Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan Tuesday rejected former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's claims that he told key congressional officials that a counterintelligence investigation was going to be launched into President Donald Trump and Russia, saying he himself had never been informed.
"I was never informed, or I would have objected," the Republican lawmaker told Fox News' "Fox and Friends," shortly after McCabe's interview with NBC's "Today." He noted that at the time, he had been a member of the House Judiciary Committee.
McCabe told Guthrie, after she asked him if he briefed the congressional "Gang of Eight" members, that he had personally informed them, but they did not object on any grounds to the inquiry. Those persons would have included then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, then-House Speaker Paul Ryan, and their Democratic counterparts and top congressional leadership, Guthrie pointed out.
Other "Gang of Eight" members at the time would have been, on the Senate side, Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., and in the House, then-Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, ex-Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, and ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff.
Jordan on Tuesday also slammed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and said both he and McCabe should testify before Congress.
“[McCabe] is the third person who has told us that Rod Rosenstein was serious when he made the comments about wearing a wire, and recording the president, and looking to work with members of the cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment,” Jordan said.
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