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i told the president, mr. president, with all due respect, you are making a big mistake. stick to our democratic colleagues complaining about the removal of an fbi director whom they themselves repeatedly and sharply criticized. media accounts later portrayed rosenstein just two weeks into his job overseeing the russia probe as badly shaken. with comey out, andrew mccabe took over as acting fbi director. hours after the comey news broke, then fbi agent peter strzok and fbi attorney lisa page texted we need to open the case we have been waiting on while andy is acting. it s not clear what case strzok and page discussed, it s widely reported to be an obstruction case involving the present. the new york times reported on may 16 rosenstein met with mccabe, page and other officials where he allegedly discussed secretly recording the president and invoking the 25th ....
That s a great point that you make because it sheds light on something else that used to be clouded in mystery. would the president really ever go to mcgahn and say i want comey out, i want to go get rid of somebody? did mcgahn really have to say to him, calm down, don t do this, i won t do this? remember, the white house and the surrogates all said that never happened. this story makes that story a lot more likely. this is the kind of memo you wrote, just as you said, you ve written them before. there are other stories about him having voiced things he d like to do involving foreign relations of the united states. where he s told by the defense department either he s told we re not going to do it or, yeah, we ll get right on it, mr. president and the phone goes click. understood. but they are very different things. one is i want to go after my enemies. i m president now. i want to use that power. go get them. he does it with mcgahn. mcgahn pushes back. he does it again. he s in a ....
There was a prior incident involving a basically a direction for him to call the doj and he had a threat to lee dine, i m not surprised he wrote him that. i m not, either, and also that s a great point that you make because it sheds light on something else that used to be clouded in mystery. would the president really ever go to mcgahn and say i want comey out, i want to go get rid of somebody? did mcgahn really have to say to him, calm down, don t do this, i won t do this? remember, the who u.ite house a the surrogates said that never happened. this thestory makes that story likely. this is the kind of memo you wrote, just as you said, you ve wherein them before. there are other stories about him having voiced things he d like to do involving foreign relations of the united states. where he s told by the defense department either he s told we re not going to do it or, yeah, we ll get right on it, mr. president and the phone goes click. understood. they are very different things. ....
i don t think we should be naive about the intelligence community. they re fully capable of playing hardball themselves. they ve always done it in the interest of independence, their independence, so they can give unvarnished information about the world, secrets about the world, and guidance to our american leaders. so, colonel, when you look at everything that s just been said, one of the takeaways here is, according to a lot of experts, this is a bad thing. but it s also a bad thing that s being done very effectively, which makes it worse than incompetence in pursuing a bad thing. some people are so against donald trump they forget to see how effective he is. instead of creating a polarized environment, are being misperceived as a part of a, quote, deep state when, in fact, the agenda seems to be to change the leadership of the fbi because he s under investigation in the russia probe. he got comey out, mccabe is out, and peter strzok is fired. he s going after peter security cl ....
Interest of independence, their independence, so they can give unvarnished information about the world, secrets about the world, and guidance to our american leaders. so, colonel, when you look at everything that s just been said, one of the takeaways here is, according to a lot of experts, this is a bad thing. but it s also a bad thing that s being done very effectively, which makes it worse than incompetence in pursuing a bad thing. some people are so against donald trump they forget to see how effective he is. instead of creating a polarized environment, are being misperceived as a part of a, quote, deep state when, in fact, the agenda seems to be to change the leadership of the fbi because he s under investigation in the russia probe. he got comey out, mccabe is out, and peter strzok is fired. he s going after peter ....