do is cancelled all press briefings and hand out written responses. The president is saying his own spokesperson speaking for him dont always have the accurate information. So not a good thing to hear if you are on the president s team. Take a listen to what he said about White House Press secretary shawn mi Secretary Sean Spicer in his interview on fox, watch. Are you moving so quickly that your Communication Department cannot keep up . Yes, thats true. What do we do about that . We dont have press conferences. You dont mean that. We dont have them unless i do it myself every two week. I think it is a good idea. First of all, you have a level of hostility and it is incredible. S Sarah Hucklebee is a lovely young woman. You knowshon supervisor, he ses a wonderful man. Will he be there tomorrow . Well, hes been there since the beginning. You hear the president not answering a direct question of the future of his press secretary. Overall it is been a tough week and keep in mind while we are talking about this. Theyre not talking about pushing this healthcare repeal or this tax over haul. On the agenda, it seems to be installed at this point. What is happening in those tweets of the one president s suggested that there could be tapes of his conversations, what impact is this happening . At one point in the briefing yesterday, shawn miean spicer, asked about an fbi source saying that those tweets showing the president is out of control and sean spicer responded thats an offensive question. Spicer himself would get into whether there were recordings and conversations in the oval office where the president is having or being reported. They were avoiding answering that question. Thats very, very odd. Of course, we are already seeing democrats on capitol hill demanding to have those tapes turned over. It is an odd suggestion for the president to make and not have any collar occasiolarifications. Thank you, athena jones. The president will ultimately meet with the finalists however that ends being. That interviews continuing on tomorrow as well. The timing of the selection is unknown. The person selected will serve a tenyear term and he or she will lead the investigation thatll involve the president themselves. We are following this interview process, shimon prokupecz, you have been looking at your phone, what do we know of this . Lets start with cornyn, hes been with the fbi for 20 years and hes been working for comey. Hes been working for comey for a long time. He was the head of the washington so a lot of history and career agent and probably knows the fbi very well. Interestingly enough, today also we learned that alice fisher could be the first dfemale and the first woman to lead the fbi. She was interviewed earlier this morning for about an hour, she had history with the government and worked at the department of justice and led the Criminal Division and had National Security background. All of the people that have been named have some history and some knowledge of how the department of justice works. We also heard mike garcia, he ran the Southern District in new york of the u. S. Attorney office. One of the biggest case. Hes here in new york and one of the biggest cases he over saw was the Eliot Spitzer where he got tied up with prostitutes. We heard of the name adam lee. He was there today. He had connections today who was the acting attorney general, Deputy Attorney general, and hes now running the National Security division over at the department of justice which is overseeing the Russian Investigation. Adam lee has a history and a personal relationship with dana fuent fuentes. Thats another interesting person. These are all people probably really well known to the National Security and within the Intelligence Committee and Law Enforcement and department of justice. None of these names have sort of surprised anyone or have or not unknown to the people of the government or people of the fbi or people of the department justice. We have seen senator john cornyn who were mentioned in an interview today. Thats an interesting and would be an interesting choice. You know some folks would signal, politicizing the position a little bit then supporting donald trump throughout and has voices support, pretty strong republican and there is some concerns that he maybe quite partisan. So he may not be a democratic should he be somebody selected . Yeah, it would be tough and keep this scandal going and questions continued to be raised at what is donald trump trying to do. There is a lot of agents concerned that trump is trying to interview in their investigation and so would a guy like senator cornyn be the right decision . To the point that you just made to cnn has to do with what is going on inside the fbi right now, you report that people are worry that administration will try to interfere with ongoing russia. Sure, the biggest concern is i think in some way funding but the mission of fbi, there is a Counter Intelligence mission with the fbi, there are thousands of agents who assigned to the intelligence. We dont hear everything that they do. Russians are very well known for doing this from wanting to come here and spy on us and infiltrate our government and institution and the fbi working with over sea sources and some of their sbintelligence. The concern is we appointed different directors and with funding for that. It takes a lot of money and surveillance thats voinvolved d the Counter Intelligence is massive. You a this takes time and this takes money and who knows, you know someone can come in, why are we spending it. It is priorities. You know no one really thinks the russia investigation is a collusion. Obviously, there is some concern that he can interfere and stop it or maybe they want to pursue a certain angle and the department of justice may say no, we are not doing this. There is always that concern. But, no one really thinks and there are so many checks and balances in place that the president can actually say no, dont do this or lets not look at russia. It is all about funding. There is different ways. So it can impact how they go about the investigation. Shimon, thank you for the reporti reporting, we appreciate it. The fbi investigation as we bring in our political panel, you are live here in the cnn newsroom. Stay with us. I mean wish i had time to take care of my portfolio, but. Well, what are you doing tomorrow 10am . Staff meeting. Noon . Eating. 3 45 . 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Many high profile republicans are expressing different viewpoints over President Trumps decision to fire james comey. Lets talk it over with our panel, conservative radio host, ed ferguson and managing editor of cnnpolitics. Com, zachary, to you first. How important is this choice of the fbi director, whats on the line . A lot on the line for the trump presidency, they need to find somebody that can be perceived as being independent but at the same time, you know, they can be accepted by donald trump and i dont think there are a lot of people out there necessarily who fit that bill. They need to reinterview some confidence in these governmental tuck instruct structure that people are starting to wonder about from all political strikes. There is a lot on the line. Based on what we know and who they are interviewing, senator john cornyn and judge garcia and fisher. Who of those people will get the most bipartisan support. I think ray kelly is another one. You are mentioning a couple of guys that we dont know if they are even interviewed yet. Yeah, i think theyll be on that short list based on the people that i have talked to. What you will see here and the list that you described, these were not people that are heavily involved or even involved at all in the short campaign. Early on, it is definitely going to be a Chris Christie and jaundi julianni. I think what you are saying that a lot of people are hoping to play politics with us and julianni or Chris Christie can never say no to donald trump. The politics are not in these people. These people are staying far from the political side of things. Although, senator john cornyn is the out liar of what ru syou saying. I argued that a lot of people are not involved. What do you think of what you heard from ben, are any of these names coming up to your liking . First and for most of democrats, we are not going to, we are going to get someone that we truly want and someone that democrats would support this. I think it needs to be someone outside of the political spectrum. If you want the left going outrageous and including myself, choose senator cornyn. There is someone else and thats andrew mccabe, he held himself to be independent. Hes familiar of whats going on so he gives you that continuity. Hes not a yes man to the president of the United States, this is a time in the country where we want somebody wholl pledge fidelity not to the man or a party but to the constitution. I have no faith of Chris Christie or julianni. Go ahead ben. Let me say about cornyn, i cannot imagine he would get this job because of the slim margin of the lead that the republicans have of the majority of the senate, this would disrupt the senate and it would take more o f a Senior Member out and highly partisan politically and thats where i go back to the beginning. If democrats are hoping to score points and keep talking about cornyn, i would put him at the bottom of the list or julianni or Chris Christie. You will see people able to get bipartisan or in the past received bipartisan support, there is many in the white house do not want someone this the fbi who is political. I want you to listen to Amanda Carpenter had to say regarding to the fbi firing and how this all unfolded. Lets listen. I see way too many all over the media on the republican side who wants to take this position. They cannot defend donald trump on these merits so they blame the media and they say you cannot understand the situation, unless you live in someones town in the middle of america and you have to believe the best of what maybe in his heart rather than what he says on twitter everyday. This is ridiculous. Republicans, just think politically, this cannot last so go ahead and Start Holding the president accountable. The booking is not going to come under your bed. Donald trump is not going to get knew the middle of the night if you say mr. President please respect the three branches of the government and the American Institution as it is supposed to work and then you will be much better off. She was fired up about how gop lawmakers have reacted or have not in some cases. They have been very quiet regarding the fallout of this fbi dismissal of the fbi director, what is your reaction of what we just heard . I think there is a couple of things here. I know amanda and i respect her and i disagree with her on this point. I dont think everybo single ti the president does something, you have to go out and start a war with the president. Dont you think of what hes done is troll controversy. This is an issue that the president has been clear about and placing the fbi director, for example, the top leading democrats all seven of the democrats resigning or be fired in the last five months. For, you know for people to say dont be afraid of donald trump, i dont think there is a lot of concerns. Remember this is conservative groups that did not give him the votes thats needed to repeal and replace obama for the first time. So to say that somehow all the republicans on capitol hill around the country just walking behind donald trump, his legislative agenda is proof that, thats not accurate. You dont have to branch or go on national tv. So do you think if the legislative agenda, is that why a lot of republicans are not wanting to criticize wholeheartedly this directors firing. At the end of the day, it is against the republicans self interests to criticize and attack or eat their own, you know, sort of things. I dont think la lot of democras want to have a special counsel. I dont think a lot of republicans and we have some who gotten board with it. You are not going to see this mass exited of republicans turning on donald trump unless Something Else happens because it is not in their interets to do that. We are at base a twoparty country, it does not make sense for them. I will let you have the last word here. I think there are a lot of democrats who are in favor of special investigators in this matter. You are starting to see some republicans coming out and stop right short of wanting a special prosecutor. Amanda is so right, this is not watergate. Republicans had convictions and not pledged to a man, they were pledged to this country. The disappointment that some republicans are starting to see and the grass roots around the country is that people are literally allowing donald trump to break the very fundamentals and foundations of our direct examination. He fired someone who was investigating him based on a recommendation from someone who was recuse from the investigation, more is going to fallout and even a blind person can see it. I am glad she said it. Got to go there, zach wolf and bakari sellers. Glad to have you guys. Thanks. President trump had a lot of support there on election day at lynch berg virginia. Are people there still behind him, well have a live report next in the cnn newsroom. Encouragement and milk. With 8 grams of natural protein, and 8 other nutrients to provide balanced nutrition. Moms know kids grow strong when they milk life. So she only earns double miles on purchasesit card. Rition. She makes from that airline. Whatd you earn double miles on, please . Ugh. Thats unfortunate. Theres a better option. The capital one venture card. With venture, you earn unlimited double miles on every purchase, everywhere, every day. Not just airline purchases. Seems like a nobrainer. Whats in your wallet . 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