fbi? how does that change the nature of comey's decision with respect to the memos and whap its importance is in the overall dialogue? >> well, in this case, we have only been told he was a friend and a columbia professor. it's relevant because the man was at the fbi when all of the investigations and other things were going on. it's relevant because you don't know what other access to information he had. so if this man is speaking to the press with a comey memo in his hand, then how do you know what else he knows or doesn't know doesn't you think that's a legislation mitt line of inquiry. >> no i'm not sure because first of all i don't know if it's true. i don't really know if it's true if he had an official capacity. >> that he work at the fbi. >> or had a role within the investigation. i don't know that's not my reporting. i have to check more into that. but even if it were all rue i'll i'm saying i'll give you the benefit of the doubt on all of it it's all true i don't understand how i

of the fbi. he was crazy. a real nut job. i faced great pressure because of russia. that's taken off. that was may 10th, the day after the president fired mr. comey. the following day, may 11th, president trump told lester holt what was foremost in his mind when he fired james comey was the russia investigation. legally the president can fire presidential appointees without anybody telling him that he can't. if, however, the president fired mr. comey because of the russia investigation, because he wanted to influence an ongoing investigation into him and his campaign that comey was overseeing as fbi director, well, that might be obstruction of justice. criminal liability here hinges on intent, evidence of the president's intent in that firing. that's everything. so the 9th comey is fire, the 10th the president tells russians firing him will take off great pressure because of russia, he tells nbc news he's thinking about the russia investigation when he fires the man, all potentially evidence of i

lying to the fbi. lying to the sec. and lying to investors. >> i'm just very, very sorry that a small personal matter has been able to be blown out of all proportion. >> what jim tried to do was to make sure that because the defendant was famous, we weren't treating her differently than we would someone else. >> stewart is convicted for lying to investigators and serves a five-month sentence. but comey emphasizes to his assistants that it's not all about winning cases. >> jim would have a talk with the new assistants, he would sit down with them and tell them how the reputation of the office depended on them doing what was necessary. >> if you come in here as all of my assistants do to report a verdict and you have to tell me it's an acquittal, i don't care, as long as you did the right thing and gave it your best shot. >> after 23 months as u.s. attorney, comey is tapped by president bush for deputy attorney general, the number two position in the dertment of justice. but almost immediately and long before he goes head

he drafted those memos on fbi equipment, fbi time, using the fbi email network and he thought it was okay for them to get in that special circle of friends and that's not the rules. >> bret: the president set on his interview on "fox & friends" that he may get involved with the justice department. do you believe that mueller or rosenstein, that he won't get through the investigation? >> i think that what that means is that he told armageddon that is not okay to come indicate directly with the justice department. i don't think he believes that anymore. >> it means you're thinking of getting rid of mueller and shutting him down. >> there are people frustrated with what they are seeing in the gameplaying that's going around. they would like to see someone, anyone come in. >> bret: thank you very much for squeezing this all in and thank you for tuning in. that's us for this "the story" " speech may 7 starts after this quick break nick was born to move. 3 toddlers won't stop him. and neither will lower back pain. because at a dr. scholl's kiosk he got a recommendation for our custom fit o

jim, the fbi's not proud of you. you're a former fbi director out there discussing matters presently under investigation as a special counsel is doing that very thing. where do you come off publishing a book about issues under investigation? even admitting what you leaked was secret and therefore classified. but you protest, i don't do sneaky things. i don't leak. i don't make weasel moves. jim, are you schizo? on the one hand you lie to the president that you don't leak and the whole point of the memo was to leak it and now on your book tour you say it is true, i'm a leaker. and jim, you're a political operative too. you wanted hilary clinton to be president. you even changed the definition of the law to let her get away with it, and you played along with loretta lynch so she could get away with it. >> do you think we would be a lot better with hilary clinton as president than donald trump? >> certainly given her commitment to our traditions and our norms and our values and the rule of law, yes. >> her commitment to

that wasn't what we pictured the fbi doing. mueller was steering the ship that slowly changed in that direction. >> we had to prioritize, make counterterrorism our number one priority. make certain we spend whatever resources were necessary to prevent the next terrorist attack, not just determine who was responsible. >> he led that charge. it was like turning the titanic. in order to do that, he imposed very rigorous discipline on all of us. he would come in extremely early, functioned on very little sleep and expected us to do the same. >> good evening. the fbi makes more arrests today. >> as the u.s. becomes embroiled in the war on terror, mueller, a supporter of the constitution, is uncomfortable with the possible erosion of civil rights. >> i knew and understand we would be judged not only on how successful we were in preventing attacks but how successful we were in doing that within the confines and constraints of the constitution. >> i brought the right for people at guantanamo. i got a lot of flak for it. we had a dinner

and so my lawyers returned them to the fbi. but my testimony was truthful and i stand by it i was hoping you were going to ask me that. >> bret: i am. i was. >> it was truthful. >> bret: i want to play what the president said today about you on this channel. >> look, comey is a leaker and he's a liar. and not only on this stuff, he's been leaking for years. he's probably been using his friend, the so-called professor, who now turns out to have fbi clearance, which he never said. he even lied about that. because he never said that in congress. he said he gave it to a friend. and he gave it to a friend to leak classified information. it's all classified. it was totally classified. so illegally he did an illegal act and he said it himself. in order to get a special counsel against me. >> bret: reaction to that? >> he is just wrong. facts really do matter, which is why i'm on the show to answer your questions. that memo was unclassified then. it's still unclassified. it's in my book. the fbi cleared that book before it could be pub

of the fbi. of the fbi. third, the administration made it impossible for the minority to engage in meaningful congressional oversight. last summer politico reported that top meetings with various government departments, -- the white house lawyer told agencies not to cooperate with oversight requests and democrats. it is no wonder we received no substantive response to the 60 oversight letters we sent to the administration. instead of a real oversight, we live in a time where the in -- administration appears to be actively coordinating with members of the majority to stymie congressional and doj investigations. it is by now well-known that the phony tip to intelligence that received toes suspension trump's claims that he was wiretapped by president obama came from the trump white house. president trump make numerous courts to members of congress, including senate chairman burr, to end the russia investigation. the judiciary committee, and oversight and intelligence committees are now principally f

of the fbi. he expected at this point to be halfway through the normal ten-year turn of an fbi director and president trump fired him in may. he has now written about his time in public life and his views of ethical leadership. it is a book driving everybody absolutely crazy up to and including the president, it's called "a higher loyalty, truth, lies and leadership." director comey, it's really nice to meet you. >> it's great to be here. >> thank you for timing the whole thing, the memos came out just before you sat down. >> i had no idea. >> i haven't had a chance to read what they have released. i can tell you what they stopped. what follows are notes i typed in the vehicle immediately upon exiting trump tower. i have tried to use actual words spoken including quoting directly in some places. i have not used quotation marks throughout because my purpose was to capture the substance of what was said. i'm not sure of the proper classification here. do you recognize those as your words? >> i do.

i strongly disagree with you about the fbi. i know fbi agents. i go to church with fbi agents. most of of them to me are republican white guys. james comey was a republican but now he says they are ego driven and politically motivated in their attacks. i think they are dealing with an unorthodoxed president. kennedy: i don't think fbi agents. i said the surveillance powers have grown so much when we should be scaling those back. juan: the american congress approved that. that's the congress. that's not the fbi. if you want to say we as the american people made some mistakes in terms of granting powers, fine. but i don't think you can say the fbi is bad because of those powers. >> they are using the section 702 re-up as a way of accessing information on americans. juan: that power was given to them by the congress. >> it's always worth underscoring the tension between the independence the fbi has and the necessity of serious and strenuous oversight. in some cases we have seen fundamental deficiencies exposed in this investigation. kennedy: i can use certain information to apply

all of those rely on fbi reports. in 1956, the fbi goes on the offensive with the creation of telco, and cpusa and the counterintelligence program specifically designed to target the communist party of the united states of america. it is specifically counterintelligence rather than prosecutorial. they're not trying to dig up evidence to go before a court, but instead it's a counterintelligence operation to destroy a political enemy of the government for a couple of reasons. one, legal proceedings against communist party leaders had been very successful in sending a number of them to prison and the laws are favorable toward doing that in this period of time, but it had also exposed fbi informants and they had to go before a judge and reveal that information and well-placed inform ants were revealed as part of the court hearing and he was not real keen on that ask in 1956 and '57 they were available to attack dissidents and laws that had been put in place in the '40s and had given free reign to those that might espouse

fbi officials like andrew mccabe. the former number two who was fired for leaking and of the inspector general at the justice department has sent a criminal referral to the u.s. attorney here in washington saying that mccabe tried to cover all of that up by lying to the fbi's own investigators. mccabe says tonight he believes he will be vindicated, but it's worth noting that former justice department officials are telling us that the fact that the inspector general whose nonpartisan and the justice department sent this out, this criminal referral. it carries a lot of weight and that's why the president tweeted a few moments ago that maybe james comey and andrew mccabe are getting a dose of their own medicine. >> mark: that's pretty amazing news, thanks for that. chris is the executive assistant director of the fbi. he's not one of those who is under criminal referral and tom fitton is the president of judicial watch. tom, this is pretty amazing. we basically got a situation where the director of the fbi it would be th

of what these attacks have done to the fbi. it comes down to this. now in journalism, my job isn't it defend the fbi. can defend itself, but my job is to explain the fbi and explain why these attacks have such a corrosive effect. it's very simple or it might fit in a tweet. an fbi agent knocks on somebody's door and needs assistance in solving a crime, the willingness of that person to assist that agent directly correlates with their view of the agency. the agent and agency is trustworthy they are more likely to assist. if see the fbi as another corrupt institution of government, how many of those people are going to assist? when i was an agent i did a lot of work overseas and i can talk when instance in particular where we went to meet a human source who was providing information about a very sensitive and very imminent terrorism matter. trains, planes, automobiles to meet this person and we asked him, why didn't you just go to your own law enforcement here in your own country, why call the fbi? our law enforcement agencies ar

mark: this is the fbi director? i watched him lie and weasle his way through the interviews this week. i think in his mind he didn't think he should arrest hillary clinton. rachel: that's what i got from the interview as well. trish: if you are someone who believes the deep state is at work he may have been have much part of that? mark: add to that all of his lies, i can see why he thought hillary clinton's behavior was normal. to him it is. >> she is the resistance and he was heading up the fbi and this is why we are in the situation. >> we never liked donald trump. it's one of his faults he says. so was his ego bruised? is this what it's about? mark: he describes three meetings alone with president obama. rachel: he admitted he thought hillary clinton would win, that's why he reopened the investigation. when it all fell apart he needed to get back in with the democrats and the resistance. his wife is friend with hillary. trish: wild stuff. tomorrow is another day. thank you so much. i'm so happy to be here in for

>> we need to hold fbi and doj in content. this goes back for many years, they are blowing the deadlines purposefully, that is the definition of contempt. we gave you an order, you have a deadline, what you blow it, you say we'll hold you in contempt. legislative branch, we don't dare what you say we're not going to let people with top-secret clearance have access to documents that more mr. comey leaked, this is a problem. we can't back down, we have to do the people's duty, get in there and punch that is what we have to do. lou: house is on deadlines, only committee, that has done a damn thing belongs to devin nunes, rest of the committees have done nothing. they talk. they you know and i mean listening to trey gowdy as chair of oversight committee that is say joke, he spent 4 terms in congress, and never done anything yet. nunes showing everything how to move forward and accomplish something, do you think that the conference is getting that and now understands they have to move ahead? old way of doing business, i don't think

any fbi directors come to mind? know they dell. this is probably the most serious tragic corruption of a law enforcement law enforcement agency of the united states government in our history. these clowns are walking around needing to be indicted. lippe we are not talking about simply corrupt officials. we need to get low we are talking about and that is criminal conduct by public servants, powerful officeholders in the justice department and the f. v. i. you raised the question does the fbi survive all of this? there's a very good argument to be made that it will not survive at this level of corruption. what are your thoughts? >> well it shouldn't and i have offered a prescription for how to fix fix it. the level of abuse in office the lying and the manipulation of the media, the control of selected leaks. we know the investigation was deliberately and willfully shut down in august of 2016 over people who say it's a money-laundering operation. it should be exposed. you can't find greater manipulation of criminal justice , legal in

the fbi director brought from the fbi agents to make sure the secret service didn't block your dramatic entrance in john ashcroft's hospital bidside qulaimg you were willing to resign if the southern general didn't follow your suggestion. but enough about you, let's read the boodges excerpts. but you claim the president sitting at his december next oval office was a king sitting on a throne. a king because there was a block of wood between you and the president. and, jim, did you everb appear before a judge? you say the president was concerned when you presented him with your fake dossier alleging he had prostitutes peeing on him in moscow. >> how can you say if there is a 1% chance your wife would think you have prostitutes peeing on you. police a 1% chance my wife would think that was true. judge jeanine: your wife was never presented with a fake dossier by the director of the fbi who parent threatically night wasn't -- who knew it wasn't true. you knew at the time it was not verified. the whole thing was a charade. and when you were asked by stephanopoulos. >> did he have the right t

the fbi takes lying seriously. that's why they put martha stewart behind bars, because she lied to the fbi. when do we see the charges against andy mccabe for lying to the fbi? >> the department of justice has to explain to the public either why it's choosing -- either it's going to say they're going to prosecute andy mccabe for lying to the fbi or explain why it has a double standard. one standard for average americans and one standard for everybody else. and then perhaps after it explains that double standard, they can decide they're going to start holding average americans to the same standard that they hold their own agents and senior leadership. >> tucker: carry a gun with a high capacity magazine and lie with impunity? that wouldn't be a different country if we lived by the fbi standard, wouldn't it? >> this is not the first time this has happened. long been questions that the fbi when other people have been found to be cavalier with the truth, they never seem too have the same zeal. there's a half a dozen fo

lou: neither is the fbi an independent agency. they are elements of the executive branch which report to the president of the united states. and in a matter as grave as a collusion between two coequal branches of government, the executive and the legislature, the president should have his voice heard by those who serve at his pleasure. >> oh, i agree that he has every right to do so. but he also knows the political cost that would entail if he was visible in his demands towards the ag and toward the director of the fbi. but again, it's also congress' -- congress has not really exercised oversight for decades. and it's a few people. it's goodlatte, nunes who are finally exercising the oversight as they should have done for decades on the hill. lou: i think truly it's only nunes. goodlatte is a latecomer to the issue and he is also an early exiter from this congress, retiring. it is without devin nunes and solely nunes among those true, it is truly to nunes that we owe a great debt for continuing to search for the truth and serving

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i hope that's a fbi -- i'm not the fbi director but i hope that's a fbi director type answer. >> when you gave the press conference about hillary clinton in 2016 in the summer you said you didn't say she didn't lie. or you didn't say it's possible she lied. you said you found no evidence she had lied. you found no evidence that she had that e-mail server knowing that it was improper. but you're not using the same construct of there is evidence or there isn't evidence. you're saying it's possible that leaves the impression for people that there might be stuff out there that there might be evidence that president trump is under the thumb of the kremlin. >> yeah, but i see that, jake, asking me two different things. i'm not going to talk about the investigation of possible cooperation between americans and the russian effort to influence our election.

they have a rogue justice department and fbi. they are not meeting the constitutional congressional demands of oversight. >> it is it a no brainer, hold rosenstein and wray in contempt of congress and if they don't produce documents impeach both of them. >> and not go to court and do them on their own rulings. nforget going to court. and they have the power to hold them in contempt and impeach them and remove them from office. this is it arrogance of a time and kind of degree that we have never seen from people in want fbi and justice department and rosenstein and, where ray should be ashamed of themselves. but their arrogance is so high. >> teach the republican members was congress how to fight. >> lou: victoria and joe, thank you both for being here. you both for being here. we know you know how to for time life's music collection. (theme from "a summer place") it was an era of incredible stars... ♪ ...fantastic voices... ♪ i know i'd go from rags to riches ♪ (announcer) ...beautiful harmonies... ♪ sincerely ♪ oh, yes

we have fbi agents assisting them as the tank team. what would they do if they allowed people to read classified material? they wouldn't never do that under the constitution this is as important as any classified material. they're doing this in sloppy way that is not protected. david: one the cornerstones of the rule of law in the united states. you justifiably criticized aclu. you used to be on the board of the aclu. instead of defending rights of innocent people in this case, they're defending actions of mr. mueller. >> it is unbelievable that the american civil liberties union has lost its way. used to be at least one organization would always stand up for the right of innocent clients. remember what is done to clients can be done to patients to doctor relationship to penitence and priest penitence relationship and spouse, and spacial privileges. aclu is saying that is okay, as long as you get donald trump we don't care about civil liberties. trumping everything is getting trump. that is the aclu. the aclu received my last contribut

joey jackson, i want to play the fbi former fbi director jam comey's decision only a few days before the election of 2016 to go ahead and release a letter about the clinton e-mail investigation. listen to this exchange that he had, james comey with george stephanopoulos. >> hillary clinton is convinced that letter defeated her. what do you say to her? >> i hope not. i don't know. i honestly don't know. i sure hope not. the honest answer is, it wouldn't change the way i think about it. my hope, i didn't write the book for this reason, but talking about leadership, it was important to tell the e-mail story, because it's me trying to figure out how to lead well. the people will read that story and try to put themselves in my shoes. try to realize that i'm not trying to help a candidate or hurt a candidate. i'm trying to do the right thing. and you can come up with different conclusions. reasonable people would have chose an different door for reasonable reasons. but it's just not fair to say we were doing it for some illegitimate reason. >> wasn't it to reveal that hillary clinton was g

he says the fbi gets a lot of the blame, but i think they leak very little. people inside the fbi. how ironic, sean, these numbers are coming out on the day when the president's sweet thing abos james comey has leaked classified information. by the way, that memos i have are redacted. the ones that we are obtaining tonight. because we believe there is classified information in what comey put together and then leaked out through a professor friend to "the new york times" and elsewhere. rumor, republican charles grassley has had at least four of the seven memos that we are looking at tonight have classified information. also these mamas coming out, james comey in one of them again, saying the fbi doesn't like, i don't leak. this is coming out on the same day that comey's number two at the fbi, andrew mccabe, is facing a criminal referral that has just been sent today by the nonpartisan inspector general at the justice department to the u.s. attorney here in washington for criminal charges for andrew mccabe four, yes, leaking information to the media against the wishes of the fbi, num

they have a rogue justice department and fbi. they are not meeting the constitutional congressional demands of oversight. >> it is it a no brainer, hold rosenstein and wray in contempt of congress and if they don't produce documents impeach both of them. >> and not go to court and do them on their own rulings. nforget going to court. and they have the power to hold them in contempt and impeach them and remove them from office. this is it arrogance of a time and kind of degree that we have never seen from people in want fbi and justice department and rosenstein and, where ray should be ashamed of themselves. but their arrogance is so high. >> teach the republican members was congress how to fight. >> lou: victoria and joe, thank you both for being here. we know you know how to >>> tonight "war stories" investigates the disaster at dieppe. >> they were slaughtered killing a corporal. >> my good friend got cut in half with crossfire. >> 3,000 wounded are captured. were they betrayed? >> every piece of paper was shredded. within 24 h

it was about not equating the fbi come with a men and women of the fbi with comey and mccabe, peter strzok, page, a very smaln aberration. comey was only director for a short time. i hate to have the entire fbi painted without broadbrush and we know that this small inter-circle made up their own rules and do things their own way and broke the rules. very welll established rules. >> mark: just to go to that, we all know that it's a crime to lie to the fbi and michael flynn supposedly do that and he would have been looking at several years in jail if they decided to go and prosecute for that. now mccabe did it three times as often as michael flynn. do you think there is any serious chance he'll be going to jail? >> i think the referral by the inspector general is a very serious thing. it's ironic that thehe potential charge would be 18 usc, u.s. code 1,001, lying to the fbi, that is what flynn and papadopoulos and others have been charged with. it's ironic he's basing those very same charges times three. >> mark: will still want to mccabe's old boss, jim comey, who's managed to make enemies

the fbi is corrupt. and robert mueller and rod rosenstein are unethical and abusive of legal process, they all deserve to be fired. not that i'm suggesting that president should do it because there is political fallout from. they are all unethical and corrupt and in session's case, incompetent and should go. lou: this decision by mueller to charging through referral, to the u.s. attorney, to the manhattan d.a.'s was on the, and the fbi, to take on the president's personal attorney, violates everything that most people can think of is basically approaching an absolute prev lanprivilege between a client ad his or her attorney. >> only breach would be criminal fraud. but that -- requires such an incredible high threshold of proof, it is nearly impossible. these are such thugish tactics by mueller, and now the united states attorney. and snookerring a judge with supposed evidence that merits his signature on a warrant. worse case, payings there are 130,000 bucks to a -- 130,000 bucks to a porn star to go awa

i don't see how career fbi agents and prosecutors would all get on board. >> but fbi agents do not work on their own. they can only bring cases if there's a justice department, if there are prosecutors working with them. the whole reason that the president would shut down the investigation by mueller is to shut down the investigation by mueller. he's in charge of the justice department. jeff sessions is the attorney general. he's going to fire rosenstein, according to this hypothesis. if he wants to stop this investigation, he's going to stop this investigation. >> i disagree. >> all right. perhaps we won't see it, he won't shut down any of it. >> the james comey interview, guess what, that was only a fraction of the interview. it was five hours long, abc says. they put out one hour of it but put out the transcript on of more of it. in the transcript, which we didn't see on on tv, there was a question how james comey feels about the deputy ag. let me read this for you. he said, well, the attorney general was recused and the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, in my view had acted d

>> down that path lies the fbi. if i ever start consider whose political fortunes will be affected, we're done. >> reporter: they have already been working overtime to undermine james comey's credibility. but the president has not responded to these latest comments. when the president gets hit, he hits 10 times harder. he is traveling to florida for an event on tax cuts and will await the arrival of the japanese prime minister. >> and often he will throw a punch when he is anticipating being hit first. thank you. let's bring in maggie haub habe. how is this playing in the halls of the white house? >> there was a lot of anxiety about this comey interview before it happened. of course they ended up saying on friday, praour to last night, they were feeling relieved. it is not as bad as they thought it could be. it does not contain a lot of news in terms of revelations. the interview aggravated a lot of people. but it is is much lower grade burn than i thought it would be certainly and that i think husband advisers thou

and this is about the trump white house at war with the fbi. and the fbi is a bureaucracy. the fbi is a culture. and they feel that donald trump is unethical. that there are a lot of laws being circumvented, potentially broken. and, you know, there's no coincidence that cohen is getting raided and today charged with criminal, you know, it's going to be criminally investigated. the same time that the comey excerpts came out. comey leaked the excerpts in a coordinated fashion. if you're donald trump you're beseeched. you have to feel like it could be the beginning of the end. lord knows what cohen has in his documents and maybe even tape recordings. >> let's get to that. to the other huge piece of news we've been discussing for much of the show is michael cohen. the president's, you know, everyone keeps talking about this a man who knows where the bodies are buried. who buried the bodies for donald trump. this is michael cohen initially under criminal investigation. the hearing has been underway. if people are just tuning in, catch them up on all things michael cohen. >> look

i was not an fbi employee at the time. >> it was a document you wrote while fbi director. if you tell somebody don't give them the document but give them the document, that is a leak, no? >> i think a leak is -- we investigated leaks, unauthorized disclosures. >> when the president said he was eager to find leakers -- >> i said that. >> aren't you a leaker? you gave up a document that was released to "the new york ti times." shouldn't you be nailed to the door then? >> fbi gets upset when people make unauthorized disclosure about protected information. it is also in my book. >> so when you were fbi director, if somebody on your team had given a friend documents that they were writing that you were involved with and said, oh, just tell "the new york times" what is in those documents, you wouldn't have had a problem with that? >> it depends on what was in the document. was it investigative information, classified information, grand jury information. >> i am surprised that you only think that leaks officially are somebody that is classified. >> that's how i think about it as

with the concept that america is at peace because the fbi is at war. >> reporter: after leaving the fbi. mueller hired as a partner at the law mirm will hail. his former life is never far from his mind. >> i was sitting with him after he left the fbi. and asking him how life was. i definitely got the impression his life of service the not finished. >> reporter: working for nfl and sony. donald trump is elected president. >> i just received a call from secretary clinton. consider casting a shadow over the new administration are concerns about russian hacking into the campaign. just weeks after his confirmation. jeff sessions recuses himself from any investigation into russian meddling. when his contact with the russian ambassador during the kal pain comes to light. >> i have decided to to recuse myself from existing or future investigations. >> reporter: three months later in a stunning turn. >> president trump fired james comey. as director of the fbi. >> fbi directors aren't really supposed to be fired and hired like cabinet initials. the fbi director is appointed a ten year term. whic

attorney, his fbi right now. i don't believe that the u.s. attorneys or the fbi are biased, but under the president's theory if he believes people are politically motivate td makes absolutely no sense. >> josh, you're formerly with the fbi. what also stuck out to me is how the president characterized this raid, saying the fbi broke into cohen's office. you though, the fbi had a warrant issued by a judge here. >> that's correct. and that is the major point. in the united states of america the fbi can't just go in and snoop around and gather whatever they want. i mean, this comes back to the fact that you had a detached magistrate that an fbi agent went before and swore an oath and said that the document that i'm presenting to you here, an affidavit in support of the search warrant, contains facts that there is evidence of a crime at this location. and the judge looked at that and says yes, i agree there is probable cause. i think for those who are saying that this is evidence that robert mueller's out of control, they couldn't be more wrong. t

i am pleased to note that the fbi is investigating this case. i am shocked to learn that the white house, through its official spokesman, deems unworthy of notice this blatant act of political espionage. >> william bennett will try to question the five intruders a week from tomorrow and to take depositions inside the committee to re-elect the president and the white house. two of the intruders had a name and phone number of another ex-cia agent who works as a part-time consultant to the white house. o'brien refused to link the committee and white house directly to what happened. he knows more than he is telling he says and he says he feels he is on the right track in suing the committee as a co-conspirator with the five men. carl stern, nbc news, washington. >> right after the watergate burglary happened, right away, the dnc filed a civil lawsuit against the committee to re-elect the president saying that wasn't just some random assemblage of burglars. the lawsuit said, president nixon, you did this. your campaign did this. you have to answer fo

memo that started the fbi russia probe. the lawmakers, along with a number of staffers, viewed the document today at the justice department. nunes threatened to impeach director wray and rosenstein in those agencies hissed the deadline to hand over the memo. that deadline midnight. they made it by about six hours. fox news chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge with our report. >> the government source confirmed to fox news late today that the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee devin nunes and along with trey gowdy, as well as committee republican staffers went to the justice department open met with rod rosenstein and viewed a copy of the two-page memo. not a clean copy. the government sources told fox the redactions were minimal and justified. based on fox's reporting, the two-page memo from july 16, drafted by or had significant input by fbi agent peter strzok, removed from the russia probe after the discovery of the anti-trump text messages. legal action was warranted after months of de