you started with andrew mccabe who testified before the judiciary committee yesterday. i've got to say the behavior of the doj and the fbi under barack obama, they politicized it and used it to attack their enemies, and it was disgraceful. i think the american people see that.

. >>> joining me now is andrew mccabe. he is the senior cnn law enforcement analyst and of course former deputy director of the fbi. andrew, thank you so much for joining me on this christmas weekend. appreciate it. you just heard those two reports from shimone and natasha. take me inside what would be an fbi investigation. what does that reporting tell you about where the investigation is heading? . >> so, dana, it tells us what we thought about this time yesterday, which was that the vehicle the rv would be pretty easy to identify with all the cameras that are clearly on that block and once they had that rv identified, it would take them very quickly to an individual. it seems that's the point that they're at now. now the fact that they were at this residence all day and they refer to euphemistically as court authorized activity. that means a court warrant. that means a filing before the judge that reads the affidavit and grants a search warrant based upon the facts that the agents state in the affidavit, which means that

the president tweeted this: andrew mccabe was exposed for who he is today in the u.s. senate.s totally destroyed, an ignorant fool. the great people of the fbi must make sure that he and his former boss, james comey, pay the price for what they have done to the reputation of the fbi. joining us now is senator ted cruz, senator from texas, member of the senate judiciary committee. he's author of "one vote away: how a single supreme court seat can change history." and this may be one of the most propitiously-titled books to hit the book stands in a long time. [laughter] senator, it's great to have you with us and also we recommend the senator's book to you highly. i want to begin with the level of fraud that we see now. many people do not realize you were also a part of the republican legal team back in gore v. bush. it's -- give us your sense of what, where we are right now in terms of electoral fraud. >> well, look, we've got litigation all over the country. the results of the election aren't final, and they're not final until the matters are litigated and the results have bee

i have two great heads, preet bharara and andrew mccabe. there's no need to discuss, does he have the right, unless you somehow can show it's self-dealing. the question becomes what they say about what he might do, andrew mccabe. what is the suggestion for you on that, especially looking at not just the mueller folks, but guys with unrelated, stockman, collins, hunter, they're just crooks. >> you're absolutely right, chris. this breaks down on interesting lines. first, the mueller defendants, none of that is surprising to anybody, right? and the simple fact is, he can continue to pardon everybody who was convicted in the mueller probe, everyone who was interviewed. none of that will erase the fact that donald trump is the only american president in history to have been elected -- >> he's even messing with the signal. is preet bharara still there? >> i believe so. >> take up the point for me about what these pardons signal to you. >> you make an interesting point. are other people out there who are still hoping for a pardon, who have enough

the president tweeted this: andrew mccabe was exposed for who he is today in the u.s. senate.ool. the great people of the fbi must make sure that he and his former boss, james comey, pay the price for what they have done to the reputation of the fbi. joining us now is senator ted cruz, senator from texas, member of the senate judiciary committee. he's author of "one vote

want to bring in andrew mccabe, former deputy director at the fbi. what kind of forensics will atf and fbi be looking at, and now the human remains, wonder what you make of that. >> all great questions. human remains question first. that kind of elevates the sp specter that there may have been someone in the vehicle when the device went off, that's the question everybody wants to answer. with an x employe with an with an explosive device of this size, i don't want to get too graphic, it is unlikely you would find some trace evidence of human remains, but you're not going to find a lot of big things. >> here's the mayor. >> the chief and i had a walking tour of the devastation on second avenue. as of, you know, right now, it does, initial evidence does show the early morning explosion was a deliberate bomb being set off in our community and the blast caused injuries and catastrophic damage to this very historic part of nashville. now, at the end of the day, i think all of us, i certainly have gone from relief there were not more casualties, and that's

i have preet brar rah and andrew mccabe.he question becomes what they say about what he might do, andrew mccabe. what is the suggestion for you on that, especially looking at not just the mueller folks but guys, stockman, collins, hunter, they have nothing to do with mueller. they're just crooks? >> you're absolutely right, chris. this breaks down on interesting lines, first the mueller defendants. done of that is surprising to anybody, right? and the simple fact is he can continue to pardon everybody who was convicted in the mueller probe, everyone who was interviewed in the mueller probe if he likes. none of that will ever erase the fact that donald trump is the only american president in history to have been elected -- >> is preet bharara still here? take up the point for me. >> you make an interesting point. are there people out there who are still hoping for a pardon who have enough power or influence or position to do something that's favorable to the president? i don't think there's that many people in that category.

let me bring in former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe, a cnn senior law enforcement analyst. you joining us. first off, tell us more what it means now that the fbi is taking charge. shimon prokupecz reported a few minutes ago that this is about resources, not any indication this was terrorism. >> that's absolutely right. so good morning and merry christmas. sorry we had to spend christmas morning talking about such a tough subject but the fbi taking the lead in this investigation was entirely expected. it doesn't mean they're working it alone. i'm sure they're working closely with nashville pd and other state and local agencies and law enforcement as well. the fbi has a level of material resources and expertise they can bring to an incredibly demanding, complicated crime scene such as this one, and those resources, the scope of that man power, the muscle memory they have from doing this so many other times, that really doesn't exist in the same way in any other entity. having the federal agency leading the investigation also gives you all of the legal framework and legal autho

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joining me, cnn senior law enforcement analyst andrew mccabe, former deputy director of the fbi. drew, how was anthony warner able to get the materials necessary to make this powerful explosive without raising suspicion, do you think? >> brianna, unfortunately it is not that hard in this country to assemble the chemicals and equipment that you need to construct an improvised explosive device. it is very hard to obtain dynamite, tnt, weapons grade explosives, those are controlled carefully. chemicals are freely available. law enforcement and the fbi work closely with the precursor industry to communicate to them things to be looking for, occasionally we would get tips from chemical supply companies when they would make an odd sale that didn't make sense to them. but you're not going to catch every single instance of someone going out and buying fertilizer or peroxide or something. >> certainly the surveillance was stepped up in the wake of oklahoma city, but it sounds like things fall through the cracks, is that what you think? >> they do. you know, the fbi communicates very freque

the president tweeted this: andrew mccabe was exposed for who he is today in the u.s. senate.he great people of the fbi must make sure that he and his former boss, james comey, pay the price for what they have done to the reputation of the fbi. joining us now is senator ted cruz, senator from texas, member of the senate judiciary committee. he's author of "one vote

i've got with me now cnn's simo simone and then former director of the fbi, andrew mccabe. good to see all of you. what's important is not just what's said but not being shared by these authorities and andrew, perhaps, let me go to you first on there. while the investigators say they've got something like 500 tips they're following up on, they're not sharing much. why is that particularly critical in an ongoing investigation? we want to hear more but there really is a method behind why the authorities may not be revealing everything thus far. >> sure. so first, and let me start by saying it's nice to have the fbi back at the press conference. i think it's important that they're participating in this level of transparency. that said, i understand why they are being very careful with details. as much as we all want to know if they have someone that they're looking for or if they've developed a lead on a specific individual, the fbi needs, if they have that sort of information, they need the opportunity to be able to do some investigative steps quiet ly. set up a surveillance,

andrew mccabe, thank you so much for offering your analysis. we appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> let's go now to cnn's natasha chen who has just arrived at the scene of the explosion. i know you're just a few blocks away. what are you seeing? >> reporter: there's not a whole lot we can see from where we're positioned, bianna because this is the closest investigators will allow media to get. it's at least four blocks away from where the explosion happened. i'm pointing out to you where we standing in relation to everything. behind me in that direction, you'll see police cars and tape in the distance. so it happened on this street just several blocks down there in front of the at&t transmission billing. that is actually causing some issues for cell service and internet right now. at&t is reporting outages in the region and that's affecting some ability to call 911. so some people have set up alternate lines for people to dial for emergency at the moment. we did see a couple of at&t trucks come by, seemingly go toward that direction and solve thi

let's bring in andrew mccabe, former deputy director for the fbi. e blast damaged 41 businesses. walk us through what the method would be to collect evidence, over a few blocks. >> sure. so, john, this one reminds me most of the efforts we put down in boston, after the boston marathon bombing. and that was a similar of a similar crime scene that spread over five blocks. so what you'll see today is a phalanx of agents and crime scene investigators and local police and other federal agen agencies really dividing that massive space up into smaller and smaller quadrants. and they will go through every inch of that ground to try to recover pieces of anything that might have been related to either the device or the week that carried it. and that work won't just be done on the ground. it will also include the flat surfaces above buildings. so the rooftops of all of the local buildings. you might remember in boston we recovered one of the most essential pieces of evidence, that being the lid from one of the pressure cookers, you know, one of the actual bombs

joining us now, i know senior law enforcement analyst, andrew mccabe. he is the former deputy director of the fbi. andrew, good to have you on this morning. >> good morning. first, big picture, if we can. this is an american citizen, an apparent suicide bomber on u.s. soil. tell us the significance of that? >> it's extraordinarily rare, jim. extraordinarily rare. we have seen many, you know, numerous people who are motivated by international terrorism or domestic terrorist ideology try to detonate device here in the united states. many of those, the fbi has been able to foil. but very few of them include someone who is willing to kill themselves in the course of that act. >> i spent time with new york police department counterterror folks a couple of years ago. and they have enormous alarm bells set up. if you buy acetone, like something you can make a bomb out of at a hardware store, alarm bells go off. this was an enormous and apparently sophisticated explosive device. how much of a security miss here that he was able to construct this and set it off e

joining to discuss andrew mccabe, former deputy director of the fbi. good to see you, sir. joining. >> sure. >> so barr was maybe the chief enable esch for this president. and in his letter announcing his resignation is nothing but full of praise for president trump. is this letter barr's tenure as a.g. in a nutshell? >> i think it is, don. it is for a few reasons. it is because it is replete with misrepresentations, and all-out lies. you know, i love the way he refers to trump's inaugural speech as some effort to reach out to your opponents. we all remember that speech, the infamous american carnage speech. that was not a reach out to anyone. and it goes on to repeat the -- to criticize our investigation of the russian attack on our democracy in 2016 as baseless, which of course it was not. but i think the thing that amazes me most, don, is the second to last sentence. it's the only one in this letter that rings true. he says i will spend the next week wrapping up a few remaining matters important to the administration. notably he doesn't say i'll spend the next week doing

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i want to bring in andrew mccabe, former deputy director at the fbi. what do you make of the information that we have? >> well, you know, it's a really interesting situation, anderson. aiously could have been much more tragic had there been large crowds around, but there were several of these indicators that seem to point towards an effort to minimize casualties. that's very different than the terrorist bombings that we have seen in this country over the last couple decades. if you think about the boston marathon bombing, obviously, those two devices placed in the middle of tight crowds. the effort to detonate a device in times square a few years ago, same thing, looking for civilian casualties. here you have the exact opposite. you have a fairly desolate block, parked next to a building that saeltessentially has very people in it even on a busy day, at 5:00, 6:00 on a detonation at 6:00, 6:30 on christmas morning, very strange situation there. i would also, it's interesting to me that there does, though, seem to be a high degree of planning here. so a

the president tweeted this: andrew mccabe was exposed for who he is today in the u.s. senate.i must make sure that he and his former boss, james comey, pay the price for what they have done to the reputation of the fbi. joining us now is senator ted cruz, senator from texas, member of the senate judiciary committee. he's author of "one vote

also with us is former deputy director of the fbi, andrew mccabe. andrew, what strikes you as you look at these live pictures, this ongoing investigation of this suspicious vehicle, the robot being used, and what appears to be maybe a bomb tech or someone in a protective suit near it? how are they making an assessment, and what can you share with us? >> well, frederica, what this looks like to me is a classic example of by-the-book investigation of a suspicious vehicle, particularly in a time and a location where we have reason to believe that a similar device was used on christmas morning. i think it's important to remember that bomb techs all across this country are all trained to exactly the same standards and processes and procedures. so they're completely interchangeable. so you could put an fbi bomb tech on a team with a local police bomb tech, and they know the exact same procedures and equipment and ways to approach situations like this. >> and then, andrew, let me just interrupt you for a second because now we're getting a different angle t

norm eisen, andrew mccabe, blessings to the families. >>> now, look, i mean what i say. you got to see the gift in this. this is the worst we've ever seen, just the last 24 hours. the rejection of law and order. the reject of the poor and the needy in this country. you can't make sense of it. i know you're all out there, you retrumplicans and trumpers saying, he wants $2,000. what's wrong with that? nothing if you do something about it. he had a chance, and he didn't, and now he has a chance, and he left. how do you see any virtue in this? what is his endgame, or is it really just this fancy for vengeance and punishing everybody? anthony scaramucci with the insider's head on this, next. may your holidays glow bright and all your dreams take flight. visit your local mercedes-benz dealer today for exceptional lease and financing offers at the mercedes-benz winter event. and my water broke. at only 23 weeks. andrew: we had to stay in the hospital for 10 weeks, 1000s of miles from family. our driver kristin came along in our most desperate hour. suzanne: bringing us home-coo

andrew mccabe. michael mcdaniel, it's very good to have you. thank you for joining us.nk you again. mr. mcdaniel, mr. mccabe, be well. >> thank you very much. >> you know, you think when an election is over, well, that's, it lame duck period, it's gone in a flash. this one's just dragging on and more and more bad things happen. trump will be gone in 34 days but plenty of retrumplicans will keep carrying his torch and i keep arguing to you he's not the threat. he's definitely the threat to them. because he is their success. they've had no success except through him and by him in the minds of retrumplicans. but what does it mean for that party and what kind of right we see in the biden administration? a former state party chair has an answer that you're not going to appreciate too much in terms of whether it's going to get better or worse. she says she is no longer a republican anymore as of tonight. why? next. how about no no uh uh, no way come on, no no n-n-n-no-no only discover has no annual fee on any card. >>> an interesting window into where we're at right now. the

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let's get andrew mccabe into this conversation now the former deputy fbi director and now a cnn senior law enforcement analyst. i want your thoughts on the latest developments. you have federal, state, local officials making this major announcement a couple hours ago, i think about an hour ago, where they said it is anthony warner a 63-year-old man who is the suicide bomber. they were able to identify him two days after this christmas day explosion and say he was the one that detonated the bomb, died in the bombing, they believed no one else was involved in this, no other threats right now to be concerned about, they also say this man was not on authorities' radar. is that unusual to you? >> it is really not unusual. in fact, that is one of the most terrifying moments when you're working a case like this and i unfortunately had this experience many times over my career at the fbi when you finally identified your perpetrator you make the first search through your internal data bases to see if you knew this person before, if they'd ever been investigated or come across our radar in any w

i want to bring in andrew mccabe, the former mib deputy director and author of the book "the threat, how the fbi protects america in the age of terror and trump." also here, kierston powers. and i will start with you, andrew. trump just pardoned admitted liars, and lawmakers and black water guards convicted on a massacre on civilians. what does it say about how he views the crimes? and those watching a the home, the justice department, under the umbrella of the branch of government, what does it say about these crimes in particular. >> if you are sitting at home and you haven't gotten the message already about the way the president has conducted himself in four years, today, with these pardons, you are hearing loud and clear that this president does not care about the rule of law. he doesn't care about anything. he is all about satisfying his personal grievances as with the pardons of george and alex -- this is trying to unravel the muller report -- none of which, he will go down in history as the only american president to have been elected with the help of the russian intelligence

tapped for something in public life, something byron york tweet in february, house until memo, andrew mccabe confirmed the committee that no fisa warrants would be taught without the steel dossier information policy and said even if this is true, has the dossier been proven to be true? it is amazing how the likes of byron york are happy about interfering in the elections. right, left, center, a lot of people think the dossier has not been mostly proven, not even close. what are these tweets going to do for her? >> she is an extremely controversial pick. she is incredibly partisan, a bunch of controversy, russian conspiracy theories, most recently gone after republican senators on twitter, one of whom is -- one of the senate is being susan collins of all people, one of the most bipartisan senators, one of the most independent voters in the senate and this is a really good reminder how important those elections are. at the end of the day the quickest and easiest way people like this are going to get confirmed as if senate democrats retake the majority's, you have kelly leffler and david perdue

. >>> i want to bring in andrew mccabe. he's the author of "the threat." also here, kirsten powers. i'm glad you're both here tonight. what a night for you both to come on the show today. not a lot has happened, don't worry. we haven't had a thousand different breaking news stories. trump just pardoned admitted liars and lawmakers and blackwater guards convicted of a massacre on civilians. what does this say about how he even views these crimes? remember, there are those at the home, the justice department under the umbrella of the justice department which he leads. >> laura, if you're sitting at home and you haven't gotten this message already, today with these pardons you are hearing loud and clear that this president doesn't wear about the rule of law. doesn't care about -- he is all about satisfying his personal grievances as with the pardons of george papadopoulos and trying to unravel the muller report, none of which will stop the fact that he will go down in history as the only american president to be elected with the help of the russian government. securities fraud, stealin

that that is the leadership back then at the time of the fbi whether it's call me, jim comey or andrew mccabeme of these agents that we know who are running this. i think what he was stressing, the vast majority of these people at the fbi are very good at their jobs and do this, it seems to be a case of leadership really abusing fbi powers. paul: i guess one question in some cases in the white house, why it took so long. the attorney general shed some light on that? kim: absolutely. one of the things he stress is that it turns out durham, a big part of this was looking at the fbi and surveillance powers, abuse of those tools. durham had to wait until michael michael horwitz finished his own investigation and didn't actually get a hold of any of that in those documents until december when horwitz finally finished his report. then boom, right after that, covid and lockdowns. the country didn't have any grand juries for six months. that meant john durham, no one said anything about it but it meant durham couldn't even use leverage of threatening to get a subpoena from a grand jury to bring in an

provide a full retelling of the corrupt outcome of the abuse of power by people like james comey, andrew mccaber strzok, and others, i would include rob rosenstein, maybe even sally yates inst this. yates is now effectively off the table i think as the next attorney general in a biden the administration assuming the electoral college chooses him. >> sean: there is a news cnn story tonight debunked about the trump administration official and money for pardons. they say no government official was or is currently the subject of any target or investigation they can disclose. matt gaetz, i read "the new york times" op-ed by andrew weissmann. for three years, he was rubbing mueller's pit bull. didn't get the results he want wanted. now he's saying that if biden pbecomes president, as an ag, e wants to be a five investigated into perpetuity. you had said it first and i agree with you. if i this is the threats they ae going to make to a guy leaving office perhaps one day, my question is why wouldn't he just pardon himself and his family on the way out the door because i think they would be right to do

government that are, you know, potential targets, and ones i believe are going to be james comey, andrew mccabe page, and bill priestap. all names that people have heard in the past, but all that are in john durham sites. in addition, durham expanded his probe. the probe now is including an investigation on hillary clinton, her foundation, many of the people around her that were part of what we now believe and have been told that is a plot to link president trump to russia as an effort to deflect from her own problems from that part of the world. her own pay for play scheme. in addition, i think durham is going to expose a lot of the cover-up and the work of the special counsel, the tactics her own pay-for-play scheme. in addition, i think durham is going to expose a lot of the cover-up and the work of the special counsel, the tactics that they used. going after individuals for just unreal circumstances, yeah, absolutely. and this is important. i mean, you know, we have to have complete transparency of our democracy is going to survive, and right now, it doesn't. it doesn't exist, and we need t

i've been saying for several years now that people like john brennan, james comey, andrew mccabe compromised. national security. they made a laughingstock out of this country when they attacked and ran an operation against the president of the united states. and the fact that as of yet no one has paid a price, it's shown it's not as if our add adversars do not read the american press and they don't understand what's going on. that's what's made us vulnerable. it's the u.s. national security establishment that has made us vulnerable to these unprecedented attacks. lou: i'm stunned when i think about the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff getting involved in nonsense. and publicly are contradicting the president of the united states. bringing into question the strength of the command structure of the united states military. i'm furious when i watch the chairman of the intelligence committee lie his teeth off and not be held accountable even by the milquetoast left-wing media. and then to watch mr. krebs, the former had of cisa, say it was a perfectly -- the most secure election in american

i want to play you just a bit of sound from former deputy fbi director andrew mccabe this morning. >> it's a remarkable act of corruption i don't think we've ever seen before. these pardons are essentially the culmination of those acts of obstruction of justice, what was seen and referred to in the mueller report has been completed. the pardons were dangled. now they've been delivered in return for protection for the president. >> josh, what have you been hearing? what has been the reaction politically to these pardons? >> in a lot of ways, morgan, i don't think this was a huge surprise to anyone because the president has been telling advisers and associates for quite some time that he intended to pardon people in his final weeks in office. a lot of these individuals had been lobbying the president privately or publicly, in some cases both torques grant clemency to them. people sort of expected these were a lot of the bold names we would likely see. that said, the president is getting certainly a lot of pushback from democrats, including some republicans like senator ben sasse who sai

andrew, mccabe, actually was kired for leaking to the press and the gets a contract from cnn to talkt ethics and intelligence communities. it is stunning. sue and lito, can they go on. there's certain duty to be tough. there should be a sense of shame shouldn't there be by journalists of their actually my point make any effort to involve these administration is accountable. can they just do this freely .it joe: absolutely not. la but with this jerry. mr. biden doing this rare press conferences to call on reporters lepredetermined the list. this the 31 is been the leader of the free world. i think china russia probably taken note of that same okay if you can even follow the reporters on this because they're afraid the campaign now in the transition of taking mr. biden out of the safe space . that is very telling. jerry: thank you very much. as a note to my wall street journal in the column today, president-elect invited is going to be bringing a couple of thosu animals that you mentioned to the white house . whole menagerie the very well trade household events in the form of a score.

provide a full accounting of the corrupt acts, the abuse of power by people like james comey, andrew mccabe, and others. i would include rod rosenstein, maybe even sally yates in that. sally yates is now effectively off the table i think is the next attorney general in a biden administration emma assuming the electoral college chooses him. >> sean: you know, there's a fake news cnn story tonight that has been debunked by doj officials about the trump administration official and money for pardons. they said no government official was or is currently a subject of any target of any investigation to disclose. matt gaetz, i read "the new york times" op-ed by andrew weissmann. three years he was robert mueller's pitbull. didn't get the result he wanted. now he's saying that if biden becomes president as an ag, he wants trump investigated in perpetuity. you had said it first and i agree with you. if this is the threat they're going to make to a guy leaving office perhaps one day, my question is, why wouldn't he just pardon himself and his family on the way out the door? because i think it would be

all keep in mind that this is the very president said to be operating like a criminal begrade by andrew mccabe, then the number two at the fbi who was so alarmed by the conduct he witnessed in trump's earliest weeks in office that he opened a counterintelligence probe into the president of the united states. mccabe in his book likens the vibe inside trump world to the russian mobsters he'd investigated. the message, quote, this is a dangerous business and it's a bad neighborhood. if you want my protection, i can protect you. and it is in that vein that another bombshell drops since we were last on the air. a court filing unsealed yesterday revealed for the very first time that the justice department is investigating a bribery scheme related to this white house and their dispensing of presidential pardons. nbc news reporting that that investigation, quote, may involves at least two individuals who acted as lobbyists to senior white house officials to secure a pardon or reprieve of sentence for one individual whose name is redacted. and that reporting is based on heavily redacted court documents