follow me on twitter at lou dobbs follow me on instagram at dobbs tonight thanks for being with with us. see you tomorrow. good night from new york. it is monday, february 18th. protesters expected to take to to streets in response to president trump's national emergency declaration. the legal battle brewing this morning over protecting the southern border. fired fbi deputy director andrew mccabe revealing shocking details about an alleged plan to secretly record president trump ihopes of removing him from office. and congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez gets schooled from within her own party after declaring amazon pulling the plug on its new york headquarters a victory.

lauren: here is how your money is moving at 5:00 a.m. eastern. u.s. stock and bond markets are closed today in observance of washington's birthday. we're open for business here at fox business. futures are trading as you can he see slightly to the downside. we had a monster rally on friday and the dow and nasdaq are riding an eight week win streak, goosed by optimism by u.s./china trade talks. stocks in europe are mixed at this hour. actually, all now trading to the downside. the big gains we saw, we saw them across asia, the shanghai come pos icomposite surging 2.7% overnight. cheryl: happy president's day, everybody. welcome to "fbn: a.m.." i'm cheryl casone. lauren: good morning. happy president's day.

i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: we're open for business today while the other guys are asleep on this monday. well, there's a lot of news to get to. democrats are gearing up to challenge president trump's use of a national emergency to fund construction of a border wall. california's attorney general says he is leading a group of states that will definitely file suit against the administration. >> we're confident there are at least 8 billion ways we can prove harm and once we are all clear, all the different states are clear, what pots of money that taxpayers sent to d.c. he's going to raid, a number of states and certainly americans will be harmed and we'll be prepared. cheryl: trump announced a state of emergency in concert with a decision to sign a spending bill that lacked funding for a wall, at least not what he wanted. kevin mccarthy told maria bartiromo that the president will win the court fight. >> so the president, one, has the authority. yes, it is an emergency that has

been shown before. i believe at the end of the day this wall is going to be built, not sea to shining sea, but about 200 miles. cheryl: other republicans oppose the emergency declaration, saying it sets a dangerous precedent. lauren: former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe doubling down on why he says he was fired from the agency and tells 60 minutes that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein considered ways to remove president trump from a office. >> the deputy attorney general offered to wear a wire into the white house. he said i never get searched when i go into the white house many i could easily wear a recording device. they wouldn't know it was there. now, he was not joking. he was absolutely serious. the reason you would have someone wear a concealed recording device would be to collect evidence and in this case what was the true nature of the president's motivation in calling for the firing of jim

comey. the discussion of the 25th amendment was simply rod raised the issue and discussed it with me in the context of thinking about how many other cabinet officials might support such an effort. the deputy attorney general was definitely very concerned about the president, about his capacity and about his intent at that point in time. i believe i was fired because i opened a case against the president of the united states. lauren: well, rod rosenstein has denied all of mccabe's charges. the white house also responding to that interview, saying that he has no credibility. let's bring in former prosecutor david bruno to unpack all of this. good morning, david. does mccabe have credibility. he was fired from the fbi for essentially lying and leaking and he's hawking a book right now. >> he didn't get his pension.

trump fired him. he lied to the fbi and inspector general. there's a referral for criminal charges against him. and he's probably broke. right? so for all those reasons, no, i don't. but it's interesting as to who do we believe here between rosenstein and mccabe? because while he doesn't have credibility, he may be telling partial truths and we never really know what went on because there are so many questions revolving around this investigation and one of them is about mr. rosenstein himself. lauren: so they're brettly pree allegations. mccabe is saying rosenstein said they never search me when i go into the white house, of course i could wear a wire. do we do what senator graham is suggesting, we open another investigation to get to the truth, or does that just further distance the fbi's credibility in the minds of americans. >> this is being reviewed at the moment by the inspector general and at the end we're going to get an overview of the mueller

investigation, how it started and all of these conversations. so at the right time unfortunately this falls within the russian interference investigation and we p won' wont everything at this point. lauren: this declaration of national emergency is creating a rift. the house is expected to introduce a resolution to override donald trump's declaration of a national emergency to get border wall money and construct the wall. what do you expect the senate to do here? do you expect some republican senators to go the other way and then do you expect the president to issue his very first veto in order to get his money? >> yeah, i would hope that republicans stand firm here. but if they don't, certainly he's going to veto it. this is a decision that's going to be made within the courts and like the president said, when he

announced this decision, the republicans are probably going to lose in the district court, in the circuit court, and it's going to be up to the united states supreme court which is a conservative court at the moment. lauren: you expect the high court then to side with president trump? >> i really don't know. this is a really tough legal decision. i mean, he has broad rights under the national emergency act and there's no defining emergency under that statute. so i think he will be able to succeed on that point. but then it is, is this a necessary -- is this a necessary project for the military? and we really don't know. and it's going to be up to the court to make that determination. lauren: and then does backfire when you have democrats trying to do the same thing, i don't know, for climate control or something like that. >> got point, lauren. lauren: using the national emergency powers. david bruno, thank you for your purchase speperspectives this m.

cheryl: president trump is heading to miami today, he'll give a speech on the humanitarian crisis in venezuela. the white house says trump will offer his support to venezuela's interim president, juan guaido, who is locked in a power struggle with nicolas maduro. senator marco rubio visited the colombia, vein venezuela borderr the weekend, saying humanitarian aid will get to the country with or without maduro's cooperation. lauren: stunning words coming from former vice president joe biden, telling europeans over the weekend that america is an embarrassment. >> former vice president. >> not snatching children from their parents or turning our back on refugees at our border, americans know that's not right. the american people understand,

please, because it makes us embarrassing. lauren: the potential 2020 presidential candidate speaking to a crowd of people at a security conference in munich. he says he'll make the decision on whether he's going to run in 2020 soon. cheryl: all right. here are some other headlines making news this morning. a nanny for facebook, new report from the u.k. parliament says facebook can't govern itself and the government will have to step in. the report lays down the need for a mandatory code of ethics for social media which the british government would have to enforce. the issue has been fiercely baited. the end of payless. they are closing 2100 stores, all of them. they stopped sales on their website. they urge people to go to their nearest store instead. for now, the company says the stores will remain open until the end of march. a mixed win at the box office --

>> you're making the biggest mistake of your life. >.cheryl: alita taking the top spot, almost $28 million so far. the action film leading the worst performing president's day weekend in 15 years. that's a big change from last year. remember black panther led the weekend to the best performest last year. a new report claims that jussie smollett's case is going before a grand jury. the empire star allegedly attacked on january 29th in what appeared to be a racially motivated assault, new claims surfaced claiming that smollett may have known his attacker att. cory booker is doing an about face, saying he will withhold judgment before the facts are out in the case.

booker one of the first to weigh in after the attack, calling it a modern dailyn. day lynching. lauren: maybe politicians in general should sometimes wait before speaking or condemning something. because it backfires. new yorkers still reeling over amazon's decision to pull the plug on the queens headquarters. >> we're closed for business in queens, everybody. we're closed for business here. don't bring your big business here, because if you're too big, you get the ire of office seekers. lauren: is that ire sending the wrong message to other big companies thinking about coming to the big apple? and it didn't work in places like canada or finland but now a california town is testing, get this, free money for everyone who lives there. you're watching "fbn: a.m." ♪ give a little bit. ♪ give a little bit of my life for you.

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lauren: new revelations this morning after amazon's ceo jeff bezos went to war with the publisher of the national enquirer accusing it of blackmail. we get more with howard kertz. >> reporter: after the nationalenationalchoirer revealr revealed an affair, the amazon founder arranged a cease fire, according to my sources.

they provided quotes from unnamed sources and arranging paparazzi photos of sanchez. the inter meaintermediary was ss brother. he says he's been trying to protect jeff and lauren's relationship. the suspects include several girlfriends with whom lauren shared the pictures and texts. bezos wanted the steady drip of photos stopped. to prove they weren't planning a second straight cover of the affair, the ami executive provided the bezos team an advanced picture of next week's cover. it was so unusual, an intermediary asked ami whether it was real or fake. the gesture led to a stream of calls and messages between the two sides. i've had access to evidence that these were essentially settlement talks, although the bay displobezos side say they wy

responding to extortion. the bezos team said stop feeding the coverage, stop engaging with the media, even if you're trying to correct a bad story. during this period, my sources say, bezos mused about buying american media, perhaps for $1 billion or more, shutting down the enquirer and beefing up its other magazines but decided this was too risky. both sides made legal threats. the bezos team demanded no more photos or threats be published and ami stop smearing his long-time security chief. ami wanted bezos to stop saying the enquirer, owned by david pecker, the close friend of president trump, had a politically motivated hit job in the piece. the billionaire never flowed and agree to that. -- never planned to agree to that. after the bezos team asked for ami to make a settlement proposal, ami sent a letter that

included the description of below the belt selfies x-rated pictures of bezos. ami said this was putting what it had on the table. the problem is, it read like a threatening letter, allowing bezos to blow up the talks by accusing the company of blackmail. ami executives deny that. but people on both sides believe that bezos led them into a trap. american media would like the story to fade but there's one complication. federal prosecutors are looking into the matter. you can read my full report right now at foxnews.com. howard kertz, fox news. cheryl: the fallout continues for amazon after they yanked their expansion plans. new york city mayor bill d de blasio went on meet the press and went after the 1%. >> obviously a group of powerful people, the ultimate members of the 1% got together in a board room in seattle and made an ash tear trarbitrary decision.

we couldn't have seen that coming. what progressives need to do is show working people we will get more for them, that we will stop this reality of concentration of power in the hands of 1%. cheryl: will cities face more progressive opposition from the lights of democratic representative alexandria ocasio-cortez. michael leme is here. that's the question after the fallout from the amazon deal, that other technology companies are going to look at new york and go you know what, they're closed for business. >> yeah, i don't believe that for a second. i don't understand why amazon needed the subsidies, where google, roku, broadcom, hewlett-packard, apple, facebook, none of them got subsidies to move here. people are making the argument that it's socialist to push them out. i would make the argument that it's socialist to give them an incentive to move here specifically because you're

mickinmickpicking winners versue else. i have no problems with cities and states doing this. this is new york city. it's not a depressed area. it's a city in new york city that doesn't need to cough up to get companies to move here. the access to capital, the access to intellectual property and technology and people, it's a very unique space versus what happened in, say, nashville, that's going to move the dial there. cheryl: let's be clear, these were state incentives, this is a deal that was cut by the governor of new york and state of new york who has billions of dollars in tax incentives to offer up, especially when you're looking at building in a very expensive area, which is new york city, and i want to point to something else here. this is kind of a different view from what you have. dartmouth professor paul arjenti said amazon isn't the only one that could feel the impact from this decision. it may likely have a long-term

effect on the reap pe reputatiow york city. a lot of folks think new york city officials look like idiots right now. >> you know, i would say that predates this amazon decision. we just saw mayor d de blasio, i don't think any businesses anywhere in the world are dying to of move here because bill de blasio is the mayor, let's be honest. new york city is new york city. cheryl: it's not open for business. that's my point there wa. there was overwhelming support for this deal among new yorkers. 70% supported this. this small group, which is what de blasio talked about in the new york times op ed, this small group, they were the big winners. he goss on to say that ocasio-cortez needs to read up on her facts. the progressive party could really damage business, not just in new york city, anywhere across the united states. this movement is i think should

be frightening for ceos right now. >> look, i agree with everything you just said. however, i don't know why amazon needs to go to long island city. all you're really going to do is shut down a lot of small businesses and jack up the rent for people who can't afford it. cheryl: but hire dog walksers , you can't tell me people weren't happy to have the jobs. >> there were losers in this and the losers got their voices heard louder. cheryl: you and i, we love each other, we disagree on this one. thank you for being here this morning. we appreciate it. lauren: still ahead, u.s./china trade talks move to washington this week. can a trade deal get done before the march 1st deadline or do they push it back? and a shocking new party game for kids that takes a shot literally at the president. the outrage growing from parents this morning. you're watching "fbn: a.m.."

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economic empowerment demonstration will study and analyze how the additional income affects residents' spending, saving, financial stability and overall quality of life. the big question, does this universal basic income work, will it make a happier, better society, that's what they want to find out. cheryl: i think they tried it in europe. it didn't go so well. tracee: we'll see. lauren: meanwhile, there's a performing arts center in ohio, and they are under fire for a pretty controversial party game that targets the president. tracee: a lot of people upset t about this. the community center recently advertised a child's birthday party package on its website for a nerf gun party with an option to play a game called shoot the president. everyone tries to eliminate or shoot the president. many in the community sharing their concerns that the game's theme could be sending the wrong

message to kids. they've apologized, of course, said they're going to eliminate all games involving the nerf guns. i don't know how that ended up on the website in the first place. lauren: was it any president or president trump? tracee: i don't think it was specifically president trump, i think it was just president. regardlessif it's president trump, any president, that's not a good message to send, not a game. cheryl: we've got a lot more coming up. democrats are already gearing up for a legal battle with the trump administration, claiming there is no national emergency at our southern border many how the president is responding this morning. and tarmac tirade, the woman who lost her mind because she had to sit next to a kid on a plane. you're watching "fbn: a.m.." ♪ the heat of the moment. ♪ the heat of the moment.

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lauren: let's get you caught up on global market action this monday monday, president's day. u.s. stock market futures are trading, hugging the flat line at this hour. let's flip it to european markets. you can see the cac in paris has been up and down all morning. right now it's up 6 points. the ftse in london and the dax are each down. in asia, sea of green, major gains on opted mitc optimism ofe talks between china and the u.s. cheryl: president trump getting briefed on that yesterday. president trump in the headlines once more, this national emergency declaration to fund the border wall is being met with lawsuits as he appears ready to veto democrats' disapproval. >> there's no threat. >> so yes he will veto. >> >> he will protect the national emergency declaration, guaranteed. this is a threat in our country. if he can't defend the country,

he can't fulfill his oath of office. cheryl: here with more on the fight brewing this morning, amber ethey. amber, good morning. >> good morning. cheryl: the president when he was in the rose garden on friday said it himself at that moment, there's going to be lawsuits, it's probably going to go to the supreme court. he knows this is coming so why go down this path, pull money from the military to build a wall? >> i think the important thing for president trump heading into 2020 is to have the appearance that he's fighting to get this border wall on behalf of his base. he can't give up, it was a chief campaign promise. he is prepared for legal challenges, he's willing to fight them all the way to the supreme court and is optimistic that he will win. there's been one legal challenge issued six hours after he announced the emergency declaration. it was filed on behalf of three texas land owners who believe that the border wall would infringe on their private property and possibly cause damage to their homes. we're already seeing the backlash towards this

declaration. cheryl: it's how you spend the money. i made that point on fox news on friday. are you going to spend it smart. we're business people attend of the day. chris wallace actually pointed out to steven miller, he said look, you know, points of entry, that's where the majority of drugs and crime are coming into the country. here was steven miller's response to chris wallace yesterday. >.oh, we don't have it. here's what he said. he don't know what you don't know and you don't catch what you don't catch. that's what he said. like basically they can't -- thitherio grande valley, there'o cities or towns but that's where they're saying that's where the want to stop the entry and that's where the wall should be. >> i think the point was not that they can't prove the wall is effective but rather that you can't say necessarily what percentage of drugs come across the border because they're not caught when they're not coming through ports of entry. but the white house, to be clear, is constantly putting out

research about the effectiveness of the wall and particularly el paso, texas. they see that as a place where it's been very effective. el paso has seen lower crime over the past decade. they point to san diego where you saw people climbing over the wall but they do see it as an effective deterrent. cheryl: the impact of the 240 protests that are planned across the country today on president's day, 10,000 people will be out in force, protesting a national emergency. is that going to have an effect? >> likely not. protests rarely do. what will have an effect is if congress decides to issue a joint resolution, rebuking the president. trump said he will veto any challenge to that power. cheryl: amber, thank you very much for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. >> thank you. lauren: u.s./china trade talks are set to resume in washington this week following a round of negotiations in beijing last week. these latest talks coming as the clock ticks down to a march 1st deadline for a higher

tariffs on chinese imports and as president trump weighs steep tariff is on imported cars and car parts. kevin mccarthy thanking president trump for taking china to account. here he is on sunday morning futures. >> i want to credit this president. he is really moving against china and making for a level playing field, something america should have done a long time ago. what i find is that we are getting movement to where we need, to protect intellectual property rights, to have a fair and level playing field when it comes to trade. lauren: john layfield, fox news contributor, joins us now. good morning, john. >> good morning. great to be with you. lauren: do you think china should expect 25% tariffs on its goods come march 2nd? >> ic they should accept in no, i don't. lauren: is that where we're headed? >> i don' i think the presidents

lowering expectations as far as march 1st. i think the market wants any type of deal right now. corporate earnings are coming in around 19%. they're projected to come in around 7.8%. it's two and-a-half x growth compared to what people thought was going to happen. if we can get any kind of deal, similar to the government shutdown -- the president should have got $1.6 billion before the shutdown. he shuts it down, gets $1.3 billion. he realized he made a mistake. i hope the president realizes he made a mistake on this. lauren: as we gear up for 2020, he needs a win. do you think he takes any deal? because as kevin mccarthy said, he's doing something that no other president has been able to successfully do. do you think he takes any deal and spins it as a very good deal? >> yeah, and to mccarthy's point, the president's not been successful yet either.

the president is going after the chinese intellectual property theft which most people think he should go after, it's just the way he's going at it. yes, he needs a win. he lost badly with the wall and he had to play mea culpa. he participated in the longest shutdown in history. i think he's getting out-negotiated by the chinese. he's got to stop that. if he can get any type of deal right here and get this economy back, the market reacting to the economy, not the trade deals, then i think he wins. lauren: all right. john layfield, thank you so much for your time this morning. i'm sorry, we had to cut it short. >> thanks, lauren. lauren: have a good one. cheryl: here are other headlines this morning. former massachusetts governor bill weld heading himself as a gop challenger to president trump's 2020 bid. he spoke on abc's this week about the president's fiscal policies a and political demeanor. >> i think the president is

reckless in spending. they're spending a trillion dollars a year. they don't have that. he's going to crush generation xers and millennials in the country. he wants to divide the country and hold up scary boogiemen that everyone else think only he can save us, it's part of a plan i think on his part to make himself seem indispensable. he's not indispensable at all. cheryl: hsl.cheryl: hundreds s left stranded without warning. bmi filing for bankruptcy saturday, citing uncertainty over britain's exit from the e.u. passengers will not be reimbursed. apple iphone rumors piling up as the company's set to release three new phones this year. the 10r predicted to have a longer battery, a ne and a new e

to wirelessly charge other devices from your phone. a person had a problem because they were sitting next to a child on a plane. >> who is taping this? >?cheryl: the woman seen spittg at a passenger in front of her. she admitted she had been drinking all day. shocker. lauren: up next, as the measles outbreak grows, the anti-vaccine movement is being put to the test. >> if a person with measles is in a room with 10 other people who are unvaccinated, nine of them will get measles. lauren: there's a a new trend among teenagers to protect themselves and we're going to have that for you. and could colin kaepernick get back in the game? his lawyer's bold prediction after settling his grievance with the nfl. you're watching "fbn: a.m." this monday morning. ♪ everybody. rock your body

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cheryl: it may have been eradicated nearly 20 years ago but now measles is back, with more than 100 confirmed cases in the u.s. so far this year. teenagers who were never vaccinated for the disease are taking matters into their own hands. let's bring in dr. janette nishua. what is going on? this is a disease that was gone and now there's a resurgence of

it, not just in the u.s., but in other parts of the world. what's happening? >> so, cheryl, the measles is a virus, it's highly infectious, contagious disease, you catch it when other people are of coughing and sneezing on you. it can be passed through nasal congestion secretions, saliva. there's a lack of information, lack of education, lack of access to healthcare and on top of that the fear of what could happen, side effects. but this is definitely -- measles is definitely on the rise. the good news is, i'm also seeing more people coming in for their mmr, measles, mu mumps, rubella vaccination. people don't see a neighbor suffering from measles and suffering from the side effects such as ear infections and sometimes blind blindness can o, hearing loss can occur, pneumonia, so when you don't see that on a regular, daily basis you don't feel it's that

important or that serious. now that people are seeing outbreaks, they're going to get their measles vaccination. it's a matter of having access. cheryl: i was going to ask about this. 101 confirmed cases of measles in the us, it's in several states and also what i think is horrible is that in madagascar, 922 children at least have died from the measles and this is according to the world health organization. that is a frightening statistic to me. >> measles is one of the top leading causes of preventable death by vaccination. that's shocking. nobody should die from the he measles and thousands and thousands of cases every single year. this is why here in the united states i commend lawmakers for disallowing vaccine exemptions for ridiculous reasons. you can go to the health department and get vaccines for free. as far as teenagers, more power to them.

i'm so impressed and inspired by them doing their research and going out and protecting themselves. cheryl: they're online. there was a story that broke out about facebook going after misinformation. there's reports that russians were behind the anti-vaccination campaign. facebook said they are going to deal with that. >> vaccines have been proven to save lives. we once had the measles eradicated like polio was on eradicated because of herd immunity. so it works. i practice medicine based on evidence-based data. most people benefit from vaccines. some people, they may be allergic to it. they may have side effects. but the majority of people, it saves lives and it can save them from disbil debilitating life c. cheryl: thank you so much for your insight on this story. lauren: up next, a passive

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red flags. 61st daytona 500 on fox, paul me natured semenard set off a wt involved 21 vehicles. we got to see great visuals on fox last night for the great american race. the perspective of crashes inside several vehicles like this one, pretty wild. in the end, denny hamlin, who hadn't won a nascar race since 2017 won his second daytona 500 in the last four years. a clean sweep for joe gibbs racing. it was an emotional night. the nba all-star game last night, check out the national anthem. ♪ and the home of the brave. ♪

[ cheering and applause ] >> big cheers for anthony hamilton. the kevin durant scored 31 points for team lebron which came back from 20 town, highest scoring all-star game ever. one day after we learned of the nfl settling its collusion grievances filed by colin kaepernick and eric reid, kaepernick's attorney says he thinks somebody will step up and, quote, do the right thing. kaepernick, quote, absolutely wants to play with the nfl according to his attorney. lauren: thank you very much. catch jared's sports reports 24/7 on sirius xm 115. cheryl: more signs the american dream is dead, millennials

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tracee: they could own dream home, one in four said they would actually go to jail for a

week that could have a dream home. in fact, research also found that 2 and 5 millennials it's completely out of the question for them. lauren: this is a problem with the way the system is for them, i suppose, is that they really want the home, they don't think they could ever get the down payment. cheryl: they will still living at home with their parents. cheryl: this is one of the stories, could mcdonalds be the next big fashion brand? tracee: remember the 50-dollar valenciaga shoes? mcdonalds sweden posted a picture on instagram of someone wearing the signature to look like a shoe. we get 103,042

likes we will release for real, right now the post only has about 25,000 likes but here is an idea, those large french fries, they are 1.89 a box, buy two, there you go, you can have mcdonalds. cheryl: they don't have the m on it? tracee: no. cheryl: basically ugly shoes. tracee: very expensive ugly shoes. lauren: how many more likes for the company to maybe make them? tracee: 103,000 or 25,000, they need to get to work. lauren: they are working to get us to 103,000. tracee: exactly. i'm going to go to mcdonalds with my $4 and i will also have french fries. cheryl: tracee, thank you very much. lauren: i know someone who likes french fries and that's charles payne, mornings with maria starts right now. charles: good morning, i'm

charles payne for maria bartiromo, president's day, monday february 18th, your top stories 6:00 a.m. eastern, speaking out andrew mccabe revealing more details about the alleged plan to secretly record president trump and now call for investigation. we have the latest. another battle over border funding, tens of thousands of people set to protest president trump's national emergency declaration and democrats are gearing up for a legal fight. more fallout for amazon, new york mayor bill de blasio speaking out retail giant on its decisions to pull hq2 from the big apple. mayor calling the move abuse of corporate power. free money, one city is giving hundreds of dollars a month to residents, mornings with maria begins right now. ♪

♪ charles: equity futures pointing to market opening lower, remember, it's close today in observance for president's day, looking pretty good around the world, renewed hopes for u.s.-china trade talks and potential deal to end those tariffs, but we start today with top story of the hour, mccabe speaking out, former fbi director andrew mccabe opening up about the russia investigation in an interview with cbs60 minutes outlying alleged discussions about ousting president trump from office as well as efforts to secretly record the commander in chief. >> the deputy attorney general offered to wear a wire into the white house. he said, i never get searched wh i