that decision was left to the president. >> julie: catherine herridge, thank you so much. we've got more team coverage -- okay, we're moving on. what are we doing people? will be tossing it to jon scott. he'll be talking with jason javits. i want to go back to catherine herridge as we get our ducks in a row here and talk more about the michael flynn revelation. it's interesting what we hear today about how michael flynn had told the trump administration before he was hired his relationship with turkey. now we are investigating that it's possible at the trump administration knew this and hired him anyway. >> people close to mike flynn confirmed with fox news -- if you are a u.s. person or a u.s. citizen and you are acting on behalf of a foreign government, then you have to let the justice department know about that. the justice department is looking into flynn beginning of november last year over his turkish contacts. we now know he made an excessive $400,000 lobbying on their behalf. this information about the fair investigation was known to members of the trump team and t

let's bring in catherine herridge, who has been tracking things. >> thank you. we've been in contact with the intelligence committees on capitol hill and the house committee as well as a spokesman for the senior democrat on the senate intelligence committee, told us they have not been alerted by the intelligence community to a grave breach or compromise of a source connected to this ongoing threat of explosives in laptops on flights headed into the united states. based on my experience covering the i see for over a decade, if there was a grave compromise of its worse in an ongoing threat, this would be briefed to members or at least senior leadership on those committees. based on what we know this evening, that has not happened. through him we want to play you the response to this from the senator from vermont, patrick leahy. >> our allies, they tell us where their sources are, they assume we are never going to release it. they may have worked for years to develop the source. they also know if the sources revealed, that source may have a very short life left. it

let's turn to catherine herridg catherine herridge. >> i just got off the phone with another official who said there's a sense of shock within the bureau, especially at headquarters. they were struck by how deep the divisions are within the bureau about director comey sort of polarizing figure. those for and against. we also discussed what the succession might look like with comey effectively fired by the president. he said if it was standard procedure, it would be the deputy director andrew mccabe. andrew mccabe would come to this position, critics would argue, with a lot of baggage. that goes back to 2015 when his wife received $700,000 for a state senate run that she eventually lost, and that money came from virginia democrats and specifically a pac controlled by a longtime clinton ally, terry mcauliffe. if mccabe was jumped over, the next person in line would be an associate deputy director, and he is someone who doesn't seem to have any sort of touch with the email or russia probe. served himself well in the san bernardino investigation. if you want to call this the room into pie

catherine herridge is live outside fbi headquarters in washington. you heard the vice president make those remarks and side the capital just now. what jumps out at you? >> what the vice president's comments, there seems to be an effort to distance the white house from his dramatic decision to terminate the fbi director. he made the decision with the new deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. let me give you context because rosenstein is in a very special position. he works for democratic and republican administrations and he's the one person who is really clean hands here. he was the one charged with overseeing the russian investigation after his boss, attorney general jeff sessions, took himself out of it because he had contact with the russian ambassador, survey kiss the act when rosenstein came in, he was tasked with doing this review of the fbi director's conduct in 2016. what rosenstein concluded is at the fbi director had essentially colored outside the lines. he was the nation's premier investigator and he put on a prosecutor's hat when he ma

we have the fox team, catherine herridge is covering that hearing from colonel mike rogers, a key part of the story is unmasking but we begin with kevin corke life at the white house. >> you're right, very busy 24 hours for the white house that begin yesterday with the dramatic testimony on the hill involving former acting ag sally yates and it continues actually on capitol hill today if you think about it because that is where we will find the vice president at this hour, meeting with senators over the policy lunch talking about, among other things, how to move forward on the affordable care act? this has to get done, people know it's not going to be the same thing the house was able to push over the finish line last week. likely to have ideas that widely vary, but still he's going to be there trying to make his case to get those senators on the move. meanwhile, the president is weighing in and weighing in on sending perhaps additional u.s. personnel to afghanistan, perhaps as few as 3,000, maybe even a lot more. we continue to weigh what that might look like. i think this is also imp

david: catherine herridge, thank you very much. melissa. melissa: all right. tt ulinger, a former cia operations officer. what sticks out to you from what you just heard from catherine? >> i think the thing most compelling whether indeed isis is responsible or some sort of self-radicalization, the point right now he was known by british counterterrorism forces before the attack in some capacity and right now there are 3500 people who are under basically terrorist surveillance within great britain itself. melissa: wow. >> the sad thing about that it shows how utterly stretched thin the british forces are. there are simply too many radical extremists to keep track of all the time. this is repeated in germany, france, many other places where the terrorists were known to the local security services. >> they can't even monitor them because there are too many. what do you think about catherine as reporting, based on the sophistication of what he did, he either had to be coached in person or on line to execute this? >> that is, extremely likely exactly. the making, th

you did it through our catherine herridge yesterday. meanwhile other stories. pete: kellyanne conway, there is reports in shakeups in the white house. this morning pretty specific ones that white house communications director mike dubke could be on the way out. could you give us any information that's available things change not guilty white house. >> i went back and looked at some of my notes. the very first time i was ever asked about somebody being pushed out of the white house january 23rd. we had been here three whole days there has been a story a minute about that. easier to cover that than learning the finer points of healthcare reform and tax reform and infrastructure and isis and retreat. having said that the president has always surrounded himself with people who are able to work together in a collaborative fashion, are able to deal with the news of the day will yous about think more long term strategically. did i not know mike dubke before he came on as communications director. i know he has worked hard here. people leave on their own volition. they

. >> tucker: catherine herridge just reported that this has been under consideration for at least a couple of weeks since the end of april. so there's clearly been time to think through who will replace director comey? what's the time frame for replacing such a significant job? >> not to step on anything at this point, , and the president wants to make sure that he gets the right person in that position coming was to make sure that whoever it is has the respect of the rank and the fbi and frankly that is somebody who's not political. i think we have to find somebody who can restore credibility back to this department, that certainly wasn't director comey. it's one of the reasons that he can no longer serve in that role and i think that he'll be looking for somebody who can step in and frankly i think bring credibility back to the fbi that has struggled with -- under director comey's leadership at one of the big things here is you got guys like schumer out there criticizing, i'm sure that many other democrats will follow suit. and of the things that so interesting is that hillary clinton ha

. >> catherine herridge reporting that a source argues it was the russian who first raised the issue not kushner and that it was only discussed for a single call about syria. not as a permanent back channel. "the washington post" alleges it was. senator lindsey graham says he doesn't trust it. >> i think it makes no sense that the russian ambassador would report back to moscow on a channel he most likely knows we are monitoring. the whole story line is suspicious. >> the negative press is casting a shadow over a senior advisor once thought untouchable. the white house insists any change will be about adding to the team, not getting rid of people already in the west wing. president trump told "the new york times" last night that he has total confidence in kushner but democratic congressman adam schiff is now calling for his security clearance to be reviewed. >> you have to ask, who are they hiding their conversations from? >> that's the question jared kushner will almost certainly be asked if he testifies on capitol hill. tonight, a source close to kushner says he's eager to do so. ja

chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has been working her sources all night. what are you hearing? we know about the meetings the president had with the fbi director. what about the context? >> thank you. law enforcement source confirms that the former fbi director documented at least one meeting with president trump that made him uneasy. it's not clear from our reporting site whether it was the mid-february meeting cited by "the new york times" or the president reportedly asked comey to let go of the investigation into former national security advisor michael flynn, who had resigned. or a january meeting, whether the president asked comey for his loyalty and in response comey said he would always be honest with the president. white house has of course disputed both accounts. because of his background as a lawyer, career prosecutor, and bureaucrats, sources say comey is known as a copious notetaker and its standard practice to take notes during our meeting after meeting. in early march, to accept of the meeting cited by the times, comey probably stated his int

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chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has been working her sources all night. what are you hearing? we know about the meetings the president had with the fbi director. what about the context? >> thank you. law enforcement source confirms that the former fbi director documented at least one meeting with president trump that made him uneasy. it's not clear from our reporting site whether it was the mid-february meeting cited by "the new york times" or the president reportedly asked comey to let go of the investigation into former national security advisor michael flynn, who had resigned. or a january meeting, whether the president asked comey for his loyalty and in response comey said he would always be honest with the president. white house has of course disputed both accounts. because of his background as a lawyer, career prosecutor, and bureaucrats, sources say comey is known as a copious notetaker and its standard practice to take notes during our meeting after meeting. in early march, to accept of the meeting cited by the times, comey probably stated his int

catherine herridge from washington d.c. and joining me to discuss clapper's admission and how the information got to the media. and the veteran of ten presidential campaigns, and republican strategist, ed rollins, pulitzer prize contributor, and michael goodwin. let me start, michael, what did we learn and what the point? >> well, look, i think the most important thing in all of this, lou, is this question of unmasking and leaking. it seemed to be a side line. the democrats don't want to know anything about that and don't want to ask questions about it, they simply want to try to focus on russia and trump. there's nothing there, there anywhere so far. lou: how many times will a federal foreclosure or a former federal foreclosure have to say there is no evidence of anything between the trump organization and the russian government? >> right and to yates' beg thing that she told the white house that michael flynn could have been blackmailed. we know that because of leaks. lou: right. >> somebody leaked that of the the only th

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lou: thank you catherine herridge. a few thoughts on the fbi director's defense.which comes just a day after hillary clinton blamed him among other factors for her elect loss. >> i was on the way to winning until a combination of jim comey's letter on october 28, and russian wikileaks, raised doubts in the minds of people who were implying to vote for me but got scared off. lou: wow. two organization point odd 7 in 10 voters last summer did not trust hillary clinton what so ever. president trump took to twitter to slam clinton for failure to take responsibility. >> and saying fbi comey is best thing that happened to hillary clinton, he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds, phony trump/russia story was an excuse used by democrat as justification for losing the election, perhaps trump just ran a great campaign. sean spicer added, you don't get to pick the day that the election is on. saying it is sad that trump's win is still being debated. and even former obama advisory david axelrod ad acknowledged that clinton lost to the better candidate, saying, jim comey di

catherine herridge outside fbi head quarters in washington d.c. catherine? >> the last 24 hours, along with my producer, we talked to 12 current fbi agents about the firing of james comey. they're using words like body blow, blind-sided and dramatic to describe their feelings as they learned the news yesterday. one agent told us that with the fbi director out in los angeles for a meeting with recruits, there was real deep concern that the fbi director would not be able to use a government jet to fly back to washington because he was no longer authorized to use government resources. another fbi agent that was directly involved with the clinton e-mail probe and worked closely with director comey said to us "no one can figure out how this potus operates." he went on to say that when director comey in july made the statement about recommending against criminal charges with hillary clinton, he said the view among the agents is comey was trying to save his boss, loretta lynch. he was trying to be the knight and shining armor because she made a catastrophic decisio

catherine herridge is live in washington. catherine, general flynn will provide some but not all records. is that correct? >> yes, he will provide records unsubpoena to the senate intelligence committee adding that the committee recently narrowed its request and flynn can work with the committee without sacrificing his fifth amendment protections. there's subpoenas for flynn's business records, which experts say do not have the same protections as personal records. flynn's team has until june 6 to share the records. so we're looking at a lot of movement very quickly here on capitol hill. >> shepard: there's word that the fired fbi director james comey is planning to testify in public. this has just come from reporting of the "wall street journal." that he will testify that. trump did ask him to drop the michael flynn investigation. that's from the "wall street journal." they're reporting now that comey's testimony before the senate intelligence committee could happen as soon as next thursday, a week from tomorrow. the committe

catherine herridge is live for us in washington. what are you hearing, catherine? >> the december meeting at trump tower with the russian ambassador, sergei kislyak and mike flynn focused on syria and russia's contention that the obama administration policy was deeply flawed. the discussion did not focus on sanctions. sources say kushner wanted to do a call between russian generals on the ground in syria and further under their complaints. the source said it was the russians of using a secure idea for the call, not kushner, emphasizes it was a one off to discuss syria and not a permanent back channel. the white house press was pushed on the issue. >> how is it appropriate for someone that is a private citizen, not sworn in as an official of the u.s. government to conduct any kind of negotiation or diplomacy with foreign officials? >> i'll defer you to general mcmaster. >> and kushner said he's willing to testify before congress. >> before you go, the "washington post" has not one but six sources say it was jared kushner that asked to set this thing up is. the white

catherine herridge. >> i've spoken with about a half-dozen former agents who are still verylugged into the fbi and they told me that there was really a sense of shock and disbelief and that if director comey had known an advance that he was going to be terminated, he would've sent out some sort of workforce memo to notify them but that didn't happen and that really is consistent with what we're learning this evening that he in fact learned from the media that he had been terminated by this president. the pivotal date i'm told is really april 25th. this is when the new deputy attorney general rod rosenstein took that job and he was cast with reviewing the evidence and talking to former attorneys general and others about whether the fbi director had given his decisions last year was really a good place to continue to lead the bureau and he reached the conclusion that in fact, he was not a good position to lead the bureau anymore and it's noteworthy, my attention was drawn to the fact that in the rosenstein letters, he talks specifically about the senate testimony were director

catherine herridge is live in washington. catherine, what else did they say about the hacking? >> the next step could be destruction of data. the prediction came in this exchange with the republican chairman. >> do we so data manipulation on a massive scale? most have been -- >> like changing voting rolls, yes. >> what happens if we change data? >> that's a different challenge for us. >> and a senior democrat declared cyber policy broken, even nonexistent. >> forcing the russians to pay a price for their attack on this country requires compelling americans who colluded or cooperated with them to pay a price or policy of deterrence is in my view an abject failure. >> not achieving desired result. yes, sir. >> the russian campaign cost $200 million and the impact beyond russia's wildest expectations. >> shepard: there was a first today. the first time that the admiral talked about the unmasking, the potential unmasking of americans as they put it in the 2016 campaign. >> government data shows that nearly 2,000 americans had identities revealed our unmasked in reports last year al

catherine herridge is on capitol hill. >> thank you. acting director testified the russia probe is on track and confidence remains high in his old boss. >> director comey enjoyed broad support within the fbi and still does to this day. i can confidently tell you the majority, the vast majority of fbi employees enjoyed a deep and positive connection to director comey. >> testifying at the senate's annual national security hearing, fbi acting director andrew mccabe was pressed on morale but this answer contradicts the message the white house seemed to be putting out. >> i've heard from a large number of individuals that work at the fbi that said they are very happy with the president's decision. >> mccabe said morale was down but only after comey recommended against criminal charges for hillary clinton and her team for mishandling classified information. >> there were folks within the agency that were frustrated with the outcome of the hillary clinton case and some of those folks were very vocal about the concerns. >> has the dismissal of

catherine herridge. >> i've spoken with about a half-dozen former agents who are still very plugged into the fbi and they told me that there was really a sense of shock and disbelief and that if director comey had known an advance that he was going to be terminated, he would've sent out some sort of workforce memo to notify them but that didn't happen and that really is consistent with what we're learning this evening that he in fact learned from the media that he had been terminated by this president. the pivotal date i'm told is really april 25th. this is when the new deputy attorney general rodn took that job and he was cast with reviewing the evidence and talking to former attorneys general and others about whether the fbi director had given his decisions last year was really a good place to continue to lead the bureau and he reached the conclusion that in fact, he was not a good position to lead the bureau anymore and it's noteworthy, my attention was drawn to the fact that in the rosenstein letters, he talks specifically about the senate testimony were director comey s

let's get the person who can give us the best distillation of what we are hearing now, catherine herridge intelligence correspond or live from capitol hill. >> thank you, we had a number of headlines this morning about the firing of james comey and that has come from the acting director of the fbi, andrew mccabe. he has testified this morning that the firing of his old boss has a "no" way disrupted fbi investigations and that would also include probes into alleged contacts between the trump team and individuals in moscow. we also had testimony this morning that he also believes that the morale within the fbi has been strong and that there was, despite what the white house has said, a lot of confidence in the leadership in the fbi director, james comey. with the last few minutes, based on my experience with the subject, for the first time, for a senior member to say on the record that there is a decision not to pursue charges they were very vocal about their feelings they are. we also heard earlier from the senior republican on this hearing and to kind of set the stage here, this is the bi

catherine herridge is live on capitol hill. lots to go over today. >> that's right, john. the director testified that it was routine for huma abadeen to send e-mails to anthony wiener. thousands of mails were found as part of a separate criminal investigation. the fbi told senators that they had two options, to conceal it or go public with it. it's not satisfy for democrats, including senior democrats, senator dianne feinstein who said the director made this most impactful decision with no indicator that there was new credible evidence. >> you took an enormous gamble, the gamble was that there was something there that would invalidate her candidacy. and there wasn't. i think most people that have looked at this said yes, it did affect the campaign. why would he do it. >> director comey testified that his investigators found hundreds of new e-mails and among them many of which were classified. yet republicans press the fbi director on the fact that at the end of the day, neither abadeen or clinton, nobody was prosecuted. >> and if our laws don't cover this, they should. >>

our catherine herridge has some new reporting on that question tonight.d welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we'll look at that potential political earthquake in just a minute, but first, democrats in congress and their surrogates in the press spent all day muttering darkly about russian conspiracies and demanding an independent investigation into whether putin secretly ran donald trump's presidential campaign. they howled and they barked and they did their best impressions of grave concern, but always at the center of it, that phrase, independent investigation. there is a reason you kept hearing those words. independent investat

catherine herridge, in your recording, you're in contact with a lot of people in the know. i'm curious to know what they're telling you big picture. >> law enforcement sources told fox news that because of his background as a lawyer, career prosecutor and working within the government, comey really is a copious note taker and standard practice at the bureau and the justice department to take notes during or immediately after a meeting to memorialize the conversation. the timing of this has people's attention today. if you remember in early march two weeks after this meeting between comey and the president, he publicly stated his intent to serve out his ten-year term at boston college at cyber security as note worthy with his unease at that meeting. >> boston is a leader of thinking and educating on these important issues. so this is a great place to have it. hope you do it many more times. you're stuck with me for about another 6 1/2 years. >> it's pretty unusual for a serving fbi director to talk about serving out his fixed term or typically what the fixed term is. there's

. >> jon: let's go to catherine herridge come alive and washington. >> thank you and good morning. the fbi director telling his side of the story. telling "the new york times" that the president asked mr. comey for a pledge of loyalty at that dinner and the director offered only honesty. the anonymous source is referring to a dinner between the fbi director james comey and the president earlier this year. it's important to note that recent congressional testimony on may 3rd, republican chairman of the senate judiciary committee pressed mr. comey on his media contacts. >> director comey, have you ever been an anonymous source in news reports about matters relating to the trump investigation or the clinton investigation? >> never. >> question two relatively related, have you ever authorized someone else at the fbi to be an anonymous source in news reports about the trump investigation or the clinton investigation? >> no. >> critics are voicing some concern about "the new york times" this morning. they also point back to a recent profile of director comey which they saw as an effort t

catherine herridge joins us now. catherine?> reporter: a source close to mike flynn says he will now provide records under subpoena to the senate intelligence committee adding the committee recently narrowed its request and flynn is able to accommodate the committee. there are all subpoenas for flynn's business records which do not have the same protection z a personals documents. flynn wants to cooperate with congress and is grateful the committee narrowed the scope of its request for information. flynn's team faced a deadline yesterday to indicate their intention. they now face a june 6th deadline to begin sharing the records. a former justice department official under president bush told fox earlier today that this is the kind of negotiation you typically see with congressional inquiries. >> on the hill, you get the subpoena and it's kind of a game of chicken about important you want to be in contempt of congress or whether you want to give them the documents they want. neither side wants a legal battle. >> reporter: michael

first, let's get to chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge in washington with more. >> thankus this hour for investigators is confirming whether the 22-year-old suspect salman abedi acted alone or had help. the key issue based on the ice is claiming responsibility is whether they terror group developed and directed the pot or the claim is opportunistic with isis seeking to capitalize on the attack. the chairman of the homeland security committee is getting regular updates. >> is this a foreign fighter trained in the caliphate that has come back to europe to conduct terrorist attacks or is it the other individual who has been vacaville -- medicalized over the internet, told from raqqa, syria and the mothershipo conduct this attack, either way achieves the same result. >> police identified the suspect after two warrants were executed in manchester, one at the home where abedi was registered. a short time ago, reporters were told the authorities are waiting on the corner for final identification. british intelligence is in the lead and providing regular updates to the fbi and ci

catherine herridge is live with us with the latest details on that. based on the police news conference that they were having trouble identifying the bomber who they just named, what's going on with that? >> this is another piece of evidence that tells us that the impact of this explosion was a significant magnitude and it goes to the issue of premeditation. that's what i'm hearing consistently. that kind of premeditation meant that the bomb was planted in the arena of an enclosed space. when the bomb goes off, it has a concussive effect. that's a way of saying and amplifies the impact of the explosive as well as the shrapnel to create maximum fatalities and casualties. in this particular case, they got a name, i believe it's on the closed circuit video identifying the individual. the bomber was almost a vaporized. >> harris: catherine, there is an inconsistency in the statement that isis put out. many of them actually. what does that tell us? >> there all these translations. i have one that was provided by by -- in this statement, it talks about a cu

our catherine herridge has some new reporting on that question tonight.ood evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we'll look at that potential political earthquake in just a minute, but first, democrats in congress and their surrogates in the press spent all day muttering darkly about russian conspiracies and demanding an independent investigation into whether putin secretly ran donald trump's presidential campaign. they howled and they barked and they did their best impressions of grave concern, but always at the center of it, that phrase, independent investigation. there is a reason you kept hearing those words. independent investigation does not mean a policy prescription. it's a talking point that wass formulated by strategists, disseminated by operatives and faithfully repeated on television by hacks who haveac precisely zero interest in independence or investigations except when they're politically convenient. the whole idea is a sham, partisanship posing as patriotism. let's take it seriously for a second, anyway, just for fun. democrats

chief intelligent correspondent catherine herridge's life for us in washington with more on that. >> thank you, a senior white house official says the idea of nominating merrick garland he was president obama's supreme court choice has been discussed at the white house but there are concerns right now about whether this choice could get some real traction. separately, and administration source told fox this morning that the two women interviewed over the weekend for the fbi director's job were "impressive and strong interviews." townsend is a former homeland security advisor for president george w. bush and fisher also served under the bush administration as a senior justice department official overseeing the criminal division. the source said the significance of nominating the first woman as fbi director is not lost on the decision team. other candidates include adam lee, the special agent in charge of the fbi's richmond, virginia, office. andrew mccabe, the acting fbi director and michael jay garcia, former prosecutor and associate judge on new york's highest court. also in the mix

catherine herridge is live with us. catherine, to you. >> senator graham was in the briefing with the deputy general. his bottom line is that based on what he heard from the deputy attorney general, that this fbi investigation has crossed a critical threshold. it has moved from a counter intelligence investigation to a likely criminal investigation and senator graham said this will limit the ability of congress to obtain evidence and also to get witnesses to testify publicly here on capitol hill. i pressed senator graham on whether rod rosenstein called this a criminal investigation. he said he did not use that term. but based on everything he heard, he believes it is crossing that threshold. this will limit congress's ability to conduct an independent investigation because almost every once he said will want to understand what the jeopardy may be with the special counsel, shep. >> shepard: wow, criminal investigation. sounds like a very sober tone, catherine. >> it was. look, just for some context, a counter intelligenc

catherine herridge looks at who's in the running to replace comey in the fbi. >>> we start off on the north lawn with chief white house correspondent john roberts. good evening, john. >> reporter: good evening to you. like so many public officials, the fbi director serves at the pleasure of the president and can be fired for any reason or no reason at all. president trump is finding that pregof to challenged on many fronts tonight. a relatively quiet day for president trump ahead of what will be a busy week including first foreign trip, and indications he may name a new fbi director before he leaves friday. >> i think the process is good because almost all of them are very well known, they've been vetted over their lifetime, but very well known, highly respected, really talented people, and that's what we want for the fbi. >> reporter: the attorney general is well into the search for comey's replacement, interviewing eight candidates yesterday. the fallout over comey's firing continues, democrats casting suspicious eye why president trump ousted the fbi director. >> do you believe pre

our own catherine herridge is now saying they are working to assess what happened in manchester. based on preliminary media reports, they are now noting in great britain -- is confirmed as terrorism. again, the police are currently treating the incident as an act of terrorism. if confirmed, the level of sophistication become wow beyond recent u.k. plots. these pieces of shrapnel we've been talking about or concerning and point to a premeditation and a plot that may have been directed by a foreign terrorist organization. and an explosion at the exit shows the potential. there could have been much more carnage. a closed space amplifies the effect of the explosion. the disfiguring impact. maximizing casualties. maximizing injuries. the degree of sophistication and level of evil we have been talking at length about. jay, you wanted to weigh in at length? >> what i'm concerned about here -- the act itself and where it was done. the fact that in a free society, how do you prevent a guy, a terrorist, from doing that? i want to go a step further. you've got to go further into these commu

but we begin today with chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge who is life outside of the fbi headquarters in washington. >> late today, and confirmation on a bipartisan basis from senate intelligence committee that they have issued subpoenas for the former national security advisor mike flynn who resigned in mid-february over his contact with the russian ambassador. the senate intelligence committee asked flynn in late april to cooperate and to provide records that were relevant to their investigation, but he declined on the advice of counsel. so this issuing of subpoenas is a major escalation in the case as a vice president mike pence poll reported today that the decision to fire the fbi director was based on the recommendation of the deputy attorney general, a career prosecutor and had nothing to do with russia. >> there is no evidence of collusion between our campaign and any russian officials. let me be clear with you. that was not what this is about. >> also made today, these new images of the now fired fbi director james comey, who is back in washington, d.c. these

let's go to catherine herridge, the chief intelligence correspondence with the latest on the story tonighttherine. >> martha, based on on on them as stories, "the washington post" is reporting that based on the meeting, they were talking by the current threat picture involving isis and the severity of that threat and the specificity of that threat and how it impacted aviation into the united states as well as globally and that threat involved laptop computers being used as bombs with explosives packed inside and out is what has been one of the recent reasons that we have had these changes to aviation security overseas, coming on flights in the united states. "the washington post" says that the president alleges -- the president discussed where this came from and one of the cities held by isis in syria. also, that it related to this computer or laptop. we have, just within the left hour, reached out to the leadership have to house intelligent intelligence committee to see if they have been notified of a breach, that would not be out of the norm, but they have confirmed that they have not be

catherine herridge tells us what all this means on the investigation going forward.art off again tonight though with chief white house correspondent john roberts on the north lawn. the social media beat a bit this morning. john. >> just a little bit, good evening, bret, how are you? i can't remember a time when the president of the united states said what president trump said to james comey today. >> in the middle of a ferocious tweet storm from the president this morning, a remarkable shot across the bough to his fired fbi director. the president warning, quote: james comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. the president was referring to three occasions on which he claims comey told him he was not being investigated in connection with russia. >> he said it once at dinner and then he said it twice during phone calls recall. >> the tweet raised questions as to whether president trump was recording his conversations. at the daily briefing today, press secretary sean spicer refused to elaborate. >> i have tal

our catherine herridge has some new reporting on that question tonight.ucker carlson tonight" read look at that potential political earthquake in just a minute but first, democrats in congress and their circuits in the press spent all day muttering darkly about russian conspiracies and demanding an independent investigation into whether vladimir putin secretly ran donald trump's presidential campaign. they howled and they barked and they did their best impressions of great concern, but always at the center of it, that phrase, independent investigation. ther