WE’VE GOT OUR TEAM SET UP AND READY TO GO ON A BUSY NEWS
MORNING.
MORNING. AND WE START WITH THAT
EXTRAORDINARY INTERVIEW.
EXTRAORDINARY INTERVIEW. FORMER FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR
ANDREW McCABE TELLS CBS NEWS WHY
HE DECIDED TO LAUNCH
INVESTIGATIONS INTO PRESIDENT
TRUMP JUST HOURS AFTER THE
PRESIDENT FIRED JAMES COMEY.
>> HOW LONG WAS IT AFTER THAT
THAT YOU DECIDED TO START THE
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AND
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATIONS INVOLVING THE
PRESIDENT?
PRESIDENT? >> I THINK THE NEXT DAY I MET
WITH THE TEAM INVESTIGATING THE
RUSSIA CASES.
RUSSIA CASES. AND I ASKED THE TEAM TO GO BACK
AND CONDUCT AN ASSESSMENT TO
DETERMINE WHERE ARE WE WITH
THESE EFFORTS AND WHAT STEPS DO
WE NEED TO TAKE GOING FORWARD?
I WAS VERY CONCERNED I WAS ABLE
TO PUT THE RUSSIA CASE ON
ABSOLUTELY SOLID GROUND IN AN
INDELIBLE FASHION THAT WERE I
REMOVED QUICKLY OR REASSIGNED OR
FIRED THAT THE CASE COULD NOT BE
CLOSED OR VANISH IN THE NIGHT
WITHOUT A TRACE.
>> McCABE’S PREVIEWING THE
RELEASE OF HIS NEW BOOK IN WHICH
HE DESCRIBES HOW HE TRIED TO
PROTECT THE FBI’S INVESTIGATION
INTO RUSSIAN ELECTION
INTERFERENCE.
INTERFERENCE. WRITING CANDIDLY ABOUT PRESIDENT
TRUMP, EVERY DAY BRINGS A NEW
LOW, HE SAYS, WITH THE PRESIDENT
EXPOSING HIMSELF AS A DELIBERATE
LIAR WHO WILL SAY WHATEVER HE
PLEASES TO GET WHATEVER HE
WANTS.
WANTS. IF HE ORP THE BOX AT QUANTICO,
HE WOULD BREAK THE MACHINE.
MY COLLEAGUE KELLY O’DONNELL
JOINS US FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.
KEN DILANIAN IS WITH US AS WELL.
GREG BRAUGHER WHO WORKED WITH
McCABE JOINS US AND PAUL BUTLER,
AND PROFESSOR AT GEORGETOWN LAW
SCHOOL.
SCHOOL. A.B. STODDARD AND AARON BLAKE,
SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER FOR
"THE WASHINGTON POST" IS ALSO
HERE.
HERE. WRITE THAT DOWN BECAUSE THE GANG
IS ALL HERE.
AND KELLY, I’M GOING TO GIVE YOU
FIRST DIBS.
FIRST DIBS. PRESIDENT TRUMP ALMOST
INEVITABLY CAME OUT AND TWEETED
AGAINST ANDREW McCABE.
YOU COULD HAVE PREDICTED IT THE
SECOND McCABE APPEARED ON "60
MINUTES."
MINUTES." >> IT FEELS LIKE THE FIRST WAVE.
AS McCABE DOES THESE
APPEARANCES, EXPECT THE
PRESIDENT TO TRACK THAT WITH HIS
OWN COUNTERMESSAGE.
OWN COUNTERMESSAGE. AS McCABE RAISES ISSUES THAT CAN
POSE SOME SERIOUS QUESTIONS
ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING ON AROUND
THE COMEY FIRING AND THE
PRESIDENT’S CONDUCT, SO, TOO,
WILL THE PRESIDENT TAKE SHOTS AT
ANDREW McCABE.
ANDREW McCABE. HERE’S KIND OF A SAMPLE OF WHAT
HE SAID TODAY REFERRING TO HIM
AS THE DISGRACED FBI ACTING
DIRECTOR, PRETENDS TO BE A POOR
LITTLE ANGEL WHEN HE WAS A BIG
PART OF THE, AS THE PRESIDENT
DESCRIBED IT, CROOKED HILLARY
SCANDAL AND THE RUSSIA HOAX.
ANOTHER JAB HERE, A PUPPET FOR
LEAKING JAMES COMEY.
HE’S LAYERING IN THE SORT OF
FRUSTRATION HERE.
FRUSTRATION HERE. THE IG REPORT ON McCABE WAS
DEVASTATING.
DEVASTATING. PART OF AN INSURANCE POLICY IN
CASE I WON.
INSURANCE POLICY IN QUOTES, AND
THEN THIS IS WHAT WE’VE HEARD
FROM THE PRESIDENT BEFORE.
MANY TOP FBI BRASS WERE FIRED,
FORCED TO LEAVE OR LEFT AND THEN
GOES BACK TO THE ALLEGATION THAT
McCABE’S WIFE WHO WAS A
CANDIDATE FOR OFFICE HAD
RECEIVED MONEY FROM TERRY
McAULIFFE.
McAULIFFE. HE REFERS TO THAT AS CLINTON
PEOPLE.
PEOPLE. HE GAVE HILLARY A PASS.
McCABE IS A DISGRACE TO THE
COUNTRY AND TO THE FBI.
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
SO THAT IS CHOCK FULL OF LAYERS
OF THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGING ON
THIS.
THIS. HITTING COMEY, HITTING McCABE,
HITTING THE INSTITUTION OF THE
FBI.
FBI. AND WE WILL EXPECT TO HEAR MORE
OF THIS AND THE PRESIDENT’S
SUPPORTERS GRAB ONTO IT.
HIS DETRACTORS LOOK TO McCABE AS
ONE OF THE PEOPLE FROM THE
INSIDE TRYING TO PROTECT THE
RECORD AT A MINIMUM AND KEEP AN
INVESTIGATION GOING SO THAT THE
PUBLIC WOULD ULTIMATELY KNOW
WHAT WAS GOING ON AND WHAT WAS
BEHIND THE FIRING OF JAMES COMEY
AND DID IT MEAN SOMETHING MORE?
HALLIE?
HALLIE? >> KELLY ODODGERS’DONNELL, THANK
KEN, WE’RE HEARING FROM THE
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PUSHING
BACK ON PIECES OF McCABE’S BOOK.
THERE WAS LIKE A COUNTING OF THE
NOSES HAPPENING, RIGHT, AS IT
RELATED TO POTENTIALLY REMOVING
PRESIDENT TRUMP FROM OFFICE.
>> YEAH, THIS IS A VERY
COMPLICATED SITUATION, HALLIE.
YOU HAVE ANDREW McCABE, A
COMPELLING, ARTICULATE WITNESS,
BUT ALSO A TAINTED WITNESS.
BECAUSE HE HAS FOUND TO HAVE
LIED OR HAD LACK OF CANDOR BY AN
INDEPENDENT INSPECTOR GENERAL
REPORT AND ROD ROSENSTEIN VIEWED
BY MANY PEOPLE AS A PROTECTOR OF
THE MUELLER INVESTIGATION IS OUT
WITH A STATEMENT TODAY
CHALLENGING McCABE’S ACCOUNT OF
WHERE McCABE SAYS ROSENSTEIN
WANTED TO INVOKE THE 25th
AMENDMENT AND ESSENTIALLY
CONSIDER REMOVING PRESIDENT
TRUMP FROM OFFICE AND ALSO THIS
QUESTION OF WHETHER ROSENSTEIN
URGED SOMEONE TO WEAR A WIRE TO
RECORD THE PRESIDENT IN THE OVAL
OFFICE IN AN INCRIMINATING
FASHION.
FASHION. ROSENSTEIN HAS SAID HE WAS
JOKING ABOUT THAT.
AND HE POINTS OUT IN A STATEMENT
IN A SHOT AT McCABE THAT McCABE
DID NOT TELL THE TRUTH,
ACCORDING TO THE INSPECTOR
GENERAL.
GENERAL. WE ALSO HAVE DEVIN NUNES, THE
RANKING MEMBER OF THE HOUSE
INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE
INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE EXPLAINING HIS TAKE ON THE
ROSENSTEIN SITUATION.
ROSENSTEIN SITUATION. I THINK WE HAVE SOME SOUND.
LET’S TAKE A LISTEN TO THAT.
>> LOOK.
>> LOOK. WE’VE TRIED TO BRING ROD
ROSENSTEIN BEFORE CONGRESS SO
THAT HE CAN BE UNDER OATH TO
ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS SO WE
ONLY KNOW WHAT’S BEEN LEAKED TO
THE PRESS.
THE PRESS. SO YOU HAVE A HE SAID/SHE SAID
IN THIS CASE.
BUT LOOK, ANY TALK OF THE 25th
AMENDMENT IS OUTRAGEOUS.
>> SO McCABE, YOU KNOW IS A
CONTROVERSIAL PERSON WITHIN THE
FBI AND OUTSIDE OF THE FBI.