[cheers and applause] lou: he's entitled. that's it for us tonight. please join us on monday. have a great great weekend and good night from new york. tonight as the attorney general investigates the investigators we're learning of new information that shows the length to which the obama intelligence community holdovers were actually doing it all in an attempt to possibly force the president to resign. this is information that was never bothered to verify. congressman ralph norman is here with reaction to that in just moments. meanwhile, the former media mogul just pardoned by president trump slamming our intel intelligence agencies saying they were weaponized for political purposes.

he's here. iran ramping up its rhetoric saying it could easily hit u.s. warships in the region. this as the white house tells us they are waiting by the phone. they are ready for a call, and they are ready to negotiate. i have exclusive intel tonight from inside tehran and inside washington, d.c. trish regan prime-time begins right now. >> we are taking out this power out of washington, these bad people, comey, brennan, clapper, we're draining the swamp, folks. [cheers and applause] >> the president promising to get rid of the bad guys today, and while we still haven't connected all the dots, the good news is finally, finally someone is trying to do that. >> in the period of time between

election day and inauguration, did anyone in government or in intelligence, did they take action to justify their decisions? >> i think there were some very strange developments during that period. that's one of the things we want to look into. >> such as? >> such as the handling of the meeting on january 6th between the intelligence chiefs and the president and the leaking of information subsequent to that meeting. >> was that meeting in new york city? >> yes. >> in trump tower? >> yes. >> what questions do you have about what happened that day? >> again, i'm not going to get into that. >> but it's on your mind? >> that's one of the things we need to look at >> can you characterize how far advanced you are in understanding that meeting? >> we're still in the stage of gathering all the information. >> i'm sure glad someone is because for two years i've been wanting to know how on earth an unverified piece of opposition research the so called dossier was never checked by our fbi,

never verified, and yet they used that to get a warrant to spy on the trump campaign. the dossier sure sounds like the insurance policy, remember the one that peter strzok and lisa page were referring to when the couple was texting about how awful trump was? could have been. and if it was, it makes sense that barr wants to know why our intelligence community gathered with the president elect that day in trump tower to present the president elect with the dossier's findings. i mean, findings that they knew had never been checked. was it because they wanted it to leak to the press? think back, right, to that time, remember how upset the president was about all the leaks that were happening? watch. >> disgraceful, disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake out. i think it is a disgrace. papers are being leaked.

things are being leaked. it is criminal action, criminal act, and it's been going on for a long time. i've actually called the justice department to look into the leaks. those are criminal leaks. >> all these leaks are going on. he's upset about it. and it turns out the whole time the mainstream media was blaming trump's inner circle for the leaks, but it actually looks like it was the intel folks because, hey, james comey shower as heck knew how to leak -- sure as heck knew how to leak; right? he admitted to this during some of his testimony in 2017. watch. >> i asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. didn't do it myself for a variety of reasons but i asked him to because i thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. so i asked a close friend of mine to do it. >> who was that? >> a good friend of mine who is a professor at columbia law school. >> unbelievable. i remember watching this. i nearly fell off my chair as i

heard this. here's the head of the fbi, he's the leaker. i mean, my goodness. he says well i didn't do it myself, but he had quite an elaborate way to do it. he went to his friend a law professor at columbia university who then leaked to it the new york times so comey is a leaker. he knows how to do it. so just think about it. he has this meeting, right, with his pals, his intel pals, and they confront the president elect, donald trump, and that affords them the opportunity to leak to all of america that russia might have compromising info on the president. even though of course they knew that they hadn't checked out anything out in that dossier. this is scary stuff. joining me right now a member of the house oversight committee, south carolina congressman ralph norman, congressman norman, good to have you back. you know, this is a new development. we had heard some questions surrounding this before. i mean, why exactly did they confront him like they did, with

this so-called intelligence that they knew hadn't been verified, that they knew was opposition research, was it all so that could make its way into the press? >> you know, trish, when i got elected, i thought i was going into the legislative branch of government. i didn't think it was going to be the anti-trump branch of government. that's just what this has turned out to be. and you know, showing more and more every day. and you know, capitol hill, the word is barr has got a good reputation, and the democrats have been -- they didn't like the message that he was -- when he had the mueller report. they didn't like what it said. they went after him. that didn't work out so well. and now that the attorney general has hired mr. durham, who's got an equally sterling reputation to gather facts, it's not going to be a pretty sight when this is over with. and it's sad. i didn't have to be this way. >> you know what? you are right. it is sad. i've said that before because what's so shocking in all of

this, right, is i'm pretty sure we're going to learn this, that our fbi is not on the up and up and this they were deliberately trying to scheme and to plot and to take down a president who had been elected by the american people. and if that's the case, then think of the damage that that does to our nation. think of the damage that it does to our psychology, right? we're supposed to have safe institutions like the fbi and yet they let us down. >> not only that, trish, the fbi is the gold standard for law enforcement, for this whole country. it has been for a long time. and to weaponize that, we can't put up with it, and the president doesn't want this to happen to anybody else. that's the good thing about it. and he's got people in place that can get to the bottom that are not political appointees, they are not political hacks, they're people who want the truth, and durham has been with

the -- his department for -- the justice department for 35 years plus. never given a political donation. he doesn't do interviews. and unlike comey, he doesn't leak. >> you know, i couldn't believe that because i remember at the time, there were all these leaks coming out every single day; right? in the intelligence community and the thinking well, you know, maybe the president has surrounded himself in his inner circle with people that are leaking, and it turns out that wasn't the problem. the problem was james comey, the head of our fbi who knew exactly how to leak. he knew exactly how to get information out, and i think that that's also something that's quite disturbing. but, you know, don't forget, congressman, this is a guy as much as he wants to present his reputation, he's all for the fbi and all for government, etc., etc., he worked at a hedge fund; all right? he's not like a career lifetimer at the fbi.

>> no, and look at the e-mails from peter strzok. we will get him. again, this is unacceptable. if this happens, this is what happens in venezuela. we cannot let this stand. and our oversight committee, i'm very disappointed in the chairman not even calling meetings. i mean, look at where we've gone with that. michael cohen, that didn't turn out like they thought. they thought he had bombshell news about the president. >> you know, hey, congressman, by the way, remember that dossier that said that he had been to prague? you know, what did it take, like two seconds? don't we have records of people going in and out of our country at any given time? could they have just asked to see his passport? check the stamps? because mueller disproved that one pretty quickly. >> yeah, and when we asked -- when we asked did michael cohen, did he go to prague? no. that put the end of it. how many of the media reported

that he was alleged to have gone to prague, had all these meetings with russian diplomats? it didn't happen. so the whole thing's about to fall, and it couldn't happen at a better time. >> interesting. all right, congressman norman, good to see you. thank you very much. coming up everyone, impeach, that's the mantra for the democratic 2020 presidential hopefuls. >> there is enough here to bring an impeachment proceeding. >> congress should take the steps towards impeachment. >> i think he's made it pretty clear that he deserves impeachment. >> enough already except it is not because wait until you hear what speaker pelosi is calling people who want to impeach president trump. this one you got to hear. and coming up, the mainstream media going bonkers after president trump pardons former media mogul conrad black. in just minutes he's sounding off on the liberal media antitrump bias. he's joining me for his very first interview with fox business. first find out why president trump is blaming the liberal

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trish: tensions with iran reaching new highs tonight. we can tell you that a senior administration official is waiting by the phone right now for iran's call. characterizing the situation as, quote, incredibly serious. now, the trump official is also telling us, and i quote here, we've reached out to the regime. we have made an offer to negotiate. they have not responded yet, but it is in their interest to do so. we remain hopeful that they will reach out. all of this as president trump works to kind of stamp down some of those tensions; right? saying that some of what he calls the fake news could actually work to our country's advantage. watch. >> and you know we're dealing with iran and they put out so many false messages that iran is totally confused. that might be a good thing.

the fake news, these people right back here, they put out messages that i'm angry with my people. i'm not angry with them. i make my own decisions. pompeo is doing a great job. bolton is doing a great job. but they make it sound like it is a conflict. and the good news, i was thinking today, i said, what must our adversaries think? and then i look, and i say you know, it is probably a good thing. trish: you know, keep them guessing; right? but you know, i spoke to iranian business owner last night on the program, and he expressed a lot of concern about some of the people surrounding president trump and his advisors. let's watch this. >> i think mr. president is getting wrong advice from people like john bolton. trish: regime change which is different than a renegotiation. >> that's a bankrupt policy, and the president of the united states should not bet on that.

trish: joining me right now is former army intelligence and special operations veteran. good to see you. the iranians are thinking that we're going to do something. we're thinking that they are going to do something. you know, i think everybody has a common interest in not wanting to do something. and not wanting to start anything. >> right. trish: how do you see this one playing out? >> well, i don't think thing wants to go to war here, but the reality is that we need to defend ourselves from what appears to be increased iranian aggression in the region. we just learned even just a few hours ago from intelligence sources that the iranian irgc code source which is a covert action element within the irgc directed its proxy groups to start planning to kidnap and kill american soldiers. that's more of the same of brutality that we have seen from the world's largest exporter terrorism. much of the turmoil around the

middle east that occurs today is a result of the irgc and the state's sponsorship of terrorism from iran from syria to lebanon to yemen to iraq, iran hides behind their proxy groups like cowards and they basically tell them to conduct terrorist attacks to stoke chaos in the region. i personally witnessed the brutality of the iranian regime first-hand when iranian made rockets that were fired by their proxy forces at the direction of the irgc basically into the building i was living in iraq which almost killed me and unfortunately other american soldiers were not as lucky that day, and the reality is that the iranians are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of american soldiers, and if the world leaves them unchecked like we continued to do for years, then they are going to be responsible for hundreds more. trish: trump tore up that deal; right? >> right. trish: that deal no longer exists and they are feeling a lot of pain. some of the hardliners unfortunately aren't actually feeling as much pain as perhaps

we would want only because when you cut off an economy like that, some of those that are the hardline hardliners, they are the ones doing all the smuggling and bad stuff so they are still making money in that kind of environment. >> exactly. trish: i wonder where this goes; right? i started and i'm going to go back to this premise that nobody wants to go to war. the president has said it over and over and over again. i have spoken to iranian sources that tell me they don't want to go to war. so if nobody wants to go to war, why are we having all this war talk? >> well, the president, of course he doesn't want to go to war, but i think the president also understands that the iranian regime only understands the concept of power and strength. and the truth is that the obama administration let them go unchecked and emboldened iran. he made us look weak in their eyes, and the president understands the importance of not looking weak. we let during that time american soldiers get killed. we saw sailors get kidnapped --

captured and paraded like hostages for the world to see. we let their illicit activities go on and on with doing nothing about it. trish: i will tell you, that was a missed opportunity. bret, that was a missed opportunity for president obama. he screwed that one up big-time because you look at that deal as well, the businessmen said that to us just last night, there were a lot of big american companies that could have benefitted much more economically. they didn't. you know why? the way it was structured, and that was obama's fault, he basically wouldn't allow any americans to have that kind of access to iran, so american companies couldn't invest there. they had to rely on their european subsidies. so we didn't get too much out of it. i mean i guess we got some, you know, of the nuclear stuff in there, but economically we didn't get squat, and we didn't get the full boat in terms of what we need, right, to make sure that the world is safe and that they are not going to continue being state sponsors of

terrorism. >> one thing i think your audience should know that the problems and the mischief that is taking place on a daily basis from iran is not coming from the moderate majority of the regime or even the iranian people. we have got 60% of basically the iranian population that is under the age of 30. they want change. they want better relationships with the u.s. they want to be connected with the rest of the world. the problem lies with these hardliners, these mullahs within the regime that are bent on protecting the principles of the 1979 islamic revolution, and those are the individuals that we need to target. we need to weaken their power, and we need to empower the moderates and the people of iran to do something about it. trish: is that regime change? >> it's going -- i think it is regime change over time. it's long-term. but it's got to come from the iranian people. we can't go over there and conduct military action. it has to come from the iranian people internally. trish: well, you know, i think -- i think that the

reality is, you know, as all of this heats up and tensions continue to escalate, nobody wants the outcome that you hear talked about in some of the mainstream media outlets. nobody wants that. the president doesn't want that. even the ayatollah has said there will be no war. so it's important i think that the dialogue continue, that it stay open, that, yeah, they get some changes there, and we make sure that we keep as many people out of harm's way as we can. bret, good to see you. thank you very much. coming up, remember this? >> bullies don't win. i said baby they don't. because we're going to go in there and -- [ bleep ]. trish: freshman democrat vowing to impeach president trump, just hours after being sworn into office. we will wait till you hear what speaker pelosi is calling people

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trish: the trump administration searching for a private contractor that would be responsible for transporting 225,000 migrant children and families to different shelters across the country all while they wait for their asylum claims to be processed. this would take place over the next five years. now, just this week, the total

ap rehepgss at our southern -- apprehensions at our southern border topped 500,000. joining me right now dhs special agent and operation underground railroad founder tim bower. good to see you again. 225,000, these are people that we need to transport, we have to hire major transportation company to get them from one place to another while they wait for their asylum situations to be approved or not. that's kind of messed up, tim. >> yeah, well, look, i just spent a week last week down at shelters. as you know, trish, my focus are the children. there's children being used as cons. they are being brought in here illegally, forced into sex trafficking and these shelters a lot of them are churching and they need help. i mean they are trying to help these kids. we are trying to help them help the kids and this transportation situation is going to be helpful because it is going to allow

other shelters to be set up in the inland part of the united states to move more people around. look, i'm worried about the kids. trish: i hear you, okay? nobody likes the idea of children being put in a vulnerable situation like that, but i think it kind -- it resonates when you hear about 225,000 people that need to be moved from one place to another, all because they came in to this country illegally to begin with. and right now, when you look at those numbers, tim, and you see 500,000, more than 500,000 people have already come into this country. we're not even halfway through the year. >> yeah. trish: you know, we can't sustain that. our system, right, cannot support that. >> it can't support it. and this transportation thing is really a short-term. the long-term solution, lindsay graham put it out yesterday, we have been working with lindsay graham, we have to move our asylum courts into foreign countries, into our embassies,

and that takes the wind out of the sails of the traffickers because if our asylum courts trish: would you do that worldwide or along our border with latin america? >> to start out el salvador, honduras, guatemala, mexico, that's where it is happening. you are going to disincentivize the traffickers using kids as pawns to get into the united states. they can't get into the united states unless they first go to asylum courts. lindsay graham has the answer, he really does. trish: president trump also has the answer. he proposed something that looked reasonable just yesterday with new requirements of who we're going to bring here legally; right? you know, the idea that -- this bothers me. the idea that you are here in this country and you got here s somehow. you got a green card and got a citizenship and you can now petition to have your entire family come here too and those spaces then go to your family members instead of people that maybe really could add to our economy. we don't want to keep brings --

keep bringing people who are going to be a drain on our system, thinking they can live off the welfare system we want people who are going to contribute and be taxpayers themselves. it seems to me we ought to be thinking pretty strategically about who it is that's coming here right now like every other developed country in the world does. >> canada is doing it. australia is doing it. european countries are doing it. it makes sense. trish: why do we get a bad reputation? people say it is so mean. how could you not want to bring everyone? >> it is not mean. you have to vet the people coming in. again, i go back to the children once again. this will help stop -- i mean some of the worst people coming in are traffickers. we know they are coming in because we're catching them on the u.s. side. so this -- any kind of vetting system is great, and it saves people. it saves children. and it's great for the country. trish: yeah, and then you just have to have a lot of enforcement at these borders and some kind of better system. it can work together. tim, good to see you.

thank you. keep up your good work. >> thank you. trish: president trump pardoning former media mogul conrad black. watch this. >> if you find yourself in a bit of a legal pickle and wondering how the get out of prison, you might want to think about writing a glowing book about president trump. he recently wrote a hard-hitting expose of the trump administration. i'm kidding. it was a total suck up book. trish: straight ahead conrad black is responding to those attacks in his first interview here on fox business. plus why he says our intelligence agencies have gone totally off the rails. he's next. a visual snapshot of your investments. key portfolio events. all in one place. because when it's decision time... you need decision tech. only from fidelity. that have made the rx the leading luxury suv

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working overtime. they are trying to malign him saying this pardon is only the result of a little flattery. people declaring and i quote donald trump pardons disgraced media bar ron conrad black who wrote a book about him. another one trump pardons billionaire who wrote glowing book about him. and washington post, after lavish praise, trump pardons newspaper magnate conrad black. what the media is not telling you is that the supreme court vacated much of his former conviction questioning whether or not his case should have been prosecuted in the first place. by the way, he served his time. joining me now the former media tycoon just pardoned by the president of the united states, lord conrad black, good to have you here. welcome sir. >> thank you for having me. trish: what's your reaction? are you surprised by the

backlash over your pardon? >> i haven't seen much of it, you know. i got a nice editorial in the "wall street journal" today. you know, you're citing television outlets that i never watch. [laughter] >> i'm not surprised they are writing this nonsense or telecasting this nonsense. trish: yeah, but, you know, it's kind of the time that we live in; right? to certain extent -- >> the justice system, democracy, if that's what you want, obviously you set up your country and govern it any way you want, you have a conviction rate, 97% of the cases without a trial because of the way the plea bargain system is operated and your prosecutors many of them are terrorizing the country. and the media, i'm not talking about fox now, but the media is not doing its job. and the mistake these people

including the individuals i think this is why my case has got any attention, it is because i had to deal with comey, mueller, patrick fitzgerald also, these people made the terrible mistake of attacking a person they thought couldn't become president but did, and, you know, it's equal opportunity persecution by the prosecution service. you know, they started with 17 counts. they dropped four. the jurors pitched nine. supreme court vacated everything else. and one self-serving lower court judge remanded the vacated counts for the consideration of the gravity of its own errors resurrected two counts, completely spuriously. i served three years and two weeks in federal prison for crimes i did not commit, and the president assured me and urged me to say, which is nothing but the truth, that the reason he did it wasn't what i wrote about him or anything like that.

it was that the white house counsel and their legal staff agreed with the legal analysis that alan dershowitz and other lawyers made on my behalf and i never should have been charged and unjust conviction and bad wrap. those are quotes from the president when he called me. trish: in some ways then sir you can certainly relate to what donald trump has been going through right over the last two years. >> that's why you're getting the reaction. no one would care about me particularly, but the fact is some of the players are the same and they managed to send me to jail or prison for three years, they were aiming for 105 years when they started but they couldn't do it to him. they tried to do it to him and it isn't working. trish: not working, and we may see some other folks heading to jail. i mean you know james comey's lawyer because he went after you. it's interesting how these things sort of become; right? >> look at what he did with scooter libby.

it is not clear he basically warped and mistreated -- [inaudible]. patrick fitzgerald couldn't lie straight in bed. in any serious jurisdiction he would be disbarred. in britain and canada, he would be out of the bar. we caught them again and again in falsehoods and illegal wire toop -- wiretaps and things. your prosecution service in many places is just out of control and obviously comey and mccabe were out of control. but -- trish: and i think by the way if that comes out, and i think it will, americans are going to be so disgusted, right, with the system, as you are disgusted with the system, given your own personal experience, but, you know, americans, we like to believe in our institutions, right? and, you know, maybe it's a naivety, but we like to believe that people are doing the right thing, and as it turns out -- >> it is not naive. it is one of the most successful

countries. everyone should remember and be grateful for the fact that we have the triumph of democracy and the free market economy in the world to the united states, so don't portray me as anti-american. i'm anything but that, but there is a problem in the criminal justice system. let us face facts. brennan, clapper, comey, mccabe and hilary clinton all lied to federal officials or under oath. and they set up that echo chamber with the steele dossier which is the dirtiest political trick in american history and, you know, your competitors and some others are trying to pretend it didn't happen. it's all going to unravel. i mean i'm not one to mind read. but obviously that's why they are so hysterical about the attorney general who is an honest and decent man. trish: that's why they don't like you. let me ask you this, conrad. do you think this is something that has occurred over many many years or is this something that was a result of the obama

administration that groomed during that time? i mean how should we be thinking about it? because now you think gosh if it happened then, did it happen earlier and we sure as heck hope that it doesn't happen in the future, which the president promises it won't. >> yeah, well, i think it started in the days of extreme fear about african-american rioting, extreme fear about violation of women and extreme fear on the drug side, and they are all -- i'm not suggesting they aren't legitimate fears. trish: you're talking like hundreds of years ago, back to civil wartime? >> the united states had about the same conviction rate as other comparable prosperous democracies, like britain and canada and france and so on, australia, up until -- it all started to rise in -- starting early 1960s, and then, you know,

your number of incarcerated people is now 6 to 12 times per capita what it is in those countries i mentioned, germany or japan, other prosperous democracies. and i mean, 6 to 12 times. and you don't have a more crime ridden population and you don't have more talented prosecutors. it is because of how the plea bargain system works. if they go after you, then they round up the eight people closest to you in whatever activity they are talking about and they said look you better remember that trish regan did some bad things or this is a conspiracy to obstruct justice and we're charging you in it, and then if you jog your memory, if you manage to give the right answers, then you get a pass including guarantee of nonprosecution for perjury, and they just -- you know, they just produce this evidence that's false. trish: yeah -- >> how does the jury see through that? it is not justice. trish: you look at what happened to flynn. you look at what happened to michael cohen. were those situationings like

that in your view? -- were those situations like that in your view? we had a guest come on the show a few times, he said i'm not going to twist my story so they can get something that might line up with the story that they want to hear. you know, did flynn, did cohen in your view have to compromise themselves in some way because -- >> i think they are separate cases. you know, cohen i think has some problems that had nothing to do with the president. they went after him for legal things that were problems but had nothing to do with him in order to get his cooperation in attacking the president. poor old roger stone, he's a man in his 70s, living with his wife and a dog and a cat in a peaceful suburb of ft. lauderdale, and they have reenacted d-day except they had helicopters as well as an amphibious assault, you know, 21

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you're a sore loser? there is nothing in the mueller report that points to impeachment. and the fact that those on the left continue to try to turn this country into a total circus because they don't like the president is utterly shameful. joining me right now strategic communications director for the trump 2020 campaign mark lotter. good to see you again. >> thanks for having me, trish. trish: you know, what's happened? what's happened to us? what's happened to our country? >> i don't even know where to begin. i mean, this is clearly nancy pelosi trying to walk both lines. one minute she says we're not talking impeachment but she's got to keep her radical socialist base happy so she calls them patriots. these are the same people who have now taken the word so help me god out of their oath when witnesses come to testify from the house. so really nothing surprises me anymore with them. trish: uh-huh. you know, it seems to me if you are going to impeach someone, right, you want to have kind of

a good reason to do it. and if anybody at that law school that was laughing would choose to maybe read volume one and volume two of the mueller report, they might learn pretty quickly that there's really nothing in there that you can impeach on, and so if you care about the law of the land, if you care about our constitution, if you care about preserving our great republic, if you care about these things, right, marc, you are not going to want to run down the path of just impeach because i'd say that makes you no better than one of those countries down in latin america where you see the regime change and everybody gets killed or thrown in jail and then they've got a new regime. i mean that's not who we are. >> it isn't. and the point we've made political differences and tried to criminalize it or remove people from office because we disagree with them politically, then we've sacrificed the very democracy we've spent, you know,

250 years building. it is just such a sham, and the fact they can't get over it, no collusion, no obstruction, end of story. their delusions about president trump, it's trump derangement syndrome and now when you start to redefine patriotism, it is people who violate the law or trying to hold the attorney general of the united states in contempt for not breaking the law. this is what they have come to. it is really disgraceful. trish: i want to share with you bill hemmer's exclusive interview that he had with ag barr down in el salvador, and he, you know, he asked him about what he thinks when democrats continue to accuse him of lying. watch. >> well, i think it is a laughable charge. and i think it is largely being made to try to discredit me partly because they may be concerned about the outcome of a review of what happened during

the election. >> you reportedly had a conversation with her this week. >> yes. >> what did you say to her? >> i wouldn't call it a conversation. it was more like an ice breaker. i was introduced, and i asked her if she had brought her handcuffs with her. >> and she said? >> i didn't really quite hear what she said but she wasn't unpleasant about it. trish: maybe not the best kind of ice breaker given the tense times we're in, but nonetheless he said she was not unpleasant about it. let me ask you about that. are they nervous? are we going to find things out that democrats should be very nervous about? >> i think we are. every single day we are learning a little bit more and a little bit more about the true motives behind this investigation, when it started, the fact that the state department knew that steele was disgraced. they told the fbi. the fbi went ahead anyway, at the highest levels because they were consumed with trying to stop president trump, their so-called insurance policy.

trish: the insurance policy is the dossier? >> it seems to indicate that way. and they're continuing down that path. but the american people are seeing through it. and that's the great thing. i will give attorney general barr a lot of credit. i mean, he joked about that with the speaker, but even when he had the opportunity in that interview with bill hemmer today to two further than what the -- to go further than what the investigation warranted at that time, he did not do it. he didn't play politics. he stayed right down the middle, by the book, like he is and said he's not going to get ahead of things and let the investigation speak for itself. trish: marc lotter, good to see you. thank you very much. we have new intel on venezuela, coming up, new details for you when we return. things will be tight but, we can make this work. ♪

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