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. >> joining us now, senator ron johnson, republican from wisconsin who chairs the homeland security committee and serves on the foreign relations committee. james comey is a man who has prided himself on his reputation, his ethics, his good standing, but this report would seem the snippets we've heard, seems to paint him in a different light. >> jon, i've not seen the report. i'm looking anxiously forward to very viewing. it's about 500 pages. i'm sure it's in detail. michael horowitz did a great job with the report. pointing out how he lied to the fbi investigators three times under oath. i've been saying a long time the investigation under -- concerning hillary clinton's e-mail scandal was not robust investigation. it was never designed to uncover the truth and lead to prosecution. it was more designed to cover up the truth and exonerate. that's what james comey did. i'm not surprised about anything the inspector general reports on that i believe looking forward to seeing the report. >> so the firing of james comey, which caused such an outburst early in this administration, you w

joining me now is republican senator ron johnson of wisconsin, home of harley davidson's headquarterselcome senator. so you're a businessman, you were before you got to the senate, you know what it takes to make money, what do you make of harley davidson's move of some production overseas? >> well, they are being competitive and we are facing tariffs on products into europe from 6% to 31% when they are facing raw material steel price increases because of the generalized tariffs on steel and aluminum. they can't sell their products, they are going to lose the markets, they will lose the sales and they would either lose workers here in wisconsin because they don't have the sales or they have the opportunity to produce these things overseas where they can buy steel at market prices and that could charge tariff going to europe. they are put in a horrible situation and i heard members of this administration talk about short-term pain for long-term gain and no doubt some of that short-term pain would be temporary but some immediate and permanent and this is one of the decisions. i talked to

we will ask ron johnson next. >>> and shifting blame. president trump keeps hammering democrats for the immigration chaos. >> democrats put illegal immigrants before american citizens. >> democratic lawmakers say these kids are being kept in prisons. >> these children are traumat e traumatiz traumatized. >> barbara lee and bernie sanders respond in moments. sarah huckabee sanders forced to leave a restaurant because of her political views. with political allies warning a cruel policy could sink the party might republicans be missing out on more than meals come november? >>> i'm jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is confused and concerned as more than 2,000 migrant children separated from parents. the u.s. government is releasing guidelines on reunifying the families days after the president signed an executive order. the trump administration released a plan for fixing a plan it created saying they know the location of all the children and are working to reunite them with the parents but under the guidelines the childr

we'll ask the chairman of the senate homeland security committee, ron johnson, next. >>> and shifting blame. president trump keeps hammering democrats for the immigration chaos. >> democrats put illegal immigrants before american citizens. >> but democratic lawmakers say these kids are being kept in prisons. >> these children especially are traumatized. >> congresswoman barbara lee and senator bernie sanders respond in moments. plus, kicked out, sarah sanders forced to leave a restaurant because of her political views. with political allies warning a cruel policy could sink the party, might republicans be missing out on more than meals come november? >>> hello, i'm jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is still confused, and concerned as more than 2,000 undocumented migrant children remain in custody, separated from their parents. the u.s. government is finally releasing some guidelines on reunifying the families that it pulled apart at the border. days after the president signed an executive order ending the practice. late saturday, the trump administration released

ron johnson. thank you for coming on the show. >> how are you doing?avel ban, you had said that you saw this as a reasonable accommodation from the first version of it. are you okay with the court's finding today? >> i think the court's finding is correct. we have given the president a great deal of latitude in terms of running our refugee system and our immigration laws. from the standpoint of national security, this was a clear cut court decision. i was kind of surprised at the lower court's decision. it doesn't surprise me the supreme court ruled in the president's favor. >> they said they didn't like the policy. >> it was judicial activism. >> everybody says that when they don't like the decision. >> no. we're trying to confirm judges that apply the law and don't alter it. that's a famous quote by neil gorsuch. >> gorsuch who said he would be his own man and he has voted not only in consistency with scalia but with clarence thomas. he is farther to the right than he ever suggested he was possible of being. and that's okay, because elections have co

demanding answers about redacted text messages exchanged between anti-trump fbi officials and levers, ron johnsonaiming several messages between peter stzrok and lisa page were rejected for no reason. the employees were involved in the clinton email pro. in a letter to the fbi johnson gives examples of the reductions including this message from kim jong un, currently fighting with blank but a supervised review finds it currently said fighting for this fisa, this withholds cortical information like names and could be meant to protect the fbi and doj from embarrsment for their handling of the clinton email probe. we will talk about thisoming up. canadian prime minister justin trudeau following donald trump's lead on iran, he and his liberal party voted with conservatives against restorative dramatic relations with the middle eastern country. it was a staple of his campaign. last month donald trump pulled the us out of the controversially ran nuclear deal. 10 minutes after the top of the hour of fox news alert, hundreds of isis jihadists will be walking the streets, the legal loophole blamed for let

we just got a new lter from senator ron johnson showing how deliberately hid names from the people involved in the investigations so the congress couldn't investigate. lou: we are told the i.g. report comingut thursday is half live redacted. if it's redacted as heavily as is being suggested, we are spiraling towards a constitutional crisis. the only solution i see, kimberly, is for the president himself to step in and say this ends now. am theer all the documents. president of the united states an executive branch and its leaders to do so forth with. your thoughts. >> i absolutely agree. declassify. put out there the documents related to this informant. put out the fisa application that was put ford so americans can see for themselves how the fbi handled itself in 2016 with regard to both the clinton investigation and the trump investigation.'s evidently cleae hiding things and they will never willingly hand it over themselves. lou: kimberly strassel, thanks for being with us. we applaud your wor thank you so much. come back soon. kim strassel. be sure to vote in our poll tonight. do you be

congressman ron desantis, jim jordan, mark me dees, lee zeldin, lindsey graham, ron johnson, chuck grassleythese people are fighting the deep state and obstructionist democrats like pelosi, schumer and schiff stare into the cameras and turn truth on its head. they are demon rats. until the republicans learn to fight like they do and go with a narrative no one veers from. they and socialism will run amok in this country. we need people in washington who believe in truth and justice and are not offended by the term law and order. this is not a banana republic. this is the united states of america with a justice system that needs to be protected. it's time for those people who are not interested in supporting president trump to get out of his way. that means you, jeff sessions. it's time for to you put on your big boy pants and start acting like the a.g. if you can't get on board with this president, then get the hell out of his way. let me be clear to all you critics. i'm not looking for that job. i'm an ordinary american who was brought up to believe in truth and justice. like thousands and

thanks to work by senator ron johnson's office, we know that he wanted to quote bargain away everythingnd that it had a quote stockholm syndrome. and how they did ehey could to avoringing charges nst any of clinton's team. what is clear, is that nothing he said was a security threat that would require a reduction in order to protect the country. the doj was just trying to cover itself from keeping the public learning the truth about what was going on, is not a defense? jonathan turley is a professor at george washington university law school and he joins us tonight. it's a very simple question, is the department of justice allowed to redact information solely for thele purpose of protecting its own reputation? >> it is not even though it has a long history of doing so not just in congress but in the courts. what's really funny is that they will charge someone who gives them misleading information, but theyillgress redacted classified information that proves entirely unclassified. there is this sense of acting with utter impunity when you redact these types of documents. if you look at t

joining us now also is republican senator ron johnson from wisconsin. have you with us. do you want to make a comment on the decision here today, the resignation of justice anthony kennedy? >> i agree with leader mcconnell. i want to thank justice kennedy for his service and wish him and his family while in his retirement, and i also agree with mcconnell, we will expeditiously move through our nomination process and i look forward to nominating and confirming a judge to the supreme court. by judge, we need an individual that will actually apply the law, not alter it. definition classic of a judge, and president trump has been nominating those kinds of individuals. those are the judges we have been confirming in the senate. we will come right back to you. i want to go live to president trump, who is speaking at the oval office. president trump: he is a man who is displaying great vision, he has displayed tremendous vision and tremendous heart, and he will be missed, but he will be retiring, and we will begin our search for a new justice of the united sta

lawmaker demanding answers about text messages between anti-trump fbi officials who were also levers, ron johnsonseveral messages between peter stzrok and lisa page were rejected for no reason, they were involved in the clinton email probe. johnson gives examples of the rejection including this message from stzrok quote currently fighting with blank. the supervisor said currently fighting with do for this fisa. it withholding critical information like names to protect the fbi and doj from embarrassment for the handling of the clinton email probe. jillian: donald trump economic boomitting another milestone, enrollment and food stances dipped to its lowest l eight years. as of march, 40 million people were enrolled in snap, the least amount since february 2010, 2 million people discontinued food stamps during the pres.'sirst full year in office. rob: basis has threatened to use dronop bombs on at the world c a n there is a brand-new warning for anybody attending those games. >> we will be stopping the wargames which will save a tremendous amount of money. jillian: negotiating with north korea, dona

and ron johnson said at least 200 more judges are needed. if you are a republican running in a vulnerable spot around the country, what do you make of the president pivoting to immigration to stoke the base? when the economy is on fire and the peace and prosperity is your agenda considering the korean peninsula? do you like this if you are a republican up for re-election? >> you are terrified. the president ran on the economy and the border. the economy is doing pretty well right now. congressional republicans love that. now they have to go back to the districts and answer questions about kids who are behind chain-linked fences. the cruel reality here is that this president and also to a lesser extent, the democratic opposition, they believe the current crisis is good for the election chances. you have steve miller promising more crackdowns. he will not get the wall. in lieu of that, he wants harsh measures to show the gop base they are doing something. on the flip side, democrats don't have incentive to help solve this problem right now bec

earlier he communing the life sentence of ron johnson. the president might just be getting warmed up with these pardons. is that right, john? >> traditionally, dana -- the end of the year and hands out pardons. this president president likes to d them seems that way. he pardoned jacks johnson, the conservative film maker denish dsouza. just to make the differenceation here, commuting a johnson does not pardon someone. it lets them out of jail. you'll remember from the bush administration, president bush commuted the sentence of scooter libby but did notardon he him. on alice hnson, kim kardshian came to the white house on may 30th to meet with president trump on it. he -- she was talking about prison reform with ied kushner and requested that alice johnson'sennce be commuted urntly in alaba and t offender convicted of drug conspiracy and money laundering, part of a cocaine trafficking operation in tennes1996. in commuting her sentence, the white house says that johnson h accepted responsibility for her behavior and has been a model exampl

tune in to cnn this sunday for "state of the union" and jake tapper will be joined by senators ron johnson and bernie sanders. that is sunday morning. that is it for "the lead." i'm dana bash in for jake tapper. let saiz go to wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >>> happening now, changing the subject. president trump turns his attention to relatives of people killed by undocumented immigrants but silent on the face of hundreds of migrant children taken from parents at the border. is there a plan to reunite them. >>> keeping cameras out. federal law barring the news from taping or talking to the migrant children in the u.s. custody. but cnn got exclusive access inside one facility housing about 100 traumatized young people. >>> and not backing off. prosecutors try to prevent indicted former trump chairman paul manafort from arguing the politics played a role in the decision to charge him. will the judge deal manafort another set back? >>> and prior review. the national inquirer let president trump's long time attorney and fixer michael cohen review articles about mr. trump before they we

senator ron johnson of wisconsin chairs the homeland committee. thank you for coming on.dent can issue an executive order. the question is, can you make the agencies and bureaucrats carry it out? i think the question many of us have our, are the many bureaucrats working for this administration in sync with policy priorities and are they actually trying to curb illegal immigration in this country? do you think? >> if they are forced to follow laws in this country. we have laws that prohibit us from prosecuting the people coming to this country illegally, and keeping family units together. we don't have capacity in terms of beds, so we do have to follow the laws. it's the laws, the legal presence and loopholes i created that created this mess. that's what congress needs to fix. >> so it sounds like the laws are 100% weighted on the side of foreign citizens breaking the law against the interest of american citizens who run the government and pay for it and on whose behalf it exists, is that correct? >> pretty much, right. we have the feinstein amendment, the human traffickin

congress had asked for that and that was left out on what was provided -- >> the lisa page part from ron johnson is whether there was a glitch or whether deliberately excluded. we don't know and i don't think that the fbi and the department of justice have earned the benefit of the doubt given redactions of all of these documents. further to dan's point, the one thing the inspector general could not find in 568 pages is that pro trump than anybody else, fbi agents have right to opinion but this was on fbi devices, investigation of the two leading candidates. they have to look fair in addition to being fair and maybe one of the comparisons is not just was this decision reasonable in hillary investigation but compare the the hillary investigation, let's cooperate with the witnesses, let's let cheryl mills active counsel and sit in with the fbi investigated donald trump which was fisa warrants and we will plant informant there, trey gowdy suggests that's a big problem. paul: kim, let's take the response, peter strzok said there was no -- lawyer said there was no political bias so really no problem,

biggest name republicans in the senate are calling for, senator ted cruz is calling for it, senator ron johnson of wisconsin, just listen to this. >> you know, they want to hire now 5,000 more judges so that a person puts a toe in land, we have to go to trial. this is crazy what we're doing. i don't want judges, i want border patrol, i want ice. we don't want judges. >> what one possible -- increase the number of immigration laws by 225 judges. right now we have 350. 74 at the border. we need to increase that. >> i introduced legislation this week that mandates kids stay with their parents, that doubles the number of federal immigration judges. we need more resources to process cases to adjudicate them quickly. >> but, sonia, you oppose, for example, what senator cruz is proposing. you say more judges doesn't help the families. why? >> well, it would be good to have more judges. we have a huge backlog of cases before the immigration courts and it takes years for these cases to get through the courts and people are -- rankle at the idea that people can stay here for years while cases are proceed

reports one of the key sponsors of this bill himself said the .aw would weaken the fda says senator ron johnson, the author of the federal right to try law, wants to make clear that his new law is meant to weaken the fda. this thought in tents to diminish the fbi's power over people's lives, not increase it. gottlieblican wrote to to request a meeting about the implementation of the law. guest: we don't think this weakens the fda. does do iseasure gives people who are otherwise out of options the opportunity to pursue a treatment without first asking the federal government for permission. there is a difference between weakening the fda and the overall approval structure of a drug can develop it. this law has no impact on that at all. it does say if you want to pursue a treatment as a last resort, you should be free to do that with the approval and advice of your doctor, not the federal government. nne from daytona beach, florida. you are touched by terminal illness? hi there. is in amy relative nursing home. i became very concerned when i saw this go into law that it may various,or for hopefull

its exhaustive nature and not resolving the political debate on capitol hill and to that point ron johnson, the senate homeland security and government affairs chairman just told me nothing beside an outright confession, that this was a politically bias investigation could lead the inspector general to reach a conclusion like he did where he said there was no political bias in this investigation. he is disputing that key finding. so some members are raising questions about what the inspector general found himself. but we'll hear hearings, horowitz, the inspector general, expected on capitol hill next week for multiple rounds of hearings. so this debate only bound to intensify in the coming days, brooke. >> it is indeed. thank you on the capitol hill reaction. i've got some great voices now just standing by to walk through what we know so far from this huge i.g. report, all 500 pages. jeffrey toobin joins us, gloria borger, our chief political analyst. i want to go round robin. i want everyone's first big takeaway just from what we know so far, jeff toobin, just starting with you. >> plenty

. >>> later this morning, republican senator ron johnson and democratic senator bernie sanders join jakeapper on "state of the union" at 9:00 a.m. eastern. >>> the owner of a virginia restaurant says she has a policy of keeping politics off the menu so when president trump's press secretary showed up for dinner, she asked her to leave. then sarah huckabee sanders tweeted something afterwards that could be an even bigger problem. >> plus, demonstrators on the streets of pittsburgh for a fourth night after the police shooting death of antoine rose. their list of demands for the city. we will talk about that next. >> and a recap of the world cup. >> one of the best world cup games you have ever seen. how germany rallied to keep their tournament dreams alive. >>> what is the biggest difference between canada and united states of america? >> some of the places i go in the u.s. don't know a whole lot and i'm sorry. i really have to be cautious what i say. >> no. i can't act like that is not true. >> it's not, like, what is happening in the u.s.? >> let's talk about this. what do you mean about

ron johnson ground the senate to a halt when he wouldn't participate in the consent agreements on normalns on something called unanimous consent. so unless we receive some assurance from the democratic leadership that we will actually start addressing our budget out in the open, in the bright light of day, i will begin to object. >> he was saying he would object to everything. does that work? >> in that case that's really bygone days, ancient history. we saw a republican senator that cared about the deficit. seven years ago. i don't think we'll see that again for a long time. i think the main thing, ari, is the next four months we're going to see things we have never seen before. you and i, i think, will be aware of senate rules. i don't know about you, i'm sure i am not aware of tonight and will be a few months from now. anyone that says they can predict what this struggle will be like is kidding themselves. they can't. >> you speak to a type of interpretive humility. chris matthews, a lot of democrats were hearing what he was saying. i think it happened into how people in the country f

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here is what ron johnson told me on "state of the union" yesterday. >> can you tell our viewers this morning that the trump administration knows right now which kids belong with which parents? >> that is what they are claiming. again, they've reunited 21%. but again, jake, this is a mess. >> at the same time on nbc sunday show, james langford of oklahoma said this -- >> we know where every single child is. >> do you believe that the trump -- forget the trump administration, do you think that the u.s. government is capable of knowing right now where every single child is and what parent they match up with? i don't. just forget trump for a second. >> one of the truly irresponsible things for this and this is where you do tay a consequence in the real world and people suffer, and the department of homeland security is one department and the department of health and human services is anothe department and a handoff of the children -- to hhs and then the parents in dhs custody and they didn't know -- and how do the people coordinate. >> so add another -- >> and it is a disgrace. it is bor

tune in to cnn this sunday for "state of the union" and jake tapper will be joined by senators ron johnsonthe lead." i'm dana bash in for jake tapper. let saiz go to wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >>> happening now, changing the subject. president trump turns his attention to relatives of people killed by undocumented immigrants but silent on the face of hundreds of migrant children taken from parents at the border. is there a plan to reunite them. >>> keeping cameras out. federal law barring the news from taping or talking to the migrant children in the u.s. custody. but cnn got exclusive access inside one facility housing about 100 traumatized

this hour 20 minute hearing begins with subcommittee chair ron johnson. good rng. this hearing is called to order. i'm happy to welcome assistant secretary wes mitchell to discuss u.s. foreign policy in europe. the secretary i really appreciate you coming and looking forward to our back and forth. i would ask consensus of my opening remarks be entered into the record. i just want to make a couple quick points. i'm an accountant. i like data. there are two relatively big issues that have been brought to the floor in the last 18 months. one relates to nato's nato partners meeting their 2% commitment. the question i had, okay, 2% have a limited number of them actually meeting that. but what does that mean dollar wise. and we did ask the state department and in 2016 that shortfall was about 122 billion worth of defensive spending. now, in 2017 according to testimony, they've increased spending about 14.4 billion. decided to go up another 10 billion in 2018. so now the shortfall is about 98 billion. we're told that over the period from 2019 to 2024, another $35.5 billio

chairman of the committee ron johnson says the take away should be to give them just that and they hopet a part of the national defensive authority act which will be debated and hopefully voted on in the coming weeks. >> bill: more to come. griff jenkins in washington. >> sandra: police releasing the 911 audio from the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history. >> my friend has been shot. we need an ambulance. we have three gunshot wounds. >> you need an ambulance? [screaming] >> yes. >> sandra: beyond the panic and horror we will tell you what we are now learning about that tragic night. plus there is this. >> to repeat a tornado is on the ground. take cover now. >> bill: daylight, tornado, a powerful one ripping through the heartland path of destruction left behind. details on where this is happening straight ahead here. >> sandra: president trump slamming the media for criticizing his wife melania as the two make their first public appearance together in weeks. l life lesson. and don't worry i have everything handled. i already spoke to our allstate agent, and i know that we have accid

you have ron johnson, nebraska senator ben sass slamming the tariffs and the harley move. top senate finance chair who said this on capitol hill to msnbc moments ago. >> i don't think the tariffs are beneficial to anybody in any business in america. i'm very concerned about it. i'm a strong supporter of the president but i think he is wrong on that. >> reporter: there is a trade meeting among principles as the administration faces deadlines at the end of the week both for their own actions towards china as well as retaliation that looms from allies. >> thank you very much. >>> getting breaking news from the supreme court. the court has ruled five to four backing the president's travel ban. the case, of course, was president versus hawaii. we are just getting through the decision right now upholding the travel ban announced by the white house some time ago. eamon javers, good morning to you. >> reporter: this is a big win for the trump administration. the travel ban had been so contentious going back to rhetoric when he called for a ban on all muslims entering th united sta

. >> ron johnson went to fox news and indicated shouting it's further evidence of corruption, bias, corruption at the highest levels, secret society. we have an informant that was talking about a group holding secret meetings off-site. there's so much smoke and suspicion. mr. horowitz, did your report find any evidence of a secret society at the fbi. >> he with did to the find any -- >> did your report find there was evidence of a group of the fbi holding secret meetings off-site? >> i'm not sure. we looked for that but certainly part of the midyear investigation we didn't see any. >> in fact, page explained that the calendars referenced in this text message was funny and snarky calendars of russian vladimir putin in poses such as holding up a kit ten. pang told your us that secret society was a joke, correct? >> that's what they told us. >> strzok had sent page a text that said, quote, i want to lead the path you throughout for consideration in andy's office and there's no way he gets elected but i'm afraid we can't take that risk it's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die be

this hour 20 minute hearing begins with subcommittee chair ron johnson. good rng. this hearing is called to order. i'm happy to welcome assistant secretary wes mitchell to discuss u.s. foreign policy in europe. the secretary i really appreciate you c

reports one of the key sponsors of this bill himself said the .aw would weaken the fda says senator ron johnsonthe author of the federal right to try law, wants to make clear that his new law is meant to weaken the fda. this thought in tents to diminish the fbi's power over people's lives, not increase it. gottlieblican wrote to to request a meeting about the implementation of the law. guest: we don't think this weakens the fda. does do iseasure gives people who are otherwise out of options the opportunity to pursue a treatment without first asking the federal government for permission. there is a difference between weakening the fda and the overall approval structure of a drug can develop it. this law has no impact on that at all. it does say if you want to pursue a treatment as a last resort, you should be free to do that with the approval and advice of your doctor, not the federal government. nne from daytona beach, florida. you are touched by terminal illness? hi there. is in amy relative nursing home. i became very concerned when i saw this go into law that it may various,or for hopefully

. >> on january 24th, 2018, ron johnson went to fox news and indicated shouting further evidence of corruption. more bias corruption at the highest level. secret society. we have an in for manhattan that was talk o -- informant that was talking. there's so much smoke and suspension. did your report find any evidence of secret society. >> we did not find. >> did it find any there was a group of the fbi holding secret meetings off site? >> i'm not sure we looked for that. but certainly in the midterm investigation, we didn't find one. >> in fact, the counter reference was funny and snarky of russian president such as holding up a kitten. page instruct both told your investigator that secret society was used as a joke, is that correct? >> that's what they told us. >> on august 15th, a text that stated, "i want to pass you throughout consideration in andy's office and there's no way he gets elected, but i'm afraid we can't take that risk. it's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40 "requests. in your report, he explains a reference in his text to an insurance polic

ron johnson getting nervous. >> i like the pres.'s tweet about harley-davidson a lot.se shortly, very close on a lot of these deals, bilateral improvement in places like south korea and the eu. and a general reduction in tariffs, what is out there for the democrats and he wants a trade war, the very opposite. he is using the notion of tariffs and quotas is a cudgel in the negotiation strategy. the president said as he was leaving the g7 he would be in favor of a parity world and 0 tariffs and i would say to people be patient, be surprised about what he did in north korea -- north korea, the outcome on trade is surprising and it will cause a bobble head situation. >> communicating what you communicated. >> it will be hard in the beginning. >> he doesn't want to tip his hand, he is in the back door, negotiating, and gloating because he knows it is angela merkel or prime minister trudeau, your own constituents, your own politics they have to deal with in their own country. that is why he is being cautious. great to be here. imagine brian and i in the restaurant. and think

also, what really bothers me too is what ron johnson wrote.m finding out you are redacting things just for no reason or to make the story we are trying to put togeer, the puzzle we are trying to reconfigure impossible about peter strzok and other people. when they finally unredact it to a degree they say what are you doing? steve: they are taking out embarrassing stuff for the department of justice. brian: incredible. steve: we did hear from catherine herridge. ainsley: she said the deputy attorney general after being threatened with contempt as an american citizen with the offense of contempt of congress he would have the right to defend himself, including requesting production of relevant emails and text messages and calling them as witnesses to demonstrate that their allegations are false. steve: one of the people that told catherine in her report having the nation's number two law enforcement officer threaten to subpoena your calls and email was down right chilling. brian: meanwhile, always great to see jillian. great job this morning as y

senator ron johnson, chairman of this committee whose job is to look at this said why do you keep redactinghe was finally able to go in without notes and seat unredacted things. it's pretty explosive. for example he used the term bo. who is bo bruceor. what i bruceor doing? >> another one reads just cranking at them for bad choices about bo. that's bruc bruce ohr who playsa major role and wife is who is conflicted. i'm wondering how deep this goes and why people are preventing us from getting to the bottom of this investigation? ainsley: just watch fox the rest of the day because as soon as this report drops it's going to be all over the news. people are wondering also why james comey exonerated hillary clinton in may and then wrote the exoneration letter in may and then that press conference he comes out and looks like telling us everything that she did wrong from bleach bit, wiping, destroying classified information, violating the law and he says oh wait but she is not going to be indicted. keep in mind, none of this would have come to light if hillary clinton had won. brian: right. 8 min

. >> ron johnson went to fox news and indicated, shouting as further evidence of corruption, more bias, corruption at the highest levels, secret society, we have an informant talking about a group holding secret meetings off-site. there's so much smoke and so much suspicion. did your report find any evidence of a secret society? >> we did not. >> did you find evidence there was a group at the fbi holding secret meetings? >> we didn't see any. >> page explained that the calendar's reference in this text message was funny and snarky, calendars of russian president vladimir putin. they say it was used as a joke. is that correct? >> that's what they told us? >> struck sent page a text that stated, quote, i want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in andy's office, and there's no way he gets elected but i'm afraid we can't take that risk. it's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40. in your report, struck explains a reference in his text to an insurance policy, quote, reflected his conclusion the fbi should investigate the allegations thoroug

. >> ron, i want to ask you here, if i could, just about the magnitude of what she's having to undertake here. i spoke with jeh johnson last week on the show, the former secretary of homeland security. he said immigration was the hardest thing he had to deal with when he was the secretary of that department. my sense is that it's the most important thing to this president. he's foek kuszed on numbers, on crossings. it's the thing he's laser focused on. >> there's no doubt. he campaigned on this. it is an integral part of his presidency. and the blowup that i mentioned that he had with the secretary of homeland security related directly to that because the apprehension numbers at the border had gone down in his first year in office, gone down to historic lows. now they're starting to creep back up about where they have been in recent years. immigration is undoubtedly a critical part of president donald trump's administration. >> ron, quickly. caitlyn dickerson, your colleague wrote a piece there are folks in dhs that are uncomfortable. they've been placed in a tough position. how is that playing out within the departme