how strong is it, michael steele? do we have to wait until 2020 to really know, in a political sense, i'm not talking about a moral sense, but in a political sense. >> i think in a political sense you do. it will be very hard to gauge what the inner strength of the party is particularly if you have a situation where you have maybe an incumbent being challenged by a trump supporter or a trump candidate in an open primary situation who is, you know, trying to surge ahead, does the party rally behind that candidate or do they pick someone else. so there are variables there to have to watch for in order to really appreciate how much this is trump's party. on the surface, absolutely, there is no doubt about it. rhetorically, politically, even constitutionally, which is unfortunate, there is. >> you couldn't even get kevin mccarthy -- >> right. >> -- to say that what the president said about john dingell was wrong. >> i know. i almost fell out of my chair. that's it right there. the question was do you support what the pres

i bring in michael steele, former rnc cherairman. michael, your answer to that question on the eve of impeachment voting tomorrow. >> the whole idea is that americans should be looking closely at this process and closely to what has been said, testified to, and more importantly, ari, what the administration in the form of the members of the house and the senate as well as in the white house itself, have not put forward. as a counter narrative. the underlying facts remain untestified to by the trump team. they've not challenged the accuracy of the call between the president and zelensky. in fact, when you saw today, congressman collins and then others were repeatedly asked about, was it a good call, was it a perfect call? they would not answer that question. >> what does that tell you? >> it tells me that it wasn't a perfect call and they know it. and they know that substantively, and constitutionally, there is a real problem here. >> so to be extra lawyerly if you'll permit it. you're making such an interesting point. is that because

z glenn kirchner, michael steel, joel payne join me. glenn, let me start with the president's letter today. it seems as if every time republicans have coalesced around a comfortable defense of the president, all he and rudy giuliani do is make it that much harder to stick by him if you're a skeptical supporter of the president. it felt like all his tweets in the last year in one letter. abuse of power, war on american democracy, election nullification scheme, more due process was afforded to those accused in the salem witch trials. this letter, i guess it was simply -- it's simply an instruction packet for his supporters on social media because there doesn't seem to be any point to this letter as far as the process is concerned. >> i agree with you, chuck, and yet i have seen letters like this many times before as a federal prosecutor. >> is that right? >> oh, i have. whether i was prosecuting rico cases against some of the most notorious gang members in d.c. or standalone murder cases, these letters would come in not infrequently prior

what do those numbers says to u michael steele? >> it says in one sense it kind of justifies what you're seeing in the iowa poll and probably in the other early primary polls that joe biden has some resiliency that i think people really underestimate. the fact that he is -- to joe's editorial comment there is as strong as he is relative to the president, i think is something that despite all the bravado from the president's team, they're concerned about joe is competitive, and i think the numbers reflect that. the other thing that i thought was interesting about those numbers is where mike bloomberg is in this. so you couple his rise for a guy who just came into the race a few weeks ago, dropped $37 million is at 5%, running competitively against the president not at the end of the pack, but getting close to the middle of the pack i think is something also that's going to be worth looking at, particularly when you consider a pete buttigieg who was the darling and, you know, the candidate dejour who everybody was fixating on surpass

garrett, on both sides of the hill as well, and michael steele as always. california congressman eric swalwell serves on the judiciary and intelligence committee and joins me, congressman, thank you very much. >> of course, good afternoon, andrea. >> we had eight hours of hearings yesterday. let's talk about what happened with the speaker today, she was really angry that her faith, her conviction and her motives for impeachment were being called into contention by the reporter, quoting a republican, doug collins. >> i've had an opportunity for the last few years to sit next to her, you know, as the chair of the steering and policy committee every week, i'm on the leadership team, i've seen her assist the process with the intelligence committee and the judiciary committee. and she has been anything but eager to do this. i've seen, you know, a reluctance just because of what it means for the country. but a recognition that the president has taken us here and it's our duty to the constitution to carry out this process. but to suggest that it's anything other t

eugene scott from "the washington post," and msnbc contributor and former rnc chairman michael steele. kay, first, let me delve into something about iowa that seems different this time, that is this desperation of the iowa democratic party to create a set of rules to appease national democrats and progressive democrats that this will be a much more open process, much more diverse process, and they've done so much with it, that it's possible we have two different winners on caucus night because they're going to track delegates and turnout. how confusing is all of this going to be? >> it may be very confusing. or there could be a really significant result if one of these candidates sort of sprints out ahead of the rest of the pack. there will be delegate decisions released first and then we'll see the raw vote totals. we'll see the raw vote totals from the first alignment where people go into parts of the room and support a candidate and a group. then we'll see this second raw vote total if there is a realignment on a second round of voting. so actually, to complicate things more, there

senator from california and the host of the boxer podcast and michael steele. i want to start with you because we talk so much today about what house speaker nancy pelosi is going to do and when she's going to transmit the articles of impeachment. let's talk about mitch mcconnell. he has the republican in the white house and the republican majority he has to keep intact to get the fast and forgettable trial he envisions. >> senator mcconnell is fortunate. he doesn't have the pro-trump caucus that house leaders have to deal with. there's no matt gaetz or jim jordan. that's a big advantage. what he wants, a swift dignified senatorial swiftness is not wants. ooing it's notable he talks about coordinating with white house counsel. think it's notab talks about coordinating with white house counsel. he talks about coordinating with the white house or the administration, not necessarily giving the president what he wants but moving through this in the most politically -- late politically damaging way possible. >> yeah. hey, senator boxer, i lived through the clinton i

steele. i want to get to what is obviously the big history that was made today, articles of impeachment, but there is this sort of i -- i think a way to describe it as a shiny object, this offensive being orchestrated b for the purpose sort of riling up and reanimating donald trump's base before they hear any of the facts from the ig report yesterday. what do you make of christopher wrayat finding himself today in the uncomfortable position of being attacked by donald trump on twitter, and contradicted by the ag? >> it's okay to be uncomfortable and okay to be contradicted if you're speaking the truth. what directorpe wray did was spk the truth. the ig report found, the ig found and reported that there was no political bias or political motivation that infected the work of the foik. that's what director wray said. if you're contradicted for telling the truth, if you're uncomfortable because someone i attacking you for telling the truth, guess what, you told the truth. >> what do you think thi

thank you, michael steele. you are a great writer. up next presidential candidate senator cory booker joins us to talk about impeachment and there he is. great guy. he's waiting for us. we're going to talk about the debate tonight in which he will not be taking part unfortunately. you're watching "hardball." takt unfortunately. you're watching "hardball. mike bloomberg's never been afraid of tough fights, the ones that make a true difference in people's lives. and mike's won them, which is important right this minute, because if he could beat america's biggest gun lobby, helping pass background check laws and defeat nra backed politicians across this country, beat big coal, helping shut down hundreds of polluting plants and beat big tobacco, helping pass laws to save the next generation from addiction. all against big odds you can beat him. i'm mike bloomberg and i approve this message. i'and i approve this message. approve this message. climate is the number one priority. i would declare a state of emergency on day one. congress has

carol lee, michael steel, doug thornell are back. so, doug, is this a yellow light for bernie sanders? a yellow light for the democratic party? how do you view the corbyn business? >> the corbyn business. well, i mean, he obviously wasn't a great candidate. corbyn. and i think boris johnson ran a very sharp, smart wasn't a goo. johnson ran a smart simple race. get brexit done. he did the play off of "love actually." >> corbyn's message was more delay. >> it was unclear too. he had various approaches to brexit. he had a bunch of different issues that were hard to message. and i think the message to dems, i think the message to everyone is got to make this stuff simple for voters to understand. and corbyn for whatever you want to say about him, he's not a traditional politician but he understood that and he ran a very disciplined race on get brexit done. it's what people can understand. and it made a lot of enroads in parts of the country that used to be labour strong holds. >> let me read you something familiar about the labour party.

senator from california and the host of the boxer podcast and michael steele. i want to start with you because we talk so much today about what house speaker nancy pelosi is going to do and when she's going to transmit the articles of impeachment. let's talk about mitch mcconnell. he has the republican in the white house and the republican majority he has to keep intact to get the fast and forgettable trial he envisions. >> senator mcconnell is fortunate. he doesn't have the pro-trump caucus that house leaders have to deal with. there's no matt gaetz or jim jordan. that's a big advantage. what he wants, a swift dignified senatorial swiftness is not exactly what the president wants. ooing it's notable he talks about coordinating with white house counsel. he talks about coordinating with the white house or the administration, not necessarily giving the president what he wants, but moving through this in the most politically -- least politically damaging way possible. >> senator boxer, you lived through the clinton impeachment. help us understand given your experi

betsy, michael steele, marie are back with me. so michael steel, what's that about? >> they are creating a counterfactual narrative that will be convincing enough to the group of president's supporters to continue supporting him and confuse enough people that he doesn't get convicted and impeached. i mean, they have a very clear strategy. we may not like it. we may not agree with it. we may think it's all factually wrong and terrible. but they have a convincing argument that a lot of people are going to buy. >> and they didn't just ask for this former dnc consultant to talk to them. they also asked for a ukrainian guy to participate in their investigation. i whatsapped with him a little earlier today. he told me he's received a former invitation and he's going to play ball with him. >> where does he live right now? >> he lives in kyiv. he's in kyiv right now. he's one of the people participating in the documentary. and most importantly, he is the only person who went on the record for the "politico" story in january 2017 that set off the entire narrative that the ukr

kyle cheney and michael steele, advisory for jeb bush and john boehner. the white house is not going to participate in the committee hearing. >> pat cipollone calling the inquiry baseless and backed up by what we have seen over the past few days. lawmakers continue to grab articles of impeachment. rudy giuliani traveled to kiev to meet with several ukrainians. trump's supporter dan everhart returning to the crime scene to live stream moon dancing. here is the president talking about rudy's trip on saturday at the white house. >> well, i just know he came back from some place and he's going to make a report to the attorney general and to congress. he said he got a lot of good information. i have not spoken to him about that information, but rudy has been one of the great crime fighters the last 50 years. and, he did get back from europe just recently and he has not told me what he found but i think he wants to go before congress and also to say to the attorney general and the department of justice. i hear he found plenty. >> i want to recap, it is at its c

we've also got politico white house correspondent with us, back on set michael steele and mika as well. geoff, let me start with you, the president wanting to kind of focus on nato, but clearly one might say distracted or at least thinking about the impeachment proceedings that are happening this week here in washington. >> absolutely, hallie. he's been tweeting about it, he's been talking about it. he stopped in the rain to talk with reporters about impeachment to get a couple of things off his chest. let's do a quick fact check. you heard the president say there all you have to do is look at the words from the ukrainian president, he said i did nothing wrong. what president trump is referring to is a new interview published by time magazine with ukrainian president zelensky and zelensky makes the point that when he had that july 25th call in question with president trump, in zelensky's words he says i wasn't speaking with president trump from the vantage point of a quid pro quo because i didn't want us to look like beg ars. but that's not all that he said. he went on to say, you have

norm orenstein, michael steele. bianca carmen. i was looking back at the states that were visited most by donald trump and hillary clinton in the last election. not surprisingly north carolina, florida, pennsylvania, of course democrats wish hillary clinton had visited wisconsin a bit more. but the first question would be if we did change the system and, norm, i'll start with you. what would be the impact of campaigns and their strategy? >> so, as you mentioned, bob, they visited the large states. and i was kind of amused when senator cramer of north dakota defending the electoral college said -- awfully close in terms of popular votes. then every vote would count, and candidates would have an incentive to try and maximize the turnout even in places like north dakota. you know, one of the things when we dissected hillary clinton's loss, one of the things that kept coming up was not whether she visited pennsylvania or michigan but that the analytics on the team said go to the places where your votes are. and instead of going to pla

. >> michael steele, now an msnbc political analyst and former republican congressman from oklahoma. tlrtz i never thought it would be the case you'd see an overwhelming break with the president that he should be impeached. it's always been partisan with the exception of nixon, right? it seems to me they are choosing in the report they issue today, the maximalest path. the path of it was perfect. >> it was perfect. you saw what senator kennedy from louisiana is doing. he is making up stuff. he is pretending that he's going to be a great champion for this guy in the white house. and he forgot that the president just went down to his state of louisiana and urged people there to vote against the -- >> democrat -- >> governor who won. and i think he's making a big mistake and i think democrats have the republicans in a box because they're in a position now, whether instead of just saying it's not impeachable, what they're saying is they're denying the facts that everybody knows that both of the committees keep coming out with. they have no stand. >> part of what mickey was referring to i

michael steele, and mickey edwards, former congressman from oklahoma. mickey, since you're here, i'll go to you first. there is always the question. i never thought it would be the case that you see any kind of overwhelming break that the president shk impeached. it has always been quite partisan with the exception of nixon. but this is a variety of paths they could have taken and it seems like they are choosing in both the report they issued today, the noises being made from the senate. the maximmalist path. >> it was perfect. you saw what the senator from who lou is doing. he is making up stuff. he is pretending what he is going to do is be a great champion for this guy in the white house he forgot that the president just went down to his state of louisiana and urged people there to vote against the -- >> john bell edwards. who won. and i think kennedy is making a big mistake and i think the democrats have the republicans in a box because they're in a position now. instead of just saying, it's not impeachable. not removable. what they're saying is the

. >> michael steel, adrienne elrod and elise jordan, thank you. here is jamie rascon of the house judiciary committee. he just voted in favor of the articles of impeachment. i should bring you into this. we're talking about the house judiciary, what happened yesterday. why did we not see, why did the public not see debate on the issues, a debate on the facts yesterday? >> well, we presented, katy, overwhelming evidence that the president had shaken down a foreign government using foreign military aid as his leverage in order to get the president of a foreign country to come and get involved in our election. the republicans on the panel have no answer to that. there's no rival factual hypothesis. everybody accepts it. all the witnesses say that's what happened. so they couldn't engage with it. we tried to engage them on the question, well, leaving aside the facts of this case, do you think it would be wrong for a president to do that, any president, democratic, republican in the future? they literally refused to answer that question. they won't tel

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steel, former spokesman for newt gingrich. >> i want to know why neera was nodding. >> i think what happened, at least from some of the original -- some of the reports in england is that labor got squeezed on both ends. it lost its traditional counties and areas in the deindustrialized part of britain and also was not able to make that up with some of the votes they got in 2017 which was in higher income places. i think what's happened in the united states is, as you saw in 2016, democrats were weaker in the deindustrialized places but in 2018 they made those votes up and actually surpassed them in suburbs. there are very big differences between corbyn and politics here, he had personal challenges. but putting together a coalition that's suburban and not just urban is really important for 2020. >> rick, you can also see some real parallels between boris johnson and donald trump. >> as you just said, boris johnson has assembled a unique coalition that doesn't happen very often. he's peeled off a lot of the labor vote to, as bill neely said, hold their nose and vote for him. donald tr

steele, norm orenstein, and jesse wegman and bob cusack. that's up next. >> be back at 10:30.

great reporting, michael isiko isikoff. christopher steele was the lone source for that yahoo! news report by michael isikoff. political hack that he is. steele was ultimately fired as a source for leaking. but he had ability. even as late as 2018, the super patriot jim comey calling for a reliable source. take a look. >> christopher steele, is he considered reliable as a source agent? >> yes. >> what's your assessment of that dossier? >> as described, it was a series of reports from a credible person with a reliable track record and a known source network in russia. something to be taken seriously. didn't mean it was all true, but it was to be taken seriously. and its core assertion was corroborated by other intelligence officers. the core intelligent being the russians having a campaign going on to interfere in the election. >> tucker: that was then and remains today a total live. one of many from mr. super patriot jim comey. this is important. we haven't discussed the glaring omissions. that's a big deal too. on multiple occasions, comey's fdi exculpatory information from th

leadership supported relying on michael steele's report to seek a fisa order targeting page after being adviseed of and consideration to concerns expressed by a department attorney that steele may have been hired by someone associated with a rival candidate or campaign. in other words, they did not do their due diligence. that's the conclusion from that. former assistant u.s. attorney andy mccarthy with me now. welcome to our coverage. you've seen his opening statement and read the report. what is in it that you find? >> the importance of the report in terms of what's in it is the appalling performance of the f.b.i. and justice department in the presentation of these submissions for national security surveillance under fisa or the foreign intelligence surveillance act of 1978. i want to be kindly, i understand why we refer to them as mistakes and the like but these are not mistakes for the most part. these are very conscious, willful acts of malfeasance. >> bill: there seems to be a general conclusion on folks like you and bill barr and others, you believe these officials used the court

christopher steele was the lone source for that yahoo news report by michael isikoff. political hack that he is. and steele was ultimately fired as the source by the fbi for leaking.ea he had such credibility. guess what, even as late as april 2018, there is super patriot jim comey calling steele a reliable source. take a look. >> christopher steele, is he considered reliable according to your sources as an intelligencea agent? >> yes. >> what is your assessment of the dossier? >> as it was described to me, it was raw intelligence, so a series of reports from a credible person with a reliable track record, and a known experience and sourced network in russia. so it was something to be taken seriously. it did not mean that it was all true but it was to be taken seriously. and its core assertion was corroborated by other intelligence. his core assertion beingco the russians have a campaign going on to interfere in the american election. >> sean: that was then and remains today a total lie. one of many for mr. super patriot jim comey. this is important. we haven't even di

rob: big moments in the hour-long hearing with michael horwitz who testified the debunked steel dossier was in fact used by the feds to justify spying on an american citizen. jillian: the doj watchdog downplaying the errors laid out in his report. how serious are these revelations and how they affect the impeachment probe? congressman jim banks joins us, good morning. we learned in this report that fbi agents straight applied to survey carter page. what is your reaction to that and how do we make sure this never happens again? >> mister horowitz's findings show this is if not the biggest scandal in modern history, the biggest scandal in american history period. what he found in his report is indeed everyone who touched this fisa application is not vindicated. he said he can't rule out political bias across the board, he finds major mistakes happen along the way and what many of us know already, this was brought about for political purposes. rob: let's listen to the inspector general. >> so many basic and fundamental errors were made by three separate hand-picked investigative teams, cir

. >> from the oig report michael horowitz writes providing the information he received from steel and simpson to the fbi which was much but not all of the same information through direct contact with steel or did not advise any supervisors in the office of the deputy attorney general that his contacts with steel and simpson for his life's work with fusion gps or acting as a conduit of this information to the fbi until the office of the deputy attorney general confronted or about his activities late 2017 is that correct? >> i don't know i have no reason to dispute it i don't know the internal workings of the doj i would just add the ig found he had violated any rules or policies or transgression may be had a lapse of judgment in hindsight that's the ig's job hindsight 2020 a lot of those other considerations the country was under attack and in that way it's hard to fault him for doing his job protecting his country. >> how did david become a part of the story? >> we have traveled in the same circles as journalist generally and then i had occasional contact with him after i left the jou

. >> just to go back, how did the fbi get wind of the steel reports? >> originally, chris approached a long time contact of his of the fbi. another guy named michael, someone who chris worked with on the scandal. was the originally organized crime agent and worked with chris on that. shortly thereafter, met up with bruce, an old contact of his. >> he was or is at d.o.j., correct? >> correct. he's been punished for having the courage to listen and try to pass along information. there's been a campaign in for location against service for bring doing their jobs. he's one of the many people who suffered through that. people asked me how bad was it? i say well, it was important for us but it's nothing compared to the people who have had their careers damaged and reputations really hurt by some of the things that have been done to them. >> what is his spouses connection? >> a distinguished expert on russia, she's a russian the west. she worked for the cia for a time. she approached me in 2015. i knew her from competence. russian organized crime, expertise an

this could come up at today's hearing with michael horowitz. the response from christopher steele. if you want to read more of that because i know many of you are interested, you can find it in the washington. patricia in georgia, you are unsure, go ahead. caller: i am a health care worker. i have been working in the .ealth care field for 50 years the more of a socialist and party appeals to me because for some reason, they don't care about the american people. how we arecare about living at all and we need a change. i am a bernie sanders fan and we need a change in america, a big change. host: sean in georgia, republican who supports impeachment, go ahead. caller: good morning. thanks for taking my call. i try to give president trump the benefit of the doubt this last election, but it becomes apparent he has no moral compass of how to lead a country. the fact that you have mayor giuliani running around different countries trying to you exactlytells why i support impeachment, the republicans, i watch every hearing, they have not produced one document to give to congress. not only t

anybody see the irony, a democrat pumping that much money trying to steel the nomination from democrats. where is the party going on all this? who knows. ashley: liberal filmmaker michael moore says if the election was held today, donald trump would win again. take a listen to michael moore. >> if the vote were today i believe he would win the electoral states that he would need because living out there, i will tell you, his level of support has not gone down one inch. in fact i would say it's even more rabid than it was before. ashley: you think he's right? if he has to admit that, there has to be some truth in it. >> i don't want to admit it on national television, but i agree with michael moore on this. voters in the united states view donald trump as truly authentic. he's the same guy he was 30 years ago as he is today. and that's something they are not getting anywhere else. any authentic choice. you have joe biden trying to figure out what his son did in ukraine. you have folks trying to be something they are not. all these guys are running to the left. where is the authenticity?

michael horowitz writes that he provides information he received from steele and since into the fbi which had already received much but not all of the same information through its direct contact steele. bruce ohr did not advising of aa supervisor in office of the deputy attorney general about his contacts with steele and simpson about his wife's work for fusion gps or about his acting as a contact until the office of the deputy attorney general leadership confronted ohr about his activities in late 2017. is that correct? >> guest: i don't know. i mean, i don't have any reason to dispute it, but i just, i don't know about the internal workings of the doj. i'm not really qualified to pass judgment. i will just add for the sake of completeness that the ig found he had violated any rules or policies or committed any transgressions. ultimately left with labeling that a quote laughs and judgment. obviously in hindsight that's the igs job is to judge things in hindsight. hindsight is 2020. a lot of the other considerations worth the fact that our country was under attack, and in that light it's

, jim comey, inspector general michael horowitz's report found the fbi was justified into opening the investigation into president trump's call pain. deirdre: here's r other heads lines keeping news this morning. the u.s. keeping a watchful eye on north korea this holiday season after they promised a christmas surprise earlier this month. they conducted what officials are calling an engine test that experts believe may be part of a space launched vehicle or long range missile and could be a prelude to a possible launch of anism cbm. negotiations between the u.s. and north korea stalled after north korea called for broad sanctions relief. apple wading deep rer into the streaming tv service. they are exploring the possibility of a deal with mgm and pac12 come le12collegiate c. it would be the first foray into live sports. nike surprised analysts with quarterly earnings and sales on thursday, it earned 76t earned r share. the company says its jordan brand had its first ever billion dollar quarter thanks to a spike in interest in the product and innovation. today, the u.s. may be closer t

. >> he is the justice department's inspector general, michael horwitz who testified last week before congress that the dossier compiled by christopher steele and paid for by democrats was the centerpiece of the fbi fisa application to monitor carter page. >> we concluded the state report played a central role in the decision to seek a fisa order. >> on special report last year comey said the steel dossier was not critical to the fisa application. >> there is a significant amount of additional material on page and why there was probable cause to believe he was an agent of a foreign power. >> comey says page was treated unfairly and the number 2 democrat in the senate says page deserves an apology from the us government. >> this isn't the first and won't be the last time the fbi misrepresents evidence before this court and proceeds. >> someone else who wants an apology is donald trump who said on twitter, quote, comey is admitting he was wrong. what are the consequences for his unlawful conduct? could it be years in jail? where the apologies to me and others? >> the inspector general r

that was derogatory to president trump, and they were encouraging steele to take that back and then use it before the election. the irony of the day today for me is while the house is impeaching the president, at the same time that's being debated, michael horowitz, the inspector general, is giving testimony about individuals in the obama-era state department getting information from foreign individuals, slipping it to individuals working on the clinton campaign, and literally using foreign sources to fight against canada trump from hillary clinton's staff -- candidate trump from hillary clinton's staff at the state department. sometimes the world feels more upside down than others. this is one of those weeks. i think about a year ago today, a year ago today the senate was working in a bipartisan fashion to be able to pass the criminal justice reform bill called the first step act. it was a landmark piece of legislation dealing with helping us in federal prisons deal with recidivism. that was a good day for us here in congress. we started getting more job training to people that are in

clutched to throng enough to have john mccain hand it over to the fbi. >> to have michael horowitz talk, he could not connect the dots to prove political bias. behind that. i do understand, i totally disagree with him. i understand why he didn't want to get into this. but this is what appalls me. maybe you can't find a democrat or republican political bias. but it's the deep state bias that's so clear. that is what it was. lou: god bless barr for saying, the forward of the report is just wrong. >> god bless donald trump. i don't know any human alive who could have endured the crap these people have thrown at him the last three years. he will never get the first term back. look at the amount of energy that has been wasted on all this nonsense. he. thanks so much. we appreciate it. the spying on the 2016 trump presidential campaign. what that means for the deep 8. they thought they were so clever. not so fast. we are coming right back. some people say "dress your age." that's ridiculous. i dress how i feel. yesterday i felt bold with boundless energy. this morning i woke up calm and unbre

anybody see the irony, a democrat pumping that much money trying to steel the nomination from democrats. where is the party going on all this? who knows. ashley: liberal filmmaker michael moore says if the election was held today, donald trump would win again. take a listen to michael moore. >> if the vote were today i believe he would win the electoral states that he would need because living out there, i will tell you, his level of support has not gone down one inch. in fact i would say it's even more rabid than it was before. ashley: you think he's right? if he has to admit that, there has to be some truth in it. >> i don't want to admit it on national television, but i agree with michael moore on this. voters in the united states view donald trump as truly authentic. he's the same guy he was 30 years ago as he is today. and that's something they are not getting anywhere else. any authentic choice. you have joe biden trying to figure out what his son did in ukraine. you have folks trying to be something they are not. all these guys are running to the left. where is the authenticity?

that was what michael horowitz was asked to look at. what prompted the opening of the investigation was a tip from a foreign government. that government being australia. that was a perfectly legitimate reason to open this investigation. it says they were authorized to do. so so while the carter page fisa, do presents a problem, and the inspector general even said he wants to have a further review of how the fisa application process works in this country when it comes to surveilling americans, he said the overall decision to open the investigation did rely upon good sourcing and the fbi didn't even have the steele dossier at the time they made that decision, which i think that time line really lays it out. but republicans are going to be seizing on the mistakes made in the dossier, while democrats are looking at the overall conclusion that there was no bias in the decision to open. >> danny, what does this mean in the grand scheme of things? how is this going to affect president trump and this ongoing impeachment probe, especially consid

that the now infamous dossier compiled by former british spy christopher steele and paid for by democrats was the centerpiece of the fbi's fisa application to monitor carter page. >> we concluded that the steel reporting in central role in the decision to seek a fisa order. >> on special report last year comey said the steele dossier was not critical to the fisa application. >> my requiem -- additional material about page and why thee was probable cause to believe a foreign power. >> page was treated unfairly and number two and this senate said page deserves an apology from the u.s. government. >> this is not the first or the last time the fbi represents evidence before this court and proceeds. >> someone else who wants an apology is president trump his head on twitter "now comey is admitting he is wrong? what are the consequences for his unlawful conduct? could it be years in jail? where are the apologies to me and others, jim?" they went to the inspector general found no evidence he didn't anything criminal or unlawful and also dt find intentional misconduct by the fbi, but remember the

that the now infamous dossier compiled by former produced by christopher steele and paid for by democrats, was the centerpiece of the fbi's application to monitor carter page. >> we concluded the reporting put in a central role in the decision to seek if isa tom mack fisa order. >> james comey said the dossier was not critical to the application. >> there was a significant amount of additional material about carter page and why there is probable cause to believe he was an agent. >> now he says he was treated unfairly in the number two democrat and the senate says page deserves an apology. >> this is the first will be the last time the fbi misrepresents evidence before this court and proceeds. >> somebody else who wants an apology, president trump. he said on twitter, "now he is admitting he was wrong? what are the consequences for his unlawful conduct? years in jail? where are the apologies to me and others." >> the inspector general report found no evidence that he did anything unlawful or criminal. it also did not find any intent misconduct by the fbi. remember, there is another ongoing

reporting to seek a fisa order after being advised of concerns expressed by department attorney that steel may have been hired by someone associated with a rival candidate or campaign. >> in an hours long hearing, doj inspector general michael horwitz debunked the democrats spin on his report, ripping into the glaring errors committed by members of the fbi asserting no one is off the chopping block, trump 2020 senior legal advisor jenna ellis joins us live to break down the key moments of the heated testimony, thank you for joining us, we appreciate it. what do you was the most important take away? >> the fact that the senate was actually willing to have michael horwitz testify so the fact that the house very clearly partisan is refusing to bring the testimony forward. imagine if we had democratic control of both chambers, we would not be hearing this critical testimony and we would still have the mainstream media narrative saying we are going to minimize all the implications of this report. having this testimony is critical for the american people to understand this is about spying on a p

or candidates. >> michael horwitz exposing the fbi and their decision to use discredited steel dossier to seek a fisa warrant against the trump campaign. does this devastating revelation contribute to what was a brutal week for the fbi. judicial watch's president, talk a little bit about christopher steel in particular and how devastating the horwitz testimony was. >> it shows that christopher steel was being paid $95,000 by the fbi at the same time judicial watch reported how he was paid by the fbi, now we know that is the number and this is at the same time the clinton dnc gang is painted to get dirt on donald trump. this is a joint operation. the fbi leaking the fact that they were spying on the trump operation to christopher steel a month before the election while he is still working for hillary clinton's fusion gps so you have the fbi intervening in the campaign. when you have that type of criminal unprecedented activity you have a lot of errors and omissions to put it charitably. >> what about what james comey told bret baer that he didn't think the steel dossier was the central

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here is michael horowitz testifying he is wrong. >> the hurricane team obtained information from his primary sub source in january 2017, to raise significant questions about the reliability of the steel reporting. this is particularly noteworthy because the fisa application relied entirely on information from the primary sub sources reporting to support the allegation that paige was coordinating with the russian government on 2016 u.s. presidential election activity. >> carter page was never charged with anything, his own source told the fbi he was lying about what he was saying in the dossier, your reaction? >> it's disappointing to see it so easy to obtain the warrants even based on verified information. but that's a problem with the standard of the court, many times warrants are obtain based on unverified hearsay and things of that sort and there's not going to be consequences for that even though an ordinary person it seems like you're not reporting qualified information, there should be something that happens. it's a standard is low. >> a constitutional violation. by the time he

former federal prosecutor, sydney powell, michael flynn's attorney. good to see you. >> thank you, liz. liz: we're digging into the footnotes finding more information how early a democrat funded opposition research group behind the anti-trump steele dossier was trying to directly feed information about trump campaign officials in to the fbi probe of the trump campaign. think every, think really, really early. this story next. (thud) (crash) (grunting) (whistle) play it cool and escape heartburn fast with tums chewy bites cooling sensation. ♪ tum tu-tu-tum tums this is the epson no more buying cartridges.. big ink tanks. lots of ink. print about... this many pages. the epson ecotank. just fill and chill. (classical music playing throughout) what are you doing back there, junior? since we're obviously lost, i'm rescheduling my xfinity customer service appointment. ah, relax. i got this. which gps are you using anyway? a little something called instinct. been using it for years. yeah, that's what i'm afraid of. he knows exactly where we're going. my wh

foreign government, as we know from reporting that's australia, and not's from the steele dossier tt has beenel largely uncorroborat at the heart of all of the conservative theories that try to undermine the investigation. so nownv the a.g. is saying tha he does appreciate the help of friendly foreign h governments d if i can pull this up for you in the middle ofr lots of statemes seems he wants to say here we go the inspector general found the only informationne relied on to open the fbi's counterintelligence investigation was supplied by the fbi by a friendly foreign government. he says, i want to emphasize that this friendly foreign government did the right thing in supplying that information. the friendly foreign government hasly acted at all times as we would hope a close ally would. this is william barr's attempt to try to say thank you, australia, for helping the united states and just because my sereaction since then have bn very harshly critical of the fbi doesn't mean he wants to discount what australia did in this case. it's a if you have line to walk. when the inspector g

is michael horowitz screen center declaring no political bias in the f.b.i.'s russia investigation. in that report, however, he found 17 inaccuracies and omissions as well as learning that the faulty steele dossier was used to get a fisa warrant from the court. both sides now spinning this in their favor. here is a sample of that. >> this was an attempted overthrow and a lot of people were in on it. and they got caught. they got caught red-handed. >> for two years the president of the united states accused our premier law enforcement agency of treason, trying to defeat him and trying to stop him. it turns out that was all nonsense. >> you can argue if you would like that there was a legal predicate to start the investigation. it doesn't matter to me. if it started legitimate it became criminal pretty quick. >> bill: good morning, david. what are you hearing from d.o.j. officials? >> well good morning, bill. we're hearing from all different kinds of officials. a lot of fallout. 476-page report really offered a lot yesterday. some are calling it a mixed bag of conclusions. as you ment

norm gordon's teen of aei, michael steele, former chair of the rnc. brown a common, evoked to latina, and jesse wagon, new york times editorial board. i was looking back at the states that were visited most by donald trump in the last election. not surprisingly it was ohio and north carolina, florida, pennsylvania, of course democrats wish that hillary clinton had visited wisconsin a bit more. the first question would be, if we did change the system, and norm, i'll start with you, what would be the impact of campaigns and their strategy? >> so, as you mentioned, bob, they visited the large speed it dates and i was kind of amused when senator kramer of north dakota defending the electoral college said this would make north dakota irrelevant. well, guess what? when it comes to presidential politics, north dakota is totally irrelevant right now. but let's say we had a presidential election that is looking awfully close in terms of popular votes. then every vote would count and candidates would have an incentive to try and maximize the turnout even in pla