>> wcial the f.b.i. been doing counter-intelligence investigations for decades and it's a part of their core missions and a part of one of their most significant priorities. so the purpose of counter-intelligence investigations is to provide intelligence to policy makers to other intelligence community partners. so we are better educated to make decisions relative to policy. as you said, there are two parts of this investigation. it will not be a surprise to russia that there's a counter-intelligence investigation into their intelligence activities ongoing within the united states. but there are also, as part of that investigation, an attempt to understand the roles and the relationships of u.s. persons with the russian intelligence service. and if there was anything inappropriate as part of those relationships, so the bureau has a big job ahead of itself to fully vet out and to put the pieces together in any logical investigation to make sure the facts are clear. >> brangham: john carlin, how-- investig

scott, sources tell us the f.b.i.ants to get this investigation absolutely right so that the public will trust the result, whatever that turns out to be. >> pelley: jeff pegues breaking the news here tonight. jeff, thank you. for some insight into this, let's bring in john dickerson, the anchor of the "face the nation" and our chief washington correspondent. john, what do you see in the president's tweet today on flynn and immunity? >> well, normally, a president would want to steer away from a bad story. the president could have talked about his supreme court nominee or he could have talked about jobs, which is the issue that voters care the most about. instead, he offered that legal advice to flynn and said the investigation was partisan. that's an attempt to make the whole business seem like a political muddle, a democratic plot. but the problem is that james comey, the director of the f.b.i., is leading one branch of the investigation, and for the last self months, democrats have been blaming director comey for hi

this is why the f.b.i. needs to investigate. but this might be something bigger than idle curiosity. it might be something even worse than the use of intelligence for political purpose. it might be an evident by the outgoing administration to destabilize the incoming administration which would be a scan california profound importance. lou: weaponized intelligence in the united states of all countries is so abhorrent that it's unimaginable to most people. but we are look at scant evidence that that may have occurred. and we are looking at the politicization of intelligence that is extraordinary. and there are a lot more questions and answers about what that president and that administration was up to. >> you are exactly right. fingers will begin to point at a person from whom we haven't heard a people since january 20. the only person for whom susan rice worked and the only person with whom she could legally discuss those unmasked names. we know who that is. lou: should we say his name? >> barack obama. the president of the unite

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lou: already we know that the director of the f.b.i. lied before congress. before that very committee, when he said there had been no surveillance of donald trump or the campaign because the nsa was doing it and he had to be aware of it as the director of the f.b.i. and there is the possibility that susan rice in fact now fox news is reporting this, an extensive paper trail is likely to exist for rice making requests unmasking various subjects within that surveillance, and that's according to information sharing procedures approved by the obama administration in its very final days. this gets worse and worse. gayle: the spreadsheets of calls should become the new binders of women. the mainstream media should attack that and make that known. but i doubt that's going to happen. charlie: you also have dni clapper who lied to congress about this very thing. so the idea that obama officials can now just say no we didn't do it. that doesn't kit. you people have been lying about this and knowingly lying about it. so we need to see evidence here. lou: the real quest

the anne arundel county and the f.b.i. are now hoping that wherever he is, someone will see him and the face of his young wife and turn patel in. >> this is obviously a horrendous and a terribly violent crime. so that elevates the concern that there is an individual that conducted the level of violence and is still out in the community at large. brad: so the f.b.i. saying today that they will not rest until this man is brought in to custody. we are in millersville at the anne arundel county police headquarters where they announced he would be moving to the top ten most wanted fugitive list. when we come back at 6:00, have been the motive here and where the f.b.i. thinks it is possible that this man fled. in millersville, brad bell, abc7 news. jonathan: thank you very much. there is another man from maryland on the f.b.i. most wanted list. william bradford bishop jr. vanished after he was accused of killing his wife, sons and mother in 1976. that was in bethesda. a plea for a cigarette in a traffic stop could have ended bad

also concerns about getting in the way of what the f.b.i. may be doing. tonight, i'm told that adam schiff the democrat on the house intelligence committee spent 10 minutes. imagine -- with the president. imagine being a fly just after seeing the same information that devin nunes was able to see. a lot of tension on that committee. that's one of the problems in the flynn investigation. that tension has made it hard to move forward. they want to get back on track next week. what did they talk about? i'm told it was infrastructure and legislative things which would be appropriate given the fact that adam schiff has been trying to keep separate from the white house. robert: is that possible? can the white house escape the shadow. flynn came out of nowhere on thursday night that he's seeking immunity. >> i don't see they can escape it. they're in it for the long haul. that's been badly compromised by what chairman nunes did in going to the white house and looking at these documents without sharing with members of his committee. the senat investigation is in t

well, the f.b.i. is investigating whether any trump associates collaborated with russia's effort to swing the election. and it turns out that carter page, who had a small role in the campaign, has been a target of the f.b.i. agents obtained a surveillance warrant from what's called the fisa court, short for foreign intelligence surveillance act, and nancy cordes has more on this. >> reporter: to monitor carter paying, f.b.i. agents had to provide evidence to a secret court indicating that the former trump campaign adviser was acting as a foreign agent. >> it's a high standard. it was set up to be a high stashed standard. >> reporter: virginia's mark warner is the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee. >> the fisa warrant has been issued, it is a very, very serious matter. >> reporter: the fisa warrant, first reported by "the washington post," was issued last july. it's unclear what evidence agents had on page and whether they were monitoring any other trump confidants. today, page denied h

anthony with the f.b.i., our u.s. marshal for the northern district and we've conducted operations again unceasingly since this happened yesterday. last night officers arched dozens of locations to no avail. we know that steve is still out there someplace. we don't know his condition. of course, right now we don't know his location. we're asking the public to remain vigilant. we're asking you to go about your day but to be careful. we're also asking you if you see anything resembleing that leak. you have the description of steve stevens, to give us a call. call 911. mr. anthony will talk about the f.b.i.'s tip line. we want people to know a lot of things streaming out there on social media of any kind, if you need information what's going on, give us a call. or if you have information give us a call. we don't want people to panic. so far unfortunately there has been one fatality, one homicide in this entire scenario and we want to keep it that way. we're still asking steve to turn himself in but if he doesn't, we'll f

that's what the f.b.i.'s what the house and senate intelligence committees are looking into. >> rose: so when you look at this, do we expect that the senate intelligence committee will be able to do an effective job because there is evidence of respect between the republican chairman and the democratic minority leader? >> i think that that's right. and like so many-- like everything we have talked about from the beginning of this conversation, almost all of it is self-inflicted. so the other momentous development this week, mike flynn, the president's former national security adviser, asking for immunity from prosecution to tell his story. you know that the one rule about investigations is-- f.b.i. investigations is they never finish where they started. people who go there now tell me that now the west wing is like tv. they say the president is almost like playing a president in real life. >> rose: alisa mastromoncowent to work for barack obama when he was a newly elected senator from illinois. she followed

. >> despite the f.b.i.'cent arrest, mcnab says federal law enforcement isn't doing enough. >> they've done almost nothing to monitor and counter this movement. it started in 2009, right after obama took office. >> in that year, d.h.s. release aid memo to law enforcement, detailing the threat posed by right wing extremists. >> but because it had a line saying veterans returning home from war were at risk of being approachedded by this movement, homeland security disavowed it and they term 98edly the division that tracked this movement. >> the man who led that division of d.h.s., is darrell johnson. >> there was basically a political firestorm that erupted. >> and you lost your job. >> pretty much. >> johnson says he was forced to resign and now runs a consulting business with government contract. what kind of capabilities for monitoring these groups does the d.h.s. have now? >> yeah, since i left in 2010, homeland security had one analyst that was looking at these problems, these domestic terrorist issues, an

it involves dozens of f.b.i. agencies around the country and the world. and we're being cautious-- cautioned at this time that this is a complex case that involves a web of meetings and contacts, some of which revolve around money. source tell us the haefort case is the idea that people around the president were potentially coordinating with russia out of self-interest and intent on making money. >> pelley: john dickerson, what do you make of the house intelligence committee now? >> well, we'll have to see what it means in practical terms-- the witnesses, how they're handled, if everybody gets along. but this does potentially reset things for the committee. chairman nunes was pinned down because of those issues of whether he was seeming to advocate for the white house at the same time as he was investigating. that doesn't carry over to the new committee chairman. but the new committee chairman can still focus on the things that nunes brought to the fore, which is the question of unmasking of trump allies by obama officials. >> pelley: now, john, in an ano

yes, the f.b.i. needs to investigate and the senate intelligence and the press, but we should also have a special prosecutor. we should also have a bipartisan commission. but if each part of this puzzle pursues their work aggressively, good faith, we may get to the bottom of what went on, which is so important to hold people accountable, and if traitorous crimes have been committed, they need to be pursued to the full extent of the law. the article goes on that democrats have also chafed at mr. nunes' shuffling of the hearing schedule earlier this month with mr. schiff by his side, he announced plans for three former officials to testify, a group that would include sally yates who briefly served as acting attorney general and alerted the administration that michael flynn, mr. trump's former national security advisor, appears to have lied about his contact with russian officials. last week, mr. nunes scrapped that public hearing, arguing that the committee first needed more time to question intelligen

then we can flash forward to last summer when the f.b.i.ame aware of hacking into the democratic national committee, then to october with a conclusion with the director of national intelligence that the russian were in fact trying to interfere with our election, and then this month we heard from f.b.i. director comey about their investigation making this rare public statement. >> the f.b.i., as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential presidential presil election and that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the trump campaign and the russian government. >> and their statement in the middle of an investigation. bottom line, judy, we know our intelligence on the u.s. side concluded russia tried to interfere with the election and that includes they're investigating things like trying to send fake news to particular states like michigan and pennsylvania. the biggest question now seems to be were any trump associ

f.b.i. obtained a warrant to keep tabs on a former advisor for the trump team. what did the f.b.i. find, if anything? more on this in a moment. >> shannon: attorney general jeff sessions at the southern border talking real tough on illegal immigration saying border crossings are down and still falling but remind everyone america has a new sheriff in town. >> the most important thing for us is to send a message to the world that the border is not open. please don't come. you will be apprehended if you do come and you will be deported promptly. if you're a criminal you'll be prosecuted. if you assault our officers we'll come at you with a ton of bricks. you don't let anything keep you sidelined. that's why you drink ensure. with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for the strength and energy to get back to doing... ...what you love. ensure. always be you. >> bill: attorney general jeff sessions touring the southern border yesterday and touting a reported drop-off in illegals enter

the f.b.i. is the primarily counter foreign intelligence agency in the united states.would be the ones that would investigate these types of things, and their investigation they would probably unmask names that maybe the nsa masked just to conduct their mandated traditional responsibility. so here you have got the national security advisor apparently from the press reports who started playing a role of investigating into this domain. an american name has to be minimized immediately. you can't coinue to collect it unless there is some justification in the comments about something to do. you can listen to it for a while. the other question is when do you unmask it. you only unmask it if there is some sort of investigation of national security, not political discussion about some presidential candidate. that is foreign to what this should be. that is not right. then of course to leak it is a felony, 10 years in leavenworth. this whole thing, i don't have the facts. how they disclosed general flynn. if you can believe the "new york times," all the other people who coughed

. >> rose: and we know that the f.b.i.s an ongoing investigation in his testimony, an ongoing investigation into whether there had been collusion between russians and members of the trump team. >> well, that's-- that's the big-- i mean, that's the big issue. that's what the f.b.i. is looking into. that's what the house and senate intelligence committees are looking into. >> rose: so when you look at this, do we expect that the senate intelligence committee will be able to do an effective job because there is evidence of respect between the republican chairman and the democratic minority leader? >> i think that that's right. and like so many-- like everything we have talked about from the beginning of this conversation, almost all of it is self-inflicted. so the other momentous development this week, mike flynn, the president's former national security adviser, asking for immunity from prosecution to tell his story. you know that the one rule about investigations is-- f.b.i. investigations is they never finish where they st

the president recommending either to the f.b.i. or to congress to grant immunity. is that the only way it can happen? sean: i understand that, but again, he did not say congress should grant. reporter: what does he mean by that? sean: he wants to be very clear with everything they ask and what they want. reporter: he could have just said i testify. he said he should get immunity. i'm asking you, because it's an important -- every lawyer who works on this tell you it's extremely important to seek it and then obtain it, and there's only one way you can seek it, by being granted, either by the f.b.i. or congress. and for the president of the united states to even lightly indicate that he's in favor of that, it seems to me is a significant development. i'm trying to find out if that's what the president was trying to accomplish. sean: and i'm trying to answer the question, which is -- i've talked to the president about this, and the president is very clear that he wants mike flynn to go and be completely open and transparent with the committee, and whatever it takes to

that's what they care about more than the f.b.i. investigation. >> rose: there is also the summit going on in palm beach. >> yeah. >> rose: i forgot the column you wrote -- the title -- >> i said trump is a russian agent. >> rose: by taking the policy positions it plays into the hands of the chinese because alternative sources of energy, can provide jobs. rst, he says, i want to be tough with china on trade. how would i get tough with china on trade is this i would organize an 11-nation trading block in asia, in the asian-pacific based on our values, our interests. >> rose: call it t.p.p. great name for it, charlie! that's what i would do. what does trump do the first day in office? rips up t.p.p. do you know what the real story of t.p.p. is? don't tell your listeners this -- we fleeced all these guys in asia, we got so much of what we wanted, why is it? because they want to be with us. the vietnamese want to be in a trading bloc with us. >> rose: they're scared of china. >> they want to organize, exactly. we had this great deal. he

the 600,000 police officers, the f.b.i.es in each one of the states that they can send people out to run the leads down. there is a very comprehensive network here and, you know, he is already on the top ten of the f.b.i. that also raises the stakes in the information around this. i have no doubt that they'll run this guy down. if he hasn't already committed suicide. >> bill: that's a possibility, too. last hour when police briefed there was very little new information they gave out. i don't know what it means but i'll get you to comment on that. the last ping on the cell phone happened at 7:00 p.m. east coast time on sunday night. >> he probably headed directly out of town after this incident and disposed of the cell phone when he realized it could be a liability to him. the other thing is he could have handed the phone off to someone and put people going in the wrong direction. you have to consider all of the possibilities here. you have to focus your attention on the best leads that you have and run them down. but the fa

over 400 f.b.i. agent spread out over the country to investigate congressman ford. he passes the investigation, the results are handed to congress. congress schedules a vote on congressman ford's nomination. this is the card that speaker of the house carl albert hands to jerry ford, noting the house 387 in support 35 , opposing. there was another vote that was held in the senate and only three senators voted against his nomination to the vice presidency. congressman ford in december 1973 is sworn in as vice president. this is the bible on which he was sworn in. again, he has it open to his favorite passage, the passage that he and betty had leaned on many times in their lives. 3:5-8.s trust in the lord with all in heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. he will have the bible open to the same passage when he is sworn in as president. he will only be vice president for eight months. he does not know it at the time. but what he does know is the controversy is swirling around president nixon. his responsibility is to forward nixon's agenda and promote his poli

if you talk about the f.b.i. stuff, none of that would have happened without a private email server. whether or not you think there is a criminally prosecuteable action there, you would have to investigate if you are the f.b.i. the release of classified information outside the classified system. a lot of these issues can be drawn back to things that hillary clinton did or failed to do. host: the headline this morning, "the new york times," in trying to avoid politics, the f.b.i. director shaped an election. very early in your book, you write about the email server that was discovered. i want to share with our audience how hillary clinton responded and get your insights. this is from 2015. >> when i got to work as secretary of state, i opted for convenience to use my personal email account which was allowed by the state department because i thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two. looking back, it would have been better that i used a second email ac

but yet the f.b.i.as disclosed that they are in the midst of an investigation and president trump said this is all made up by the media. where is this coming from if the media is making this up, where are they getting their information and when will this be laid to rest? >> keep in mind what the house intelligence committee is suppose to be investigating is russian cyber activities during the campaign. incidentally that might involve these unsubstantiated allegations. that's what james comey said when he appeared before that committee. he said the f.b.i. was investigating russian hacking, and that inquiry had expanded to include allegations of trump associates colluding with russia. once those allegations had become prominent in the national conversation. he never said that was the focus of the investigation. and originally was not the focus of the house intelligence committee investigation. julie: no evidence on collusion or wiretapping. that's what they said. but we'll have to wait until the investiga

that's what the f.b.i. is looking into, that's what the house and senate intelligence committees are looking into. but now you have this overwhrea, this bizarre ep voted with chairman nunes, which to anybody in the intelligence community, is beyond anything that they have ever seen or heard about before. >> rose: we continue with a conversation with governor roy cooper of north carolina. >> we never should have been here in the first place. passing house bill 2, the super majority republican legislature and my predecessor the republican governor signed this horrible bill into law that discriminates against lgbt community and has hurt our state, it's put a stain on our reputation. the first thing we have done is to repeal house bill 2. >> rose: for a look at how there is a stepped-up engagement by american forces in syria and iraq, we talk to michael gordon of the "new york times." >> the sustainable political outcome is something that goes beyond the capabilities of the military. this is something that has

and the f.b.i. are conducting a joint investigation into one of the worst security breaches in c.i.a. history, which exposed thousands of top-secret documents. zoila peguero -- jeff pegues is breaking this story. >> reporter: the security breech involves the theft of c.i.a. documents and hacking tools used to penetrate smartphones, smart television, and computer systems. sources familiar with the investigation say it is looking for an insider, either a c.i.a. employee or a contractor who had physical access to the material. the agency has not publicly said when the material was taken or how it was stolen. much of the material was classified and stored in a highly secured section of the intelligence agency. still, sources say hundreds of people would have had access to the material, and investigators are going through those names. the trove was published in mark by the anti-secrecy association wikileaks. >> wikileaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence serv

even f.b.i. director jim comey reportedly not cooperating with anyone, now he's on his own.illary clinton and her husband were cashing in on the sale of u.s. uranium to russia. money, cash, was actually crossing hand. where was the republican outrage, the hearings, the demand for recusals, the ethics investigation? susan rice lied about benghazi, bowe bergdahl, knowing nothing about the unmasking of michael flynn and days later she admit she did unmask but it wasn't for political purposes. 2014 she says all chemical weapons stockpiled in syria removed. guess not. if you need more, rice was the director of african affairs during the genocide in rwanda and she objected to the word "genocide" because of the effect it might have on the democratic mid-term elections. the woman is a liar. these are liars with no shame, no remorse, no accountability, and no recusals. you republicans aloud it and now you are buckling to these partisan side shows, taking away from our president the support he needs to get the job done. he's shown you how to do it. so strap in, budge and start fightin

nancy: a 2-year-old murder and the man that the f.b.i. says is responsible is now on the most waned bhadreshkumar chetanghai patel has not been seen hins police say he slashed his wife to death in the dunkin' donuts in the anne arundel area. >> this is a horrendous and a terribly violent crime. that elevates our concern that this individual is still in the community at large. nancy: they believe his wife wanted to return to india and he did not. they believe he is staying with the relatives in the united states or have fled to canada or india. hanz coming up at -- larry: coming up at 5:00, -- president trump: we are going to take new steps to follow up on the pledge to hire american. larry: closer look at whether the plan will create jobs. nancy: how reliable is the new numbers that might surprise you. scott: i'm scott taylor at the call for action command center. call us now if you have a consumer issue. we might help you right here on abc7 news. isjust wanna see ifa again? my score changed... you wanna check yours? scores don't change t

liz: this brings calls of an f.b.i. investigation into rice. adam schiff is he would be quote happy to call rice in to testify. they want to know when it started and whether obama was buying on trump a year prior to the election at a time when trump was hammering obama for his failed policies. >> i believe susan rice abused the system. she did the for political purposes. >> i believe she should be called as a witness by the senate intelligence committee. >> it's something congress should look into. if she was the involved in unmass knowledging trump transition officials what was the reason? we'll get to the bottom of it. liz: katrina, special investigation. what do you think? >> i think there should be a special investigation. it wasn't democrats pushing to get to the bottom of this russia thing. susan rice should offer herself to the senate committee to answer those questions. liz: there is an intelligence probe into alleged russian meddling conclusion. spying for political gain is a constitutional crisis. the media is not covering it. this is