as nicolle mentioned, the white house used a letter instead written by deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. but trump's focus on andrew mccabe started long before comey's firing. you may recall mccabe helped to oversee the investigation into hillary clinton's e-mail use. a "wall street journal" article october 2016 reported on donations from a clinton ally to mccabe's wife, who was running for a state senate seat in virginia. with a big boost from conservative media that was all candidate trump needed to hear. he zeroed in on that, referring to it during his own campaign. >> the man who was in charge of the investigation of hillary clinton accepted essentially from hillary clinton $675,000 that went to his wife. >> the man that was investigating her from the fbi, his wife runs for office and