which pressured by f.b.i. agents in new york right and he put out his press conference back in july last year criticizing hillary i was totally against the rules he put out that letter eleven days before the election would totally undermined her at a time when the f.b.i. knew darn well that donald trump was in was basically working with the russians or the russians are trying to subtly trying to help him and did nothing basis close the case on the dossier now that say that johnson and that the democrats paid for him presumably the i know as well i mean i'm ok all right let me get let me pull it on here richard you're always a jewel on the program but let me go to let me go to john here ok but ok if we can if we connect the dots here if we're if we're using you know when i just gave that quote right there i mean that looks to me like trying to get find so warrants on your political enemies and this is the f.b.i. ok you know if you want to go after your political opponents in your political party that's fair gam

management colluded in f.b.i. agents actually swore false have a davids to the pfizer core to the visor court judges which resulted in n.s.a. surveillance of a presidential campaign a transition team that is very serious ok well it's called the fruit of the poison tree daniel in washington here. is there a real crisis going on here i mean this is the premier. law enforcement agency in the united states certainly maybe even in the whole world here. are these people that can be trusted last e-mail's counter-intelligence is supposed to be watching e-mails and they lose their own i mean i'm sorry it is hard for me to believe that go ahead in washington yet absolutely we have a few answers to this question one is the f.b.i. in specific since herbert hoover and that movie that was portrayed on him to call me the f.b.i. has been a political institution great agents that work there and some that have left there but in the bureaucracy and the leadership it has been known as a political weapon and has been utilized look at

which pressured by f.b.i. agents in new york right and he put out his press conference back in july last year criticizing hillary i was totally against the rules he put out that letter eleven days before the election would totally undermined her at a time when the f.b.i. knew darn well that donald trump was in was basically working with the russians or the russians are trying to trying to help him and did nothing basis close the case on the dossier now that say that johnson and that the democrats paid for him presumably the i know what i know i mean i'm ok all right let me get let me pulling up on here richard you're always a jewel on the program but let me go to let me go to john here ok but ok if we can if we connect the dots here if where you were using you know when i just gave that quote right there i mean that looks to me like trying to get find so warrants on your political enemies and this is the f.b.i. ok you know if you want to go after your political opponents in your political party that's fair gam

in such places as the f.b.i. how they really work to date the investigation known as russia gate has revealed preciously little though we're learning there was collusion elsewhere. across talking real collusion i'm joined by my guest richard goodstein in washington he is a democratic political strategist and a former adviser to hillary clinton's two presidential campaigns in miami we have john karr below he is host of off the cuff on rebel media and in phoenix we cross to josh bernstein he is a t.v. talk show host or a chilling cross talk rules in effect that means he can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate josh i'm going to go to you first because one of my one of the crosstalk rules is always go to the person that got up early is for this program and that is you want to talk about some of the things that's coming out of the the f.b.i. in the in the special investigation into. alleged collusion with russia during the election we have this peter stroke you know and he has written some you know with h

the number two man in f.b.i. and remicade and mccabe's hand-picked disciple peter stroke couldn't spiralling against a political campaign then taking that jump those to a fight so a court were resting on their f.b.i. credentials to convince a judge to issue a secret warrant a foreign intelligence surveillance court want to surveil another political campaign for nothing other than political reasons now with regards to paul metaphor if he committed financial crimes in two thousand and six he should pay but nothing was found with regards to russia collusion with papadopoulos he was he would plead guilty on a process crime nothing would trump russia collusion michael flynn a process can finally meet lying to investigators there's a lot of debate let me just get one another and go to the liberals in a united states that is tapping it's actually do they want to read against one and i want richard to get in their way and richard please. first as regards this dossier ok i know everybody spun up about it. michael flynn ha

if f.b.i. agents or staff have questions about what james comey said and whether he was telling the truth, they shouldn't answer those questions or direct those questions to him privately. i think it's worth having a public discussion about that. >> sandra: fair enough. and more on this with chairman bob goodlatte coming on with us in a few moments. steve hayes, thank you for coming on. >> bill: what this signals for the mueller investigation. alan dershowitz joins us later this hour. stay tuned for that. president trump sparring with chuck schumer saying his offer on border security has been pulled. question, was there ever a deal in the first place? our panel takes that up this hour. >> sandra: newly released text messages between the two f.b.i. officials, one of them apparently thought there was no there there. house judiciary committee chairman bob goodlatte has been investigating all this and he joins us next. >> it could be a technical glitch. it is suspicious. will they aggressively reco

the f.b.i. have handled the following subjects. on the one hand, hillary clinton, and on the secondhand, donald trump and his associates. hiding from tough questions about these controversial cases is no way to reassure the public. if the department is afraid of independent oversight, that just reinforces people's suspicion and skepticism. the only real way to reassure people is to let the sun shine in and let the chips fall where they may. in each of these cases, the government should obviously find out what happened and hold people accountable if there was any wrongdoing. but it also has to play by the rules and be held accountable for its actions as well. we need to shine the light of day on all of it. as part of our investigation, we have requested documents and other information from the department of justice and the f.b.i. much of that information is classified. the department has provided very limited access to those classified materials. it has limited the judiciary committee review to t

and where it's the f.b.i. that seems to be driving what's going on here russia gate has lost a lot of steam we can still have the innuendos in the rumors and the leaks but it hasn't amounted to anything but day after day it looks like the f.b.i. is where the real problem is kevin go ahead. yes the real concern here is it appears that there's been a weaponization of the secret intelligence agencies in this case specifically f.b.i. counterintelligence and the very huge concern here is it appears that f.b.i. management colluded in f.b.i. agents actually swore false of a davids to the pfizer core to the visor or judges which resulted in n.s.a. surveillance of a presidential campaign a transition team that is very serious ok well it's called the fruit of the poison tree daniel in washington here. is there a real crisis going on here i mean this is the premier. law enforcement agency in the united states certainly maybe even in the whole world here. are these people that can be trusted lost e-mails counter-intellige

management colluded in f.b.i. agents actually swore false have a davids to the pfizer core to the visor core judges which resulted in n.s.a. surveillance of a presidential campaign a transition team that is very serious ok well it's called the fruit of the poisoned tree daniel in washington here. is there a real crisis going on here i mean this is the premier. law enforcement agency in the united states certainly maybe even in the whole world here. are these people that can be trusted last e-mail's counter-intelligence is supposed to be watching e-mails and they lose their own i mean i'm sorry it is hard for me to believe that go ahead in washington yet absolutely we have a few answers to this question one is the f.b.i. in specific since herbert hoover and the movie that was portrayed on him komi the f.b.i. has been a political institution great agents that work there and some that have left there but in the bureaucracy and the leadership it has been known as a political weapon and has been utilized look at bill c

we've got an out of control weaponized f.b.i. now something dramatically needs and they're about to be done to the american people need to carry on and crime would run a man that we've run out of time gentlemen i have a feeling that donald trump will be indicted for over twitter use i don't know many thanks to my guest in washington atlanta and in lake jackson and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r.t.c. you next time and remember. as you read the sand here some of. our overall problem with a smile. on our good armor on our show at the fair are rather tough it out before for america. i'm going to let him but when i catch him then you can keep an eye on what i had flew to china for truffle that it. doesn't. work then i'm all in my machine little subtle it does show the. members of the hey i'm not doing. good it's whole foods but choice the i knew you didn't pay i think to a mysterious said. is she ought to give up someone else for that even after the couple farts around the mr hate that for jim and then boil for folks

but briefly ran the f.b.i. after the president fired james comey the washington post reported the president asked him how he voted in the election to keep told him he didn't vote but his departure will risk questions among other f.b.i. agents this is profoundly disturbing it's yet another chip in the edifice of the separation of politics from the rule of law and the independence of the justice department the law enforcement bodies of united states in this instance the f.b.i. intelligence community and frankly american democracy this is been dominating the headlines but washington's attention will soon time to this president's first state of the union speech on tuesday but the ramifications of mccabe's abrupt departure may well rumble on alan fischer al-jazeera washington. the u.s. has lifted its ban on refugees from eleven what it called harvest countries but says tougher checks will still be enforced by u.s. president donald trump implemented the baton of toil this part and has revived immigration policy act c

management colluded in f.b.i. agents actually swore false have a davids to the pfizer corps to devise a court judges which resulted in n.s.a. surveillance of a presidential campaign a transition team that is very serious ok well it's called the fruit of the poison tree daniel in washington here. is there a real crisis going on here i mean this is the premier. law enforcement agency in the united states certainly maybe even in the whole world here. are these people that can be trusted last e-mail's counter-intelligence is supposed to be watching e-mails and they lose their own i mean i'm sorry it is hard for me to believe that go ahead in washington yet absolutely we have a few answers to this question one is the f.b.i. in specific since herbert hoover and the movie that was portrayed on him to call me the f.b.i. has been a political institution i know great agents that work there and some that have left there but in the bureaucracy and the leadership it has been known as a political weapon and has been utilized lo

today we learned that deputy director of the f.b.i. andrew mccabe will be stepping down immediately. he has been attacked by the white house relentlessly. and as soon as this evening, the house will vote to release the contents of a secret memo prepared by the republican majority on the house intelligence committee that insinuates the f.b.i. and d.o.j.'s investigation into russia's interference in our elections as politically biased. according to the ranking member of the committee, representative schiff, this memo is full of innuendo, glaring omissions. it presents evidence without context and jumps to unfounded conclusions. we should call it what it truly is -- a slanderous memo of g.o.p. talking points. this is not an erudite study. this is a bunch of talking points to discredit an agency that's doing a good job that we all have supported and respected over the years. and if republicans vote to release their memo of partisan talking points tonight, they should also vote to release the memo prepared by ranking member schiff and let e

the f.b.i. as deputy director has resigned weeks before his official retirement date the us president has repeatedly criticized andrew mackay accusing him of favor and his rival hillary clinton during the two thousand and sixteen presidential race or the caves departure comes as the f.b.i. continues its proud and possible ties between russia and china's campaign alan fischer reports. and ricky has been with the f.b.i. for twenty years but in recent months he's been the target of repeated criticism from president bush and the deputy director played a role in the investigation in hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server his wife ran for office for the democrats in virginia and received campaign donations from clinton allies for the president that was enough for him to tweet how can the f.b.i. deputy director andrew mccabe the man in charge along with lekan james komi of the phony hillary clinton investigation including her thirty three thousand illegally deleted e-mails be given seven hund

we want the people of the f.b.i. to know we respect their job and respect who they are and what they do. and all the more reason why we need to have transparency and accountability to hold people accountable if they violated the rules. if they acted in a wrong, improper way. that's what we're doing here. >> all the other conclusions that are to be drawn by this investigation in the house are being held until the end. why is it important to get this conclusion -- >> it would have been great to have all the document we requested months ago but we did no. congress has been asking for all these documents to do the executive branch oversight. the inspector general who just told us a couple of days ago all of a sudden they found the 5,000 text messages that were lost. it would be nice if all of this information that congress had requested would have been delivered when we asked for this stuff last august. so we have not been getting the information until fairly recently. that is why this is taking so long. >> there has bee

and f.b.i. won't go back and look at this once she has been cleared but what was her inconsistent statement about. whether she backed up the emails? she backed up the emails. they weren't new, the same state department emails she testified to. >> there were 18 classified emails that were found on anthony wiener's laptop. >> they were backed up. >> jesse: that's against the law just there. hold it, ned. >> doj and f.b.i. >> jesse: let me broaden it out. you have this issue and then you have the dossier that was paid for to dig up fake dirt on trump with the russians. then you have uranium one and now you have pay to play at the clinton foundation being looked at by the d.o.j.. >> allegations. >> jesse: they're looking at it. that's two, three, four issues, hezbollah, they go soft on hezbollah to do the iran deal. >> allegations. >> jesse: it involved hillary clinton that are being looked at by the department of justice. that's a lot considering that most of the allegations are regarding donald tr

we've got an out of control weaponized f.b.i. now something dramatically needs and they're about to be done to that the american people need to and krok would run a man that we've run out of time gentlemen i have a feeling that donald trump will be indicted for over twitter use i don't know many thanks to my guest in washington atlanta and in lake jackson and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r.t.c. next time and remember. yes there was but with a large applause you can. remove the last election i believe will do more slowly don't than we will all suitable for dinner one of the of them stood up in little bush about so. many apparently if i. am going to move to the. scouts. knew the two cops believe. anything. you see should read in the book stage. you will know the old butler. the prosecutor the armor should do you can you get out of up and you the mob boss leave you did you miss all. the president. prescribe medication is widespread on the us market and a frequent cause of death at that point in my life i just felt l

and at the lower levels our work with them actually fantastic f.b.i. agents but at the upper levels i can tell you we saw constant politicization by f.b.i. supervisors even leaking information to the press on cases that we had but up to attorney general sessions one thing we did learn about the f.b.i. it was kind of frustrating it will take them or year or years to investigate a case just move in plodding along dotting every i crossing every t. i think a sessions is just being careful slow and really meticulous in what he's doing it's frustrating they're not going to come out and say things that will get sessions or others in trouble until they have things solidified so although it's kind of frustrating and i hear all the time people are are wondering about sessions but their silence does not necessarily mean that there's a bad thing going on it could just mean that trump and sessions are building a solid irrefutable case ok well daniel in washington you think that cases against jim comi loretta lynch and samantha power i mean in these types of people

he's even fired the director of the f.b.i. and said it was because they he wouldn't drop the russian investigation so the mccabe thing still has got some way to plea out no it won't get a great deal of attention come tuesday here in washington even though it probably should but that's because washington the both parties and the president or turn their attention to the state of the union late on tuesday night but you can understand that there will be people who will be asking questions about mccain's departure and whether or not this actually does indicate there was a bias in the investigation or whether this is donald trump trying to obstruct justice one more time and many thanks i was there is alan fischer there live in washington island's government has agreed to hold a referendum later this year on liberalising abortion laws the last catholic country has some of the tightest restrictions in europe on abortion it's currently banned in all cases except where there is a specific threat to the life of the mother due to pregnanc

the f.b.i. as deputy director has resigned weeks before his official retirement date the us president has repeatedly criticized andrew mckay accusing him of favoring has a viable hillary clinton during the two thousand and sixteen presidential race when the caves departure comes as the f.b.i. continues its probe into possible ties between russia and trance campaign alan fischer reports. and ricky has been with the f.b.i. for twenty years but in recent months he's been the target of repeated criticism from president the deputy director played a role in the investigation in hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server his wife ran for office for the democrats in virginia and received campaign donations from clinton allies for the president that was enough for him to tweet how can the f.b.i. deputy director andrew mccabe the man in charge along with leaking james komi of the phony hillary clinton investigation including her thirty three thousand illegally deleted e-mails be given seven hundred

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it requires the f.b.i. to get a warrant to view the contents of americans' communications that get swept up in the surveillance process. the house approved what's known as section 702 that allows agencies to collect information on foreign targets abroad. here's the hour-long debate from this morning. d myself such consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. stewart: mr. speaker, i rise today in support of s. 139. on january 19, the fisa amendments acts of 2008 will expire. this vital legislation includes section 702 which permits the government to target foreign citizens located overseas to obtain foreign intelligence information. section 702 is one of the most if not the most critical national security tool used by our intelligence community to obtain intelligence on foreign terrorists located overseas. now, some claim 702 vacuums bulk information without due regard to the intended target. this assertion is simply false. 702 is a targeted program with roughly 106,000 foreign targets

the f.b.i. is the finest law enforcement the finest law enforcement agencies in the entire world i don't think that gets them particularly far but i do think that there will be an increasing chorus of people who will express their concerns whether it's about the f.b.i. or about the muller investigation generally and to the extent that these kinds of things are in the water it makes things that much more complicated and that much harder for robert muller a to draw his investigation to a close but b. to draw to a close in a way that all sides are going to say what happened and the results of it are both impartial as well as as should be respected consuming that six trimly are just to add to that i think that's extremely well said what loni just said and eloquently stated the only thing i would add to it is the notion that the f.b.i. there's systemic and bias inside the f.b.i. when both komi and muller are lifelong republicans just seems to me to be a little bit of a stretch and i just think it's k

but here the f.b.i. has said in no uncertain terms to one of our congressional aides that they're never going to have to use this warrant requirement, which was drafted by the justice department that has opposed warrants all along. if ever we have seen the fox not only watching the henhouse but inside the henhouse, this is it. isn't even a fig leaf, big, small, or otherwise. it is simply a way to divert attention of this congress away from what is really going on. furthermore, the bill would provide a path for the n.s.a. to restart the practice of about collection, which has been described by the ranking member. the proposal grants some committees 30 days to review any effort to under about collection back on. giving congress little or no say on this matter. we all know we can't do anything in 30 days around here. and yet the bill restricts us from doing that. finding a bipartisan and balanced solution is very possible. i know because i've done it twice. the patriot act and the freedom act. may i have an

>> the f.b.i. acknowledged there are some 50,000 emails between peter strzok and lisa page known opponents of president trump that have gone missing. apparently it was in some configuration problem when they were porting over to a newportable device. the president tweeting about it this morning. in one of the biggest stories in a long time the f.b.i. says it is missing five months' worth of lovers text perhaps 50,000 all in prime time, wow, all of this by the way has spilled over to the house committees, intelligence, judiciary and oversight. the chairmen say they're done talking to the f.b.i. and d.o.j. about the issues among misconduct. sources say the chairman, nunes, goodlatte and gowdy decided yesterday the f.b.i. and d.o.j. were giving them the runaround so they're pulling the plug on all communications. at the same time, the chairmen of those committees moving as quickly as possible to release what we're told is a blockbuster four-page memo from devin nunes detailing efforts by the f.b.i. to

sanders: we refer you to the f.b.i. where christopher ray serves as director which as i said last week and i'll repeat again today, the president has full confidence in him and put the decisions at the f.b.i. in his hands. reporter: does the -- did the president at any time convey he wanted to fire robert mueller to anyone on staff here? ms. sanders: not that i'm aware of. reporter: no one at the white house contacted the f.b.i. about minnesota cabe? o one -- about mccabe? no one had any comments about his tenure at the f.b.i.? ms. sanders: nothing about mccabe, nothing about him stepping down today, that is what is being reported. reporter: what would you say to critics who believe this white house and this president have had almost sort of a steady pressure put on the justice department, put on the f.b.i., since president came into office on this special counsel investigation? whether it be conversations with jeff sessions' office about recusal, whether it be this desire for robert muler to go away, and now with andre

imagine the f.b.i. getting a tip from a flinet instructor by expressing great interest in learning how to take off and fly a plane but has no interest in learning how to land the plane. this could be innocent behavior but we want law enforcement to at least be able to perform a search to see if they already have in their possession any communications between the student and a foreign actor involved in organizing terrorist plots. the judiciary committee passed a bill would have allowed a search and allowed law enforcement to view the metadata without a warrant while requiring a warrant to review the content of the communications. the amash-lofgren amendment, which was rejected in the judiciary committee, goes too far and would prevent such a search from even being done. it would thus kill this critical program by preventing the f.b.i. from even looking at its own databases without a warrant. rendering it ineffective in preventing terrorist attacks and stifling its ability to gather necessary intelligence

and f.b.i. since mid-summer for fisa abuse and other matters we can't get into too much. >> committee members aren't discussing the memo's contents but we understand it covers the identification of american citizens who were swept up in foreign intelligence gathering operations known as unmasking as well as the trump dossier. to what extent it was used to get -- "the new york times" report a surveillance warrant for a policy advisor carter page was extended in mid 2017 by rod rosenstein. for important context the removal of the deputy f.b.i. director takes it to a half dozen senior executives part of comey's inner circle who are let go, retired, or reassigned. >> bill: a lot there. >> sandra: the republican leaders are holding their weekly news conference right now. you can see speaker of the house paul ryan. this is a big day for republicans with the state of the union address coming up. let's listen. >> it's because of these filibusters of the vital appropriation bills. as we saw last week the

the f.b.i. and we put those pieces together, each one of those little incidents that were testified to stood up on their alone, there had to be an unbelievable string of coincidences that were presented before other committees on the hill and it became clear to us, initiated by mr. gaetz we needed to go much more deeply in this and much more quickly. so a good number of us supported a resolution to call for a special counsel. now i support the idea of an additional special counsel to broaden this and i would write the language even more broadly than the original resolution. we should keep in mind what's going on in this hill today and there are, by my count at least, seven different congressional committees that are investigating this broad picture of the subject matter that we are discussing here today, seven different ones. on top of that, we've got robert mueller's investigation as a special counsel and i.g. investigation going on in the justice department under michael horowitz. and he has a

and the f.b.i. says it is missing five months of text messages passed between these two ex mueller investigator peter strzok and f.b.i. attorney lisa page. the revelation prompting more gop claims of anti-trump bias in the bureau. >> it could be truly a technical glitch but it is suspicious. one of the questions we're asking the department of justice and office of the inspector general are they aggressively going to recover those from other sources? who partnered with a senior living advisor from a place for mom to help find the perfect place for their mom or dad thank you so much for your assistance in helping us find a place. mom feels safe and comfortable and has met many wonderful residence and staffers. thank you for helping our family find our father a new home. we especially appreciate the information about the va aid and attendance program. i feel i found the right place. a perfect fit. you were my angel and helped guide me every step of the way thank you. the senior living advisors at a pla

we've seen f.b.i. director comey fired, we've seen the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein appear to be under attack from the white house. we've seen the president's own attorney general, mr. sessions, reports being the president is angry about his recusal, and then you heard earlier reports about the desire to get rid of mr. mccabe. now, i don't know what the basis of mr. mccabe's stepping down early is. i need to hear that from the f.b.i., but, boy, oh, boy, it seems anybody who gets close to this investigation, it's not good for their long-term job security. >> woodruff: i notice you said, senator, in an interview over the weekend that you are thankful the f.b.i. director christopher ray had what you called a backbone to stand up to pressure in recent months to fire mccabe, but just now the "new york times" is reporting that christopher ray was indeed putting pressure on andrew mccabe, that he suggested he move to another position which would have been a demotion rather than stay where he is. >>

we've got an out of control weaponized f.b.i. now something dramatically needs and they're about be done with that the american people need to carry on and cry we've run a man that we've run out of time gentlemen i have a feeling that donald trump will be indicted for over twitter use i don't know many thanks to my guests in washington atlanta and in lake jackson and thanks to our viewers for watching us here are to see you next time and remember. if i were a public opinion i would seek to have myself and all of my friends and my family of leaders at the local level to a national level be arrested by israel what you need to do is hold a mirror up to the israeli people and say this is what you're creating this is the reality on the ground we're not using violence we will not cooperate with the occupation anymore i plead with the public opinion to do each of the nonviolent struggle because if you use violence you will never get the support of the israelis or the world. if the security him and political polarization comes back if th

the f.b.i. answers to the justice department and so will this stop those attacks highly unlikely but we do know that mr mccabe will be leaving his position in march as he was going to do anyway is just walking away that little bit soon thanks very much alan fischer in washington. our other top story this hour syrian warplanes have launched a fierce offensive on the rebel held province of adlib killing at least twenty people women and children are among the dead want to see is a saying the jets tolerated a market and then a hospital full of people wounded in the earliest strike meanwhile a russian brokered cease fire on the edge of the capital damascus seems to have collapse activists reporting several trees violations by government forces besieging east and but at least eight people have died russia has also launched a diplomatic push to end the war hosting a new round of talks in sochi the u.n. is also there but the main syrian opposition group has boycotted the meeting saying only recognizes t

agents were sending each other to f.b.i. agents that were involved in the investigation were and also having an affair were sending each other texts that were very disparaging about the president and therefore they were somehow biased and the and the investigation was biased i just don't think that dog's going to hunt i don't think it's going to go very far i think that. muller removed these two individuals from office so i think if anything it enhances his credibility and i don't all for investigating and finding out if there were any people that were biased i mean everybody in the f.b.i. has a political view of one form or another you don't have to check your views necessarily just so long as you do your job as an investigator effectively but i don't think that's going to distract from the bigger issue here we know the russians interfere in the election we know that trump campaign members whether it was papadopoulos whether it was donald trump jr. flynn we know others had lots of meetings with the russians we know there we

the f.b.i. deputy director entered mccabe has abruptly stepped down weeks before his official retirement date has been criticized by u.s. president donald trump who accused him of favoring his rival hillary clinton at the two thousand sixteen presidential. yes the f.b.i. is still investigating possible ties between russia and trump's campaign alan fischer reports. under mckay has been with the f.b.i. for twenty years but in recent months he's been the target of repeated criticism from president traumatization the deputy director played a role in the investigation in hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server his wife ran for office for the democrats in virginia and received campaign donations from clinton allies for the president that was enough for him to tweet how can the f.b.i. deputy director andrew mccabe the man in charge along with lekan james komi of the phony hillary clinton investigation including her thirty three thousand illegally deleted e-mails be given seven hundred thousand

the f.b.i. and the justice department. >> the mueller investigation is just kind of spun out of control. >> since he was appointed, he's bad news. he's out for a scalp. he would love to get trump's scalp. >> the attorney general needs to do his job and end this witch hunt charade. >> his team of partisan democratic donors need to be disbanded and their witch hunt needs to be shut down immediately. >> trevor: a witch hunt? damn! that's a strong accusation. although i guess if you asked republicans, hey, how do you know this is a witch hunt, they would be, like, oh, because we did this shit to hillary for years. game recognize game, baby. ( applause ) for almost the beginning of the investigation, republicans have tried to find any reason to discredit special counsel robert mueller. he was friends with comby. people on his team donated money to hillary. he thought the best part of the jed die was when princess leia flew through space. all kinds of ideas. now they're focusing on a group of text mes

the f.b.i. is the finest law enforcement the finest law enforcement agencies in the entire world i don't think that gets them particularly far but i do think that there will be an increasing chorus of people who will express their concerns whether it's about the f.b.i. or about the mall or investigation generally and to the extent that these kinds of things are in the water it makes things that much more complicated and that much harder for robert muller eight to draw his investigation to a close but b. to draw to a close in a way that all sides are going to say what happened and the results of it are both impartial as well as as should be respected consuming that six trimly are just to add to that i think that's extremely well said what loni just said and eloquently stated the only thing i would add to it is the notion that the f.b.i. there's systemic and bias inside the f.b.i. when both komi and muller are lifelong republicans just seems to me to be a little bit of a stretch and i just think i

the f.b.i. deputy director andrew mccabe has resigned just weeks before he was due to retire he's been repeatedly criticized by the u.s. president for alleged political bias the f.b.i. is currently investigating possible links between russia and election campaign the white house though is denying any involvement in mccabe stepping down and as we said saudi officials did say that everyone has been released from the ritz carlton we'll continue to follow that story for you and the top administration has decided not to impose new sanctions on russia it says measures taken in august are hurting russia's economy and nothe trumps government also released a list of one hundred fourteen russian politicians and businessmen who have allegedly gained wealth or power by association with russian president vladimir putin now that list is actually required by law to punish russia for allegedly meddling in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election. year long peace talks between the colombian government and rebe

imagine the f.b.i. getting a tip from a flinet instructor by expressing great interest in learning how to take off and fly a plane but has no interest in learning how to land the plane. this could be innocent behavior but we want law enforcement to at least be able to perform a search to see if they already have in their possession any communications between the student and a foreign actor involved in organizing terrorist plots. the judiciary committee passed a bill would have allowed a search and allowed law enforcement to view the metadata without a warrant while requiring a warrant to review the content of the communications. the amash-lofgren amendment, which was rejected in the judiciary committee, goes too far and would prevent such a search from even being done. it would thus kill this critical program by preventing the f.b.i. from even looking at its own databases without a warrant. rendering it ineffective in preventing terrorist attacks and stifling its ability to gather necessary intelligence

>> to walk back the history of this, peter strzok and lisa page both f.b.i. agents page apparent lestrzok's mistress back and forth talking about having an insurance policy. the president interpreting to mean an insurance policy to keep candidate trump from winning the white house. this is the f.b.i. we're talking about. i think that is -- that is treason. you see, that's treason. it is a treasonous act what he

so the f.b.i. and justice department want the president to block the memo for national security reasons, they say. congress and peter king last hour here on our program saying that there is no reason to hide from this memo. here he is. >> i would certainly urge the president to release the document. as far as any concern about national security, this was shown to the director of the f.b.i. and some of his top aides on counter terrorism, intelligence and they could not find one factual error in the memo and they could also not find any threat at all to national security. so that should not be a concern. >> sandra: chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has been reporting on this, the best for us is live in washington for us. so much changing on this story. >> that's right. thank you, good morning. a source familiar with the discussions tells fox news that president trump has told aides he wants the memo out as soon as possible but didn't want it out before the state of the union address

we've seen f.b.i. director comey fired, we've seen the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein appear to be under attack from the white house. we've seen the president's own attorney general, mr. sessions, reports being the president is angry about his recusal and then you heard earlier reports about the desire to get rid of mr. mccabe. now, i don't know what the basis g down mccabe's steppin early is. i need to hear that from the f.b.i., but, boy, oh, boy, it seems anybody who gets close to this investigation, it's not good for their long-term job security. >> woodruff: i noticatyou said, s, in an interview over the weekend that you are thankful the f.b.i. director christopher ray had what you called a backbone to stand up to pressure in recent months to fire mccabe, but just now the "new york times" is reporting that christopher ray was indeetd g pressure on andrew mccabe, that he suggested he move to another position which would have been a demotion rather than stay wheree is. >> again, i'm not sure

the f.b.i. are sounding more like the mob than the f.b.i. here. this is like something out of a dan brown novel. the purpose of this investigation was to preserve the credibility of robert mueller. democrats and republicans both agree when mr. mueller got this job that the one thing he brought to the table, his stock and trade, was his credibility. unfortunately, these institutions around him, some of his investigators have muddied that a bit and the opening that president trump needs, i think, to throw a little fuel on this fire and basically indicate this is not a legitimate investigation. forget the legality of this. this is about optics and politics and it's not good right now. >> melissa: the facts of this case so far look really bad. more than 50,000 texts where first of all i don't know if i've ever sent my husband 50,000 texts in my life. that's a lot. and the five months between december and may those are mysteriously gone missing after the election when this group may have been doing, you know, what is the scariest of their work after el

i mean that's just one example rod rosenstein and the head of the f.b.i. both testified before congress neither one would say when i asked did the f.b.i. pay for any of that dossier and did they take it in its completed form to the pfizer court to get warrants to spy on members of the trump team coming and incoming trump team they would not answer those questions this is very very serious stuff when the document apparently refers to officials in the above or administration mean could it have any implications for the ongoing special counsel investigation into alleged russia tiny's. yeah i think it's going to put a bigger cloud than already exists for the you know there's a lot of talk there has been a lot of talk that some members of the obama administration you know illegally and without any reason or rhyme went and got warrants against members civilians american civilians who were affiliated with trump with absolutely no reason to to have those obtain you think obama didn't know about any of this this was his justice department his f.b.i. they were trying

the f.b.i. stephanie director andrew mccabe has resigned just weeks before he was due to retire he's been repeatedly criticised by the us president for alleged political bias the f.b.i. is currently investigating possible links between russia and trump's election campaign the white house is denying any involvement in the case of stepping down an attack on a military checkpoint in southeastern yemen has killed at least fifteen people belonging to u.a.e. backed horses and happened east of the city of a talk and shabab province which is to say the attackers fired at the checkpoint before detonating a car bomb as are your headlines keep it here on al-jazeera the stream is next. news has never been more available but the message is a simplistic and misinformation is rife the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narrative at this time on al-jazeera. hi i'm femi oke a jewel in the stream today a new bollywood film has people talking about the cost of the songs bu

the f.b.i. has lost crucial text messages sent by its employees which could have shed light on alleged anti donald trump bias within the agency particularly over the so-called trump russia investigation u.s. attorney general jeff sessions is ready said the justice department is looking into what happened while republicans are demanding a special counsel be set up over the matter reports now from washington d.c. months of text messages between two f.b.i. staffers linked to the trump of russia propane have gone missing one of the agents is peter struck he oversaw the investigation into alleged russian interference now he was also part of robert muller's team that was looking into suppose of collusion between trump and the prime one prior to that the clinton e-mail investigation which went nowhere and then there's lisa page a lawyer for the department of justice who also worked for robert muller the couple came into prominence back in december when their private text conversations were released to

management colluded in f.b.i. agents actually swore false affidavits to the fires according to the visor court judges which resulted in n.s.a. surveillance of a president.