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President did not play a role in mccabe stepping down. >> i can say the president was fot a part of this decision making process. >> abundantly clear on what the president wanted, wanted him gone. began in july the president tweeting the 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. the fbi inspector general is looking into it. late today the staff general hinting today that the report played a role in...

Clinton ally. >> should mccabe go? >> mccabe got more than $500,000 from essentially hillary clinton and is he investigating hillary clinton? r last week, cnn learned that they pressured to fire mccabe at the presidents urging, a charge mr. trump denies. a source tells cnn that wray said he is bringing in his own team that mccabe would not be a part of prompting mccabe to leave ahead of his expected retirement in march. wray suggesting that an upcoming inspector general report played a role. >> ...

Its frightening, because you dont have to lie. if a prosecutor thinks you can be indicted just because you disagreed with another witness. >> shannon: its a very delicate dance. and we will see what the president ultimately, now consulting with his lawyers, tries to do. thank you so much, good to see you. at the white house as it had no part of the decision-making process that led to the departure of fbi director andrew mccabe. there sarah sanders answering a question on the point asked by our o...

Made public. what were they doing at the white house? >> im not aware of that in particular what happened in that meeting. what i can tell you the president was not involved in the decision-making process of mccabe. this was something that i would refer you to the f.b.i. >> sandra: the president, what was his reaction when he did find out if he was not involved in his removal from the f.b.i.? what did he think when he found that out? >> the president has full confidence in his f.b.i. director ch...

The memo -- doj and fbi, part of his review for security equities, i would be hard-pressed to argue we are defending anybody. >> now as the memo vote came hours after top fbi official andrew mc cable was removed as deputy director taking terminal leave using vacation time until you reaches his planned retirement in a matter of weeks meaning his days at the fbi are done. >> the president did not play a role? >> the president was part of the decision-making process and we refer you to the fbi wher...

Its frightening, because you dont have to lie. if a prosecutor thinks you can be indicted just because you disagreed with another witness. >> shannon: its a very delicate dance. and we will see what the president ultimately, now consulting with his lawyers, tries to do. thank you so much, good to see you. at the white house as it had no part of the decision-making process that led to the departure of fbi director andrew mccabe. there sarah sanders answering a question on the point asked by our o...

Not to be a distraction. david? >> all right, pierre thomas leading us off on this. pierre, thank you. we do have one more question on this tonight, so, lets bring in our senior white house correspondent cecilia vega, shes live over at the white house. cecilia, i know you pressed white house press secretary sarah sanders on whether president trump had anything to do with andrew mccabes departure, and heres what she said today. >> reporter: can you say definitively that the president did not pl...

Relations campaign against mccabe. >> look, the president stands by his previous comments. >> you say definitively the president did not play a role in andrew mccabe stepping down? >> yes. i can tel say the president wasnt a part of this decision-making process and we would refer you to the fbi where christopher wray serves as the director. >> and is with president trumps first state of the union just hours away, hes told reporters that his address will stress bipartisanship on capitol hill. >> ...

I can tell you none of this decision was made by that of the white house and any specifics i would refer to you the fbi who i believe will be making a statement later today. >> you say that the white house was not involved in the decisio not involved in the decision but clearly the president seemed to be involved in a public relations campaign against mccabe. >> look, the president stands by his previous comments. >> >> can you say deive iffinit the president didnt play a role in mccabe stepping...

Debating as we speak inside the house intelligence committee does reflect, according to republicans, poorly on mccabe and the decision-making process in terms of the russia investigation. im not going to ask you to speculate on it, but i will just say affirmatively its kind of hard to imagine that there isnt at least some form of correlation between whats going on there and the notion that hes suddenly on administrative leave. its hard to imagine hes doing that on his own. >> theres been a lot o...