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Was not honest with their investigation, that would have a discredited affect in the context of a different investigation. whether its justifiable or not, of course, depends on the evidence that the public doesnt have access to right now. >> andrew mccabe has apparently just released a statement tonight. its a rather lengthy one. i will try to read some of it -- actually, im going to start reading it. ned price, as you start -- give us your reaction again to the possibility that this is actually...

Justice department to do that was extreme. so i cant say that, you know, andy mccabes protests of innocence, of whatever it is the inspector general has found about him are accurate. i can say that the situation stinks. and as i said before, i will evaluate the event that supposedly justifies this action at the point in which it becomes public. and until then, look, a lot of what andy mccabe is saying in that statement is just plainly true. >> ruth marcus, as ben just said we dont have the inspe...

>> well, thats right. i mean, two points about that, lawrence. one is, the article itself says that the fbi officials that talked to the journal reporter, who is def lvlin barrett, whosw at the "the washington post." the fbi pushed back at that suggestion that they were dragging their feet, they thought there was something to the clinton foundation investigation. so mccabe has come under a lot of criticism, from the president, to republicans in congress who thought he was too favorable to hillar...

The white house put out a statement leading all of us to believe that rex tillerson knew this was coming, that he knew his time was up, but the state department, it seems in a bit of candor that led to an individuals firing, said this took him completely by surprise. so im not sure we can give this full credence and credibility, knowing that jeff sessions has squandered a lot of his credibility and i want to hear from michael horwitz. >> were not talking about andrew mccabe having paid somebody ...

Misleading investigators when asked about it. he had been a lightning rod in the political battles around hillary clintons use of a private e-mail server and robert muellers probe into whether any trump associates coordinated with russian agents to interfere with the 2016 presidential race. we are now joined by phone by pete williams, nbc news justice department correspondent. what can you tell us about this? >> what the attorney general said in a statement that came out a few seconds ago is tha...

Has concluded or the inspector general has concluded that he was not honest with their investigation, that would have a discredited affect in the context of a different investigation. whether its justifiable or not, of course, depends on the evidence that the public doesnt have access to right now. >> andrew mccabe has apparently just released a statement tonight. its a rather lengthy one. i will try to read some of it -- actually, im going to start reading it. ned price, as you start -- give us...

Information. it was information that pushed the investigation further in the direction of looking at what hillary clinton was doing. >> well, thats right. i mean, two points about that, lawrence. one is, the article itself says that the fbi officials that talked to the journal reporter, who is devlin barrett, whos now at the "the washington post." the fbi pushed back at that suggestion that they were dragging their feet, they thought there was something to the clinton foundation investigation. s...

Clinton investigation while the investigation was going on and what the inspector general said is that violates fbi policy not to discuss investigations while theyre going on. but secondly, and perhaps more importantly what the statement from the attorney general says is that when mccabe was asked about this on more than one occasion, including while he was under oath, his answers, they believe, were not truthful. and for that reason the attorney general says he concluded that it was right to ac...

Former acting director of the fbi with only two days before his official retirement. we now have a full written statement by andrew mccabe that ive been reading here. your reaction to what we know about this so far. >> we take st. patricks day very seriously in chicago, let me say. >> i know you do. >> on a serious note, at 10:00 p.m. on a friday night before his sunday retirement becomes effective does throw some doubt into the credibility and reasons for the action. i do agree, of course, with...

Anyway, is a highly unusual matter, and we do know that the political pressure on the justice department to do that was extreme. so i cant say that, you know, andy mccabes protests of innocence, of whatever it is the inspector general has found about him are accurate. i can say that the situation stinks. and as i said before, i will evaluate the event that supposedly justifies this action at the point in which it becomes public. and until then, look, a lot of what andy mccabe is saying in that s...