problem that s been identified with the process. it was hurried. it was rushed. we heard allegations from mccabe s lawyers that he didn t have the amount of time that one would normally expect to have to review and to respond to the allegations that were in the report. and then you ll recall that rushed weekend where he was fired, he was racing the clock to be permitted to retire with a full pension. the president was tweeting wildly that mccabe needed to be fired, and the attorney general stepped up and delivered. he s the one who made the decision to fire mccabe on this very unusual time line. i think it s that sequence of events that s giving former doj folks like myself a little bit of pause here. and when it comes to the president s broader war on the rule of law, you ve even got republicans out now with a new ad campaign, making republicans basically choose to either be among those in the party who are for the rule of law or against the rule of law. donald trump has created so
wait, let s put them together for a second. didn t he win because of the way jim comey handled the hillary clinton investigation in part? he isn t upset about the investigation into hillary clinton because he didn t handled it well enough. perhaps maybe because they didn t do more against hillary clinton, that it didn t go the way the president wanted it to go, that investigation. the president, though, is upset with comey and upset with mccabe because they are investigating him, because they were investigating him at the fbi. this is the issue. he s conflating the two. it will be great fodder for the conspiracy theorists at fox news and elsewhere, but the two have no relation. but isn t it so easily undone when you have comey and mccabe disagreeing and their accounts in this report? yeah, but facts never get in donald trump s way. that is factual, these two men are not it is clear his friends have said he doesn t read. he didn t read the i.g. report he loves so much. let s
executing, you know, his powers as the chief executive? or is there something larger afoot here? is the president trying to obstruct the investigation, stand in the way of it? and that s the call that, you know, if the president could be charged and there is a whole question about that, the prosecutor would have to make, is there enough there to show a larger conspiracy. and at the center of that would be comey. it would be comey s interactions and it would be the firing of comey. why did the president fire comey? what were his true intentions? was he simply did he think, look, i m a new president, i want a new fbi director, i think he s no good? or is there something more nefarious? we will find out hopefully, eventually. phil rucker and john carlin, thank you for spending so much time with us. when we come back the fbi deputy director andy mccabe who was fired on twitter was delivered a blow today and a scathing new inspector general report. that s next.
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