refer to which i frankly peter saw as twisted bordering on the doraine just for this reason if peter struck with singlehandedly out to keep donald trump from being president he knew everything about the counterintelligence investigation of donald trump he knew that don jr and the rest of the crew met with the russians in trump tower he knew the papadopoulos had met with you know they had bragged to the australian a baster about the dope the dirt on on hillary he knew about felix ater trying to get a trump tower moscow bill he knew that there was fake there with lies put out about about the trump tower meeting and yet he did nothing to disclose to the public that this counterintelligence investigation was going on before donald trump got elected and at the same time he encouraged. me to put out that letter that was so damaging ten days before the campaign was over that was struck still and so to me this note . and that for the poisonous tree is twisted it is prevert and as i said i think kind of duran to it speaks to how people want to kind of see ghosts you know donald trump refers to this

director and peter struck was on the fast track to promotion as well that's why they did expose any of it ok like i say one thing sure if you're going to get to it gets two against one richard please jump in go ahead just a quick thing on mckay business his wife was the democratic candidate for the state senate position in virginia she got help from the democratic party in virginia to turn this into hillary clinton money again it's twisted it's really kind of making facts up and people keep doing it because it's a and it's a mystery to make sure. you know. all right gentlemen janell go knock it over it's already we're not going to resolve that particular issue on this program here let me go to lionel. i'm not going to put words into anyone's mouth and i can read someone's text messages this is from peter struck and they and i mean i did did did lisa page of the district actually do any work i mean how many times they message each other but here's one of them will. we will get we will stop him and it was directed at trump we will stop him i think it's a i think all of us would agree you

is it andrew mccabe or peter struck? >> the denial is mr. mccabe does not recall being present for the meeting. >> have we investigated that further? that's a pivotal point in this as far as what was said and who is involved, whether there is intent biased. >> we have investigated as far as we can take it. i could find evidence to see whether he was present. we've laid out what we have found. >> does it concerning the fbi to not further investigate the issue of the discovered text messages? seems like it raises larger questions. does that bother you? >> what has concerned us is the fbi has this imperfect system of collecting records and has known it for some time and needs to get it fixed. once we started looking at the messages we were the ones to keep digging. >> of the calls obstruct action. can you, with certainty expressly hillary clinton investigation without bias or interference. >> i can't speak to every decision that was made. he may have been involved so i cannot speak to the broader point. >> cannot say there wasn't bias. it appea

take a look at the horrible statements that peter struck, the chief investigator said and what he did with hillary clinton. what you're asking me about, i am amazed that people struck is still at the fbi. and so is everybody else that read that report. and i'm not even talking about the report. i'm talking about long before the report. peter struck should have been fired a long time ago and others should have been fired. [multiple reporters] >> i'm looking at scott, and scott has done a fantastic job at e.p.a. >> do you know jake collins. >> i'm not happy about certain things, i'll be honest. i'm not happy about certain things, but he's done a fantastic job running the e.p.a. which is very overriding but i am not happy about it. [multiple reporters] >> do you agree with children being taken away >> no, i hate it. i hate the children being taken away. the democrats have to change their law. that's their law. [multiple reporters] >> that's the democrat's law. we can change it tonight. we can change it right now. you need their votes. you need their votes. >> you control those chambers o

does the president believe that peter struck should still have a job at the f.b.i.? sarah: i haven't specifically asked him that question but my guess would be no. one last question. reporter: there are a number of officials at the white house are reportedly eyeing the exit. including mark short and yourself. can you give us a sense of what to expect? are any of those officials leaving and what's the plan to replace all those high-level people? sarah: i don't know there's a need to replace them. as i stated last night in a tweet, i think cbs got a little ahead of their skis. particularly since they put out a story about my thinking without ever actually talking to me. seems that would be problematic. in terms of personnel announcements, i don't have any to make. i can tell you that i show up here every day, i love my job, i'm glad to work for the president. each and every day i'll pray for clarity and discernment on what my future looks like. right now i think the country looks pretty good and i'm glad to get to be a part of that process and i'm going to continue to

report totally destroys james comey and his minions including his great lovers, peter struck and page, it will go down as a dark and dangerous period in

"fbi agent peter struck, who headed the clinton and russia investigations, texted to his lover lisa page in the ig report that "we will stop" candidate trump from becoming president. doesn't get any lower than that." he goes on to write "the ig report is a total disaster for comey, his minions, and sadly the f ei. comey will now officially go down as the worst leader by far in the history of the fbi. i did a great service to the people in firing him. good instinct.

but we did get this new text message exchange, basically, between peter struck and lisa page. this is in august of 2016. and it's in the ig report. page texts struck, trump's not ever going to become president, right? right? struck, no, no, he won't, we'll stop it. here's the thing. it's not hard to take a leap, if you read that as someone who looks at this, there's bias. that's not just bias, that's clearly someone who's acting on it, "no, we'll stop it." reports conclude they didn't, but does this race questions in your mind maybe they did? >> it would raise questions in my mind very certainly, erin. but the report i think is pretty definitive and conclusive. and persuasive on the point. that it didn't affect their practical actions. should they be disciplined? for creating the appearance of bias? absolutely right. they violated the norms and rules. they should be held accountable. as should other agents who similarly might do the same. because the fbi, as christopher wray said so well today, depends on not only the reality, but also the appearance of objectivity and independ

i didn't give peter struck any instructions if there was some problems with the instructions -- >> in the letter obtained by fox news. devon nunez is calling for public testimony from 17 justice department officials as part of the ride ranging investigation government surveillance abuse. including interviewing former national security advisor mike flint. >> shannon: thank you very much. "the new york times" reporting "shaken" deputy attorney general rosenstein felt used by the white house for his role in the firing of the former fbiing director james comey that allegation comes as house republican battle with the justice department over documents related to what the president has dubbed spy gate. let's talk about it with the republicannan congressman on the judiciary committee. congressman, thanks for joining us. >> good to be with you shannon. >> shannon: we want to play more between the interaction between rosen stein and congressman gordon. >> are you keeping information from congress? >> sir, i certainly hope your colleagues are not under that impression. that is not accurate, sir

still has its russia gate investigation peter struck we're not we haven't heard the last of this guy yeah i think that we will all see it certainly the republicans in the congress and elsewhere really. need to pursue this they need to launch legal for their liberal guilt is almost the they took the trump taking children away from their parents demon nor the i.g. report almost completely well i mean. let's talk about all of this russian conclusion the only person in jail right now is paul minor forthright and would read about a poll by default in the new york times. to sign an agreement with the european union that would link that country closer to the west and whatever the americans still support ukraine but this is something that should be put into you have a crush on me because if not they started there. is not actually and it's not actually in jail he's in pretrial the only thing he's there for is tax avoidance for nothing you know where the rationale of the alleged not only doing it but if there is one thing that can make you know that this poll want to force in pretrial detentio

now for the response, senior fbi agent peter struck wrote, no he's not, we will stop and the same peter struck that worked in the e-mail investigation. he not only worked on the investigation when it began but he was a lead investigator at the inception of the russian pro- >> is at the same peter struck who is put on the mueller special counsel team? this is not the only time he is the text feature on his phone either. he said trump is an idiot, he should win 100,000,020. that's interesting because he supposed to be inviting her on the espionage act. he is supposed to be investigating her for violations of the espionage act i cannot think of a single american that would not vote for her for president. can you see her skepticism. this fbi agent not only had her running, he had her winning 100 million to nothing. what if they had found evidence sufficient to indict her? what if they had indicted her? he was a part of the interview secretary clinton was he? >> he was present in. >> so for months before that interview when he was president he's got her running in winning 100,000,020. zero t

the ig investigation is looking at peter struck's e-mails, text messages with lisa page, and also three other fbi employees that included statements of hostility toward candidate trump. don't president trump supporters have reason to be suspicious and angry about that particular text exchange? >> well, they were certainly inappropriate statements. and i think that this report is an important moment for the fbi. it's probably a good gut check for all of them, that the things they say matter their institution is incredibly powerful, but that means they're held to an incredibly high standard. the other thing that was in that report is how much people were leaking constantly. you even see in the messages there, an acknowledgement by the staff that the leaks that they are putting out, the information that they're shuffling around could have a real impact on the election, i think this is a really important cautionary story to everybody working at the fbi. they just have to -- they have to follow the line. and there are examples here up and down the chain where that didn't happen. >> stand by,

let's watch. >> why'd you tell peter struck nott to answer our questions yesterday? when i asked -- when i asked peter struck if he'd ever communicated with glen simpson, he gave us the answer he gave us dozens of times. "on advice of f.b.i. council, i can't answer that question." why couldn't he answer that question? >> i appreciate your sincere concerns. how i do know, sir? youiv interviewed mr. struck. i didn't. so i can't answer that. >> works for you. doesn't work for usct. >> laura: sol, um, i don't think rosenstein came off well today at all. i thought he came off as very defensive, very flip, but he played the victim card. "you're personally attacking me! you're mean to me in the media!" welcome to the big leagues, buddy. here deputy a.g. pretty hot right now. he kept saying, "well, there's all theseht people who work in e department of justice." this was a -- this is the biggest case, the russia case and the e-mail case for hillary, these two cases dubbed together because of this one agent. he had a b duty to find out what happened. >> well, keep in mind her

reporter: the text message exchange highlighted in the report between lisa page and peter struck. the f.b.i. agent, peter struck, said, we'll stop it. he was referring to candidate trump becoming president. did the president have any reaction to this information when you spoke with him after he was briefed today? sarah: certainly, again, causes a great deal of concern. and i think points out the political bias that the president's been talking about and that has been repeatedly mentioned from this administration, that we found to be a huge problem and we're glad they're looking into it. reporter: the president or anyone else from the trump foundation, use funds to pay for personal business or campaign? sarah: i'm not aware of any of that taking place. reporter: can you definitively say no? sarah: i'm not aware of it. i'd have to get more information. but i'd refer you to the trump foundation for that specific point. reporter: [inaudible] sarah: i haven't spoken to him about that specifically. reporter: let me follow up. president trump said several months ago he doesn't think mich

still has its russia gate investigation peter struck we're not we haven't heard the last of this guy yeah i think we will all see it certainly the republicans in the congress and elsewhere really need to pursue this they need to launch legal for their liberal don't it's almost the they took the trump taking children away from their parents demon and ignored the i.g. report almost completely well i mean. let's look at all of these russian conclusion the only person in jail right now is paul minor forthright and what do i read about poll my default in the new york times poll. to sign an agreement with the european union link that country closer to the west and was meant for the americans to support ukraine's membership but this is something that should be put into you have a crush on me because it's not they started their car that night and who is not actually and is not actually in jail he's in pretrial and the only thing he's there for is tax avoidance for nothing you know where the rights are not of the alleged that are you doing but if there is one thing that can make you know that

still has its russia gate investigation peter struck we're not we haven't heard the last of this guy yeah i think we will all see it certainly the republicans in the congress and elsewhere really need to pursue this they need to launch legal for study that liberals do it is almost the they took the trump taking children away from their parents demon nor the i.g. report almost completely well i mean. let's look at all of these russian collusion the only person in jail right now is paul minor forthright and what do i read about poll my default in the new york times. to sign an agreement with the european union that would link that country closer to the west and what for the americans to support ukraine smegma time but this is something that whole lot of what should people who have encouraged me because it's not a story of their. crews not actually it's not actually in jail he's in pretrial the only thing he's there for is tax avoidance for nothing you know where the rights are not of the alleged that are you doing but if there is one thing that can make you know that this poll want to

more than that, probably what bothers me the most is peter struck's attitude. i think it's what bothers americans most about this whole ordeal. i want to go to one more text message, one more thing mr. struck said. had is ba this is back in that august time period again. august 26th, 2016, peter struck says, just went to a southern virginia walmart, i can smell the trump supporters. this is what ticks americans off more than anything else, i'm convinced. this idea that there are two sets of rules or two standards. one set of rules for us regular folk who shop at walmart, but a different set if your name is clinton, comey, lynch, mccabe, or if your name is peter struck. the arrogance and condescension and the elitist attitude, that's what ticks people off. as they look at all this and see what struck said throughout these investigations, that's why their confidence is so shaken. frankly, that's why they're so mad. that's why we got to get some answers from mr. rosenstein and mr. wray about this whole ordeal. >> the gentle lady from new york is recognized. >> than

documents -- >> peter struck september -- sent a message to lisa paige on august 5th. he just signed the documents in the case. in the text he says the white house is running this. the chronology of events tells you what happened. we'll see a peter struck memo, the guy that wrote the exoneration of hillary before the investigation, signed the papers. >> hannity: the guy that immediately began, ran over to great britain. >> and said the white house is running this. of course. t it meant president obama who is being briefed all the time by john brennan, cia director, who is the instigator of the phony dossier. >> hannity: another big reveal by the "new york times" they didn't mean, oh, for the f.b.i. to interview this australian that was. [ indiscernible ] had to be negotiated by our state department. that means john kerry knew. that means probably obama knew. that's another sign pointing to barack obama and company. >> on june 20th, steel writes his phony fictitious dossier first memo. he immediately calls the f.b.i. the f.b.i. two weeks later flies to london in the hea

peter struck played a hugely important role. now he hasn't even come to congress. >> the clinton e-mail investigation. >> he was also invved in the russia investiga. the person who teed had a role to play in the overlap. he was definitely involved. he was a deputy head of counter. through that role, as the deputy head of counterintelligence, when the fbi is launching a campaign -- >> am i just confuse d about, you're trying to make a days and i get it. you're supporting trump a the other people in your owny i there there. i'm wondering what it will take for you to say he's full of it. >> first off, it's important to get all the documents that the people who are making conclusions have not read yet. so in order to be ablesay this is what the document say, you have to be able to read the documents first. but again, the deputy head of counterintelligence -- >> and you have not been briefed or seen any of them. >> no one. >> you're basing everything upon what? no one has seen those documents. >> burr, mcconnell, ryan, gowdy have bee

. >> the inspector general testified that peter struck led the e-mail investigation and the russia investigation. >> i wasn't there. i think it's fair to say that mr. struck played a lead role in both investigations fp how it was structured and who super sized whom. that's subject to a little more context and explanation by others. i don't think that's far off. >> fair enough. what's been characterized today is that the finding of the inspector general is that there was none of the bias that has brought mr. struck into such -- under a micro scope. than the decisions made in the hillary rodham clinton investigation. >> under questioning, and let's just go there, you probably have the book right there, if you go to page 211 i think it is. page 149, what you'll find, and this is one thing the inspector general testified as well about is that the -- he did not find document or testimony of improper considerations directly affected the specific investigative decisions. but when we explored it, he admitted that those biases that mr. struck had, and not just mr. struck, but the others listed that i thi

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peter struck was running the hillary investigation. that's a total fix. that is a closed book now. x. comey should go to jail for that. struck, he holds the press conference reopening the perfect wiener and abedin. that's a challenge for sessions, rosenstein and wray. this stuff better be prosecuted now. let's investigate the investigators. >> that's actually a challenge for you, for not being able to tell the truth. speaking of which, here is donald trump outside the white house. >> we'll see what happens. >> michael cohen may cooperate with investigators. are you concern snd. >> i have nothing to do with that. >> mr. president, have you spoken with paul manafort? have you spoken with paul manafort? >> a democratic friend. that's a democratic friend. democrats change the plan. >> all right. so, so, willie, that was all a plan. >> yeah. >> a planned walk. >> he tweeted 40 minutes ago. >> megyn kelly from fox when she did the long walk. was that 2012? >> it was good. >> what was that? remember that long walk? >> i remember that walk. >> they were saying mitt romney was going to win.

what peter struck's lawyer is telling us today. >>> plus, that new headle in the special counsel investigation, roger stone now admits to meeting with a russian national during the 2016 campaign, somebody who promised dirt on hillary clinton and who offered up 2 million bucks just for the sit-down. we have our team of reporters set up and ready to go on this monday morning, but we want to start with that border battle boiling over. more protests are expected to happen today aimed at that white house poll city to separate migrant children from parents when families gross the border illegally. those children are being kept at government facilities while their parents are criminally prosecuted. people have seen where these kids are being held. some of them describe them as inside cages. our jacob sober rauf got a look inside. and back here you have president trump still blaming the whomg thing on democrats incorrectly saying they are responsible for the law. that is not true. there's not a law that forces kids to be separated from parents. so in a second we're going to explain the argument the ad

peter struck, deputy head of counterintelligence, demoted and reassigned. when have you seen that? i've never seen that in the federal agency. now we're supposed to say don't worry, we can investigate ourselves and give you a briefing and you can trust us. really? this is why there needs to be a second special council. i don't like them but this is why we called for it last summer and still calling for it. mr. zelleden is working hard with his conclusion we introduced two weeks ago and why we need a second special counsel to get to the bottom of this. christina: obviously the administration is frustrated with leaks and they've seized a reporter's telephone information to look through that data. is that something you feel is appropriate? rep. jordan: i'm actually working with congressman raskin on a shield offer for you guys in the press on sources and all. i think we've already introduced legislation but jamie came to me and asked me to be a sponsor. when it comes to protecting your first amendment liberties and fourth amendment rights and rits to a free press and free speech and t

here's president trump commenting on peter struck. >> i am amazed that peter struck is still at the fbierybody else that read that report. and not even talking about the report that i'm talking long before the report. he should've been fired a long me ago. stuart: he had a lot to say about the inspector general's report. let's go to ohio congressman jim jordan. i don't need to reset your credentials, that's a fact. >> and a friend of stewart. >> and go through the main characters in the report one by one. i want your comments on what's going on with them. first of all, agent peter struck, go. where does he stand. >> he still employed at the fbi, one of the few who were part of this group that ran the clinton investigation and rush investigation. he is a central figure throughout the entire narrative. she still employed and frankly the presidents) i don't know why he still working at the fbi. stuart: are you convinced he was part of a deal to shield hillary and undermine trump? >> on july 31 he ran the clinton investigation and open up the rush investigation eight days later we get a tex

among all of us, not just me and lisa page, peter struck, lisa page and the 200 people involved in the you to have a massive conspiracy no one else is going to reveal to undermine the president. he maden epic mistake, i don't think he's going to undermine the investigation. >> michael, let's talk about eric prince now, given access to his phone, computer and special counsel. we know it's supposed to be a secret meeting. what is mueller looking to find out? >> look, mueller is coming to a crucial point in his investigation. i think there's a sense that he's got a couple of months here. if he's got something big to deliver, to deliver it. because, you know, come labor day, i think anything he does after that would be perceived as trying to do something on the, you know, the eve of an election. given all the criticism of what jim comey did, mueller's not going to fall into that trap. so, you know, we're at a crucial point. now, the eric prince story, you know, it seems in one sense a big tangential to the core issues, to what extent it took place after the election. to what extent was tha

peter struck is facing lawmakers behind closed doors just days after losing his security clearance anyeing escorted out of the fbi building. he once worked on the russia investigation and the hillary clinton e-mail probe. he sent anti-trump text messages to a fellow agent, lisa paige who was also involved in the investigations and even a message that they would, quote, stop trump from becoming president. this is days before the election. after an internal review, the inspector general said he could not conclude that his decisions were, quote, free from bias. manu raju joins me. this is significant and he was called to be held in public, though. >> that's right, and we just talked to a number of lawmakers going in about whether or not this should be a public session including the chairman of the committee house judiciary chairman bob goodlad, and i asked should this be a public session? he said it should happen soon. it sounds like it's possible this will happen eventually in public. this is the first time that peter struck has come before any committee in congress revealed both by the

house judiciary and oversight committee meeting with peter struck behind closed door.s the man of the center of the fbi bias controversy in the investigation of hillary's e-mails and russia probe. let's bring in georgia congressman doug collins. great to see you. >> good to see you. >> any bombshells from testimony today. >> they're doing this behind closed doors but it's time to get him on record. he's under oath and he will have to talk. these are the tweets where he will have to explain his bias and why he believes he could stop the presidential election and not focus on his job. that would been something unique for him to have done at the department of justice. >> will he reveal what the insurance policy is against trump. he's a guy who texted about the election and has a sense of unfinished business. he said i need to fix it and later called the russia probe and investigation leading to impeachment and he was excited to join the muller team. that was before he joined it. what was the insurance policy? you're asking -- are you asking pointed questions. >> oh yes. w

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. >> i want to shift gears now and talk about fbi agent peter struck.hat can you tell us about his interview? >> first, it was a colossal waste of time. this is agency that has jurisdiction over 2,000 children still disconnected from their parents. nothing change. he sent inappropriate text message, he regretted that. but it didn't effect an investigation, and he certainly wasn't the one who told michael cohen to setup a meeting in trump tower and didn't ask or write the speech for donald trump where he invited the russians to keep hacking. there were so many concerning contacts from the trump team with the russians. this is just an effort i think to undermine the progress. >> i want to read the exchanges between struck and former fbiagy lisa page. >> page, trump's not ever going to become president, right? and struck says, no, no he's not, we'll stop it. based on what you heard and you saw today do you believe peter struck was biased in the investigation? >> it was inappropriate, and she shouldn't have sent it but the inspector general report found tha

peter struck, the man in charge of the clinton email investigation, no, no he is not. stop it. so five other names from fbi agents have been turned over to the fbi for disciplinary actions, for possibly violating their policy related to communications that they had probably putting out bias there. the report also critical of former fbi director james comey and calling him insubordinate in some cases. some of the ways he diverted from policy laid open or opened the door to the effect that the fbi could possibly be biased. now all of this has lawmakers on capitol hill very concerned. listen. >> the question i have, department of justice, fbi, people in charge of the clinton investigation, were they really in the tank or not? we'll see what the conclusions are. i will challengeç mr. horowitzo make sure that his conclusion that they weren't in the tank makes sense. time will tell. >> and other republicans glad and relieved this report is now out there in the public light. listen to senator john kennedy from louisiana. here. >> now we're finally getting some facts from obj

but the ig report did have harsh criticism for fbi agent peter struck who exchanged text messages witholleague in months before t president election. that may be where bias came from. that included text he and his team stop donald trump from becoming president if senate ju will have testimony next week. >> trump fouation at the center of new lawsuit. nettyen sw rk the preside fatnt and directors don juner, eric and ivanka trump. accusefs using the money and boost political portions of trump. lawsuit is politically pmotiva. >> thesident has t tweeted abhis specifically earlier etoday. th foundation raised 18 million dollars while giving 19 million dollars to charity while virtually having zero expenses. the previous new york ag whorcas ed to retire in disgrace miffed its stated mission to ust this mr to add advance his own political begin and the current acting n york ag has stated that battling the w house is the most important job she's ever atdone. sounds outrageously bias and certainly problematic. >> not a surprise there either, democry general is president vowed on twitter he woul

primarily they talked senthe text messages between fbi peter struck and fbi lawyer lisag page sugge that they would stop donald trump from being elected. struckso ws briefly on the team inveigating russian'ste rference. today truck was spotted being of the fbi building. he remains an employee at least for now. his attorney ss that struc is fully cooperating with an fiebl investigation. you thoht we were going to get through a show without north korea. ki nm jong un made another trip to third visit in a span of three months. kim andif hise were welcomy b she sing pink. kim and she reached annd ustanding on denuclearation and other issues after the singapore summit. the white house has insisted that ancients won't be lifted on north korea until they're don denuclear icing. with testing halted they might be. president trump suggestedec kim's sd visit to china might haveo something to with it. there was a somewha different attitude after that meeting and i'm a little surprised. maybe nothi happened. i'm not blaming anybody but i'm just sayingap maybe nothingpened and maybe it did. there was

> reporter: trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani went a step further telling fox news -- >> peter struck was running the hillary investigation. that's a total fix. that's a closed book now. total fix. comey should go to jail for that, and struck. let's investigate the investigators. let's take a halt to the mueller investigation. >> reporter: the president today also talking about his newly minted relationship with north korean leader kim jong-un. >> he's the head of a country, and i mean, he is the strong head. don't let anyone think anything different. he speaks, and his people sit up at attention. i want my people to do the same. >> reporter: later telling reporters he was joking. >> what did you mean when you wished americans would sit up at attention -- >> i'm kidding. you don't understand sarcasm. >> reporter: he was also pressed on his previous statements about the north korean dictator loving his people. >> how can he love his people if he's killing them? >> we signed an incredible agreement. it's great. >> reporter: the president causing angst on capitol hill today after a white

it uncovered this anti trump text message between lisa paige and agent peter struck. trump is not ever going to become president, right? he said no, we'll stop it. he told investigators that was about election not any official action the investigation would take. and struck and paige were critical regardless of party affiliation but the report did not have confidence that the decision to prioritize work on russia investigation after following up on the lead on the weiner laptop was free from bias. the atlantic reports this response. there is simply no ekwif lance in -- equivalence and incredible suggesting suggesting that the presidential campaign of a major party candidate was actively colluding with a hostile foreign power in a way that could undermine the integrity. to require senior national security officials to profess femalety to this is dangerous. great to have you with us on this friday morning. given the revelations from this inspector general's report, are we going to see any kind of blowback for former fbi director james comey or even other officials? giuli

the third, i do not know if it is a violation, but peter struck her was an agent involved in the investigation. in emails and text messages to his then lover, he expressed his opinion that trump was terrible and he did not like hillary either. the conclusion of the report is that he and lisa page did nothing in terms of the investigation. they did not take action. trump. did not like he expressed that to his girlfriend, another fbi agent. the only thing he did wrong was using his fbi cell phone to do so. but the investigation was .ainted was completely wrong theynspector general said left their personal opinions behind when they went to the office. they did nothing wrong in the investigation. the investigation was not biased in any way. there are lots of fbi agents who do not like trump. there are agents that do not like hillary. the fbi is prohibited by law to ask people if they are republican or democrat. they are not allowed to ask those questions. was the investigation tainted in any way? the answer of the inspector general came up with was no. announcements help trump and hurt hillary. th

take a look the horrible statements that peter struck this chief investigator say and take a look watt what re different with hillary clinton, i. take a look -- >> collusion. >> i would -- you're asking me about peter strack being fired. i'm amazed that he is still at the fbi. and so is everybody else that read that report. and i'm not even talking about in the report. i'm talking about long before the report. he should have been fired a long time ago. and others should have been fired. [shouting] >> i'm looking at scott and scott has done a fantastic job at epa but we'll make -- i'm not happy about certain thinks. i'll be honest. excuse me. excuse me. i'm not happy but certain things buts he has done a fantastic job running running running the epa but i'm not happy. >> mr. president -- [shouting] >> children being tea away -- i. >> i hate the children being taken away. their democrats have to change their law enforcement that's their law. they were force -- >> that's -- >> quiet. quiet. that's the democrats' law. we can change its tonight. we can change it right now. if will leave her

at the same time, peter struck was picked to neutrally look into the russia investigation and he was talking about an insurance policy with andy mccabe and lisa page in the event donald trump became the president. all of this came at the same time that strzok said he could smell the trump support in southern virginia. all of this was at the same time that this fbi agent said it would be fing terrifying. and that it would never happen. no, no, we'll stop it. so while investigating russia ourtheir attempt to subvert democracy, we go to 2017 where we find peter strzok again, this same supposed to be dispassionate neutral fair fbi agent, you would think he'd be really excited about investigating what a foreign power tried to do to this country, but you would be wrong again for peter strzok and precisely the same time that bob mueller was appointed, precisely the same time peter strzok was talking about his unfinished business and how he needed to fix and finish it so donald trump did not become president. he was talking about impeachment within three days of special counsel mueller being

and i underscore the fact that the top agents that peter struck, lisa page and fbi lawyer number 2 were involved in this, had extreme an mouse toward president trump and all i think used that in the course of this investigation. >> but you don't know the last part. it's not in this report. >> they said they did not follow normal fbi protocol. >> it says in the report that looking at the decisions that were made in the investigation, he didn't see proof of bias. and look, the biggest fact for him, and reaching that conclusion is they didn't leak. they never -- >> no confidence that the decision was free of bias. if that's not saying bias impacted peter struck's behavior, the lead sergeant, the guy who launched the trump organization and said we'll stop trump and later says don't worry, we got an insurance policy, if that doesn't show bias impact into this, i don't know what does. >> but you're taking what the ig said with specific context to his priority of weaner versus the russia probe. and the inspector general makes a point of saying no, don't go that far. we don't see the proof, and

coverage that it deserves over the last year or so i wanted to ask your guests they are bringing this peter struck guy up to testify and do you think they will have him testify in the open and not playing close doors. >> host: we will leave it there. >> guest: just addressing this fbi and discussion and something that we are onso this and he has the highest approval rating that we had in something and he addresses the statements like to question the mueller investigation and whether or not he should be discredited that but we are helping his approval rating and let people see about the immigration debate and it's something that a lot of people are pushing very hard. on the other side you have the student acting out on her and this is helping republicans and his face are rallying around him the more this happens. to this question about the agent and whether or not it will be open, it's unclear if it is open he will not be able to say and if it's recorded and the cameras are willing they will want to have closed-door testimony so they can hear things that may not be that the public can't know. there

peter struck, a senior official in the e-mail investigation said no, no, he's not. we'll stop it. now, struck was one of the officials who the inspector general report says could have moved the fbi to more aggressively go after those anthony wiener e-mails. they were found in late september but the fbi sort of waited around a month before they got energetic about actually looking at them and getting the court permission to actually search the laptop for him. the ag says it can't explain why the fbi waited around that there were many official who shared the blame for not moving more quickly. as for stuk, it says given that exchange they can't rule out there may have been bias in his mind. but overall the conclusion is that the fbi showed no political bias. but the e-mail exchanges of those two it says casts a cloud over the fbi's handling of this investigation and its reputation overall. >> let me get this clear. the idea is that the investigation concludes or suggests that peter struck, this fbi agent was biased. it does not conclude that the investigation was biased? >> it doesn'

and peter struck a senior agent on the investigation 'sresponded no, no, not. we'll stop iru chose to put more priority at the time on russia's election meddling. the report says we do t have confidence strzok's. the current fbi director acknowledges mistakes were made. >> we're going to adhere to the appropriate disciplinary process and once that process is complete, we won't hesitate to hold f people accountor their actions. th> reporter: democrats praie report. >> anyone who is hoping to use this report to undermin the mueller probe or the existence of a deep stake conspiracy against president trump will be sorely disappointed. >> reporter:ne other reason why the fbi may have been slow to move on those e-mails found s on anthony weine laptop, he said he didn't know anthony weiner was married to huma abedin. disagrees but finds the overall conclusions reasonable, lester? >> pete williams, thanks. >>> we'll turn now to the nbc news report that's making a lot of headlines as thousands of people join a nationwide protest tonight against the trump adminiration's

the third, i do not know if it is a violation, but peter struck , a key fbi agent involved in investigations in emails and text messages to his then lover, another fbi agent he expressed , his opinion that trump was terrible and he did not like hillary either. he expressed that but trump was terrible. we have got to prevent this election. the conclusion of the report is that he and lisa page did nothing in terms of the investigation. they did not take action. yes, he did not like trump. that is his personal opinion. he expressed that to his girlfriend, another fbi agent. the only thing he did wrong was using his fbi cell phone to do so. but the allegation which the president is making an rudy giuliani is making is that the investigation was tainted was found to be completely wrong by the inspector general who said, in effect, those people let their personal opinions behind when they went to the office. they did nothing wrong in the investigation. the investigation was not biased in any way. i assumed personally there are lots of fbi agents who do not like trump. i assumed there are lot of fb