Sunday shows - McCabe firing grabs the spotlight

View in your browser     Graham calls for Senate Judiciary hearing on McCabe firing By BRETT SAMUELS    “I think we owe it to the average American to have a hearing in the judiciary committee where Attorney General Sessions comes forward with whatever documentation he has about the firing, and give Mr. McCabe the chance to defend himself.”  Read the full story here     Gowdy: McCabe undercut his own credibility By LUIS SANCHEZ    “The fact that McCabe and every other of the James Comey associates … who corroborate James Comey on the issue of potential obstruction of justice, every one of them has been targeted by the administration, by the Republicans in Congress and is this because they corroborate James Comey?”  Read the full story here     Schiff: Trump shows pattern of targeting people who corroborate Comey By MALLORY SHELBOURNE   “Andy McCabe has undercut his credibility all by himself,” the House Oversight Committee chairman told “Fox News Sunday.”  Read the full story here     Angus King: McCabe firing seemed 'mean spirited' By BRETT SAMUELS    “It appears to have been compressed in order to take vengeance on this guy for some reason, and I don’t think that’s the way we should be governing.” Read the full story here     Rubio: McCabe 'should've been allowed to finish through the weekend' By KYLE BALLUCK    “Obviously [President Trump] doesn't like McCabe and he's made that pretty clear now for over a year,” the GOP senator said. “We need to be very careful about taking these very important entities and smearing everybody in them with a broad stroke.” Read the full story here     Graham warns Trump: Firing Mueller would be 'beginning of the end of his presidency' By REBECCA SAVRANSKY   Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday warned of the consequences for President Trump if he tries to fire special counsel Robert Mueller. Read the full story here     Flake: Trump 'seems to be building' toward firing Mueller By BRETT SAMUELS    “It was a horrible day for democracy. To have firings like this happening at the top from the president and the attorney general does not speak well for what’s going on.” Read the full story here     Christie defends Mueller: I don’t think Trump’s going to fire ‘someone like that’ By LUIS SANCHEZ   “As for Bob Mueller, he’s conducted this investigation so far with great integrity, without leaking and by showing results,” the former New Jersey governor said on ABC's “This Week." “I don’t think the president is going to fire someone like that.” Read the full story here     Republican dismisses Trump lawyer: A ‘typical attorney’ would call for end of Mueller probe By LUIS SANCHEZ    Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) on Sunday dismissed concerns that President Trump is trying to shut down Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia. Read the full story here     Democratic senator: People don’t know what’s going on between Trump and Putin By LUIS SANCHEZ    “People know he doesn’t tell the truth about a whole lot of things and I think people overwhelmingly wonder about President Trump when he calls everybody else names, including people in his own party, but he never criticizes Putin,” Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio)  said. Read the full story here     White House aide: Enough Dems will support Haspel, Pompeo nominations By BRETT SAMUELS   “We think there are enough Democrats that will help support our candidates,” Marc Short said.  Read the full story here     Rand Paul: People 'eager for war' shouldn't be running State Department By BRETT SAMUELS    Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Sunday vowed to do “whatever it takes” to block President Trump’s picks to be secretary of State and CIA director. Read the full story here     Corker on Tillerson: ‘I think he’s at peace’ By KYLE BALLUCK    “I think he's doing fine,” the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “He knows he's laid the groundwork for North Korea. He feels like he's moved things along in a good way.” Read the full story here     Schiff: We need answers on Facebook data use by Trump-linked firm By LUIS SANCHEZ    Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Sunday that Cambridge Analytica, the data firm the Trump campaign used during the 2016 elections, needs to answer questions about alleged misuse of Facebook data. Read the full story here     Durbin: Hillary Clinton ‘is wrong’ about Trump voters By MALLORY SHELBOURNE    Senate Minority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) said Sunday that former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s recent comments about Trump voters are “wrong” and “not helpful.”  Read the full story here     Rendell: Dems have to run candidates who fit values of the district By JOSH DELK   “Our progressive wing has got to understand that the country is made up of many different districts. And each state has different values and different traditions. We’ve got to run candidates who fit the values of that district in that state," the former Democratic National Committee chairman said. Read the full story here     Corker predicts Trump will pull out of Iran nuclear deal By KYLE BALLUCK    “I think the president likely will move away from it, unless our European counterparts really come together on a framework. And it doesn't feel to me that they are.“ Read the full story here         Did a friend forward you this email? Sign up for The Hill Tipsheet       Forward this Tipsheet       Privacy Policy  |  Manage Subscriptions  |  Unsubscribe  |  Email to a friend  |  Sign Up for Other Newsletters   The Hill 1625 K Street, NW 9th Floor, Washington DC 20006 ©2016 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc.