Ex-republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele recorded President Donald Trump on Saturday after he claimed that he was “not involved” at FBI inserts who have Reportedly Swept top officials and federal public prosecutors in connection with January 6 criminal cases.
Steele, one of the hosts of MSNBC’s ‘The Weekend’, said that there was ‘just as much’ that he wanted to ‘unpack’ with a clip from the president, who from the movements of his Oval Office Ministry on Friday.
“If they have fired some people there, that is a good thing because they were very bad. They were very corrupt people, very corrupt, and they harm our country very badly with the armament, “Trump said.
Steele immediately checked the president for his claim.
“Can we just cut the nonsense? Because the FBI will not dismiss anyone on that scale without the White House knowing about it, “said Steele.
The removals include all “most senior” managers of the FBI, “several” heads of FBI field offices and approximately two dozen justice, prosecutors, NBC News reported.
Acting FBI director Brian Driscoll said in a memo of the agency on Friday evening that acting deputy attorney -General Emil Bove asked a list of employees who were working on things related to the deadly Capitol attack from 2021 for “an assessment process to determine Whether an additional personnel campaigns are necessary. “
“We understand that this request includes thousands of employees throughout the country who have supported these research efforts,” wrote Driscoll. “I am one of those employees.”
NBC News Justice reporter Ryan J. Reilly reminded Steele of the MSNBC “Weekend” panel about the 6 January cases in the light of Trump’s claims.
“These were things against violent perpetrators who attacked law enforcement officers on the stairs of the American Capitol,” Reilly said.
“So it’s not like you can say:” Oh, we go after this specific person because we didn’t like how they apply this specific crime. “No, they go after everyone,” he went on. “This was not like an individualized assessment of their behavior.”
Alicia Menendez, co-host of “The Weekend”, turned to a statement from the FBI Agents Association that warned that “rejecting potentially hundreds of agents would weaken the ability to protect the country to protect the country Against national security and criminal threats “, while it is set up while it is set up. “For failure” in the future.
Reilly argued that there were not “a lot of people” who worked on things, and added that the Capitol Riot “in principle every part” hit the FBI, including those who were briefly involved in matters such as arrests.
View more of the panel on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” below.