>> they sent confidential human sources in to do those. >> did anyone at doj -- who at doj knew aboutal know about this? did the white house know about this? >> based on what we found, nobody had been told in advance. >> once it was happening did they know? >> they did not -- the only evidence that somebody knew where the line attorneys, were the line attorneys in nsd, national security division, when told selective portions what occurred. another knew beforehand, nobody briefed and frankly one of the most concerning things that nobody needed to be told. >> i can tell you from my time at department of justice and my time in law enforcement any responsible leader when hearing that you're talking about sending in spies and sending in a wiretap on any presidential nominee should say what in the hell are we doing? and by the way, the people up the chain who are saying, we didn't know if you had responsible leadership, there's no more important decision than you make. ip can tell you when i was at doj someone said let's tap hillary clinton or tap bill clinton or john kerry, the people woul

here's what the doj ig found. it shows how easy it is to hide from the fisa court, how a political opponent can get it started, is bankrolling it, as you pointed out, doug, 17 failures. what really stuck out was that the fbi omitted that steele's reporting was going to the clinton campaign, that steele was paid by fusion gps to talk about the antitrump steele dossier with the media. >> as an overgeneralized proposition tonight, since the report came out, midday today, obviously, the point of the matter is that the first blush take away is this big political sound bite. you see that, the trump wild conspiracy theories have been debunked but the reality is when you drill into the 17 and go through them carefully, it will be interesting because there's a lot of material about how information wasn't presented fairly to the fisa court. liz: even james comey as of may 2017 said that it was not corroborated. he testified that; right? >> they brought him by the way. again, politics, criminal law, doesn't mix. but i think,

there was an abuse of power even the other day with the doj was paying money to help set up the president. there were all kinds of abuses of power. perhaps none more so than in the house of representatives by the majority. this is an outrage. it sets the bar for any president of any party for the future to go through three years of hell. like this president had, it is really unfortunate. this was a kangaroo court. outrageous to put the country through this, and we get a there was an abuse of power at the fisa court. there was abuse of power in our intel community. there was an abuse of power even the other day with the doj was paying money to help set up the president. there were all kinds of abuses of power. perhaps none more so than in the house of representatives by the majority. this is an outrage. it sets the bar for any president of any party for the future to go through three years of hell. like this president had, it is really unfortunate. it's really unfortunate, this is a sad day for the country, it's going nowhere in the senate, but i really hope and pray the senate will not ju

and within doj, bill barr's communications and just these reports which many attorneys at doj don't knowor not, but just the reports that have come out have caused a lot of concern. i was in touch with a current doj prosecutor earlier about this topic. and what the person said to me was that the notion bill barr would believe there may not have been proper predication which is usually use said for a good enough reason to start the russia investigation is something really disturbing to justice departments prosecutors because they make decisions everydy about what they need to know in order to get a criminal investigation started. and it's obvious to basically all of them that the fbi's intercepts of russian spies reaching out to carter page who had advised the trump campaign was the properest predication you could possibly get. and within doj you'd be really surprised to hear the extent to which there's a yeerning for the era of jeff sessions. he said it's remarkable how much people feel the level of political interference has been ratcheted up under barr than even it was under the prior

so it's the doj, deputy attorney general's office. it is the national security division of the doj. fisa court, it is deeper than just the fbi. i want to turn to what jason chafe get, former house oversight chair told us. he is arguing it is not a coincidence that basically that impeachment got ratcheted up just as the fbi probe into the fbi fisa abuses ratcheted up too. let's watch this. >> we follow the facts. that is what the department of justices doing. i think that is why they're so worried. why we're seeing escalation right now in the impeachment talk as a bit of a distraction to take their eye off the ball of what horowitz and durham are doing. liz: your reaction? >> i don't know for sure what is motivating the impeachment timing. i think there are a lot of factors that have led into the must be impeached by christmas mentality, rush to impeach. i certainly think that the argument that mr. chaffetz laid out is certainly a plausible one that aligns with the facts. liz: what is really interesting? it is really important that the fbi or other officials cannot mislead, cannot li

i think this is a very appropriate that the doj look at possibilities, so i think it remains he to ben i am not gettinged ahead of doj i think it could head that direction. >> interesting the is time of two things happening right you have the house impeachment hearings you also have ig report coming out, many have said that moving forward with impeachment is a way to distract from what would actually be in this report. and this inquiry, itself moving forward. >> of course, you know it is very interesting that the house would hold a committee hearing at 9:00 a.m. on monday morning, that is atypical for congress to do that so this is, of course, yet another distraction the democrats don't want to have truth in fact actually come out they are distracting with this impeachment circus every way possible, to get the american people focused off the fact they don't have any evidence, and that is political sham impeachment of president trump on the judiciary, house report that came out on saturday, they actually admitted nadler said the nixon clinton inte.h impeachment stand constitutionally n

this was not something that doj does. you don't ever foretell what your investigation is finding because you don't know what it's going to find until it's over. >> right. >> and you end up then getting stuck. by the way, you can tell nobody here is worried about prosecuting any cases because i mean, the notion that they're going to criminally prosecute somebody based on -- and have this report. it would be counter to that. i mean, typically, the fbi and doj is focused on one thing. finding the truth. presenting the truth in a court of law. and applying the law to the truth. those facts. this is so far off field, this is ispolitical. this is totally political. and it is a dangerous moment for our country that the doj has -- i mean, doesn't the meeting on the tarmac with bill clinton and the airplane look quaint now? >> actually, that's a perfect -- >> it looks quaint. >> we have been talking about what feels like a frantic public-relations effort. two statements released from william barr on a report he's had for some time

what do the fbi and doj do? and renewal application number two and number three, the fda advised the court "the fbi found the sub source to be cooperative with zero revisions and you note that as the most significant misstatement. and that is going in front of the court of law, relying on facts that you know are unreliable without any basis. that was the number one. at the two major error in the applications was omitting carter page's prior relationships. and that's a pretty darn important fact. i don't know this guy carter page but the fact that he's talking to russians is really suspicious. the fact that he is serving as a source for u.s. intelligence agents is pretty darn relevant, and you don't tell the court that, you are deceiving the court. but it's worse than just deceiving the court. because as the oig report details, and assistant general counsel and the fbi, altered on email. fabricated evidence. and reading from the oig report, specifically the words, "and not a source" have been inserted into the em

there was an abuse of power even the other day with the doj was paying money to help set up the president. there were all kinds of abuses of power. perhaps none more so than in the house of representatives by the majority. this is an outrage. it sets the bar for any president of any party for the future to go through three years of hell. like this president had, it is really unfortunate. this was a kangaroo court. outrageous to put the country through this, and we get a report, and we don't even get to examine the maker of the report. so it is a very sad day. i am just glad i have such an incredible team that i got to be on. these are really quality folks. you want to? >> well, this is a travesty for america, and it's really tearing america apart. i have never in my entire life seen such an unfair, rigged railroad job against the president of the united states. i have known that my fellow democrats were going to go for impeachment since january of this year when they got power. here we are today. they predetermined they were going to do it, and they did it. come hell or high water. they h

i think that we will see a lot of misconduct on the part of senior leaders and the fbi doj. we will see failure to allow exculpatory evidence. >> harris: chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. >> the former fbi official breaking her silence ahead of the justice department ahead of the report. lisa page is the fbi official caught at the center of a major political controversy after her political text messages went public about two years ago. pages texts were with fbi agent peter strzok who has since been fired. they were having an extramarital affair. paige defended her actions and interview with "the daily beast" saying i don't engage in any sort of partisan politicking but having an opinion and sharing that publicly or privately with another person is squarely within the permissible bounds of a hat jack. it's in the rags. yes, it says it plainly. and, i'm not really all that worried about it. >> and he and his lover, lisa page. what a group. she's going to win 10000000-1. i'm telling you peter, she's going to win peter. i love you so much. >

doj report exhaustively debunks not only donald trump but attorney general barr. why that matters. >>> later, what a new report actually says about, yes, the infamous rumor of trump in a moscow hotel. i have all that have for you. ari melber, you're watching a special edition of "the beat." before we talk about tax-smart investing, what's new? -audrey's expecting... -twins! ♪ we'd be closer to the twins. change in plans. at fidelity, a change in plans is always part of the plan. ♪for the holidays you can't beat home sweet home.♪♪ we go the extra mile to bring your holidays home. >>> house lawmakers debating on two articles of impeachment against president trump. it reflects a decision in the making from democratic leaders after looking at everything to decide to go with the narrowest case against trump. in past impeachments, as we reported, there were more articles at the initial phase. 11 for johnson, three in draft form for nixon and initially teed up four four clinton in public, and then narrowed it down in the process. nan nancy pelosi has made a strategic dec

>> that is a not in any of the fisa plisksapplications. >> and it is not like doj didn't know. indeed one of the senior department officials bruce ohr, his wife worked at fusion gps the company being paid by the dnc, and he became the principal liaison with steele without telling anyone at the department of justice that he was essentially workingpa on behalff the clinton campaign. whoai at the department of justice -- and by the way, several democrats, interesting seeing democratic senators ti wanting want ing defend this abuse of power. senator feinstein said the fbi didn't play spies in the trump campaign. senator leahy said something similar. not spies in the trump campaign, but reading from page four of the executive summary, your report says that there after the crossfire hurricane team used the intrusive techniques including confidential human sources to interact and consensually record multiple conversations with page and papadopoulous both before and after they were working for the trump campaign as well as on one occasion with a high level trump campaign official who w

doj to useed the resources on those conspiracies. instead of fighting the opioid epidemic, countering chinese intellectual property theft and cyber operations were countering russian aggression. the doj, at the behest of attorney general bar was sentr on this wild goose chase. when republicans in the senate repeat the falsehood invented by prudence intelligence services, that ukraine interfered in the 2016 elections, it helps deflect lane from putin and drives a wedge between the united states and ukraine, one of prudence top goals. -- one of vladimir putin stop goals. the fact that republicans want to put wild wind into the sales of these baseless conspiracy theories is beyond alarming. it hurts our country, it hurts our country. , whichreport today roundly debunks one of the presidents wild theories, should serve as a wake-up call to the republican members of the conspiracy caucus. questions on this subject? >> what about other central findings, that the fbi engaged in 17 instances where they did or misled the court? this is not a

we reported that the doj watchdog found the obama administration did know about the fbi probe in 2016nt. the obama twice decided not to give heads up about the probe into his campaign. something came out we had not seen before. i-f horowitz could not rule out political bias in the page investigation, prompting of it. watch this. >> was it your conclusion that political bias did not affect any part of the page investigation, any part of crossfire hurricane, is that what you concluded? >> i did not reach that? >> i could have sworn, i heard that today from this committee, that is not your conclusion? >> we have been very careful in connection with the fisas for the reasons you mentioned to not reach that conclusion. liz: so, what he is saying is, so many errors, repeated to mislead, lie to the fisa court, trying to find out motivation for all of those problems. not just incompetency it seems. it seems like a political agenda. if horowitz is not ruling that out? >> no, he is not definitely ruling that out. anyone looking at all the evidence can certainly draw their own conclusions about

and he has forced the doj to use resources on those conspiracies. instead of fighting the opioid epidemic, countering chinese intellectual property theft and cyber operations or countering russian aggression, the doj at the has done attorney general barr was sent on this wild whose taste. do chase. republicans in the senate repeat the falsehood developed by vladimir putin's service. it helps deflect blame from vladimir putin and drives a wedge between the united states and ukraine, one of his top goals. the fact that senate republicans are willing to put wild wind into the sales of these baseless conspiracy theories is beyond alarming. it hurts our country. it hurts our country. which around today ladybugs one of the president's wild theories should serve as a wake-up call to the republican members of the conspiracy caucus. questions on this subject. >> what about the other findings in the report -- that the fbi engaged in 17 instances where they did not provide information or they misread the [indiscernible]. this is not a clean bill of health for

>> the facts found by the ig merited violating doj policy and coming out with a counter opinion. and the timing of the durham investigation is going to be hung over our heads until it's convenient to come out. >> chuck rosenberg, do you concur with frank that basically the attorney general is committing the same error in judgment that jim comey did? >> he has the standard right, we don't talk about open investigations unless there's a public reason, public safety, warning people they may be at some risk and we have an ongoing investigation. let me say one thing there, chuck, which i think is important. the fbi did make mistakes. why? well, actually, because it's comprised of human beings. human beings are fallible. therefore, they make some mistakes. do we need to fix stuff in the fisa process? apparently so. we may need to tweak the guidelines and allow the fbi to have certain authorities in certain cases and certain instances, but none of that is surprising, right? ask any airline pilot if she's had a perfect flight or any doctor whether he has had a perfect operation or any an

of course the doj and the fbi, hopefully people will pay for that. it is not likely that witnesses will be brought forth in the senate trial. how do you think that you will actually get your story out? >> the senate out -- the senate promised for months that they would have witnesses. and i really understand the desire, this was a ridiculous process. a report, no real witnesses. their desire to get it behind us, but the country needs to hear what a farce this was. they really need to bring in witnesses. the area are the chance to clean this up and i really hope they will. president who just yesterday called a teenager on the autism spectrum a person with an anger management problem. does that make it harder to defend him this vigorously? >> the president communicates in a unique way. he does not communicate in the way that many of us would. 63 million americans voted to make in the president. he has an unorthodox style. dial. they don't like his twitter account, his staff members, what he does in the office. but the way our system is designed, the wa

and special counsel horowitz in this case, the inspector general referred him to the doj.emember, criminal prosecution over leaking and lack of candor. make no mistake, there is a real human cost to all of these lies. this is the premier law enforcement agency and the entire world. this entire russia witch hunt that put this country through nearly three years of, carter/paige's reputation utterly destroyed come illegally spied on, civil liberties violated, his civil rights didn't exist, constitutional rights, nonexistent. op-ed by law professor with and truly an to carter page details the reckless nonstop smear of a private citizen all because of comey's fraudulent fisa application. let's not forget about attorney general michael flynn and what he did to a 33 year veteran. as part of comey's deceitful investigation, what did he do? he brags, first to andrew mccabe, no you don't need a lawyer. but he brags, james comey breads and sets up an american war hero. i would never do this or try this and the bush or obama years. i wouldn't ever do that, watch this. >> you look at t

what is your reaction to the report he's considering breaking from the doj inspector general? >> well, first, we all need to read the report to see what it actually says. and i guess after the attorney general's what i consider a distorted portrayal of the mueller the results of the mueller investigation before it came out which mueller himself took issue with, it isn't too surprising. what's involved here is a subjective judgment in the end i think. and i will say i don't know the ig the department of justice personally. i do know by reputation he is known to be thorough, very thorough. very tough and very fair. and so i personally put a will the of stock in what he says. any ig if investigating something long enough when it involves a process will find heirs of omission or comission. which what happened here. as far as motivation and whether it was appropriate to initiate the investigation from what i have read, it comes out favorable for the fbi. which obviously is not good news for and doesn't play to the narrative that the administration would like to hear. >> can we talk

the obstruction of justice was doj, the fbi,e hopefully people will pay for that. not likely to bring forth witnesses [indiscernible] how do you think you will get your story out? this is not [indiscernible] they would have witnesses and i really understand the desire. this was a ridiculous process. a report, no real witnesses. i understand their desire to just get it behind us but the country needs to hear what a farce this was. they really need to bring in witnesses. to clean thisance up and i hope they will. >> this is a president who yesterday called a teenager on the autism spectrum person with an anger management problem. does that make it harder to defend him this vigorously? >> the president communicates in a unique way. he doesn't communicate the way many of us would. let me answer. 63 million americans voted to make him the president. he has an unorthodox style. what we're talking about is removing a president because democrats don't like that style, they don't like him, they don't like his twitter or his staff members, they don't like what he does in the

not the doj needs the law. we will give it to the fbi general counsel. we find it helpful and sometimes you may need that. please join me in thanking him. [applause] [applause] >> the russians have elected him against all odds to be president of the united states. a russian spy, think about that for a minute. but like mandy daman -- that's like landing a man on the moon. that's like the assassination of julius caesar. that's one of the greatest events of world history if they were actually able to achieve that. philosophers happening privacy and the like. they have never had to think about these things in such a precise way that you could actually ride them into a computer program or into an algorithm. >> i realized this it was socially and economic way a lot more known than my corner of new jersey. i started to read all these other writers. began to wonder why my friends and i had such a narrow conception of this really rich cultural tradition why i thought my father was some outside of this culture when in many ways he was exemplifying it

fisa process was followed and that the entire case was handled in a thoughtful, responsible way by doj and the fbi. i think the notion fisa was abused as nonsense. >> sean: nonsense yet another like comey knew it was garbage and unverifiable rumors and speculation and he was warned multiple times. and even christopher steele under oath when he heard this he should have gone back. i have no idea of any of it is true. that is why he repeatedly denied that it was used with the bulk of information in the fisa applications that we now know also was a lie. that means devin nunes was rig

we know the fbi and doj officials were warned repeatedly not to trust steele's dirty dossier. they were warned by bruce ohr, kathleen cav lick and others. we know steele doesn't stabbed behind his dirty dossier. interrogatory under threat of perjury in great britain. i don't know if any of it is true. 50-50? that makes that whole dossier unverifiable. how can it be used in any capacity in any fisa warrant? we know the clinton campaign and the dnc paid for the does yea. we know that andrew mccabe said no dossier without no fisa warrant without the dossier. we also know that the inspector general well, he is not a criminal prosecutor. that's not what he does. he doesn't have the power to convene a grand jury. doesn't have the file to file criminal charges. his previous referral surrounding comey's lack of candor. mccabe's lying they have gone nowhere. let not your heart be troubled. the doj has clearly stated federal prosecutor john durham now conducting what is a criminal investigation. he was tasked with the issue of the origins of the russia hoax. not fisa abuse. grand jurors

and it's not like doj didn't know. indeed one of the senior department of justice officials, bruce ohr, his wife worked at fusion gps, the research company being paid by the dnc, and he became the principle liaison with steele without telling anyone at the department of justice that he was essentially working on behalf of the clinton campaign. by the way, several democrats, it's interesting seeing democratic senators wanting to defend this abuse of power. several senators said, the fbi didn't play spies in the trump campaign. senator leahy said something similar. that may be true, not spies in the trump campaign. but reading from your report and page 4 of the executive summary, your report says thereafter the crossfire hurricane team used the techniques including confidential human sources to interact and record multiple conversations with page and pop do las as well as on one occasion with a high-level trump campaign official who was not the subject of the investigation. they didn't play spies in the campaign, but the

and it's not like doj didn't know. indeed one of the senior department of justice officials, bruce ohr, his wife worked at fusion gps, the research company being paid by the dnc, and he became the principle liaison with steele without telling anyone at the department of justice that he was essentially working on behalf of the clinton campaign. by the way, several democrats, it's interesting seeing democratic senators wanting to defend this abuse of power. several senators said, the fbi didn't play spies in the trump campaign. senator leahy said something similar. that may be true, not spies in the trump campaign. but reading from your report and page 4 of the executive summary, your report says thereafter the crossfire hurricane team used the techniques including confidential human sources to interact and record multiple conversations with page and pop do las as well as on one occasion with a high-level trump campaign official who was not the subject of the investigation. they didn't play spies in the campaign, but the

recent developments suggest the doj has not taken action on that either.ed action, accountability and in the quest for equal justice under the law, equal application of our laws. now, just like i've been telling you, the boomerang of justice is now in full swing. we've been exposing the key facts on this show night after night. by the way, it's up to the attorney general, john durham. they appear to be very serious as it's now officially a criminal investigation. the democrats are partners in the deep state. they are doing everything they can to distract, deflect, and try to get out in front of the story. and get this, nutty nadler just scheduled the next judiciary impeachment hearing for monday. how convenient. why let the news cycle go in the other direction? it's like i've been saying. there is a bifurcation in your brain if you're a democrat or you're in the mob in the media. you have to live in a world of grandiose swamp hypocrisy and delusion to ignore the single biggest abuse of power and corruption scandal in this country's history, and no one embo

the fbi is taking steps here, the doj, to mitigate what was found in the report, right? >> that's right. there are two different things the report essentially looks at. one question is was the application process for the author to surveil former trump aide carter page handled in the right way. now we know it wasn't. however, the second issue is was there political bias that shaped the broader russia probe and that found no evidence of that. >>> returning back to capitol hill now. house republican leaders are speaking, you can see them there, there's congresswoman liz cheney after democratic colleagues unveiled articles of impeachment. i want to bring in senior writer for politico and msnbc political contributor jake sherman. as we keep an eye on this gop news conference, can you talk about what you're hearing from your good sources about timing of a vote, of sort of the next steps here? >> on thursday the judiciary committee will mark these impeachment articles up. that leaves next week, the government runs out of money next week and this all in one week. that's a huge l

subsequently doj said this number is wrong. i'm wondering if you can give us any update or if doj is working to give more information as you seek to have the conversation on what the true extent of this problem is when you have cases that is thwarted by encryption preventing you from getting access to the phones. >> i don't have an update to that. you're right the number was erroneous originally. it's still a large number. it might not be 7,800. that's a piece of the pie. that's device encryption and devices we have in law enforcement custody and so forth. to answer your question, we have a new updated number. i have to get back to you on that. may have one, i don't personally know. >> we have time for one or two more questions. >> can i just make a point about the damn numbers? if government wants to persuade congress to do something, it's got to do a better job of counting. i know how hard that is. it's very hard to do. they've got to do a better job otherwise they're not going to prevail. >> martin moulten, dclp, mr. baker,

doj watch dawblg repor dog repot fbi did know about -- that president obama did know about fbi spyings very interesting how many people in fact turned out to know about the operation. elizabeth: other thing, fbi also knew early on in january of 2017. that christopher steele, his own source for it had repudiated steele saying he was exaggerating, misstating things but fbi went ahead and triggered mueller probe. >> i really did think that was extraordinary the findings to how the fbi ignored evidence and did not present that evidence to authorities, the doj and evenlyy to judges, in case of fisa aspect. that raising a troubling questions to how the system was working there are a ton of safeguards in the review at doj prior to geeing to a fisa court. -- how come they not work. elizabeth: the democrats and analysts that went on other media, left wing analysts and writing for "new york times," "washington post," cnn, down play the fbi abuses and and repeatedly falsely claim that steele dossier was cooperated, and trump campaign colluded with russia, that is falling apart, the country went

has never been a case before in american history where the states have challenged doj's approval, dojost did not even file an appeal this was novel for everybody the judge maverick no prediction judge victor measurero no prediction which way he is going to do. >> starting this time of year the courts are closed, christmas time, this is three or four weeks, of -- of highly technical testimony. so it can probably would be beyond the ability of jurors to apprehend both trials at&t-time warner did csingle judge no jury. >> this one single judge no jury no answer until spring. >> quick break capitol hill starts to the week democrats ramp-up push for fast faifd impeachment with another hearing hours ahead of the releases long-awaited doj inspector general report on abuse by fbi and ciai. >> top stocks into new year back in two minutes' time. ng south for the winter. they never stray from their predetermined path. but this season, a more thrilling journey is calling. defy the laws of human nature. at the season of audi sales event. as a principal i can tell you this. when one student gets le

he's actually saying bill barr is unfit to lead the doj. we have his history. obama's former attorney general may want to take a real hard long look in the mirror before making that comment. we will remind you. the great one mark levin is fired up. you joins us live as we contin continue. it's not just a cold f you have high blood pressure. most cold medicines may raise blood pressure. coricidin hbp is the... ...#1 brand that gives... powerful cold relief without raising your blood pressure.

rob: highly-anticipated report on potential fisa abuse will be released, doj, inspector general will scrutinize the fbi's investigation into the 2016 trump campaign and will likely shed light on the sources behind the infamous steel dossier, todd pirro on what washington is speculating on the release. >> what the ig report will ultimately show, the president showing eagerly awaiting release tweeting yet, ig report out tomorrow, that would be the big story, sources telling fox news the report is expected to show misconduct at the fbi including falsification by fbi lawyer involving trump adviser carter page, you will recall that application for fisa warrant against page relied on information from british exspy christopher steele whose antitrump views have been document and dossier has been discredited, here is page speaking with maria bartiromo in advance of the ig report. >> kept any of the calls from reporters throughout the summer of 2016 asking about the totally false allegations if fusion gpa and consultants were doing with dnc. maria: they were trying to muddy you up? >> targetin

i kept getting doj run rings around me. now, as we speak, we have our teams of attorneys going through that document in great detail. look forward to sharing that with the initial thoughts with chairman graham in the senate judiciary committee with our initial thoughts and preparations. >> sean: you did work for our cia. you put your life at risk in foreign countries and you obtain information that you shared with the government because you love this country. is that true? >> yes and i typically do not like to talk about it. >> sean: i get it. i push you 400 times and you wouldn't answer it. do you feel vindicated tonight? do you feel vindicated? >> partially. the words at senator cruz said, the first step, this is the very beginning. there is so much more. every page there is tons of additional information which we can then provide. i think the coming lawsuit will definitely help get to the bottom of all this. >> sean: you were an asset for a three letter agency that put your life at risk, cooperated with the intelligence

>> as leader of the doj one thing he is responsible for the integrity of the fbi. fbi is under him. he has a response ability to correct the kinds of errors, the kind of wrongdoing identified in the inspector general report and we may learn more about when durum reports. it seems he is doing his job which he has a right to his opinion on impeachment as jerry never does and noah feldman does and shannon bream doesn't anybody else. he has no responsibility to adopt a posture of neutrality. he is allowed to have an opinion. shannon: we've heard a lot the last few weeks and months about comparisons to previous impeachment scenarios, president nixon resigning before came to that though it was in the works, president clinton being impeached. bill feldman says like the blue dress that implicated clinton the case directly implicated nixon, the closest thing to a smoking gun in the current impeachment push is the july 25th phone call between donald trump and his ukrainian counterpart. the president made a transcript of the conversation public. in his estimation it was perfe

to see states ags do something like this, perhaps not in the age of trump, where i would argue the doj under more scrutiny perhaps and people wonder about, well, i should say at least there is this partisan view almost so you got now democratic ags going after the company here because they simply don't believe the doj did enough. >> we think watching this case, rather astonishing about states rights, same thing with technology states are asserting themselves where people didn't think they would assert themselves. david, there is a piece this morning by bank of america, merrill, about sky works and korbo saying the strength of the 5g offering united states is incredible you can't have a robust 5g market unless that deal occurs now, that's something john legere convinced me of over multiple months. i was very skeptical but legere pushed that to me and i agree. >> that's been the key argument, that's conceivably where the fcc said, yes, the doj with certain restrictions and/or divestitures from the two companies said yes because they do view 5g as so important. and conceivably you need as

yesterday the doj launched two investigations to try to prove it true.the result of one of thinks, michael horowitz and his team he found that the fbi had a legitimate reason to open the investigation. now horowitz did find some wrongdoing. i don't want to gloss over it. it includes the mishandling of an application to monitor a trump campaign official. that would be the one and only carter page. overall horowitz found the investigation was justifieds that's roughly what was expected, but here's the craziest thing. when the ig report was released, attorney general william barr came in and immediately disputed its conclusions. shortly after that, the u.s. attorney who is running the other parallel inquiry, u.s. attorney john durham, released a statement in the middle of his own investigation, just popping up into the news cycle, saying even though he's not done, he wants to get on the report disputing the findings. what that strongly suggests is the doj under william bar is compromised. i'm joined by former assistant directly for counter-intelligence for

and also respond to a breaking statement from the doj that just drop moments ago about michael horowitz's ig report coming out. plus joe biden's no more malarkey bus tour. famous thing? a few potholes hit along the way, and i'll grow we can governor mike huckabee walks us through some of the dips in the pavement, but first, impeaching to the choir. that is the focus of tonight's angle. now for as long as i can remember, democrats have claimed a vigorous support for international alliances. and since comp took field of office they warned his americans first approach would isolate them and do more irreparable harm to nato. >> for single consequential life or the united states. >> vladimir putin number one goal to divide the west and particularly nato has an american president doing his work for him. >> i can absolutely see the president doing either seriously weakens to the point it is no longer a alliance where it falls apart. >> laura: okay, all of that would fall, by the way. nato is very important, he is right about that but hyperbole what trump is going to do to nato chalk that up to t

tonight, the doj ig now revealing what we've been reporting all along.duct espionage of an opposition presidential campaign. also how easy it is to hide from the fisa court. how a political opponent is helping to bankroll it. it is worse than we expected. tonight the fbi -- excuse me, the fisa report has been entered into the

it wasn't just the doj and the fbi. the pentagon paid' halper, the spy operator on the trump campaign. you had the cia involved, you had the nsa involved. what's going on today? the coup cabal that was perpetrating these criminal activities to try to remove the president for asking questions about the ukraine's involvement in the nightmare we are talking about. lou: we have an inspector general who should be a countervailing influence within the justice department and the fbi who should be bringing accountability to this corrupt cabal of agents and officials of both the fbi and the justice department instead what we have got here in 434 pages without exception, is a white wash. >> what's troubling is how he gives an out and protects the leadership of the fbi and doj, those who signed on for both the obama and trump administrations suggesting they weren't told all the full details or didn't know about the corruption behind the application. the applications on their face werface -- were were def were. the dossier is garba

he's actually saying bill barr is unfit to lead the doj. we have his history. obama's former attorney general may want to take a real hard long look in the mirror before making that comment. we will remind you. the great one mark levin is fired up. he'll joins us live as we

well, of course, also doj, fbi, but hopefully there will be people to pay for that. >> it's not likely to bring forward witnesses in the senate trial -- >> it would be a big mistake. >> how do you think you're going to get your story out, this -- >> for months now, they would have witnesses and i really understand the desire. this was a ridiculous process, a report no real witnesses here. so i understand their desire to get it behind us. but the country needs to hear what a farce this was. they really need to bring in witnesses. they're the chance to clean this mess up and i sure hope they will. >> this is a president who just yesterday called a teenager on the autism spectrum a person with an anger management problem. does that make it harder to defend him this vigorously? >> the president communities in a unique way. he doesn't communicate in the way many of us would -- wait a minute. let me answer. 63 million americans voted to make him the president of the united states. he has an unorthodox style. what we're talking about here is removing a president because the democrats don't li

the headline is no bias found by the doj. a lot of people saying this is clearing not only the fbi but senior leadership like then fbi director james comey who actually came out blazing today as well speaking on msnbc late this afternoon to explain why he sees this as such good news. we're joined by someone connected to this, james comey's own lawyer, david kelly, who's a former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and as i always mention, once upon a time my old boss. thanks for coming in on a busy night. >> you're welcome. >> what does this say to you? what's they most important thi for people to understand? >> you summed it up really well. i'm not going to repeat that. i'll go back and comment. at the conclusion of the hearing the ranking member's comments was something without the page or the investigation, there's no russian investigation. that couldn't be the biggest piece of bologna. the bureau didn't want to do it, they had to do it. if they didn't do it, we'd be sitting here having hearings why they di

schiff who last year attacked republican devin nunez when nunez spelled out the same problems that the doj watchdog had uncovered. schiff claimed last year there were no fbi fisa abuses. that the steele dossier was quote, accurate. tonight the debate is republican devin nunes right that schiff cannot be trusted with oversight duties? the ig reportedly looking at systemic problems with the fbi when it comes to that fisa court. former fbi director james comey evades and dodges in a fox news interview. more on what critics call his non-apology and more information on both comey and adam schiff, serious credibility problems. if you care about civil liberties, if you care about your privacy and your constitutional rights, we'll show you exactly where to look in the fisa report. the shocking facts that we keep uncovering. more on media critics saying this is a media scandal. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ liz: welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business network. let's get the latest on impeachment the full house is expected to vot

i'm a doj alone and can tell you, any lawyer did it, they would foe terribly lose their bar license.s thing to do. they would be reprimanded at least. >> come back to you. i have more. pivot now toic b breaking news the impeachment of president trump. we learn the whistle-blower's team is preparing for possibility of having to testify before the senate. for that we go to white house reporter sarah westwood. sarah, i mean, this is a very real possibility, floated by the president, republicans on the senate side. how are they preparing? >> reporter: that's right, brooke. the whistle-blower's legal team is preparing for what they call a serious possibility, appearing before lawmakers in the senate impeachment trial. not in person. perhaps in written answers. an offer the legal team made to house democrats, but democrats felt they had enough evidence gather independent of the whistle-blower they didn't need to subject the whistle-blower to whatever kind of testimony was offered, but now the whistle-blower's legal team is looking at precedence specifically the clinton impeachment trial, a

as far as doj goes, it's their handling of this whole situation is mystifying, brian.is very hard to understand, and i think it seems safe to say to say the report is about as accurate as his summary of the mueller report was. the american people are smart and savvy. as they have the opportunity to read at least the executive summary of this report, they'll see that it's different from what the attorney general is pedaling. hopefully people will ask questions about why that's the case and what they're trying to hide. >> joyce vance, it is always a pleasure. thank you for coming on and explaining all of this after another eventful day in the news. appreciate it very much. >>> coming up for us tonight, the close trump associate that bill barr is reportedly calling a liability behind the scenes. we'll have more on that story when we come back. looking around here i see tablets, laptops, printers, smartphones. they're all connected to the internet. they're all connected. can your network handle all those devices? sometimes. comcast business runs on the nation's largest gig