Former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe made a series of startling allegations during a sweeping interview with ’60 Minutes’ that aired Sunday, including claims that President Donald Trump took advice from Russian President Vladimir Putin over the counsel of his own intelligence chiefs. Speaking with host Scott Pelley, McCabe, who was fired last March just two days before his retirement, alleged that Trump regularly launched into unprompted diatribes about his fondness for Russia. In one instance, McCabe claimed, Trump said he didn’t believe North Korea had the capability to launch a missile at the United States because Putin had told him so. “Essentially, the president said he did not believe that the North Koreans had the capability to hit us here with ballistic missiles in the United States,” McCabe said during the interview. I believe Putin.’”

Source: Huffington Post February 18, 2019 02:48 UTC