On your w2 that could protect your refund. And the one mistake made by so many people. And on the eve of the super bowl, why tom brady suddenly cut an interview short. What was said beforehand . Good evening, and its great to have you with us to start another week here. And we begin tonight with the sudden departure of fbi Deputy Director Andrew Mccabe, the number two man at the fbi, and a frequent target of the president s criticism. Mccabe stepped in temporarily when fbi director james comey was fired, defending the scope of the fbis russia investigation. And defending james comey, saying the rank and file had not lost confidence in him. Tonight, the white house answering questions, did the President Pressure the Justice Department in any way to push mccabe out . Abcs Senior Justice correspondent Pierre Thomas leading us off. Reporter tonight, the number two at the fbi Stepping Down, following months of blistering attacks from President Trump. Vote for . Mccabes answer . I did not vo
greatest city on earth. allysia: it really is. most of the press has been leland: it really is awesome. abuses of the fbi is trump in a a little snow out there, maybe a powder week for those up in the were r worse than anything we learned about donald trump and high country. the journal editorial report russia. absolutely. is next and the news will the ig report has been continue after that from new absolutely devastating to the fbi and we already had reports come out, i mean, people forget, york. paul short memories, but we ve had three reports about jim comey, paul: welcome to the special the former fbi director and his tenure. edition of the journal editorial report. the first one, which dealt with as we look back on the highs and the hillary clinton probe, lows of 2019. accused him of being i m paul gigot. from the mueller report to the insubordinate to superiors. impeachment probe, we begin with we had one about the leak of his the investigations into memo to the press abo
of investigations under way. that sounds a lot more comey-esque, post the hillary clinton probe, but do you see mueller taking that kind of tactic, you know, injecting, we wish we, could but then we didn t, and we couldn t, or just be a little bit more pragmatic about his conclusions? i don t know, that s a great question, fred, because when you look back at comey, when comey had that press conference, where he exonerated hillary, but was highly critical of how she had handled classified information, many people think that cost her the presidency, and of course, it cost comey his job, in the long run. so is mueller going to go down that same road? you know, the justice department has always had a policy that if they do an investigation that does not result in criminal charges, they generally don t make detailed public statements about such investigations. but here, of course, we have an investigation involving the president of the united states. so i m not so sure that the same rul
really, calling into question this potential sentence of no time that michael flynn was supposed to get. he issued a very strong rebuke, not only of his own lies, but the fact that he got vice president mike pence to live to the american public. the judge saying that, in a way, you sold out your country. a very stiff rebuke, they are. now you are looking at the lower part of your screen as the court remains in recess until 12:30. we will bring you that breaking news just as soon as we get more from the courtroom. we have catherine herridge inside. we will give you the latest, the very second it happens. in the meantime, former fbi director james comey lashing out at house republicans after what he described as frustrating closed-door testimony on capitol hill yesterday. it was his second capitol hill appearance this month, to face questions on the hillary clinton probe. and, what he knew about the anti-trump dossier and the launch of the russia probe.
hillary clinton team work? it s broader than flynn. if you remember from the inspector general report and some of the information that came out about the hillary clinton probe, it became very clear that james comey was overtly describing this investigation as one where they were not going to use false statement charges against any of the potential witnesses or targets. they scored off and said, and front of a number of fbi personnel, he made the comment about, we won t waste our time with these low-hanging fruit prosecutions for false statements. what has happened in the trump investigation is the polar opposite of that. i find that really kind of intriguing, like, who makes these decisions about how to enforce 1,001, the false statement statute? the trump investigation, there has been false statement prosecutions left and right. it seems to be the point of the realm. so the inconsistencies in the approach is one that i think that has to get some scrutiny from semi. lisa: what does