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Information. it was information that pushed the investigation further in the direction of looking at what hillary clinton was doing. >> well, that's right. i mean, two points about that, lawrence. one is, the article itself says that the fbi officials that talked to the journal reporter, who is devlin barrett, who's now at the "the washington post." the fbi pushed back at that suggestion that they were dragging their feet, they thought there was something to the clinton foundation investigation. so mccabe has come under a lot of criticism, from the president, to republicans in congress who tho...

Truth. this entire investigation stems from my efforts, under fbi rules, to set the record straight on behalf of the bureau. they have focussed on information i chose to share with a reporter through my public affairs officer and legal affairs counselor. as deputy director i was one of a few people who had the authority to do that. it was not a secret. it took place over several days and others, including the director, were aware of the interaction with the reporter. it was the type of exchange with the media that the deputy director oversees several times per week. it was the same time of wor...

First, because this before we even get to the legalisms of it, i just want us to pause over the fact that we live in a country where the president of the united states has a lawyer type his name in a legal pleading and then type his alias in right beside it and file that legal pleading in a federal court, in a courthouse where the president appoints the judges. >> well, yes. you know, it has been quite a day of stormy daniels news as you pointed out, trying to get a little more information on what this threat and physical threat was and who it came from. and just thinking about where we are an...

In my mind was the reluctance to stand with the brits over what has been a documented series of essentially russian intelligence murders in london. and the latest one being really a signature attempted assassination of the former russian intelligence officer and his daughter using a chemical agent that was clearly only available to former soviet operatives. >> general, i'm going to have to interrupt you with some breaking news from the justice department. attorney general jeff sessions has just fired andrew mccabe, who was briefly the acting director of the fbi. mccabe who stepped down from hi...

Occurred. that would have been the end of it except mccabe appealed it to the justice department, which is his right and now the attorney general reviewed it and says he think it is recommendations are correct. >> the inspector general is not a trump appointee. this inspector general is a long-time justice department employee, isn't he? >> right. he served under the obama administration as well. >> the wall street journal article actually cites sources at certain points that are labeled as sources close to mccabe. so it was pretty obvious where the journal was getting that help. but the inform...