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Just say get "dragon tickets". welcome back, everyone. i want to update you on the main stories we've been following this hour. the former acting director of the fbi says he ordered a counterintelligence probe of donald trump for a number of reasons, including the president's own words. mccabe said the president's request that james comey drop the investigation into michael flynn and comey's subsequent firing were among the reasons for launching the probe. the defeat of isis likely won't be the terror group's

Lifelong pension and was fired by the fbi unceremoniously after an investigation by the inspector general. but he has always contested the validity of that firing and said it was politically motivated. i'm not sproised he's considering a lawsuit. he may have trouble winning such a lawsuit because the inspector general issued a rather detailed report, listening a number of reasons supporting the firing. >> laura, mccabe also made serious claims about what deputy attorney general rod rosenstein reportedly said about wearing a wire. fill us in on that. >> he did, ana. it's remarkable. the reporti...

Going to ask that his sentence be reduced somehow but there was something that was so important and valuable that paul manafort in lying that he went ahead and did it. and so as a member of the intelligence committee, i would like for us to find out what that was. >> did you -- to speak to the thoroughness of the house intelligence committee's investigation under the stewardship of the republican majority, how close did you guys come to uncovering just some of the information that we're learning here? >> not very close at all. the tragedy of the last two years of this investigation under devin...

Discount what was told to us by the witnesses. we've got a lot of work to do when it comes to putting the pieces together. >> as someone who's on the intelligence committee and this started as a counter intelligence probe, there were red flags going up and people concerned that russian interference was trying to compromise members of the trump campaign, what do you make of these sort of -- there's now three different instances in which russian associates or people linked to russian government or intelligence are approaching the trump campaign with a plan to lift sanctions, the russian adoption...

Handed over but these questions and these threads could answer a whole lot of these kinds of questions. >> yes, i think it brings us back to exactly what we were talking about before, why the cloak and dagger? why is there a need to lie about these things if in fact they are not so nefarious? i think the key with paul manafort, as we've been saying, is not that he's the latest person to have allegedly lied in this whole situation but he did it after he was already in a cooperation agreement, after he had so much at stake and said he was going to be cooperating here. we wouldn't have known abou...