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Andrew McCabe appeared on the Today Show and host Savannah Guthrie gave him a run for his money. It's worth the commercial breaks. She did the best interview with McCabe so far.

 

Watch the whole interview. Savannah susses McCabe out about the the counterintelligence investigation that McCabe ordered once he became acting Director of the FBI after Comey was fired. Just so it's not lost in the mix: The investigation of obstruction of justice that was reported as the pretext to appointing a Special Prosecutor by acting Russiagate boss at the DoJ Rod Rosenstein in the wake of the Comey firing was distinct from this fork of an investigation of President Trump as traitor working with the Kremlin.

The original counterintelligence investigation on candidate Trump and his campaign in the summer of 2016 under the direction of Comey was headed by his deputy Andrew McCabe originally with special agent Peter Strzok and McCabe's legal beagle Lisa Page. This interview and the explosive headlines this past weekend deal with a second counterintelligence investigation that McCabe opened as acting Director of the FBI. I know, it's hard even for me to keep all of these threads straight even after following this story for over two years on the front burner here. So you have these two very risky and unprecedented counterintelligence actions - one during a US general election aimed in a partisan manner against an unpopular candidate with Washington D.C. insiders and the other deployed against a sitting President who defied the odds and those very same insiders.

Watch McCabe's face at min 3:50 go numb over Guthrie's undaunted interrogation he will have to suffer to sell his book on the Today Show:

"What were the predicate facts, lay them out here? What were the facts that suggested that the President may be a national security threat and may in fact be working on behalf of a foreign adversary - Russia?"

McCabe goes on to list the indications of Trump's obstruction of the investigation. Guthrie again tries to get McCabe back onto answering her original question about Trump being under the control of a foreign adversary and the counterintelligence question. McCabe attempting to rationalize using the cover of one element of the investigation - the possible obstruction and the firing of Comey - as a pretext to slip in the narrative that Trump was obviously a national security threat to the United States government.
"You have to ask yourself..." 

And that is how McCabe leans into his selling points. You actually don't "have to ask yourself"; McCabe had to ask himself back then about how he was going to launch a second counterintelligence investigation on a now sitting President in acting quite possibly as a foreign agent looking to compromise the security of our nation and now comes up with this sketchy explanation of 'what would you do?' in this position or in other words, begging the question but not actually giving a credible answer. His answer in its entirety can be summarized by the title of the book he is selling on this TeeVee tour: "The Threat". That's it. Andrew McCabe saw in Donald Trump a threat through the prism of his politics (that he denies adamantly) and through his position as an "unwitting" accomplice of Deep State. Guthrie goes on to mention the fact that the DoJ and Rod Rosenstein in particular take issue with the veracity of McCabe's account of the deliberations over the 25th Amendment removal of the POTUS and Rosenstein possibly entrapping Trump with a wire.

And therein lies the falseness of Andrew McCabe that Savannah Guthrie with careful circumspect exposes on camera. She goes on to address the IG's report on McCabe's firing and an inside investigation by the FBI to his conduct as a leaker to the Washington D.C. press and he sidesteps this with the announcement of a civil suit against his former employer, the US DoJ.

But the fact that this middling career bureaucrat who by the serendipity of the whacked 2016 election/intelligence drama was in position to engineer a counterintelligence operation inside the government against a sitting President based on "what would you do?" rationalizations that depended upon his own role in foisting a false narrative nine months before with the Steele Dossier and the Clinton campaign which he most certainly was aligned with and promoting with opposition research and FISA warrants is beyond anything anyone can recall in modern American history. It really is mind boggling. And it's especially odious to see this former G-Man up there like butter wouldn't melt in his mouth on the TeeVee selling a book called "The Threat". Who really was the threat in the long term?
No wonder this dude got fired.