FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe stepped down this week. Vanity Fair's Chris Smith joins The Hive to discuss what this means for the Russia investigation and what might be going on in President Trump's mind.
Smith says the departure on its own doesn't really have a lot of impact to the Mueller investigation, but if it starts a domino effect then it could be huge. He discusses the Trump administration's mission to undermine the credibility of the FBI and Mueller.
Plus, Smith reacts to news that FBI Director Christopher Wray says the infamous Nunes "memo" is full of inaccuracies. He says he's heard the FBI director and very straight-forward and trustworthy.
The Biden administration is docking more than $2 million in payments to student loan servicers that failed to send billing statements on time after the end of a pandemic payment freeze.
The law, signed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, prohibits people from carrying concealed guns in 26 places including public parks and playgrounds, churches, banks and zoos.
About 4 in 10 U.S. adults named foreign policy topics when asked to share up to five issues for the government to work on in the next year, about twice as many compared to the previous year's AP-NORC poll.