--- title: James Comey Fired: Watch Online as Andrew McCabe Testifies description: Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee, filling in for fired former Director James Comey canonical: https://time.com/4775602/andrew-mccabe-fbi-senate-intelligence-committee-watch-online/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-11T14:11:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:52:39.201Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Live: Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe Testifies Before Senate Intelligence Committee og:description: James Comey was originally slated to testify og:url: https://time.com/4775602/andrew-mccabe-fbi-senate-intelligence-committee-watch-online/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9accf2a43d354dc4/6988cce60a4a22c7129ce200/170511_andrew-mccabe.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 170511_Andrew McCabe og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Live: Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe Testifies Before Senate Intelligence Committee twitter:description: James Comey was originally slated to testify twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9accf2a43d354dc4/6988cce60a4a22c7129ce200/170511_andrew-mccabe.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Live: Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe Testifies Before Senate Intelligence Committee by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 11, 2017 2:11 PM UTC  Andrew G. McCabe (R), Assistant Director of the FBI's Washington Field Office speaks while flanked by Dana J. Boente (L), U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, after a hearing in federal court June 11, 2015 in Alexandria, Virginia. Andrew G. McCabe (R), Assistant Director of the FBI's Washington Field Office speaks while flanked by Dana J. Boente (L), U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, after a hearing in federal court June 11, 2015 in Alexandria, Virginia.Mark Wilson—Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 11, 2017 2:11 PM UTC Just two days after taking the reins from ousted FBI Director James Comey, Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee Wednesday. McCabe is filling in for Comey, who was originally slated to testify before he was [abruptly fired](http://time.com/4774278/james-comey-fired-timeline/) by President Donald Trump on Tuesday. He will likely field questions on the FBI’s probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election — an investigation Comey had recently accelerated in the weeks before he was fired, according to the Associated Press. Just days before he was axed, Comey asked for [more funding for the probe](http://time.com/4774305/james-comey-fired-russian-probe/), which also includes investigating people affiliated with Trump’s campaign and their ties to Russia. White House officials, including Trump, said Comey wasn’t fired for his investigation — instead saying the President was disappointed in his [job performance](http://time.com/4774102/donald-trump-james-comey-fired/). “He wasn’t doing a good job. Very simply. He was not doing a good job,” Trump said Wednesday. 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