venality, moral turpitude and political corruption becomes known, you will take your place in the dust bin of history. you may scapegoat andy mccabe, but you will not destroy america. america will triumph over you. that apparently directed towards the president of the united states. your reaction to that? well, here s my reaction to the whole mccabe thing. first, we haven t seen the inspector general report. so i can t speak to whether or not mr. mccabe was completely truthful or was he evasive in that investigation. i simply don t know. but this firing looks a bit forced, a bit rushed. candidly, it looks like retribution and a bit vindictive. i think it s unfortunate. the man said he was resigning, and on a friday night, before his 50th birthday, you know, he s fired to take away his pension. i don t like the optics of this. i really don t. and i have to tell you, it looks like the attorney general may have been browbeaten into this.
had a total of seven directors. i served under four of them. the first one was like 48 years for j. edgar hoover, and he died, ironically, a couple of weeks before the watergate break-in. during all those times, all those other directors, most of the presidents that they served under had a healthy respect and maintained that distance and that apolitical mean of the fbi. this is the first time where a president has actually put an fbi director on notice and put him back on heels. you go to the march 30th telephone call that s chronicled in this, and he brings up andy mccabe, the current director of the fbi right now, the acting director, who is the deputy director, and it s almost like he s putting him on notice and saying, remember, i didn t weigh in on the mccabe thing, dot, dot, dot. let me read a little bit from that march 30 phone call, because i think that s a really interesting part of this testimony. it s talking about how trump asked him to lift the cloud of this investigatio
one was, it creates a duty to correct, which i have lived before and you want to be very careful about doing that, second, it s a slippery slope, because if we say the president and the vice president aren t under investigation, what s the principle basis for stopping? so the leadership at justice acting attorney general said you are not going to do that. on march 30th during the phone call about general flynn. you say he abruptly shifted and brought up something you quote/unquote called the mccabe thing. specifically the mccabe thing that you understood it was mccabe s wife received campaign money from what i assume means kerry mcauliffe. yes, sir. very close to the clintons. so had the president at any point in time expressed to you concern, open six, potential opposition to mccabe, i don t like this guy because he got money from someone close to clinton? he had asked me during previous conversations about andy mccabe and said, in essence, how is he going to be