intelligence committee, member of the house ways and means committee as well. congressman, great to have you with us, and these, these names participating in these requests for the unmasking of general flynn are so much broader than anything i expected and, frankly, reach much higher than i expected in the obama white house. all the way to the vice president, the chief of staff. my god, this is extraordinary. this is deserving, this greatest political scandal in american history, of the name obamagate, is it not? >> well, i told you it gets a lot are worse, lou. if you remember -- lou: you did. >> this is the first time that most people in the united states ever heard of the house intelligence committee, had ever heard of me. it's because, you know, we used to do real work down working with patriots across the globe. and when i first came out publicly and held a press conference and said that i had seen very troubling activity of using intelligence reports and intelligence apparatus to spy on trump transition officials and they were doing unmaskings, this is --

i was not on the house intelligence committee at the time. i respect both committees but i haven't seen the underlying intelligence with respect to that one finding. >> thank you mister chair. >> thank you senator. >> you touched on point with senator cotton that i think is critically important and the term i used is conclusion shopping. it's in the nature of any executive to want to be told that the intelligence supports whatever policy direction they want to go with. and this is a constant struggle that goes back i don't care whether it's john f. kennedy in vietnam or lyndon johnson in vietnam or george w. bush and weapons of massinstruction . this is a human natureproblem . king said who will rid me of this nelson priest? the president doesn't have to give in order. that's my concern and that's where it worries me that the president apparently has been pressing the intelligence community to find what he wants them to find. the question should be where did the virus come from, not don't you think it came from the lab. you see the distinctio

of witnesses before the house intelligence committee. the chairman, adam schiff, of the intelligence committee giving in to direct pressure from the director of national intelligence, richard tremendous can knell. -- grenell. his house intelligence committee releasing 57 transcripts, in fact, to the public. additional material also being made public if, all of it part of the committee's investigation in 2017 and '18 into russia's interference in the 2016 election. and sources are telling fox that not one of the people that the committee interviewed and the transcripts that we will assess, we'll be able to read here shortly, was able to provide any evidence whatsoever of russian collusion with anyone they talked to in that investigation. no one. mike, i apologize for the interruption. go back to you, if we may, and pick up with your thoughts about some of the decisions that the president has before him. we're in close time, if you will here. >> well, lou, the chinese keep assessing how strong the president is. whether they should test him

a house intelligence committee today spokesman accused the dni of being, quote, overtly political. overtly political for releasing the letter that reveals the transcripts are unclassified and now ready. the spokesman dud not, however -- did not, however, characterize adam schiff's public lies and his refusals to release those transcripts that are no longer classifieded. the committee spokesman if also failed to acknowledge that congressman schiff's credibility has been utterly destroyed after he endlessly spun lies about evidence of russian collusion. >> i think there's plenty of evidence of collusion or conspiracy in plain sight. there's clear evidence on the issue of collusion. you can see evidence in plan sight on the issue of collusion. there's ample evidence of collusion in plain sight, and that is true. lou: we'll be taking up those developments in this evening's broadcast with two people close to the story, ranking republican member of the house intelligence committee devin nuÑes and award-winning investigative journalist john solomon. both join us here in just a few minute

he serves on the house permanent select committee on intelligence, the house judiciary committee, and house ethics committee. prior to his service in congress, mr. ratcliff was a partner any law firm. during his tenure at the department of justice, he served antiterrorism for texasstern district of during that time, mr. ratcliff also served as mayor for the city of heath, texas. he received his undergraduate degree from the university of notre dame. he received his law degree from southern methodist university. you have been asked to leave the intelligence community at a time of profound threat and challenge. given your experience, we expect you will lead the intelligence committee with integrity, serve as a forceful advocate for the professionals in the intelligence community, and make sure it operates ethically. i'm sure this will commence in you -- this will continue to operate ethically. we will ask a difficult and probing questions of you and your staff. we expect honest, complete, and timely responses. i want to thank you for being here for your years of service to our country a

of texas and serves on the house committee on intelligence, house judiciary committee and house ethics committee. prior to service in congress, mr. ratcliffe was partner at a law firm, and in the department of justice served as the first assistant u.s. attorney, as chief antiterrorism and national security for the eastern district of texas, then as interim u.s. attorney for the eastern district of texas. ratcliffe also served as mayor of the city of heath, texas. he received undergraduate degree from notre dame, law degree from southern methodist university, asked to meet at a time of profound threat and challenge. given your experience, we expect he will lead the intelligence community with integrity, serve as a forceful advocate for the professionals in the i.c. and ensure the intelligence enterprise operates lawfully, ethically and morally. i can assure you this committee will continue to conduct vigorous oversight over the intelligence community, its operations and activities. we'll ask difficult and probing questions of you and your staff, and we expect honest, complete, timely re

press calls for no one to trust the house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff ever again after those who feel that he lied about the trunk brush occlusion investigation. thanks for joining us here on r.t. . let's begin with a regular check on the latest global coronavirus numbers total infections stand above 4700000 vitality surprising 312000 all the number of those who've recovered has risen above 1800000. the united states health care system has been inundated during the pandemic not just with patients but also criticism over the way it has struggled with the crisis now the former head of a key lab working on a vaccine is one congress if the government doesn't make rapid changes things will only get worse our window of opportunity is closing if we fail to improve our response now based on science i fear the pandemic will get worse and be prolonged there will be likely a resurgence of code 19 this fall and we greatly compound it by the challenges of seasonal influenza without better planning 2020 could be the darkest winter in modern history meanwhile donald trump says the cou

now with the us press calling for no one to trust the house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff ever again so in a sense to the right to find out what that has to do with russia. the world is driven by a dream shaped by. saying . we dare to ask. that's right here it's a i r is the ticker symbol for hair it's a closed and finally and you can buy all of the hair. that we feature here on this episode of kaiser report it's currently trading at a market cap of about $3900000000.00 but we're expecting the fed to come in in front run the market and take this up to a much higher capitalization possibly 7 or 9 trillion dollars. back republicans controlling the michigan legislature claimed the state's governor gretchen trump butter authority would stay home orders and other restrictions hundreds of protesters defied the governor's policies outside the state capital calling her a witch and the virus itself. media. was. the protests the capital lansing of being held for 6 weeks already on friday the local prosecutor's office said a man was charged with making credible death threats against

adam schiff on the house intelligence committee may have capitulated in terms of releasing the transcripts of some 57 interviews they did. but in this press release, they certainly don't sound like they are capitulating, insisting that those transcripts show what the committee has insisted all along, that the trump campaign and donald trump himself invited illicit russian help, made full use of that help and then lied and obstructed the investigations in order to cover up his misconduct. don't forget the mueller investigation found that there was no evidence of collusion to influence the election between the trump campaign and russia. also in this, adam schiff says that michael flynn lied to the fbi about his efforts to contact the russians about sanctions but today the doj danger opt whole case. it was a stunning move. the department of justice after reviewing new evidence that michael flynn's attorneys that was proof the fbi was out to get him, today dropped the case against flynn. it even took president trump by surprise. >> i didn't know that was happening at this moment. i felt it was

the house intelligence committee launched one of the first probes into meddling in the 2016 election. >> if the trump campaign or anyone associated with it aided and abetted the russians, it would not only be a serious crime, it would represent one of the most shocking betrayals of democracy and history. >> the committee heard from a parade of witnesses, the investigation form the basic framework of what we now know about foreign meddling in the 2016 campaign. a committee spokesman accused the dni of being overtly political, leaking the letter that the transcripts are ready, the panel was ready to release the transcripts related to misconduct by the trump campaign and the president himself. key house republicans say the transcripts show there was no collusion with russia. so adam schiff released the transcripts that your committee already voted to make public, why won't you let us see that information? >> the senate intelligence committee recently released a bipartisan report backing the intelligence community findings that russia interfered in the 2016 election. democrats tell fox re

well, joining us tonight is congressman devin nuÑes, ranking member of the house intelligence committee, member of the house ways and means committee and hero of the spygate tragedy and scandal. congressman, it is, as always, good to see you. we're starting to get a sense that there are a lot of obama holdovers in the trump administration, and many of them facilitated the creation of this scandal and the frustration of this president, his policies and administration agenda at almost every turn. how big a part do you believe they have played in this scandal? >> well, what you're really talking about, lou, is you're talking about the greer deep state. and for me, my definition of the deep state is all the layers of bureaucracy in the greater washington, d.c. area that are mostly leftist, mostly children of the left, products of the left and totally know who their bosses and overlords really are. and that exists all i throughout every agency. it's not just with the intelligence agencies, it's at the department of the defense, the department of agriculture. but i think that probably the mos

he serves on the house select committee of intelligence, the house judiciary committee and the house ethics committee. prior to his service in congress, mr. ratcliffe was a partner in a law firm. during his tenure at the department of justice he served as the first assistant u.s. attorney as the chief anti-terrorism national security for the eastern district of texas and then as the interim u.s. attorney for the eastern district of texas. during that time, mr. ratcliffe also served as mayor for the city of heath, texas. congressman ratcliffe received his undergraduate degree from the university of notre dame, law degree from southern methodist university. congressman, you've been asked to lead the national intelligence committee different a time of challenge. we expect that you'll lead the intelligence committee with integrity. serve as a forceful advocate for the professionals in the united states and ensure the intelligence enterprise operates lawfully, ethically and morally. i can assure you that this continue will continue to conduct vigorous and real-time oversight over the inte

the house intelligence committee just released 57 transcripts from its investigation into russia collusion. america's newsroom cohost ed henry has gone through these documents and goes through with the latest. >> we are getting even more information today. foxnews.com added that adam schiff was in "panic mode. if they are from the probe of alleged russian collusion. but breaking tonight, adam schiff may be even more panicked because i am hearing from two sources familiar with this. as early as tomorrow, you could reveal even more documents shedding light on the russia probe, and how they knew for a long time there was no collusion even though they kept saying they had direct evidence otherwise. two sets of documents. adam schiff late today releasing transcripts, and they conducted over 50 of them to try to prove there was collusion. the first set of documents embarrassing, because james clapper testified under oath long ago, we never learned of it until tonight. he testified "i never saw any direct empirical evidence of the trump campaign or someone in it was plotting and conspiring with t

. >> martha: getting new exchanges from the release of the house intelligence committee transcripts from the russian investigation and here is one on the steele dossier and this is an interview with former deputy director of the fbi andrew mccabe. he was asked what is the most or important piece of evidence in the dossier that you know it's true, that you now know is true? mccabe says as i tried to explain before there is a lot of information in this steel reporting and we've not been able to reprove the accuracy of all the information. he was questioned on the reporting on carter page, and he said do you not know it was was true or not and he replied, that's correct. obviously that's important because that was one of the main documents up was used in order to get the continuing fisa ability to continue to surveilled carter page. there's a lot coming into night. also, they are two days into an independent investigation and asking for the public's patience tonight as protesters demand justice in the shooting death of an unarmed black man in georgia. the incident took place back in februar

intelligence committee. the first is that former president barack obama knew about these intercepted phone calls between michael flynn and the russian ambassador at the time and this is coming from the then deputy attorney general sally yates who testifies she was surprised when the former vice president told her about it during a meeting in the oval office just days before president trump's inauguration. the second revelation is that obama administration officials from susan rice to james clapper testified that they had seen no hard evidence of collusion with the russia. james clapper said under oath, i never thought any direct empirical evidence at the trump campaign or someone in is just the frequency and prevalence of them that was of concern. president trump said this morning on "fox & friends" that those two revelations and everything within these transcripts confirms what he has been saying for years, that there was no collusion with russia and that top obama administration officials knew it. >> they

. >> we also expect to see transcript of interviews conducted by the house intelligence committee with 53 people back in 2017 and 2018. a spokesman for the democrat majority of the intelligence committee saying, "this process had already taken far too long. most notably, because office of the director of national intelligence improperly held up the declassification review and release of several transcripts at the request of the white house." the top republican on the intelligence committee offered this prediction. >> there is not going to be any major bombshells in this, because the democrats already leaked all the suppose that bombshells and lied about those bombshells. i think for the good guy's side and the real investigators that are trying to get to the bottom of the russia hoax and he was involved in it, there will be likely people who were not so truthful to congress, let's just say. >> foxes told those pages transcripts could be released as soon as today. harris? >> harris: mike, thank you very much. you cheated up perfectly for the panel. lisa boothe, fox news contributor. thi

we are starting to see that and with the revelation of the house intelligence committee transcripts, the fact that -- by the way, my staff members who painstakingly went down into the senate secure area, painstakingly went through the pfizer report, found those footnotes that showed if there's any disinformation, russian disinformation in the 2016 campaign, it was paid for by hillary clinton and they found those footnotes and called me down there, i saw that those things need to be made public and that is what broke this information logjam. credit to attorney general barr and ric grenell for the classifying those footnotes, declassify me house intelligence transcripts, and now declassify the members of the obama administration unmasked. what we are talking about is michael flynn, there were many other unmaskings that we also need to investigate. >> bret: we'll follow all of it, we got a lot of things to cover here. thank you, senator, for the ti time. we'll talk about all of this and the way forward on coronavirus funding as well with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell tomorrow n

lou: but during their private hearings with the house intelligence committee, each one of these very same obama officials told a very much different tale on russia collusion. former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe said during his testimony, quote: there is a lot of information in the steele reporting. we've not been able to prove the accuracy of all the information. mccabe was asked about steele's reporting on carter page. quote: you don't know if it's true or not? mccabe replied: that's correct. former obama ambassador to the united nations samantha power was asked about collusion. she replied this, quote: i am not in possession of anything. i'm not in possession and didn't read or absorb information that came from out of the intelligence community. nothing. former obama deputy national security adviser ben rhodes, he said, quote: i saw indications of potential coordination, but i did not see, you know, the specific evidence of the actions of the trump campaign. and it goes on. rhodes' boss, former national security adviser susan rice, was asked about a conspiracy between the trum

>> clearly, the people on the house intelligence committee had some sense. i don't know about the back knowledge or the inner workings of the flynn situation, but i do know the acting attorney general sally yates was astonished. at the fbi was going around the white house counsel to set up interviews. she obviously didn't say anything about that after she leaves office. and she doesn't come up it's not illuminated as james comey is dg his work, i asked him a lot of these types of questions and he dodged on the specifics. i think there will be fallout as learn more, there are more shoes to drop here as far as documents, significant information. some of these republicans have been trying to get that out, some of it has been classified. but others i think perhaps to your point look the other way. >> tucker: really quick, i will ask you to speculate. when we get another president, whenever that is, how paranoid will that president to be dealing with the fbi and cia, doj and general question marks >> i think pretty frightened, looking at the actions so far. i don

intelligence committee, but you wouldn't know it. how many hearings have they had prior to the pandemic on china, on the potential for a pandemic, on china's military buildup, on china, he's running an impeachment hearing over there. didn't he let us down to? >> he let us more than down. the intel committee is much different than every other one. they are selected directly by their leaders. i appoint the republican, the speaker appoints the democrat. what you have found with adam schiff line, and remember what the intel committee is. they get information the other members will never know. they are relying upon these individuals to be truthful to them, time and again, adam schiff has lied to the country. he should be removed from that committee, and then he turned that committee in to an impeachment committee which was not the place or form for it. he rigged the system. he even had the members on the committee when they could talk or when they could be spoken. many withhold information for all those hearings they had down in the basem

and adam schiff, the chair of the house intelligence committee. nancy pelosi. it is not an accident that all of these people were moving in concert, simultaneously toward one end that was obvious; and that is, to unseat the president of the united states. >> yeah. lou: am i making too much of what are just mere historical coincidences? >> no, you just forgot the really important actor. you named a lot of the bad actors in this horrible tragedy, but you forgot the biggest one, the ten ablers, and -- the enablers, and that is the mainstream media who might as well move their offices into the democratic national committee. they were in on this from the start. if you look at how they're reacting over the last 24 hours, you know, they're just in denial. now, these are the people that ought to be looked at for treason, okay? because a lot of these people knew about the clinton paid-for dossier. they were briefed on this, and then they were given these transcripts, okay? intelligence transcripts, they were given this information. that's all legal. those leaks are ille

>> clearly the people in the house intelligence committee had some sense. i don't know about the back knowledge of the inner workings of the flynn situation, but i know the acting attorney general sally yates was astonished that the fbi was going around the white house counsel to set up the interview with flynn. she obviously did not say anything about that after she leaves office. and we don't -- it's not illuminated as james comey is doing his book tour. i spoke to him on "special report" asking him these types of questions and he dodged on the specifics. i think that there will be fallout as we learn more, i am told that i had chuck grassley on the show last night that there are more shoes to drop in terms of documents, significant information. some of the republicans have been trying to get that out, and some has been classified. but others i think to your point, looking the other way and fought other battles. >> tucker: really quick i'm going to ask you to speculate. when we get another president, how paranoid will that president be about dealing with

we learned that samantha power's in her sworn testimony before the house intelligence committee said that -- 300 people? wasn't done by me. who did it? we need to know why the increase in unmasking. and how did obama know about the unmasking in that january 5th meeting? >> absolutely. >> sean: good questions. thank you, sara. big breaking development from our own had ed henry. amongst the batches of intel being declassified by the acting dni director ric grenell, we have evidence that john brennan actually had intelligence that the russians wanted hillary to win. remember, "the new york times" finallyy said, oh, it was likely russian disinformation from the get-go. in these newly released house intelligence committees investigations and transcripts, wera learned that podesta said, hillary knew we were paying the russians and it was coming from russia. buckle up. much more to come. especially as the senate judiciary committee is prepared to issue subpoenas to deep state bad actors who refused to comply with the investigations into the russia probe. the committee is seeking more answer

a fact not lost on the house intelligence committee chair adam schiff who tweeted, flynn pled guilty about lying to the fbi about the illicit to russian contacts. his lies do not now become truths. the dismissal does not exonerate him, but does incriminate bill barr. and the worst politicized nation of the justice department in its history. and the doj has lost its way, but career people please, stay, because america needs you. the country is hungry for honest, competent leadership. meanwhile a u.s. military leaders serving as a valet for the president tested positive for the coronavirus. the white house acknowledge the test result, but added that the president and the vice president have since tested negative into their last interaction with that staffer. busy night. >> yes, it is. thank you for getting us up-to-date. good to see you. now for the top story of the night. thousands of pages of newly released documents and transcripts detailing all kinds of things. the role of the steele dossier, and the obama administration in launching the russia probe into the trump campaign. who kn

>> adam schiff should not be the chair of the house intelligence committee. his gavel should be removed. he should be censured, he should resign. there's a lot that should happen, but nancy pelosi isn't going to punish adam schiff. in fact, that's the reason why he has the gavel in the first place. he's the chair of the house intelligence committee which became the house impeachment committee because of the way he writes these fairy tale pariti parities. because of the russia investigation, it became the impeachment push. it's actually one that the democrats were warned, it's one that the media rewards a month so i'm not going to expect any repercussions even though he should've resigned today. >> ed: what about this parade of former obama officials on various networks adding to what adam schiff said, they said there was collusion, they knew there was, they were worried about michael flynn, worried about all these different things, they said that in public and then went under oath to the intelligence committee and as you know, now we see these transcripts tha

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joining me now, adam schiff of california, chairman of the house intelligence committee. great to see you. thank you very much. >> thank you. great to see you. >> what about paul manafort getting out of jail early? the news today about paul manafort walking out of jail in pennsylvania. there's no record of any infection in that prison but is that the appropriate step given the possibility of infection in the prison context? >> well, the problem is bill barr has so politicized the justice department, justice system, that people can't have confidence in the decision to release people like paul manafort to do home imprisonment is based on the merits, is based on either his health situation or covid situation at present. no one can really have confidence in that. i can tell you, andrea, in southern california there are two prisons not far from my distribute, one at terminal island, which 40% to 70% of inmates have covid. i can bet you the families of those incarcerated in those two institutions are looking at the release of paul manafort today and saying how come my family me

first document showing whalso gs of house intelligence committee interviews showing that no one in the obama administration or associated with president trump could point to any direct evidence of russian collusion. and nobody could verify or cooperate information in the now infamous steele dossier that the fbi repeatedly used to obtain warrants to see her veil a member of the trump campaign. and one more shoe may still dr drop. u.s. attorney john durham's investigation into the origins of the russia probe appeared to be on the home stretch. as to whether the administration is looking at different charges from those probes. katie mack and then he says this. >> there were some very, very questionable actions that happen in this case. i do think the american people deserve answers, but i leave it to the justice department how to get those answers. >> in the justice department is under fire from democrats specifically those in the house judiciary committee who are now asking doj inspector general michael horowitz to investigate attorney general bill barr for "improper political interferen