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white house. so let's begin. the revelations of the fisa memo and what you need to know. that's the focus of tonight's angle. from the moment he came down that shiny escalator in trump tower, donald trump represented an existential threat to the d.c. swamp. he promised to end the cycle of corruption throughout the government, to make it leaner and more accountable to the people. and he even took on some of the sacred cows. >> you trust intelligence? >> not so much from the people that have been doing it for our country. i mean, look what's happened over the last 10 years. look what's happened over the years. i mean, it's been catastrophic. and, in fact, i won't use some of the people that are sort of your standards. just use them, use them, use them. very easy to use them. i won't use them because they have made such bad decisions. >> laura: yeah, he had the nerve to call out the intel

community aka deep state as part of the problem. trump believed that everything in washington had become politicized, bloated, and unmanageable. and what we take away from the now public house intel committee memo that was released today is that donald trump, once again, was right. when the american people think of the fbi and the department of justice, they should have faith that the agency's leadership used their vast powers without political bias or animus. in other words, you shouldn't be able to investigate or surveil any american without clear praise that a crime has been committed. and by the way, in order to secure a foreign intelligence surveillance act or fisa warrant, the government must also find that the person targeted in this case, mr. carter page, was acting as a foreign agent or on behalf of a foreign government. but i will tell you this,

after reading this memo today, i don't know how the fbi even met that benchmark. now, apparently, those requirements, those statutory requirements went out the window because they had to take out trump by any means necessary. the fbi used a minor figure on the trump advisory board. the aforementioned mr. page in an attempt to penetrate's trump inner circle. now, page has been on the fbi's radar for his activities in russia long before his name was listed in that campaign in the spring of 2016. but then on october 21st, 2016, the fbi filed an application with the fisa court for a warrant to surveil page. according to the house intel memo, they submitted that phony russian dossier created by british spy christopher steele as their primary evidence. now, the document itself was filled with conjecture and

unsubstantiated assertions about russian efforts to cozy up to then businessman and now candidate donald trump. now, we have known for some time that the dossier was funded by the dnc and the clinton campaign. and the fbi and the doj knew it, too. but here's the rub. even though they knew the political origins of the dossier, the fbi did not tell the fisa court, neither did the doj. they would go on to secure three fisa surveillance renewals on carter page. all based on that same dossier uopo research in other words, the fisa warrants were approved by fbi director james comey, deputy fbi director andrew mccabe, acting attorney general sally yates. and deputy a.g. rod rosenstein. there are so many lapses and

biases at play here it's so hard to keep track of them but we are going to do our best. we know the fbi authorized payment for the man at the center of this entire opus, christopher steele, for information in that dossier. and to be clear, steele was like hardly an objective source when it came to national security matters. he is quoted in the house intel memo as telling doj officials that he was, quote, desperate that donald trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president. no agenda there whatsoever. so he cooks up this fake dossier so try to kill trump's candidacy. and at the same time, steele began shooting his mouth off to yahoo news about carter page's trip to moscow, which included his infamous dossier. the fbi later cites that yahoo news story as corroborating evidence of the dossier's credibility. that's a neat trick.

a story about the dossier is corroboration of the story itself which is fake. fantastic. the bureau put all of that in their fisa request to continue their surveillance of page. now, here's where it really gets good. a month after the fbi used steele's dossier and the fake news he leaked to get the fisa warrant, they realized steele is leaking confidential information to the media and divulging his relationship to the fbi. so the fbi terminated its relationship with him. so here's the upshot. the predicate for the entire trump-russia collusion can northward, the prevailing evidence advanced to surveil page which would lead to the mueller investigation and all the madness that followed was built on the foundation of the fake steele dossier paid for by hillary clinton's campaign and the dnc here is devin

nunes a short time ago. >> just step back for a moment. this is not going after some terrorist. then they got a warrant on someone in the trump campaign, using opposition research paid for by the democratic party and the hillary clinton campaign. that's what this is about. it is wrong and should never be done. >> laura: the democrats who have long been suspicious of the overreach and bias of law enforcement, funny they believe now that law enforcement can do no wrong. they can never be questioned. they are always right. but the left did sound like a chorus protesting the memo's revelations today's. >> each of theses allegations is at best cherry picked and at worse just simply not at all indicative of the bias that the republicans are trying to allege. >> likely cherry picked and we know what happens when you cherry pick application. >> who knows fisa

application cherry pick two points you don't like. >> why should the fbi and the intelligence committee trust our committee sensitive classified information they think we are on a party line basis going to vote to cherry pick and disclose parts of it. >> laura: that's like a drinking game on a friday night cherry pick. you will be really trashed. russian collusion, remember, was supposedly the concern that drove the fbi to apply for that surveillance warrant. they worried that the election would be disdisputed. disrupted, well, i contend that this surveillance itself was designed to disrupt the election. how was this done first? as an insurance policy against trump's winning. later as an effort to undo the election and upend the presidency. what the memo makes clear, there was collusion after all. you bet.

the collusion was between the comey fbi, the obama justice department and the hillary clinton campaign. and that's the angle. joining me now for reaction from dallas is republican congressman john ratcliff and here in washington is byron york, a fox news contributor, chief political correspondent for "the washington examiner" and victoria toensing a former justice department official in the reagan administration. great to see all of you. we have a lot to get through, guys. let's start with you, congressman. boy, the democrats were coming at you guys with everything today. basically saying this is a big dud. that you're endangering law enforcement and they are still keeping up with the methods and sources. you are endangering methods and sources. what's your reaction to the cavalcade of criticism that poured all over the airways today? >> well, laura, good to be with you. i have to laugh at the comments coming from adam

schiff about protecting classified information. the irony of that is not lost on a lot of folks in washington who are equipsed that he is a drawing the of the edward snowden school of keeping secrets. you know, i understand why the democrats would be upset with what they read in that memo today. but it doesn't change the outcome of what is in there. as you know, laura, i'm one of the few people that have seen the underlying source document. and having had that opportunity to review those, i feel like they are very consistent with the memo that the public was able to see today that was drafted by the majority members of the house intelligence committee. >> laura: all right. i want to play for everybody the question posed to devin nunes tonight by bret baier about that issue of the underlying application. let's watch. >> did you read the actual fisa applications? >> no, i didn't. the agreement we made with the department of justice was to create a reading room

and allow one member and two investigators to go over and read the documents. i thought the best person on our committee would be the chairman of the oversight committee trey gowdy who has a long career as a federal prosecutor to go and do this. >> laura: in other words, vicki, he was going off half cocked. he didn't read the thing and is he pushing this memo. i guess that's what the democrats. >> he was following the rules that the justice department mandated in order to give them the documents. those are always negotiated. >> laura: what bothers you most what you have seen today with this memo. >> so many things. the first thing is that mccabe said that they would not have sought, they would not have even going to the fisa court unless they had that dossier. that just is really scary. and then the boot strapping, of course, the dossier was used to put in the story to plant a story with michael, the journalistic core. he just takes whatever the left gives him and he rewrites it.

>> laura: working on the same team though, aren't they? >> of course. >> laura: this whole thing, they are all helping. it's a boosting society. boosting everyone else's narrative. very aggressive lack of curiosity on the part of the journalist to say where did you get this information? let me look at the underlying. byron, you were the first person to get this memo, it looks like in the media. one other person did as well. what vicki just said about the issue of what they knew, when they knew it. what stands out for you, especially the mccabe point, the deputy director of the fbi? >> well, they said the memo says that the dossier was an essential party of this application and as vicki said goes on to say they wouldn't have done it without the dossier. i have been told they there are really four things that they cite as the reason for this warrant is the dossier, it's that michael isikoff article. the papadopoulos case.

>> laura: yahoo news. >> papadopoulos case and carter page's history. what i'm told is that the dossier was by far the biggest of all of those. so it was absolutely essential and it really supports this idea without the dossier, there is no application. >> george papgd, i mean what the heck was he doing bragging in a bar that hillary's emails were going to come out soon and the russians were going to do it. is that a reason for him to be put under -- >> laura: papadopoulos is one of the most ludicrous things i have heard to base anything on. >> laura? >> laura: go ahead. >> was i just going to comment on the clip that you played there, laura, about different nunes' decision. why wouldn't you send over trey gowdy? why wouldn't you send over the best lawyer in congress, a lawyer who has viewed hundreds, if not thousands of agent declaration affidavits and submissions to federal courts? why wouldn't you sandy guy who knows exactly what he is looking for. what would past the smell test and what wouldn't. i think he ought to be

applauded for that decision. >> laura: congressman, are you going to move to push to release all of these underlying transcripts, redacted as necessary, of course? but the democrats are trying to kick up dust in your face now saying oh, that's not accurate. mccabe didn't say that in his closed door testimony. that they wouldn't have gone after the fisa warrant without that dossier. they are disputing that tonight on other networks. so, we need to see that transcript. i know byron wants to see it. >> yeah. i think transcripts of witness interviews. those can be redacted and made public. i think the democrats' memo, the minority memo ought to be made public, too. i will tell you, having read that adam schiff drafted that and it's chock-full of sources and methods. it's going to have to be heavily redacted before it's made available to the public. [laughter] >> laura: so that does have sources and methods that they complained about getting compromised. that's interesting. >> it does. i will say this about the

underlying documents that i have been able able to review. you know, it's hard to take four phone books worth of information and distill it down to four pages. so i think it's fair when the fbi director says not every material fact is included. i think that's a fair criticism. but as someone that has reviewed the underlying documents, the story ends out same way. >> laura: take things out of council text. the democrats are saying we need the whole context. you are missing key facts that would inform why this warrant was applied for when it was applied for. you reject that? >> i reject that as you know, laura, i'm a former terrorism prosecutor. i have significant experience with fisa. i have looked at these applications before. and i just, as i looked at the underlying applications, i kept coming to the same conclusion. i wouldn't make these representations to any federal judge, much less a fisa judge.

>> laura: yeah. >> if you were a fisa judge, wouldn't you want to know if someone was asking for a warrant. >> laura: yeah, i get that congressman. we got to get to byron and vicki. my question to you was there something in that application that referenced a political motivation for the dossier in the democrats have got swalwell was over there talking about that today. that was -- he said that was in the document. in the application. not mentioning hillary by name but there was a political motivation. was that in there. >> well, i don't know why eric swalwell would know that because he hasn't had an opportunity. >> laura: was it in there? did they reference a political motivation for the dossier in the application? >> well, i can't disclose anything specifically that's in the underlying document. >> laura: okay. >> what i can again reiterate is it doesn't change my opinion and conclusion. >> laura: okay. got it byron, we have to play. this nunes hinted that there is more to come that this is just the tip of the iceberg in revealing doj, fbi

corruption. let's watch. >> are there other memos that are going to come out? are there other memos? you said this was phase one. >> yeah. so this completes just the fisa abuse sporgs of our investigation. we in the middle of phase two of our investigation which involves other departments, specifically the state department. >> laura: byron, what do you know. >> that's interesting that he says the state department. we have had indications recently that there is some sort of involvement in the state department. not as much as the fbi. but we know that john kerry, the secretary of state was briefed on the contents of the dossier. so that means his staff knew about it as well. so there is another phase here. >> i will tell you another phase that should happen. the fisa court better get busy. they are either incredibly grossly negligent. >> laura: thank you. >> or they were lied to. and don't you think they should care? and shouldn't they have some kind of a hearing, a

process? >> laura: could the carter page, even with sovereign immunity, could carter page file in court an action for abuse of process or sanctions against justice department attorneys for omitting a material fact in a fisa application? is there any grounds for that? >> he could file something with the d.c. bar. wherever these people are members of the bar. he has filed a case in new york. >> laura: um-huh. >> he did it pro se. but he has a case. >> laura: comey's chief of staff chuck rosenberg all over television today look, if they really had concerns about this. if the trump people or the republicans were worried about this, they could have gone to the inspector general and voiced their concerns. they could have gone to the privacy and civil liberties oversight board and they could go to the fbi. that's what he said today, comey's mouth piece was all over msnbc. >> i think that just ignores the political urgency of all of this because there will be an inspector general

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>> laura: the mainstream media reacted to the fisa memo with alarm and wild accusations on msnbc rather than discuss the content of the memo, they were so concerned about authorship and protecting deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. >> what role did the white house, in fact, play in the production of this memo? we know how it played out several months ago when devin nunes made that midnight run here to the white house. >> the joe mccarthy is to do it i have in my hands a document. it's something they put -- and we don't even know who the providence of this document is. it could well have been written by white house staff people. >> laura: let's get a response to that wild conjecture and they say

trump makes stuff up. they are making stuff up whole cloth. you got to be kidding. this hogan gidley here to discuss the president's next move. okay, you heard it you heard that. >> i didn't write it. >> laura: well, okay. we ruled you out. >> there you go. >> laura: this is one of the lines of attack today that there was a coordinated effort between devin nunes and the white house to first come up with the idea for the memo and then to push for the release of the memo and perhaps even draft the memo. three things come up with the idea for the memo, draft the memo, and release the memo. what can you say to us tonight did the white house coordinate on any of those three levels. >> we didn't come up with it, we didn't draft it, we didn't release it that's three nos i can tell you unequivocally. that's absolutely ridiculous. seems like a diversification dif

some kind. decisions made at the highest levels at both the department of justice and fbi. and, laura, when can take and use the most invasive surveillance techniques on american citizens, that should be serious concern to most people. >> laura: where where are all the civil libertarians democratic party? they used to care about unlawful search and seizure which, i guess, carter page could make the argument that this was done unlawfully not according to the statute. the democrats, apparently that's just out the wind dough. >> the dossier they wanted out immediately. remember that had to be put out. they didn't question it they didn't source it. it was out. they wanted all that stuff out. for some reason they didn't want this memo out. i find that very curious. it's a double standard. when it suits their pleasure, they want to keep it quiet. this is something that obviously is of deep concern to the american people to use a democrat funded document that's clearly used for, you know, it's a campaign opo dump to use that and not tell the judge

that that's what you are doing when they are signing fisa warrants, that's very dangerous. >> laura: there was another line of attack today by the democrats i would like you to respond to. let's watch. >> i'm not surprised that the fbi comes out and says this is dangerous declassifying this information endangers national security. the so-called nunes memo, threatens extremely classified information and endangers sources and methods of our intelligence community. >> to be frivolous with their identity or roads that can lead to them. >> laura: always fun to see nancy on a friday night. what's your reaction here? you are endangering national security. jonathan turley on tucker's show says there is literally no classified information or sources or methods in this memo at all. we didn't redact a word. it came out today, the fbi

worked with nunes to try to declassify some of these same sources and methods. and that's fine. that's what happened. but, i mean, it's absolutely ridiculous to say on the one hand this is going to threaten national security and it's going to take down this government and people's lives are going to be at risk. then when it comes out they say that's a nothing burger. which is it? they knew it ahead of time. >> laura: people are going to die and hogan gidley. president trump, have you blood on your hands. this is where they are going. >> right. they don't have a problem with open borders by the way. >> laura: no, no. by the way the daily beast, just for fun. the daily beast has a headline out tonight. throw this up on the screen. trump's white house goes weirdly silent on the nunes memo. wait a second. you are here with us and i think mercedes has been out there. >> is my mike not working? >> laura: what are they talking about? weirdly silent. that's crazy. by the way, john mccain has tweeted out a reaction to this. is he not happy at all.

what can we put that up on screen the emergenc mccain? latest attacks on the fbi and department of justice serve no american interest. no parties. no presidents, only putin's hogan. >> how in the world can you see the text messages that have come out from people at the highest levels. not the people we respect. appreciate their hard work. the top line folks who were in the hillary clinton investigation with an obvious pro-hillary clinton bias and anti-donald trump bias and not be concerned whatsoever with that? >> laura: is the president going to fire rosenstein? if he fires rosenstein it will be a political firestorm. i think it's better to have him to stay in my view. >> no consideration for firing rod rosenstein. >> laura: we know kind of what he did. he approved one of the fisa warrants. oak. my view firing him is the left is begging for it. they begged for mueller and

now rosenstein. they have a new target. >> weirdly sigh lengths thing. we were having this conversation. they said if you fire rosenstein, it's a constitutional crisis. we came out and said we are not firing him. they go. >> laura: white house. >> weirdly silent. >> laura: if i ever -- i'm just going to call you weirdly silent. i will rename you weirdly silent. new nickname. have a good weekend. >> thanks so much. >> laura: what does the memo's release mean for the future of the mullen investigation into the president? answer to that up next. we're family. we'd do anything for each other. but this time... those bonds were definitely tested. frog leg, for my baby brother don't frogs have like, two legs? so they should have two of these? since i'm active duty and she's family, i was able to set my sister up with a sweet membership from navy federal. if you hold it closer, it looks bigger. eat your food my big sis likes to make tiny food. and i'm okay with that.

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an attorney who served in both the reagan and bush 41 administrations. david, i wanted to start with you, should this mueller investigation be ended with what you know now? >> i would not say ended certainly is troubling. if further investigation reveals there is additional misconduct that led to the mueller investigation. >> laura: this memo says that the fisa warrants were applied for with the essential element in those warrants being the dossier. they admitted a material fact to the fisa judge, namely that the dossier was oppo research document from trump's opponent. >> which they did not tell the fisa court. >> laura: i'm curious why you say this is one if they find out more. i guess there could be more. isn't that enough? if you are essentially lying to a federal judge in the middle of a political campaign, two weeks before an election, doesn't that show a motivation that's not

exactly pure as the driven snow. >> no, of course very troubling to investigators. >> laura: troubling? >> mueller himself or his staff are not directly involved in this. i would rather focus on what. >> laura: yeah, but it was started, david. >> i understand the fruit of the poisonous tree. but look, even even if there is no mueller investigation what happened here is enormously troubling. it's a serious misconduct by the fbi and doj. let's get to the bottom of it let's prosecute the people involved. i would rather focus on the merits of a case. versus talking about at this stage what its imoccasions impls are. >> laura: john, i think the fbi today, if i were a veteran of the fbi, i wouldn't be mad at the trump people or nunes, i would be mad at the leadership of the fbi who allowed the agency to be politicized and, frankly, used in many ways by people who had an agenda against this candidate trump and then after the election president trump. i think the fbi agents were

used and the you were echelon on the fbi made huge, huge judgments of error at the very least. >> i think there is many people today inside and outside the fbi that feel exactly the same way. first and foremost, there is no reason an investigation of this magnitude should be run out of fbi headquarters. the washington field office has a thousand agents. teams of people that do this sort of thing this is a problem of management to have let the executive leaders allow this to occur. that's one of the things director wray needs to address and address immediately. >> laura: i still am trying to figure out why director ray wray was saying there was a grave concern about releasing the memo. the memo has nothing classified in it. there are no sources, no methods, no compromise foreign agent names. none of that why were they butting out, including wray, why were they putting out these false justification force keeping that memo

secret? that, to me, is very concerning. and i have no reason to not like christopher wray. i'm sure is he a wonderful person. why are you saying it's going to be grave? grave damage? people doing the grave damage to the fbi or the fbi leadership. david? >> it looks bad for the fbi. it's pure self-protection. which dovetails with the fact it took over a year to turn it over and required a threat of contempt. >> laura: explain what you are saying. >> it took a year for the congressional committees to get this information. >> laura: from the fbi. like pulling teeth. >> pulling teeth. nothing to do with classified information it has to do with the fact this is a serious misconduct that makes the fbi look bad. >> laura: that should happen? >> serious investigation. let me flag one thing. it's not just what was in this many occasion. the time something very, very suspicious off the application. >> laura: october 21st. >> right. why not do it months earlier? why not do it after elections? there is a doj policy that's reflected in the 2012 memo by eric holder the attorney general which says you don't

investigate absent exceptional circumstances political campaigns because of the danger it would leak and interfere with the electoral process. >> laura: why did he write that memo was that because of the benghazi stuff. >> let's assume he wrote it because this was the right thing to do. yes, during the 2012 elections. you don't do this unless it's absolutely essential. so the real question is not only why did you withhold information from a court. why did you do it on october 21, 2016, two weeks before the elections? what was the urgency? >> laura: john, what happens to the leadership of the fbi now, given what we learned today in this memo and we're hearing that there is more to come. this is just the tip of the iceberg as to what we're going to learn and i can't wait to see whether a it is. what should happen, john? >> well, i see it happening already with the director wray. there's movements being made. somewhat glasurely changes are happening at the headquarters. you saw mccabe leave just

earlier this week and in his place is deputy director very highly regarded throughout the rank and file of the fbi. you are also starting to see other movements with executive leaders in the fbi. i think the first thing director wray needs to do make sure they have wiped the slate clean of these people that perhaps had political agendas and not doing what good fbi agents are charged with doing. remaining apolitical and protecting the constitution of the united states. >> laura: david, almost out of time. but comey's chief of staff, former chief of staff on tv today. he said oh, you guys, they could have gone to the fisa judge and told them about the providence of this dossier, who paid for it and funded it there were things that they could have done instead of releasing this memo. >> that's not how it works and not enough to go ig. both things have to be investigated in the public light. doing it privately is not how you deal with serious misconduct by the government. it's not what happened with 9/11. that's not, by the way, what the senate side did with

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>> laura: i was thinking about it. one of the most damning revelations in that memo was the media's role in lending credibility to that unverified phony russian dossier. the one that led to the fbi spying on the trump campaign advisor american citizen. doj officials used a yahoo news story as independent evidence to support the dossier. even though that story was fed to reporter michael isikoff by the dossier's author, christopher steele. that blows my mind. let's examine the circular reporting with conservative columnist and my friend, extraordinary person, michelle malkin in new york and former secret service agent and friend dan bongino in florida. you should be here. we should all be hanging out together in new york tonight. let's start with you, michelle, i think that is just so wild. now, yahoo news, apparently if yahoo news writes a story

but or i they can get a fisa warrant on us and cite it in an attachment to a document. >> yeah. it is stunning. and it's not just circular self-reverential treatment that we're getting here, it's to so dizzying i need dramamine when i think about how this collusion and how this manufacturing of so-called evidence is being used. and it does raise this very important question about how many other fisa warrants were obtained in this corrupted manner. >> laura: yeah well at least three others in this case. i think you are right michelle and dan, i want you to chime in on this. my question is how many other people have been surveilled oolg phony basis or mouth piece for foreign government. if they are able to do this to carter page two weeks before an election. i really -- who else are they surveying?

what others americans are having their fourth amendment rights compromised? go ahead. >> yeah. it's a fair question. i mean, it's interesting the war against the bill of rights continues. first second amendment and now fourth amendment against the media. elements of it are already here. can you thank in part the american media and the democrats. listen, we know one things about this. we know the procedure. that's not open for dispute and not open for politics. we know that in order for an american citizen to be spied upon in a fisa court. there has to be probable cause foreign agent and some united states law and the process of acting on behalf of that foreign agent. have you seen, i'm asking anyone out there, a scintilla of evidence, just not -- forget probable cause. why the hell were they spying on carter page. >> laura: from what i can gather. maybe we will learn more. i don't think they had the constitutional right to surveil him at all.

because he talked with some people in russia and i guess he thinks we should have a better relationship with russia. i'm not defending him. i mean it seems really like thin grewell and i think michelle, dan hit on that point. the media know that they were complicit. they were useful idiots or, you know, willing participants in this effort to stop trump. an insurance policy against his winning. and i want to play a couple comments to you from today from the media. watch. >> they put their lives on the line in terms of law and order. also just odd to have a republican president, law and order president then attack the fbi in the department of justice. >> this whole oversight process is based on one thing, trust. and they have broken that trust. if you are in the intelligence community now, you might think twice about what you're going to write down on a piece of paper. >> the next waco. the next time that federal law enforcement agencies are killed in the line of duty, that's on trump.

[laughter] >> laura: okay michelle. wallace trump is going to have blood on his hands for the next waco. was she a bush -- >> -- she was a flagger inside of the republican party is what she was and continues to be. apparently. look, you've got two journalists who were name checked in the memo michael isikoff and david corn and lo and behold these two now are trying to cash in on all of that with a book that is set to be released in march. and so the core corruption of our intelligence agencies in that infrastructure would not have been possible without the collusion of the core corruption of investigative journalism in this country. and it's interesting to go back and i'm old enough to remember during the bush years when there wasn't a leak that the blabber mouths at the "new york times" and all of the other liberal media outlets wouldn't love

to blab all over the front pages of their papers and airwaves when it endangered the lives of our military and our intelligence officers and now they're going to accuse our president of threatening the rank and file when he made very clear that he stands behind rank and file of these intelligence agencies and law enforcement? shame on them. but they have no shame. >> laura: of course not. dan, really quick, last word. >> yeah. that's really filthy. nicolle wallace should be embarrassed. that is the worst kind of propropaganda. we were the ones out there talking about pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon defending the cops and law enforcement when some of these savages on the far left were attacking them. these people should be ashamed. they are embarrassment. >> laura: guys, thank you so much. we can't live on the fisa memos alone as much as it would be fun. super bowl sunday, america. here it is. i have a question. do you hate tom brady? you may want to rethink that. okay, silly fans.

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>> laura: okay, forget the fisa memo, more important question. why do so many people hate tom brady? i have to admit upfront, i'm

not a huge fan. i have my reasons. but it's not why most people dislike him. now, it could be that he's just the best quarterback in the league this side of drew brees and been year after year after year. okay, is he good-looking, is he married to a supermodel. he's a family man. yeah, he blew off his first baby momma. but now is he a family man. and the media are now, get, this hammering him for affectionately kissing his son. he loves his kids. get over yourself. look, many people don't like tom brady for the same reason a lot of people mostly on the left don't like trump because he wins, now, brady has beaten everybody's favorite team. and he is not exactly humble in every victory. due to an incredible work ethic and devotion of football that kind of a religion, he has continued to win. >> so if you are going to compete against me, you better be willing to give up

your life because i'm giving up mine. >> laura: deflate gate aside as we watch the super bowl this weekend we should try to hate tom brady a little bit less. i know the game would be more dramatic if the eagles were playing a less predictable team and less reliable quarterback and i know it's hard to see brady positioned to win his seventh, is it his seventh or sixth? sixth national championship. why some of us would embrace a guy like collin kaepernick, a mediocre player on his knees angry bitter protesting america. there is tom brady working hard every day to achieve excellence and win. not a bad thing for our kids to aspire to. a lot more to get to. stay with us.

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♪ >> classified memo makes the case that the national security court was kept in the dark by the fbi and justice department. >> i didn't want to have to do this but the sad part is that i have an obligation to the american people when we see fisa abuse. >> president trump left no room for interpretation how he felt about the memo. >> i think it's a disgrace. what's going on in this country, i think it's a disgrace. a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves. >> the investigation is now going to be reversed. i know that members of congress are going to call for a special counsel to investigate the investigators. >> dow worst week in two