the justice department inspector general's investigation into the clinton email probe was expected to be deeply negative for comey and his old boss, loretta lynch. comey supporters say lynch box to mid last year after meeting with bill clinton just one week before hillary clinton's fbi interview. >> bret: what about what's next? we are hearing the replacement could come soon. >> white house officials say we click and expect an announcement in the coming days, pointing to a law enforcement professional and not a politician paid one name i am hearing is john pistole. he spent 27 years at the fbi, rising to deputy director. he was at the heart of the post-9/11 investigations. he most recently served as tsa administrator. becoming the president of anderson university in indiana. he is said to have a strong personal relationship with the vice president. tonight he was not returning phone calls praised you one thank you. let's get some analysis now from ron haas, former assistant director of the fbi. he works with the law enforcement legal defense fund. you spent almost 30 years at the bure

from this very stern letter from rod rosenstein that they are using his handling of the hillary clinton email case as a reason for president trump to fire him. >> bret: jennifer griffin cover the hillary clinton campaign for us. dianne feinstein from california issuing a statement. "president trump called me at 5:30 p.m. and indicated he would be removing director call me, saying the fbi needed a change. the next fbi director must be strong and independent and will receive a fair hearing in the judiciary committee. just starting to get some reaction from various lawmakers coming in. senator graham also weighing in with a statement. these letters indicate that the decision is basically about something that happened with the investigation into hillary clinton and her emails. that's how they described this. put this in context, this is the same movement, the same decision-making that hillary clinton blames in part for her loss to donald trump, and now the president donald trump is saying because of those actions that the fbi director no longer deserves to be fbi director. let's bring in our pane

he has been under a lot of scrutiny back and forth with the clinton's, hillary clinton's emails. the left will blame comey for trump's win. your thoughts. >> i have a sense this is probably based on his testimony where apparently he made a statement that was not accurate, whether it was that intentional or a slip of the tongue, who knows. it basically came out that he claimed thousands of emails huma abedin had forwarded to, that's not correct. it was a dozen or six or whatever. he had eight very, very difficult job. i personally think he should have been much more robust in investigating the clinton emails and he should have at least convened a grand jury to let voters decide. i also think from my experience there was an investigation of the clinton foundation but there was a lot of resistance from the top. it was a good idea for him to resign but it's a very difficult

clinton. " you can't review 650,000 email and eight days. you just can't do it." hillary clinton is guilty." changing thoughts about mr. comey? guest: he reacted the of his own prism of reelection chances. he thought it was great when comey came down hard on clinton when in the end he exonerated her saying there was no new evidence on the laptop in new york. that he was saying the fbi was reading the system. -- rigging the system. there is no clear pattern of thought here except what helps personally. i think there is reason to believe moving mr. comey out-of-the-way give some reason to believe he can either stall or potentially shut down the rush of investigation. -- russian investigation. if you were truly innocent he should be banging on the table demanding a special counsel to immediately clear his name, and he should be revealing his tax returns which would tell us a lot about he has borrowed money from russian banks in russian oligarchs. host: madison, illinois. democrat. good morning. caller: good morning. i have a problem with the fact he wasmey informed tr

comey came out in july of 2016 and announced they would be no prosecution of hillary clinton, the clinton emailigation was 14 months old. after "the new york times" broke it in march of 2015. think how much evidence about hillary clinton's conduct in the server case, including the memo where she ask someone to send her something classified nonsecure was in the public domain by the time mr. comey announced the decision. almost a year into the legend of russian collusion case, how little information there is in the public sphere toward a judgment of yes. >> are going to have a confirmation hearing on fbi director. can president trump choose anyone who is respected by the other side that can continue this investigation? is going to be a tough sell. there is going to be a war on capitol hill over this. >> it's going to be the number one issue. the number to reach was going to be when did the president decide? was it his decision or not? what's impressive is that this story did not leak into that happen which is very unusual. the tick-tock will depend on a leak which we haven't had yet. >> bret: "sp

he handed out immunity like candy during this investigation of the clinton email investigation. he let her invest wow associates destroy their own can produce. he did not investigate the clinton foundation. >> oh, my god. come on. >> he knew what she did was criminal but he didn't indict her because she didn't have criminal intent. that was not in the statute. this dossier about what's going on in russia was connected to an fbi agent. there's a lot of doubt and corruption swirling around this guy. the kind of blow it off as this is circumstantial, this guy has to go. >> did he have to go at this moment? so convenient to trump in terms of -- >> i think you're being very irresponsible. you could say incompetent or a lack of judgment, but saying corruption -- you are saying he's doing it for his own gain. when actually, democrats think he actually -- >> ethics and politics. i can point to specific examples of incompetence too. they did not look at these russians that came in and bombed the the boston marathon. they interviewed the guy at the nightclub in orlando. >> that's an exampl

the president's bombshell firing james comey for usurping the attorney of loretta lynch in the clinton email investigation, the decision after the investigation of deputy attorney general who says in a letter, quote, i cannot defend the director's handling of the conclusion of the investigation into secretary clinton's emails and i do not understand his refusal to accept the judgment that he was mistaken. in a letter to comey donald trump told the director his decision was necessary to, quote, restore the trust and confidence of the public, democrats reaction, outrage questioning the timing of the de special prosecutor to be appointed on the russia probe, chuck schumer calling it a mistake. >> earlier this afternoon donald trump called me and informed me he was firing director comey. i told the president, mister president, with all due respect, you are making a big mistake. the first question the administration has to answer is why now. if the administration had objections to the way director comey handled the clinton investigation, they had those objections the minute the president got into

he handed out immunity like candy during this investigation of the clinton email investigation. he let her associates destroy their own canan produce. he did not investigate the clinton foundation. >> oh, my god. come on. >> he knew what she did was criminal but he didn't indict her because she didn't have criminal intent. that was not in the statute.e this dossier about what's going on in russia was connected to an fbi agent. there's a lot of doubt and corruption swirling around this guy. the kind of blow it off as this is circumstantial, this guy has to go. >> did he have to go at this moment? so convenient to trump in terms of -- >> i think you're being very irresponsible. you could say incompetent or a lack of judgment, but saying corruption -- you are saying he's doing it for his own gain. when actually, democrats think he actually -- >> ethics and politics. i can point to specific examples of incompetence too. they did not look at these russians that came in and bombed the boston marathon. they interviewed the guy at the nightclub in orlando. >> that's an example of corrupt

it seems to revolve around his handling of the investigation into hillary clinton's emails. on twitter recently, the president appeared to accuse the fbi director of giving her a pass, giving hillary clinton a path or covering up for her but in the rationale now is the white house believes that in some ways, he hurt hillary clinton with his announcement about the investigation into her emails. so which is it? or both? >> i think it's a series of missteps. i think again, it goes to director comey's ability to carry out the duties of his office and he frankly wasn't anymore. that was recognized by his superior, the person that he reports to, the deputy attorney general, who is somebody who has been universally praised. we have representatives coming just last week talking about what a stand-up guy the deputy attorney general is. you have somebody with this type of reputation with praise from across the board who was confirmed 96-4, then friendly one of president gives a recommendation from something like that that is so well-respected, he has no choice but to listen to him and

people forget we would not confirm the existence of the hillary clinton email investigation until three months after it began, even though it began with the public referral and the candidate herself talked about it. in october 2015, we confirm it existed and said not another word about it until we were finished. >> a couple of weeks before the think thereand i were other things involved. i will grant that, but there is no question that it had a great impact. historians can debate what kind of impact it was, but you did do it. in october, the fbi was investigating the trump campaigns connection to russia. you sent a letter informing the senate house that you were reviewing additional emails they could be relevant to this, but both investigations were open and you only commented on one > . >> i commented in the letter sent to the oversight committees that we were taking additional steps in the clinton email investigation because i had testified we were done, we were finished there. with respect to the russian investigation, we treated it like the clinton investigation. word about it a unt

and we have seen the letters which are essentially an indictment of the handling of hillary clinton's emails. they said they no longer had faith in comey's ability to lead the department, they took this recommendation and he drafted this letter. but there's questions about the timing of this, why this is all happening now, it's information that president trump has celebrated in the past, but it's serge not new information. >> the letter that the president sent to former fbi director comby. can you explain what it cede said? >> reporter: i want to read you the portion that i think is particularly confusing in president trump's letter to comey, in this he's dismissing him. he said that while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that i am not under investigation, i nevertheless concur with the department of justice that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau. it's not clear what instances the president may be referring to. they have made clear publicly that the fbi is investigating potential collusion between president trump's campaign in the 2016 president

s clinton email investigation.le scolding clinton for being "extremely careless," with her use of a private server, comey said the f.b.i. was not recommending criminal charges. >> our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. >> brangham: republicans on the hill were outraged. then-candidate trump accused comey of going easy on his democratic rival. happened today where eventually i thought, everybody thought, based on what was being said, she was guilty! she was guilty! and it turned out that we're not going to press charges. it's really amazing. > >> brangham: but comey was soon again in the spotlight. on october 28, just 11 days before the election, comey announced he'd re-opened the clinton investigation after the discovery of possibly new emails. in a letter to congress, he wrote: "although the f.b.i. cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant... i believe it is important to update your committees about our efforts in light of my previous testimony." on the campa

it seems to revolve around his handling of the investigation into hillary clinton's emails. twitter recently, the president appeared to accuse the fbi director of giving her a pass, giving hillary clinton a path or covering up for her but in the rationale now is the white house believes that in some ways, he hurt hillary clinton with his announcement about the investigation into her emails. so which is it? or both? >> i think it's a series of missteps. i think again, it goes to director comey's ability to carry out the duties of his office and he frankly wasn't anymore. that was recognized by his superior, the person that he reports to, the deputy attorney general, who is somebody who has been universally praised. we have representatives coming just last week talking about what a stand-up guy the deputy attorney general is. you have somebody with this type of reputation with praise from across the board who was confirmed 96-4, then friendly one of president gives a recommendation from something like that that is so well-respected, he has no choice but to listen to him and to

he is saying it's not about the hillary clinton email scandal. that the trump administration saw the writing on the wall. investigating the russian scandal. this comes days after director homie asked the deputy attorney general for more resources. >> eric: that has been refuted by the doj. >> and they are going to. this just smells bad. on the same day the grand jury started issuing subpoenas. the white house can say this has nothing to do with the russia probe. you can believe them if you want. for me, it reeks of abuse of power, seems downright nixonian. >> [laughs] is that a personal insult? >> eric: once my attorney general and deputy attorney general's that i don't have confidence anymore, he made the decision. >> eboni: i can accept that. i can accept that language from the white house. let's break down the timeline. when exactly was there a loss of confidence? that is the $40,000 question. was it in july when comey politicized the fbi in that ridiculous and unnecessary statement perhaps in an effort to save loretta lynch. was it in october

thousands of emails from the clinton email domain, including many, many, many from the verizon clinton domain, blackberry domain. they said, we think we have to get a search warrant to get these. the department of justice agreed we had to get a search warrant. so i authorized them to seek a search warrant. that i faced a choice. i have lived my entire current avoid career, if you can an impact of an upcoming election, you avoid it. i could not see a door labeled "no action here." i could see two doors, and there were both actions. one was labeled other was labeled "concealed." i want you to know my position. having repeatedly telling congress there is no case there, to restart in a hugely significant way, potentially finding the mills that would reflect on her intent from the beginning and not speak about it would require an active concealment, in my view. be really bad. there is an election 11 days. lordy, that would be bad. concealing would be catastrophic. sam: he goes on to say he would make the same decision today if he had to do it all over again. as for the topic of russia, that

had said that he had lost all credibility because of the hillary clinton email investigation. e president is going to hammer that. frankly, there is even fresh you are information about democratic hypocrisy on all this just from yesterday. the former campaign chairman for hillary clinton john podesta before this firing was on twitter yesterday morning attacking comey over his more recent testimony before the senate saying the american public is getting mildly nauseous listening to jim comey. that was yesterday morning. a few hours later after the firing podesta is saying at real donald trump didn't you know you're supposed to wait to saturday night to massacre people investigating you? john podesta was referring to the fact that james comey in that senate testimony just days ago had made another big mistake suggesting huma abiden had forwarded thousands of emails to her husband, anthony wiener and some of those had information. the f.b.i. had to walk it back and same james comey's testimony was not fully accurate. >> shannon: what do you make of the president's relationship wit

clinton's tenure at state. but, of course, any emailselated to alienateing records would not have been created until after she left office during the congressional f.b.i. reviews. even though these records were subject to -- the justice department agreed to destroy the laptops. so a cloud of doubt hangs over the f.b.i. objectivity. the director says the people at the f.b.i. don't give a rip about politics. but the director installed as deputy director a man whose wife ran for elected office and accepted almost a million dollars from governor terry mcauliffe, andrew mccabe met a person with that office about his wife's political plans and did not recuse himself from the or the russian matter despite the obvious appearance of conflict. the inspector general is reviewing these issues but once again the people deserve answers and the f.b.i. has not provided those answers. we need to f.b.i. to be accountable because we need the f.b.i. to be effective. its mission is to protect us from the most dangerous threats facing our nation and as the di

replacement could are you open investigation into hillary clinton's emails. testified that clinton was careless with her emails but no laws were intentionally broken but the acting director now testifying that comey's decision hurt morale at the bureau. meanwhile the trump administration is with trade deal with china. in part the deal calls for china to open borders to u.s. beef. in the markets, jc penny will report quarterly profits later this morning. the stock tumbling more than 7% yesterday as investors braced for more disappointing news from the retail sector, as for markets overall, the dow trying to eke out a gain, dow futures down 40 points this morning. s&p down 6, nasdaq down 11. nicole: increasing concerns of pilot who fights f-18 fighters jets, lea gabrielle has the story. >> reports show pilots who fly all models of f-18, most fierce fighting aircraft before they even make it to combat. i spoke with current pilots who are concerned about a problem that's like being intoxicated while flying, they wouldn't go on camera for fear of damaging their ca

if those willing -- if that was linked to hillary clinton's emails, why is it happening now? gallagher: it is difficult to answer that question, simply because the administration has no further comment other than the statements have -- other than the statements that have been issued. asked onion is being both sides of the isle, and people have yet to come up with a clear and convincing answer, simply because the allegations, the accusations being brought up against james comey, the former director of the fbi, were well-known when president-elect donald trump came into office back in january. these are facts that go back so the question, of course, remains -- why now? that is something which the white house spokesperson will definitely have to address, his given thating, pretty much everybody is asking that question without being able to come up with a clear answer. are saying democrats this is the tip of the iceberg, comparing this firing to the watergate scandal of the 1970's. is that going too far? gallagher: there are parallels that can definitely be drawn between what is

clinton on that tarmac. then, he was asked about some specific information by senator chuck grassley. >> the email reportedlyded assurances that attorney general lynch would protect secretary clinton by making sure the fbi investigation didn't go too far. how and when did you first learned of this document? also, who sent it and who received it? >> that's not a question i can answer in this forum, mr. chairman, because it would call for a classified response. >> to the fbi interview the person who wrote the email? if not, why not? >> i would have to give the same answer. i can talk about that in an unclassified setting. >> bret: that obviously raised some eyebrows. we are back with the panel. a mollie. >> jim kobe is very good at these self-righteous answers. it was really interesting how many questions he didn't answer and he had lots of answers for what happened with a clinton email situation. he didn't have a lot of answers about the russia investigation. i thought lindsey graham had a very deft line of questioning when he asked them, do you still stand by the statement that the trump campaign wasn't spie

the clinton emails, which we talked about at length but at the end of the day, this director of the fbi was not a leader. he politicized a portion of government that should not be. he served at the pleasure of the president. he had a 10-year term. that term ended today and it was his own undoing. he had to go back to congress today to clarify again testimony he gave. an absent director. that is his problem. it >> sean: we are not even talking about very important failures under his time. the boston marathon bombers. they were warned again by russia. still didn't do anything. in the case of -- before fort hood. he wanted to kill those soldiers for protecting the taliban. let me bring in lou. >> the issue here is that comey had it wrong from the very beginning.

they were calling for director comey to be fired over his handling of the hillary clinton email probe now say he is essential to an impartial investigation of russian meddling in the election. democratic national committee chairman tom perez was assistant attorney general and labor secretary in the obama administration and on the short list to be hillary clinton's running mate. we spoke to him at the d.n.c. soledad: is there a contradiction in democrats who have long been unhappy with

and it says restoring public confidence in the fbi. >> most of this letter focuses on hillary clinton's emails. this is stuff that as a candidate, president trump talked about this on the campaign all the time. all the sudden the white house is concerned about his handling of the email snz. >> no it's not all of a sudden. >> the first thing is all about -- that main -- >> the fbi's reputation and credibility. >> the fbi was wrong to usurp the attorney general. why are you concerned about the hillary clinton investigation? >> i think you're looking at the wrong set of facts. this man is a president of the united states. he acted decisively today. he took the recommendation of his deputy attorney general. >> he said one thing as a candidate and now he's concerned as president. >> he has lost confidence in the fbi director and took the recommendation to the attorney general. he went in there, asaysed the siuation. he says almost everyone agrees that the director made serious mistakes. it's one of the few issues that unites people. this is a man trying to quote restore public confidence in the f f

comments he made this last year during the hillary clinton email investigation. >> they do not know what i'm about to say. although there is evidence of potential violations with the statutes regarding classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor was bring such a case. >> kimberly, this is big breaking news today. really unexpected. really unexpected for james comey who was apparently doing an fbi recruitment event and didn't know about it until he saw on the screens in the back of the room that he had been fired. >> can you imagine? and this happened in los angele los angeles. following the motorcade that they believed to be former director of the fbi comey, that is a picture of the plane taking off. >> the live action shot of a plain, america. >> you only get that here.

the bureau issued a correction to a statement comey made to congress last week about the hillary clinton email investigation, and it is the latest chapter in what has been an extremely rocky tenure for the nation's top law-enforcement official. the news breaking 15 minutes ago, coming from the white house for that's where we had. she white house correspondent john roberts starts us off tonight. this is obviously earth shattering. >> to say no one saw it coming would be an understatement. clearly the attorney general and deputy attorney general and the president knew about it. fbi director learned about it a short time ago, and bret, this goes back to last year which is really the most surprising part of it. writing a memorandum for the attorney general, the deputy attorney general rob rosenstein

attorney general loretta lynch, but he announced the results of the investigation into hillary clinton's emails last july. the president's opponents were quick to make the firing about him and not the fbi director. there were handshakes from his police escort on the tarmac in los angeles as james comey boarded the fbi jet for the final time. while it was the president who fired comey, white house or the state was the newly minted deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who had lost confidence in comey. sources say rosenstein,

comey: in the hillary clinton email case? take yes. take i just -- >> i just want to clarify some gave innswers you relation to president trump's tax returns being relevant to investigation into does the investigation have access to president trump's tax returns and some other questions, you answered "i annot say." is that that you cannot say or ?ou cannot say in this setting dir. comey: i won't answer questions about the contours of the investigation. i do not know if i would do it in a closed setting either but for sure i do not want to begin answering questions about what we're looking at and how. will take that as you cannot do that in this setting and maybe you can elsewhere. we're talking about the i usual number of individuals in important roles in the trump campaign or in his life and unexpected andof often undisclosed ties to russia. i would like to focus on one of those individuals, roger stone and his relationship with gucifer 2.0,.0 -- a persona used by russian and telogen's to leak documents stolen from the democratic nati

been controversial with both democrats and republicans leading the investigation of hillary clinton's emails and the russian election tampering probe. major garrett is at the white house for us now with the breaking news. major. >> reporter: scott, the letter now-former f.b.i. director james comey was characteristically blunt. it reads in part, "you are hereby terminated and removed from office, effective immediately." accompanying letters released by the white house come from senior justice department officials who say comey had to be fired because of actions and the lack of action he took with regards to hillary clinton in 2016 and the investigation into her email server. those senior justice department officials say not only was comey wrong not to pursue charges. he was wrong to have a press conference announcing that fact, and that he had failed to acknowledge both of those errors and both of those breaches with protocol, and that forced the president to accept their advice that comey be terminated. one letter from the new deputy attorney general rod rosenstein says in part, "the f.b.i.'

it department of justice memo cited clinton's ng of the email probe -- comey's handling of the clinton email probe as a reason for the firing. asked earlier today, president trump gave a simple expedition. >> why did you fire director comey? >> because he was not doing a good job. charlie: joining me from washington, bob woodward, associate editor of "the washington post," dan bolles, chief correspondent at "the washington post," michael shear, correspondent for "the new york times," and in new york, fran townsend who served as homeland security and counterterrorism adviser to president george w. bush. i am pleased to have all of them on this program. michael she are, what has been added to this story today? michael: a couple of things have been added. one is that we discovered today that just days before his firing, jim comey, the director of the fbi, requested additional conduct the sprawling investigation into in the u.s.ing election and possible contacts with trump advisors. that generated additional intensity behind the democratic calls for an independent prosecutor. obviously, th

and very bad to catastrophic options on hillary clinton's emails. >>> and the vote is on. but can the republicans carry health care across the finish line tomorrow? we'll hear from a member of congress after meeting with the president at the white house. the 11th hour starts right now. and good evening once again from our head quarters here in new york on day 104 of the trump administration. we learn just tonight that house republicans say they have the votes to pass their health care plan on the floor of the house tomorrow time tba. we also heard from the president today on peace in the middle east. a goal that has confounded every president of the modern era, including two, carter and clinton, who seek toed a huge part of their presidencies on it. the current president met today with palestinian leader and on the subject of middle east peace, he seems to like his chances. >> it's a great honor to have president with us. we'll be having lunch together. we'll be discussing details of what has proven to be a very difficult situation between israel and the palestinians. and

to make this decision not because of comey's handling of the clinton email probe but because of theontinued probe of the connections between trump associates and campaign officials and the russians. charlie: but say the president wanted to -- that investigation, not knowing where it is leading. would the firing of the fbi director be the right way to go? phil: it certainly could. i do not know what the president was intending to do but it is in his interest to do that. and firing the fbi director, we do not know whether this investigation is going to continue, who will be leading it, well the for comey be some sort of trump loyalist like rudy giuliani, or is trump going to tap some independent, someone who has been at the fbi for long-term eyes credibility across the aisle who will continue the russian probe question mark do not have answers from this white house. margaret: for now we know that the deputy director of the fbi mccabe is able to fill in that position but he is not expected to remain there long-term. phil is right, and certainly it matters who the fbi director is. there

hill are not buying the claims that director comey's termination was about how he handled the clinton email investigation. >> we know director comey was leading an investigation and whether the trump campaign colluded with russia, a serious offense. where those investio president? >> reporter: they're calling for a special prosecutor independent of the department of justice to lead the investigation and majority leader mitch mcconnell said that will hurt the investigations already taking place in the senate. >> partisan calls would not delay the considerable work that chairman burr and vice president warner did. too much is at stake. >> reporter: senator richard burr, leading the senate probe, said comey's dismissal further confuses an already difficult investigation by this committee. james comey was set to testify before the senate intelligence committee tomorrow but that will now likely be delayed. seth lemmon, four cbs news on capitol hill. >>> with the firing of director comey, the speculation game is under way and who president donald trump might select as his successor. an obvious na

too many of us, you appear to have treated the investigation of a clinton email investigation or matter, whatever you want to call it, differently than how you treated the ongoing investigation of the trump campaign and the russian attempts to interfere with their election. if i can understand correctly, you felt free to speak about the clinton investigation because it had been completed when you had your first conference in july? you do confirm there's an ongoing investigation of the trump campaign and their conduct with regard to russian efforts to undermine our election? >> where conducting an investigation to see if there was any coordination with russia and the trump campaign. >> you have confirm that such investigation is ongoing, can you tell us more about what constitutes an investigation? >> no. >> and july of 2016, when you announce that you will not be bringing criminal charges against hillary clinton because you did need to show intent and there was no intent discovered, you spoke for 15 minutes. not only did you say you're not going to bring criminal charges against her, yo

tucker coming up next. >> tucker: could the investigation to hillary clinton's email server be reopenedme new reporting on that question tonight. good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight" read look at that potential political earthquake in just a minute but first, democrats in congress and their circuits in the press spent all day muttering darkly about russian conspiracies and demanding an independent investigation into whether vladimir putin secretly ran donald trump's presidential campaign. they howled and they barked and they did their best impressions of great concern, but always at the center of it, that phrase, independent investigation. ther

president weight for the inspector general's investigation into director comey's handling of the clinton email investigation to conclude before making his decision to fire him? was this really about something else? no doubt we will have the opportunity to question mr. comey, now a private citizen, about what happened. but we need to hear from this administration about what happened and why. and what is going to happen next. , i'mis why, again requesting the majority leader cawley closed and if necessary classified all sessions briefing with the attorney general and deputy attorney general separately at which they can be asked these questions. i hope the majority leader agrees with me. we need to get to the bottom of this and get a handle on all the facts so we can grapple with them. i remind him and that republican friends that nothing less is at stake than the american people faith in our criminal justice system and the integrity of the executive branch of our government. i yield the floor. >> shortly after that speech to

he was not fired because of how he handled the clinton email scandal. he was likely fired because he was getting closer to the truth about the connection between the trump campaign and russia. >> expect more calls from democrats for a special prosecutor to look into the russian matter. chairman versus that is not necessary, noting the senate intelligence committee investigation is bipartisan. >> jenna: thank you. >> jon: so we are waiting for the white house daily press briefing to begin. quite a day in washington, d.c., as reaction continues to pour into the firing ffe i director james comey. that briefing set to begin at the autumn of the hour, 70 minutes from now, you do not want to miss it today. also, the firing of an fbi director has only happened once before in the bureau's history. so which fbi director suffered the same fate and why? wheat will be live with that. meta appetite control... it's your glass of willpower that helps keep cravings... ...far, far away. feel less hungry with the natural fiber in clinically... ...proven meta appetite con

because he mishandled the clinton female investigation, when in fact they praise the way was handle -- they praised the way was handle. if there was any dissatisfaction about the email investigation, it was that mr. comey chose not to indict hillary clinton. the election is over and to say that you are firing and attorney intoal more than 100 days your new administration for actions he took during the campaign, if the president would come in and have immediately fired mr. comey, people's jaws would've dropped come up with a would've been explainable. this is really not explainable. host: the 2018 election has only begun. you really process -- recently profiled a group that is laying the groundwork for impeachment of president trump. what impact does the comey firing have on those progressive groups and the movement they are trying to create for 2018? guest: this is a rocket booster who want for activists to remove this president from office. and who want to take back the house or the senate. if you look at the number of seats up in the senate and where they are, the democrats are going to have a hard time taking back control of the senate. the house, which has seeme

the presidential campaign when he recommended no charges be brought against hillary clinton in her use of a private email while secretary of state. findthough we did not clear evidence that secretary clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless. >> the fbi's decision not to pursue criminal charges against hillary clinton only emboldened her rival's argument that she was protected by a rigged system. >> today's the best evidence that our we have seen system is absolutely, totally rigged. text on a trump's impression of the fbi changed just days before the election, after james comey sent a letter to congress that the agency had come across additional emails in an unrelated case into its investigation of hillary clinton's private account. >> there is little doubt that and the greatomey special agents of the fbi will be able to collect more than enough evidence to garner indictments against hillary clinton. mey was kept on his fbi director after donald trump assumed the presidency. despite this, relat

. >> reporter: liz, lawmakers pushed comey about investigations into hillary clinton's email server and possible campaign connections between president trump and russia. >> you may think we're idiots. we're honest people. we make judgments trying to do the right thing. and i believe even in hindsight we made the right decisions. >> reporter: the fbi director said he had two choices, telling congress he was re- opening the investigation into hillary clinton's email server just days ahead of the 2016 presidential election, or the catastrophic choice of staying silent. >> look, this is terrible! it makes me mildly nauseous to think that we might have had some impact on the election. but honestly, it wouldn't change the decision. >> reporter: in the end, no one was happy. clinton claims the decision cost her the election. president trump tweeted that comey, quote, gave her a free pass for her many bad deeds. >> i believed what i said. there was not a prosecutable case there. >> reporter: director comey refused to reveal any more details about the other major investigation from the 2016 elec

there was broad bipartisan criticism of james comey's handling of the hillary clinton emails. president trump was not among that criticism, never once, not one critical word of his releasing, making that press conference. jeff sessions praised her actions on fox business network. so those are the two people at the center of this never a single critical word. >> that comey fire a remarkable morning. met with harsh response from across the political spectrum. more on that and what's in store for the russian investigation. and his meeting today between the president and russian foreign minister. that happens today. next. [fbi agent] you're a brave man, mr. stevens. your testimony will save lives. mr. stevens? this is your new name. this is your new house. and a perfectly inconspicuous suv. you must become invisible. [hero] i'll take my chances. with tempur-pedic.t our proprietary material automatically adjusts to your weight, shape and temperature. so you sleep deeply, and wake up feeling powerful. find your exclusive retailer at tempurpedic.com so she only earns double miles on

i think he badly mishandled the hillary clinton email matter.s doing the right thing to protect the reputation of the fbi but it backfired on him. is it also possible that president trump acted out of frustration because there was no collusion with russia. it could be frustrated this is dominating the early months of his administration. it is possible but there is quite a bit of evidence on the table already. the failure of mr trump to release his tax returns. to see if there was any financial arrangements. that might lead him to be more sympathetic. and more sympathetic to him. it's hard to be believing anything the president says now. he is barely 113 days into his presidency and this is not a pretty sight. thank you very much indeed forjoining us. is somalia on the cusp of a new era of prosperity and opportunity? the un secretary general says that after decades of conflict and instability, the conditions are now in place for it to become a success story. he was speaking at an international gathering here in london. somalia's president was als