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while 30% say it has given them a less favorable one. 61% said it had no impact. and finally, this is the most troubling number 46% said they feel that president trump fired comey to slow down the russia investigation. and 38% buy the original explanation from the white house, that it was done over legitimate concerns over how comey handled the hillary clinton e-mail issue. and there s a report that a frustrated president trump is considering firing many of his top white house aides. it adds up to a week, at best, the administration has a communications problem. or at worst, it is facing accusations of obstruction of justice. i was going to fire comey. donald trump contradicted his white house aides and his vice president, adding to questions as to why the president chose to fire fbi director james comey when he did. no one from the white house. that was a d.o.j. decision. he took the recommendation but the president needs to back off and let the investigation go forwa ....
the coffin for president trump to fire him. bret: tonight, new questions. did the president hint at comey s firing a month ago? we will see what happens. it s going to be interesting. bret: what happens next in the russia investigation? catastrophically compromise the investigation. the investigation going on in the intelligence committee. bret: we have all of the angles covered. a special edition of special report starts right now. good evening. welcome to washington. i am bret baier. the reality tv star billionaire businessman who made you are fired a catchphrase used it this afternoon and what is turning out to be one of his most controversial moves yet. president trump s dismissal of james comey has rocked washington. democrats tried to link the action to the investigation of a possible connection between the trump campaign and the russians before the elections. demands for a special prosecutor are louder tonight and democrats are jumping to watergate compa ....
plus the president s latest hard right turn to try and sell trumpcare 2.0. nobody knew that health care could be so complicated. and from selling your internet browser history what the heck are you thinking? to rolling back protections for women. how trump s america is taking shape faster than you know. would you like to make a change, folks? when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. amid a steady drip of news about trump world s connections to russia and under the shadow of an unprecedented federal probe into possible collusion between a foreign adversary and the sitting president s campaign, the white house and the gop is in full change the subject mode. the scandal is not what we know, it s how we know it. in a throw back to the benghazi days, they ve got a familiar scapegoat. former national security adviser susan rice. i believe susan rice abused the system, and she did it for political purposes. she needs to be broug ....
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 pre ....
he may be someone who in many respects is irrational, but he is not insane. also in the president s interview with routers you saw there, he weighed in the demands of the oval office and the take away and mr. trump saying being president isn t easy. i loved my previous life. i loved my previous life. i had so many things. i actually this is more work than in my previous life. i thought it would be easier. not exactly a new idea that being president is tough. president obama suggested that he had more problems than many other presidents first coming into office after the first 100 days. at any rate, the thing we re looking ahead to right now is the appearance of rex tillerson, the secretary of state at the united nations chairing a high-level meeting to talk about north korea. buckling to international pressure. they say this will only encourage their country to grow its arsenal more quickly. it s been a busy week on the ground here. you saw that exercise with hundreds ....