after his contract with the f.b.i. was terminated through bruce or an f.b.i. official who is married to a staffer at fusion g.p.s. it's very embarrassing for. people who are trying to prove trumped russia collusion much just to pick up on something he said there why does the f.b.i. actually need to hire a third party to investigate whether trump colluded with russia or not doesn't have its own specialist i would have thought it seems to me that there were partisan officials inside the f.b.i. who have gone on record saying that they feared trump selection and that they were trying to establish plausible deniability working through a third party that was also funded by the clinton campaign you know i'm not a trump supporter not on the record really liking donald trump very much but it seems slightly disturbing to me that the f.b.i. was investigating a political campaign and so far seems to have not turned up anything to enforce the collusion narrative and then we also have the fact that a confidential operative stephanie stephon helper was planted inside the tru

when the f.b.i. director james comey was fired by president trump, ohr wrote that steele was, "very concerned about comey's firing. afraid they will be exposed." today the justice department declined to comment. ohr has a chance to tell his side of the story on august 28 when a closed door interview is scheduled scheduled with thee oversight and judiciary committees. as part of the joint investigation in the f.b.i. and the d.o.j. conduct in the presidential election. lou? >> lou: thank you very much. catherine herridge. joining us tonight, chris farrell, director of investigations and research for judicial watch. it's great to have you with us. how deeply do you believe ohr to be connected to christopher steele, the former mi-6 spy? and to the entire effort to discredit, first the president's campaign, and then his administration? >> well, first, that is a devastating piece of journalism by catherine herridge. probably the best single recap i've heard. and it points out that ohr is the linchpin in al

as f.b.i. director james comey was always pretty well known but when donald trump five did last year it boosted his footprint to measure a plane this week he's my guest here in berlin where he's promoting a book even as he faces you challenging since it's supporting nation and violating procedures in the run up to the twenty sixteen presidential election so what's the truth. james comey welcome to cover so thank you for having me while you are touring europe selling your book as a storm of criticism in washington over actions that you and the f.b.i. took in the run up to the presidential election in twenty six the most from the inspector general at the justice department where you are likely very politely told to get lost you didn't miss anything in the public anything you white or the way. what you mean by that. flawed human i hope like we all recognize that we are and i think i meant what i said about the inspector general i respect their work i respect their criticism he's going to agree tha

when it comes to the f.b.i.eone who works with the people in the f.b.i., the american people need to trust the institution. they need to trust there is no politics involved and everything that is happening came out over the past two years stinks. i think that we -- you couldn't have said it better. we owe it to the american people to review the roles to get this all out in open and have a cleansing from the f.b.i. leadership because it is not appropriate what is going on for the two years. >> harris: now we see why. and you and i have talked about it off-camera, why hillary clinton would have fired him immediately and the president should have fired him immediately as well. they are there in terms of what he was collecting and who he would leak it to. it feels like we should talk about somebody other than the f.b.i. director formerly. >> josh: hardly elliott ne ises character. >> jessica: his twitter account is a reminder of the hubris of what is going on. >> harris: did you say hardly elliott ness? i'd say more

right i was f.b.i. director for four years and i would draft speeches for public distribution send them home to myself like work on them on a laptop and send them back to my government account when i was completed anybody who thinks of that is the same as the conduct we investigated in the clinton case was not paid attention but there is also an investigation into how you did handle classified right nancy i think take in memos that you sent outside the f.b.i. according to a washington post report shortly after he was fired in may last year the i review concluded that some of the information to have you on the most was classified and that the f.b.i. felt compelled to retrieve that information you gave it to the information was not confidential apparently the last category of classified but it was classified you prepared to be investigated oh sure you have fact i've cooperated with them and talk to them and i eagerly await their report i think you broke the rules no no no no no and i think for you wait fo

the f.b.i. covering the voice recorder planes. the employee stole the empty plane from sea-tac international airport friday night telling air traffic controllers he is just a broken guy. his family described him as a faithful husband, friend. >> we're devastated by these events. his intent was not to harm anyone. he was right in saying there are so many people who have loved him. >> bill: jeff paul live in washington what's the latest on the investigation there, jeff? >> federal investigators are hoping the recovery of the black boxes give them a better understanding into what led to plane to crash into an island in puget sound and what motivated the worker to steal the plane and fly off in the first place. this is the man, 29-year-old richard russell. he worked for horizon air for three years where he loaded and unloaded bags and guided planes. he used a tractor to help back out the plane, it seats 76 people. once in the air he spent more than an hour circling, looping and talking with air traf

as an f.b.i.ou have to know that you've got to keep your personal views separate from your official duties and i think in this case at least with those texts what we saw happening here is people blurring that line and allowing their personal views to get the better of them and manifest itself in the context of their official communications. >> bill: strzok's lawyer did an interview and he made a statement. strzok is one case, bruce ohr is another. he will testify behind closed doors in two weeks. now bruce ohr is working for the department of justice. his wife is working for fusion gps. where will he lead everybody on this investigation? >> i think that's another central character potentially here. and again it's another example of where you have people who under the circumstances knowing what they know, their relationships, connections, political views, they should have extricated themselves from the situation and said it is not an appropriate situation or circumstance for me to continue my role

now that the f.b.i. has fired agent peter strzok, his attorney slamming the agency in a statement saying, in part "it is a decision that produces only one winner. those who seek to harm our country and weaken our democracy, the f.b.i. and the american people deserve better." chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live outside of the trial of former trump campaign chair paul manafort in alexandria, virginia, and we are waiting the start of day 10 in that case. lots of news, break it down for us. >> that's right, melissa and thank you. so about an hour from now, the court will reconvene in the courthouse behind me in the eastern district of virginia, and we're expecting the government, the prosecutors to put on at least one more witness before they wrap their case. this is a senior banking official from the federal savings bank. he was part of the loan committee and he'll know the ins and outs of this $16 million loan that paul manafort secured in 2016. the big news, though, this morning ha

>> sean: interrupt on my own show. >> the head of the f.b.i. is not the head of the f.b.i.is under investigation by the inspector director. the deputy director fire and is under criminal investigation. mr. strozk the head counterintelligence investigator fire and he is under investigation. or will be. or should be under investigation as well. that is the top tier of the federal bureau of investigation. i have never heard of anything like this before. you have a mole in the deputy attorney general's office working with strozk fired. his wife works for fusion g.p.s . and pushing out the opposition research against the president of the united states. getting in front of the fisa court through the f.b.i. bruce ohr, bruce ohr who served for the deputy attorney general of the united states and there is tons more. you have fisa court judges that have never been held to account. >> sean: fraud. >> application that was file it with the fisa court. they didn't say who paid for the opposition research used to violate their rules. >> sean: i got to run. >> we need a special counsel now

the f.b.i. has released its seventy one pages of alleged correspondence between the bureau and christopher steele the former british spy who authored a dossier alleging collusion between donald trump and russia records show f.b.i. payments to steal as a confidential human source over an unknown period they also show that steele told the f.b.i. he had informed a third party he was acting as a source for the bureau however the document is mostly empty with important information removed so much so that it almost looks like a blank form it follows the f.b.i.'s release of documents on former trump advisor carter page with most of the text heavily redacted not documented as well. that's the good of a journalist max blumenthal thinks that despite the redactions the documents actually prove trump's narrative about f.b.i. clinton lucian during the two thousand and sixteen campaign these documents aren't heavily redacted they are completely whited out it's a literal whitewash i mean in this seventy one pa

the f.b.i.> david: jim jordan had this to say earlier. >> no, he's the key guy. the f.b.i. was, in fact, getting parts of the dossier from bruce ohr, top justice department official. bruce ohr's wife worked for the firm that the clintons hired. he gave it to bruce ohr. she gave it to the f.b.i. it's not supposed to work that way here in the united states of america. but it did. >> david: the questions about smoke and fire could bee put together. jason, let me go to you and get you to weigh in on this. i mean, is there nothing to see here? >> i think the issue that was mentioned with regard to him not reporting the fact that his wife worked at fusion gps, that's a relevant issue, but this is a senior justice department official who had nothing whatsoever to do with the russia investigation and was not involved in it. i don't know what the problem is with him having a conversation. he understands the investigation is going on. he passes information on relevant to that investigation. i don't know w

peter struck was one of the f.b.i.'s top investigators in charge of looking into whether hillary clinton broke the law by using private e-mails and also whether the trump campaign colluded with the russian government he was on special counsel robert mueller steamed in till last year when it emerged that he was having an affair with a fellow f.b.i. employee lisa page. they texted from their work phones and they were very critical of candidate trump in one she wrote trump won't be president right he responds no will stop him last month in a sometimes heated testimony before congress how many times did you don't look so innocent and do your wife's and a lot to her about this is fair miss the raging ability of his shame. struck tried to explain that in terms of the tax that. we will stop it you need to understand that that was written late at night off the cuff and it was in response to a series of events that included then canada trump insulting the immigrant family of a fallen war hero and my presumption based on that hor

the f.b.i. has released seventy one pages of alleged correspondence between the bureau and christopher steele the former british spy who authored a dossier alleging collusion between donald trump and russia the records show f.b.i. payments to steal as a confidential human source over an unknown period they also show that steele told the f.b.i. he had informed a third party he was acting as a source for the bureau however the document is mostly empty with important information removed so much so that it almost looks like a blank form it follows the f.b.i.'s release of documents on former top adviser carter page with most of the text heavily redacted in that document as well. investigative journalist max blumenthal thinks that despite of the redactions the documents prove trump's narrative about f.b.i. clinton during the two thousand and sixteen campaign these documents aren't heavily redacted they are completely whited out it's a literal whitewash i mean in this seventy one page file there's more

personnel in all 56 f.b.i. field offices.even as we speak, we have got open investigations with a foreign influence nexus spanning field offices, the f.b.i. field offices across the country. so make no mistake. the scope of this foreign influence threat is both broad and deep. the second pillar. i said there were three pillars. the second is focused on the information-sharing and intelligence-sharing. we are working closely with the partners in the intelligence community and in the federal government as well as with the state and local partners to establish a common operating picture. just last week as an example we disseminated a list to our state and local law enforcement partners of various foreign influence indicators for them to be on the lockout for. malicious cyber activity, social abnormality and foreign propaganda activities. to marshal additional eyes and ears in the fight. we are also working with the international partners to exchange intelligence and strategies for combating the threat. this is after all a shared

the f.b.i. which is for years in gauged infiltrating progressive organizations and peace organizations to disrupt them. who killed fred hampton a leader of the black panthers in cold blood and now somehow the f.b.i. supposed to the it's really incredible you know brian one of the things i think it's very interesting very tragic here is that somehow russia meddled in america's democracy i don't even really know what that means but you hear it all of the time but what really is happening i think my personal opinion is that because there isn't any questioning of the intelligence community in their behavior and i'm thinking of the f.b.i. during a two thousand and sixteen election they are damaging america's democracy because you cannot ask these questions about what they did i mean the f.b.i. the d.o.j. which was created by congress right they fund these agencies and what we see is the obstruction so i can't you know meddling ok i'm not i have no idea what that really means but we're getting more an

and the f.b.i. just tonight, sara carter uncovered one more handwritten memo from bruce ohr reporting a phone conversation he had with christopher steele. in the memo ohr writes that steele is very concerned about the comey hearing and afraid they will be exposed. this is on top of the text that sara revealed here last night saying steele was concerned about whether or not, plural, firewalls will stay intact. ahead of comey's upcoming hearing. you have christopher steele worried about being exposed and for good reason. he worked on hillary clinton op research team in 2016 and put together the clinton bought and paid for dirty russian dossier full of russian lies, salacious, unverified, uncooperated and everyone steele himself wouldn't stand by it. under oath in great britain. he said well, it may not be true at all. it's raw intelligence. it's christopher steele who used bruce ohr to spread propaganda throughout the highest level of the government and to you, the american people. thanks to the repor

i think the submission still such a draw for the f.b.i. 'tagents. it whave a huge reeffect o recruitment. i think that's more a factat he lure of a private-sector job when you have kids who are about to startxa college, forle, you need to be able to afford those expenses. so i would say those factors are play.ly much more at >> stewart: so that's where those agents are going? they're going to high-paying, private-sector jobs? >> that's right. you can see how the private sector is waki up to the need to hire these folks and a lot of them do come.rom the f.b.i >> stewart: eric geller from politico, thank you for sharing yo t reporting. ank you. >>ne stewart: as of 2018, states and the district of columbia have legalized mariana for recreational use while the changes have been cheered by pot advocates, the incrsed access to cannabis h led to concerns that more stoned drivers will take to the road. that presents a challenge not just for other motorists, but for la figuring out whether drivers are actually impaired by marijuana, or simply have remnantsdr

looks like a blank form follows the f.b.i.'s release of documents on former advisor carter page with most of that text heavily redacted as well. investigative journalist blum and max blumenthal thinks that despite the redemptions the documents prove trumps narrative about f.b.i. clinton collusion during the two thousand and sixteen campaign these documents aren't heavily redacted they are completely whited out it's a literal whitewash i mean in this seventy one page file there is more white than at a coldplay concert or the republican national convention it is all white it's a it's shocking really despite that complete redaction it it does confirm part of trump's narrative that the f.b.i. was colluding with the clinton campaign because we also know that christopher steele had been employed through fusion g.p.s. the opposition research firm in the contract was taken out by perkins koyo which was the law firm of hillary clinton's campaign. controversy has broken out over a new tech editor hired by the new york times as it turns o

the f.b.i. has released seventy one pages of alleged correspondence between the bureau and christopher steele the former british spy who or third a dossier alleging collusion between donald trump and russian the records show f.b.i. payments to steal a confidential human source over known period the also show that steele told the f.b.i. he had informed a third party he was acting as a source for the bureau however the document is mostly empty with important information removed so much so that it almost looks like a blank form and it follows the f.b.i.'s release of documents on former trump advisor carter page with most of the text heavily redacted in the two let's cross live now to investigative journalist mark blumenthal for his take on the show why is the f.b.i. releasing these documents so heavily redacted what's the point in that yeah i mean it's not these documents aren't heavily redacted they are completely whited out it's a literal whitewash i mean in this seventy one page file there's mor

countered the president telling reporters that the f.b.i. . sometimes any evidence that china clinton servers are compromised here to help us out the latest claim a foreign government hacking in the potomac he said she said they said that follows a conservative commentator fave models. and i dare you to say that again you can see and i mean is that i have that i got there i want to say not just today but it was because the daily caller you know kick start of this incredible story but they are just sources to to anonymous sources which any time i hear anonymous sources always makes my b.s. some time to raise you know why why should we believe the daily caller's claims why should we think that this is accurate information with good reporting well you know you could take it all the way back to when the former head of the f.b.i. james komi said that no prosecutor would ever bring charges against hillary and take the case also brought up the possibility that yes. there could have been bad actors that got involved and got ahold of some of hillary's

countered the president telling reporters that the f.b.i. hasn't found any evidence that china that clinton servers were compromised here to help assess out the latest claim a foreign government hacking in the potomac he said she said they said that follows conservative commentator dave miles. and i dare you to say that again because if i may is that i haven't got there are one says that not just today but it was because the daily caller you know kick start of this incredible story but they are just sources to to anonymous sources which i mean time i hear anonymous sources always makes might be some time to raise you know why why should we believe the daily caller's claims why should we think that this is accurate information with reporters well you know you could take it all the way back to when the former head of the f.b.i. james komi said that no prosecutor would ever bring charges against hillary and take the case also brought up the possibility that yes. there could have been bad actors that got involved and got ahold of some of hillary

peter struck was one of the f.b.i.'s top investigators in charge of looking into whether hillary clinton broke the law by using private e-mails and also whether the trump campaign colluded with the russian government he was on special counsel robert mueller steamed in till last year when it emerged that he was having an affair with a fellow f.b.i. employee lisa page. they texted from their work phones and they were very critical of candidate trump in one she wrote trump won't be president right he responds no will stop him last month in a sometimes heated testimony before congress how many times did you don't look so innocent and to your wife and a lot to her about this is fair miss the rage to belittle you in this same way you struck tried to explain that in terms of the tax that. we will stop it you need to understand that that was written late at night off the cuff and it was in response to a series of events that included then canada trump insulting the immigrant family of a fallen war hero and my presumption based

what they dug up on the disgraced f.b.i. agent peter disgraced f.b.i. one and hotels.com are giving venture cardholders 10 miles on every dollar they spend at thousands of hotels. brrrr! i have the chills. because of all those miles? and because ice... is cold. what's in your wallet? and because ice... is cold. with tough food, your dentures may slip and fall. new fixodent ultra-max hold gives you the strongest hold ever to lock your dentures. so now you can eat tough food without worry. fixodent and forget it. >> lou: judicial watch has again uncovered new e-mails. this time from disgraced f.b.i. agent peter strozk. strozk insists that he retain his f.b.i. security clearance before moving to special counsel robert mueller's team. strozk is assured he will remain free to act just as he did while a deputy assistant director of the counterintelligence division. the senate intel committee offering no new, well, results after a hearing on foreign influence operations and use of the social media. chairman richard burr and vice chairman mark warner issued thi

finally the list of bad players in the f.b.i. and d.o.j. gets longer and longer based on the fact that struck was in charge of the witch hunt will it be dropped it is a total hoax no collusion no obstruction i just fight back lawyer says he was improperly fired the f.b.i. isn't commenting president trump's attacks on the f.b.i. and its agents is unprecedented but he obviously feels he needs to discredit the investigation into his campaign and now he can point to the firing of one of its top agents as proof he is right. al-jazeera washington. time for a short break here on al-jazeera when we come back zimbabwe's president makes his first public address since winning a disputed election again blaming the opposition for inciting violence. and his board one of world targets biggest names unless the outcome of this trial for a friday and you say without still gonna stay with us. how the recurring nature of rain up in the northeast corner of the us in new jersey new york for example just keeps going is causing flash floods fairly readily and you

professionals at the cia and f.b.i. escape the polarization of politics. public and will therefore radically change the situation in the country. we're all from out larson former cia veteran who served as moscow section chief among other politicians welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us. now wolf the american intelligence community has been accused of being politicized many times in a bush sheriffs' the politicians use it to justify iraq now the agencies are again the world in a political scandal i know you pride yourself on your colleagues for being patry arctic nonpolitical but can you really be about politics in this line of work i mean that sounds kind of like fairy tale almost. i think it's a standard you have to strive for i've been a lifelong political independent for that reason that you outline that it's crucial for intelligence officers to be independent and objective and serve the country not just the president and the government but we are also all citizens now they. are taxpayer funded they have no private sector competitio

the professionals at the cia and f.b.i. escape the polarization of politics. public and will therefore a radically changed the situation in the country. we're all from out larson former cia veteran who served as moscow section chief along other politicians welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us. now wolf the american intelligence community has been accused of being politicized many times in a bush sheriffs to politicians use it to justify iraq now agencies are again the world in a political scandal i know you pride yourself on your colleagues for being patry arctic nonpolitical but can you really be about politics in this line of work i mean that sounds kind of like fairy tale almost i think it's a standard you have to strive for i've been a lifelong political independent for that reason that you outline that it's crucial for intelligence officers to be independent and objective and serve the country not just the president and the government but we are also all citizens. now they. are taxpayer funded they have no private sector competition a

( cheers and applause ) michael, a fired f.b.i. gets $500,000 from go fund me people, how do you explain that? >> trevor, this doesn't surprise me. there's big bucks in hating on donald trump! in 2016, mina na started knitting pussy hats. two weeks ago she bought a ferrari, okay? trevor, what's the fastest growing sector of the economy -- >> trevor: i think -- >> that's right, trump hating late night talk shows. do you know how many there are right now? 17,000. even animal planet has a political late night show called "rough night with coco, she goes there!" >> trevor: she's going to be tough to beat at the emmys, man. likely tough. >> yeah, and you have guys like peter strzok who aren't even making jokes, they just say i hate trump and the resistance opened up its wallet faster than johnny depp at a scarf deep o. it's not just peter strzok raking in the resistance cash, before him andrew cabe was fired as f.b.i. deputy director and his to fund me pulled in half a million. people are desperate for something that can hurt trump even

this time from disgraced f.b.i. agent peter strozk. strozk insists that he retain his f.b.i.rance before moving to special counsel robert mueller's team. strozk is assured he will remain free to act just as he did while a deputy assistant director of the counterintelligence division. the senate intel committee offering no new, well, results after a hearing on foreign influence operations and use of the social media. chairman richard burr and vice chairman mark warner issued this statement saying --" "today we learned that foreign campaigns to sow discord and disinformation through social media began well before the 2016 elections. and continue to this day." "new york times" publisher arthur a.g. salsberger complaining to president trump about the potential for violence against journalists. i appears his pape -- it appears his paper and the rest of the national left wing media are not interested in actual violence like you are seeing here against supporters of president trump. the hypothetical and the real. not under suggestion by salsberger. last week a u.s. marine was assaul

fortunately f.b.i. declined about seventy percent of the cases of sexual assault involving a native victim that they received so you know that creates an environment where people know that that kind of violence is normal and ok and that there aren't any consequences because of these jurisdictional. gaps where people are able to you know exploit. you know i do want to add in discussing the issue of jurisdiction and it's not just cases even a case that happens you know off the reservation this jurisdiction question is still an issue so nice i'm going to be very confined to the national audience watching it because even in the u.s. people don't understand this jurisdiction the f.b.i. is on a reservation can they go into reservation and investigate a motive or a missing person and they just kind of do that kind of go a lap they have the responsibility to do that in your head and the big question that i think we would all ask is why why isn't that happening why is that not happening we don't know i think tha