Friday on “CBS This Morning,” long-time CBS News personality Bob Schieffer reacted President Donald Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey earlier this week. While many have made comparisons to Trump’s handling of Comey to Watergate, Schieffer said he saw “parallels” to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. “You know, there are many parallels Watergate,” Schieffer explained. “But I have to tell you, I think all the way back to the Kennedy assassination, to draw parallels. I was there, as you know. I have always felt that if Lee Harvey Oswald had been put on trial, a lot of these conspiracy theories that are still circulating today would have been put at rest then. It is absolutely imperative that Donald Trump finds a way to reassure the American people that these questions about Russia are not true if that is his version. He’s got to lay it all out and find ways not just to tweet out every morning the news is being made up by the news media.” “He’s got to show some proof,” he continued. “He has got to give them some reason to believe that these things are not true. Frankly, unless he is able to
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The Nuclear Option: Comeygate Latest Fake News Hysteria for Trump/Russia Conspiracists
Every time the Washington political press freaks out and goes into full panic mode against President Trump, the blockbuster, Watergate-volume story always unfolds the same way.
Data: Comey Firing Not Capturing Americans’ Attention — Only Journalists’
Donald Trump’s decision to fire FBI director James Comey did not create the social media firestorm Democrats and the mainstream media hoped it would, according to data from SocialFlow.
Commerce Sec Wilbur Ross: 10 U.S.-China Trade Agreements ’Herculean Accomplishment’
China and the United States have agreed to many initial cooperative economic actions as part of a 100-day plan that Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping settled on during their Florida Summit, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross explained on Thur…
Donald Trump Backslides on Campaign Promise To Curb Legal Immigration
President Donald Trump has apparently slid back from his campaign promise to reduce the annual inflow of 1 million legal immigrants, according to the transcript of an interview with the Economist magazine.
Trump and First Lady Celebrate Mother’s Day with Military Spouses and Families
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump hosted military families at the White House on Friday to celebrate Mother’s Day.
Durbin: ‘President Trump Is Dangerous’
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Senate Democratic Whip Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) declared, “President Trump is dangerous.” Durbin said, “President Trump is dangerous. Dangerous because he may be obstructing justice in terms of the investigation that really goes to the heart of our democracy, the accountability of the president, the people around him to the rule of law, protecting our democracy from an invasion, a cyber invasion by the Russians. And secondly, his credibility has been destroyed. You know, when you have — when you’re the leader of the free world, you need to be credible, not only in your own country to be an effective president, but around the world. And this episode this week is a demonstration that this president’s credibility is not very strong.” (h/t RCP Video) Follow Ian Hanchett on Twitter @IanHanchett
Trump Warns Comey: Better Hope That There Are No ‘Tapes’ of Our Conversation
President Trump warned former FBI Director James Comey Friday morning, after accounts surfaced in the press about a dinner they had in January, attributed to Comey associates.
De Pasquale — The Key to an Easy Trump Win: Rebuild Our Airports Without Taxpayer Dollars
With funding for the wall stalled, with healthcare through the House, with the fundamentals of a massive Trump tax cut and tax reform effort laid out, many in the White House are now turning their attention to another critical Trump campaign promise: …
Turley on Comey Firing: ‘It Seems to Be a Cover-Up in Search of a Crime’
Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” George Washington law professor Jonathan Turley discussed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s role in appointing a special prosecutor to investigate alleged ties between the Trump 2016 presidential campaign and the Russian government. According to Turley, the underlying crime isn’t clear given the lack of evidence with the exception of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s indiscretions, which he argued would not warrant special counsel. Turley described it as a “cover-up in search of a crime.” “For weeks I’ve questioned the need for special counsel because honestly I still don’t see the underlying crime here,” Turley said. “You know, when we talk about the Russian influence and collusion, there’s not any evidence I’ve seen of collusion but more importantly, no one has articulated a major crime, as opposed to the reporting and registration violations of people like Flynn, which usually wouldn’t warrant a special counsel. But that’s the great mystery here.” “You know, with Watergate that people have been talking about, there was a serious crime that began that led to the cover-up,” he continued. “Here you seem to have a cover-up without a crime. That’s what’s so bizarre about the conduct of the White House. It