he was the curse of the clinton campaign, anthony weiner was caught engaging in communication with a minor, a crime for which he is now in prison. prior to the day he was caught engaging in electronic sexual communication with a minor, anthony weiner was not considered a problem for the campaign, even though five years earlier nancy pelosi forced him to resign because of sending pictures -- well, we know. pictures that were a result of a sickness he could not control he said. his scandals over the years after he left the house of representatives, was twice as big of a story because he was married to huma abedin. hillary clinton's staff member. it brings us to the pe cue lar thing that james comey said. this came in the section of the inspector general's report where he is trying to and failing to explain why it took the fbi a full month to begin the investigation of anthony weiner's laptop. the e-mails were discovered on september 28th and supervisors were alerted, who alerted washington that there was material on the laptop, about 300,000 or more e-mails that could be related to the

. >> on that point, do you think hillary was right 11 days saying the anthony weiner matter opened the whole thing again had an effect on the results. >> certainly it had enough of an effect to change the outcome? it's probably true but you can't prove that. the second take away is that contrary to what the republicans were saying for a year and a half before the election and to this day, there was no bias in the fbi, there was no bias in the department of justice. and they were trying to push the department of justice as they're trying to pressure the special prosecutor now as they're trying to taipt the jury pool against whatever he says now. this is important to say there was no political bias whatsoever. >> what jumped out at me because i'm a political person, i pay attention, read all the papers. i know you were at the heart of coming from the new york media. do you think it's believable because this is in the report, that james comey, the head of the fbi did not note that huma abedin did, was married to anthony weiner, the congressman in new york who got in all the trouble? didn'

how amazing it must need to be anthony weiner.e might be one of the few people who is happy he is in jail. the fact is if it wasn't for his laptop and his lap, trump wouldn't have been elected. he kept -- we should be thinking anthony weiner. he kept hillary out of office. it's really about him and huma. more evidence donald trump can turn people into emotional high school freshman. strzok and page were like characters in the david bowie song "heroes." up against the wall. they are going to do anything they can. so deeply emotional for them. they were like star-crossed lovers in a romantic song. >> kimberly: hollywood starlets. >> greg: i think it is weird timing that the day this report comes out come of the media gets a gift in the state of new york suing trump of the trump foundation. it's incredibly well played. >> jesse: it's just a coincidence. >> greg: no, it's not. party and media working hand-in-hand. to me it is so obvious and wrong. >> jesse: it is. to greg's point. they sat on these emails for a month. strzok was behin

reporter: one other reason why the fbi may have been slow to move on those e-mails found on anthony weiner's laptop, comey told the inspector general he didn't know that weiner was married to yuma aberdeen, hillary clinton's closest aid. tonight comey says he disagrees with parts of the report but finds its overall conclusions reasonable. lester? >> pete williams tonight, thanks. >>> we'll turn now to the nbc news report making a lot of headlines as thousands of people protest the trump administration's zero tolerance policies that separate families illegally crossing the boarder. tonight we're taking you inside america's largest detention facility for migrant children holding 1400 kids apart from their parents. nbc's jacob soboroff was one of the first reporters granted access and joins us now from brownsville, texas with your first look inside. jacob, good evening. >> reporter: good evening to you, lester. i have to tell you it was a shocking and frankly overwhelming experience to go inside this former walmart called the casa padre shelter. it is more like a jail or a prison inside because

to seek a second search warrant for the anthony weiner laptop. rt itself provides indisputable evidence that when informed that weiner's laptop contained clinton emails strzok immediately had this matter pursued by two of his most qualified and aggressive investigators. judge, we have been signature here together trying to pars this out. how do you think reaction is at the white house to this report? >> silence, which president was told to inspect a lot more. there is r. some e-mails and texts we hadn't seen. but in terms the errors of judgment of jim comey, not of bob mueller, of jim comey in terms of the mountain of evidence sufficient to charge and convict mrs. clinton, in terms the impropriety of attorney general lynch's meeting with bill clinton, there is nothing new. there is no new information. >> dana: it doesn't appear really to go into the root of the matter which was hillary clinton's decision to have a private email server. >> it astounds me that there is no recommendation for the indictment of hillary clinton. as wrong as the judgment

> reporter: one of the reasons why the fbi may have been slow to act on the e-mails found on anthony weiner's laptop, comey told the inspector general he didn't know weiner was married to huma abedin, clinton's closest aide. philip? >> peelt, thank you. overnight we got fresh reaction from the president's lawyer rudy giuliani who shows why the mueller probe should be shutdown as he calls for disciplinary action against the investigators who texted about stopping trump. here's what giuliani had to say. >> i believe that rod rosenstein and jeff sessions have a chance to redeem themselves and that chance comes about tomorrow. doesn't go beyond tomorrow. tomorrow mueller should be suspended and honest people should be brought in, impartial people to investigate these people like strzok. strzok should be in jail by the end of next week. >> now to president trump who has been hit with more legal trouble this time involving his personal charity. the attorney general for new york state filed a lawsuit against the president and his three oldest children alleging the trump foundation engaged in, quote,

bottom line is they're saying these e-mails on the anthony weiner computer were not significant enough -- and the fbi did not know enough about them to force comey to make this dramatic decision to announce he was re-opening the investigation ten days or whatever it was before the election. that was a huge departure from justice department policy and practice. we've known this for some time, katy, but james comey's a persuasive guy. he's gone on television in reasonable tones and suggested he actually had good reasons behind his decisions. but this inspector general completely repudiates comey's reasoning there. >> frank, are you still with us? we lost frank. jess, i'll pose this to you. not attacking -- i don't want to say it like that. by -- if james comey loses his credibility, if this ig report takes away james comey's credibility, at least some of it, dents it, if those on the clinton campaign come out and say, look what james comey did. he has no credibility. is there a concern that what you, in effect, are doing is handing over a gift to the president and to republicans to say j

confidence that struck was free from bias when he prioritized the russia investigation over the anthony weiner e-mails. overall the inspector general report found there was no conspiracy against president trump in the 2016 clinton investigation. but it detailed a consequence of events that created the ingredients for a conspiracy or appearance of impropriety. as to james comey, the report concludes even though he was facing difficult decisions, he made the wrong choices, not because he was biassed or crooked, he just got it wrong. jim acosta joins us now. explain what the white house reaction has been to the report. >> we heard from the white house press secretary earlier today, she said this report confirms the president's belief that there were biases inside the investigation. we've been reporting, there was no political bias in the investigation, although it did say what you were referring to that these fbi agents were exchanging these anti-trump texts. although that one fbi lawyer lisa paige has already left the bureau. >> you mention sarah sanders encouraging people to tune in to christop

"anthony weiner texting 15-year-old." thousands of emails. they had a conversation about which emails would be allowed to be looked at in this case in which would be set aside. that also raises a lot of questions. huma abedin and hillary clinton exchanged thousands of emails apparently. i don't think they were looked at in this investigation at all. bobby, your reaction. >> i think that specific question has to do with the search warrants. the office of the fbi who got the laptop search warrant, for the sex crimes case against anthony weiner. that has specificity with a warrant. they were looking for emails of that type. when that was transferred to washington, they were looking for different things. that's why they call went from new york to washington saying did you get your warrant? you need to get a warrant for the stuff you want to look for on the laptop. to sol's point, it's my opinion they were sitting on the laptop and they thought they could sit on until after the election. when new york called donaldson what are you doing with this,

mid-year related investigative lead, meaning the finding that huma abedin e-mails on betweanthony anthony weiner' laptop is concerning. he said under these circumstances we did not have confidence that strzok's decision to prioritize the russia investigation over the following up on this mid-year related investigation lead was from free from bias. >> evan perez is with us as well. what impact does this have on the legitimacy of the overall clinton e-mail server investigation. >> i think, wolf, the people at the justice department, people at the fbi who were very concerned about how this would come across have to be relieved that the inspector general went through the step of saying that he found no evidence to support the idea of political bias. i think that's a huge finding for the legitimacy of this investigation because, look, they looked at the facts. the inspector general points out there are things that support the decision, the ultimate decision not to bring charges against hillary clinton that apparently james comey, the former fbi director, didn't even mention when he did his solo press

the time the fbi found the e-mails on anthony weiner's computer and the 20-day gap until james comey told the world and the congress about that which was so close to the election. why the gap. that's one of the things i'm waiting to hear from this report. >> the whole question of andrew mccabe. were there leaks from the fbi office in new york city that were referenced by rudy giuliani. he said he have kind of just assuming it. he didn't have inside information. there's a whole lot at stake here for the fbi. >> we're all eagerly awaiting this 500-page report and will be reading it furiously. there's a couple of things we need to quickly search for. one is are there any criminal referrals coming out of this. does it look like anybody violated the law. second, will it recommend and likely so, any discipline for on board fbi or doj employees. say for example, pete struck. we know that lisa page who peter was having an affair with has departed but will there be any on board discipline. we have to ask if this journey looked difference or should we be in a different place today. should we n

federal prosecutors began investigating former new york congressman anthony weiner for sexual communicationswith a minor. of course, weiner was the husband of top hillary clinton aide huma aberdeen. then about a month later, 11 days before the election, james comey wrote a letter to congress and he alerted them, announcing that e-mails investigators found on weiner's laptop could potentially be relevant to their old case. hillary clinton has pointed to this exact announcement as ruining her chances to win the white house. it was just days after that deputy attorney general andrew mccabe recused himself, and then on november 6, just two days before the presidential election, director james comey sent a second letter to congress where he concluded that, based on our review, we have not changed our conclusion that we expressed in july, again, closing out that hillary clinton investigation. she said the damage is done. two days later, president trump was elected president, and now we use this timeline and draw some conclusions on how the investigation was handled. wolf? >> jessica, thank you ver

that is done before the decision to a slow walk the investigation into anthony weiner's -- of the emails on his computer. and the ig says, that's a place where the political virus could have infected this entire thing. >> and it was also done right around the time that we know that the other investigation, cross fire hurricane, was being opened into the trump campaign. and strzok was involved in both of them. at 558 pages, it's like the war and peace of judgment. everyone, from hillary clinton who started this with the emails on a classified server to emails between strzok and page, including james comey, including andrew mccabe, including some half-dozen officials that have been reassigned or retired sense of scandal has developed, they all exercised great misjudgment. they all put their own self-interest and self conception and their own sanctimony ahead of what were normal procedures that should have been followed throughout. >> bret: we will dive into this more, the gym comey response and some other reaction, more with the panel after a quick break. it's just a burst pipe, i could fi

the hilarious thing, it all goes back to anthony weiner.s all about the emails on his la ifhat hadn't happened, that ly, s would probably be president. what caused her the election is anthony weiner's stupidity. >> juan: what the inspector general is looking at is the initial report that came from comey when he said she made mistakes but we don't think there's any grounds here for indictment. let me ask you about that. the counterargument coming from foump is putting pressure ecause he's to undermine comey's credibility. if the inspector general is critical of ban behavior commit undermines his credibility. >> kimberly: i think portis wants the information and is worried there are redactions happening. they are making changes to it. they want to see the version prior to being watered down. he wants to see the report. it is supposed to come out. what is the delay, what's going on behind the scenes? behind closed doors. what are they doing? what are they redirecting? is it going to be watere to the point that it is less impactful? >> juan: br

delay in reviewing the e-mails related to the clinton investigation found on former congressman anthony weiner'sscore he doesn't say that strozk is blamed for the delay, he said he can't rule out political bias from his mind. strozk's lawyer said that plhe cannot rule out political bias. in fact, all facts contained in the record lead to the conclusion that the delay was caused by a variety of factors and miscommunications that had nothing to do with special agent strozk's political views. in the inspector general report, they do find that he searched for evidence, sofs it was broader than just page and strzok. he said could i find no evidence in the e-mails, texts or other documents that suggested an improper purpose. >> laura, thank you for that. i want to get some quick reaction over on capitol hill from democratic congressman david cicilline. i think what's very important is the president will try to conflate the two to undermine the ongoing investigation. this was about the handling of the clinton investigation. i think mr. comey departed from the practices and the norms of the department a

when you mentioned anthony weiner and laptop, that's a pretty horrific picture, and hillary clinton, it made a lot of people who were hillary supporters go, maybe there's something there, they're investigating. i felt that was the clincher. >> how can you say that credibly to see it was fair for the ig to handle the hillary clinton investigation, but not fair to lay blame or at least some responsibility on the way they've handled the early stages of the russia investigation? >> this was not the fbi so much, it was comey. comey took it upon himself outside of fbi regulations and rules to open that investigation within two weeks of a presidential election. he violated the rules and he felt he needed to do it. he was our savior. and he went beyond. that wasn't the fbi. the fact is, the president, where he says this report vindicates him, this report had nothing to do with the mueller investigation and didn't vindicate him. the warriors' win over the cavaliers vindicated him as much as this did, and i'm surprised the president didn't say steph curry did it to vindicate him. >> i didn't k

comey's decision to send the october 28th letter about the discovery of clinton e-mails on anthony weiner's lab top. comey made a serious judgment. i respect the work of his office and all of our leaders need to understand that accountability and transparency are essentially to the functioning of our democracy even when it involves criticism. >> all right. houf however, the report could not rule out that bias may have had a role in the followup to claim e-mails found on anthony weiner's laptop. it uncovered this anti trump text message between lisa paige and agent peter struck. trump is not ever going to become president, right? he said no, we'll stop it. he told investigators that was about election not any official action the investigation would take. and struck and paige were critical regardless of party affiliation but the report did not have confidence that the decision to prioritize work on russia investigation after following up on the lead on the weiner laptop was free from bias. the atlantic reports this response. there is simply no ekwif lance in -- equivalence and incredible sugg

the reason he sits on the anthony weiner pedophile laptop. they were married by bill clinton!ctor! we will relaunch the war of 1812. they should be reduced to a budget of some police department to than they might be able to figure out whether -- who huma abedin is married to. >> tucker: out great mark steyn improved even by yourpi presence in canada. you are helping that country by being there. mark steyn, great to see you. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: donald trump jr. joins us next to discuss the ig report and the new lawsuit by the attorney general of the state of new york against the trump foundation announced today. we'll be right back. ♪ rcycle insurance with geico! goin' up the country. love mom and dad' i'm takin' a nap. dude, you just woke up! ♪ ♪ i'm goin' up the country, baby don't you wanna go? ♪ ♪ i'm goin' up the country, baby don't you wanna go? ♪ geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides. red lobster's lobster & shrimp hesummerfest is back!h. get all the lobster and shrimp you crave, together in so many new ways. there's new cedar plank seafood bake. ten

regular agent investigating anthony weiner on unrelated sex charges.as hearing was really making me uncomfortable because something was going to come crashing down. i'm telling you, that we have potentially 10 times the volume that director comey said we had on the record. i'm a little scared here. i don't care who wins this election. but this is going to make us look really, really horrible. he goes on to say, you know, i felt i needed to let them know about this. this is an agent saying i found all these emails. i sent them off to headquarters. i'm getting contradicts. why am i not hearing anything? that's what you want from an fbi agent and he feels like for a month he was stonewalled, who knows why. now we are hearing that no bias bias report from michael horowitz who did a lot of great homework but appears came to conclusion no bias here. abby: why did they sit on it a month. this was in 2016 in october right before the election. walls this because they were so focused on what was going on with donald trump at the time and looking at the potential

there was an awareness that these e-mails were on anthony weiner's laptop in september and then theyrant until late october. so these two are also going to be criticized, we understand. >> yeah, absolutely. i think for former ag lynch, a big concern is failure of leadership. i get the fact she had been burned by the tarmac conversation but she doubled down on that. with regard to mccabe, the big question is the timing. that's a great october surprise. and the question is going to be what intent was really going on there. >> could it have just been a september surprise? who knows? these are all questions we may never know the answers to. shan, thank you so much. appreciate it. >>> samantha bee back on her show and apologizing to ivanka trump for a very vulgar comment using a word that begins with "c." what she says she would have done differently. do not mistake serenity for weakness. do not misjudge quiet tranquility for the power of 335 turbo-charged horses. the lincoln mkx, more horsepower than the lexus rx350. and a quiet interior from which to admire them. for a limited time, get

the reason he sits on the anthony weiner pedophile laptop for a month is that i had no idea she was marriedwidely known? is it in the papers? they were married by bill clinton. you are the fbi director. this is -- why don't you just -- you know, as i said, we are going to come down and relaunch the war of 1212. they should be reduced to the budget of some police department and then they might be able to figure out where the huma abedin is married. to say. >> tucker: out great mark steyn improved even by your presence in canada. you are helping that country by being there. mark steyn, great to see you. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: donald trump jr. joins us next to discuss the ig report and the new lawsuit of the attorney general of the state of new york against the trump foundation announced today. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ before you and your rheumatologist move to another treatment, ask if xeljanz xr is right for you. xeljanz xr is a once-daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well enough. it can reduce pain, swelling and further joint damage

in september 2016 found anthony weiner's laptop with 100,000 e-mails on it. the question is why did the t f.b.e one month before actually looking at those e-mails to see if they were pertinent or not? also they concluded they weren't pertinent, there was nothing, there but it waited until a month after opening that laptop. this report says all of the reasons given for that delay are not plausible. >> woodruff: just quickly, we should note that hillary clinton has rweeted a tweet today ybout the fact that james come was using his own personal e-mail and system ofma eil and she says, "what about my e-mails?" finally, lisa, president trump has repeatedly pointed to the clinton investigation, comey's handling of this whole thing, inying this is evidence that there was bias a him. where does the report come down on that? >> the report is very clear that james comey did not have a bias of any sort and that this wasse rate from the mueller investigation. really the president is trying to influence the muelver igation here. as far as this report goes, thew arseparate

the attorney general or the to come outthe time and it announced the additional emails from the anthony weiner probes. so you have to prove what they the election at the end and i'm sure they will be asking questions along that line. from the republicans, you should expect to hear about the text messages related to the officials,ith fbi also involved in the russian investigation, texting, showing bias against trump to show that they didn't want him to be elected. since those officials were involved in the russian investigation, i think the public will want to know whether there is bias in the russian investigation. host: lindsey graham from rosie gray from atlantic magazine. guest: the president's allies have used this as a munition and the ongoing case against the fbi. even though what the report says fbi behavedthe actually benefited hillary clinton in the end. basically it played into the long-running narrative that the white house has pushing the biased -- not acting virtually. and trump is pushing the message that it exonerates him and the russia probe that it isn't about the russia probe

faced an impossible choice after new clinton emails were discovered on a laptop belonging to anthony weiner. comey informed congress of the new evidence, which leaked out days before the 2016 election. >> there were no good options. >> reporter: the inspector general rejected this characterization as a "false dichotomy," and said, "the two doors were actually labeled 'follow policy and practice' and 'depart from policy and practice'." comey declined to comment today when approached in minneapolis. >> ( laughs ) no, i'm not going to say anything. >> reporter: the report also suggests f.b.i. agent peter strzok, who led both the clinton and russia investigations, may have acted improperly. during its investigation, the inspector general uncovered text messages strzok exchanged with top f.b.i. lawyer lisa page. in august 2016, page texted strzok asking, "he, trump, is not ever going to become president, right? right?" struck replied, "no, no, he won't. we'll stop it." late this afternoon the current f.b.i. director christopher wray reacted to the inspector general's report. >> the report does i

have been slow to move on those e-mails found s on anthony weine laptop, he said he didn't know anthony weiner was married to huma abedin. disagrees but finds the overall conclusions reasonable, lester? >> pete williams, thanks. >>> we'll turn now to the nbc news report that's making a lot of headlines as thousands of people join a nationwide protest tonight against the trump adminiration's zero tolerance policy that separates famies illegally crossing the border. tonight, we're taking you inside america's largest detention facility for migrant children holding over 1400 kids apart from their parents. nbc's jacob ins us from brownsville texas with the first look inside. jacob, good evening. ep >>ter: good evening to you, lester. it was a shocking and frankly overwhelming experience to gosi this former walmart that's a shelter. they call it a shelter but it's more like a jail or prison inside because these kids are incarcerated 22 hours a day. they are inside and get to go outside for only two hours. we were not aloud to bring our cameras inside this facility but we were handed video. these kid

faced an impossible choice after new clinton e-mails were discovered on a laptop belonging to anthony weinerhe told congress of the evidence which leaked out days before the 2016 election. >> there were no good options. >> reporter: the inspector general rejected this characterization as a false dichotomy and said, the two doors were actually labeled follow policy and practice and depart from policy and practice. the report also said that peter strzok who led both the clinton and russian investigations may have acted improperly. uncovered text messages strzok exchanged with lawyer lisa page. in august of 2016, page texted strzok asking "he, trump, will never become president, right? right?" and he responded, "no, no, he won't. we will stop it." christopher wray reacted to the report. >> the report does identify errors of judgment, violations of or even disregard for policy and decisions that, at the very least, with the benefit of hindsight, were not the best choices. >> reporter: paula reed, cbs news, washington. >>> president trump's former campaign chairman, paul manafort, is scheduled to

very negligent and did not consult anybody when had additional e-mails that they found from the anthony weiner probe so they said that sure they're asking questions along that line but on the flipside for republicans you should expect to hear a lot about the text messages related to the president with fbi officials also with the russia investigation they didn't want him to be elected and actually. >> and with their ongoing case with the fbi even though how the fbi behaved benefited hillary clinton but it claims this long-running narrative that the fbi is full of bias. and but the investigation is to the clinton e-mails. >> that's a good question. republicans are asking for more documents and if they don't get to them and he is legally obligated so they have a couple of weeks before they are hammered a little more on the issue but i am not sure they have much more they want to do beyond the hearings. >> i think how it goes but then that is the push there is bias against president trump and tha that. >> what is the immigration before we go to our first call. . . . . the house is considerint do t

marie: they cannot determine why they waited so long to look at the anthony weiner laptop.owie: minutes after this report was made public, "new york times" published an op-ed by james i'm that was ready to go. it strikes me as close to collusion. sara: it was minutes after. it gives the appearance the "new york times" was willing to take james comey's op-ed. you had people o right say would go they have done this for a republican? what is james comey's strategy? couldn't he have just put out a statement? howie: and his leaks earlier. we'll talk next segment more about this. the president comes back from north korea and puts up this tweet and really harsh word from the media. so funny to watch thee news. they are fighting hard to down play the deal with north korea. our country's biggest enemy is the fake news so easily promulgated by fools. when he says biggestmy i think it's too much. mollie: he said fake news is an enemy. just speaking -- we need to make sure we are telling accurate facts. on this i.g. report we had two major story lines that have been if you are the last

look at discussion about when andrew mccabe first learned there were hillary clinton emails on anthony weiner'saptop. and they -- did he drag his feet. and hillary clinton would not be charged. and look at while a rather lynch did not appoint special counsel to look into this. and why andrew mccabe took so long to recuse himself. and a related contribution. last thing that we heard most about which is mccabe versus comey, you told me it was a leak, he said no i didn't. we may not get a lot more on that. >> there is some resolution to the mccabe question, he lied to federal agents and investigation to himself, that would be for civilians felony. is that a felony in his case it will he be charged? >> there has been a criminal referral to look into this and by the way, it has been reported mccabe was invited to testify at this judiciary hearing and he has asked fory in exchge for his testimony, to taifth the. unlikely to see him say anything to them but clearly he is concerned about criminal exposure. leland: 500 pages. >> it is a long read. tucker: byron york, a proud source of information, thank

faced an krimpossible choice afr new clinton e-mails were discovered on a laptop belonging to anthony weinerrmed congress of the new evidence, which leaked out days before the 2016 election. >> there were no good options. >> reporter: the inspector general rejected this characterization as a false dichotomy and said "the two doors were actually labeled follow policy and practice and depart from policy and practice." comby declined to comment today when approached in minneapolis. >> i'm not going to say anything. >> reporter: the report also suggests fbi agent peter strzok, who led both the clinton and russia investigations may have acted improperly. during its investigation the inspector general uncovered text messages strzok exchanged with top fbi lawyer lisa page. in august 2016 page texted strzok, asking "he, trump, is not ever going to become president, right? right?" strzok replied, "no. no, he stop it." late this afternoon the current fbi director, christopher wray, reacted to the inspector general's report. >> the report does identify errors of judgment, violations of or even disregar

anthony weiner's soiled devices. federal investigators tipped off the d.c.oys and strong planned the russia investigation was way more of a priority than that stinky old server search. and slow walked hillary's presidency right off a plank. what happened? he thought he was so qulefer and powerful. he promised his side piece the big bad wolf will never in the hen house, let alone the white house. you and your friends are probably doing the exact same thing. the only difference. your subtle chess moves couldn't have influenced the outcome a presidential election. there will be no real accountability from this report. but at least one head will probably roll, and that cool political guillotine has peter strzok's name on the blade. bret baier asked house oversight committee chairman trey gowdy and bob goodlatte about what might happen to peter strzok. and their answer leaves mr. strzok a little nervous. >> why is it our job to prove strzok's bias. i have a better idea. strzok, you come before congress and the american public and prove to us your manifest animus

anyone when he announced the additional e-mails before the election that they found from the anthony weiner probe. democrats feel that it proves that at the nt -- though try to show that what he did all along on the first side with the republicans you would expect to hear about the text messages related to the president and fbi officials who are involved in the investigation also involved in the russia investigation texting showing bias against president trump that they did not want him to be elected in one message saying it would stop him from being elected. i think republicans will want to know if there's bias in the russia investigation. >> what was the white house posture on the ig report since it went out and what is it bracing for? >> trump and his allies use it as ammunition in their ongoing case against the fbi. even though what the report says is how the fbi behaves benefited hillary clinton in the end. it plays into a a narrative that the fbi has this bias in operatives who are not operating legally. president trump is showing that it exonerates him and it's not about the russian

anthony weiner had classified emails on his computer. >> this is an example where somebody gets to the top and they decide they don't have to play by the rules that were written for others. you saw it under comey. it went down to a whole host of other people in the department of justice and obviously at the fbi. this is what the president is facing. object one hand he has this accuser if you will with a false assumption to begin with. on the other hand he has a justice department that need reform. it needed to go the exact opposite way it went under both eric holder and loretta lynch. judge jeanine: it doesn't need reform, congressman. it need people who will enforce the law. you have got mccabe saying i am not going to testify before senate jew dish air yea unless you give me immunity. it's use immunity because he doesn't want to be indicted. let's assume mccabe is going after trump. what are you going to give me? when i was the dment a., if you get immunity, give me something. what if he has something against obama who was in the department of justice to go after it? >> this is the p

almost like james comey and other senior officials having hundreds of thousands of emails from anthony weiner'saptop and they didn't make that case to congress until one month later. so the fbi has a timing issue. is the fbi too powerful? >> that is the question we have to ask. you have been a critic of unchecked power and surveillance. americans are starting to see how right you and other libertarian leaning conservatives have been on those issues. but the typing was spoken to in the report. strzok wanted to down play the importance of the clinton investigation so he could rapidly spin up the russia investigation. and he judged the outcop after just one day. he said they had a way to use that investigation to impair a trump presidency and trump candidacy. that's what we don't want to see in our law enforcement where they turn out to be political acts to shape public opinion and uninfluence elections. kennedy: i know you have been pressing for the names of these other fbi agents to be released. i tend to agree with you. these are the kind of things we are talking about. you better believe lisa

why did it take so long to search through anthony weiner's e-mails? none of the reasons given for the delay are credible. laura jarrett live in washington with much more on this. >> reporter: good morning, john. the independentor general is laser-focused on this time between the he mails related to the clinton investigation were first found on that laptop and when agents ultimately obtained a search warrant to review them. and on that point, here's the key line in the report. "the fbi's neglect had potentially far-reaching conscious questions. comey, the former fbi director, told the inspector general that had he known the laptop in the beginning of october and thought the e-mail review could have been completed before the election, it may have affected his decision to notify congress. we remember days before the election, clinton allies criticize harshly. it does not name blame on one person alone. investigators searched for evidence that the laptop was deliberate live placed on the back burner to protect clinton but could find no evidence on that po

some are saying that willingness in evidence and practice when the new york fbi became aware of anthony weiner having access to hillary clinton's classified email messages. strzok who was in charge of this operation reassigning folks from the hillary clinton email case to the donald trump russia case. you don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to wonder why they did that when they had such a smoking gun on somebody who could be our next president. gregg: he was trying to help hillary and hurt trump. he slow walked that until he could hide it no more. another example of peter strzok and his abiding hatred of trump and favoritism for hillary clinton intruding on the presidential election. charles: what happens now to james comey? gregg: comey's reputation is left in utter tatters. he's bruised, battered and beaten up by the inspector general's report. he violated policies and usurped power. this from a guy peddling a book about truth analyze. his name is synonymous with dishonesty and incompetence and bias. even though the inspector general says i can't prove with documentary evidence or testimo

if anthony weiner came out with a cookbook, do you think the questions are going to be about the risottowould love to move on. everybody would love to move on but you can't move on if the clintons don't move on. if the clintons are still in the public consciousness, then we have every reason to go remember that's 20 years ago. i agree with him on one point. he got away with a lot of things, a lot of things. i don't think he got away with monica. he will be known forever for that thing, it's a scar on his life. and the lies he told after. there were other things he got away with that the media doesn't question. >> dana: do you think this book, the book is a collaboration with james patterson. he had to do and after the show show taping after "the briefing." james patterson has sold world.llion books around the this would have been a best seller even if bill clinton didn't do any interviews but they decided to do it. you probably can't be surprised by the questions. >> juan: i'm not sure if he is surprised. i think the interviews. it's been in the news and there's so much sexual scandal. i

if you look very, very carefully at the decision to slow walk through anthony weiner email investigation. i don't know what more proof you need as a person outside the government to understand this was rampant, fervent and carried over to both investigations. charles: we are used to the spectacles. we saw so many of them under the obama administration. will anything come out of this? >> i think public perception has definitely changed. there is a mistrust of the fbi in general. i think there will be plenty of people who distrust it. and this has given president trump a lot of ammunition when he said he has been treated unfairly through this investigation. regardless of what the truth is be most of people will believe this. this is extremely damage together fbi. charles: the russell 2000 closed out at another all-time high. we'll tell you about the message in the market and where we go from here when we come back. me h commission investment products, fisher investments avoids them. some advisers have hidden and layered fees. fisher investments never does. and while some advisers are happy

strzok at the end of the clinton investigation saying let's focus on russia and not looking at anthony weiner's laptop and stuff that relates to the clinton investigation. the one text message that was so explosive in this report is the one where peter strzok says we'll stop president trump from being president. we'll stop him. that to me is a -- so that's the context -- for director wray to say that there was -- this was free from bias, that is just not accurate. mr. horowitz himself said we do not have confidence that strzok's decision from free from bias. that's like saying this guy had an agenda and it's obvious to anyone who looks at in in the right way. lou: do you think the inspector general looked at any of in in the right way? because i think his conclusions are nonsectors. i mean he writes this report in much the same way james comey announced the predicate for his conclusion in terms of prosecuting hillary clinton. it sounded like he was going to charge her and then suddenly said no charges. >> i think it's a thorough report. but i think he lets the facts speak for themselves. this t