f.b.i. absolutely have resources to defend themselves but you know they're defending themselves against the constitution this is the crisis that i'm talking well of course they see themselves performing it. i mean that's peter struck all those messages to his girlfriend yes perino ok so the f.b.i. whose officials perjured themselves to the pfizer court in order to. get a warrant or approved then are charging. quarter page papadopoulos with lying about things that actually weren't criminal to begin with but i think there's two details on these documents that really struck out at me they're not pivotal towards criminality but they speak to a wider conspiracy one is bruce or is wife he is working in the attorney general of the money he should with she works for fusing g.p.s. and she works specifically on the line to getting this done. dossier this tabloid sheet presented to the f.b.i. and she continued contacts even after all of this nonsense was over with similarly andrew mccabe whose whose name is signatory on all these files documents he is a former f.b.i. assistant director who just resigned when all of this came out in the last couple of wee

f.b.i. absolutely have resources to defend themselves but you know they're defending themselves against the constitution this is the crisis that i'm talking well of course they see themselves performing it. i mean that's peter struck all those messages to his girlfriend yes perino ok so the f.b.i. whose officials perjured themselves to the pfizer court in order to. get a warrant or approved then are charging. quarter page papadopoulos with lying about things that actually weren't criminal to begin with but i think there's two details on these documents that really struck out at me they're not pivotal towards criminality but they speak to a wider conspiracy one is bruce or is wife he is working in the attorney general of the money he should with she works for fusing g.p.s. and she works specifically on the line to getting this done. dossier this tabloid sheet presented to the f.b.i. and she continued contacts even after all of this nonsense was over with similarly andrew mckay whose whose name is signatory on all these files documents he is a former f.b.i. assistant director who just resigned when all of this came out in the last couple of week

f.b.i. absolutely have resources to defend themselves but you know they're defending themselves against the constitution this is the crisis that i'm talking well of course they see themselves performing it back and i mean that's peter struck all those messages to his girlfriend yes perino ok so the f.b.i. who's officials perjured themselves to the pfizer court in order to get a warrant or who are approved then are charging. quarter page papadopoulos with lying about things that actually weren't criminal to begin with but i think there's two details in these documents that really struck out at me they're not pivotal towards criminality but they speak to a wider conspiracy one is bruce or as wife he is working in the attorney general of the money he should with she works for fusing g.p.s. and she works specifically on the line to getting this done. dossier this tabloid sheet presented to the f.b.i. and she continued contacts even after all of this nonsense was over with similarly andrew mckay whose whose name is signatory on all these files documents he is a former f.b.i. assistant director who just resigned when all of this came out in the last

we trust and rely upon the professionals at the f.b.i. as well as the white house personnel security office to render solid judgments on these individuals. that process had not finished yet and so ways to reform and fix the process are things we're open to and considering and working with congress and others on that.

to talk what's the reaction has there been to trump's latest tweets on the f.b.i. . well understandably they are partisan in most but interestingly republicans who ordinarily line up behind the president or at least on certain issues they have been notably reticent to talk about it at least today the president in his tweets in his flurry of tweets over the last night and early this morning has cast blame against the f.b.i. against president former president obama hillary clinton one of his tweets today acknowledging that in fact actually the first time he's really acknowledging that that there is. accusations verified by the intelligence committee a community rather of of it russian interference with a dissin for mission campaign and i'll quote you what he said in this last tweet if it is if it is the goal of russia to create discord disruption and chaos within the u.s. then with all the committee hearings investigations and party hatred they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams he goes on to say they are laughing their asses off in moscow get smarter what's interes

medal is set to to really kind of challenge and kind of throw away some of the credibility of the f.b.i. as well as the entire russia investigation in response to this we've heard a number of democratic leaders say that the calls to release the memo are somehow a plot by the kremlin as the hash tag release the memo went up on social media top democrats sending a letter to social media basically saying that they wanted them to investigate whether or not russian bots were. behind the release but it's gone further than that at this point we've now heard allegations that perhaps the force is responsible and the chairman of the committee could actually himself be a russian agent. is it possible that the republican chair of the house intel committee has been compromised by the russians as a possible plea at all the russian agents running the house intel committee on the republican side i hope that's not the case i mean this is behavior speak about the i mean i'm not the first person who's raised this he's behaving like someone who's been compromised by. investigators reportedly are interested in stein

well. we've seen instances of concern at the f.b.i. as well as the d.o.j. is this smart?ouldn't robert mueller find people that don't have such association with a political party? >> bob mueller. i continue to defend his integrity. i think he has a blind eye to these types of things because he thinks he would never do anything that is political so he doesn't pay attention to people -- i wish one person on the staff was a conservative writer. it seems like the deck is stacked. his top deputy attended hillary's victory party. one is you believe in the candidate and want them to win or you want a job. i have a lot of problems with mueller's staff. faith in mueller he will sit on the staff and make sure what they come out with is proper. mueller has invited a lot of criticism of himself, justifiably so for turning a blind eye to staffing. >> you said on this program many times that you know that mueller is a man of integrity and will lead a fair independent investigation. have you changed at all? >> not about mueller but the staff issue. bob mueller made mistakes. ultimately

medal is set to to really kind of challenge and kind of throw away some of the credibility of the f.b.i. as well as the entire russia investigation in response to this we've heard a number of democratic leaders say that the calls to release the memo are somehow a plot by the kremlin as the hash tag released the memo went up on social media top democrats sending a letter to social media basically saying that they wanted them to investigate whether or not russian boxer. are behind the release but it's gone further than that at this point we've now heard allegations that perhaps the force is responsible and the chairman of the committee could actually himself be a russian agent. is it possible that the republican chair of the house intel committee has been compromised by the russians there's a possibility i tried all the russian agents running the house intel committee on the republican side i hope that's not the case i mean this is behavior speak about tell me i'm not the first person who's raised this he's behaving like someone who has been compromised by. investigators reportedly are interested

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 wellwe 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 conspiracy against the trump campaign but i would say that the f.b.i. was certainly targeting the trump campaign these these text messages between former f.b.i. agent stroh's ik and his girlfriend an f.b.i. attorney ironically named page but not related to carter page shows that f.b.i. agents that were working on the clinton investigation were biased they were biased against donald trump now you don't have to love donald trump to conclude that don't trump was wrong you don't have to love and support donald trump to realize that the f.b.i. overstepped and i believe the f.b.i. may have committed a crime by

funniest part about this is they want to say trump well we couldn't find any collusion so it must be obstruction of justice that he fired the former f.b.i. director well what was he obstructing if there was no justice to be served because what they were investigating wasn't even true i think that's laughable well it's also not what happened on monday the house intelligence committee voted to release a concept i democratic memorandum rebutting republican claims against the f.b.i. how do you see this standoff playing out. well this memo i would think about the democrats' trajectory here first of all last week before the pfizer memo was released democrats said oh no we can't do this with we would be devastating to the institution of the f.b.i. be devastating to intelligence gathering in america we simply can't release the memo then from friday once the memo was released till today we've heard this was a dud the memo was a nothing burger it didn't mean anything it was just republican opposition to try to save the president so wait a minute first it was going to damage the f.b.i. terribly it was something we could never release it was going

f.b.i. did the justice department where the bias against the trump campaign has that question being answered now do you think. well i think it has been i think you know the the d.n.c. this got steel to do a bogus dossier they used it they misled the court which the f.b.i. has done according to the files of court more than seventy five times since one nine hundred seventy eight when the court was putting in place it was supposed to make it harder to spy on people the pi's a court has made it easier now we're seeing it only when the when the elites only one trump is a victim we're talking about the fires of course but yes indeed that is that does look like what happened it also completely undermines people like adam schiff the representative from california who is one of the chief movers behind the whole russia gate idea he was desperate for this information not to get out he said the world would end if it gets out and now that it's out he says well it's just a nothing burger so it really undermines the narrative of the russian gay people i'm just looking at some of the reaction. to what you could say i suppose is t

f.b.i. whatever dence is that based on. well the report claims that some of the information that led to the f.b.i. surveillance for a member of adult trumps a presidential campaign in the year two thousand and sixteen was information financed by the clinton campaign so the financing by a third actor of the document that led to the f.b.i. surveillance and didn't have a knowledge of this this is what the document shows and this is the only evidence actually of these four pages that i have few in front of me the memo in advance being heralded as something of a bombshell do you think we're going to see resignations arising in the wake of this memo well democrats fear that document made the attempt to discredit the inquiry into trying campaign links to russia which is being led by a special counsel robert muller and we should point out that last year trump fire the director of the f.b.i. mr cole me a month ago the vice president there actor of the f.b.i. mr mccabe resigned so now democrats and also independent experts who are not att

f.b.i. and the white house well this is a very rare public split to see between the president of the united states and the country's top federal law enforcement agency and to understand it you need to see the memo in the context of mahler's probe into russian meddling in the twenty six you know actions so let's take a step back and think about what the memo says it alleges that the f.b.i. abused its power supply to spy on a close aide of donald trump during the twenty sixteen election campaign and for trump this shows him that his long held suspicion that the f.b.i. is out to get him that they have an inherent bias against him has some foundations the democrats of course see it quite differently they say that actually this memo was had cherry picked information that did not paint a complete picture of what. of the actual scenario and that the information had been chosen in a way that was going to be purposefully misleading they said were going to be a threat to national security and both sides have been going back and forth all week on whether to release it they voted down partisan lines re

f.b.i. acted improperly are you convinced. well i think there's much more going on here in fact when the f.b.i. goes before a phase a judge to renu it's over here or it's over his it's review authority. they have to make the case that they got something substantial in the previous period the previous ninety day period that's all omitted from this three page summary we already have the democrats who are surprisingly in support of the f.b.i. usually it's the other way around yet we already have reports from the democrats that this is cherry picked information that it's false and it's inaccurate so i'd be interested to see what the democrats have to say the difficult part here is for the f.b.i. we're talking about classified information in a classified process so i don't think we're going to see the f.b.i. come out and rebut the these allegations point by point the proper venue for this in my mind is in a closed session of the house oversight committee the clothes or the house intelligence committee or perhaps more. a politically to t

medal is set to to really kind of challenge and kind of throw away some of the credibility of the f.b.i. as well as the entire russia investigation in response to this we've heard a number of democratic leaders say that the calls to release the memo are somehow a plot by the kremlin and as the hash tag release the memo went up on social media top democrats sending a letter to social media basically saying that they wanted them to investigate whether or not russian bots were. behind the release but it's gone further than that at this point we've now heard allegations that perhaps the forces responsible and the chairman of the committee could actually himself be a russian agent. is it possible that the republican share of the house intel committee has been compromised by the russians there's a possibility i tried all the russian agents running the house intel committee on the republican side i hope that's not the case i mean this is behavior speak about the i mean i'm not the first person who's raised this he's behaving like someone who has been compromised by. investigators reportedly are interes

f.b.i. look bad well you and i can't we can't be sure of what is in the document because we haven't seen the document sure your agree with me on that and we also have a lot of members of congress on capitol hill who have come out and said that they want the memo released and they haven't seen the memo either what do you make of the claims that mr newness himself the man who authored this memo that he altered it and that the copy that the president has is different from the copy that the other members of the house intelligence committee have. well i'm sure a chairman is is not an idiot he knows full well if there was any alteration that it's quickly quickly going to become public because of there might be if people are saying this there might be two actual copies of this report it's unlikely that's the case i did not familiar with the original document so i don't know if it's been altered or not we'll see in this again this transparency this move to release the memo will clear up any any confusion or concerns that people have about this issue . i've been trying to explain to a lot of our view

f.b.i. on the justice department were biased against the trump campaign your thoughts on the. well there's indications that that they were because bruce or was already aware that christie said he would try to do anything to keep our trump from being elected obviously people shared. views with struck in page and we know their tax the only way we would actually get to the bottom of this by the way would be to examine more of the communications between the teams that were investigating the only reason we know struck in page's bias was because they were having an extramarital affair and essentially got investigated by the i g but really if you think about being at this point there really should be some examination of all of the other players here the other the other department of justice officials who signed off on those five say applications they really should examine this further they should also look at whether this steel dosia i think this is the number one question that remains how much did the steel go see a in that that kind of salacious bogus information how much of it has ever

f.b.i. were well aware of the fact that christopher steele had an agenda against trump was quite biased they still used the 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 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 secur

f.b.i.'s request to spy for them and wound up with a prison sentence well that's one way to not take no for an answer. f.b.i. rejection is a part of life it's not him it's you except in a mine didn't want to spy on his employers at the united nations iranian mission where he worked as a political consultant you wouldn't want to find now twelve years later on when you thought you knew had a goal to help the iranians and the americans to live in peace the f.b.i. proposed this by to this iranian american academic and yoga enthusiastic by detaining him at a hotel for questioning the agent revealed that shakes out it was the subject of a sealed indictment in the eastern district of new york when he refused to spy he was charged with falsifying is tax returns flown by other more serious accusations including money laundering and conspiracy to violate u.s. sanctions against iran and that was the second dirtiest thing that ever happened at the jersey city hyatt the first was one could davers were dissected in the hotel ballroom i'm just wondering if i could get the vegetarian option at this kind of

f.b.i. were well aware of the fact that christopher steele had an agenda against trump was quite biased they still used the 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 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 secur

visited a sergeant at the embassy the man's accused of carrying out cyber attacks on the f.b.i. as well as nasa and other organizations while we can leaks is also known for publishing classified information about american politics and the work of its security services clearly the two men have a lot in common and had plenty to discuss speak to journalists love said he wished the science luck in the case. of course five years holed up inside a small embassy left plenty of time on asar just hands it's a good thing had plenty of friends over to visit. thank you. i would on the news the u.s. defense secretary has called on congress to approve a major funding boost for the budget traits accounts of global threats including russia kaleb open. well james mattis the secretary of defense was speaking before the congressional armed services committee in his remarks he talked about how both russia and china were in his view a major threat to the united states because they were updating their nuclear arsenals well russia has reduced only the number of bits accountable strategic nuclear force russia

f.b.i. agent as well as an f.b.i. lawyer who were caught sending back and forth disparaging tacks about donald trump but it is noted that they were reassigned before it even was made public so that's one element of this that many people point to but at the same time it appears that the. necessary protocols within that investigation were followed to ensure the integrity of the investigation so there is all likelihood that this will proceed unaffected still some democrats are calling for there to be bipartisan legislation to ensure that that process maintains the integrity it is protected so that it cannot be harmed by any side politically in terms of advancing their own political interests all right well thank you very much kimberly how it could bring us over the latest on that from the white house on our air as of trying to un report which shows the saudi like coalition but as the greatest responsibility for the deaths of dozens of children in yemen last summer it says coalition as strikes were responsible for the kil

f.b.i.'s failures. well for me and my five intelligence office animations things the f.b.i. should learn the lessons from its past failures. i think we've seen time and time again over the last few years our intelligence agencies across the west dropping the ball in terms of getting tips being aware of potential threats and not following up on those threats and. taking out sensitive measures it seems lessons not being learned they need to have a proper view about you know what exactly are the threats what are they trying to do how can they best protect the people of their country to protect against these threats and that doesn't seem to be done i think what we're seeing at the moment in america is not so much russia kate but intelligence kate where we are seeing larry there and they're being peeled away from what appears to be deep state collusion trying to just deal just mize the trump presidency and try and stop a professional between america and between russia. the u.s. secretary of state is in turkey in an effort to men's ties with ankara rex tillerson has met president

f.b.i. acted improperly are you convinced. well i think there's much more going on here in fact when the f.b.i. goes before a phase a judge to renu it's over here or it's over his it's review authority. they have to make the case that they got something substantial in the previous period the previous ninety day period that's all omitted from this three page summary we already have the democrats who are surprisingly in support of the f.b.i. usually it's the other way around we already have reports from the democrats that this is cherry picked information that it's false and it's inaccurate so i'd be interested to see what the democrats have to say the difficult part here is for the f.b.i. we're talking about classified information in a classified process so i don't think we're going to see the f.b.i. come out and rebut the these allegations point by point the proper venue for this in my mind is in a closed session of of the house oversight committee the close or the house intelligence committee or perhaps more. a politically to the

we trust and rely upon the professionals at the f.b.i. as well as the white house personnel security office to render solid judgments on these individuals. that process had not finished yet and so ways to reform and fix the process are things we're open to and considering and working with congress and others on that. >> sandra: thank you. >> bill: an update. team usa in pyeongchang. fourth place in the slam om. failed to repeat her gold medal performance from a day earlier. the men's hockey team beat slovakia 2-1. they go against russia on saturday. norway is crushing everybody at 19. u.s. right now fifth place with 8. the thing that's stunning. there is no one there. you look at the crowds in the grandstands and the audience. there is no one watching. >> sandra: they're watching at home. >> bill: there is no one in that mountain village in south korea. it is at least half empty if not more at every event. a shame. >> sandra: the most secretive court in the nation. what the fisa court is saying next. >> bill: can house republicans pick up the bal

f.b.i. but as well comes to the department of justice we are hearing that he may have asked for that similar pledge from the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein so certainly this is exceptional because as you pointed out this is many democrats fear an attempt to undermine the russian probe that is looking into potential collusion and also russian interference in the twenty six thousand u.s. election what are the implications of the allegations made in this memo then and who does its publishing benefit who does it hurt more. i think it hurts the institutions that's an easy one given the fact that there is really deep concern in the american electorate with regard to the credibility of the f.b.i. and as well the department of justice but truthfully this isn't new there has been serious concerns and accusations of weaponize ing these institutions that predates donald trump but actually goes back to the obama white house and what we're seeing now is an intensification of that there certainly has been a louder outcry from conservatives who accused the attorney general under the obama white hou

f.b.i. to resign. well i really don't i think you know in a bad situation like this we always want to blame someone. for a situation like this but in this kind of event i don't necessarily know that you could squarely place blame on the f.b.i. for failure to act because the information was so vague in nature. that they started a slight level of investigation but it just didn't say that this guy wanted to kill these people on this day or even identify a location so they had to run on the leads that they had given the information at the time we're seeing a range of these sorts of attacks whether it was sunday hook or columbine or parkland over the years and decades that are affecting american society from the east to the west coast surely there has to be some sort of system in place in terms of an early warning system where checks and balances all there to everybody to the potential of what might happen or could happen even if the threat is vague does that have to be looked into now sure i think we do i think

f.b.i. twice before he committed his mass murder. turns out they deemed him not to be dangerous that all forget about dylan rufe the self-proclaimed white supremacist who killed nine churchgoers in south carolina. well it turns out he was able to purchase his weapons because of errors in the f.b.i.'s background check process and then there is no adel hassan he shot up a u.s. military post in texas back in two thousand and nine. times out the f.b.i. was fully aware that he was online in communication with top al qaeda leaders they still didn't bother to investigate i think we've seen time and time again over the last he is our intelligence agencies across the west dropping the ball in terms of getting tips being aware of potential threats and not following up on those threats and the.

f.b.i. look bad well you and i we can't be sure of what is in the document because we haven't seen the document sure your agree with me on that and we also have a lot of members of congress on capitol hill who have come out and said that they want the memo released and they haven't seen the memo either what do you make of the claims that mr newness himself the man who authored this memo that he altered it and that the copy that the president has is different from the copy that the other members of the house intelligence committee have. well i'm sure sherman is it is not an idiot he knows full well if there was any alteration there it's quickly quickly going to become public because of there might be if if people are saying this there might be two actual copies of this report it's unlikely that's the case i did not familiar with the original documents i don't know if it's been altered or not we'll see in this again this transparency this move to release the memo will clear up any any confusion or concerns that people have about this issue . i've been trying to explain to a lot of our viewers who

f.b.i. to resign. manuel bojorquez. >> reporter: well, jeff, the f.b.i.d that tip came from someone close to the shooting suspect, and it wasn't the first time someone tried to warn the agency about nikolas cruz. ave and a half weeks before akolas cruz allegedly gunned down 17 people at stoneman douglas high, the f.b.i. says it received a tip at a west virginia call center about the suspect's gun ownership, desire to kill people, and the potential of him conducting a school shooting. the di the miami field office for follow-up. alw the attorney general wants a review of the failure, and a orida governor rick scott is folling for f.b.i. director, christopher wray, to resign. miami f.b.i. agent-in-charge rob lasky. what would you say to people who believe the f.b.i. missed a mance to prevent this tragedy? >> the potential of the f.b.i. to miss something is always there. we will be looking into where and how if something-- the protocol broke down, and we will come back stronger than we ever were before. >> reporter: it was the second time the f.b.i. received