we are hearing more from mccabe saying he was a target by the trump administration and says the president s tweets have amplified and exasperated it all. he called for my firing. he called for me to be stripped of my pension after 20 years of service. all along, we have said nothing, never wanting to distract from the fbi for the lies told about us. he went on to say this, every time it becomes clear i will play a significant role in the special counsel efforts, immediately after that, i get targeted and atacted by the president and his twitter account. a lot to talk about. let s break it down with our political analyst and professor of political science at cypress college, peter mathews and retired special agent at the
primary and tacted back to the center and started quoting reagan and lincoln. is he pulling fast one to say you supported the auto industry when you didn t? these guys find themselves in different cross hairs at different times. i think you have mitt romney making that play to seal the case going into ohio. joy, thanks for joining us. this is what i ve been hearing all night. i understand what you have to do when you re on the wrong side of the argument but the new argument anything he says is fine. anything he covers up is fine because this is an election two weeks from now. they say it s two weeks from now. it s the two-minute drill. you can say anything you want to say. that seems to be the argument tonight. i thought what steve was saying was extraordinary admission of how the political consultant world looks at election s that the content doesn t matter is long as he used this vacuum cleaner s approach.
primary and tacted back to the center and started quoting reagan and lincoln. is he pulling fast one to say you supported the auto industry when you didn t? these guys find themselves in different cross hairs at different times. i think you have mitt romney making that play to seal the case going into ohio. joy, thanks for joining us. this is what i ve been hearing all night. i understand what you have to do when you re on the wrong side of the argument but the new argument anything he says is fine. anything he covers up is fine because this is an election two weeks from now. they say it s two weeks from now. it s the two-minute drill. you can say anything you want to say. that seems to be the argument tonight. i thought what steve was saying was extraordinary admission of how the political consultant world looks at election s that the content
version. that s where doug mcelway will pick it up. reporter: the national restaurant association has released this statement. it says our outside counsel was contact tacted today and asked to provide our response to a proposed statement by tomorrow afternoon. we are currently reviewing the document and remand to respond tomorrow. that s the word of the senior vice president for the national restaurant association. so while the perry while the cain camp wants this thing to go away and put it to rest and move on with their campaign the drip, drip, drip continues. megyn: doug, thank you. kelly s court is back in session. on the docket today, awaiting jury deliberations in the manslaughter trial of michael jackson s doctor. the prosecution wrapping up its closing argument at this moment.
or whether bishops are his employees are not. that s it for this edition of hardball. keith olbermann starts right now. which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? amaze your friends, confuse your enemies. okay, just confuse everybody. today we re announcing the expansion of offshore oil and gas exploration. this is not a decision that i ve made lightly. the president attacked by the right for not drilling enough, attacked by the left for drilling at all, atacted by both sides for contradicting himself from the campaign. and for what? the maximum yield on this, 63 billion barrels of oil. we use seven billion barrels of oil per year. the likely return on this, a fraction of that may be as little as two weeks supply. drill, barack, drill. the republicans for