and seems to believe thoempl our intelligence and now he gives us another example. if he s not a russian asset, he s sure playing one on tv. what do you make of the breaking news that rosenstein is on his way out. i believe the administration on this. he did put out that when the new attorney general was sworn in and he seems to, from press reports, have a candidate to be the new deputy attorney general so i think actually they re telling the truth on this. if what he said is true and president trump did believe vladimir putin, would that concern you? a lot of ifs here. with all due respect, i think this is a little bit of icing on the cake here on mr. mccabe. of course an obama appointee at the office of personal responsibility of the justice department recommended his firing. the inspector general report on
general who as we know wrote that memo that ultimately the president used as a way to fire the former fbi director and just their interaction and then rod rosens rosenstein s explanation that rod didn t think that he needed to do it and ultimately he didn t do that but when you look at what mccabe says he painted this entire picture of an fbi and department of justice that was just in such turmoil because they really didn t know what was next and that s perhaps why, as he described, why rod rosenstein offered to wear this wire to go see the president. so i could get in there he says. they wouldn t search me so i could get in there with the wire and then the whole issue of the 25th amendment. so it s just this back and forth. this back and forth between them for this several day period. it was one of the most fascinating things to give us a look inside of a period.
i believe putin, he said. quite an account. it s not sitting well with the president that called mccabe a disgrace. mccabe has plenty to say as you ll see when he joins us tomorrow night on the program. so what else did he have to say in the interview last night? so anderson, it was the first time that we get to hear from him on the record, talking about his interaction during the several day period where it appeared things were extremely chaotic after the firing of the former fbi director james comey. mccabe told us it was he who decided to launch this counter intelligence investigation into the president because he had feared that the president was compromised by russia. he ordered the obstruction investigation and really one of the things that i found most fascinating was how he described his interaction with rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney
russia or china, a serious one, the president and the country are going to need the intelligence community and relying exclusively on his gut poses a real threat to this country and to his presidency. his gut and whatever vladimir putin is whispering to him. exactly. director clapper, good to talk to you. thank you. just got this in from an official at the justice department. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein is expected to leave the justice department in mid march. the timing of his departure has anything to do with the latest revelations from andrew mccabe. emphasizing that the plan is always that he would help for the transition for his successor and then leave. the new deputy attorney general could be announced as early as this week. joining us right now is the republican strategy and democratic strategist and former ci chief of russia investigations. so the white house says andrew mccabe has no credibility. it s not like he s alleging