yes christopher ray it is a which hunt no matter what you say. the justice department and f bsu i remain significant and unaccounted for. hopefully there will be a reckoning soon. joining us now judicial watch pvt tom. good to have you here. >> this is remarkable. christopher ray, the robert mueller witch hunt is not a witch hunt? it's interesting because he has no evidence and the american public, we're looking at lots of evidence. your thought? >> mr. ray endorsed mueller's raid on the president's lawyer, extraordinary. it's not even done in mob cases. it's done on manafort to suits he bought. this is what he sees as legitimate law enforcement with mueller. he has a relationship with mueller that he admits predates the investigation and him and rosen stein have personal relationships with mueller making it impossible for them to disinterestly call into question or help manage his investigation. so we're not going to get any protection. the rule of law is not going to get protection from the director of the fbi or rosenstein on the mueller inves

christopher ray defend that russia investigation saying it is not a witchhunt.donald trump says he does hold russia's president personally responsible for temperamental in the 2016 election. standby for news from jason chaffetz. when a reporter asked the president is russia still targeting the us he answered no. the reporter followed up you don't think that to be the case? know. the white house press secretary president was saying no to more questions and then dropped a bombshell, the president will consider letting vladimir putin's henchmen interview a foreign investor, that is creating a firestorm tonight. kristin fisher joins us with this unexpected development. >> we are talking about the president of the united states agreeing to allow russian citizens including a former ambassador to russia. the fact that he is even considering this made some people very upset. a few hours ago his own state department spokeswoman called the concept, quote, absolutely absurd. question 11 american citizens about assertions the russian government is making about those america

. >> reporter: what country is fbi directorer christopher ray worried moets about?e told lester. >> i thing china, from a counterintelligence perspective represents the broadest, most challenging, most significant threat we face as a country. >> reporter: academic espionage is of concern. that some students, at the direction of the chinese government is funding research, much of which is funded by the u.s. government. >> in a microwaven. >> reporter: famous for inventing an invisibility cloak, made up a material invisible to microwaves. >> working invisibility cloak sglerks and a young scientist in china. lieu came to study in dr. smith's lab, some believe on a mission from the chinese government. >> we know the chinese have a shopping list of intelligence technology every year. we know the research he took from duke university was on that collection list and we know certain government officials and operatives met with him while he was in the united states. >> reporter: lieu, who was being paid by the chinese government while a student mere, brought his colleagues t

the fbi director christopher ray said yesterday russia attempted to interfere with the last election, and that continues to engage and influence operations to this day. cia chief turned secretary of state mike pompeo confirmed russia's hacking and warned it would continue. all three hand picked by, guess who. president trump. all three with decisive assessments about russia's actions and intentions, and, yet, the president casts doubt on that while standing along side vladimir putin, of all people. got to ask yourself, why is that? i want to bring in now cnn political analyst april ryan. bill crystal, the editor at large of "the weekly standard" and rick wilson, republican strategist. good evening. good to have all of you on. >> good evening. >> i just want to play the stunning -- this is a stunning moment when the director of national intelligence, dan coats, found out from a reporter about the president's invitation for putin to visit the white house. take a listen. >> the white house has announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall. >> say that

. >> fbi director christopher ray and the deputy attorney general were on capitol hill last week. those who know rosen stein emphasize he's in a difficult position, because they say it's not routine to provide records from ongoing cases. >> i know rod rosenstein. i think he's an honorable person. i think anybody in that position would take it personally if they're going to say that you personally have been obstructing congress, or holding things back. i think that he views himself as a point of the spear in a process and the one that has to interact with congress. >> a congressional aide for the house judiciary committee says the justice department has asked for more records and asked for more time, and went further saying the department is simply not in compliance. a justice department spokeswoman drain declined to commit, adding they will respond directly to the house committee. ed? >> when we return, countdown begins. we're three days away from the president revealing his supreme court pick. did orrin hatch let lapse that it will be a woman? and tariffs kick in. who has the upp

of national intelligence, mike pompeo, the former cia director and now the secretary of state christopher raye fbi director. they say not only did the russians do it in 2016 but they're continuing to do it now and they're gearing up for the mid-term elections in november. so what i hear you saying is if they are right that this meeting should not go forward this second summit, is that right, congressman? >> yeah, i would have to be leaning to that side, and i think more sanctions need to go forward. keep in mind, they've been meddling with us for 70, 80 years and they're going to continue to do that. and if it's not the russians it's going to be the chinese or north koreans or another state actor. this is something we have to come together as americans and protect our constitutional republic, the democratic process we use to elect our leaders. actually i just passed on the foreign affairs committee the cyber act, and they're going to be fast tracked to the house so we get this fast tracked and other nations don't mess with us because these are what we're going to do. so it's a timely time to

director christopher ray said yesterday. >> china from a counterintelligence perspective in many ways represent the broadest, most challenging, most significant threat we face as a country and i say that because for them, it is a whole of state effort. it is economic espionage as well as traditional espionage. it is nontraditional collectors as well as traditional intelligence operatives. it's human sources as well as cyber means. it's -- we have economic espionage investigations in every -- all 50 states that trace back to china. >> hannity: that's right! china, not russia. all right, someone may want to tell the left in this country that there's more to life than vladimir putin. so why isn't the media obsessing about the china threat? where's the hysteria over chinese hacking and aggressive military actions in the pacific? currency manipulation? theft of intellectual property. the left is spinning out of control on russia, russia. right hereus on "hannity" we report the full story. president trump is full aware that the political threat that's posed by all the bad actors including c

director of the .ib christopher ray says russia is the most aggressive country that's trying toattack the . right now. that's really, really important. i was talking to sources today, there was a former department of homeland security official, very seÑor in past administrations, he said that the homeland security -- the secretary of homeland security stood saying that she didn't know if rus was trying to help donald trump shows that these administration officialsun arr a lot of pressure to pick between donald trump or the truth.ha sos really, really important, and the senate today voted unanimously to oppose russia talking to u.s. officials or u.s. citizens and basically saying that rush should not be able to question american citizens, so they're also coming out and saying we are not with the president on this. >> woodruff: so, nick, you talked to folks in the intelligence community, there is dsome sort of ivision, it appears,etween what the president is doing and what they know. >> i think it's important to note that th will continue doing their job despite that division, but that

and there's a lot of sort of conversation right now how christopher ray when asked by lester holt hadabout resigning and hadn't. and dan coats, and just the overall sense he felt unshackled. he didn't pretend donald trump was normal. he didn't pretend donald trump was doing a good job on national security or intelligence. what is the collective feeling among the white house staff that donald trump's own appointees who had arguably the most important government agencies, the ones in charge of our military, our intelligence, our law enforcement are no longer pretending that donald trump isn't ridiculous? >> well, i think some of them are still pretty buttoned up, kirsten nielsen being a prominent example. >> right, because she said there's no evidence russia wanted to attack our elections. >> but more broadly, yes, one thing we are finding more and more often when we talk to people who work in the white house or a senior level in the administration is we'll ask them why did trump do this thing, whatever it might be, the helsinki press conference or whatever. in the early administration

christopher ray defend that russia investigation saying it is not a witchhunt. trump says he does hold russia's president personally responsible for temperamental in the 2016 election. standby

i want to play christopher ray.. >> we haven't yet seen an effort to target specific election infrastructure this time, but certainly other efforts what i would call malign influence operations are very active. and we could be just a moment away from it going to the next level. >> and really quickly, the malign influence against one specific person, claire up for senate re-election. here's adam slif ranking member talking about a hacking attempt against her. >> that's really ominous to consider that the same russian actors may have been involved in trying to hack a vulnerable democratic senators campaign right around the same time that president trump called for her ouster from the senate, but what is also distressing to me is the ranking number on the intelligence committee is to learn about these efforts by the russian hackers from comments by microsoft employees at the summit rather than be -- hearing about this from our intelligence community. it shows just how unprepared we are. >> so you know, i'm going to bri

. >> let me ask you this, in previous testimony to congress, president trump's fbi director, christopher ray, explained the critical importance of protecting confidential human sources. this is what he said agent struck, i quote the day we can't protect human sources is the day the american people start becoming less safe end of quote. do you of -- agree with that? >> i do. >> the problem is we live how the transcript of your proposal with our committees, and it shows that republican members asking repeatedly about confidential human sources involved in a russia investigation. is that correct? >> my recollection is yes, sir. >> do you remember how many questions they asked about that? >> i do not, sir. >> let me read one of the questions. one republican member asked you this question, in the month of july, was there any information from confidential human sources given to you as a relates to the russia investigation? do you recall were being asked that question? >> i do. >> that question was specifically about information from confidential human sources in the russia investigation. obviously

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christopher wray. he is a republican nominated by a republican president, confirmed by a republican-controlled senate. $39,000 inr political donations exclusively to republican candidates. i still trust fbi director ray to do his job because i expect him to check his personal beliefs at the door. do you still trust director christopher wray? mr. strzok: yes. rep. lieu: attorney general jeff sessions made political contributions. i still trust that if there's a case involving a democrat or republican or independent that attorney general jeff sessions could look at the facts and the law and apply it in an unbiased manner. do you still trust attorney general jeff sessions to do that? in strzok: i don't know him nearly the same capacity i know the director, but he's taken an oath and i trust him to discharge that. rep. lieu: thank you. let me conclude by saying this. we are going to know at some point what the robert mueller investigation found. we already know about the hillary clinton emails because there's been an exhaustive investigation plus this ig report. what we're seeing now is an attack on law enforcement. when i was prosecuting cases, when defendants don't have the facts on their side, they re