Attack on the fbi and his credibility and claims its part of the president s ongoing war against the fbi and the special counsels russia investigation. Lets bring in now cnn justice correspondent laura jarrett. So laura, where should you begin . I think we should start with the memos. Its a pretty Important Development here, fred. We reported yesterday that Andrew Mccabe had a series of conversations with the president back in may when he served as acting director of the fbi, where the president berated him, heckled him about his wifes failed state Senate Campaign back in 2015, even going as far as calling her a loser, repeatedly calling it a mistake. We learned mccabe has documented at least some of his conversations with the president in a series of memos. We dont know exactly what he said in those memos. We dont know what period of time they span. But theyre certainly significant as we all remember james comeys memos have become an important part of the mueller investigation. Theres litigation over publicizing them. You can imagine mccabe, now the number two in command, also has memos, is significant. Mccabe is also not holding back in his firing, breaking his silence with cnn on his interactions with the president , breaking his silence in a public statement, last night, a brifterring one, saying, in part, that here he was heckled for years and that he was singled out and treated this way because of the role i played, the actions i took and the events i witnessed in the aftermath of the firing of james comey. Now, obviously attorney general Jeff Sessions has a very different explanation of why mccabe had to be terminated immediately. Cnn had reported earlier this week that the fbi had recommended his firing based on results from the Inspector General who found that he misled investigators about his role in directing two other fbi officials, talking about an Ongoing Investigation into the Clinton Family foundation back in 2016. For the first time, sessions confirmed some of those findings late friday night, saying in part those internal reports concluded that mr. Mccabe had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor. Including under oath on multiple occasions. Mccabe tells cnn he did absolutely nothing wrong and if there were any discrepancies, he proactively reached back to investigators to clear things up. Clearly those efforts did not work. Hes now out of a job with a significant portion of his early retirement and possibly medical benefits now gone, fred. Also incredible was that lacking of candor, that from the attorney general sessions who on many occasions said i dont recall while testifying. Thats true. Interesting. All right, laura jarrett, thank you so much. In the wake of mccabes firing, President Trumps attorney is now calling for an end to the russia investigation. John dowd, a personal attorney to mr. Trump, says he is praying that Rod Rosenstein follows what he said is a courageous example set by Jeff Sessions and ends the mueller probe. We should add that dowd says he is speaking for himself, not for the president. There were two different statements in the second statement, offering that clarity, speaking for himself. Cnns Boris Sanchez is at the white house for us. So boris, elaborate. The president s personal attorney suggesting that hes praying that Robert Mueller be fired. He initially made that statement to the daily beast, saying that he was speaking on behalf of the president , as the president s attorney, and then shortly after walked that back in his statement to cnn, saying this was of his own accord. Im going to show you the statement he made to cnns gl y gloria borger. He writes, quote, i was speaking for myself, not the president. I follow that rosenstein will follow the example of the fbi office of professional responsibility and attorney general Jeff Sessions and bring an end to the alleged collusion russia investigation. Just end it on the merits in light of recent revelations. Now, a source close to the president tells cnn that dowd was not authorized to make that statement, that the president didnt authorize that. You get the sense from speaking to people close to the president in his inner circle they are annoyed that john dowd went in this direction. It contradicts so much of what we heard from the white house and the legal team about the special counsel investigation. Theyve said many times theyre 100 percent complying with Robert Mueller. It contradicts what we heard from the president. Saying he would not fire Robert Mueller. That he was looking forward to sitting down with the special counsel and letting the investigation come to the conclusion that the Trump Campaign did not collude with the russians in the 2016 election. Weve heard murmurs about Robert Mueller being fired before. So much so that there is actually Bipartisan Legislation that had previously been drafted, different versions of it, that would give Robert Mueller some sort of job protection, job security. This week, congress is expected to vote on a major spending bill. Well see if theres a major push to include some language that might protect mueller in light of all these. Thank you so much. While the president s attorney is praising mccabes firing as brilliant, hes outraged. John brennan taking aim at the president saying this, and its a message to the president. When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude and political corruption become known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. America will triumph over you. All right, joining me right now, john thomas, cnn political commentate, julian salazar, a cnn analyst and princeton historian and professor, and Robert Zimmer man, democratic strategist. Good to see you all. Mccabe claims to have memos that documents talks with President Trump. We dont know the specifics, but the former fbi Deputy Director shows no signs of backing down from the white house. So could his ouster ultimately backfire on the president even though this is these are the actions of the attorney general, but is it also by the extent of the president . Absolutely. This could be a little like the firing of james comey, which Steven Bannon called a great political mistake in american history. And you can hear from the words of the intelligence officials from mccabe to brennan, theyre angry. And if there are memos about his behavior leading up to this, my guess is you might see them or read about them and that could be extraordinarily damaging to the obstruction case that mueller is looking into. These are strong, strong words coming out in the last 24 hours. John, do you see this particularly with the statement coming from trumps personal attorney, that the stage is being set for the potential firing of a Robert Mueller . Im not sure if hes going to fire him but i certainly think that this sentiment that the attorney echoed is felt by many of us, that the investigation has gone on too long, the scope has gone too broad. So, look, i think the thing about mccabes firing here is were going brennan is jumping to conclusions. He hasnt seen the attorney generals report that Jeff Sessions apparently says mccabe lied. Also seeing mccabes biases are being exposed today. The biggest thing is having a bad day. Because mccabe says he did not act alone in these illegal leaks and if james comey, he has said on several occasions under oath okay, some are using the words leak. Mccabe saying, you know, talking to, so they may be two different things. We dont know because we havent seen the attorney generals robert. If i could just recall from that, you know, john dowds statement. He says, myself, not the president , i pray that acting attorney general rosenstein will follow the courageous example of the fbi office of professional responsibility and attorney general Jeff Sessions and bring an end to the russia collusion investigation. So, john, to your point, when you say, well, i dont know about, you know, firing of mueller, but, you know, and to the investigation, when he makes reference to sessions and the firing of mccabe, you know, and saying follow the brilliant and courageous example of isnt that essentially saying potentially firing mueller . Of course im sorry, is that for me . Go ahead, john. Bo because you said you dont see the parallel. Yes, fred, i think no, i think hes echoing the sentiment, like i said, many of us feel this investigation was cooked up and false and on its premise and it would end but i dont think it means hes going to be fired. Its just echoing a sentiment that he needs to conclude rapidly. Okay, robert, you do see a direct correlation . I think from the very beginning, the strategy of president Trumps Administration has been designed to either shut down the investigation, to interfere with the progress of the investigation and create as many obstacles to getting the full story out as much as possible. Bob muellers appointed a special counsel because rosenstein put him in that position. In fact, bob muellers record as a war hero, a man who served republicans and democrats alike and his leadership in the fbis been praised by republicans, conservatives as well as by democrats. I think the bigger point here, quite frankly, i know why President Trumps lawyers resorting to prayer. That is simply because if you now that mccabe has documented information about his meetings with the president , and james comey has documented his meetings with President Trump as well, the point is this investigation goes forward and proceeds, the more and more evidence is being put on the table, that clearly this president has tried to interrupt this, to fear with it, and clearly does not want the full story told about his campaign and perhaps his own involvement with russia. Even prior to this firing of mccabe, the white house was asked about the chaos. You know that all of these whether its the secretary of state, you know, Rex Tillerson, you know, suddenly out. All of this taking place in a week, you know, this past week. So what is the message, really, being sent by this white house . I mean, is there a scramble to get rid of people . To change the story . How do you interpret this . I think the president is sending a message to everyone around him hes willing to let go of people who are not loyal and who speak in a slightly different voice. This is a president who is most comfortable hearing his own ideas and not hearing opponents. And i think the, you know, dismissal of tillerson potentially mcmaster, well see, and many of the other shuffles that have happened indicate the president is trying to clam down on who is around him. And i think thats very transparent and in some ways its the same message with mccabe. He is sending a message to the investigators. He will fight back. And he will not sit by as this continues. And then, john what does it say that it appears as though the president is actually enjoying this, you know, reportedly he had been enjoying all the attention from the staff changes, the reports of staff changes. This week, the firings, et cetera. And that the president actually tweeted out that he seems happy about how the firing transpired in saying, you know, this is essentially a celebration. Well, he should be happy about mccabe going. I mean, hes been complaining about mccabe pretty much and his bias from the getgo. To see the attorney general took it seriously enough to fire him, i think that is reason to celebrate. I think a lot of americans are celebrating cleansing these crooked officials in the fbi. In relation to the changing of tillerson or what not, any president would expect loyalty out of folks in their cabinet. Seems as though the president s happy to be moving on to the next chapter of somebody who can be effective can i just point out, before you start denouncing someone like mccabe who served our country on the front lines for 20 years as a crooked official, before you start demeaning he is and dismissing these individuals who are dedicated Public Servants to our National Security he lied you have an obligation to at least see the reports and facts first. Id also like to point out the dance over this latest diversionary tactic over having mccabe fired, his own Homeland Security department pointed out just this week russias increasing their activities to disrupt our country, including targeting Energy Companies and their computer technology. Excuse me i understand this hold up, john. This administration has not spent one dollar of the 120 million they appropriated in the state department to combat russia. The president refused to endorse sanctions congress put in place against russia. They took this week by most accounts which target five organizations and 19 individuals are at best merely token. This is a serious issue for our nation. Youre talking about, you know, really on the eve of full Retirement Benefits for a Public Servant of more than 21 years and this firing would come now a few months after he also resigned from the position. It looks more personal, does it not . Well, from what i understand, he essentially was forced to resign. And it always ground me that this guy was getting full taxpayer benefit pension. And especially if we find out, and we will, with the Inspector Generals report, if the attorney general sessions knew that Andrew Mccabe lied to the fbi and was, in fact, a leaker and had a bias and other things, do i think that he is entitled to full pension benefits . Absolutely not. To think, anyway, fred, hes going to be hurting financially, i guarantee he already had a commentator deal lined up with one of the Major Networks and a book deal. Hes going to be fine financially. Criminally, think he has to worry. This goes beyond the i do want to hear your comments, but the president did just tweet, coincidentally, as we were talking about all this, andi and saying this as the House Intelligence Committee concluded there was no collusion between russia and the Trump Campaign. L lying, corungs at truption at tt levels, hash tag drain the swamp. The House Intelligence Committee saying there will be no more interviews because, you know, the conclusion by many is there was no collusion. What is your thought . The republicans shut this down. This wasnt the full committee. Thats the point. This has turned into a very partisan process. The republicans are often working with the president to discredit the entire investigation. Thats why the Mccabe Firing it problematic not just for mccabe but for the message the president is sending about Law Enforcement, intelligence and how investigation should tack place. 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