tonight there are new concerns that anti-trump fbi officials formed even a secret society at the fbi to subvert the president after his election. that's according to do republican lawmakers who have seen some of the thousands of texts between the fbi's peter struck and lisa paige. >> the day after the election, the day after what they really, really didn't want to have happen, there's a text exchange between these two fbi agents, these two supposed to be objective fak centered fbi agents saying perhaps this is the first meeting of the secret society. so of course i'm going to want to know what secret society are you talking about because you're supposed to be investigating objectively the person who just won the electoral college. yeah, i'm going to want to know. lou: our first guest tonight is congressman francis rooney. he's called for a purge of the bad actors at the fbi and the department of justice. also tonight, major developments in the special counsel witch hunt. mueller has now is interviewed attorney general jeff sessions and former fbi director james comey. president trump

, formerly from the fbi. and each of them have a similar strain of thought on what's going on. and it is this -- that a lot of what we read, a lot of what we end up talking about on cable tv, about these daily headlines, these daily stories, it seems every day we get two or three different eye-popping stories out of washington. there's an element of distraction to all of them. because at the root of this is an astounding fact, according to these intel people, and the former fbi people. and it is this -- that at the root of this, is russia's role in manipulating an election in the united states of america. russia. not our friend, not our ally, russia. still here, still actively pursuing disruption in our political system. and politicians from the president on down, say -- nothing about it each and every day. >> the answer to your question is -- of course, of course the reason he goes after the intel agencies and the media is to soften the ground for whatever is coming. he suspects something is coming and he do

within the fbi and the doj. and president trump today saying he's looking forward to an interview with special counsel robert mueller. our first guest tonight says the attorney general should publicly announce the creation of a doj/fbi task force and the impanelment of a grand jury. joining me tonight, chris farrell. it's great to see you. i want to take up a couple of things first if we may. first, the overall development, the president saying he's now willing to sit down with mueller and have a conversation. your thoughts about the wisdom and the president's courage here. >> i'm sure the president is looking forward to it like he would a root canal, frankly. look, it's a mistake for him to testify or provide testimony to mueller. there's any number of ways to answer mueller's questions. mueller is out for the president to destabilize or to remove him. this is a perjury trap in the making flp's nothing in particular the president -- lou: by the way want which his lead attorney has acknowledged the possibility i

lou: justice department and fbi. the agency and department sworn to preserve the national security violating law, law and order, and the constitution, and dye denying congress the fulfillment of its responsibility, which toys oversee those two organizations. what do you think can be done to preserve evidence and bring people who are in positions of authority to bay to prevent further corruption. >> i have worked with the fbi in a variety of capacities. i have enormous admiration for the average fbi agent. lou: the rank and file is not an issue. the department of justice are corrupt, they are crooked and they need to be removed forth with. >> the reputation of both institutions is stained, and the stain is spreading. the attorney general has to act in an extraordinary fashion. i don't think the new director of the fbi understands how serious this is. if you or a business you were running said you lost five months of emails you would be toasted. i think somebody has to take control of the fbi communications before more

fbi that this was happening. everyone is learning this by watching us, by reading it, and that's what's going on now. now the fbi director has to tell a pretty angry -- some angry fbi agents as to what is going on and why is it that they're learning this through media accounts and not directly from him? >> yet it comes on the heels of the president apparently last june, according to a lot of reports, wanting to fire robert mueller, the special counsel. and adam goldman of the "new york times" is still with us. adam, if the president were to fire mueller, he would have to go to rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, who would actually do the firing unless he resigned in protest. >> that's correct. i mean, he can't fire mueller. i think trump realizes the problem is no longer sessions, his problem is rod. if he can perhaps get rid of rod, maybe he can replace -- he can put somebody in the number two spot at doj that could effectively remove mueller. i have to tell you, it seems unlikely. we're in the home str

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if the fbi doesn't want to do that we can only draw the conclusion the fbi is clearly hiding something in this very crucial time period and time line we're talking about. remember lois learner, another example. this is part of a larger pattern here. let's look at hillary clinton's e-mail scandal. 33,000 deleted e-mails subpoenaed by congress. to make sure they were erased and never returned again clinton acid washed the hard drives to get rid of them. no trace of them. the e-mails under congressional subpoena. then a clinton aid took the blackberries and mobile devices and smashed them with a hammer. the few remaining cellphones turned over to the fbi had no sim cards. look at the headlines. fbi agreed to destroy lap tops of clinton aids with immunity deal. why would the fbi agree to destroy evidence? that doesn't make sense. according to the same reporting of the plea deal the fbi wasn't allowed to search e-mails after the server was public. so the fbi couldn't look at possible obstruction of justice by clinton and aides. it's obvious that happened. then here, the washington post repo

, discredit the fbi. it was led by congressman nunez and they have a memo that outlines their case against the fbi. it uses material for a fisa warrant, targeting carter page. although the application is said to have drawn on a variety of memo, the information comes from one strand, the michael steele dossier that president trump had been compromised by russian intelligence. the committee voted last week that they would make this memo available to all members of the house. that surprised democrats on the intelligence committee who didn't know this memo existed. but this led to a huge right wing campaign that this memo be declassified and released to the public. >> this is a memo written by republicans. it's not like it's a secret document that's been unearthed or pried out of the fbi. this is something house republicans wrote themselves and now they've created a campaign saying it must be released, this thing we wrote ourselves. but this release the memo cause has become a leading cause of russian bots an

to the fbi. time will tell, but i know how hard folks try to get it right. i know the pressure they were working on post 9/11. and there are peaks and valleys, it is a human institution full of human beings that are infallible. what is happening right now is hurtful. >> does it put lives in jeopardy to have the fbi distracted in. >> i don't want to be hyper bboc or overstate it. we need to trust our institutions and the men and women that occupy those institutions. our lives at statemeke, i don'tw that i would go that far. >> we have to sneak in one more break, don't go anywhere, we'll be right back. except for these. this time next year, we're gonna be sitting on an egg. i think we're getting close! make a u-turn... u-turn? recalculating... man, we are never gonna breed. just give it a second. you will arrive in 92 days. nah, nuh-uh. nope, nope, nope. you know who i'm gonna follow? my instincts. as long as gps can still get you lost, you can count on geico saving folks money. i'm breeding, man.

report about the fbi. the clinton campaign -- >> there's no indication that christopher wray hasn't. >> the clinton campaign wanted to see the i.g. report. they had questions about how jim comey handled her investigation. >> right. >> republicans should want to see it. we should all want to see an independent investigation of the fbi, but this is not what we're now in the business of. we now have this house committee and devin nunes trying to say, forget about the i.g. report, we, in a partisan way, are going to investigate the fbi. that is dangerous. >> a quick last word to peter baker who spent time in moscow, knows a lot more than i do about russia. if you look at all the people contacted by russians, they are certainly more like carter page and george papadopoulos and i don't want to ask you if you think devin nunes is a dope or a dupe, whatever heilman just said, but the idea of whitting r unwitting accomplices, devin nunes and the public-facing actions he's engaged in, would it? >> well, look, there

by the fbi. here with me now, assistant attorney general. this is a public smack between the fbi and the white house. i might just add again, this fbi director, christopher wray was not a holdover, he was appointed by the president. i imagine they would not go forward with a warning like this unless it's very serious. he is saying this memo is inaccurate and misleading. >> he is. and the fbi hasn't had a chance to review it and do an actual declassification review. the underlying applications would have been fbi information and potentially other intelligence community information. and so normally the way, if congress wants to release something publicly, the way this would work is they would go through a process. the fbi director, department of justice, perhaps the director of national intelligence would have a voice as to whether national security would be harmed by the release of this information. by the house taking the extraordinary vote that they did and then the president saying it's going t

isn't that odd to fire the fbi director? yes, it's odd to fire the fbi director. he has attacked everyone in the line of fire in this case. jeff sessions, james comey, andrew mccabe. we don't know the reasons why andrew mccabe has stepped down, but we do know that he was essentially a witness for comey in their exchanges. so i think it's odd, and i have to say, we can all talk legal jargon, but from a kind of human experience, if you are innocent of a crime, do not attack the prosecutors day in and day out. and i have to say the fact that robe robert ray feels comfortable with a politician, the president of the united states attacking prosecutors, it strikes me he would not do that if it was a democratic president. >> i want to -- we have breaking news, adam civet schiff. >> that both memoranda be vetted. but that was voted down. i spoke with the director of the fbi earlier this afternoon. he expressed his strong interest in being able to brief our committee, prior to any release of these materials about concerns that the bureau and the department have. i relayed

the deputy director reports to the fbi director. now andrew mccabe, he's a career fbi agent, has certain protections. he's not a political appointee, so you can't just outright fire him without cause. there has to be some sort of wrongdoing to go ahead and fire a person who has been with the fbi, who has been a career fbi agent, so it's not something that the attorney general could do himself. it also would be pretty difficult for the fbi director to do it. again, you need to have some cause, some wrongdoing. he could have reassigned andy mccabe to a field office to another position at the fbi, but as we've been reporting, mccabe has been saying he's going to retire come march. he plans to retire given all the political backlash that he has received because of his connections to the hillary clinton e-mail investigation, to the fact that his wife was running for state office in virginia. all of that probably weighing heavily on him as he approaches perhaps the last month as the deputy director. >> and he's going to retire in march be

campaign against the fbi. why some republicans are circling the wagons with conspiracy theories. >> when struck and page described the secret society, that doesn't surprise me. >> and why did he wait two days to tell investigators. >> and one the most interesting man in politics might be about to prove our point again. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. ♪ ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chuck todd here in washington. welcome to "mtp daily." trump won the popular vote. obama was born in kenya. ted ted cruz's father was involved in the kennedy assassination and the nod is state. you are called a conspiracy theorist or the president of the united states. the president attempt to destroy the fbi credibility on the russia probe and the elected republicans who appear to be helping him do it and frankly in some cases you would think know better. mr. trump fired the fbi director last year after allegedly asking him to pledge his loyalty. and as the wash post now reports, that he then quickly summoned the fbi act

and when you start to attack an institution like the fbi, there may be a few bad apples in the fbi. i don't think anybody denies that. but it is an incredible institution. >> there are inspectors general whose job it is to investigate these types of things within the department of justice and fbi. >> we are going to talk to the republican member -- memo and whether mueller needs protection. weekender you are, don't let another weekend pass you by. get the lowest price when you book at hilton.com you can do it. we can do this. at fidelity, our online planning tools are clear and straightforward so you can plan for retirement while saving for the things you want to do today. -whoo! while saving for the things this one's below market price and has bluetooth. same here, but this one has leather seats! use the cars.com app to compare price, features and value. we have one to two fires a day and when you respond together and you put your lives on the line, you do have to surround yourself with experts. and for us the expert in gas and electric is pg&e. we run about 2,500/2,800 fire calls

of the fbi, to fire the deputy director. we use our phones and computers the same way these days. so why do we pay to have a phone connected when we're already paying for internet? shouldn't it all just be one thing? that's why xfinity mobile comes with your internet. you can get 5 lines of talk and text included at no extra cost. so all you pay for is data. choose by the gig or unlimited. and ask how to get a $150 prepaid card when you buy a new lg x charge. it's a new kind of network designed to save you money. call, visit, or go to xfinitymobile.com >>> here's our breaking news. axios reported tonight attorney general jeff sessions has been pressuring the director of the fbi to fire the deputy director. i want to bring in adam surer, cnn contributor michael deantonio, author of "the truth about trump." so glad to have both of you on. thank you for coming on the program. michael, you first, tonight axios is reporting attorney general sessions at public urging of president trump has been pressuring the fbi director, christo

it surprised the fbi agents and fbi staffers all across the country. they all learned of this through media reports. and what's going on right now at the fbi is that the fbi director, christopher wray, is actually on a secure conference call with the field offices, with the different leadership of the fbi, explaining to them what went on today and perhaps giving them some insight into why the deputy director is no longer the deputy director. >> so maybe wray can help connect some dots. in the meantime, shimon, thank you for setting up what we do me. joining me, michael zelden, who used to be robert mueller's special assistant. cnn political director david chalian, james galliano and juliet kyam. david, let's rewind for a second back to the white house and the brief wing where essentially yo had sarah sanders saying we had nothing to do with this move, this decision here at the fbi. we weren't directly pulling any levers. at the same time, it's like, hello, have you read your president's -- your boss's twitter feed? >> she said the president was not inv

, in tatters. >> it's a shame what's happened with the fbi, but we're going to rebuild the fbi. it will be bigger and better than ever, but it is very sad when you look at those documents and how they've done that is really, really disgraceful, and you have a lot of very angry people that are seeing it. >> bear in mind the president isn't slamming the interior department here. he's not publicly attacking a deputy under secretary of state or assistant energy secretary. he's not accusing staffers of political bias. the president of the united states is attacking the public servant, even cabinet members who have had roles or should have bigger and friendlier roles in the various investigations of donald trump j. trump. more on the mccabe part of the news later, but let's focus first on the house intelligence committee eruption. adam schiff joins us. jessica schneider joins us. what's the status of this home moe at this hour? >> we know from an administration official this memo voted out of the committee by the house intelligence committee has been cover youred to the white house. t

the understanding the fbi needs to operate as an independent agency and, yes, members of the fbi have political opinions like every american. if that's the sole standard, we're in a lot of trouble. the standard needs to be for those fbi agents not to act on their political biases in any investigation. most agents justice is engrained with them. having the president ask the question, it was inappropriate at the very, very least. >> interesting to mueller? >> probably, because if he's trying to show a pattern of behavior, if he's looking to do an obstruction of justice charge which, by the way, i think is really hard to get to. if that's what he's looking to do, he needs to show a pattern of behavior that would lead any jury to conclude, yes, that person was clearly trying to obstruct justice in this case. yeah, i think that's probably likely going to be a question. sounds like, according to e reporting, that mccabe may already have been interviewed about that very topic, about the nature of that conversation. >> if nothing else, it's another reminder of where the president's mind tends

fbi or assistant director. my god, how arrogant can they be? >> i am in 100 percent agreement with you. they want to see the memo first. we shouldn't release the memo. you need to release the memo, because it is not the memo that is going to undermind the integraty or the people's view. integrity. it is it their conduct and action even now with the text messages. it undermines their credibility in the highest levelingly. >> lou: we only have you here a little while. that is to the administration's four pillars of the border security and immigration reform. if we could, we'll put it up. and the white house released today and turns out to call for a 10-12 year path for citizenships and daca recipients and others with work and education requirements and that number would expand it to 5 million people by the way. we are not sure. but there is no numerical cap. and now the wall has suddenly become a 75 billion trust fund. not only the wall, but ports of entry and other expenses to border security. that is a metamorphis and limit chain migration to t

the fbi's number 2 guy is out. we knew andrew mccabe was planning to retire in march when he reaches pension status. but a source said that he was removed from his post effective today. andrew mccabe has been a frequent tart get of president trump and republicans in congress. they accused him of political bias in hillary clinton's e-mail scandal. back in 2015, mccabe's wife ran for senate as a democrat in virginia. state senate. she got a donation from a group tied to the clinton family. last month president trump referred to what he called clinton's puppets giving money to mccabe's wife's campaign. the fbi confirmed mccabe had no role in the clinton e-mail investigation while his wife ran for office. last week "the washington post" and others reported that president trump pressured andrew mccabe to reveal who he voted for in the 2016 presidential election while the two men were meeting in the oval office. according to the report, mccabe said he didn't vote at all. the white house has not denied the reporting. eric

he has been a career public servant with the fbi. i think he has done an admirable job serving the country. i think this committee and others have done a german is to disservice to mr. mccabe. >> also is there a chance that the memo could be released before the five day window? or do you all have to wait for five days to do which am says? -- what trump says? >> the vote to deprive his marty of having the memo released was on a partyline basis. both of those votes were on a partyline basis. in terms of the timetable, this has never happened in my experience in the committee, so we are in uncharted waters. if the president expresses the view short of five days, i am perfectly copacetic with anything being published that helps me. i don't know they have to wait five days. the white house has made it clear that they want the memo published, even though they have not read it. that should tell you all you need to know about the president's priorities, even without reading it, even without hearing from the intelligence agencies what damage

the fbi chief of staff last week, that official was let go from the fbi. he says he also conveyed that information to fbi general council who was recently mysteriously reassigned to what appears to be a no show job around christmastime with no explanation. and james comey said he reported the action tuesday the fbi deputy director today who was aapparently forced out of his job as well. the new trump director, christopher ray had threatened to resign in order to protect andrew mccabe against this white house effort to push mccabe out of his job. christopher re christopher ray does not seem to have resigned. he was going resign rather than see these other fbi officials pushed out of their job -- if you were thinking christopher ray was going tory zine rather than let that happen, andrew mccabe is out today. rod rosenstein overseas robert mueller's special counsel investigation into the russia matter since jeff sessions recused himself. the reason i go through that list is just -- i mean to be blunt about it, the president has fired or tried to fire everybod

within the justice department, at the fbi, the fbi's director was fired after he says the president told him to lay off the investigation. he conveyed the content to a number of fbi senior officials at the time so they could corroborate what comey said about how the president pressured him to lay off the russia investigation before he refused and he was fired. comey says he reported the president's behavior, the directors about the russia investigation at the time to the p fbi chief of staff. last week that official was let go. he says he conveyed that information to the fbi general counsel who was vently misst re reassigned to a no-show job around christmas with no explanation. james comey reported the president's directors to the fbu deputy director who today was forced out of his job, as well. less than a week ago there was dramatic reporting at axios.com crihristopher wray threatened t resign to protect mccabe. today andrew mccabe was pushed out of his job. christopher wray does not seem to have resigned. whatever is going on where christopher wray was inspiring people with him stand

-- re yo abuse by not seen any the fbi. what i have seen is a deliberate distract attention from the russia probe. what we saw today is only most recent chapter of recent events that began after our investigation. fbis comey testified the had opened an investigation against the trump campaign. the attemptt day, and -- n documents that he obtained the information from the white house. that charade was designed to do the white house is bidding and i'm afraid today is the continuation of the same theomenon, to distract from russia probe. >> we've had conversations. the rationale for not releasing the memo? >> your review did not satisfy the concerns and indeed the director of the fbi asked for the opportunity to come before the committee to express concerns. >> what was the rationale? why was it being released? >> in a statement, he said we need full transparency and so when i moved to have the minority memo released in full transparency, they evidently took the view full transparency only means one side gets hurt and not the

or the fbi. i think that listening to trey gowdy is very instructive because he is saying he wants the fbi to review this. it should be released. let's have it reviewed. republicans shouldn't be interfering with the special counsel. >> well, i wonder, you know, i've worked in the white house where the intelligence leading up to 9/11 became politicized, there was a process to declassify the pdb, what george w. bush saw and knew about bin lauden. dick clark was a whistle blower of sorts, if you will, who was talking about how he had been jumping up and down. there is precedent for intelligence that becomes part of a political food fight being declassified. listening to eric swalwell on our air, it sounds like republicans are so impatient and so zealous to smear the fbi and get ahead of that process that they've got the trump-run d.o.j. sending out a letter saying it is extraordinarily reckless. where do you think, sort of the ar bitter of all that is true and all that are hyperbole, where do you th

he has been a career public servant with the fbi. i think he has done an admirable job serving the country, and i think this committee and others have done a tremendous disservice to mr. mccabe. >> reporter: final vote on the nunes memo, was it along party lines? is there a chance the memo could be released before the five day window or do you have to wait for five days? >> the vote to release the majority memo and though vote to deprive with the minority of having its memo released was on a party line basis. in terms of the timetable, this has never happened in my experience in the committee. we are on uncharted waters. but if the president expresses the view short of five days, i am copacetic with anything being published that helps me. i don't know they have to wait five days. the white house had made it abundantly clear that they want the memo published even though they haven't read it. that should tell you all you need to know about the president's priorities. even without reading it, even without hearing from the intelligence a

no fbi agent ever wants to become the story. it's all about the case, the investigation, the mission. andy's become a story, whether rightly or wrongly. my guess is that he's had a conversation with director chris wray. they've looked at the available leave, his eligibility date for retirement, and it's not unusual at all for folks to take what's called terminal leave, finish out your unused leave. you don't get many vacations at that level in the fbi. you just can't leave the office, literally, and so he's going to ride this out and allow some change to take place. not a huge surprise, but the timing is interesting. >> timing is interesting, and ron, as an attorney and someone who worked in the white house and on the hill as counsel, this follows relentless pressure and all kinds of shot from the white house against him based on the fact that his wife had run in 2015 for state offices in virginia with money from the governor, who is associated with the hillary clinton fundraising operation. >> if congress is confident, they'll

>> yes, sir. >> the fbi statement is a last-ditch effort to change hearts and minds after fbi director chris wray and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein were rebuffed by white house chief of staff john kelly in a white house meeting monday, first reported by the washington post last night. the fbi defended the bureau's handling of classified material obtained through surveillance. quote, the fbi takes seriously its obligations to the fisa court and its compliance with procedures overseen by career professionals in the department of justice and the fbi. but the white house so far is as unmoved as paul ryan was when he rebuffed pleas from wray and rosenstein to protect classified material. >> as far as the memo goes, the memo came over. we've got our folks in the national security lawyers in the white house that work for me, work for the president. they're slicing and dicing it, looking at it so we know what it means, what it understands. >> did you see it? >> i did. >> what do you think? >> it will be released pretty quick and the whole world can see t. >> the whole word can see it.

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we have done some reporting based off an internal e-mail that the fbi director sent out to the fbi late this afternoon where he seemed to hint at the ig report. >> inspector general. >> inspector general investigation, that's been ongoing to the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and said he couldn't really talk more about essentially the andrew mccabe situation because of that investigation. so, there are some hints that may be related to this report that's forthcoming. we don't know what happened. something happened in the last few days, perhaps, that caused this. today, andrew mccabe came in, met with the team and staff and said, i'm done. i'm leaving. today is my last day. at 12:00 he left. >> he used to work at the fbi and cia for that matter. how extraordinary and unusual is this, the sudden departure of the career fbi agent under these circumstances? >> i wouldn't call it unusual, wolf, i would call it down right weird. i don't think i have ever seen anything like this. typically, in this situation, if you want to leave quickly, you are going to say on today, tuesday, look, i'l

the fbi being corrupt and terrible. over the past week, that congressman, devon nunes has led a conservative media and republican full-scale, freakout over a memo. a memo that conservatives insist will be magic antidote to the robert mueller investigation and a get out of jail free card for anybody implicated by the mueller investigation. this was written by devon nunes himself. his office wrote it and he and republicans and conservative media and lots and lots of russian bots online are all now insisting with increasing ferocity that this memo that devon nunes wrote, it must be released, even though it contains classified information, because if this memo is released, that will bring down the fbi. devon nunes has written the memo that reportedly says the fbi behaved badly somehow when it obtained search warrants from a court to collect evidence in the russia investigation. this, this memo that he wrote has been an all-consuming thing in republican congressional politics and technically in conservative media and at the

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of the justice department and fbi. we provided more than 1,000 pages of classified documents related to the fbi's relationship if any with a source and its reliance if any on information provided by that source. okay. media reports that the committee's memorandum contains classified material confidentially provided in a secure facility. they then explain in a footnote that when the justice department gave this classified information to devon nunes and the intelligence committee, he wasn't supposed to share it. he wasn't then supposed to show it to every other republican member of the house, which is what he has now down. quote, the terms of access for that classified information stipulated that review of the documents would be limited to the chairman, mr. nunes or his designee, adam schiff or his designee and two staff members each. that's it. the department takes any allegation of abuse of our justice system seriously. further we assume that intelligence committee members want to provide evidence of any allegation of

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he did fire the former fbi director and the current fbi director threatened to quit. so this roster would not only make for a decent justice department basketball team with a couple of subs included but it also has some in congress saying they need to pass legislative protections for robert mueller. some republi

fbi encourages dr. martin luther king to kill himself because he is such a threat to the nation in their view. the fbi offers this tape. king does not, obviously, kill himself. the fbi offers to turn this tape over to the press. the press turns them down. imagine such an error. the fbi backs off in the face of looming investigation into electronic surveillance. the timing that have works out in his favor, i suppose. from 1965 to 67, lyndon johnson takes over for assassinated john f. kennedy, clamps down on wire tapping, suggests it should be foremanally outlawed. burger v. new york and katz versus united states in 1967. the supreme court in both cases changes its tune and say wire taps have to follow the same procedures for a warrant. there must be probable cause. people initiating the wire tap have to specify the crime they're investigating, specify the place to be searched, the conversations to be seized. in 1968, congress follows suit, sets specific standards for obtaining wire taps. this will not st

fbi agents, law enforcement, u.s. intelligence officials, say they believe that these text messages will be retrieved. gregg, you made a very good point. if horwitz did get those text messages without them knowing, and they withdrew, they went in and somehow tried to clean it out, they would have to go to their records management system at the fbi, they would have to have somebody in there help them clean this up. >> sean: let's talk about the legal aspects and what we are looking at here and what does the loretta lynch components cy to you? >> it says to me that it was obstruction of justice. if a false document was used to not only launch the trump-russia investigation but to spy on trump associates, that's a violation of the law, its abuse of power, it's called deprivation of rights under color of law, 22 usc 242, 18 us usc. people should go to jail, penalty is ten years behind bars and it increasingly looks like this was a widespread, nefarious, and illegal plot to frame donald trump and clear hillary clinton. >>

i wish continued strength for the fbi. america needs you. >>> we learned that chris wray hinted to staff on the clinton e-mail investigation which played a role in mccabe's departu departure. others paint the move as mccabe's call. we have jessica schneider with more from washington. >> reporter: christine and dave, andrew mccabe is out of a job more than a month before his expected retirement. we are told his sudden departure was surprising for colleagues at the fbi headquarters. especially since the exact reason for his early exit wasn't entirely known. the deputy director of the fbi announced the decision to leave he in the meeting monday morning. mccabe said at the meeting it was his choice, but other sources we learned at cnn, suggested to us that mccabe was pushed out. told by the new director chris wray that he would know longer need him as deputy director. president trump has repeatedly attacked andrew mccabe. notably because mccabe's wife jill ran as a democrat in 2015 in a senate race. and the president is taking

all of that comes under the purrview of the fbi. when you started degrading the fbi's credibility, domestically and internationally, it does start to have an effect. i'm not saying they might have information about it. clearly the two people in the texts exhibited poor behavior and should be punished. we should go after them and they deserve due process. that this is now a campaign is really harm have. now to me, the democrats aren't exactly innocent. they'll release their own secret memo. whatever comes out of these investigations, republican or democrat, the american public will be more skeptical about the o outcome and that's not fair. >> stick around. we have lots more to talk about. what legal impact might mccabe stepping down have? mike and i are both veterans, both served in the navy. i do outrank my husband, not just being in the military, but at home. she thinks she's the boss. she only had me by one grade. we bought our first home together in 2010. his family had used another insurance product but i was like well i've had

to purge agents from within the fbi as the fbi is investigating the president. they got into a whole lot of trouble with this when donald trump decided to fire james comey. there's now an open investigation into the president and into the white house about the potential ties or coordination with russia and also whether or not they are trying to obstruct justice. i wonder how this is going to play into the special counsel's investigation. natasha bertrand is with us. you have been following this investigation. to see the white house say yeah, you know, we don't want some of those fbi agents there, is kind of a big deal. >> yeah, it is, especially because like you said, they are investigating whether or not the president obstructed justice and colluded with russia during the campaign so for them to kind of dip their hands in the bureau and say we want to kind of pick and choose which agents are investigating the president and which aren't, is really problematic for a number of reasons. i think that the reason why mueller wants to ask sessions and sit down with ses

to the rank and file of the fbi. he's saying, i have your back. do your job, do your very tough job, and i'll have your back. and that's something all americans should respect tonight. >> and kaitlyn, how can you speak? what can you say to the communications between jeff sessions, the attorney general, the nation's top law enforcement officer and don mcghan who is white house counsel. >> so axios reported that sessions made wray aware of how reluctant he was to fire mccabe, like we said, that he threatened to resign instead of do that. the message seems to be well received. the issue has been left as it is for now, but yeah, it seems that message was very clearly communicated. and i think it goes back to just the idea that wray is standing up against what would have been at the bare minimum a media field day over the second major firing and then a resignation within the fbi. >> eli stokels, does the president understand the optics or has it been explained to him that you can't keep replacing fbi directors every few w

look, a big barrel full of apples at a place like the fbi, there will be a few rotten ones. the problem is, some of the rotten apples were at the very top around some with the most important investigations that were going on. with respect to the democrats, we keep hearing the same thing over and over again. all we are doing is following the facts and the evidence and clearly, as these texts come out, they keep offering explanations for why they are not that bad, but shannon, they just look bad. >> shannon: i want to ask you, too, about your statements that it's possible former fbi director comey would be brought back for more testimony, saying there would be inconsistencies of our different statements he's made regarding the hillary clinton email investigation. is that -- could that happen? >> it could happen. i think it will happen. there are inconsistencies. now let me be clear, i think a former director comey was very clear in his testimony. he said that no decision was made to charge hillary clinton -- worked in our charger with mishandling classified information until a

what do you think the following will be if the fbi objections -- if it really does make the fbi and the doj look as bad as some republican lawmakers suggested dust. >> it gets us into a critical distinction of the white house and others have been trying to make for a while which is there is no war on the fbi. there is no effort to undermine wholesale's department of justice and all that it does, this is about the actions of a few individuals that were in very senior levels at those institutions and bringing them to light so there can be accountability. the point that was made, congress has oversight here. it's not a separate and independent branch of government. that's why i think the transparency issue here, doesn't seem to be a worthwhile counterargument. i'm not saying it, especially given that they are saying we need our own memo to come out. is it that it was classified or that you want your own say? >> bret: trying to separate it from the special counsel's investigation seems a little tough. the speaker tried to walk that line yesterday. it's all interconnected. >> seems to be. we