campaign trail. rough on mccabe? by his own account, he said he was rough on mccabe and mrs. mccabe on the campaign trail. how is he going to be? i shared with the president, andy is a pro. no issue at all. you have to know people of the fbi. they re not so the president turns to you and says, remember, i never brought up the mccabe thing because you said he was a good guy, did you perceive that to be a statement that, i took care of you. i didn t do something because you told me he was a good guy. so i m asking you potentially for something in return. is that how you perceived it? i wasn t sure what to make of it. that s possible. it was so out of context i didn t have a clear view of what it was. on a number of occasions here, you bring up let s talk about the general russia investigation, okay? page 6 of your testimony you say, the first thing you say is, he asked what we could do to, quote, unquote, lift the cloud, the general russia investigation, you responded, we a
i know were heartfelt, know that there are some in the administration who tried to smear your reputation, you had acting director mccabe in public testimony a few weeks back, and in public testimony yesterday reaffirm that the vast majority fbi community had great trust in your leadership, and obviously trust in your integrity. i want to go through a number of the meetings that you referenced in your testimony, and let s start with the january 6th meeting in trump tower. where you went up with a series of officials to brief the president-elect on the russia investigation. my understanding is you remained afterwards to brief him on again some personally sensitive aspects of the information you relaid. now you said after that briefing you felt compelled to document that conversation that you actually started documenting it
correct, which i ve lived before, and you want to be careful about doing that, and second, it is a slippery slope. if we say the president and the vice president aren t under investigation. what is the principled investigation for stopping? the acting attorney general said, you re not going to do that. on march 30th during the phone call about general flynn, you said he abruptly shifted and brought up something that you call, quote, unquote, the mccabe thing. specifically, the mccabe thing as you understood it was that mccabe s wife had received campaign money from what i assume means terry mckoccolloug? yes. close to the clintons. did he say, i don t like this guy because he got money from someone close to clinton? he asked me about mccabe and said, how is he going to be with me as president? i was rough on him on the