i don't understand why the fbi told the fbi this was a russian agent when the truth is i was introduced to him by an fbi intermediary and i met him at a western intelligence and that this man's entire career and network involves himself meeting with high-level british and american intelligence officials including come after i told the fbi that he was a potential russian agent. so, my story as many people will understand is mirrored in the gray zone. joseph is hiding. he hasn't been seen in years. hasn't spoken publicly in two years. it adds to the mystery of why is he hiding and how is he allowed to remain hidden for so long. my current understanding is that the senate is interested in learning more about him and when i testify next in front of the committee, we will be looking and have more questions about him pos post-mueller reportedlyd interesting. >> host: you talk about the conversation when he told you russia seem to have dirt on hillary clinton and in the buck i think you talk about being horrified at the time. take us back to that what was going through your head. >> guest: it'

the fbi is a better place without james comey. he disgraced himself. and he undermined the agency that he was supposed to be in charge of. he made it a political operation and nothing could be more dangerous than that. >> in the totality of the 448-page report, there are a number of instances, one of which the president talks to the white house counsel and asks him

the top lawyer of the fbi! he didn't have the power or authority to overturn comey end of this band of clinton supporters here. go ahead. >> this is what is so interesting, sean, because the most important point here is that comey went out before theo public and said no reasonable prosecutor would bring charges against hillary clinton. yet his general counsel had been fighting with them for i don't even know how long. in fact, throughout the whole investigation, basically arguing that this was gross negligence. up until the very last day. that's vin baker's testimony. when he finally changed his mind. and he didn't answer as to why. itit was as if he said he was talked into it. at the very last minute, he decided to change his mind. but you could see that he was appalled byy it. he was disgusted by it. the fact that comey came out and made that statement shows that comey was being dishonest from the very beginning. attorney general william barr has a lot on his hands. because h he doesn't just have o look at th

answer, the leader of the fbi. so the acting director, i can't remember if we appointed an acting deputy director immediately. the heads of the national security apparatus, the national security folks within the fbi, the people who were aware of the underlying investigation and who had been focused on it. question, was there a discussion about opening a case into the obstruction of justice matter? answer, i am looking at the fbi -- meaning i am looking at the fbi lawyer who was there in that room to see if you have any objection to me answering this question in this format. at which point the fbi lawyer says, quote, could you restate your question, please? investigator says, sure. was there a discussion about opening a case to investigate the obstruction of justice matter? ms. redacted, the fbi lawyer says okay. if we go further into that we may have to stop the witness from answering. answer from jim baker, former fbi general council, he says yes. so yes, there were concern by me, by the fbi broadly, by the head o

developed information that came forward from the miami fbi office to the colorado fbi office. i believe after she was reported missing by her parents. and again the fbi will, in all likelihood, be conducting a more thorough briefing, media briefing, on the details of their case, and they probably would be better equipped to answer that. but if i could get back to the question that you asked. one of the goals of public safety is not only to reduce crime, but to reduce the fear of crime. i had the opportunity to listen in on the superintendent's calls last night and today, and the thoughtful deliberation that went on throughout the denver metro school superintendents, that was a large piece of it. o are kids going to be fearful? are their parents going to be concerned with their kids? ultimately, is that a good learning environment? but that's the thing that we work on hard every day, is to make sure that with our school safety partners, to make sure that the schools are safe and that kids are in an environment where they feel comfortable so that they can learn their very best.

for the fbi. then on august 15th, again, 2016, before the election, strzok tax lisa page about a scenario where president trump gets elected, we cannot take that risk. and they speak of needing the insurance policy. september 2nd, 2016, page and strzok text that president obama wants to know everything we are doing. october 22nd, 2016, that's when the fbi obtained the fisa warrant to surveilled carter page, both of the application reviling the lean back revealing steele's dossier with lies paid by hillary, wow, a whole entry into the entire world of donald trump and his campaign. on october 1st, 2016, the fbi fires christopher steele for lying and leaking, december 15th, president trump is president-elect, obama intel officials accidentally "spy on p officials" obama national security adviser susan ross importing the names of bannon, kushner, and general flynn. 2017, comey briefing the president at the documents were salacious and unverified, but in october he signed the first fisa warrant. may 9t

then from the fbi. when the fbi put up her photo and explained this was a credible threat and the recommendation that the schools in the area go on lockout, that was significant. everything started to change. as you know, there this was massive man hunt underway between federal, state and local authorities here. i have kids in the denver metro school area. they were very worried. my niece that goes to a school about an hour from here, she was scared to have her mom go to work. so it's hard to overemphasize the impact that this has on the community here in colorado. >> harris: i'm so glad you have the detail of the percentage, 60% of public schools across the state were closed today. you know, police had said an abundance of caution. we know there were specific things that people were being told to do if they saw this woman. thank you. i'll come back to you as the news warrants. i want to bring in bill gavin, a former assistant director of the fbi here and in new york. this is key. he was a former chief

"answer, i am looking at the fbi" mean ing i'm looking at th fbi lawyer who was there in that room to see if you have any objection to me answering this question in this format." at which point ms. redacted, the fbi lawyer says, "could you restate your question, please?" the investigator says, sure. was there discussion about opening a case to investigate the matter? miss redacted, the fbi lawyer, said "okay." that would call for a yes or no response. if we go further into that we may have to stop the witness from answering. answer from jim baker, former fbi general counsel. he says "yes." so, yes, there was concern by me, the fbi broadly, head of the fbi, the national security experts within the fbi, by everybody involved in the underlying investigation that involved the president and his campaign at that point. yes, he says, there were concerns that the president was committing obstruction of justice to try to block the fbi's investigation into the russia case, and, yes, yes, he says, a case was opened into the president's potential obstruction. yes. the man testifying was there jim

and our headquarters at the time and the fbi. but never felt like we were getting micromanaged not all. i think the event was so unique at the time that it was not something that anybody thought would have happened. parts, all of the moving i think they were very thankful for all the information we were pushing out. it was a great deal of information, especially from bob's end. we have a lot that we were pushing out as well. robert: that's a really important question. you probably get the sense and paint the narrative that there is a tremendous amount of pressure on the field element. in the lexicon of law enforcement, the requirements are flooding in. here is the important part. it was an exceptional relationship between ncis and fbi, from top leadership down to special agents working the case. the fbi had already established protocols with the psyoc, so that was up and running, the central node at headquarters tied in with the headquarters and national security council. from my perspective, the most important ingredient, we wer

whether as a result of this there are changes in the way the fbi, what the standard is for the fbi to begin a counterintelligence investigation. that seems to be where the attorney general is looking at. >> huge deal. >> if that's the case, that's a huge deal. right, exactly. and, again, political leaders, members of congress, the president, everybody has to get together and say if we change the standard we have to understand what the consequences of that need to be. if something in the future happens and the fbi says you missed this, they will say you told us we have to change the standard to start an investigation. we can talk more about this later on but members of congress last year exposed the fact that there was a fisa. those are not supposed to be ever known publicly. and so that's the result of what has happened here. and now it looks like the attorney general is calling for a broader look at this. and i think, again, it's going to be a big deal going forward. >> we don't know exactly -- he said later on, our colleague manu raju tweeted about it, he has concerns about various

at the fbi with economic at the fbi, we have economic espionage investigations that almost invariably lead back to china, in nearly all of our 56 field offices, and they spent just about every industry or sector. the kind of activity i'm talking about goes way beyond their market competition. it's illegal. it's a threat to our economic security, and by extension it is a threat to our national security, but it is even more fundamental than that. this is behavior that violates the rule of law. it violates principles of fairness and integrity. it violates a rules-based world order that existed since the end of world war ii. put plainly, china seems determined to steal its way up the economic ladder at our expense. to be clear, the united states is by no means they're only target. they are strategic in their approach. they actually have a formal plan set out in five-year increments to achieve dominance in critical areas, and to get there they are using an expanding set of nontraditional methods, both lawful and unlawful. so weaving together things like foreign investment and corporate acq

that was bob and some other teams of fbi. so on the ship, what we did, we were doing multiple scenes. so we were recovering the bodies, and then we were collecting the post-blast evidence. so that evidence was being screened on the -- why is that completely out of my head? >> deck? >> the front deck of the ship. >> it was a long time ago. >> it is. so we had sifting tables that we would collect. so early on, the captain knew, and we engaged with him very early on, on how to incorporate his people back into their own ship, how to get them involved in what was going on. so through those conversations, they were daily, they assisted with us sweeping every single deck, every single flat surface, and helping us sort out what actually, truly belonged on the cole and what was debris that wasn't a part of the cole in any fashion. and those, then, those piles of "don't know what it is" to "this definitely isn't it" and "those belong to the cole" we would take them to the post-blast sifters to sift them again and go back through it. th

he's going to be here to discuss the fbi's role in today's world. director wray leads the nearly 37,000 men and women of the fbi, and i just want to take a second to thank him and all of his colleagues for what they do for this country. timing is a lot for us, and the timing could hardly be better for us. the director may feel differently. given all that's going on that falls under his and the bureau's purview. he's had a distinguished career. first served as the u.s. district attorney for the district of georgia from '97 to 2001. then he joined the office of our deputy attorney general. he was nominated to serve as the assistant attorney general of the criminal division where he spent several years. glad i didn't know that you at that time. and then he returned to the government recent lay in august of 2017 when he was confirmed overwhelmingly by the senate to become the eight director of the fbi. here's how we're going to do it today. the director will first offer some remarks from his podium. then he and i will have a conversation before turning

can i-- the fbi mission is the illegal one. since you mentioned the legal side, do you think the united states has a strong enough long-term plan of our own to deal with china's damages in the world? so, for example, is the liao inbetween legal and illegal right? should it be changed? the congress did that a little on exports. are there other areas where congress changed the lines. you mentioned economic sanctions. do they have a role versus the legal activities of china. how can china take a long view more than with respect to soft power? >> so, it's an excellent question. i would say there are legislative fixes that are useful. for example, in the foreign investment space, sifius, a lot of people in this audience are familiar with, congress did make, i think, very important reforms on sifius. it's not a matter of criminalizing or making something illegal, but it's a matter of using our laws to better protect our better economic and national security, and i think there may well be things like that that can and should be done.

fired fbi director james comey. shortly thereafter, it was acting director mccabe who ordered obstruction of justice and counterintelligence investigations into the president. saying he wanted to put the russia on absolutely solid ground, should he also be removed by president trump. andrew mccabe has since published this book, it's called "the threat: how the fbi protects america in the age of terror and trump." former director mccabe joins us now here live on set. sir, thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> there's a million things i want to ask you, but given your role in initiating these investigations, do you feel like this public-facing document by robert mueller and his office today correctly and aptly explains why those investigations were started and whether the predicate was sound? >> i think it does. i think it validates the decisions that we made, certainly in july of 2016, to start the initial russia-focused investigation, and then, of course, the decisions we made in may of 2017 to in

it is extraordinarily difficult to comprehend fbi directors and fbi agents acting improperly. it's a wonderful organization by and large. if there's bad apples, it's a problem. >> charles: people are shocked at what they have already seen from the e-mails and other things. we have to leave it there. thanks very much. >> any time. thank you. >> charles: the pentagon identifying the three u.s. marines killed in a taliban claimed attack in afghanistan earlier this week. this as we're in peace talks to end a 18-year conflict. so can the talks work? general jack keane is with me to discuss it next. if you have moderate to severe psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats differently. for psoriasis, 75% clearer skin is achievable, with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. for psoriatic arthritis, otezla is proven to reduce joint swelling, tenderness, and pain. and the otezla prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don't use

yes, we have confirmed the fbi is assisting the police department in this investigation and the fbi office out of san francisco says that if they determine that a federal crime was committed, they will become more involved. all lanes of traffic here along the el camino at sunnyvale avenue have reopened after this driver hit eight people. as you can see crashed into that sign and ended up here into this tree. this was yesterday evening. and they say the police say that was a deliberate act. this crash here. this happened around 6:40 last night. a man behind the wheel of a black toyota corolla sedan. he slammed into two bicyclists and six pedestrians. some in the crosswalk. others on the sidewalk. you can see their belongings strewn all over the street and intersection in the video we're showing right now. all eight victims, including a 13-year-old child, were transported to the hospital. police say some of the injuries are serious. they arrested the driver after he crashed into the tree in front of the strip mall here. they did question the man overnight. they have not released his identity

mark: how many leaks out of the fbi hurt hillary clinton's campaign? how many text messages that were focused on hurting her campaign? none that we are aware of. none. we now know andrew mccabe was leading a coup effort this is my opinion he does book tours and is celebrated by the media. should this not also be a demand of the republicans as they go into this they demand they want to get to the bottom of this for everything that occurred? . >> i always go back because it's what is about to come the last few days of the barack obama tenure the very end of october beginning of november barack obama justice department and the fbi walk into the fisa court to say we forgot to disclose all of these violations that have happened the court was shocked of civil liberties the fourth amendment it was all of congress so that story that we broke in march at the mailbox it was the day before. so why does barack obama wait until just before the election day to have the justice department say we forgot to tell you? cheating on fisa and asking at the unprecedented rat

of the fbi. that say very different things. >> that was may 10. 2017. sanders on camera telling reporters that countless members of the fbi had lost confidence in comey. trouble is, what she said was inaccurate. sanders herself admitted her comments were not fact based. when she was questioned about it under oath by special counsel mueller. her admission in print on page 72. sanders told this office her reference to countless members of the fbi was a slip of the tongue. she also told the tale her statement in a separate press interview where he said rank and file agents had lost confidence in comey was made in the heat of the moment. a statement the report says was not founded on anything. >> within hours of the mueller report being made public, sanders went on damage control. saying the point she was making was that both current and former fbi agents agreed with the president. >> i acknowledge that i had a slip of the tongue using the word countless. it's not untrue. comey was a disgraced leaker

horowitz's report is going to be focused on the fbi and the fbi and how they handled it with the d.o.j. but i think for attorney general william barr and for the others investigating, they're going to go and see the wide scope of this. how far did this go? >> sean: ken starr, let me get your take on it. it was after the starr report that they changed the independent counsel law. madeleine didn't want your report to come out. but get your observations on this? >> yeah, i'm going to say bill barr has gone the extra mile in terms of saying, okay, i want transparency. but guess what, when these regulations under which bob mueller was appointed were put into effect, the american people were saying, we don't want that system anymore. so that system went away. and the regulations and bill barr said it again today called for a confident confidential re. we don't like besmirching people and dragging their names through the mud and so forth. that was the old system. now we have a new system. >> he didn't have to release anything. >> exactly right. all he had to do is what he did on march 24, sea

fbi now in this. and joe biden breaking silence, speaking to the camera is it all but certain now he has decided to run? let's go out front. >>> and good evening i'm erin burnette. outfront tonight president trump making it clear he is not handing over his tax returns. this after the chairman of the powerful house ways and means committee juft an hour ago formally requested the six years of the tax return. they have give and delinquent 7 days. president says i'm under audit, translation, no way. >> mr. president, the chairman of the democratic house ways and means committee moments ago asked the irs for six years of tax return zblos is that all? >> that's all. >> oh. usually it's ten. i guess they're giving up. until such time as i'm not under audit i would not be inclined to do that. >> okay. not inclined to do that. this is the letter that just came to the commissioner of the irs. chairman richard neil from the house ways and mean asking for trumps business and personal tax returns. chairman neil sa

and fbi was caught cheating on more than 79 fisa warrants. and bob mueller was hauled in personally as fbi director to face a court to see how do you fix this?rs we will not stand for this this was uncomfortable position from documents i saw the court was unyielding and criticism and in the demand thaty they protect te fourth amendment better, and it was one of the most interesting elements is you want to see history repeat itself one of the things fbi had done was sought fisa warrant against somebody who hasn't told court was one of his own informant and they wanted to spy and in the dark what happens with carter page carter spag working for fbi and informer and another russia case, and they don't tell the court whene they then put a fia warrant on him history repeated itself because the fbi has not learned lessons how to play fair in that. >> what else did they do? they leaked the story to -- >> strategy to write a story in yahoo! news to take the story they leaked to a reporter. who happily reported it, put it in the fisa application among

your most recent has been jim baker, the lawyer, at the fbi. looking at all of these transcripts you released so far what strikes you mostly, congressman? what is the takeaway that we need to focus on from all of these transcripts you've released? >> the thing that strikes me the most is it goes back to a certain group. the media especially the as the fbi and all against going forward but really what we find is peter strzok, mccabe, lisa page, we see baker, we see comey of course and all this is coming back to everything that we go back to following all the way from the clinton investigation to the beginning of the russia investigation through the mueller investigation we go back to this really corruption that is involved in everything and i think it's really interesting when you have baker actually saying in the transcripts we released this past week were he thought originally clinton would have been indicted and charged in this and is actually talked out of it by some of the others comey and others but then we also found out from lisa page's

from the miami fbi office to the colorado fbi office. i believe after she was reported missing by her parents. and again the fbi will in all likelihood be conducting a more thorough briefing, media briefing, on the details of their case and they probably would be better equipped to answer that. but if coy get back to the question that you asked, one of the goals of public safety is not only to reduce crime, but to reduce the fear of crime. i had the opportunity to listen in on the superintendent's calls last night and today and the thoughtful deliberation that went on throughout the denver metro school superintendents, that was a large piece of it. our kids going to be fearful or their parents concerned with their kids and ultimately is that a good learning environment, but that is the thing that we work on hard every day. is to make sure that with our school safety partners, to make sure that the schools are safe and that kids are in an environment where they feel comfortable so they can learn the very best. >> how did she get around je

of the fbi. that say very different things. >> that was may 10. 2017. sanders on camera telling reporters that countless members of the fbi had lost confidence in comey. trouble is, what she said was inaccurate. sanders herself admitted her comments were not fact based. when she was questioned about it under oath by special counsel mueller. her admission in print on page 72. sanders told this office her reference to countless members of the fbi was a slip of the tongue. she also told the tale her statement in a separate press interview where he said rank and file agents had lost confidence in comey was made in the heat of the moment. a statement the report says was not founded on anything. >> within hours of the mueller report being made public, santders went on damage control. saying the point she was making was that both current and former fbi agents agreed with the president. >> i acknowledge that i had a slip of the tongue using the word countless. it's not untrue. comey was a disgraced leake

the highest echelons of the fbi. >> i do not view it as a problem that's endemic to the fbi. i think there was probably a failure among a group of leaders there at the upper echelon. >> so a second conclusion, phil. not only do i know there was spying, but i know that the people at the top of the fbi screwed up. where do you get that except for breitbart? >> no, i -- chris, i'm going to disagree with you on this one. if you look at the inspector general reports on the leadership of the fbi, including what the inspector general, i didn't like the inspector general when i was at the bureau or the agency, they're tough. what the inspector general said, for example, about comey's handling of the clinton investigation was not positive. if you go back and review it -- >> true. >> -- comey got hammered. >> and a fair assessment. >> that's right. so my point -- but going back -- >> but he never mentioned anything about spying and saying that it was attributable to the fbi heads. >> that is exactly right. if you're barr, you have an option for how you present this. you can say, well,

. >> she personally heard from countless members of the fbi. that was a lie. and what's fascinating about it is that sarah sanders admitted it was unfounded under oath. reading now from the report, sanders told this office that her reference to hearing from, quote, countless members of the fbi, unquote, was a, quote, slip of the tongue, unquote. she also recalled that her statement, in a separate press interview, the rank and file fbi agents had lost confidence in comey was a comment she made, quote, in the heat of the moment, end quote, that was not founded on anything, according to the mueller report. so it was two slips of the tongue on two consecutive days about the same subject, but sarah sanders did at least admit under oath that it was factually unfounded, which makes what she said just this morning on abc's "good morning america" so remarkable and yet, given her record, kind of so predictable. >> actually, if you look at what i said, i said, the slip of the tongue was in using the word "countless," but there were a number of fbi, both f

the fbi was savaged, its leadership is all gone. the leadership of the fbi decimated under donald trump's presidency. but we learned in the report that sarah huckabee sanders comments about jim comey presiding over lower morale of the fbi was a lie. she admits that it was unfounded. what do you make of sort of what is revealed about just the toxic culture of corruption and lies and self-dealing and using the national security apparatus to enhance donald trump's own political standing and limit his criminal exposure for his white house counsel to try to resign, for his press secretary to be outed in this report as a flagrant liar, using that podium which from which wars have been declared and ended, to smear an fbi director? a stunning sub headline. >> no thanks to sarah huckabee sanders america is weaker today because of her making up lies to protect the president, essentially to try to tear down one of our nugss which was trying to protect the country. i think another thing we need to look at is in the fbi -- frank can tell you bec

at the fbi's request. the fbi isn't commenting on any of this. the north koreans say the attackers, quote, distorted the communication apparatus of the embassy and spanish officials say they got away with thumb drives, hard drives, computers, and phones. analysts say that could be a gold mine for western intelligence. >> all north korean embassies are conducting illicit activities around the world. they are laundering money, they are trafficking in methamphetamines, counterfeiting $100 bills, counterfeiting drugs, medicines, viagra, and so evidence of those illicit activities could be very important. >> reporter: chillima civil defense is a dissident group committed to overthrowing kim jong-un's regime. the group denies claims by north koreans and spanish officials that its members beat and tied up staff members at that north korean embassy. tonight, there's still no word on the whereabouts of the chillima operative that spanish authorities say led the embassy raid, adrian hong chang, living in the u.s. he

the ig is looking at behavior between the fbi and the doj. that's all they can look at. >> agreed. >> to the extent that other intelligence agencies were involved in this process, either with false positives or with information -- >> true. >> -- that has to be looked at as well. >> agreed. >> that's why the ig looks at that. >> agreed. >> i think as we start to look at the body of the work, here is where we have to come up with, what is the foundation that it all sits on? fortunately for us we have history to look at and say what happened two years ago was wrong with the russians interfering in our election. how do we stop that? >> true. >> what we also know is we're looking backwards and we're taking everything that happened in the 2016 election and understanding it with a russia connection today. at that time the only people that knew that was the obama administration. i mean, we are looking at it in hindsight. >> they reached out to mcconnell he didn't want to work on it, either. i think you're right, i think we slept on it and i think we

the fbi tweeted moments ago there is no longer a threat to the community. all of this stemming from the search for an armed woman described as infatuated with the columbine school massacre. our correspondent is in littleton, colorado. we have cnn law enforcement analysts here with us. we have nationa

headquarters and fbi field offices. those communications and other correspondents between the special counsel's office contain information derived from the information, not all of which is contained in this volume. in other words, hey intelligence committees, come and get it. all of the foreign intelligence and counter intelligence stuff that has turned up in this investigation that is not in this report. we've had fbi agents operating in this office, committing all that stuff in writing, conveying it to other elements of u.s. law enforcement and counter intelligence work, and that's not here, but we're letting you know that exists, so that you can go get it. okay, we saw adam schiff and other members of the intelligence committees asking how the counter intelligence part of this investigation would be handled in terms of this public facing report, now we know, at least a categorical designation of that evidence, they just didn't put in here, they let us know that it exists, so that the intelligence committees can go an

the fbi but subsequently fired in 2017. what do we expect this to show us? >> we need to know how and why the fbi paid christopher steele who is being funded by the clinton campaign and dnc through fusion gps. we need to know whether or not the fbi used this as a manufactured basis in communication with christopher steele as a manufactured basis to obtain fisa warrants to spy on the trump campaign. the timing of this is fascinating with the mueller report showing no collusion, no wrongdoing and so many open questions that judicial watch had to sue under the freedom of information act that the american people are obligated to see what happened in 2016-17. >> they requested this information before but had not gotten into this. >> yes. judicial watch said they denied that request. they filed a lawsuit under the freedom of information act to push this information given to them which is absurd. foia requests are very common and exist so the american people can be assured the legitimacy of our government that it doesn't operate i

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we're add 47 new fbi agents to the fbi for a variety of new initiatives and among them is the fbi's work on violent extremism. >> okay. it's important for this committee to know at a certain point how many folks will be assigned to this or how many dollars will be assigned to it. it is an issue that concerns all americans, i believe, and we need to deal with it in a proper way. >> yes, mr. chairman, but, you know, the people who are on the watch for this kind of thing, whether they be fbi agents or u.s. attorneys pursuing potential cases are the same people that would be looking at other forms of terrorism, potentially. it's hard to allocate exactly the dollars by that category. you know, obviously it is a serious issue and it's one that the fbi devotes a lot of effort to. >> as long as we know that the department, the agency is looking at it, is dealing with it, is taking it seriously, we can then work together on it. that's the easier part. >> mr. chairman, if i can add a bit more. we do have in the fbi budget this year, the $16 million for the fbi's participation in the national

now, the fbi fbi guys these are the best in the world. comey and mccabe and strzok and page and all of these people, the lawyer who admitted frankly how crooked things were when that testimony comes out it's come out partially when that testimony comb comes out the attorney for the fbi you will see. now we have to get down. this was a coup. this was an attempted overthrow of the united states government. we will people coming out to vote from all over this country that are in love with what we are doing. it's called make america great again. that's what we have done and we are doing. this was an overthrow and it's a disgraceful thing. i think it's far bigger than watergate. i think it's possibly the biggest scandal in political history in this country. maybe beyond political so i think that a lot of things are being learned right now just like you just mentioned just a few moments ago. again with strzok and page. these are sick people. these are sick, sick people. so let's see what happens with mccabe and comey and brennan and clapper. th

maybe it wasn't the fbi. one of the odd things about the attorney general's testimony today is that even as he said he believed spying on the trump campaign did occur, he kept going out of his way to say he was not necessarily talking about the fbi doing that spying. he was talking about the intelligence community more broadly. okay. what could he mean? if he is talking about the fbi and the justice department, honestly, the fbi and the justice department are on the record over and over again saying, no, they didn't do any spying on the trump campaign, and nobody has yet found any evidence to call that into question. if barr is talking about as attorney general, he is going to investigate the intelligence community instead, that's a little weird. it's a little off, but okay. maybe that's what he is doing. that said, mark warner, who is the ranking member on the senate intelligence committee, the committee that oversees the intelligence community, and he has been that for a long time, mark warner today in resp

i disagree with bradley and the fbi agents, stzrok and page. after candidate won and election their job to continue investigate the elected president and vice president of the united states for potential espionage with a foreign government. these are people who misunderstand the reasons laws are passed, this was to prevent our intelligence agencies from conducting surveillance on presidential campaigns and not only that but to conduct one on someone who has a won and is becoming officially the head of our government, they are supposed to report to him, not investigate him. shannon: weigh in on what we are expecting, inspector general of the doj on the origins of these things and us attorney general john huber. what do we get? you first. >> i think there's going to be some embarrassing and damaging pieces in terms of how the origin of the investigation took place. lisa page, peter heather nauert he will have stains on the record for how this went down. i will not say they were perfect. they did things that push the boundary lines but they were f

were -- were, i could tell you -- let me put it this way -- every fbi rank and file guy, the 99.9% i know have all thanked me, because they're hurt -- their -- this is the premier law enforcement agency in the world. just like our intelligence community. same thing. the premier intelligence community in the world. they were hurt by a few at the top. and they're angry about it. and you said that but explain? >> look, i acknowledged that i had a slip of the tongue when i used the word "countless," but it's not untrue. and certainly you just echoed the sentiment and the point i was making is that a number of both current and former fbi agents agreed with the president. james comey was a disgraced leaker who tried to politicize and undermine the agency he was supposed to run. firing james comey remains one of the best decisions that the president made. the only problem is, he could have done it sooner and maybe it would have been a better thing. but absolutely the right decision and every day since that he's proven he was right all along. >> sean: he could be fired for any reason or no r