Doug mckelway has the latest tonight on all of this breaking news. Good evening, doug. Good evening, ed. Former Deputy Director of the fbi, Andrew Mccabes retirement and pension said to be worth 1. 8 million was to have taken effect at 12 01 sunday morning. Now its gone. He was just fired before 10 00 p. M. Tonight. Jeff sessions wrote and i quote the Departments Office of professional responsibility provided the report on misconduct to the fbi. The opr reviewed the report and underlying documents and issued a disciplinary proposal recommending the dismissal of mr. Mccabe. As the opr proposal said, all fbi employees know that lacking candor results in dismissal and our integrity is our brand. Based on the report of the special general, i terminated employment of mccabe immediately. Mr. Mccabe is not taking it quietly. Hes fighting back. Hes no doubt worried about criminal prosecution. He writes the last 1 1 2 years, my family and i have been the targets of an unrelenting assault on our
Its a obviously tough time for him. He did a very good job when he was in the white house, and we hope he has a wonderful career and hopefully he will have a great career ahead of him. But it was very sad when we heard about it, and certainly hes also very sad. Now, he also, as you probably know, he says hes innocent. And i think you have to remember that. He said very strongly yesterday that hes innocent. So youll have to talk to him about that, but we absolutely wish him well. Did a very good job while he was at the white house. Notice what President Trump never mentioned. Not one single word about either of the women accusing rob porter of abuse. One of his exwives Jennifer Willoughby was on the today show this morning and recounted one violent episode. Lets watch. We had been fighting, and rob followed me to the shower and pulled me out of the shower to continue the rage and immediately saw how scared i was and recognized what he was doing and released it, but that was a moment whe
Russias goals were to undermine public faith in the u. S. Democratic process, denigrate secretary clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess putin and the russian government developed a clear preference for president elect trump. We have high confidence in these judgments. High confidence in these judgments. High confidence. That from the very people charged with protecting our democracy. And theres more. The office of the director of National Intelligence putting out a statement tonight, standing by their assessment. So are republicans on the House Intel Committee more concerned with protecting the president than protecting our democracy . In a moment, im going to talk to a top democrat on that committee. And ill get the former director of National Intelligence to weigh in on all of this, as well. Plus, well have the latest in the saga of the president and the porn star. President trump really seems to have met his match with stephanie clifford, aka
Intelligence communitys assessment that putin was trying to help the Trump Campaign over Hillary Clinton. The Intel Community could not have been clearer. And this is a quote. Russias goals were to undermine public faith in the u. S. Democratic process, denigrate secretary clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess putin and the russian government developed a clear preference for president elect trump. We have high confidence in these judgments. High confidence in these judgments. High confidence. That from the very people charged with protecting our democracy. And theres more. The office of the director of National Intelligence putting out a statement tonight, standing by their assessment. So are republicans on the House Intel Committee more concerned with protecting the president than protecting our democracy . In a moment, im going to talk to a top democrat on that committee. And ill get the former director of National Intelligence to weigh in on
General rosenstein and dan coates and all that led up to it including the deal it ended with. The question being drgs the president himself blink . Lets take a look at what this incident amounts to because keeping them honest, we know what this is. Weve seen this before from president trump, his surrogates and others when special counsel mueller makes a move. Here are the immediate details. Late today the president met with wray, rosenstein and coats about his demand that the Justice Department investigate whether the fbi infiltrated or surveilled his campaign. Though it was scheduled a while back, this meeting, it followed this tweet yesterday from the president. I here by demand and will do so tomorrow that the department of justice look into whether the fbi doj infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for political purposes. And if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration. The meeting ended with agreeing to a concession that he had flowed