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President had promised and all of those things. >> look, i think there was no case here. >> right. that's my point. >> if he could have at least had an illusion of a case, the theory goes he probably would've at least started an investigation. >> i think that is the andrew mccabe situation, right, where there is enough of a factual predicate that maybe you can think about bringing a case, and they're thinking about bringing a case. >> against mccabe. they couldn't find it here. >> here there's just no material to work with. you have two classified memos that are never retained. they are left w...

Matter tells fox news that they appear close to the decision whether to charge mccabe with lying to federal investigators. "the new york times" first reported that mccabe's legal team met last week with a deputy attorney general and the u.s. attorney here in washington. the justice department declined to comment, but these meetings are typically used by the defense in a last-ditch effort to argue against their client's indictment. mccabe, a frequent target of the president, was fired last year after the justice department inspector general, michael e horowitz, found he lacked candor under oath...

Cases. heather: james comey says he has no knowledge of the referral but confirmed he could be a witness against mccabe if prosecuted. rob: the devastating chemical weapons attack, the state department saying there is credible evidence that countries are still keeping un inspectors away from the site of the attack, the syrian regime accused of threatening doctors and taking bodies of those who were killed in that attack as the us outlines red lines for a better relationship with russia including addressing election interference and uk nerve agent attack. isys explosives factory estimated in sy...

Fired his boss, james comey, and mccabe vowed to go forward with the russia probe. >> sir, we consider it to be a highly significant investigation. the fbi will continue to pursue this investigation vigorously. >> reporter: he was then fired himself, just two days before retirement, amid allegations he misled investigators looking into his role in authorizing a leak to the media about an investigation into the clinton foundation. a damning report by the justice department inspector general concluding he lacked candor when talking to investigators and when talking to comey himself. today, comey...

>> let's bring in national security and justice reporter julia ainsley, msnbc political analysis, stokeless, and my job political analysis. they're here along with josh. julia, this is mccabe testifying that you can't say firing comey was actually because nobody in the fbi liked him. that certainly did not help mccabe win any favor with donald trump. >> that's true. and we saw as josh point out, this drum beat from the white house against mccabe. one thing about the morale at the fbi, we've been taking a pulse on that over the past week as the house starts to get into the fisa process, they wa...