individual, the president. so it is his entire -- it's entirely clear that it's his right under the process to say i have decided this will not harm the united states and it should be released or i decided it will harm the united states and i do not want it released. >> james woolsey, thanks very much. >> thank you. good morning everyone. welcome to your "new day." it's friday, february 2nd. chris is off today. john joins me. let's get right to it. president trump is again accusing the nation's law enforcement leaders of having a pro democratic bias saying they're influencing the investigative process rather than partisan lawmakers. the president is set to release the controversial republican memo alleging surveillance

abuses despite the strong objections from his own appointed leaders at the fbi and justice department. >> sources tell cnn that president trump thinks the memo will discredit the russia investigation by showing bias in the top ranks of the fbi. white house aides are worried fbi director christopher wray could resign as an effect of releasing this memo. as a report in "the washington post" says, president trump was convinced the memo needed to go public even before he read it. bringing in senior cnn political analyst phil brownstein and phil mudd. let me introduce the recent statement from the president. the top leadership and investigators of the fbi and justice department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of democrats against republicans, something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago. rank and file are great people. phil, you spent a lot of time as part of that organization. how do you read that statement? >> you've looked at political

corruption investigations from the fbi for decades. a year or two ago you have republicans saying there's a political process to undermine hillary clinton. she still says today, the pronouncements by jim comey before the election, those are the ones that led to the destruction of my campaign. now we have a republican saying less than a year and a half later, hey, it's now against the republicans and the fbi is politicized against us. i guess, john, when you have complaints about pollicization, i guess it's okay because when both sides are complaining, they must be doing their job. >> i guess so, phil. when he says rank and file are great people, exclamation point, do you think this is starting to have a demoralizing effect? or do they just put ear muffs on and going about their work? >> i guarantee you every field officer, 50 plus of them is watching what the president is saying and looking at the fbi director and saying you've got to get out and speak publicly.

the fbi agent's association came out in the past 48 hours with a public statement that supported the director. they represent 10,000-plus agents across the country. that said, people doing white collar crime, gang investigations, i guarantee you they look at this at 8:00 in the morning, have a cup of coffee, i've got stuff to do today. i can't spend 12 hours worrying about the president attacking the fbi director. >> top leadership are all trump employees. jeff sessions, rod rosenstein, christopher wray. is he talking about them? ron brownstein, i have to say, it blade me think of something you have been saying very clearly here. republican voters need to choose. you need to choose basically right now, are you going to take a stand against the fbi and investigators here or not? >> look, what's striking about

these tweets to me, john, they not only undermine fbi director chris wray and you do wonder about how he can serve effectively when the president is so conspicuously disregarding his unusually strong and public advice not to do this, but it also undermines paul ryan, the speaker of the house. speaker ryan has been saying, look, the release of the nunes memo is about oversight. it's not about weakening bob mueller, about weakening the justice department. the president essentially in his own words, both in this tweet and the other, making it clear that's exactly what it is about in his mind. i think everything we're seeing, the choices that speaker ryan has made, reinforced by majority leader mcconnell who endorsed this course of action yesterday are moving to center stage in 2018 this core issue of whether a republican majority in congress can be believed or trusted to exert any restraint

or oversight on president trump. they are now looking arms with him in this offensive against the doj and fbi. i think that's a striking identification that ryan and mcconnell have solidified by endorsing this rather extraordinary episode. >> so, phil, cnn has been reporting that people inside the white house are worried that chris wray could resign over this memo. there's no evidence that chris wray will resign or he wants to resign, but what would that do to the fbi? >> he's got a difficult choice. i'd characterize that choice as a choice between honor and duty. if you look at this and look at the president who selected the fbi director as now saying you're responsible for not only a corrupt enterprise, but for illegal activities in terms of collecting information against u.s. citizens, an honorable fbi director may say i've got to go. a director who responds to duty,

i think that gets to the core of your question, is going to say it's going to get tougher. i guess we will have further indictments, final indictments from special counsel mueller. if there is a vacant seat at the fbi or director wray resigns and the president puts in somebody who is a lap dog, i think the fbi is in much worse condition than if they stay with an honorable and i think decent man, christopher wray. >> wray is just one figure at the center of this whole discussion. the other is the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. jerry nadler, you can see him saying what his major concern was. he's not allowed to say what's in it. ron, his biggest concern insofar as he can say it, this might be used as an excuse to fire rod rosenstein which would be a major development in the russia investigation. he is the justice department official overseeing the whole thing. >> right.

of course, if he was replaced by someone who is more, quote, a trump loyalist, all sorts of ways in which that can i'm pring on the investigation. including there is no guarantee as many legal scholars have been pointing out that any report the special counsel produces would be released to the general public. that would be the call of the justice department overseeing them. you have the possibility of whatever is found not being shared with the public. i think where the rubber meets the road here politically is with the house because the question has been from the start, would there be any restraint, any limits on the president's willingness to delegitimize these institutions that he views as a threat to him. early in the presidency i think there was more pushback from republicans in congress. you get noises from republican senators about firing bob mueller would be a catastrophic event. but on a day-to-day basis and

with a decision like this to release the memo over the objections of so many at the fbi and the intelligence community, the house republican majority in particular is sending him a very different signal, that they will be there arm in arm no matter how far he goes. that puts him out on a limb for 2018. you've got to think this issue of whether they're willing to exert any restraight or oversight by each action most closer to center stage for the 2018 election. >> the president seems to be suggesting that bob mueller's investigation is tainted when, in fact, we know nothing about what's happening with bob mueller's investigation. all we know is two people have pled guilty. there are two indictments. it has been virtually leak-proof. how can the president or any of his allies know what's happening in that investigation that's on going? >> i don't think they do know

what's happening. let me give you one example. there's this myth out there, and i do believe it is a myth that the steel memo, the memo of information that came from drz -- >> the dossier. >> the dossier, that that's somehow foundational in the fbi case. let me ask you a question because that's become a fact in washington. has any fbi official or department of justice official, any of them ever said not only is the steel memo critical, is it even a basic piece of the investigation? i doubt it is. this is all a myth created by people who are not, i think, alisyn, going to undermine the investigation. this is where ron's point is critical. when there are further indictments, the question will bs this used to undermine indictments and do house republicans stand by the president and say, i will not accept the findings of the mueller investigation. i think that's where we're headed here. >> cnn has been reporting for months, maybe even more than a year at this point that the dossier was used to get the fisa

warrant -- a portion. it was part of it. whether or not it was crucial or integral, who knows about that. actually, ron, this gets to my question about what we're also hearing from the white house overnight, there's apparently concern from some advisers to the president that when this memo goes public, it will be a did, that it will not excite people as much as we hear -- republicans saying it's bigger than watergate, the sky will fall. it may not prove any of those things. >> first of all, we had not seen the memo from nunes, so we don't know. certainly the arguments, the tea leaves have been that essentially that's what it alleges, that the dossier was a centerpiece of the initial surveillance on carter page and obviously the push back from the fbi and others is that is emitting a lot of other evidence used in that process. yes, first of all, even if the surveillance on page is based on

the memo, it's hard to see how -- on the dossier, it's hard to see how that undermines the entire investigation. even if you grant the premise, why does that obviate concerns about potential obstruction of justice. even if you close the circle, it's not clear that the light goes on. i find the whole thing overstated to begin with. it's going to be a talking point. the communication strategy of the trump administration has been more about giving their base talking points than about persuading the vast middle of the electorate. it will be something that fox and talk radio will have to talk about, but whether it is something that per swaeds a lot of other americans that this investigation is illegitimate, that's a much bigger reach. it may put devin nunes' district in play. it's not such an overwhelming

republican place, san joaquin valley, this creating democratic interest. he has taken the republican party out on a very long limb here. >> that's an interesting wrinkle. ron brownstein, phil mudd, thank you for your expertise. by blasting top investigators and encouraging the release of that republican memo, is president trump causing lasting damage to law enforcement institutions? david axelrod joins us next. david. what's going on? oh hey! ♪ that's it? yeah. ♪ everybody two seconds! ♪ "dear sebastian, after careful consideration of your application, it is with great pleasure that we offer our congratulations on your acceptance..." through the tuition assistance program, every day mcdonald's helps more people go to college. it's part of our commitment to being america's best first job. ♪

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so new this morning, president trump accusing the nation's law enforcement leaders of politicizing the investigative process and being biassed in favor of democrats. you will remember the actual leaders of the fbi and justice department were appointed by -- wait for it -- president trump. the new attack comes amid the controversy surrounding the release of this classified republican memo. sources tell cnn that he thinks the memo will undermine the russia investigation. joining us now to discuss, david axelrod, cnn senior political commentator, former senior adviser to president obama. it is very interesting, david, as we wake up this morning, we see the president framing this discussion saying the leaders of the justice department and fbi are political. >> you know, i think, first of all, we should step back and sort of find the silver lining in all of this, and that is that these institutions actually are

doing what they should be doingment these people that the president appointed, christopher wray, the justice department official who spoke out, apparently the dni, dan coats, a former republican senator, all protested the release of this memo. the fbi suggests under director wray that it was misleading. what is extraordinary is that he chooses to take the advice of director hannity over his own appointees and release this memo. the purpose of it is clear which is to try and muddy up this investigation, perhaps to give him a pretext for not talking to special counsel mueller, perhaps to muddy the result -- perhaps to get rid of rosenstein, so he can circumscribe the investigation. that is not a silver lining. that is a very menacing cloud.

>> apparently the president is also taking the advice of john kelly, his chief of staff, who has not been swayed by these meetings. christopher wray went to the white house, went to talk to john kelly to make a personal appeal to not release this memo. john kelly is on the side of the president and feels it should come out. >> i find that really dismaying. i think survival in this white house is all about how you relate to this president and manage him. it is clear from the beginning -- this amplifies a theme that the president has been on from the beginning of this investigation, that it was politically motivated. he was going to release this memo. i think kelly made a judgment that i'm going to get on the right side of the president in this one even if i have to get on the wrong side of my responsibilities, the constitution, the law. >> "the washington post" is reporting that the president made the decision to release the memo long before he even read it. immediately after having a conversation with two members of

congress -- >> i'll tell you the other thing that's kind of extraordinary here and you heard it from republican members of the senate, this has been made to be a partisan affair, and i think there's a desire to turn it into a partisan fight. but republicans in the senate asked to see this memo, including the chairman of the senate intelligence committee, senator burr, and was refused. they were all refused. the leadership of the senate has complained about that. this isn't just a part san issue. you have trump appointees, republicans in the senate, versus devin nunes and the house intelligence republicans. >> people have been wondering what position paul ryan would take on this. we have a little breaking news on this. it's just been reported that he favors releasing the democratic rebuttal to it as well as the nunes memo. >> that is late breaking news because that hasn't been his

position. >> let me say one thing, what we don't know, i don't think it's stated clearly, does he favor releasing them at the same time. that's the issue. the issue has been that speaker ryan was slow walking the democratic memo. >> i think paul ryan will look back on this episode with real regret. he's sewing his own reputation here. the institutional damage that is being done by this episode is going to be felt for a long time. >> meaning what? you think he should be on the side of the fbi and the department of justice over the president, and he's not done that? >> i think he should be on the side of the process of the institution. he has responsibilities other than as a political leader aligned with the president. he's going to be throwing out precedent for time in memorium to service his political scheme. >> people defending the release bring up, what about the

pentagon papers? you have the left cheering the release of those way back when, but now people saying there's something wrong with the republican memo. >> the pentagon papers was an authoritative document that went back for ten years. it wasn't drafted for a political purpose. this is a memo that was selectively drafted to create an argument for the president to make. if that weren't the case and if transparency was the goal here, then they would release the democratic memo as well. >> here is how donald trump felt about releasing the torture report in 2014 that the senate intel committee wanted to have out. he felt quite differently then. let me read his tweet then. the cia report should not be released. puts our agents and military overseas in danger, a propaganda tool for our enemies. it's interesting to see how different he felt -- >> it's fair to say the president has never been burdened by consistency. >> the bigger picture ultimately

seems to be a concerted strategy from the president, his lawyers and maybe with republican cover, to not testify before robert mueller, and after that when the mueller report comes out to say this whole thing was tainted from the beginning. >>. i had a conversation with senator mark warner from the senate intelligence committee for my axe podcast. he says these are not the actions of someone who has nothing to fear. i think in a strange way, yes, i understand the strategy of politicizing this, but the president is also upping the ante here and creating more suspicion that he is fearful of this investigation and that he does have something to hide. >> that leads us to whoopi goldberg. >> as it always does. >> that's a natural segue. nicely done. you must be a television professional. she is your guest tomorrow night. she vociferously confronted donald trump with all the

birtherism that he was propagating during -- obviously when president trump was in office. you asked her about this. let's watch this moment that you asked her about this. >> the nonsense about whether barack obama was an american citizen. >> you actually had a pretty sharp confrontation with him about this on "the view" in 2011. >> yeah. >> i think that's the biggest pile of dog mess i've heard in ages. why ask to be shown the birth certificate? you know he's american. >> let him show -- >> why did that offend you so much? >> because i know he went to school and i know he knows that hawaii is part of the united states, and i know that the real bottom line of that conversation was how can he be our president.

>> did she say what their relationship is now? >> well, she said she's known him for a long time. they had a cordial relationship but she left no doubt -- she said he's never been any different than he is right now. it was an interesting conversation. she does have insights into him, having known him as a new yorker, a fellow performer. they were in "the little rascals" movie in the '90s when he played waldo's dad and she was buckwheat's mom. >> that's a trivial pursuit answer right there. >> i can't beat that right there. >> good luck on sunday. >> thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> be sure to watch david's interview with whoopi goldberg tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. if the controversial memo is released today, can the president's hand picked fbi director weather the storm? that the will he do? that's next. it's time for the 'ultimate sleep number event'

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being bias saying the top leadership of the fbi and justice department have politicized the process in favor of democrats and against republicans, something which would have been unthinking a short time ago. rank and file are great people. >> sources say the president plans to release this republican memo today despite stark warnings from his top law enforcement officials. joining us, former official at the fbi mike rogers, thanks so much for being with us. if you're christopher wray and you wake up and read that stateme statement, top fbi officials have politicized things in favor of democrats, what's going through your head? >> certainly not a great day. if something bad happened before and it deserves to be looked at. certainly the ig is looking at

those issues, that's what we ought to say. remember the leadership in the fbi turns over fairly significantly. it's and upper-out kind of organization when you get into the leadership level of the bureau. so to condemn all of those folks who are making decisions on organized crime casetion in chicago, miami, counterintelligence cases all across the country, terrorist cases all across the country, those are the leadership positions of the fbi. i wish the president would hold his fire on that because you're condemning the lot of them. i think that's really unproductive. >> what do you think chris wray does, the correct fbi director when he reads that this morning. does this steel his spine or does he say i don't feel like being besieged for the next few months. >> i hope not. he needs to stay. the fbi needs consistency at the

top. there's disagreements along the way. it happens. not every instances do we take our toys and go home when it comes to quitting. there was a rumor he was going to quit over the andy mccabe deal. i would say i'm going to stay here, make my commitment to the fbi to make sure it's the finest law enforcement agency and continues to be the finest law enforcement agency in the world. the issue might be the president sending rod rosenstein home with no toys at all. this could be directed squarely at him. we know the president has been complaining about the deputy attorney general, the person who appointed the special counsel and who has oversight over the special counsel's investigation. the ranking member says he's read the memo and his biggest concern is it will be used to

push him out. >> this is a concern. if you really believe that a group of agents conspired with the department of justice to purposely mislead the judge in a fisa court, that's a serious charge including and up to perjury. you can perjure yourself for application for a warrant. that's pretty serious. my argument would be let's find the right venue. twitter is probably not the best place to do that. the memo that doesn't have all the information to make a good decision is probably the other place i wouldn't do it. >> you were the house intel chair, the current house intel chair is devin nunes. what is devin nunes doing? would you have put together a memo based on your talking points, based on classified intelligen intelligence. >> boy, look at the time. isn't there a commercial break.

you are the perfect person. >> i'm not sure why they would pick this route. there are other ways you can make your point if you're worried about this. again, my point here is if you're really worried, maybe criminal behavior, in the application of the fisa warrant, there are other ways to do it. at least by all appearances a partisan investigation and selection of information is not the way to do it. if you want to conduct oversight of the community, it has to be joint and thorough and accurate. remember, i'm always suspect, even as an fbi guy of government abuse. i can take your liberty and i can take your character if i'm not careful, and i think the fbi can do some bad things and has

along the way, for the vast majority of cases and the agents, they're the best the world has to offer. so every once in a while, one screws up. okay. got it. let's make sure that doesn't happen again. same with congress, if you're going to go after someone's character or liberty, you better be right. you don't do it by parsing out a political argument in a memo that clearly intelligence services and other members are saying doesn't reflect the whole picture. i'm not sure what they want to accomplish. if they want to accomplish oversight in a committee that's designed to be classified and be able to get all that classified information. i would argue that's not the way to do it. >> you're clearly uncomfortable criticizing a successor to you. if you read what you said very, very carefully, it's clear where you stand in that you call it a partisan effort. what about paul ryan, the speaker of the house, doesn't he have a role, if what you're

saying is true, should he not have put a stop to this? >> normally, i think the speaker gives lots of latitude to his chairman and i think that's the right way to do it. the congress is supposedly a chairman-driv body because that's where the details on legislation and other things are designed and hammered out and hopefully can work that out other team as a club to say all of the fbi leadership is somehow corrupt or lead for one party or the other party, they're using little bits and pieces and jumping to conclusions. i'm starting to believe that's the only exercise we're getting is leaping to conclusions. >> on that note -- >> i'll be here all week. don't forget tip the waitresses. >> mike rogers, thank you. january jobs report out.

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we have breaking news. the labor department releasing the january jobs report. alison kosik joins us with the numbers. >> since chris isn't here, let's get at it. number of jobs added in january, 200,000, that's a strong start and beats what we saw in december. unemployment holding steady, 1.4%, many economists think that marks full employment. many economists have been saying at this point we should be seeing a rise in wages, in what americans are taking home in their pocketbooks. that's exactly what they're seeing because we learned in this report that wage growth jumped from 2.5% to 2.9%. that's a huge jump. you can attribute that for a couple of reasons, for one, the tax plan. we saw dozen of companies hand out raises and bonuses to their employees in january. we also heard that 18 states across the country raised their minimum wages. all of that helping to raise

that overall wage growth from 2.5 to 2.9%. but at this point, wall street not liking this news. this is a situation where good news is bad news because the way wall street interprets this is that this is great news, but it means that the economy is heating up, wages are going up. so we can see more interest rate hikes to try to calm things down. the worry now, alisyn and john, we could see interest rates step up, not being raised once or twice, but the fed may pick it up a bit more. futures down 1%, that's 242 points on the dow for futures. >> inflation worries is what that is. the numbers are very good. >> absolutely. that's great news. the stock market is confusing. president trump given a pair of socks from aflac. it turns up it brought up a fond memory about the first lady and

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feet. >> it was great success. had a great time to shoot it. >> reporter: but a flak is something donald trump has also been, he's flaked products in lots of commercials. >> remarkable convenience of the visa check card. >> a big and tasty for just a dollar. >> you got to be losing money on this. >> actually you're only entitled to half. >> reporter: ivana and donald shared that pie three years after their divorce. his current wife or at least someone pretending to be here was hocking something else on the late show. >> how are you feeling, madam first lady? >> my life is ocean of loneliness. >> i'm sorry. what. >> itches promoting my new mela seems like life has been a roller coaster lately given what's been reported about donald and we don't mean the

duck. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> that's crazy. i had no idea that she was in an aflac ad. jeanne moos teaches me something every single week. >> forget the football. millions of americans looking forward to the other reason to watch the super bowl, the commercials. we'll look at the most buzzed about ads next. >> not forgetting about the other bowl, the puppy bowl. >> that's indecent. >> wow. >> two of these star players are on our set and chilling out. our show has gone to the dogs. that's ahead.

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politics, the commercials are something we can agree on. >> this is the doritos ad. ♪ ♪ >> that's awesome. >> that's really good. >> that's fantastic. >> doritos almost always ranks in the high list of top super bowl ads. they top themselves every year. this year it's doritos and mountain dew together. promoting two products in one. they always put the ad out several days early to get the attention ahead of time which works. >> alisyn was lamenting it's

been a long time since we had a feel-good ad. we need a feel-good ad. i guess coke has something that tries to do it here. >> yes. we're seeing some of the big advertisers with messages about inclusiveness and diversity. this meis sssages are sometimes subtle because they're trying not to cause a political reaction or backlash. this is a coke ad promoting inclusiveness and diversity. there's also a budweiser ad that you think is going to be about beer, but ends up being about water for natural disaster victi victims. we often see big donations after natural disasters. budweiser is always the single biggest adviser, spends the most money on the super bowl. there will be a lot of beer ads as well. this one is about contributions from the company. >> you can't be against water. >> exactly. >> that's a position you can't argue with. >> for the most part, we're not seeing advertisers talk about

politics or the me-too movement. for the most part what we've seen so far in the previews, companies are trying to be -- not boring, but trying to be funny and silly as opposed to provocative. >> there is controversy, thankfully, wendy's going full contact against mcdonald? >> right. seeing big ads by wendy's, calling out mcdonald's. that's what you do when you're the underdog, you try to call out the bigger company. it makes a lot of sense. all these ads, the through line is what almost always works for advertisers, a lesson they have to learn over and over again, basic comedy and humor. i don't know about you, john. i'm tense about the game. big eagles fan. we were in philly for the championship game. a stressful four quarters, so we can all use some humor. >> honestly -- the commercials is when i breathe. i haven't breathed for all of the game. then i finally breathe. >> exactly. amazon has it as well with

alexa. >> the premise is alexa loses her voice so she needs other celebrities to step in and use their voices. so here it is. >> alexa, set the mood. >> now setting the mood. you're in the bush and you're just so dirty and sweaty because it's hot in that bush. >> let's rebush, reboot. >> alexa, play country music. ♪ >> no, alexa. country music. ♪ >> call brandon. >> i'm afraid brandon is a little tied up. i do not know if there's anything i can help you with, jessica. >> thanks, guys.

i'll take it from here. >> i don't know what's happening, but i'm scared. >> anthony hopkins is the best -- even in a super bowl commercial, he gets an academy award. that was phenomenal. that was the best performance ever. >> amazon threw money at the screen. jeff bezos, the ceo has a cameo. gets you to talk about whether you should buy an alexa in the middle of the half-time show. nfl still the biggest show in america on sunday night. more than 100 million people will watch. that's why these ads worth $500 million apiece. >> justin timberlake during the half-time show. brian thank you for the preview. up next, some of the cutest players in this weekend's big game, the puppy bowl. they are really getting some rest before their big game. >> they were really into that last segment. they took the nap right at the end.

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every great why needs a great how. oh, boy. all right. who needs the super bowl when you have these guys? meet esmer real da and ruby, 3-month-old lab and beagle mix sisters. >> they're necking. >> they're biting each other. >> rescued from puerto rico by the sado project. for this year's puppy bowl, animal planet is using puppies rescued from houston, puerto rico and florida. they worked with rescue organizations to fill out the rosters of team ruff and team fluff. >> as if it weren't cute enough. 90 adoptable players for the

puppy pileup here. who would be bored watching the patriots or eagles. if you don't want football, they'll do this on the 14th annual puppy bowl. you can catch these and other adorable patriots and beagles. >> puptriats. >> and b-eagles. you don't need to add cute to this. these guys are simply adorable. >> i thought they were cuter when they were sleeping. now they're gnawing on things. >> they're adorable. alisyn is allergic to dogs. but the dogs like me more anyway. >> it would be helpful if they had a hypo allergenic one. i see they are very adorable, and i see my magnetism to animals is not working.

>> now you'll believe me when i say i'm loveable. this is why. >> i'll be watching this -- okay. all right. time now for cnn "newsroom" with poppy harlow. have a great weekend. >> good friday morning everyone. i'm poppy harlow in new york. at any moment the president could green light the release of a highly controversial republican memo alleging fbi abuses. this despite multiple warnings from his own top law enforcement officials at the fbi and department of justice. remember, these are republican officials that he, the president, appointed. instead of heeding their recommendations he is attacking them. this morning the president writes, quote, the top leadership and investigators of the fbi and justice department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of democrats and against republicans. something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago.