Andrew McCabe: I told congressional leaders that the FBI was investigating President Trump - and they didn't object In an interview on NBC's "TODAY," former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe says he had informed a bipartisan group of congressional leaders that the bureau had opened a counterintelligence investigation into President Trump. None of them voiced objections when he told them in that May 2017 meeting that the FBI had opened the probe, McCabe says. "Not on legal grounds, not on constitutional grounds, and not based on the facts," McCabe says. McCabe writes in his book that the briefing for the "Gang of Eight" leaders in Congress came days after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, making McCabe acting director of the bureau at the time. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told the bipartisan group of lawmakers in that meeting that special counsel Robert Mueller had been appointed to continue the Russia investigations, according to McCabe. On the Senate side, the group of lawmakers at the time were Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., and ranking member Mark Warner, D-Va. The House members were then-Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and then-Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., as well as former House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and then-ranking member Adam Schiff, D-Calif. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/19/andrew-mccabe-no-one-in-gang-of-8-objected-to-fbi-investigation-of-trump.html