this is not an accurate portrayal of the conversation between the president and mister comey the democratsuick to pounce on a crisis, chuck schumer taken to the senate floor to blast the president. >> i was shaken by the report in the new york times concerns about our national security, the rule of law, the independence of our nation's highest law enforcement agencies, are mounting. the country is being tested in unprecedented ways. >> lawmakers on capitol hill, jason j fits tweeting, quote, the oversight is going to get the comey memo if it exists. i need to see it sooner rather than later. i have my subpoena pen ready. this as the white house continues to inflame the disclosure of classified information of russian officials of the dangers of continued leaks ahead of the president's first overseas trip to the middle east. >> the news cycle continues. jim rish is a member of the intel committee and been part of the investigation into russia since the beginning, he is slamming the latest leaks saying the media will publish anything and whoever release the information is guilty of treason. >

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 office but they didn't fire him zen. why did it happen today? >> the white house quick to defend the decision pushing back on suggestions it was a cover-up. >> it is not a cover-up. the president makes clear in his letter the fact that mister comey and three occasions assured the president he is not under investigation. >> this story is very fluid. the acting deputy director is currently in charge, any decision on a permanent replacement is not known. the white house telling fox news there is no timeline on this but i hope it will be restoring confidence in bringing that credibility to the fbi although there are names being floated out there on the water and other stories and we will pursue this aggressively this morning. >> imagine how tough the senate confirmation w

democrats wanted to run mister comey out of town but now he is their bff. what we call a steaming pile of great a hypocrisy. in reality we are dealing with a bunch of hysterical democrats shedding crocodile tears, journalist to wouldn't know the truth of it not them upside their head. the back standing republicans in name only, talking about you john mccain, democrat from arizona. democrats in the mainstream media and john mccain need to pop a few xanax, spend a few days in their designated safe space, relax. there is nothing to see here, there is no smoking gun, no nixonian scandal, mister comey was not good at his job. he was more of a barney fife than colombo. >> after berating cabinet members and running past secret service. taken out of the west virginia state capitol in handcuffs. and health and human services secretary tom price, white house canceler kellyanne conway, whose company public news service asking charges to be dropped this morning. outside republican town hall, tom macarthur's report of the healthcare bill. ♪ >> protesters holding two sto

's for james comey and the alleged memo detailing private conversation with presidents, if mister comeyproficient memo take her people say he is i would like to see the memos he wrote about private meetings involved. heather: 7 the part of justice naming robert mueller as special counsel to oversee the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. what does this mean for the trump administration and will expose the source of these white house leaks? a member of the fbi joint terrorism task force steve rogers. thanks for coming here. a trump appointee, the person that threw me off, didn't want to happen and now it has. rob rosenstein, what did he have to do. >> i have spoken to law enforcement officers across the country, rob rosenstein was angry, upset that the president suggested he made his recommendation based on his memo to the president. there is no need for a special prosecutor, you have enough people investigating but the concern, the country with law enforcement officers, he to this really appeared to be a witch hunt where they tried to manufacture evidence. ther

obama's justice department, mister comey as political is any other, put his neck on the line.a holdover, did not remove -- maybe a serious investigation where politics is taken out of it. we just need someone who is sensible and independent, and say that person should have a fair, competent investigation. and interest in protecting hillary because administration officials implicated as well. >> you are saying mister comey had his thumb on the scale? >> no doubt. when he is talking the fbi giving immunity agreements to five top officials in the obama administration and the fbi director signed on to that to participate in such a charade i don't see how anyone could say he was a disinterested party. >> now we learn despite what we heard to the contrary that not everyone in the fbi agreed with him. why were we fed the line out of the fbi everyone signed on to, not to recommend the prosecution comey tells us the justice department, he will trust something that happened. to announce the conclusion of the investigation. >> the statement that he made, there is a lot there but someone

president trump has been tweeting about whether fired fbi director james comey told the president he wasn't under investigation. mister trump this morning tweeted james comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversation.before he starts leaking to the press. >> sunday night on after words, physician and journalist elizabeth rosenthal examines the business side of healthcare in her book and american sickness: how healthcare became big business and how you can take it back.doctor rosenthal is interviewed by doctor david blumenthal, president of thecommonwealth fund . >> i wonder if your book gave you any thoughts about whether healthcare is a free market, whether it can solve our problems through healthcare. through the free market forces. >> i think what we've seen in the answer is probably not. the beginning of the book, i put a somewhat tongue-in-cheek list of the economic rules of the dysfunctional healthcare market where if you think of healthcare as truly a business proposition,as if the market will solve , you get to crazy places like you know, a lifetime of treatment is preferable to a cure. i'm not saying

mister trump says this evening that james comey was a.. quote..showboa >>> our top story-06:30, president trump says he got fed up with the fbi director before he fired him. mr. trump says this evening that james comey was a showboat. cbs reporter seth lemon joins us live from washington, dc and seth, the president not holding back here. >> reporter: yeah. that's right. in today's senate intelligence hearing, it was scheduled in advance of that bombshell announcement that he was firing the fbi director. so instead of seeing james comey testify, we saw the acting fbi director andrew mccabe sitting in his place. there are some contradictions between what the white house says and what the fbi says. >> i was going to fire regardless of recommendation. >> reporter: president trump told nbc that he didn't need the recommendation of deputy attorney general rod rosenstein to fire fbi director james comey. jess i showboat. he is a grandstand -- >> he is a showboat. he is a grandstander. the fbi has been in turmoil. we all know that. >> reporter: but on cap

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got it, okay. >>. >> senator grassley. >> mister clapper, you said that you never expose classified information in an inappropriate manner. >> i asked director comey these questions last week so for both of you, i yes, sir no, as far as you know, have any classified information relating to mister trump or his associates been declassified and shared with the media? >> mr. clapper: not to my knowledge. ms. yates: not to my knowledge. senator grassley: next question, have either of you ever been an anonymous source in matters relating to mr. trump or rush yab's attempts to medical in the election? did either of you ever authorize someone else at someone else at your respective organizations to be an anonymous source in a news report about mr. trump or his associates? >> no. >> no. no. >> as far as either of you knowt had any government agencies referred any of the leaks over the past several months to the justice department for potential criminal investigation? >> i don't know. as you know, senator, there is a process for that, for doing that. i don't know if that, that's happened. >> ms. yates? >> i'm not at doj anymore so i i don't know what's been

>> my response, not the domestic -- >> following the comey line, the director testified a few days ago in full committee, the fbi interviewed mister flynn a day before or two days before your meeting at the white house and you testified you had told the white house counsel the fbi reviewed flynn and mc gun asked how did he do. did you have the 302 with you in the white house? did you show it to white house counsel or seen it at the time you went to the white house? >> the fbi conducted the interview on the 24th, a readout from the fbi, a detailed readout, funding agents that conducted the energy, we didn't want to wait for the 302, we wanted to get it to the white house as much as possible so we had folks who spend a lot of time with agents. how this impacted their investigation. >> did you take that summary with you? did you have a document to describe the fbi interview, with general flynn? >> i have notes to describe that interview, the individual that is with me, senior career official from the national security division -- >> did you discuss criminal prosecution with mister flynn? general flynn? >> no recollection in the first

comey when he was the fbi director. it will be more than troubling right now. what i want to get to is the facts. the only way to do that mister the confidence is through an independent commission. i think the process here in terms of the house and senate intel committees is not working properly. >> bret: what about the call for an independent commission or special counsel of some sort? >> no, i think there are plenty of outlets and plenty of ways to do that. there's no evidence that there was some sort of crime committed. there was nothing criminal that happened. if these memos are indeed they are, let's review those first. we'll be done by republicans and democrats alike but we will do that as publicly as we can. some of the information may be classified and we can't share it, but i think the public would understand. we need to exhaust those types of avenues before we try to go to some independent approach. i don't think those would truly be "independent." this is the system we've had in place and i think we need to give it a shot. >> bret: white house aides, trump supporters are saying the president is under siege here. man

comey when he was the fbi director. it will be more than troubling right now. what i want to get to is the facts. the only way to do that mister the confidence is through an independent commission. i think the process here in terms of the house and senate intel committees is not working properly. >> bret: what about the call for an independent commission or special counsel of some sort? >> no, i think there are plenty of outlets and plenty of ways to do that. there's no evidence that there was some sort of crime committed. there was nothing criminal that happened. if these memos are indeed they are, let's review those first. we'll be done by republicans and democrats alike but we will do that as publicly as we can. some of the information may be classified and we can't share it, but i think the public would understand. we need to exhaust those types of avenues before we try to go to some independent approach. i don't think those would truly be "independent." this is the system we've had in place and i think we need to give it a shot. >> bret: white house aides, trump supporters are saying the president is under siege here. man

today, mister speaker, to call for the impeachment of the president of the united states of america.according to a sources familiar with the matter, a memo written by former fbi director james comey the president asked him to let go of the investigation into former national security advisor michael flynn's possible ties to russia. the white house says the account is "not accurate" congressional oversight committees, and members of both parties are now asking to see comey's notes on the oval office encounter. rep. paul ryan/-r- house speaker: there's clearly politics being played. our job is to get the facts and be sober about doing it. rep. adam schiff/ -d- california: i think we follow the evidence, we obtain the evidence, we hear the testimony.all of this -- as the white house also tries to contain revelations that the president shared isis-related classified information with russian officials.h.r. mcmaster/national security adviser: what the president discussed with the foreign minister was wholly appropriate to that conversation.in washington, i'm scott mclean. ( pam ) up until today ... the stock market had shrugged off all the crises surrounding the trump white house.<"ding