occurred before mccabe took over as deputy director and before he would have had any oversight into the clinton e-mail investigation. >> the president also noted mccabe's pending retirement we emerged last week. two sources say he told officials months ago he was planning on retiring in the coming months. several sources say he is not being forced out. >> former president george w. bush's ethic's chief calling out the president for his anti-fbi tweet saying using twitter on christmas eve to intimidate a witness in a criminal investigation is not a very christian way to celebrate the holiday but does make mr. mueller's job easier and that's a nice thing to do. merry christmas. >> several republicans including