general jeff sessions at the public urging of president donald trump has been pressuring fbi director chris ray to fire fbi deputy director andrew mccabe but ray threatened to resign if mccabe was removed. that's according to three sources with direct knowledge. according to the new reporting tonight, attorney general jeff sessions told the white house counsel don mcgahn how upset the fbi director was about the pressure to fire his deputy andrew mccabe. he said this issue was not worth losing the fbi director over. that's according to a source familiar with the situation. we do not know when this occurred. the fbi director threatening to resign on the face of pressure to remove the deputy director of the burro. of course, the president nominated chris ray to be fbi director this past summer, after he fired the previous fbi director james comey. james comey testified to congress he was fired after he refused to let go of the fbi investigation into the president's national security advisor mike flynn. but this reporting tonight about the pressure being applied by administration to james comey's s

but that hasn't stopped him from letting the attorney general and letting chris ray and sessions lettingray know how he feels about mccabe. so, you know, it does kind of muddy the waters here. the white house says, you know, we knew nothing about this. no fingerprints on this. we were not involved. but you would be remiss if you didn't ask the question, the fact that the white house let this be known so publically and over such a long period of time have any impact on this. >> right. that's the question. quick final thought, solomon? >> i think it's the most likely explanation. there could have been pressure. that would be unfortunate. the most likely explanation is that he was at a point where he could take his accumulated leave and it would run through march and he decided to take pressure off chris ray and resign right now. >> might be. solomon, chris, gloria, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> still ahead here, we're going to talk about hillary clinton and how her former campaign manager going back to 2008 says she suggested firing an adviser accused of sexually harassing a female

i think that's the thing we need to see chris ray explain. the president's unprecedented and really inappropriate constant interference with the fbi, with the justice department, has really polluted the atmosphere there. it led americans to not really know what to think about these kind of decisions. even if he made this for completely legitimate reasons, because of the president's constant interference, we're left with this cloud over the department of justice. >> matt, does this have anyway bearing whatsoever for the mueller investigation? >> it shouldn't have much. i expect that andrew mccabe will be a witness in that investigation. he may have already done an interview with bob mueller. remember, when james comey has his interactions with the president, the interactions he thought were inappropriate, mccabe is one of the people he shared those memos with. he is without a doubt going to be a witness. that is exactly another reason why it makes the president's constant pressure on him so inappropriate. he is a witness against the president

i work with chris ray and he is my counterpart at the department of justice and i believe that. i think this has no impact on the special counsel investigation. to some people it will lend criticism to the fbi and i think those have been unfair because they stem from the bad judgment of a couple of people at the bureau under james comey. i don't think this has any impact on the special counsel. i think the removes a very controversial issue and i think chris is happy to have this past him. >> years will go into what's legal or not versus what doesn't look good, this washington post story where the president had asked mccabe in 2016, what you think of that? >> highly inappropriate of course, politics, we know that this president doesn't really have filters. i'm not making a political statement, we just know that whatever is in his brain is coming out his mouth. i can see him asking that question, i can see anything i'm not going to answer that question is none of your business. >> if the fbi director is supposed to be taken at face value for saying he was forced to get out, that

chris ray who schiff made a solid effort to point out is a trump, somebody trump installed in the fbir ray has not in that beholden to trump in his time in the job. he defended his fbi from a lot of the president's criticism so if he did in fact read this memo and fire andrew mccabe that is a big deal because it is not like chris ray is the director of the fbi, under trump's them by any stretch of the imagination. >> he talked about the independence of the fbi, he supposedly was pushing back against removing mccabe prior to the removal yesterday, those who fire mccabe before him. mister ray is i think one of the concerns i have is the fbi director only acts when pushed and i think we know there will be disclosure requiring mister mccabe's recusal removal and that is why ray took these steps and i have to wonder why he waited so long. was italy the politics or something seriously new he found? judicial watch found that mccabe was compromised with a conflict of interest, he recused himself a week before the election and used fbi account that the government to promote his campaign. all t

the supervisor of the special counsel in charge of the russian investigation, and fbi director, chris ray made an unannounced visit to capital hill. the deputy attorney general and the fbi director requested the meeting, what made this unannounced meeting dramatic. at that moment, the justice department was in the middle of this ugly fight with house republicans, a group lead by this guy, dev in noneas. he was a member of the trump attempt he has been leading the most aggressive efforts in congress to try to under cut the mueller investigation. to try to create alternative scandals that white house likes better. for months, nunez has issued subpoenas to the justice department, demanding they turn over documents relating to the on-going russian investigation. the justice department pushing back, turning over that information would jeopardize an active counter intelligence investigation. undeterred, last month, house republicans deegan moving to hold rosenstein and ray in contempt of congress. on january 3, when they showed up at paul ryan's office, they were there to ask for house speaker

now, the problem here is chris ray is a new fbi director. and a new fbi director would be expected to pick his own deputy and chief of staff and his own council. but it makes it difficult to do that when the president goes in and seems to call all the shots. >> yeah, this is the kind of organic natural turnover that would have happened, but now it's all cloaked in this. jennifer, we've been talking about the pressure put on mccabe. let's talk about the pressure writ large being applied on the department of justice? >> right, so the president was traveling to davos when he was able to focus on the news that had just broken, about this letter from a top doj official to the white house saying it would be reckless to do so. the president's frustration had boiled over. he'd had a long week of frustration with the department of justice. i've been told he has a bit of a preoccupation with the department of justice and its inner workings and has been very critical of what they do. at the beginning of the week he was critical of department of justice

. >> i think we learned something very important about chris ray last night when axios broke the story. that is that this is someone who at the end of the day is working to protect the institutional indi integrity of the fbi. i'm not going to sit here and say i support everything he has done, but i think that was a very encouraging thing. >> how do you view these text messages that feel like they're becoming a mythical holy grail of missing information that some of the president's supporters are hoping it will prove that it's the clintons that creating this whole thing. >> i have no reason -- government documents do not always get preserved as they're supposed to be preserved. i have no doubt that, you know, if messages disappeared that are supposed to be available, we should find out what happened there and verify there is no misconduct in those messages. the story here is not about peter and i will -- lisa. this is a moment to distract for what this is about. >> good to have you here, great to have you on board here. >> thank you. >> and we'll have you onset more. >> the other story

as the briefing was wrapping up the cameras cost -- crossed chris ray. exiting the west wing here. it remains unclear why they were here notable on the day. in which he is now out at the fbi. the intrigue goes on. in a reminder that we will be bringing you wall-to-wall coverage of the state of the union address. and then the intelligence report at 11:00 p.m. let's get back to these markets. exxon is down half a%. it's down half a% even though they are going to invest 15 billion over the next five years. one day before the president is set to take the state to address the american people stocks as you can see swimming in a the sea of red. it is not the only thing syrian steering investors in the face. you have the statement on wednesday. plus the almighty january jobs report out on friday. let's get to the floor show. the cme group. what is the number one thing you are watching for this week we know we are down a little bit today. what are you keeping your eye on this week. we've seen a blast off every single week we've seen a rotation. we want to make sure the earnings are awarded.

and fbi director chris ray was in that meeting too. then it turned out what they were meeting about was the russia investigation. we can narrow it down even further. the fact of this meeting was a surprise to everybody. what's going on here? speaker of the house is technically most powerful person in whole legislative branch. while all the controversial inquiries have been under way in the house technically under his leadership speaker paul ryan has mostly stayed out of the russia story. here today head of the fbi and de facto attorney general showing up in surprise to everyone. we believe that justice department tonight was poised to hand over to congressional republicans, specifically to devin nunes on the trump transition team, emerged as one of the most aggressive trump partisans in the house. we believe that justice department was poised to hand over to devin nunes documents he demanded from the justice department and fbi that were potentially sensitive about the ongoing robert mueller investigation. devin nunes sent this letter t

knowing what we know about chris ray and don mcgahn, talk a little bit about the consequences of servinghis president. i guess it's not for the faint of heart. >> they struggled to keep the reigns on the white house and decision making. i was in john kelly's office on wednesday night when all of a sudden, the door bursts open and in comes donald trump and we start asking questions and he blows the lid on a planned four-day rollout of the immigration plan, tells all the reporters that and i'm standing next to john kelly and i can tell by his body language that he, you next realizes he's going to have to go back to the drawing board and come up with a plan to clean up what the president just did. also, i heard john kelly when we asked president trump about mueller and whether he would be willing to testify and president trump said that he would love to, i heard a sigh from mueller, from john kelly standing next to me. he was really trying to keep a straight face and not show emotion. this happens time and time again where kelly has been brought in. he really tries to organize the way the p

back in again for a perfunctory interview to become the permanent fbi director and obviously chose chris ray. since then he talked about the money he took, the fact he thinks he's a democrat. we've seen seen him taunt andrew mccabe on twitter. he's far from the president's favorite person. and i don't think his answers satisfied him if all the president's subsequent comments are an indicator of that. >> let's talk about your other reporting that robert mueller is preparing, getting ready to interview president trump and vice versa. do you have any sense of what that will look like? is that a sit-down in person, a submission of written questions and answers? >> well, the negotiations are at pace now. president trump's lawyers are looking to make an interview as accommodating to him as possible, whether it's some written, whether part is videotaped. what bob mueller's team has told the president is they're interested in two parts, the firing of mick flynn early in the administration and the firing of james comey later in the administration. those are kind of the bucket areas, what the presiden

the president appointed chris ray because he is a man of true character and integrity and the right choice to clean up the misconduct at the highest levels of the fbi and give the rank and file confidence in their leadership. so there you see the statement, don, clearly the white house isn't denying this reporting that wray felt pressure, the fbi director felt pressure from the attorney general sessions. and was upset about it. the white house not denying that. it's up clear, parts of this unclear in terms of that he had -- he was the right choice to clean up the misconduct at the highest levels of the fbi. it seems as though they're talking about andy mccabe, the deputy fbi director who's expected to retire very soon. so i think that does tell you something there, don. >> yeah, it certainly does. is you can hear, pamela, pamela ran to a studio to get us to at the top show, we know you're out of breath. let's be transparent about it. thank you for getting here, this is new reporting to get on the air, we wanted to put you in front of the camera and have you report it. pamela, the white hou

justice tent, we should point out, led by his own appointees including session, rosen steen and chris ray over at the fbi. >> he also appears ty s to be t credit for preventing plane crashes? >> every president likes to take credit when things go well and pass the blame when things go poorly. apparently in this case taking credit for planes not crashing. he says, since taking office i have been very strict on commercial aviation. good news, it was just reported that there were zero deaths in 2017. best and safest year on record. a white house official tells us, craig, that the trump administration credits the president's efforts to modernize air traffic control. and some of the steps he's taken to step up security measures. but the facts tell a slightly different story. no commercial u.s. airliner has been involved in a fatal crash since 2009. what accounts for that stretch of laudable aviation safety is not really the result of any one person's actions. it's decades of work on the part of lots of people in the u.s. and also around the world, craig. >> all right, jeff bennett starting us

the supervisor of the special counsel in charge of the russian investigation, and fbi director, chris raynnounced visit to capital hill. the deputy attorney general and the fbi direct

. >> that doesn't chris ray wanted it released.f the fbi wanted to brief your committee, why not allow them the opportunity to do that? >> well, look, i don't make that decision. i would be okay with them briefing us. they briefed up on a number of items. but that's really not the issue here. the issue is that there's an assertion that a director did not see it. in fact, he did, and top adviseh a high degree of expertise reviewed it as well. while they were given the opportunity to make some edits, there was no factual material edited or changed in any way. >> the democrats also asked for both memos to be voted by the fbi and the department of justice. they say it was turned down by republicans too. >> i don't think that's necessarily accurate either. i think there's a process by which this memo would be shared with the general membership of congress, and before it would be released to the public it would certainly be vetted. ours has been viewed by as i said, director ray and two of his top staff. i don't have a problem -- nfrt, i

chris ray, the f.b.i. director, this week threat topped resign. in the past about the attorney general and the deputy attorney general. the president is mercurial and engages in self-destructive actions and actions that violate norms that make it extremely difficult for people to work with him and the only leaf rang they have is to resign or threaten to resign. every instance so far the president's backed down and there's actually a somewhat happy story here in that despite the extraordinary attacks by the president, despite his attempts to impede the independence of the justice department and the f.b.i., they seem to have resisted so far. the story today and yesterday is don mcghan insisted by drawing the line inside the white house. >> woodruff: but meantime, the president, some of the people around the president, his allies, certainly the republicans on capitol hill are trying in a number of different ways to undermine, call into question the credibility of the justice department, the f.b.i. what do you make of those efforts? do you think they

director chris ray has summarized our new threat landscape. it's one that includes not only large mass casualty events like 9/11 here in the united states and similar more recent attacks in europe, but also more isolated and diffuse lone wolf and homegrown violent extremist threats that give law enforcement and national security investigators much less time to detect and disrupt. imposing additional obstacles to accessing this critical information could either delay us when time is of the essence or worse, prevent us from being able to connect the dots of information that the u.s. government has already lawfully collected. real-world examples show how devastating this could be. a tip under 702 from the n.s.a., the national security agency, is what helped the f.b.i. stop an attack on the new york city subway system in 2009. there's also haji iman who at one point was second in command in isis. 702 helped us get him and take him off the battlefield. and then there's isis recruiter sean parson. 702 revealed his terrorist propaganda and identified

the house speaker met wednesday with rod rosenstein and chris ray.they wantedly want lryan to nar scope of subpoenas. nunes has demanded that documents be turned over in connection with the dossier. ryan reportedly sided with nunes over the doj. now nunes says that he will have access to all the documents he requested. the dodj has not commented on that characterization. joining me is malcolm nance, sarah kendzior and scott dworkin. scott, nunes briefed the trump campaign on intelligence matters, he was on the transition team and he fielded calls from foreign leaders trying to reach michael flynn, so it's possible that nunes's conversations were recorded. how is it that he now gets access to all of these documents with which he can pursue his investigation of fusion gps? >> trump opens up the door for corruption. so it becomes more normalized. even though this is not normal. it's tough to believe that somebody like speaker ryan, who i used to have respect for, would step out and defend nunes when he came out and said nunes said he would recuse thihim

saw the document, sunday afternoon chris ray, the director of the fbi went to the secret vault in thed examine the document. he could not say if it contained classified materials or not. he needed his people to look at it and he wanted to take it with him but he couldn't. the department of justice, donald trump department of justice said it shouldn't be released before they sought. after they sought they couldn't say why it shouldn't be released. that's where things stand. >> it's a mess. >> the department of justice has leadership a point of by the president. they are ill serving him. >> thank you very much. interesting news in the last minute there. >> in california, democrats propose laws that are examples of extreme liberalism, to say the least. here it is. anybody who gets a driver license will be registered to vote in any illegal immigrants can get a drivers license. they get the license, their legal, the registered to vote, automatically. double the corporate, here's another thing, double the corporate tax to counter the tax plan. spend a billion dollars for healthcare for ille

that sent chris ray rushing over there to see it.'s people, not a given the president will release it, the president said he wanted it released, political statement but his national security people, hr mcmaster and his team will look at this and decide is more harm than good going to come from it? if he can started being released? stuart: i don't see national security is affected by this. you can reject any names. judge napolitano: even a redacted name in the context of the rejection can be figured out who it is by people who know what is going on. you have to redact more than the names of the revelation of names of whistleblowers and spies and the means by which the government acquires its purloined data. i am in favor of releasing all of it like you. not just a memo, not just a memo. underlying data on which it is based because you have adam schiff's memo and devon nunez's memo both based on the same material and came to the opposite conclusion, let us look at this material and dry our own conclusions. stuart: there is one other de

the letter to congressman devin nunes renews the request by fbi director chris ray that the chairmanre the memo with the justice department for review either to them or the fbi's inspector general since they were unaware of the wrongdoing and would like to investigate first. the letter states it would be extraordinarily reckless to release the classified memo who has been urged by the president's son, donald trump jr. as well as russian bots according to the german martial fund, a group that tracks their activity. >> so there's don jr. again teaming up with the russians. way to go and suggesting something your own ferret's justice department said would be extraordinarily reckless and would also, of course; put our officials in danger. good on you. >> good for the family. >> nbc news is also reporting nunes is resistant to share the memo we have been senate republican intelligence committee chairman richard burr. he won't even share it with his republican counterpart. >> so you can just throw stuff out there. >> this is a man who participated in the clown show earlier this year he he

one for the attorney to concede in the opening, yes he committed the acutus ray chris and there is a good mens rea defense and you can develop that i would say that you that is not permissible. >> correct. >> that he proved he committed certain acts and had a certain mental state. our defense here will be that he didn't have the requisite mental state and everything else done during the trial is directed toward that. there is no attempt to put the government to its proof to try to poke holes in the witnesses called to establish the a.c.t. us raus. is the latter permitted? sew long as as he didn't say the words, it is okay? >> it may or may not be okay. let me be very clear about this. the core sixth amendment is at issue here where a defendant says, this is personal defense. i can make my own value judgments about whether i do or do not want to ache a minuscule chance of not being convicted and spending life in prison. the sixth amendment prohibits the lawyer from affirmatively telling the jury i'm telling you he is guilty and he is should spend the rest of his life -- that is the ri

chris? where's jack? where's mike? where's ray? where's pat? where's dan? where's mickey? where's chris? where's matt?'s lou? where's susie? where's jessica? where's steve? where's aaron? where's john? where's billy? vice president [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: here's another coincidence i findg. cookie season. every year three days after we resolve to lose weight girl scout cookie season comes. stay with me on this.orney general jeff sessions today has rescinded something called the cole memo policy from the obama administration that discouraged pro charges against the sale of marijuana in states where the stale of marijuana is legal. the states make it legal, the fbi leaves them jeff sessions is getting that now. so the feds will be prosecuting in states where marijuana is ne can figure out he's on this is like locking someone up for baseball games without the consent of major league baseball. it's very but something about it seemed fishy and i want to conne dots for you to tell you what's really going on here. okay?r here. all right. now up on the wall. fact. jeff sessions the attorney general,

raiings started for super bowl lii players looked happy to be back to work. there's ticket concerns and hotel concerns for those coming to game and other distractions you might imagine chris long did there and done that with the patriots last career and he said no shoulden the player's first word. >> football is most important thing to you and playing football game is why you came. you won't be worried about everybody asking if you want to get dinner or if this apeeps or that interview. that's part of it. normal game week you might do interview and go out to eat with family. those are not disvaxs but it's magnitude of everybody that made the trip to minneapolis hey i'm here you owe me time and the biggest message you don't. you are good at saying no for a week. >> flyers come into tonight 'game on a hot streak. they won eight out of in my opinion games. lightning is best team in hockey. pederson fresh off practice and dropping the puck before the game and got standing ovation from the cout as he should. not a good game for the flyer flyers. and it's 1-0 lightning. little time later gore with a goal that's 17, 2-0 and you cannot let this happen ryan callahan beautiful move

raiings started for super bowl lii players looked happy to be back to work. there's ticket concerns and hotel concerns for those coming to game and other distractions you might imagine chris long did there and done that with the patriots last career and he said no shoulden the player's first word. >> football is most important thing to you and playing football game is why you came. you won't be worried about everybody asking if you want to get dinner or if this apeeps or that interview. that's part of it. normal game week you might do interview and go out to eat with family. those are not disvaxs but it's magnitude of everybody that made the trip to minneapolis hey i'm here you owe me time and the biggest message you don't. you are good at saying no for a week. >> flyers come into tonight 'game on a hot streak. they won eight out of in my opinion games. lightning is best team in hockey. pederson fresh off practice and dropping the puck before the game and got standing ovation from the cout as he should. not a good game for the flyer flyers. and it's 1-0 lightning. little time later gore with a goal that's 17, 2-0 and you cannot let this happen ryan callahan beautiful move

chris found out? impossible to know. but when investigator dove talked to cristi's co-workers at the clinic where she was an x-ray technicianaid they noticed a change in her usually vibrant personality. one co-worker told them more. >> that she was contemplating a divorce. >> if true, it might persuade a jury. prosecutor strunsky also needed to explain why lindsay patterson didn't see cristi's body when she looked over the wall the second time? the prosecution hired a water expert to do a recreation of the hall spa. she's been assisting law enforcement with drowning investigations for 20 years. she got in the spa. >> from the center of the pool and towards where lindsay was standing, anywhere i was laying, you could not be seen from lindsay's viewpoint. once i sank below the surface and hit the bottom, you could not see me at all from lindsay's viewpoint. >> and now the prosecutor was ready. in may 2011, one year after the first jury deadlocked, burke strunsky went back to court armed with new evidence for a brand-new panel of hall's peers. jurors heard medical experts testify about the injuries to cristi's head and once ag

ray. michael zeldin, laura coates and renato mariotti. leonard orr, "the new york times" is record oh reporting that the order to fire mueller came in june. here is the president's friend chrisuddy at that time. >> i think he is considering perhaps terminating the special counsel. i think he is weighing that option. i think it's pretty clear by what one of his lawyers said on television recently. i personally think it would be a very significant mistake. >> um-hum. so the white house pushed back against this. but it seems many people new. it's no surprise that mueller found out. >> right. well you know what we saw -- what we saw, don, is a number of people from the white house denying that, including the president himself. if you search you will find comments from the president in which he said he never intended to fire mueller. wasn't going to fire mueller which is not the first time of course there's been dishonesty from the president. what i will say we had a conversation before the break about the legality of firing mueller or comey. i mean what i will say is the logical extension of the argument that there is no crime there is essentially that the president according to

far as th command that cou help, the metal detectors and x-ray machines, talking from experience, it helps. i am talking experience. your chriswe -- is experience as a resource officer, how much helped in preventing these things with preventing - -that students would tell you about? caller: a lot of the students, it starts from home, it starts with what they are going through. they come to school every day with some much on their backs and their minds. and i used to talk to a lot of the kids, from eighth grade all the way to 12th grade. and a lot of them, they need love and they want help and when we show that we care, no matter what they are going through, you show that you care for them. look, this is how we will plan it, and you address the issues with them and they feel better. they are like, thank you. and they come to school and they will calm down knowing that somebody cares for them. some kids feel like nobody cares what they are going to either want to retaliate. they just do not care. host: thank you for the input. jeanette in massachusetts. caller: thank you, i really believe that everybody knows we are living in a