the fbi has mission priorities. counterterrorism is number one and that includes domestic terrorism which they consider white supremacy of domestic terrorism even though obviously they are white supremacists outside of the united states. it justified the label that the fbi puts on a crying at the d. prioritized as the investigation and moreover on top of that, the justice department has a policy that says it defers the investigation of hate crimes to the state and local law enforcement even though they don't have a crime law in most states don't use them so only 2%, 12.5% at least the pretense report hate crimes occurring within their jurisdictions yet the justice department policy remains to defer to the state and local investigations. so it creates a huge blind spot where we don't know how many are being committed by the groups because nobody is investigating it. and thos if those policies coule changed tomorrow. the justice department could make that change but they are not making the change i change d they are b

and thin the fbi and the post 9a when the fbi gets a piece of information from you immediately push it out. this is intelligence, this is something we collected within the government. to the other intelligence agencies so that they know what you know that we have something. we don't know if this is applicable to you. you may be able to connect the dots that we don't have. i think that the intelligence reports, the number of those i pushed out where we would get in trouble if we did an interview and something wasn't pushed out. you've got to get that other agencies. so pushing out to other intelligence agencies. the fascinating part about working in the media for me, and coming into cnn come is realizing the process involved before something goes on the air is so much more rigorous than i thought. i thought the reporter did something, they go on tv and tell us what they know that there is a process following the lawyers and standards and practices and asking tough questions. some of it never makes it through the process. that is the difference between the fbi and the media. it goes thro

former fbi director argues that the fbi has shifted its focus from law enforcement to domestic intelligence in the wake of the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001. this is just over an hour. the good evening, everybody. welcome to the center at the school of law. i'm your moderator for this evening. i'm a journalist at the atlantic. i'm a staff writer in the ideas section. the brennan center is a nonprofit sorry, nonpartisan law policy institute tha institute o reform and revitalize when necessary to defend the systems of democracy and justice. you can keep up with their work online or you can follow them on facebook and listen to their podcast on the website or wherever you get your podcast. you should still listen to the brennan center podcast. so, tonight we are hosting a fellow with the liberty national security program where he focuses on law enforcement and intelligence oversight reform. he used to work as a policy council for national security and privacy and before that he served 16 years as an fbi special agent specializing in domestic terrorism and covert operations int and to

. >> former fbi agent josh campbell weighs in on the fbi under the trump administration in his book crossfire hurricane. he is joining a conversation but fbi director james comey. [inaudible conversations] good evening everybody. i am bradley graham, co-owner of politics and prose along with my wife in behalf of everybody here at gw, welcome. i thank you very much for coming. he does a number of events each year end jean w on the great auditorium integrate other revenue and we value our partnership with gw and the crew here is terrific and they make events like this possible, for us and i want to express our gratitude for effort that they put into tonight event. the featured author is josh campbell he spent more than a decade at the fbi in various roles and kidnapping investigation and multiple overseas assignments as well as a stint as a special assistant to fbi director james comey. josh resigned from the bureau about a year end a half ago in february 2018 and walking out of the field office in los angeles for the last time and for the law enforcement that he had really enjoyed and he says

great britain and the fbi, or the cia, were not quite sure, send an a's and fi fbi analyst on a fake name who is described as a sexy bottle blonde to seduce george papadopoulos, this was minor for your a funeral volunteer advisor. it is on the trump campaign. the athena getting his non- incriminating information, because it was no incriminating information. what they got was exculpatory information which was then hidden in the backyard. covered up. >> amazing how that works. in order to understand, this kind of rotten stench. don't fight like staying it but it comes from a lot of high up law enforcement officials. cut in to take back in the wall of the way back. not to all the clinton scandals that's on tape but hillary clintonn, the benghazi, traged tragedies, her decision to keep sober in the bathroom of the home. her decision to have outside the normal government process to collect e-mails data, all of that which obviously became quite a scandal is muller news the fbi director has to go through and figure out, and we handle all of the scandal. yet to go back there. in reading your

the fbi's obligation and the obligation i expect of all 37,000 men and women of the fbi is we will continue to investigate investigations. >> without referring to any specific investigation, would be improper for the fbi to stop a criminal investigation at the request of the president or anyone from the white house would it be an appropriate if he -- white house? >> we should could -- conduct our investigations on nothing but the law. >> you believe it would be improper? i'm not going to weigh on hypotheticals, but i think we are saying the same thing. >> we are talking about rules and ethics. >> i don't think the fbi should be closing an investigation for any improper purpose. >> i will ask you one more time. what is ethically appropriate? would it be ethically to launch, limit, or stop a criminal investigation at the request of anyone at the white house? >> i think there should be no opening of an investigation based on anything other than the facts and the law. that's my answer. >> thank you. has any member of the administration suggested that attorney general barr or any other member of

>> next, the general counsel for the fbi talks about national security issues. the american bar association posted this half hour event. >> harvey, thank you for the kind introduction, and it's wonderful to see so many friends here, some of them i haven't seen in a year or two it seems like. but there is more to my background and what harvey said and want to recall it. we have law students or younger attorneys here, because it's kind of integral to my life in public service. in 1982, and share with people who were not born then, i was a law clerk and it's wonderful to be a unlikely but you also havo immediately start looking for your next job, which i was. i had a background in finance and i have cpa's i thought i would be a perfect commercial litigator, or so i thought. i was anything with the chicago law firms, the large ones. to date myself for the company largest law from vince had about 230 partners in them for the chicago area, to show you how things changed. but i need litigation experience, i thought, and so i apply for the attorney generals honors progr

used by the fbi, and, in particular the head of counterintelligence for the fbi. the point person in the witchhunt. we don't know whether it was something that came from the rich imagination of hillary clinton or john brennan or both. james clapper was involved. he turned out to be the prodigious leader. i explain his leaks in the book. it all came to a head when the hillary clinton campaign and the committee paid for russian disinformation that was composed by next british spy. the amazing part, and i explain this in the witchhunt, that he puts together his anti-trump dossier. lickety-split. within the course of 10 days to 14 days of being hired. that is impossible. you read the first memo of his dossier. that is a kind of information that would take months, if not years. source information on the ground in russia. not more than 10 years. >> whether it is true or not about donald trump. i think in the end, i think russian disinformation was little tidbits of truth. classic this information. anyone could find it on the internet. did christopher steal or brennan an

on the query standard to fbi personnel at various field offices. the fbi also rolled out new mandatory fisa training that will focus on the query standard. that query is designed to enhance personnel's understanding of the query standard and help them differentiate. the compliance review team will continue to evaluate whether additional steps are necessary after our new program goes fully live in december. a couple of words about the usa freedom act. it expires in december which i assume most people know and it has three primary authorities as concerns to the fbi. section 215 business records, roving wiretaps, the lone wolf provision which applies to non-u.s. persons and international terrorism with no requirement to show a connection to a foreign government and i'll go a little bit more detail in all three of those. as i said, they're all expiring and the tools are critical to what we have available to our national security investigations. the bureau has a solid year's long record of successfully using the business records provision and the roving

the fbi has been in the news on occasion lately. topics i willsome will tryscuss and i not to run out the clock so harvey will not have to give me the hook sign. thei want to talk about recent opinion concerning our core procedures. and cyber ifom act we have a test to get that far into my remarks. the recent court opinions on fbi -- theg procedures judge, who i think you will hear from tomorrow, so he will get rebuttal time, found the revised procedures that we submitted were not appropriate. the querying procedures were inconsistent with the requirements to keep records of and u.s. person query term it was inadequate in our query justifications. and they were inconsistent with section 702 e and the fourth amendment. the procedure is which now have been approved by the court rate -- we will retain querying -- withes in a manner written justification before the employee reviews the contact with -- retrieved by the query. we are in the process of making technical changes to the system and the training that we provide to our agents. b

director ray, what is the fbi wray?-- how is the fbi coordinating with the department of homeland security on these efforts? >> appreciate the feedback on the meeting in new hampshire. i think what we are seeing is a shift to more and more targeted ransomware attacks come up more municipalities and there are a variety of different reasons they are more vulnerable. we're also seeing more enterprise-level which affects every computer in the organization. one of the things we are trying to do is figure out through our enforcementas a law agency and intelligence agency, there have been times where we are able to reverse engineer a decryption key. in the northwest, small business, 600 people, crippling ransomware attack, potentially all those people going to lose their jobs, but work, they did not have to pay a ransom and got systems back online. dhs, wes working with work very closely together. the fbi has the lead on the oneat and dhs is the lead the assets and essentially we work together in that respect. >> it is somethi

this speaks to the opposite of what the fbi stands for. this an attorney in the national security division of the fine's general counsel. he's work on some of the most sensitive matters. he took the oath of office every fbi agent had to take. trish: that's how the "new york times" describes him. low-level. he took the same oath. a low-level employee is somebody cleaning out my office at night. this is somebody with significant responsibility and that information was passed on to others higher up who made decisions that affect the way the fbi does business. thank god it's not typical of what we have seen of the men and women who serve. trish: they got a fisa warrant based on nonsense the russians were feeding to this spy. how bad were these guys -- how biased were thre they at their job? journalism 101. you triple check everything. these guys didn't bother to check any of that intel. >> the problem with this individual, his actions, clearly criminal. you will be looking at indictments coming out. i feel this person will be paying the ultima

you know, the fbi's never gotten that server. that's a big part of this whole thing. why did they give it to a ukrainian company? >> are you -- >> that's just a lie. so keeping them honest, crowdstrike is an american company co-founded by an american citizen who was born in russia, not ukraine. there is no single server and the dnc did not give any server to anybody. that's not the way it works. the president provided no evidence only that's what the word is. his own top former russia expert says the word, that word he was talking about comes from russia. >> there's some questions and statements i've heard, some of you on this committee appear to believe that russia and its security service dis not conduct a campaign against our country and that perhaps somehow for some reason ukraine did. this is a fictional narrative that is being perpetrated and propagated by the russian security services themselves. >> a fictional narrative, she says. the woman who literally wrote the book on vladimir putin, who has spent her entire career studying russia who's had access to all i

the conspiracy, the fbi

i never thought in fbi agent would falsify an fbi report to indicate that general flynn has lied in the fbi, this is really serious stuff, we have to get to the bottom of this, there needs to be cleansing and is not an indictment of the fbi, it's an indictment of these people that have bias and acting like rogue agents. i wonder what academy they went to, don't they know this is wrong? >> the fisa port is powerful, the checks and balances are fbi officials and nsa officials refused to do like spy on foreign government. >> john dorman is looking into what happened. i want to get to this, this fbi lawyer found to have sent into trump tech messages after the election, the crazies have one finally, when he was asked if use good to continue to work at the government, i am so stressed about what i could've done differently. let me ask you, how did peter, lisa and this fbi lawyer all biased against trump and pro-hillary get to work on the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and the russia probe? how did that happen. >> as comey wanted to control it, he did not give it to an fbi field office w

this speaks to the opposite of what the fbi stands for. this an attorney in the national security division of the fine's general counsel. he's work on some of the most sensitive matters. he took the oath of office every fbi agent had to take. trish: that's how the "new york times" describes him. low-level. he took the same oath. a low-level employee is somebody cleaning out my office at night. this is somebody with significant responsibility and that information was passed on to others higher up who made decisions that affect the way the fbi does business. thank god it's not typical of what we have seen of the men and women who serve. trish: they got a fisa warrant based on nonsense the russians were feeding to this spy. how bad were these guys -- how biased were thre they at their job? journalism 101. you triple check everything. these guys didn't bother to check any of that intel. >> the problem with this individual, his actions, clearly criminal. you will be looking at indictments coming out. i feel this person will be paying the ultima

of political bias, that would have been extremely damaging to the fbi. i mean, it would have been a major black mark on the fbi's history right up there with some of its worst. >> and it is my understanding from your reporting that this report will find that the investigation, the launch of the investigation met the legal standard, correct? >> yeah, it's going to debunk a number of republican right-wing conspiracy theories that have asserted that this investigation, the opening of the russia investigation in july of 2016, code name crossfire hurricane, used information from an ex-british spy named chris steele and the information he had compiled. they said that is false. they also said that the information used to open that investigation didn't come from the cia, right? it wasn't being done by john brenn brennan, right, the puppet master in all of this according to these conspiracy theories. and also two other important points. well, in particular one, also that the fbi wasn't working with this multi-professor named joseph massoud, who had made an offer

one is, do i really want the fbi rooting around in all of my files? the answer is no in general, but we can work with companies. you never know what you will find. with companies and we don't want to burden them with having to spend a lot of resources in our investigations. we want to ensure them we are not there to root around looking generally for other criminal activity but we are focusing on that investigation. the biggest concern is -- will i be identified? that is something we really work on. we can and have charged any number of cases without identifying the target company. if the case goes to trial, at a certain point you do have to identify. that is something we can't keep forever but we can keep it for many steps along the way. over the years, companies have gotten more comfortable being identified. part of it is, there was a time i remember way back with one of the first data breaches, i think it was t.j. maxx, and people would say, i am never going to shop at t.j. maxx before. but if you didn't shop at every store that had a cyber breach,

and fbi attorney was fired. congressman mark meadows on capitol hill told jillian turner that republicans will call for the resignation of house until chairman adam schiff after the report comes out december 9th arguing that schiff was in cahoots with obama era officials working on the fisa process. he has denied such a claim. he was not even the chairman at the time the fisa application was under review. donald trump in florida for the thanksgiving holiday, expect things to be busy on the impeachment front. his personal attorney rudy giuliani is defending himself after a report by the wall street journal tells the story of giuliani almost excepting half $1 million to work for the ukrainian government. and the end giuliani said he declined to do that work, never accepted the money. republicans and democrats are back in their home districts getting your fulls about impeachment. here's a townhall with new jersey congresswoman mikey cheryl, she is a democrat, listen. >> when you listen to the witnesses nothing has

i don't wish anybody in the fbi ill-will but we have to clean up the fbi inner circle and make sure the political investigation never happens again. >> laura: it has to happen. thank you. your voice is so important. up next, congratulations are in in orderer for joe biden. chris cuomo looked foolish on air and why woke movie remakes are falling. raymond arroyo is next. do you have concerns about mild memory loss related to aging? prevagen is the number one pharmacist-recommended memory support brand. you can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. >> live from america's news headquarters, i'm aishah hasnie. the inspector general report on the fbi abuse of power will be released to the public next month. reports claim that inspector general michael horowitz is expected to sharply criticize fbi officials and their mismanagement in the early stages of the trump russia investigation. however, the report is also expected to absolve the top ranks of the fbi of abusing their powers out of bias against president trump. the fragile peace in syri

i think the fbi is the premier law enforcement agency in human history. i also think that there were a handful of men and women at the fbi and possibly in other agencies who in 2016 acted on their political beliefs both against president and against secretary clinton. now, whether that activity rose to some inappropriate level, i'm going to wait and read the report. mr. horowitz is a serious, intelligent man and i will read the report with interest. chris: we should point out michael horowitz is inspector general. i want to press this senator, here are his main conclusions, the ig's, the opening of the trump-russia investigation legitimate and reportedly no finding that james comey or andrew mccabe or peter strzok took actions based on political bias, if that's -- we have newspaper reports, haven't read the report directly, if that's what the inspector general finds, will you accept that, sir? >> well, there's this person running around washington, d.c., chris, by the name of anonymous source and he keeps repeatedly getting quoted in articles, i'm not say

to sharply criticize lower level fbi officials. in launching the original trump-russia investigation. then democrats wrap up their impeachment hearing blitz after two weeks and 12 witnesses, what more do we know? >> everyone was in the loop. it was no secret. >> i did say to him, ambassador sondland, i think this is going to blow up. chris: as investigation moves to house judiciary committee, now questions about how the process lo -- will go. >> i will go where the facts take us. >> putting the country through this is not helping particularly 11 months before the next election. we will discus a potential senate trial with republican senator john kennedy and ask swawell are democrats in a hurry. 10 candidates take the stage in fifth democratic debate, we will ask the panel on head of the race as we look ahead as the first of the nation contest. and our power player of the week going viral by giving away cash on twitter. all right now on fox news sunday. ♪ ♪ chris: hello again from fox news in washington. well, after 30 hours of

the fbi has never gotten that server. that's a big part of this whole thing. >> chris: senator kennedy, who do you believe was responsible for ukraine? >> senator kennedy: i don't know, nor do you, nor do to say the entire intelligence community says it was russia. >> senator kennedy: right, but it could also be ukraine. i'm not saying that i know one way or the other. i'm saying that ms. hill is entitled to her opinion but no rebuttal evidence was allowed to be offered. we know, at least the republicans in the house wanted to call a witness, a dnc political operative who lobbied the ukrainian embassy to be involved and get involved in the 2016 election. we don't know if ukraine did that we don't know what extent because they won't let the president offer his evidence and that's why i'll say, once again, the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence if you're not allowed to call your >> chris: senator kennedy, talk to you and even more interesting to listen to you. thank you, thanks for joining us today, and have

if you're an fbi agent or work with the fbi and make a mistake. no excuses for that. this is lower level. this is not what the president and republicans have been saying it's a deep state. this will shoot that down. >> one of those mistakes is that a low level lawyer that was attached to the investigation altered some information in an e-mail sent that somehow was then used as part of the fisa report. >> i want to bring in james clapper. the former director of national intelligence. thank you so much. this inspector general is known to be a thorough investigator. coming back saying no bias at the top of the fbi. what's your take? >> pick up on something you said. he has a reputation for being fair and tough. and so i think without seeing it i'm sure this is a rigorous investigation and the reporting is right. i think this is generally good news for the country. really. that there may have been procedural errors made. not to minimize what the attorney did. doctor an e-mail. so interesting to see if there's detail on that. by and large there was no conspiracy. no deep s

this person had the same problems with spelling as the fbi. once i was confident it may have been brian, i put together a briefing and requested we brief that to the fbi. >> now we have to start looking at brian because he's one of a couple people that fit everything that's in the matrix. >> and so we start to conduct a full investigation on brian reegan. >> now we're doing 24-hour surveillance on him, 24-hour surveillance on someone, it's not an easy task. >> i remember the first shift of the surveillance observed him doing really odd stuff out in chantil chantilly. they described brian driving to a wooded area, walking into the woods, putting something down and then getting back in his car and going about his own way. i remember telling the surveillance saying do not go into the woods. let's see what happens. we later found out what he did was he put a voice activated tape recorder into the woods because he wanted to see if anyone was following him. >> he was doing counter surveillance because he was working up to doing something wrong so he

i then fbi story. [laughter] you're sitting in there, going meeting to meeting, why are we being attacked? you prattville's story, which i was involved with because i had testified about all of these things. we are in this secure site and stuff, we have no windows in there. we rarely use the televisions, we are doing whatever it is we do and guys like this whether it's counterterrorism, they have a perspective you can't have. you have to appreciate if they did something good, you will never learn about it. if you do something bad, you will probably learn about it. it's the good that they do, it's the people who fill out travel claims and issue your checks and do all the things that many of us would think of as thankless, you can't think them. you will never go into the buildings and you will never be around them and watch these people try to struggle with the popcorn machine at 1:00 a.m. when they're watching activities in the middle of the night because daytime in the middle east. they have thankless

i don't wish anybody in the fbi ill-will but we have to clean up the fbi inner circle and make sure the political investigation never happens again. >> laura: it has to happen. thank you. your voice is so important. up next, congratulations are in in orderer for joe biden. chris cuomo looked foolish on air and why woke movie remakes are falling. raymond arroyo is next. ngs a faster laptop could help. plus, tech support to stay worry free. worry free...boom boom! get free next business day shipping or ...1 hour in-store pick up shopping season solved at office depot officemax or officedepot.com. i am totally blind. and non-24 can make me show up too early... or too late. or make me feel like i'm not really "there." talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424. thousands of options nationwide from national insurance companies. don't miss the deadline. there are only days remaining in open enrollment. funny thing about health insurance, you don't think about how much you need it until you need it. he's not going to be okay. with so many changes to health insurance plans, are you still sure y

both the fbi, federally armed agents of the united states government. they have a lot of states in what we do and what they still do. and how basically it's a senior official who created a culture of corruption. i think what tom sutton has discovered and what john is discovering with the christopher steele dossier that keeps pouring out everywhere is the fact that there is this different system, the imbalance in the fbi. if something doesn't change, the american people are going to be disappointed in the system altogether. >> jason: account me is already there because i appreciate the great work and the insight that you are giving but i have to tell you, in the obama biden white house and administration they were handing out immunity agreements like candy. you never see that happen in the trump administration but you do see it within the obama and biden administration and something has to change there. tom, john and sarah, have a wonderful thanksgiving. president obama has been assessing the democrats and he doesn't like what he sees. what type of probl

sun of a direct mobster who is known to organize the hit hair up off i was found in the car and the fbi had every reason to focus. the next five years of my life was basically, one, we became like this he was an extraordinary father i revere the teamsters union and his union identity and mobsters to be close with. they were known as uncle tony to me i thought they were wonderful and i believe my stepfather when he told me the mob did not exist brick i bought the whole thing. this is at the same time i was hanging out with these folks but the hoffa stuff was out of control the government was all over him basically he was painted as the guy who did it and right now it's conventional wisdom if you type in chucky o'brien you will say that's the person who picked up hoffa. so i go to college in 1980 over the next six or seven years i start to read when i get to college i read books about the hoffa disappearance for the first time and it turns out it may be naÏve but it turns out the mob actually did exist my uncles tony were violent and my stepfather had a criminal past. all things that i w

, the deputy director of the fbi, the deputy assistant director of the fbi. this latest allegation under coming out in the newspaper saying it's a very low level person, very low level attorney, who was manipulating and changing documents. i don't know if you can shed any additional light on this but it's my understanding that you are not a low-level person if you are signing off on fisa warrant applications. >> if you are involved in that process, and you are doing anything but the investigative work at the very low levels, this is not a low-level person. i noticed right away when that story popped that this particular attorney was given less credibility than probably was appropriate based on the process. that goes back to something that we've talked about before and that's a culture that jim comey created at the fbi, with some of the top people, including andy mccabe, where they would have a cultural relationship with the media and share information on the background or off the record.ed and that would shape these stories. andy mccabe was caught, like you m

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i wonder if it's not written for the fbi to do this. we just don't know of all the times in the last hundred and 50 years that this is going on. >> you have hit on something that is a very serious consideration. the world that i came from where i was a prosecutor for 20 years, the fbi is subjective to this kind of scrutiny in every case because in criminal cases, everybody operates under the knowledge that the information that gets generated in the investigation even though there's obviously no defense lawyers when you go get a warrant from a court but eventually there will be discovery and everybody will get to see it. the problem with counterintelligence is there is nobody there except the fbi, the justice department lawyer and the court. in none of this is ever supposed to see the light of day and the thing we need to worry about, it does not have the same kind of incentive that keep you honest as a criminal system does and i think we need to worry about is this a regular thing in counterintelligence when they are operating under cir

instead, it was an fbi sting and tonight, he is charged with a hate crime part of a growing trend the fbi says of white supremacist inspired terrorism nbc's pete williams leading us off. >> reporter: the fbi says this was the intended target, temple emanuel, a synagogue used by three dozen families in pueblo, colorado 27-year-old richard holzer was arrested after he was handed what he thought were real pipe bombs that he wanted to use to blow it up. >> mr. holzer also stated he was not concerned about any loss of life from the attack because such victims would be jews. victims would be jews. >> reporter: court documents say holzer attracted the fbi's attention with wipe supremacist facebook postings like i wish the hole cast really did happen, they need to die. >> reporter: court documents say holzer attracted the fbi's attention with white supremacist facebook postings like i wish the hole cast really did happen, they need to die he met with people he thought were like-minded but were actually undercover fbi agents he said he once paid somebody to put arsenic in the synagogue's water

back to the fbi. >> fbi spies or maybe two spies. >> it looks as if there could have been a second spy. >> the spy revelations. >> spies in this campaign. >> ran a spy ring. >> a spy to infiltrate his campaign. >> so to review, no spies. and we could have played several more minutes of sound like that. back with us kirsten powers and rick santorum and josh, special agent and cnn law enforcement analyst and author of a book relevant to this conversation, cross fire hurricane inside donald trump's war on the fbi. josh, i want to start with you. i'm sure you're shocked the fbi didn't find any evidence to back up these allegations or the i.g. report didn't find frds evidenc. >> there was a political narrative to start. let's just say at the outset, who did this investigation. this wasn't a partisan. this was an independent entity inside the justice department that is responsible for unearthing wrongdoing by fbi employees. it is also important to say this is not a clean bill of health for the fbi according to "the new york times" reporting. there is a fault found by employees. there was a p

to bring him in the making talks the fbi?" because here's the breakdown legally. if they ask him to be interviewed, he can decline that. he's under no obligation. they can force them, though, was compulsory process by way of a subpoena. this starts getting confusing. then it's like, "wait a minute, you can't serve a subpoena across the pond." an analogy to what we are seeing in ukraine, we have mutual legal assistance treaty spirits of the united states could ask england to assist them and they can testify. but that starts into diplomatic stuff more than technical legal stuff. >> could we ever see it for the first time, potentially? i don't know if it's the first, but certainly in the open air that i know of. it would be rare. can we see it knowing what we know now, that he stepped back from his professional and public duties? and maybe the queen fired and? we don't know. >> has mother fired him, as you said. >> harris: the palace intrigue there. >> i will make a prediction. the reason is much more diplomatic and u.s. british

the fbi acknowledging a response to this report. yet, without some work to do on how we bet and use secret sources. the cut which happens all the time with the ig reports. it's really a dog bites man story. if there is no indication at all, quite the contrary, that is aiming to deal with these special high-level matters that john mentions, it's really about the rank and file in their regular use. so it would be very both improper and surprising somehow this was supposed to be a kind of covert first strike about the investigator reports coming up. >> shannon: okay, now to the impeachment hearings today. it depends on where you're coming from, where you sit watching this thing, maybe how you reacted to it. john davis, cofounder of "the federalist" says this in a tweet. that hearing with bend men clearly the intelligence community's patient zero and the latest iteration of democrats anti-trump coo theater could not have gone more poorly for democrats. his testimony was a disaster for impeachment efforts. robert rice, the former secreta

he did that previously on how the fbi acted in 2016. he certainly didn't give the leadership of the fbi a pass in how they handled the hillary clinton investigation, in particularly that press conference comey held in july of 2016 or the letters that were sent to congress. in fact he called comey insubordinate. he was certainly rough and beat it up. horwitz has a real responsibility here, a real responsibility here to cut through the clutter to cut through these conspiracy theories and lay down the markers, what is true and what is not. i think people believe he is going to do that. >> adam goldman, thank you for joining us on this. we appreciate it. and joyce vance, over to you. this certainly does not paint a picture of a deep-state conspiracy. what it does though is shed new light on the attorney general's role he seemed to have pumped up some sort of conspiracy. so what lasting thoughts does this leave you with? >> well, on two hands, as adam pointed out, this discloses that there were some issues with some of the lawyers over at th

>> i think so. >> reporter: today less than 5% of fbi special agents are black. >> a diverse fbi will be a more effective fbi. >> reporter: voviette morgan is the only female african-american special agent in charge. >> i don't think in the african-american commune you think about oh, i want to be an fbi agent. i hope that changes. i do want little girls the that look like me to have this as a very viable option to desire it, to want it. >> reporter: andy vale says current fbi director christopher wray made recruiting people of color a top priority. >> in order for us to be successful we have to be reflective of the communities we're sworn to serve and protect. >> reporter: this month the fbi recognized james wormley jones and other african-american special agents. the bureau is looking ahead to the future and acknowledging its past. >> we have to own it. we have to ensure that it doesn't repeat itself. we have to have everyone in like mind on that as we move forward. >> reporter: now fbi agents visit the martin luther king memorial in d.c. and study hoover's policies towards king. fb

this james comey's fbi. this is the conspiracy theory that has never been told, except on this network. here's an fbi agent sworn officer, constitutional officer going to a fisa judge and lying, essentially, altering a document to get the warrant to begin the surveillance of the trump campaign aide carter page. this is huge news. this is explosion. brian: obviously will geraldo's face like no one else's. we expect horowitz's report a few days earlier. this is the churenel of the other story line that we have been trying to follow. we are trying to get out of the blocks. meanwhile the big story yesterday was the last day of week two of the impeachment hearings. featuring david holmes and fiona hill. david holmes was able to overhear both ends of a conversation with the president and ambassador sondland. so he came forward last weekend. he said such compelling things, he was front and center yesterday. along with fiona hill stage left. steve: right. keep in mind, what he said -- what he simply shared his impre

so basically i spent a day with the fbi i thought i was finished with the security't clearance. but everything i knew about the mob and chucky. long story short i convince them i did not have mob values i separated myself and got the clearance and the metaphor for the next 20 years of my career i kept getting the clearance with fancier government jobs even though i tossed him under ase bus from a career perspective it was a good move with professional development. skipping over because i want to get to the writing of the book so fast forward i working at the justice department to a job i never would have had or gotten it if i didn't do what i had done to chucky 20 years earlier so nowar i'm working on the wireless tapping program with the bush administration there are all sorts of problems at the program i'm starting to figure it out about the justice department late one night reading fourth amendment cases and i'm looking at berger versus new york reading along with two citations hoffa versus united states o'brien versus united states. i was shocked. could that be my stop - - s

. >> the fbi never got that server. that's a big part of this thing why did they give it to a ukrainian company. that's what the word is. >> this is a fictional narrative being pera services themselves. >> reporter: american intelligence breached russia on the year's long misinformation campaign to frame ukraine for moscow's hacking and as house democrats move closer to impeachment vote, the president is firing back. >> we had a tremendous week with a hoax, you know, the great hoax they call it the impeachment hoax and that's really what that incredibly well and have tremendous support. >> reporter: in that nearly hour-long phone call with fox news, president trump saying he welcomes an impeachment trial in the senate if the house votes to move forward. >> frankly, i want a trial. number one, they should never ever impeached. >> reporter: president trump also delivering his take on david holms, the embassy aid in ukraine who says he over heard that cell phone conversation where he says the president asked ambassador gor

in rio in 2016 that biles was interviewed by the fbi, that fbi investigation now under review itself for taking so long. biles went public with her story last year saying she, too, was a victim of nasser's. >> we did everything they asked us for you have one job, you literally have one job and you couldn't protect us. >> reporter: ally braiseman is one of the other athletes and demanding the d.a. inspector general release findings whether the fbi mishandled the investigation the current head of usag saying she was surprised, saddened and outraged to learn what happened to biles and offering apologies. as of now, simone biles is training for tokyo as larry nasser serves his sentence. kate snow, nbc news. >>> there is a health alert we want you to know about tonight, romaine lettuce may make you sick a new outbreak sickened 40 people in a dozen states the cdc warning people to avoid romaine grown in california. if the label doesn't say where it was grown, throw it out. >>> it was supposed to be the rollout of tesla's battery powered pickup truck by tesla but it was a smashing failure t