>> on washington journal we talked to a former fbi agent about the florida school shooting. an hour.alf "washington journal" continues. host: joining us from new york is jeffery ringel, a former fbi agent in the new york field office. we will start with the shooting in florida. if you look at the front pages of the newspapers -- fueling debate over law enforcement response. what is your reaction? apparently he said on youtube that i'm going to be a professional school shooter. the youtube user was nikolas cruz. the fbi was alerted. what is your reaction? not seen today's papers, but something like this, the fbi gets leads that come into the office from someone who see something they do not like and report it to the fbi. the fbi try to identify nikolas cruz on facebook or youtube. they could not. there are different steps and different levels of investigation. there are different investigative steps that can be taken at each level. in this case, someone reported ube, the fbi can do so much work but it is in the assessment phase. they could not use legal processes like grand j

you don't get fbi agents who spend their entire life trying to become fbi agents leave.this is very different. he does have a different perspective, but he's not alone in this. i'm not saying this is widespread, but certainly he's not alone in these feelings, dana. >> shimon, thank you so much for that reporting. what do you think of this? and do you think there is any chance that this will have an impact on the broader discussion that even last friday mike rogers, who is not only the former house intel chair, but a former fbi agent, was lamenting saying he almost felt sick to his stomach about the way his former agency was being painted. >> i think this former agent in particular, if you read his op-ed, in think there is a risk in trying to defend the bureau, a former cia official spread this vague idea that trump better watch out because the fbi can fight back. that completely undermines the whole idea that the fbi is there to investigate matters impartially, that they're nonpartisan. obviously the fbi is not beyond reproach. i think there are still a lot of questions

isn't the job of an fbi special agent, by the way, they are all special agents. n't their job to investigate? you really want to talk about guidelines as we bury our children? google told youtube to remove this message. the fbi issued a preservation order to save the electronic footprint. even if google deleted the threat it will be easy to find his youtube and google require an email address and cell phone information that allows them to find other postings of cruz, a pattern of behavior as well as his ip address. but the fbi does nothing. and now the fbi goes in front of the cameras with the broward county sheriffs office to quote support them and give them every resource they need. how about you assist them before the tragedy? an even more alarming, on january 5 a call comes into the fbi to line a person close to cruz. writing information about gun ownership. his desire to kill people, erratic behavior, putting in his own breasts, dysfunctional home life, eerily predicting the horrific shooting about to occur in five weeks. everyone seemed to know cruz would do

the ability to say that someone lied or mislead an fbi agent.t i do think is absolutely clear and i have written about this before is there really was nothing wrong with that meeting with the russians. and incoming national security advisor is expected to have interactions. and i also agree that to the extent that yates was concerned about the logan act, it's really rather bizarre. because of the logan act is widely viewed as facially unconstitutional. it has never been used. it should be wiped off the books. but to say that. >> martha: just to clarify the logan act would be if a private citizen is negotiating with a foreign entity, correct he wasn't really a private citizen in that sense. >> private citizens getting involved in foreign relations. viewed as unconstitutional and the first amendment, it's vague, it's never been used. for that be the basis of yates' concern is really pretty much out there. it's like a legal boogie man. it just doesn't really exist under your bed. now, it's on the books, but it's never been used in a court. >> marth

it's not illegal for an fbi agent tomorrow an opinion. what would be unnerving, this is more than two or three sentences, what would be unnerving is somehow their opinions swayed the outcome. at this point there is no evidence that it did. >> so, peter baker, from the text messages, senator johnson republican of wisconsin is 0-2 in trying to establish and looking for real conspiracies here apparently. the text messages, the republican and democratic memos, are they all in the categories of distractions? >> well, i think she's right. we have to keep in mind the source obviously when we get one side of this. we don't know what the other side of this, the fbi, the justice department. they haven't weighed in publicly so we haven't heard the explanation for these things we'd like to hear. one text message, one of these agents said to the another, potus wants to know everything we're doing, potus meaning president of the united states. that perhaps means he was following closely the hillary clinton investigation in a way he said publicly he was

. >> if you are an fbi agent who has a source, you know, you wanted to be able to show that you can protect them and the fbi is now -- >> thank you and thank you chairman rogers as well. coming up more breaking news of what his president trump wanted from rosenstein and new information about this and by the way, it may sound familiar, stick around. fast acting zzzquil liquicaps help you fall asleep fast, like stop staring at the clock fast, like stop worrying about your boss fast, like wow, you're already asleep fast. when life keeps you up... zzzquil helps you fall asleep in as little as 20 minutes. . . . >>> all of that is similar from a loyalty pledge that he asked from rosenstein and from james comey. >> so what really happen? >> deputy rosenstein wanted to speak to the president. sources tell us that the president had other things on his mind just ahead of rosenstein's upcoming testimony before a house committee. you may recall that from this past september. the president asked rosenstein where he thought the investigation and of links of his campaign is headed. a reminder here, rosens

when an fbi agent knocks on someone's door and they need assistance or an fbi tries to recruit an informante information, the only reason people will talk to us is if they trust us and what i'm afraid of is, and myself and my of my colleagues is that this corrosive doubt about the agency that's been able to seep into the national discussion because of politics is something that's going to negatively impact our ability to do our job. many of us we're not political people. we're -- it is the ethos of the fbi to check politics at the door. many republicans and democrats alike but it's not something you incorporate into your work. i want the american people to understand that. lastly i would justify say, to a person the fbi wants our leaders held accountable. if there were mistakes that were made particularly those involved in wad judgment, we want that to come to light. we want the temperature to come down as far as the political discussion. >> when you say that you have this fear of the cascading effect that the general public will sew doubts about the fbi and less willing to participate and

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the fbi agent under fire for the fbi texts, peter strzok. it turns out he also played a key role in the controversial decision for the fbi to reopen that investigation into hillary clinton's e-mails just days before the election. >> we'll talk much more about hope hicks in the spotlight she might be under right now because of the air force one meeting, the idea that maybe she was trying to obstruct justice. also the president leaving very shortly, he may speak to the press. we'll get our microphones to him and ask some questions. stay with that. >>> the super bowl is coming up. obviously there's a football game, big ads. usually there is a pregame interview with the president of the united states. guess which one of those three things is not happening this year. pass please. i'm here to fix the elevator. nothing's wrong with the elevator. right. but you want to fix it. right. so who sent you? new guy. what new guy? watson. my analysis of sensor and maintenance data indicates elevator 3 will malfunction in 2 days.

, and monica is approached by two fbi agents, pat fallons and steve irons, urging her to come up and talk to a couple of our prosecutors. >> they brought monica lewinsky and linda tripp to two adjacent hotel rooms in the ritz-carlton. >> their hope was to flip her, get her cooperation, and then go up the chain towards the president. >> we were seeking the truth, and we were using the appropriate tool of the possibility of immunity. >> when she first came to the hotel room, monica was very distraught screaming at linda tripp for betraying her. >> i think she was just taking in the enormity of the situation that she was in. >> i think i or somebody else suggested we might want to get linda tripp out of the room. >> monica lewinsky told the prosecutors that they should get in touch with the attorney who drafted her affidavit, francis carter. >> we didn't know if he himself could've been involved in improper conduct, so we suggested that maybe she might want to get another lawyer. that was a very dicey area for us, and it's been much criticized. >> they denied a young 22-year-old her con

quote, the fbi agents's association appreciates the fbi director chris wray standing shoulder to shoulder with the men and women of the fbi as we work together to protect our country from criminal and national security threats. >>> let's be clear. the fisa memo controversy is not principally a battle between democrats and republicans, although they certainly disagree. it is a fight between the white house and the nation's law enforcement agencies. in this statement, mr. wray expressed, quote, grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy. in a letter to the memo's author, the representative devin nunes, the justice department says it is, quote, unaware of any wrongdoing relating to the fisa process. but the president and his allies don't accept those appeals delivered first in private, and when that didn't work, in rare public statements from officials appointed by this president, mind you, and yet contradicting this president. a public debate about how and when the u.s. surveils intelligence targets including americans would be fair and war

fbi agents are dogged people. but unfortunately they are only one part of the equation.art that allows us to do our job is public trust and that's something we have less control over. when an fbi agent knocks on someone's door and needs assist ants, needs information, the leeklihood that person is going to assist is correlated to their opinion of our agency. do they see us as trustworthy, as honest. ? we do a lot of work based on information from informants, people who are coming to us sometimes at great risk to themselves to provide us information. i was talking with a former colleague last week about a source that we met overseas. and someone who went to great lengths to endanger their own lives in order to meet with the fbi and provide important information about a trim case. and when we met with this person, i said why didn't you just provide this information to your own country's law enforcement? and he said, you're the fbi. i trust you. i can't trust our corrupt officials. so what i wonder is how many of those people are going to take that risk to provide informati

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especially since peter strzok, the fbi agent anti-trumper was involved in his under view, and we havet after report that the fbi after the flynn interview concluded he didn't lie. gregg: we now know on hindsight, information revealed after his guilty plea, the fbi had no business talking to him, because his conversation with kislyak was in no way a crime. so they were trying to entrap him by forcing him to have a conversation with them about something that's not criminal. >> sally yates, andrew mccabe, maybe president obama, they all had it in for general flynn. even the fbi agents conclude he didn't lie during that under view. what changed between then and now? gregg: the appointment of mueller. another time, thank you very much. tom fitton of judicial watch. the national left-wing media gets schooled. students pushing back at brazen efforts to politicize their tragedy. we'll take it up with our panel in a moment. today we're out here to test people's knowledge about type 2 diabetes. so you have type 2 diabetes? yes i do. true or false... type 2 diabetes more than doubles your chance

each fbi agent and office took a turn every day. you were the duty agent. these calls when it came in. but that put an fbi agent on every call who was making the decision. the fbi likes to believe these are trained people, but, you know, they may have 30, 35,000 people, but at least one person for unknown reasons dropped the ball. that's always going to be our weak link is the human being who has to handle something like this. >> i'm going to put this question to each of you. errol, i'll start with you, over some years we've seen questioning of the fbi's efficacy, reputation taken a bit of a hit as a result of that. one trusted with doing its job, how worried are you about how we regard the federal bureau of investigation? >> yeah, well -- >> let me start with errol, we'll get to you in a minute, clint. >> i never thought i would be in the situation where fbi would be deemed a deep state or some enemy of the republic, so that is certainly troubling. however, it will not lessen or decrease the focus and dedication these men and women have in regards with wha

the president of the fbi agents association just released this statement that says in part, the fbi agentsssociation appreciates fbi director chris wray standing shoulder to shoulder with the men and women of the fbi as we work together to protect our country from criminal and national security threats as director wray noted, fbi special agents have remained steadfast in their dedication to professionalism and we remain focused on our important work to protect the country from terrorists and criminals both domestic and international. with me now evan mcmullen. he's a former cia officer and he ran for president as an independent in last year's election. evan. try as best you can put yourself in christopher wray's shoes, if this memo comes out tomorrow, what do you do? >> i think it's tough, but he's drawn a clear line and he's a man of honor. i don't know him personally but i imagine that he is a man of honor. i'm told that he is like others at the fbi who i do know, like director comey, like deputy director mccabe and others. and they're trying to stand up for the integrity of not only the

. >> host: joining us from new york, jeff ringel who is a former fbi agent is here to talk about a couple issues and we will start with the shooting in florida. it's reported that if you look at the front pages of the newspapers for example, the washington post, wording signs, scrutinized in florida . a call to the fbi and concerns voiced by neighbors in school fueled debate over law andfirst response. what's your reaction to that? apparently he said on youtube i'm going to be a professional school shooter. the youtube user was nicholas cruz. the fbi was alerted to this, what your reaction ? >> guest: i haven't received today's papers but the fbi gets lots of leads that come into the office from people who see something they don't like and they reported to the fbi. from what i understand the fbi tried to identify nikolas cruz on what was that, facebook or youtube and they could not. there are different steps, different levels of investigation and there are o different investigative steps that can be taken in each one of those levels and so in this case somebody reported the youtube, the f

one of my three sons is an fbi agent. a big picture of him getting his credentials from one robert mueller as director of the fbi. but something went wrong there. we had a -- on morning joe this morning he had senator rand paul of kentucky who said about the -- the tweets, the anti--trump tweets between two fbi agents. the senator made a good point. suppose those are two judges tweeting like that back and forth and it became public. wouldn't that be kind of interesting. i think so. >> but they weren't. >> no. they were fbi agents who are presumably politically neutral arms of -- >> i would like to think the white house and the trump supporters were interested in the historical record and just making sure we understand the 2016 campaign. i don't think that is what they're about here. >> look, i'm going to get into this fbi in a minute. but it seems the original sin is when a single public servant believes they alone can sort of fix a perception problem. fbi was worried about politics, jls thought -- james comey thought he c

those applications are prepared by career fbi agents, reviewed by career agents. there's nothing political about the process. what the white house fears and what devin nunes and his allies on the house intelligence committee fear is the truth. look, donald trump is acting like a cornered criminal. when criminals are caught, and their backs are against the wall, the law is against them, the facts are against them, they come out swinging, and that's exactly what he's doing. he has what i call a fifth avenue mentality. we all recall what he said during the campaign, i could walk in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot someone and not lose any support. ana, that's exactly what we're seeing right now. we're seeing obstruction of justice right before our very eyes. >> steve, it seems to me that people are seeing what they want to see in this memo. people who believed all along there is some kind of bias within the law enforcement investigative ranks up at the levels of the fbi and the justice department, their bias against the president in some way are finding what they

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the memo not only talks about surveillance but also about the two fbi agents who were demoted after the. the memo reads in part, information trickered the opening of an fbi counter intelligence investigation in late july 2016 by fbi agent peter strzok. he was reassigned by the special council to fbi human resources for improper text messages with his mistress fbi attorney lisa page. and it alleges they both demonstrated a clear bias against trump but what was exactly in those text messages. i'm joined now by dell quinton well br, a report for the -- i'm sorry, the "wall street journal" who just wrote about the tex messages exchange between the strzok and page agents. of the thousands, and there are more than 7,000 of messages between the two, there is no evidence of a conspiracy against donald trump. you read them all in. >> i read all 384 pages of the text messages. from front to back. it took a few days. and no, there is no -- president trump interviewed the "wall street journal" accused the pair -- saying they committed treason and so i thought there was -- is there evidence that the

under the law, that's the first duty of an fbi agent before opening an investigation.ty is to determine if it can be factually proven, is there a crime. in this particular case, they had neither. dave require was up to the fbi to check steele sources. they did not do that. andrew mccarthy of the of "the national review" wrote today, this is the outrageous thing about the steele dossier saga. we don't know who the sources are and the fbi never corroborated them. how would a judge allow them to get in knowing the sources were not corroborated. greg: trust. the judge trusted the after gave it. under penalty of perjury they were vouching for the reliability and truthfulness of that dossier and the judge trusted that. if they made no evident to verify it, then they committed perjury. david: that's illegal. or the weekend you had the democrats and the media coming out talking about how wonderful and thorough fisa courts are and how dare the republicans suggest they are anything but that. they fail to note that over 99% of all fisa warrants are approved. doesn't the entire pr

why would a child of an fbi agent be used as a pawn for anti trump rhetoric and anti gun legislation?ecause the fbi is only looking to curb your constitutional rights and increase their power. another extremist website chimed in quote outspoken trump hating school shooting survivor is son of fbi agent. msm helps prop up. for the record, i never got my mainstream media to do it. true pundit also said this about 17-year-old david. if hogg knew the shooter would snap, as he and other students have professed, perhaps he could have told his father about it. someone calling themselves thomas payne retreated the article. while we normally would be reluctant to give these conspiracy theories any oxygen at all. the person who liked this page was none other than don junior. david hogg and father kevin whose father was in the fbi made time to talk about it. david, first of all, donald trump jr. is liking tweets, i am wondering what goes through your mind when you hear that? >> i am so sorry that these people have lost their faith in america. i know i certainly haven't. the fact that these people

veteran msnbc contributor mike barnicle, and catty kay, donnie deutsche is here with us, former fbi special agent msnbc contributor clint watts is here and former assistant director of counterintelligence at the fbi, frank fegluzzi. mika will be back with us on monday. joe, this could be the day the momento is released and the day the public sees the memo. we're not sure if that's the case yet. we know that the justice department has called it extraordinarily reckless to release the memo we know that the fbi says it has grave concerns about the content of that memo being made public. what do you think? what's going to happen today? >> well i'm sure the president is going to re lease the memo. he said, he said he would. and he was saying he was going to do it even before he read the memo. acting like the republicans on the committee who said we must release this memo. they hadn't even read the memo. they haven't read what's underlying the memo. so willie, you're talking about how right now the president only has about a third of the country behind him. the republicans are having one chairman after

florida fbi agents are not working on the trump/russia collusion case. e was a huge mistake by the fbi and someone needs to investigate what happened. you know? my experience in politics shows me there is always a lack of communication between different departments of any agency and between agencies because people kind of protect their own turf. that is a problem. but this is why, you know, you sort worry, again, about trump undermining the nation's top law enforcement agency. you know? there may be a couple of bad apples, or maybe incompetence somewhere but on the whole, you have thousands of people who are working very hard and doing a great job. i mean, the successes are things you don't hear about, the things that are foiled. those things often don't make the news. you have all of these great people doing great work and with president trump focusing on one problem and thinking it's all about him, which, of course, everything seems to be as we just saw with the iran tweet, it really does undermine, i think, how the americans, if they trust the fbi or n

fbi. almost 150 people were now working to find quinn gray. the agent of the fbi's jacksonville office is james casey. he says the kidnappers appeared to be deactivating quinn's cell phone after each of the calls they made to reid. >> somebody in the scheme was smart enough to take the battery out of the cell phone because we were able to through some technical capabilities and determine that that phone was not only off but had no power to it at certain times. >> meaning you can't trace it? >> meaning you can't trace it. >> while there was no pinpointing an exact address where quinn's calls were originating, technicians were tracing pings when the phone was in use. those are the electronic connections made when a phone hits a particular cell tower, and that gave investigators a general idea where quinn might have been held. fbi agent tony k was selected as the lead crisis negotiator for the bureau. >> we're tracking the phone and we're thinking we've got some leads. >> agents felt they were making progress, but then suddenly the phone was also pinging f

what i mean by that is the fbi cannot do its job without public trust. whether it's an agent knocking on someone's door, whether it's recruiting, whatever the case may be. rising in a courtroom and trying to convince a jury what we are about to say must be believed, the fbi requires that public trust. i think what we're seeing now is regardless of party, i'm not talking about politics, i'm not here to talk politics. but the political attacks on the bureau, which are different from criticism, have that potential to impede our work for the future. >> are you and your colleagues noticing that already? are you noticing questions being asked in the course of your work that were not asked before? >> the one big question, whether it's an fbi agent talking to a subject or someone that they're trying to get information from in the course of their job, even frankly our family and friends when we go home, is, what happened to the fbi? that's a tough question to answer. because the reality is, nothing's happened to the fbi, it's the same fbi that we've had for 40 years. it's the same fbi

they get calls like i get calls from fbi agents who are disgusted and angry. this thing should have been hand inned a field office. instead it's hand at the upper echelon by a cabal on the 7th floor at the fbi. >> a few bad apples that besmirched this organization. that's what troubles me. we need to do a god job of cleaning this out so we can get on with the business of what the fbi is suppose to be doing. judge jeanine: some of the stuff they have been saying about the memo is like chicken little. if this memo was released, the sky is going to fall. we have grave concerns. this is from the fbi about material omissions of fact. and nancy pelosi says donald trump has surrendered his constitutional responsibility as commander-in-chief by releasing the unredacted memo. it understood mines our national security and basically sails bouquet to his friend putin. >> she also said the tax cut would be armageddon. they hate this president more than they love america. that's the fundamental problem with the democratic party today. they see hatred through their eyes. it's

the times reports that the photo was sent to the fbi agent or given to the fbi agent on january 27, 2017. the fbi, i would be very surprised if the fbi just somehow kept that information from the white house during that whole time until the next fall. that would be really surprising. and by the way, this is not just a question about background checks. yes, we want to make sure that people with security clearances aren't subject to blackmail, but there's a more fundamental point here, which is we want to make sure that people working in the white house, who are representing our government are not beating their wives or have not beaten their wives in the past. it's a moral question. it's not only a security question. >> before we go to a break here, i want to get an answer on this issue of, from ned price and joyce vance, do you believe if the fbi was in possession of those photographs, the black eye photographs for the last year and this security clearance was being held up, is it likely the fbi would have showed that photograph to john kelly? joyce vance, what do you think? >> i think ab

congressman cries stuart, thank you. >> i have been contacted by fbi agents saying thank you for doinghis. they want to protect the integrity of the agency. judge jeanine: i have been contacted by them as well. congressman louie gohmert on deck tonight. the fbi under fire from the congress and republicans. i'm joined by the fbi former director james kallstrom. whatever you do to stay healthy. you might be missing something. your eyes. that's why there's ocuvite. ocuvite helps replenish nutrients your eyes can lose as you age. it has lutein, zeaxanthin and omega-3. ocuvite. be good to your eyes. ♪ burned me up and down, shno way to cool it. ♪ ♪ ♪ every time you kiss me it's like sunshine and whiskey ♪ applebee's handcrafted burgers. any burger just $7.99. now that's eatin good in the neighborhood. judge jeanine: welcome back to "justice." our next guest spent 25 years with the fbi and has knowledge about what's going on. james kallstrom, it's always good to talk to you. let's talk about what this fisa warrant -- i want to talk about the fact it appears relatively clear if not absolutely

fbi is sending a signal it supports the decision against releasing the memo saying, quote, the fbi agents' association appreciates fbi districter standing shoulder to shoulder with the men and women of the fbi as we work together to protect the country from criminal and national security threats. joining me now to discuss this now, katlyn, there were talks to redact parts, but that's off the table? >> that's right, jake. two questions. we knew for some time the president wanted this released, but the questions were, had he read the memo, and when are they going to release it regarding redactions? we got answers today because the president has read the memo and reviewed it, and then just awhile ago flies back on air force 1 from west virginia, a senior administration official told reporters this about the release of the memo saying we've had over the last couple days to look at it, to make sure it does not give away too much in terms of classification. right now, i think it will be that we tell congress, probably tomorrow, that the president is okay with it. now, here's the key line, i dou

congressman cries stuart, thank you. >> i have been contacted by fbi agents saying thank you for doinghis. they want to protect the integrity of the agency. judge jeanine: i have been contacted by them as well. congressman louie gohmert on deck tonight. the fbi under fire from the congress and republicans. i'm joined by the fbi former director james kallstrom. judge jeanine: welcome back to "justice." our next guest spent 25 years with the fbi and has knowledge about what's going on. james kallstrom, it's always good to talk to you. let's talk about what this fisa warrant -- i want to talk about the fact it appears relatively clear if not absolutely clear that there were fbi agents who made representations to the fisa court that were not correct. every day, jim, we get a little bit more about how the clinton campaign and the dnc fade feution gps, then they got to steele, and then it went to the russians. now we have sidney blumenthal in this mess. who is a pal of hillaries we heard about at benghazi whose emails western accessed and told us she had gotten emails on benghazi. he may be

the times" reports that the photo was sent to the fbi agent or given to the fbi agent on january 27th, 2017. the fbi, i would be very surprised if the fbi just somehow kept that information from the white house during that whole time until the next fall. that would be really surprising. and by the way, this is not just a question about background checks, yes, we want to make sure that people with security clearances aren't subject to blackmail. but there's a more fundamental point here which is we want to make sure that people who are working in the white house who are representing our government are not being their wives or have not beaten their wives in the past. as the a moral question. it's not only a security question. >> before we go to a break here, i just want to get an answer on this issue of from ned price and joyce vance, do you believe if the fbi was in possession of those photographs, the black eye photographs for the last year, and this security clearance was being held up because of them, is it likely that the fbi would have showed that photograph to yawn kelly? joyce v

you talk to fbi agents a lot. that is an important point to infuse into this conversation, the fact that these people are on the line every day. certainly people make mistakes. it is possible there were mistakes made when we get the full picture, but at the end of the day, having the president of the united states impune this agency, and by extension, these agents, cannot be great for m e mora morale. >> that's exact many what i was going to get to, and the democrats will have their point of view, and frankly there is a third point of view. that is from the fbi itself. you heard from a statement they issued a couple days ago from chris wray that made the point, look, there are omissions in this document, this three and a half page document that was issued by devin nunes' staff and written by them that they believe paint a false picture of what occurred here. beyond what the republicans are saying and what the democrats are going to say whenever they issue their own memo, there is also the fbi point of view which o

most fbi agents are honest, honorable decent people. the top 1% was apparently stunningly engaged in corruption maria: and one by one those 10 people are being fired or reassigned i agree with you about the fbi in general. a word before you go, newt, on jeff sessions. is he going to get involved in any of this and at the end of the day, he's holding the ball in terms of where this goes for prosecution. >> look, he is a very good friend of mine but i have to tell you i am very disappointed. he is not in any way recused on this information. he should be appointing an independent counsel. he should be demanding that we get to the bottom of this. he should be the guy in charge of the cleanup and there's no reason he can't be. this has nothing to do with the so-called russian investigation and therefore he's not recused in any way and i frankly am very surprised that he has been so passive about this. maria: well what's the answer? does he always have lawyers around him basically saying don't say a word about it because you recused yourself?

"why would the child of an fbi agent be used as a pawn for anti-trump rhetoric and antigun legislationour constitutional rights and increase their power. not to be outdone, another extremist website, true pundit, "outspoken trump-hating school survivor, son of fbi agent, msm helps prop up incompetent bureau." msm is us, mainstream media. why we'd want to prop up the fbi is not exactly clear. and for the record, i never got my mainstream media memo to do it. true pundit said this about 17-year-old david hoag. if he knew the shooter would snap, promise he could have told his father about it, oh but wait, his father was in the fbi, bite not have mattered, that's the funny thing about the limelight, often the light can crash down on your head. charming but not actually the end. someone calling themselves thomas paine retweeted the article and this part's important, because while we'd normally be reluctant to give these conspiracy theories any oxygen at all, it's what happened next that makes it news worthy. the person who hit the "like" button on the thomas paine tweet was the president's