senator chuck shumer said i don't have confidence in him any longer. senator bernie sanders said it would not be a bad thing for the american people if comey resigned. nancy pelosi said comey was not in the right job. debbie wasserman schultz said she no longer thought comey was able to serve in a credible way. just yesterday representative maxine waters said hillary clinton would have fired comey. do you want to talk about people in the dark? our story is consistent. the president is the only person that can fire the director of the fbi. he served at the pleasure of the president. the president made the decision. it was the right decision. the people that are in the dark today are the democrats. they want to come out, they want to talk about all of these, they love comey and how great he was. look at the facts. the facts don't lie. their statements are all right there. i think it's extremely clear that -- and frankly, i think it's kind of sad. in washington we finally have something that i think we should have all been able to agree on and that was th

. >> now, late last anything to, president vum trump responded to senator chuck shumer cet six by trying that. crying chuck smumer said he does not have confidence comey any longer. this creating a lot of f fallout. more to come on this back to you guys in the studio. >> thank you, annie. meantime a deputy director andrew mc cabe serving as acting director on fbi and jeff sessions will likely name interim fbi director. that permanent replacement which the white house said will begin immediately. >> the president will hold its first meeting with russia. it's closed to press. the for minister said to talk about u crane and syria. >> federal prosecutors issued surprises against michael flynn. after director of defense intelligence dia in 2014. >> now it's crunch time. >> yes, finally, crunch time for capitals, game 7 against the pittsburgh penguins. >> tucker barnes rocking red at team practice facility in arlington. good morning. >> good morning, allison. caps will do a skate around 10:10:30 this morning of course big game 7 tonight. we're going to break the curse once and for all. this go

senate math till leader chuck shumer saying a speshlingt prosecutor should takeover fbi investigation into the ties and trump came pain in the future. >> if an independent prosecutor is appointed there could be face we can get to the bottom of this. >> chuck shumer said he does not have confidence in him any longer. he has been something of like a lightning road rod. the fbi had to correct his testimony to coming gress last week in which he vastly overstated the number of classified emails that clinton humana abadene miss handed. unclear. >> it's unclear. and in fact come was set to testify before the intelligence committee on capital hill tomorrow. back to you guys. >> we'll have more on this throughout the morning. we'll talk to a couple members of congress as well. last time an fbi director was period 1993 former president bill clinton fired william sessions. >> sessions was appointed by ronald relation an and justice department was investigating during the cement found he was paying power and use of fbi limousine. he billed the government for a peps on property and arranged busine

their displeasure with the president's plans to pull out of the climate accord tweeting this is chuck shumer, we must do all we can to protect our planet as well as our economic security withdrawing from paris agreement would put this in jeopardy. the president's spent a lot of time with european leaders and with the prime minister of japan last week at the g-7 conference and the nato conference. he listened to them. his chief economic adviser gary cohn saying while the president's thinking on this has evolved however the president's main concern is with the u.s. economy, manufacturing and job creation and he thinks it would leave the united states to fall behind countries like china and india on those particular fronts. so the president is really weighing carefully this decision on whether or not to pull out. here's what his press second tear said about it at the daily briefing yesterday. >> this is the subject of the president spending a great deal of time on and one he spoke to the g-7 members about during their meetings. ultimately he wants a fair deal for the american people. >> reporte

. >> he already hit chuck shumer for the very thing in a tweet tonight.is invalid to criticize comey for his handling of the hillary clinton matter. he may have been motivated by trying to protect his agency but he handled it very badly. there were a lot of people mad about that but most democrats are looking at the situation and most americans we face now which is the real intimation that there was something going on between the russians and the trump campaign and certainly there's a conclusion that the russians invaded our election and tried to impact on it and people want answers. and most people saw him as a person integrity and he seemed independent enough to carry on this investigation and now this looked very much, as david gurgen described it, an attempt to short circuit the investigation. i'm sure that it will go on but the person who leads the investigation is important and the public's ability to believe in that person and their independent is important and all that went out the window tonight. i don't think the white house had any idea how muc

this is a tern bp we even heard from senator chuck shumer who said he lost confidence in jim comey. he said this several months ago. we expect i think in the next 15 minutes or so we will hear from chuck schumer, minority leader in senate. >> who is running the fbi right now? >> andrew mccabe, deputy director of fbi. that another issue. the ruepublicans have a huge problem because his wife ran as democrat in virginia. he didn't properly -- criticism is he didn't properly recuse himself in the investigation of the hillary clinton e-mails. there's also pressure for him to recuse himself from the ongoing trump/russia matter. so there's prob lay lot more house cleaning to come from this tr trump administration. >> i know the memo references the press conference which is some ten months ago regarding hillary clinton e-mails. what happened more recently? let me talk about another encounter. director comey delivering to then president-elect a summary after dossier alleging russia has compromising information on them. in the meeting that cnn was the first to report, it is my understanding th

. >> congresswoman, let me ask you, majority leader, minority leader chuck shumer this morning said thisoposal from mark warner that democrats refuse to vote on an fbi director unless a special prosecutor or special counsel whatever is named to investigate this matter. i think it remains an open question of what tools democrats have. you're in the house where you have fewer tools than they do in the senate, but beyond appealing to the better angels of the nature if you're republican colleagues what can you do to try to get some sort of assurance of independence in the investigation? >> i think there are a couple of things that we can do. one is to keep up the pressure that we've been putting on this administration to be forthcoming and willing to have an independent investigation. they should be the ones that want an independent investigation more than anybody so they can clear the air and have room to advance an agenda, and i think the idea of holding up the senate, holding the congress hostage in order to get this done isn't exactly what our constituents sent to us washington to tdo. i

this is a little bit of what senate democratic leader chuck shumer had to say, watch this. >> earlier this afternoon, president trump called me and informed me he was firing director comey. i told the president, mr. president, with all do respect, you're making a big mistake. >> that was democratic leader chuck schumer speaking today in the senate. the democrats have responded in the way you just heard, the way we sheldon whitehouse responded. they're being shocked about the timing and the circumstances related to the russia investigation and i think they're a little bit in all of the map in the rationale what has to do with his handling of the clinton e-mail investigation last year, which was a matter of active investigation by the department of justice inspector general. in terms of the republican response, though, there's also been some interesting republican response, ill leeluded to a mom ago. we've been watching that come in over the course of the evening tonight, some republican elected officials expressing their own levels of concern, or at least the need for more disclose sur