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>> reporter: even without the emergency declaration the white house says it has identified $4.5 billion of additional funds which would be enough to build 180 miles of border wall immediately without waiting for the challenges to play out and you know better than anybody in these court challenges it can take some time to play out. >> well into the 2020 election if not beyond so good news for them as they tried to put together their assets. the former acting fbi director is telling his story again tonight. andrew mccabe making new claims about efforts to protect evidence and keep congressional ...

Commenting so far. there is new scrutiny tonight for former deputy director andrew mccabe. he says he told congressional leaders about his decision to open an investigation into president trump's relationship with russia. senior lawmaker remembers it differently. here's chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge. >> we are on a -- figure he briefed congressional leadership on the counterintelligence probe into the president. >> did anyone object? >> no an >> a member of the so-called gang of eight called mccabe's claim of using and possibly misleading. senior lawmakers near the fbi ef...

Most importantly mccabe explained why trump's actions prompted him to open an obstruction investigation and a counterintelligence probe of the president. >> there were a number of things that caused us to believe that we had adequate predication or adequate reason, facts to open the investigation. the president had gone to jim comey and specifically asked him to discontinue the investigation of mike flynn which was a part of our russia case. the president then fired the director. these circumstances are facts that indicated that a crime may have been committed. the president may have been enga...

>> former acting fbi director andrew mccabe said he was fired because he opened a counterintelligence probe of president trump. mccabe telling "60 minutes" he is considering a possible lawsuit against the government. he lost his job one day before he was able to collect a full government pension and opened up about his interactions with president trump and his reasons for opening the investigation. watch. >> it's many of the same concerns that cause us to be concerned about a national security threat. and the idea is if the president committed obstruction of justice, fired the director of the ...

From using his executive power in this way. but stephen miller said the president may be willing to use his veto power, so there are a number of road blocks facing the trump administration before they're able to touch a single penny of the additional funds that trump had hoped to unlock. sarah westwood, cnn, florida. >> for more on all this, i'm joined by natasha linstead, good to have you with us. >> thanks for having me. >> so many explosive revelation in this mccabe interview. we learned the president's own words triggered a counterintelligence probe. but let's start with rod rosenstein app...