from being on his feet. dr. scholl s. born to move. all right. one last question for our dream team here. paul fishman, i m going to start with you. we know the president, because he s very bright and has great taste, he watch as lot of cable news. on the off chance he s watching right now, if the president is watching right now and you could give him one small piece of advice, what would you tell him? to lower the temperature. i would tell him to stop taking shots at it fbi and stop taking shots at the special counsel. i think it s not going to help him with the investigators and
confidence when they re deciding cases across it country? i think this is antilaw enforc enforcement and criminal. when barb says this is going to be nation wide implications, across law enforcement. this is not in a corridor conflict. does that ring for you? i m concerned about the morale. as barb mentioned you have dedicated men and women that do a great job no matter who s in the white house. it s not a red or blue way to be an fbi agent. but to serve. it really strikes at it morale of going in every day and doing the great work on behalf of the country. when you hear these rumblings. who can fire the director? i mean obviously we ve seen this. the president. could the attorney general fire the fbi director?
they do. very pliticized controversy about text messages between lisa page was an fbi lawyer. fbi lawyer and a senior fbi counterintelligence official peter struck and lisa page ands it rr a lot of controversy as to why their personal texett messas to each other were made public. he was reportedly taken toff mueller investigation when the inh inspector general became aware of a these text messages, showed them to for had mueller and that was the end off peter struck s time on the investigation. what does a countersenior intelligence officer do? i ve seen the americans. so i think i m a genius about these things. but being the number two official in the fbi in counterintelligence. what does he do?
potential solution. the court house doors of america are open to every citizen. every single court house is open to the public. go watch a trial. watch these men and women testify. you can decide for yourself. you don t have to believe us. you can decide for yourself whether or not the fbi is in tatters. i can tell you it s an extraordinary, bright, proud organization. so what happens when we get an attack like this on the fbi? obviously i hear you say you re worried about morale given the important national security work as an agency but what s it consequence? we all at this table agree it s a dangerous thing. but i don t know what happens because of it. and i don t know if i should be worried about what the fbi, as a very powerful agency, night do to stand up for itself when it
very, very angry. the president also said he was going to rebuild the fbi after describeing it fbi as a disgrace said we re going to rebuild it. joining us is our all-star group of u.s. former attorneys thank you all for doing this. so the president did go hammer and tongs against the fbi. described it fbi as a disgrace. said we re going to rebuild the it fbi. i want to add to that the fact that republican congressman, head of the oversight committee. he said last night he would be quote a little bit surprised if fbi deputy director mccabe is still an employee of the fbi this time next week. he was asked about his expected testimony in congress and basically said he expects him to be fired before next week. with the fbi under this kind of political attack, i know they re always described as independent