the 2016 election, van grack spent nearly three years investigating and prosecuting trump allies michael flynn and paul manafort. interestingly he resigned from the flynn case after a william barr appointee took over in the u.s. attorney's office in dc and moved to withdraw the government's case against flynn. even though flynn by then had already pled guilty twice. he resigned from the flynn investigate and continued the justice department unit that prosecutors unregistered foreign agents. in that role the first official to oversee all foreign influence operations across the u.s. justice department. brandon van grack has since left the justice department but boy there is nobody i would rather talk to tonight about what is going on in our country with these remarkable and unprecedented charges and investigations involving the former president. brandon van grack joins us live here in the studio next. when hurting feet make you want to stop, it's dr. scholl's time. our custom fit orthotics use foot mapping technology to give you personalized support, for all-day pain relief. find your relief in

2016 election, van grack spent nearly three years investigating and prosecuting trump allies, michael flynnafort. interestingly, mr. van grack ultimately resigned from the flynn case, after a william barr appointee took over the u. s. attorney's office in d. c., and moved to withdraw the government's case against flynn. even though, flynn by then had already pled guilty twice. he resigned from the flynn investigation but the state of the justice department. it continued to leave the justice department fairer unit, the office that prosecute on which is third foreign agents. and that role, he became the first official to oversee all foreign influence operations across the u.s. justice department. brandon van grack has since left the justice department, but boy, there is nobody who i would rather talk to tonight about what's going on in our country with these remarkable and unprecedented charges and investigations involving the former president. brandon van grack joins us here live in studio, next. new astepro allergy. now available without a prescription. astepro is the first and only 24-hour

appointed him to investigate around the 2016 investigation, he spent three years investigating michael flynn and paul man afor the. interestingly mr. van grack ultimately resigned from the flynn case after a william barr appointee took over in the u.s. attorneys office in d.c. and moved to withdraw the government's case against flynn even though flynn by then had already plead guilty to twice. resund from the flynn investigation. but he stayed at the justice department. he continued to lead the office that prosecutes unregistered foreign agents. and that role he became the first official to oversee all foreign influence operations across the u.s. justice department. brandon van grack left the justice department but boy there nobody who i'd rather talk to tonight about what's going on in our country with these remarkable and unprecedented charges and investigations involving our former president. brandon van grack joins us here live in studio next. grack joins live istn udio next. my grandma never mentioned this, but her first job was working at a five and dime, when she was only 16 years old

sent some agents an end see what you can get out of michael flynn before they can figure out how all works. because all the way back to the story. they better have it, they better have it nailed down an airtight or it's going to blow up in their faces. >> you do point out there is a pattern to this, so normally you should be able to trust the fbi, but not in the last ten years. it's kind of over a period but then you look at the fact that trump is an energy monster. they are just feeding him. this is going to make him run. do you think they've caused the opposite direction? >> i've never seen a base more energized and more angry. i'm angry get i feel violated, the whole country feels violated. they've declared war on us and now it's game on. imagine you are eric trump and you are at mar-a-lago, that's your home. your mother just died a few weeks ago. it's unbelievable. the presidential records act, greg? that's like a librarian sending the armed agents into your house. the presidential records act? first of all we can't even trust this warrant wasn't corrupt. they cooked up a fake wa

but for that, the fbi ruined michael flynn. he had to sell his home and where is bill priestap?ing a government pension. no raid, no jail. the same is true for kevin kleinsmith. remember him? he's the fbi lawyer who falsified a fisa warrant application to secure the wiretap on flynn. he admitted it. he didn't spend any days in jail, not one day in jail. he wasn't even disbarred from being an attorney. as for jim comey, the fbi director at the time, well, he bragged about the fbi. >> you look at this white house now and it's hard to imagine two fbi agents standing up in the state room. how does that happen? >> i sent them. [laughter] something i probably wouldn't have done or gotten away with in a more organized investigation, more organized administration. i thought as early enough, let's just send a couple guys over. [laughter] and so we placed a call to flynn and said we are sending a couple guys over, hope you will talk to them. he said sure. nobody else was there, they interviewed them in a conference room in the white house situation room and that is what he has now pled gu

, president trump instructed his chief of staff, mark meadows, to contact both roger stone and michael flynn regarding what would play out the next day. this hutchison, is it your understanding that president trump asked mark middle speak with roger stone and general flynn january 5? ms. hutchinson: that is my understanding. i am under the impression that mr. meadows completed both called to them on the evening of the fifth. rep. cheney: do you know what they talked about that evening? ms. hutchinson: not sure. rep. cheney: -- war room at the willard hotel? ms. hutchinson: i was aware of that. rep. cheney: do you know mr. meadows ever intended to go to the hotel on that night? ms. hutchinson: he had a conversation with me where he wanted to work with the secret service -- with mr. giuliani in the associates in the war room. rep. cheney: what was your view on that on whether mr. meadows should go or not? ms. hutchinson: i made it clear to him that i don't think it was a smart idea for him to go to the hotel. i was unsure on everything that was going on their although i knew enough that -- on

so, they came up with really absurdest arguments that -- it reminds me of their position with michael flynn. they just said things that just don't apply to anyone else. you made reference to some of it. there are other things in the memo where they say, you know, if you haven't committed an underlying crime, then you cannot be guilty of obstructing an investigation. but that is insane. and the prosecutor knows that that is not true. you might lie to prosecutors because you just don't want an affair to become public. you have all sorts of reasons that you might obstruct an investigation and it doesn't mean that you committed some underlying crime. they get the law will wrong, on that point. so, it's really whitewashed. and there is a reason that the district judge in the court of appeals ruled against the department. and a district judge was quite vehement, saying that the department, which is under bill barr, was disingenuous, a fancy word for, they lied to her about what was in this memo. >> is it your impression that the authors of this memo hoped and believed that it could never become p

he also was the guy who signed michael flynn's plea agreement.a supervisor in the office that's currently leading the investigation which is the counter-intelligence and export control section of doj's national security brandon. it's great to have you on the program. >> it's nice to be here. chris >> today, was a bit of a surprise i think. i thought most people i had spoken to thought this was a slam. duck the affidavit would see sealed. were you surprised? >> if this was a ordinary criminal case it would be surprising. in most cases, this is just the investigation stage. the government arguing that the unsealing of an affidavit would cause harm to the investigation is almost a given. here, you have an investigation where run of the most important investigations for the justice department. it raises national security issues. political issues. and, so it's not surprising that you have a judge that is going to push the department as far and as hard as they can to disclose as much as information as possible. >> did you feel like you've learned anyth

asked by george stephanopoulos in may of 2020 if he knew anything by the doj was investigating michael flynnmer national security advisor. biden said, i have no knowledge. yet handwritten notes by the fbi of a meeting biden was in the shows that he brought up the logan act as a way to prosecute michael flynn. so we don't know if joe biden is telling the truth or if this white house is. this is how was going to end, there's only two possibilities here. one is they got the goods, they found a smoking gun and they're going to indict the president. or merrick garland, the attorney general and christopher wray are going to have to resign in disgrace or get impeached after republicans take the congress. there is no in between. it's going to be one of those two options. and i think if they have the goods come if they found a smoking gun, we would know about it by now. so let the doj finish, i suppose be it one day they will have to tell people what they did. but if they don't have it, these guys have got to go. if they got it and an indictment comes, then we will all know what they got. >> sean: yo

but it's used as a pretext to go in and look at michael flynn. are never before used statutes, or rarely used statutes being used in this manner? it raises questions as the fbi doesn't go out after larry nassar the way they should've initially. especially as one-third of portland writer cases are dropped. you know especially when you look at the abortion facilities that you seem like you to drink the doj to look into some of these inquiries. why weren't there raids in these contacts but as a rate here? >> when you talk about not just grades but also the hunger for the truth, the assassination attempt on a sitting u.s. supreme court justice brett kavanaugh. there were think questions for things -- of course we could put hunter biden on that list but there is a current investigation. you know, bill, as we look at this -- this was a man they try to impeach and successfully did so. what more can we learn about donald trump at this point? at this point we can almost see his thoughts. >> they just keep on coming i was going to say. look, i don't know w

legalnc and expected when you're the national security adviser w but for that, the fbi ruined michael flynn f. he had to sell his home. and where's bill pre stop collecting a government pensiono . no record , no jail. the same is true, by the way, for kevin kleinsmith. you remember him? he's the fbi.. lawyer who falsified a fisa warrant application to secure the wiretap on flynn. he admitted it. it it's 90 days in jail, nots one day in jail. he wasn't even disbarred fromro being an attorney. and asmor forne jim comey, the i director at the time, well, he bragged about the fbi. k at you look at this white house now and it's hard to imagine two fbi agents ending up inin the same room. how did that happen?st i sent them something we probably wouldn't have done or maybe gotten away with in a more organized investigation, more organized i administration. i thought it'sdm early enough.ug let's just send a couple of guys over. and so we placed a call to t flynn said, hey, we're sending a couple of guys over. i hope you'll talk to them. he said, sure, nobody else was there. they interviewed him in

on the evening of december 18th, 2020, sydney powell, general michael flynn and others entered the white house for an unplanned meeting with the president. the meeting, that would last multiple hours and become hot blooded and contentious. the executive order behind me, on the screen, was drafted on december the 16th, just two days after the electoral college vote, by several of the presidents outside advisers over a luncheon at the trump international hotel. as you can see here, this proposed order directs the secretary of defense to seize voting machines, quote, effective immediately. but it goes even further than that. under the order, president trump would appoint a special counsel with the power to seize machines and then charged people with crimes, with all resources necessary to carry out her duties. the specific plan was to named sydney powell as best counsel. the trump lawyer who had spent the postelection period making outlandish claims about venezuelan and chinese interference in the election, among others. here is what white house counsel, pat cipollone, had to say about sydn

and if he was go for bill barr and he was asked about michael flynn case, he said with a sort of a slight chuckle, history is written by the winners. by this point he knows is not a winner not quite be writing a history and i believe he is trying to salvage any bit of reputation and avoided being sort of group ten with rudy giuliani in the city towels and others. the true rudi's. the problem with bill barr's little image rehab a tour in this article in the atlantic is a talk about that and bill barr tells us the story of standing up and i don't know what happened behind closed doors and the problem is the bill barr completely in the article completely omits and we can forget is that for months leading up to the election, bill barr was one of the biggest cheerleaders for the election fraud conspiracy theory and he was one of the biggest spreaders perpetrators amplifiers of the big lie. and he did it as attorney general i give you and i like this out, he didn't interview with npr when he talked about the massive threat of fraud by the and by the way i talked before about responsiveness. sho

i talked about this all the time from the podium about michael flynn, that this was a never before used, never used to successfully prosecute anyone but used as a pretext by the fbi to come in and entrap michael flynn right there in the west wing, right near where my office was several years later. this is very scary. there's a trend, never before used statutes used in a fashion to go after who? political enemies. donald trump's national security advisor, donald trump's campaign manager. and then the president, former president of the united states himself. wow. they say banana republic, i think it's an understatement, because it really feels like we are there and beyond. >> sean: it seems like that to me. governor, want to get your take on this through the prism of this. in 2016 we had hillary's dirty dossier. we know it was all full of lies, it's been totally debunked. it led to four fisa warrants that ruined carter page his life and was a backdoor to spy on the trump campaign and the trump presidency. the media ran with it, they ate it up, they spit it out, they lied repeatedly, that

pipe bomber at the dnc and rnc and won't prosecute them but they can prosecute james o'keefe, michael flynnavarro but peter, across the street from the fbi, they didn't arrest him. they waited until he left his house and went to the airport and they could do it publicly. don't tell me they are not political. >> trying to fly away and escape. >> oh no, the fbi is fair in the way they dispense justice, none of us believe that. it's the fbi problem and not our problem. >> they want to dig into what happened they want more information to understand better because they are suspects of what has happened. we will leave it there and coming up next, not guilty to attempted murder to the attack on the author, what is president biden doing, still trying to do to negotiate with terrorists with the iran deal? ♪♪ welcome back to the big saturday show and fox news alert, author pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder and assault. he may remember 30 years ago iran put a call in for rusty's death and current regime refused to address this. critics are taking aim at president biden for ignoring his

it strikes me as a pretext, kind of like the agents with michael flynn, talking about possible violations are absolutely capable of lying and putting forth pretext reasons when they have something deeper here. and the reason that everyone is using this term unprecedented is because it is unprecedented for one political party to go after the other, like they have done for six years and president obama refused to turn over presidential records as well, nobody rated his house, nobody rated hillary's house when they found out that she had this. so this is not being treated the same way at all, it depends on what political party you are in and whether or not you are talking about it. >> they have talked about partisanship, bias, we will see if we get a special counsel. especially as we learn more and more. i think you all very much. >> thank you, shannon. >> it is a trend unlike any other. it is called a scandal. we have the videos coming up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ that little leaf brought this old photo to life, i can finally put some names to those faces... it's like i'm back there at 39 elmhurst with a

with the national guard taking hours to go three blocks, michael flynn's brother being in general as part of the decision-making self to the point where the army lied about it and the next couple of days later, he actually was part of the group who said don't send the national guard in. i am sorry to say it, the camouflage of middle-class white americans who were there for a rally and a protest on -- a rally and a protest was the camouflage that allowed them to overcome law enforcement. we see that when people are being shot to death for stupid things that i would get shot for just picking up my espresso. >> to the white camouflage comment, i think it is insightful. when i look back on what i have seen, it was the tea party, tax raises are a villain. and then it was money is a speech. and now the recent supreme court ruling is that guns are technically speech. i heard you comment on the bullet prices rising and i have heard a lot of debate on, do i need a gun? i love what you said about it is a child killer. you don't need a gun, don't buy again. what is there to the strategy of just

that trump didn't break the law when he fired james comey or when he asked comey to go easy on michael flynn. >>> and carolyn maloney lost her primary on tuesday and her -- now her democratic peers are scrambling to take her her house committee. but she won't be giving up her gavel until next year. maloney was forced to face off against jerry nadler due to the new new york redistricting laws and suffered the stinging defeat. >>> in columbus, ohio the teachers union and board of education say that they reached a conceptual agreement to get students back in the classroom starting on monday. thousands of teachers and other school workers went on strike over the weekend demanding better classroom conditions, school year started as scheduled on wednesday but kids had to do online classes with substitute teachers. they will stay virtual the next two days while the regular teachers get ready for their return next week. >>> u.s. president biden is facing bipartisan criticism over his plan to write-off millions in federal student loans. the administration wants to erase $10,000 in debt for individual

president trump and his advisors said, lock her up for michael flynn. should the department of justice have been pursued? announcing the cases are equivalent. i'm saying, i do not like blind justice being altered by a political leader. let me give you one final tactical view on this, don. that is if the department of justice, mayor garland, the attorney general, pursues this now, what's donald trump going to say? this is a political game, pursued by my opponents, the deep state, including adam kinsinger and liz cheney, to go after me. >> was going to say that, regardless he's going to set nicholas, phil. >> i take your point. >> he's going to say that, regardless of the indictment. >> don't give him ammo, though. makes it look like politicians are telling them what to do. >> look, if you don't indict him -- i'm not saying you should or shouldn't, what i'm saying is that donald trump will take whatever happens, and he will twist it in his favor. mi wrong with that? >> don't give him ammo. >> ron -- >> real quick? we're really talking about a two-front st

president trump and his advisers including michael flynn said lock her up, should the department of justice pursue that? i'm not saying the cases are equivalent, i'm saying i do not like the blind justice being altered by a political leader. let me tell you one final tactical view on this, don, and that is that if the department of justice, merrick garland, the attorney general pursues this now, what's donald trump going to say? this is a political game pursued by opponents in deep states, including kinzinger and liz cheney to go after me -- >> he's gonna say that regardless? he's gonna say that regardless though, phil. >> yes, but don't give him ammo. don't give him ammo. it makes it look like politics -- >> if you don't indict him that is and moves well. if you don't indict him -- i'm not saying you should or shouldn't, when i'm saying is that donald trump will take whatever happens, and people twisted in his favor. am i wrong with that? >> don't give him ammo. >> ron, i will give you the final word. >> real quick, if we're really talking about a two front struggle to preserve american de

we saw when liz cheney highlighted michael flynn taking the fifth during their congressional january investigation when he was asked questions like, do you believe in the peaceful transfer of power? so you have a situation here where a former president of the united states does not believe that he can testify and not expose himself to legal jeopardy. his argument is that the prosecutor is biased and out to get him and those are certainly, you know, things that will resonate with a lot of his base and people. he spent a lot of years discrediting anybody who investigated him. but anybody who is investigated said i'm under a witch-hunt. we take that with a grain of salt, obviously. but it has an extraordinary moment. we have a first-time ever certain of a former president's residence and a first-time ever invocation of the fifth amendment by a president. we don't know where it takes us. >> obviously, paul, peter is right, you don't see a lot of defendants or potential defendants going, yeah, come on, they're investigating me, no problem. having said that, it is something different, is i

pressured then fbi director james comey to drop an investigation into former national security adviser michael flynn. that is according to comey himself who claimed had trump put the squeeze on him personally. >> i got the sense my job would be contingent upon how he felt i conducted myself and whether i demonstrated loyalty. >> reporter: trump denied asking for comey's loyalty, but ended up firing comey later saying that he was frustrated over the ongoing russia probe. >> he wanted that investigation shut down, he saw it as a political problem and this was what comey was up to. >> the morale in the fbi definitely took a hit after the firing of jim comey. i think that was the watershed moment that made everybody kind of focus on this issue of the possibility that the administration is really trying to have a direct impact on how we did our work. >> reporter: throughout the russia investigation and afterward, trump continued to berate the fbi for how the investigation played out. >> these were dirty filthy cops at the top of the fbi. >> reporter: trump complain texts between two fbi employees were bi

people around trump, over the years, who have faced real legal consequences for wrongdoing, from michael flynno allen weisselberg. it's fascinating that this never seems to deter people from being in trump's orbit and it's not deterring the the republican party from hitching their wagon who the people around him are going to jail. >> it's a shocking array of people you have showed who are facing legal consequences for various issues, not just one investigation there. you are seeing in one way that people are less willing to hitch their wagon to trump right now, and that is lawyers. they have been trying to find, and this is who was representing donald trump, how many lawyers he has, the fact he doesn't like to listen to his lawyers, the fact that it takes a huge effort to get him to do so by his lawyers always, this is an ongoing story we've been watching, not just since he became president, but well before, going back to when he was advised by roy cohn many decades ago. you are seeing many fewer lawyers who are willing to go out and speak for him and/or hitch their wagon to him and maybe not

were there for the unhinged oval meeting about overturning the election that included people like michael flynncies. just last month, both like pence's of staff in his head legal counsel testified before that same grand jury. this all gives a real sense things are heating up in the criminal investigation of january 6th. i'm not a lawyer but i can't imagine it's not it's good when the ex president has all his lawyers being subpoenaed to testify by before a grand jury by the department of justice. what a lineup? next i ask two federal prosecutors what they think. it senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. our smart sleepers get 28 minutes more restful sleep per night. all smart beds are on sale. save 50% on the sleep number 360 limited edition smart bed. ends monday do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy - even a term policy - for an immediate cash payment. we thought we had planned carefully for our retirement. but we quickly realized we needed a way to supplement our income. if you have $100,000 or more of life

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with michael flynn. donald trump did that while he was president of the united states, because he knew he had an attorney general who would protect him against charges of obstruction of justice. tonight, donald trump is under investigation by attorney general, merrick garland, specifically for obstruction of justice, among other things. that is how donald trump's life has changed. that is how it has become pure misery. and tonight, donald trump living in fear of a real attorney general for the first time in his life, does not dare, does not dare to play the public game of witness intimidation and obstruction of justice that he played and was allowed to play when he was president of the united states. donald trump knows what it feels like to have the full protection of the presidency. donald trump knows what it feels like to have the full protection of an attorney general, william barr, who believed the old nixon lie that if the president does it it's not a crime. when you have had that kind of protection

then fbi director, james comey, to drop an investigation into former national security adviser, michael flynncording to comey himself, who claimed that trump put the squeeze on him personally. >> i got the sense my job would be contingent upon how he felt i conducted myself and whether i demonstrated loyalty. >> trump denied asking for coney's loyalty, but ended up firing him, later saying that he was frustrated over the ongoing russia probe. >> he wanted that investigations shut down, he saw it as a political problem, and this was what comey was up to. >> the morale in the fbi definitely took a hit after the firing of jim comey, i think that was the watershed moment that made everyone kind of focus on this issue of the possibility that the administration was really trying to having a direct impact on how we did our work. >> throughout the rush investigation, and afterward, trump continued to berate the fbi, for how that investigation played out. >> these were dirty, filthy comps at the top of the fbi. >> trump complained that text between two fbi employees investigating the russian were bias

calling out trump white house abuses in the general michael flynn case and more.u come down on this? >> what amazes me someone who exhibited his political biases so openly continued to be the assistant special agent in charge of the washington field office. yeah he is gone now but what in the world does it say about the lack of supervision by fbi leadership that he was allowed to continue in this position for so long when he was in an office that made decisions about investigations, who was targeted potential leaders in the government in this country? the fact that he continued in that position so long, particularly with all of the complaints coming in from whistle-blowers about the double standards that he applied, not just in the hunter biden case, but apparently other cases that raises serious questions hough the fbi is operating. elizabeth: listen to senator klobuchar on the bill maher show say this is wrong. christopher wray admitted in testimony it is wrong. watch this. >> is it okay do have a conspiracy to get rid of trump? look, let's not pussyfoot around

remember when after comey said that, he said he would send over fbi agents to interview general michael flynniranda rights. a counterintelligence wrote notes, what is our goal, truth, admission or get flynn to lie or get him fired? final word. >> that is exactly right. the fbi and doj are basically saying they want to take advantage of the weekend administration shows they are more interested in playing politics and getting the truth the as americans, we should all be concerned. >> ford o'connell, it's good to see you. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, place. >> i am elizabeth macdonald. you've been watching "the evening edit" on foxbusiness. thank you for watching. join us again tomorrow night. ♪ ♪ >> hello. welcome to the best hour of your day and a phenomenal week. one week since the fbi raided president trump's home at mar-a-lago and every day since the saga gets the former presids the feds stole his passports. how did he have more than one and how would they do that? thirty-eight stormed the palm beach golf club last month and removed about one dozen boxes of documents. they rifled

were there for the unhinged oval meeting about overturning the election that included people like michael flynndney powell any overstock guy pushing crazy election conspiracies. just last month, both like pence's of staff in his head legal counsel testified before that same grand jury. this all gives a real sense things are heating up in the criminal investigation of january 6th. i'm not a lawyer but i can't imagine it's not it's good when the ex president has all his lawyers being subpoenaed to testify by before a grand jury by the department of justice. what a lineup? next i last to federal prosecutors what they think. ors what they think. our smart sleepers get 28 minutes more restful sleep per night. all smart beds are on sale. save 50% on the sleep number 360 limited edition smart bed. ends monday. the unknown is not empty. it's a storm that crashes, and consumes, replacing thought with worry. but one thing can calm uncertainty. an answer. uncovered through exploration, teamwork, and innovation. an answer that leads to even more answers. mayo clinic. you know where to go. a monster was att

doesn't -- it doesn't describe all the cases, and by the way, even if it did, what about, say, michael flynn? the memo really is precooked as two different courts, and it seemed sort of commissioned to serve up the result. two points i just want to make about it. first, the first principle in the memo is we need to bottom line. mueller didn't. okay. well, if that's going to happen, why don't you order the special counsel to bottom line? he's the neutral, nonpolitical figure. instead, he served it up to political folks. second, there are just several stress points. it's like you know you take a slinky and stretch it so much that it loses all its actual form. there are points here. here's one good one, the memo concludes that don mcgahn's comments about firing mueller were ambiguous. that was we've got to get rid of him. call me when you've done it. there were several stress opponents like that in the memo where it seems ordered up for a preconceived result. >> that doesn't sound too ambiguous. we've got to get rid of him. >> right. >> margaret talev and harry litman. thank you to you both. >>

trump's first national security adviser, michael flynn, he was also accused of acting as an unregistered agent on behalf of the turkish drones government. but he [inaudible] pled guilty to the [inaudible] before he again ultimately was pardoned by donald trump. there is a man named george papadopoulos, also on the trump campaign team back in 2016, the foreign policy team. he also pleaded guilty for lying to the fbi about contacts with russians, like flood, he was also pardoned by trump in 2020. as well as roger stone. longtime friend, associate, trump advisor, the man who takes credit for convincing trump running for president in the first place. before stones pardon, he was convicted of lying to congress and witness intimidation back in 2019, and sentenced to three years in prison. trump campaign ceo and senior adviser, steve bannon, he's an interesting case. biden was charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money laundering. remember he they picked up [inaudible] on a chinese billionaire slot? those charges stem from unelected grift that allegedly built millions of dollars fro

post" opinion piece about bill ba and the roger stone case, that he liked the story about the michael flynne which grassley saw as partisan against flynn, that he liked another washington postop piece that said william barr had gone rogue and that he made comments in regards to donald trump on his twitter page and retweeted a lincoln project tweet that said donald trump is psychologically broken, embittered and a deeply unhappy man. christopher wray called these tweets troubling. seemed to indicate that phish special agents should check their politics at the door when it comes to their investigation and certainly not leave some sort of outward presence that may call into question their ability to be unbiased and fair minded as they conduct their investigations. a couple of things here as relates to hunter biden and the reason you said what you did, hallie. there's been additional information that grassley's committee received, that the agent tried to stop the investigation into hunter biden and particularly the content of his lab top. the context is critical. this came up towards the end of

michael flynn, steve bannon, roger stone, paul manafort, this is about a crime syndicate and that we've fully to terms with. >> yeah. sarah and peter, thank you to both of you. here we are on a friday night. we're covering this story, this special edition of "the beat." we're going to broaden out and take a breath and take this word we keep hearing, unprecedented, unprecedented and there is reason why we've been working that this week. well michael beschloss will walk us through it when we take as breath when we come back. finding the perfect developer isn't easy. but, at upwork, we found her. she's in prague, between the perfect cup of coffee and her museum of personal computers. and you can find her, and millions of other talented pros, right now on upwork.com for people living with h-i-v, keep being you. and ask your doctor about biktarvy. biktarvy is a complete, one-pill, once-a-day treatment used for h-i-v in certain adults. it's not a cure, but with one small pill, biktarvy fights h-i-v to help you get to and stay undetectable. that's when the amount of virus is so low it cannot b

general michael flynn, james comey saying to his staff, before he figures out what is happening go talko general flynn. no miranda warning. they send now, we've got the fbi and doj being used to go after school board parents. it just feels like it is picking and choosing disparate treatment by politicized fbi and doj. your final word, andrew. >> you could spend all day comparing this case to other cases showing how minor it is in comparison. we have to look at the facts, not that these are minor crimes. this is no crime at all. these are official acts connected to the presidency of donald trump. administrative it debate which documents belong in which government building or whether donald trump could maintain those records, that is for him to decide. that is for debate. not for criminal prosecution this is outrageous. elizabeth: the president has the power to classify or declassify. that is the heart of this. sam dewey, andrew cherkasky, thanks for coming on. come back soon. >>> new report coming in more evidence that president biden did know about hunter biden's questionable energy and

smart enough to see that in the donald let's remember, a famous quote from bill barr asked about michael flynn, he said with a slight chuckle history is written by winners. i did notice he's not a winner, he's not going to write that history and i believe he's trying to salvage any reputation and avoidup being grouped in, lumped in with the rudy giuliani, sidney powell, the pillow guy -- true loonies. the problem with his image we have is to talk about that and bill barr tells the story of daniel -- maybe, i don't know what happens behind closed doors but the problem is bill barr -- and thele article completely oms and we can't forget for months up to the election he was one of the biggest cheerleaders for the election fraud conspiracy theory, one of the biggest spreaders, perpetrators, amplifiers of the big lie. he did it as attorney general. he did an interview with npr talking about massive threat of fraud and by the way, i talked about responses shortly after donald trump started tweeting every day about the threat of election, bill barr picks it up. talking about the threat npr had to run

numbers in donald trump's days are numbered for let's member famous quote when assessed with the michael flynn casey said with a slight chuckle by this point bill barr knows he's not a winner's not going to be writing that history i believe is trying to salvage any bit of reputation and avoid being grouped in lumped in with rudy giuliani the sidney powell the true loonies. the problem with the bill barr's image rehab tour in this article in the atlantic as they talk about and bill barr tells a heroic story of standing up for i don't know what happened behind closed door for the problem is bill barr completely in the article completely omits and we cannot forget is after months leading up to the election bill barth was one of the biggest cheerleaders for the election fraud conspiracy theory. he was one of the biggest spreaders, perpetrators, amplifier of the big lie. he did it as attorney general purchase quickly i lay this out. he's an interview with npr checks up the massive threat of fraud. by the way i talked before about response shortly after donald trump started tweeting basically everyd

burrowed in to make this kind of abuse against trump standard operating procedure just like the michael flynn interview in january . 2020 one was part of the setup to get trump. and just like a disgruntled alexander binmen was the dems impeachment puppet. remember himdisgru now a nationl archives complaint about supposin classified documents is one as well. so this perpetual attack on someone who again may be the gop nominee in 2020 four on bogus grounds, it's like the movies made by a badro director . the actors change, but the performances and the plots are still lame. no one in the white house is aware that this search warrant was going too be executed on the former president's primary residence yesterday. until it was reported in the media. as a reminder, the white house hasder insisted, as we've beenre reporting here, it had nopo pri knowledge of the search in florida yesterday. nice try, kids. go back to acting school. of course, they're going to try to claim that they didn't know about the search over at the white house, but they didn't have to know about the search as it was happening

michael flynn has the treatment he has but mueller gets to take the fifth. merrick garland issued a settlement and said you get all your pension and you get your amnesty.he hillary clinton gets to destroy 37,000 e-mails and no big deal. she gets to have private server which wasn't supposed to have that and do can work on that even though the records law. americans have had a because as i said in the book and as you just said, dave, in this great country it's supposed to be equal treatment under the law. and when you don't have that, people begin to lose faith in our core and key institutions and that's that happening. >> do you see any hope our conference will get strong enough. to deliver on promises like that? what you just set up his right. you say new book there's a failure of leadership in the upper echelon of the fbi by the top people the fbi demoted or fired. by the top. same five people miranda clinton investigation, randa trump-russia fake news investigation. high people who ran the to make biggest investigations in our lifetime. that guy is represe

the justice department as it pertained to roger stone and former trump national security adviser michael flynnestion attorney general william barr's efforts to run the department and the decisions he was making. this came up during a raised congressional testimony last month, and he was asked about it, and he said it was concerning to him those posts. you know, the fbi director has been so rose solute here over the past several years pushing fbi agents to check their political beliefs when they walk in the door as it pertains to their investigations to be unbiased, open-minded and also to present that in their public postings or statements. i think if it was up to the fbi director there would not be a single agent that had social media presence other than the official fbi accounts. but this also then raised kind of a new level when in july senator grassley said he had been contacted by several whistleblowers who raised concerns, serious concerns, he says, about whether or not this former now assistant special agent in charge was involved with shutting down a potential inquiry into current pres

michael flynn has a treatment he has but lois gets to take the fifth keeps her pension.mccabe lies to the fbi andr several times the inspector general. but merrick garland just issued a settlement and said you get all of your pension and you gete your lawyers fees. give me a break. hillary clinton gets to destroy 30 some thousand e-mails, no big deal but she gets to have a private server when she wasn't supposed to have that. the government worked on thaten even though it violated the records law. americans have had it. as you just said, and this great country it is supposed be equal law.ment under the when you don't have that people begin to lose faith in her court and key institutions and that is not helpful. >> do you see any hope w that or conference will get strong enough to deliver on promises like that? what you just set up is right. you say in her book there's a failure of e leadership at the upper upper echelon of the fbi. they demoted or fired, five of the top. the same five that ran the clinton investigation the same ones that were in the trump russia fake new

i was a little worried when michael flynn, a general in our army, took the fifth about a peaceful transition of power. but, look, i get it, i used to practice law, i understand the fifth amendment privileges, i don't hold it against anybody, but the president is eating a little bit of crow on that this morning. no question. >> mick, it is always insightful to have you on. mick mulvaney, thank you for being with us. >> thanks, brianna. >>> couple of things there, first of all, just the almost throwaway statement, i was chief of staff for 16 months and i never knew that donald trump had a safe in his office. interesting. interesting data point there. the safe not common knowledge. so who knew he had a safe? who may have told the fbi he had a safe there? that's an open question this morning. the other thing is, and you saw mulvaney struggling with it there a little bit, which is, you know, these republicans who are calling on merrick garland to come forward with information almost none of them, so few of them are then also saying, wait, donald trump should come forward with information also. tr

they're stanford shopping center, police say 49 year old brian michael flynn tried to steal $350 worthf merchandise. when loss prevention officers tried to stop him. he pushed them out of the way and left. police say he then tried to steal a phone from a man in his eighties who was sitting on a bench. police were able to track him down, arrest him and returned the stolen property. catalytic converter thieves continue to hit cars across the bay area, and police have made some arrests in these cases, but as our crime reporter henry lee tells us one bay area police department is now targeting the businesses buying those stolen devices. error recovery group is a recycling company at this nondescript warehouse in fremont's warm springs neighborhood. police say it was a clearinghouse for stolen catalytic converters over 300 catalytic converters that were recovered. fremont police captain eric tang says undercover detectives spent months selling stolen devices at the company workers didn't seem to blink. we became more and more overt where we were sketching in either stolen or putting in iden