“What I don’t want to buy into is that firing Comey is the end of the investigation. I want to know what happened on all things Russia. I want to know who leaked the information to the Washington Post about Flynn, I want to know was there was any collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians, if there is any suggestion that Trump’s business dealings are out of the ordinary – I want to know that,” said Graham. “The bottom line is that we get to start over with a new FBI director, but that doesn’t mean we are going to stop the investigation. We’ve got a chance as a congress to find out what Russia did. What good is it to find out that they interfered with our election and nothing happens?”
Added Butler, “President Trump did the right thing for the wrong reasoning. The timing is atrocious. What the FBI director did, back in July, when he made those outrageous accusations about Secretary Clinton without giving her a chance in a court of law to defend herself was untenable. And then in October, he compounded the error and basically got Donald Trump elected. That was outrageous, he ignored the chain of command – he needed to go.”
Bharara commented, “What we need to really look at here, the key word, is ‘collusion.’ There was evidence that was coming before director Comey of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, and every day the calls [became] more frequent and the evidence became more apparent. The timing of his dismissal is really everything here.”
The Aftermath Of James Comey's Firing
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Martin also followed up with recent Bethune-Cookman University graduate Tyler Durant about the aftermath of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s commencement speech at the University yesterday. Several students, including Tyler and her sister, Taylor, booed and turned their backs as she spoke. During her address she reiterated the Trump administration’s commitment to education, and asked for the opportunity for all sides to be heard. In recent days, more than 50,000 signatures had been gather to protest her arrival.
“Taylor and I were actually the first two students to turn our backs and pretty soon my peers followed through. It shows there’s solidarity in numbers and I think the unity of it was so important. We began to see that being optimistic of our university rescinding her invitation…when we saw that it wasn’t going to be done [we said] ‘Okay, here’s the time to turn your pain into power’ – and that’s exactly what we did as a graduating class,” said Durant. “I think they did get the message and the message was that graduation was no place for politics and hopefully in the future they’ll understand that with future graduations for colleges, and historically black colleges and universities especially.”
Betsy DeVos Booed At Bethune-Cookman
Graduation Ceremony
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