Lawyers for McCabe, who has not yet been charged in the case, met last month with a top Justice official in what were believed to be talks seeking to dissuade officials from filing criminal charges.
Trump's attempts to affect the Russia probe mostly failed because the people around him "declined to carry out orders," according to Robert Mueller's team.
The nearly 400-page report represents the culmination of 22 months of investigation by Mueller's team, although the fight over the probe isn't likely to end when the redacted document is released.
In a Washington spectacle unseen since the wife of Richard Nixon's attorney general sounded alarms about Watergate, the spouse of a top presidential advisor is issuing urgent public warnings about Trump's mental health, writes CNBC's John Harwood.
Comey said that he did not know if Democrats could obtain an unredacted copy of the Mueller report with a subpoena if the Department of Justice declined to release it.
McCabe tells NBC he had informed congressional leaders that the FBI had opened a counterintelligence probe into Trump after the firing of James Comey, and that none of the members objected to it.
Rod Rosenstein, the U.S. deputy attorney general who appointed special counsel Robert Mueller to investigate possible ties between Russia and President Donald Trump's campaign, is expected to step down by mid March.
President Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey led to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating whether Trump's presidential campaign colluded with Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Schiller was hired by the RNC to help select a site for the 2020 convention. But once Charlotte, North Carolina, was announced in July, Schiller's firm was kept on to "work on other security needs for the committee," a party official told CNBC.