been in to formally testify but as an fbi agent and someone involved in the russia investigation before it was the mueller investigation, any notes that we had, anything that he wrote down, anything that would have corroborated fbi director comey s allegations that would would have belonged to the fbi and mueller would have had access to that. whether he s interviewed andy yet, i don t know, we do know he has access to all of the work product. matt, without going near editorialization, which i know is not a danger for you, what else as we try to let you enjoy what s left of a friday night in your life after having written this piece for the new york times, what else in your experience should we know about andrew mccabe? i ve known andy for a long time, he was a rising star of the bureau.
attorney general had to fire andy mccabe tonight on a friday night at 10:00 at night. in fact, this whole idea that this firing was done this late on a friday night makes it look very rushed, very politicized. it might have been wiser for the attorney general simply to let the time clock run out to avoid making the justice department look like a place where the president can go to condemn his political opponents. it s a dooply troubling development. jeremy barber if you need more proof we re in differing time, the story after we conclude this is a sitting president woez lawyer is trying to get $20 million out of a porn star. we ll put that out as the background. before i show you this on the screen, think about the kpasz time that the mccabe family had around their tree and in their house, because on december 23rd,
the least. mccabe, on his part, says this is part of an ongoing effort, they re trying to undermine the mueller investigation by this. the president s personal attorney responded this morning to all of this. geoff, i want to reach out to you here and have you tell us more about what he had to say. reporter: hey there, alex. we have comments from the president s outside personal attorney, john dowd. he s making the case that he wants the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, to be inspired by attorney general jeff sessions decision to fire mccabe, and he wants rosenstein to shut down special counsel mueller s russia investigation, according to his statement, on the merits. he says he thinks the russia investigation was manufactured by mccabe s former boss, former fbi director james comey. one thing to point out, john dowd s statement stands in contrast to the comments of those of another trump lawyer, ty cobb, the official white house counsel who has in the past encouraged presi
they couldn t even tell us for sure if anyone would be fired by the end of the day or who that person might be. but i ll tell you, i was particularly struck by something in andy mccabe s statement where he mentioned the unrelenting assault that he was subjected to at the hands of the president. you mentioned the tweet the president sent back in december where he said time s running out for mccabe to leave with full benefits. joyce mentioned the fact that sarah sanders referred to mccabe as a bad actor during a press briefing without any evidence and as we reported earlier, the president directly in private asked mccabe who he voted for in the 2016 election. in a separate instance, the day aftered the president fired comey, he asked why comey was allowed to fly back to los angeles on a d.c. plane. when the president wasn t satisfied with mccabe s answer, he said ask your wife what it feels like to be a
person might be. i was particularly struck by something in andy mccabe s statement where he mentioned the unrelenting assault he was subjected to at the hand of the president. you mentioned the tweet the president sent back in december where he said time s running out for mccabe to leave with full benefits. and as we reported earlier, the president directly and private asked mccabe woman he voted for in the 2016 election. in a separate instance, the day after the president fired koemy, le could and asked why koemy was allowed to fly back to los angeles on a d.c. plane. when the president wasn t satisfied with mccabe he said ask your wife what it feels like to be a loser.