Counsel Robert Muellers investigation into russia election meddling. The president praising the move Jeff Sessions but some lawmakers are siding with mccabe calling his firing vindictive and political. It did not just happen. It has been on the table a while. The president has expressed himself and it appears the department of justice and attorney general was responded to the president. We have news coverage, ellison barber is live from the white house. We been with Garrett Tenney live from our Washington Bureau with the very latest. Hello Andrew Mccabe is firing back at the Trump Administration over the dismissal. He claims it was done at the one of the president in an effort to discredit the former fbi Deputy Director in the Robert Mueller investigation. In a Statement Last night mccabe said heres a reality. I am being singled out and treated this way because of the role that i played, the actions he took and the events that i witnessed in the aftermath of the firing of james comey. The release of this report was accelerated only after my testimony to the House Intelligence Committee revealed that i would corroborate accounts of his discussions with the president. Fox news has learned that light former fbi director james comey, Andrew Mccabe maintain personal memos detailing his interactions with the president which will be a part of the special councils investigation. This afternoon, james comey responded to the attacks on his former deputy tweeting mr. President , the American People will hear my story very soon and they can judge for themselves who was honorable and who is not. We are also waiting to hear from the full story what led to the firing pin left by attorney general Jeff Sessions said an investigation by the doj Inspector General determined mccabe lefthander and mccabe leaked information to a report about the investigation into the clinton foundation. That full report from the ig is inspected to be released in the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, mccabe has already hired an attorney to fight for his pension which he was set to begin receiving at midnight tonight before he was fired. If that does not work today Wisconsin Democratic congressman, publicly offered him a job so you can reach the length of Service Required to receive it. Thank you Garrett Tenney. And the president welcoming this firing and urging rod byzantine to and the probe. The fire, a great day for america. He goes on to say that the hardworking men and women of the fbi, a great different democracy, sanctimonious james comey made mccabe look like a choir boy. He knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the fbi. Ellison barber picks up the story from their joining us live men from the white house. President trump personal lawyer said that he praised rosenstein he says in part quote bringing into the alleged russian collision investigation by james comey based upon a fraudulent and corrupt dossier just on the merits and recent revelations. He says that he is speaking in his own personal capacity, not on behalf of the president. The firing is controversial. Some democrats say it is part of an effort by the white house to discredit the special counsel, they russia investigation. In a statement Chuck Schumer criticized the comments writing quote mr. Downs comments are yet another indication that the first instinct of the president and his legal team is not to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller but to undermine him at every turn. The president and the administration and legal team must not take any steps to curtail interfere with or and the special counsel investigation or there will be severe consequences from both democrats and republicans. Mccabe is not the only one to lose his job this week. The president fired secretary of state Rex Tillerson and plans to replace him with cia director mike pompeo. Deputy cia director hospital was sent to replace pompeo as cia director. Rand paul says he will oppose both pompeo and paschal nomination despite speculation that more changes to be on the way. They say there are no immediate plans were no type of personal changes. This week there was also a new addition and new hire announced by the white house host larry kudlow is to come on at the president s top Economic Advisor replacing gary cohen resigned a little over with no in part with disagreements over the president with steel and aluminum tariffs. Thank you. Where the special counsel Robert Muellers russia investigation go from here . We have our chief Congressional Correspondent with us. They say that they should follow in the footsteps of attorney general Jeff Sessions who as we all know just fired former Deputy DirectorAndrew Mccabe and they want to end the russian collision investigation once and for all. James comey based on the fraudulent trumped dossier. Where does the Mueller Probe now go from here . The whole probe itself is the faceted. Because you have mueller and his independent look at the collision and trump allegations. Youll have congress that have been looking at this for quite some time. The house side of the investigation said that there was no evidence of collusion between donald trump and russia. Theres a lot of bickering on Intelligence Panel so a lot of people discredited that report. Unfortunately. On the senate side that is the more respected probe into the russian collision theory. I was just speaking to the Intelligence Committee chairman over there who told me that he really hopes it will wrap up pretty soon. I think one big part of this that we need to keep our eye out for is what the senate comes up with. Their republican a lot of respect and there will be, people will see it as perhaps more respectable and more reliable report on what actually happened. There is that. And secondly, you have this Inspector General report coming out from the justice department, it still has not been produced yet but it will perhaps provide more credence to the president s theory that all of this is very political. That is coming in the coming weeks and it will look at Hillary Clintons email investigation and how the fbi handled that. Then we have the james comey book and you saw that Andrew Mccabe will come out with his own memo that he took. All kinds of information will spill out here. Robert muellers probe i think will continue at the pace that it is going right now. But all of the stuff swirling around could impact that and it could impact what congress thinks of the Mueller Probe, what congress does and what the public thinks of it. I am not sure what the public, i dont know if they know what to think it is also confusing how about the partisan bickering in the Lower Chamber how has that made this investigation . It is interesting because there was backandforth between Ranking Member adam schiff and Intelligence Committee chairman devin nunes who recused himself from the row but he is still the Intelligence Committee chairman. Theyre going back and forth saying the deep state and what the Obama Administration is doing on the unmasking front ahead of doldrums inauguration. Then you have the democrats who say that the republicans are interfering with the probe and then when the republicans came out and said that there was no evidence of collusion, democrats said that they did not feel the investigation was thorough and complete. On the senate side there has been less of the bipartisan victory. There has been a real measured approach to talking to the press. I think which is really important. But also there has been far fewer leaks from the senate side. Which i think has helped give the investigation more respect. And they are not done. Although they said that they would like to wrap up soon, the chairman so we are not finished yet. We went to ask him last week. I think that you will see people will give more credence to whatever they produce here in terms of what level of interference russia had on the election but i think more importantly, the topic julie is whether donald trump or if there is evidence that he was really involved here and working with the russians on behalf of his own campaign and against hillary clinton. That is what everyone is looking for. Wheres the evidence . Ive spoken to some members of the Intelligence Committee that told me they really have not come up with anything that is connected directly to trump. We will see but i think it will be a very important part of this. And the Mueller Probe, he previously said he sees no reason to fire Robert Mueller or even curtail the investigation. What do you think . Will mccabes firing further put pressure on Robert Mueller to wrap this up . Interestingly the firing has given ammunition to both sides. You have the republicans saying for the evidence that there is undue political influence in the fbi has interfered and influence in the investigation into donald trump. On the democratic side i think it is firing here they think is evidence that the president s office is trying to stop the Mueller Probe. Another everyone just needs to keep this in mind theres a lot of politics involved. But we need to look at is what is the hard evidence and what is this ig report show . What does the Senate Committee come up with . I think that will give the public a true measure, really, of what is going on with the russian influence and whether or not the president was involved at all. Everything else is clouded in politics. I think its hard for the public to know what is going on. Great to see you. Thank you. There are new developments now in the investigation into the deadly bridge collapse in miami. A newly released voicemail reveals an engineer warned of fracking in the concrete span. But the voicemail he left was not heard until yesterday. One day after the bridge collapsed killing six people. Rescue workers continue to search through the debris. Currently, we are working on the removal of tumor vehicles. We are trying to accomplish those simultaneously. We are going to try and move those vehicles out of the way and proceed throughout the day. We are hopeful that within the next 12 hours or so we will have completed the mission but no guarantees. They have a very difficult task there. Steve is live in miami with more. The big diggers and bulldozers have been going at it all day today. Behind me there trying to pull two more cars out. They got to out in the Early Morning hours and they are working on two more. It is a very lengthy process with about 2 Million Pounds of concrete all around. Theyre trying to do in a sensitive way as possible. When a body is discovered there was a moment of silence. There is also a chaplain. Then they put up tarps for privacy. They are focused on a crack noted here there was a voicemail sent from one of the engineers to department of transportation state worker on tuesday, two days before this. The state worker was out of the office and did not receive the voice monitor friday after the bridge collapsed. This is what the voicemail had to say. Im calling to share with you some information about the fiu pedestrian bridge and some cracking that has been observed on the north end of the span. The span that we moved this weekend. We have taken a look at it and obviously some repairs will have to be done but from a safety perspective we do not see that there is any issue there. So there was a crack but ntsb officials are saying it is still too early to know whether or not bachrach is what brought down the bridge. The anguish here continues after 48 hours for some family members. Still not all of the victims have been identified. There was an area where the victims are being brought to for identification. It is a tremendously difficult scene for those families as the cars and remains of the victims rolled in on the flatbed trucks. Back to you. Thank you steve. President trump wants cia director mike pompeo to be his next secretary of state. Some observers are calling pompeo the trump whisper. But not everybody is on board. Somebody needs to be advocating. I think that he doesnt necessarily fit the role of someone i would say to be chief diplomat. S and bad at t. 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Lets start with the fact that your former naval officer. Mike pompeo is a former military officer serving the army. Graduating first of his class at west point, harvard law and then going on to serve as military veteran. What you say about this new position that he has been asked to do as secretary of state replacing Rex Tillerson . I think he is perfectly suited. Creswell he is the president s trust, secondly as you indicated he was number one in his class at west point. Former army, he knows chain of command. Which is what you know as an army captain. He also knows international law, he is a lawyer was in the private sector and public sector, ran cia. I think he is the perfect choice. If you think about it for a minute, the president s trust in him actually will help him to mobilize the state department. I saw the ascenders comment but bottom line is diplomacy is what you do at the state department. I think if the president has trust in pompeo, the result will be that people will realize that there were counts. The two models for doing this really that have worked well in the last 30 years or 40 years. One is Colin Powells model. Great is all about the people and the mission. In this instance unlike Rex Tillerson i think secretary pompeo will understand that you give your opinions behind closed doors. He then saluted smartly and go and execute the president s policy. Colin powell knew that and one of the great things about the way he led the state department is he brought the Foreign Service together with the civil Service Together with the political and he helped them all pulled in one direction which was the president s direction. He cared about people. Walk the hallways, he understood the state department is a group of people that are being tasked with the mission of this diplomacy. I think knows that lapeer crest colin powell was a general general. He got along well with his troops and exacted respect by earning it by being a servant leader. Does mike pompeo have that kind of discipline to be a servant leader . And will he serve at the behalf of President Trump and will he be able, let colin powell, to say the president if he is wrong on an issue is colin powell once said, that president george w. Bush about iraq. If you fix it, break it. I mean if you break it, fix it. Look, like anyone else, the president trust people because he believes he is getting from that person honest advice. That will help him guide national policy. Colin powell give that to george bush. George schultz gave that to Ronald Reagan. I believe mike pompeo will give that easily to mr. Trump. I have limited time with you. Looking