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Was not honest with their investigation, that would have a discredited affect in the context of a different investigation. whether it's justifiable or not, of course, depends on the evidence that the public doesn't have access to right now. >> andrew mccabe has apparently just released a statement tonight. it's a rather lengthy one. i will try to read some of it -- actually, i'm going to start reading it. ned price, as you start -- give us your reaction again to the possibility that this is actually the timing of this is related to the mueller investigation because andrew mccabe is obviously a...

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

>> 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 def lvlin barrett, who'sw 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 thought he was too favorable to hillary clinton in the e-mail investigation, but the statement that was given to "the wall street journa...

The white house put out a statement leading all of us to believe that rex tillerson knew this was coming, that he knew his time was up, but the state department, it seems in a bit of candor that led to an individual's firing, said this took him completely by surprise. so i'm not sure we can give this full credence and credibility, knowing that jeff sessions has squandered a lot of his credibility and i want to hear from michael horwitz. >> we're not talking about andrew mccabe having paid somebody off not to tell a story. we're not talking about him having screwed up cases of the fbi's. we're ...

Misleading investigators when asked about it. he had been a lightning rod in the political battles around hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server and robert mueller's probe into whether any trump associates coordinated with russian agents to interfere with the 2016 presidential race. we are now joined by phone by pete williams, nbc news justice department correspondent. what can you tell us about this? >> what the attorney general said in a statement that came out a few seconds ago is that he accepted the recommendation from the justice department's inspector general and the fbi's off...