Article snippet: presidential campaign. The FBI declined to comment. McCabe spent roughly eight hours behind closed doors with members of the House Intelligence Committee Wednesday, as Republicans, including Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, have called for his firing. “He ought to be replaced," Grassley told reporters Tuesday, according to Bloomberg News. "And I’ve said that before and I’ve said it to people who can do it,” Some Republicans have accused McCabe of bias, citing his wife’s run for a Virginia state Senate seat in 2015, and the fact that her campaign received money linked to Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, D-Virginia. Rep. Peter King, R-New York, a member of the Intelligence Committee who said he has "no professional problem" with McCabe, said the deputy FBI director should have recused himself from the Clinton email investigation given his wife's political campaign. "I think Andy McCabe is an honest guy ... but when you’re involved in a high profile investigation like that, whether it’s with Hillary Clinton or President Trump, you should make it obvious that there’s no conflicts at all, that there’s no appearance of a conflict,” said King, who sat in on his panel’s meeting with McCabe. "There's not a smoking gun I don’t mean that but I thought there were instances which show that there really wasn’t as I was concerned, to warrant the start of the investigation," he said of the FBI's Russia probe eventually taken over by special... Link to the full article to read more