reportedly spent the weekend boasting about firing mccabe and just upset about it, upset about what was happening. but spent the weekend boasting. do you think him getting rid of this is testing the water to see what would happen if i fire mueller? i think it s a great question ask a strong possibility. you know, the way he handled mccabe, he s looking to see what the republican party or his republican colleagues in the senate and house say about that, which has turned out to be not a lot. with the tweets about mueller, as you said, very significant. saturday and sunday, he s naming mueller for the first time in tweets. he had obviously been counseled against that in the past, he had refrained from nothing it, now he s doing that. i think he s trying to test the waters, see what the reaction is. scarily, the reaction has not been one of outrage by most republicans yor you ve heard people you expect, flake, graham, corker. you ve heard them say, whoa, we don t like what we re hearing.
with the mueller investigation. it wasn t so it wasn t such a bad move because to the extent that you can raise questions about mccabe and mccabe is a potential witness on any obstruction charge, he s accomplished his goal. so i think this all fits back with the theory i was saying before, which is delegitimize everything to do with mueller and then resist. you don t have to fire him, just resist. barbara mcquade when we will see the inspector general s report. i think i read a couple weeks but ordinarily you get the report and then make the decision about the public firing. so i agree the firing dust does appear to be spiteful and vindictive and an effort to discredit andrew mccabe a potential witness in the obstruction of justice case. to fire him, what, 26 hours before his 50th birthday so he cannot collect his pension strikes me as very extraordinary. i think we re expecting within
about mccabe and mccabe is a potential witness on any obstruction charge, he s accomplished his goal. so i think this all fits back with the theory i was saying before, which is delegitimize everything to do with mueller and then resist. you don t have to fire him, just resist. barbara mcquade when we will see the inspector general s report. i think i read a couple weeks but ordinarily you get the report and then make the decision about the public firing. so i agree the firing dust does appear to be spiteful and vindictive and an effort to discredit andrew mccabe a potential witness in the obstruction of justice case. to fire him, what, 26 hours before his 50th birthday so he cannot collect his pension strikes me as very extraordinary. i think we re expecting within about two weeks it ll come out. it s not ready yet so the
friendly to trump, that report could be buried and we would never see it, thank you we received the report, then they put it in the shredder. the idea that firing mccabe was a kind of let s test the waters, let s see how firing feels publically, the difference is that there s an inspector general s report that we have not yet seen that we are all waiting to see. i m reserving judgment until i see that. as we should. as we should. but it seems like you ll have trouble trying to reproduce that kind of element in other firings. an actual inspector general s recommend day of the accident. i m not sure the inspector general recommended the firing. the inspector general made his findings he seems to have said that he recommended it. certainly the fbi office of professional responsibility recommended the firing based on
report. if they get rid of rod rosenstein and get someone friendly to trump, that report could be buried and we would never see it, thank you we received the report, then they put it in the shredder. the idea that firing mccabe was a kind of let s test the waters, let s see how firing feels publically, the difference is that there s an inspector general s report that we have not yet seen that we are all waiting to see. i m reserving judgment until i see that. as we should. as we should. but it seems like you ll have trouble trying to reproduce that kind of element in other firings. an actual inspector general s recommend day of the accident. i m not sure the inspector general recommended the firing. the inspector general made his findings he seems to have said that he recommended it.