andrew mccabe. andrew, i mean, the irony of this is kind of extraordinary. we were just discussing christopher wray. and -- as being a straig straight shooter and, you know, very clear, tonight, in his comments. basically, sort of not following the line of the very political director of national intelligence in -- in -- in the way he was characterizing the -- the interference that they say is going on from iran and russia. you know all about president trump's habits of firing people. the fbi, i'm told, andrew's shot went down. so we'll try to get back with -- with deputy -- former deputy director, andrew mccabe. tonight's other, big story is former president obama going after president trump, in a way we have never heard from an ex-president before and how it and everything else factors into tomorrow night's presidential debate. we'll have that, when we come back. t real. iphone 12 and iphone 12 pro are here on verizon 5g with the coverage of 5g nationwide, and, in more and more cities, the performance of 5g ultra wideband. get iphone 12 on us when you switc

what do you think the senators want with andrew mccabe's messages here? g the russia collusion hoax. president trump said release them. at issue are 80 text messages from mccabe. the justice department says you can look at them when you come into a reading room. they won't release them. they only released 16 or 17 messages. these messages will detail mccabe's involvement in the steele dossier and spying on the trump campaign and other illegal or unethical actions to weaponize the fbi to destroy trump's candidacy. elizabeth: in other words they weren't following the evidence as it led them to the conclusion, they were trying to fit a theory, trying to, it was a theory in search of a crime. they were going one way, instead of acting like traditional fbi agents, just following the evidence wherever it leads. one of the text messages we see three weeks, excuse me, three days before the fbi launched the trump-russia probe it, came from lisa page to andrew mccabe saying did you see the story in the blogs i call law fare? is trump a russian agent? it is saying tr

let's discuss with andrew mccabe, author of the new book entitled the threat, how the fbi protects america in the age of terror and trump. andrew, thanks so much for joining us. so, clearly the president isn't on the same page as christopher wray, who he appointed to become the fbi director. christopher wray testified that white supremacist groups represent the greatest terror threat in the united states. what are the consequences of the president ignoring and down playing this threat? >> first, wolf, thanks very much for having me. if the fbi in the form of the fbi director is coming out with such a definitive and concerning statement about the white supremacist threat in the united states, every american should be listening to that and be aware of their environments and aware of the situation and be very concerned about the sort of violence that we face. so, when the president of the united states not only fails to come out and amplify that message but openly disagrees it and says things and conduct himself in a way that seems to quart support from these very groups, it is just as -- it

will you subpoena andrew mccabe? l, i'm trying to get him to come in voluntarily, to be honest are you. the hearing interrupted the mccabe interview. what have we learned over the last year? we've learned that the warrant against carter page was illegally obtained by the fbi. they used a dossier that was unreliable, that was fraudulent, that rosenstein -- the acting attorney general -- said if he knew then what he knows now, he wouldn't have signed the application. same for sally yates and jim comey. and mccabe. somebody had to know something, so we're going to get mccabe in. something coming out that's stinting. well, that -- stunning. well, that stunning event is now out. what do we now know that we didn't know a month ago? that in july of 2016 the russians had picked up information that hillary clinton approved a plan to smear donald trump in a political smear campaign. we know that the breakfast president, barack obama -- past president was briefed about this effort and condoned it. now, is that a crime? i doubt i

jordan is here, he'll join me to talk about the president's health and the delayed testimony of andrew mccabewill we ever hear from mccabe at this point? and former white house chief strategist, steve bannon will be here. plus, model, actress and event entrepreneur, pamela anderson will be here. in the 8:00 a.m. hour, barry sternlict, on how he's allocating capital today. and the ceo of regeneron is here, on the coronavirus treatment that has president trump feeling better. don't miss a moment of it. you're watching "mornings with maria," live on fox business. ♪ when you just can't break away. ♪ oh, young hearts, run free. ♪ never be hung up -- ok, just keep coloring there... and sweetie can you just be... gentle with the pens. okey. okey. i know. gentle..gentle new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a short list of quality candidates from our resume database so you can start hiring right away. claim your seventy five dollar credit, when you post your first job at indeed.com/home. but when i start

don't know if andrew mccabe knows that, your thoughts about the prospects of mccabe or wiseman. >> yeahthink they should've brought them up a year or two ago, we had the horowitz report, the mueller report, this is not new breaking news, the president has been in office for four years, why it's taken until october of 2022 bring these people up for a public hearing, i do not know, the greatest respect for chairman graham but i gotta tell you, it's about a year end a half to late, get them up there and get them up there now. lou: while i don't share necessarily your respect for chairman graham, i do find it absurd that were talking about a year end a half since he took over judiciary and remember he said he was going to investigate the investigators and get to the obamagate because and all of the characters who created, we now see comey, comey must have a locker on capitol hill, he is up there so much saying absolutely nothing. >> that is the frustration in the staff could've been bringing in for transcribed interviews, i was the chairman and the oversight, we would bring in transcribed i

i want to bring in shimon prokupecz, and andrew mccabe, senior law enforcement analyst, former deputy director at the fbi. andrew, to you first. just take us through what's the most important thing or things you heard during the press conference out of michigan. >> sure. thanks very much for having me, brianna. this is really an incredible example of what the fbi does best with its jttf partners, partners on the joint terrorism task forces. i can tell you from my own experience having dealt with literally dozens and dozens of similar plots during my own time in the fbi that this plot has all of the hallmarks of a very serious, dangerous situation that we are all fortunate the fbi and partners have gotten in the middle of. a couple of things really reached out to me as i listen to the conference. i'm referring to notes here. first, i would point out this is yet another violent group plotting a violent act that the fbi was able to uncover because of their presence on social media. so going onto social media and interacting with these folks where they talk in their groups continues to be

andrew mccabe was deputy director of the fbi.to see you both, and thank you. >> thanks, chris. >> andy, how does he not know an investigation is going on like that where the target is a governor of a state? >> well, chris, it's absolutely inconceivable to me that the attorney general was not aware of the expanse and the details and the seriousness of this investigation. i can't say whether he exactly knew what the reporter quoted to him at that time. but it is absolutely inconceivable that he wasn't being briefed on this case on a very, very regular basis. this is some of the most sensitive and dangerous work that we do, and it is never done without the visibility and the approval of the attorney general. >> elizabeth, the pushback notion is listen, don't put this on the president. these guys have their own plans and their own agenda. they hate all government. they're not motivated by him. what do you know from your understanding of the threat and what messaging from our leaders can do? >> look, during my tenure we saw the rise o

amnesia on the rest of it, but we also learned that the source -- and that was the bulk of data andrew mccabe said no christopher steele files that hillary dossier did, there would be no warrants. we now know that all of it was from a guy that our own fbi knew to be a russian operative for ten years. we don't have a lot of time, your reaction? >> president trump: it's a scam. they spied on our campaign, they got caught. the only sad thing, nothing is happening with them. they are a bunch of crooks. they spied on our campaign, they got caught. they tried to do a coup, and they got caught. now we have to see what it's going to happen. it's time to move. this is ridiculous. this is ridiculous, it's so sad. we caught them spying on our campaign, it never happened before. by the before and after. it never happened before. he couldn't remember anything, but he's writing before. these books. they should all be in jail, it's disgraceful. it's a disgrace for to our country if they don't go to ja jail. hillary clinton got caught, comey got caught, they all got caught. that was a big part of it. obama,

senate judiciary postpone ad hearing with former fbi director andrew mccabe.nt to testify, it is not safe. we don't want him doing zoom, it woe be unfair -- he is citing sally yates getting interrupted in his testimony. this comes a week after james comey denied knowing what was happening in his own trump-russia probe about two dozen times. your reaction to andrew mccabe saying he is not going to testify? >> well look, it is pretty clear. this was the number two at the department, at the fbi. he is in the middle of this whole russia gate hoax. what happened is, now they have got busted because clearly we found documents that we have never seen, that i had never seen until last friday. i've addressed this over the weekend but those documents need to be made public. i think comey squirmed away from it, wouldn't answer the question. he couldn't recall anything last week. so it is no surprise to me that mccabe's not going to show up because i think he is clearly got, you know, he has got serious questions to answer and i think the senate needs to subpoena him alth

joining me now andrew mccabe and analyst rick hassen and juliet kaiyem. >> it sounds like i did not see this press conference. it sounds like they did go into detail on russia but the dni is saying that this iran activity of threatening democratic voters was designed to hurt trump. >> that's a great question. provisionally, the feedback they held this conference about election meddling by foreign power so close to the election itself, shows you how far we have come to 2016. >> the administration opted not to go forcefully of election meddling. what you are seeing is an intelligence community and certainly the fbi and joined by the dni trying to lean forward to have that sort of inoculation effect to let people know that they should be consumers of what they see online. whether or not they're trying to help or hurt president trump, i would like to see more about that. there should be really solid analysis under-pending that judgment. i don't think we got enough details. >> juliet, it jumps out at me at this stage that they're not talking about russian efforts and the iranian efforts as b

use of one of the most intrusive tools the fbi has been entrusted with makes me wonder whether andrew mccabening the fbi. i suspect mccabe and an outside influence over the bureau at the time and he certainly had an agenda, his own personal political agenda so it is sad to see the fbi dragged into the politics of the situation. i feel bad for the men and women of the fbi who had to deal with this person. >> the alternative, do you believe comey being a lawyer at a pretty good lawyer, a very educated individual conveniently forgot key information on a very big investigation. >> no question about it. good lawyer lousy leader. his memory was so selective and his answers so carefully crafted it reminded me of bill clinton's testimony and hillary clinton's testimony were you just say i don't recall, i don't have any memory of that, don't have any details about that but it is absolutely ludicrous to think the director of the fbi wouldn't know more about the most important investigation the fbi ever handled. >> looking a portion of this letter on hillary clinton, the alleged approval by hillary cli

appointment of special counsel robert mueller. >> he said i've heard you were part of the resistance. >> andrew mccabeas fired. >> i said i'm not sure what you are referring to, sir. i heard you were one of the people who didn't agree with jim comey. and i said, no, sir, that's not true. he was looking for me to adopt his false narrative. >> reporter: the president's false narrative that comey was fired for mishandling the hillary clinton e-mail probe. >> we had to consider was he truly fired because the president didn't want us to continue investigating this idea of russian collusion? >> reporter: investigators felt confident of that, after president trump said this on prime-time tv. >> and, in fact, when i decided to just do it. i said to myself. i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. it's an excuse, by the democrats, for having lost an election. it's ridiculous. it's ridiculous with the probe. >> reporter: a ridiculous probe the president attempted to discredit in an extraordinary moment. >> mr. president, i'll give this ball to you and now the ball is in your

. >> two stop republican senators are pushing feds to hand over all of andrew mccabe's text messagesto the russia probe. senators ron johnson and chuck grassley writing a letter to christopher ray saying in part, quote, it is simply an acceptable we've waited so long to receive so little, text messages released earlier this month were given to them years ago. so far they've only received 8%, the 300 pages they now exist. michigan supreme court strikes down governor gretchen witmer's pandemic executive orders effective immediately, following the court actually but the governor violated the state constitution, they asked to delay the ruling from taking effect until october 30th for transition, michigan's health department issued separate orders on facemasks and limits on gatherings that are not affected by the decision. today is really leaders are set to debate how to reopen the economy from a nationwide covid-19 lockdown as british lawmakers vote on new restrictions. >> good morning, 38 million people around the world have been infected with covid-19 and now countries are tasked with

gina haspel, the head of the cia is stopping the release of text messages between andrew mccabe and lisae we ever going to get accountability as long-time bureaucrats are stopping the release of information to actually inform the public of what took place. >> you're so right, that we need to know once and for all. we're talking about events from four years ago. why haven't we known the facts? so thank goodness for john ratcliffe. he's moving the process forward quickly and we can't move too quickly at this stage. we don't know what's going to happen in the election. whaif the election goes a certan way, the inquiry is totally over of. we need to know the truth about exactly what hillary did and what her campaign did. we think we know but we need the documentation. maria: do you agree we won't hear another word about this if biden and harris win? >> absolutely. it is all over. that's the advantage of having the levers of power. you get to control. maria: yeah. and in the past administration the leaves of power gave them an opportunity to create a narrative that didn't exist and turn the i

. >> andrew mccabe, thank you so much. >> thanks, brianna. >> it is a big story that's unfolding threebefore election day, early voters standing in huge lines. we're going to take you there. plus after florida's football coach said he wanted to see 90,000 fans in the stands, a cluster breaks out on his team. under way now the second round of questions to the supreme court nominee, but it's the questions that she is not answering that are making headlines. when i was in high school, this was the theater i came to quite often. the support we've had over the last few months has been amazing. it's not just a work environment. everyone here is family. if you are ready to open your heart and your home, check us out. we thought for sure that we were done. and this town said: not today. ♪ ahe can't write you a letter.. she can't give you a hug. they can't thank you. and we can't thank you enough. to all of our petsmart associates... for being selfless... for being tireless... for always being there... caring for every pet like they were your own. we say thank you. >>> up to eight hours of stan

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todd: it comes as the senate judiciary committee postpones testimony from andrew mccabe after the formereputy director raised covid health concerns. all right, watch this, a dramatic rescue caught on camera. four injured national guard members air-lifted to safety after assisting in the wildfire fight in california. the group found themselves trapped on a mountainside while battling the bear fire. their only way out was up. the men were treated for leg injuries and heat exhaustion. they have all been released from the hospital. jillian: a sign of relief, some evacuation orders are lifted as firefighters get a handle on the glass fire in california. residents can return home in sonoma and napa counties. the wildfire has destroyed nearly 65,000 acres. meteorologist adam klotz joins us with more on the weather conditions that firefighters continue to face. it's been brutal, adam. >> it really has been brutal. the good news as you're saying, things are beginning to improve ayou cross portions of california. there's a lot of wildfires out there, 66 of 100 acres or greater. most of those are i

with andrew mccabe and others. why don't they tell you? because they don't like the truth. i like the fact that you give me a chance to tell you every night. thank you. god bless you and your families. now it's time for the big show. cnn tonight with d. lemon right now. >> the unmasking. can you believe it's a scandal, unmasking? >> yes i do believe there was spying. >> the deep state. there was spying. >> remember they said to me spying. they don't like the word. no, spying. yeah. spying. where's the spying? where is it? >> there was none. >> all the resources. you can't find anything? >> unmasking the spying and the obamagate >> i use the doj to look at you for six months i'll find you unmasking. you don't even work there. >> i told our viewers last night where the real unmasking was. it's happening at the trump rallies and obviously at the trump white house that is a super spreader residence. >> amen. >> yes. so listen. that is outrageous. i got to tell you though. the story of the day. you know what everyone is talking about, everyone i know? they are outraged about wha

over the internet now it's a shame these guys aren't going to testify before the senda maria: so andrew mccabe is saying he's not going to testify on virtual ly? because of covid? >> yeah that's right exactly. i mean -- maria: unbelievable. >> these guys are such good agents they even, they know more than medical doctors know. he doesn't want to get covid over zoom or skype. i mean it's a joke. it's ridiculous. maria: it's unbelievable, yeah, i understand. i understand what you're saying it's absolutely unbelievable and for four years, you came on my show, this program, and you laid it all out and i know you've been asking demanding documents you never got them coming up we continue this conversation with ric grenell stay with us. maria: welcome back. we just heard from congressman devon nunes and he said the plot to take down president donald trump was far more sinister than anybody ever expected. my sources tell me that dni ratcliffe declassified only a small portion of the intelligence which implicates hillary clinton. there is more. even so, without ratcliffe and his predecessor ric grenel

these newly-released texts show then-fbi deputy director andrew mccabe and then-fbi attorney lisa page about media reports unfavorable to donald trump. one text exchange shows that page forwarded mccaulk a law fair article -- mccabe a law fair article questioning whether trump was a russian agent. a newly-declassified fbi spread sheet shows the fbied had very little reason to ever believe christopher steele would be a credible source for anything, yet they chose to use him any and his phony dossier. that spread sheet was released, with redactions, but it shows how the fbi couldn't corroborate any of the dossier's claims and used their own media leaks to try to substantiate and build the credibility of their claims of trump-russia collusion. you know, the idea put forward by one hillary clinton. joining us now is "just the news" editor-in-chief john solomon, author of "fallout: nuclear bribes, russian spies and the washington lies that enriched the clinton and biden dynasties." this is, first, it's great to have you with us, john. >> thank you, lou. lou: this is, i think, a fascinating

maria: so andrew mccabe is saying he's not going to testify virtually because of covid?that's right, exactly. i mean. maria: unbelievable. >> these guys are such good agents, they know more than medical doctors know. he doesn't want to get covid over zoom or skype. i mean, it's a joke. it's ridiculous. maria: it's unbelievable. i understand. i understand what you're saying. it's absolutely unbelievable. and for four years you came on my show, this program, and you laidra it all out. i know you've been asking for documents, you never got them. coming up, we continue our conversation with ric grenell. stay with us.s n their windshied got a chip. they drove to safelite for a same-day repair. and with their insurance, it was no cost to them. >> woman: really? >> tech: that's service you can trust. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ four years behind us. to end the anger, the insults, the division. and start fresh in america. i don't pledge allegiance to red states of america or blue states of america. i pledge allegiance to the united states of america. i'm g

and we should remind everyone that andrew mccabe, the former fbi director, refusing to appear on congressgate. joining us tonight is ric grenell, former acting director of the national intelligence, of national intelligence and former u.s. ambassador to germany, now senior adviser to the republican national committee. john ratcliffe releasing documents today for john durham, and my first question has to be to you. why is he announcing that he's releasing documents and supports john durham at this moment? that, to me, has been a little confusing. can you help us out? >> well, first of all, lou, there are thousands of documents that need to be declassified and that need to be given to congress, the senate, to durham, to investigators. and those in oversight positions. we just haven't had the ability to be transparent yet. washington has tried to spoon feed this information for a very long time, and it's the ways of washington. it's -- they try to wear out the public so that when you hear russian collusion after at least three years talking about it, now the public is dismissive or reporters

. >> former acting director of the fbi, andrew mccabe, said this tonight.ity doesn't come out with an official analytical judgment along the lines of the iranians were trying to hurt donald trump without rock solid evidence to prove that and we got none of that evidence tonight from dni ratcliffe. do you expect any more evidence to be forth coming? >> well, i do expect, and i hope to get more insight of evidence. what we may be seeing from director ratcliffe is something we've seen in the past. the connation of two different things in a misleading fashion. there may be a body of intelligence suggesting that iran has a preference in the election and iran may be even acting on that preference. but in terms of these two actions that he's identifying tonight which seem to either cut in the opposite direction by propagating the president's false statements about the sa sanctity of our election, or the effort to by email suppress or anger the democratic vote. you can't tell from the surface of those he two actions whether they're a manifestation of some broader i

we want to bring in cnn senior law enforcement analyst, andrew mccabe. he's the former deputy director of the fbi. thanks for being with us. you say that an fbi moves on a plot like this when they see intent and they see capability. clearly, they saw both in this instance. what else jumps out to you from this alarming headline that they arrested people in connection with a plot to kidnap a sitting governor of a state? >> well, john, you're absolutely right. the fbi gets their hands on a lot of information every day, particularly on social media, which is a very effective way of finding extremists and uncovering some of these plots. and many of them don't go any further than boasting nonsense online. but when you look at those two factors, intent and capability, this is a plot that clearly rose to the top of their radar. and it's absolutely, as you say, chilling to look at the indicators of that. the statements that have been recorded in the course of this investigation prove intent beyond any sort of doubt. you've got these folks talking about not just k

over the internet now it's a shame these guys aren't going to testify before the senda maria: so andrew mccabes saying he's not going to testify on virtual ly? because of covid? >> yeah that's right exactly. i mean -- maria: unbelievable. >> these guys are such good agents they even, they know more than medical doctors know. he doesn't want to get covid over zoom or skype. i mean it's a joke. it's ridiculous. maria: it's unbelievable, yeah, i understand. i understand what you're saying it's absolutely unbelievable and for four years, you came on my show, this program, and you laid it all out and i know you've been asking demanding documents you never got them coming up we you i wanted morem coming up we from my copd medicine that's why i've got the power of 1, 2, 3 medicines with trelegy. the only fda-approved once-daily 3-in-1 copd treatment. ♪ trelegy ♪ the power of 1,2,3 ♪ trelegy ♪ 1,2,3 ♪ trelegy woman: with trelegy and the power of 1, 2, 3, i'm breathing better. trelegy works three ways to open airways, keep them open and reduce inflammation, for 24 hours of better breathing. trelegy won

with andrew mccabe and others. why don't they tell you? because they don't like the truth. that you give me a chance to tell you every night. thank you. god bless you and your families. now it's time for the big show. cnn tonight with d. lemon right now. >> the unmasking. can you believe it's a scandal, unmasking? >> yes i do believe there was spying. >> the deep state. there was spying. >> remember they said to me spying. they don't like the word. no, spying. yeah. spying. where's

. >> former deputy fbi director andrew mccabe said last night even in the midst of the politics or allegedlast night that there is a positive note here that shows the intelligence community, agencies like the dhs and fbi forward leaning on foreign interference in this election. there is a lot of concern among our viewers understandably that that kind of interference might make their vote not count. what level of concern should they have or should they be confident that even if the president is not talking about this the fbi, the dhs has their back. >> well, the president is the one behind the steering wheel with his hand on the pedal -- or his foot on the pedal and the brakes and he steers this country and people may be in the car pointing to the president saying don't go in that direction or go in this direction, but if he doesn't listen to them he could take our democracy off a cliff. so you could have the best fbi agents on this task but if the president is not giving directives the president is not telling vladimir putin stop doing this. if he is not putting tough sanctions on russia a

andrew mccabe, thanks for joining us, the new book "the threat how the fbi protects america in the age of terror and trump." thanks for joining us. "erin burnett outfront" starts "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>>"outfront" next, what is it with trump and white supremacists? the white house today refusing to unequivocally denounce white supremacists? why is this so hard? the leader of the proud boys, trump told to stand by, also a leader of a grass roots group for trump. the president says he doesn't know who the proud boys are. when it comes to masks in the white house, it comes down to looks, how trump's obsession, his vanity, costs lives. let's go "outfront." >>> and good evening. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, why can't trump quit white supremacists? the president and his white house again today unable and unwilling to unambiguously denounce white supremacy. here's the exchange between white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany and a fox news reporter. >> as the person who speaks for the president, does the president denounc

you also have people on the inside of the department of justice like james comey, andrew mccabe, it isump campaign's opinion that these individuals have, you know, lied, testified to congress under oath and were viewed by the inspector general as lacking in candor. why did they get off and everybody else you just put up on the list have, you know, the full weight of the law brought against them? why are there two separate systems in this case? >> well, you're posing it as a question. you got trump appointees running the doj and we just reported on how even their probes didn't find the there there. so the factual answer those people weren't found to have committed crimes. you and others have basically pled guilty to some. but mr. gates, as i mentioned to my viewers, you're someone who has come on when others haven't. i appreciate you joining us on "the beat" tonight. >> ari, thanks very much for the opportunity. i appreciate it. >> thank you. we'd love to have you back. keep in touch. again, the book "wicked touch" is out now. we'll be right back. ♪ i started out as a cashier. i mean, t

. >> i want to go to the former fbi director andrew mccabe. so according to court documents, the people planning this, discussed taking action again multiple states government violating the u.s. constitution. do you this i ththink this plaq could be bigger? >> it certainly is. i think it is important to concentrate the words the fbi agent used. he described in court on june 6th that adam fox and barry croft, two of the individuals met with 12 or more militia members from five different states, they talked about grabbing governors and michigan and virginia governors. that language does not rule out any other activities that are being thought about or possibly considered or planned in any of those three or four other states. that's what we theneed to look first. these militia groups, these antigovernment groups have been really multiplying in the last few years, there is not a state in this country that does not have some of militia presence in the state. i am quite sure my former colleague in the fbi are spending a lot of times looking at those

it makes a mockery -- maria: by the way, andrew mccabe, the number two guy at the fbi, former number covid off of the internet because he canceled his appearance. he's supposed to be testifying in front of the senate judiciary committee this week. >> i thought he committed perjury and went to jail. maria: no. he was supposed to -- >> comey should be in jail. maria: he said he's not going to testify because of covid. >> that's right. maria: you had a bombshell disclosure last week. lawmakers now want more information from john ratcliffe, intelligence agencies, regarding dni ratcliffe's newly declassified information on hillary clinton and russia in the 2016 election. congressman devin nunes was with me on sunday morning futures to talk about this. you've got to he react to this. listen to this, rudy. this is incredible. will the american people understand what took place under joe biden and barack obama's watch? >> we want every damn bit of evidence that every intelligence agency has or it's maybe time to shut those agencies down because at the end of the day, our liberties are more i

perspective now from andrew mccabe.chief of staff in the trump administration. also, cnn analyst. andy, i want to start with you. attorney general william barr has traveled up and down the country to appear in public for any event that has to do with condemning or cracking down on leftist violence. he's held briefings. he's appeared in -- you know, in settings condemning urban violence, as well. but not only did he not travel to michigan to be on camera here, but he hasn't briefed the public, at all. hasn't said anything in public, at all, about a plot to kidnap a sitting governor. what does that tell you? >> john, thanks for having me. it is really, really puzzling. i can tell you, from having had the experience of overseeing these sorts of investigations, for years. and also, from having had to brief many attorneys general on exactly these sorts of operations. i can tell you, there is no way the attorney general wasn't briefed on this investigation, as it went forward. if the fbi worked a case in which the governor wa

we'll see if john durham comes out with charges against jim comey and andrew mccabe who obviously were and running this investigation. but kim strassel writes that this all took place in barack obama's and joe biden's washington and she runs through the list of those eight years. don't underestimate the number of americans who fear a return to that world, lowest learner harassing conservative nonprofits, supervisors of the ntsb losing guns, the environmental protection agency minions who burned companies with ever-changing rules, the bureau of land management harassment of ranchers and farmers, energy department officials steering stimulus payouts to cylindra and other project of obama donors. we haven't heard one word out of joe biden about the wrong-doing at the fbi. has he said anything about the fact that an fbi agent doctored a piece of evidence so they could bring down trump? >> well, of course not because i think he's as guilty as anybody else. obviously promoting the logan act to target general flynn. an egregious abuse of power. this ultimately -- brennan briefed obama on clin

. >> you are waiting on andrew mccabe number two guy at fbi former number two guy you want his textseceived, senator. >> well,his e-mail tell us a lot that we don't know what a little bit we have seen learning more, but we know there is a lot more there, because when we were down at justice department, we saw a whole binder of books of his e-mails, and so yesterday johnson and i wrote a follow-up now why are wouldn't first letter that we sent, long time ago, get every e-mail that is is what you asked for, but there is something embarrassing in these e-mails that they want to cover-up. maria: unbelievable no mention whatsoever of how they trampled on americans' rights liberties throughout 2016, 2017 to take down a president simply didn't like they wanted hillary clinton to win as simple as that what do you say? >> is it yeah there is no doubt, listen there is one those text messages i obtained able to report on recently lisa page sent mccabe an article that is now completely -- debunked conspiracy theory de bufrngs everyed by british court cia fbi mueller she said is a couple days bef

. >> one piece of information that was not classified, statements of andrew mccabe.ould you make the commitment to deliver those to us in our possession? >> i'll be happy to look into it and get to someone as quickly as we can as to where that stands. >> appreciate it. in the department of justice, inspector general horowitz's report, former assistant director was quoted as saying the fbi did not have any indication whatsoever as of may, 2017, that the russians were running a disinformation campaign. because my staff uncovered four classified footnotes and i think that points to why this is so important that we make this information available, but in those four classified footnotes we now know the fbi in early, october 16, the cross fire hurricane team actually did obtain information from a steele sub source that quote, he was suspected of being linked to russian intelligence services and rumored to be former kgb officer. in january 2017 the fbi started interviewing those subsources and found out that steele's reporting was misstated exaggerated based on rumor and sp