agents, not low level i.c.e. agents, these are current federal employees at a senior

, new agents, senior agents, thousands of agents, that they need to be unbiased in their investigationt to myself, they are unbiased in their investigations. the vast majority is unbiased and investigations. why are you trashing your own agency? the problem isn'tag joe fbi age, or sally fbi agent, the problem is james comey, the problem was mccabe, strzok, page. the problem is that whole crowd. i found it incredibly outrageous that the new fbi director, i'm defending the fbi, a great institution, and i happen to know it is. on the other hand, everybody needs to be trained? not to be biased? this report, even though the ig says he did not find political bias, i have to say, there is bias throughout, and he uses the word throughout. i would ask the inspector general, what kind of bias are you talking about? fracial bias? religious bias? of course it was political, as i started out by saying. not a single pro trump text from any of these fbi agents, not a single pro trump fbi agents. they are supposed to be objective but they politicized it to such an extent and the reason is, as i said,

, new agents, senior agents, all thousands of agents that they need to be unbiased in their investigationght to myself they are unbiased in their investigation. the vast majority of the fbi sun biased in investigations. why are you trashing your own agency? the problem isn't joe fbi agent or sally fbi agent. the problem is jim comey. the problem is mccabe. the problem is strzok. the problem is page. the problem is their own crowd. i found it incredit dib bailiff outrageous of the fbi director. i happen to know it is. on the other hand, everybody needs to be trained not to be biased? this report, even though the ig says he didn't find political bias, i have to say there is bias throughout and he uses the word throughout but i would ask the inspector general what kind of bias are you talking about sexual bias; religious bias? of course it was political bias. as started out by saying there is not a single pro-trump text from any of these fbi agents. there is not a single pro-trump fbi agent. they are supposed to be objective. they have politicized it to such an extent and the reason, the rea

government, blaming border patrol agents. blaming ice agents. but these parents know that there is a chance that they're going -- they know they will be arrested for illegal entry. though know there's a zero tolerance policy. like they knew they would be admitted and be able to escape over. but they have that information as the agents pointed out, on facebook the next day. so they are, the ones putting their children in this predicament, subjecting their children to danger and subjecting their children to being separated from them. they know they will be arrested. >> laura: one of our border agents from texas last night, revealed that he's seen on many occasions when border patrol approaches a, quote, family unit, the so-called parent who ends up not being the parent, drops the child and runs. he said we see that all the time. i think people have to remember when the cartels are involved, there are all sorts of competing interests, the kids are caught in the crosshairs but we have to remember that these kids become prime targets for msn recruitm

murió a manos de un agente de la patrulla fronteriza.hora el acusado tendrá que enfrentar un nuevo juicio. isidro: por el tubo ahí-- por los tubos ah por los tubos mete la mano y hace los disparos para acá, pegándole. presentador: esta foto resume el drama de la separación de familias en la frontera entre méxico y estados unidos. john: yo fui a-- a acompañar a los agentes del "border patrol" esa noche, mientras detenían mucha gente. para mí, como padre, fue muy difícil ver cuando esa niña empezó a llorar. presentador: en este barrio, donde viven refugiados venezolanos, reina el hambre, la prostitución y los sueños. >> yo creo que a ninguna de las que estamos acá nos gusta esta vida, ¿no? pero todo lo estamos haciendo por necesidad. presentador: en el marco de la copa mundial rusia 2018, les revelamos los secretos del kremlin. katia: existe abajo un metro número dos. es el metro secreto, que se desconoce. hay pasadizos subterráneos. presentador: mario quintero, de los tucanes de tijuana, habla sobre el difícil camino para lograr su meta.

and another high racking agent. all trump supporters are poor to middle class anda lazy and think he will magically grant them jobs for doing nothing. and one agent who intrude hillary clinton called her the president in a message to a colleague and said trump can't win. and after comey announced he would reopen the clinton investigation. another unnamed f.b.i. attorney. i am clinging to a small pocket of happiness in a republican destruction. the same f.b.i. attorney red. i am numbb. and a fellow employee responded i can't stop crying and ig report. agents involved in the clinton foundation instructed to take no over investigative steps prior to the election. would you get that treatment? the f.b.i. was intimidated by the clinton high- ranking legal team. and high- ranking doj officials tried to get a job in the clinton campaign and leaking information about the server investigation to john podefta. lindsay graham laid out in today's hearing and he was on fire. take a look. >> this e-mail sent in february 2016 from

agents and d.o.j.ur exacting expectations and we will not be calling their names today unfortunately. because we don't do i.g. investigations on agents and prosecutors who do their jobs with character and professionalism. to those agents and prosecutors who do the right thing, the right way, and for the right reasons, we'll get through this. it will be tough and it will be difficult but we'll emerge on the other side with a stronger f.b.i. and a stronger department of justice because we have to. we cannot have a justice system that bases decisions on anything other than facts. to our fellow citizens watching at home be unrelenting in your expectations of our justice system. never lower those expectations. respect for the rule of law is the thread that holds the tapestry of this country together and it depends upon you having confidence in those you empower to enforce the law. and importantly do not ever except the notion that those victimized or impacted or negatively treated because of bias have any b

fbi agent, he did. prosecutor, what did he say? fbi agent, he said that mr. manafort had used that residence to conduct business. question from the prosecutor, after mr. trusko told you that he had moved business records into that storage unit, did you ask whether he knew if the records were still in the facility now? and then the judge interjects. and the judge says to the prosecutor, "you're leading. why don't you say what if anything did you ask him?" the prosecutor says, well, judge, i simply didn't because the federal rules don't apply in this type of hearing. meaning i'm allowed to ask leading questions. but i can ask it as a more open question if you prefer. the judge says, yes, i would prefer you did that. go. and then at that point in the transcript i won't read that exact part of it but at that point the judge just himself starts asking all his own questions to the witness the way he thinks the questions should be asked, demonstrating to the lawyers in the court how he would prefer it to be done more to his taste. and so then the prosecutor in fact

new low for the left, a tweet instructing how to murder ice agents. how the group is now trying to pass it as joke? first -- "fox & "fox & friends " starts right now. ♪ ♪ heather: midway through the week. halfway there, i'm heather childers, thank you so much for joining us. second day in brand-new studio. well, the inspector general dropping a bombshell revelation before the house. let's begin there with lead story. he's investigating agent peter strzok antitrump text messages and whether they influenced the russia probe. this as we leash that strzok had to be escorted out of fbi headquarters. doug is live in washington, d.c. with the latest. good morning, doug. >> strzok was reportedly escorted out of fbi building yesterday although it sounds like he still has a job. that aspect of it isn't quite clear at this point. but future is far from clear. the extended hearing yesterday on capitol hill was something to watch, before house committees and inspector general of justice department was asked about strzok and text messages that he shared with employ

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pete strzok, who everything i understand his reputation as an agent, very effective agent, would you predict that he would be let go, fired, discharged, do you think there is enough in here for him to meet the same fate as andy mccabe? >> i spent some really ugly days in my career running internal investigations and inspections and i've got to tell you i think we have at a minimum a demotion from the senior executive service and at a maximum a loss of effectiveness where he might have to, he might have to be dismissed. >> i want to say to you, joyce, we're spending time talking about these agents because it is already the piece of the story and i agree with rick steng l's analysis these are minor characters and what was a very broad inspector general investigation into the entire bureau's conduct during the hillary clinton e-mail scandal. but there is a fuller picture to be painted before this first draft is sort of set in stone. and it includes this. "the new york times" reported peter strzok's role in the counter intelligence investigation and wrote, fearful of leaks, the agents ke

to those agents and fbi agents, we'll get through this. it will be tough and it will be difficult but we will emerge on the other side with a stronger fbi and a stronger department of justice because we have to. we cannot have a justice system that bases decisions on anything other than facts. to our fellow citizens watching at home, be unrelenting in your expectations of our justice system. never lower those expectations. respect for the rule of law is the thread that holds the tapestry of this country together. and it depends upon you having confidence in those you empower to enforce the law. and importantly do not ever accept the notion that those victimized or impacted or negatively treated because of bias or prejudgment have any burden of proving harm. bias is harmful. it is the making up of your mind based on anything other than the facts. we use a blindfolded woman holding a set of scales to symbolize what we want in a justice system. and there is nothing more an thet cal to justice than lowering that blindfold and making up your mi

one of the fbi agents in the interview said on election day to another fbi agent, you should know that i am with her. "her," was clinton, right? >> >> correct. >> how do you feel about that? >> very concerned. >> eventually very concerned seems to be enough already. i'm glad you found what you found, mr. horwitz. i'm not buying that the clinton email and prestige was on the up and up. >> sean: i am not buying it either. you still think political bias didn't play a role in the fbi's decisions? at the center of all this is fbi trump-hating agent peter strzok. he is being subpoenaed by the house judiciary committee in order to better determine why the fbi and the doj withheld many of his anti-trump text. we still haven't gotten them all. remember, he was the lead fbi agent in the hillary clinton investigation. he is the one who vowed to stop a trump presidency in a text with his girlfriend, lisa page. according to the ig report, page was a high-ranking fbi attorney who was used by andrew mccabe. yeah, that andrew mccabe. of course they bypass the fbi's chain of command and he got to manag

>> we have agents working on the special counsel. >> you're part of the investigation because your agents are working under it. would you agree that part of the investigation is obstruction, obfuscation or otherwise trying to derail the investigation that mr. rosenstein appointed mr. mueller to conduct? >> well i'm not going to discuss the scope of special counsel mueller's investigation. but i'll agree with the deputy attorney general's comments already. >> he said that it would be part of it. so and agreeing with. we have established two things. our government and the american people were attacked. and our democracy was attempted to undermine. and that part of that investigation should be, so i just want to ask the chairman, if he would, i'd like to enter this because mr. rosenstein, it doesn't matter. they want you. they want to impeach you, they want to indict you, they want to get rid of you. because in getting rid of you, they want to stop the two fundamental questions that we already agreed to. and that is they want to undermine this investigation. so mr. rosenstein, good luck. we'

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as we said earlier, the agent is ag stable condition and is in good spirits.n. >> dickerson: mireya, thank you. in mexico, running for office can be very dangerous. video released this week shows a politician being targeted for murder. here's manuel bojorquez. >> reporter: this surveillance eideo shows mexican congressional candidate fernando puron posing for a selfie with a supporter, after a campaign debate last friday. when a man walks up from behind, raises a gun, and fires point blank at the back of his head. puron was running on an anti- cartel platform, which made him a target in piedras negras, which borders texas. he's now one of 113 candidates and politicians who have been murdered in mexico just since last september. we reached the current mayor of o says life was threatenedareal, just yesterday. idu're not fearing them. ju no. >> reporter: wow. ( speaking spanish ) you won't stop. even if it means risking your life. doesn't matter. she did put her re-election bid on hold to focus on the investigation into puron's death. the wave of violence comes a

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the agent's identity has not been released. he was taken to police headquarters released to fbi supervisor. the fbi is not commenting calling it a personnel matter. denver district attorney's office will determine if charges will be filed. >> on hawaii's big island, a dozen people who ignored evacuation orders are now surrounded by flowing lava. their only way out will be by helicopter. carter evans has a view of the danger from above. >> that is a huge, huge, lava front there. just consuming everything in its path. massive amounts of molten rock, unstoppable force of nature. >> reporter: from above the devastation is widespread. >> this is the community. authorities have been anticipating the lava would get here for days. >> helicopter pilot, collin burkehart watched it unfold since eruption began a month ago. >> this could be a lava flow. end up being the new eruption site. it may never go back to the crater or shift back up the zone. >> homes, businesses are gone. anything that survives here will be cult off from the rest of

not the agents. and so when we looked at notes, e-mails, the other evidence we could find and the testimony we got, we concluded that there wasn't evidence of bias in how those decisions were actually made or carried out. the specific ones we looked at. >> notwithstanding struck's involvement, there were sufficient number of other investigators so that the bottom line here of no political motivation stands as far as you're concerned. >> as to the specific decisions we looked at, correct. and as to the prosecutor decision for the reasons i indicated. >> now, there's a lot of concern about mr. comey's speaking out. he used words like extremely ca careless. and he has been criticized for actively -- after the case was closed speaking out. yet your report -- and here i'm quoting, the problem originated with comey's elevation of maximal transparency. i tell you, sir, if someone said eleanor to me, you're being maximally transparent, especially as a member of congress, i would take that as a complement. i

call your agent, the seller's agent, the escrow officer and the title company, simply everyone involved. and then double-check account numbers again. i mean you got to do everything over and over again. at the end of the transfer, you have to call again. call everybody again. make sure everything is set. we'll be back here again, right here, at 11:00 monday night with another local person who lost even more money. >> crazy. >> we're going to zoom out and show you how viral and widespread this is. >> terrible. >> cindy's family has set up a gofundme account, but they really shouldn't have to. >> right. >> somebody has to step up and take all of this and be held accountable for it because it's happening way too often. >> so frustrating. >> her life savings. >> gone and she's not alone. >> see you monday. if you want to see that video chris was talking about, you can go to our website, nbcbayarea.com/responds. you can also submit your consumer complaints there as well. >>> from one type of scary to another type. the fire conditions and the red flag warnings that are going on right now. >>

strzok was the lead fbi agent, remember, in the clinton email probe, a top agent in the fbi's russia probe, and the agent who interviewed former national security advisor mike flynn. all that ended of course when strzok's bombastic anti-trump texts were revealed. he was demoted to the fbi's hr department. which raises the question, why the heck is he still working at the fbi, especially in light of the text message revealed yesterday where he vowed to stop trump from becoming president. joining me now, john, attorney, and former assistant attorney general, robert driscoll. all right. i want to start with you, bob, on this, because it's fascinating to me how when you survey the other networks over the last 24 hours, it was like on to stormy daniels. they spent precious little time on this. this is a big nothing burger. i'm so sick of that word, by the way. but let's remember what horowitz did conclude. this is important. departing so clearly and dramatically, the decisions negatively impacted the perceptions of the fbi and department as fair administrators of justice. robert, fair adm

agents, these are not low-level i.c.e. agents.or level of i.c.e. asking the secretary of homeland security to please break i.c.e. apart, break off what they're doing from the rest of i.c.e., so they can do their jobs without essentially being tainted by what's going on in the rest of i.c.e. which other people in other jurisdictions want nothing to do with. secretary nielsen, do not forget to check your mail box, your employees are trying to get ahold of you. joining us is alonzo pena, former deputy director of immigrations and customs enforcement or i.c.e. i'm pleased you're with us tonight, thank you very much for making time. >> thank you for having me on your program. >> i think a lot of americans don't understand what i.c.e. does and there are a lot of different parts of i.c.e., can you explain what the difference between the kind of work that these agents do who wrote this letter to secretary nielsen and what we've been seeing in terms of agents and employees who might be involved in the domestic immigration enforcement stuff

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struck also, agent admitted that before and during -- agent struck admitted that before and during the same year he sent many text messages about donald trump, text messages we already established. [indiscernible] is the gentleman finished? again, agent struck sent many text messages about donald trump. we've established and agreed that those reflect hatred and biased toward donald trump. i reviewed with agent struck and he confirmed he was in fact the person that sent these technologies -- these text messages but talked about stopping trump from becoming president, talked about impeaching him as the president and talked about protecting the country from him and from an insurance policy against a risk of a trump policy. that is the same texts the characterize the concern that agent struck may have acted upon the bias in privatizing the work on the russia collusion investigation on the laptop issue. a matter he is now investigating. when i asked the agent about his investigation with special counsel mueller or anyone on his team about his removal, he described the details of a single co

>> so, i've been a border patrol agent for 18 years.became a whistle blower and reported violations of law to the office of special counsel because we were seeing we were holding a lot of immigrants without access to food, water, restrooms. we had people that were detaining them in sally ports. there was not enough space. they were held in overcrowded detention cells, and i contacted the local authorities to report this. i contacted the fire marshal at my station and also became a whistle-blower to report the horrendous conditions. as agents, we have not seen any of that and we feel the lessons have been learned from the past and have now impacted the way we hold people and the way we treat people and i'm happy to report that things are being done very humanely with dignity and with respect. >> i talked to congresswoman jackie speier earlier this hour. she toured some of these detention centers earlier today and i want to play for you what she said. >> i mean, i thought i was in a third world country when i walked into the processing ce

i witnessed firsthand the scope of agent orange exposure while in vietnam. mr. bergman: i am one of that group of veterans. congress recognized the dangerous health consequences of exposures by passing the agent orange act of 1991. which extended disability compensation to veterans that served in vietnam or its inland waterways between the years 1962 and 1975. while the agent orange act provided benefits for tens of thousands of vietnam mainland veterans, it overlooked the blue water navy veterans who served on the ships off the coast. those dedicated veterans served our country honorably and are now dealing with health problems due to agent orange exposure. this is why i am a proud co-sponsor of h.r. 299, which extends the disability benefits to veterans who served in the blue water navy in vietnam. mr. speaker, veterans in michigan's first district have greatly sacrificed and earned these benefits and i look forward to ensuring their service is honored. i urge all my colleagues to support this bill, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yiel

he was the lead fbi agent in the clinton e-mail probe and the agent who interviewed mike flynn. he became a cop investigators in special counsel bob mueller's investigation. that stopped when the fbi texts to his lover were revealed. it raises the question, why is he still working at the fbi? especially in light of the text message revealed yesterday where he vowed to stop trump from becoming president. joining me now are former fbi national spokesperson and special agent, john anareli and former assistant attorney general robert driscol. i want to start with you, bob, on this. it's fascinating to me how when you survey the other networks over the last 24 hours, it was like on to stormy daniels. they spent precious little tim of this. no evidence of bias. this is a big nothing-burger. i'm sickbu of that word. let's remember what horowitz did conclude. departing from fbi and department norms, the decisions negatively impacted the perception of the fbi and the department as fair administrators of justice. robert, fair administrators of justice with a russia collusion probe gone on

russian agent who then became a british agent was well he was reported here in the murder crimes as being dead in one edition of the times when he and his daughter suddenly recovered from an incident about which there has been total secrecy and and very little transparency we're just we just expected to take the say so of the government and what's even more frightening now and i should say there are some honorable exceptions in the mainstream media now complaining about this the british home secretary says we should have lists of people in the mentions not just this in respect to fighting isis diet in fighting russian terrorism he's been explicit that there should be lists and no person it seems certainly there's no process of being able to identify whether you are on one of these lists that the british government is going to have . and then m i five the secret service here can share information about you to different agencies and you don't really have a comeback of being able to say i wasn't i've been misidentified or the information is inaccurate all of this coming out all of a attempte

that's what we expect from our agents. you're a republican nominated by a republican president, confirmed by a republican controlled senate. i still trust you because you check your beliefs at the door and you're doing your job and, in fact, when you interview agents to hire you can't ask them if they are a democrat or rea republican and whether you should hire them, is that correct >> that's correct. i will say, congress mapp, i take very seriously our obligation to do our jobs apolitically, independently and objectively no matter who likes it, either side. i'll also say we don't subject our agents to political litmus test. judges all around this country have political views that range across spectrum and hold them deeply or juries or doctors. all of them are entitled to have those views. but, but we need them to check those views at the door and honor their oaths and that's what i expect of every agent, analyst and professional staff person in the fbi. >> thank you. i deeply appreciate that. i was at the closed hearing o

fbi agent 2. i'm numb. later, same day, "i'm so stressed about what i could have done differently ". last one. day after the election attorney 2. i can't imagine the systematic disassembly of the progress that we made the last eight years. the affordable care act is gone. who knows if the rhetoric about deporting people and crap is true. i feel like there's going to be a lot more gun issues, too. general, do you believe in the tooth fairy? >> nope. >> do you believe in the easter bunny? >> nope. >> do you believe that jimmy ho hoffa died of natural causes? >> not based on what i read. >> do you honestly believe that the american people are doing to look at this report and look at those e-mails and not believe that there was bias and people acting on bias and that the fix was in at the fbi? >> i completely understand the concerns, senator and that's why we laid this out here and that's why we found that it impacts the credibility of the handling of the investigation and the -- what we say here is not, as sen

this guy, talk about an egomaniac, this self-anointed super agent. he's going to stop the president of the united states from getting elected and assuming office. lou: he may be all that you say. but we know he had much of the leadership of the corrupt fbi working with him to do exactly that. by the way, the justice department, that's the reason we have a special counsel at all. chris farrell, thanks for being with us. we appreciate it. allegations of bank fraud, big any and gun violence surrounding congresswoman debbie wasserman-schultz's information technology aide. he was far more than that. we take up the national security implications in the case of imran awan. this case is not receiving remotely the attention it deserves. hi. it's me. your sleep number 360 smart bed... checking in. last night i warmed your feet so you fell asleep faster. i sensed you roll over and automatically softened your side to melt away pressure points and keep you sleeping blissfully. at 2am, this happened. so, i took care of it. does your bed do that? i'm the new sleep

these agents were calling her president before she was interviewed. they were calling for the end of the trump campaign before the investigation even began. they were calling for impeachment simply because he happened to be elected. that is bias. >> sean: this is the very definition of bias. exactly. now, we know that the anti-trump political influence here, that sparked this entire russia investigation, in the first place, thank god it is rightly under review. because it's illegitimate, was from day one, needs to end. period end of sentence. this has been a politically biased witch hunt from the get-go. watch this. >> the infamous texts from peter strzok saying we will stop president trump from taking office, which we received on the day of your report's release, is a prime example. this text was revealed to you late in your interview as well as i understand. do you believe this text shows political bias? >> i think as we found it clearly shows a biased state of mind. >> do you believe the political bias shown by this text, had an effect on the initi

and you talk to the fbi agents, now former agents, this is one of the darkest clouds over this entire situation are those text mess a -- messages and it will take them years to get over. and chris wray defending the fbi and he did this on thursday and then the other thing is defending robert mueller. >> yes. >> using the president's words -- this is the second time now that he's done it. that is important as well. because there are fbi agents working that investigation. so all of this really -- a lot of this was obviously a rehash but very important points here that were made by fbi director. >> appreciate you sitting here and listen to it. and let's go to jake tapper. special coverage continues right now. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we begin with breaking news in our politics lead. and brand-new cnn polls as we stand by for a white house briefing that will begin any moment and we'll bring that to you when it occurs. but president trump as you know is facing an onslaught of bipartisan outrage over his administration's new policy

. >> after the raids, ice acting director said because of the tip, agents failed to make 864 arrests. >> that are made you uncomfortable? >> extremely uncomfortable. we ended up arresting 232 which is 16% higher than the highest estimate. internally that was a success, but what they publicly said was that she let people go. >> schwab issued a statement saying some were able to allude us thanks to the mas on he said his boss is in washington and insisted 800 wanted criminals remain free. >> they know it's a lie. it's shocking that no one wanted to fix that. >> in 17 years in the military at the department of defense as a civilian and nasa and now at homeland security, i have never been asked to lie. i never have been asked to perpetuate a lie. >> during our interview -- i'm so sorry. >> unexpected visitors drop by. >> can i speak with you. >> why are you guys here? >> they identify themselves as agents from the department of homeland security inspector general's office. >> i will talk to you. when can we talk? >> as soon as i contact my lawyer. >> were you surprised to see them? >> sho

it defamous those agents to say there's a whole host of agents that are trying to affect an election.me that broke protocol. we had ongoing investigation that's now led to 20 indictments that's not talked about. i don't think it's fair to say there's an fbi den of thieves the way the president does and somehow affected the election. jon: but when you have peter strzok, a top fbi official, participating in the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and he writes to his lover that we are going to stop donald trump from becoming president and then he winds up on the -- on the mueller-russia investigation team, it just smells. >> it doesn't smell if you read the report. smells what you do what all republicans an some democrats are doing, taking things out of context. what the thorough report said that there was no inpropriety in the investigation and the conclusions it drew. it was the direct conclusion not to charge hillary clinton with a crime and so we could continue talking about the two individuals who had an affair who said things in pillow talk that i think it's not different from pr

we have agents doing anything but work on the border and we need to have border patrol agents on the border protecting our country and it has to be an enhanced wall on the board to keep people from coming in and endangering themselves in the first place as far as the children this this drama that's been going on with the cages later the management of that is what they are those people who may shop at the border and even if they don't have the correct don't commence want to claim asylum for example or escape domestic abuse in addition to having the obligation to protect the border do border patrol agents not also have legal and international legal obligations to the process people who say i'm here because i need refuge. ok i understand that but the one thing that the press and everybody else doesn't understand i hear it all the time it's border patrol border patrol portal the ports of entry is operated by c.p.p. operations the old customs inspectors and i now suspect it's not border patrol those agents at the ports of entry are responsible for taking these people and that are claiming

trump but are you aware of nany fbi agents that love mr. trump and did not like mrs. clinton? >> we looked at the team that worked on this investigation and we reported what we found in terms of bias. >> did anyone ever refer you to the new york field office? >> and with that counsel of agents in the new york field office. >> peopleag believe the new york office had profound bias of anti- clinton that influenced director comey. but be reflected in the willingness to look objectivelyis at other needs for investigation especially with respect to cabinet members of the current administration to have over 50 subpoena request to the chairman none of which have been issued into potentialth corruption by members of the cabinet. but we will spend a joint committee hearing looking in the past that has been adjudicated thank you mr. horwitz and your colleagues and i hope it doesn't get distorted through the process. >> the gentleman from wisconsin is recognize. >> we have spent a lot of time onon this but obviously they have said things you would consider they had a strong bias to mrs.

aren't the only ones feeling the hea >> fbi agents not the only one feeling the heat. the inspector general fossil former doj official for sharing information about the clinton email probe with campaign chairman john podesta and says the former atty. gen. demonstrated poor judgment failing to recognize the appearance of conflict of interest, tried to get his son a job with the hillary clinton campaign, let me know if you need assistance. my son is ready for hillary rodham clinton. let's bring in best selling author of clinton cash. great to have you with us. let's start with peter who had personal relationships with the clinton campaign and others. what do you make of that? there was a connection but not enough to take this. >> it raises the question of why he was interacting the way he was and why was he sharing information with john podesta? the report points out he tipped off john podesta was hillary clinton's campaign chairman about the release of the emails in 2016 at the same time he is trying to get a job for his 25-year-old son. it looks bad. this is the swamp'

i worked as a secret service agent.ating take from people who work for a government that really doesn't care about quality you know -- guys, you know, when i got in this morning, when the producer sent it over to me, the first thing that came to mind to me my mother-in-law is an immigrant to this country. she cleaned pains at laguardia airport and used to have to feed her kids the peanuts that were left over. she is a trump supporter. i dare you to look her in the face and tell her how uneducated what a pos she was. now she lives a relatively prosperous life in florida because for 30 years she busted her butt. her ankles don't work. she has arthritis in her wrist she is a mess for working her butt off her whole life while you goons in washington, d.c. collected benefits and can never be fired from your job. most disgusting thing i have ever seen. i get it i know people have a theory on why trump was elected. i will tell you can attribute texts and thoughts like that for reason number one in that exhibit. pete: briefly,

our agents are very involved. and nobody saves more lives along the southwestern border than the u.s. border patrol. i can tell you for a fact one of the worst things that you would ever have to do is have to pull the body of a young kid out of the river because they were crossing and they just didn't make it. so something needs to change so we can avoid some of these tragedies that happen. granted having these kids in detention centers, obviously it's not idea but it's far better than the alternative, a lot of these kids not making it. >> yes. and i know you say ultimately -- you're doing your job and i know you say it's up to congress. actually it is up to president trump. they don't have to separate these children from their parents. that is different from under the obama administration till now. do you think the president should right now end this policy of separating families? >> you know, i think you're wrong there. it is a law and the law needs to be enforced. >> what is the law? >> as far as if you come ac

unknown itch the agent had been drinking at the time of the incident. blood alcohol level. some witnesses were unsure about the agent's sobriety. >> i would hope that alcohol was not involved because as a gun owner myself. and, being some one who its part of community cares about gun safety. i'm responsible with my firearm. >> denver district attorney's office will determine if charges will be filed against the agent. >> he could face local charges as a result of this which will make his fbi situation much worse. >> ron hosko former fbi assistant director says the unfortunate accident comes at a time when the agency is already under scrutiny. >> unintended, unwelcome black eye for the fbi. >> reporter: denver police are obviously leading this investigation. but the fbi is conducting an internal investigation. typically in cases like these, the fbi tries to re-create what happened. but in this case, obviously, there is video. >>> that is the "overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us a bit later f

that sort of thing was exchanged by fbi agent number one between agent number five and fbi attorney numbero with another employee. at least six people employed at a high level of the fbi works changing the source of e-mails reflecting a complete collapse of professional discipline through this period. melissa: one other thing that i'm stressed about what i could have done differently the day after the election, what they could have done differently obviously to prevent the outcome that they were bemoaning at that point. it also proves that they were working in an environment where this kind of behavior was condoned because how could he have so many people texting the same thing to each other without any fear of what was going to happen to them or any idea that this was totally inappropriate. they must be working in a culture. >> curious as the word melissa and in my opinion your wray, i don't know what the word will be. some are underplaying this not conveying the seriousness i think with which the american people are taking this. those agents were working in a hyperpoliticized environment

how dare an fbi agent be against donald trump.e is lindsey graham in full outrage today about those fbi agents. >> here's what ms. page said on march the 4th, 2016. god trump is a loathsome human. how do you feel about that? she's entitled to her opinion. >> i think we laid out here why we were so concerned about it. >> and here is that same lindsey graham offering his opinion about donald trump during the presidential campaign about the very same time that those fbi agents were offering their opinions. >> looking back, we should have basically kicked him out of the party. the more you know about donald trump the less likely you are to vote for him. the more you know about his business enterprises, the less successful he looks. the more you know about his politics, the less republican he looks. >> here is senator cruz just outraged. >> when mr. strzok was in charge he used an fbi devise to call president trump an fing idiot, a loathsome human and a disaster. >> correct. >> an idiot and a disaster. who would ever say things like th