terribly surprising. it will be interesting to find out what triggered this moment today that nobody expected on friday would be happening today. that will be important for us to learn. but, you know, we just heard last week donald trump bragging to reporters when he went into john kelly s office and chatted with reporters how mccabe was the star of his campaign trail speeches. he loved to bring up his wife s connection to terry mcauliffe, the governor of virginia s pac and getting all that money, $500,000 to help her and questioning whether or not mccabe could be doing his job in some kind of honest and up-and-up fashion at the fbi. he would get big applause on the campaign trail for that. so you are right, donald trump has made no bones about how he feels about andy mccabe. james, to you, just pulling from all of your years at the fbi, is it possible he was just fed up and he said i m out, today? sure, brooke. what i m going to try to do is allay the fears on both ends of the pol
states! so, i think it speaks to the connection between these two guys, not only friends, similar backgrounds, similar age trump is three years older, both born and raised in and around new york city, trump in queens, o reilly on long island, but also sort of the approach that they take to life. if you listen to donald trump s campaign trail speeches, kate, and then you go and listen to bill o reilly in one of his segments where he just sort of talks to the camera, there s a whole lot of similarities there, and my suggestion is, it went o reilly to trump, not trump to o reilly, that trump borrowed from o reilly. i found that fascinating in your take on this, is that you argue essentially that o reilly laid the groundwork for a trump presidency. i mean, i think in a lot of ways he and i think roger ailes behind the scenes as sort of the architect of what fox stood for, did do so. the obvious things are the populism, the antielitism, the skewering of political directness, the need