set your dvr. never miss an episode. have a wonderful holiday. we will see you in the new year. thank you. ♪ isode. have a wonderful holiday. we will see you in the new year. thanks for being with us. ♪ ♪ >> laura: welcome to the ingraham angle from washington. a huge show tonight. lots of news breaking. a bombshell report to share with you. a famous lawyer was soliciting money to pay women making sexual misconduct allegations against candidate donald trump during the 2016 campaign. getting paid to accuse the candidate. you don't think that's an incentive to fabricate stories? we'll discuss it all with alan dershowitz. i will also talk to white house press secretary sarah sanders about the constant barrage of media attacks. some against her personally and the president. but, first, the democrats me too suicide mission. that's the focus of

tonight's angle. okay. do you remember wha what i told you just a few nights ago. female politicians and activists should also be really careful where they take this because some day, maybe, men might decide to turn the tables on them and start launching their own maybe it's called #men too moment with wild decades old complaint against women in positions of power. you don't think it could happen. just watch. that didn't take long, did it the first tragedy is. democrat in kansas. dropping out of the race after the kansas city star asked her about allegations in a 12-year-old lawsuit. the suit claimed ramsey sexually harassed and retaliated against a male subordinate who had rejected her advances. according to multiple sources, the man who filed the case reached a

settlement with the company and court documents show that the case was dismissed after mediation back in 2006. look, people settle suits all the time. they settle them for things that aren't true as well because they are just a nuisance and they would rather not bother them. but drop out of the race more than a decade later for this? i think that's ridiculous. but, this is the climate that democrats have created. it is a trap that they themselves are now falling into. believe me i probably agree with that candidate on nothing. he she is a favorite of emily's list. i'm sure she and i wouldn't agree on most issues but that situation is appalling. nancy pelosi and the rest of the new liberal more rattle brigade on capitol hill are feeding on their own members. they have opened up an ethics probe into a nevada democratic congressman reuben could youen over allegations of sexual harassment. now, pelosi and others have asked could youe couldcuem to s.

is he refusing. he vows to claim his name. another democrat. the witch-hunt continues. he questions pelosi's new found me too morell morality. he says that pelosi and the democratic party knew about the allegations against him a year ago. he said they looked into them. they didn't find anything they continued investing millions in my contain. he told that to abc news. they went out there and campaigned for me. we invited him on the show tonight but sadly he declined. my friends, this me too madness is spinning dangerously out of control. and i think the people get it. here's some of my listeners today on the radio. >> i definitely think that this has gone to the extreme and they have to do something to stop this. >> i'm very sensitive to any type of sexual assault, but i feel that this #this and #that has become almost a

fad. >> from personal experience, people who have been really abused, sexually abused, are so upset about this movement, the me too movement because they are making a joke out of people who have really been abused. >> laura: by the way the phone lines today were jammed with female callers. speaking of jokes, now democrats are calling for the put to resign over misconduct allegations, you know, the ones you heard before the 2016 election. but as "the washington post" pointed out this morning, the democrats may be overplaying their hand ahead of 2018 and 2020. this is the way i look at it. the left in their blind rage against trump are unable to seat obvious. their near constant demonization of trump is starting to wear a little thin and i think it could end up back firing big time. think about it. after tax reform is passed, the economy continues to grow, and more americans are able to keep more of their own money, how much

residence will old accusations, partisan leaks and identity politics really end up having? will voters other than like the really hard core activists in the donor class really have the appetite for the growing calls of trump's resignation on these old allegations? smack dab in the middle of one of the greatest economic booms we have seen perhaps since reagan? i doubt it. especially now that we're learning that women were being offered cash to tell their tells of alleged misconduct by trump. what a crock this entire thing is. oh, in this small, i would say i call it like this small craft advisory goes out to everybody in the media. watch the current course you have charted lest your own boats get swamped by the waves you create. your reporting on the so-called russian collusion has been as biased and misguided as the mueller investigation itself. you need to offer more than

24/7 demonization of our president through leaks from obama and clinton partisans or from old accusers whose stories were already heard before election day. are you ever going to do real reporting on how the president is reshaping our entire trade posture to boost u.s. manufacturing? or maybe look into how small business omnipotent michelle is skyrocketing duer to the president's slashing of onerous growth-killing regulations? and by the way, another question. why does it take a group like judicial watch to beat so many of you in the media to stories about the mueller investigation? you know, where are your foia requests. or maybe you only dig deep when it can hurt the president? i don't know. and since it looks like they have gotten nothing on the president and the war on men is already back firing, expect them to deploy even more desperate tactics in the new year. and that's the angle. so how about it? are the democrats badly overplaying their hand here? let's throw that up for discussion with my first two

guests, fox news corinther and 2012 presidential candidate herman cain in georgia and antwon see wright is here with me in washington. all right, herman, let's talk to you about this. a democratic congresswoman now in kansas city. she is out. 12-year old claim against her that was settled in a mediation. and then you have the other congressman they already looked at his allegations, apparently they want him to leave. are the democrats overplaying this? >> yes. accusations, speculation, and fabrication is all they have. they have no hard evidence on this president and as a result, they are trying to turn this over to the courts of public opinion. because,ing in a couple of instances the court of public opinion has painted a bad enough view of somebody

that maybe they were defeated or they came in real close with the person who won. that's all they have from their playbook. ignoring the results of this president and this administration. lowest unemployment rate in years. lowest black unemployment rate in 17 years. a booming economy and we don't even have a tax cuts yet. regulations, two for one in terms of regulations that hes is eliminating and the list goes on. but they don't want to look at results. they only want to look at accusations, speculation, and fabrication. they are over playing their hand. >> laura: anton, let's go to you on this. is there a positive agenda for economic growth or is it the old accuser parade. >> first of all, for no disrespect mr. kaine, but i think the republican party for 8 years ignored the economic boom we seen under

the obama administration. so let's deal with that first and foremost. second of all, i don't know if you can call these accusers, he is coming up as if they are wrong or bad people. look, we have evidence, ere were tapes out there with mr. trump said things that we know were not appropriate. >> laura: yeah, which he apologized for. >> that doesn't make it right. that doesn't mean that women are rying and fabricating their stories. >> laura: paid, offered $300,000. >> laura, not one time did any of who accused mr. trump during the campaign say they were paid. >> laura: but my question though is a serious one for the democratic party. the focus is for the democrats. is this all you guys have? what else do you have? you have identity politics. have you mueller and you have the accusers. what else do you have? >> we have a message that worked in places like virginia and new jersey just a few weeks ago. we won in alabama on tuesday night. so here's the message. however, we can't. >> laura: you couldn't have won in alabama against any

other candidate other than roy moore you know it and i know it. >> we can't press the ignore button on these women. what message do you want to send to little girls who may be watching. >> laura: how many democrats have given the harvey weinstein allegations back. how many bill clinton accused of rape over the years. >> what does that have against donald trump? >> >> laura: it has everything to do about it. >> leading by example, laura. >> laura: really? > so the democrats who have linized ted kennedy for decades. the democrats who build. >> conyers. franken are going to resign. >> laura: going to continue to take money from the hollywood pornifiers shocked there is sexual harassment behind closed doors. message out of hollywood is sexualizing and objectifying

and misog lyrics and words. >> what are you saying to these women president trump? are you saying they are wrong? >> laura: i have no idea whether they are wrong or right. american people voted on it all i know is the democrats have no message because you still vngts said any message. >> i just gave you one. >> laura: what are the three steps to economic growth in the democratic party. >> first of all we have to provide healthcare for people. >> laura: that's economic growth. >> yeah, because a healthy population. >> laura: they got no economic plan. go ahead, herman. i mean, you gout no economic plan. >> clinton economic plan. i'm sure you just don't want to hear it. >> antwon, i let you talk. now, let me talk, okay? i want to rebuke some of the garbage that you threw out there. >> i don't think it's garbage. >> don't go talking on top of me i said. >> absolutely. >> i said let me talk. >> i'm. >> let me talk. i did not interrupt you. >> laura: go, one at a time.

>> laura, this is what liberals do. when they have no message. >> tell the truth. >> they have no plan, they like to talk over conservatives with facts. now, let's go back to one factor he threw out there. when he said well, what about the economic boom of under president obama. allow me to correct you antwon and please don't interrupt me. 2% is not. >> please tell the truth. >> there he goes, laura. 2% is not the new normal which is what we interned for 8 years. we have already seen 3% plus in the consecutive quarters under this president who has set a positive tone from the top. the business community is very excited and positive. consumer confidence is up. we are going to get this tax package passed. that's going to continue to add to this economic boom and all you and the other liberal democrats can say is accusation, speculation, and

fabrication. that's where you are missing it. and the american people are not stupid. >> laura: we are out of time. antwon, we will have you on my radio show and have you back on tv soon. tonight a bombshell report just came out today. according to the hill attorney lisa bloom attempted to arrange major payments to women accusing president trump of sexual harassment. claims mr. trump vehemently denies. she wanted a cut of the money, typical lawyer. oftentimes coming from hillary supporters and tabloid media outlets. walls this a violation of campaign finance laws? joining me now for reaction from miami beach, of course, is alan dershowitz and emeritus professor of harvard author of the new book "trumpsd up" he joins us now. professor d. let's talk with this. these are wild allegations. one woman got her mortgage paid off. where do i go to get that? got her mortgage paid off 30 k out in queens. others wanted as much as 750,000. $2 million. could this be a violation of campaign finance laws if

this came from donors who influence an election and it wasn't reported to the feds? >> i don't think so. i think you ought to be very scrupulous before you start accusing people of crime. it's a close question. but could but i do think it giva very important pause in terms of me too. most women tell the truth. most women have no lie about being sexually assaulted. but there are some women out there and some men who will lie for money. i know that from personal experience. because i was the victim of a woman who falsely accused me. a woman i never met. never heard of. accused me. we were able to learn and prove that she had a very strong multi-million-dollar motive for making the fails accusation and was pressured to do so. by her lawyers. and now her allegation has been totally disproved by documentation.

it just shows that there is no such thing as all men tell the truth. there is no jerntiond gene fogender gene fortruthfulness a. we have to be scrupulous in questioning everybody's accusations and making sure that everybody, the president, as well as everybody else, is afforded due process of law when accused of serious sexual misconduct. >> laura: campaign super pacs, the super pac money, big money affects the election results, try to have it affects the election results. if that money was used in whole or in part, offer it up to women to tell their stories, i think that's a big problem. i'm not trying to speculate here but we need to certainly learn more about whether any of this money, any of it went or solicitations, even solicitations for that money ended up going to women no wanted to tell a story or had an inkling about telling a story. i find that to be really

troubling. i'm sorry. $750,000 they were about to pay this one woman? >> let's put the shoe on the other foot. we know now that democrats are trying to find violations of campaign laws in the trump administration taking information from wikileaks or from the russian government if that occurred. interpret the campaign finance laws consistent with the first amendment. the first amendment applies not only to media reporting but also to campaigns. i do think you have to be very careful about trying to find criminal conduct. based on the effort to get information. >> laura: all i know dinesh den d'souza had no chance of winning. >> i was on his side in that case and i helped. >> laura: all right, professor. >> helped with a fair

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but, recently one of their biggest targets has been white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders. case in point, this particularly personal broadside from msnbc's mika brbrzezinski. >> those briefings are useless. she does not say anything that is truthful. and she does not intend to. she is the one protecting a president who does that every day. who watches tv every day and tweets stupidity. what she is doing is helping damage this republic. >> laura: those are just the nice things she said. joining us now with reaction is white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders who is freezing out there. merry christmas. great to see you. how are you doing. >> it's great. a little cold but other than that we are doing great. >> laura: big news on tax reform. big, big day i've been watching you for months in briefing room.

with patience and an ability to deal with the cra at you on a minute-by-minute basis. have you more patience than i would ever have. then you hear comments like that from another female, a female journalist. how do you process that? that particular comment which i found, of all of them said lately, particularly objectionable? >> look, it helps that i have three toddlers at home. so i'm pretty good at having a lot of patience in sometimes dealing with things that you don't always want to deal with. look, this is a president who was elected by the forgotten men and women of this country and a lot of liberals have contempt for these people whether they're men or women. they want to attack us. i think it's a great reminder of why this president was elected. we are here to do a job. we are here to get big things done. that's what we are focused on. if they want to focus on pet a tacks. that's fine. let them have at it while they are doing that we will get tax cuts passed in this

country. we will continue to grow the economy. continue to create jobs. 2 million new jobs since this president came into office. i'm sure a lot of those are going to women. and maybe we will get to replace some of those female journalists out there that don't like us very much at some point. the bottom line is this is a president who is focused on getting things done. focused on getting things done for the men and women that frankly a lot of the liberal elites in this country don't like, have contempt for, and he is focused on empowering women and he is doing that and the way he puts people in place in his administration. and i think it's sad that they are attacking a lot of us while claiming to champion women's causes and women's issues. >> laura: i have gotten on the receiving end of that. i wear it as a badge of honor. the more they are attacking the better job i think you are doing. let's talk about role. i think a lot of the people fox viewers watching now. they watch you out there doing daily combat and they think to themselves okay. what if she is talking to the president and he says go out there and say.

this but it's not something you are comfortable with. i'm not talking about any specific issue. but would you say to him boss, that's not something -- that's not something that i'm comfortable saying but you know, maybe get someone else to go out there and say that has he ever done that? >> look, if there was ever a moment that i wasn't comfortable doing something, i wouldn't do it. that's part of who i am. and this president is not going to ask me to do something i'm not comfortable with. if i get to a place can i talk to him and come it a place where we can agree on what the talking points and what the message is, but that's just not something i'm ever going to be part of. i don't think or expect him to ever ask me to do anything that i'm not going to be comfortable in doing. look, i believe in what the president is doing. i believe in the agenda. i believe in what we are fighting for and the way we are trying to spend every single day making america a better place. i think we have done a lot in the first 11 months. i look forward in helping the president put that message over the next seven years. hour lawyer 32% approval

rating in a recent poll. monmouth poll. the other polls show the president in the high 30's. why do you think at least now he hasn't gotten so far he wasn't gotten the credit for the dereg he has done. for the tax cut obviously everybody is going to get in the new year, the judges on the federal appellate court? record pace for putting judges on the courts. why is the number still so low and how do you get that number up? >> look, i think a lot of the times of the reason the numbers might be lower than they probably really are is because people are getting. they are not getting all the good news what's happening in administration, what's happening in this country. i think a lot of people are going to start to see this impact when the tax cuts go through. that's going to happen right away. they will see the bigger paychecks starting as he shallly as february. i think there are a lot of things you are going to see. changes in the deregulation process. you are going to see the impact of that even more

than we already are at the first part of next year. i think one of the big problems is that stuff doesn't get coughed. we are so focused on talking about the negative and trying to attack this president. trying to delegitimize him. >> laura: it's over the top. >> some of the big things that are happening aren't being covered. >> laura: it's beyond over the top. it's 90% coverage is bad. he could come up with a cure for lung cancer tomorrow and they would say why didn't he do it a year ago. i mean, this is where it is. let's talk about daca. because what i'm hearing from my little sources on capitol hill, is that the president may move to do a, quote: daca fix, which could be amnesty for hundred thousand people brought here as minors. what's that race act detached without getting rid of chain migration and visa lottery system and without reducing illegal immigration and the wall and all that stuff. people like scott taylor of virginia are obsessed about doing this daca before the end of this year. don't you think the base of this party, sarah, will go

crazy if that is what the president pushes through when we have so many bigger priorities here? >> look, the president is focused on making sure we have responsible immigration reform. we have been talking about it ending chain miation. reasonable doubt according to funding for the border wall and increasing an tiesier. we laid out the principles things we want to see and shake sure that's part of any pang that moves forward. that's what we are making sure happens complete and responsible immigration reform. >> laura: you won't do any clean daca quote fix that some of these republicans want. will you? >> look, as i just said we have laid out what our priorities are. >> laura: that would be a disaster. >> that's not our plan. this is a president who has talked about, campaigned and won on doing big things when it comes to immigration. specifically funding border wall. greater interior enforcement. better vetting and just, again, making sure that we have a responsible

immigration system. something we don'ter currently have and something this president wants to make sure we don't tinker with it and fix small parts of it but we fix all of it. >> laura: sarah, when you see a judicial nominee up there yesterday, mr. peterson, i believe, who was nominated d.c. district court, struggling with some, you know, questions about evidence and procedure issues that you know when you are a litigator. does that give the president pause about the way some of these lower court judges are being picked and selected? >> look, i haven't talked to him specifically about that. but what i do know is this is a president who is focused on making sure we have judges in place that understand what their role is. and that's not to create law. that's not to change law. but it's to be actually focused on the constitution and making sure that we have judges in place that understand their place. >> laura: that was a bad deal though. that was a viral video nightmare. i'm sorry. but, i mean, his judges have been great. he is, i'm sure, a nice

person. he is good at the fcc. as a district court judge, someone who clirkd on the federal court of appeal he is, that was a brutal series of questions by kennedy. i hope done mcgahn and the crowd takes a look at some of the procedures for the dricket security. sarah, do you make. >> if you had my pecan pay i could shake your mind. i have might have won over april ryan for a day or two. >> in connecticut we call it pee-can. you have the right renunciation down south. have a great christmas and thank you for spending time with us tonight. >> thanks, merry christmas, laura. >> laura: take care. adam schiff is all about

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>> laura: if you're dying to see california congressman adam schiff, just turn on the television at any point in the day, any time. any channel. because the top ranking dem on the house intel committee is the main proponent of the russia collusion narrative. all have you right now is a circumstantial case. more than that. one of the messages that this russian advocate may have taken back to moscow is the trump administration will be very amenable to repealing the minute miss ski act. >> the russians gave help and the president made full use of that help. that is pretty damning. >> laura: here is the problem. he is a carnival barker.

not a shred of evidence backing up. that doesn't stop him from playing the mainstream media like a fidel. we will discuss this with michelle malkin. let's go to chief national correspondent ed henry with more. hed. >> the fact that they're turning up the heat on schiff may help explain why today the top democrat on the house intel committee tried to point the finger elsewhere. schiff tweeting i'm increasingly worried republican also shut down the house intelligence committee investigation at the end of the month and it appears that republicans want to conduct just enough interviews to give the impression of a serious investigation. well, how serious has that investigation been? let's dive deep on what happened when donald trump jr. arrived to testify for over seven hours. while he was still behind closed doors ahead testimony, cnn was posting stories suggesting that donald trump jr. was testifying to something nefarious. cnn reporting that according to multiple sources familiar with the testimony, that was still going on.

quote, donald trump jr. told house investigators he did not communicate directly with his father when confronted with news reports about his june 2016 trump tower meeting. instead, trump jr. said he was speaking to white house aides about how to respond to reports that sparked a flurry of reports maybe the deeper unspecified role in a collusion narrative even though it was not clear there was anything criminal or anything inappropriate about those conversations. well, the new information i'm told tonight by republicans close to the committee is donald trump jr. sand his attorney were asked toker is surrender their phones before he went closed doors behind that testimony. during the hours of testimony, they noticed adam schiff was leaving the room at various times. and then these stories started of popping up on cnn and elsewhere about the testimony. leading them to believe the leaks were coming right from the top. but since donald trump jr.'s team didn't have their phones they didn't find out about these stories popping up on cnn and elsewhere until several hours after

the testimony started. that's why they're demanding the justice department investigate whether it was adam schiff himself or other top democrats that did the leaking and they think that's why schiff came out today, laura and started to try to shift the blame and say the republicans are trying to shut down this investigation. they are saying donald trump jr. was testifying to what he knew and during the testimony leaks were springing up everywhere. >> laura: i love that leaving the room. it's like kids in class. they are leaving to like get the notes they stored under the toilet or something in the bathroom. ed, i appreciate it thanks so much. and joining us now with reaction from colorado springs, michelle malkin, the host of michelle malkin investigators on crtv. michelle, i mean, you cannot make this up. it is so patently obvious what's been going on. there is zero to the russian collusion story. schiff is trying to fannie ember that's out there and he runs out of the committee meeting. that's what he had to to be doing. i'm sure is he not going to the bathroom that much unless he has some

undisclosed prostate or urinary problem we are not aware of. what do we make of this perpetual tease by adam schiff. >> there is a leak problem and it may not be urological in nature. certainly the question here is, laura, will as that old world war ii used to say loose lips sink ships. i'm glad heat is being turned up on him. i would like to know how blabby mcblaber mouth in russian. because thi diversionary tactic tweet storm is indication is he quite worried that it will be traced back to him. it is interesting, isn't it, laura, that when mr. blabby mcblaber mouth goes on the collusion narrative network that they never ask him about all of these botched stories that clearly seem to point back to whoever is

liking false stories to begin with. >> house ethics rules. you are not to be giving this information to the press or anyone when it's a closed door session like this. and, yet, somebody and i don't know who else it could have been. i mean, i guess i it could be someone else. he is the only one kept leaving the room. only one out there day after day after day, teasing as you saw with chuck todd not just circumstantial evidence, he said, but we have other evidence of russian collusion. and then there is never, again, it's a perpetual tease. there is never any payoff. >> yes. i mean, adam schiff has fired more duds than the north korea missile program over the last year and the question is just as much about his culpability at the very least as you say with the ethical violations from the house ethics committee. but, there is also all of

the enablers in the media who have put him on nonstop. there is records of the amount of time that he has spent shilling for the collusion narrative. so what happens to all of the layers of and layers of fact checkers? where is the extreme vetting from all of the other networks that put him on nonstop to blab like this? >> laura: where is cnn and msnbc saying okay, like where are the goods? i mean, you have been promising this since march. give it something. you said your sources will be confirming, friday, next week, the week after. and then there is nothing that's cop. michelle, i wanting to move on to another topic that i know you and i have spent a lot of years talking about. that's immigration. there is a lot of concern thought trump administration might have its hand forced on a daca fix before the end of the year. that will not include the key provisions of ending chain migration.

ending visa lotteries. everify, the wall. all the things in the reyes act which would be critical. i am very worried about this. i'm not sure that the president is aware of these forces that are working behind out scenes to get this done. i was wondering what your thoughts are on this. especially border crossing going up again from october to november. there was a big surge cropping. and individuals crossing at the border and. as you say you and i have been warning faction within the republican party for a long, long time. they are very good that is why there needs to be a forceful push back from grassroots conservatives to make sure that president trump knows exactly what's happening. when you have got 34 house republicans who have signed a letter that tells you how

twisted the legislative priorities are for the chamber of commerce wing of the republican party. fix upwards of 800,000 illegal aliens than they are in fixing the obamacare system that has harmed millions of people in the individual market. let alone fixing all of these stupid programs that you and i have been talking about for years now. whether it's diversity visa or chain migration. where is the stand alone bills and stand alone legislation for those? >> laura: and the president has to understand people like scott taylor from virginia. i know he is a former navy seal and all of that, but he is absolutely obsessed with pushing this daca thing through. absolutely obsessed. i know this mary jones woman is going to be challenging him next year. >> good. >> laura: there is a group of people pushing this. i hope the president is aware of it michelle, have you done great work on this. we appreciate it obviously the president is none to pleased with the fbi right now.

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>> laura: the fbi is being rocked by shocking revelations of partisan bias by president trump by investigators looking into hillary's emails and russia. while heading to quantico, virginia today to give a speech to fbi academy graduates, the president delivered a blunt assessment

of the situation. >> it's a shame what's happened with the fbi. when you look at what's gone on with the fbi and with the justice department, people are very, very angry. >> laura: but he struck a very different note during his address to fbi graduates. >> the president of the united states has your back 100 percent. >> i will fight for you and i will never ever let you down, ever. now, more than ever, we must support the men and women in blue. >> laura: joining us with reaction is former fbi national spokesperson john girgrade the president's speech today at the fbi. >> i thought it was a plus. he said all the right things. is he supportive of the fbi and law enforcement. that's what we need in this country today. >> have you these controversies surrounding andrew mccabe deputy director much the fbi given

peter strzok. how he managed to get into that investigation. lead the investigation. hillary's emails, also the flynn interview. helped to edit that comey non-indictment/indictment of hillary. and i and others are calling for mccabe to go. what's the thought on that? >him?>> he is in a tough spot. negative press with what's what is going on. the new director decides who stays and goes. i think people will eventually move on and director wray will have other people in place. >> laura: seems like the president is trying to strike a different note that leadership versus the rank and file. and whether you see him with police officers or first responders and sometimes the political operatives or political people at the top. it could be different. but i saw that reaction today. they were going crazy for him. they just loved him at this event. he has been brutal in his texts about what happened at the heart of the fbi and dealing with his own russian

investigation you and people like myself and others on this network and beyond have also really unearthed what's happened there. >> that's the thing about this president. he is not afraid to say how he feels. but i will tell you when it comes to the fbi. the men and women. everybody in the fbi is a leader. that's why they were recruited to do what they do. and likewise, there is an importance to remain objective. you can have all the opinions you want. when it comes to work, you have to make sure you are reporting the facts as the facts are seen. >> laura: if you are doing an investigation into some high profile event, as an fbi agent, and you're texting with another fbi agent. you happen to be having a romantic relationship with and you are like this guy is a nightmare and i hope he doesn't win and we need an insurance policy. that's kind of not the run of the mill thing you would do knowing the sensitivity of a particular investigation you might in the future be involved in. >> absolutely. agents, while we're human beings and we have opinions, we are expected to keep those opinions to our selves. agents can't even have a flag on the front lawn

displaying pro-candidate in one race or another. >> laura: is that right? >> absolutely. you cannot express your political opinions as an fbi agent. you can't do anything that your neighbors will. he is an fbi. he supports this candidate or that candidate. you have to be unbiased. >> laura: quickly, this eli lake writer said we might have violated the privacy of peter strzok and lisa page by looking at their texts. are you worried about their privacy given what we have gownsd out. >> anybody is ho is using a bureau device texting has no privacy. it's the government's. >> laura: pc this is not a cloud. this is a tomato tracked from farm to table on a blockchain, helping keep shoppers safe. this is a financial transaction secure from hacks and threats others can't see. this is a skyscraper whose elevators use iot data and ai to help thousands get to work safely and efficiently.

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