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developing stories including more on russia. a poll showing over half of americans say they do want an independent inquiry of the links between trump and russia. more than 60% say this is concerning for what it actually means for our democracy. couple that with the former national security adviser, mike flynn, offering testimony in exchange for immunity. now, today. vladimir putin spokesman claiming there is actually nothing to uncover. are you concerned about anything he might say about his contacts with russia? no. we are not. any blamings that russia could have been interfering in domestic affairs of the united states is slander. peskov saying that an allegation regarding the russian government s involvement in the recent killing of an opposition lawmaker is absurd. how will these events affect the already rocky path ahead for the trump administration? joining me now is ron klain, a former senior aide to president clinton, matt miller who worked at the department of ....
every single president and every single vice president has been audited by the irs every year of their time in office. and they all still routinely release their tax returns to the public every year so that excuse from trump and the trump campaign never made sense. being under audit is excuse for not releasing your tax returns as a candidate or certainly as president. also, the audit excuse never made sense for his past tax returns. even if donald trump wanted to release nothing under current audit, well, what about years for which the audits are completed and closed? any year of his taxes before, say, 2008, any year that was audited before then, those years presumably would be done being audited by now. those would be closed. so why not release those earlier tax returns even if you don t want to release the current ones for which there isn t an excuse not to do anyway? whether or not you are a supporter of donald trump in general, whether or not you care what s in his tax ret ....
opposition to the threat of budget cuts to agencies that fund scientific work. the president tweeting a couple hours ago i am committed but always remember it enhances environmental protection. jobs matter. miguel marquez is in washington where demonstrators marched from the mall to capitol hill. miguel? reporter: ana, this is the end point for the march for science. thousands and thousands of scientists and their supporters clog the streets of washington. it was cold, it was windy. where they ended here at the capitol, what they were concerned about was the general tone from the trump administration on science and matters of science on funding. very enormous ly engaging in science in washington, d.c., said they didn t want their work to be sifted through. it certainly had a very political edge to it. ana? thank you, miguel. now to new york where the rain didn t keep away the crowds. here is rachel crane. reporter: i m in a crowded and rainy times square. lots of umbrell ....
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 ....
commencements since becoming president. it comes after the white house fallout of the sudden dismissal of james comey during the fbi investigation into possible ties between the trump administration or rather trump campaign, i should say and russia. now this is as four candidates prepare to interview today for the fbi director job. we have a team of political reporters and analysts standing by here. let s begin with cnn washington correspondent ryan nobles who is at the commencement. you see him there on the left. what are you hearing from the crowd there? i understand there s about 7,000 students and families who will be watching. what are they saying? what do they expect? reporter: well, this is expected to be a pretty friendly crowd for the president. this is a group of people and voters in particular that generally supported him during the election and, of course, here at liberty university their president jerry falwell jr. a very influential evangelical leader that allowe ....