was reopening the investigation just a week before the election and made that all known publicly and possibly influencing the election that way. this is something that is important, it s not about hillary clinton. it s about how the fbi conducted itself. we need to make sure that that is fixed. i will say this. i think christopher wray has gone a long way toward cleaning house there. if he keeps that up, that will restore a lot of confidence that the american people have that the department is taking a new tact. neil: you re talking about the fbi director, chris wray. and mccabe has made a big deal that his pension was denied at the last second. you think it should be denied? his pension is not entirely lost. i don t know all the ramifications of it. he s still entitled to a great portion of his pension. the fact of the matter is, i think attorney general sessions may the correct decision based
neil: all right. andrew mccabe in his role and leanings toward the hillary clinton campaign and against donald trump, that is the stuff that sort of judicial lore right now. but the house judiciary chairman, wrong goodlatte going further in his issuing of subpoenas. thanks for joining us. we don t know when the inspector general s report will be out on mccabe and the record he made, compromising and leaking certain data. seems to be a given that he did. you want to find out what with these subpoenas? well, we want to see everything that the inspector general has seen, which is we understand about 1.2 million documents. we re told in our conversations with the department and with the bureau that we don t need to see them because they don t pertain
upon reports that mccabe authorized leaks to the media and then gave false information about that during the investigation conducted by the inspector general. we will find out more about the report, but that is the appropriate step taken by the attorney general. there needed to be changes in personnel at the time of the fbi given all the other things that the inspector general has investigated and were investigating related to the fisa warrant applications and how they handled both the clinton and trump investigations during the campaign. neil: chairman goodlatte, thanks very much. good seeing you. thanks, neil. neil: we mentioned hillary clinton here. you know republicans have been criticized saying the comments she had bemoaning the fact that women were intimidated by husbands and boyfriends in voting for donald trump. democrats have had their fill of that big time as well.
directly to [ audio difficulties ] neil: we might have left that. what is at issue here, the role and the degree to which mccabe willy-nilly was leaking information that he shouldn t have and whether some of the e-mails and other information became available regarding hillary clinton may be painted a picture of bias much earlier than thought. something that the chairman has been looking into. through these subpoenas hopes to get more information. the fact of the matter is, we re a long way from that. to some democrats, it s been deemed to be a distraction. bob goodlatte, i apologize for the technical problems. is it your sense that this information will reinforce the view that there was a carbal against trump led by mccabe and others, an effort to express favoritism to her? what do you hope to find? well, we want to find out why it was that the fbi was
doubt on its integrity, has raised the prospect that he will in some way as you say short circuit it, fire robert mueller, et cetera, et cetera. it s a great mystery, unless one of two things is happening and i hate to make political analyst, amateur psychology. he just can t control himself. or two, there s some political benefit to him from doing this, that in some way this plays well to his base and will help chris: what about the fbi component of it? as has been pointed out, this wasn t jeff sessions going off on his own on mccabe, this was the inspector general and the office of professional responsibility. it wasn t jeff sessions who wrote the memos, it was it was these two lead fbi officials. there clearly was a problem, a bias inside the fb. there is something not kosher going on in the fbi. i think the white house, have yr