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captioning sponsored by cbs >> brennan: i'm margaret brennan in washington. this week on face the nation, friends and family say the president is pumped and energized following his impeachment, but publicly he questions whether he really was impeached. as plans for a senate trial get bogged down in politics. congressional democrats push for a speedy impeachment came to a speedy halt just moments after the vote was announced. next stop, the senate, at least according to the constitution. but the founding fathers had no way of knowing just how partisan politics would become by 2019. hear senate republican leader mitch mcconnell. >> a highly unusual step. the speaker of the house continues the hem and haw about weather and when -- whether and when she intends to take the normal next step and transmit the house's accusations over here to the senate. i'm not sure what leverage there is in refraining from sending us something we do not want. >> brennan: but speaker nancy pelosi wants to know what the senate trial plan is before she acts. >> you run the risk, some r

captioning sponsored by cbs >> brennan: i am margaret brennan in washington. this week on "face the nation". as president trump's impeachment in the democratic led house appears inevitable, he looks to the republican held senate as his chance to get a quote fair shake. meanwhile, tensions rise between the u.s. and its adversaries and relations turn chilly with some of our allies. >> midweek speaker pelosi officially announced the worst kept secret in washington. >> and that and the constitution give us no choice but to impeach, move forward with impeachment of the president. >> brennan:siha gveounting an impeachment defense in the house but is preparing for a fight in the senate. >> mr. president, i have good what ie go n g have people trying to impeach me. >> brennan: but most members of congress including speaker nancy pelosi don't seek the impeachment battle as a laughing matter. >> do you hate -- >> as catholic i resent your using the word hate in a sentence that addresses me. i don't hate anyone i was raised in a way that is a houseful of love and always

doesn't look good. >> brennan: thank you, paula. we'll be right back. >> our nations capital, decisions are made here that affect all of us. so join us every evening as we wring you cbs news original reporting from around the world while keeping our eye on what's going on right here in washington. >> brennan: that's it for us today and for 2019. thank you for watching. we want to wish you and your loved ones a very happy new year. and until next year, for "face the nation," i'm margaret brennan. in providing significantly clearer skin. tremfya® may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms or if you had a vaccine or plan to. serious allergic reactions may occur. tremfya®. uncover clearer skin that can last. janssen can help you explore cost support options. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> breaking news. two violent attacks on the faithful. gunfire erupts inside a church service in texas. three pe

soil by china. >> brennan: right.s is an interesting case because for the first time in more than 30 years, it looks like the u.s. expelled two chinese diplomats who they believe were spies. and these spice or diplomats tried to drive on the a very sensitive military base in virginia, a base that special place forces on it. and then they were caught and they were pushed out of the country. the main question about this is whether it will add to the ongoing u.s. china tensions and whether it will become a point of conflict within the diplomatic relations. >> brennan: there was a significant report in the "washington post" this week, dan. detailing real miscalculations, misleading in many ways, of the public by a series of u.s. administrations about the war in afghanistan. i asked senator lindsey graham about it, and i want to play a bite for you here. >> well, to be honest with you, i know general petreaus pretty well. i never thought i was sugar coated about afghanistan. has it been mismanaged, yes. has money been wast

captioning sponsored by cbs >> brennan: i'm margaret brennan in washington where in this week before christmas the house is set to impeach president trump as well as have a major trade agreement and fund the government. but the senate is already preparing for a trial of the president in the new year despite leader mitch mcconnell saying there is no chance he'll be removed from office. saturday the president assumed his role as commander-in-chief, enjoying the annual army navy football game insphiladelphia. president trump clearly enjoyed his time out from the whoas of washington and his historic work week. >> this has been a wild week. >> brennan: "wild" is putting it mindly. >> ms. deming? >> d.u.i. >> brennan: house democrats charged the president with abuse of power and obstruction of congress. the brawl in committee set the stage for an even uglier debate on the house floor later this week. >> the idea that donald trump was leading an anti-corruption effort is like kim jong-un leading a human rights effort. >> the president of unite states mexico canada shook down a foreign power

captioning sponsored by cbs >> brennan: i'm margaret brennan in washington, and this week on "face the nation," we'll pause to reflect on an eventful 2019 and look forward to what's ahead in 2020. >> if you're a person of faith, live your faith, whether you're elected in politics, whether you're at work, whether you're at home, whatever it may be, you can live your faith. >> brennan: first we'll take a look at the role of prayer in politics with two senators, delaware democrat chris coons and oklahoma republican james lankford, united by the bond of prayer shared with a bipartisan group of senators every week. >> what we really need to do here in washington i think is model the ability to disagree with each other but not be cruel or sharp or nasty to each other. >> brennan: then a special interview with first daughter and presidential adviser ivanka trump. a new family leave policy gives federal workers 12 weeks of paid leave when they have children or adopt. will more private companies follow the government's lead? >> our goal is to ensure that paid leave is available to all americans

for "face the nation," i'm margaret brennan. when we met ken sandusky last year, he pointed to the impact they're having. how high should this be? >> there are examples where it is three or four inches but when it gets grazed down to the nub, there's no vegetation left and you can see how it's dieing out. >> reporter: ranchers who lost their leases to gray's cattle sued to reduce the number of horses on the land. wild horse advocates are suing arguing the horses are iconic and could be sold for slaughter. >> most americans love horses and they don't want to see america's iconic wild horses rounded up and sold for human consumption abroad. >> reporter: efforts to appease both sides have fallen to the forest service. on open house tours and social media, there is plenty to look at by anyone who would be a good fit. >> you have a year before you receive title on that horse and in that time you'll be asked to show that you are taking good care of that horse. the facility requirements, the horse needs a 20 by 20 enclosure and a walk-

former cia director john brennan under the microscope. breaking news from the new york times on the investigation into the investigators, us attorney probing the origins of the russia investigation requesting emails and other documents from brennan. kevin cork is tracking it and has the latest. >> the former cia director under intense scrutiny. this is happening in the wake of that ig report which seemed to contradict brennan's congressional testimony about the use of the steel dossier to launch the russia probe. >> you will see some interesting things happen over the coming days and weeks. >> a cryptic and possibly telling comment from donald trump about the ongoing criminal investigation into the origins of these from russia probe launched during his campaign and continued into his presidency. the comments come amid new reporting that new us attorney john durham requested several items involving john brennan including his emails, call logs and other documents from the cia. of true it could represent a widening of the ongoing, probe that

what do you think about brennan?ys, listen, whatever i've done and i'm happy to put it out there and it's all above board. >> jim comey thought he would turn out fine in the inspector general's report and it didn't turn out that way prince said a lot of things not true and the fbi, we had the fisa judge excoriate the fbi misleading in falsifying evidence in pursuit of donald trump. the last few days, there is no political bias -? i don't know. it depends on what he did. did the intelligence community have anything to do with starting this investigation? the reason why this investigation is so important because none of us know the answers. what we do know is that donald trump didn't after all this time mueller found and all the millions of dollars spent, there was no conspiracy. it was a conspiracy theory. we do need to know how that our government to agenda up into this miasma of investigations t. >> shannon: we got a little bit of that from the horwitz report. we know that durham will be much more expensive. panel,

that brennan took when he was meeting with these other leaders.e are looking at one of these are many of these process crimes, making a false statement, perjury, which seems to be what john durham is picking up. a couple of weeks ago, john durham said that his investigation is not an injury. it's an investigation and it's a criminal one. >> tucker: brennan would've have to know this, correct? he was at the center of this beer for him to say confidently the steele dossier played no role in the faisal lawrence, but common sense tells you that he s this to be untrue and he said it. >> absolutely, just like he knows that there was no but he wasn't honest about that and neither was jim comey. we know he lied to the fisa court, we know they lied multiple times to the fisa court to get warrants against carter page. i think at that level, with everything being classified and with their arrogance at the same time, i think they think they can just get away with it. the truth isn't going to come out in the end. it looks like it will come out. the one i want

and brennan was not vague about this.id unequivocally on camera, the dossier was totally irrelevant. that was a complete lie. the ig report proves it. a lie. this deal dossier was a major element of the intelligence assessment and brennan, in particular, found it very important. in other words, john brennan, not a close call here, perjured himself on camera in front of the world. but here's the striking thing. john brennan is not facing perjury charges. in fact, he is still tweeting himself righteously and making smug appearances on cnn, which i think, check my memory for a second, pays him as a contributor. meanwhile, former trump advisory roger stone looking to spend the rest of his life behind bars. his crime, lying about emails totally irrelevant to anything, literally irrelevant. so what says john brennan former cia director apart from roger stone, a professional prankster, really, it is obvious. one supports the establishment in washington, and the other made fun of it. tom fitton is president of "judicial watch" an

gregg: durham as we point out focusing squarely on john brennan who has a lot to answer for.tigator of the russia hoax in many ways. he created the interagency task force that was fundamentally a spying operation in launching the trump russia investigation in july of 2016. it appears people were lured overseas so their confidential informants undercover like stephen halper could be used to entrap trump campaign officials and it didn't work. what do you make of john durham's focus? >> i think he's going after what he should be. how did this operation get instay gate? the steele dossier was a game. it was a political opposition document. but not only is brennan relying on that document when he knows it's unverified, unconfirmed. but then they are launching an operation against the opposition presidential candidate. that is so far outside of what the cia is supposed to be doing, it's a good thing durham is looking into this. people need to be fired over it, and potentially criminally prosecuted for what happened. gregg: general michael flynn's sentencing has been moved to the en

the plot against the president," why is brennan -- take us down memory lane, why is brennan so centralbout this? >> he was in charge of assembling the intelligence community assessment on january 2017, and there is a reason congressman devon union don mcgahn mcdevitt nunez and in my book calls it obama's dossier. it's to do the same thing that the steele dossier did which was to smear trump for this earth to delegitimize his presidency and complicate the appraisal transition of power >> when you see how he's trotted out. is he on cnn? >> msnbc. >> laura: sometimes i check it out. but he's on the other network, msnbc, there is not even a sense of irony -- "what do you think about the fisa report." there is no sense in irony asking them questions, but from the committee, comey, brennan, clapper, the three icy stooges, we wondered when we'll have accountability. comey the other night was like, i'm glad we are getting to the bottom of this. >> this is an important thing. the story comes from "the new york times" and it appears that they are probably going to be christening a more severe bl

i call brennan the instigator in my book.created before a steele dossier and inner agency task force that was the original foundation, you know this, john was the foundation for the trump russia collusion hoax. so i think brennan has a lot to answer for. and i think durham may be looking at false statements insofar as brennan is concerned. >> gregg has it exactly right. that is one place to be cracked open by durham. and also the issue of bias, the biggest bias injected into the investigation was the steele dossier. he admitted he was desperate to meet trump and the fbi used that to go to the fisa court. biases all over this, fisa. >> dan: congressman how much do trouble do you think john brennan is in him this?a >> he's in a lot of trouble, you agree with the other two, but i would also say, dan follow the money. there are millions of dollars that flow from the democrats overseas and durham is able toon go look at that. something that horowitz couldn't look at. that is going to tell a lot about the travesty that was done her

gregg: durham as we point out focusing squarely on john brennan who has a lot to answer for.tigator of the russia hoax in many ways. he created the interagency task force that was fundamentally a spying operation in launching the trump russia investigation in july of 2016. it appears people were lured overseas so their confidential informants undercover like stephen halper could be used to entrap trump campaign officials and it didn't work. what do you make of john durham's focus? >> i think he's going after what he should be. how did this operation get instay gate? the steele dossier was a game. it was a political opposition document. but not only is brennan relying on that document when he knows it's unverified, unconfirmed. but then they are launching an operation against the opposition presidential candidate. that is so far outside of what the cia is supposed to be doing, it's a good thing durham is looking into this. people need to be fired over it, and potentially criminally prosecuted for what happened. gregg: general michael flynn's sentencing has been moved to the en

testified was not accurate this was what john brennan testified. and you know if the bureau ever relied on a steel dossier is any is part of any court filings cations petitions pleadings have no awareness. did the cia rely on no one. because we did it wasn't part of the corpus of intelligence information that we had it was not in any way used as a basis for the until a screen assessment that was done. it was it was not. now page $179.00 of the newly released report seems to indicate pretty clearly that the intelligence agencies did rely on that steel dossier but up they were even though that still dossier was compiled by fusion g.p.s. the firm and even they concluded it was not a finished document regardless the intel agencies did apparently rely on that report that is what the new document very clearly indicates so it appears that john brennan was giving false information when he was giving his testimony so as we have this new report it doesn't seem to fully confirm what many had expected but yet it does also show some impropriety on the part of j

. >> martha: do you know if he has spoken to john brennan, james clapper, andrew mccabe?uded in the investigation? >> i am actually not following it closely to know who he is talking to. >> martha: would you expect that they would be included based on the leadership issues that you have brightened up about to the intelligence agencies? >> i don't want to speculate on how he will take the investigation. >> martha: we learned a lot about the fisa abuse situation. do you believe that durham's investigation is broader scope in terms of the intelligence agency better being looked at? >> oh, yes. he is not just looking at the fbi. he is looking at other agencies and also private and departments, and also private actors. so it is a much broader investigation. and also, he is not just looking at the fisa aspect of it. he is looking at all the conduct, both before and after the election. >> martha: with that include the cia? nsa? >> it would include agencies that could have been involved in this. but we are getting a lot of cooperation from those agencies. you have to remember on

brennan told other officials including the former fbi director jim comey about his and the cia's viewsr of assertions about russia and trump associates. mr. durham is also examining whether mr. brennan privately contradicted his public comments including may 2017 testimony to congress about both the dossier and about any debate among the intelligence agencies over their conclusions on russia's interference. but "the times" also notes, quote, cia analyst wanted to lead the dossier out of the assessment as it was not vetted. mr. brennan's allies have said he was among the officials who wanted to omit the dossier from the assessment. jeremy and the table are back. jeremy, can you take us through this pretty stunning and revealing in-depth report into the "new york times" today? >> this is unmistakable, nicole. this is a message to the current cia and the current intelligence community. don't analyze russian efforts to affect the 2020 election, because if you do, you might find yourselves in the crosshairs of a criminal investigation. that's the implication here. the cia's job is to analyz

what will he tell john brennan. ted cruz is with me, what he knows about altering of the documents at fbi. why he says john durham's investigation is now criminal. house gop leader kevin mccarthy on the record fund-raising in face of last week's impeachment vote sandwiched between the budget, spending bill and a trade deal with canada and mexico. also breaking news this morning, the first interview with knew jer congressman jeff van drew on his stunning switch from the democratic party to the republican party amides votes to impeach. he has done something never been done before, moving from the majority party to the minority party. all that here on "sunday morning futures". >> our opponent have spent every waking minute of the last three years trying to overthrow the election of 2016 and at a minimum to, sabotage the election of 2020. that's not going to happen. we're not going to let it happen f it did happen, if they were successful, they will destroy this country. maria: president trump blasting the democrats imp

d now in the position of choosing to protect brennan or cooperate with durham. madam under investigation, the fbi now focusing on jeffrey epstein's coconspirators alleged, including british social lite maxwell. well radical dems have selective memory when it comes to impeachment they moan about mitch mcconnell coordinating with a white house but journalist points out that during the clinton impeachment senate democrats coordinated with white house on a number of key issues behind the scenes. among other things democratic leadership used secret signals with the white house counsel to rebut republicans house managers. joining me now to talk about it jenna ellis trump 2020 advisory board member and constitutional law attorney. good to see you. you know two decades ago -- tom admits you know when he was democrat minorityit leader he ws coordinating pretty closely with the white house and the bill clinton impeachment. and now all of a sudden you know, comt democrats are along with a complies complicit media oh this is -- this is wrong this is unfair. foric mitch mcco

durum is looking at john brennan's conduct, durum has requested emails, call logs and documents. gina hashell is in a bind. >> before and after the election. >> the former head of the national security agency, mike rogers, is cooperating. roger has met with durum multiple times and they say the substance of this meeting is not clear but rogers has cooperated voluntarily. durum said he did not agree with all of the justice department inspector general's findings that examined the fbi's conduct, and fbi agents did not act with political bias but it says serious mistakes were made. mark meredith, thanks very much. nancy pelosi for what she plans to do with articles of impeachment passed by the house as democrats and republicans wrangle over potential witnesses in the senate trial was some republicans said they would like to hear from joe biden and or his son hunter about dealings in ukraine, biden is telling reporters don't bet on it. >> do you stand by statements that you wouldn't comply of subpoenaed to testify? >> correct. the reason i wouldn't is because it is all designed to de

attorney john durham is going after cia director john brennan and we are firing up the questions on that one. thank you for joining us "the evening edit" start right now. ♪. liz: welcome to the show. you are watching the fox business network. congress heading home for the christmas recess not back until january 7. that will feel like a year in the life of d.c. the timing of the impeachment trial still in limbo. mike has more in washington. >> good evening california congressman was asked if impeachment could hurt democrats on election day. >> this is more important than politics. you do what the constitution requires and then you build the country and asked for their votes, to do anything less is not only constitutional as a political mistake. >> chuck schumer has pushed to have four witnesses testify in the senate trial including acting white house mick mulvaney and former national security john bolton. here is part of schumer's appeal. >> this chapter in our history books could be about the overpowering partisanship over tribes or it could be about the senate capacity to overcome. >> o

let's turn to where we are with brennan now.he durham investigation apparently is circling him and that's terrific news. brennan deserves to be made accountable for his iniquity in all of this over the course of the past three years, don't you agree? >> john brennan is the center of what i call obama gate, lou. he is beginning of it all. this man who voted for a communist party candidate for president just years before he was actually recruited by the cia began operation cross fire hurricane, worked with james comey, worked with the nsa to entrap individuals like mike flynn, papadopoulos and used the most powerful intelligence community in the world as a political weapon. these leaks that are coming out prior to the final results of the durham investigation, they are coming from a guilty man, and he is very worried, and he should be because he's at the center of the firestorm. these leaks are an attempt to shape a narrative, but it is very telling that attorney general barr just said in an interview the u.s. attorney for connect

you look at brennan, brennan has always been a part of the deep state, i think he was a terrible director at the white house before that and frankly clapper who is somebody i have known for years did things that made no sense at all as director of national intelligence so you have -- i don't want to prejudge what durham is going to come up with but it's clear from inspector general's report and other things we are learning that you had a very large number of very senior people willing to break the law, willing to lie, willing to conspire and frankly even though this appears in "the new york times" we were willing to manipulate and use the washington post, "the new york times" and the major networks. maria: yeah. >> this pattern is there. i think it's going to keep on rolling. maria: if you look back in the last 3 years, one to have reasons that i assumed that he was among the master minds is just watching him over the 3-year period when the russia collusion narrative was going strong, remember how many times he went on msnbc and cnn and said, the president committed treason, dagen, rememb

are they looking into brennan as a potential instigator of what become the russia hoax?ere are two things to watch for. was the cia meddling or probing trump before the fbi got involved? they lay a bread crumb. another possibility is they are looking at james comey and mccabe for false statements and they might find corroborative evidence that the story james comey has been giving in testimony to congress were not true. they are looking at false statement cases against some of the leadership, and brennan's notes and his record could be key evidence against james comey if they took that action. gregg: brennan told congress if i recall, that the dossier was not used as part of the intelligence community assessment. and that's not true. >> the cia was fighting at the last minute to keep it out of the assessment and it made it into some of the foot notes. that's another place where mccabe and comey played a big role. i don't think their stories add up. i would think two guys whose testimony is being looked at closely. gregg: when rats get locked in a cage, they begin to gnaw

what exactly is he looking for on brennan? >> these reports are fascinating, harris. he wants to see how brennan handled the steele dossier, specifically how and whether he communicated his views and findings. the other thing he's going to be looking at is how brennan was presenting the overall intelligence findings within the intelligence community. i will say this, this guy is a straight shooter, someone who is widely respected for democrats and republicans alike, i'm confident he will leave no stone unturned in this investigation. >> harris: i know you've talked about his pedigree as an investigator before. you don't want him on your tail unless he's on your side. tom depree, thank you for joining me, merry christmas, good to see you. follow among president trump after a prominent evangelical magazine has called for moving the president from office. ♪ (vo) the flock blindly falls into formation. flying south for the winter. they never stray from their predetermined path. but this season, a more thrilling journey is calling. defy the laws of human nature. at the sea

john brennan joins me now.ave a feeling i know one of your quick reminders is going to be that the cia can't talk to, i think, american citizens about things like that, but address that, because i've askeded you about this, you did not brief then-nominee trump the first time he got an intel briefing and i think i've asked you this before, in that intel briefing that he got right around the time you confronted the russians, was he told of russian interference efforts in that briefing? >> well, chuck, it was all over the papers of the effort by russia to try to interfere in the election and their activities, as far as the theft of emails and other types of things, so, when i spoke to alexander bort any cover, the head of the russian security service, i referenced those points, warning him off of doing anything that would come anywhere close to trying to interfere in the election. so, this was not a big secret, and so mr. trump was fully aware, i think, of the things that the russians were doing, as well as what h

let's see brennan went to the russians twice and obama went wants to tell them. take a look. >> what i find particularly inexplicable is that they talk to the russians. but not to the presidential campaign. on august 4th, brennan ahead of russian intelligence, he calls the head of russian intelligence and we know what you're up to. you better stop it. he did it later in august and then president obama talked to president putin and september and said, we know what you're up to. you better cut it out. so they go and confront the russians who clearly are the bad guys, and they won't go and talk and say what is this about? >> sean: i will have more flexibility after the election. instead of briefing the president, his campaign at the time remembers on his team about a possible threat. this is pretty unbelievable. brennan, obama, others, comey used their meetings with the trump campaign and transition team secretly collecting evidence on trumpet and warning the russians. a set up, an insurance policy from the get-go. but let not your hearts be troubled because clearly

. >> laura: but go back to brennan who is a paid contributor to another network. he knew that. >> he did appear there was something more complicated here. remember the intelligence community assessment, the thing that looked into that although russia played or tried to play in the 2016 campaign. it was given to president obama and president-elect trump. there was a big debate according to this report between the fbi and the cia whether to include dossier information in fact, the caf gnomic cia didn't want to put in there so give brennan credit for that. james comey and andrew mccabe wanted to put the dossier information in the intelligence community assessment. it is an astonishing from astonishing indictment. >> laura: mccabe spoke out tonight, speaking of that, byron, listen to this, watch. >> it has been disgusting to watch how the president talks about all of us, how he basically degrades our organization, how he and the attorney general to some extent, have leveled all kinds of falses about the work we did. >> laura: what is disgusting how he led that agency

let me bring into the conversation by phone john brennan, former director of the cia and lucky for us now an nbc news senior national security analyst. let me read you from the report. i'm sure it is a pattern of behavior that is all-too familiar to you. the house intel committee report says this, in making the decision to move forward, we were struck by the fact that the president's misconduct was not an isolated occurrence, nor the product of a naive president. instead the efforts to involve ukraine in our 2020 presidential election were undertaken by a president who himself was elected in 2016 with the benefit of an unprecedented and sweeping campaign of election interference. undertaken by russia in his favor and which the president

and you saw brennan, he's under real investigation by u.s. attorney.ought to get the whistleblower, the context, and hunter biden in joe biden have to come. trish: you've talked about this previously, china concern with hunter biden. >> when obama signed and the rose garden and 15 with president xi jinping on cyber intrusion in the south china sea, joe biden had his son raising a huge private equity fund, the american people ought to know joe biden is not above the law and the democrats are not above the law, president trump should one offense and i think he should demand a trial. >> i think it support for the country because i think you run the risk of a lot of people going to believe what they want to believe until they have seen real proof. >> is important for the history of the country, they will look back decades from now, it's important for history, it support for institutions, it's important for the american people, america, and people who voted for president trump. they believe in him, he did not do anything wrong. here's the thing, eight weeks