Happen tomorrow with the release. Sources tell cnn that tom white house aides fear fbi director sclofr wray might quit over the memo release after he publicly revealed quote, grave concerns that its inaccurate and misleading and the president he iss motivate for ignoring the warning is more clear than ever. He has been privately admitting to friends that he believe the memo release will help discredit the special counsel investigation. And tonight the Washington Post reporting that mr. Trump never had any hesitation about hellsing the memo and that he hopes it might give him justification to fire Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein who he appointed special counsel mueller. Jim. It. As the president does battle with his current fbi chief, the director that he fired is speaking out as well. James comey posting this tweet tonight, quote, all should appreciate the fbi speaking up. I wish more of our leaders would. But take heart, American History shows that in the long run weasels and l
Send deceased agents to college and help fbi families in need they said on social media. Over the weekend, the editor of the legal news website law fare called for donations in the names of Andrew Mccabe and james baker after Congressional Republicans and the president criticized them, former cia director john brennan tweeted he had personally donated this as republicans continued their attacks including Frances Rooney of florida. In this exchange yesterday with Halle Jackson here on msnbc. Im very concern thad the doj and the fbi whether you want to call it deep state or what are off the ills rails. You look at the strozic texting and the Clinton Research people. This mccabe guy takes donations while running for state senator. Congressman you called the don and fib football off the rails. Fundamentally how is that something that are you okay with here. How does that not undermine the work these agencies are doing . I think the American People have high standards, to see those examples
Released. He calls it misleading. Today, cnn found out white house officials are now worried that fbi director ray could quit if the memo is released against his recommendations. What we dont know is whether that even matters to President Trump. Sources telling cnn today the president told his friends that he sees this memo drafted by republican congressman nunez and Republican Committee staff as a way to undermine and discredit the Russian Investigation giving himself cover and ignoring, as weve noted, the objections of two of the nations top Law Enforcement officials, not just fbi director christopher ray, but Deputy Attorney general rosenstein. A democratic senator suggested its pretext for more than just undermining the mueller Russian Investigation, but for firing mueller. This appears to be a setup to enable the president to fire mueller and grind it to a halt. President trump did not mention the memo in the 35minute long remarks in West Virginia this afternoon, but today, the fb
Its a terrible claim if this motivated the president s approach to immigration. Good morning, im rene marsh in for christi paul. Im victor blackwell. Good sunday to you. The president of the United States versus the fbi. President trump went on a tweet attack on the agency agencys dispute director. Trump reupped accusations that Andrew Mccabe is buyased due to replying donations his wife received in the past. Mccabe the white house is fighting claims that President Trump made derogatory remarks about immigrants. The New York Times reports during a meeting with Top Administration officials, President Trump claimed all haitians have aides and nigerians would never go back to their huts once they saw the United States. We start with at president s fbi attacks. Reporter good morning. Trumps tweets taking aim at several fbi officials, including Deputy Director Andrew Mccabe came with word that mccabe told senior fbi officials months ago that he was planning on retiring. The two sources fami
At the white house there is concern, deep concern, that Christopher Wray will quit, will resign in and around the release of this memo. We have been reporting for several days now that the fbi, the Justice Department as a whole and the fbi in particular has been arguing nonstop to the white house, to the hill that this is a terrible idea to release this russia memo. The white house of course and republicans on capitol hill argue back that they believe that that argument is because the fbi is concerned that it looks bad. Regardless, this is this is something that we are hearing which is noteworthy for many reasons, not the least of which is that Christopher Wray, we have to remember, was President Trumps pick for the fbi after he fired james comey. Right. I should also tell you, brooke, that i am told by a source familiar with this that chris wray has not directly said, you know, by the way, i might quit because thats not his style. Thats not something that he would do. Its just not how