i'll say. and in the meantime, eric, that's it for us. but stick around because sunday morning futures is up next. thanks so much for watching. ♪ mariamaria: good sunday mornin, everyone. welcome to sunday morning futures. i'm maria bartiromo. it is the powerful image that is sure to be a marker of the unprecedented moment in american of the, the president united states can be seen displaying tremendous occurring on friday while -- courage o of friday. the president who has continued to work from his hospital suite shared this update on twitter last night. thanking his doctors and the american people for their continued support. >> i came here, wasn't feeling so well. i feel much better now.

we're working hard to get me all the way back. i have to be back because we still have to make america great caagain, we've done an awfully good job of that. but we still have steps to go and we have to finish that job. andfi i'll be back, i think i'll be back soon. maria: what does this all mean for the 2020 election in 30 days, how is the president doing? gop leader kevin mccarthy is here thisni morning, he'll lay t on the line, along with exclusive details from his conversation with president trump as we learn that mitch mccob felmcconnell will cancel r two weeks. coming up this morning, arkansas senator tom cotton with his reaction to the news and how it couldul impact amy coney barrets supreme courtac confirmation hearing, set to begin october 12th. in the middle of it all, a major development this morning in the russian collusion hoax. with h never before seen russian intelligence now implicating

hillary clinton and president obama in a campaign plan to, quote, stir up a scandal against then candidate donald trump during the 2016 election. congressman devie devin nunes ag with kevin mccartney were briefed on the bombshell report earlier this week. they'll tell us why the fbi's plot to take down president trumpas was even worse than they thought. we'll hear from ric grenell this morning who was ininstrumental in ex supposing deep state corruption. all that and a lot more, right now, as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. ♪ maria: and first this morning, prayers and get well soon wishes are pouring in from across the globe thiss morning, following the news of president trump's coronavirus diagnosis on thursday night. u.k. prime minister johnson who was also hospitalized with the virus earlier this year, tweeted

this, my best wishes to president trump and the first lady, hope they have a speedy recovery from coronavirus. benjamin netanyahu said like millions of israelis he and his wife arepr thinking about president trump and melania and wish our friends a full and speedy recovery. gop leader kevin mccarthy spoke with the president on the phone. he joins me with an update. good to see you this morning. thanks so much for being here. >> thanks for having me back on, maria. maria: can you tell us how the president sounded, congressman? you spoke with him on friday, correct? >> f yeah, he called me friday night after he got into the hospital. it was late, around 1030 of or so. i could tell he wasn't feeling well but you could see in the president, and you listen to him and we had a long conversation, he was worried about those others who had covid. he was determined to make sure we defeat the virus and he was so prior ya testify of -- appreciative of the thoughts, the prayers and well-wishes and he was still doing work.

we were talking about how we could get the speak e nancy pelosi, to stop playing politics and get a covid relief bill and how he was continuing even in his own state that he got that to the american public, that the airlines were not laying people off, that we could put people before politics. maria: nancy pelosi reacted to the president's coronavirus test and she said it was a brazen -- the way he acted was a bray zip invitation -- brazen invitation. you have heard a lot of hate online. your reaction to what you're hearing from the president's critics this morning. >> well, it's rather disgusting. we've watched speaker pelosi say this before, that we're enemies of the state. this is uncalled for, especially in this time and place. and remember, other nations are watching america. this is a one time that we could unite together. ldi listened to the president's voice, none of those type of languages to anybody. the one thing i did hear more of, how committed he's even

doubling down to make sure that he lowers prescription drug prices, that he protects pre-existing conditions. and he is sitting here trying to work with this speaker to get a covid relief package together and these are the comments that she makes? it's really unbecoming of that position. maria: it's unbelievable. look, congressman, i want to move on to what you were briefed on this week. this is really important. which is what the director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe, declassified this week, a major bombshell that we got when ratcliffe sent a letter to lindsey graham, going through the intelligence that he was declassifying. you are a member of the gang of eight which is a term for a set of eight leaders within the country, and within congress who are briefed on classified intelligence matters by the executivee branch. you were briefed on this information this week. so let's talk about it. here's the letter to chairman graham. what we learned here is on

september 7th, 2016, u.s. intelligence officials forwarded an investigative referral to fbi director jim comey and peter strzok, regarding u.s. presidential candidate hillary clinton approved a plan concerning a u.s. presidential candidate, donald trump, and russian hackers hampering u.s. election as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private e-mail from her private server. so we see that hillary clinton approved a plan to stir up a scandal about donald trump in 2016. congressman, we've been talking about the russia hoax now for three and-a-half years and now we learn that it was hillary clinton's idea. what can you tell us? >> well, when director ratcliffe released this, the leaders of congress wanted to have a meeting because no one in congress, the house or the senate, had ever seen this information. even though we have spent all these years investigating. now, let's walk through -- and remember, i must be careful here. some of this is h classified.

but let's talk about what's in ratcliffe's letter. first, we find out in july of 2016 that russian intelligence had picked up that hillary clinton's campaign was going to create a false narrative of trump and russia colluding. we now find out in july 26th 26that the cia director in his n notes briefs the president on this, brennan, to president obama. then just this wednesday, comey gets asked a question about this referral that you just talked about in september. he said it doesn't ring a bell. but i've seen the underlying proof. but inside ratcliffe's letter, this referral from the cia was sent to the fbi to peter strzok and to comey. now, remember peter strzok, he was on crossfire hurricane and the mueller report and never once did this intelligence show up anywhere, in any of those investigations, or to congress or to the senate. so what we know with all of this -- and i know everything that's going on this week, this is the

biggest news that didn't get reported. that we find out that there was no collusion between trump and russia, that it was created by hillary clinton in a campaign in july of 2016, that the cia director, john brennan, that the fbi director comey, and the president of the united states barack obama all knew about that. and was never brought to congress. and we have wasted two years in this congress and all the time before wanting to get this information, asking the question. so another question that comes up, who has withheld this information. credit to director ratcliffe for the transparency of releasing it to the house and senate. every member of congress should read the underlying information behind this. this is really a bombshell of what we have wasted so much time on that it was created by hillary clinton, president obama knew it, john brennan knew it and comey knew it. and never gave the information to the american public, let known to congress or the senate.

maria: this is a disgrace. for three and-a-half years, the whole country was up in arms about this narrative that president trump colluded with russia. all this time, nobody even mentioned this intelligence that they actually knew that hillary clinton was behind it. justin like they lied to the fia court and never told the fisa court that hillary clinton and her campaign and the dnc actually paid for the dossier, congressman. >> and remember the dates here. july 2016,er during the campaig. president obama was briefed by the cia director in july by those notes what ratcliffe put forward. a memo was sent to comey and to peter strzok who was part of crossfire hurricane and the mueller report and never did this intel ever come forward. this is exactly what i warned about. remember, we talked about this,

a commitment to america, that the democrats want to dismantle this nation. this proves it. there's a different way to go forward to rebuild, restore and renew america. maria: yes. and let me just say before you go, the cia director, gina haspel, apparently has been blocking declassification. many sources have told me that she does not want the spotlight on the cia. what can you tell us about that? because as i understand it, this is only a small portion of what john ratcliffe wanted to declassify. there's more. is there more coming? >> well, there should be more coming. you know, the person who doesn't want this to come out is probably hillary clinton and adam schiff because a what have they taken america through? we're finding out hillary clinton's campaign created this. propelled it even though underlying facts proved that the president knew about ntit, obama, that cia knew about it and the fbi knew about it and

they withheld that information from the house and the senate. nobody in congress has ever seen this information. this is the biggest news because of everything that's going on that the public has not seen yet and this is -- this should drive every member of congress to go get the underlying information that john ratcliffe had just made transparent ton the world. maria: and by the way, it should outrage every american, because our rights and liberties have been a trampled on. congressman, we're going to keep following it as we have been from day one. thank you h so much for joinings and for shining a spotlight on what a we learned this week. thankk you, sir. >> thank you, maria. i'm looking forward to your new book. maria: thank you so much. the cost, trump, china and american revival will be out in three weeks,iv congressman kevin mccarthy, it's great to see you gr gthis morning. coming up, arkansas senator tom cotton with reaction to three of his senate colleagues testing for covid-19 since friday and what impact that could have on tthe supreme court confirmation process, set to begin on october 12th, all that and more right

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maria: welcome back. breaking news this morning, that the u.s. senate will stop legislating for two weeks w aftr a third gop lawmaker tested positive for coronavirus over thee weekend. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said he does not expect it to impact the already tight timeline to confirm supreme court nominee amy coney barrett before election day. those headlines are -- those hearings rather are scheduled to begin on october 12th. joining me now is arkansas senator tomto cotton. senator, good to have you this morning. thanks so much for joining me. >> good morning, maria. good to be on with you. maria: how are you doing this morning? your colleagues havehi tested positive and ite looks like it was that amy coney barrett gathering at the white house to introduce her to lawmakers that really was the place where so

many people were exposed. what can you tell us? >> yeah, thatl maria, thanks foe question. i'm doing fine. i extend my deepest wishes to the president and the first lady and every american who has been you affected by this virus to get well very quickly. i've been in contact with my colleagues who either tested positive or who have been exposed, and to my knowledge as of last night everyone remains either asymptomatic or has mild symptoms and hasn't required hospitalization. what i can say is that everyone is eager to be at work when they need to be at work, if they're on the judiciary committee, a week from tomorrow either in person or virtually to have the hconfirmation hearings for jude barrett and then have the vote on judge barrett this month. the president has nominated an outstanding jurist to be on the supreme court. i visited with her this week and only confirmed my high opinion of her. i expect that's going to be the case of the american people when they see judge barrett at her

confirmation hearing starting a week from tomorrow and none of this should have impact on the schedule of either the senate in the judiciary committee or the senate as a whole. maria: i want to just point out that we showed video of the event with amy coney barrett, not everybody at the event contracted covid-19 obviously. but three senators have and that's why i mentioned that event. tell me about the proceedings. you say you are confident that youre will be able to in fact he the nomination hearings for judge barrett. you think this will not impact the schedule or the agenda, sir. >> no doubt about it, maria. several of the senators who are in isolation right now would come out of isolation before the hearings begin but the senate judiciary committee has also conducted 20 hearings this year that have either been in part or in whole virtual. many senate democrats who are now saying we couldn't possibly do a virtual hearing were

demanding throughout the year, going back to march, that all committees be conducted over zoom or web ex-or some other kind of virtual hearing. the hearing is going to go forward no doubt in my starting a week from tomorrow and then on the senate floor later this month, first offff i think every senator who isnk currently testd positive or is in isolation will be back to work under normal conditions. as other senators have been as well, like rand paul or of tim cane. but if that's not the case, there is a long tradition of ill or medically infirmed senators being wheeled in to cast critical votes on the senate floor. most recently robert byrd of 2009 repeatedly rolled in, in a wheelchair, months before his death tor vote for obamacare. so i'm confident that every senator will be in attendance when his or her vote is needed. maria: what are you expecting from these hearings? we know how contentious the hearing was for brett kavanaugh, particularly kamala harris, when she was questioning him.

what are you expecting from vice presidential candidate kamala harris? >> well, kamala harris in the hearings with brett kavanaugh revealed what a terrible politician she is, just like last year when she lit money from her donors on fire without makingow it to the caucuses. in the hearings with brett kavanaugh she insinuated there's some kind of connection between him and a law firm and russian enagents, without any evidence d dropped it without following it up. in another hearing for a catholiche judge, she attacked m for belonging to a catholic social organizations, criticizing him as if his faith impacted the way he could rule. i would suspect she would launch the same kind of attacks she did in the past, just like dianne feinstein attacked amy coney barrett, saying the dogma lives within you. insaid mor.

last weekend you had some democratic voices attacking her for adopting two haitian children, on social media. i'm afraid we'll see more of that. we ought not to see it but that's probably what the democrats have up their sleeves. maria: why are they so upset about this? they don'tut want the presidento name another supreme court justice. >> well, that's the bottom line, maria. like it's why joe biden won't reveal his potential supreme court nominees, putting out a list the way donald trump does because it would expose the radical left wing agenda of the democrats. any judge that joe biden tnominates would impose his vies on the american people, taking critical questions away from them, not protecting their second amendment rights or in many cases the first amendment rights. that's what the democrats want the courts to achieve by litigation, what they can't achieve byat legislation.

maria: when we come back, i want to get your take on chinese state media and the reaction to the president's coronavirus diagnosis. what it says about their global ambitions, we're talking with senator tom w cotton this morni. stay with us. we'll be right back.

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covid-19. from the global times, senator. your reaction? >> sounds like foreign election interference, maria with the chinese communist party mouth piece endorsing joe biden. he shipped our factories and our manufacturing jobs tour china. he stood idly by while china stole intellectual property and militaryized the islands in the south china sea and spread the tent kellacles through universis and hollywood. the mockery of president trump calls to mind what i called in early january, when i sounded the alarm about this virus which i said from the beginning is serious, highly contagious, that there's one party and only one party that is responsible for all the americans who have been affected by the virus, to include president trump. those who have lost a job or fallen ill or lost a loved one. andlo the responsible party is e chinese communist party for

unleashing this plague on the world and lying about it from the beginning as they still lie about it today. maria: unfortunately, we are not hearing the same upset from the critics of president trump, even from your democrat colleagues. they just refuse to call out china and instead have plenty to say that's wrong with president trump. >> well, i mean, look, maria. back in late december, about a week or so after i called for a travel ban from china, consulted with the president about it, he madet the decisive announcement that he would shut down travel. what did joe biden say? joe biden said this is another example of donald trump's hysteria and fear mongering and xenophobia. if joe biden had been president in january and february, we would have still had tens of thousands of people landing in this country from mainland china aiwhile the virus was running rampant through mainland china for weeks. that would have made the impact

of the pandemic here much greater, much earlier than it was. it's just another example of how joe biden has always been soft on china and if he's elected president, will surrender all of the gains we've made over the last four years standing up to china finally. maria: well, it's of course -- president trump is the first leader to really pokein poke ofn china's behavior, stealing intellectual property for so long from this country. what's your take w on what theye wstealing now? you were the first to call out china and call out the seriousness of this disease, you also were among the first -- you were the first on this program to say they were stealing our research on covid-19 as we speak. is that still going on? how do you stop it? >> yeah, maria, the chinese communist party continues to try to steal everything that's not bolted down to the floor and after they've gotten all that, they'll bring bolt cutters back and try to take the rest of the

stuff too. i mean, look, in arkansas, they bribed a university professor for esoteric but essential engineering techniques that has military applications. there's evidence in the intelligence community, it's made public about the concerns that the threatt that the chinee communist party would steal research related to the coronaviruson vaccine. they continue their campaign of industrial and commercial and military espionage, we finally have a president that is taking it seriously and imposing costs on them. i'm afraid that will backslide if joe biden is elected president. maria: all right. we will leave it there. tom cotton, good to see you this morning, senator. thanks so much. senator tom cotton joining us. we'll continue talking about intelligence this morning. straight ahead congressman devin nunes is here with brand you new details on the origins of the russian collusion hoax which he says prove the plot to take down president trump was far worse than he ever thought.

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incompetent. this has done severe damage to theas professionals and the honorable men and women at the fbi because law enforcement should not be used as a political weapon. and that is the legacy you've left. maria: that was texas senator ted cruz grilling former fbi director jim comey on wednesday deon his leadership overseeing e crossfire hurricane probe. comey told the senate he did not know the source of the steele dossier and that he did not recall anyone ever raising, using the logan act against general michael flynn. devin nunes is the ranking member on the house intel committee, author of the new book, countdown to socialism. congressman, good to see you. thank you for joining us. >> always a a pleasure. good morning. maria: so first evaluate the jim comey testimony that we saw in front of the senate judiciary committee this past week.

>> well, you know, on certain days, james comey has an intelligence level higher than einstein. he seems to know everything. he takes immaculate notes. he even takes those classified notes home and shares them with a lawyer. somehow those notes end up in the new york times. other times, when you would think you actually open an investigation into the trump campaign and russia, he seems to have amnesia. he's forgotten everything. and look, i'll just make this point. we asked him specifically and all the other dirty cops at doj aand fbi and the intelligence agencies, in january of early 2017, where did this dirt come from? none of them seemed to know the answer. and you know what, maria? every damn person in that room knew the answer except for the republicans. that's the truth. maria: unbelievable. want to talk more about

this. to talk more about i want to point out this op-ed that kim strassel from the wall street journal wrote last week, called the james comey election. in it she writes mr. comey per son phis what enrages americans after they've gone through three and-a-half years of this vecollusion narrative. she said this was the crew that in 2016 based on the thinnest of tips launched a counter intelligence investigation into a presidential campaign complete with secret surveillance warrants and informants. she goes on to say, this also places in barack obama and joe biden washington, featured several other swamp monsters. don't underestimate the number of americans who fear a return to thatha world, lowest learner harassing nonprofits, supervisors losing guns in fast and furious, the epa minions who burned companies with ever changing rules and the list goes on. this is why she's calling this the james comey election. will the american people

meunderstand what took place unr joe biden and barack obama's watch and this plan to take down ao candidate, and then a sitting president, congressman? >> well, look, maria. this may sound a little self-serving but the reason i wrote countdown to socialism exactly for this reason, that people need to understand the consequences of this election and we're going to go back to what we've been living through this nightmare. for me, it's been four years. have you to remember, i was first briefed on this in september that the russians were doing something nefarious but was never given any information. and now what we find out from the briefings we've recently had and i know you asked leader mccarthy this, this is a real problem that these documents that clearly our government had, the legislative branch of government never receivedle the. remember whatout that january m? hey, who the hell paid for it. remember, it was the work that we did, the house republicans did.

we had to fight through subpoenas, we had to prove that it was the clinton campaign and the dnc that had paid for the dirty dossier, this dirty information. remember all of that that happened? we should have been -- they knew about this four years ago when myself and speaker at the time paul ryan were briefed and they hid this from us and they continued to hide it all the way until we incovered it. i will tell you, the documents that are underlying that we now have seen, i've only seen a you those. there's definitely smoking guns. that information needs to be made available to the american public. from what i understand, there's even more underlying evidence that backs up what director ratcliffe put out and just think how long it took for us to figure out this information. i know it's mind boggling. this has been a very difficult task for us to get to the bottom of because you have corrupt of icials. i think that's the pointpt here. are you going to go back and

elect somebody like biden who just the other night, maria, had the adas a -- adacity to go aftr president trump once again. i think he said he had putin wrapped around his finger and then he didn't answer the question of why did his son get three and-a-half million dollars from a russian oligarch with ties to putin? 23 ivanka trump had bought a big mac in the red square by a russian oligarch, they would have locked her up, said this is evidence of collusion. here you have the media, the propaganda arm of the democratic party, ignoring all of this, ignoring all of this for the last four years and now you have on a debate stage why did your son get paid three and-a-half million dollars from a russian oligarch. here they've been blaming republicans had something to do with russia when the whole damn time they having to do with russia. i think what they think is that it's okay for them to take all this money and grift but they'll

just take and accuse republicans of doing it to cover up their tracks. and that's basically what we knew about this the whole time. there was plenty of circumstantial evidence to knowo this, maria, that the clinton campaign created all of this because they knew 33,000 e-mail were out there somewhere. they knew that jason chaffetz and how republicans were trying to find t mails. what did they do? they paraded a sick fantasy. this was the clinton campaign. i want you to remember this, the clinton campaign created the sick fantasy, then they hired avatars to do this. they hired steele who did the steele dossier. they hired a suspected russian spy. now you have the democrats hiring russian spies. getting three and-a-half million dollars from moscow and nobody in the media seems to give a damn about it. i think what leader mccarthy said is right. every republican, senator and member of congress should be saying this is over.

we want every damn bit of evidence that every intelligence agency has or it's maybe time to shut those agencies down. because at the end of the day, our liberties are more important than anything else we have in this country and they have been stampeded over by these dirty cops and the democratic party and the media who fails to report on it. maria: yeah. this is absolutely shameful, that this report last week that dni ratcliffe declassified got no coverage from the mainstream media. no coverage, what a disgrace that our liberties and rights have been trampled over because of one political campaign coming up withig an idea to stir up a fantasy, stir up a scandal around the other political campaign and the fbi went right along with it and weaponized our intelligence agencies to go against donald trump. so what else can you tell us

about this? you were briefed by dni ratcliffe, part of the gang of eight, a small group of eight congressmen who are privy to intelligence out of the executive branch. what can youex tell us? is there more coming? and by the m way, you just said many times you've never seen this. when thisn story first came out flast week, that is the first thing that the media said this was out and it was debunked. what you're saying is you've never seen this. >> yes. well, look, remember, the media is essentially the democratic national committee. so they're putting out the same propaganda to cover up the tracks that the media was involved in this the whole time. remember what i was saying, we were looking for all this information because we suspected -- look, it was really -- i've got to credit lee smith the ainvestigative journalist who wrote about this in his book. he discovered by looking at what the media was saying, looking at what the campaign was saying and the timing of it all and he got

his hands on what were -- these are reallys- unknown, only lee smith has these. the pro t' proto-dossiers. this is before you got to the steele dossier. essentially what you had, you had sick fantasies in these proto-dossiers, they hired the russian and british spy to make it look like it was real to cover up what the clinton campaign was doing. there's a bunch of underlying evidence that i've only seen a little bit of this week. i think there's a lot more of it. i would also say this, if you ask for other information i think we need to see. we need to see -- we have this fbi agent, 302 came out about his recollection of everything that had happened. so the russian spy that the democrats hired that actually worked for a left wing think tank called the brookings institute, we need to see -- he was interviewed three times. he was even given -- supposedly he was given a get out of jail

free card because he testified. now, when he testified he said i don't have anything. at least that's what we're being told by horowitz and others. the american public needs to see the three reports that we know about at least, from the democrat'san russian spy that ty hired. that's additional documents that we need to see. and just on another note, you see that mccabe isn't going to testify this week because he's fearful for his safety. he was supposed to testify before the senate. this is new evidence too. i'm not familiar with covid transmitting over the internet. it seems the dirty cops of the fbi they o can get covid over te internet. it's ath shame these guys are nt going to testify before the senate. maria: so andrew mccabe is saying he's not going to testify virtually because of covid? >> that's right, exactly. i mean. maria: unbelievable. >> these guys are such good

agents, they know more than medical doctors know. he doesn't want to get covid over zoom or skype. i mean, it's a joke. it's ridiculous. maria: it's unbelievable. i understand. i understand what you're saying. it's absolutely unbelievable. and for four years you came on my show, this program, and you laidra it all out. i know you've been asking for documents, you never got them. coming up, we continue our conversation with ric grenell. stay with us.s n their windshied got a chip. they drove to safelite for a same-day repair. and with their insurance, it was no cost to them. >> woman: really? >> tech: that's service you can trust. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ four years behind us.

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intelligence than anyone in the country, except for the president. ric grenell served as the u.s. ambassador to germany. he joins me now. thank you for joining us. you got the ball rolling, starting to declassify these important documents. can you react to what you just heard from devin nunes? >> yeah, first of all, let me start, maria, by really thanking you, you've been on this story. this is something that the american people need to know the truth on. transparency is not political. and anyone who is trying to pretend that bringing the facts out and bringing the documents out is somehow nefarious or political is just dead wrong. we have had a scandal developing and the scandal has developed largely because politicians have allowed individuals to hide information, to create a false narrative on one side. what devin was saying i think is very real. what weas heard from james comey this week was really shocking.

because jamesll comey is blaming lower level, mid-level career intelligence officials for this cewhole debacle. he's pleading that he didn't know anything about it and they did it. so this is the first moment where he's throwing the intelligence community officials, career officials under the bus. maria: so he's throwing them under the bus by saying he didn't knoww anything. was this not the most important investigation the fbi has ever conducted into a sitting president and he says he didn't know? if he didn'tt know, why was this investigation happening out of headquarters? right. wouldn't an investigation happen in the field office? instead, it wasd right there under his watch. how is w it possible that he didn't know? >> oh, i think it's not possible at all. he was a leader who knew every detail, took copious notes, and

he's now just pretending that he the most important part is he's blaming mid-level career officials. lelet me be clear to intelligene officials, career individuals that i've worked with who are incredible people, who have been shocked at what has happened that leadership has hid those voices that were early on saying this is russian propaganda, we shouldn't go with it. but the leadership, james comey and others in the leadership decided to hide those warnings from career officials and now he's blaming career officials. let me just say, these career intelligence officials who largely live in the d.c. area are represented mostly by senator warner, who sits on the intelligence committee, who is a leader on the intelligence committee. and senator warner has been completely silent on protecting those individuals who did the right thing early on by creating

warnings, saying this is russian propaganda. senator warner is protecting james comey. if you live in virginia, this is an outrage, that you are not ,being represented by a senator who has your interests. because when i saw james comey throw the intelligence community officials under the bus, that's outrageous, should not be allowed to happen. maria: so i want to ask about mark warner. i also wantne to ask about gina haspel. gina haspel does not want any more declassifications coming out. why? what is going to happen to the ciaha head next? we're going to take a break. when we come back, we'll talk about the media bias in the 2020 election, more with ric grenell, next.

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maria: welcome back. i'm back with former acting dni, ric grenell.

we were just talking about the declassification, this bombshell declassified document which happened lastcu week. you saw that gina haspel has been reluctant to release information about what took place in 2016. that's the head of the cia. is that what you've experienced as well? and why? >> look, maria, i don't think it's helpful to publicly criticize the heads of intelligence agencies especially as the a former acting director. i worked very closely with all of them. but let me just say this, that i think it's incredibly important that we all lean forward on releasing documents. if the documents are not showing specific sources or methods and how we got those pieces of information in intelligence, i think that this scandal is big enough that we need to lean forward and declassify and release the information especially when we have u.s. senators asking for this

information. i think it's incredibly important if we want to have intelligence agencies that the american public has faith in and it's clear that this past several years, our intelligence agencies and other agencies of the u.s. government were weaponized against their political enemies and this is a scandal that people need to pay attention to and this is also -- let me just say this. this is what happens when the insiders maintain control over all of the information. and this is why i believe that president trump as the outsider heis being viciously attacked because he's getting close to really changing the way that washington works and they do not twant the rules changed. which is why they've gone back to the guy that they can trust as the nominee, the 47 years of joe biden, they know exactly what he's going to do and what rules he'll play by. maria: . well, that's right. people do not r want to lose thr grip onip power. i wanted to ask about the lgbtq

community and why you have said such favorable things about the president. we will talk about that next time. hope you'll join me next week. we need to hear more from you. ric t grenell. watch the repeat today, 4:00 p.m. eastern and i'll see you tomorrow. i'm on my phone 24/7. then, for the first time ever, include disney+, hulu, and espn+. we're a big soccer family. "handmaid's tale." i love "frozen." then give families plans to mix and match, so you only pay for what you need and offer it at a price built for everyone. plus, get two samsung galaxy s20 fe 5g phones for $200 when you switch. the network more people rely on gives you more. that's verizon. to save you up to 60%. these are all great. and when you get a big deal... ♪ ...you feel like a big deal. ♪ priceline. every trip is a big deal.

>> president trump spends another day being treated for the coronavirus at the walter reed medical center. good morning, i'm jon scott and this is the fox report. >> white house chief of staff mark meadows saying the president's condition he deteriorationed on friday but he's made unbelievable improvement. the president posting a video of himself on twitter last night, thanking americans for their support while he deals with the coronavirus and the president getting potentially good news with one of his doctors from johns hopkins hospital saying he could be discharged as early as tomorrow. but what effect will all of this have on his chances for