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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 ....
we re going to continue our breaking news live coverage of this. i wanted to amplify for you what andrea was just telling you about the wadirector comey former director comey found out about this, the new york times account of this is just stunning. he was addressing a group of fbi employees in los angeles when the television in the background flashed the news that he had been fired. in response, mr. comey laughed. he said he thought it was a fairly funny prank. and then his staff started securing around in the background, told mr. comey that he should step into a nearby office. mr. comey stopped addressing the group. he proceeded to shake hands with the employees he had been speaking to and he stepped into a side office where he confirmed that he had been fired. at that point, he had not heard from the white house. shortly after that, rachel, after all of that, it s been on television, a letter from the president was delivered to the fbi s headquarters just 7 blocks from ....
he has done the 2 to 1 regulatory removal for every regulation put in. which couples with the house of representatives vote to appeal. $3.7 billion of cost removed from the backs of business across the country. people can now spend those man-hours, doing something productive for america. americans, however, are unhappy 37 they re unhappy with the job the president is doing they re unhappy with the job congress is doing. congress has a 10% approval rating this week. it s not going the right direction. do you feel many americans feel this way because of what? coming from the outside, i don t understand why everything s so difficult. the politicians spent eight years saying we re going to repeal and replace obama care. they get up there and say, wow! what are we going to do now. you re part of that, that s what americans are thinking, you are on the inside, you are working with members in congress. yes, ana, and that s why when i reached the conclusion that the aaca, wh ....
that s a closed session but it s significant for several reasons. first, you mentioned he s the president s personal lawyer. he s known him for years, they go back in terms of business dealings. this is a person who s been in a lot of private, personal and confidential conversations with the president so it will be very, very interesting to see what kind of information he s going to be able to reveal. and then of course it s a sign of a potential escalation or widening in the russia probe given there have been other significant interviews. of course, jared kushner met with the senate intel committee as well. but this will be a very interesting interview to watch and again as the headlines play out with that on the hill, on tuesday, while the president is in new york, trying to focus on things like the threat from north korea, the current iran nuclear deal and other pressing issues. he will be trying to make this a global debut on the world stage where others may be talking about s ....
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 ar ....