that christopher wray has. christopher wray was recommended by rod rosenstein. the fbi -- i'll tell you what if you took a poll in the fbi i guarantee you one thing. i do very well. there's such corruption. before i got here it's from before i got here. it's the obama administration. and you look at what happened. they surveilled my campaign. very simple. the fisa report. the phoney fake -- >> rod rosenstein signed the last fisa report. >> it bothers me. >> will you fire him? will you fire session? >> i'll tell you what, i wanted to stay uninvolved but when everybody sees what's going on in the justice department -- i put justice now with quotes. it's a very sad day. jeff sessions recused himself which he shouldn't have done or he should have told me. even my enemies say that jeff sessions should have told you that he was going to recuse himself and then you wouldn't have put him in. he took the job and then he said i'm going recuse myself. i said what kind of a man is this? >> all right. elisabeth and then katty kay. elisabeth, i mean at this point this looks l

john bolton, dan coats, christopher wray, paul, and kirstjen nielsen.at the front line of defense at america's infrastructure and the democratic process itself, or on another reading, you're looking at a five-person janitorial crew carrying the mops and brooms trying to clean up the lingering toxic spill that was donald trump's disastrous news conference had helsinki with vladimir putin. no matter how you see them, the message they delivered today was important and in some ways welcome for its

he wanted the fbi job that christopher wray has. now christopher wray was recommended by rosenstein. the fbi -- i will tell you what if you took a poll in the fbi i will tell you one thing i would do very well. ainsley: are you considering pardoning paul manafort? >> i have great respect for what he has done in terms of what he has gone through. you know he worked for ronald reagan for years. he worked for bob dole. i guess his firm worked for mccain. he worked for many, many people, many, many years. i would say what he did, some of the charges they threw against him, every consultants, every lobbyist in washington probably does. if you look at hillary clinton's person, you take a look at the people that work for hillary clinton, i mean, look at the crimes that clinton did. with the emails and she deletes 33,000 emails after she gets a subpoena from congress, and this justice department does nothing about it? and all of the other crimes that they have done. and they -- look at podesta. podesta was supposed to be manafort on steroid

we got details of the director of the fbi christopher wray say it's more misinformation campaign this fall than attack on election infrastructure. we got details like that from them. the over arching effort is yes bad actors will continue to interfere in our election and they will do everything to stop that. that comes with a very obvious backdrop here of those comments not being echoed by president trump himself and certainly not being echoed as strongly as they just were by the secretary of homeland security, the national security adviser, the president's chief intelligence officer, the director of the fbi and the head of the nsa as they did just there. just last week on friday the president met with his national security council to discussion election interference. a meeting that didn't even latinos over an hour long which raised criticism about whether or not the president is taking this seriously. of course, that comes after the president's press conference in helsinki with the russian president, the leader of the country that attacked our last election, the presidential election

charles: are you happy with the job christopher wray has done so far though?christopher wray is moderately, it's a slow process and that's probably part of his personality and management style. i probably would have been a little bit more aggressive than that. as long as it's getting done. all these people should have been out of the building because the optic was horrendous. charles: we have the matter for trial underway. we have learned the guys spent a lot of money on suits. you can question his python jackets and whatnot but the mueller investigation at this point to me just from a layman who knows nothing from a legal standpoint it feels like it's coming up >> look among all charges that have been brought, how many of them involve collusion? zero. none of them, as far as manafort case, what is troubling about that is it was beyond the scope, without authority of mueller's special counsel investigation. he within to the archives of tax division of deputy of justice, and dug up an old case that had dust on it, the doj had previously determined for lack of e

and i think the broader issue that i think christopher wray talked about in particular of influence efforts that go beyond the specifics of a particular election. i think that's very troubling too. >>chris: you talk about the media and the idea they all jump off the telephone line. >> not everyone but a lot of them. >>chris: in a much more direct way, the president critiqued the media. iwant to put up the streets. this tweets. this is one of them. the fake news hates me saying they're the enemy of the people, only becausethey know it's true. i'm providing a service by explaining this to the american people. they purposely cause great division and distrust. they can also cause war. they are very dangerous and sick . ambassador, what war is it that we've started? >> i think the issue of press bias has been a long time. i supported barry goldwater in 1964, i thought the press had was biased against him. >>chris: absolutely. there is bias and people get things wrong and they should be called out for it. cause war, six, this is taking it to a completely different level. >> that the presence of y

on that security secretary, kirstjen nielsen and fbi director, christopher wray. after the briefing, senators bob corker and dick durbin spoke to reporters. >> we meant telling us about the briefing on camera for a moment? i will be very brief. >> nothing new. i mean i think all of you are reporting on the kinds of things that agencies are doing. our ability to protect ourselves and it was really nothing that i mean i'm going to get a cup of coffee as a matter of fact. >> you believe they are doing enough because if there has been criticism they have not been taking this as seriously as they should. >> i think there are working together. in the best way that they can to make sure they are working interagency wise here, federally but also with officials throughout the country. there has been a large uptake throughout our country people wanting to work with our agencies and i really do think they are doing everything they can. i think they feel pretty good about where they are but every county, needs to be participating. some of the smaller counties i am sure, need

christopher wray, the first time he testified before congress, christopher wray does the dance, we willuff over. now we have to answer for you, we have to sue in a lawsuit. all right, i think i have the last word. anyway guys, tom fenton, david avella, doug schoen emma thanks for being here tonight. now, rudy giuliani says mueller's case is about to blow out. coming up i have them here to break this down. plus, don't forget my book "liars, leakers, liberals," available wherever books are sold. stay with us. ♪ we know what it's like to learn from the best. we know there's nothing quite like watching a son rise. we know that what's outside can change what's inside. we know the great outdoors. we love the great outdoors. bass pro shops and cabela's are proud to salute you, the great american hunter, with the fall hunting classic. offering you the best of the best deals, gear, and special events - to keep our tradition of conservation going strong. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> robert mueller is a greater threat to this republic and the constitution than anything vladimir putin did during the campaign. i am nor

christopher wray from day one, i don't know who made the recommendations. but from day one, he danced with congress. >> is not what he's saying. the president directed the fbi director last week to go in front of the briefing room and tell the country along with the secretary of homeland security and others, what the ministration is doing with respect to cybersecurity and election security. a heck of a lot more than the last ministration. i will not go there but i would say the presidents frustrations when shared by many americans. because people want to make sure all sides of this are being investigated. i would note that since the department of justice and the fbi started the turnover with more of the emails and more of these unredacted documents, look at everything that has come out. >> judicial watch is the one -- they are suing. that's my point.and the president knows it which is why he tweeted. it's a big story, why is the fbi given the information? the president is tweeting that. it is not about what's come out. >> the president, i spoke to this week

the president also letting loose on rosenstein or his recommendation of fbi director christopher wray and for signing off and the continued surveillance of carter page. while the president insists he would like to stay uninvolved with his justice department, he says he may have to step in and order the release of pfizer documents that allowed for that surveillance of page. b2 at the time i'm going to have to do the document. it's from before i got here, it's from the obama administration. as i said i wanted to stay uninvolved but when everyone sees what's going on in the justice department, it's a very, very sad day. jeff sessions recused himself, which he shouldn't have done, or he should have told me. even my enemies say that jeff sessions should have told you that he was going to recuse himself. >> former cia director and trump antagonist john brennan saying "i take no delight in seeing the steady collapse of the u.s. presidency, but i do take strong comfort in knowing that the rule of law in our great government institutions are prevailing. things ultimately will get better and wi

today, senator lindsey graham wrote a letter to the director of the fbi, christopher wray and expresseds about the, quote: double standard and mounting evidence of bias trump campaign during the 2016 election. joining us with more from washington is kristin fisher. kristin. >> judge, senator lindsey graham is accusing the fbi of a double standard because of the difference in terms of how it handled russian contacts with the trump campaign. first thousand handled a suspected chinese spy on democratic senator dianne feinstein's staff. sent a letter to fbi director christopher wray today senator graham said that quote so i appreciate the fbi's diligence in identifying the staff with potential ties to the chinese government and providing senator dianne feinstein with a defensive briefing i'm deeply troubled that the trump campaign was not afforded the same treatment. this letter comes just bays after senator graham said on "fox news sunday" that he wants to appoint another special counsel. this one to investigate the fbi and why a department of justice official bruce ohr was allowed to inve

we don't know if trump turned down mueller for the fbi job at this point, but christopher wray wasn't named to be director until a month after mueller's appointment on counsel. it's likely mueller was in the running when he was named to investigate the trump team. bloomberg notes, from that moment on, trump campaigned to aides about a perceived grudge. of course, that grudge has likely been exacerbated by a criminal trial of the former campaign chairman, paul manafort. today we heard from the first five witnesses who were granted immunity by prosecutors. an accountant described how manafort's partner rick gates asked accountants to modify the amount of loans so manafort it would have pay less in taxes. he was trying to reduce income. it was inappropriate. la porta took -- la porta testified that manafort asked her as late as august 2016, his last month as chair of the campaign to falsify numbers related to his company's profits. rick gates, mueller's star witness is set to testify any day now. he has already pleaded guilty and is cooperating with prosecutors. kristen davis, the infamo

the decision not only a departure but contradicts christopher wray's testimony in congress. he says it is a decision that produces what he calls a deeply disturbing result. he says it was the result of political pressure and the fbi and the american people deserv d better. you have to wonder whether he and his lawyer consider potential legal action. you may remember andrew mccabe when he was fired did suggest that he may under take legal action against the fbi because he said that firing was politically motivated. now strzok's lawyers are saying the firing was politically motivated. recall that after the texts surfaced in which strzok were saying things back and forth, that was criticized by the justice department inspector general. after the ig report came out earlier this year in june, the fbi director christopher wray says he was going to under take new kind of training for fbi agents and appropriate disciplinary action will be taken. >> pete, thank you for that. >> the former assistant is joining me now, our msnbc legal analyst, i want to pick up what pete said. could he

the president appointments christopher wray.estified before congress christopher wray does the dance, we'll hand you the stuff over. now we have to ask for foia and sue in a lawsuit. alright, i think i had the last word. any way guys, thanks for being with us tonight. >> thank you. >> jeanine: alright. now rudy juliani says mueller's case is about to blowup! coming up, i have charlie kirk and dan bongino to break this down. plus don't forget my book lie as, leakers and liberals the case against the anti-trump conspiracy available wherever books are sold. stay with us. too cold for camping? too hot to work? nah. this is the gator xuv835. with game-changing heat and air, it's never too anything for anything. i get it all the time. "have you lost weight?" of course i have- ever since i started renting from national. because national lets me lose the wait at the counter... ...and choose any car in the aisle. and i don't wait when i return, thanks to drop & go. at national, i can lose the wait...and keep it off. looking good, patrick

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sent a letter to fbi director christopher wray today senator graham said that quote so i appreciate the's diligence in identifying the staff with potential ties to the chinese government and providing senator dianne feinstein with a defensive briefing i'm deeply troubled that the trump campaign was not afforded the same treatment. this letter comes just bays after senator graham said on "fox news sunday" that he wants to appoint another special counsel. this one to investigate the fbi and why a department of justice official bruce ohr was allowed to investigate then candidate trump while ohr's wife worked for the opposition research firm that produced that now infamous dossier. >> bruce ohr was at least ethical. we need a special counsel to look at all things department of justice and fbi when it came to the church investigation particularly the intelligence investigation. >> senator graham sure came out swinging this week. >> judge jeanine: all right, kristin. thanks so much. former press secretary for vice president pence marc lotter and jordan sekulow. you know, mark, this whole idea

christopher wray detailed an effort that the fbi has been working on. he didn't say it was directed bit the white house or attorney general, something the fbi was working on. you couldn't see the white house stand up with an event like this because it would offend the president, anger the president. what's changed is that after the helsinki press secretary -- press conference, he seemed to ro grovel in front of president putin and deny election interference and come back to the united states and deny it's happening now. you see them trying to dig out of this hole with this press conference, but the problem is you can't on the one hand convince the american people or try to convince the american people you are being serious about foreign interference in our election while the president, the press secretary and the national security advisor call it a witch hunt and call for the investigation to be shut down as the president did yesterday. they do not square. you will never convince the american people to take it seriously when the president doesn't. >> it

today, senator lindsey graham wrote a letter to the director of the fbi, christopher wray and expressedthe, quote: double standard and mounting evidence of bias trump campaign during the 2016 election. joining us with more from washington is kristin fisher. kristin. >> judge, senator lindsey graham is accusing the fbi of a double standard because of the difference in terms of how it handled russian contacts with the trump campaign. first thousand handled a suspected chinese spy on democratic senator dianne feinstein's staff. sent a letter to fbi director christopher wray today senator graham said that quote so i appreciate the fbi's diligence in identifying the staff with potential ties to the chinese government and providing senator dianne feinstein with a defensive briefing i'm deeply troubled that the trump campaign was not afforded the same treatment. this letter comes just bays after senator graham said on "fox news sunday" that he wants to appoint another special counsel. this one to investigate the fbi and why a department of justice official bruce ohr was allowed to investigate

so is christopher wray going to -- >> we're not cherziexercising t oversight because the republican leadershipy of this, refuses to exercise oversight. >> but congressman, are you calling on christopher wray to now answer questions about this firing? >> i think he should. i think that's a good idea. but the main point -- remember, no one -- the inspector general made a finding that strzok did not do anything to prejudice the investigation, did not bring his political opinion into it in any way. no one has made a specific allegation of his doing so. he's entitled to his opinion. more to the point, he's just a victim. what all of this is, is an attempt to discredit the investigation because he was involved to some extent in the beginning of the investigation. although, unlike what they're saying, he had nothing to do with initiating the investigation. that was initiated because of papadopoulos telling somebody about -- >> but this is important. the deputy director of the fbi, you say, is bowing to political pressure in firing a career agent who's been with the fbi for 20-plus years. you say that

the fbi director christopher wray said unequivocally no votes were changed in the to 2016 election. are they positive about that. 100 percent? >> they sound positive. we heard that not just from director wray but various people in the intelligence agencies and intelligence community. they continue to say that so, we take them at their word at this point. but, we haven't seen any evidence that would point otherwise. we do know they hacked into systems though and stole as many as half a million voter information from board of elections. >> dana: take a listen to one other sound bite from christopher wray. >> we have open investigations with foreign nexus fbi field offices across the country. so, make no mistake. the scope of this foreign influence threat is both broad and deep. >> dana: that was fairly ominous. he said they had open investigations into isis in all 50 states. this is discouraging, of course, it's good the government is on top of it he said something else and at the "wall street journal" you said we are following this closely he said we have to have private public partne

she'll be followed by christopher wray. then finally, the director of the national security agency, general paul nakasone. dan? >> as director of national intelligence, i would like the american people to know that the intelligence community and all of its agencies are postured to identify threats of all kinds against the united states. the president has specifically directed us to make the matter of election meddling and securing our election process a top priority, and we have done that and are doing that and will continue to do so. we have incorporated the lessons learned from the 2016 election and implemented a broad spectrum of actions to share more information across the federal government as well as with state and local governments and also with the public and the private sector. the intelligence community continues to be concerned about the threats of upcoming u.s. elections, both the midterms and the presidential elections of 2020. in regards to russian involvement in the midterm elections, we continue to see a per

she will be followed by the director of the federal bureau of investigation christopher wray.finally the director of the national security agency. dan? >> i would like the american people to know the intelligence community and the agencies are postured to identify threats of all time against the united states. the president asked us to make election meddling and securing our election process a top priority. we have done that and are doing that and we will continue to do so. we have incorporated the lessons learned from the 2016 election. and implemented a broad spectrum of actions to share more information across the federal government. as well as with state and local government and the public and the private sector. the intelligence community continues to be concerned about the threats of the upcoming u.s. elections. both the midterms and the presidential election of 2020. in regard to russian involvement in the mid-term elections we continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by russia to try to weaken and divide the united states. these efforts are not exclusive to this

- director of homeland , atrity, kierstin nelson the i director stephen wray and finally, -- christopher wray and -- lly, the direction or >> as director of national intelligence, i would like the american people to know that the intelligence community and all of its agencies are postured to identify threats of all kinds against the united states. the president has specifically directed us to make the matter of election meddling and securing our election process a top priority and we will continue to do so. we have incorporated lessons the president has specifically learned from the 2016 elections and implemented a broad spectrum of actions to share more information across the federal government, as well as the state of local governments and also with the public and private sector. the intelligence community continues to be concerned about the threat of upcoming u.s. elections, both the midterm presidential elections in 2020. in regards to russian involvement in the midterm elections, we continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by russia to try to weaken and divide the united states. th

she'll be followed by the director of the federal bureau of investigation christopher wray. and the director of the national security agency general paul nokosani. dan. >> as director of national intelligence, i would like the american people to know that the intelligence community and all agencies are postered to identify threats. the president has directed us to make the matter of the election meddling and securing our election process a top priority and we have done that and are doing that and will continue to do so. we have incorporated the lessons learned from the 2016 election and implemented a broad spectrum of actions to share more information across the federal government as well as with state and local governments and also with the public and the private sector. the intelligence community continues to be concerned about the threats of upcoming elections. both the midterms and the presidential elections of 2020. in records to russian involvement, we continue to see a progressive messaging campaign to try to weaken and divide the united states. these efforts are not

fbi director christopher wray was among those sounding the alarm today.ave for the midterm elections, it is not a kind of robust campaign that we assessed in the 2016 election. we know that russia has tried to use its propaganda and methods to sow discord in america. they stepped up their game big-time in 2016. we have not seen a robust everett from them so far. mark: that was the director of national intelligence, dan coats. thoseto nielsen was among speaking at the white house today. iny said that democracy is the crosshairs. the senate vote on a supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh may come close to election day -- hadmakers had a cap counted on. the senate judiciary chair jack grassley -- chuck grassley could pass through the october 1 start date of the next term. -- had counted on. the senate judiciary chairhe sag will not start until september rather than this month. a federal judge giving puerto rico storm victims more time to find permanent housing. thousands of hurricane evacuees have been living in hotels across the u.s. since they struck the i

john bolton certainly was, and christopher wray, dan coats, it goes on.l pros who know what they're doing. quickly, we've got to move oliz, go ahead. i know you want to say something. >> on the other networks covering the manafort trial 24-7, they mentioned this was trump's campaign manager, sure. how many times they meng the charges he's been brought against have nothing to do with the 2016 election, and decades old crimes. >> ladies, got to leave it at that. thank you for playing ball with us. we didn't know it was going to happen. it surprised everybody that the national intel people came out to talk about combating russian interference in our elections. >>> by the way, apple is back up over a trillion. look what's happening to the dow, the dow is positive. there is a trillion dollar market capitalization of a company. the most important company, it's fair to say, in america right now. not just gauged by money alone. if we can go back to apple, gauged by what they do. what apple has succeeded in doing, not only in terms of product introduction. crosses

director christopher wray summarized the kremlin-backed methods. >> cyber attacks against voting infrastructure, along with computer intrusions, targeting elected officials and others, and a whole slew of other kinds of influence, both overtly and covertly manipulating news stories, spreading disinformation, leveraging economic resources and escalating divisive issues. >> reporter: last month at the helsinki summit, the president gave as much weight to russian president vladimir putin's denials as he did the u.s. intelligence assessments about election meddling. >> i have great confidence in my intelligence people, but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today.fo. came am ieng anti of a report from russian interference in the 2016 election. >> and the nation's elections are more resilient today because of the work we are all doing, but we must continue to ensure that our democracy is protected. >> reporter: the administration argues on this matter, it has taken action, expelling russian diplomats, maintaining obama-era sanctions, and conducting t

here was christopher wray and dan coats at the white house a couple of days ago. here it is. >> russia attempted to interfere with the last election and continues to engage in malign influence operations to this day. >> we continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by russia to try to weaken and divide the united states. >> this threat is not going away. >> you're on the intelligence committee. i assume you have heard many of these same updy wi p more specificity than we have. what's your level of concern about interference in the 2018 elections based on the briefings you have been receiving? >> i chair the rules committee, senator klobuchar is my ranking democrat. >> right. >> she and i work on that committee together, so those -- which is basically the committee that would have the legislation for election security at hearings that were public on this topic. i thought the most helpful thing in terms of thinking about this year's elections that director wray had to say was we're not seeing the level of activity trying to approach the election systems themselv

this senator lindsey graham has written a letter to the fbi director and even though christopher wrayasn't there, five years ago, he wants to know hey, how come five years ago the fbi gave senator from the great state of california, dianne feinstein a heads up that she might have a chinese spy on her staff and then she eventually fired the spy. but they did not tell the trump campaign when they suspected there could be a spy in the form of carter page on their staff? there seems to be a double standard. ed: a staff on feinstein's stab for 20 years. a driver and liaison to the asian american community in california where you have a strong asian american population. he was picking up information about what the senator was up to. some of her meetings and all of that and then steve says, you know, the fbi goes to her five years ago and gives her a heads up. we are picturing this up. maybe we want to handle that she handles it quietly. fires the guy and never says anything. the investigation ends. that's the exact opposite what we saw with president trump. they never go to him and give him

security met with national intelligence director and homeland security secretary and fbi director christopher wraywhen the senate comes back and we expect them to continue work on amendments to an $857 billion federal spending package and that should be any moment now. tonight book tvs in prime time we take a look at recent books in healthcare and medicine. michael pollan reports: scientific uses and facts of psychedelic drugs this book is called "how to change your mind", then rosemary gibson on her book china rx exposing the risk of america's dependence on china for medicine. the author has a book about the risks of getting medical advice from anyone other than a doctor in his book "bad advice", why celebrities, politicians, and activists aren't your best source of health information. but tv all this week in prime time right here on c-span2 and that starts tonight about 8:00 p.m. when the senate is done. we are waiting for the senate to return, we expect them back, they are scheduled back at 4:30 p.m. after the briefing. supreme court nominee judge donna judge brett kavanaugh testifies between t

christopher wray a registered republican and hand picked by president trump, rosenstein, a lifelong republican and hand picked by trump, and special counsel robert mueller is another republican who was first appointed head of the fbi by president george w. bush. and as far as the president's claim that the russia investigation is a witch hunt and/or a total hoax, the numbers prove that is false. robert mueller has brought a total of 191 criminal charges against 35 defendants. there have been five guilty pleas, and former trump campaign chairman paul manafort is on trial right now in the first of two criminal cases brought by mueller. if he's convicted on all accounts he could face-up to 300 years in prison. the prosecution resting its case today in a virginia courtroom. now, the big unanswered question will manafort take the stand in his own defense? so let's discuss now. i want to bring in cnn legal analyst renato, and cnn law enforcement analyst james -- good evening, gentlemen. thank you for coming on. the president wasted no time in tweeting. gloating. about firing of strzok. put it up on

welcome dan coats, fbi director christopher wray, secretary of homeland security kierstin nielsen, general paul madison and national security advisor john bolton, the answer questions on this topic very we have addressed what occurred during the 2016 election numerous times. the purpose of today's briefing is about what we are doing now and in the future to protect the integrity of our collections. moving forward, we ask that you stay on that topic. we also ask that you director question to a specific person. >> thank you very much, sarah. would like to address election security in the 2018 election, and in the future. the president has made clear what his priority is. we have had a number of inquiries from congress on this, including a letter to me the past couple of days from five senators, signed by senator schumer and others. i responded to that letter today. we made copies available to you, and it forms a kind of framework for the briefing, that the four heads of the operating agencies will give you here today. they are implementing and operationalizing the policy we have developed. t

that was in short supply in 2016.blake: christopher wray warned that this is, it goes well beyond, itelection cycle threat. it is something we will talk about most certainly down the line. thank you for joining us tonight. >> you bet. arthel: there is the deadly wildfires in california. we want to update you on more evacuation orders issued as they continue to burn across the state. the heat and dry weather making it really difficult for fire crews to put out the flames. jeff paul has more now from los angeles. i understand that governor brown is calling on the president for help. tell us about that. reporter: touring some of the hardest hit areas in northern california, governor jerry brown today called upon the president for help. the governor is officially requesting a major disaster declaration. saying the relentless fires require a herculean effort. the government agency that tracks major fires reports at the moment firefighters are battling at least 89 wildfires across 10 states. of the 28,000 firefighters responded to all of the fires, half right now in california. when asked a

christopher wray, do you say there a process? bologna, you are chief economy of or director of fbi you should have fired him when this came out. lou: i agree, and as soon as it was known, but there is also the officer of professional responsibility, recommended simply suspension, and the deputy director of fbi, david is one who said, you are fired. and for the life of me, you know how they refer to the office of professional responsibility of fbi, it is a yet, independent department. everything about the fbi and justice department, it is an independent justice department, an independent fbi. they have an independent office, of professional responsibility, and as if at heart of our justice system and law enforcement system, no one trusts leadership of agency, the fbi, no one trusts leadership of the deputy of justice. and -- department of justice this wrong. >> we know that nobody trusts them, but, even more compelling to me is that fact they try to get this information christopher brawray and rod rosenstein, makt clear there was

let's get right to your reaction to the news that the fbi director christopher wray, the fbi's foreign influence task force is now working across all 56 fbi field offices around the united states. how significant is this development in the overall russia probe? >> it's a great development. first of all, it is a great development for democracy. we need to make sure the american public understands their vote is sacred and will be counted. i think it needs to be backed up by actions by the republican house and senate by putting money in election integrity bills and funding actual programs which we have not seen happen. >> is it possible, congressman, for the national security apparatus in the federal government to counter the threat while the president continues to undermine that effort with his own rhetoric? >> well, the best way to counter any type of threat is to create a deterrent. the problem we have right now is we have a president who is not a part of our deterrent package. we have our apparatus pushing hard against russia and russian interference. the president comes out all the t

agreed by the fbi director christopher wray and the attorney general is asleep as this horrific embarrassmentes in the east district of virginia. this is a disgusting display of prosecution abuse for when the attorney general and his deputy should be ashamed. >> tucker: is there anybody you know personally who could say 305 years in prison seems like an appropriate punishment for tax evasion? no is the answer. how can they charge him with that sentence? >> because the deputy attorney general mr. rosenstein has given mr. mueller full authority it to do what whatever he wants. the goal is to get something on president trump. they decided to ruin paul manafort who has no criminal record. whatever you may think of his tactics over the years, or who his overseas clients were. he doesn't deserve this. the attorney general knows that. the deputy attorney general knows that. they don't care. they know mueller wants to get trump. that's what this is about. there is nothing for manafort to flip on. what you are watching is a bizarre mistreatment of a human being. this is a case that should get 1 to 3 y

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these matters further a want to welcome director of national intelligence dan, fbi director's christopher wray, in nationals and, security john bolton to make advisor comments and questions on that. as you know we address during the election numerous times in rhetoric the purpose of today's briefing is about what we are doing now to protect the integrity of our elections and we ask that you stay on. -- on that topic. in order to this run smoothly we ask you direct your attention and questions to ask for bolton and make comments. >> thank you very much sarah and what we like to address today is -- we would like to address today is election security in the 2018 election and in the future. the president has made it very clear i think his priority is. -- what his priority is. we had obviously a number of inquiries from congress on this including a letter to me last couple of days from five five senators by senator schumer and four others. i have responded to that letter today and we make copies to you and it's part of a framework for the briefing that the four heads of operating department and age

because under questioning from a republican senator tom cotton earlier this year, the fbi director christopher wray testified he could only discuss that connection in a classified setting. >> do you know if christopher steele worked for him? >> that's not something i can answer. >> remember as well that ohr's wife was on the payroll of fusion gps. he and his wife met on july july 30th, he finished different pieces of that dossier on july 19th and 26th right before breakfast. he had pressing business with bruce ohr emailing if you are in washington today i have something quite urgent i would like to discuss with you preferably by skype even before work if you can. ohr said they should connect right away, steele wrote back thanks, 2 minutes. if that same day, he finished another installment of the dossier that went out to former trump campaign manager carter page for ties to russia. there were more installments zeroing in on the allegations against paul manafort. the bottom line is all these strands suggests, as the president has been tweeting, there may have been collusion or connections on the othe

lashing out at attorney general jeff sessions without naming names and the director of the fbi, christopher wray people are angry. >> whoo! >> what's happening is a disgrace. and at some point, i want it to stay out but at some point if it doesn't straighten out properly, i want them to do their job, i will get involved and i'll get in there if i have to. >> the president's comments came hours after he told bloomberg that sessions would remain in his job until after november's midterm election. this comes as special counsel robert mueller's probe of russian election interference has reached ever closer to the oval office. >>> retailers are gearing up for the labor day weekend labor day. iane king hall of "cbsmoneywatch" has some information on some of the bargains and mor. >> reporter: good morning. we'll start with this. a report that president trump thnasd lost 21. tariffs points. talks between the u.s. and canada to renegotiate the north american free trade agreement resumed this morning. negotiators met yesterday in washington. the canadian foreign minister said last night the two sides cove

. >> jessica: do you think christopher wray has opportunity to right the ship? josh: the f.b.i., the d.o.j. and everybody will be in a better spot when the investigation is wrapped. >> jessica: it could take a while. >> melissa: well said. we will leave it on that note. more "outnumbered" in a moment. . . i'll take that. [cheers] 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar. new ensure max protein. in two great flavors. >> we want to thank josh holmes for being on the couch with us here today. we had that press conference at the beginning so not everybody got their time. you guys are good sports. >> thank you. thanks for having me. >> sandra: nice on insider trading. >> jesse: i actually needed that for whatever is to come for the rest of the day. >> sandra: watch it and see the whole thing. a lot to discuss in this hour and certainly a lot coming up in the next. we are back here at noon eastern. but now here is harris. >> harris: and we begin with breaking news. president trump's legal team has now responded in just the last few seconds to robert mueller's latest of

. >> christopher wray is taking that on directly, so that in his testimony and he has promised to all protocol there. but this guy could have been fired months ago. the timing does seem suspicious. >> it's a process to do this. >> they had in so many people living in the rubber room. >> but there were questions about if he could do his job. he was taken off of the russia investigation, there were questions of whether he could do his job with objectivity and now he has brought shame on the fbi. people are donating $150,000 to this guy and it shows you that people hate trump so much that they are willing to make people martyrs. >> is a lack of understanding of the bigger picture of the fbi and what it should be doing. >> let's get to the breaking news. the defense resting on day 11 of the paul manafort trial. the former trump campaign chairman's attorney calling no witnesses in his tax evasion and bank fraud case. the closing arguments could begin as early as today. catherine herridge is live at the federal courthouse in alexandria, virginia, with the latest. some have wondered if this

christopher wray the director may have felt one way and another way he may have felt like he didn't need to be shown the door but that all changed because of the deputy director. now peter strzok edit the both white house investigations and they believe it was his bias among other poor decisions that cost him his job. >> of the inspector general they are determined that he did two big things. one is he tried to tip the scales and took action against a sitting political candidate. >> the american people deserve an fbi that is not bias and they deserve an fbi that's going to focus on the truth and obviously he wasn't available. >> that was his only option. he prejudged two major investigations and made up his mind that hillary clinton was innocent before he interviewed her and made up his mind that donald trump should be impeached before you bother to interview him. by the way, he did a lot of this on the government phone and violated other fbi policy. >> now there's another interesting twist to this story, a gofundme page was actually set up by friends of peter strzok to pick up the cost

christopher wray and david can prepare the reputation of the bureau. 99.99% of the agents don't need their reputation improved because it's really good. they will take it back to what the fbi was originally was. >> martha: they have done house cleaning. they think there was a problem with ten individuals involved in this investigation and they are no longer there. i want to ask about the bruise ohr text messages. i am curious what you think about him. he's been at the back of the story. you read a while ago the message he sent to christopher steele who was the person behind the doo doors -- doors. -- dossier. this is from july 1st. i want to discuss with you something about our favorite business tycoon? >> he had nothing to do with the russia investigation christophe after the fbi terminated its relationship with christopher steele. this is one branch of the department of justice that says you are nottinenottine -- not e to it be an informant. we will interview him on august 28th. i will come back to washington and leave beloved south carolina and i will go back and we will interview