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thanks so much for watching "strange inheritance." and remember -- you can't take it with you. [ crowd cheering ] fffffff you. now here's lou dobbs. keep it right here on fox business. >> good evening, everybody, i'm gregg jarrett in for lou dobbs. top stories, a day after attorney general jeff sessions took a serious swipe at president trump claiming he would not allow the department of justice to be influenced by politics, the president fired back and the wayward age urging him to live up to his word and investigate the anti-trump corruption within the justice department. we'll take that up and more with former federal prosecutor sidney powell. also tonight, was bruce orr acting in a more nefarious way than we initially thought? assuming that's possible.
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new reports claim orr bypassed d.o.j. leadership and went directly to the fbi with information he received from the dirty phony anti-trump dossier author christopher steele. we'll dive into the deep state and tackle the corruption within the d.o.j. with judicial watch's chris farrell. and the president under attack from radical dims who continue to float the notion they may seek to impeach if they take back the house. >> we shouldn't look the other way on impeachment but until we're in the majority, should focus on those issues, and if we win in november, conduct all of the investigations the republicans have been completely unwilling to do. >> former trump campaign adviser michael caputo says that's been the goal of the radical left from the very beginning. he joins us tonight on how important november's midterms are. and the trump economy showing no signs of slowing down just two days after the
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current bull market became the longest in history. the s&p 500, nasdaq composite and russell 2000 indices all closed the week at all-time highs. we begin with our top story tonight, president trump firing back at his attorney general jeff sessions following the ag statement yesterday saying he wouldn't allow politics to influence the justice department. the president tweeting this morning --
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it's a long list. might take sessions a lifetime to do half of it. the president's increasing and warranted frustration with jeff sessions changed the mind of senator lindsey graham. south carolina senator said last year that the president would have hell to pay if he fired sessions but he's now singing a different tune. he says that the rhinos opposing the president are wrong. >> the president and the attorney general do not have a good working relationship. every president deserves an attorney general. they have confidence in. i believe every president has the right to their cabinet. these are not lifetime appointments. you serve at the pleasure of the president. so i find it quite frankly wrong for the senate to reject the idea that donald trump can't replace his attorney general, but everybody else
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can. >> joining me to talk about it former federal prosecutor and author of licensed to lie, sidney powell. so, sidney, when the attorney general has engaged himself in such a way that the president no longer has confidence and trust in him, isn't it the right thing to resign, to leave, to say, i wasn't up for the job. i haven't done what i promised. the president no longer has faith in me. i gotta go. isn't that what a good and honorable person would do? >> i certainly think so, gregg. this attorney general unfortunately has been disengaged for his entire tenure as attorney general with the exception of his work on bringing down the gangs and enforcing our immigration law. but on the issues most important to the country, this whole false russia collusion
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lie, and the investigations that have spawned from that, he's awol. and that's just not right. he should have stepped aside to begin with instead of taking the job that he knew he couldn't do. >> well, one of the things he absolutely should have done and it's unclear and i suspect he hasn't done it, is to investigate the investigator because the law enforcers, james comey and the fbi and his gang, his confederates, you know, they became the lawbreakers. and when the law enforcement arm of the government becomes the lawbreakers, they need to be investigated and prosecuted. paul speary has done an investigative piece for real clear investigations that says the truth is the fbi never actually investigated most of the hillary clinton e-mails
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found on the weiner laptop. you actually first wrote about this two months ago in a column that said the fbi deliberately ignored these crucial e-mails. tell us about it. >> yes, lou and i have talked about it several times on air. with the help of mr. strzok and, of course, james comey and andrew mccabe, the fbi deliberately ignored 675,000 clinton e-mails. what the new york agents call the entire clinton file from 2006 of the blackberry e-mails that comey himself had said were the golden e-mails that supposedly they were looking for under every rock. they ignored the huma abedin even though they knew huma was a proxy for hillary, people would e-mail huma and say print this out and give it to hillary. specifically refused to look at thousands and thousands of
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them. hundreds of thousands of them. ten time the number that the clinton team and lawyers claim existed to begin with. >> so basically, they looked at less than 1%. the total number apparently are about 675,000. they only looked at roughly 3,000 of them. so when james comey certified to congress that his agency had, quote, reviewed all of the communications, doesn't that look like a lie by james comey? >> it was an abject lie, and he knew jolly well it was. when the new york agents reported what they had found in a secure phone videoconference with andrew mccabe and 39 other members of the fbi on september 28, the agents said it was like a bomb went off in the room. inspector general's report has documented all of this and it makes clear that comey had to have been lying when he spoke to congress about it. there's no way they didn't know this was huge, and that's why
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they so effectively buried it. general counsel of the fbi, james baker tried to get that material in the search warrant, strzok and unnamed person at the fbi shut that down. >> didn't comey also tell a second lie to congress when he said thanks to the wizardry of our technology, the fbi was able to eliminate the vast majority as duplicates. that's statistically impossible. hillary clinton turned over 30,000 e-mails, deleted 33,000, so that's 63,000. but on the laptop, they found almost 700,000. so that's got to be a lie by comey, doesn't it? >> yes. it was also so stunning that pete bharara's office in the southern district of new york documented the fact there were 700,000 clinton e-mails on that because they were concerned it
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would come back to bite them. so everybody knew about it and everybody was trying to cover their you know whats and other people were trying to cover up the evidence. >> and comey extolling the virtues of modern technological and computer wizardry saying we were able to do it in a matter of days, which, you know, i always knew was preposterous. it turns out according to paul speary's investigation, that technical complications, in other words, computer glitches, actually prevented them from looking at the vast majority of these. so comey wasn't telling the truth about that, was he? >> no, he wasn't, and new york agents found that to begin with. that's why they noticed all the e-mails because they couldn't run their software through it. there was some way they'd been put on there that made them stand out even more and, of course the classified headings and everything had been stripped from a number of them which were so significant it would have required a team
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people to do all sdmashgs there was a special access program material on there where you commit four felonies before you even get it on the computer. it's an astonishing treasure trove of evidence of everything hillary clinton ever did since 2006. on that weiner laptop. >> yeah, all right, well jeff sessions if you're listening and not playing with your lego's, maybe you should actually undertake a serious investigation of james comey for his deceptions or lies. sidney powell, who wrote really some of the first columns on this subject. thank you very much. >> yes, and thank you, gregg, and see my website, creeps on a mission.com, you can find the evidence there. >> creeps on a mission.com want sounds good. thank you. >> president trump canceling secretary of state mike pompeo's planned trip to north korea. the president tweeting --
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the president pointing the finger at communist china for slowing down north korean denuclearization. coming up, the president addressing the red wave riding ohio tonight. >> why is there a blue wave? we are doing better with jobs. today there are more people working than any time in the history of our country. so i don't think there's going to be a blue wave. i hope there's a red wave. >> we'll take that up and more with ed rollins, coming up next. next. time and time again, you know when i'm doing street magic..i'll walk up to someone and i can just see they're against me right? they don't want to be amazed. they don't want this experience to happen. ♪i needed to try but then the magic happens. and all of that falls away. (amazement & laughter)
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balderson will hold the house seat before he faces danny o'connor for a second time in november's general election. joining me now, ed rollins, chairman of great american pac and political consultant, if we gave you the rest of his resume, it would be 7:00, 8:00 by now. >> thank you. gregg: have you known john mccain for many years. >> known john for a long, long time. he had a long distinguished career, and obviously we wish his family well. wish him and his closing days well. he was always an honorable man. his word was his bond. i may disagree from time to time as other republicans, but at the end of the day, you know when you cast a vote, it's what he believed. veterans of america could be fair, grateful and not only for his leadership as a prisoner of war but chairman of the armed services committee always fighting for our men and women and he will be sadly missed. gregg: he will, and our thoughts and prayers with john
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mccain and his family. let's move now to i mentioned troy balderson, won in ohio. president trump backed him, and i noticed the new jersey race, the democrat menendez is only 6 points ahead now in a solidly blue state. >> this is a race we shouldn't be discussing but obviously have a strong candidate there, he's self-funding, and menendez who went through a long trial and tribulation for corruption and got off, but certainly the damage was done, and i think to a certain extent, you got to put it on the watch list. there's a four, five, six point difference at this point in time. gregg: how does the senate look overall for you? >> possibility of picking up three or four seat. eight seats in play. three republican seats, arizona and tennessee which are vacant and nevada with incumbent that is struggling to hold on. they have four or five seats that we have an excellent chance of picking up.
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florida being the first and foremost, tammy baldwin is dead even for all practical purposes for the newly nominated and i think there's a couple others we can win here. gregg: you don't see the senate flipping, what about the house? . >> the house is harder. at this point in time historically you lose 30 seats, the last 24 midterm elections, we lost whoever has the white house loses 30 seats. that's not going to happen. i think we can hold it. i think down to 10 or 15 seats at the maxium on our side. if they win it, four or five seats. it's not a 60-vote margin, probably 65 seats in play. most of those are ours because of vacancies and other things but i think at the same time they're good districts and we can hold it by a small margin. gregg: so much has been said especially by the media since michael cohen's guilty plea. i want to ask but it because
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you know more than most people about election laws. i look at it as a lawyer, if the money came from the president, there's no crime there. and, in fact, it looks to me like michael cohen pled guilty to a noncrime. >> he did. this was a blackmail situation, and unfortunately you are allowed to pay if someone is blackmailing you, you can pay them. i think there are few people in america including most people in the trump campaign did not think at that period of time he's going to win the presidency. this is about his image. this is about two women blackmailing him and the basically take care of his marriage. so my sense is there was no election law violation. they put the money in the campaign and paid it out of campaign, that didn't occur. a candidate can spend as much of his own money as possible for whatever reason and he didn't do that. this is an individual that paid to basically chase off these two women and at the end of the day, it was why cohen pleaded guilty to, it i have no idea. gregg: looka all of the members
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of congress who paid people who accused them of sexual harassment and got them to sign non-disclosure agreements and nobody at the department of justice or the southern district ever accused them of campaign crimes. it surely benefitted re-election chances. >> you are absolutely right. i take little issue with the president who basically said everybody violates fec rules, they don't. laws are pretty clear and most campaigns don't do that. this was not a violation of federal election law. gregg: now i talked earlier this week to a career guy at the d.o.j. he's now left but half of his time there was spent doing election law, and he said it's outrageous. these prosecutors in the southern district of new york don't know the first thing about election law, and he said it's outrageous that the department of justice would allow, would authorize a guilty
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plea to a noncrime. >> i think that's absolutely crew. when i was running reagan's campaign, i had an fec lawyer assigned to me from the white house who sat with me every single day and every single decision i asked. i know the law well and this is not a violation of law. alan dershowitz is a great legal mind agrees and you are a great legal mind and you agree. gregg: ed rollins, thanks, have a great weekend. be sure to vote in tonight's question, do you think to look into the radical dims including hillary clinton's deleted e-mails, james comey's lies, leaks with robert mueller and the rest of the dishonest d.o.j. cast your vote on twitter at lou dobbs. be sure to follow lou on twitter -- . gregg: coming up next, the deep state and the d.o.j. bruce ohr set to testify about
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his role in creating the phony trump dossier and working with fusion gps. we'll take that up and much more with judicial watch's
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gregg: welcome back. i'm gregg jarrett. the house oversight and judiciary committees are picking up where jeff sessions won't. they held closed door interviews today with current and former members of the fbi and doj to look at just how much of the phony, fabricated steele anti-trump dossier was used to spy on the trump campaign. bruce ohr reportedly bypassed his doj superiors to feed the fbi information from discredited dossier author christopher steele, trump recently said he would like to strip ohr's
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security clearance. the demoted justice department official is set to testify tuesday in a closed door house oversight and judiciary hearing. joining me now to talk about it, chris farrell, director of investigations and research for judicial watch. not only, chris, did bruce ohr insinuate himself into an investigation he wasn't a part of, but he violated rules and regulations by initially circumventing the fbi, going directly to steele, then trying to establish the steele fbi relationship after steele had been fired. is that the definition of corrupt acts? >> it is corruption and also realize while he's doing that, he's also leveraging the relationship via his wife with fusion gps to also manipulate the media, as they went around trying to farm out stories for people like michael isikoff at
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yahoo! and other places. they are trying to develop this fake kind of double source confirmation to bolster the phony narrative and ohr is right in the thick of it. he's the linchpin in all of this. gregg: in other words, he and his wife are financially profiting, because she's getting paid for this, from a document that he is then peddling. the last time i checked, federal law, bribery, gratuity fraud says you cannot use your public office for personal financial gains. it's a felony. and yet it doesn't appear that there is a serious investigation of that by the department of justice, and in fact, sessions hasn't even fired bruce ohr, who richly deserves it. >> why is he still walking around the justice department? why has he been now for months once he was identified as a guy who not only tried to steer a
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presidential election and abuse his office but then monetized it. he lined his pockets with cash, leveraging his wife's position and who knows what the relationship was with steele. i don't put anything past him in this regard. how low can you go, and why is ohr even wandering around and look, the rest of the fbi, the entire leadership of the fbi has either been fired, resigned, retired. they are all playing golf, laughing at this. there appears to be zero consequences. gregg: and who do you blame for that, jeff sessions? was the president right when he said he never took control of the department of justice, he hasn't done investigations into, i'm using the president's tweet, deleted e-mails, comey's lies and leaks, mueller's conflict, ohr, et cetera. it's a long list. >> it is a long list. i guess if you take the most expansive possible
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interpretation of the russia hysteria, maybe that's how he's excusing himself. but look, this stuff predates the election. this goes back to hillary clinton sending classified material across her server years before. it's a rife investigation that should be brought to a grand jury. problem is, the deep state blocks it every step of the way. gregg: you know, sessions and to some extent president trump as well had said there was going to be a serious investigation, a serious review of hillary clinton's e-mails. betsy woodruff several months ago said that that was happening, although the department of justice won't comment on it. i suspect there is no review of hillary clinton's e-mail case in which james comey wrongfully in defiance of the law cleared her. what do you think?
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>> i agree, and the problem is, you know, what's left over. all the people with guilty knowledge, or many, many of the people with guilty knowledge of hillary clinton's activities at state are still there. these are deep state operators, the same people that are currently going to great lengths to undermine an elected government in guatemala by shoveling money at them, trying to undermine -- trying to empower this u.n. official who is unaccountable and the leadership at the state department need to be going in one direction but all the political operators, all the deep state creatures, they don't give a damn. they are doing whatever they please. people get away with this stuff all the time. gregg: in my book, "the russia hoax" i spend several chapters talking about the conduct of james comey. there it is. number one three weeks in a row on the "new york times" list. >> congratulations.
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gregg: thank you very much. pick it up in bookstores anywhere. james comey, does it look to you like he deceived congress when he said that they had, let me get the exact words, reviewed all of the communications on the weinor laptop? >> absolutely. if you look at the glacial pace at which the hillary clinton e-mail server investigation was done and then the discovery of the weiner laptop and the efforts to suppress that by certain persons, then this race to get through them all, it doesn't pass the sniff test. it's unbelievable. they take forever to do the most cursory basic sort of efforts on the server, then they magically had to go through hundreds of thousands of e-mails in a matter of days. it's preposterous and utterly unbelievable. gregg: turns out comey was talking about the wizardry and wonder of computer technology when, in fact, it was a computer
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glitch and technical error that prevented them from doing it, and yet they represented that they had reviewed it all. it's just fantastic. >> to this day in court hearings in the last week, we hear the same story out of the department of justice about glitches. gregg: they must think americans are just profoundly stupid. >> they do. i mean, they think they will throw a fastball right past and nobody will even blink. gregg: chris farrell, always good to see you. thanks very much. coming up next, no proof necessary for the radical dims in their push to impeach the president. >> the president does not have to commit a crime to be impeached. if this comes before the house and it will come before the house as a president who has been found guilty but rather, as a president who is alleged to have committed certain offenses that are onerous to the constitution and that harm society. gregg: we will take that up and more after the break. addiction is a dark place.
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some place for republicans getting nervous to say hey, you know what, let's start an investigation and we'll go from there. gregg: chuck todd obviously unaware mr. ryan hasn't done a single favor for the republican party. joining me now to talk about it, michael caputo. great to see you. chuck todd is not the lone ranger. wolf blitzer in a question this week asked shouldn't impeachment proceedings begin immediately. isn't it true that the mainstream media has all but convicted the president in the court of public opinion and forget the little niceties called evidence and fairness and law and a trial? >> we know this whole court proceeding has been going on for 18 months on all the different networks over and over again, and you know, this whole trump derangement syndrome has settled in pretty solidly. when they think republicans in the house are going to initiate
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impeachment proceedings over something like this bogus, you know, implication of the president by michael cohen, that's outrageous. listen, i think we're closer to impeachment than we ever were, if the democrats take over the house. absolutely, they will impeach the president for jaywalking if they take over the house. we need to remember that on november 6th. gregg: yet nancy pelosi said a few days ago impeachment's not on her agenda. what do you make of that? >> well, i think it's a smart move on her part to say that, because the american people don't want impeachment and the more republican strategists inside the beltway in washington talk about how we need to run a different kind of race, we can't be running a race on donald trump's policies, et cetera, this is about impeachment. if you vote republican on november 6th, you are voting against impeachment. if you vote for a democrat, you are voting for impeachment. the more we say that, the more we stand a chance at exposing
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nancy pelosi's real agenda. gregg: impeachment was mentioned 222 times in an 18-hour period of time by msnbc and cnn right after the michael cohen guilty plea. so the media's driving the narrative, the president's a bad guy if he coughs or sneezes, he's a criminal. i was down in nashville yesterday and i got to tell you, more people came up to me and said they love the fact that the president goes over the heads of the mainstream media and tweets to the american public what they regard as far more truth than the media ever peddles. >> yeah, when we first were talking about the twitter strategy, even before the president came down the escalator and declared his candidacy, it made me nervous but none of us really understood what twitter's role would be in the modern political election
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here in the united states, and the president has really defined that. i remember when i was working for george h.w. bush, you know, mtv invited him to speak to young people on their channel, and the white house ruled that that's just not presidential. well then, you know, bill clinton came out a couple weeks later and played saxophone on mtv and all of a sudden it was presidential. you know what's presidential now? being aggressive on twitter. i like the fact that most of the time, he's right on the mark. gregg: it's not just the media, but democrats as well. chuck schumer said president trump better not talk about pardons to michael cohen or paul manafort tonight or any time in the future. i guess schumer is forgetting about that pesky little document called the constitution under article ii, the power to pardon, right? >> chuck schumer's got a lot at stake, of course, in the next election. even though people are talking about the house maybe changing
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hands, of course everybody is thumbing their nose at chuck schumer because the senate is going nowhere. i think he's frustrated in the minority position in the senate. it's hilarious he thinks he can tell the president what to do. we live in a world where, and you might remember, in helsinki a reporter stood up and challenged the president to repeat after him and attack the president of russia, to repeat after him, and these people think they can put words in the president's mouth. i think they got another think coming. gregg: you have had your own personal experience with bob mueller and his team of partisans. how corrupt in your mind is the department of justice and the top of the food chain at the fbi? >> well, i'll tell you. you don't have to look any further than sidney powell's book "license to lie." i believe main justice is corrupt. i believe we have done a pretty good job getting rid of some of those folks but just as your previous guest said, listen, these guys are playing golf and laughing about it.
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if our attorney general, jeff sessions, doesn't get up and do something, it's time for him to go. i think the chorus is so loud for his resignation, i don't think sessions is ever going to get a handle on the corruption in main justice. i don't think he intends to. and something needs to be done there. it's just not going to be done by jeff sessions. gregg: he's either naive and gullible or he's just incompetent. it's got to be one of those. thanks very much. good to see you. the lawyer representing mollie tibbetts' killer says there were no signs his client was a murderer in the making. alan richards telling "people" magazine he was just a part of the community, an all-american boy working really hard. this is the same person who came from mexico as an illegal immigrant, brutally murdered an american woman while she was jogging, then hid her body in a cornfield. no, not an all-american boy.
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that's not the american way. coming up next, nobody gets rich in government unless you're a creature of the swamp. we'll take up how james comey made $6 million in a single year thanks to his pal, bob mueller. that's after the break.
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gregg: while the radical dims, rinos, the national left wing media and jeff sessions cheer on rod rosenstein and robert mueller, they are all ignoring the real collusion. u.s. defense officials say the chinese military will join russia next month for war games that will include simulated nuclear weapon attacks. expected to be russia's biggest war games exercise since 1981. joining me now, seamus bruener, government accountability institute researcher and author of "how money and politics drive fbi corruption." i started reading this about ten days ago and it's stunning. one of the more surprising revelations is how comey and mueller appear to have leveraged
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their relationship to get rich. i want to talk about one instance. mueller is head of the fbi and the fbi lavishes a $1 billion contract to lockheed martin where james comey just happens to be the general counsel. how rich did comey then get? >> that's right. he made $6.1 million in the year after that contract was awarded. gregg: that's, what, like a 4,000% increase in his compensation? >> that's exactly right. we are talking about the revolving door. it's a familiar story. most americans have heard of it. it's turning your public service into self-service. here are the facts of james comey. in 2005, he was worth just $206,000, modest income, modest net worth. he had a mortgage.
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he goes to lockheed martin in 2005 as general counsel and also senior vice president and by 2009, he's raked in millions of dollars, $6.1 million in that year alone, and just like you said, it's over 4,000% net worth increase. it's actually 4,250% using the most conservative estimates. gregg: i don't begrudge people who are in government service eventually going into the private sector. they are perfectly allowed to do so. but does it appear to you that then he's trading on his previous position and relationship to profit financially, and does that strike you as corrupt? >> well, right. i love capitalism. capitalism is great. it's what makes america great. but this is not capitalism. this is crony capitalism. it's helping out your buddies, robert mueller and james comey have known each other a very long time, going back to the
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late '90s. a man like james comey had never run a company, never run the general counsel's office of a corporation like lockheed martin. by the way, lockheed martin is the number one contractor in america. gregg: lockheed is saying to themselves if we hire james comey, we might just, you know, get billions of dollars in government contracts, because comey knows all the players, especially bob mueller. let me play devil's advocate for just a second. would it even be possible or conceivable for mueller to say oh, gee, i didn't know anything about that billion dollars that went to my pal's company? >> robert mueller as fbi director would absolutely have to sign off on a billion dollar contract award. also, there are multiple contracts that go to lockheed martin while james comey is the general counsel from robert mueller's fbi, and robert mueller announces them and celebrates the fact lockheed martin won the award.
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gregg: didn't bob mueller also get rich, because he leaves government, goes to work for boose, allen, hamilton who just happened to receive hundreds of millions of dollars from the fbi under mueller's previous direction? >> exactly right. that wasn't the only client robert mueller served. there were others as well. but no, you have it exactly right. multiple clients that robert mueller worked with at the fbi. he then went on into the private sector. he and comey kind of work as a tag team. comey tags in, mueller tags out. in 2013, robert mueller sets up robert mueller and associates, a consulting firm, then also takes on clients through another firm who, by the way, several attorneys from there join robert mueller on his special counsel clinton-connected attorneys, no less. right, he does the same thing. it's the revolving door, it's cashing in on public service.
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it's outrageous. gregg: so there is bottom line, a revolving door between government service and big business, and when you go circling around that revolving door, you are getting wealthy off it. and that's taxpayer money, right? >> that's right. one thing i want to make clear is the revolving door, most people have come to accept it. it happens in the defense department, happens in the department of energy. honestly, we like experts from the government working as the contractors, contracting with the government, but this is the department of justice and the fbi. this is the top law enforcement agency in the country. these people throw men and women in jail, martha stewart, for example, someone that comey and mueller tag-teamed to throw in jail. so when justice becomes compromised by conflicts of interest and money, we have a serious problem. gregg: seamus bruener, really amazing work. thank you for being with us to
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gregg: a reminder tonight about my "new york times" bestselling book "the russia hoax, the illicit scheme to clear hillary clinton and frame donald trump." find it right now in bookstores and online. a record-setting day on wall street. the dow gained 121 points. the s&p finished the week with a new all-time high, up 25. the nasdaq also reaching an all-time high, up 130. volume on the big board, 2.6 billion shares. a reminder, listen to lou's reports three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio network.
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the trump economy booming more than ever and coming to the aid of african-americans. black small business ownership skyrocketing 400% since trump's election. this is where we are today and a look at what's ahead. president trump today blasting attorney general jeff sessions on doj double standard. former federal prosecutor sidney powell joined us tonight to discuss sessions' disengagement. >> on the issues most important to the country, this whole false russia collusion lie and the investigations that have spawned from that, he's awol and that's just not right. gregg: president trump tonight addressing the rising red wave in ohio with a victory of troy balderson in the house special election. ed rollins discussed the changing political landscape, predicting the dims will only win 10 to 15 seats in the upcoming midterms. on tuesday, demoted and
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disgraced official bruce ohr will testify before the house oversight and judiciary committees. that will do it for tonight. i'm gregg jarrett in for lou dobbs. thanks for joining us. hope you have a great weekend. >> hollywood's crown jewelers... >> the piece that vivien leigh wore in "gone with the wind," it's spectacular. >> ...put the tinsel in tinseltown. >> greta garbo, marilyn monroe, elizabeth taylor -- all of the greats are represented in this collection. >> a vault full of screen gems... >> we have an estimated 200,000 pieces. >> ...that their heirs take to the bank. >> any further advance beyond $17,500? >> talk about a girl's best friend. >> i'm channeling marilyn right now. >> they look really good. >> they're fabulous. [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ]

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