of his own f.b.i. director and the u.s. justice department. the four page report which is part of a larger intelligence document argues f.b.i. investigators looking into alleged truck ties to russia hit the fact some of their research was funded by democratic party sources it also claims the entire investigation was biased against donald trump from the beginning and that some agents expressed views privately and i think it's a disgrace what's happening in our country and when you look at that and you see that and so many other things what's going on a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves but democrats argue the memo is simply a summary of republican talking points based on in accuracies house democratic leader nancy pelosi says it's all part of a plan to distract americans from the russia investigation led by special counsel robert mueller and alleged truck campaign ties to present a lot of your putin's government in a statement she said president trying to surrender his constitutional responsibility as commander in chief by releasing

f.b.i. used improper means to convince a secret court to allow surveillance of a trump a campaign aide it says our findings raise concerns with the legitimacy and legality of certain department of justice and f.b.i. interactions with the foreign intelligence surveillance court and represented troubling breakdown of legal processes established to protect the american people trump expressed strong feelings about the agency's conduct as described in the memo i think you know i think. what's going on in this country i think. whatever. country when you look at that and you see that and so many other things with a. lot of people. much worse. but former f.b.i. director james comey who was fired last year by trump had this to say on twitter. that's it dishonest and misleading memo wrecks of the house intel committee destroyed trust with intelligence community damaged relationship with fees or court . it's unclear what trump plans to do now that the memos there's been speculation he might fire senior justice department officials no matter what it points to rocky relations ahead between the white house and the f.b.i. . and with us in the studio is nicholas castle's a political analyst at the joh

f.b.i. source and that apartment of justice knew that the f.b.i. had and the department of justice in the f.b.i. were well aware of the fact that christopher steele had an agenda against tromp was quite biased they still used to report furthermore we know that the deputy attorney general bruce or his wife was actually hired by fusion g.p.s. the firm that the democrats hired in order to get this information on trump so essentially this document points to the fact there was a great deal of what appears to be collusion between the clinton campaign and the f.b.i. and department of justice two entities that are essentially supposed to be bipartisan enforcers of u.s. law it appears according to this document or at least it's purported in this document that they were working to prevent the election of donald trump it wasn't certain old kalib up this memo would actually be released at all was that you had a lot of people a lot of organizations staking their claim saying that it should not be. yes we heard many calls from many prominent figures for this document to remain classif

of bias against president donald trump democrats say it's misleading and intended to discredit the ongoing russia investigation this comes after trouble allowed the release of the memo which accuses the f.b.i. and the department of justice of abusing their power to spy on one of his aides during the twenty sixteen election. donald trump has long had of truck relationship with the f.b.i. . and special counsel robert muller's investigation into the trump campaign's possible collusion with russia has also been a constant thorn in the president's side. donald trump has accused the f.b.i. and the justice department of skewing the russia probe in favor of democrats interests and against those of republicans on twitter he said they were politicizing the investigation. and now a controversial memo is the latest salvo in this conflict drawn up by republicans and released over the objections of the f.b.i. and justice department it alleges antitrust bias at the nation's top law enforcement agencies a committee led by republican lawmaker devon una's voted to release the memo which says the f.b.i. used improper means to spy on trump campaign aide carter page. not surprisingly democrats take another view. the top democrat on the comm

of the f.b.i. accusing the agency of being biased against him while investigating his alleged links to russia donald trump tweeted the top leadership and investigators of the f.b.i. and the justice department of politicizing. the sacred investigation probe process in favor of democrats and against republicans something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago rank and file are great. when it comes as the white house is expected to authorize the release of a controversial memo alleging f.b.i. bias towards president trump the document was commissioned by republican devan una's who heads the house intelligence committee and was part of the trunk campaign it reportedly accuses the f.b.i. and the justice department of misleading a judge while seeking to extend a surveillance warrant against former trump a carter page last march democrats say the memo is an attempt to derail special counsel robert miller's investigation into the trunk campaign's links to russia well our white house correspondent kimberly how it joins me now and some more developments just in the past ten minutes also that president trump has approved this classified memo for release now it goes to congress. right

f.b.i. and department of justice that has been shaken with the american public. >> sandra: does it concern youorth and political nature of all this? >> absolutely. the f.b.i. and the department of justice are supposed to be decidedly apolitical. they aren't supposed to be the story themselves. so it is troubling. it is heartbreaking. i spent a good part of my career at the department of justice and i'm more proud of that association than i am with the institution of congress. but the only way we can restore people's faith and trust is to go through this very painful process. be fair and deliberate about it but provide these answers so the american people can believe in our justice system again. >> sandra: thanks for coming on this morning and trying to clear up a lot of that. we'll see where this goes. >> thanks. >> bill: more breaking news now. the white house today rolling out the president's blueprint to boost america's spending on infrastructure. that plan calls for $200 billion in direct federal aid to stimulate 1 1/2 trillion in new investment. it will streamline the process for permits

department of justice and i think the man has a point. all right so does this. as some are claiming show that the f.b.i. nd justice department were biased against the trunk campaign or is there more to it i think it does i think it shows that the f.b.i. was biased against the trunk campaign don't forget also that a lot of these justice department officials who are being implicated in this whole thing or holdovers from the obama administration and not just justice department but also f.b.i. you know people are people they can't help but to be partisan when when an f.b.i. official goes to see the president and the president says who did you vote for which you should ask but he did anyway and the responses i didn't vote well we know that's just not true people are partisan because it's human nature so now the f.b.i. was investigating both of the trump and clinton campaigns back in two thousand and six sixteen but kept quiet only about the trump investigation do you think that this undermines the claims that there was a conspiracy against trump specifically. yeah i wouldn't go so far as to say that it was a

and accuses the f.b.i. and justice department of securing a warrant to spy on presidential campaign based on on verified planes in the trump russia. which was paid for by the democrats. i think it's terrible you want to know the truth i think it's a disgrace what's going on in this country i think it's a disgrace and when you look at that and you see that and so many other things what's going on. a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that well if you take a look at the four page memo that there was so much anticipation of you'll be coming across some rather interesting facts now the christopher steel dossier this was the basis on which the f.b.i. acquired their warrant under the foreign intelligence surveillance act their warrant to wiretap members of the trumpet campaign that was based on the infamous r.c.a. from christopher steel now we also know that the f.b.i. chief said that it was so lace this and unverified furthermore the f.b.i. was aware that the d.n.c. and the hillary clinton foundation paid roughly one hundred sixty thousand dollars for this deal dossier they knew it wa

of his own f.b.i. director and the u.s. justice department. the four page report which is part of a larger intelligence document argues f.b.i. investigators looking into alleged truck ties to russia hit the fact some of their research was funded by democratic party sources it also claims the entire investigation was biased against donald trump from the beginning and that some agents expressed views privately and i think it's a disgrace what's happening in our country and when you look at that and you see that and so many other things what's going on. a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves but democrats argue the memo is simply a summary of republican talking points based on in accuracies house democratic leader nancy pelosi says it's all part of a plan to distract americans from the russia investigation led by special counsel robert muller and alleged campaign ties to president vladimir putin's government in a statement she said president trump has surrendered his constitutional responsibility as commander in chief by releasing highly

f.b.i. and in this case the f.b.i. and maybe the department of justicelooking at media reports and going to the court and saying hey, we need this warrant. >> we need to see what it says exactly but the limited information i've been able to get is that media reports were used to lend credibility to the dossier and what we know is that during that same time frame fusion gps and the british spy christopher steele were actively briefing members of the media about their findings. so the thing to look at in the memo is whether the reporters who were being briefed by fusion gps and glenn simpson whether think of their reporting shows up in the fisa applications. >> julie: what will be interesting is how intelligence agencies and the court system overall will be dealt with moving forward. for a warrant to be issued without credible information to lead to that warrant that points out a glaring fault in our court system in order to prevent this from happening again. you had false information that clearly wasn't vetted properly in order for this to happen. it woun

of both the f.b.i. and the department of justice has just been released speaking at the white house u.s. president donald trump confirmed that he had declassified the document it alleges the f.b.i. applied bad evidence get a warrant to spy on a member of his campaign during the twenty six thousand election of a memo was created by republicans and the house of representatives based on classified information the u.s. justice department and the head of the f.b.i. lobbied unsuccessfully to block it's really. all right here's more of what trump has been saying about this memo and its contents i think it's terrible you want to know the truth i think it's a disgrace what's going on in this country i think it's a disgrace the memo was sent to congress it was declassified congress will do whatever they're going to do but i think it's a disgrace what's happening in our country and when you look at that and you see that and so many other things what's going on. a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that. are for more let's plan our correspondent caroling issue more in w

of his own f.b.i. director and the u.s. justice department. the four page report which is part of a larger intelligence document argues f.b.i. investigators looking into alleged truck ties to russia hit the fact some of their research was funded by democratic party sources it also claims the entire investigation was biased against donald trump from the beginning and that some agents expressed views privately and i think it's a disgrace what's happening in our country and when you look at that and you see that and so many other things what's going on. a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves but democrats argue the memo is simply a summary of republican talking points based on an accuracies house democratic leader nancy pelosi says it's all part of a plan to distract americans from the russia investigation led by special counsel robert mueller and alleged truck campaign ties to president vladimir putin's government in a statement she said president trump has surrendered his constitutional responsibility as commander in chief by releasing

document points to the fact there was a great deal of what appears to be collusion between the clinton campaign and and the f.b.i. and department of justice two entities that are essentially supposed to be bipartisan enforcers of u.s. law it appears according to this document or at least it's purported in this document that they were working to prevent the election of donald trump and we heard of many calls from many prominent figures for this document to remain classified they wanted this four pages to be no. not in the perspective and not available to the american public remember nancy pelosi the leader of the democrats in the u.s. house of representatives said that releasing this document which is now fully public would somehow be a threat to the national security of the united states intelligence is that it's the cia that d.n.a. at the end. national defense everybody has their element of it and sources and methods must be protected now as the debate about the releasing of the memo escalated russia most certainly came into the picture there was a letter that was sent to the owners of twitter and facebook urging them to investigate the

the n jellicoe folks over at the federal bureau of investigation from john mccain tweeting that the latest attacks on the f.b.i. and the department of justice serve no american interest no parties no president only putin's to former f.b.i. director james comey standing up for his former colleagues declaring also appreciate the f.b.i. speaking up i wish more of our leaders would but take heart american history shows that in the long run weasels and liars never hold the field so long as good people stand up not a lot of schools are streets named for joe mccarthy. you're right james weasels and liars never hold the field they just get f.b.i. headquarters named after them. so what the fight is a memo out doing justin timberlake for the biggest bomb of the week and let's let the eagle soar and start watching the hawks. get the. real thing it's like. as you get to the bottom so if you. like you know that i got. a look at. this. week so. welcome everyone to watch the tyrrell ben turner joining me today the great city of texas is the former euphoric strategy youth vote strategist and spokesperson for the twenty sixteen from campaign author and dent

of his own f.b.i. director and the u.s. justice department. the four page report which is part of a larger intelligence document argues f.b.i. investigators looking into alleged truck ties to russia hit the fact some of their research was funded by democratic party sources it also claims the entire investigation was biased against donald trump from the beginning and that some agents expressed views privately and i think it's a disgrace what's happening in our country and when you look at that and you see that and so many other things what's going on a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves but democrats argue the memo is simply a summary of republican talking points based on in accuracies house democratic leader nancy pelosi says it's all part of a plan to distract americans from the russia investigation led by special counsel robert muller and alleged campaign ties to president vladimir putin's government in a statement she said president trump has surrendered his constitutional responsibility as commander in chief by releasing highly c

and f.b.i. the department of justice and f.b.i. knew that the dossier was fake and politically motivated the department of justice and the f.b.i. present fake dossier to face a court to. it trying to wiretap we're talking about a page in this case the d.o.j. in the f.b.i. don't tell the pfizer court that the darcy is fake and from trump's political opponent and the face of court. defrauded into ordering wiretapping the trump campaign again page here. this is victor this is devastating ok devastating there is well six smoking guns at the very least and from what i understand this is i hate using the term tip of the iceberg but what. the intelligence community made available through the the white house was approximately ten percent there's a lot of underlying evidence that can be released that was based on these six points look at the irony of the situation and the american intelligence community accused russia of interfering in the election process in the united states while in the aleksey there is not a single fact. there is no beas

f.b.i. and justice department of poll itizing the process to favor democrats and they say it was edited, the two sides going back and forth. >> this memo is not an indictment of the f.b.i., of the department of justice. it does not impugn the mueller investigation or the deputy attorney general. what it is is the congress's legitimate function of oversight to make sure that the fisa process is being used correctly. >> this memo is really a spin on not just a set of particular documents, but broader classified information than that. that because of serious and material omissions is inaccurate. >> sandra: chief white house correspondent john roberts is live with the latest where anything could happen. good morning, john. >> good morning. the betting appears to be the white house will transfer the memo to the house intelligence committee. whether they can get it out today may be another question. the president other than being caught in an open mic moment tuesday night after the state of the union where he said 100% he would release the memo he has been fairly quiet on this. when he was leaving

f.b.i. just acted perfectly in this instance. >> i'm looking you and the american public now and leaning forward. donald trump is basically attacking every institution in the american government that he controls. the cia, f.b.i., department of justice. you want me to drink that kool-aid and believe the entire governmental security agencies are against donald trump? you want me to drink that kool-aid today on national today? do you believe the entire secret service and the f.b.i. and department of justice, everyone? come on. >> leo, it's amazing. you do this -- liberals do this all the time. they never address what you say. they go on to something else. he never addressed at all the substance of what i said. we know for a fact the obama team spied on the trump team. we know the information was provided by steele through the russians and know the information was provided through clinton -- i know because one of them wrote an op-ed in the "washington post" admitting to it and another one went on a weekend news show and admitted to it, too. go on about the russians again. that's what they do. >> i'll play your game. therefore, what? what are you making conclusion? tell us your conclusion. therefore what? who can -- >> therefore the oba

f.b.i. and department of justice misconduct and spying abuse of the foreign intelligence surveillance act to spy on trump during his campaign this memo will be released the white house has signed off on its release and furthermore they signed off on it being released without any redactions so what they have they have signed off it will be released as is now donald trump was not not not short of speaking his mind as he announced that the memo was authorized for release let's take a listen i think it's terrible if you want to know the truth i think it's a disgrace what's going on in this country i think it's a disgrace the memo was sent to congress it was declassified congress will do whatever they're going to do but i think it's a disgrace what's happening in our country and when you look at that and you see that and so many other things what's going on the lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that. but now it's at this point back in the hands of the u.s. congress but the timeline is now expected to be very short at this point the president has authorized it and i

document points to the fact there is a great deal of what appears to be collusion between the clinton campaign and and the f.b.i. and department of justice two entities that are essentially supposed to be bipartisan enforcers of u.s. law it appears according to this document or at least it's purported in this document that they were working to. the election of donald trump we heard of many calls from many prominent figures for this document to remain classified they wanted this four pages to be not in the perspective and not available to the american public remember nancy pelosi the leader of the democrats in the u.s. house of representatives said that releasing this document which is now fully public would somehow be a threat to the national security of the united states intelligence is that it's the cia that d.n.a. at the end. national defense everybody has their element of it and sources and methods must be protected now as the debate about the releasing of the memo escalated russia most certainly came into the picture there was a letter that was sent to the owners of twitter and facebook urging them to investigate the role of russian

f.b.i. and department of justice. and this predates this investigation. there are a number of issues regarding how the hillary clinton email investigation was handled by the former f.b.i. director. now the f.b.i. raised questions. when it comes to the text messages that you reference, that's not the considered judgment of the president or others, but it is the judgment of the special counsel who had them removed from the case because specifically citing political bias. there are a number of issues. there's a department of justice inspector general report that we heard about that will look into this issue further. i any last question. go ahead. reporter: thank you, raj. two questions. first, president trump and a meeting. president trump said they will discuss china and other areas. can you tell us more about our meeting? mr. shah: i think we will have more information later on. last question. reporter: is -- will the vice president or ivanka trump meet with kim jong un's sister? mr. shah: there are no meetings scheduled. reporter: what about the chemical a

at the highest levels of the justice department but nevertheless that cloud still hangs over the justice department with the president's continuing tweets against both the f.b.i. and his own officials in the justice department six people have been wounded in a drive by shooting in the central italian city of misurata one is believed to be a life threatening condition the suspect gave a fascist salute when he was detained by police all the victims are black. catalyze defense minister says that saudi arabia and the united arab emirates had intentions to invade doha the beginning of a diplomatic crisis that erupted last year khalid bin muhammad alethea told the washington post that catalyze gulf neighbors have tried everything to destabilize the country in june twenty seventh seen saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain cut ties with cassava and imposed a blockade after accusing it of supporting terrorism as strongly denied the allegations a un human rights body is calling for the immediate release of an al jazeera journalist from jail in egypt saying that his imprisonment violates international law mahmoud hussein was jailed almost fourteen months ago for what pro

f.b.i. does it? we'll debate next. >> this is part of a pattern we've seen within the f.b.i. and department of justice. james comey and it regarded the hillary clinton email investigation. you saw investigators make decisions there that didn't make a lot of sense, didn't add up. and allowing politics to influence decision making. now we're seeing that continue. >> jon: we're learning new details about christopher steele, the guy who compiled the trump dossier. fox news obtained the unclassified version of a criminal referral requested by the republican chairman of the senate judiciary committee. catherine herridge is live in washington with the details on that. >> thank you, jon, the republican chairman of the senate judiciary committee chuck grassley and lindsey graham sent a criminal referral to the justice department last month asking for an investigation of the former british spy who put together the dossier and whether he lied to the f.b.i. about his contacts with the media. fox news obtained the unclassified version of the referral. it is heavily redacted. the senators write about another stream o

f.b.i. and department of justice justice abuses into the donald trump collusion investigation that was being carried out they of course said this was going to be bigger than watergate it turned out to be not very much now the democrats wanted to put out a ten page memo rebutting the original four page memo it eventually got out of committee it went to the white house the white house is due to declassify it but it's in discussions with the department of justice and the f.b.i. the fact that donald trump said we're going to issue a letter rather than the memo suggests that that memo isn't going to be released this is why this is going to be a difficulty for donald trump because a week ago he was saying we absolutely need to release the republican memo we should get everything you know there transparency is good people should be able to see what is going on if he does anything that seems as if he's blocking or delaying the democratic memo people will be saying look he's over usually get something to hide and this will build more pressure on donald trump and what is proving to be a very difficult

f.b.i. and the department of justice and the intelligence community, along with him. that was the purpose of the nunes memo, to discredit and distract, discredit the f.b.i. and distract from the investigation. but if orchestrated the writing of that memo, if he participated in drafting it, if anyone in the white house, with his imprimatur or direction was involved in crafting that memo, that is evidence also of obstruction of justice, and it will come home to haunt devin nunes and the white house staff who participated and others in the congress who may have been involved, including the staff. all of it because he wants to stop this investigation. all of it because he is afraid of something that the special counsel has and that the russians may have on him. but the fact of the matter is no one is above the law. if the president refuses to talk to the special counsel, he should be subpoenaed to the grand jury. if he fails to voluntarily appear for that interview with robert mueller or his staff, he should be subpoenaed to the grand jury and he should be forced to testif

f.b.i. of being biased against him while investigating his alleged links to russia in a tweet in the last couple of hours donald trump wrote the top leadership and investigators of the f.b.i. the justice department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of democrats against republicans something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago rank and file are great people he said when the white house is expected to release a controversial memo on how those two agencies investigated alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen election al-jazeera as alan fischer reports from washington. the memo has dominated talk in washington for days donald trump was even asked about it as he left his state of the union speech something like one hundred i know that the four page memo was written by republicans on the house intelligence committee it alleges a misuse of power by the f.b.i. and justice department under the obama administration while investigating the truck campaign during the u.s. election the f.b.i. issued a written statement arguing that there were important details left out which would fundamentally impact the memos accuracy and the justice department says re

attorney to investigate abuses of power within the justice department and f.b.i. rather than destroying these organizations, the goal of the investigation would be to restore their credibility by identifying any abuses of power and removing the responsible individuals. if there are these allegations for abuses of power wouldn't that be an internal investigation >> that's the whole point. a special counsel is supposed to be independent but is part of the executive branch. the department of justice is fully capable of doing this. notwithstanding a lot of questions about the department of justice. find a u.s. attorney from outside the d.c. area. find a retired u.s. attorney like andy mccarthy up here in new york. give him a team of investigators and let him go at it. the purpose was to find abuses, not sniff out crimes. maybe they do come up with crimes. just as congress if they find a crime or what they think they can send a criminal referral as senator grassley did. >> this has been done before. but some would say a special counsel or u.s. attorney could run wild. f