would have been fine as head of the russia investigation. yes. out of sheer sortof you wrote something about the investigation about the sort of nexus between obstruction and collusion and the moment that comey is fired. one of the things i think has come into view with mccabe s recounting is just what that connection is. what is it to your mind? right. i think one of the things that interested me about mccabe s interview is the extent to which it validated that analysis that i did back when that new york times story about the obstruction and collusion investigations came out. you know, what mccabe describes is that when they looked at the fact patterns surrounding the firing, and the constuilation of activities around it, they look at it and they say on the one hand this may be an obstruction
as he would have been, had this been any other investigation into a foreign agent infiltrating an investigation in the united states government. they had those discussions and ultimately decided what they could do at least was formally open a counter intelligence investigation into the president potentially being compromised by a foreign power. and the decision was made they would appoint a special counsel of unimpeachable integrity to pursue the core questions. and this forever will be the time in american history that you live through, congratulatiocongra congratulatio congratulations. what i find fascinating about what andrew mccabe is telling us now is something that is not just important trying to get the history right here and not just important of us understanding the or gigin story, what i find fascinating about what mccabe is
they could do at least was formally open a counterintelligence investigation into the president potentially being compromised by a foreign power, and the decision was made at the justice department that they would appoint a special counsel, a special counsel of unimpeachable integrity to pursue those core questions. and this forever will be the time in american history that you live there. congratulations. but what i find fascinating about what andrew mccabe is telling us now is something that s not just important for us trying to get the history right here. it is not just important in terms of us correctly understanding the origin story of what got the mueller investigation going and all of the rest of it. what i find fascinating about what mccabe is testifying to now is something that directly bears on what is happening right now at the fbi and the justice department and in our government. because what mccabe is now able to describe publicly is the fact that what they set in motion a
claims inaccurate, but what kind of fallout can we see now that we re learning more about the revelations? in the end it s going to have to line up with what mccabe says in his report. the firing of mick cabe, of comey, is also something the special counsel has been looking at. really the ohm fallout could be members of congress if they decide to pursue this issue. the one investigation they re looking for is the special investigation and whether or thought that goes in the report and is there any fallout as to what the special counsel found. did hi buy intony of this that
he wanted it to move along. i think there s no question that he felt strongly and wanted to put it on solid footing in case he was ever fired. he describes what officials were thinking at the time about why they decided to open the investigations for obstruction of justice as well as counter intelligence. let s take a listen about what mccabe detailed here. the president had gone to jim comey and asked him to discontinue the investigation of mike flynn which was part of our russia case. the president then fired the director they told him to include russia in the memo it