he is our hero tonight. most-watched, most trusted, most grateful you spent your evening with us. good night from washington. until tomorrow night, 11:00 p.m. eastern, i'm shannon bream. ♪ >> tucker: tucker carlson in washington. the regular scheduled show will start in the moment. we'll continue listening to the president at the campaign for life gala. >> president trump: i watch him all the time, don't know him well, but i'll get to know him. john rutherford. where is he? central casting. great job, john. he is always defending me. actually, most of you are always defending me. and from my neck of the woods, claudia kenny, thank you, claudia. thank you. and for those of many that i have left out, i'm sorry, but they didn't give me a totally complete list.

i will call you tomorrow and apologize personally. but every day between now and november, we must work together to elect more lawmakers who share our values, cherish our heritage, and proudly stand for life. [applause] and that is a great group of people i introduced. i can tell you that. we are also glad to be joined by a beloved member of my administration, a true fighter for faith andnd family, and your 2018 distinguished leader, kellyanne conway. what a job. what a job she's done. [cheers and applause]

she is some fighter. she'll do the shows that nobody else there go near. she'll say do this one are that one, noth problem. sir, do you think i could take a pass, please? great going, kellyanne, thank you. what a help, what a help. finally, to all of their friends, activists, and supporters of the life movement who are here this evening, so money, this was a record crowd. your hard work helped us to achieve this historic victory, our historic victory. one of the great victories of all time and politics, that beautiful, beautiful evening. november, remember that evening? it couldn't have been more beautiful. 2016.

oh,,oh that november 8th, 2016. on the other side, you had to some unhappy campers. they were not happy. they were going to have a big, beautiful party. didn't turn out to be so good. now t for the first time since roe vs. wade, america has a pro-life president, a pro-life vice president, a pro-life house of representatives, and 25 pro-life republican state capitals. that is pretty good. that is pretty good. woww.. that is pretty good. when i ran for office, i pledged to stand for life, and as d president, that is exactly what i have done. and i have kept my promise that i think everybody here understands that fully.

one of my very first acts as president was to reinstate the mexico city policy too prevent taxpayer dollars from funding abortion centers overseas. it's a little reminiscent of ronald reagan. a few months later, with marjorie in the oval office, she was sitting there with us, and she stood then and signed legislation to overturn the rule that forced states to fund abortion providers with taxpayer dollars. marjorie was there withto me. we've appointed a record number of judges who will defend our constitution and interpret the law as written.

and we are putting onto the bench a record number of judges and a nice short. lack of time, we are going to hy the all-time record for t the appointed of judges and i'm very excited about that. my administration has also taken bold action to protect religious liberty. and today, we are making another historic announcement. for decades, american taxpayers have been wrongfully forced to subsidize the abortion industry through title x federal funding. so today, we have kept another promise. my administration has proposed a new rule to prohibit title x funding from going to any clinic that performs abortions.

[cheers and applause] thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you very much. we're also seeking package of the 20 week abortion bill, which would and painful, late-term abortions nationwide.

the house just passed h the bil, but democrats in the cemetery doing everything within their power to block it, although some are actually on our side, but ty are working overtime to block it. so the story is, '18 midterms, we need republicans, and that will happen. on this issue, like so many other issues, the democratic party is far outside the american mainstream. far outside. the united states is one of only seven countries in the world to allow elective abortions after 20 weeks. when unborn babies can truly feel the pain. yet democratic senators like jon tester, heidi heitkamp, claire mccaskill, debbie stabenow all

voted against the 20 week bill and in favor of late-term abortion. [boos] got to get out and vote. we are nine votes away from passing the 20 week abortion bill in the senate so we have to get them out there. the democratic senators are up for reelection in ten states that a win by a lot. and i think we are doing very well. we have those folks that are running right now and they are doing very, very well. they have a big, big surprise in six months. big, beautiful surprise. if we work hard between now and november, and every one of these estates can be flipped to a senator who shares our values and floats our agenda. democrats like to campaign as

moderates at election time but when i go to washington, they always vote for the radical pelosi agenda down the line. can you imagine having nancy pelosi as the speaker of the house? can you imagine? now, can you imagine? that is why we are putting in place a massive campaign for midterm victory this november. we will need to elect more members of congress who will protect life, support our military, secure our borders, and grow our economy, and continue making america great again. while democrats in washington are resisting progress, my administration is delivering

progress for hardworking americans each and every day and we are doing some job. since the election, we have created more than 3.3 million new jobs. and if i would have said that prior to the election, those people back there, you know who that is, that is called the fake news, fake news. they would haveew said, what a g ridiculous statement. he's saying he's going to project 3.3 million new jobs, how ridiculous is that? well, guess what, we did it. fake news. something i am very proud of, african-american unemployment is at the lowest level in history.

[cheers and applause] hispanic unemployment is likewise at the lowest level in history. women unemployment is at the lowest level in 19 years. and something you haven't heard for 21 years, wages are rising at the fastest pace in more than -- i did hear 19, i have to be very accurate with this, folks. let's put it this way, wages are rising at a very fast level.

very fast. gotta be very careful. you know, when you say something, if it's a little off, i'm off by by a week and a hal, it's a headline tomorrow. "we got him now." something very important, small business optimism is the highest that it's ever been, ever recorded. and our great house ways and means aaron wow means chairman, kevin brady, joins us tonight, e an incredible job. thank you, kevin. with his leadership, republicans passed the biggest tax cut and reform in american history. and we doubled the child tax

credit. and we are going to be with kevin and the entire group. we're going to be submitting additional tax codes sometime prior to november. it's going to be something very special. you see what it's done to the country. it is t going to be something very, very special. and by the way, nancy pelosi and the group, you heard her the other day. she wants to raise your taxes. they want to get rid of the taxw cut bill and raise your taxes. somehow i don't think that plays well, but you never know, right? wants to raise your taxes. identify presidential budget was the first in history to include a proposal for nationwide paid family. leave.

good, steve. good. we want to honor the invaluable time parents spend with their newborn children. onfo foreign affairs, you've ben reading a lot about foreign affairs, we are getting very high marks in foreign affairs actually. we are, as a country, respected again. it's been a long time. because we were stored in american strength. our military. we just had it approved. $700 billion. it's historic funding for our great military. $700 billion. and we have left the horrible, one-sided, miserable iran deal. it's gone.

one of the worst deal ever negotiated. we get nothing. we get nothing. we've moved our embassy to jerusalem. thank you. [cheers and applause] and we are renegotiating trade deals to bring jobs and wealth back home to america where they and it belongs. working hard on the trade bills. but if democrats gain power, they will try to reverse these incredible gains. these are historic gains. they will try and reverse many of them. so your vote in 2018 is every bit as important as your vote in

2016. although i'm not sure i really believe that, but you know. i don't know who the hell wrote that line. i'm notm sure. but it still important. remember. that's why we will bow campaigning for every last vote in every part of our great country. we will be campaigning for the votes of all americans, whether they are registered as democrats, and we got a lot of democrats voting for us, as you know, an '16, a lot, they couldn't believe it. they could not believe it. we got a lot of barack obama voters voting for us. we got a lot of bernie sanders voting for us. can you believe it? mostly people that didn't like

getting ripped off on trade.t bernie sanders voters. he was right about that. but he wasn't able to do anything about it. these are people that want a government that protects faith, family, and life. to support republican candidates, i have helped raise a record-breaking $175 million for the republican national committee. nobody has ever beenve close. and as part of our unprecedented effort, our great vice president, a true leader in the pro-life movement, mike has been a truet, leader. he's been working to elect more and more republicans. we will be appealing to voters

all across america who previously sent a democrat to washington only to discover they elected a proxy vote for chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. these are people that don't believe in porters. don't believe inde fighting cri. don't believe in making a strong military. they don't believe in what the people in this room believe, that i can tell you. so we have to do a great job. if democrats ever gain power, they will try to put up the taxes, so many things, open those borders, they don't want walls, they don't want people stopping, and the other day, just the other day, nancy pelosi came out in favor of ms-13.

that's the first time i've heard of that. she wants them to be treated with respect, as do other democrats. that is not going to be happening. we are not going to release violent criminals into our country. we are going to shut down everything we have to shut down and we are going to open up the great american energy. we are going to open up our energy. and in all fairness, that has already happened. we are now a net exporter of energy for the first time. and we all know what a democratic majority would mean, especially for the people in this room, on the supreme court. these are the stakes on election day, and this is why you need to

fight for victory in november. we can't be complacent. what happens, historically, a tremendous o percentage of the time, you win the presidential election, you become complacent, you're happy. oh, we won, isn't it wonderful. then at another election comes up pretty quickly, two years, all of these congressmen can tell you, for senators, they like their term a little bit better. how about changingng some of thm to two years, too? i don't think is going to do. that will be a tough vote and assented, wouldn't it? all of a sudden you come up again, and they get complacent. they say, we just won, the other side has energy, and they win. it's a tremendous percentage of the time. i honestly don't believe that's going to happen this time, and it's starting to show up in the polls. really don't believe it. every values voter must be

energized, mobilized, and engaged. you have to get out there. this organization bears the name of one of the greatest champions of freedom in american history, susan b. anthony. [applause] she fought for decades to end slavery, to secure women's right to vote, and to respect the dignity of every single person. a great person. a great woman was a she. now we have a chance to honor her legacy and restore the first right in the declaration of independence. it's called the right to life. here with us this evening are lisa and bruce alexander and their family from maryland.

good place. in january of 2012, the alexanders attended the march for life and god put it in their hearts to adopt a beautiful child. two years later in january of 2014, the alexanders got a call that a baby had been born who was opioid dependent. she desperately needed a loving home. she wasn't serious, serious trouble. at the alexanders welcomed her into their home with wide open arms. after the baby was treated for opioid withdrawal, they brought

home their new and very beautiful daughter, catherine. hi, catherine. hi. hi, sweetie. come on up here, catherine. come on. catherine is four years old and she is full of incredible energy, spirit, and talent. at the age of two -- come on up, catherine. she memorized "america the beautiful."it she recites poetry, and recently she announced to her dad that when she grows up, she wants to be a famous police officer and then when she gets tired of that, she wants to become president. that's okay with me. hi, sweetie.

[cheers and applause] [applause] she'll be president someday. everyhe time katherine's older siblings come home from school, she runs into their arms and gives them a great big beautiful hug. they are amazed by how much she loves them and how much they love her. so tonight, we celebrate you, catherine. we celebrate your life. thank you, darling. and we celebrate all lives.

we celebrate the loving choice of adoption. catherine reminds those that every life is sacred and that every child is a precious gift from god. so true. as the lord says in jeremiah, before i formed you in the womb, i knew you. before you were born, i set you apart. when a a mother and father hold hold a new baby in their arms, they are changed forever. when a child says "mommy" or "daddy" for the first time, theren is nothing like it anywhere in the world, no matter what you do, there is nothing like it. and when parents watch their children thrive and grow, they are filled with joy beyond words and a love beyond measure.

do you know that. everyone in this room. when we look into the eyes of a newborn child, there is no doubt we see the beauty of the human soul and the mystery of god's great creation. we know that every life has meaning and that every life is totally worth protecting. [applause] thank you. thank you. thank you.

thank you very much. when we stand for life, we stand for the true source of america's greatness. it's our people. our people are great. it's the people who grace our lives who sustain our communities, and to make america a nation, a home, and this amazing line is we love so much. as long as we have faith in our citizens, confidence and our values, and trust in our god, then we will never, ever fail. our nation will thrive. our people will prosper. and america will be greater than ever before and that is what's

happening. so this november, vote for family, vote for love. vote for faith and values. vote for country and vote for life. [cheers and applause] i want to just and by thinking the susan b. anthony list. you are very, very special people. it was a great honor for me to be here tonight. thank you to everyone. thank you to life and liberty. god bless you and god bless america. thank you very much. thank you. >> tucker: that is the rolling stones in the background. that is president trump speaking

at the campaign for life gala in washington, d.c. good evening and welcome to the show. you just heard from the president. right now we have a rare first-hand account from the center of may be the greatest scandal in modern political history. the fbi spying on the 2016 trump campaigny prayed for nearly two years, obama administration officials and their beautiful lackeys and the press denied anything happened.d. now we know it did happen. the obama administration used government agencies at super dome act as a rail of a rival campaign. there is no denying. instead the usual apologists are claiming it was a good thing. they were spying on him to protect him and by the way, you have no right to know anything about it, even asking a question as a sign of disloyalty. sign up and obey. no thanks. tonights. we have a direct accot of what happened. the first full interview with a trump campaign official who apparently was targeted by an fbi spy. he was a former national chairman of the trump campaign. in september of 2016, he said he had a face-to-face meeting with ain man who whispered believed o

be one of the fbii spy's on that campaign. sam joins us tonight. thank you for coming on. it's because for having me on. >> tucker: you believe you had a face-to-face encounter with a man paid by obama's fbi do spy on your campaign. describe that meeting if you would. >> several days before the september 1st meeting, i had the opportunity to receive emails from stephen helper, knowing that carter page had asked for a sitdown with me, he just wanted to come in and discuss foreign policy, and to provide what he thought might be his writings that would be able to help us in the campaign. i arranged that meeting. we had that meeting in washington, d.c., on the first of september. it lastedit about an hour, had e opportunity to discuss over coffee with him his research and

mostly was focused on china and then i think after that meeting and on the 27th of september, i received an email from him with several attachments, and i can be honest with you, tucker, i have not opened these attachments to these day. i have no idea what was in them. they were mostly titled papers yi'd also china. i think he used my meeting as using my meeting as a bona fide with george papadopoulos to have a meeting with him. i do not know about that. it was subsequent to my meeting with him on the first of september. >> tucker: so you didn't know him before. he emailed you cold? >> no, i did not. >> tucker: when did you -- >> i just became -- >> tucker: i'm sorry, go ahead. >> i just got the email from stefan asking for the meeting, and he knew the fact that he knew carter page, and he had

been associated with our campaign. >> tucker: at what point did you begin to surmise that he was working for the fbi? >> our meeting was like two faculty members in the faculty lounge. then the reporting start to come out and i put two and two together and it started to make sense to me that perhaps he was probing to find a weak spot in our campaign, someone who might be vulnerable to connecting things back to those elusive 30,000 emails that are supposedly the russians had. and i really think that was what his task was, was to create an audit trail back to those emails from someonene ma campion or someone associated with the campaign. so they could develop a stronger case for probable cause to continue or to further the investigation. i really felt, from listening to

these things, the reports i have read, that this truly was an effort to build something that did not exist. i really think that was what his mission was. >> tucker: why haven't you read the attachments to his emails? >> well, one, i was busy, i worked 16 to 20 hours a day. we already had a lot of help on foreign policy in the areas of china. i really didn't think that they were going to contribute anything, and frankly, i got back and reviewed all my emails, i didn't report that meeting to anyone in the campaigns of the s meeting was of no consequenceo me as far as anything i could remember. i've looked through all of my personal emails and everything. i can find a record of it at all. >> tucker: interesting. that meeting may have played a key role in a much larger story. sam, thank you for that account. i appreciate it. >> thanks for having me out tonight, tucker. i appreciate it. >> tucker: thank you. the message of recent news coverage is pretty simple.

you need to trust the fbi, doj, intelligence community, demanding any congressional oversight of any kind is evidence of treason. a longtime cia counterterrorism officer in the middle east, pakistan, all over the world. he was in prison for a couple of years by the obama administration by leaking information. during the course of that, his life intersected with robert mueller and john brennan, among others. he joins us tonight. thanks a lot for coming on. >> thanks a lot for having me. >> tucker: a lot has been written about your case. what about your time in prison. not much has been written about your intersection with two man in the news now, brennan with whom you worked for many years, and robert mueller. tellte us what you learned. >> robert mueller, i had a more recent encounter with, and that was when he created the john kerry task force at the justice department. he was the head of the fbi at the time. i had no idea that i was under investigation. when i went public on the cia's

torture program in late 2007, the bush administration investigated me and determined e had not committed a crime. just a few weeks later, john the number two at the national security council, h and he asked the justice department, eric holder, to secretly reopen the case against me. that went to robert mueller. he created this john kiriakou task force -- >> tucker: you are telling me that john brennan, a documented history of looking to the press, ask for a criminal investigation into you with results to you going to prison,ch with five kis because you leaked? >> exactly. and you know, when i said that to my i attorneys, the only response they could come up with, is, that's washington. the injustice is incredible. this is why i am so happy to have this opportunity to speak with you tonight because i know robert mueller and i know john brennan and this is what they do. they set b out to ruin people. you know, we look at these indictments in this so-called russia gate. russia gate that has nothing

whatsoever to do with russia, by the way. and none of these indictments have anything to do with anything. they are what are called throwaway indictments. so what you have is that a man robert mueller, who chooses a person and then look for a crime to hang on the person, rather thanan discovering a crime and then investigating to see who committed the crime. >> tucker: i just can't get past the fact that john brennan, again, with whom you worked foro years, who we know leaked to the press classified information, agitated for you to go to prison because he said you leaked. >> in fact, it was even worse than that. once i was arrested and we received discovery, we received several memos between john brennan and the justice department.en the first memo says, "charge them with espionage." the justice department wrote back andt said, he has not committed espionage. and brennan wrote back, "charge them anyway and make them defend himself," and that is what they did. what they do -- that is what robert mueller did -- he waited

until he went bankrupt ten months later, and then dropped the charges. again, that is what they do. it's a way of exerting pressuree that you just simply can't resist. they have unlimited resources and you don't. >> tucker: we don't have time to get into the details of your case. it is easily available online. i followed it because i'm a journalist. i wouldwe just say two things brighter wish morere journalists had supported you, i think you were drafted and i hope you get pardoned. >> thank you. this president, more than any other president i think sees injustice. and this president is unique in a very important way. most presidents, when they give pardons, they do it in what is called the lame duck period after an election. as president pardons people when he sees an injustice. there was another president that did that, that was abraham lincoln. he parted people through his entire administration and i'm confident that if i could get in front of president trump, he'll see this as an address doesn't feel right at. >> tucker: it is an injustice. the fact that brennan is behind it is shocking. >> thank you so much for the

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on much. but i will give you a can sincere compliment. this is the constitutionally prescribed remedy for a president you think is going off the rails. but impeachment is the answer. democrats supported. why are the leaders of the democratic party not willing to admit that? >> i think they are playing a political game. and i think that -- you assume they would impeach if they got in power. i'm not sure of that. i think that there is a tepid notice about using impeachment s a live instrument of the constitution. holding a president, as you suggested, got off the rails, i would suggest, abuses the office to account, and clearly, at this point, there is a tremendous pressure on members of the party and on folks to not talk about impeachment. my sense is that it's very

because if you are saying that the president of the united states has abused his office, if you are suggesting that he's doing things that are clearly impeachable, but then you say, but let's not talk about impeachment, that creates an unreality to the discourse and frankly, i think it is not appropriate. i think that a discussion of impeachment is healthy. i thinkbu it's necessary. but it's also something that i think politicians of both parties tend to fear too much. >> tucker: what i like about it -- again, i'm out for it, but it's aboveboard. it takes place in public. people can make public arguments. instead, they are just subverting agencies. liberals should be worried about that. why do that? if you have a case, be a man about it, see what it is, voters can assess it. that is what impeachment is. that is why the founders put it inin the founding documents. so why would the leaders of the party pretend, oh, that's off the table?

it just seems so feline and dishonest. >> again, i'm not sure they're pretending, tucker. we'll see if democrats get control of the house. we'll remember back in the george w. bush presidency, there was a significant agitation at the grassroots of the democratic party and frankly beyond that, among a lot of folks, for impeachment of president bush. nancy pelosi came to power -- or not you remember because he followed it. nancy pelosi came to power in 2007, and one of her first signals was come off the table.o this is a complexity on this issue. t where it goes back to, you and i boths know, is the clinton impeachment. and there is a sense the closing impeachment led to political repercussions for republicans. in fact, if you look at it, the repercussions were not as great as some people assume but i always remind folks that if you look at the nixon impeachment, which obviously wasn't brought to fruition but was a fairly serious moment, there weren't

political repercussions for the democrats in that. and so i do think that we have a lot of politicians on both sides, republicans and democrats, who avoid accountability moments and frankly, avoid opening up the discussions when they should be doing so. >> tucker: exactly. theyey are avoiding accountability. and i have to say, again, i don't think i agree with you on anything including what to order for dinner but i appreciate the honesty of the left in this case, trying to hold your party to some account, and to honesty. they do, john, for doing that. not a backhanded compliment, a sincere one. >> i appreciated, tucker. i'm sure i won't get any pats on the back for it. >> tucker: no, you definitely want.um brit hume drawings is next for more on fbi spying. the latest twist and turns in the e hunt for russia collusion. maybe he has evidence. ♪ the love of his life.

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>> tucker, don't confuse evidence with a conclusion. >> where's the evidence? >> first, don't confuse evidence with a conclusion. >> tucker: i watch rachel maddow. i get it. i know there are a lot of russians and russian people, but where is the truth? >> i don't have subpoena power. bob muller does. >> tucker: you have a high level security clearance, presumably you have -- >> i'm only giving you the evidence i've seen an unclassified manner. >> tucker: but there must be something more classified you're not allowed to see. we had a lively engagement with congressman eric swalwell. we offered a half-hour to see proof of russia collusion and there wasn't that way. meanwhile, on "the view," james clapper, the one who lied to congress on camera, said that

president trump wasn't being spied on by the obama administration. they were just watching him. trump ought to think him forht that. >> was the fbi spying on trump's campion? >> no, they were not. they were spying on -- a term i don't particularly like -- on what theyi russians were doing, trying to understand, where the russians trying to infiltrating, trying to gain leverage and influence? >> so why doesn't he like that? heho should be happy. >> he should be. >> tucker: yeah, he should be grateful, that ingrate. we are joined by fox senior political and is brit hume. why isn't the president more grateful that the obama fbi was spying on him for his own good? >> it's interesting to hear clapper use the word spying because a number of the administration's defenders, the obama administration's defenders and elsewhere have been very careful about saying that word, saying it was not just fine, it was an informant. mind you of course, this was -- at that stage, this was a

counterintelligence investigation, which is to say that they were acting -- the fbi was acting in its capacity as a spy agency when they sent this guy into see what they could find out what was going inside the trump campaign in regard to the russians. pretty hard to argue they were to spying. >> tucker: when did they become so blase? you covered watergate. one of the gravest crimes that president nixon was accused of committing was subverting federal agencies to gather intel on his political opponents. he used the irs, people said. people were outraged, journalists were outraged. why are they outraged now? >> because they rather like the obama administration and they cannot stand for granted donald trump walks on. the antipathy to him, and listens in the media and elsewhere that his election?y constituted a national emergency, which all efforts should have been made to prevent, which nobody thought was going to happen, and

everybody's has exploded. this is where we are. >> tucker: doesn't democracy die in darkness? >> of course. the efforts of russia to meddle in the election are worth investigating. there is no question about that. but if you are beginning to insert yourselves into somebody's campaign and you are theied about protecting campaign as a some apologists for the fbi have stated, what would you do? wouldn't you then go immediately and say to the people in that campaign, look, we need to tell you this, you have a problem here. you have the russians trying to here.ate you that wason considered, we now know, and it never happened. >> tucker: which is the most telling -- and thank youor for reminding us. thank you, brit hume. the rest of us were distracted by the creepy porn lawyer, the u.s. it seems to be lurching toward armed conflict. it'st, being debated in congress right now. you haven't seen it anywhere else. we'll tell you what's going on next. ♪ insurance that won't replace

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♪ >> tucker: while the other channels have been busy making a creepy porn lawyer famous, actual news has happened. the u.s. is moving ever closer to war with iran. in a speech monday, the secretary of state threatened to "crush" the iranian government. congress may get on board. there is a debate this hour on capitol hill over legislation that would allow military force against iran. keep inn mind the american military is exhausted. our government is broke and for all its many faults, is far from the main sponsor of terror against americans, not even close actually. no matter what they tell you. maybe you support going to warup with iran. it's okay. maybe you don't support it. either way, you should know that it could happen much sooner than you think. cnn will not tell you that so e will. we will follow it. that's about it for us tonight.

tune in every night at 8:00 p.m. to the show that is a worn and proud enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink for a dvr it if you y can figure out w that works. email me if you do. good night from washington. sean hannity, live from new york city. tucker, great show. welcome to "hannity." more massive breaking news. the deep state continues to be exposed. the plot to influence an election and undermined a candidate is one step closer to being blown wide open. we'll tell you i pray the president is blasting in terms of the fbi and the infiltration of his campaign. he called it "a disgrace to this country." he will show you the president's comments. the meeting is set for determine devin nunes and trey gowdy to finally, supposedly seely the russia probe documents. it's about time but iim don't believe them. we'll explain. also tonight, former trump campaign advisor michael cavuto is a saying there could have been multiple informants targeting the trump