we start with at president's fbi attacks. >> reporter: good morning. trump's tweets taking aim at several fbi officials, including deputy director andrew mccabe came with word that mccabe told senior fbi officials months ago that he was planning on retiring. the two sources familiar with this plan told cnn. now a couple of months ago, he told senior agents he was eligible to retire in march and that he had planned to do so but there is a chance that under fbi rules, that he has accumulated enough time where he will be able to retire sooner. the criticism here of mccabe, you know, for the past several months has been growing as a number of republicans are questioning the credibility of special conrobeunsel robert mues investigation and chuck grassley has called for mccabe's removal but democrats argue that the criticism of mccabe and the fbi, in general, an effort to