radio show, laura ingraham is standing by. this is important. we are going to get to the bottom of it. there is going to be a huge follow-up. there she is, laura ingraham,ra you wanted to be in singapore. >> laura: i understand the singapore government is going to bring back caning. when is hannity going to leave. your family wants you home. so get back home safely. fantastic show with rudy. >> only 22 hours, i will be watching brave heart over and over. thank you. >> laura: good evening from washington, i'm laura ingraham. the inspector general's bomb shell report rocking the nation's capitol. the ig referred five, count

them, five fbi employees for investigation. now, we have full analysis and reaction from every angle, including the first remarks from the house chair deven nunes. the report from the doj on the hillary e-mail investigation found that former fbi director jim comey did not follow the bureau's procedures. his actions damaged the image of impartiality. amazingly, comey still refuses to admit he was wrong. he wrote it so fast in today's new york times. "nothing makes me think we did the wrong thing." remember, it was that very insubordination that trump cited when he fired the fbi director in 2017. now the doj inspector general

agrees. now, maybe the most shocking revelation was a vow to stop trump from becoming president. in an exchange between fbi love birds, struck and paige, paige, texted he's not going to become president, right "? rereplayed, we'll stop it. remember now this was. struck was the lead investigator in the e-mail probe and sliding in to the russia investigation. paige was a senior fbi lawyer who also was on the mueller team. good gigs.go remember, it is president trump whoas the left said was damaging our institution. >> president trump will stop at

nothing to discredit the institutions that are meant to keep leaders honest. >> the level of lying in this administration has already greatly exceeded that which was done in the nixonne administration. i think it's sort of silly to compare nixon and trump. b but this is corrosive and damaging. >>ar they are not political. >> it sews distrust. maybe he needs a history lesson. >> laura: despite the texts, the ig said their bias did not directly affect their actions, which is fairly astounding. shocking finding, really, when you take into account all that

we have learned. now, let's review today's report with our topnotch panel of experts, shall was a deputy independent counsel, retired fbi agent. i want to get to so much with all of you. john solomon, of all the things we learned in this report, to you, what is the most shocking? >> we have been reporting this>> for month. >> laura: that's a great lead-in. >> but there is a consequencal. thing. he wasas fired because he wasru incompetent. if you are the president's lawyer, you have a get out of jail card with bob mueller. he should have been fired for

insubordination. >> laura: in may 2017, i want sol to react to this, mueller was appointed special counsel. next day struck and paige exchanged texts. the question was whether struck should join the special investigation. he wrote, for me i have a sense of unfinished business. i unleashed it with the midyear investigation, now i need to fi it and finish it. so when solomon says he's not shocked by anything in this, sorry, john, that is a shocking revelation. he wants to finish it. big talk from such a little man. sol. >> s well, you know, it's shocking. something can be shocking, but not surprising. he shouldn't have -- even if we didn't know any of this stuff, he had no business transferring over to the russia gate

investigation, offer whatever you want to call it. i look at the oig report, they do say that struck is biased and left a big cloud over the organization. what they said is we can't say that other people made decisions, too, and we can't say that his decision, his bias affected them. you look at one thing in particular that is stunning in this report, in this very ironic. the oig cannot explain, they said there is no rationale explanation why after they found over 300,000 clinton e-mails on the weiner laptop, the fbi did nothing for a month. i say it's ironic, it's clear there is a real possibility they did nothing because they thought itit would hurt mrs. clinton during the election. but by waiting so long, when

they finally were pressured by the southern district of new york and decided they had to act, director comey said, well, i had to make my statement because i didn't think we would finish analyzing the e-mails before the election . if he had done his job when they learned about the clinton e-mails, he would have been finished and wouldn't have made that announcement. i think the reason they stood down, they didn't want to hurt mrs. clinton. i see no other rationale explanation for that. neither does mr. horowitz. he says i can't understand this. >> laura: on page 294 of the, report, it's titled hillaryu. clinton and foundation, crime

against children. it's referencing the e-mails. there was an effort to sequester certain e-mails away from the probe. you can see coleman's notes, anthony weiner, thousands of15 e-mails, et cetera. they had a conversation about which e-mails would be allowed to be looked at in this case and which would be, you know, set aside. and that also raises a lot of questions. they exchanged thousands of e-mails, apparently, i don't think they were looked at in this investigation at all. bobby, your reaction to where we are here. >> i think that specific question has to do with the search warrant. the office of the fbi who got

the search warrant, it was fore that sexual crimes case against anthony weiner. you could only look for certain things. when it was transferred down to washington for the clinton e-mail, they were looking for different things. that's why the call went from new york saying did you get your warrant. you need to get the stuff you want to look for on that laptop. it's my opinion that i think they were sitting on that laptop and thought they could sit on it until after the election. when new york called down and said what are you doing for this, why haven't you gotten a warrant for your stuff. they told comey, i don't think he knew, but there is no reason why he didn't know. >> he knew. >> why is it you wasted two weeks. >> laura: come on. >> it's not believable. >> laura: remember, obama didn't know anything either. solomon, you have to get you to weigh in on this.

remember in 2015 when the hillary private server, classified information thing blew up, the president was asked a question. let's watch. >> mr. president, when did you first learn that hillary clinton used an e-mail system outside the u.s. government while she was secretary of state? >> the same time people learned through news reports. >> laura: that's a lie. we are going through this report. a lot of headline readers are going to say there is nothing. there is a lot. we identified numerous instancee one thing. i will read it off the screen, fbi analyst told us that former president barack obama was had

clinton had direct contact. he had his official e-mail. but he lied about it. >> no doubt. >> laura: why did he lie about it? why didn't he say i might have? >> there is a lot of things about the clinton e-mail, there are still unprosecuted crimes, p still under the statute of limitations that this justice department can look at. how could it be to cause someone to destroy e-mails and they get immunity. one thing sol said. he talked about the difference in the way they handled any october, struck was the guy that made the decision.

we'll prioritize trump over hillary clinton. he made a conscious decision to prioritize trump. >> laura: and let's not forget what the ig did say, they cannot rule out bias in the decision to prioritize russia and trump over hillary, could not rule it out. he soft-pedaled that. everybody is like horowitz, he's really great. he seemed to soft-pedal here. didn't put yourself in a press hold to come across as light on some of these guys as i think he did. i want to read something, sol, you are interested in about paul, the individual who worked for hillary clinton involving the deletion of e-mails. this is page 147 of the report. don't we all feel like we are back in law school here? 147, get your highlighters out.

now i'm getting -- 103. we have so many pages. he stated that only he and one administrator had the ability to delete a mailbox from the server. when the agent showed him the documentation indicating that administrator had manually deleted backup files and used bleach byte, he stated he did h not recall. he stated he could not recall the content of the march call. he took responsibility for the deletions without implicating clinton or her attorneys. sol. >> well, just think, you look at this, this is just absolutely sickening how they handled this person. first of all, in their opinion, he lied on them twice in regular

interviews. thhe declined to answer certain questions invoking the fifth amendment. the agents thought and prosecutors thought he had lied. they thought they had a decent chance to do an indictment. if this had been bob mueller or any other aggressive special counsel, they would have indicted him and put the fear of god in him and flip him. they give him immunity, admits he obstructed justice, which is what they suspected by erasing items under an order to preserve them. but after admitting that, he says that crucial conversation i had about these deletions on march 25 with david and sheryl, i can't remember anything about that. now, this to me, i know everybody is down on special

counsels, but this to me is why there should have been a special counsel in this investigation. a special counsel comes in and does a serious investigation, is a prominent person who is not intimidated by mrs. clinton or anybody else and puts the fear of god into people. that simply wasn't done here. in addition to all of that, the decision at the end, they had d already given up, but the decision at the end to let sherylo mills and ms. samuelson just sit in on the investigation of mrs. clinton and the excuses for why they didn't issue a grand jury subpoena are absolutely appalling to me. just not the way bob mueller would have done it. >> laura: bobby, i have to ask you, we also learned a couple other things. we learned that jim comey himself used a gmail account for

official business himself. he used an unsecure e-mail account to do fbi business. he learned that they got perks and benefits from journalists when they had no business talking to journalists. they got tickets to dinner, golf outings. what is that? some of them were attorneys. they were attorneys. >> it's hard to understand what was going onn there. the w rank and file often rollst its eyes at a lot of things fbi headquarters does. that's happening today andt' tomorrow. we keep our distance from them. it's unbelievable to hear this stuff coming out. this never should have been g running an investigation. they should have been run out oo the washington field office by experienced agents.n these are managers who are not

investigators, they left the investigative world to go into the management chain. these are not seasoned investigators. this neededds to be done out ofa field office. they provide the oversight, but shouldn't be making the decisions. you get higher in bureaucracy,e you get higher in the politics. since we have the same basic investigative team starting out both, we need to know why there was ang difference. now we know. we know the biases brought to the table. he wanted to prioritize the russia investigation over clinton. i want to know why a grand jury was never seated for the clinton e-mail investigation. it was not very aggressive investigation, in my opinion. >> laura: that's putting it lightly.

>> you have to seat a grand jury, touch put people under oath. >> there were some subpoenas. just to make it clear, there were some grand jury subpoenas, but no witnesses were ever forced to come to the grand jury. >> laura: people are given immunity that should have neveru been given immunity. i think it was sheryl mills who was in a meeting trying to decide whether to subpoena clinton. >> a potential witness in the same case. >> laura: sol, you learned this in ethics class in law school. continuing education, do we have to do this for the fbi? this is insanity. great panel. thank you for your insight. y stay right there for important reaction to the ig report you are not going to see anywhere

else. my interview with house chair deven nunes just minutes away.

>> laura: continuing coverage of the ig report out today. despite a number of explosive revelations, some lawmakers are still suggesting that parts may have been redacted. joining me now to give us his reaction is house intel chair, deven nunes. congressman, this is what we have been waiting for on this matter, on the hillary e-mail matter. your initial reaction? >> the first thing i can think>> of is there was information we got today at 11:00, 12:00 that the chairman had to call and

tell me what it was, text messages we had been asking for since late last year. these are text messages that clearly were pertinent to our investigation whether or not there wass collusion. these are e-mails or textss messages that somebody held from us. every day that goes by, there is more information of a congressional obstruction. >> laura: i want to read a page to you. she was worried donald trump was not going to get elected, he answers we'll stop it, no, no, we'll stop it. what does that tell you? the lead investigator. was a lead investigator in the clinton e-mail case. a lead investigator that starts off the counter intelligence investigation using our intelligence agencies to target

the trump campaign. but worse than all that, i just want to repeat what i said in the opening, why wasn't that given to congress? why did i find out about that today at noon? this is a classic case of obstruction. who is going to investigate these guys? we are going to be transparent with the american people. we'll get the documents we want. this is going to spill out. people are going to ask, well, what are you going to do? who's going to bet busted, who's going to jail? >> laura: lisa's text was released before, but no, no, we'll stop it, that came today. >> how could that have possibly been redacted. they keep blocking things out, not giving us documents that at the g end of the day are pertint to our investigation.

>> laura: the if wrote, under these circumstances we did not have confidence that struck's decision to prioritize thete russia investigation over the weiner laptop was free fromas bias. the ag cannot state that that decision was not free from bias. but they are dining out on the left, there was no political bias on the part of comey that was found. they are trying to downplay it. >> let me tell you what we knew about that at the time. i never said before because we whistle blowers. we had whistle blowers that came to us in 2016 who talked to us about this laptop in new york that had additional e-mails on it. the house intelligence, we had that. we couldn't do anything with it. >> laura: when was that again? >> in 2016.

>> laura: do you know when exactly? >> late september. >> laura: ultimately, they didn't move on this until late october. >>: solt good fbi agents brought this to our attention. but what could we do with it? >> laura: there is another>> exchange i want to bring to your attention. >> it's all classified. this is the game that comey and company have been playing. >> laura: well, they all thought hillary was going to win. rocking the boat was tough. he made a decision to go after that laptop, someone find out about it, they will think the election is illegitimate. >> that's true. i think the same people in charge today still believe they can run the clock out and they are trying to run the clock out for the rest of this congress so we can't finish our investigations. >> laura: are there still people in the fbi that believe they operate by a different set of

rules? >> at the top. at the top i think that is true. we heard great words from christopher ray, the new director. it's frustrating because we have had these very conversationsve with him many months ago, look, you are not responsible for any of this. you need to clean this up and we'll support you in cleaning this up. but yet here it is today, we get this text message at noon today, one that's pertinent to our investigation. maybe they have a good excuse for it, but the problem with it, if they didn't give it to us, it's a problem. if they didn't know about it, it's a bigger problem. >> laura: there are other things. fbi attorneys sent, number two, they don't identify who this is. it's important to know who this is. we can't get the person's name. fbi attorney number two sent an instant message to fbi attorney number one commenting on the amount of money the subject of

an fbi investigation had been paid while working on the trump campaign. fbi attorney one says is it making you rethink your commitment to the trump administration? attorney two says hell no. the resistance to trump winning, for all we know, still working at the fbi and they are blowing this off on another network, saying this isn't important? >> there is five people who have been kicked off the campaign. so if there is five people that have been kicked off the campaign, off the mueller team, how is it possible, if you look at the rest of the people that are there, they were all clinton donors. i don't know how this is going to end up fairly. i don't know where -- >> laura: should we learn the names of these attorneys sending these messages, we are part of the resistance?

>> i don't know why. unless they are an under cover l agent. >> laura: they are anau attorne. >> this is the type of stuff that happens. >> laura: now i know how you feel.yo it's happening to the whole country. there was another issue involving the employees, fbi employees at every level of the organization, this is from the report. with no official reason to be in contact with the media, who were in frequent contact with reporters. the large number of fbi employees in contact with journalists impacted our ability to identify the sources of leaks. we also found out, of course, they were giving benefits from journalists, getting perks, getting meals. >> they have been leaking likee crazy. the problem is the ig report discovered that, but don't forget the leak that just

occurred last week where at midnight the department of justice send out this, that deven nunes and paul ryan had a chance to read documents and they didn't read them. remember that? that was a leak in the middle of the night, a midnight press release, so we have to wake up in the morning and answer all these knew narrative.t it's not as if the leaks have stopped. now it's the fbi people leaking, now it's at the top level of the department of justice is leaking. >> laura: there was a few people in the media downplaying this. i want to play a short montage. >> i expect the sledgehammer. we got the same hammer you use to nail a painting on the wall. i was surprised how mild it was. >> you look at this assault on the fbi, they are saying they

are crooks, they tried to throw an election. this does not say that. >> laura: congressman. >> if you look at the one gentleman on there, that's one of comey's buddies. the networks hired all these t former fbi, doj and obama people. >> laura: old buddy of comey. congressman, you have a lot more to get to with the russia investigation. >> we are almost there. we are almost there. there's a reason why they have been hiding these documents for two months. similar to what we find in the ig report. >> laura: thanks very much. appreciate you. i have my own take on run-away prosecutors. you do not want to miss tonight's angle before roger stone and dinesh d'souza react. that's coming up.

>> laura: prosecutors, politics and personal ambition. that's the focus of tonight's angle. as a former criminal defense attorney, i saw my share of individuals and companies caught in the cross hairs of government investigators who wanted a trophy on the wall. we know the scenes. a ceo arrested and cuffed at his or her office for all the employees to see for maximum humiliation, a prosecutor holding a press conference claiming the evidence will show that some high profile person is guilty of myriad crimes. it's all high drama. like an episode of law and order. now, of course, we need prosecutors to help lock up the bad guys whether white collar criminals or violent offenders. when they are operating

professionally, i'm talking about prosecutors in good faith, they should be recognized for the public service they providen long before today's ig report was released, everybody knew the handling of clinton e-mails are textbook examples of how cases should not be handled. they downplayed the findings of the ig. they found no political bias. >> we got the same kind of hammer you used to nail a painting on the wall. >> the hillary case was properly decided on the wall. that's headline number one. number two, no indication that political bias. >> it's disturbing that the republicans continue to undermine law enforcement agencies. >> laura: nice try, nancy. but the ig findings shows the

opposite. it shows that jim comey operated according to his own set of rules in the clinton e-mail investigation." comey admitted he concealed his intentions until the morning of his press conference and instructed his staff to do the same. we found it was extraordinary and insubordinate for comey to do so. we acknowledge that comey faced difficult choices in late october 2016, but we found ittr extraordinary that he found it best that the fbi director not speak directly with the attorney general and deputy attorney general. like so many people in this town, he thought, jim comey, that his title gave him license to ignore basic prosecutorial protocol. no wonder he wasn't that keen on pursuing hillary's use of an

unsecured server given the fact that he was using a personal gmail account to conduct personal business. even hillary referenced that in a tweet. if we thought comey came off at imperious because of that stupid book, he said i respect the doj office, the conclusions are reasonable, even though i disagree with some. people of good faith can see an unprecedented situation differently. i pray no director faces it again. thanks to ig's people for hard work. he lost me at "people of good faith." notice howe he makes himself out to be the victim here. unbelievable. comey should change his middle name to huberous.

he has learned nothing. this is the guy who signed off on three fisa applications and didn't think it was necessary to tell the fisa court that hillary paidt for this field dossier. this is the same man who allowed peter strzok to change hillary clinton's use of the server instead of grossly negligent to careless. but there was this breaking news to compete with the ig release today. >> the new york attorney general announced a lawsuit against the donald trump foundation. >> filed less than an hour ago, a 41 page civil complaint alleging that the donald j. trump foundation was an empty shell. >> new york's attorney general is suing president and his three

eldest children alleging illegal conduct at the president's charity. >> laura: i'm sure this is all just a coincidence against the trump foundation is beyond suspicious. it comes from the new york attorney general's office. consider the source. disgraced former attorney general of new york, sent out a fundraising e-mail right after the investigation into the foundation was opened. he's a figure who abused and humiliated his female victims and used his office and position to threaten them into silence. mark my word. we haven't heard the last of what he did to his victims. and the person who continues his crusade, barbara underwood who said upon taking over, i believe this job at this moment in history is the most important

job i have ever had. yeah, little subtlety there. think about it. donald trump operated a foundation that had zero overhead, no administrative costs, gave away more than $19 million to a variety of charitable causes. trump and his companies personally poured $8 million into the foundation. there was a mistake in contribution made to pam's campaign. but that was rectified as soon i as it was discovered. this is penny annie stuff that would never be pursued by the new york state attorney general again'general's office if donalp hadn't gone into politics. where were they when the clinton foundation was accepting fund from foreign governments while hillary was secretary of state?

sometimes wanting to get t meetings with hillary. meanwhile, comey and his political activists bent the legal standards for hillary clinton allowing her to walk free, they assumed she was going to the white house. clinton, in setting up that private server, made up her own rules justus as comey did in clearing her of any wrongdoing. my friend, this is a hideous per version of justice. now christopher ray is insisting the ig report clears the fbi of responsibility. >> nothing in this reporthi impugneds the integrity of our work force as a whole. >> chris ray, there are consequences. the consequences are that your fellow citizens question whether or not they can have confidence

in the world's premier law enforcement agency. >> laura: remember when jim comey says this? >> it makes me mildly nauseous to think we had some impact on the election. n >> laura: it makes me wildly nauseous in learning how comey and his colleagues intended to impact the election and they failed, and that's the angle. two men who know what it's like to be targeted by the government. roger stone and dinesh d'souza react, next.

>> laura: joining us now are two men who have been unfairly targeted, roger stone, and dinesh d'souza whose new movie, "death of a nation, can we save america a second time," comes out august 3. looking forward to that. dinesh, whether it's the new york, state attorney general's office going after the trump foundation that gave away $19 million with no overhead, no administrative costs, which a lot of wealthy people do, they set up their own private

foundations and donate the monet there, and the bias of peter strzok, what should the american people be thinking? >> thehe american people like m, are arriving at the realization that america today there are quite a few criminals with badges. now, growing up as i did in india, we had a lot of corruption, we knew there were criminals on the streets and criminals with badges. and the criminals with badges are more dangerous. they don't just violate the lawa they corrupt the law, they exploit the neutrality. they divert the democratic process. this is unprecedented, the fbi attempting to shape the outcome of a democratic election. these are terrible things happening now in america. i think the american people

realize that something need to be done about them. it's not enough to know about them. some e action need to be taken.k >> laura: like you are operating in an alternative universe if you watch the other networks. it's no big deal, move on to stormy daniels. roger, this is a quote from the report, november 9, 2016, a text message from an fbi unidentified employee. all the people who were voting for her, mrs. clinton, would not and were not swayed by the decision the fbi put out. the late weiner e-mails. trump supporters were all poor to middle class, uneducated, that think he will grant them jobs for doing nothing. they didn't watch the debates, aren't fully educated on his policies and stupidly watche wrp

in his enthusiasm. has anything had so much disdane for the american people? >> o we'll find out at the end f the day the obama justice department, the fbi, used the authority and capability of theb state in a bogus dossier to conduct surveillance on the republican candidate for president. fbi director says we respect the oversight, at the same time refusing to hand over the information. >> laura: dinesh, jim comey already has written an op-ed for the new york times. it's already written, published today. i will share aea small part. this independent assessment will be useful to thoughtful people.

it's detailed report should serve to protect and build the reservoir of trust and credibility necessary for the fbi and doj to remain strong and independent. wild. the man has learned zippo. dinesh. >> you see the collusionng operating behind closed doors. the new york times times these counter points.o roger mentioned this notion of getting to the bottom of it. the tremendous kind of glee and sense of immunity with whichch these agents are operating suggest toge me that they wouldt not do it without someone giving the order. there is that question from the godfather, who gave the order. you know, the old phrase, who benefits is a way to guess.ef

hillary benefits. she was secretary of state and then out of the government. obama, on the other hand, very much did not want trump to win. he knew trump would try to erase his legacy. embarrassing for him. i wonder if obama gave the order. >> laura: we have e-mails to that effect. we found out that the president lied when he said he found out hillary's t private e-mail servr when everybody else, he's one of the 13 people she communicated with. he lied about that. >> when you add to the fact that peter strzok says the president wants to know everything, the question is clear. what did the president know and when did he know that. he needs to answer that question, answer it under oath to congress. >> laura: he's going out on the campaign trails. he's going to be fanning outle this election season. thank you.

phenomenal analysis. we have breaking news on immigration to bring to you after the break. this is very important. ron desantis is here to give us the latest.

>> laura: just into us moments ago, the house bob is releasing the text of their new immigration proposal expected to be brought to you floor next week. ending the policy known as catch

and release assuring that minors are not separated from their parents, an end to the visa lottery system, but reallocates them. let's discuss with congressman ron desantis. 25 billion for the wall. no e-verify. chamber doesn't like it. you don't get to work unless you are verified to be legally in the country, right? chamber doesn't want you don't get to work unless you are verified to be in the country. >> if you're doing amnesty that is 1.8 or more million people. this what is going to happen? creates an incentive for more people to come illegally. that wall, that won't be built

in a day. the jurisdiction over lawsuits, this will get tied up forever. and the border surge in 2014 will have a lot of people moving to the drug cartels. >> i'm told asylum, fried is addressed but it was released, 293 pages. >> the goodlatte bill. >> they won't get it through. paul ryan, and -- >> need to defend sanctuary cities and end chain migration and get rid of the diversity

visa lottery. make people go on record for that, it is not a popular vote in the republican party but in democrat districts people want e-verify. it is a partisan thing. >> doesn't want e-verify. to check the identity -- >> undermines rule of law. lowers wages for americans. >> it addresses chain migration, see how much it addresses. we understand that amnesty will reach parents as well, and either die. and you are running a risk.

>> you say you want to get something done, limit chain migration, bring down immigration in the country and say we are not going to do it. >> this would fuel more illegal immigration, will it work? >> the president will look hard at this. >> no committee hearings. tune in, shannon bream and the fox news at night team is next. shannon: there is a ton of breaking news with regard to the inspector general, extensive coverage on the doj bombshell report that came out today about the handling of the hillary clinton email investigation. let me tell you who we have on tap, catherine herridge, former assistant us attorney andrew mccarthy, fox intelligence committee member chris stewart is going to be here with long-term watcher peter schweitzer who has been tracking the clintons for years and tonight you heard