epps was brought up in the committee hearing today with fbi director chris ray. er carlson and some of inmember colleagues said ray epps was secret government agent helping encourage this crime so as to make the president look bad. do you have knowledge of ray epps being a secret government agent? >> no. i will say this notion that somehow the violence at the capital on january 6th was part of some operation orchestrated by fbi sources and agents is ludicrous and is a disservice to brave hard working men and women. >> that is the fbi director debunking the theory. do you think anything will put this to rest? >> i think finally having a jury find the lies were told about ray epps and awarding damages might put an end to it but the truth is that lies haven't mattered to fox or its viewers for quite sometime. they put profits over people, they put fraud over facts, they put lies over legitimacy, i hope it will spell an end to it but at the least need to be held accountable for the lies. >> in the dominion lawsuit, one thing dominion was able to do early was reach out

be here and to have the opportunity to introduce today's luncheon speaker, my boss fbi director chris rayi have been blessed throughout my career to have tremendous mentors like judge deas and director ray and many others who are here in the room and i got to catch up with some last night. although it is been more than a decade since i when i clerked for judge deas and the start of my time with the director i remember having a similar reaction at the beginning of bothil jobs. and my mind one of things that makes a great mentor is the mentor's ability to quietly push others to be their best. and it judge diaz and ray is anyone who knows him can attest are both incredibly smart and darn near impossible to outwork. and with the both of them i realized very early on that i have to bring my game if i was going to keep up. with that director raywr i membr getting ready for my first meetings with the director to review some reports. this was early in my time, i did not have a lot to distract me so i'll study that report reading forwards and backwards, trying to learn every detail so i can impres

did you say chris mary's -- did you see chris ray's interview. and then the worst president ever? our gas prices were two dollars and $.27, crime was down. i have had enough from these corrupt democrats. host: the line is open for democrats (202) 748-8000, for republicans (202) 748-8001, for independents (202) 748-8002 are opening topic is about a likely indictment announced by the former president. the letter from the justice department he received. but it's a quick look at some of our live programming on the c-span network. the senate judiciary committee is working on legislation dealing with the conduct of the supreme court. the ethics recusal act aims to establish a code of rules relating to the justices personal activities. at that hearing continues this morning coming up at 9:30 eastern on c-span three. israeli president herzog is meeting with president biden and we will have that life for you as the house and senate come together at 11:00 a.m.. two irs whistleblowers will testify today on the ongoing investigation into the biden family. we will have live coverage from that

job this afternoon is to introduce the person who will introduce our guest speaker, fbi director chris ray. you may think that is odd, but you will see why i'm doing this in a moment. this morning, she spoke about this hope in respect to the new generation of lawyers and young people who will hopefully change and write many of the wrongs that she correctly identified in her remarks. as judges we have a unique opportunity to nurture and mentor young people, our law clerks. one of the great joys of being a judge is the ability to work with such a talented group of young people who are truly committed to the notion of justice. it is even more rewarding to see and they go out and accomplish great things. that is part of the reason i'm here today. william miller who is to my far right was in the group of law clerks that i had when i came on the federal bench. he had been in practice for a few years and came to join me for the first 18 months as i sat for a federal circuit judge. the judges in the audience, if you remember the first year of the event, you are trying to figure out which in this u

which under chris ray they've had -- chris wray, they've had some reform. i want to applaud him for progress, we just need more progress and more reform. in terms of location, my view is that every key agency ought to be located in close proximity to the president of the united states. in the sense of the department of justice and their relationship with the f.b.i. out of sight sometimes is out of mind. and so i want that relationship to be close and so i do like having many of the subagencies out in the field, we'd love to have one in arkansas. and when you talk about subagencies, it could be labs. it could be forensics. these are things that can be moved out of the headquarters arena and moved out in different parts of the country. and i love that really in many aspects of our federal agencies, but particularly in this regard in the f.b.i. so let's get it done. let's have it make sense. and let's move some of those out to where people live. he also mentioned about some of the regional offices. i'll just -- there's a lot of beautiful regional offices that

the fbi istr outol of control.wy it's been out of control and it was out-of-control before chris ray in his out oi haf control n. i just written this book the democrat party hates america. 0 pages long, it's over 100,000 words long and it could've been twice as long. there is an entire chapter onli liberty in the constitution onth the first amendment.on b very, very important our first amendment is under attack and under attack with this demonstration and by the p democrat party it is underar i attack by the fbi under christopher wray. all of these reforms that he has put in place, baloney. in part here's what i say domestic monitoring and surveillance of communication against american citizens haagas been growing.ng they are now exploding under the biden of administration on the same day as his testimony an irs agent visited the new jersey home of one ofs the journalist mattt ma taibbi, remember him, t was he about he was hired by elon musk to take a look at thet twitter files, they founted wha, absolute unbelievable ordination folyr the fbi in every majorth federal department of th

. >> here's what i know time and time again chris ray has told us everything is fine he testified inf congress and said you can sleep well at night knowing we fix the pfizer process, really 204,000 reasons why that statement is not true. that's a number of illegal inquiries they did to the 702 section of the pfizer law illegal losing scrutinizing citizens 204,000 times according to the new york times. there is a host of problems and we know the justice department has labeled parents as terrorist simply going to school board meeting and we know the richmond fbi field office said pro-life catholics were radicals and extremists in of course there's a retaliation against whistleblowers like mr. shapley from the irs that came forward and the d.o.j. kicked them off the case were other whistleblowers have told us about some of the issues and what they face like garrett o'boyle, really get into all the issues in a host of others as well. the main point there is no way republicans in congress are going to be for reauthorizing pfizer in the current form that is due at the end of the calendar y

chris ray and david weiss haven't had to answer for anything about this investigation at all. >> martha, these allegations against joe biden make watergate seem like jaywalking. it is incredible. by the way, i appreciate being able to take to anybody in the fox news audience. a lot of people are nodding and saying, yes, finally, some people are talking about this. you know who is not talking about it? cnn, msnbc, "the new york times," "washington post," this is really important. over half of all democrat voters still believe the original lie that the hunter biden laptop was russian disinformation. make no mistake what the democrats have done here. while they are lecturing all of us about the need for censorship and misinformation and all of these things, they actually in 2020 engaged in the most successful campaign of misinformation in modern american political history about the hunter biden laptop and joe biden's connection to it. such that majorities of democrats still believe what those 51 intelligence agents put out that this laptop is made up. they think we're crazy conspiracy theo

. >> chris ray, the fbi director is going to testify before the house judiciary committee tomorrow. according to the committee, it's going to, quote, examine the politicization of the nation's premier law enforcement agency under wray ace leadership. i wonder what your expectations are for the hearing. i think the republicans have made this their general purpose in this congress where they want to undermine the credibility of the fbi because of its investigation into donald trump and because perhaps because of its investigation to other members of the house. that has been their approach this entire congress. and i think they view this country to continue to do that. this is part of an authoritarian effort to undermine the democratic institutions that uphold accountability in our separation of powers in this country. and the republican congress has made it very clear that in order to do donald trump's bidding, they want to undermine the credibility of the fbi. and i expect them to go full bore to try to do that tomorrow. >> congressman goldman, thanks for your time. >> thank you. >>>

did you say chris mary's -- did you see chris ray's interview. and then the worst president ever?ur gas prices were two dollars and $.27, crime was down. i have had enough from these corrupt democrats. host: the line is open for democrats (202) 748-8000, for republicans (202) 748-8001, for independents (202) 748-8002 are opening topic is about a likely indictment announced by the former president. the letter from the justice department he received. but it's a quick look at some of our live programming on the c-span network. the senate judiciary committee is working on legislation dealing with the conduct of the supreme court. the ethics recusal act aims to establish a code of rules relating to the justices personal activities. at that hearing continues this morning coming up at 9:30 eastern on c-span three. israeli president herzog is meeting with president biden and we will have that life for you as the house and senate come together at 11:00 a.m.. two irs whistleblowers will testify today on the ongoing investigation into the biden family. we will have live coverage from that ho

use of the national guard to cease voting machines, that a single person turn to the fbi director, chris ray and say, hey, look. there are not just one, but there are number of really concerning things that are all coming together at once that point to the potential of violence. frankly, i have yet to hear a good answer about why this wasn't done, and why everybody that was so apparently caught flat footed on january the sixth. >> yeah, there is a part of this that remains incredibly opaque. the hurdles for investigating folks. liz cheney made it very clear. the other black box really is what pete is articulating. there was not really an intelligence failure. we pulled the clips, those weren't classified, or secret. those were on right wing media sources. the tweets about bringing zip ties, where the tunnels were, those were posted on right wing channels. what, if anything, do you think is being examined about the government itself? or do you think with the supervision of the molar pro, he is simply investigating crimes? >> you know, there is no reason for him to investigate the fbi. i hate

and a new interview sat there sunday, trump blames chris christie for the ray hiring.or us to push back on gop claims of politicization within the agency during capital hearing. >> the idea that i am biased against conservatives seems somewhat insane to me given my own personal background. >> this notion that somehow the violence at the capitol on january six was a part of some operation orchestrated by fbi sources and agents is ludicrous. among the things that you listen, off i find ironic, the reference to the lab leak area. the idea that the fbi would somehow be involved in suppressing references to the lab leak theories is somewhat observed and insane, ludicrous and ironic, absurd. >> joining me now is peter strzok former fbi counterintelligence agent. author of compromised, counter intelligence at the threat of donald j trump. peter, good to see you. what in the world went through your mind as you watch this hearing? what are your fbi colleagues telling you about it? >>, alex it is great to see you. i think what we saw for the first time as the fbi director chris

attorney who recommended him for the job of presidential candidate chris christie joins us. later ray apps the -- 6th protests are now in hiding after right-wing media painted him as an fbi so we have a lot of plant. his people taking, ship attorney joins me to talk about the obviously no one is lawsuit they've just flying into out of chicago right now filed against fox news. and the good, evening the breaking news incoming threat for starts us off tonight. new tornadoes. and again, word that another top state these two areas circled out election official has spoken with federal prosecutors in connection with former presidents efforts to overturn the election. she is jocelyn benson, michigan secretary of state. she now joins her georgia counterpart, brad raffensperger, former arizona republican lawmaker, rusty bowers, and to nevada republican party officials, in talking to jack smith's team. cnn's evan perez joins us now with more. so, what have you learned about secretary of state benson's interview with jack smith? >> anderson, what's important about this interview, but we now see a

chris wray. >> do you have any knowledge of ray ups being a secret government agent? >> no.is notion that somehow the violence of the capitol on january six was part of some operation orchestrated by fbi sources in agents is ludicrous and is a disservice to our brave, hardworking, dedicated men and women. >> this is not the only time ray epps was invoked during the hearing, nor was the conspiracy theory being peddled by republicans. in the past, the fbi has carried out some very shady policies. keeping files on u.s. citizens. domestic surveillance. wiretapping. and obsession with fishing au those individuals the bureau considered radical, like dr. martin luther king. it makes it easier for these conspiracy theories to grow out of control. in this age of disinformation in a.i. there is little consensus on the truth. especially when our own lawmakers are the ones feeding into the conspiracies. s proffered by pros like me. and by pros who can actually dunk, like me. and if we proffer it we know you'll proffer it too. i can dunk if i want to. - this is our premium platinum cover

chris hayes. today on capitol hill christopher wray, director of the fbi came before the judiciary committee. raylifelong republican. he was, of course, appointed by donald trump. and during his testimony today, he faced hostile questioning from fellow republicans. republicans, you see, in the defense of donald trump, have adopted the line that the fbi is a bunch of out of control woke deep state maniacs looking to purge conservatives and politically target republicans. it's an idea that is pernicious and also comical if you know anything about the history of the fbi, who with his tended to target over the decades, or the fact that it's nearly hundred year history, all of it senate confirmed fbi directors, nigh none has ever been a registered democrat. i digress. there was one moment during hearing the convoy intention. here it is. around the questioning about the fbi and january 6th from republican congressman darrell issa of california. >> how many individuals were either fbi employees or people that the fbi had made contact with were in the january 6th entry of the capital and surrounding area

chris wray. the house gop along with former president trump had been hammering ray and the bureau for months. the attacks of course have intensified amid the trump classified documents case and after hunter biden took a plea deal. keep in mind that christopher wray is not a democrat he is not a joe biden crony, he was appointed by donald trump to this post in 2017. he is also a registered republican. but that did not matter to the gop members who used today's hearing to go after him personally. >> when the court says the fbi misled, but it's a nice way of saying they lied. >> the american people fully understand that there is a two tiered justice system. that has been weaponized to persecute people based on their political beliefs. and that you have personally been worked to weaponize the fbi against conservatives. >> i would disagree with your characterization of the fbi. and certainly your description of my own approach. the idea that i'm biased against conservatives seems somewhat insane to me given my own personal background. >> your job is to review what they do, your job is to protect t

chris wray. the house gop along with former president trump had been hammering ray and the bureau for months.se and after hunter biden took a plea deal. keep in mind that christopher wray is not a democrat he is not a joe biden crony, he was appointed by donald trump to

ray very much. >> would you fire christopher wray? >> day one. >> no, i would not keep chris one i think that's very important. >> how dare christopher wray have the audacity to hide this information for his boss, joe biden. this is, this is purely protecting crimes, he's hiding crimes the president of the united states committed when he was vice president. >> we all know the fbi is plagued by political bias. you see it almost daily. every one of us ought to have confidence in the fbi solving crimes, not interfering in elections and interfering in investigations. >> so, who wouldn't want to spend some quality time with people who feel that way about you? it is worth noting that ray was actually nominated by a republican president, one who many republicans do seem to like, namely donald j trump. more broadly, the fbi and justice department have become targets because republicans say they have been politicized, and among other things, and did not take the hunter biden investigation serious enough. they're here to, it is worth noting that the republican important overseeing that

from this, a grand slam from chris taylorch this was in the sixth inning and the dodger's leading ninth of the season. to arlington, texas now and the rangers hosted tampa bay rayshree-game set. we'll pick things up with the game tied in the bottom of the ninth, the rangers with a runner on third. >> 1-1, ball gets away. here comes smith, he'll score and the rangers take the up from tampa bay. >> there's one way to win it, pinch hitter josh smith scores. tampa bay's stranglehold on the al east their lead to the orioles down to just one game. meanwhile those new york yankees, well, following last night's loss and the red sox's shutout win the yankees are in last place for the first time since october 1990. let's reiterate that, folks, the yankees are in last place at least for now. time now for the weather and let's go to meteorologist michelle grossman for the forecast. michelle, how's it looking out there? >> unfortunately, we're watching that excessive dangerous heat to the south, southwest, south central states, also the southeast. record breaking temperatures dally, monthly, and all-time records and we're going to break records today. 63 million americans un