people keep talking about the fbi and the doj, the judge vss e to say do we think our process is corrupt or not. they haven t said. director mccabe stepped down. we don t know all the reasons why this happened in the way it happened so suddenly. i think the key point just to go back to what phil was saying is now you have people in the administration, career people in the justice department, fbi who are being in a put in a position to take positions to defend their agents that aren t partisan positions or appear to be because they are locked in this fight with the white house. the deadline for the administration to implement sanctions for russia in its meddling. we have been waiting all day to see what they are doing, so far nothing. those who voted for sanctions, one would presume we could be hearing from them soon.
in the government. the president pushed him out. would dwrou that to a u.s. general or fbi agent? i don t like it. it smells bad. you have been doing a lot of reporting on this as well. what are you hearing? we are sort of trying to put the jigsaw pieces together. the new york times is reporting that there was some hints about the inspector general report containing something that the fbi director, chris wray didn t like and told mccabe and the whole thing sort of came to an end. if you take a step back and look at all of this, you will know that the president of the united states has been tweeting about andrew mccabe since last summer. jeff sessions, the attorney general went to chris wray, the fbi director and said, you know, you have to get rid of this guy. chris wray didn t like that. he went to the white house counsel, reportedly, don mcgahn
majority. now, to help in the president s law enforcement capacity because that s why we re doing this, congress created the justice department in 1870. it is part of the executive branch. that s the president s branch of government. the fbi was created nearly 40 years later. long standing protocol prempbve the department of justice being run by the president to preserve the impartiality of the investigations. the president has shown he s simply not happy with this arrangement. in a recent swipe tweeting the bureau s reputation is in tatters, the worst in history. talking specifically about the fbi. now, the fbi director chris wray didn t mention the president s name but he did tell agents in a memo he is inspired by example after example of professionalism and dedication to justice demonstrated around the bureau, it is an honor to represent you. this is a sentiment that s been echoed by james comey when he