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From rex tillerson to betsy devos to andrew mccabe. no shortage of trump related material for "snl." >> sir, can you give us the exact reason mccabe was fired? >> yes, mr. mccabe was in clear violation because of his lack of candor. i dont know. i cant dance around it. trump made me do it. im just a simple man who wanted to make things bad for immigrants and here i am taking away a pension of a christian white. it anint right. >> are you okay? >> im fine. i just -- its just crazy how you are the...

The book when he reintroduces the political justification for this firing hours after the firing. >> i think that is true. i mean, this is sort of a classic trump move of controlled by chaos, i think here. its always fascinating to me that he is so obsessed with the state senate race in virginia but he keeps going back to that with mccabes wife and he cant disconnect the two. his problem is when he continues to tweet, when he continues to talk about it, when he continues to make a big deal about...

Blackmailed by the fbi and by comey. mccabe was comeys loyal deputy. it explains why trump put comey in his sights, why he fired him, and why he wanted mccabe fired as well. >> michael, you and your co-author david cohen write stenks extensively about the dossier and christopher steele and how the work is manipulated in the conversation about the impetus for the russia investigation. >> sure. look. . we go into great depth about the dossier. there is no question, you know, that this was the resu...

Has already ended with some guilty pleas or indictments and sanctions, is a witch hunt. >> its a view shared by one of his top lawyers certainly who is facing backlash for suggesting the justice department investigation needs to shut it down but none of this is stopping special counsel robert mueller who we know met with former fbi director andrew mccabe and has notes on mccabes interactions with president trump. dan merica is following these developments. dan, what do we know what is in these m...

This flurry of tweets offering andrew mccabe a job. when i saw those, i thought about you and your view. these members of congress are offering him employment, not because they need him to do a specific job, but because they just want to get him those extra two days so he can get to his full pension benefits now. and they have not read the office of the inspector generals report, they dont have the information from the office of professional responsibility. ethically, what is your view of these ...

>> reporter: yejeanie moos, cnn new york. >> oh my. >> he was concise. all right. as for the latest rounds of white house firings, the sketch comedy show saturday night slooif putting their stamp ton. >> heres their take on jeff sessions trying to explain why former deputy trickettor mccabe was fired. >> mellow. look at me, i still got a job. >> sir, sir, you can give us the exact reason mccabe was fired? >> well, yes. of course. mr. mccabe was in clear violation because of his lack of candor,...

Shakespearean drama. he knows a lot more than we do. and when you see the mood hes in and the people hes attacking -- >> and firing. >> -- and firing. it tells you he knows something we dont know. up next, the white house chief of staff tells aides to get to work and stop worrying about personnel chaos. but the big boss is still promising more changes. and republicans say the darnedest things. heres "saturday night lives" take on attorney general jeff sessions relief now that andrew mccabe h...

So lets take a look first at mckinnon playing sessions, reacting to the mccabe firing. >> sir, sir, can you give us the exact reason mccabe was fired? >> well, uh, yes. mr. mccabe was in clear violation, um, because of his lack of candor -- i dont know, i cant even dance around -- trump made me do it. mccabe saw too much, you know? >> okay, so this was not your decision? >> look, im always down for clown, but this was sneaky evil for me. im just a simple man who wanted to make things bad for imm...

But in order to pound against everybody that he perceives as an enemy and that could end -- remember, this is really all about mueller and his investigation, and mr. mccabes relationship to that investigation. in order to sully and dirty the process up from a white house that wants to talk about dirtying and sullying up other peoples reputation when they are paying $130,000 to quiet down the allegations of a porn star. >> congressman, we hope that if you hear from him, youll certainly let us kno...

Community, that there was a real russian campaign to meddle in our election, to denigrate hillary clinton and to boost donald trump. if you want to understand the mccabe firing, or at least trumps reaction to the mccabe firing, all you have to do is go to the opening scene in our book and which is january 6th, 2017, that is the moment that the u.s. intelligence community gives its presentation to then president-elect trump about the russian campaign and trump resists. he, once again, refuses to ...