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The honorable thing. and sell the tax plan into the american people. democrats say it will amount to a tax increase for middle class. president saying workers will see fewers taxes taken out of paychecks starting february. >> thanks to edward laurnwrencer ha report. between rounds of golf. continued to hammer away at senior leaders of the fbi. in fact "the washington post" reported that mccabe will retire early next year and baker will be reassigned as director christopher ray transitions to ope...

Dossier story. denied baker was his source. noted the reassignment in a tweet on saturday afternoon adding wow. he also tweeted that mccabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits. 90 days to go with a question mark. and attack on the donation. served as deputy director under robert mueller for six years says its disappoints to see how its being used to undermine the krebltd of t credibility of the mueller investigation. theyre just going to go after whoever they can dig up any dirt on....

What do we know about his vision for the institution, i guess its not out of the norm for somebody to pick a new deputy in short order? >> jim comey himself, he came in, he wanted to reshuffle his senior advisors, he put someone like james baker in the position hes now been assigned from. theres a lot of kind of turmoil over the weekend, about why mccabe may be resigning, why baker may be reassigned. thats fairly normal. its just given this context and given what the president has been doing on ...

Former director james comey, and outgoing fbi general counsel baker. critics pushed back on president says mccabe took money from clinton puppets. democratic congressman of california ted lieu tweeted, fbi director wray gave over $39,000 exclusively to gop candidates. i trust him to do his job. do you? president trumps tweet also sparked new questions as to whether he broke the law by attempting to intimidate three possible witnesses in the russia investigation. listen to what richard painter, f...

Removed from the general counsel of the fbi. the counsel he was appointed to in 2014. the counsel is reads in on all the investigations handled by the fbi. fox news has been told that baker has not been fired by reassigned and somehow could be tied to a separate leak investigation. the "washington post" says sources say theres a new director coming into the bureau and this is a normal part of that process. but on friday, politco reported that baker is tied to a mother jones journalist. the journ...

His reassignment may be tied to a separately can investigation. the washington post said so stress say this is all the ne pt of a new director. political said its tied to a mother jones journalist who first reported on the existence of the trump dossier. as i baker was not a source. no word on who was replacing baker. comey said that acre serve the country well for 25 years. >> rob: everything getting shaken up. will go much deeper into this and 30 minutes. the present making christmas calls all...

Partner at j and w strategies. thank you for being here today. >> thank you for having me. >> its kick off with what we learned about the general counsel of the fbi essentially being reassigned. the washington post reports this is essentially because christopher wants to assemble his own team but politico says documents show baker communicated with a reporter -- one of those that originally reporter of the trump dossier however, denies it was baker that was his source could essentially this come...

New fbi director is trying to put a new team around him for alternative, the political report that he was leaking stuff to a very well-known left-wing political magazine editor. of course as you mentioned, david denies that baker was his source. this is kind of a developing situation here. we do not know the extent of bakers, was he leaking at the time or was he not? and i think we will as investigations go on. the internal investigation within the doj and robert mueller his investigation into t...

And the possible collusion of the president himself. >> its critically important that we respect the independence of the department of justice and the fbi. no one is above the law. let mr. muller do his investigation without interference from the president. reporter: mccabe has not commented publicly on any of this. mike. mike: president trump treated about fbi official james baker. what are you hearing about him? reporter: james baker was appointed to the fbis general counsel in 2014 and fox ne...

We do know that shortly after this was reported in "the washington post," republican members of congress leaked to politico.com that fbi counsel james baker had committed the grave sin of communicating with mother jones reporter david corn in 2016. david corn was the first reporter to describe the existence of the christopher steel trump/russia dossier. he also says that this fbi official, james baker, was not his source for the dossier story. honestly, im not even sure republicans care about th...