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Has concluded or the inspector general has concluded that he 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

Information. it was information that pushed the investigation further in the direction of looking at what hillary clinton was doing. >> 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 devlin barrett, who's now 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 tho...

Clinton investigation while the investigation was going on and what the inspector general said is that violates fbi policy not to discuss investigations while they're going on. but secondly, and perhaps more importantly what the statement from the attorney general says is that when mccabe was asked about this on more than one occasion, including while he was under oath, his answers, they believe, were not truthful. and for that reason the attorney general says he concluded that it was right to accept the recommendation, so andy mccabe has been fired. now what this means for his pension, which,...

Former acting director of the fbi with only two days before 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....

Anyway, is a highly unusual matter, and we do know that the political pressure on the 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 genera...