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. Lets 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 theres 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 allowed the th
Exwives and exgirlfriend. How does the fbi fit into that. We just learned some very interesting if not completely clear information from the head of the fbi director. I want to bring in chris cillizza, who is here with me to discuss this. There is a lot to unpack here from Russian Meddling in the election and how that feaffects the midterms coming up. The timeline had it comes to rob porter, you know what, pause for a moment, chris, lets return to the testimony at the Senate Intelligence committee. Theyre out in the community, and i can tell you the Community Values what they do on the island. Thank you. And an oped by a number of former intelligence analysts call the nunes memo and the release, quote, one of the worst cases of politization of intelligence in modern american history, unquote. You said you had concerns about that memo. I know you cant get into the
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Expose the chaos consuming the administration and discuss Recruiting Cabinet Members to invoke the 25th Amendment so they would remove president trump, your dual elected president from office for, quote, being unfit. This all took place during rosensteins second week on the job after he fired comey based on Rod Rosensteins recommendation. He didnt even have to like james comeys shoes and he could have fired him. Rosenstein thought he might be able to persuade kelly and the white house Chief Of Staff to invoke the 25th Amendment. Rod rosenstein wanted to wear a wire and secretly record a sitting president of the United States in both the 25th Amendment, a silent coup against his boss by him, mccabe, others,
all against a dual elected president. We are experiencing tonight a massive constitutional crisis and, frankly, this is designed to set up the president. Ill explain what this is about in a minute. Tonight, Rod Rosenstein, he is publicly denying this report, calling the story inaccur
Closer to having this issue be resolved, and judiciary chairman Chuck Grassley had hoped to hold a Confirmation Vote at one point as soon as monday. But sources telling manu raju and Ariane De Vogue that they did reach a tentative agreement to do a hearing on thursday, that news emerging minutes after the white house releasing the statement saying the Judiciary Committee appeared no closer to a hearing. It is dragging it out, from the white houses perspective, but its granting fords request for more time to prepare before she appears before the Judiciary Committee. Again, a tentative date set for thursday, knowing theres more details to be hammered out, which is expected to happen tomorrow. Ariane and sarah, thank you both. Joining us now, former democratic senator barbara boxer, host of the podcast fight back, and back in 1991, she was part of a group of female lawmakers who marched
thursday. So the date is set. But were not sure yet or for sure if it will be public. Would you encoura
bill: we ll keep our powder dry for now. james comey behind closed doors now taking questions. nadler told catherine herridge that the first week of january they ll end all these investigations. this is truly a drop dead moment for trey gowdy, bob goodlatte, john ratcliffe. they ll drop some investigations and open up a whole slough of other ones into everything to do with president trump. i think the american people are going to get tired of this. i don t think the questions about the origins of the mueller investigation are going to go away. i don t think frankly by the way another thing that barr sinted in is the whole question of hillary clinton s involvement with the iranian one sale. so i don t think any of those things will go away in the public s mind it may be that yes, the republicans in the house aren t going to have a chance to forward those investigations. instead we ll be looking at all the things that mueller has been looking at. bill: why comey made the decisions