Julie but critics are blasting the move. Here is democratic senator. Its a pattern of practice that we have seen coming from the white house that interferes with the independence of the department of justice and the fbi. I think it is a reflection of the lack of respect for the independence of the fbi by the trump administration. Look, this didnt just happen. This has been on the table for a while. The president has expressed himself about mr. Mccabe, and it appears like the department of justice, the attorney general was responding to the president. Julie we have Fox Team Coverage for you tonight. Ellison barber is at the white house. But first, lets get started with Garrett Tenney who joins us with the latest. Julie, Andrew Mccabe is placing the blame for his dismissal squarely on President Trump. In a lengthy Statement Last night mccabe said the president was trying to discredit him as a witness in special counsel muellers investigation. In a statement, mccabe said heres the reality
Learning that the president is seeking to oust veteran a fears David Shulkin. Telling us President Trump has grown irritated with him and seriously considering causing another vacancy to possibly replace him by taking the rick perry and putting him over to take over his spot. This comes after hours of course after the president fired secretary of state Rex Tillerson. Tillerson finding out over twitterer. Naming mike pompeo to replace him and deputy gee knina haskel lead the cia. I want to start with the west wing, jim sciutto outfront breaking these details. What are you learning . Reporter my colleagues are told this evening that President Trump is considering a wider shakeup among senior staff as he seeks more like minded advisers. National security adviser h. R. Mcmaster appears poised to depart soon after months of speculation. Outside advisers to the president have also felt out potential candidates to replace chief of staff john kelly a person approached about this position tells
Same wave length. The relationship has been very good and thats what i need as secretary of state. I wish Rex Tillerson well. Gina, by the way, who i know very well, who i worked very closely with, will be the first woman director of the cia. Shes an outstanding person who also i have gotten to know very well. Ive gotten to know a lot of people very well over the last year and im really at a point where were getting very close to having the cabinet and other things that i want. But i think mike pompeo will be a truly great secretary of state. I have total confidence in him. And as far as Rex Tillerson is concerned, i very much appreciate his commitment to his service and i wish him well. We got along actually quite well, but we disagreed on things. When you look at the iran deal, i think it is terrible, i guess he thought it was okay. I wanted to either break it or do something, and he felt a little bit differently. So we were not really thinking the same. You heard it right there. Kai
I talked to a lot of students here today, some with the blessing of their principals, some not. Theyre telling me they want this message sent to lawmakers in washington, that they want real change to happen, and to happen soon. The question will be if they listen. Well keep track of that. Scott, youre in littleton, home of columbine. Columbine happened back when bill clinton was president. What are the students there telling you . Reporter hey, john, like clockwork, students are just starting to walk out of class right now. You can see a steady stream of them leaving the building and going on to the soccer field. School administrators are not officially supporting this walkout. In fact, were not even allowed on school property, but they will excuse the absence if students are back in class by the time that it ends. Columbine, obviously, knows all too well about School Shootings. The students who attend here now, they werent even born yet when the School Shooting took place here in 1999
Heres a message that was lost in translation. The white house people are sort of telling us, look, kelly called him, kelly gave him a heads up. The state department is ketelli us that tillerson didnt get that message. I think tillerson thought he had been here before, he would weather this storm. Youre going to get a detatwd is part of the job duties of the chief staff today. And tillerson pushed back, and tillerson chose to speak up on substance as well and how the Trump Administration must counter what he calls russias troubling behavior. Much work remains to respond to the troubling behavior and actions on the part of the russian government. Russia must assess carefully as to how its actions are in the best interests of the russian people and of the world more broadly. Continuing on their current trajectory is likely to lead to greater isolation on their part. That was big today and it comes a day after tillerson took a harder line than trump, saying the poison that was used on this