i want to show you christopher wray. we have a lot of conversations about the president and his al i say, their ongoing hot war against the fbi. christopher wray maybe ripping a page out of dni coats but this happened first. sounding more like coats than a trump lackey, let's watch. >> the intelligence community's assessment has not changed. my view has not changed, which is that russia attempted to interfere with the last election and that it continues to engage in malign influence operations to this day. it's pretty common for me to meet somebody and have them introduce themselves and then say i just want you to know, we're all praying for you. >> there have also been stories that you threaten to resign. have you ever hit a point on that issue of sources and methods or anything else where you said this is a line? >> i'm say -- as i said, i'm a low key, understated guy, but that should not be mistaken for what my spine is made out of. >> so you have -- >> i'll just leave it at that. >> okay. all right. [ applause ] >> h

what will say, will she echo what christopher wray said last night? listen. >> russia attempted to interfere with the last election. and then it continues to engage in blind in you operations to this day. >> joining me is nia-malika henderson and mark preston and also bob beyer. thanks for coming in. bob, you had dan coats speaking out. and then you have christopher wray saying in no uncertain terms it is russia and ongoing. but depending on when you catch him, the president either agrees or disagrees. does it bring ycomfort or what does this? >> i've never seen it where the intelligence agencies and fbi director come out against the president. almost a revolt in the ranks. because they know he is absolutely wrong. he is saying it could be somebody else that hacked, but everybody -- they have a smoking gun on the gru. they caught them on tape talking about it, they have names, ranks, addresses. they have everything. i mean, you could take this to court and get a sure conviction in a day. so for the president to throw doubt on this, throw cold water on

his fbi director christopher wray tonight. it's still a big question, will the president sit with mueller. >> it is. and if it was just a question of asking about potential collusion, then his lawyers would say, okay. i mean, they have said that to us. but it's not. there are other things that robert mueller clearly wants to talk to the president about, like potential obstruction of justice and who knows what else. we don't know what we don't know. it's been very clear in the couple of indictments that robert mueller has put out there that they have so many more details than we even realized, just about the russians, never mind what potentially went on here in the u.s. so they seem to be at a stalemate. i'm not sure this situation in helsinki made that any better. but it certainly has been a very long negotiation with the president's lawyers and team mueller on this very subject. >> we asked the question last night about how much longer would the explanations go on. remember, after charlotteville, it took three, four, five tim

christopher wray saying that the mueller witch-hunt is not a witch-hunt. this is interesting because he has no evidence. and american public we're looking at lots of evidence. >> mr. wray endorsed mueller's raid and doj's raid on president's lawyer. extraordinary, they are not even done on mob cases, this is what he sees as legitimate law enforcement actions by mr. mueller? mr. wray has a relationship with mr. mueller he admits predates this investigation. he and mr. rod rosenstein have personal and professional relationships with mueller, that make it impossible to manage his investigation or help him manage the investigation. we're not getting any protection from the direct or of the fbi, or mr. rod rosenstein, on the mueller investigation. and you know, nailed it in the beginning, you said conducting foreign policy, the justice department, mueller, doj, russia indictment is the doj deep staters hijacking our foreign policy with respect to russia. they supposely told president trump before the summit with putin, we're going to indict all these guys, what

christopher wray was much more personal, he also seemed to be acknowledging, he certainly didn't deny that he is under pressure from congress to turn over sensitive current investigative information about sources and methods, considered or at least threatened to resign at times in his very short tenure. >> chris was very forthright. look, he's a thoughtful guy, he's a smart guy, he's been around the block, andrea, he knows this area. it was good to hear him very, very clearly articulate that his views of russian interference in the election have not changed a bit, nor of course should they. it was comfortable in a way to know that he leads an institution that is still out there doing its job every single day despite some of the nonsense going on. >> mimi, the other message from chris wray is that the investigation is protected. he said he would not budge when there are attempts to interfere with it. it's implied, certainly not literally, that if there were some effort to interfere with the mueller probe, that the fbi has got it, they're on top of this. >> yeah, i think everything abou

christopher wray said nothing said at the summit chang the bottom line about russian election meddling. tonight, two of president trump's law enforcement with remarkable push back, director of national intelligence dan coats on the president standing with vladimir ng putin dismisntel agency conclusions on russian meddling. >> obviously, i wished he made a different statemenbut i think that now that has been clarified. nd about that one on one meeting between the president and putin. >> if he had asked me how that ought to be condted, i would have suggested a different way, but that's not my role. that's not my jo so is what it is. >> is there a risk that vladimir putin could have recorded it? >> that risk is always there. , >> and hours aft president trump seemed to deny russia was still trying to meddle on in u.s. elec >> is russia still targeting the u.s., mr. president? >> press, let's go. make your way out. >> no, you don't believe that to be the case? >> fbi director chris wray telling me. >> my view has not changed, which is that russia attempted to last election and that he cont

director christopher wray showing his support for special counsel bob mueller. back with the a-team jessica tarlov, kayleigh mcenany and judith miller. you were at the world cup, weren't you? >> i was. this is a big event. >> sandra: wow. >> bill: welcome back. >> thank you. >> bill: witch hunt, no witch hunt. democrats want blood. are they ever going to get it? >> they'll never get it. the president is right when they call it a witch hunt. the witch hunt began long before robert mueller began, when peter strzok the bias f.b.i. agent signed the opening document into the russia investigation based on no evidence, a phony dossier falsely liking the trump administration to russia. mueller was rebuked by a district court in virginia who said hey, you are not interested in going after people, you are interesting in finding people and finding facts pursuant to them to go after trump. when you're rebuked by a judge a good indicator you're overreaching. >> i disagree again. judy can go first. >> you have the indictment a guilty pleas of four people in the trump campaign

. >>> fbi director christopher wray says russia is still trying to interfere in u.s. politicians. >> -- politics. >> the u.s. assessment has not changed. my view has not changed. russia attempted to interfere with the last election and it continues to engage and malign operations to this day. >> wray was speaking at the security forum on wednesday. he defended the mueller investigation and challenging the characterization of it as a witch hunt. >> i think it is a professional investigation conducted by a man i have known to be a straight shooter in all my interactions with him in my past life in government and certainly since then. so i don't think it is a witch hunt. >> the fbi director refused to say if he ever considered resigning. he said people should not interpret his low-key manner for being spineless. >>> breaking news. british police identified two suspects in the poisoning of the former russian spy. police have been combing through footage at the airport in salisbu salisbury. two individuals not previously known as spies by using facial recognition technolog

that is fbi director christopher wray talking to lester holt. on monday donald trump took the side of an adversary over his own, our own, really, intelligence committee. walked it back. today he again under cut. requiring another tortured explanation that the president meant no more questions. not no to whether he believes that russia is interfering. some republicans are saying these explanations suffice. joining me now. you are a popular guy in a safely republican state. why do you think that was a sufficient explanation. it is not going to hurt you say what you thought. you heard the president say it and most people didn't believe it. >> i think he made a mistake when he was speaking the first time and he corrected that. and i am happy with his explanation. >> you don't really believe that he made a mistake, right congressman? i got to know, because it is not really plausible the way he said it. there was a whole press conference where he reiterated the same sentence over and over again. >> where i come from, a man's word is his bond. consiste

lou: will i hear you cheer for christopher wray, he looks every bit as uncooperative as james comey. >> i would say christopher wray has an opportunity to to the right thing, i would hope he would seize it to date there are things he has done that i have been in agreement with, regarding in standing up for rank-and-file at fbi. but there is no defense for actions of strzok, and paimg, ankeep --comey and page and mcc. your criticism is fair, i am trying to encourage him to do the right thing. lou: turn if we may to all of criticism that now focused on president of united states he did not meet the particulars of the dems, the left, the left wing national media, rinos, and conservatives. i'm trying to figure out how he will be able to withstand such calamity as not meeting expectations of those fine americans? >> well president trump has a unique style, sometimes the game you are watching is not always the game played. you will remember in north korea, he called kim jong-un little rocket man, at same time he was establishing a platform for diplomacy and negotiation. so here, you may ha

the problem is if he does not have directives, if christopher wray does not have directives we are only as safe as the congress is willing to be by standing up to the president. today on the house floor nice tweets i saw, republicans voted to completely zero out the election security grants that just last year were funded at $300 million. >> if the director of national intelligence is out of the loop on some of these so sensitive national security related issues where does that leave u.s. national security? >> we are not helpless so what we can do is start to require that the president turn over any conversations he has had with people like putin to the national security -- >> you need the republican majority in the house to get along with you on that. >> i hope they see that this is a five alarm fire right now. we need every hand on the hose to put it out. we are so vulnerable if the president is striking side deals and inviting the president to our country and everyone who is responsible for protecting us is out of the loop. >> let me get your reaction to a truly shocking tweet earlie

. >> the president's rhetoric on the investigation puts folks like christopher wray in a tough spot. he has tons of thousands of agents that he's responsible for that don't see it as a witch hunt. the president -- he can't really publicly sharply disagree with the president eernl because the president can fire him. there you saw him trying to walk the line without repudiating the president and saying here's what i think the facts are, right? when the president's messaging exercise on this probe is actually pretty successful. he has lots of people convinced it is a witch hunt. you've seen a profl numbers go down for robert mueller's probe and some of the charges not true about this investigation, and then you have folks who are playing it out, rod roysenstein chris mueller, because when he's president of the united states, he tweets these sorts of things, it's hard to go against a guy who paid your check or keeps you in office. >> the risk to do that, does not put pressure on russia for allegedly, these russians were indicted for hacking and attacking the american elections, the presi

and why isn't christopher wray trying to find out where those texts are? and why can't they find fbi employee text messages? what do you think, chris, do you want to wake up from her sleep? >> christopher wray used his time of the press conference to praise the fbi in general. i found his press conference totally insulting and his press conference as if he had no culpability. he should be more outraged than even you, because this is an agency he now heads. >> ask yourself this question. why isn't he outraged? the answer is very simple. chris wray and rob rosenstein are careerists. they believe that the bureau and the department of justice people and even under barack obama could do no wrong, and if they did do wrong it's worth saving them and not having them pilloried in public because these institutions are too important. nonsense. these institutions are too important not to have the truth come out. we need all of these facts. where is chris wray? what is he doing? he's on a milk carton for heaven sakes. >> brian: went missing but not taking an active rol

christopher wray is the trump appointee to replace james comey at the fbi. the president can, if you want and if you're a trump voter, maybe i under this, question jim clapper and john brennan, the obama guys. again we're hitting the 18 month mark of the trump presidency. his team has been in place for 14, 15rks in some cases 16 of those months. >> as of monday. >> they were there monday. and, again, he's said this yesterday he was as sotough as he's been in the cbs interview. we go back and look at his tweets and speeches he's been soft. >> he has. the reality here is that he walked into the meeting unprepared. no question. there's now a big debate inside the west wing with john bolton. he's a relatively new figure. he's a hard-liner on russia in every respect. so he and others tried to brief fortunate and tried to get him in the right direction. it's clear the president doesn't want to go in that direction. this constant cleanup, it's just -- you know, we should keep in mind the majority of republicans, polls say they support and believe the president on t

dhs secretary kirstjen nielsen, fbi director christopher wray, dni coats. it was lightly attended by members of the house. 40 to 50 showed up. were you there? >> right. i've had meetings with government -- with all of the government officials across -- throughout the administration who are working on these issues through the work that we do on the judiciary committee. >> i hear you, congressman. let me just ask you, did you attend that meeting? >> the meeting that -- which meeting? the meeting with -- >> may 22nd meeting with kirstjen nielsen, christopher wray and dan coats. >> i was not at the meeting with nielsen. i have had repeated meetings with officials about securing our election. the concern that we have -- >> i understand that. but this was a classified briefing. this was a classified briefing for all house members on election protection. do you wish you had gone? >> we have had other classified briefings as well. what i wish, poppy -- i've been very clear about this. what i wish is that the house judiciary committee took seriously the attack again

fbi director christopher wray defends mueller's russia investigation, he says it is not a witch hunt. president trump says in a new interview that he does hold russia's president personally responsible for attempt to meddle in the 2016 election. stay tuned for the details and expert analysis from jason chaffetz. hello and welcome to "fox news @ night." i'm shannon bream in washington. when a report that teddy asked the president's russia still targeting the u.s., he answered no. there were reporter followed up. "you don't think that to be the case"? again, "no." sarah huckabee sanders says the president was saying no to more questions. then she dropped a bombshell. the president will consider letting vladimir putin's henchmen interviewed a former u.s. ambassador and a u.s. foreign bird age and pastor. as you can imagine, that is creating a firestorm. kristin fisher joined us with this unexpected development. >> hey, shannon. we are talking about the president of the united states potentially agreeing to allow russian investigators to question u.s. citizens, including a former u.s. amb

christopher wray, no, they had not. admiral rogers slumped over the table, what did we do to deter putin, nothing. we're about to face a man in a dictatorship. on the eve of a summit with vladimir putin, ken? >> not with the all all, nicole. the bizarre thing about this whole north korea situation is you can't argue that they have violated the deal because there really is no deal. that's what analysts keep telling us and the only person who doesn't seem to understand that is donald trump because he told the american public there was a deal, that they have agreed to denuclearize. they have agreed to no such thing. and there are many smart analysts who have been following this program for many years who say that that is -- this just isn't going to happen. this regime is not going to give up its weapons. they are certainly not going to do it in a year as john bolton suggested on television yesterday. retired admiral james said that is about as likely to happen as mexico is going to pay for the wall. >> i know a lot of repu

here was christopher wray refuting the claim asserting to nbc's lester holt that russia is actively working against the united states. >> the intelligence community's assessment has not changed. my view has not changed. russia attempted to interfere with the last election and that engage in malign influence operations to this day. >> meanwhile another major headline is playing out after the white house didn't real out the possibility of questioning american citizens including the former ambassador to are ushia, michael mcfaul. it appeared to be trumped upcharges out of moscow. it's one the state department calls absolutely absurd this morning. ambassador mcfaul said he is floored by the white house's consideration. >> what i was totally flabbergasted by was that the white house would not defend me. i'm an american citizen and i g five years. it would have been so easy to bat it back. >> sarah sanders said she will get back to us regarding putin's request. >> the russian grad student working to advance the kremlin agenda will remain behind bars until her trial. maria butina is too greatly of

. >> reporter: what country is fbi director christopher wray worried most about? last week he told lester -- >> i think china, from a counter-intelligence perspective in many ways, represents the broadest most challenging most significant threat we face as a country. >> reporter: academic espionage is of particular concern that some chinese graduate students at the direction of the chinese government are stealing research, much of which is funded by the u.s. military. this fbi document highlights a case at duke university in the lab of dr. david smith. >> a microwave oven. >> reporter: dr. smith, famous for inventing an in visibility cloak made of a material invisible to microwave, something that captured the attention of even late night comedians and a young scientist is china, ruopeng liu, who came to study at lab some believe on a mission from the chinese government. >> we know chinese have a shopping list of intelligence and technology they target every year. we know the research he took from duke university wasm whe he was in the united states. >> reporter: l

. >> fbi director christopher wray said russia is still trying to influence elections. >> russia attempted to interfere with the last election, and he continues to engage, malign, influence operations to this day. >>> "the new york times" reports that in january 2017 two weeks before trump's inall racing, the top heads of the intelligence agency showed president trump highly classified information indicating putin personally ordered cyber attacks to sway the election. now the president is weighing what he calls an incredible offer. putin will allow access to russians accused of hacking if in turn they allow russian officials to interview americans accused by the kremlin of unspecified crimes. one of those people is former ugs ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul. but there's no deal yet. white house press secretary sarah sanders says we have committed to nothing. anne-marie? >> laura podesta here in new york. thanks a lot, laura. >>> well, ahead, only on "cbs this morning," republican senator james lankford of oklahoma, a member of the senate intelligence committee, we'll ask him what's be

ea they are considered to be a very significant t in fact, fbi director christopher wray in recent remarks at the e pen security forum said that chinese espions the greatest security threat facing the united states in the medium and long-term, in terms quantification, i don't have exact ligas for you but if you look at past examples of chinese economic espionage, take for instance the example of walter lu, a local in 2014 convicted of violations of the economic espionage act d what mr. lu did was he sold a proprietary formula owned by dupont that makes the color white, white to a chinese state owned conglomerate therefore saving that company hundf millions of dollars in research and development costs so yes, io is ubiq and highly costly and in many cases as i say in my political article, some companies don't want to report it because they are worriehed about shder valley or the em bairmt of not being able to maintain security over their intellectual property. >> sreenivasan: all right, zach dorfman, aio sr fellow at fae carnegie council for international s. thanks for joining us. >> thank

and, michael, yesterday lester, who's also at the summit where you are, interviewed christopher wray, the director of the fbi, and sort of pressed this point with him, whether it was about christopher wray or others in the fbi, how do you withstand the constant attack. let's listen to this exchange. >> have you ever hit a point on that issue of sources an methods or anywhere elsewhere you've said this is a line? >> as i said, i'm a low key, understated guy, but that should not be mistaken for what my spine is made out of. >> so, michael, i put this to you because the other two guys in this interview are men who have dedicated themselves to the service of this country. so we're talking about them. it may not be fair to ask them. but in a lot of cases, they're low key, understated patriots in america who cannot be mistaken for having a spine. at what point does this president not only compromise our safety and security, but play right into the hands of vladimir putin on two fronts. one is he undermines nato. that's fantastic for vladimir putin. and two is, as malcolm said, 42% of americ

wray. a senior justice department official telling me today that rosenstein's testimony on capitol hill, quote, speaks for itself and adds that the contentious nature of the relationship is only on one side, theirs. it's worth noting that the republican members of the house judiciary committee are many of the same members who spent 2 1/2 years investigating benghazi and turned up zero indictments and zero guilty pleas. now they are attacking a lifelong republican who appointed a former director of the fbi, also a lifelong republican, to over see an investigation into russian med allege that has yielded 16 indictments and five guilty pleas in 13 months. armed with animus, debunked conspiracy theories and fox news inspired rants, house republicans made their disdain for rosenstein clear. >> it's really the rosenstein investigation. you appointed mueller. you're supervising mueller. seems like you should be recused from this more so than jeff sessions. >> whatever you got, finish it the hell u

the fbi director christopher wray says it is continuing. now we are into an interesting exploration of what exactly president trump and vladimir putin talked about together. we are learning more today about what occurred in the two hours in which they were alone together. there has been some reporting that there were interesting ideas -- "interesting" i'm putting quote marks around -- about the russian prident and the referendum on crimea, let's put this to the crimean people, anthe president responded somewhat openly, just as he supposedly did on this question of being able to quethe former u.s. ambassador to russia. jane: but given all these issues, will we ever actually know what happened in th meeting? alexis: i do believe that inside the administtion, thanks to the interpreter, and perhaps debriefing rightway, but there -- that there is a general good ainse of what was actually but we can see that on capitol hill there is a lot of interest in trying to find out more, and we know that the secretary ofe stke pompeo will testify next week

fbi director christopher wray also among those making clear nothing said at the summit changes their bottom line about russian election meddling. emt and intel officials with remarkable pushback. director of national intelligence dan coats on the president standing with vladimir putin, dismissing intel agency conclusions on russian meddling. >> obviously i had wished he had made a different statement. but i think that now that has been clarified. >> and about that one-on-one meeting between the president and putin. >> if he had asked me how that ought to be conducted, i would have suggested a different way. but that's not my role, that's not my job. so it is what it is. >> is there a risk that vladimir putin could have recorded it? >> that risk is always >>nd hours after, president trump seemed to deny russia was still trying to meddle in u.s. elections. >> reporter: is russia still targeting the u.s., mr. chairman? >> thank you very much. no. >> fbi director chris way telling me -- >> the intelligence community's assessment has not changed. my view has not changed. which is that rus

fbi director christopher wray among those here tonight, i'll be interviewing him at the opening session following this broadcast, but we start with president trump today mustering the tough tone against hevladimir putin tha failed to bring in helsinki on monday over russian rf inence in the 2016 election. the president tried to calm a storm of outrage after he gave putin a pass at the joint news conference, yet today as he worked to repaithe damage, the president may have ended up sewing more doubt what he lieves. hallie jackson has details. >> reporter: late tonight, the president publicly putting ir putin on notice holding him ruersonally responsible foria's attacks on the u.s. election. >> because he's in charge of the country l jue i consider myself to be responsible for ings that happen in this country. >> what diyou say to him? >> very strong on the fact that we can't have meddling. i let him know we can't havehat, we're not going to have it, and that's the way it's going to be. >> reporter: that interview with cbs news coming after yet another donald trump translion from what he

christopher wray, no fear. i mean christopher wray says what he believes, goes after it, says the russians are meddling. secretary mattis, secretary mattis, when donald trump was attacking nato, secretary mattis, what did he say? he said nato is so important that if it didn't exist we would have had to invent it. what do these five people have in common? they have many thing in common. one thing they have in common is donald trump appointed all of them. and they are all tough on russia and they are all speaking out with donald trump being obsequ everyone obsequitous. he could be appointing people who aren't conservatives who will do whatever donald trump tells him to do. sean hannity could be secretary of state. i mean you need to go down the list. there are a lot of craven people trying to undermine robert mueller's investigation. he could appoint them as attorney general. it is almost like he knows he can't. it's a tale of two cities. a tale of two administrations. >> what you're suggesting, it's a fascinatin

. >>> the fbi director, christopher wray, says russia is still trying to sew discord in the u.s. robert mueller's investigation is not a witch hunt, he says and he dismissed vladimir putin's offer to aid in the russia investigation. >>> and alex ovechkin was named best male athlete at last night's espy awards. chloe kim won three espys, including best female athlete, and we'll have a lot more from the espys coming up. >>> tomorrow's megamillion jackpot is the seventh time it has topped $400 million. no one had the ticket with all the winning numbers, but there were a few people who won million dollar prizes because they had a few similar numbers. >> i'll take those two. >>> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> wouldn't you like to have a . so we know like, it's possibly dangerous to go to some of the beaches off the coast of florida, in california, places like that. >> australia. >> yes, yes. so, you know, it's a good time to go to long island, right? >> apparently not. >> no. apparently, there were a couple of shark attacks of children no less. >> so the 13 year old boy,

wray who says very clearly that "the intelligence community's assessment has not changed, my view has not changed which is that russia attempted to interfere in the past election and continues to engage in malign influence operations to this day." and very quickly, chris. this phrase that the president has put out there — which he seems to like quite a lot — "trump derangement syndrome" — that could come back to bite him, couldn't it? it could. i mean, the thing is that you have got to remember with donald trump, he is somebody who talks in a bombastic way. he's somebody who likes to get these phrases, these catchphrases out therem and fundamentally what he's using with that suggestion of trump derangement syndrome is he's attacking his critics, and fundamentally, you look at his polls and you see that america is divided by those who support trump and who are against trump and fundamentally, nothing he does seems to change those numbers very much. a little later, it will be talking to the former campaign manager for republican president richard reagan in the 1980s. their story o

by the end of this, that fbi lawyer and probably christopher wray was watching this at headquarters could tell the republicans were at the end of their rope and about to lose it so they did allow strzok to answer some questions. why couldn't that have happened at the start. they just don't want congress to have any detail about the this investigation. jesse: they are obviously hiding something. they are withholding documents and they put a gag order on strzok for anything having to do with the investigation. personally i was struck by strzok demeanor. i thought he was arrogant. i thought he didn't show a lot of respect. and i thought he didn't think he needed to be bothered by these people. he's going all over the internet viral by ridiculous and bizarre expressions he made. how do you think he conducted himself in terms of temperament and optics during the hearing. >> it's hard to see how the average american, how he did himself any favors. this is a guy who embarrassed and humiliated the fbi with the text messages he sent out. yet he snowed humility or regret or contrition. he was not j

he did interactions with the author christopher wray. -- christopher steele. he will get an opportunity to ask him questions about stuff we don't know about. did they really only begin this investigation at the end of july or were they running informants before that point? if so, on what basis. a lot of information about the hillary clinton probe too. >> should he be worried. i know her testimony will be in private. should he be worried about lisa page's system. -- testimony. with 2 individuals you could play one against the other. do you think she'll become a liability or a problem for him? is that what some of the investigators are looking for? >> i think all of the upcoming testimony is a problem for each other. if you think about it. they had some of the main guys come in and testify. it was a deliberate decision by many of the committees to not have some of these central players, the absolute key witnesses come in until they had a chance to go over all the documents and obtain everything they wanted. you want to know what questions you need to ask them. y

this past week, deputy attorney general robert rosenstein and fbi director christopher wray were on capitol hill to testify on the justice department's inspector general report on how the fbi handled the hillary clinton email

wray in his interview with lester holt last night. two leaders of law enforcement agencies and intelligence agencies. they believe their job is to defend and protect the united states. that is of course the oath that the president took. but they feel they have to correct him as best they can when they disagree with the intelligence assessment. you heard chris wray defending bob mueller. and you heard dan coats saying there is no doubt that vladimir putin is responsible for everything that happens in terms of policy and covert action in russia. and russia is the worst perpetrator is done by putin himself. that was the assessment back in january of 2017 and they have reassessed it constantly and still true today. whatever the president's wavering opinions and switching back and forth. he has landed in a better place. and that is why you heard sort of ambivalence statements from dan coats. hoping the president stays in that place. >> i am laughing because you said he has been in the right place in the last couple of interviews. who knows

. >> fbi correcter christopher wray and rod rosenstein were on capitol hill last week and face new pressure to comply after a passing of a resolution. 226-183. those who know rosenstein emphasize he's in a difficult position because it's not routine to provide records from ongoing cases. >> i know rod rosenstein and i think he's an honorable person and i think anybody that position would take it personally if they're going to say you're personally obstructing congress or holding things back. i think he views himself as a point of a speer in the process and the one who has to interact with congress. >> a congressional aide said the justice department provided more records and asked for more time. a spokesman for the intelligence committee went ful further sayig the department is not until compliance. david: thank you very much. joining me now, pennsylvania congressman keith rough fuss. he serves on the house committee on financial services. great to see you, congressman. thank you for being here. >> good to be here with you tonight and again very troubling that the department of justice and

thank you. >>> fbi director christopher wrai says he believes that russia interfered in the last election and will try to do it again. director wray also brushed off the president's criticism of some fbi officials. he says he has a professional relationship with mr. trump. he just focuses on doing his job. >> there have been stories that you threatened to resign. have you ever hit a point on that issue of sources and methods or anywhere elsewhere you said this is a line? >> i'm a low key, understated guy, but that should not be mistmi mistaken for what my spine is made out of. >> so you have -- >> i'll just leave it at that. >> okay. >> wray also said he does not believe special counsel robert mueller's russia investigation is a witch-hunt. lester will have more of his exclusive interview this evening on nbc nightly news. >>> meanwhile, out west a fast-moving fire in oregon left one dead and forced others from their homes. officials say the victim was apparently trying to use a tractor to build a fire line. the so-called substation fire east of portland started tuesday. it has burned more

. >> christopher wray was named by the president and is a republican as well. the president sads about robert mueller, we have a very nasty and contentious business relationship. yesterday rudy giuliani was asked on "new day" what are you talking about? and giuliani refuses to say. >> it's hard to know what the president is talking about but there have been stories mueller left the president's golf club and wanted a refund on his dues and the stories are that it was resolved amicably and that there were letters exchanged and that it was -- you know, it was not -- it was not a terrible thing and that it was -- it was resolved. i mean, it hardly seems to me to be a disqualifier. what the president is trying to do is to further get his base together about anything mueller might do. don't forget the context here. the context is that trump's lawyers have proposed sort of some kind of hybrid way in which perhaps they could hear from the president pre-inauguration versus post inauguration, maybe they can work something out. mueller has been like buddha. they have not

. >> tonight the fbi director christopher wray whose burro is under fire for all of this agreed with the dni's assessment. changed that russia attempted to interfere and engage in operations to this day. to me, it's a threat that we need to take extremely seriously. >> so for what it's worth, there is the fbi director. another big issue today is what two men discussed closed doors with only translators present for over tw hours. our president was alone with a trained kgb spy for two hours. we know who the america translator is, a veteran of the craft who works for the state department and since she's the only other american witness to the conversation, some in congress would like very much to have the ability to question her about when she heard. earlier on this network, john brennan who is senior national security and intelligence analyst for this network raised his own concerns about that private two-hour police meeting. >> two hours with donald trump, i have real questions about that. why did he not trust john bolton and mike pompeo? >> there is something very puzzling about this

christopher wray is his guy. these are all trump appointees? >> can we give the president credit for restrain? >> it is amazing at this point. >> he knows the person that steps into that role could be worse. could be harder. >> ultimately it's up to him. we deserve -- kimberly strassel row about this in the "wall street journal." we deserve to know and find out if the fbi has been lying to the public about the origin of this russia investigation. >> there's so many questions and they could rectify this by releasing the documents. i always err on the side of transparency but here especially because of the unresolved questions. >> the president could declassify everything. if we keep getting stonewalled -- >> what are the political ramification there's? why wouldn't he do it? >> he wouldn't do it because there's two defenses they use for not releases the documents. one, it reveals sources and methods. the fbi is lying and the doj when they say that. all it has shown is they're protecting embarrassment. the other, there's an ongoing investigation.