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then, to justify firing comey, mr. his deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, to write a memo listing the reasons comey had to go. and according to mccabe, mr. trump made a request for that memo that came as a surprise. >> mccabe: rod was concerned by his interactions with the president, who seemed to be very focused on firing the director and saying things like, "make sure you put russia in your memo." that concerned rod in the same way that it concerned me, and the f.b.i. investigators on the russia case. >> pelley: if deputy attorney general rosenstein listed the russia investigation in his memo to the white house, it could look like he was obstructing the russia probe by suggesting comey's firing. and by implication, it would give the president cover. >> pelley: he didn't want to put russia in his memo. >> mccabe: he did not. he explained to the president that he did not need russia in his memo. and the president responded, "i understand that, i am asking you to put russia in the memo anyway." >> pelley: when the

then to justify firing comey, mr.mp asked his deputy attorney general, rod st tsons comeyehadte a memo to go andccordi tomcca, se. trump mat m a a teractions with the president who seemed very focussed on firing the director and saying things like make sure you put russia in your memo. that concerned rod in the same way it concerned me and the fbi investigators on the russia case. >> reporter: if deputy attorn general rosenstein listed that, it could look like he was influencing the russia probe and by implication would give the president cover. he didn't want to put russia in the memo? >> no, he explauned he dud not need put russia in the memo. he said i understand that and i'm asking you to put russia in the memo anyway. >> reporter: russia was not in it but mr. trump made the connection anyway, telling nbc, then russian diplomats that the russian investigation was among the reasons he fired come a. >> there water numbere a numbers to make us believe that we had adequate reason and facts to open things have. he had

like mr. comey, mr. mccabe, rod rosenstein, mr. wray. general clapper, of course, who said no, there is no metadata collection process. then hillary clinton herself. all those people purgerred themselves but i -- purgerred themselves. >> tucker: ask about the day of the arrest, a week ago today. you said cnn was in the perimeter and that was a raid that must have been considered dangerous. there were automatic weapons. one had two side arm. a lot of guns. why were they allowed to stay there? >> i don't know. i hope senator lindsey graham and the republicans would get to the bottom of it. i would like to know who signed off on the raid. the main reason that the gag order concerns me is because i need to be able to raise the money to mount a defense. >> tucker: right. >> they have unlimited taxpayers dollars. three platoons of left wing ivy league lawyers to prosecute me. they have enormous amount of material in discovery we have to go through. three terabyte according to the press relief. so unless they go to stonedefensefund.com and i ha

there was a movement to a soft administrative coup underway although he recommended mr. comeye fired. >> my question is would it concern -- i understand the questioning of u.s. intelligence and having skeptism and everybody should but he seems to be, if this story is correct, he believes what vladimir putin whispered to him about north korean nuclear abilities. wouldn't that concern you, if it's true? that the president of the united states seems to be going with stuff that vladimir putin is whispering in his ear as opposed to stuff the u.s. intelligence community is saying? >> yes, but i don't know if this is true. i don't know the context in which the president said i heard this from the russians differently. >> frankly in 2016 and early 2017, there were a lot of criticisms about the amount of intelligence we had on north korea and whether they even had the capability and how some of these weapons might have been and some of the tests that failed and so forth. so i don't know the context in which it was played. what is clear, though is that throughout his tenure since donald

. >> has the dismissal of mr. comeympeded, interrupted, stopped or negatively impacted any of the work, any investigation or any ongoing projects at the federal bureau of investigations? >> there has been no efforts to impede our investigation to date. >> may 11 but it sounds like from the book there was an effort to impede the russia probe, true? >> on may 11 our concern is there may have been a federal crime committed. to open a full information you need to have facts that form the basis of the conclusion that there may have been a violation of federal law or a threat to national security. we felt the firing of comey together with other circumstances we were aware of together with the president's own statements of course including his now infamous interview with lester holt put us in a position to say we have the obligation to open a case, to conduct that investigation which makes sense and people think it's a good thing you did but there you were saying there was no everyday to impede at the time. >> on may 11 i am n

then when they briefed, when mr. comeyd trump early on, they do not quite on the food truth about the investigation. i think it is really scary. i'm old-fashioned. >> if the abuses of power continue and there is nothing that says they have been curtailed, i hope when a democrat president is targeted, you sharing the outrage then as well. >> yes. >> thank you so much, bill mcgurn. >> thank you. >> "the new york times" out with yet another exposc on the president. that the left is once again claiming we will bring him down. we've been down this road many times before but this report is making one new claim that is raising some eyebrows. according to the times, president trump called matthew whitaker and asked whether a trump ally and use attorney in the southern district of new york could be put in charge of the investigation into hush payments to women during the 2016 campaign. the only problem, jeffrey berman head over to recused himself from the investigation. here is fox news senior judicial analyst, andrew napolitano on

the deputy attorney general never spoke to mr. comey about appointing a special counsel. the deputy attorney general, in fact, appointed special counsel mueller and directed that mr. mccabe be removed from any participation in that the russia investigation. now, that last thing, we believe this is the first time that that's ever been said. there's always been a question whether when mueller took over the investigation, whether that effectively took mccabe out of the role of supervising the investigation. that's always been our assumption. but here's the justice department saying on the record that, in fact, mccabe was removed from any participation in the russia investigation when mueller was appointed. >> pete, let's go back here for a moment to this -- this comment about being on the box. if the president were on the box at quantico, he would break the machine. what do we make of that? >> well, as you said, when he's saying on the box, he's talking about a lie detector. this is a consistent theme from the excerpts we've seen where he says the president doesn't tell the t

. >> do you think it's appropriate given everything you've said and mr. comeyr them and specifically mr. mccabe to continue to talk about ongoing investigations? >> at this point in time i would say the less tze said the better. if you'll notice, bob mueller hasmirably -- >> tight lipped? >> he's kept his own counsel. they have not leaked. that's probably the better path to follow. hopefully he won't disclose to us what they've learned and let the pieces fall where they may. but i have to go back to what i said earlier. it's incredibly important we know what they've learned and that we'll see where the truth takes us. >> i think many people in america would agree with you. last question, i want to take you back to your recent trip to central america because now you have these 16 states challenging trump's authority for declaring this national emergency to build this wall and murp meeting with presidents of guatemala and honduras and el salvador. what did you see? >> we put in place something called alliance for prosperity. a central american of plan clom yar --

mr. chairman, comey john. -- call me john. it was very hard for me to say john dingell. friend john- my dingell was bold. he was brave. when you listsy all of his accomplishments. he was human, he struggled. he experienced challenges. career, years into his -- the issue aon raised at the forefront of a nation. after the historic march on , dr. king in 1963 spoke about the dream of a true democracy. i demanded on behalf of the young people wake up, america, wake up. i didn't know any better, i had all of my hair, a few pounds lighter, and much younger. john voted for the deal. he believed it was the right thing to do. tough facing a very reelection. raised was dividing our country. cutting a large population of african-americans out of his district. polish-american who had voted against the bill. john did not run from his decision or tried to explain away his vote. he stood on the courage of his that primaryd won by 5000 votes. -- peoplepected him respect you for what you stand up for what you believe. they don't always like what you decide, but as they know they can trus

levels of the department of justice, destruction of evidence, possible obstruction of justice by mr. comey himself, perjury by top d.o.j. officials, pr prosecutorial misconduct and political bison throughout mueller's team. if the rest of the investigation was -- because of a patently false dossier, why aren't we seeing an equally aggressive investigation into these meticulously documented charges? >> congressman, as you mentioned at the beginning, we do conduct our investigations independent of political interference at the department of justice. >> that is not what -- >> let me finish -- >> the preponderance of evidence is telling me from sources such as this one. >> well, and specifically related to the document you just described, that is the subject of an inexpespector general's rw and investigation. together with the u.s. attorney from the district of utah that was appointed by general sessions to look into and review certain matters that this committee had asked be reviewed. >> can we expect a full, complete and aggressive investigation of charges of wrongdoing by officials in the f

they didn't talk about though, one of the reasons the president gave this as rational for firing mr. comeyd as costing hillary clinton the election. there were democrats and republicans who both wanted him fired. and now, you know, revisionist history about he was fantastic leader, there was a lot of controversy regarding mr. comey at that time. ainsley: how much he doesn't like rosenstein because he is saying these things about the wire and revealing that. what was your overall feeling of the interview. steve: a lot of questions missing. brian: i thought you have the best point, i don't think scott pelley is not following story, read a couple books, watches msnbc feels as though he knew the story. where was the question about peter strzok and lisa page and fusion. before you go ask the president what about mess after house you had. ainsley: one question. >> steve: according to peter strzok, lisa page, they went into your office, andy's office to talk about the insurance policy. what was the insurance policy? where was that question, scott pelley? just saying. >> it was 30 minute interview

mr. comey was faulted by the inspector general for taking those actions. look for a repeat with the mueller report in this instance. >> trace: on the the flip side of this, you already have democrats saying if this report is not released publicly that they may try to subpoena the report. >> right. i think that it would be right to anticipate that there will be healthy litigation over getting the raw findings of the mueller report and it may have to go through the court system. i'm not sure how high but the court system to reach an adjudication on that. what i would emphasis is one of the primary complaints in 2016 was that the fbi director released raw information that they deemed not sufficient to pursue a criminal prosecution. the way our system works is you indict or you remain silent. >> trace: catherine, i want your take on this. it does not mean the mueller report is not coming soon. we're saying it's not coming next week because of the summit in vietnam with kim jong-un. what is your sense on this? >> i don't want to speculate. but i think common se

types of information, not just one source, so it will be important to see the background as to how mr. comey was fired and what impact that had on any investigations. >> even when mueller concludes his work, it might be as early as next week, other investigations into president trump will continue. "the new york times," as you know, is reporting that the president asked if the u.s. attorney, the southern district of new york could unrecuse himself to take control of the investigation into michael cohen, the president's longtime personal lawyer. do you view that potentially as obstruction of justice? >> wolf, the investigation in the southern district of new york, there's already mention of mr. trump, not by direct name, but it's clear that they're very interested in his involvement in regards to criminal cases involving other people. so, yes, we want to make sure that those investigations go unimpeded by the president or anyone else and that whatever the conclusions there are also made available, certainly to congress but also to the american people. >> on a different subject, senator, senat

they found their time and that eight days after mr. comey was fired.d, "this is our time to act." >> lisa: chief intelligence correspondent catherine harrod has more. catherine, what do we need to know? >> lets start, lisa, with late yesterday. the chairman of the powerful senate judiciary committee that has direct oversight for the fbi and the justice department told fox news that he would not rule out compelling testimony from the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein as well as the fbi director andrew mccabe about two issues. any discussions regarding the president, and removing him from office under the 25th amendment. >> you're having a conversation about whether or not you can invoke the 25th amendment. i would imagine, if the shoe were on the other foot, my colleagues would want to know about that conversation. if it involved a democrat. >> a logical back to the steam it we just received from a spokesperson for the former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. as i read it, i want you to listen and pay attention closely to the language. because it'

levels of the department of justice, destruction of evidence, possible obstruction of justice by mr. comey himself, a perjury by top doj officials, prosecutorial misconduct and political bias throughout mueller's team. now, if the russia investigation was initiated because of a patently false dossier, why aren't we seeing an equally aggressive investigation into these charges? >> as we said in the beginning, we do conduct our investigations independent of political interference at the department of justice. >> that's not what -- the preponderance of evidence is telling me from sources such as this one. >> particularly to the document you just described, that is an assessment of an inspector general's review investigation, together with the u.s. attorney from the district of utah that was appointed by jeff sessions to look into and review certain matters that this committee had asked to be reviewed. >> can we expect a full, complete and aggressive investigation of charges of wrongdoing by the fbi and the department of justice on these matters? >> congress, i can assure you that any allegati

levels of the department of justice, destruction of evidence, possible obstruction of justice by mr. comey himself, perjury by top doj officials. prosecutorial misconduct and political bias throughout his team. if the russia investigation was initiated because of the patently false dossier, why are we seeing equally aggressive investigation into these very meticulously documented charges? >> as you mentioned at the beginning, we do conduct our investigations independent of political interference of the department of justice. let me finish. >> the preponderance of evidence is telling me. >> it is specifically related to the document you just described that is the subject of inspector general's review, investigation together with the u.s. attorney from the district of utah that was appointed by the general sessions to look into and review certain matters at this committee had asked be reviewed. >> and we expect a full complete and aggressive investigation of charges of wrongdoing by officials in the fbi on the department of justice on these matters? >> i can assure you that any allegation of

mr. james comey, mr. mccabe, rod rosenstein, mr.pher wray, general clapper, of course, who said that there is no data collection process. then hillary clinton herself. most people have perjured themselves but i am being prosecuted for perjury. >> tucker: they never gave him the figure to the man, though, and that be your main problem. let me ask you about the day of thee arrest, it we week ago today. you said that cnn remained within the security perimeter. >> yes. >> tucker: during a raid that clearly they must've considered dangerous because they had automatic weapons, at least one arresting officer had two rifles with him and a sidearm. a lot of guns. how do you think cnn was allowed to stay there? how does that make sense? >> i don't know. i hope senator lindsey graham and the house republicans will get to the bottom of that. i would like to know who signed off on this raid. the main reason that the gorder concerns me is because i need to be able to raise the money to mount a defense. they have unlimited taxpayer dollars, three

but also saying in his view the president really has -- may have obstructed justice when he fired mr. comeygations there. this comes as we are getting word that there was private testimony to congress, several former fbi lawyers had said there has been talk of possibly removing president trump in 2017, months after his inauguration, including by members of his own administration, his own cabinet at that point under the 25th amendment. they had said deputy attorney general rod rosenstein considered secretly recording president trump. this is more backing up of that. these are the kinds of things swirling around washington, the kinds of things president trump often attacks in tweets as fake news and saying these are people that have a witchhunt. at the same time it shows this is very much still in the news, and we won't be seeing this go away anytime soon. when it comes to the latest trade talks, markets are optimism -- optimistic that something has been reached this week. what is next in the talks? reporter: they are continuing to talk. the news is positive. there is optimistic feeling. pres

mccabe says in his first conversation with the president after comey's firing, mr. trump brought up mccabe's wife, who ran for state senate and lost. he quotes the president as saying, that must have been really tough, to lose, to be a loser. in two tweets today president trump called mccabe, quote, a puppet for leaking james comey and a disgrace to the fbi. mccabe was fired from the fbi last year at the recommendation of senior officials who accused him of lying about discussions with a reporter. the u.s. attorney in washington is still considering whether to prosecute mccabe for that. now that william barr is attorney general, he takes on the job of overseeing the mueller investigation, which appears to be in its final phase. barr will soon receive mueller's report, and he will decide how much of it congress and the public are allowed to see. lester? >> all right, peter williams in our washington newsroom, thank you. >>> a big announcement in the 2020 race for president. nbc news, msnbc, and telemundo will host the first debate of the democratic primary candidates

mccabe said in his first conversation with the president after comey's firing, mr. trump brought up mccabe's wife that ran for state senate and lost. he quotes the president as saying that must have been really tough to lose, to be a loser. in two tweets president trump called mccabe a puppet and disgrace to the fbi. fired from last year at the recommendation of senior officials there that accused him of lying about discussions with a reporter. u.s. attorney in washington is still considering whether to prosecute mccabe for that. now that william barr is attorney general, he takes on the job of overseeing the robert mueller investigation which appears to be in it's final phase. barr will soon receive the mueller report and he will decide how much of it the congress and the public are allowed to see. >> pete, thanks. new york wasn't the prime location for amazon's new headquaters. the tech giant announced its decision amid growing opposition from state and local lawmakers. tom costello has the latest on the fall out. >> the world's biggest company is saying no thanks

as you know in may 2017 or thereabouts, mr. comeythe president and that shocked everyone, democrats and republicans on capitol hill and certainly official efs at the d.o.j. and f.b.i. and then eight days later after this firing special counsel mueller was appointed and there was a consensus opinion at the time that was the right decision. that being said, i think that important questions are raised even in the clip you aired. i wonder what the other 59 minutes will be? >> how much more does he talk about? we were asking the same thing. republican colleagues are saying we have no collusion that we have found more than two years later after this investigation was launched. let's go ahead and wrap it up. would you agree with that? >> well, i think the special counsel mueller inquiry should be allowed to proceed unimpeded. i slightly disagree with some of those folks say there is no evidence of a conspiracy or anything like that. >> bill: what have you found? where is the evidence? >> if you just look in the public domain, you have a lot

levels of the department of justice, destruction of evidence, possible obstruction of justice by mr. comey himself, perjury by top doj officials, prosecution misconduct and if the rest of the investigation was initiated because of false dossier, why aren't we seeing aggressive investigations into the documented charges? >> congressman, as you mentioned at the beginning, we do conduct our investigation independent of political interference at the department of justice. >> that's not what -- >> let me finish. >> the evidence is telling me from sources such as this one. >> well, and specifically related to the document you just described. that's subject of inspector general's review, investigation, together with the u.s. attorney from the district of utah that was appointed by general sessions to look into and review certain matters that this committee had asked to be reviewed. >> can we expect a full, complete and aggressive investigation of charges, wrongdoing by officials in the fbi in the department of justice on these matters? >> congressman, i can assure you that any allegation of misco

this nine-day period, that's where these shenanigans were happening between the firing of mr. comey and the appointment of this special prosecutor mr. mueller. that's the focus and congress should look at that. the most important players at this point michael horowitz, the inspector general has been looking at this for more than a year. he did an initial report but he has been looking specifically at fisa abuse and what was going on behind the scenes. he probably has more information than anybody in town. >> bill: when do we hear from horowitz? i don't know that answer. lindsey graham mentioned the fisa abuse there. i don't know when we get answers on this but something was amiss deep in the f.b.i. what is your hunch? who is telling the truth and who is lying? >> mr. mccabe is not telling the truth. no way to believe he has zero credibility. horowitz probably has the best credibility but probably not from may or june until we hear from him. congress can do what it wants but the inspector general more than anyone else. the new attorney general needs to dive into it right now. >> bill

under mr. comey admitted there were mistakes made. the f.b.i. could have stopped that instead of letting it happen. they saw problems. they let it go. it could have stopped. this was already in law, madam chair. it could have stopped. and, yes, what i laid out for you is not just simply 20 business days. when you look at the fact that coupled with other restrictions it can can do what we said. i have great sympathy and grief for every loss of life no matter where it comes from, but to simply say this would have fixed it when the f.b.i. and others knew they could have fixed it at that moment and could have went later and got the guns because there was a delay even in the horrific act that happened. again, we're simply talking about what's on the paper. with that i yield a minute and a half to the gentleman from california, mr. mcclintock. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mcclintock: i thank the gentleman for yielding. madam chairman, we all deplore and mourn the monstrous, despicable, and evil massacre in charleston. but that terrible

officials and gave sessions and rosenstein a directive to describe in writing the case against comey saying mroff guard when he used the memo in the firing. chuck, remind people who andy mccabe is in this story. he will join us when he book comes out and i imagine that he finally tells his side of the story and it will be a real trigger for this president who is still around investigation for possible conspiracy with the russians. >> mccabe was a agent working on the streets of new york on organized trim cases. he worked up the fbi and was in charge of the washington field office. and when jim comey was fired he became the acting director of the fbi. he would tell you he made some mistakes, but he is fine, decent, and honorable man. i think andy is telling the truth when he describes the way that rod rosenstein reacted and the events for comey. we're seeing this now, but mueller had this for a year and three quarters. so you could be darn sure that mueller followed up on all of the leads related to this firing as any good prosecutor would. >> frank, let me read you some more of what he writes.

mr. mccabe. the reason i said he's a pitiable figure the more he and comey talk now after having been fired the worsegs get and why is that? mr. mccabe was fired for an unconscionable sin in the fbi, for a lack of candor, which is a euphemism in the department of justice for lying under oath. he's had differences with many of the people he's gone out of his way to attack in the book. look, i am not defending the president and some of the things the defendant said punching down career servant is also equally unconshunable. when an fbi stands up in the witness box and raises their hand to tell the truth the whole truth, nothing but the truth, they have to be believed. in this instance, i question mr. mccabe's veracity of account. >> what about the fact that he came out this morning and he said that he and other fbi officials actually warned the then gang of eight, which included at the time you know, mitch mcconnell, pulmonary rain, devon nunez, that the fbi had opened that counterintelligence investigation, you know, into president trump after he fired comey, none of those guys pushed back. >> yeah. i

mr. trump fired former fbi director james comey. rosenstein said he wasn't in a position to consider invoking that amendment and it appears nothing came of it, but what is your reaction to this bombshell revelation from mccabe? >> well, it's an allegation which we've known about for a little while, but it doesn't diminish the explosive character of it. this is the agency, if you like, it within the constitution or the government that protects the government of the united states and the people of the united states, and they're saying they're going to remove the president, and they are discussing with like-minded individuals within the agency, and no doubt, outside of it to some extent as well. i think this suggests a deep schism within the body of the united states where the president is being spoken about in that kind of way. >> yes. presumably, though, they changed their mind, if they got as far as that with it. we also learned another shocking revelation from andrew mccabe's interview that president trump did not believe his own i

discussed with him how many cabinet members would support such a step after mr trump abruptly dismissed the fbi director, james comey bit of that interview. a 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. rosenstein was actually openly talking about whether there was a majority in the cabinet who would vote to remove the cabinet? that's correct. that interview aired on cbs television. also making news today... the saudi crown prince, mohammed bin salman is visiting pakistan where he announced investment agreements worth $20 billion, including an $8 billion oil refinery. he described it as just the start of an economic tie—up. the prime minister of poland, mateusz morawiecki, has cancelled a visit to israel in a growing row over anti—semitism. mr morawiecki was angered by comments from the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, was quoted in israeli media as saying "poles co—operated with the germans" during the holocaust. he later stressed he was not referring to the polish

refused to investigate extensively that interference and only through the firing of james comey, the appointment of mro i know very well, that a special counsel was selected to investigate the obstruction of justice, which they then had the authority to do. many other lines of investigations which is what special counsels do. and so there's a pile on with five people indicted, convicted. 26 russians, three russian companies and all the president can say is to push back and bring back hillary because he has no dfdefense for all of hise allies now heading to jail. >> what do you make of this senate intelligence committee not being able to get closure? the chairman from north carolina. he seem oz cay. but he's coming out with what you see is what you get. you got to see into it. but i'm not saying it's there but it might be there. >> closure is desperately what this country needs and the senate is speaking that same time we're not finished. one is there is evidence. you have to look and at the end of the day they're not finished. we need them to get to an answer and need find what the spelgcia counsel ha

mr. trump had accepted justice by firing comey. mccabe made these comments during an interview with cbs and 60 minutes. >>> amazon has pulled out its plan to build an expansive headquarters in new york. the move comes after the e- commerce site received fierce backlash over promises that the project would result in massive tax breaks for the -- for amazon. christina is in new york with details on amazon's abrupt withdrawal. >> reporter: amazon drafted big apple is one of its new headquarter location, but much of the cancellation was due from backlash from local politicians and residents. a number of state and local politicians have made it clear they oppose our presence and will not work with us to build the type of relationships that are required to go forward with the project. the seattle-based retail giant now plans to build a campus in the queensboro of new york back in december. promising to bring 25,000 jobs to you new york and spend $2.5 billion constructing the offices. >> i thought it was more akin to the money they were o

discussed with him how many cabinet members would support such a step after mr trump abruptly dismissed the fbi director, james comeyerview. 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. rosenstein was actually openly talking about whether there was a majority in the cabinet who would vote to remove the president? that is correct. for more on this, i'm joined by our washington correspondent, chris buckler. chris, what is the mechanism, then? is this something that was technically possible for them to do? so the 25th amendment is away, essentially, replacing a president and there has to be that mechanism in case a president dies, in case he resigns or in kc isn't able to do hisjob and resigns or in kc isn't able to do his job and it resigns or in kc isn't able to do hisjob and it has been resigns or in kc isn't able to do his job and it has been used resigns or in kc isn't able to do hisjob and it has been used in the past, for example when people have gone for a medical o

mr trump was responding to an interview that has aired here with andrew mccabe — the former acting fbi director. afterjim comeybinet members to help oust mr trump from office on grounds of insanity. mr mccabe also says he launched a counterintelligence probe into mr trump a day after speaking with him in may 2017, following the firing jim comey. i was very concerned that i was able to put the russia case on absolutely solid ground in an indelible fashion that were i removed quickly or fired, that the case could not be closed or vanish in the night. he goes to to say mccabe is a disgrace to the fbi and a disgrace to our country. joining us now from washington is the bbc‘s north america editorjon sopel. they are not going to like this in the white house, the idea that the former acting head of the fbi is coming out in public and saying we did think of wearing a wire. we did think of trying to oust him because he wasn't fit for office, but it's interesting watching the fine print of the justice department's statement, they are not totally denying it. they say there are inaccuracies and untruth and they don't quit

director james comey, suggested wearing a wire to record mr. trump as part of an f.b.i.estigation into possible obstruction of justice. >> now, he was not joking. he was absolutely serious. and in fact he brought it up in the next meeting we had. >> reporter: mccabe also said rosenstein discussed how the cabinet might use the 25th amendment to remove mr. trump from office. >> it was really something that he kind of threw out in a very frenzied chaotic conversation about where we were and what we needed to do next. >> reporter: senator lindsey graham, chairman of the judiciary committee, vowed to call mccabe and rosenstein to testify under oath. >> was this an attempted bureaucratic coup? i don't know. i don't know who is telling the truth. >> reporter: mccabe, referencing a conversation the president had with another f.b.i. official, accused mr. trump of discounting u.s. intelligence on north korea. >> the president said he did not believe that the north koreans have the capability to hit us here with ballistic missiles in the united states and he did not believe that be

mr. itump. happened shortly after the president fired former fbi director james comey. mccabe said he knew that his time within the fbi was coming to and end but what he didn't know is that he would be fired 36 hours before he could collect his pension. becausess i should ha the president spoke about it publicly. he made it quite clear that he wanted me gone before i cou retire. i believe i was fired because i inened a case a the president of the united states. >> mcbe also spoke about the detailsro surunding possibly removing president trump under the 25th amendment. mccabe says deputy attorney general rodrosenstein brought it up under a conversation. it has never been invoked. >> ahead, a shocking surprise a fo prince george's county veteran tort went to wk as a social worker even though she was furloughed during the government shutdown. the knock on the door that she will not soon forget. plus we are serving up story that you can really sink your teeth into. a local bakery dishesn how it plans to beat the britts at uteir own game once again. >> you're mines away from

mr. trump. this was after the president fired james comey. mccabe said he knew his time within the fbi was coming to an end. what he didn't know is he would be fired a little more than a day before he could collect his pension. >> i guess i should have, because the president spoke about itadublicly. he me it clear that he wanted me gone before i could retire. i believe i was fired because i opened the case against the president the united states. >> mccabe also spoke about the details surrounding the possibility of removing president trump under the 21st amendment.> esident trump's pick to be the next u.s. ambassador to theo united n has withdrawn from consideration. r nauert, who previously worked for the state department, said the nomination process has grueling on hefamily. nbc news reports she failed to pay taxes on a foreign-born nanny. shhedid not disclose it when joined the administration. >>> this morning, we're learning more about a workpla shooting in aurora, illinois. look at the emotnal vigil held yesterday. five people were kille

mr. trump. this was after the president fired james comey.knew his time within the fbi was coming to an end. what he didn't know is he would be fired a little more than a day before he could collect his pension. >> i guess i should have, because the president spoke about it publicly. he made it clear that he wanted me gone before i could retire. i believe i was fired because i opened the case against the president of the united states. >> mccabe also spoke about the details surrounding the possibility of removing t presidump under the 25th amendment. rod rosenstein brought it up. it was never invoked. >>> this morning, we're learning about a development story out of prince george's county. news cameras aere there firefighters put out the flames right there. we have not talked to investigator if they have determined a cause. >>> time to term to chuckel for a look at the wild week of weather ahead of us. >> indeed, aaron. another week with a big challenge in theiddle of it. today, we have a challenge that d.ll come to an plenty of sunshine tomo

mr mccabe took over the fbi after the president fired his predecessor, james comey.in the investigation into collusion between his campaign team and russia. and on sunday trump took to twitter once again to claim he was the bit of a witch—hunt and calling mccabe a disgrace. threats to the presidency are many, but while trump on peers —— appears u nsettled, while trump on peers —— appears unsettled, it will take more to unseat him. a british parliamentary committee has called for a compulsory code of ethics to regulate facebook and other big social media companies to help limit fake news and other harmful content. it said this should be overseen by an independent regulator, and funded by a levy on tech companies. the committee's report into fake news and disinformation was particularly scathing towards facebook, accusing it of intentionally violating data privacy and anti—competition laws. here's our media editor, amol rajan. it is totally fake news, it is just fake. the term fake news has entered the mainstream in recent years. in america there has been grave concern

mr. trump was doing and saying, and then just the summary removal of jim comey who was pursuing the investigationsink it raised concerns in the minds of andy mccabe and others. what is going on, here? what could the russians be doing with u.s. officials. and initiating a type of counter intelligence initiative at that time i think was appropriate. >> what is your understanding of how there was an investigation launch in 16. i flow is separation of cia and fbi, but what is your sense of how big the investigation was when comey was running it. >> i would say low level buzz before a full investigation. before then we were looking at what they might be planning to do in the election. then it started to grow in intensity and scope. and the fbi investigators came upon various threads of individuals that were interacting with the russians. by the time spring of 17 came around, i'm sure that the fbi and cia were working together to try to uncover as much of this effort on the part of the russians as possible. >> ben, one of the things that we noted this morning is this is may, comey it sfiered in may of 2

mr mccabe took over the fbi after the president fired his predecessor, james comey, in reaction to then sunday, trump took to twitter once again to claim he was the victim of again to claim he was the victim of a witchhunt, and calling mccabe a disgrace. threats to the presidency are many, but while trump appears u nsettled, are many, but while trump appears unsettled, it'll take more to unseat him. in a moment we'll have all the business news, but first, the headlines on bbc news: seven mps announce they've quit the labour party — condemning jeremy corbyn‘s approach to brexit and antisemitism shamima begum tells the bbc she apologises for joining the islamic state group in syria, and says she was used as propaganda. and mps investigating ‘fake news' on social media call for stricter regulation and tougher action against facebook to end the spread of disinformation. in the business news: any risk posed by involving the chinese technology giant huawei in uk telecoms projects can be managed — that's according to cyber—security bosses. reports say it can be used in britain's 5g mobile pho

mr. rosen -- or rod rosenstein, with regard to james comey, how he tried to bully them and, i believe, obstruct justice. the idea that he could do something to interfere with the investigation or someone else in the administration could do something is a reasonable concern. >> congressman joaquin castro, thank you for join iing us. >> thank you. >> we have a lot to discuss with our political correspondents and our analysts, includiing dana bash, who is still with us. you heard what joaquin castro has to say. they're getting ready to fight but don't have a majority in the u.s. senate. >> they don't but that's what's so interesting about that dynamic among republicans, wolf. this is going to be one of those classic cases. there have been a lot of them but this may be the biggest, of whether or not republican like roy blount, for example, senator from missouri, member of the republican leadership, has been saying before today -- today's vote and since today's vote, he still thinks the national emergency is a terrible idea. if somehow, some way that was put before him and he had to vote on it, how

mr. trump fired his boss fbi director comey. mccain con fibe con firmed ther discussion billis about correct recording the president's words. >> the statement claims he had, quote, no credibility. mccabe was fireled of about he was set to retire. he's considering a lawsuit to recover his full benefits. major garrett is at the white house with the potential impact of of that interview. >> reporter: mccabe told 60 minutes he launched those two investigations one day after trump fired comey in part to find out flt president was trying to undermine the ongoing russia investigation. if the fbi hadn't taken that action, it would not have been doing its job. said the days avtder trump fired james comey were daychaotic and confusing. as they discussed, rosenstein made an extraordinary suggestion. >> the deputy attorney general offered to wear a wire into the white house. he said, i never get searched. he was not joking. he was serious. he brought it up in the next meeting with had. i never actually considered taking him up on the offer.