{"id":121317,"date":"2017-05-10T15:25:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T20:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=121317"},"modified":"2017-05-11T15:45:54","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T20:45:54","slug":"hoeven-heitkamp-statesments-comey-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=121317","title":{"rendered":"Hoeven, Heitkamp react to Comey firing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31894 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SenatorHeitkampofficial-300x207.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SenatorHeitkampofficial-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SenatorHeitkampofficial-253x175.png 253w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SenatorHeitkampofficial.png 434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK (AP) Senator Heidi Heitkamp wants a special prosecutor to investigate possible ties between President Donald Trump and Russia following the president&#8217;s firing of FBI Director James Comey.<\/p>\n<p>The North Dakota Democrat says Comey&#8217;s firing &#8220;raises far more questions than it answers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-26946\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Hoeven-Sen-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Hoeven-Sen-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Hoeven-Sen-259x175.png 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Hoeven-Sen.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Republican Senator John Hoeven says the case has been made for Trump to fire Comey but the timing raises questions. He&#8217;s calling for a continued investigation by a bipartisan Senate committee into last year&#8217;s presidential election, &#8220;including any Russian interference.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>GOP Rep. Kevin Cramer did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.<\/p>\n<p>Comey traveled to North Dakota last year to open a FBI office in Williston and to visit with tribal officials at the Fort Berthold Reservation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK (AP) Senator Heidi Heitkamp wants a special prosecutor to investigate possible ties between President Donald Trump and Russia following the president&#8217;s firing of FBI Director James Comey. The North Dakota Democrat says Comey&#8217;s firing &#8220;raises far more questions than it answers.&#8221; Republican Senator John Hoeven says the case has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":121318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121317"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121392,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121317\/revisions\/121392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}