mccabe. according to the new york times, lawyers for the former deputy fbi director just met with doj attorneys which could indicate a possible indictment. a source tells fox news mccabe has had a, quote, target on his back since an inspector general report revealed his involvement in the clinton email investigation and surveillance warrant against the trump administration. mccabe was ousted from the agency last year. he is suing the fbi and doj over his firing, much more to come on that. and her mccabe remains front and center of the probe into how the russia investigation began. former congressman jason chaffetz says mccabe s corruption runs deep. he did something most other federal employees never do. he got fired for cause, not only recommendation from the inspector general for lying and misleading them and not telling the truth to them, the lack of
on absolutely solid ground in an indelible fashion that were i removed quickly or reassigned or fired, that the case could not be closed or vanish in the night without a trace. i wanted to make sure that our case was on solid ground. investigative source told fox news mccabe was fired last march for committing three violations of the f.b.i. ethics code included lack of candor under oath, lack of candor not under oath and the improper disclosure of non-public information to the media about the f.b.i. s investigation into the clinton foundation. mccabe s case is with the u.s. attorney here in washington, d.c., sandra. sandra: what s the d.o.j. s response. the last few minute the statement was issued by the justice department and it says deputy attorney general rod rosenstein never authorized a recording or invoking of the 25th amendment. on its face it stops short of denying these issues were ever discussed. it reads in part the deputy
weekend. ellison, as you know, you have reported earlier, that mr. rosenstein is denying the allegations saying that if he said that, he said it in jest. it was a cheeky comment. right. so the big question right now seems to be less did he say it and more how did he say it? the report in the new york times says that those suggestions were serious ones. they write this, quote, it is not clear how determined rosenstein was about seeing them through, he did tell andrew mccabe, that he might be able to persuade attorney general sessions and john kelly to mount an effort to invoke the 25th amendment. a source in the room when rosenstein s initial comments were made told fox news they were made sarcastically. other outlets are reporting that as well. a senior doj official who has direct knowledge of the meeting from rosenstein and others, they told fox news mccabe and rosenstein were having a heated conversation, essentially going back and forth with mccabe saying that rosenstein who
oversees the russia probe, was getting in the way of aggressively investigating the administration. that back and forth the source claims that rosenstein said what do you want me to do, andy? wear a wire? another source familiar with memos related to this meeting, some that were reportedly drafted by mccabe, they tell fox news that reporting in the new york times is accurate and that it was mccabe s thinking that the comments were not made in jest. mr. rosenstein says, quote, the new york times story is inaccurate and factually incorrect. i will not further comment on a story based on anonymous sources who are obviously biassed against the department and advancing their own personal agenda. but let me be clear about this, based on my personal dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25th amendment. democrats are already warning the president about firing rosenstein, saying that that would not be a good idea. arthel? arthel: ellison barber, thank you very much for th
they have been working on some time as well because they feel like the fbi forthcoming that the investigations that the hill is pursuing. chief washington correspondent james rosen joins me now with his exclusive report about what he learned about what happened inside that classified briefing yesterday. hi, james. martha, good evening, house investigators tell fox news they are readying fresh subpoenas for next week to be issued against a range of justice department and fbi personnel following yesterday s closed door marathon interrogation of the fbi s number two official. deputy director andrew mccabe faced intense questioning on his and the bureau s work last year with the infamous anti-trump dossier salacious and unverified accusations about trump and his associates that g.o.p. lawmakers believed was used to obtain surveillance on the trump campaign advisor. sources close to the investigation tell fox news mccabe said he couldn t recall when he learned that the dolls yea was fun