ayman, obviously, the work of durham will go on, i think john durham is well aware, you know, he made the inspector general's report came out in december, which was critical of the fbi's work on crossfire hurricane, the investigation of the trump campaign and the one that first raised these questions about the fbi was handling fisa applications. the one especially for carter page and durham did put out a statement saying he was troubled by some of the fbi's actions and he was roundly criticized if that saying, you know, people said you shouldn't be saying anything at all until your work is done. i think the controversy over that already put john durham on notice that anything that comes out before his work is done is going to be treated with some skepticism, that's just sort of the background into which -- back to your original question to what's the significance of this, that's the background here. >> pete williams, thank you for breaking that down for us. i want to bring into the conversation andrew weissman. great to have you with us. first of all, did you know nora dannehy persona

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durham. i think he's a very capable fair -minded prosecutor but every time you look under one rock, you find something new. we've found in the last two or three days that the russian sub source was actually suspected by the fbi of being a russian spy all the way back to 2009. they never told the fisa court that. i'll be shocked if nobody's charged with a crime at the fbi, the department of justice for misleading the fisa court, the fisa application given to the fisa court completely misrepresented the sub source, who he was and what he said, and all of exculpatory information collected was never given to the court that's a breach of duty by the doj and the fbi to the court so i'll be shocked if nobody is not charged with some kind of crime and defrauding the court, but that's up to mr. durham. maria: all right i want to get back to this. i want to ask you about your upcoming testimony you're going to be getting from james comey on wednesday and also what else is in the books, but let me first

attorney, john durham. an investigation that will go against bob mueller's investigation and show a conspiracy among democrats to bring him down. >> durham is coming back and i hope it's going to be soon. and i would imagine he's got plenty. >> trump wants the durham report and he wants it out stat. that pressure is loud and clear. in fact he has publicly pushed barr to get that report out. >> bill barr can go down as the greatest attorney general in the history of our country, or he can go down as just an average guy. >> trump wants the report out because he thinks it will support his conspiracy theories and his chances of winning in november. it is about election day. the russian report by election day, a coronavirus vaccine by election day, not about truth. not about safety. it's about his election victory. harris is "outfront" live in new york. what more are you learning? >> reporter: well, erin, as you said, nora is a close prosecutor to john durham, has resigned. the "hartford current" has reported it

durham picking up the slack of u.s.orney john huber who was assigned to investigate the clinton foundation in no of 20 -- in november of 2017 and who wrapped up his investigation this past january without a word, without a report, without a charge, zero results. our next guest has been, well, uncovering the illegal activities of the clinton foundation and biden family for years, and joining us is peter schweizer. he is president of the government accountability institute. he's author of "profiles in corruption: abuse of power by america's progressive elite." and amongst the progressive elite, certainly, indelibly the biden name appears repeatedly and often. peter, great to have you with us. your reaction to the news that, apparently, apparently -- we have to underline that -- john durham's investigation is now investigating the clinton foundation or, as it's been styled, the activities and the conduct of those investigating the clinton foundation. >> yeah, lou, great to see you. congratulations on your new book. yeah, t

the high-level departure over the politization of the durham probe is not the first red flag about durham's investigation. attorney general barr who has accused u.s. national security officials of spying on the trump campaign, accompanied durb ham on at least one trip abroad to gather evidence for what has become a criminal probe. joining us now, former assistant director for counterintelligence at the fbi, frank figliuzzi and perform senior fbi official chuck rosenberg. chuck, let me start with you. john durham has always been described to me by people like you as highly regarded, highly respected, having a lot of restraint and discretion and other high level, high pressure cases. this san outlier, it would seem if his top deputy, someone who has worked with him for decades has walked out the door because of political pressure. chuck? >> first of all, you're right. john is highly regarded and highly respected. i know john. i like john. i trust john. but i'm not concerned so much about john. i'm concerned about the attorney general of the united states. by the way, people leave the departme

fox news confirming the top attorney helping john durham with his investigation into the investigatorsn the russia probe has resigned for the hartford current claims that he's resignation is at least partly due to concerns about political pressure. the president gets his second nomination for a nobel peace prize admitted another major announcement involving middle east peace. that's were we start tonight with leland vittert to get this deal today goes way beyond the headlines of commercial flights telephone connections and diplomatic relations. president trump is presiding over a reshaping of the power dynamic, and today out of the t the unnamed alliance against iran and accepting of israel. >> this is a truly historic day. there had been two peace agreements with israel in the last 72 years. this is now the second pace agreement that we've announced in the last month. >> this is the disputed gaza trip. >> arab states didn't recognize israel's right to exist, and banded together in war after wa to crush the jewish state. egyptian president and his israeli counterparts counterparts and

compare, contrast that with many durham -- mr. you'll see that, in my view, he's not willing to prosecute anyone. the crimes have been out there and outlined for years. devin nuÑes exposed the fisa scandal years ago. so this isn't like secret information that only the justice department and the fbi are finding out about when we do. they know about it. for instance, the page-strzok material, all those linked text messages. they've been hiding that from judicial watch knowingly and arguing with the court that they shouldn't have to turn it over in a timely way for years. there's mccabe text messages. they're telling us -- they have a few pages of -- lou: yeah, they -- >> they don't want to give them to us until december. lou: let's be clear. various organizations, including and foremost among them yours, others, sidney powell, the defense attorney for general flynn -- >> right. lou: -- absolutely have laid this on the laps of the investors of the justice department, the fbi. and they have done nothing. now, they're either lazy beyon

how come we haven't heard from durham?alk us through being a target versus a witness and what john brennan is saying now. he just interviewed with john durham. >> yeah. i mean, those are words that the bureau and the department throw around. my experience as a pros you cue tore is your take -- prosecutor is your status can change in an instant. you can move from being a witness to a target. i understand the pr machine wants us to believe he's not a target. that status can change. you're one document or one false statement away from going from one to the other. so with respect to durham, my expectation is that he is going to access documents that ratcliffe and i never got to see, he's going to access documents that the fbi never shared request congreswith conge the definitive accounting of what happened. whether or not there will be more indictments or not. i don't know. i like to assume there will not be. that puts me in a small minority. i'm assuming the clinesmith indictment will be the only one. i would liken it to seco

she worked with john durham.about her until yesterday probably nobody knew her name. but what we want to know is, why did she resign and is there pressure for -- coming from barr to john durham to release this so-called investigation into the russia investigation before the election? >> i think the short answer is that we don't know for certain yet. but nora dannehy, a long-time career law professor of john durham's had left the justice department and came back at his request and got involved in, as you point out, the so-called durham investigation, the investigation into the origins of the russia investigation. it is unusual for someone of her stature and seriousness to come back into doj to work on an investigation and then to leave doj just weeks before it comes to fruition. so that's a little bit of a red flag here. but the reality is, there's been a lot of reporting from barr's mouth itself that he expects to release an interim report on the durham investigation. that would be highly unusual this close to an

attorney john durham, one of durham's top prosecutors has now just resigned. i want to go to our senior justice correspondent. what do we know about why she has made this decision to resign? >> reporter: her name is nora dannehy. she's a very seasoned prosecutor. she was one of the top prosecutors working with john durham doing this investigation of the origins of the trump/russia investigation, and the u.s. attorney in connecticut is now confirming that she has resigned. "the hartford" newspaper is citing colleagues to dannehy who say that one reason why she's leaving is because she feels that there is political pressure for the durham investigation to produce something. something of value that could be helpful to the president before the letter. and, again, that is something that "the hartford" currently is reporting. we have not confirmed that. we don't know exactly why she's leaving. but the political pressure on this investigation has been obvious. the president keeps bringing it up. the attorney general bill barr keeps bringing it up. and one of the thin

the durham report will call it. maybe it is going to be more than a report. reporter: in washington i'm kevin corke, fox news. jon: kevin, thank you. meanwhile, this update, a top aid to u.s. attorney who is conducting that counterintelligence probe into the origins of the russia investigation has resigned. nora reportedly is leaving due to political pressure to complete a report before the presidential election. aishah hasnie is in new york city with more on that. aishah. reporter: jon, good evening neither durham office have commented about her resignation just yet but the hartford current in connecticut where durham serve as u.s. attorney is citing nora's colleague who is believe that she resign ready, quote, at least partly out of concern that the investigative team is being pressed for political reasons to produce a report before its work it done now danhe appointed by attorney general william barr last year so look into the origins of the fbi probe into president trump. democrats now bringing back concern abou

even the fact that we are referring to a durham report. why is there a durham report? he's an investigator. he has found the charges brought against one fbi lawyer. why is there a durham report? the inspector general put out a report covering the same territory. we shouldn't even normalize the notion that this is something where a report is a typical last step. not to mention that attorney general barr's apparent interpretation of the 60 day and admittedly more norm than policy, something that david's wonderful book, "deep state" talks about, but the norm of not doing things in the last 60 day window, it seems from bar's comments that he regards that is bringing charges against the candidate, whereas i would have thought most of us would have thought of that as doing things to help or hurt a candidate. those have very, very different scopes. that is where i see this justice department actually intersection with -- intersecting with the campaigns and the election in the coming months. karen: forgetting what's going to happen in the election, if there was some structural

how come you haven't heard from durham yet?ion you have to ask him, from what i've seen and read, Ã Ãother key players have not been approach let alone interviewed and i don't know why. >> if durham reaches out and wants to talk to you, what's your position? >> i would certainly consider it. i have a couple concerns. he has a reputation for decades of being a tenacious objective investigator and handled very charged investigations. i'm really concerned when i see things like this deputy who has worked with him as i understand for decades very close capacity who felt compelled to resign to quit the team last week because at least what's reported in the hartford current concerns about political pressure being placed on the investigation. that's unheard of and for somebody who's essentially teammate of him for decades to feel so compelled that their conscience can allow them to continue work, that's a huge red flag. it joins this parade of prosecutors who quit the team's. look at them for attorneys who left the rajasthan persecuto

a top official working for federal prosecutor john durham who was conducting the probe of the russia investigation for attorney general william barr has resigned according to a spokesman for the u.s. attorney's office in connecticut. the newspaper that broke the story cited colleagues saying she was stepping aside out of concern there was pressure to release a report for political reasons. cnn has not independently con piconen john firmed. we know the president has been eagerly anticipating the report. he would like that report before election day. we'll see if he gets it. >> we'll see. thank you very much. let's get some more now on the state of the pandemic as the u.s. death toll rises above 192,000. nick watt is if los angeles. as we heard from dr. fauci in the last hour, the country is in this crisis right now for the long haul. >> reporter: wolf, it's been six months now since the world health organization declared this pandemic and the u.s. is leading the world by far in confirmed cases and deaths. it's not just because this is a big country. european union, 100 million more li

that is what durham is trying to get to the bottom of so there's plenty of time. i would like to see before we vote in 2020 just too was colluding with russians because it sure as wasn't donald trump and would have been nice if the american people knew that it was democrats colluding with the russians and that's what we need need terms reports are due to come out in once and for all put an end to this russian nonsense about the trump campaign. lou: as an aside and i don't want to take much time but the senate intelligence committee was at the nexus of contacts with russians. they were actually back channeling senator mark war and the vice chair of the senate intelligence committee has much to answer for but the national left-wing media won't ask him a single question. i don't know whether or not the justice department has but i seriously doubt it. i don't see anything to suggest they are being thorough or expansive in this investigation. i take your point that it's complex but my god thanks to judicial watch and thanks to you and your committee and a handful of ot

that is what durham is trying to get to the bottom of. think there is still plenty of time, i would like to see before we vote in 2020 just who was colluding with russians and it sure as hell it wasn't donald trump. wouldn't it be nice for the american people to know it is democrats colluding with russians. that is what we need durham report to come out and for once and for all put an end to this russian nonsense about the trump campaign. lou: to that, as an aside i shouldn't take the time, i don't want to take much, the senate intelligence was at the nexus of contacts with russians. they were actually back channeling and senator, mark warren, the vice-chair of the senate intelligence committee hass much to answer for but he, the national left-wing media won't ask him a single question. i have don't know whether or not the justice department has but i seriously doubt it. i don't see anything to suggest they're thorough or expansive in tthis investigation. i take your point because it is complex but my god, thanks to "judicial watch," than

attorney general john durham as quietly resigned. they would not say why. durham was tasked by attorney general barr in may of last year to examine the origins of the russia investigation, because trump demanded such an investigation. if this new report is true, this is yet another deeply disturbing example in a long line of examples of how far barr is willing to go to bend the wheel of the justice system away from justice and toward donald trump. for more i'm joined by elizabeth newman, former assistant secretary for threat prevention and security policy at the department of homeland security in the trump administration who resigned after she could no longer support the president. glen kirschner, former federal prosecutor, and in a moment i'll be speaking with dr. ezekiel emmanuel, vice provost of global initiatives at the university of pennsylvania and a former obama white house policy advisor. but, glen, i want to go to you first. this story that just broke today about ms. danahay she joined the attorneys office in 1991 and served for a long time. he inf

why is therere a durham report? the inspector general put out a report covering much of the same territory. we should normalize the notion that this is something in which a report is a typical last step. not to mention that bill barr is apparent interpretation of the 60 day admittedly more normal than policy, something david's wonderful book deep state talks about how much is in the realm of norm rather than loss of policy but there's norm of not doing things in the last 60 day window. it seems from barr's comity regards that is basically bringing charges against thehe cat, where as that would affect most of us would've thought about that as doing things to help her candidate. those are very, very different scopes.t that's what where i see this je department potentially intersecting with the campaigns, with the election in the coming months. >> forgetting what was going to happen in the election, if there were some structural change that could be made to sort of stop the sense of politicization of the acts of the at

the durham report. >> i'm not aware of one.re have been, from time to time, you know, suggestions that particular attorneys general have done things to protect the president. that allegation is made, you know, not that infrequently. this is something different, altogether. all the examples you mention, i think, are items of great concern. and, in this one, you know, people talked about this general, norm, and policy, and tradition and practice of not trying to do something on the eve of an election. so as not to unduly influence the election. what that tradition is about is if you have a good-faith investigation going on that involves politics or a particular politician or an election. and you happen to be done with that investigation. if it's really close to an election, you should consider withholding, knoll aftuntil aft election. if the suggestions here are true, this is much worse than that. if you have someone in the justice department and, certainly, even worse if it's attorney general at the behest of the president. pres

but durham, durham had reached out in his interview for people about russia acting fbi agents, and the official there. you heard from vern? who's pretty key players have not been approached in the interview. and i don't know why. if durham reaches out and was a talk to what is your position? spin echo certainly consider it. i have a couple of concerns but he has a reputation for decades being a tenacious objective investigator. where this destruction it takes from the program, whether it's looking into the interactions with the fbi with its looking at the u.s. attorneys. i'm really concerned i see things like his deputies who has worked with him as i understand for decades and a very, very close capacity. who felt compelled to resign, to quit the team last week because elise what is reported concerns about political pressure being placed on the investigation. that is unheard of, one. someone has been a teammate of hymns for decades cannot allow them to continue work? that is a huge red flag. this joins a parade of prosecutors who have quit the team's. at the four attorneys that left th

for that he tapped a guy named john durham to conduct the investigation.report could be released in october. today we are learning that a top aid to john durham, a woman named nor ra denahe who has been working on this report has resigned. she has quietly resigned at least partly out of concern that the investigative team is being pressed for political reasons to produce a report before its work is done. this is remarkable because usually when people that high up resign as we have seen over the last few months it's a pretty big flag that something is wrong. served as a federal prosecutor for 11 years in the southern and eastern districts of new york. great to have you, barrett. >> yeah. >> let's start with the fact of the resignation. we saw resignations from some of the line of attorneys who took their names off briefs from roger stone when the sentencing investigation was overturned. how big of a deal is it for someone to do that? >> it's a huge deal, and it's very rare. i think of the entire time that i was an assistant united states attorney, i never h

you say that the durham report is a redo of the mueller investigation. to some steblt, it is. redo of two other things also. the investigation of the inspector general of the department of justice and cross fire and the basis for that, and the investigation of the bipartisan senate intelligence committee, now publicly the results of which are that i be lished in five volumes the net of all of that, it didn't affect any case at all. with regard to operation cross fire hurricane, that which was for russia, it was a leak that came from mr. papadopoulos that long preceded any of the events that are the subject of barr's criticism. so that's perfect for the nonlawyer watching, who says, wow, this guy in the bow tie is far better than ari. you have all the details what do you say to the regular voter person who says, okay, what are they supposed to do and think when they hear pre election >> remember back to 1992 when on the thursday before the election, the independent counsel lawrence walsh released an amended indictment naming castfidel castro weinberger thas ultimately dismiss t

and the president loves to bring up the durham investigation specifically. his favorite punching bags like peter strzok and like former cia director john brennan, they're all going to jail. they could all be charged any minute. john durham is going to charge those guys and lock them up for treason or something. but it's not just the president and his all-caps twitter ravings. it has been both the president and the attorney general of the united states, bill barr, who have constantly teased in public statements the possibility that this durham investigation is going to produce something incredibly damaging to the president's perceived enemies, and it will be just in time for the election. barr has gone out of his way to say that durham's findings certainly could come out before the election and there would be no reason to prevent those from being released to the public before the election. but i mean even though that's been obvious, right? it's one thing for us as outside observers to see them saying that in public, to suspect what they're doing behind the sc

office for any questions about this and durham's office not willing to comment yet.c. eric: aishah, thanks so much. laura. laura.♪ laura: well, the first ever peace talks between afghanistan and the taliban now underway in qatar. the goal, ending decades of war after the u.s. signed a deal with the terror group back in february. secretary of state mike pompeo attending the opening ceremony, ryan chilcote is live in london on this. ryan, what can you tell us? >> reporter: hi, laura. technically speaking the u.s. in order to withdraw troops from afghanistan doesn't need there to be peace in afghanistan. it doesn't need for the afghan government and the taliban to strike some kind of lasting peace but obviously the united states would like to see that if for no other reason if we are going to take troops out, we want to make sure war is not raging on there. the chief envoy said today is an important and hopeful step. >> what has happened already is the main part of today. afghan sitting across the table, talking to each other, talking about peace, talking about their as

durham to interview italian officials about intelligence matters? >> you'll be surprised by this answer no, there's no example of interference except when it benefits the president he was asked that question before the house when he testified before the house and he was unable to come up with an example. this attack was a dishonest attack on the justice department it's a way to defend his inappropriate interventions. to a large extent he was attacking a straw man. there's no one that believes the attorney general doesn't have the right or ability to intervene in cases when it's appropriate and doesn't believe that political appointees can't sit in judgment of the people that appointed them. it happens all the time. when those are good faith diszbreedi disagreemen disagreements, the career officials may not like the answers they get, but you didn't see people leaving in droves or you didn't see that in previous administrations either the reason you see people resigning over the attorney general's interventions are because his decisions aren't being m

durham's own comments after the conclusion of the inspector general's investigation into the russia casel those things are reasons for people to think that politics might be playing a role here. now if it is true that this prosecutor who has a sterling reputation who is a long time and very close associate of john durham who left her other position and came on with him for the purpose of working this case, if it's true that she has now left departed the investigation in her doj assignment because of her concern about politics, that is a very, very damaging confirmation of what we've all worried about and the type of thing that will greatly undermine whatever results mr. durham finally produces whatever that might be. >> is there a historical president for how much attorney general barr seems to run interference for president trump, the mueller report, the lafayette park protest, the michael flynn case, the eugene lawsuit? >> i'm not aware of one. there have been from time to time suggestions that particular attorneys general have done things to protect the president. that allegation has

do you think -- >> well, you know -- lou: -- it rests with william barr and john durham?rham investigation, but we already know on the a major charge that was leveled against the president,s that is, that he conspire pd or colluded with russia to fix the 2016 election, he's been proven right on this. and in this book, i talk about when robert mueller is first appointed, president trump actually tries to get along with him and comes up with a deal that you might call radical cooperation. just offers to give mueller everything, allow him to interview all sorts of white house officials without the president claiming executive privilege -- lou: right. >> -- handing over thousands of documents. and in return, he wanted -- lou: over a million. >> -- quickly. and the lawyers shook hands on it. and then what they could see, what trump could see was mueller was searching for collusion in the those first months. he was interviewing everybody he could find. he couldn't find it. by the end of 2017, it was clear he a had not found collusion. trump wanted him to close up shop, and inst