protect himself or his businesses or his associates, then he has more of a problem. and i am certain that the special counsel s office is trying to find out about these discussions and what sort of pressure was brought to bear on chris wray. row naugenato, president tru insistence the mccabes are allies of the clintons and he believes that tainted the fbi investigation into the clinton e-mails. trump tweeted in july, why didn t sessions replace acting fbi director andrew mccabe, a comey friend in charge of the clinton investigation, but got big dollars, $700,000, for his wife s political run from hillary clinton and her representatives, drape the swamp. does president trump have a legitimate gripe here? should andrew mccabe and his wife s political aspirations be kept separate? i have to say i think that he doesn t have a legitimate political gripe here. and more importantly, i just think what he s doing here is
director is supposed to be independent from any politics, any political pressure. so certainly this is not the kind of story that the white house would want, given everything especially that happened with the former fbi director, james comey. pamela, thank you for being a trouper, we reesht you running in at the last moment, thank you so much. let s discuss this now. cnn s breaking news, national security analyst steve hollis, cnn legal analyst page pate, let s discuss. interesting reporting here by axios that pamela reported on. former fbi director james comey tweeted about this, he said, good to read reports of people standing up for what they believe in, the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. that s by obviously dr. martin luther king jr., a quote there. what do you think the reaction would have been if wray had resigned over the pressure to fire mccabe?
the president appointed chris ray because he is a man of true character and integrity and the right choice to clean up the misconduct at the highest levels of the fbi and give the rank and file confidence in their leadership. so there you see the statement, don, clearly the white house isn t denying this reporting that wray felt pressure, the fbi director felt pressure from the attorney general sessions. and was upset about it. the white house not denying that. it s up clear, parts of this unclear in terms of that he had he was the right choice to clean up the misconduct at the highest levels of the fbi. it seems as though they re talking about andy mccabe, the deputy fbi director who s expected to retire very soon. so i think that does tell you something there, don. yeah, it certainly does. is you can hear, pamela, pamela ran to a studio to get us to at the top show, we know you re out
of breath. let s be transparent about it. thank you for getting here, this is new reporting to get on the air, we wanted to put you in front of the camera and have you report it. pamela, the white house, are they worried about the optics of the second fbi director being fired and inn trump s first year? was that a big concern there? according to the axios reporting, there was concern of pressuring wray and concern that perhaps wray would leave his job and the optics of two fbi directors leaving within the same year. i think that the white house certainly was gun shy after james comey was fired. the former fbi director. and just sort of the media firestorm that caused. i think the white house doesn t want another one of those. and the optics aren t good for the white house. the idea that the second fbi director under president trump s administration has felt political pressure is certainly not a good thing. when you think about the fbi