russia when he fired the director, we then had in our hands undeniable facts that clearly formed an air tickable basis to believe a federal crime may have been committed and a threat to national security might exist. and that is the standard that the fbi must reach before you open a full investigation. i watch enough fox to have this question on my brain, and it s probably not a healthy exercise for me mentally, but do you i worked 2349 white house and we would sometimes red team orselves. can you red team the opposite? what would the case be for naught asking these questions, why does donald trump meet alone in the oval office with kislyak and labbov and not have american press in there? why does donald trump not defend the soviet invasion of afghanistan, something modern russians don t even do anymore? why does donald trump meet with putin five times and have no
whether donald trump was actually a russian agent became tangible enough for a counterintelligence investigation to be opened into the sitting president. nine days known to be of interest to robert s. mueller. nine days that forever changed the life and career of our guests this hour, former deputy director and former acting director of the fbi, andrew mccabe. day one, may 9, james comey is fired. two days later trump sits down with lester holt and said russia was on his mind when he fired comey. that same day we learned the new york times trump asked comey for a royalty pledge in a dinner. comey wouldn t give the president what he wanted. day four trump tweets, james comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. day seven, we learned from the washington post trump revealed highly classified information to russian officials in the oval office. we would later learn in that
confirmed with andy in the greenroom that the obstruction case was not separate either. he added that to the existing cia case. so anyone trying to close that is closing an obstruction case on the president. you re down like an fbi rabbit hole. pull back out for me and explain like the significance in terms of what was handed over to mueller. two big open cases, one a counterintelligence case, one an obstruction case? negative. one, big fat counterintelligence case. there were never two exactly. that includes an element now of obstruction on the president, includes all known facts involving russia meddling with the campaign, and has the name donald h. trump added to the subject line. knock yourself out, director mueller. and matt can explain why that almost had to happen, almost had to be a special counsel case at the point you added the president to it. this has been a week of all of these revelations changing everything we thought we knew
standard practice isf five days for that kind of loan to be cleared and approved. you re looking at november 13th when the wheels were set into motion for this attack. if you look at the calendar, it s hard not to draw the following data point, november 13th were the massacres in paris. very interesting details. great work. thank you. donaldh trump s opponents slamming the ban. some folks think he s onto something. almost every single person, unless you re a native american. we need a better system to screen them. what we re using isn t working. a lot of people come into this country legally and illegally. we re not vetting them properly. we don t know what they re intentions truly are. we should have a stricter law. that s the thing about it.