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Was extreme. so i can't say that, you know, andy mccabe's protestaceans of innocence are accurate about him. i can say that the situation stinks. and as i said before i will evaluate the evidence that supposedly justifies this action at the point at which it becomes public. and until then, look, a lot of what andy mccabe is saying in that statement is just plainly true. >> and ruth marcus, as ben just said we don't have the inspector general's report but we do have andrew mccabe's written response to it at this first stage of this news. and i'm going to zero in on the sentences in which andrew...

Court, and the name of the president of the united states typed in there by his lawyer also has an alias beside it typed in there by his lawyer. the president of the has a lawyer who refers to him as donald j. trump also known as david dennison. that is how the president's lawyer represents donald trump in this case. a client with an alias trying to keep everything that stormy daniels knows about him secret. >> well, i think what is truly remarkable about this, if we just take a step back and really think about this for a moment, i actually think this is a remarkable moment in our nation's his...

His official retirement. we now have a full written statement by andrew mccabe that i've been reading here. your reaction to what we know about this so far. >> we take st. patrick's day very seriously in chicago, let me say. >> i know you do. >> on a serious note, at 10:00 p.m. on a friday night before his sunday retirement becomes effective does throw some doubt into the credibility and reasons for the action. i do agree, of course, with ben that we need to have all the evidence before we pass judgment on what the recommendation was. we need to see the ig report. i also think his statement, t...

Statement and i stand behind it. i don't think there's ever been an incident in the history of the united states where you have a president who undertook a personal vendetta against a private u.s. citizen -- >> okay -- >> -- who merely was looking for an opportunity to tell her version of events and seeking $20 million worth of damages. i don't think that's ever happened before in the history of the united states. it's frightening quite honestly. >> your client has already spoken to "60 minutes." they've announced they intend to broadcast that on march 25th. that by the president's definition ...

We know from what director comey has said, written, he shared his encounters. the encounters where president trump may have attempt today obstruct justice. he shared those encounters with a small group of people, all of whom have been sidelined or fired. in the case of andy mccabe, he, of course, was sidelined weeks ago, and now his firing, i suspect as andy mccabe himself is saying was to undermine his credibility as a fact witness, as ben was alluding to. the other thing we have tomorrow is we have not heard from the inspector general. we have heard from jeff sessions, the attorney general. ...