Counsel Robert Muellers investigation into russia election meddling. The president praising the move Jeff Sessions but some lawmakers are siding with mccabe calling his firing vindictive and political. It did not just happen. It has been on the table a while. The president has expressed himself and it appears the department of justice and attorney general was responded to the president. We have news coverage, ellison barber is live from the white house. We been with Garrett Tenney live from our Washington Bureau with the very latest. Hello Andrew Mccabe is firing back at the Trump Administration over the dismissal. He claims it was done at the one of the president in an effort to discredit the former fbi Deputy Director in the Robert Mueller investigation. In a Statement Last night mccabe said heres a reality. I am being singled out and treated this way because of the role that i played, the actions he took and the events that i witnessed in the aftermath of the firing of james comey.
Wavelength. The relationship has been very good. That is what i need in a secretary of state. Wall street journal columnist dan henninger, mary kissel and Columnist Bill mcgurn. What do you make of the pompeo for tillerson change. It is the beginning of donald trump saying he is beginning to assemble the cabinet he would feel comfortable with. We went to mr. Trump to feel comfortable with the people around him. I think in some ways the Rex Tillerson issue was really unique. With mike pompeo he is getting someone who is on the same page with him. Rex tillerson was not on the same page with two institutions, the president with whom he disagreed on climate change, that yearend nuclear deal and north korea but also he went to a great extent alienated from his own state department. This is not a place a secretary of state wants to be so it is no surprise he is leaving the government. Often a secretary of state becomes a prisoner of the state department and is at war with other elements of t