she said "green light for various people at the white house to speak with him," announced the information we have. the president did not give him an interview, that's correct. but he did have access to the white house. we will see as this develops and we will be with you every step of the way to analyze. follow me on twitter and facebook. check out "billionaires at the barricades." >> shannon: here's a way of coming up tonight. threats of legal action, publishers rush to release michael's explosive book about the trump white house. >> this is a mistake after mistake after mistake. >> shannon: sean spicer to other formal officials, people raising questions about its credibility. >> looks like is not enough basis to appoint a special counsel. >> shannon: tensions between jeff sessions and some house republicans reaching a boiling point.

comes in mark meadows and xerox may live when he thinks. a follow-up the stories i hear. >> potentially dozens of criminal cases that languished. >> shannon: we will talk to a former dea agent in the middle of investigations. said the obama administration undermining critical task force to target hezbollah as a president pursued a nuclear deal with iran. hello and welcome to "fox news @ night." i'm shannon bream in washington. newsnight: fox news confirming that the justice department is opened a new inquiry into the clinton foundation. fbi agents in little rock, arkansas, taking the lead, focusing on one of the clinton foundation engaged and pay to play politics and other illegal activities while hillary clinton was secretary of state. fox news has also learned investigators are looking into whether the clinton foundation

violated tax laws. also new details tonight on special counsel robert special counsel robert mueller's inquiry into president trump firing a former fbi director. former chief of staff reince priebus has handwritten notes about how president trump called comey to urge him to say he was not under investigation. also went to lengths to prevent jeff sessions from recusing himself. we'll have more with congressman mike meadows, calling on sessions to resign among the growing number of leaks like it appears "the new york times" is gone. more news on the book "fire and fury," featuring explosive statements from steve bannon. bannon talking about running for president himself. and much more. it appears to be too much for his allies. one g.o.p. donor and influencer appears to be breaking with the antiestablishment star of the g.o.p. kevin corke is working late. >> great to be with you. yesterday, the president had

this four paragraph statement and he said steve bannon had lost his job and lost his mind when he was ushered off the white house team. today he had decidedly fewer words for his former chief strategist. frequently quoted in the book we've been talking about, you see right here "fire and fury." it has certainly generated a storm of controversy because of a number of allegations, including semiopeners from bannon himself, including a suggestion that bannon wanted to run or wanted to run for president in 2020. today for the first time since the controversy erupted, the president finally responded on camera. >> i don't know. he called me a great man last night so we have this he changed his tune pretty quick. thank you. i don't talk to him. i don't talk to him. i don't talk to them.

>> all right, what gives? why isn't the president talking to bannon? maybe because of some of the things he currently is that the book by calling the president's daughter ivanka "dumb as a brick." he also apparently said that the president eats mcdonald's because he fears being poisoned. he opined there's a 33% chance that the president would either be impeached, resign, or limp to the end of his term. bannon seemed to be downplaying the possible rift with the president, saying that he is still 100% behind the commander in chief. >> don't worry. there will be no daylight between the agenda, donald trump, the folks at breitbart and the show and the website. the president of the united states is a great man. i support him day in and day out, the going to the country

giving the speech or on the show are on the website. >> for all the olive branch extending by bannon, he was hit with a cease and desist letter. the president's lawyers accusing him of repeatedly violating the terms of his separation, including comments attributed to him in the now infamous book. clearly the patient's white house officials, after fielding so many questions about this book, it's geing threadbare. >> i am less concerned with my exhaustion as i am with the people of the country who could probably care less about a book full of lies and would like to hear more about the booming economy, the crushing of isis, all the great things are happening in this country. or all of the big problems we are focused on tackling. >> stick with the blowback continues. this evening, we've learned bannon's major financial backers are beginning to back away from him and that's a major deal. we can tell you that the

president's tweeting about this. this happened less than 10 minutes ago. he tweeted: "i authorized zero access to white house actually turned him down many times for author of phony book! i never spoke to him for book. full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don't exist. look at this guy's past and watch what happens to him and sloppy steve!" that kind of night for steve bannon and even worse for the author, although if you are thinking about book sales, they are expected to go on sale tomorrow but given the controversy, i think it's a pretty good bet he will sell more than just a few. >> shannon: thank you. kevin corke, great to have you with us. as we mentioned at the top of the show, fox news confirming the fbi office in little rock, arkansas, is investigating the clinton foundation, possible pay to play on the radar. joining us now, chris stirewalt. we make of this? a lot of people think this has

died out. any talk of imitating the clintons are hillary clinton. >> both things can be true. you would know this. we have probably 98, 97 districts, federal district court to the united states. each of them has united states attorney. the one in the eastern district of arkansas has been a hotbed of this kind of stuff for decades. where the clintons have been and where the clintons i'm gone, controversy and scandal has always followed. the u.s. attorney out there is named cody highland, i believe his name is. he's a mike huckabee veteran. he was working for mike huckabee when the clinton machine was trying to take him out as governor. old blood feud stuff. deep down arkansas delta business. what you see is this u.s. attorney's office, this fbi field office has the -- whatever the justice department wants to do our base it has to be

approved in washington, but if this prosecutor out in little rock wants to take good look at with the clintons between what was going on, i don't think there's probably much to stop it. you and you think it goes anywhere? we been told before there's nothing to it. there's no smoke, no fire. >> if you love america and i'm told reliably you do, even though you beat me at trivia today. >> shannon: we are not going to talk about it. too soon. >> still smarting. it's reasonable to want complete answers about what went on with the trump campaign and also complete answers about how the clinton machine, the operation clinton incorporated, how it operated, what he did, what was going on. we remember peter schweizer's book. "the new york times" reported on it, it had a lot of stinky stuff in it. if people thought they were paying for favors from the secretary of state when she was

in office, that something we ought to want to know about and we should be able to hold those two thoughts and our minds concurrently. >> shannon: "the daily beast" is reporting the doj, they have information and are reopening a look into hillary clinton's email heard we've seen and judicial watch reported that they have pressed for information and have uncovered there were more classified information, documents, emails, on anthony weiner's laptop. his wife huma abedin, close confidant of the clintons. sounds like there may be some interesting reopening, whether she mishandled classified information. >> may be, there is a rabbit trail here. this has more thickets around the maybe the other one, these questions been explored. people think james comey did it wrong. people think the fbi did it wrong. we have two or three investigations into the investigation of the investigation. presumably we will get to some clarity on this but that will come as one unit, not some specific pull aside about huma abedin. >> shannon: i want to talk

about the quotes and speculation in the michael wolff book. it's gotten ugly between bannon and the president. they were once very, very tight. although the presidencies to be downplaying that at this point. >> [laughs] accurate. steve and i will classify that as a go far. michael wolff, author of this. he tweets you can buy it and read it tomorrow. threaten us with letters and losses but your drawing more attention to it. in the copy we've gotten, it bannon was telling people something else. he steve bannon was going to run for president in 2020. he talked about the present was negative peach, resigned or barely make it your winter. >> is much as it pains me to spend any of their syllable my life discussing steve bannon's

theses about power, he was talking if trump didn't runner wasn't running, he was going to challenge trump. the bannon stuff here is basically a comeuppance for a guy who over stated, hyped his own game, with the help of the press who loved to make him into this svengali behind trump in controlling trump. there had to be more to it. it could just be red hats and rallies. the need to be some intellectua intellectual, and bannon audition for that part and was granted that by the press and now he goes kablooey. the interesting stuff isn't about steve bannon. it's about how that white house worked in the opening months and what it means about john kelly, what it means about the level of confidence the staff has in the president. i will say, after all the allegations in the book, donald trump needs to give a real interview or hold a real press conference or do something soon to demonstrate to voters that the allegations in this book that he is senile or

incompetent are untrue. he needs to get out and lay those dressed quickly or it will stick. >> shannon: there's always an open invitation for them to come. interview with us on fox news at night. it can happen. we will make it happen. good to see you. you may not have heard but there's good economic news happening. dow jones industrial average hitting its seven 1,000-point milestone closing above 25,000 for the first time. this began after president since president trump took office. a new report says private sector job creation surged, companies they will give workers pay raises. president trump weighing in on twitter saying:

for days and to the new year their showdowns brewing in washington. a battle looming over immigration reform and democrats continue to insist on a daca deal before funding the government. the trump administration opening up new political battle fronts with plans to expand offshore drilling and ramp up enforcement of marijuana laws. >> with a rapid pace of initiatives and controversies, the trump administration is keeping all monikers on their toes while entering the democrats and even a few republicans are down right angry. first off, as you said, legislatively is daca. mr. trump invited a handful of republicans, john cornyn of texas and tom cotton of arkansas and lindsey graham of south carolina show at houston health crafton immigration policy.

>> any legislation on daca must secure the border, the wall, give immigration officers the resources they need to stop illegal immigration and also to stop these overstates and crucially the legislation must end chain migration. >> many democrats say they can't support such an immigration bill, both the house and senate will need some democrat votes before they can get this thing across the finish line. separately today the department of interior announced plans to open up 90% of the u.s. outer continental shelf to oil and gas leases. most of the florida congressional delegation including republicans and other atlantic state lawmakers are deeply opposed, fearing what could happen to tourism if an accident happens. tweeting "the plan is extremely alarming and unacceptable." attorney general jeff sessions rescinding obama euro marijuana enforcement guidelines.

sessions is leaving it up to federal prosecutors and states allow legal pot sales with her to crack down on the trade. advocates who witness the benefits of medical marijuana and states' rights conservatives are livid at this decision. colorado republican senator cory gardner said sessions promised him during his confirmation hearings he would not interfere with these state decisions. >> i believe what happened today was a traveling of colorado's rights, its voters, and that's why i will be putting a hold on everything the nomination from the department of justice. until attorney general jeff sessions loads up to the commitment that he made me and my confirmation, preconfirmation meeting with him. >> sessions it's also catching flak from conservatives on a different issue. mark margo's writing that sessions has no control over the premier law enforcement agency in the world. that the time for a new attorney general is now.

stay on all right. doug mckelway, thank you very much. republicans will control the house of delegates in virginia and they have got the look of the draw to thank for it literally. it all came down to a single contested state host race which had flip-flopped back-and-forth after recount and raider trickle razor-thin margins. a panel refused to hear shelley "night court"'s arguments. that left it in a tie. state board of elections met today to choose the winner. they pulled a name out of a bowl. david yancey was declared the winner after his name was selected. simonds says she is not ruling out seeking another recount. we will hear from congressman mark meadows in a moment on this call for the attorney general to resign. plus president trump's fitness for office. according to political, lawmakers talk to a psychiatrist who claims he's falling apart.

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listen to this clip from a segment about business in seattle. >> 2018 brought to golden state in line with other west coast dates for marijuana retail shops and products. the even playing field may expand the number who want to buy but could undercut any attempt to make seattle a special destination for pot tourism. an add-on rather than a main attraction. >> a lot of the participants want a count of his tour of some sort to be part of their seattle visit. >> shannon: now i multiple state options. a diverse group of critics worried about so-called marijuana normalization. they are praising sessions for allowing the feds to enforce federal law despite states who decided to do their own thing. former obama administration drug

policy advisors has doj's move will stop the massive infusion of money going to fund pot candy, cookies, ice creams, and other kid friendly edibles. a mom who lost her daughter to a driver high on pot says marijuana is seen as benign all too often. i hope those days are over. former democrat congressman says the memo had been waved around by pot executives for years. searching for legitimacy among investors and banks. it's time to put public health over profits. the public seems divided. states' rights versus doing what they believed to be the right thing. joining us now, mark meadows. we have many things to talk to you about tonight. we'll start here. gray to have you with us. what you make of this? i want to read it more of a statement we got from senator gardner's office. optical reports that the justice department will rescind their current policy on legal marijuana enforcement are extremely alarming. in 2016, president trump said marijuana legalization should be

left up to the states and i agree." what do you think? think of here's what we have inl law. this president has been consistent. he said if there's along the books, let's make sure we do it. just like we are having to deal with daca because we had president obama overreaching on the deferred action, he says it's time for congress to act. i think on this one it really is for congress to rescind the federal law, not an executive agency. cory is a good friend and i understand he is representing his state but there comes a point where you allow states to affect federal policy and set of the other way around, and i think that's troubling. i support attorney general sessions in this move. it really takes effect of congress. now is the time for us to act. if we want to address this issue. >> shannon: other criticisms you have of the attorney genera

attorney general. jim jordan, you wrote a piece and say you are tired of leaks happening. no evidence of collusion in it are leaks all the time from places like "the new york times." we have another piece out tonight where they cite multiple anonymous sources with all kinds of of inside information from the mueller investigation from people either in the white house are briefed on things that happen at the white house. you say it's time for the leaks to stop. if sessions can't address it, there's one final question. one of the time for a new attorney general? sadly it seems the answer is no now. >> no one has lost their job yet. the fbi and doj leak more than a 60-year-old boat. we have more leaks coming out every day. critical importing that we address it but not just that. the attorney general needs to do his job. when he recused himself, where it is his recusal start and sto

stop? there's a big frustration on capitol hill. we have investigated this russian collusion for 16 months. there is no collusion. there is no evidence of collusion and yet here we are in a situation where we know that leaks are happening. we know based on these reports that he have used a dossier in an inappropriate manner. yet we can't get the very documents to have proper oversight. we are tired of stonewalling. i talked to chairman nunes this evening. he's going to get some documents tomorrow. that's a good step in the right direction. but we have seen this before. listen, i've been an oversight for over five years. what happens is they promise you they are going to get it to you. they give it to fully redacted so a page of just blacked out lines. it's time that we get to the bottom of this and it's time that we hold the fbi and doj accountable to the standard they

should be held accountable. >> shannon: we have talked about this. do you think it's a "deep state" problem. are there people in the administration, opponents of the president, who are keeping you from getting the information ine congress is legally entitled to? >> we don't have to look much further than the text messages between peter strzok and lisa page to see some type of bias. whether that carries over into the investigation, we need to look at all the text messages. we need to fully look at that. in my conversations with others, are there people within the higher ranks of doj and the fbi that certainly are not wanting to come forward with some of this information? i believe that's the case. i'm not a conspiracy guy. at the same time, give us the documents. we requested some 15,000 pages of documents. >> shannon: the obstruction, stonewalling, leaks, are you calling on the attorney general to resign? >> i'm calling on him to do his

job. if you will do his job immediately and right away and quit making excuses, you had part of the lead up to this, you had attorney general session saying well, it's not time for special prosecutor. when we see the text messages and emails we've already visited, there seems to be some at least appearance of impropriety. it's time that we actually get to the bottom of it and so he's got a very short fuse from my standpoint. if he can do his job, more power to him. we welcome the information. >> shannon: congressman mark meadows. great to have you. lawmakers questioning president trump's mental health. we're going to tell you what one psychiatrist had to say. president trump street blame for unrest in iran? vice president pence says europe and the u.n. are not doing enough to help people there. stay tuned. former u.n. ambassador

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>> when dr. bandy lee finished up more than six teen hours of private meetings, she apparently convinced some it was time to invoke the 25th amendment saying the president was mentally unfit to fulfill the duties of the office. she indicated that getting republicans to sign on would be trickier. dr. lee acknowledges it's unethical for a psychiatrist to diagnose from afar but she believes it's her duty to warn the public about their leaders psychological instability which is why she and 26 of her liberal colleagues wrote the book "the dangerous case of donald trump." the president is compared to an american hitler, showing signs of impulsivity, recklessness and paranoia. here is dr. lee. >> when silence contributes harm to the public health, we have a duty to speak out.

and the duty to warn and the duty to protect is pervasive in our practice. >> not all mental health experts feel that same sense of duty. in fact some say the dangerous case of donald trump is nothing but in fatuous, tawdry tabloid psychiatry. fox's doctor says it's highly unlikely that you are -- saying dr. bandy lee is either an opportunist or a fool. he makes it clear he is not diagnosed her. should be noted the stock market hates uncertainty and instability. today the dow crossed 25,000. >> shannon: it did. joining me now, townhall.com

columnist and radio host derek hunter and leslie leslie marsh. assuming we are mentally healthy enough to have this debate, i want to talk more about this. bandy lee admits she has not met the president. she says "we feel that the russia tweeting is an indication of his falling apart under stress. trump is going to get worse and will become uncontainable within the pressures of the presidency." derek, seems like he's been the same guy we've seen. we've known. ration bold and off-the-cuff. do you think he's changed? >> no. i have been a fan of the apprentice since the apprentice. it's a weird thing and washington, d.c., that no one speaks their mind. i have to give her credit for her willingness to violate the ethics of her profession in

order to sell books. i think a book could be written about the violation of ethics for her profession. spewing she came here in brief people over a two-day period about what would happen. there's been a discussion about the 25th amendment that provides a way for the vice president in the cabinet members to step in if they think the president is unable, incapacitated. to that discussion, alan dershowitz who has not been a conservative ever, says this "the 25th amount would require a major psychotic break. this is hope of reality. if we don't like someone's politics, vote against them. we don't use the system. >> i think it's dangerous to sound like you're making a diagnosis when you haven't actually seen a patient in any area of medicine.

i think it's important for the american people to be aware of what's going on with their leader. it's important for this or any leader to have proper medical treatment. for congress to be briefed by somebody who hasn't seen him, to me is not ethical and quite frankly even know i'm a democrat. i've set up before. you've heard me. this is not how the removal of donald trump happens. this is not how it's going to come about because you don't have the vice president. you don't have the cabinet, the republicans. even the one republican that sat down for the meeting. i think this is a waste of time because this individual has not seen him. having said that though he has some tweets that are very similar to north korea leader who many people think is a wing not. he needs to stop some of that behavior. >> can we talk about -- >> shannon: we know he's not

going to change his behavior. any -- she's not going to change his behavior. he feels like by using twitter, that's why he won. the left knowing it's highly improbable that any this could happen, the 25th amendment et cetera, do you think it's making them feel better to talk about. >> this is further based. you have members coming out and talking about how the president seems unhinged from afar through somatic admits they are violating the ethics of their profession. it really is scared to go crazy, advocating for policies that have failed the world over. the u.k., their national health system, they have canceled nonemergency procedures because their system can't handle it. many members met with dr. lee who had vacates to bring that sort of system here. i would take 180 characters and crazy over a nationwide policy

over 16 of the u.s. economy. >> shannon: leslie, what do you make of derek's assessment that a lot of people just aren't used to plain spoken, straight talking people in d.c. everybody here is a spin doctor. this precedent doesn't do that. is it such a shock? >> no. but i do think that one individual talks about the ability to start a nuclear war which could kill millions of people >> shannon: >> if somebody thres on twitter that my button is bigger than yours and i can press it and it's right here, ts dangerous talk when you are dealing with a very dangerous and unstable leader overseas like we have in kim jong un. that's the type of behavior i think people on my side of the aisle question the stability of with regard to the president. >> shannon: we've got to leave it there. derek and leslie, we will close

this out. thank you both very much. as the death toll rises in iran, president trump's tweets are being blamed for the unrest in the streets of tehran and other cities. north korea testing more missiles. we will tell you where to get the latest reaction from john bolton. ady for centrum micro-workouts. the bottle curl. the twist n' turn. the stretch n' grab. the gummy squish. centrum micronutrients fuel your body from the inside out. grab a centrum and join in. repeat daily.

>> shannon: knew tonight from the stand off in the korean peninsula. officials from north and south korea will meet next tuesday to discuss a possibility of north korean athletes participating in next month's winter olympic games. moon jae-in sees a groundbreaking chance to improve relations. will keep you updated. iran's leaders planning president trump on the twitter habits for the deadly protest. they aren't the only ones. vice president pence slamming our european allies in the u.n.

nikki haley requesting a security council meeting on iran. former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. john bolton joins us. this meeting ambassador haley called for. >> it's important to continue the discussion about why the people of iran are rising against the regime. i think that's quite significant. i don't expect any substantive action out of the u.n. i think russia and china will block any meaningful new sanctions. honestly i have to say that our friends in europe haven't exactly stood up on this issue. the discussion will go ahead but i don't see anything coming out of it. >> shannon: the vice president said "the united states has spoken clearly and unequivocall unequivocally. unfortunately many of our european partners as well as the united nations have thus far failed to forcefully speak out on the growing crisis in iran. it's time for them to stand up." who are recalling out?

>> the european union. germany for, france, great britain unfortunately partners in the deal with iran on the nuclear question. it shows the iranian strategy, the obama strategy work. they sucked us into being able to trade and invest with iran. europe sees the possibility of profits. they are blind to what's happening in the streets of iran. i didn't write that article for mike pence but i wish i had because it's exactly the right point to make. >> shannon: what about pakistan? we got word today from the state apartment we are going to freezing substantial security students we get to that country. a lot of talk talk from this administer ration about the fact that they haven't been reliable partners in the fight against terrorism. >> i remember george bush after 9/11, what he said with respect to terrorism. you are either with us or against us. people said it's terrible. you shouldn't hold nations to account. i think it was the right thing to say then and i think

president trump is really going back to that. freezing this assistance i think he is incredibly important to signal to pakistan. we have to remember that in this unstable political environment, civilian government not being all that strong, military in pakistan increasingly infiltrated by radicals. they are a nuclear weapon state. if you push them all the way over to the other side, you risk having those nuclear weapons being dispersed to terrorists who could take them anywhere in the world. that's something we've got to focus on as well. leaning on pakistan, it's about time. >> shannon: looking back on the last demonstration. we are getting confirmation that there's an investigation looking into the clinton foundation, whether there was pay to play, favors done for countries and any connection with bill or hillary clinton. >> i think these questions need to be answered. i am very disturbed. as a justice department alumnus myself, disturbed by the politicization of law enforcement, intelligence.

investigations cut off that should've been allowed to go forward. i believe this investigation which is being conducted by the u.s. attorney's office for arkansas is exactly the right way to do it. you don't need a special counsel. this, i trust the career prosecutors and i think we ought to let it go ahead. there's so many things about the foundation that look like tammany hall. let's see what it looks like. >> shannon: all right, ambassador. great to have your thoughts. massive snowstorm following the east coast from blizzard conditions and bitter winds to coastal flooding in some parts. a bomb cyclone update coming our way. first, next was of interview with a former senior d.a. official at the heart of politico's report that the obama investigation derailed investigation into hezbollah's drug operation. when i found out i had age-related macular degeneration, amd,

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>> shannon: a bombshell report by politico alleging the obama administration interfered with the federal investigation into how iran backed chair groups hezbollah turn profits on illegal drugs and weapons trafficking. according to the report the previous administration didn't want anything to get in a way of a nuclear deal with tehran. you remember we spoke with the investigative reporter who broke the story. >> federal investigators were watching in gathering evidence of hezbollah sort of transforming itself from a political power and terrorist organization to one that was trafficking in drugs. they were doing it to raise money to help rebuild after the israel war and help in expansion they were doing globally. they gathered evidence, designated a couple dozen super facilitators as people that were connected by this conspiracy but when they tried to delve deeply into the people, they got shot

down. >> shannon: we are bringing you an interview with the former special agent in charge of the dea special operations division quoted extensively in the political report. great to have you with us. i want to read a little bit of what he said. you said there's no doubt my mind now that the focus was the iran deal and our initiative was kind of like a fly the soup. we were like the train that went off the track. at what point did you realize all this until you've you gathered about the millions that hezbollah was laundering even through this country and around the globe, wasn't going to be prosecuted. >> i found it very odd fit in our backyards all over america they were sending used cars back into west africa to sell and the profits of these used cars and drug trafficking money was going to support hezbollah. i found it kind of odd that we didn't have unity of effort to shut it down. i found it odd we didn't have leadership in the administration that would enforce and hold people accountable to bring the

agencies to gather to ensure that we can protect the american public. >> shannon: you were in a meeting with attorney general eric holder who seemed to be interested in this. you were told there would be a follow-up, they would be getting back to you. what happened? >> eric holder was very supportive of the special operations division. i was fortunate to be in charge of that for almost ten years at a most every operation he approved and was supportive. in this particular case, we proved eric holder. he was alarmed by the findings of this particular investigatio investigation. the magnitude of money and drugs moving around the world. eric holder was pretty serious about having follow-up meetings with national security team members and the briefing never happen. it was very strange for me sitting there listening to the attorney general of the united states directing his people to have a meeting to get more information from the dea and our interagency partners about this global trade based money laundering scheme and they weren't interested.

>> shannon: in the meantime the administration is working on a deal with iran over its nukes. josh meyer, who did the political piece, came to this idea that it's possible that's what this is all about. they didn't want to go heavy on hezbollah because they wanted to get the nuke deal done. is that your impression? >> look, i don't have any information on what was going on behind the scenes on the oral new deal. honestly from my perspective you have this magnitude of money and drugs moving through our country and the banks, that should've been something our government enforced full accountability on all the agencies. it didn't happen. we had significant successes. we had tremendous response from the u.s. attorney's office and southern district of new york. we did a $400 million civil seizure on the bank and 30 businesses. we put 30 businesses in this action but there were hundreds

of businesses still operating today. cars going to west africa, car parks are lined up and they are booming. "the wall street journal" article at the end of 2016 talked about how the car parks are exploding all over west africa. they are coming from our backyards. >> shannon: you are saying this is how the money is being laundered. >> it is being laundered. they are supporting hezbollah. they are buying weapons. criminals, terrorists are turning to criminal networks for funding. state sponsorship is down. they need funding to operate, to corrupt government officials. drug trafficking and other criminal activities helping generate hundreds of millions of dollars. the u.n. estimated drug trafficking a few years ago was generating $400 billion a year on the world. terrorists are taking advantage of this opportunity financially. they need the money to operate. >> shannon: i want to let you to reply to a couple obama

administration officials who had -- shot down. she used to be at the state department. we will play her. marie harf. >> the politico stories just false. there is no evidence in the story to backup the allegations. they quote a couple low-level ideological sources who clearly don't like the iran deal. >> low-level sources? i was head of the special operations division for over ten years. 30 agencies, three countries, the nypd. that lady didn't work on the operations. she worked as a bureaucrat in washington talking about policy and stuff, but she wasn't involved day today in the operations. she didn't see what we saw every day on the streets of america and in europe, west africa, and so i have a problem with her referring to the low level sources. the folks that spoke about the story were intricately involved in every aspect of the case.

as a matter of fact, david asher was the expert in the first action against north korea and helped us put together the patriot act in this case to shutdown the international trade based money laundering scheme. >> shannon: thank you for all of your work. thank you for coming in. >> i would just like to say that this particular photo right here is why we were trying to shut this scheme down. >> shannon: we both tweeted out so people know what it is. >> thank you, shannon. >> shannon: more newsmax

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