Maintained his innocence. Everything was mischaracterized and he believes this begins a new chapter in his life and closes a chapter of investigation here and he will not be charged. The former acting director of the fbi, remember came in after james comey was fired. He was accused of leaking Sensitive Information to a reporter from the wall street journal about an investigation into the Hillary Clinton foundation. Then lying about that to investigators. Justice Department Inspector general looked into the mccabe situation and agreed he lacked candor. Ultimately, they decided not to charge him. Here he is earlier this afternoon reacting to the news that he will not be charged by doj, listen. As glad as i am that the Justice Department and the District Attorneys Office finally decided to do the right thing today, it is an absolute disgrace that they took two coyears and put my family through this experience for two years before they finally drew the obvious conclusion and when they could have drawn a long, long time ago. Neil mccabe has been a frequent target of President Trump. He was fired in 2018 by then attorney general jeff sessions. He was fired on the last day before he could get full benefits. Neil. Neil the reaction out from the white house where we have john roberts, the president taking all of this in, the oddity of it, of course come on the heels of the reporter. The president and his attorney general may be having conflicting views on tweets and that sort of stuff. Good afternoon to you, though only when at the white house is the whirring of helicopter landing on the south lawn as the president prepares to head off to florida and maralago. But when it comes to mccabe, it has been crickets around here. No reaction from the president , no reaction from his campaign. No reaction from any of the staff at the white house. They are keeping this close what could change in the next few minutes. Dont forget the attorney general bill barr publicly admonished the president yesterday not to be tweeting or commenting and other forms of cases that are currently before the department of justice. The attorney general saying, it makes it impossible for him to do his job. But dont forget, for the past couple of years, the president has been very vocal about his belief Andrew Mccabe belongs in jail. It may be difficult for the president to resist saying something about this though because now the doj has washed its hands of it. Earlier today mccabe gives the president of using the Justice Department to carry out a political vendetta. Listen here. The pursuit of political enemies in the use of the criminal Justice System and criminal investigations to exact some sort of revenge on those political enemies is not something that should be happening in the United States of america. Just waiting for the president to leave the oval office. He should be on the south lawn and a couple of minutes. Im led to believe he may stop to talk to the assembled media outside, neil, so we may be back in a few minutes to change the topic. Neil all right, we shall see my friend, john roberts at the white house. The oddity of Andrew Mccabe who lied to Congress Getting off the hook, Michael Flynn who lied to congress, not really yet off the hook. Now, we report the Justice Department looking outside prosecutors to look into the case. Former doj prosecutor joins meaning now. What do you make of all of this . Well, you want to do a three hour show because we can talk about all of this stuff. Look, there is a couple of things. One in terms of the flynn situation what is interesting, it is starting to shadow what happened in the ted stevens case a few years. Judge edmund sullivan, defense attorney new round of Defense Attorneys coming in to say what is wrong with the plea . Which is usually a nonstarter. Usually it doesnt go far but then you add in a wrinkle of independent counsel looking at the process. I was a bit of a naysayer when it came to flynn being able to withdraw his plea, but i dont think i can make a bet on that now. In terms of mr. Mccabe, have to say, look, not everything in life that is wrong ends up with the persecution prosecution and the guy at the center of all of these decisions by comey to have full statement prosecution with trump and not e statement prosecutions connected with Hillary Clinton to be in himself in the middle of all that. I think he had two good lawyers, three picks of lawyers in terms of former ig and a talented aes ua and they spent a good part of the two years pushing hard on the u. S. Attorneys office with the equities and why the case shouldnt be prosecuted. But it is really early for him to have a parade for himself and suggest somehow he is a victim when the ig said he lied over and over again. Neil im just wondering and some conflict of interest and the one key person in the flynn case makes me wonder if it is unlikely that it might seem the entire flynn case could be dropped. What do you think . I tell you i would not predict it would get to the point there is another lawyer, and other u. S. Attorney looking into the conduct. So that told me this thing does have some life. But again normally, essentially insulting the judge, telling the judge you did something wrong when you found not guilty plea knowing and intelligent voluntary. So far dan sullivan is tolerating a lot of litigation on this, or at least potential litigation. I think it is a crapshoot. I think this can blow up into something much different than normally would be a full statement plea and sentencing which could be pretty routine. Neil so what youre saying in terms of, it is not over. It is certainly not over. Sue and jim, thank you very much appreciate it. Convicted on charges and tried to extort millions from nike. The kind of charge is guilty, could land them in jail for decades. David lee miller has the latest, hey, lee. High matt, neil the jury deliberated three days with a highprofile lawyer, three charges of extortion and while fraud wire fraud. The jury was told that avenatti demanded Athletic Shoe nike pay 25 million to conduct an internal investigation of the company are arguing the damaged News Conference that nike made improper pay outs to athletes with a financial report. His lawyer tried to portray him as an aggressive attorney simply representing a client with nikes cancellation of sponsorship of a High School Basketball program. Following the verdict, the attorney described avenatti action. Very disappointing as you can imagine. We will exercise so you can expect an appeal. Neil and the legal problems are not over. He paces two more criminal trials in federal court and among the allegations, neil, there is tax evasion as well as embezzlement. He could be sentenced for the convictions today, neil, to as much as 42 years behind bars. Neil thank you for clarifying that. I love that you went into that david lee, thank you, my friend. Well you know what joe biden is raising money to raise money last night. And that figure was disappointing, but even more disappointing, what he encountered when he left. ]chanting] neil loud splashing highpitched laughter dang woodchucks with geico, the savings keep on going. 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Ive said demo things, lets put it that way. Joe biden raising 1 million in new york but did not meet the goal. And what have you found out, my friend . Where did he say he was going . Neil the straw or whatever. That is why he only raised 800,000. Lets be very clear. During early in the campaign he was a front runner, joe biden, he raised 500,000. That was the biggest draw and people thought a lot more would come in. Last night, at two fundraisers, he barely got 800,000. And telling fox News Business network, it is not chump change but not what they were expecting. Clearly what we have now is a campaign that is in trouble both in polls, neil and also the money race if they dont do well in South Carolina, nevada, this race is essentially over. Not just because of the polls, neil, but because of the money. They might not have enough money to get through super tuesday. So that is where he is right now. And because of this, neil, we understand sources are telling us and these are democratic sources close to mr. Biden, they would vote for him, give him money. A lot of them are telling us, they think he should possibly step down sooner. Leon cooperman, a financier, but voted for democrats in the past did not like barack obama i should point out, but he is the type of person to vote for biden and heading for Michael Bloomberg and the guy with a modicum of the firepower and the message to beat to win the nomination. And he can be donald trump. As you know fox business first report my producer did great work on both getting cooperman on fox business. Com and this number, 2 billion. We have learned he is willing to spend 2 billionth report cooperman believes that type of money is the type of money that someone could be donald trump who will raise about 1. 5 billion. So we are talking about a lot of billions here. The problem is joe biden doesnt have a lot of those billions and maybe wont. And the calls are coming in loud and clear that, you know, he should step down and let the moderate wing of the party moved to Michael Bloomberg to possibly defeat Bernie Sanders. Neil great to see you, my friend, very great reporting. So here is where we stand right now Michael Bloomberg seems to have the money to get the commercials, the rice in the polls, including one that features him leaving and that delicate rich state we call florida. Not only there surging National Goals as well but what to make of that blue berg threat with joe borelli, the wall street journal, and of course the democratic strategist robert. Robert, this notion that maybe we are seeing a shift in favor its always premature to go in a moment and assume he has finished. We said the same about bill clinton for a while losing a string of primaries. Kind of at this stage, they said the same about mccabe, when he edged out a victory. So be careful, but i think having said that, are you hearing from colleagues, they are worried about biden . No, not yet. Lets understand Bernie Sanders had 21 delegates out of the 2,000 delegates he needs to win. Joe biden has a very Clear Strategy and the same since the beginning, do well in South Carolina, go through super tuesday where you have staged a verse that represent the Democratic Party and then have a delegate all through the primary. So lets understand, buttigieg does not have a path to victory after New Hampshire. And coming in third and fourth place, and klobuchar has not picked up the momentum. Joe biden is still the front runner in this race despite losing the first two primaries. So i think all the hyperbole, 24hour news cycle and the new, shiny object of Michael Bloomberg is taking the ideal way from them. Joe biden held strong at the top of the polls for over a year since he entered the race. And i dont think that the Democratic Party just shift. Lets wait for a vote to the start and not too early in the primary states. Neil fair enough, joe borelli in this stage, a lot of folks are saying no way even with New Hampshire victor that donald trump could ever get the nomination. They will peter out by then. Maybe that is a good reminder from robert, what do you think . Im certainly not in the complacent against anyone of the candidates but look how joe biden went . He was leaning in the polls for a year and that is true except today when it counts, super tuesday is going to be a big test for him and obviously hes taking his waterloo on South Carolina, but super tuesday just a couple of days later. There are two code delicate rich states california and texas. He has not leading in either of those. North carolina the Third Largest state on that date, also plummeting in the polls. This is not a good position for someone built as the democratic primary, the front runner to vienna. And i would be surprised if he is able to go the distance given the fundraising over the past two weeks or three weeks. Neil you know, jillian we were expecting the president with i think hes going down to maralago this week but he did not. Opted to stop and talk to reporters. But im wondering the developments in the division of the democrats whether the president then does or should he be advised with republicans when it comes to tweets on the Justice Department and case is pending or not pending. Just not say anything. Because the only one who could lose this for donald trump they say is donald trump. Yeah, he is certainly his own worst enemy. You are coming off of the impeachment. You are coming off of iowa with democrats in disarray. Still, i think it is one of those situations if you step back just a little bit, democrats will make themselves continue to look bad. But hes got to be in the spotlight. That is something we have usually seen. I want to push back on this idea that joe biden has a front runner. Ive never heard of a front runner that is not in front. I think it is an unusual case to be made after what we saw in iowa and New Hampshire. Hes really got his work cut out for him. But i do think that leaves a moderate in the democratic primary race. And im just not sure who will fill it. Bloomberg pushing very hard to sell it, but the energy and momentum within the party right now is on the hard left. And i think the central argument for biden all along is his electability. We have seen so far and New Hampshire and iowa, voters are not turning out to support him. I think that gets at one of the Central Claims of his candidacy. Neil i guess it comes down and robert yu reminded africanamerican vote and how it sorts out in South Carolina will be a toast to that as well as the union vote particularly in nevada. We will have a caucus next week. Im just wondering, what could be the game changer for biden . Who else emerges in that gap . The criticism party, if you will never see sanders pick up that kind of support. So open convention, what do you say . We have to understand even in a state like iowa where Bernie Sanders was supposed to do well, 70 of caucus goers voted against Bernie Sanders. In a state like New Hampshire with borders vermont working all counties in 2016, 72 of voters voted against Bernie Sanders there. So what joe biden has to do is get out of the shadow of impeachment, get out of the shadow of hunter biden, a yearlong attack on the campaign on his record. Remind voters exactly what he stands for and the normalcy hes trying to bring america back to. And i think bloomberg is doing well right now because he is unvented. He has running commercials, no one has asked him questions, his policy issues and nobody has neil he wouldnt be serving searching. He put 2 million into commercials. Mcdonalds does not have the best hamburgers but the best commercials. 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