to determine what the russians were up to you. i think they were just doing their job and trying to protect our political system. the justice department now launched its own investigation to suss out the truth. some intelligence insiders are crying politics. the president is saying, they should have known better than to be poking around with intelligence powers on an issue that so directly affects the politics and the possible outcome of a presidential election, and there is a lot of reason to believe that there were steps that were either missed in this process or there were abuses at a minimum of authority. president trump demanding clarity via twitter. he wants to know who authorized the alleged covert operation at win. if we are talking about a situation where a human source was knowingly being run against members of the trump campaign, we have to assume that would be known at the attorney general level and it is very likely it would have made it straight from the attorney
specific case? well, if i m going to underscore if the inspector general has facts that support the premise that he lied, then it should be a firing offense. it is a firing offense almost 100% of the time with lower level street agents and agents in general. this is the top of the fbi. mccabe will never have to testify in court, but an agent that lies is worthless in court. if it s in their background, it has to be disclosed to the defense. so you know, that example has to be set at the highest levels of the fbi. harris: did you ever see bias inside that agency when you were there more than two decades? i did not. i know that will sound like i m being naive. in my 20 plus years, i did not see politics never came into play. we saw politics at the attorney general level, but under
harry lipman in the department of justice, former attorney general. this is the entire conundrum of this president. on the one hand, an internal review that seems to indicate mccabe may have misled investigators about allowing his people to the press and should be fired for it, on the other hand, the president has been railing against him and it is hard to trust the good faith here. what do you make of it? it s impossible to trust it because the fact is, yes, there was an internal review but the process has not run its course. the process provides for another step for mccabe. that s review at the attorney general level. that s what happened if you recall with john yu at least as controversial figure on the left as mccabe is on the right. he had his final review and opr issued disciplinary recommendation. that recommendation was lowered. that is part of the process here. there is no way they can force him out by sunday which is what they re trying to do.
decision was to allow fbi officials to speak critically of hillary clinton. the final fate reports to jeff sessions as his reports of his dismissal continue to surface. more what donald trump is up to, harry lipman in the department of justice, former attorney general. this is the entire conundrum of this president. on the one hand, an internal review that seems to indicate mccabe may have misled investigators about allowing his people to the press and should be fired for it, on the other hand, the president has been railing against him and it is hard to trust the good faith here. what do you make of it? it s impossible to trust it because the fact is, yes, there was an internal review but the process has not run its course. the process provides for another step for mccabe. that s review at the attorney general level. that s what happened if you recall with john yu at least as controversial figure on the left as mccabe is on the right.
essentially trying to get eight at bob muler? oh, absolute lit. he has 100 problems that are huge, but none ensurmountable except one, that is the special prosecutor. now he has no one who can say to the special prosecutor, at least not at the attorney general level, look, you have a mandate. you have to stick to the mandate t. mandate is russia. in trump s head there is no crime in russia. ten months of investigation, no crimes. this will go and and on, if he has to live with this a while, it s a pain. it doesn t result in something that s cataclysmic. on the other hand if the special prosecutor is able to do as he now is showing he is able to do any kind of investigation whether it is banking, financials, real estate, anything on the earth, it s a blue dress so to speak, it is not white water. it s a blue dress, if there is such a thing, that s a dagger at the president s heart. what he has to look for is someone who can help contain