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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 ....
today. today you can sense the chant coming from the trump people. listen closely and you can pick up a slightly different rhythm right now of don t lock me up, don t lock me up! yesterday it was reported first by the wall street journal that trump s former national security adviser michael flynn, the guy saw there going after hillary, his lauer is looking to get flynn immunity in order to testify about what he knows. according to his lawyer trump s former national security adviser certainly has a story to tell. this morning president trump tweeted that mike flynn should ask for immunity in is that this is a witch hunt an excuse for a big election lost by the democrats and the media of historic proportion. at the meeting today sean spicer conexplained the president was trying to convey his desire to see flynn testify. if you actually stop for a second and realize what the president is doing he is saying do whatever to do to go up and make it clear what happened, take whate ....
a rose beggarden event tomorrow are told. then later in the week the president will be going to ohio. and it is notable they are putting him on the road for this. because he is someone that does well pitching things to crowds and feeds off that energy. sometimes makes him go off script, but if he can deliver a solid pitch and a good message, i think it is a necessary piece of momentum for this administration that s been largely bogged down in controversy. now a little bit about what we have heard with his infrastructure plan is it involves a trillion dollars in public and in private investigation. and it is something that capitol hill should be able to get behind. but it is something we have heard about a lot from him. and it is important in the aftermath of the foreign trip. a lot of people said what worked is the administration gave people something else to talk about that was not russia or controversy. and this is a way that a lot of republican strategists said to me, you need ....
obviously the investigators are still trying to figure out what was behind this, who the bomber is. i m told they ve identified a male as the bomber but they re still trying to learn more about him. what is most striking to you? what was the bomb made out of? because that leads you to oo lot of conclusions. this is the deadliest terror attack since july 7th, 2000 fiv 2005. and almost certainly a hydrogen puraukside bomb. because the signature of al qaeda and isis are these kinds of bombs. so where was it made? because you need a commercial refrigerator often the store the chemicals. they re very toxic if you re making these kinds of bombs, you re oftenb wearing a gas mask. there s a whole apparatus i would be looking for. we don t know if it s a hydrogen peroxide bomb. would it be a loan wolf scenario? or how likely would that be? i m skeptical. we ve had people in this country build those bombs and kill themselves. it s difficult. you need training. i ve been in bomb ....
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 ....