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that is it for us tonight. congressman andy biggs,. >> "judicial watch" tom fitton and kt mcfarland tom night. good night from sussex. elizabeth: tonight the country bracing for another night of violence. you're now looking at live shots, live video, it's happening now. protesters now taking to the streets in philadelphia and from the air you're looking at live shots of what is happening now in new york city after last night's chaos. at least seven cops shot at, four in st. louis, one in vegas, two in richmond, virginia. a retired cop shot in the head in st. louis. he is now dead. other cops hit with cars. now nine people, nine protesters and others dead in riots not seen in nearly 50 years, including the protests that broke out after the 1968
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assassination of martin luther king, jr. we've got the footage on the ground and the sound from african-american leaders including the family of martin luther king and the widow of muhammad ali now condemning the violence, demanding peace, saying to the country and to the media, wake up. the looting, rioting, must stop. it is slamming the poor and minority communities the hardest and is now killing people. with us tonight, david webb, he is host of the david webb show on leaders he thinks are showing the way and those that are not. the outrage over the use of tear gas to clear protesters before the president visited st. john's church in d.c. we'll take on that controversy as well. also with us tonight acting customs and border patrol commissioner mark morgan in a fox business exclusive. hundreds of border agents now deploying along with 20,000 in
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the national guard, moving now to stop the rioting and looting across the country. also joining us tonight, house judiciary's doug collins on the war between the justice department and a federal judge over the michael flynn case. we have former national security council chief of staff fred fleitz, on u.s. attorney john durham investigating russian disinformation in the debunked anti-trump steele dossier that the democrats paid for. why the democrats and fbi swallowed that russian disinformation hook, line and singer and why did the mueller probe ignore it? ag bar saying that. former attorney general rod rosenstein will testify before the government. on social media outrage over president trump's rhetoric. outrage many say is justified. the debate is also this, is there the same level of outrage over nine people now dead in the
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protests. seven cops shot at last night and hundreds of minority business owners seeing their small businesses torched, set on fire, their dreams, everything they fought and worked hard for their whole lives now gone forever. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ elizabeth: welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business network. let's get right to hillary vaughn in washington with the latest. hillary? reporter: liz, we are less than an hour from curfew in washington, d.c. the police in the country are on edge as they brace for another night of protests around the country after several police officers in major cities have been targeted and attacked by protesters n st. louis, missouri, four officers were shot at and in new york three officers were plowed into by
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protesters driving vehicles. an organization representing command officers in new york city criticized governor cuomo and mayor de blasio for not adequately supporting the new york police force, writing this in a letter to members, quote, these out of touch and inept politicians are abusing or obviously using the members of law enforcement as pawns the politicians see our members as being expendable. they show no concern about our safety. they show no concern about our members returning home safely to our families. the president criticizing new york for not requesting the help of the national guard to contain protests while the white house is defending the president's decision to take a trip across the white house lawn yesterday and pay tribute to the historic st. john's church after it was partially lit on fire by protesters three days before. >> is it a photo-op because a photo was taken while the president of united states was taken on a church where we went on inauguration, where every president has gone for more than
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two centuries? i'm going to say different faith leaders, calling anybody, frankly, say somebody an atheist, calling into question somebody else's faith. i think it is a very fraught proposition. reporter: so the president arrived at the church yesterday, the perimeter here was moved, causing chaos in a crowd of protesters. police fired rubber bullets and deployed smoke canisters and pepper balls at protesters right here on this street who refused to push back. critics accused the president of moving the protesters just so he could take a photo-op in front of the church. today the president paid his respects at the st. john paul ii national shrine with first lady melania trump. but that visit also isn't sitting well with one person in the religious community, washington archbishop will ton gregory said this about saint john paul, quote he would certainly not condone the use of tear gas and other deterrents to silence, scatter or inintimidate
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then for a photo-opportunity in front of a place of worship and peace. the secret service said they did not deploy tear gas. we're learning that the attorney general bill barr came to this scene yesterday. he surveyed protesters here. someone actually threw a bottle at the attorney general, liz. we're hearing that the decision to move the barrier back was not for a photo-op but it was decision made earlier that day and when the attorney general came here, he saw that the decision to move the line had not been made. and asked them to do so. liz? elizabeth: hillary vaughn, thank you very much for your reporting. now this, 5600 people have been arrested so far in the protests. nine people now dead since the rioting began. last night seven police officers were shot at, four in st. louis missouri, one in las vegas, two in richmond, virginia. also a retired police officer in st. louis killed after being shot in the head.
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in new york city and buffalo, new york police officers were hit with vehicles. reports coming in, all of the officers are in stable condition. now this, even new york city fdny fire trucks getting attacked by rioters. welcome the host of the david webb show. he is david webb. david, great to have you on. thanks so much for joining us. david, amid the chaotic scenes convulsing the nation, there are displays of hope, cops in north carolina, kneeling before protesters, surprising them. there are gestures of goodwill. what is it going to take to stop the violence? will it take the president calling in black lives matter for a sit-down at the white house? how do you stop the violence? >> well the american people are really are the ones i think that will do this more than anything else. those glimmers of hope are great because what they show is americans are concerned about the real issue, just like the peaceful protesters are
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concerned about justice for george floyd and obviously for his family. that that be served. but the rioters, the looters, the opportunists, the anarchists, blacks lives matter, all of them, i was there when black lives matter launched in ferguson, they don't deserve to be in the white house. they deserve to be in a jail cell. that's where they belong. we have had law enforcement officers killed. let me ask the people watching, can you name the law enforcement officers? we had over 66 secret service agents injured in one night. 32 nypd officers sent to the hospital saturday night. more including friends of mine injured in new york. why? because they're protecting the public at least doing their best under failed leadership. to the american people, to the people out there, you have got to turn this around. i've been saying this to the protesters, those who really want peaceful protests, peaceful dissent which is an american
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hallmark, you have got to turn around in your protests, look for the uncity gators, tell them -- instigators, tell them they don't belong there. elizabeth: african-american leaders including families of martin luther king, jr., and also muhammad ali's family, we'll get to that in a second, they're shouting, saying stop with the violence. they're saying media wake up. the looting, rioting is hurting, victimizing poor people including minorities who own small businesses. when you destroy communities like this they don't come back. vanderbilt, university, national economic research found out with the riots of the 60's and '70s, value of property goes down double digits. those areas don't come back. gangs come in. drugs come in. the opioid crisis part of bombed out communities in the country. listen to this the right otters are putting lives of children at risk. watch the chief of police in richmond, virginia, talk about how rioters blocked a fire truck after they set fire to a burning home with a child inside.
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watch this. >> we had to force our way to make a clear path for the fire department. protesters intercepted that fire apparatus, several blocks away with vehicles and blocked that fire department's access to the structure fire. inside of that home was a child. officers were able to help those people out of the house. we were able to get the fire department there safely. so when you take a, a legitimate issue and hijack it for unknown reasons, that is unacceptable to me, unacceptable to the richmond police department, unacceptable to the city of richmond. elizabeth: it is unacceptable that, the baby did survive the fire. wait for this, david. a councilwoman, in seattle doesn't want to hear her constituents being told to be civil. she is asking why looting bother
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the people more than black people dying. watch this? >> what i don't want to hear is for our constituents to be told to be civil, not to be reactionary, to be told that looting doesn't solve anything. and you know, it does make me wonder and ask the question why looting bothers people so much more than knowing that across the country black men and women are dying every day and far too often at the hands of those who are sworn to protect and serve. elizabeth: you see the problem here, david? this is a false equivalence. both things are bad. both things are wrong. take it on, david. >> well, both things are bad. let me add one more to this. and for mayor willie in philadelphia, there is a 14-year-old black girl missing in philadelphia. while the police are being deployed for looters, she is missing and her family cares too. this is, as you said a false equivalence.
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looting is criminal. it is not allowed. blocking the fire truck from saving that baby, fortunately they saved him. many more of these instances because as looters continue, so do the other issues for law enforcement, for resources, for fire resources. so we've got, again, back to americans, we've got to turn around and say this is no longer what we want in this country and do it forcefully to our political leaders. you know i write about this in my article today in "the hill," emac. it is that these people, that have been pushing this always racism thank you tiff, they're the frankensteins and the monster are the rioters, the looters, the opportunists, those going after these communities, destroying black-owned businesses. you mentioned 77-year-old black former police captain killed protecting his property and his store, his dream. his pawn shop. where is lebron james? where is cardi b? where is taylor swift? where is don lemon, all of you
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out there are the frankensteins of always racism? we can deal with racism in in country. looting is not, it is criminal, it is not allowed, it is time to zip tie them instead of tying the hands of americans. elizabeth: david, come back. david webb there, great to have you on. thanks so much for joining us, david. >> thank you. elizabeth: next up, acting customs and border protection commissioner mark morgan joining us in a fox business, exclusive on the hundreds of border agents now deploying along with 20,000 in the national guard to help stop riots and looting across the country. that story is next at fisher investments, we do things differently and other money managers don't understand why. because our way works great for us! but not for your clients. that's why we're a fiduciary, obligated to put clients first. so, what do you provide? cookie cutter portfolios? nope. we tailor portfolios to our client's needs.
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♪. elizabeth: welcome back. dozens of major cities have been closed overnight. curfews, look at this video a car drives head on into a police officer in new york city. it is shocking to see. also in the bronx another cop attacked, punched and kicked on the sidewalk. violence and brutality still on the streets of our nation. welcome back to the show, acting commissioner of the u.s customs & border protection is mark morgan. commissioner, great to have you on again. your reaction to those images? >> it's disgusting, liz. look at this, we're all united as a country, that the tragedy of the death of mr. floyd in
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minneapolis is absolutely tragic and those responsible should be held accountable. we're also united in this country we support those who want to lawfully and peacefully protest but that is not what is going on here. your previous guest said it well. we have countless officers are specifically targeted attacked. vehicles run over. we had shot at. we had two fbs officers at dhs shot, one was killed. his name was patrick underwood. that name matters too, patrick underwood. his family today is mourning just like everybody one else. this is not right, the president of this country is right when he said anarchy and lawlessness cannot continue on the streets. he is absolutely right. elizabeth: now we have got nine people dead in the protests, seven cops shot at last night. a retired police officer shot dead by looters in st. louis missouri. his killing reportedly broadcast
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on facebook live. they're getting shot at in the line of duty. talk to us about the 350 border patrol personnel assigned now being deployed? can you tell us what is going on? >> yeah, absolutely. real quick if you don't mind. that is store owner that was shot and killed, he is a black man. he was a former chief of police. and he was at his store and he was shot, not by protesters. he was shot by criminals, by thugs, that are exploiting what is going on right now for their own greed. and every american should be equally as outraged at that and disgusted at that. right now, that is why as a commissioner of cpb i have deployed hundreds of cpb personnel, not only to the national capital region but to help with d.c., with help to secure the white house as well as federal institutions in the nassau capital region. also we're helping throughout the country. in buffalo, new york, we had buffalo pd and new york state trooper was run over
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intentionally by a vehicle. we had cbp air assets in the air and we tracked down those individuals and they're arrested now. elizabeth: who were they? >> look, i don't want to mention their names. elizabeth: who was arrested? >> all i know is, i'm sorry? elizabeth: who were they? who were you arresting? >> they are thugs, criminals, taking advantage of those lawfully trying to protest. they infiltrate ad protest and using excuse to continue their criminal activity. think about that. that is happening. in new york city an incendiary device thrown into a cruiser when it was occupied by police officers. liz, we can go on and on about this. where is the outrage? fpm officer is killed, his name is patrick underwood, that name matters as everyone else with the people killed during the uprising this is anarchy this, is lawlessness.
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the president is right. we need to take back the streets. elizabeth: let's show the video we showed you last night. it is going viral. a woman attacked by looters and rioters with two by fours out in front of her store in rochester, new york. she is seen on the video getting beaten by rioters. her husband came out with a golf club. said get away from my wife. she suffered a concussion and he suffered a broken hand. look at images of people in california, pushed back by looters with long guns and shotguns. we're seeing images continue to plain out. we have a quick question to you. will you be in lafayette park in washington tonight? >> i'm headed there right after i get done talking to you, liz. elizabeth: what do you expect there? >> i expect to see law enforcement, both state, local and federal as well as brave men and women of the customs and
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border protection standing united against anarchy, against lawless. against criminal thugs taking advantage, exploiting what is going on for their own greed and their own agenda. that is what i'm going to see. i will see them supporting the rule of law and doing exactly as the president said, take back our streets. elizabeth: commissioner, thank you so much for joining us. okay, stay right there. we'll take a quick commercial break. we have got a whole lot of show there are times when our need to connect really matters. to keep customers and employees in the know.
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♪. elizabeth: okay. let's talk now about social media bias, about how americans are not getting information on social media. facebook, now rocked by internal turmoil. workers there staging a virtual walk out, taking the day off from doing their jobs. why? because they're angry that ceo mark zuckerberg decided not to censor posts from president donald trump. now this, leaked audio obtained by the verge, that is a media outlet, from a facebook company meeting on friday shows mark zuckerberg saying facebook might review its policies around the discussion of the government's use of force. welcome brent bozell. media research center founder and president. we love having you on the show, brent. when you saw this story, what was your reaction to it?
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>> well, i think it puts things in the perspective dealing with facebook and other social media sites these days. look, here's reality. the, the protests aren't about the fact that cops have been killed, cops have been beaten, cops are being shot at. innocent people are being beaten within an inch of their lives all over the country. there is lawlessness. they're not complaining about that. they're complaining about a tweet about it president of the united states and they want him censored. at the same time we looked at this in march. there were 119 different antifa outlets that were being allowed on facebook. that's okay but the president of the united states, no, no, because they don't like a twit of his, a post of his. mark zuckerberg is right. he has got to be right. if he knows if he gives in to
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these social media brown shirts, then the facebook platform is kaput, because everyone will know there is not that much difference between their rhetoric and the rhetoric that is going on in the streets right now. elizabeth: your reaction to this side of the debate, that again, twitter for the first time, affixed a fact check label to multiple president trump tweets about mail-in ballots. putting a warning label on a tweet from the president which he tweeted when the looting starts the shooting starts. facebook lets identical posts stand on the sites. the pushback the president has a powerful bully pulpit, his rhetoric is on the margin and controversial, critics saying inciting some violence. take on that side of the debate. what would be your reaction to that. >> well you have every right to be controversial. you have every right to have inciteful rhetoric that doesn't incite violence. i don't think the president was
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inciting violence. you do have inciting of violence on the other side. look, facebook is not, mark zuckerberg is saying the right things but facebook isn't. look, they brought in an oversight committee. the oversight committee consists of people, the oversight people are, were condemning trump before all of this. there is one who publicly called for him to be censored from social media, and they are overseeing free speech at facebook. so that is where it is going. look they're all playing off of each other. it is getting worse and worse and worse. they cannot, elizabeth, they cannot get beyond the fact that donald trump won the presidency in 2016, and they blame themselves for having allowed him to do that. elizabeth: yeah. >> in a sense that's right. elizabeth: brent, it feels like -- >> i'm sorry, elizabeth. let me clarify that. elizabeth: what? >> clarify one very quick thing i don't mean they were right in
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that, they have a grievance. that they are right that donald trump won the presidency in large measure because he was able to communicate on social media. and they want to make sure this time around he doesn't have that right. elizabeth: listen, nine people are now dead. seven cops shot at last night. law enforcement is faced with a barrage of attacks. is social media talking about that? because it feels like we've fallen through the looking glass and we're on the other side of the mirror, if you bring up those attacks somehow you are racist if you talk about it. we had gianno caldwell saying i pushed back on it. he is being called racist, stop looting, stop rioting, you're hurting minority communities and minority owned businesses. now he is getting attacked. your reaction to that? >> i repeat. 119 antifa organizations are
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allowed to comment on facebook. when you do that you're aiding and abetting what is going on the street. elizabeth: brent bozell. come back soon. >> thank you, elizabeth. >> we're taking on this fight on the justice department and the judge in michael flynn case. this fight is getting hotter. the judge is claiming he is not required to do whatever the justice department said to dismiss the flynn case. the justice department is saying it is about the constitution. we're the prosecutors, not you. doug collins about that. the neck shoe to drop in the trump russia prone. the investigation of that probe. the fbi mueller team taking big hits to their credibility. that thanks for sharing your diy haircuts.
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justice department's motion to dismiss the flynn case for lack of cause. but the justice department fired back essentially saying, we're the prosecutors here, not you. they're urging a federal appeals court to force judge sullivan to dismiss the prosecution of michael flynn because it was a wrongful case. let's welcome republican from georgia. he is representative doug collins. we well well come him back. heon on house judiciary, we love having you on. your take on this fight. >> the take on the fight, the justice department is right and the judge is wrong. amazing the judge would put his life and career fighting something that should have been settled several weeks ago. i think the justice department's brief laid it out clearly. he cannot play the judge, prosecutor, special projects inquiry, how he wants to call it this is a problem because the flynn case shows the tip of the spear of the corruption involved in doj.
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i'm glad to see them moving forward to dismiss this case. i look forward even more forward to the actually prosecuting those who were responsible for getting us to that point. elizabeth: you know, critics say, you know, we broke the news when the transcripts of the flynn phone call with the russian ambassador were declassified. what was your reaction when you saw what the controversy here and stance crypts were, that he understood, he thought russians might wish to retaliate for the obama administration kicking out dozens of russian diplomats over election medicining, flynn said be temperate about it, don't escalate the situation into tit-for-tat. what was your reaction to that? >> go back to the days of the when i was young person wendy's had a commercial, where's the beef? why was he, why were the documents classified? why were they being withheld from the american people? i tell you why, i believe they were probably being withheld.
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because the fbi was trying to hide what they did. they used these conversations to try and trap general flynn but basically they were also trying to get at president trump. and candidate trump at the time this is what is appalling about this. they used every trick they could to try and disrupt the new coming administration. they already tried to break it up while he was a candidate. this is confirmmation of that. forever to understand why these would have been classified to start with is really beginning to see how just corrupt comey and strzok and page going all the way frankly we now know was discussions in the white house in the oval office with obama and biden and the rest of them. again, it is a sad statement of where we are. elizabeth: you know, to what you're saying, let's listen to senator chuck grassley telling us and explaining to the american people why they should care about this case. i would like your reaction to that? senator grassley told us, he would agree with you, congressman, that he feels that there was a coverup for sitting
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on these transcripts for three years, the phone call with russian ambassador and michael flynn. let's listen to senator chuck grassley here. >> because if it can happen to flynn, if they can do everything they can to get a legally-elected president out of office, they can do it to you, elizabeth, or to joe blow or mary smith and that is why it is important for everybody to know that when you're, your constitutional protections are violated and they can be violated to the highest people in the fbi, then, nobody's safe and so the flynn situation, his exoneration is eventually going to be a lesson to the rest of the world that, that finally, right wins out but everybody's ruined in the process and it shouldn't happen to any other
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american citizen. elizabeth: congressman, your reaction to that? do you agree with it? >> i agree, amen. it is just in agreement. it is something we've been saying i've been saying now for years. i was made fun of for saying there were, when we released a lot of transcripts of the russia investigation, when we released transcripts from the issues that were going on, we were made fun of, you're chasing something, doug. you're making something up. you're just protecting president, you're doing these kind of things. no, there is no need to protect the president. the president was innocent. he said he was doing exactly all along. he was targeted. president trump was targeted by the fbi and members of the intelligence community under the obama administration. let's have an honest discussion. where is the front page of "washington post," "new york times" who all were very quick to jump on anything adam schiff would say was never the truth. to anything that nadler would say that wasn't the truth. why don't they come back now? because you know they would have to admit they were wrong, liz.
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this is important. what the senator said is so true. think about this. if they were so brazen they could get away with it at that level, think what they were doing to normal investigations that they were under and letting it permeate out? this is just something has to be fixed. i'm looking forward for durham getting to the bottom of this. i'm looking forward to being more being held accountable for this because this is just wrong. elizabeth: congressman, come back to the show. love having your insights and perspective. love having you on. congressman collins. >> look forward to it. take care. elizabeth: you too. be sure to catch house judiciary ranking member jim jordan. he will be with us tomorrow night, remember, deputy ag rod rosenstein, testifies tomorrow. next up u.s. attorney john durham now reportedly investigating russian disinformation in the anti-trump steele dossier. the debate now this. why did the democrats and the
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fbi, why did they swallow that disinformation hook, line and sinker? remember the democrats paid for the steele dossier. and why did the mueller probe ignore that disinformation. that is what attorney general barr is saying. we're bringing on former national security concerns sell chief of staff fred fleitz. he will break it ♪ ♪ [ engines revving ] ♪ ♪ it's amazing to see them in the wild like th-- shhh. for those who were born to ride, there's progressive. ♪ we could never do what they do.
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♪. elizabeth: u.s. attorney john dour ham reportedly now investigating how russian operatives fed disinformation to christopher steele that ended up in christopher steele's anti-trump dossier that the fbi used to do wiretapping of the trump campaign. so this is the case, this is the story. why did the fbi and the democrats who paid for that steele dossier, why do they swallow hook, line and sinker russian disinformation and why
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did robert mueller and his team ignore that russian disinformation? let's talk to fred fleitz. he is former chief of staff of the national security council. great to see you back on, fred. we love having you on. so -- >> good to be here. elizabeth: what is going on here? why, did the russian government dupe, did the russian government dupe, steele, democrats, fbi and why did the mueller team ignore this? >> liz, there are all kinds of interesting questions here. what we're talking about are some previously-classified footnotes in doj inspector general michael horowitz's report. these footnotes were declassified last month and they said in 2017 the intelligence community warned the fbi that the steele dossier contained russian disinformation. now this is important because it is a body blow to this fake narrative that the trump campaign was collaborating with the russians. it also confirms allegations and
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findings by the house intelligence committee that the russians actually wanted hillary clinton to win. but there is a lot, there is a lot else at stake here. did the intelligence community find this out in 2017 any find it unlikely. i think it knew this in 2016. i also think john brennan who denies he knew anything about the dossier late in 2017 not only was promoting the dossier to get analysis against the trump campaign and to discredit mr. trump, i think did so knowing that there was intelligence, that the dossier was russian disinformation. now there is already republicans in congress -- elizabeth: stay on that. >> that brennan may have perjured himself what he knew about the dossier. now there is the possibility that he pushed the dossier knowing it might have been russian disinformation. elizabeth: yeah. here is the thing. the cia was telling the fbi according to the inspector general report of the justice department, the cia was telling
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the fbi in 2016 they thought the steele dossier was quote, internet rumor. so what you're saying, the fbi according to the doj inspector general got evidence in january and february 2017 that the steele dossier had disinformation in it and u.s. intelligence reportedly told the fbi that year that two intelligence operatives were aware as early as july 20, 2016 that steele was investigating the trump campaign this is important, fred. july 2016 is the month that the dnc emails were hacked and leaks by wikileaks. that is when the democrats went on the move, got fusion gps to get christopher steele up and running and then the steele dossier gets planted inside of the fbi. they were it is katy-bar-the-door. here is the trump russia collusion probe. >> that's right. and these footnotes have been useful information that the fbi knew in 2017 that this dossier
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had russian disinformation. that is what the footnotes said, but i want to know when the intelligence community really know this? when did john brennan find this out? my guess he knew this in the middle of 2016 this dossier was not just internet rumor but the russians were probably behind it. elizabeth: so then he is pushing it, knowing all that still, and then durham apparently is investigating what political pressures were brought to bear in the intelligence community assessment of russian interference. everybody agrees russia meddling is wrong. people know about the mueller report saying that the trump campaign did welcome help as it came in but there was no conspiracy with russia to hack into the dnc. so that's the issue. what was being pushed into the media to fuel this narrative and to continue these probes and to launch new probes? because fred, to your final word, your final point on this,
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when they were leaking to the media, they were using media leaks an media stories to cover to continue different probes. your final word on that, fred. >> they were pushing this fake information, systematically leaking this information but you know also very interesting, liz, why is the media not calling this out right now? elizabeth: yeah. that's a good point. fret flights. fred fleitz, we'll have you back on. former louisiana governor bobby jindal on media critics warning there is phalanx and media academic apologists excusing rioters and looters behavior. remember nine now dead and seven cops shot at last night. cops are getting killed there too. we have the story i like liberty mutual. they get that no two people are alike and customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. what do you think? i don't see it. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪
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♪. elizabeth: welcome back. media critics now warn there is a phalanx of media and academic apologists now excusing the rioting and the looters behavior. welcome back to the show, former louisiana governor bobby jindal. governor, great to have you back on. cnn's chris cuomo and don lemon are comparing the looters and the rioters to the boston tea party. your reaction? >> first of all, thank you for
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having me back on during these very challenging times for our country. look that comparison is absolutely ridiculous and offensive. how in the world is stealing flat-screen tvs, how is the world stealing clothes from neiman marcus, from mace cities, how in the world shooting police officers, running over police officers, beating small business owners, burning down affordable housing, defacing churches, how in the world is that comparable to our freedom fighters? how is that comparable to those that fought for independence. this is absurd and offensive. let's remember how this started, george floyd, this poor man was handcuffed in broad daylight. his life was taken away from him by a policeman seemingly didn't care. it shocked the nation, black, white, republican, democrat. millions of americans were shot shocked. then these looters these arsonists, these thugs, they decided to go look at this to look as opportunity to burn,
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steal, assault innocent business owners, innocent americans. now you have academics and journalists trying to defend them. not only committing crimes. they're taking focus away from george floyd. they're taking focus away from real reforms. they're taking away focus from the real vick name the tragedy. what academics, journalists trying to defend them for rationalize their behavior. elizabeth: we had a media person going on cbs saying looting is not violence. looting is not violence. what is your reaction to that? >> explain that, show the powerful clip of this woman and her husband being beaten by looters. explain that to the small business owner just lost their life savings. many of these men and women shut their businesses down because of coronavirus. just now beginning to reopen. now they're losing everything. many of them aren't covered by insurance. many won't be able to open businesses again. you have record unemployment where people are struggling to pay their bills, put food on the
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table. these looters, arsonists, thugs, are stealing from americans, destroying their livelihoods. literally running cars over police officers. shooting a federal police officer. killing a federal police officer in oakland, california. these are criminals, in some cases almost looks like domestic terrorism. our local, federal state officials need to put an end to this. they need to get control. shocking the mayor of new york where you are, amazing don't have control of his city. even the governor of new york said that. president trump is right, local, state political leaders need to get under control, put an end to the mayhem. let's have peaceful demonstrations. let's recognize the real victim, george floyd. his brother and family is saying these looters are not honoring our brother's memory. that is not what they want this is not constructive. need to make a distinction between violent criminals and peaceful protesters. this is not peaceful protests. this is not constitutionally protected action. they see the opportunity to
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exploit a crisis for themselves. they're creating violence and creating chaos. they're destroying private property. these are not freedom fighters. they should be locked up. we need state and local officials to do their jobs. elizabeth: faith leaders, religious leaders need to point that out. nine people now dead. seven police officers shot at. your final word, governor. you have run louisiana. you know what happens when communities get demolished. it takes decades to come back. gangs pour in. drugs pour in. we've seen that in parts of the country. your final word on that? we're seeing african-american and minority business leaders, owning small businesses literally crying on camera, seeing their businesses torched. final word. quick word? >> you're exactly right. people hurt the most by these actions in irony are not cops that victimized george floyd. it is minority business owners, many working for minimum wage. elizabeth: we got to go. >> katrina, it took a long time
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