brangham: the president l fires comey six daer.ge 70, mueller writes that,ig on the of comey's firing, the white house wanted to put out a statement saying it was acting attorneygeneral ra to fire comey. but rosenstein said he wouldn't participate in putting out a false story. desjardins: that same week, the president says this lester holt of nbc news. president trump: and,n fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. desjardins: now, many held that interview up as a clear admission that the president fired comey to obstructhe russia investigation.t eller's report says the full nbc interview actually showed the opposite. on page 74, "the president stened that he understood wh he made the decision to fire comey that the action might prolong the investigation." brangham: mueller's report concludes that the evidence doesn't establish that the w termination of com designed to cover up a conspiracy between the trump campaign and russia. desjardins: b

who fired my friend comey. that is a major conflict of interest, he should have disqualified himself. >> jason: congressman gaetz, i want to go to you, on the judiciary committee, what kind of questions and what can you get out? mueller is a reluctant witness. he does not want to come. he was issued a subpoena. he says that he is going to confine his report to what was issued in his report. so what do you think you can draw out from? >> when robert mueller leaves capitol hill, i think the american people will see that there was no collusion. and there was oceans of bias. i think bias will be the word of the day from the assembly of the mueller team to his handling's and dealings with peter strzok and lisa page. let's remember that robert mueller had a fire those people from his team. but when i question peter strzok about interactions when he was fired, i was shocked at the lack of curiosity of robert mueller, he never asked what peter strzok meant by the insurance policy. he never delved into these meetings in

the reverend comey, i guess. bishop comey, we should call him.test thing is he says, he compared americans who support president trump, he compared them to a, quote, mob and they should be sent back to their dark corner. doesn't this just prove all, what you and i have been saying, that comey is nothing but a hyperpartisan who abused his position of power for political reasons to try to influence the election and destroy a president? >> absolutely, gregg. this type of rhetoric coming from the former, by the way, fired former fbi director of the united states and the rhetoric coming out of his mouth and that of john brennan has been incredible. in fact, it's extremely dangerous rhetoric. and that's why i'm really concerned. what's going to happen during the hearing next week with mueller? what we're going to be seeing evolving from this. there is a reason why mueller has agreed to testify, and it's not for any good purposes. remember, these people are very tight, mueller and comey are very close friends, and to turn around and call americans who v

comey says because mr. comey says ask mr. mueller.ill tell you that i don't believe it's appropriate for me toe get into conversations i've had with principals on that issue. >> there was a central question. mueller slices it into pieces, dances around it and says, hey, i'm not going to tell you. i don't think it's appropriate. this is really important for next week, and the criminal evidence against the president. congress never got a fuller answer on that issue there, so you can contrafrt now these two top officials discussing the same incident as a preview for next week. >> i raced to the hospital room, mr. ash croft was lying down in the bed, the room was darkened. >> it was out of the ordinary? >> i prepared a letter of resignation to resign. >> i don't believe it's appropriate for me to get into conversations i've had with principals on that issue. >> mueller will have even more rationales next week for why some answer is unappropriate. grand jurd i law, d.o.j. rules, the credible consideration that people mueller indicted are s

comey, into flynn.016, what was the basis for such an investigation? and another question about general flynn, why did you eliminate all proper procedure and protocol, take advantage on day four of the trump administration, send your agents in that you never would have done in the bush years or the obama years and did you have advanced knowledge of anything that general flynn said, and was it achieved by surveillance, the illegal unmasking and leaking of raw intelligence? and did you yourself violate the espionage act? here with reaction, emily compagno along with former florida attorney general pam bondi. pam, that is just the tip of the iceberg.co he wants to give questions, i have questions for him. >> that's right, and sean, a bunch of great ones. and i think the follow up on your last question, mr. comey, when you leaked confidential information, fed it to your friend, who leaked it to "the new york times," did you willfully commit a crime? >> sean: is that aor violation of the espionage act? was t

comey's mind. >> comey understood this to be a direction because of the president's position and the circumstances of the one-to-one meeting page 40 volume 2. >> i understand it's in the report. and i support it as being in the report. >> thank you, sir. even though the president publicly denied telling comey to drop the investigation, you found, open quote, substantial evidence corroborating comey's account over the president's. is this correct? >> that's correct. >> the president fired comey on may 9th, is that correct, sir? >> i believe that's the accurate date. >> that's page 77, volume 2. you found substantial evidence that the catalyst for the president's firing of comey was comey's, open quote, unwillingness to publicly state that the president was not personally under investigation. >> i'm not going to delve more into the details of what happened. if it's in the report, then i support it because it's already been reviewed appropriately appears in the report. >> and that's page 75, volume 2. >> thank you. >> thank you. in fact, the next day, the president told the russian fore

we need to know what jim comey's role in all of this.ndy mccabe reported to him, what was comey's role in that? >> sean: is not inevitable. not a matter of if, but when, we'll know when this extreme, these high-ranking bureaucrats, what they did to malign candidate then president-elect and now president donald trump. the president rightly granted attorney general barr the power to declassify material related to this ongoing investigation into the origins of this russia witch hunt. four separate occasions, the fbi nine months investigations, the house intel investigations, bipartisan senate committee, and now the mueller report. no collusion. american people, you will see the truth with your own eyes. and it's not looking good for these few at the top that abuse their power. by the way, it's not if. it's when we are going to see it. they question will be who needs to be held accountable. you don't have to take my word for it. the swamp is in full panic mode. today, america's most holier-than-thou super patriots jim comey knows better than

comey lied. >> sean: did he spy on you? >> no question.y that, when he sent his agents in march of 2017, we had long discussions, they said we know that the democrats did a lot of bad things against you. we know the media was tough about you, you know, was really tough. but the people that also didn't treat you so well was the trump campaign. talk about that. which was complete, you know, complete lies. >> sean: this is a good point. we offer people something of great value, we learned this week about general flynn. tell us what we want to hear and here is your get out of jail free card n my world that is called bribery. >> it is extortion, extortion for information, doesn't matter if it's true or not. when you talk about obstruction and the president remarked on this a few weeks ago, they were able to find your text messages and they can find text messages everywhere. interestingly for mr. mueller, is that after lisa page and peter strzok were fired their cell phones were wiped. >> sent back to the factory. >> sean: we'll get in the upper

lou: not there is james comey, comey manages to give us a sound bite from time to time. us all scratching our heads, here is comey a couple of samples if we may. >> i don't think he will be attacked by the witness or witnesses, he may be attack by democrats, fairly in my view for misrepresenting what was in director mueller's report, how he handled it. >> in this were a case about someone other than president they would have already been indicted. indicted. >> your thoughts about comey, what a sick i puppy he appears o be. >> james comey seems very nervous about what is going on come next, we're are expecting a inspector general report still. his name may come up in that. he refused to do that. president firing him. and then he become the ep center of this -- epicenter of this, his scrutiny of bi bill barr is nuts, he said there was no collusion, and rerenterred judgment -- rendered judgment there was no obstruction. but comey is upset about it, i think he is getting ready to be put through ringer himself. >> clear that comey lacks the iq points to be contesting with wil

a 2013 piece about comey said basically when comey called you dropped everything you were doing, gave examples, you were having dinner with your wife and daughter. comey calls you, drop everything and go. the article quoted comey as saying if a train were coming down the track and i quote, at least bob mueller would be standing on the trackwise me. you and james comey have been good friends or were good friends for many years, correct? >> we were business associates. we both started off in the justice department. >> you were good friends. you can work together and not be friends but you and comey were friends. >> we were friends. >> that's my question. thank you for getting to the answer. now, before you were appointed as special counsel had you talked to james comey in the preceding six months? >> no. >> when you were appointed as special counsel, was president trump's firing of comey something you anticipated investigating potentially obstruction of justice? >> i can't get into that. internal deliberations in the justice department. >> actually it goes to your credibility. maybe you

a 2013 puff piece about comey said basically when comey called, you drop everything you were doing, gave examples, having dinner with your wife, comey calls, you drop everything and go. the article quoted comey saying if a train were coming down the track, at least bob mueller will be standing on the tracks with me. you and james comey have been good friends for many years, correct? >> we are business associates. we both started off in the justice department. >> you were good friends. you can work together and not be friends. you and comey were friends. >> we were friends. >> that's my question. thank you for get iting to the answer. before you were pointed to special counsel. had you talked to james comey in the proceeding six months? >> no. >> when you were appointed as special counsel, was president trump's firing of comey something you anticipated investigating potentially obstruction of justice? >> i can't get into that. internal deliberations in the justice department. >> actually, it goes to your credibility and maybe you have been away from the courtroom awhile. credibility is al

comey? >> i suppose that's possible. >> so most prosecutors want to make sure there's no appearance of i'm propriety. in your case, you hired a bunch of people that did not like the president. let me ask you, when did you first learn animus for the president? >> you didn't know before he was fired of your team. >> what? >> peter strzok hated trump. you didn't know that before he was made part of your team. >> no, i did not know that. >> all right. and actually, when i did find out i acted swiftly to have him reassigned elsewhere. >> well, there's some discussion about how swift that was. when did you learn of the ongoing affair he was having with lisa page? >> about the same time. >> did you ever order anybody to investigate the deletion of all of their texts off of their government phones? >> once we found peter strzok was author of -- >> did you ever order -- >> may i finish? >> you're not answering my question. did you order an investigation into the deletion and reformatting of their gov

corroborating comey's account. correct? >> correct. >> the president fired comey on may 9th, is that correct? >> i believe that is the accurate date. >> 77, volume 2. you can't substantial evidence that the catalyst for the president's firing of comey was comey's unwillingness to state the president was not personally under investigation. >> i won't get into the details of what happened. it is in the report that i supported because it has been reviewed and appears in the report. >> that is page 75 volume 2. the very next day the president told the russian foreign minister i just fired the head of the fbi. he was crazy, a real nut job. i face great pressure because of russia. i am not under investigation. is that correct? >> that is what -- >> time of the gentleman is expired. the gentleman from virginia. >> we heard a lot about what you are not going to talk about so let's talk about something you should be able to talk about, the underlying obstruction statute, your creative legal analysis of the statute particula

it was james comey that comey testified to congress that he deliberately leaked his memo about the meeting with president trump to the "new york times" via a columbia university professor. >> where is the justification of that and the attempted prosecution of something like that. what he did was wrong and probably borders on illegal. why wasn't anybody going after him? i think the savior of this whole thing was going to be the inspector general's report. i think you will see some indictments come out of that inspector general's report when he releases it in october and november. >> that's the next big shoe to drop. you think there will be criminal indictments? >> there will be. liz: things going from bad to worse for bernie sanders. we'll take a break from the mueller hearings. we'll come back to it in the show. you won't believe what's going on with the bernie sanders campaign. he's now in trouble with the feds. how do you gauge the greatness of an suv? is it to carry cargo or to carry on a legacy? its show of strength or its sign of intelligence? in crossing harsh terrain or breaking new

many of us that were in the department of justice, worked with jim comey, would have fired jim comeytantly on many of the issues that we nowav know he was involved in and how he handled them.s >> gregg: and judge starr,r, the twist on all of this is reportedly it was the russians that intercepted the email, which only underscores that hillary clinton really did jeopardize national securityty with her private unauthorized unsecured server even though president obama said oh, gee, she did not jeopardize national security. >> yes, and that cannot be right. it absolutely was so unconscionable that the secretary of state would do what she did andci do it intentional. and the changing of the characterization, i think is, well, to me, it is unpardonable. you do not, when the fbi comes forward with a conclusion based upon their very careful evaluation of the facts, then say, no, we are going to change that. that is not your view. your view is instead a softer and gentler view. so there is just an enormous number of questions about the professionalism, frankly, the doj and its relationships w

comey's termination? >> no. >> did you discuss at any time in that meeting the potential appointment of a special counsel, not necessarily you but in general terms? >> i can't get into the discussions on that. >> how many times did you speak to mr. rosenstein before may 17th, the day you got appointed, regarding the appointment of special times. how many times prior to that did you discuss? >> i can't tell you how many times. >> you don't recall or you just -- >> i do not recall. >> thank you. how many times did you speak with mr. comey about any investigations prior to may 17, 2017? >> not at all. zero. >> now, my time is expired. >> the time of the gentleman is expired. >> director mueller, going back to the president' obstruction via korey lewandowski it was referenced 1,000 former prosecutors with 12,000 years of federal service wrote a letter regarding the president's conduct. are you familiar with that letter? >> i've read about that letter. >> some of the individuals who signed that letter, the sta

comey's mind. >> comey understood this to be a direction because of the president's position and the circumstances of the one-to-one meeting, page 40, volume two. >> i understand it's in the report. i support it as being in the report. >> thank you, sir. even though the president publicly denied telling comey to drop the investigation, you found, open quote, substantial evidence corroborating comey's account over the president's? is this correct? >> that's correct. >> the president fired comey on may 9th. is that correct, sir? >> i believe that's the accurate date. >> that's page 77, volume two. you found substantial evidence that the catalyst for the president's firing of comey was comey's, open quote, unwillingness to publicly state that the president was not personally under investigation. >> i'm not going to delve more into the details of what happened. if it's in the report, then i support it because it's already been reviewed and appropriately appears in the report. >> and that's page 75, volume two. in fact, the very next day, the president told the russian foreign minister, o

. >> comey recalled that trump brought up michael flynn. >> mike flynn had been fired as the nationalviser after questions were raised about his contacts with the russians during the transition. >> according to comey in volume 2, page 40 of the report, the president said i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. >> comey does not commit to any of the investigation, but when he goes home that day, he writes a contemporaneous memo about his meeting with the president. >> trump was more direct that spring. the report says the president asked comey to publically announce that he was not under investigation by the fbi. comey didn't oblige and trump fired him in may. >> firing an fbi director is politically a very difficult thing to do, especially because the fbi director is supposed to be in his post for ten years. and free of white house influence. so here was trump in the middle of an investigation into his campaign trying to get rid of the person leading that inquiry. >> i don't know whether the president was motivated by an entirely legitimate pure reas

comey's termination? >> no. >> did you discuss at any time in that meeting the appointment of special counsel, not necessarily you, but in general terms? >> i can't get into discussions on that. >> how many times did you speak to mr. rosenstein before the day you got appointed regarding the apartment appointment of a special counsel? >> i can't tell you how many times. >> you don't recall or you -- >> i don't recall. >> thank you. how many times did you speak with mr. comey about any investigations prior to may 17, 2017? >> zero. >> okay. now, my time has expired. >> the time of the gentleman has expired. the gentleman from california. >> director mueller, going back to the president's obstruction via corey lewandowski, it was referenced that 1,000 former prosecutors who served under republican and democrat wrote a letter about the president's conduct. are you familiar with that letter? >> yes. >> some of the people that signed that letter are people you worked with, is that right? >> quite probably yes.

comey's termination? >> no. >> did you discuss any time during that meeting the potential appointment of a special counsel, not necessarily you but in general terms? >> i can't get into the discussions on that. >> how many times did you speak to mr. rosenstein before may 17th, which is the day you got appointed? >> i can't tell you how many times. >> is that because you don't recall? >> i do not recall. >> how many times did you speak with mr. comey about investigations. >> zero. >> zero. my time has expired. >> time of the gentleman has expired. the gentleman from california. >> director mueller, going back to the president's obstruction via cory lewandowski. a thousands who serves with 12,000 years of federal sft wrote a letter regarding the president's conduct. are you familiar with that? >> i've read about it. >> some of the individuals who signed that letter are people you worked with, is that right? >> quite probably, yes. >> people you respect? >> quite probably yes. >> in that letter saying all th

look at comey tonight. the super patriot. he said he would never spy. he signed the fisa warrant for spying. but he never spied. how many fisa warrants did he sign? >> he signed three of the four. look, i looked at these questions. they're so laughable. mueller asked isn't it true that the trump organization explored a construction project in moscow. yeah. he's a developer. that's not a crime. another one was, well, isn't it true that the trump campaign met with a russian lawyer? yeah, but that's not a crime. my favorite though is isn't it true that a trump associate heard a rumor that the russians had hillary clinton's e-mails. yeah, but it's not a crime to hear a rumor. it's tempting to dismiss comey. he thinks everything is a crime somehow. it's more than that he's a pernicious partisan and the audacity of a guy -- remember, he's the guy that stole government documents that were privilege, leaked them to the media to trigger the special counsel and now he has the temerity to pen a column of hear are the questions that the special counsel should be as

it was about the rule of law and fairness. >> sean: james comey won't be indicted?lary team that you had so many people given immunity, to get indictments you need some one to whistle blow. you need some one to confess, to say yes we did this. >> sean: let me quick get everyone in. >> first of all, comey has to be dieted. indicted. all right, the rats are already jumping ship, already pointing the finger at each other. you have durham -- >> sean: prepremeditated fisa fraud. >> they don't play games. >> comey? >> there will be indictments or a plea deal. >> i'm a cynic. people who would never satisfy the american people.n you are right, the evidence is overwhelming and incontrovertible. >> sean: they took away his guy's constitutional rights andg civil liberties, they will get away with it? >> weissmann has been doing it for 30 or 40 years. two people sitting here -- >> sean: maybe it's time for equal justice. >> the issue is not whether they took carter page'sng rights away from him. i agree with you, he should have an incredibly big lawsuit. the issue is whether on

comey's termination? >> no. >> did you discuss at any time in that meeting the potential appointment of a special counsel? not necessarily you, but just in general terms. >> i can't get into the discussions on that. >> how many times did you speak to mr. rosenstein before may 17th, which is the day you got appointed, regarding the appointment of special counsel? how many times prior to that did you discuss with -- >> i can't tell you how many times. >> is that because you don't recall or you just -- >> i do not recall. >> okay. thank you. how many times did you speak with mr. comey about any investigations pertaining to russia prior to may 17th, 2017? >> none at all. >> zero? >> zero. >> now, my time is expired. >> the time of the gentlemen is expired. the gentlemen from california. >> director mueller, going back to the president's obstruction via corey lun cewandowski, it w referenced that 1,000 former prosecutors who served under republican and democratic, with 12,000 years of federal service wrote a l

comey. mccabe. comey signed the first fisa warrants which opens the door, barely, according to newness and the grassley ground them all, the bulk of information was hillary bought and paid for a dirty russian dossier. we found out from john solomon last week that he had a spreadsheet, even if you are in early 2017, said 90% of this saying was false garbage and not true. comey signed it though and that allowed a backdoor for carter page to spy on your campaign, later transitioning to the presidency. but mccabe, chart, page, brennan, klapper, may be sourcing out what would be illegal intelligence gathering gathering. we know the attorney general was there. is there any of these names -- what you think of these people? when jane's comey signed the first pfizer application in october 2016, winter trump tower in january 2017, and told you it was unverified, months earlier, he swore on that application, the pfizer application that was verified, so he lied. what are your thoughts about these people today?

mccabe, comey bragging about it.e and members of his family were threatened with significant prison time. his screws were turned in the hopes that he would sing or compose as judge ellis one side and in the process mounting legal bills wrecked his family finances. he had to sell his house, he ultimately agreed to plead guilty to lie to the fbi and the fbi did not think he lied. he did it to save his family and is on a particular. tonight thanks to investigative reporter sara carter, we are learning some damning new information about flynn's plea deal and according to the level counsel, the ever so powerful and smart cindy powell, persecutors wanted flynn to lie under oath against the former business partner in a case surrounding again a fara violation. "the prosecutors have been adamant that mr. flynn testified, that he authorized the filing of this b6 form knowing and attending that it contained false statements. mr. flynn cannot give that testimony because it is not true. according to sara carter's reporting, becau

fire comey? when you met with president trump on may 16, 2017, why didn't you tell him you were considering, the next day, turns out, taking the position of special counsel to investigate him? why did your report edit ouand misrepresent a telephone message left by trump attorney dowd with michael flynn's lawyer, robert kellner? isn't it true that the old office of legal counsel opinion did not prevent you from rendering a conclusion on whether the evidence did or did not support obstruction of justice?el as you can see, we could go on and on and on. keep it tight, keep it short. if he doesn't answer, move on. if he starts rambling, "mr. mueller, i only have 5 minutes. i don't have enough time.le yes ore. no, sir." ask as many short questions as possible. your mission should be to inform the american people about aul dirty dossier. used to literally spy on the opposition party candidate, filled with russian lies that robert mueller ignored. let the american people know the truth. also breaking new

comey calls, you drop everything and go. the article quoted comey as a saying if a train were coming down the track and i quote, at least bob mueller would be standing on the tracks with me. beennd james comey have good friends or were good friends for many years. correct? >> we were business associates prayed we both started off at the justice department -- >> you were good friends. you can work together and not be friends but you and comey were friends >> we were friends. >> that's my question. thank you for get into the answer. before you were appointed as special counsel, had you talked to james comey in the preceding six months? >> no. >> when you were appointed as presidentunsel, was trump's firing of comey something you anticipated investigating? >> i'm not going to get into that. that's internal deliberations of the justice department. >> actually it goes to your credibility and maybe you've been away from the courtroom for a while. credit ability is always relevant, it's always material and that goes for you, too. y

so comey and the other people that i mentioned are in a world of trouble.ntee you that horwitz, the inspector general, has the goods on them. >> sean: one week from tonight, we have booked you to be on this program, and you will be hereu hopefully one week from tonight, if mueller testifies, why do i think like everything else, that i suspect that what t the democrats are fearful of now and what we see emerge, they don't want republicans to ask questions, which is amazing, because the rule is to say that they must. but what i think will happen here is that mueller has already said what he has to say. he will refer to the documents. unless devin nunes is right and talking with each other, which would not be a good thing, but you are going to ask questions, won't you have an opportunity to ask questions of robert mueller? what are the things that you think you might be going into? without giving away everyhe detail. >> we are working on that. the whole committee, all of the republican committee is trying to figure out what is the best approach to take. i will

it was james comey, then deputy attorney general. first time mueller and comey would find themselves in a very controversial legal drama. >> i was very upset. i was angry. >> reporter: comey was worried the bush administration was determined to keep a warrantless eavesdropping program. ashcroft was in the hospital recovering from surgery leaving comey in charge. >> i was concerned given how ill i knew the attorney general was that there might be an effort to ask him to overrule me when he was in no condition to do that. called director mueller, he said i'll meet you at the hospital right now. >> reporter: they had to race administration officials to ashcroft's bed side. >> director mueller instructed the fbi presents not to allow me to be removed from the room under any circumstances. >> reporter: in the end ashcraft backed comey and mueller. >> he enlisted bob mueller because he knew bob mueller had this incredible nonpartisan reputation in washington. >> reporter: now trump views mueller's relationship with suspicion. >> his best f

stk president trump fired jim comey.ng that was the original justification for robert mueller's investigation. democrats told us the firing was obstruction of justice. now, more than a year later, we're learning more details. upcoming investigative report could reveal that comey was lying to the president and spying on the president before he was canned. fox chief intelligent correspondent catherine herridge has more. >> our source does not independently confirm the real clear investigations report that former fbi director james comey also tried building a conspiracy case against the president. using a standard intelligence briefing to gather information on her trump. significantly the alleged use of briefings to gather information the trump transition team came to light in april when text messages between peter strzok and lisa paige said they discussed using a similar briefing with the incoming vice president, mike pence. to identify sources inside the white house, track lines of testimony. fox news got the text message

comey's termination? >> no. >> did you discuss at any time the potential appointment of a special counsel not necessarily you, but just in general terms? >> i can't get into the discussions on that. >> how many times did you speak to mr. rosenstein before may 17th which is the day you got appointed regarding the appointment of the special counsel? how many times prior to that did you -- >> i can't tell you how many times. >> because you don't recall or you -- you just -- >> i do not recall. >> okay. thank you. how many times did you speak with mr. comey about any investigations pertaining to may 17, 2017? >> zero. >> zero. okay. now -- my time has expired. >> the time of the gentleman has expired. gentleman from california. >> director mueller going back to the president's obstruction, corey lewandowski, it was referenced that a thousand former prosecutors with 12,000 years of federal service wrote a letter regarding the president's conduct. are you familiar with that letter? >> i have read about that let

i want to ask about another element that has been reported, james comey was running a covert operation against donald trump. what do we know about that? >> the reports are the fbi agent working in the white house, reporting to him. he had a bowl inside the white house and he lied to the president, comey did that he wasn't under investigation. the lack of professional judgment and bias of the former head of the fbi. >> he told the president, and anthony parenty, what was his role inside at the time. >> what was going on in the white house, we just don't know. what is going on inside the white house, very standard fbi, it is unethical to do that. >> will he wants all 5 hours today? >> unfortunately yes, i am going to be watching it and listening. >> we can't avoid it, some of us. appreciate you joining us, have a good day. the time is 20 minutes after the top of the hour. if a picture is worth 1000 words what does this one say to you? the encounter that is going viral. the last straw for liberals, the trump campaign bringing in hundreds of thousands of dollars by selling plastic straws,

your buddy jim comey signed it, the first one. against the trump associate, carter page, and that gave them a backdoor to spy into all things trump campaign. then trump transition, then the trump presidency, and as "the daily caller" points out, the bureau's desperate attempt to acquire a warrant were totally stalled until steele dossier came along. deputy fbi director andrew mccabe said it perfectly. no dossier, no fisa warrant. james comey and company were so desperate to find that backdooro the trump campaign, yes, mr. comey, to spy -- that they used phony unverifiable campaign clinton bought and paid for op research full of russian lies. that was to obtain a warrant to spy on an american citizen and an entire presidential campaign. and according to "the new york times," investigators working for the ig's probe into fisa abuse, they asked christopher steele, "whether the bureau was overly reliant on the russian expertise of outsiders like himself." and christopher steele told them that he believed the fbi was probably underequi

kavalec two weeks before the first fisa warranty signed by comey. that means they were warned hillary paid for it. they should've put a big, bold headline in neon lights for the judges in the fisa case in the application. they didn't. but we know from steele's testimony under oath, it is an unverifiable document. the bottom line is -- >> let me try to tie this all together. let's go back to the story that just broke yesterday. four favorable stories about steele, supposedly some sources who know the matter, that means it is steele himself talking to reporters saying that steele was a cooperating witness. we also know the fbi has told congress that they didn't know anything about the steele dossier until september of 2016. another lie because we know from the interviews with bruce ohr and others and even andrew weissmann, the pitbull for mueller, that he was actually briefed on the dossiers in 2016. there is a lot here for the inspector general to get a hold of but what really needs to happen is the u.s. attorney in connecticut needs to get all this

the outcome of the same dossier that was supposedly verified in october of 2016 by jim comey. remember, then used as a backdoor before the campaign come after the campaign, even president trump, to spy on the trump campaign. yeah, the one hillary clinton bought and paid for, those russian lies. here with mark from washington tonight is our own catherine herridge. catherine? >> sean, multiple sources tell fox news the timeline has looked for a variety of reasons. justice department inspector general michael horowitz recently became aware of new evidence that you have covered extensively on your broadcast that the senior state department official kathleen catholic in her department in 2016 with former british spy in anti-trump dossier christopher steele. the timeline matters because two weeks after the kavalec meeting, the fbi and justice department used steele's unverified research paid for by democrats to help secure their surveillance warrant for carl carter page, the trump campaign aid. sources familiar with the matter said some key witnesses horwitz wanted to talk to earlie