flexibility in the second term. all of that was president obama. so this country can t be tough enough on russia. they tried to interfere with a fundamental of our democracy. their war is not against democrats or republicans. it s against americans. so you cannot be tough enough against russia, in my judgment. i hope he does more. but he did a lot more than his predecessor did. chris: thanks for your time. it s always a pleasure to talk with you, sir. up next, reaction from the number two democrat in the senate dick durbin on the mccabe firing, the russia probe, and the push for gun and school safety on capitol hill.
goes mentation goes beyond media leaks. the special general concluded that he lacked candor on multiple occasions. fbi veterans who want the inspector general to make the evidence possible as soon as possible as soon as possible cb rules are strict. lack of candor potentially get you fired. that expectation applies to the branch and a fbi agent and it should apply to the deputy director. a senior host democrat indicates that the firing might be justified. a half-dozen of directors comey s closest associates, including james baker, chief of staff james roy beckett, senior agent peter strzok, lawyer lisae gordon, have retired, been fired, reassign, or demoted. is this because they corroborate james comey? this is a question we also have to answer. in his statement, mccabe sent directors comey knew about us contact with the media, which observers said appears to conflict with the former director s testimony days before he got fired. have you ever authorized
not be fired. so the firing came at the very last minute. it seems to me that far from being rushed, it may have been held off until they were facing a deadline after which she couldn t be fired. it looks to me it s on the up and up. we want to know everything until the inspector general s report come out. we will know more about the facts upon which it was based. it looks okay to me. bret: talking to senators grassley and graham last week, the list of questions they had and calling for a special counsel seems like they know much more about what is a met ig s report that is upcoming. to mueller outcome of the talk around town is the question, is the president going to fire mueller or somehow set the stage for that. your thoughts? he certainly didn t stop him for his criticism of mueller. as we noted earlier, we mention him by name. that is provoked to speculation that he s about to drop the hammer on him. i have my doubts, bret. i notice that ty cobb who speaks
what he said. trey gowdy, congressman, was asked about this this weekend. the president s attorney, frankly decimated service when he says that and when he frames the investigation that way. chris, if you look at the jurisdiction for robert mueller, first and foremost, what did russia do to this country in 2016? that is supremely important and that has nothing to do with collusion. so to suggest that mueller should shut down and that all he is looking at is collusion, if you have been and is client, mr. dowd, act like it. bret: guy? speak about is a fair point for trey gowdy to make braidwood as strange as of mueller and the special report firing. in my view complete or separate issues although the president is connecting them and a lot of his fiercest critics are also connecting them. when you look at the mccabe firing, i think you can make a very strong case based on the facts that he would have been fired regardless of who was president.
regardless of the whole mueller investigation even if it didn t exist at all, because the malfeasance that is alleged apparently against mr. mccabe occurred in the 2016 auction. and that investigation, the ig probe, was launched before donald trump became president. it was an obama appointed inspector general who came to conclusions about what mccabe did. last but not least, the person who made the decision of the office had made the decision to recommend firing him was this ethics office at the fbi that was completely nonpartisan and the woman who runs it was appointed by bob mueller. on the merits, it looks like this was misconduct that mccabe is responsible for back in 2016. it should have nothing to do with mueller. also, i think what trey gowdy said was also kind of weird. it is possible for federal investigations to go off the rails and it has happened before. you can talk to richard jewels family about that. they basically ruined his life