Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said congressional leaders — Republicans and Democrats — didn't object when he informed them in 2017 that the bureau was opening a counterintelligence investigation into President Donald Trump.
"That's the important part here," McCabe said in an interview Tuesday on NBC's "Today Show." "No one objected. Not on legal grounds, not on constitutional grounds and not based on the facts."
McCabe said he briefed those leaders — known as the "Gang of Eight" — about the Trump probe in the days after the president fired FBI director James Comey in May of 2017. McCabe has said officials began the investigation out of concern that Trump may have been colluding with Russia.