comey saying no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute this. the american people feel they deserve honest answers and they haven't been getting them for the last several years. >> todd: there is going to be a risk assessment briefing by director of intelligence for certain select lawmakers. if you don't think there will be leaks, i have a bridge to sell you, what do you think lawmakers will learn from that when you make of this risk assessment? >> i would like to be part of that being on the intelligence committee, but it is only going to top leadership. this is risk assessment, doesn't get to the heart of why this raid was conducted, why they felt they had to do this and didn't issue a second subpoena. i'm class hanes is doing something, she's been open and honest, we haven't always gotten the information we wanted, but this is a start. i don't give it a lot of trust as far as appeasing the american people who went into the raid to begin with. we want to want to know what the national security risk are and why this was a situation they felt th

they also didn't serve any search warrants on former fbi director james comey when he leaked documents, classified documents to the new york times. for this to happen, i cannot even imagine that the white house would not have been in the loop on this and would have been okay with this because this is going to set a precedent that the genie's out of the bottle. there's no going back now. i know how this is interpreted. i follow twitter, i watch the news, to see how this is blowing up, i think this is unprecedented and i don't know how you put the genie back in the bottle on this one. dagen: i have so many things i would like to ask you but if you were an fbi agent and you're involved in this search, don't the alarm bells go off and do you have any ability to say i'm not participating in this? because you know -- i know that they have a duty but if you look at the pattern of the way that the former president and when he was the president, even when he was a candidate was treated by the fbi, again, the russia collusion hoax, the fisa warrants that were gotten on an individual in his campa

and here is james comey. >> seven e-mail chains concerned matters classified at the top secret, special access program, at the time they were sent and received. >> trump's former national security advisor john bolton said that trump would often ask if he could keep some of the documents. i asked bolton if that story was accurate, he says it is, griff. griff: there's so much that we don't know. at this moment the president has not been charged with a crime or violation. do we have any sense for when merrick garland will make the decision to indict or not? >> this was a search warrant by the fbi going into the president's mar-a-lago estate and he has not been charged with a crime. that would be from the district attorney for the southern district in florida. molly: do we have any insight what could be next? >> many republicans on capitol hill want to see the affidavit. they have not seen that, that would be a much more detailed account what was taken from the compound. right now we have line items of property seized in the boxes. and the classification levels are concerning for those arou

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she didn't have the protections of a president, what about james comey, head of fbi, lawyer, he would know the law, i think so. didn't he take documents with him? i think he did. some of them classified, i think they were. did he leak them? ly lhe liked some,tion shouldn't he be doing time too. maybe the same one where women are men and men are wim women, but no, what the hell is going on. everyone, the media, what's in the affidavit? what is happened is disgusting. i see a attack trump, always trump, not his enemies, not the government, always trump, no matter how we prove fbi, intelligence services democrat party and media are corrupt as hell. it is trump. trump, you see he took documents. he should know better. let me walk through this. former president has legal right to access any and all of the documents created during his presidency. classified or otherwise. period. the second before he left office by his very actions alone in taking the documents he could be said to declassified them, are you sure about this? mark. >> i am certain, this discussed in 2017 when he handed 7; info

comey and hunter biden and the unders. >> the standards are different. when it comes to hillary clinton, she didn't know she was breaking the law with thousands of e-mails in her home and classified information she didn't know it was wrong to delete the e-mails and obstruct the server but when it comes to resident trump, the intent is clear. >> and before she deleted them, she set up the service system to systematically defeat record-keeping requirements. out of think anybody got to her manchin with a search warrant saying we want everything because you took everything. she also said after she got a subpoena from the house committee investigating benghazi so to the extent people are angry about a two-tiered system, this is what makes people crazy. >> and some of the headlines out there are interesting. here is how politico characterizes it, why is terms nothing like hillary's? comparing this to e-mails is apples to oranges. >> is the russia collusion you get the democrats and the media and social media driving a narrative, it's worked during the russia c

james comey can weigh in on whether there was a republican situation going on. >> julie, generally you spend your birthday's drinking alone in a car in the parking lot of walmart, does this posed a problem for you, what you think of this classic think it's interesting because during the height of the black lives she tweeted in support of it so it' interesting how they have a double standard, they actually make an effort to look back int her history because she fully supported black lives matter, but god forbid you have a blue stripe in your short. i don't understand how the parallel comes through. >> jim, have you ever attended an elite party? get what's boggling to me is first of all, the last thing i' looking for is a guy in the background with a blue striped shirt. there is a lot to look at right there. and just as a society, when we are at the point that there's n other way to hide it, we understand you have a private party and one of the people was wearing a red hat. don't you know we are defunding the police? we are here for your safety. whoever commented our pigs. get back in yo

comey or john brennan or clapper, they went to cnn or msnbc, showed how bias they are and you can't tell the difference between rachel maddow and chris hayes or stelser or comey when talking about the trump presidency, that should be disturbing, intelligence chiefs who are supposed to be unbiassed and apolitical showed to be anything but. when they had to make money, really poured it on and if that is people running our intelligence agency we have problems if they are looking at their position as something they can weaponize against a certain candidate. ashley, you love heat and humidity? wow. >> ashley: i'm weird, i'll admit. the los angeles times is urging joe biden to use executive power to declare a national climate emergency, here is the quote from the piece. it is time biden adopted all hands on deck approach, little chance we'll look back and say the president did too much. this comes after they passed billions of dollars in inflation reduction act, what do you think of this? >> i'll be quick, until russia or india or china particularly does their part to fight climate change

this is how then-fbi director james comey described hillary clinton's email mails in 2016. >> seven e-mail chains contain matters that were top secret at the time they were sent to the receiver. >> reporter: trump's former national security adviser told cbs president trump would often ask briefers if he could keep documents, i asked bolton if the story was accurate, he says it is. david? david: president biden still not commenting on the fbi raiding his predecessor's house, but vice president kamala harris is talking. jacqui heinrich is many kiowa island, south carolina, where president biden is vacationing. >> reporter: hey there, david, good morning to you. the official white house response is that there will not be a response. heir trying to stay as far away from the issue as possible to assuage fears that the department of justice had my sort of political influence coming from the white house on this case. they have been very careful to stay far away from this story. but yesterday vice president harris was asked the question, and she went a bit farther than the official white house no

jackie: you bring up a great point in bringing hillary up and james comey's role in that. brandon, when it cames to hillary, comey said no prosecutor would prosecute the case and when it comes to president trump they are going in full force. >> right now it's hard to neglect because we get documents that are heavily redacted we can't tell what's up and what's down. the allegations they dropped last night are pretty serious and they need full level of transparency here. the public needs to neglect exactly what took place because when you are talk about obstruction of justice and subpoenaed documents that may not have been turned over situation where they may have been been moved from one location to another to keep them away from investigators, you're talking about serious allegations and you want the law to be enforced in a fair manner. jackie: excellent point, merrick garland banning political appointees from participating in partisan events and reiterating the doj's policy of prohibiting communication with members of congress. james, i will come to you real quick on this

but as soon as james comey said there were no charges to be made the story went awayti and then the press reset how dangerous donald trump was. >> talking about the whole collusion business obviously they said they did not see evidence specifically of don't thinkt i there's any question, i don't know how you feel that the russians put their thumb on the scale in favor of donald trump. paul manafort, the russian lawyer at trumper tower. and the e-mails that were hacked many believe our intelligence community was hacked actually mine were caught up in that and it was no fun. so i don't know how it was wrong to say there something going on between russia's desire and those e-mails fed into the ecosystem and popping up in the press. 2 >> that's a fair question and as a said repeatedly live on the airir and attack on one party is an attack on all parties i regularly denounced russia did i don't think as much to elect donald trump into herhe hillary clinton they did not like her as secretary of state and then to weaken the democracy. that's what motivated russia but then the press went into ove

james comey leaked classified information to get a special counsel, hillary clinton -- we don't know the extent of the classified information she had on her private server. no accountability whatsoever. do they think president trump packed the boxes at the white house to take the mar-a-lago? i think this is all about 2024 and their disdain for president trump and the fact they know he's coming back and likely to beat their candidates joe biden. >> brian: did you get your phone back? did you get your phone back? i guess we might have lost them. congressman scott perry, thanks. watch play this back you'll see i did thank you, i wasn't rude. democrats are doing everything they can to take out donald trump as their own party crumbles, just today the president was deposed by the new york state attorney general's office, these tactics are not working. trump endorsed candidates continue to win their primaries ahead of their midterms. joe kent is one of the examples he just defeated an establishment encumbered in the state of washington and joins us now. congratulations, what is it you like

here's how then fbi director james comey described those emails and their classification in 2016. seven email chains. concern matters that were classified at the top secret. special access program at the time they were sent and received, trump's former national security advisor john bolton, told cbs president trump would often ask intelligence briefers if he could keep some of the documents. i asked bolton this morning. if the story was accurate, he says it is in washington. lucas tomlinson fox news for an in depth discussion about the search tomorrow morning on our political show. the issue is the show's host, alex michaelson has been talking with people with different takes on the matter. once you find out that the fbi lied, fabricated evidence on a fisa warrant buys application. such that the fbi illegally spied on his campaign and then continue to go after him for years and years and years. i actually forgot to mention the $32 million years long. mueller probe also based on absolutely nothing turned up. nothing at that point. i think you have to realize if you've got even two

i didn't have the evidence sufficient to indict someone whether it be james comey oryo anyone else for the president to publicly declare should be indicted. [inaudible] people object to that and trump was saying i want the justice department to and that created a problem. if i didn't have the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt i wouldn't indict someone just simply because the president wanted to indict. we can't go down that road and i said to the president i can't do that mr. president. i know they apply to different standards but they department can't be used as a political weapon. f sometimes i pay the price for that. when i saw i felt prosecutors are going to seek a penalty on the it, i don't like roger stone. i think he's a jerk. and i thought he violated the law. he didn't deserve to go to prison for two or three times would than other people go and that's what they were trying to do. that came on my desk and want to came on my desk i was going tohe make the decision and i did what i thought was right. i did it a cause it's one standard of justice for everybodyy and the president

nsa said to an earlier group this evening, what james comey had in andrew mccabe, james klapper and john brennan they all had one thing in common per they had enormous powers they all lied under oath or said they could not remember and there was no punishment. even somebody with a sterling reputation that we all honor how could robert mueller run a 22 month long investigation based on the steele dossier in this dissemination and testify under oath to the house intelligence committee when asked he had no idea of the dossier was. he had no idea gps was. he had no idea why his committee and commission existed in the first place that was 22 months post- fecteau. it's very dangerous to invest and give up your constitutional rights to people who are not elected. they are grant greater and larger as the individual citizen feels they are losing their independence and theyhe need someone to instruct them. someone to house them. someone to give them education. someone should give them legal advice, someone to protect them. the more they want protection the more the deep state says we are here to h

the memo says that trump didn't break the law when he fired james comey or when he asked comey to go easy on michael flynn. >>> and carolyn maloney lost her primary on tuesday and her -- now her democratic peers are scrambling to take her her house committee. but she won't be giving up her gavel until next year. maloney was forced to face off against jerry nadler due to the new new york redistricting laws and suffered the stinging defeat. >>> in columbus, ohio the teachers union and board of education say that they reached a conceptual agreement to get students back in the classroom starting on monday. thousands of teachers and other school workers went on strike over the weekend demanding better classroom conditions, school year started as scheduled on wednesday but kids had to do online classes with substitute teachers. they will stay virtual the next two days while the regular teachers get ready for their return next week. >>> u.s. president biden is facing bipartisan criticism over his plan to write-off millions in federal student loans. the administration wants to erase $10,000

hillary clinton, even james comey admitted that in fact she had top secret classified information on a server that was hacked by foreign entities, but said yeah, even though we acknowledge the law was broken, no prosecutor would prosecute. now we have what? do we have equal justice or not in this country, professor? >> we have the attorney general saying that equality is the essence of the justice department. but then never explaining why these espionage statutes are used now when they were never used against berger and certainly not against clinton. the question is, do we really have equality or do we have a double standard of justice. seems like garland says we have equality, his actions speak louder than words. going after president trump, who i voted against, i'm a liberal democrat, not a republican. i want to have the right to vote for him or against him when he runs against. i don't went a bureaucrat making the decision whether he should be allowed to run. so i don't think we have equal justice today and i think every american, right or left, republican or democrat, should be o

because of the timing of james comey's actions. he knows it. and the fbi had people inside that were leaking things throughout the entire process. they're human beings inside the fbi, right, just like there are in every organization. people who don't always do the right thing. but, by and large, by and large, they do good work. they followed the letter of the law here. these people that were, as you said, mike, were for law and order, always talked about law and order, that all changed when donald trump became president of the united states. they declared war against the fbi. they constantly attack the fbi with conspiracy theories, just crazed, crazed conspiracy theories. and then they, on january 6th, mika, they go after capitol hill cops. some of the same people begging donald trump to call off the attack. talking about wolves? >> yeah. >> you talk about wolves? the attacks on january 6th, the same people that were begging trump to call off the attack are the same people who are now attacking the fbi. trying to whip these same people into a f

comey after trump fired comey. law enforcement sources say the search warrant was approved by a federal judge, something that would have required agents to demonstrate probable cause that a crime or crimes were committed. republican leaders are lashing out at the fbi and the justice department. kevin mccarthy, the republican leader in the house, for example, putting out a statement saying, quote, the department of justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization. george? >> jon, you called it the most politically explosive fbi search in american history. but it's not the first time they've looked at mar-a-lago. >> reporter: in fact, george, abc news has learned that a contingent, much smaller contingent of law enforcement agents visited mar-a-lago this spring. trump was actually there at the time. they met with his lawyers and they did retrieve some documents. apparently, however, they were not satisfied with what they received at that last visit. >> okay, jon karl, thanks very much. let's brin

. >> the agency leadership that protected hillary clinton, jame comey, and continues to protect under biden parrot. >> no one is above the law and that includes the attorney general and this floor of the fbi. >> it would be unusual to have anything that rises to the leve of a threat frickey house republicans demanding answers from the fbi and asking for the specific justifications for monday's rate on mar-a-lago. oklahoma congressman is part of the intel committee, the part o the group that is voicing their displeasure with the search and joins us live. we are excited to have people back in the studio so thank you for being here parrot. >> mask free. we are glad you're back here in person. you are here today. adam schiff, on the other side of the aisle. he said trump did not fully cooperates, every day that information was classification he says the reports are active. every time that sits in an unsecure location it's a risk t our national security. if any other individual had information the mvi would work quickly to mitigate the risk of this disclosure. >> it's been 500 days since p

what james comey had? and andrew mccabe james clapper and john brennan and lois lerner, they all had one thing in common. they had enormous powers. they all lied under oath or said they could not remember and there were no punishments at all. even somebody with a sterling reputation that we all honor robert mueller. how could robert mueller run a 22 month long investigation? based on the steel dossier and its dissemination by fusion gps and testify under oath. to the house intelligence committee. when asked that he had no idea what the dossier was. he had no idea. what gps was in other words he had no idea why his committee existed his commissioned existed in the first place. and that that was 22 months post-facto. so it's very dangerous to invest and give up your constitutional rights to people who are not elected and they're growing greater and larger as the individual citizen fields. that they are losing their independence and they need someone to instruct them someone to house them someone to give them

comey, really was devastating to the men and women, so now fast forward five years later, i think this is really tarnished and stained the fbi again and has set it back to a lot of people who said the fbi can't be trusted, the legitimacy of the fbi should be questioned, and so it begs the bottom-line question as to whether or not this type of execution of this search warrant on a former president was really worth the price. i will say from my vantage point, i'm not so sure it had the great value that we're seeing playing out in social media and in the media because we're so divided as a country. >> him, i love your reaction to that notion, but also on the idea. you've written quite extensively. we've had conversations in the past about the idea of the inoculations surrounding either a sitting president or a former president, and the optics really in many ways governing the way which people decide the doj ought to be performing and acting. i just wonder from your perspective on the idea of the perils of investigating or searching the home of a former president. what goes and comes into

let's say the exoneration of hillary clinton, the editing of james comey's exoneration e-mail. by the way, that was the same cast of characters inside the fbi that immediately went into crossfire hurricane. we now know that as early as october 2016, certainly january of 2017 the fbi knew full well the steele dossier was tainted with russian disinformation. how do we know that? because my staff uncovered the classified footnotes to the fisa report or that completely con that that districted the fisa report -- contradicted the fisa report that the fbi had no knowledge of russian disinformation. look at the peter strzok/lisa page texts from 2016, 2017. the mueller probe never should have happened. in march 2018 the fbi, knowing full well that the dossier was taintedded, briefed senate intel and said the steele dossier had integrity. so time and time again we see the partisanship, partisan actions, political actions being undertaken by the fbi. now because we have whistleblowers coming forward, and i encourage to come forward, one to -- a number to senator chuck grassley said there

starts raiding the homes of joe biden, hillary clinton, barack obama, eric holder, james comey and john brennan. what goes around always comes around. what went around this week will come around hard. and this op-ed in the "new york post" with the title merrick garland's raid of trump's mar-a-lago is a farce of law. what your reaction to all of it? >> well, harris, this is something i take very seriously and the department of justice can never be used as a political instrument to punish your opponents. a lot of americans. we can't live in a country where americans feel this is what is being done. we can't get into an escalation as the "wall street journal" and they point out in the op-ed. at the same time i know someone who has been at the department of justice for seven years in twho add min -- administrations we took seriously these criticisms. the attorney general has a platform where he can explain more so than he did last week. i thought his press conference was very disappointing. he can explain in cases like this the decisions that are made, how things are mitigated like attorney

comey, and continues to protect hunter biden. quick to be highly unusual for president to have anything even in the oval office that rises to the level of the national security threat regrets adam schiff at protecting classified documents is the priority house speaker nancy pelosi added this. >> you would think there be an adult in the republican room that would say it just calm down, see with the facts are perkins republican senator chuck grassley said today under cynic will take more than unsealing of a warrant. >> full transparency is going to be when they release the affidavit. and this is such a high profile and very strange way of going about getting it documents from a former president rick works a "washington post" editorial board called the republican party's reaction to the rate disturbing and dangerous. citing also those defending the president wanted hillary clinton locked up for mishandling classified documents, jon. jon: the classified documents at my log out reminding many of the e-mails that former secretary of st

comey, really was devastating to the men and women. so, fast forward five years later, i think this is really tarnished and stained the fbi again, and i said it back to a lot of people are gonna say that the fbi can't be trusted, the legitimacy of the fbi should be questioned. it begs the bottom line question, as to whether or not this type of execution of this particular search warrant on a former president, was really worth the price. and i will say from my vantage point, i'm not so sure it had the value that we're seeing playing out in social media and the media because we are so divided as a country. >> kim, i'd love to hear your reaction to that notion, but also on the idea, you've written quite extensively. we've had these conversations in the past as well. about the idea of sort of the inoculation surrounding either a sitting president or a former president. and the optics really, in many ways, governing the way in which people decide the doj ought to be performing enacting. and i just wonder from your perspective, on the idea o

so this was information that as james comey said that he wouldn't prosecute her, this is information that she should have known had no business being on a private server. in fact, during my time in the military, had i had that kind of military on a private server, i would have expected military discipline. severe military discipline under the military code of justice. trump had highly classified information, apparently marked classified, in his possession improperly. that's where the similarity is. the question becomes, was trump's behavior in some ways materially worse? and that's where we get into some of the other questions regarding deception, poe essentially not fully answering a subpoena, for example. there is a lot that we don't know around trump's handling of these documents. but on first blush, a lot of facts are more similar than a lot of democrats would like the acknowledge. >> now the former fbi director comey noted that hillary clinton's had, that they had top level clearance. and we know that trump took documents with similar level security clearance. what do you say to

comey. the burden is on the government to prove this is not a continuation of what has been a seven year long crusade to get trump. now with the former vice president pence saying that he is no not 99% of the bureau front lines should be appreciative of them. but this senior of this agency has been targeting trump for years. they have got the documents they went in for. i see no treason release except if they have confidential informants in it. >> bret: harold? >> harold: first, thanks for having me. one of the things i continue to reflect on is that president trump and his team never filed a motion to say that the search or the raid as the president calls it was illegal. two, they have not filed a motion to have any of the retrieved materials or the seized materials returned to the president as he has often said these were not things that they should have seized. hugh and i went to the same law school. pretty good law school in the midwest. i would have con it if i were advising him. we got

even those, james comey concluded that no reasonable prosecutor would bring that case, even though there may have been violations of the espionage act. the espionage act is obviously very serious, but it doesn't necessarily mean that the person being searched was engaged in actual espionage. it's a very broadly drafted statute. the other statute section 2071, it involves similar actions. taking material from the white house, or destroying it. it's essentially if. but there is a lot of thorny issues about whether or not the president declassified it, if he did, was it okay for him to have it? did he give permission through an executive order or some standing order? if so, is that a potential defense? these are all things that merrick garland has to consider. not just the simple step of deciding whether or not where trump did bid into the elements of the statute. he also has to consider possible defenses, and issues of immunity. >> okay, trump claimed the fbi did not need to resort to assert. in that timeline it goes back to january, when the national archive between 15 boxes of documents

. >> soon after taking office, trump pressured then fbi director, james comey, to drop an investigation into former national security adviser, michael flynn. that's according to comey himself, who claimed that trump put the squeeze on him personally. >> i got the sense my job would be contingent upon how he felt i conducted myself and whether i demonstrated loyalty. >> trump denied asking for coney's loyalty, but ended up firing him, later saying that he was frustrated over the ongoing russia probe. >> he wanted that investigations shut down, he saw it as a political problem, and this was what comey was up to. >> the morale in the fbi definitely took a hit after the firing of jim comey, i think that was the watershed moment that made everyone kind of focus on this issue of the possibility that the administration was really trying to having a direct impact on how we did our work. >> throughout the rush investigation, and afterward, trump continued to berate the fbi, for how that investigation played out. >> these were dirty, filthy comps at the top of the fbi. >> trump complained that te

comey the fbi director of the time buying into all the contents of the steele dossier that ultimately launched the russia collusion investigation. here we have a government, and this should be chilly for everybody, deciding what news can and cannot be shared on huge social media platforms like facebook and obviously twitter was infinitely worse and outright sense of the story and walked out accounts that share the story. so this is where we are at this point. but government and big tech working together on behalf of a political party. and this is certainly not what the united states of america is all about, ashley. >> ashley: joe, is zuckerberg to blame where the fbi or is anybody hold accountable or both? >> well, ashley come i would like to hear christopher wray ad the fbi director appointed by donald trump and what you would have to say about this year they have not commented on this yet, but i would hope the next time mr. christopher wray on capitol hill some sort of hearing taking questions, that this would be question number one. why are you going to social media companies and t

thomas, july 5, 2016 james comey outlined how hillary clinton had eight e-mails i fall into the top-secret classification. there was no raid, though. is this a double standard? >> it certainly raises these questions. we have to have a one tiered system of justice in this country. there is no question that hillary clinton was mishandling classified information, even if she lawfully had information to she was not handling in the proper way. look, i understand that there could be differences, differences in scale and differences in intent. this is just a different situation where it is more agree just. i think any americans are looking at this and saying wait a minute, isn't this the same thing we just went through with hillary clinton and look how that turned out. >> taking a step back, mayor garland was denied a vote to become a supreme court justice by senator mitch mcconnell. now we are seeing attorney general garland targeting conservatives. talking about the task force at investigate parents at the pta meeting. lack of movement on the case against hunter biden. is there an inherent bias

. >> soon after taking office, trump pressured then fbi director james comey to drop an investigation into former national security adviser, michael flynn. that's according to comey himself who claimed that trump put the squeeze on him, personally. >> i got the sense that my job would be contingent upon how he felt i conducted myself and whether i demonstrated loyalty. trump denied asking for comey's loyalty. but ended up firing comey. later saying that he was frustrated over the ongoing russia probe. >> he wanted that investigation shot down. he sought as a political problem and this is what comey was up to. the morale in the fbi definitely took a hit after the firing of jim comey. i think that was the watershed moment that made everybody kind of focus on this issue of the possibility that the administration is really trying to have a direct impact on how we did our work. >> throughout the rush investigation, and afterwards, trump continued to berate the fbi for how that investigation played out. >> these were, dirty filthy cops at the top of the fbi. >> trump complained that text be

comey damaged hillary clinton's presidential campaign in 2016? why did you drop it? or else you can proceed with a search and people will say, as they did, you're targeting the president and you'll energize his base to get things like what we have seen in phoenix and cincinnati at fbi offices. so you look at the three openingopening options and you can see why merrick garland is sitting around for weeks saying this say disaster and any step i take say problem. no good answers here, kate. >> there is also -- you mentioned mueller. andrew weissman, people may remember, he's a former investigator in the mueller probe, high profile name at that time, he posted an interesting question that has not been answered amid all the noise surrounding this, which is why trump still has not said why he took the documents, why he did not return them, and what he did and what he did with them and/or was planning to do with them. the fact that he has not answered those questions or offered that up as he's been talking quite a bit, what do you think of that? >> it d

people just like james comey and peter strzok who said they would stop donald trump from ever becoming president in 2016 and of course they had a plan and an insurance policy if their plan failed. so make no mistake, the deep state is real, know that they do hate you. retired general michael hayden who served as cia director after michael 9/11 tweeted that republicans are more dangerous and contemptible than any violent extremist organization on earth. democratic strategists and james koeppel echoed the same sentiment. if you rewound the tape from let's say 1992 or 1991 he would be saying the same thing, like a broken record over and over again. you will see. >> huge majority is reported with the evolution. huge majorities of the republican party followed donald trump and whatever that sound is here. the problem the republican party has is they have stupid people in their primaries. and when you have that you are going to get in really stupid people the demand have really stupid leaders and that is where the republican party is now. >> sean: went on to call the republican party racist

comey, donald trump has according to analysts and historians, often viewed the fbi as his own political instrument to do with what he pleases and has often responded with rage when that hasn't happened. >> donald trump's rage with the fbi dates back to before he became president. >> please, fbi, please go after hillary. the provocative days of the 2016 campaign when trump was relentless of his badgering of the fbi to investigate his p opponent's e-mail. >> i am so disappointed, how did they let that happen? she was so guilty. >> then from almost the moment he stepped in the white house analysts say trump seemed to view the finbi as his own persol instrument of power. >> donald trump tried to usurp the fbi in that spring eof 2017 and that relationship has never been smooth since. >> he's become more famous than me. >> soon after taking office, trump pressured then-fbi director james comb toe drop an investigation into former national security adviser michael flinn, that's according to comey himself who claimed that trump put the squeeze on him personally. >> i got the sense my job would

james comey, the director of the fbi, used classified information improperly to get a special counsel. no accountability for that. the chairman of the intel committee changed the president's speech and entered it into the record, created an impeachment trial, again, no accountability. you name it across the board whether it's john eastman, whether it's scott perry, whether it's president trump and with passing a bill that will pay for hiring of 87,000 irs agents, tyranny's going to come right into everyone's living room very, very shortly. maria: well, this is absolutely extraordinary. i mean, here survey casing with your in-laws, your elderly in-laws and your children, and then you are taken aside by the fbi to ask for your personal cell phone. obviously, they knew where you were. you're the head of the freedom caucus. how did that feel? what were you thinking when suddenly you're on a trip with your family, and you're pulled aside by fbi agents? >> well, maria, it feels awful. look, we have always supported law enforcement, i always have. we have revered the fbi, but this is an abus

comey about the fbi's investigation of michael flynn was not obstruction of justice because, quote, the presidents expression of hope that comey would let this go did not clearly direct a particular action in the flynn investigation. the memo also said that donald trump ordered the firing of special counsel robert mueller was not attempted obstruction of justice or obstruction of justice because, quote, there is considerable evidence to suggest that the president took these official actions, not for an illegal purpose, but rather because he believed the investigation was politically motivated and undermined his administration's efforts to govern. the memo also said, we likewise do not believe that the president's public statements exhorting witnesses, like flynn, manafort, stone or cohen, not to flip should be viewed as obstruction of justice. that means that the two authors of this bill are the only federal prosecutors in history who do not know what flip means. it is, of course, the term traditionally used by gangsters and donald trump to mean a witness engaged in criminal conduct

in 2016, then-fbi director james comey publicly criticized hillary clinton's handling of classified material but said at the time that no reasonable prosecutor would indict in that case. the circumstances of this case are obviously different. emails, hard documents, number of documents, classification levels, et cetera. but are there specific legal standards or at least practices that establish a sort of bar as to which cases of mishandling of classified information draw indictments and which do not? >> yeah, i mean, usually it's the case, if there was something that went beyond sort of negligence, only then can you bring a criminal case. in the case of hillary clinton, one of the considerations was, on those set of facts had anyone ever previously been prosecuted with a level of good faith or bad faith that could be reasonably attributable to the former first lady and the determination was there was not. we don't have all the facts yet. one of the questions that's still not answered because most of the affidavit has been redacted is what was the let them of intentionality on the part of don

going back to then former director james comey, when he was terminated or fired in may of 2017, he left a trail of damage and destruction where, for the first time, the integrity and the legitimacy of the fbi was now being called into question. the damage was immeasurable. it was irreparable. i cannot understand that the sitting present director, christopher wray, would not have appreciated and would have realized that generally speaking, the affidavit, as you suggest, is not released to the public nor to the target of the search. but, given the divisiveness and given the understanding and the appreciation as to what this would have caused and we are seeing it play out since yesterday, i implore the fbi and the department of justice to release the affidavit. listen, we don't need let it all hang out. >> bret: would the former president or his team have some paperwork like a search warrant, not the affidavit supporting it, but some list of what they took? >> they would have -- well, so they would have the face sheet, which is the actual warrant, which authorizes the legitimacy of any law

james comey cleared hillary clinton, even admitting that he did things that were wrong, now they are not trying to clear president trump, they are trying to create a subterfuge to convict him. >> sean: let me ask this, what you want the american people to know about justice in america and about the upper echelon of the fbi that went after you? >> i think they need to understand that justice in america and our constitution creates certain protections, but if we don't create a government that honors those protections, they are not going to exist for the american people for very long buried >> sean: i will tell you, the book, i couldn't put it down, it's a great book. period paul manafort, congratulations, the book is out today in bookstores everywhere, amazon.com, hannity.com, appreciate you being with us. when we come back we're going to take a deep dive into the pennsylvania senate race. john federman finally back on the campaign trail, not looking very good following a stroke a few months ago, and he's back to spreading his really radical ideas. believe it or not he's to the left of

. >> this is the same agency leadership that protected hillary clinton, james comey and continues to protect hunter biden. >> it would be highly unusual for president to have even in the oval office that rises to the level of imminent national security threat regrets democratic security chair adam schiff at protecting classified documents is the priority print house speaker nancy pelosi added this. what she would think there would be an adult in the republican room that would say, just calm down and see if the facts are regrets republican senator chuck grassley said today understanding those facts will take more than unsealing of a warrant. >> full transparency will be when they release the affidavit. this is such a high profile and very strange way of going about getting documents from a former president. >> the "washington post" editorial board called the republican party reaction to the rate disturbing and dangerous. writing when it hillary clinton locked up from mishandling classified documents, and need it. anita: alexander thank you so much. eric: now to the southern board it's

comey himself. he wanted to take advantage. i sent them. prime's administration, the first few days he was in office. george papadopoulos railroaded with a process crime. more recently, peter navarro shackled at an airport, humiliated publicly because of a misdemeanor? usually you tell someone to report at this time or we will send people out and execute a warrant. hillary clinton put america's national security at risk, classified material stored on her private server. we have equal justice in this country customer and she tried to cover it up we know by destroying evidence, including wiping hard. it is something we never knew or heard about before called bleach bit. she destroyed phones with hammers, returned other phones without the sim cards, meaning without anything in them. she deleted over 30,000 official emails and at the height of that investigation into these emails, hillary's husband bill was having a strange conversation with obama's attorney general, loretta lynch, during a private meet

. >> reporter: soon after taking office, trump pressured then fbi director james comey to drop an investigation into former national security adviser michael flynn. that is according to comey himself who claimed had trump put the squeeze on him personally. >> i got the sense my job would be contingent upon how he felt i conducted myself and whether i demonstrated loyalty. >> reporter: trump denied asking for comey's loyalty, but ended up firing comey later saying that he was frustrated over the ongoing russia probe. >> he wanted that investigation shut down, he saw it as a political problem and this was what comey was up to. >> the morale in the fbi definitely took a hit after the firing of jim comey. i think that was the watershed moment that made everybody kind of focus on this issue of the possibility that the administration is really trying to have a direct impact on how we did our work. >> reporter: throughout the russia investigation and afterward, trump continued to berate the fbi for how the investigation played out. >> these were dirty filthy cops at the top of the fbi. >> reporter: tr

comey. trump detractors even went to so far as to suggest that the fbi planted documents at mar-a-lago. last wednesday with fake tweets, he tweeted that the fbi and others would not let anyone including my lord be anywhere near the areas that were rummaged. they wanted to be left alone without went to see what they were doing -- republicans and fox news also fired up the propaganda machine repeating that bogus conspiracy theory over and over. >> do i know that the boxes of material that they took from mar-a-lago, that they won't put things in those boxes to entrap and? i don't i know that we are he's gonna be honest to see what was in the boxes, how do we know is in the box before left the residence? >> what the fbi is probably doing is planting evidence, which is what they did during the russia hoax. we also have doctored evidence to see the war. >> my concern is that they planted something. at this point who? no i don't trust the government. >> by thursday, trump tv had realized that that

clearly, the 11th hour announcement for then fbi director, james comey, that he was reopening the investigation, just weeks before the election was, by all accounts, a major factor in her very narrow lost in the electoral college. so, when trump became president, and there is no justification to what clinton up, he did sign a law cracking down on the mishandling of classified information. fun fact, trump was reluctant to sign this bill, to reauthorize pfizer surveillance, so, perhaps, to sweeten the pot, congressional republicans added a bit to the bill, and makes mishandling classified documents a felony, increasing the penalty from one year in prison, to five. might as well have been called the hillary's emails act. he was serious about cracking down on liquors of classified information, like whistleblower reality winners, who, under trump's doj, was given the most severe sentence ever, in the history of this country, firmly can government materials. 63 months in prison for leaking one single classified document on russian election interference, on behalf of trump's campaign. david laufman, t