the fbi is beyond redemption. all of its bureaus and its institutions have to be farmed out and broken up. if you have an fbi warranted there is no guarantee that that has not been altered. if you subpoena and you want fbi records on the phone, they will be wiped clean. if you want disinterested legal counsel, look at lisa page and peter strzok. if you are the fbi and you want to find out why hillary clinton hired a foreign national to find dirt on a political opponent then you will hire the same for national. and you look at the last four directors. we just saw christopher wray and he just stonewalled every question and then he flew in an fbi plan, our plan, a luxury jet because he had to go to his own vacation spot. he took over from andrew mccabe, what did he do? lied four times to federal investigators and his wife was running for office with clinton related tax money while he was investigating hillary clinton's email scandal. he took over about james comey, controversial devices on the media, and then when he

the fbi go in on this raid with a bunch of other fbi agents with secret surgeon service agents around. it would be virtually impossible for them to plant evidence. maybe that has happened at some point in american history, but it certainly did not happen with respect to this particular raid. i think we've all got to take a deep breath and step back and see what the facts are. maybe in the and this was an unjustifiable weren't, and it wasn't a raid on mar-a-lago. but you know something? maybe, just maybe, there was good reason for it and good cause for it, and we don't have enough facts yet to have an opinion on that. nothing happens that a vacuum. we know this with politics. >> when you look at this, and you see the washington post reporting now that there may have been something to do with nuclear weapons, this documentation, what would you like to say to the republican party about how they've handled this? because they're fundraising off of this. i'm getting the emails. >> any movie or tv show that you see or book you read, when you make a deal with the devil there's a price to pay.

let's play fbi agent. [laughter] what does it tell us about the relationship between al qaeda and the taliban if the leader of al qaeda is staying in a house owned by the number two guy of the taliban? would you say it is close and friendly? dir. wray: nothing good. sen. graham: nothing good. are there training camps in afghanistan being operated by al qaeda types? dir. wray: well, that, i think i might need to have a follow-up with you. sen. graham: fair enough. do the al qaeda and isis elements in afghanistan, throughout the world, do they wish to hit us again if they could hear at home? dir. wray: oh, yeah. sen. graham: oh, yeah. ok. now, this other border. have you been there lately? dir. wray: yes. sen. graham: array. secretary marcus says the southern border is secure. from a counterterrorism point of view, do we have operational control of the southern border regarding counterterrorism threats that would lead you to conclude the border is secure? dir. wray: well, let me answer that this way. while o

, the doj, his fbi, his doj. take a look. >> i'm opposed to defunding the police and defunding the fbi. l look, there is no greater responsibility for the government than ensuring safety of our people. >> when hunter biden's home gets raided, i hope he feels the same way. we condemn all threats and all attacks on law enforcement, not when politically convenient. on this program, for the rank and file, 99%, we are grateful are if the good fbi agents and employees that risk their lives to keep us safe, we support them, the fbi is not immune from oversight and criticism and they are not immune from having bad apples or being called out for massive agency wide failure and failure inside the upper echelon of the fbi. breaking tonight, we're learning,a midgrowing scrutiny of the fbi and doj, the department is banning political appointees from partisan events. that is not good enough, wray and garland have done a disservice. director wray should have taken what should be the world's premiere law enforcement agency and s

host: the fbi director testified before the senate on fbi oversight issues. we will take you to that hearing. it starts momentarily. >>'s hearing of the senate judiciary hearing comes in order. we will hear from christopher wray. his second -- i promise to restore the traditional oversight will including annual oversight hearings from key agencies in the jurisdiction. -- there is more to come. you told us that domestic terrorism was, quote, "metastasizing across the country and it is not going away soon." today, 10 years later i am afraid the threat has grown worse. in the decades, violent white supremacist have slaughtered people. they included the mass shootings in the manual ame church in 2015. the pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 and a walmart in texas in 2018. a white list -- supremacist -- last year, you told the committee that the top domestic terrorist threats continues to be those who are identified as racial extremists, specifically those who advocate for the superiority of the white house. --white race. i look forward to hearing from you from the steps

i love the fbi. i have such respect for the fbi. but we have concerns today. we have concerns primarily in the leadership. i would like to say that those concerns are not the feeling of every american majority of americans. i am hearing it from both sides of the aisle. they are worried about the weaponization, the politicization, the d.o.j. and fbi warning. this rate is unprecedented all we want answers and we deserve answers. we are the government of the people and where the representatives of the people. on behalf of our citizens, we are here to have oversight no agency in our government is its own standalone government. accountability must be there transparency must be there. i want to frame a scenario that is consistent with so much of what we are dealing with and what happened at the baseball june 14, 2017 a heavily armed assassin clearly by social media and other things he wrote was motivated politically, he hated donald trump, he wanted to kill republicans. he had named the republicans in his pocket he was outside of the baseball field for two months wa

so we have to have an fbi, and it has to be an fbi we can trust. we can't trust it until its behavior merits trust. until it's honest, to the extent it can be transparent, consistent in the way it enforces the law. we have to have a federal law enforcement agency like that. we can't just make it go away and hope for the best. we're nowhere near that point, because the people are supposed to be overseeing the fbi have ignored egregious examples of corruption over many years. they're getting hard to ignore, because they're just so obvious now. it's not just the raid on mar-a-lago. consider the gretchen whitmer kidnapping case. you may remember that story from the fall of 2020. you may have followed it a little bit and heard how it ended. so it seemed like a terrorism plot was in fact a setup by the government to make a group of ordinary people in michigan look like terrifying right wing extremists. those violent white nationalists joe biden is always mumbling about. turns out there aren't enough of those people in real life. they're pretty rare actua

the fbi raids his home and they do it secretly, the fbi tells no one. donald trump's response is to tell everyone. that's how we know it and then to rush out emails raising money on the fact that the fbi executed a search warrant at his home. we've had 48 hours of public comment since the fbi surprised donald trump by executing that search warrant at his florida home and we will now present to you every single republican statement about that search warrant that is true. so, here are all the republican statements about the trump search warrant that are true. sorry. none, not one. i would happily sit at this desk and read to you every two statement by any republican anywhere about the trump search warrant if there were any. there is not a single true statement made by a republican about the search warrant. now in fairness most republican members of congress have managed to say absolutely nothing about it. republican senator mitt romney is typical. the salt lake tribune reports that senator mitt romney did not respond to requests seeking comment. but every

that is three fbi field offices. you step back, fbi taskforces focused on violent crime, sees more than 80,000 firearms and dismantled nearly 300 gangs and criminal enterprises and we are not going to let up. every chance i get, i try to highlight that law enforcement is taking on this challenge at a time when jobs are becoming more dangerous especially for our state local brothers and sisters. in 2021, 73 officers were baloney asleep -- bird -- were murdered. pi -- dfp i experienced loss -- d -- f e -- investigating crimes against children at one of our longtime taskforces officers were shot and killed in a ambers out -- ambush outside of our office. this year's deaths are keeping pace with last years. this june, more officers were murdered in this country than in any single month in the past four years. men and women of law enforcement make o'rourke sacrifices and adr support -- heroic sacrifices and they need our support. this year has brought the harbor of mass shootings -- harbor of mass shootings --horror of ma

twenty five years in the fbi. and i'll tell you this, will i gers, k many times inneys tong n twenty five years, zero. you talked about hillary clinton. wow. what a diffe handle things. we took her atittedchet emails e under subpoena, 30000 of them ug on details for her daughter'ss wedding, but they were under subpoena and we took her at her word and we didn't kick her door in chappaqua, new york . go to comey, director comey, he's tne a the time surrogate, not even on his own to the new york times memorandums that were fbi property, federalew records act. yes, some ofstctri confidentialt would have been top secretut ono it. will that's the rulehe of law has to t be applied equally, not separately. so therefore, why is it not you have those three lette to your name,hose the fbi is not the only corrupted federal e nithe cia.from the cdc t we could look at every american instit and wonder what has gone wrong. bu one in the spotlighthtith te fbi? w a statement. push back on corrupt. what the problems are is is theo t

this morning when we're told by the fbi, this person went into the local fbi field office there in cincinnati, ohio, with sources telling me and my colleague, josh campbell, an ar-15-style rifle and a nail gun. fbi agents responded and this person took off. basically, in a car, shutting down a highway. now, we just got an update a short time ago from state authorities in ohio who said that they actually tried to pull over this person, and this person engaged with them, shots were being fired from the car, they continued -- that person continued to take off, and now, again, this is a standoff that's going on, really, over an hour at this point. but yeah, big question here is, what was this person's motivation behind all of this? it's very unclear at this moment. was it a personal vendetta? did it have to do with the raid that happened on monday and all the rhetoric that has been spread now about the fbi? as one source told me, in the fbi, everybody hates us right now, but certainly, this is a serious situation they're trying to get under control and we're still trying to learn what the issue i

they have to clean up the fbi. you have to go deep from the top and we have to stop all of this corruption. this is unamerican, and it's going to destroy our country. >> sean: let me give you a fox news helped line greg jarrett, grassley says new whistle blower reveals deeply rooted political infection within the fbi. can the american people trust that the fbi and the doj are committed to equal justice and equal application of our laws? because i'm feeling they can't have that confidence that we need to have. >> yeah, trust is earned, and the fbi and the department of justice has squandered any trust. yet you have merrick garland standing in front of cameras saying trust the fbi, how dare anybody question their integrity. well, look at their track record. this is the fbi that had a lawyer who doctored evidence to gain a warrant to spy on the trump campaign. the fbi paid an ex british spy to conger up phoney evidence that the fbi knew was bogus and yet they ran with it. this is the fbi who had a director, james come

this is this is going to n continue on the fbi right now. is the gestapo.he the fbi is the gestapo. whether it's out in colorado putting a gold staro, mother lie tina peters in chains, peter navarro in chains, it'sr absolutely this is an obscenity and we're going t fight fire with fire the way to win election, win them overwhelmingly and then use the appropriation process to choke down the fbi and shut down the justice department and get to the bottom of who approved this. this is this is so outrageous. i it is the only investigation. i want to ask this question, steve. you know, i'm familiar with i'mm familiar with your point of view. i'm familiar with the opinions you share on war room. i'm familiar with how deep you fear the corruption has run y y within the united states of america. ori'm curious, i said this earlier in the program, believing elections can change the place in which we sit today. inunited of america is a very o optimistic point of view because thiss corruption, if it is partisan corruption, isn't relegated to the fbi.. i we saw eighty seven thousand new irs agent

let's play fbi agent. [laughter] what does it tell us about the relationship between al qaeda and the taliban if the leader of al qaeda is staying in a house owned by the number two guy of the taliban? would you say it is close and friendly? dir. wray: nothing good. sen. graham: nothing good. are there training camps in afghanistan being operated by al qaeda types? dir. wray: well, that, i think i might need to have a follow-up with you. sen. graham: fair enough. do the al qaeda and isis elements in afghanistan, throughout the world, do they wish to hit us again if they could hear at home? dir. wray: oh, yeah. sen. graham: oh, yeah. ok. now, this other border. have you been there lately? dir. wray: yes. sen. graham: array. secretary marcus says the southern border is secure. from a counterterrorism point of view, do we have operational control of the southern border regarding counterterrorism threats that would lead you to conclude the border is secure? dir. wray: well, let me answer that this way. while o

it's not just defund the fbi. it's destroy the fbi, which is what paul gosar said. what marjorie taylor greene said that, she tweeted a picture of an upside down american flag. according to the flag code, that's distress under extreme danger to life or property. in other words, that's not a tweet or a message. that's a call to arms. there will be more violence and members of congress who have seen their capitol police killed who have seen their other colleagues whether it's steve scalise or gabby giffords shot at and maimed, they will see this happen again and they will have to answer for it eventually. >> as a former secret service agent, paul, what that moment must have been like as they are there to -- sorry, jonathan. they are there to sort of protect the former president, and yet they have to listen to the fbi i am assuming. what that most must have been like. >>? very smartlerly, cooler heads prevailed. coordination was in advance of the raid, in advance of the search and seizure of mar-a-lago. communication between the secret service and the fbi did occur. no

fbi director wray. in the night to remember in the nation's capital, shannon. >> shannon: you covered washington for a very long time. this is a very unique event. things are doing a lot of extra duty for us tonight on that and we'll watch and see how it plays out. kevin, thank you. because you bet. >> shannon: coverage will continue on "fox & friends first" and on foxnews.com. tonight from washington, i'm ucshannon bream. is post and wri dogs have been such an j important part of my life. usi have landed a new puppy as i was writing, i found that there just wasn't as sharp and i knew i needed to do something. so i started taking forever and i realized that i was much more clear. i was remembering the details that i was supposed to forever just keep my brain working elinright provision, healthier elinright provision, healthier brains, better life skills the power with three. he's feeling it. . g. it's an invigorating rush. and seconds for that one of a kind, wolf, which leaves you feeling dream feel the

what fbi -- suppressed. what fbi involvement was there in that letter by the 51 former intelligence operatives, former officials in that's manager we need to investigate. we need to find out how that letter was, how that was proposed, who drafted it. were they in contact with the same fbi officials that were trying to suppress this laptop information? maria: yeah. well, this matters greatly because when we don't see accountability, when we don't actually see wrongs being righted, the more than people will continue to dis-- the american people will continue to distrust and question. that was part of what was going on in 2020 the as well. people were questioning, well, can we trust them? we mow what they did in the russia collusion hoax. your election right now in wisconsin, you say they are interfering in your election because of these smears on you. let's take a look at where you stand in wisconsin. tell me about your opponent and why you believe you right now are being smeared and this is the result. 50% fo

the internet, the fbi got me, or they sent the regular cops. and it just stops there mid sentence. luckily no one but shiffer was hurt today. ben collins is part of the team that confirmed the suspect's identity and dug out his social media posts and following the story all day. ben, amazing. you've been looking around some dark parts of internet. i don't even know how to describe this story. but there is a guy who was fairly actively responding to the right wing response to the search. >> yes. >> there's been a right wing response that said this is illegitimate and the fbi needed to explain itself and the department of justice but this guy decided to handle it on his own. >> i want to say the very dark parts of the internet, the neo nazis, they don't care about this that much, but the parts that are trump obsessed, truly obsessed with donald trump, those are the people right now who are the most angry. and that's what you saw today. for example, i want to say, on may 7th, this is what shiffer posted in response to marjorie taylor greene. they

so switch over from the cia, an overseas organization, to the fbi. the fbi has offices across the country. 50 plus major offices. many minor offices. those offices include spaces that are in public buildings. those individuals are not only open to the public, they are required to deal with the public in conversations about things like cybersecurity in initiatives to educate the community how federal law enforcement works. those organizations, fbi offices across the country, deal not only with political corruption, that is a tiny portion of what they do. they deal with local officers and police departments and state officials, sheriffs across the country on stuff like organized crime, drug trafficking and child pornography. mean while, pieces who are armed and in camouflaged show up outside phoenix, arizona, and say we're going to guard this office because we're concerned about what president trump is and we want you to feel safe walking in. how would you feel, wolf? when i transitioned from the cia to fbi, if i had a bunch of people showing up saying

fbi or the department of justice. it is also not known, by the way, if country top cop u.s. attorney general merrick garland was ahead of time of raid has not been made public white house distancing itself sayings no the idea a raid was planned you can expect more rhetoric, get any statement at all from law enforcement on xa took place yesterday what future holds. where does it go from here. dagen: ashley webster thank you for terrific reporting up all night likely ashley webster joining me former fbi assistant director former fbi agent chris swecker attorney in charlotte, north carolina, joining all long "fox & friends" co-host todd piro, attorney lafler tengler chief investment officer nancy tengler, good to see you -- based on your experience would christopher wray have had to sign off on this raid or know about it along with attorney general merrick garland of the united states? >> without a doubt. of the this type of this, unprecedented never happened, minor public officials, search warrant executed happened when

i love the fbi. i have such respect for the fbi. but we have concerns today. we have concerns primarily in the leadership. i would like to say that those concerns are not the feeling of every american majority of americans. i am hearing it from both sides of the aisle. they are worried about the weaponization, the politicization, the d.o.j. and fbi warning. this rate is unprecedented all we want answers and we deserve answers. we are the government of the people and where the representatives of the people. on behalf of our citizens, we are here to have oversight no agency in our government is its own standalone government. accountability must be there transparency must be there. i want to frame a scenario that is consistent with so much of what we are dealing with and what happened at the baseball june 14, 2017 a heavily armed assassin clearly by social media and other things he wrote was motivated politically, he hated donald trump, he wanted to kill republicans. he had named the republicans in his pocket he was outside of the baseball field for two months wa

this didn't come from the local fbi field office. and in palmn beach, florida, yoa know who this came from?ce this came from one place and one building and thatng is the white house in washington, d.c. they want tot attack a guy who they view is his greatest threat is biden's greatest threat. xa and that's exactly what donald trump is because you know what? he had annat incredibly strongan country. people realize he was an effective president. and you see bidenve right now,ed i mean, btaiwan is getting circled by military planesht literally as we sit here and speak right now, you've got, you know, russia, ukraine, disaster. total you've got everything that's happening in iran, which is anig disaster. you've got inflation, you've got gas prices. all the things you talk aboutl all right. we're not respected by anybody around the world. , you dnomy is garbage know, and they worry thaton donald trump will come back in and win this very easily. they also worry about the twenty, twenty two midterms ,which is the only reason they're doing t

why did the fbi had to search trump's home? why couldn't they have just asked donald trump for the documents? why won't merrick garland explain himself? while today we got answers to basically all of those questions. the justice department did ask trump for those documents. that even sent him a subpoena. and enough or mental down that trump did not hand over everything he promised to hand over. they searched his home as a matter of last resort, and attorney general merrick garland is ready to show you the warrant, signed by a federal judge that authorized that search, as well as a list of with the fbi collective. the question now, what are we gonna learn next? joining us is the former federal prosecutor barbara mcquade. barbara, there is so much going on tonight, i want to start with your reaction. you have seen a lot in your life, in your career. but the breaking news from the washington post that some of the information that the justice department was searching for with the fbi were nuclear documents. i'm not sure i have word

the fbi director. the fbi's abuse of power is nothing new. then there is the ongoing hunter biden laptop probe that the fbi downplayed before the 2020 election. on behalf of millions of americans, let me say of course it was real. doesn't that seem a tad bit politically created. it was turned over by hunter biden and signed a signature that looks like hunter biden's because it was hunter biden and he has an address that was hunter biden's. it's just the latest example of the fbi betraying us. us. hunter biden goes on vacation with jill and joe. >> if we do not defend it, democracy simply will not stand. >> my former political party is fully anti-democracy it's a fascist political party. >> the threat trump poses to democracy. >> now the left sees no problem with the fbi's abuse of power against them. we can all complain and condemn the fbi, but that doesn't fix anything. the freedom of information act. you have got to get documents under foia. no big deal. except they will stonewall you until you give them up. abolish the fisa court. it's goo

personnel and fbi buildings. he had never seen anything like it in his career as an intelligence agent. these were not vague calls for violence. he said they were very specific, the kind they turned over to law enforcement immediately. they were very alarming to him. he said it spiked in the wake of this search at mar-a-lago. >> tell me about a nail gun. was there anyone injured? define a nail gun. is it what it sounds like? >> reporter: it's a construction tool that is meant -- >> okay. sure. >> reporter: it's meant to forcefully pound nails into a wall or whatever but can fire them as projectiles and do a lot of damage. we don't know. we have not heard reports there were injuries. >> we had some live pictures up there of cincinnati. that may have been -- we saw people with bulletproof vets. i'm going to clarify what that was. more broadly, ken, what more do we know about some reports -- "the wall street journal" in one context and "newsweek" reporting there was an inside or in one case, an fbi informant after t

but even yesterday, we saw chris wray, the fbi director, it was fbi agents carrying out this search at mar-a-lago just a couple days before. chris wray yesterday, he was asked about it, and he said that he didn't want to comment on it. so, we just don't know what garland's going to say right now, but we are awaiting, and also, cnn was able to report previously that there were justice department officials who have wanted garland to make a statement. we'll have to see if that all comes together in about 40 minutes. >> katelyn, just explain why typically the justice department doesn't comment in a situation like this after serving some kind of warrant. >> right, well, remember, this is an ongoing federal criminal investigation, and as far as we know, it's about national security interests, national security secrets, classified information. the justice department is very, very careful when they are involved in ongoing investigations for a couple different reasons. they don't want to spoil the work that they're doing by revealing too much. they also want to protect the people who could be c

the fbi even put fbi -- in the water behind stone's house and someone invited cnn cameras to film it all at 5:30 a.m. meanwhile, and you know what happened to lieutenant flynn? his family was treated to legal charges before that and flynn was purposely misled by yap, director james comey himself. he wanted to take advantage. i sent them. prime's administration, the first few days he was in office. george papadopoulos railroaded with a process crime. more recently, peter navarro shackled at an airport, humiliated publicly because of a misdemeanor? usually you tell someone to report at this time or we will send people out and execute a warrant. hillary clinton put america's national security at risk, classified material stored on her private server. we have equal justice in this country customer and she tried to cover it up we know by destroying evidence, including wiping hard. it is something we never knew or heard about before called bleach bit. she destroyed phones with hammers, returned other phones without the sim cards, meaning without anything in them. she deleted over 30,000 of

fbi! >> that is roger stone being awoken by the fbi agents and i would say riot gear, just flak jackets, bulletproof vests, one had a helmet on. i mean, agents where that when they don't know what they're going to encounter and it's just remarkable to see this because this is not how anyone else connects to the robert mueller investigation has been arrested. >> sean: experiences this himself, roger stone to respond. interesting what you went through and i'm sure that brings back some very fond memories for you and your wife who by the way just survived cancer, thank god for that. let's talk about that day and let's talk about that morning. if they were to call your lawyer and say you needed to report at a certain time because you're going to be arrested, would you have reported? >> in fact the special councils office spoke on the phone the day before and i would have turned myself in. but at 6:00 a.m., 29 totally swat clad fbi agents arriving in 17 armored vehicles with a helicopter overhe

and that is why the fbi searched mar-a-lago on monday. and we now also know what the fbi took. we've got this list actually of it's literally here and it says the words "receipt for property." so this is the inventory list. let me read some of this to you because they put on here in as much detail as they could. the executive grant for clemency regarding roger jason stone jr. info re the president of france. various classified ts/sci documents signifying one of the highest levels of classification. those are documents only meant to be viewed in a special government facility. those were found around mar-a-lago. a binder of photos, a hands written note, and it continues. miscellaneous secret documents. miscellaneous top secret documents. more miscellaneous top secret documents. miscellaneous confidential documents. miscellaneous secret documents. confidential document. this list goes on and on and on. boxes of stuff. in all, 11 sets of classified documents, four of them, according to this receipt, marked top secret. four of them marked top secret, and one with that special design

is there -- he says a large number of people from the fbi are there -- how long would the fbi be allowed to be on the property i mean, do they have a limited amount of time to search hither and beyond for whatever it is they're looking for? >> well, practically speaking they can be on the property for hours. that's happened in the past in investigations i was involved in when i was a federal prosecutor. it's not uncommon, for example, if law enforcement is searching a large office complex to take hours doing so and interview many employees and so on so they could be conducting interviews and gathering evidence over the course of hour i wouldn't be surprised if that happens. >> you know, i would say this -- this started popping up on twitter, i don't know, a half hour ago, maybe a little longer. but it wasn't until the former president sent out this notice that anyone even knew about it by way of example and to lift the veil a little bit, our big station in south florida, wtvj, nbc 6 in miami this isn't part of its news yet. west palm has a crew on the way. so the breaking news today came

they need to send fbi agents from the washington office down there, they would have used fbi agents in south florida, and it would have coordinated with the u.s. attorney's office down there if they are playing it by the book. number two, he wouldn't have done anything without the signoff of the attorney general of the united states. period. number three, this was well orchestrated, so this is been going on for weeks. you keep asking your guests what's the justification. there is no justification. what's he going to say tomorrow, the attorney general? here's my guess. we've been negotiating with trump and his lawyers since february when we found out they had this information. we were getting nowhere, and then we know or we heard that some documents were being destroyed. maggie haveman of "the new york times" was on cnn. they've been running pictures of hers that she's going to have in the book of documents being flushed down the toilet. that doesn't mean a thing. it could be anything. >> sean: had the name on it, that's all it was. >> what i'm saying is you asked what with a pretext be

you also have record cases like james comey was accused of taking fbi material when he left the fbi. the history has been not to prosecute those cases. >> todd: jonathan, how many raids did you conduct on behalf of the glorified librarian that the national archive when you were an fbi agent? >> it was all the time. now, to be honest with you, that happened about as much as white supremacy arrest. it never occurs. those cases are unheard of at white supremacy, except in present pretty much because this is the thing is you. i was questioning where there is authority would come from for the fbi to get involved to the national archives can actually reach out to the fbi and the doj to do this, but you have to understand something to the fbi cannot tell the doj what they want to go after. they can recommend it, but the doj has to approve it. on the flip side, the doj can tell the fbi we want you to go after this and that is very important for people to see the trickle-down effect. i wanted to thing. when we look at christopher wray, we see exactly the one mistake, and i'm a bit trump suppo

>> the fbi is not above the law. i am saying, if they filed a law, which they did, should not be allowed, the former president is above the law? >> he is a political target, he is being harassed by a lawless, rogue agency. they spied on him, they have no respect for him, they hate the conservatives, they hate the republicans. >> wouldn't it be prudent to wait and see with the facts are before we have such a 20 statement? >> we have enough facts. >> in fact, he does not have the facts behind the fridge weren't. former president trump does but yet as refused to release them. meanwhile, fbi agents across the country are not being forced to watch their backs for doing their jobs. >> drew griffin joins us now. there are some culture right maga folks who are cynical and no what he said. i can't tell if he knows what he's saying is absurd or does he actually believe it? >> that is a question i always ask myself when i meet these people, and i'm the ultra maga members of commerce, they raise money off the stuff, they get on

once they see the fbi raid in his house. once they see him potentially indicted, once they see him fingerprinted. even for people who are not schooled in the finer points of law, someone is going to get the notion that maybe not only is this not a president in the mold of anyone else that we have ever seen before, but also for republicans who were eager to electra publicans to congress this fall, and the white house two years for now, i think they may finally get the memo that, this guy may not turn out to be very electable. >> i don't need to tell you, michael beschloss, because you know well, that there will be people who will turn a corner, and there will also be people who take the former president at face value, when he tells them that the democratic party and the fbi are one in the same, when he tells him that the justice system in this country is not to be believed. what does that look like? what does that mean for our democracy, in the days and weeks ahead, that there are still going to be a significant group of amer

building or attacked the fbi agent somewhere. the other part that scares me a lot is, when we see some of these attacks, when these attacks are successful, luckily this wasn't was not. the more often that they are successful, the more often that people try to copy. then we see this with mass shootings, this contagious effect, that one attack leads to one, two, three more attacks, in a very short span because there are many people considering this. when you have elective leaders across the country calling for the fbi to be federal workers, that they are supposed to be, protecting, funding, providing budget for. using them as the target, while they are also setting up their supporters to go confront the best march man in the united states of america. ironically. so it's a weird conundrum that i see in our political rhetoric right now. it keeps spilling out. and i'm quite frightened that over the next two or three weeks, particularly the search warrants debate continues, you are gonna see more attacks like this, or attacks on other

first off, it goes to the fbi. there are many layers involved here because this is not an ordinary situation. it must be signed off by the head of the fbi, a trump appointee. then it goes to a separate branch of government. it goes to a judge. the judge reviews the request for a search warrant. you've got to show that you have probable cause that a crime exists and that mar-a-lago contains evidence of that crime. you've got to set forth what you're looking for. that's why it is tough to go beyond that. if you find other evidence outside of the four corners of that search warrant, you may not be able to use it. it depends what the search warrant says. that's why, sometimes, if you find other evidence, you will then go back to the judge and say, "hey, can we get another search warrant?" while mar-a-lago is still being locked down, the fbi is sure to cross every t and dot every i. in this case, the judge, i'm sure, scrutinized the search warrant request more than any rr received because this is unprecedented. this sea

the fbi has evolved. to a certain extent but unfortunately one of the things that made me realize that when i was writing this book that i was on the right path was i saw in the new york times where there were 15 or 16 women who had filed a lawsuit. this was in 2019 had filed a lawsuit against the fbi because their firearms instructors at quantico were trying to sabotage their training. 2019 so i thought to myself has it changed really i mean has it. yes, there are more women in leadership positions, but i think that there's in the fbi. it's it's still inherently male-dominated. and you know, i think that unfortunately a lot of the negative media that the fbi is getting is warranted, especially when it comes to those young women those young gymnasts who went to the fbi to talk about their sexual assault and they were ignored. i personally think and this is just my opinion. it's not the opinion of the fbi. they were ignored because they were young women. so what i do now, i have gotten so many emails from

it means the fbi got me. we know there was a chase that pursued with schiffer, who was killed in this standoff with authorities. again, we're trying to confirm if this user account is that same person. digging deeper into this person, this user's account, there is just a lot of rhetoric encouraging violence against the fbi, seeing that they were at january 6th, it's unclear if they went into the capitol. but also a lot of beliefs that the 2020 election was stolen from donald trump. something else, fixation on the mar-a-lago. he said, this is your call to arms from me. just a lot of disturbing details that we know law enforcement is looking into, as if investigation on the ground in 1234i9 is still ongoing, even though that standoff is now over. >> yeah, you're digging through the social media. i'm sure they are, as well. any trail they can find. do they have any idea at this point what the suspect was actually trying to do at the field fbi office? >> reporter: that's a big question that we're trying to pose t

tonight's news, that the fbi has raided the home of the immediate past-president of the united states, it feels both astonishing and sort of inevitable in equal measure. before republican president donald trump, we never before had a president impeached twice in a single term. we've never had so many members of a president's own party vote not only to impeach him but to convict him and remove him from office and bar him from ever serving in office again. we have never before had a president reject the results of the election that did remove him from office, we never before had a president summon his followers into a violent insurrection at the u.s. capitol to try to stop the transfer of power to the successor and we never before had a president who was known to tear up official government documents and chief of staff is known to have burned documents in a white house fireplace, which would have been the, not for the fact that the former president him has repeatedly been accused of flushing government documents down nearby toilets. this is a former president who unlike any other former

charles, i'm glad he stuck up for the fbi and the fbi agents on the ground. i think he was passing the buck. >> charles: the fbi has been under tremendous amount of negative publicity for a long time, going on many years now. to your point, it's for the most part the american public has been frustrated with leadership. the notion that they want from this agency that looked after all americans to becoming a more of a political tool. i just don't know this will help their cause. >> no. i traveled in circles that involved judges, and police chiefs and lawyers and a lot of regular people and former fbi colleagues. i have gotten literally dozens, scores of calls and e-mails from people that ordinarily will always support and respect the fbi. now they're questioning me and saying hey, what's going on over there? you know, really comes to a matter of when will the fbi push back at the department of justice. the doj, they do report to doj. if you look at the backdrop of crossfire hurricane and all of the misfires there that are well-documented and inspector general r

he said all of that as a top fbi official, one that worked directly for the top leadership in the fbi. then a week later, strzok tested, quote, i want to believe that the path you through out for consideration in andy, presumably andrew mccabe's office, that there's no way he gets elected. but i'm afraid we can't take that risk. it's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before 40. so a top fbi agent, with an insurance policy, will stop it to thwart the will of the american people and ensure that one candidate can never win a free and fair election in america. by the way, where's that january 6th committee looking into this issue? now, of course the insurance policy was none other than the russia conclusion hoax, peter strzok became the lead investigator into the bogus conspiracy theory. his bias was career and obvious and political and strzok never ever faced legal consequences. it's why i often say we don't have equal justice or equal application of our laws in america any longer. that is a sad thing to say, but sadly it's true. strzok ends up with a book deal, his

today's fbi action at donald trump's home at mar-a-lago, is just the latest in a string of fbi raids on key figures in the investigation into january 6th. back in june, we learned that the fbi seized a cell phone belonged to john eastman. you know, the lawyer for donald trump, and author of the infamous memo, the came on the same day that federal agents raided jeffrey clark's home, where he opened the door in his underwear. clark, of course, the former doj official, who supported trump's claims of election fraud, and tried to help him overturn the results. and tonight, we are learning more about what went down on the ex presidents residence in mar-a-lago. harry lippman is a former u. s. attorney, and a former deputy assistant attorney general. he's the legal affairs columnist at the los angeles times. jill wine-banks is the former assistant water gate prosecutor, and general counsel for the united states army. they both join me now. harry lippman, you heard me just dial through all of those. do you see it as part of a pattern? >> certainly, but there's a very big point, alicia, i thi

and that is thee fbi. the justice department, by theth way, just labelede concerned parents speaking out at school board meetings as potential domestic terrorists that may need to be investigated at the request of the democrats. they have also seemingly ignored the dozens of attacks on pro-lifefe pregnancy centers. they declined to prosecute violent far riotersrs who attacked federal buildings in the summer ofriho 2020. that courthouse in portland, thousands of cops injured, ed dozens of americans dead. they did nothing to stopin the doxing and harassment of supreme court justices. even though we haveve a law against that prohibiting thatye they barely yawn when chuck schumer threatened these b same justices by name on the steps of the u.s. supremeps court, they couldn't care less when kamala harris promoted that bail fundmala to get rioters out of jail and told them not to stop writing. take g note. they're not going to stop. they won't stop. ou they shouldn't stop. weld won't stop.on and now they don't s

there's so many people in the fbi that defend the fbi ando tho protect its integrity. they've talked to us saying, we don't like it and they feel terrible about what's going on. what are your thoughts about that, katie? >> well, i think that law enforcement obviously serves an incredibly important function here but any sort of investigative errors or credibility attacks on law enforcement will undermine prosecution at the highest level whatsoever. if the fbi and doj are moving ahead in the case, they better have is dotted and ts crossed and no room for mistakes whatsoever if they can get to that point. but from what we've seen, it seems the intent is to attempt to move forward with an indictment and that's what i read into with the search warrant that was issued. liz: you're saying an indictment of trump? >> i think that that would be the initial intent going in and obviously we don't know if final decisions are made and seeking a search warrant, you have to prevent probable cause that a prime was committed. that's been prevented by the fbi here. certainly i think it's

okay, we've got dozens of fbi whistle blowers warning congress fbi headquarters is interfering in u.s. politics like blocking the hunter biden probe at the bidding of top democrats till after the 2020 election. and mark zuckerberg says the fbi pressured facebook too . and the democrats called out by dc media for false advertising on their climate bill. what they're saying is so bad it would be "illegal for a private company to do that". and we've got dolly and jenny linns on the hot deal now in california's housing. and california's push to wipe out gas cars and joe the plumber can't afford electric cars or bills either. "the evening edit" starts right now. welcome to the show. a sea of red on wall street. we begin with stocks in a broad selloff today. losses accelerated into the close and the dow plunging a thousand points and federal reserve chair jerome powell warned the fed will act forcefully to contain a 40 year high in inflation. higher interest rates are here to stay. edward lawrence live in jackson hole wyoming with more. good to see you. edward: yeah, liz, it's been very bus

fbi. that is the growing call by republicans after the fbi raided donald trump's mar-a-lago estate. >> i think every single candidate and elected official and in the gop right now needs to go on record pledging defund these lawless agencies. amy: we will speak to professor alex vitale. his latest piece is headlined "there are good reasons to defund the fbi. they have nothing to do with trump." plus we look at the growing calls for a long time prisoner mutulu shakur to be granted compassionate release. the 72-year-old black liberation acvist has been jailed for over 35 years. he is now suffering from bone cancer and is reportedly near death. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in georgia, prosecutors have informed rudy giuliani is a target of a criminal investigation into interference and the 2020 election. he is scheduled to appear before a special grand jury in atlanta tomorrow he faces questions about his e