Been misunderstood, i took the initiative to correct them. At worst, i was not clear in my responses. And because of what was going on around me, may well have been confused or distracted, he writes. He goes on to say for that i take full responsibility. But that is not lack of candor and under no circumstances could it ever serve as a basis for the very public and extended humiliation that my of of my family, excuse me, and of me that the administration and the president personally have engaged in over the past year. Not in my Worst Nightmare did i ever dream that my fbi career would end this way. Lets bring in Catherine Herridge with this breaking news tonight. Chief intelligence correspondent, also getting a look at this. And she has covered this story from the beginning. Catherine, good evening to you. Your thoughts on these very strong words tonight from the former Deputy Director of the fbi . Well, martha, i cant remember a time when a former fbi director has written such a personal oped in a Major National newspaper about his termination at a top Law Enforcement agency. What jumps out at me and i have just been skimming through as well because its new and within the last 10 minutes is how he talks about he learned that he had been terminated at the fbi after 21 years. Not from the department of justice. Not from the fbi. But he says third hand from a friend of his who saw the news breaking on one of the cable networks. And i want to draw your attention to this one section so he says after two decades of Public Service i found out that i had been fired in the most disembodied impersonal way third hand based on a news account. He goes on to criticize the president pretty openly in this oped. He says that he woke up the follow morning, march 17th, to find the president was celebrating his termination and he called that, im reading from, again, unhinged public attacks on me that would continue into my life after my service to the fbi. President trumps cruelty reminded me of the days immediately following the firing of james comey, his old boss, the head of the fbi. On this lack of candor question, martha, his explanation for what happened, there has to be more to it for the Justice Department and the fbi and their internal Affairs Division to have terminated him for cause. And i think its worth reminding people that when the form are National Security advisor mike flynn was fired, what those close to him told reporters is that he also was kind of caught up in the confusion and the chaos of the new administration and he didnt remember the sequencing of events that well from his phone calls with the russians. Yet, he still was prosecuted and pled guilty to lying to federal agents. So its a very similar story and in this case mccabe is asking us to believe that this was an honest mistake and that he should not have been punished for that, martha. Martha its a great point, catherine, its impossible to completely separate those two things. When you are dealing with internal department of justice, lack of candor is the term that is used. Thats correct, umhuh. Martha used in this other case for lying to the fbi. Everyone knows you cant lie when you are being questioned by the fbi. And as you also, i think rightly highlight, this was an internal investigation. He is responding to how the president responded and clearly a lot of people have said that the firing could have been handled much better. But the reality of it is, in terms of how this works, that it was an internal department of justice investigation. Correct, umhuh. Martha investigation that led to him first being sidelined and ultimately fired, correct . Yes. And what i find extraordinary is that he has published this piece in the the Washington Post and this is coming just about 48 hours after his old boss, fbi director Christopher Wray told ntsb news that the termination of Andrew Mccabe was totally by the book and by the regulations. So, this oped on its face is really challenging the version of events that was presented by wray earlier this week. Martha just one last question for you, catherine. Sure. Martha i want people to understand what he was accused of. What are the things that surfaced in that report that forced his resignation, his stepping aside and then ultimately his firing . Okay. So, the Inspector General was charged with looking at the handling of the clinton email case by the fbi and the Justice Department and they also looked at media leaks. In this particular case, there was a conversation with a reporter at the wall street journal in october of 2016 and thats kind of where there are different views on what happened. Mccabe says he was within his rights to talk to that reporter about the clinton email investigation and the foundation investigation. And that he had the approval from his top boss at that time, fbi director james comey. But, if you read the attorney generals statement very closely, what you will see is that the language does suggest that there were other occasions that mccabe appeared to lack candor in their conversations with the ig. So, based on my reading of the statement and just what i have learned through my reporting, i dont think its limited to this one episode of the media leak in october of 2016. I think basically, there is more to it. Martha all right. Catherine, thank you so much. You are welcome. Martha glad to have you here tonight. Sure, of course. Martha joining me now is former cia director james woolsey. Sir, good to have you here this evening as well. Having spent your life serving the country in our intelligence bureaus as leader of the cia and several prominent positions and before that your reaction to this very unusual as catherine points out editorial put outs there by Andrew Mccabe. I think there are two things going here, and they clash. One is that it is understandable to have, perhaps, a very slightly less demanding standard for an internal investigation than for an external one. Internal one you have to do better than just not lie. You have to have it sounds like from the statement full candor. And thats, i think, an appreciably tougher standard to have to deal with. And is something that could lead to confusion and lead to people being argumentative about the questions that are being asked. So, i think that one thats a tough one. Martha yeah. And it is also important to consider some other factors, what mr. Mccabe may have said at other times about various things. And thats part of being an fbi agent. You have to respond to your boss questions, even if they are questions about nuances. And you put those two things together, i think, and you have a really very difficult set of judgments to make. And im glad that i dont have to make them. Martha let me ask this because this is potentially part of larger piece. Because have you james comey admitting at one point that he released information to the media in an effort to get it out into the bloodstream and in fact to prompt a special counsel because he had these concerns that he didnt want to bring out himself. Have you James Clapper who at least according to the house intel committee, they believe that he leaked information to cnn about the dossier. He has since said that thats not true. But, you have these three, you know, some of the most powerful people in our intelligence agencies all being accused of leaking things to the media that had potential political under pinnings as their goal and motivation. Well, i can understand people getting lost in the nuances between candor and lying. I have difficulty understanding how one can deal with this situation. Its really extraordinarily difficult. I think. Martha james comey at one point in his testimony before congress he was asked, have you ever leaked anything, any classified information to the media . He said no, never. Go ahead. Well, thats pretty clear cut. And clear denial and there may be things that took place that are clearly on the other side of that and, therefore, the judgment could be made. But, all of this is swimming in a very murky stream. And i dont envy the investigators who are trying to sort this one out. Martha troublesome allegations to be sure. 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But a number of republicans are questioning exactly what the g. O. P. Got out of this deal and whether mr. Trump as some have said today got rolled by the democrats. This is ann coulter reacting jennifer, she tweeted out congratulations president schumer, essentially saying the president got played here. I will never sign another bill like this again. Quoting from the president yeah, because you will be impeached. This president promised to drain the swamp. Is he a jobs program for the swamp. He says he is going to drant swamp. Set best thing that ever happened to the swamp. The democrats got most of what they wanted in this bill. Democrats werent necessarily opposed to more defense spending, they just didnt want to get defense spending until they got a lot on domestic spending and they got most of what they wanted. Martha they sure did. Joining me now Corey Lewandowski chief Campaign Manager and America First action. Good to see you tonight. The president is getting a lot of criticism on this from his base and from his supporters who believed that basically the democrats did get everything they wanted in this very fat bill and that there is no fiscal responsibility happening on his watch at this point. What the president said today when he signed that bill he was disappointed in what the bill had in total. There are key components in legislation are important. Highlight a few of them. 650 billion for the military that will allow our men and women in uniform to get the first pay raise they have had. The largest pay raise they have had in over a decade. We are talking about 24 new navy ships. Were at the Smallest Navy we have had in a lifetime. We are talking about 90 new aiaircrafts. A35s. Talking about rebuilding our military so we can continue to be the worlds greatest super power. In addition to the military, this bill funded 6 billion to fight the devastating opiate crisis wreaking havoc across our country. We need to get this under control. Is this a perfect bill . Absolutely not. Did the president say it was a bill for National Security . It is a bill for National Security. Martha i gotcha, corey. You know last night he sort of stunned, i think, a lot of people at the white house by coming out and saying he was going to veto the bill. This morning this whole scramble going to do a News Conference and wasnt going to do the News Conference. Moved the people from the pressroom to the diplomat receiving room and gave a straightforward speech. I think there is a feeling that he didnt do what he wanted to do here initially. His gut was telling him he should veto this bill, get a lot of his supporters wanted him to do that and the question tonight is what happened . I think you might be right. I think his gut was telling him this was a bad piece of legislation. Many of the things that are in this bill, you know, he campaigned against. And what we have seen once again, you know, its amazing. Do you know what congress did . They went home again. The government is about to shut down. They put one piece of legislation in front of the president and say we put a gun to your head. You are going to sign this and were going to close the government and its going to be your fault. Why havent we been able to keep the government open for multiyear period. This is astonishing to myanmar march republicans in the house, republican notice senate. Republican notice white house. We thought this was going to be fiscally responsible white house and administration. And they are wondering what the heck is happening . Well, look, i dont disagree with you. I think 85 or 86 members of the Republican Party vote against this bill and going to pass with 111 democrats voting for it because the democrats do what the democrats do. They know how to spend money, look, the next generation, you know, our kids, our grandchildren, our great grandchildren are saddled now with 22 potentially 22 trillion in debt. Its unsustainable. This can never happen again. Martha thats what the president said. I think a lot of people thought he hit it on the head when he looked at this thing and said they just finished this bill hours ago. Nobody has read it and we are at the deadline. Thats the way we do things. People look at that across the country and say are you kidding me . Such inefficient way. As you are talking we are watching the president walk down air force one. Looks like a beautiful night in West Palm Beach hes begins this weekend. Have a good weekend, too. Thank you. Martha thank you. One group especially unhappy with this budget is veterans. Allowing choose own doctors stripped hours before it passed the house that part came out. Pete hegseth u. S. Army veteran and host of fox Friends Weekend spends a huge amount of his life and time supporting the veterans of this country, so what happened . Well, what happened was, the swamp happened. I hate to say it that way. But, first of all, on the larger deal, the president s achilles heel is the military. He wants to fund the military. You saw what happened under obama and desis he creation of sequestration. Thats why he supported the bill even though a lot of us hopes he might veto it at the v. A. , you had included in the bill was an opportunity for vets to choose their own doctor or the v. A. A private option, which the president promised. At the last minute representative tim walls is he a democrat and nancy pelosi conspired to pull it out of the bill and instead increase more funding of the v. A. Which we have seen time and time again. So you add more money to the v. A. Martha took away the choice. Took away the actual reforms that would give veterans real choice and instead they said lets add more funding and hood winked a lot of people at the last minute to do so. Again, its how the swamp works at the last minute to make a deal. Democrats to get their votes, to get more money, said we are going to take out the real reforms that would have advanced the president s agenda in exchange for money. Democrats will say we helped the vets. They are not helping the vets. The president s heart is in the right place. He is signing this bill because he supports the troops and the vets are in a tough spot. Martha ann coulter was talking about when she said congratulations president schumer and here comes impeachment. The fear is this alienates the people who support him and have supported the people who, you know, they believe are going to vote like him and that you are going to end up with people who are in the middle deciding that democrats are a better choice for them like we saw in pennsylvania with the conor lamb election and, you know, he is going to lose his majority which hasnt, you know, worked well in some ways and not so well in others anyway. Today may have been the day that the party of fiscal responsibility in the g. O. P. Died. There isnt real commitment to that today at all. If you are n