above the fbi and the attorney general and beyond her. i think that story s going to continue to unfold. my experience back in the watergate years when i was first running for congress is these things kind of unravel and each week you learn something new and that leads you to something new and that leads you to something new and i think the report on mccabe is just one more piece of the unraveling and frankly the peter struck stuff may be as important as the mccabe stuff. based on the initial topics we re getting copies we re getting of text messages he clearly had some kind of relationship with the drug who they went to for the fisa warrant to go after general flynn. i think that puts in doubt the entire process of flynn s case and begins to set up an argument for giving flynn a pardon and he racing that entire case. maria: the other thing is the fact that theyer redacted that. so they have a coverings on text about the fact that the judge is
that s right. and mccabe now has to become a real courage spokesperson about what s going on in america. it s absolutely unacceptable the way this has gone down this woke, the way donald trump is taunting people, the way that he is humiliating ourselves internationally. we have the stormy daniels situation brewing. he is a president that s coming unglued. he is not right in personality or in thought or in action. and we did see that with nixon when the pressure of watergate came on, when nixon would bark all sorts of odd orders to people. and people didn t follow them. this time around people followed them. and the person that let us down is jeff sessions, the attorney general either needed to recuse himself, don, or not played into this political hit job that donald trump has just done on mccabe. in fbi history to have this happen, you know to a man of that distinguished caliber and to be treated in this shabby way, and the way rex tillerson was treated this week, it s
and the office of inspector general. now, these are supposed to be nonpartisan entities. jeff sessions, the attorney general, who s trying to hang on to his job, he s also been targeted by the president for not doing more on mccabe, was the one who made this decision. so certainly an interesting scenario when you look at that. the amount of pressure, the amount of public pressure that the president has been putting on him to fire andrew mccabe, don. i want you to standby. josh campbell joins us, former fbi, law enforcement analyst on cnn. what s your take on this? don, what a profile in courage. here we are late in the wee hours here, evening of friday night, racing the clock until, you know, true public servant has the opportunity to retire. now we see he s been fired. let me distinguish between two quick points if i can. first of all, i ve been on
he is a president coming unglued. he is not right in personality or in thought or in action. and we did see that with nixon when the pressure of watergate came on, when nixon would bark all sorts of odd orders to people. and people didn t follow them. this time around people followed them. and the person that let us down is jeff sessions, the attorney general either needed to recuse himself, don, or not played no the political hit job that donald trump has done on mccabe. and in fbi history to have this happen, you know to a man of that distinguished caliber and to be treated in this shabby way, and the way rex tillerson was treated this week, it s something die bol cal about it and i hope people are weigh up to donald trump s total fear of the mueller investigation. here is what the fbi agents association released a statement momentsing a. i ll read this for you chris and
his successful business entities, part of that was him saying that if you re not effective in your role, he s not afraid to push you out. yet, there are a lot of people reacting to mix-up in the white house as it has been called negatively, what s your position on the mix-up itself if you believe the premise that these people may not be affected and the president simply delivering on campaign promise to mix it up. there s always shake-up at the white house. not only this administration but there seems to be significant amount this year and appear that is we are in the midst of another round of firings and departures. eboni: are departures okay, steven, on the basis of wrongdoing or lack of effectiveness as the reporting on mccabe certainly continues, let s put mccabe on back burner because there s so much we don t know. the why becomes very important i would imagine as to why some of these people are being booted.