fbi employees who were deemed to be as his partisan opponents because they were not politically loyal to him. mccabe was fired just hours before he qualified for his pension, according to the doj. mccabe had violated department policy by authorizing a leak to the wall street journal and, quote, lacked candor in discussing it afterwards. in an interview last february, mccabe alleges the president fired him because it was he who opened the obstruction of justice investigation in the first place of the president. did you expect to be fired 26 hours before you were able to collect your pension? i guess i should have, because the president spoke about it publicly. he made it quite clear that he wanted me gone before i could retire. i believe i was fired because i opened a case against the president of the united states. i m joined now by greg
because of something the commanding officer says that tends to suggest that he or she has prejudged the outcome of the case. arguably, that s exactly what the president has done here. wow. great to have your expertise here. greg bower. up next, a massive i.c.e. raid down in mississippi leaves children sobbing as they wait for word on the fate of their parents, aunts, uncles, and friends. what a show. what bad timing this has been. you re watching hardball. wat. they give us excellent customer service, every time. our 18 year old was in an accident. usaa took care of her car rental, and getting her car towed. all i had to take care of was making sure that my daughter was ok. if i met another veteran, and they were with another insurance company, i would tell them, you need to join usaa because they have better rates, and better service. we re the gomez family. we re the rivera family. we re the kirby family, and we are usaa members for life. get your auto insurance quote today.
one of the best attorneys i ve ever met and i ve known him for years. the team he took on with these investigations was better bar none. essentially aaron if he can tell the director some of the answers to this is substantial. i don t think in my mind you ll get him to at least say the president should have or possibly could be indicted. greg, republicans on the committee, a lot of speculation maybe the questioning will revolve more around the origins of the counter-intelligence investigation, everything that led to mueller being put in that position in the first place. what are you expecting from them tomorrow and how do you think mueller will handle the republican lines of questioning tomorrow? steve, i expect the republicans, for the most part, to overreach and potentially embarrass themselves by doing so. those issues in my view are red herrings. there s no fact rual basis for
to the four corners of his report. i do think it s a good opportunity for congress to walk the american people through that report. i m probably one of the few guys that have read it page to page. one, because i had to testify about it in congress about a month ago. but two, also to understand the investigation. there s a lot of information there i think congress can educate the american people on. greg, given what bob is saying right there, for a member of congress on that committee tomorrow, if you re trying to maximize the information you get out analysis you get out of mueller, what s the best way to approach it? what kind of questions do you ask him? let me say first of all rnlgs i agree with everything bob said. with respect to the particulars of the hearing, if i was asking questions i would want to be very concise, much like i would have i was examining a witness on the stand at trial. ask very short questions, ideally asking questions calling for yes or no answers.
director of the fbi, served as fbi top intelligence official and greg brower top liaison to congress and also a u.s. attorney. thanks to both of you for being with us. bob, let me start with you. you know robert mueller better than anybody on the show tonight, all of the doj guidance, he should stay within the bound of the report, his apparent intention to stay within the bounds of the report, his reluctance to testify in the first place. you know him well. do you expect any surprises tomorrow? no. thanks, steve. i don t expect any surprises. it doesn t surprise me at all he asked for guidance from doj. he looked at this hearing like any hearing he testified at. he s a by the book guy. for 12 years i worked for him, ran numerous high-level investigations. that s one thing bob will give you every time is consistency. i think he ll go in there, stick