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Loyalty pledge from andrew mccabe. he asked him who he voted for in the last presidential election. >> just like he did with jim comey before firing him. i think that republicans zeroing in on rosenstein is particularly interesting in light of news that we got last week, that the president was talking about firing mueller. because in reality, when republicans are on tv, they say, oh, you don't need to worry about the president firing mueller, because guess whose job it is? it's rosenstein's job. he's the one that actually has the power to get rid of the special counsel. so the fact they are no...

Earlier this month that sessions was applying pressure to wray to get rid of mccabe, and that wray was so upset about it that he went to the white house counsel don mcgahn and complained about it. so you have -- there's no doubt about it, you have pressure from the top on this. who effectively sdilddecided to the plug and how this transpired, we are still pulling out, but i think there is no other way to look at it because of the disordering manner in which this occurred, this was somebody who was pushed to leave before his time. >> he was feeling the heat big time, andrew mccabe, rachel. this...

Is a partisan document. republicans say this is in line with the underlying intelligence but just shows how much of a target andrew mccabe has been for a number of members, particularly republicans in the house over the last several weeks and months here, wolf. >> they've been going after him and now rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, as well. that meeting behind closed doors of the house intelligence committee scheduled to begin around 5:00 p.m. eastern. manu, we'll get back to you. in the meantime, i wanted to get more reaction to the breaking news, the deputy director of the fbi, ...

During the critical period, we just don't know what's in there. jay carney also noted that in their initial search of those other e-mails, the ones they have, there was nothing between lois lerner and the white house. there was no coordination, they say, in terms of targeting tea party groups. but again, what's in the other e-mails? john koskinen, the commissioner -- who you just played that sound bite from -- in previous testimony months ago said there were backups and said, don't worry, we're going to turn over the e-mails. this is months before that letter saying we don't though what happen...

Of heat from the president in tweets in direct communications with the deputy director. a lot of stuff coming his way from a lot of republicans, from the white house, and he's sort of been the punching bag for the president against the fbi. also his relationship to peter stroth and lisa page. these were the two people texting each other and those texts have pretty much been revealed now that caused a lot of concern for members of congress. so all of this, mccabe was very much aware of this. he knew that he was taking a lot of heat. and so, you know, he would try to say that he wasn't retiring ...