dowd, told the daily baste i pray that acting ag rosenstein will follow the brilliant and courageous example of the fbi office of professional responsibility and attorney general jeff sessions and bring an end to the alleged russia collusion investigation manufactured by mccabe s boss, jim comey, based upon a frad ewe lieutenant and corrupt dossier. when asking if dowd was speaking on behalf of the president, he said yes, but then he said later he was speak in his personal capacity and not on the president s behalf. if you have an innocent client, mr. dowd,@a act like it. if you believe, as we found, there s no evidence of collusion, you should want special counsel mueller to take all the time and have all the independence he needs to do his
professional responsibility has recommendation that he be dismissed. but to the average american, i think we owe it to the average american to have a hearing in the judiciary committee where mr. sessions, attorney general sessions comes forward, with whatever documentation he has about the firing and give mr. mccabe a cans to defend himself. i believe when it comes to this issue, we need as much transparency as possible and make sure it wasn t politically motivated. take a look at what the president s personal lawyer john dowd told cnn yesterday after mccabe was fired. quote, speaking for myself, not the president, i pray that acting attorney general rosenstein will follow the brilliant and courageous example of the fbi office of professional responsibility and attorney general jeff sessions and bring an end to alleged russia collusion investigation manufactured by james comey based on a fraudulent and corrupt dossier. just end it on the merits in light of recent revelations. obvious
influence pip pledge to the american people, as a republican, to make sure that mr. mueller can continue to do his job without any interference. i think he s doing a good job. and everything about mccabe and the fbi handling of the dossier has nothing to do with the russia investigation regarding mr. mueller. are you worried that the president is preparing to order the firing of mueller? it sure looks that way from his tweets. well, as i said before, if he tried to do that, that would be the beginning of the end of his presidency. because we re a rule of law nation. what i saw at the fbi and the department of justice regarding the dossier really bothered me. it was a paid political document, unverified, used inappropriately by the court, the two fbi agents investigating. clinton had a bias against trump in favor of clinton. all that needs to be looked at. that s why i want a separate, second special counsel. but when it comes to mr. mueller, he is following the evidence where it ta
any other conclusion. the president s lawyer, john dowd, said in response to mccabe s firing that the justice department should, quote, follow the brilliant and courageous example of the fbi office of professional responsibility and attorney general jeff sessions and bring an end to the alleged russia collusion investigation manufactured by mccabe s boss, james comey, unquote. again, there are a lot of factual misstatements in there. but let me ask you. you ve already said, based on president trump s suggesting the mueller probe should end, that you expect to see pushback. i don t know why you expect to see pushback, to be honest. i ve been watching congress now for the last year and with the exception of you and maybe ben sasse and john mccain, i haven t seen a lot of pushback from republicans. do you really think that mitch mcconnell and paul ryan will stand up and say, no, mr. president, you can t do this? i hope so. i mean, talking to my colleagues all along, it was, you know,,
do we want to be a banana republic, where every time someone leaves office, we re prosecuting the people who leaves office. i think it s a terrible thing and it s really hurt the fbi and it started with james comey, frankly. those are all cogent points, but quickly, would it bother you if the president ordered the firing of mueller? i wouldn t advocate for it, but i would have never advocated for the appointment of a special prosecutor. and people have asked me, should there be one for mccabe and peter strzok and lisa page? and i said, no, because i think what we ve discovered, first when they went after bill clinton, now they ve gone after president trump, that the prosecutor has too much power to do whatever they want. they re looking at people s tax returns from 20 years ago. i really think that the power is so unlimited that it s worrisome for the people on the receiving end. i think general flynn was treated unfairly. i think andrew mccabe did worse than general flynn, frankly