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>> reporter: even without the emergency declaration the white house says it has identified $4.5 billion of additional funds which would be enough to build 180 miles of border wall immediately without waiting for the challenges to play out and you know better than anybody in these court challenges it can take some time to play out. >> well into the 2020 election if not beyond so good news for them as they tried to put together their assets. the former acting fbi director is telling his story agai...

Commenting so far. there is new scrutiny tonight for former deputy director andrew mccabe. he says he told congressional leaders about his decision to open an investigation into president trumps relationship with russia. senior lawmaker remembers it differently. heres chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge. >> we are on a -- figure he briefed congressional leadership on the counterintelligence probe into the president. >> did anyone object? >> no an >> a member of the so-called gang...

Most importantly mccabe explained why trumps actions prompted him to open an obstruction investigation and a counterintelligence probe of the president. >> there were a number of things that caused us to believe that we had adequate predication or adequate reason, facts to open the investigation. the president had gone to jim comey and specifically asked him to discontinue the investigation of mike flynn which was a part of our russia case. the president then fired the director. these circumstan...

>> former acting fbi director andrew mccabe said he was fired because he opened a counterintelligence probe of president trump. mccabe telling "60 minutes" he is considering a possible lawsuit against the government. he lost his job one day before he was able to collect a full government pension and opened up about his interactions with president trump and his reasons for opening the investigation. watch. >> its many of the same concerns that cause us to be concerned about a national security th...

From using his executive power in this way. but stephen miller said the president may be willing to use his veto power, so there are a number of road blocks facing the trump administration before theyre able to touch a single penny of the additional funds that trump had hoped to unlock. sarah westwood, cnn, florida. >> for more on all this, im joined by natasha linstead, good to have you with us. >> thanks for having me. >> so many explosive revelation in this mccabe interview. we learned the pr...

Just say get "dragon tickets". welcome back, everyone. i want to update you on the main stories weve been following this hour. the former acting director of the fbi says he ordered a counterintelligence probe of donald trump for a number of reasons, including the presidents own words. mccabe said the presidents request that james comey drop the investigation into michael flynn and comeys subsequent firing were among the reasons for launching the probe. the defeat of isis likely wont be the t...

Lifelong pension and was fired by the fbi unceremoniously after an investigation by the inspector general. but he has always contested the validity of that firing and said it was politically motivated. im not sproised hes considering a lawsuit. he may have trouble winning such a lawsuit because the inspector general issued a rather detailed report, listening a number of reasons supporting the firing. >> laura, mccabe also made serious claims about what deputy attorney general rod rosenstein repo...

Going to ask that his sentence be reduced somehow but there was something that was so important and valuable that paul manafort in lying that he went ahead and did it. and so as a member of the intelligence committee, i would like for us to find out what that was. >> did you -- to speak to the thoroughness of the house intelligence committees investigation under the stewardship of the republican majority, how close did you guys come to uncovering just some of the information that were learning h...

Discount what was told to us by the witnesses. weve got a lot of work to do when it comes to putting the pieces together. >> as someone whos on the intelligence committee and this started as a counter intelligence probe, there were red flags going up and people concerned that russian interference was trying to compromise members of the trump campaign, what do you make of these sort of -- theres now three different instances in which russian associates or people linked to russian government or in...

Handed over but these questions and these threads could answer a whole lot of these kinds of questions. >> yes, i think it brings us back to exactly what we were talking about before, why the cloak and dagger? why is there a need to lie about these things if in fact they are not so nefarious? i think the key with paul manafort, as weve been saying, is not that hes the latest person to have allegedly lied in this whole situation but he did it after he was already in a cooperation agreement, after...