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president and russia right after the comey firing. >> a couple of thoughts about this, andrea. first of all, this is not the first time we heard about this. remember "the new york times" heard about this this fall and then decided not to. what we were told at the time was if he went down to the white house and resigned it would look like he was doing something wrong and secondly, president's tweet, he says they were caught doing this will remember this was mccabe's disclosure and so no one was caught by some third party. the other point is when we first asked about this last fall, we were told we talked to some people in the room and their recollection of this was different than mr. mccabe's. what they say is, yes, rosenstein did it sarcastically, like, what do you want me to do, andy? wear a wire? mccabe thinks it was serious enough to go talk to the fbi general counsel.
let's see if president trump resigns and if not, confront him with that prediction.es he said i guarantee you, i guarantee you that president trump will resign after hearing what rudy giuliani said. it's total nonsense. >> tucker: we have invited him many times and so far this is the only show he won't do. >> well, have him on with me. >> tucker: any time, i would like that. thank you very much. in the wake of our reporting last week the white house announced it is pursuing a revocation of security clearances for john brennan and other former intelligence officials. >> not only is the president looking to take away brennan's security clearance, and he's also looking into the clearances of clapper, hayden, rice, comey and mccabe.s he is exploring and monetizing
in other words, he was making decisions based on the fact that he thought she was going to win, and he wanted a job. slimeball," exclamation point. abby: the big question in comey comey's badly reviewed book aren't answered like how come he gave up classified information, jail, why did he lie to congress jail, why did the d.n.c. refuse to give server to the f.b.i., why did they take it, why the phony memories, mccabe's 700,000 and more. griff: here to react, fox news's chief national correspondent ed henry. good morning. ed: good morning. abby: ed, you are no slimeball in our e.es ed: i wanted to be there in new york, but i was tired of winning against pete. abby: relax those muscles. pete: he's going after comey hard this morning. ed: yeah. remember when i was on the couch with the three of you on easter sunday and i predicted to you from sources inside the government they were telling me that james comey's book tour was going to be interrupted by something very important. inspector general reports by michael horowitz at the justice department.
>> hannity: greg jaret, a lot of questions legally tonight. the i.g. has no prosecutorial powers. none. that gets into the issue of what tillis and cornyn and graham and grassley were rightly calling for which we have both called for and then i want you to address the wrong law that was used by the attorney general and his recusal. >> first of all, mccabe's in a load of trouble and james comey's in even bigger trouble. for mccabe, he's looking at making a false and misleading statement punishable by up to five years behind bars, and for every false statement, it's an additional crime. second, obstruction of justice it follows along the same line. if he's not telling the truth, in an investigation, he's obstructing it. that's obstructing of justice. for every time he does it, it's yet another crime. james comey, you can multiply it by 10. >> hannity: talk about rod rosenstein.
probe from a number of other directions and has recently singled out one other official in tweet after tweet. how can fbi deputy director, andrew mccabe, the man in charge along with leaking james comey of the hillary clinton investigation be given $700,000 for wife's campaign by clinton puppets during investigation? this particular tweet stands out for many reasons. first of all, mccabe's wife, jill, got the campaign donation for a virginia senate race from a pac for virginia governor terry mcauliffe in 2015. she lost. it was not until three months later that andrew mccabe became the fbi's deputy director. and that was the first time that mccabe had any oversight whatsoever over the clinton case. so the president's claim there is based on the facts is false. as for his claim that the clinton investigation itself was
theme here. the president taking issue with mccabe 's perceived political whether he is straight down the line player. his wife having received donations in a state senate campaign in virginia from an ally of the clinton's. mccabe 's closeness with james comey. even talking about mccabe 's reported imminent retirement coming up sometime in the spring essentially pushing this one singular member of fbi leadership towards the door. mccabe if there were to be some kind of obstruction case brought or fully investigated against the president would be a witness because of how close he was with james comey and because of what james comey may have told him about conversations that he had with the president along the way. another unprecedented use of a twitter account by this president to attack a single law enforcement officer still serving at the fbi.
director's office, mr. mccabe's, investigating the whole situation with general flynn.ly then you have the layer on top of that where you have significant campaign contributions coming from terry mccull ough's campaign. to the wife off the acting membr of the federal bureau of investigation. the american people should be saying this is an out rage, why is this okay in the unitedst states? the answer is it's not. >> let me ask sarah and sean. >> go ahead. >> i want to ask all of you, sarah, have i hit on the six things that really need to be investigated here? and now adding yours is seven? >> absolutely. i think they need to be investigated. people need to ask questions. why didn't mccabe recuse himself from this?