our brand, based on the report now, the inspector general i have terminated the employment of andrew mccabe effective immediately. now mccabe is not taking this quietly. in the his own statement. he s fighting back as well he might. he is no doubt worried about criminal prosecution or perhaps a lawsuit in the future to, gain his pension back. he writes for the last year and a half my family and i have been the targets of an unrelenting a assault on our reputation and my service to the country. articles two numerous to count have leveled every false, defamtory degration. the president tweets have amplified and exacerbated it all. he called for my firing. the oig focus on me became part of an unprecedented part of the administration, driven by the president myself to remove me from my position. destroy my reputation and possibly strip me of a pension i
would go forward. the latest on the justice department, the fbi and all of the action. former deputy director pension said to be $1 spoken 8 million was set to take effect at 12:01 sunday morning. he was fired tonight. jeff sessions wrote the department provided allegations of misconduct by andrew mccabe to the fbi office of responsibility. the fbi opr reviewed the report and underlying document issues anded a disciplinary proposal. recommending the dismissal of mr. mccabe. as the opr proposal. all fbi employees know lacking candor under oath results in dismissal and our integrity is
peter is on the gun squad now, as we call it. then when the facts are determined and they go through the process of recommendation and action taken. it takes a little while. it seems bureaucratic, but it is a fair way of doing it. it is not a court of law. it is basically internal affairs doing what they do. so i can understand that process. but there s a sense from the public s point of view that there is prim fascia evidence of wrongdoing and bureaucrats are slow walking it. it is like lossis learner what penalty she pays becomes more mysterious and opaque and less, real meaning as the months and years roll by. i happen to think that the i.g.s final report will be impactful. far more than any of these congressional investigations, which basically go nowhere and are political theater.
warfare is the public release of the ig report, which sparked this firing in the first place. it is expected to be released any day now. the inspector gem is respected. known to be thorough, and fair and long-time analysts say there must be more in this report that is yet undisclosed. further damaging evidence of mccabe s wrongdoing to have resulted in such a punitive outcome as this. the loss of mr. mccabe s 21 years of pension. worth an estimated again $1.8 million. a lot of people waiting for that report. doug, thanks for that live report. now reaction breaking news that attorney general jeff sessions has terminated the former fbi director. let s bring in the senior advisor to the donald trump 2020 re-election campaign and bernie carrick with the law enforcement perspective. mercedes countien a criminal defense attorney and fox legal analyst and jesse weber at the
work 21 years to earn. the accelerated release of the report and the punitive actions taken in response make sense only when viewed through this lens. this attack on my credibility is one part of a larger effort, not just to slander me personally but to taint the fbi, law enforcement, and intelligence professionals more generally. . so, what do we have here now? we have a major league washington mess on our hands. whenever divisions existed between the two parties and congress will likely grow deeper now. with republicans calling for a second special council. itplycates the mission of the first special council and sets up competing prosecutions with muller pongsly investigated by a second council, whomever that may be, indeed it happens as some republicans want it to happen. it does by attorney general jeff sessions some time. it had been rumored his head was on trump s chopping block. this may have spared him. absolutely vital to any resolution of this ongoing