she file would a sexual discrimination lawsuit against mccabe. don't know. when she filed that, she had reported to her supervisor that she would fileap eeoc complaint and after she told her supervisor mccabe filed a case against her as not being a satisfactory agent. and he admits that. we obtained his testimony that he knew before hand and i thought that was interesting, he himself provided they recontribution. and flynn supported her and wrote a letter on letterhead and ahead of the defense intelligence agency and he wanted to testify on her behalf and the fbi blocked that from him and fought him on that. there was a constentous relationship there and mccabe should have recused himself regarding russia because of the relationship with flynn. >> lou: that is certainly logical and also logical that director james comey, should have excused him from the investigation because of the political conflicts of interest in the investigation of hillary clinton, her e-mails, and her foundation. >> think about this, lou, think about this. you have the acti

mccabe in a pending proceeding, yet mr.ised the criminal investigation of flynn and allegedly wanted it pursued very aggressively. according to press reports, three fbi employees personally witnessed mccabe making disparaging remarks about flynn before and during the russian investigation, yet mr. mccabe never recused himself from the flynn investigation. his failure to do so calls into question whether he has handled that investigation fairly and objectively. i have asked the inspector general to add this to their ongoing review. the director of the fbi is entrusted with a tremendous amount of power. that power is subject to appropriate checks against the abuse of our civil liberties. the director is accountable to his leadership -- to the people elected representatives. that's why the fbi director has a ten-year term limit and why there are no restrictions on the ability of any president to fire any director, as president trump did former director james comey. the term limit is a ceiling, not a floor. and while independen

trump also attacked fbi direct andrew mccabe, the acting fbi direct or, saying mccabe acceptd money.frustrated the fbi is not investigating his former political opponent. mccabe, of course, replaced james comey after trump fired comey. so here is the tweet. problem is that the acting head of the fbi and the person in charge of the hillary investigation, andrew mccabe, got $700,000 from h for wife. that is factually inaccurate. mccabe got $700,000 from h, hillary, i presume, is simply wrong. mccabe's wife ran for office and did get political contributions from democrats including hundreds of thousands of dollars from a political action committee allied with hillary clinton. but the president's claim that mccabe got the money and that he got it from hillary clinton are incorrect. and then this tweet. so great that john mccain is coming back to vote. brave, american hero. thank you, john. in 2015 when mr. trump was one of many republican candidates he said mccain was not a hero and he was a loser. many thought at the time trump had ruined his chances to be nominated. >> i supported him,

mccabe never reduced himself from the flynn investigation.is failure to do so calls into question whether he is handled that investigation fairly and objectively. i have asked the inspector general to add this to their ongoing review. the director of the fbi is entrusted with a tremendous amount of power. that power is subject to appropriate checks against the abuse of our civil liberties. the directors accountable to his leadership and to the people elected representatives. that's why the fbi director has a ten-year term limit and why there are no restrictions on the ability of any president to fire any director as president trump did former director james comey. the term limit say ceiling not a floor and while influence is critical and this committee intends to closely examine the circumstances of mr. comey's firing, history shows that the ten-year term limit isn't there to protect the fbi director from politicians or politics, it's there to protect -- to help prevent the fbi director from overreaching or abusing power. for more than 50 yea

donald trump interviewed andrew mccabe to be follow-up director in may. when he interviewed him, he didn't air these concerns at all about him. he thought he was substantive enough to be the next fbi director. then the only reason mccabe is in this position is because donald trump fired the fbi director james comey. >> the money wasn't $770,000. it was $765,000 from the virginia democratic party, which was a common good in virginia, and the latter, it was for attorney general mcauliffe who was a long-time clinton supporter. he wasn't in charge of the fbi when that happened. so his tweet is completely wrong, the information is wrong. >> i'm not defending it, i'm just going to try to explain to you, is that this mccabe issue has been a very big issue in conservative media, on conservative radio, on web sites, the notion of this guy being in the fbi and his wife being a democratic candidate. >> it should be based on fact. >> it should be, but that's a conversation we've had many times. >> so, dana, talk to me about the recess appointment with jeff sessions.

why didn't agent sessions replace acting director andrew mccabe? i got big dollars for his wife's political run from hillary clinton and her representatives. drain the swamp. >> look, you can be disappointed in someone but still want them to continue to do their job, and that's where they are. >> reporter: would you wadoes h that job? >> i think i made clear if there comes a point that he doesn't, we'll let you know. >> reporter: from senator hatcher in utah. >> i don't fully understand why the president said what he said, but i think jeff deserves better treatment. >> reporter: to senator richard shelby who, like sessions, is an alabama republican. >> he's not the president's personal lawyer, he's attorney general of the united states. he took an oath to the constitution, not to the president. and i think the president needs to realize that. >> reporter: now, wolf, this evening several republican senators are also raising sharp questions and criticism of that major policy he announced about transgender members of the military. senator john mccain,

i did with andrew mccabe.t a professional level what's the message if you're a federal official, if your spouse chooses as all of us are allowed to do, federal government or spouse of a federal employee, you can't participate in the democratic process, is that the message? if you spend 25, 30 years in service and your spouse chooses to participate in democratic process, the president is allowed to attack you professionally, that's the message? at a personal level, let's make a quick point. mccabe was head of counter terrorism operations. took a paycheck lower than what he could make in the "predators live!" sector. he comes into the oval office, attacks women, attacks the executive branch, attacks mexicans. he can't scrape dog crap off andy mccabe's shoes. 30 years whatever he has of service versus the president who wants to use the authority, the power of the oval office to attack a federal official, i don't buy it. he ought to retract it. that's an apology in my world. >> it does speak to the fact, though, p

is that the acting head of the fbi and the person in charge of the hillary investigation, andrew mccabe, got $700,000 from h for wife.

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the latest, why didn't sessions replace mccabe who was in charge of the clinton investigation? he went on from there. >> what is at issue isn't the substance of the tweet, it's that the president of the united states again attacking his own attorney general while the attorney general, we understand, is sitting inside the white house for routine meetings. let's us go there right now. caitlyn collins at the white house. what are you learning? >> reporter: we thought we were going to make it through the morning without a tweet from donald trump. it's worth noting while he is attacking jeff sessions for not replacing andrew mccabe at the fbi, donald trump interviewed mccabe in may for the position of fbi director after he fired james comey. putting that aside, it's very clear that donald trump and jeff sessions are engaged in basically a war of a game of chicken right now. neither of the men are speaking. donald trump is making it very clear that he wants jeff sessions to quit. jeff sessions is making it clear he has no plans to resign right now. donald trump yesterday was repeatin

sessions replace acting fbi director andrew mccabe a comey friend who was in charge of the clinton investigation but got big dollars, $700,000, for his wife's political run from hillary clinton and her representatives. drain the swamp."

sessions replace acting fbi director andrew mccabe? a comey friend who was in charge of clinton investigation. but got big dollars, 700,000, for his wife's political run from hillary clinton and her representatives. drain the swamp. the president's tweet is inaccurate. dr. jill mccabe ran an unsuccessful campaign as a democrat. the political action committee of governor terry mcall af who is a friend of the clintons and they made contributions to her campaign totaling nearly $700,000. the donation also took place before mccabe had any oversight of the fbi investigation into hillary clinton's private e-mail server. president trump also once interviewed andrew mccabe seen here heading into the department of justice today to replace comey as head of the fbi. over the last week -- >> we could use some more loyalty, i will tell you a that. >> reporter: an irritated president trump blaming his attorney general for everything, from failing to prosecute hillary clinton to the russia investigation to intelligence leaks. >> i want the attorney g

whether it's mccabe or leak investigations, he's using twitter to make his case to conservatives andrepublicans, whether with that will matter remains to be seen. but the question that i have is, look, if you're going to fire him, do it. why are you continuing to tweet about it like this? >> and you heard lindsay graham today essentially saying this is weak sauce from the president. him not firing lindsay graham and having him twist in the wind and basically sort of mouth off on twitter, if he wanted to fire the guy, he should fire him, rather than just sort of trash talk him in the press. i think the question is, what sort of -- i mean we have seen this backlash, obviously from conservatives, you see trump trying to rebrand sessions as something sort of other than conservative, and somebody who's not cracking down on leaks, somebody who's going on easy on hillary clinton, i think the problem is conservatives know sessions, they know sessions more than they know donald trump. >> he's a very conservative attorney general, and when he was a senator from alabama, from, very, very concer

sessions replace acting fbi director andrew mccabe? comey friend who was in charge of the clinton investigation but got big dollars for his wife's political run from hillary clinton and her representatives. drain the swamp! just a few months ago, trump interviewed mccabe to replace fbi director james comey who trump fired. now the president is slamming sessions for not getting rid of mccabe. the president's latest slight coming while the attorney general was at the white house for what a justice department source says was a routine meeting. sessions did not meet or speak with the president while here. >> i think the president has been very clear about where he is. he's obviously disappointed but also wants the attorney general to continue to focus on the things that the attorney general does. he wants him to lead the department of justice, he wants to do that strongly. he wants him to focus on things like immigration, leaks and a number of other issues. >> reporter: he was later spotted leaving the white house grounds. but sessions has

also, the acting fbi director, andrew mccabe. not fired. but the president now increasingly campaigning against him by name, deriding him by name, accusing him of corruption, saying that mccabe never should have been hired as the acting fbi director. that attack on andrew mccabe now being joined by conservative media, by republicans in congress. and now tonight, a conservative news source, one that's owned by sinclair broadcasting, which is emerging as kind of the successor to breitbart news to the trump media outlet on the right, they're reporting as of tonight that a third person on this list, the fbi general counsel, another one of these senior officials on this very short list, this right-wing media outlet circa is reporting tonight that, quote, fbi general counsel james a. baker is purportedly under a justice department criminal investigation. saying that he leaked national security information. now, we have no way of knowing if that reporting is true. the fbi wouldn't comment to us about it. the doj wouldn't comment to us about it. ou

mccabe. but i use mr. mccabe as an example. as i noted in my opening statement, the department refused to provide an unredacted copy of mr. mccabe's recusal memo. and the deputy attorney general has failed to explain to this committee what he's doing to deal with the conflict of interest. in a general matter, do you think it is appropriate for any fbi official to participate in a criminal investigation of someone who is an adverse witness in a pending eeo proceeding, and if not, what would you do if confirmed to assure that that does not happen on your watch? >> well, senator, mr. chairman, obviously, i want to make sure that i understand the facts appropriately. i think that one of the first things i would do upon being confirmed is to try to take stock of the situation with the senior leadership and try to understand better the circumstances. there is, of course, inspector general investigation into acting director mccabe's conduct. and i know, mr. chairman, your own strong support for the inspector general function is well,

andrew mccabe had an oversight role but was by no means in charge of it. and whool he received support from terry mcauliffe, he was not the largest par tess pant. nk, it seems to me the president has really shot himselfthe but the bottom loon is he has insulted the very people who have supported him all along, starting with jeff sessions, who is very popular, especially in himself home state, didn't need donald trump to within himself home state and does not need drft's today. he's a talked the one guy that the swamp locks ands that trump as on baesline. >> it's truly. >> it's the one guy who took a chance on hip. i think it important to step bag and a for he's mad at sessions for not shutting down an investigation. it's astonishing it's all jubs text and not subtext. >> also because he's so obsessed with his base, add to that to what could be the number one possibility, what he's done along the way is undermine the very man who is supporting him from the very againing who really i think helped connect him with he is base. those base really respect session

>> bob mueller can, andrew mccabe can. he's in an acting position.s really incumbent on sessions and rosenstein to do that. they have to remember, they swore an oath not to the president, but to the constitution. they're there to serve the american public, not to serve donald trump. they're supposed to protect their institutions from independence. you know, when he fired jim comey, that was a red line that he crossed. and they failed that test. they were supposed to stand up for the department's independence then and push back against the president and they didn't do it. this is another big test for them and the institution. are they going to allow donald trump to trample all over the independence of the investigation, or of the justice department, or are they going to stand up and say this isn't the way the system works in america. if they don't do it, there's one left in the executive branch, it will have to come from congress. >> one last quick question before you go. you wrote recently, some days ago, that something like this might happen. given

why hasn't the president fired andrew mccabe as acting fbi director. >> the president's made an incredible nominee in chris wray and he's looking forward to taking over the fbi. >> why should attorney general jeff sessions fire him? >> he's made a choice to lead that agency and we're looking forward to getting him confirmed soon. >> two questions. one following up what major with tricare and the transgender community. there's been a concern from the transgender community before president trump became president trump that if obamacare changed to trumpcare, they were wondering if they were able to get the procedures to help them complete their phases of becoming the other sex or the other gender. what do you say to those people who are seeing this now with this ban in the military? what do you say to transgender america who wants to continue with the change? maybe some who already have part of the change and want to do the change and are scared because of what's happening now, not for certain. what do you say to transgender americans? >> as i've said before, and i'll try to make this clear,

then there's mccabe. he spent his entire career in the fbi and has no known political affiliation. and of course we come the jeff sessions. he was famously the very first senator to endorse trump and became a key member of his campaign. these are the people who the president is bullying and attacking and they have one thing in common and only one thing really, other than they might literally all be republicans, is that they're all tied to the russia investigation. have in turn all had their integrity questioned by the president. sessions of course, is no longer actively involved in the investigation, having recused himself in march from mueller's appointment which is precisely why the president is so furious at it. >> he should not have recused himself. if he was going on recuse himself he should have told me prior to taking office and i would have quite sill reply picked somebody else. >> only the president knows whether the political damage from trying on kill the russia investigation would be worse than what that investigation might discover. no question he is trying under99 cre

why hasn't the president fired andrew mccabe as acting director? >> the president has made an incredible announcement in chris wray. >> the president has made a choice to lead that agency and we're looking forward to getting him confirmed soon. >> two question, one following up on tri-care and the transgender community. there's been a concern from the transgender community before president trump became president trump that if obamacare changed to trumpcare, they were wondering if they would get procedures to help them complete their phases of becoming the other sex or the other gender. what do you say to those people who are seeing this now. with this ban in the military? what do you say to transgender america who wants to continue with the change? maybe some who already had part of the change and want to do the change and are scared because of what's happening now, not for certain what do you say to transgender america? >> as i've said before and i'll try to make this clear this was a military decision this was about military readiness. this was a

mccabe did not get money. his wife was running for public offers. got money from a fund that also helped to support hillary clinton. and by the way, andrew mccabe was not in charge of the e-mail veflgs. james comey was as the fbi director. but it's really up to the president, as you say. the when is did seem a little more con sill to her today, ali, with sarah huckabee sanders saying that the president wants jeff sessions to stay and do more leak investigations and crack down on illegal immigration. which is exactly what sessions was doing last night just shortly after he got zblingd by the president in the rose garden he was cracking down on cities that won't cooperate with federal agents to remove people who the feds believe are here illegally. >> pete, you have spent time in government and maybe this is just the way things happen now because it is twitter, but in your day or in every other year that you've covered if the president or anybody that high up has an issue with somebody who is cabinet level, there are lots of ways to transition that pe

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now the president is slamming sessions for not getting rid of mccabe. the president's latest slight coming while the attorney general was at the white house for what a justice department source says was a routine meeting. sessions did not meet or speak with the president while here. >> i think the president has been very clear about where he is. he is obviously disappointed but also wants the attorney general to continue to focus on the things that the attorney general does. he wants him to lead the departments of justice. he wants him to do that strongly. he wants him to focus on things like immigration leaks and a number of other issues. >> reporter: he was later spotted leaving the white house grounds. but sessions has told colleagues he has no plans to leave the administration, despite the slings and arrows coming from the president. >> he should not have recused himself. >> reporter: who said during tuesday's press conference he was disappointed in sessions. >> look, you can be disappointed in someone but dill stihl want them to continue to do thei

that attack on andrew mccabe now being joined by conservative media, by republicans in congress. and now tonight a conservative news source, one that's own by sinclair broadcasting, emerging as a breitbart, they are reporting as to night that a third person on this list, the fbi general counsel, another one of these senior officials on this very short list, this right wing media outlet, reporting tonight that fbi general counsel james baker is under a department of justice criminal investigation. saying that he leaked national security information. now we have no way of know fg that reporting is true. the fbi wouldn't comment to us about it, the doj wouldn't comment to us about it. our efforts to do our own reporting about this were not met with me confirmation one way or the other. it is possible that the front page of this protrump media conservative outlet looking like this tonight, exclusive top fbi lawyer allegedly under investigation for leaking classified information. and a picture of him. it's possible that the front pa page looking like this is designed to make the fbi g

mccabe any pending proceeding. yet mr. mccabe supervised the criminal investigation of flint and allegedly wanted it pursued very aggressively. according to press reports three fbi employees personally witnessed mccabe making disparaging remarks about flynn before entering the russian investigation. yet mr. mccabe never refused himself from the flint investigation. his failure to do so calls into question whether he is handled that investigation fairly and objectively. i've asked inspector general to add this to the ongoing review. the director of the fbi is entrusted with tremendous amount of power.ns that power is subject to appropriate checks against the abuse of our civil liberties. the director is accountable to his leadership and to the people elected representatives. that's why the fbi director has a ten year term limit and why there are no restrictions on the ability of any president to firi any director as president trump did former director james comey. the term limit is a ceiling not a floor. and while independe

mccabe, but i use mr. mccabe as an example. in my opening statement, i mentioned that -- the deputy attorney general has failed to explain to this committee what he's doing to deal with the conflict of interest. in a general matter, do you think it's appropriate for any fbi official to participate in a criminal investigation of someone who was an adverse witness in a pending eeo proceeding, and if so, what will you do to confirm that that does not happen on your watch? >> mi want to make sure that i understand the facts appropriately. one of the first things i would do upon being confirmed is to try to take stock of the senior leadership. there is of course a senate investigation into acting director mccabe's conduct and i know mr. chairman, your own strong support for the inspector general function is well known and i obviously would want to respect that and not comment here out of school. >> i'm going to put some letters in the record again in support for you, from various law enforcement organizations. and they support your

jim, of course, this isn't grassley's first attack on mccabe. he sent a letter to the deputy attorney general raising concerns about his independence. >> diane gallagher, thank you very much. now to the breaking news, president trump offering new comments about his son's meeting with the russian lawyer last year and the fall out. cnn's jessica snyder is at the white house for us tonight. jessica, tell us more about this new interview with president trump. very interesting. >> reporter: very interesting, jim. you know, no public schedule for the president over the past four days but he did grant two interviews today. the most recent with reuters, it being the first time that the president has addressed other than twitter donald trump, jr.'s meeting with the russian lawyer and subsequent e-mails that came out just yesterday. the president really reiterating what his lawyer and deputy press secretary said over the past 24 to 48 hours, that he didn't know anything about that meeting. in fact, this is what the president told reuters just a short time

and then the reason i say that, because andrew mccabe who, who the acting director of the fbi, he said he too had a conflict. mr. mccabe a wife received nearly $500,000 during a losing campaign for the virginia state senate and goes on to talk about that and governor terry mccollum and on and on. who is he happy with? anyone close to the investigation and people he appointed and people he hired, he's not happy with them already and it's just six months in. >> i think that -- as i said, i think for him in his mind, jeff sessions recusal was sort of an original. jeff sessions botching that testimony was an original sin. he was very frustrated that week. there was a whole -- what set off that whole chain of events where he was tweeting about his phone being tapped by president obama was a day earlier he had vent vented in frustration that jeff sessions had recused himself without telling him. he's been very, very angry about this for quite some time. having cover thd aed this and w about it before, it is not a surprise he feels this way. it all comes back to one thing in his mine. it was

validity of latter claim notwithstanding the president could fire mccabe or sessions if he. ed to, why some have wanted why mr. trump continues to publicly attack the very first senator to back him in the campaign. >> he is trying to get sessions to quit, i hope sessions does not want to quit. >> he is a man of substance, but president should know, i know high knows, that jeff sessions is attorney general is not the president's lawyer, he is the lawyer of the united states of america. >> you see an expression of frustration not a decision, if he made a decision, sessions would have resigned by now. reporter: leading a justice department looking into russian meddling, he has recused himself from that probe, a decision that has angered mr. trump, who white house aides say still wants mr. sessions for however long he may be around to do his job. >> he wants him to focus on thin like immigration, leaks and a number of other issues, i think that is what his focus is. reporter: fox news learned that sessions will soon announce several criminal leak investigations. which a source c

sessions replace acting fbi director andrew mccabe, a comey friend who was in charge of the clinton investigation but got big dollars, $700,000, for his wife's political run from hillary clinton and her representatives. drain the swamp." so as we wait for that white house briefing to begin on camera, thank goodness, today with white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders, we've got jeff zeleny in the room and where to begin. i understand that jeff sessions was actually at the white house when the president tweeted against him. >> reporter: good afternoon, brooke. he was indeed. it's not uncommon for the attorney general to be here at the white house. he has routine meetings in the situation room and other places so he was here again today around 9:00 or so, simply going about his business. he was having meetings with officials, other members of the cabinet as well. what was unusual, that he still has not spoken with the president. the president is still not requested a meeting, you know, he's simply has chosen to talk at him, talk about him, but not to him. so that pattern continuesd this m