Advice to the complaint. But we start with your eye opener, your worlding in 90 sends. This is an effort by the Trump Administration and the president himself to tthwar or undermine the investigation. We encourage him to complete the investigation. Theres no evidence of uscollion. Lets put it behind. Lets move on. Thats nothing. The investigation is barely beginning. This is a pauvel rere moment. The russians are coming. Theres no getting through the tinfoil hat conspiracy liberals. On the left, theyre detached from reality. The city isremoving the statue of confederate Jefferson Davis. People are very angry, and i thits split the city apart. Education secretary betsy devos getting a chilly reception during a this this behavior continues, your degrees will be mailed to yo violent protests wage on in venezuela over the siege of the economic crisis. Construction of a railline gets derailed by a massive crane collapse. Incredible rescue from china. A motorcycle crashing into a truck catching fire lives to tell about it. And all that matters that how will the firing of fbi director james comey affect the adminitistraon. One on one. We had nothing do with it. On cbs this morning. Keep your eyes on anderson cooper. Look closely. Thank you for the trip down memory lane. You were saying we were going to win michigan and that was fun. Heres it so Many Americans are feeling that exact emotion that apple added this to the iphone. Announcer this mornings eye opener presented by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. President trump and the white house are still working to explain the president s firing of fbi director james comey. Comey himself is telling friends and former colleagues not to get worked up about it. In a letter obtained by cbs news, comey said i have long believed the president can fire an fbi director for any reason or no reason at all and the fb i i should be seen as a rock. He asked for more resources to help the fbi investigation into russian interference in the election. The Justice Department denies house. Good morning. Good morning. Well, comeys misstatements to Congress Last week and his comment that he wud made nauseous by the idea that he tipped the election did not endure him to President Trump. That was just the latest irritant in a relationship already troubled by his refusal to back up the president s wiretapping claims. Back at his Virginia Home on wednesday, former director comey sent a message of encourage management following his abrumtd dismissal. Im not going to spend time on the decision or the way it was executed, he wrote. I hope you wont either. Its done and i will be fine. Asked why he fired comey, president gave a terse reply. Because he wasnt doing a good job very simply. He was not doing a good job. The Oval Office Meeting with Richard Nixon secretary of state Henry Kissinger surprised reporters because they expected to see the schedule yuld guests. Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, but the press wasnt allowed in for that meeting. The only glimpse came in these photos showing mr. Trump smiling and laughing with mr. Lavrov. And Sergey Kislyak who led to mike flynnsousster. The meeting of the diplomats had been arranged. Sergei l Sergey Lavrov at the news of comeys firing. Rosenstein and sessions met with the president monday. They discussed stumbles and recommended his firing. The white house says that the president told rosenstein to put his concerns in a memo released tuesday that cited comeys handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation as grounds for dismissal. Rosenstein on the job j weeks is a trump appointee. Ga gayle, hes now at the center of this krors. Margaret, thank you. Theyre looking into links between the Trump Campaign and russia. He calls the response a disgrace. He posted on twitter showing how they also wanted comey to go. I think it would not be a bad thing for the American People if he did step down. Do you believe that jim comey should resign, senator reid . Of course. Did you want to see him gone . Its very true many have called for his resignation. Now the democrats insist there are too many Unanswered Questions about the firing. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill where comeys replacement will appear in just a few hours. Good morning. Good morning. His name is andrew mccabe. Director. Hes going to be testifying at the Senate Intelligence committee in comeys place. Senators are inevitably going to want to talk about comeys removal, which has become a partisan flashpoint. Director comey kind of became an issue himself and so its obviously within the president s thought and role to do this. Republican leaders are standing by the president s move. What do we have now, mr. President . Our democratic colleagues complaining about the removal of an fbi director who they themselves repeatedly and sharply criticized. In the face of a deafening drum peat from democrats. It is time for a special prosecutor. Special prosecutor. A special prosecutor. Republicans can call for a special prosecutor to be appointed that will not be able to be fired by this president. Democrats argue everything about comeys firing was informed the president s onepage letter was completely bizarre. To the timing. You cant fire the investigator when hes gotting your administration. They found an ally in the republican intelligence committee. The decision made little sense to me. I dont think i heard anything last night that would clarify that in any way. But richard burr said a special prosecutor would onto get in the way of the investigation theyre already conducting. He and his counter part have asked to meet with them next week. I think jim comey should have if not at least his day in court but his day on the hill the lay out his side of the case. Before the hearing they announced it had issued its first s p for documents belonging to the fired nsa michael flynn. These are documents h refused to hand over. And some members of this committee, norah, even joked perhaps the newly fired james comey might make a great investigator for this committee as it continues its work looking into the russian connection. Thank you so much. Inside the headquarters acting director is pushing agents to focus on their work. Andrew mccabe has taken over. President trump met with mccabe to discuss the bureau. There are reports that morale has taken a hit after comeys firing. Jeff pegues is outside the white house. Good morning. Good morning. Theyre working to find an interim fbi director until they choose comeys permanent replacement. The fbi, stunned by the fires which is right in the midst of this fbi investigation, one of its most important in history. One of at least five have already been interviewed at the Justice Department for job of interim director of the fbi. According to the sources, the way comey found out about his dismissal came as a surprise to some in the bureau. He was talking to agents when news flashed on the tv screens that comey had been fired. He no longer had the confidence of the president or the rest of the fbi. Reporter some agents said they took issue with white house Sarah Huckabee. You may have had a number of employees who may have disagreed with his approach and handling of the email investigation but overall director comey built up a lot of good will in the fbi, about the way he treated people, the respect he had forse the Law Enforcement organization. Reporter they had been picking up speed in rekrechblt weeks. Agents have been intensely focusing on following the money, trying to identify who might have paid hackers involved in russias campaign to interfere in the 2016 election. Murphy says a change at the top should not affect any ongoing investigations. Bureau will carry on its mission like they have for the last 100 years. I have great confidence in that leadership in the bureau, and theyre going be working together to keep the fbi intact. Reporter but whoever President Trump chooses to permanently leave the fbi can influence any investigation by adding or pulling resources. And thats why the firing this week set off alarms here in washington not only on capitol hill but in the halls of the fbi as well. Charlie. Thanks, jeff. White house Deputy Press SecretarySarah Huckabee sanders is in washington. Good morning. Good morning. Great to be with you guys. Let me ask you again. Will they be there to talk to the agents today or tomorrow . I believe its very likely that that takes place sometime in next few days. Can you tell me whether the Deputy Attorney general threatened to resign because he felt like he was being used in a search for the explanation for the firing . Im not aware of any conversation that took place about that. What i do know is this is an action the president took and wanted to take and had been considering taking since november. Sarah, let me ask you. You said yesterday it was the secretary attorneys memo that left the president s, quote unquote, with no choice but to fire comey. Is the explanation different todaysome. Not at all. I this e this is something, frankly, after wednesdays testimony was very engaged on wa where he was ready to make that decision. He had a conversation on monday with the attorney general and Deputy Attorney general and asked them for their thoughts, their feedback. They laid out a lot of reasons you see in that memo, but this is something, again, sin he had been elected, there was a consistent erosion of confidencend his ability to do his job. Theres still questions about the explanation that the white house is giving. They say they were giving daily updates on the investigation and furthermore, quote, comey was shown further information by evidence of collusion. Is that why he was fired . Not at all. Once again, i think we laid it out very clearly. Again, a lot of the process of this, the director took steps that basically went around the chain of command within the department of justice. His testimony last week was all over the place. They had to issue corrections. When you become a much bigger distraction than you are able to carry out your job as director comey had been, its time to move forward and look for somebody who better fits that role. He was poor at communications is why he was fired. Thats not the only reason. Lets not forget there was an uprising. The rankandfile members within the fbi had lost. Sarah, thats being disputed by cbs news in terms of the conversations theyve had with the bi. Ive heard that from a number of people, both former agents and others, that there was not that significant dissension. Well, weve heard from quite a few from our side as well. Again, this is something both democrats and republicans on both sides of the ill have questioned whether director comey should be in that job. I find it quite interesting that a lot of people who are attacking the president for the decision he made this week were the very people who demanded he make this decision several months ago. How do you convince the country theres not a constitutional crisis coming up and that this had nothing to do with the russian probe of which the attorney general has recused himself . You have to convince the country. Thats the challenge you have. Look. Any investigation that was taking place on monday is still taking place today. And you fully support that and the fbi directors requesting to carry out that investigation. Im not aware of any request for additional funds. Thats smd you would have to ask the department of justice. What i am aware of is any investigation that has taken place has not stopped. Fr go forward and come to completion and well all move on because were extremely confident that when this comes to conclusion, even will see what they receive for the last 11 months. There was no collusion between the president they want to make sure everybody is satisfied there was no collusion here. Take it away from any kind of partisan conflict and give the special prosecutor the authority to discover all the facts. Because its simply not necessary. Youve got multiple groups looking into all this. The house committee, senate committee, attorney general through the fbi. Theyre already looking at this. I dont think its necessary. Why not have an independent counsel and prosecutor they come from both sides. You have them both democrats and republicans looking at this. Secretary sarah hbe sanders, thank you. Thank you for having me. They took down the monument of Jefferson Davis. Michelle miller is at the site where the monument stood for more than a century. Michelle, good morning. Reporter good morning. Dozens stood out here to witness an aksz conceived two years ago. That state took down its most visible visions of the confederacy. Its been a much more difficult task for this city to do so. This morning crews dismantled the statue of Jefferson Davis, removing it from the spot where it had stood for more than a century. This particular monument was put up by a particular groupe of people for a particular purpose. Around the purpose was . For the confederacy. The monument was built to memorialize Jefferson Davis and two others in the years following the civil war. Theyre not necessarily heroes of mine or heroes of anybody. Reporter still this businessman took out a twopage ad advocating the statue should remain. He backed the statue two weeks ago. They point to history and i really dont think anybody should have the privilege of changing history because history is truth. Reporter many are on the sidelines watching the heated rhetoric. She is a professor at tulane university. Its time to have honest dialogues about race. Will these monument being taken do make a difference . If we dont commit to the dialogue, its not going to make a difference. Just yesterday the judge denied the statue. Mayor called it a hail mary pass that didnt work. Norah . Such an interesting tee bait there. Thank you so much. Education secretary betsy devos is responding to stujts who booed during her commencement address in florida. Many graduates turned their backs on devos yesterday. 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