Andrew McCabe,
number two at the FBI, has been fired.
Now, the Justice Department says it's because McCabe lied
about leaking information to the press.
But McCabe has a different theory.
REPORTER: McCabe says his firing was part of a wider effort
to discredit the FBI and the Mueller investigation.
He says he was singled out because of events he witnessed
in the aftermath of the firing of FBI Director James Comey.
Trump, uh, and Jeff Sessions
have been attacking Andrew McCabe.
They are probably worried that McCabe could be
a very key supporting witness,
uh, to possible obstruction of justice charges,
uh, or any other wrongdoing by Trump
in handling the Russia inquiry.
Oh, okay. That's interesting.
So McCabe says he got fired
because he's got dirt on Donald Trump, right?
He's got info on the Comey firing.
He was part of the Russia investigation.
He knows that Trump bought a sex doll shaped like himself
and then tried to deduct it as a business expense.
That last one is not a true story, but it could be.
But, look, just because McCabe was closely involved
in the investigations into Trump and his campaign
doesn't mean that Trump was going to come after him.
However, however, it doesn't help
that, for the last year,
Trump has been trashing McCabe on Twitter, right?
Trump accused him of plotting with Comey.
He accused him of taking money from Hillary.
Trump even accused McCabe of looking
like every background extra on Mad Men,
which, to be fair, he's right about that one.
I can see it, I can see it.
And unlike most Twitter trolls,
Trump didn't keep the insults online.
One of his best stories about the president hating McCabe,
one of the best stories I've heard,
came out after Comey was fired, right?
When Trump was so angry that he roasted McCabe
about his wife losing a race for state senate.
NEWSWOMAN: Trump demanded to know why Comey was allowed
to fly home on an FBI plane after he had been fired,
these people said.
McCabe told the president he hadn't been asked
to authorize Comey's flight, but if anyone had asked,
he would have approved it.
The president was silent for a moment,
then turned on McCabe-- "Ask your wife how it feels
to be a loser," Trump said.
McCabe replied, "Okay, sir." Trump hung up the phone.
Wow. I'm sorry, man, but Donald Trump is a proper asshole.
-(laughter) -Like, like, if being an asshole
was an arcade game, he would have all the top scores.
Because... no, because think about it.
He's mad at Comey, right? He's mad at Comey,
so he insults McCabe's wife
because she ran for a Senate seat and lost?
That's so messed up.
Especially since Trump should know what it's like
to have a wife who wants to run. Come on.
(laughter, applause)
And...
-(whooping, cheering, whistling) -and poor McCabe...
poor McCabe in this whole thing, he's so FBI
that he gets insulted and he's just like,
"Okay, okay, sir." That's all he does?
'Cause, like, the commander in chief insults him,
he treats it like it's an order.
"Why don't you ask your wife why you're so bad in bed?"
"Okay, sir. Honey, the president has a question."
(laughter)
So again, again, it's well known that President Trump
wasn't a fan of Andrew McCabe, but still, that doesn't prove
that he conspired to have McCabe fired.
It is suspicious, though, that back in December
Trump tweeted...
And then right at the deadline...
NEWSMAN: Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe
fired tonight by Attorney General Jeff Sessions
just two days before McCabe was going to retire.
His pension-- now gone.
That was just 26 hours before McCabe was due to retire
on his 50th birthday.
Okay, that is heartless.
Right? He doesn't get his pension,
and his birthday is ruined.
Like, that's a double win for Trump,
because he fires an enemy and he gets to eat his birthday cake.
♪ Happy birthday to you. ♪
Like, firing someone on their birthday
is the worst gift you can give them.
Right? Well, I mean, it's that or a gift card from RadioShack.
You know? Like, "Wow, now I can buy that Walkman
to listen to my Coolio CD!"
♪ Can't live these nonstop lies livin' in a ♪
(like a skipping CD): ♪ Ga-Ga-Ga-Ga-Ga-Ga-Ga... ♪
You know what's funny is young kids
won't know what I'm doing right now.
They'll be like, "What is that, Trevor? What...?"
That was the life we lived.
It was a hard one.
So in the end, Trump appears to have been extra vindictive
about this, right?
He said he didn't want McCabe to get his pension,
and it looks like he made sure that that happened.
And we don't know for sure what happened.
But that's how it looks.
Like, if you've been saying for a year,
"I wish my dickhead husband gets killed by a 1982 Dodge Caravan,"
and then three months later, your husband gets killed
by a 1982 Dodge Caravan, don't be shocked when the cops
show up like, "Ma'am, we suspect that you killed
your dickhead husband with a 1982 Dodge Caravan."
"But I loved that dickhead! I did!"
Here's the thing. Because Trump involved himself
so personally in the McCabe case,
you can see why it's easy to think McCabe's firing
was about politics and not process.
And because of that, people are now saying
Comey got fired, McCabe got fired--
who could possibly be next?
President Trump is taking direct aim at Robert Mueller
in the Russia investigation.
Something of a milestone from the president over the weekend,
for the first time going after special counsel Robert Mueller
by name.
NEWSWOMAN: ...saying the investigation
into Russian influence in the presidential election
should never have started.
NEWSWOMAN: Mr. Trump's tweets have some wondering
if he's considering firing Robert Mueller.
I mean, he's definitely considering it.
You know how they say men think about sex every eight seconds?
That's what Trump does with firing people.
Yeah. When Trump meets a new person,
that's what he fantasizes about: he's like, "Oh, man,
"it would be so awesome to fire that lady.
"I would fire her so hard.
Oh, my God, I want to fire her right now."
But the point is, Trump is going after Mueller by name
for the first time.
So, Robert Mueller, I don't know when your next birthday is,
but something tells me the president
may be planning a surprise.