unrelenting assault he was subjected to at the hand of the president. you mentioned the tweet the president sent back in december where he said time s running out for mccabe to leave with full benefits. joyce mentioned the fact that sarah sanders referred to him as a bad actor this past week without any evidence. and as we reported earlier, the president directly and private asked mccabe who he voted for in the 2016 election. in a separate instance, the day after the president fired comey, he called mccabe to ask why comey was allowed to fly back from los angeles to d.c. on a fbi plane and when the president wasn t satisfied with his answer, he said ask your life what it is like to be a loser. he was referring to the to his wife and she was running as a democrat. the president often points to that as a fact suggesting that the fbi or mccabe is somehow biased in his role. although, the facts don t
how could and rue mccabe and leaky man or the fake hillary clinton investigation be given $700,000 for his wife s campaign by clinton puppets during the investigation. just for clay clarity it was a terry mcauliffe political action committee. next frame which says, fbi deputy director andrew mccabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits. 90 days to go? three exclamation points. jeremy bass out if america, if a defendant gets a bad dose of publicity a talented lawyer will move for a change of venue, get it out of there and then try it in a nearby community. you can t go anywhere in this country with a president who has openly attacking a civil servant on twitter. that s right, brian. and for you to believe that andy mccabe s firing is on the level, you have to believe it was
don t know what s in it. and then they ll look again at what andy mccabe says, his justification for his conduct and i suspect that they ll make a sort of baseline decision as to whether they think the firing was warranted. it s important to so many people to not have noted that even if the firing was justified, its this political context that was force the special counsel to contemplate whether this is more evidence of obstruction. mccabe was the person that jim comb my came back to and shared his impression and initial meetings with the president, with mccabe. mccabe will be a key witness of comey as the mueller investigation moves forward. the president with this consistent twitter against mccabe is perceived by special counsel as an effort at the white house to marginalize a
his testimony. whether it would ever come to his testimony being in court or somewhere else, i just don t know. but that s certainly the way mccabe ceasees it. pete, does this investigation go forward in terms of how partisan it is? is there anything you see that can derail it? well, i don t think it s any more partisan today than it was yesterday or the day before in terms of all the things being said about it. so no, i don t think this is going to have a big effect on the mueller investigation. i think they re well aware of all the events that we re now hearing about. to the extent that mccabe has notes and things that he can say, i m sure he s already said them to the special counsel. i would be very surprised if he hasn t. of course, geoff, the president praising this decision on twitter to fire mccabe. any sense of the mood in the white house right now? reporter: well, folks in the west wing are referring to all questions about this to the president s outside counsel. we o
this past week has really been marked by talk of staff shake-ups. of course we ended the day yesterday with the thinking that something might happen with h.r. mcmaster, given all the talk about his fate. of course we come to find out it was actually andy mccabe who d ended up being on the chopping block. thank you, geoff and pete. betsy woodruff joins me, politics reporter for the daily beast, and johnathan lamere, an msnbc political analyst. both of your entities have pretty big breaking news including you specifically, betsy, you were the first to break this story. so walk us through your own reporting and what did john dowd tell you. i reached out to john dowd as soon as the news broke involving andy mccabe being fired from the fbi. dowd responded over e-mail and told me he basically gave me two pieces of information. first he told me that he believed the decision that the attorney general had made to fire andy mccabe was brilliant