his story deranged. here are the tweets. the president says he was fired for lying and now his story gets even more deranged. he and hod rosenstein look like they were planning a very illegal act. this was illegal and treason. an insurance policy in full action. missing in the criticism is the point that mccabe points that the president s own behavior, his own statements so startled fbi officials that they took the unprecedented step of launching the investigation and at least brooch broached the notion of using the 25th amendment. the doj is reacting with some new comments out this morning. doj official tells us this. it says this special counsel was appointed to ensure that the russia investigation was truly infeint and without bias. something that mccabe could not have accomplished. look, there is fallout for both sides. for andy mccabe, it looks like there s a congressional hearing in his future.
discussion of the 25th amendment was simply rod raised the issue and discussed it with me in the context of thinking about how many other cabinet officials might support such an effort. president trump firing back in a tweet this morning. wow, so many lies by now disgraced acting fbi director andrew mccabe. he was fired for lying, and now his story gets even more rod r jeff sessions, another beauty, looked like they were planning a very illegal act and got caught. nbc news chief correspondent pete williams joins me now. what have we heard from the doj about this? let s start with the president s tweet, craig. first of all, they weren t caught in this. this has all come from andrew mccabe. remember, this isn t the first time we ve heard this. the new york times reported this last fall.
this, wow, so many lies by now disgraced acting fbi director andrew mccabe. he was fired for lying and now his story gets more deranged. he and rod rosenstein, hired by jeff sessions, another beauty, looked like they were planning a very illegal act and got caught. there s a lot of skplaniexplain do to the millions of people who had just elected a president that they really like. sorry. and who has done a great job for them with the military, vets economy and so much more. this is the illegal and treasonous insurance policy in full! if you re in your car. and mccabe also spoke about the level alarm in the fbi over trump s actions around james comey s firing and why those actions led him to open that counterintelligence investigation into the president. the idea is if the president committed obstruction of justice, fired the director of