despite attacks on the fbi. it is essential to the rule of law and i didn't mean to be review on the point i just think that we can't go without commenting on the fact that there is in my mind the study erosion in confidence and a cause of it is with the men and women of the fbi know that they have strong bipartisan support here in congress. we ask you one last question. my home community as i note you know face an epidemic of gun violence in recent years and one of the things we are trying to do is make sure that we keep guns out of the hands of people prohibited and that is why i joined with the senator to introduce the notification act that requires the federal government to notify state and local law enforcement when a person prohibits or sales background check and last year the section denied 104,000 firearm transactions where people were prohibited by law attempted to buy. do you think it would be helpful for the law enforcement to notify the state law enforcement when someone was prohibited from owning a

the fbi is in deep crisis.ormer fbi director james kallstrom and political strategists ed rollins among those who join me here tonight to assess the damage to the fbi and to judge whether it can be salvaged from ruinous and corrupt leaders. also joining us tonight, dr. sebastian gorka on the president's demand for world trade that is fair, that is balanced and reciprocal. his emissaries are in beijing tonight to create a new trade relationship with the chinese. and chris farrell on the mueller witch hunt and the weak-kneed leadership of the gop on capitol hill and the awesome power of the koch brothers, the chamber of commerce, the business round table and, and the president who means to bring them all to heel in the interest of the nation, the american worker and family, our middle class. the top story tonight, the fbi in crisis, its leadership and that of the justice department politically corrupt. the fbi failing in both its federal law enforcement role and the fbi's national security division has all but fa

with all areas f fbi, u.s. attorneys, what are you seeing at this point at the tran national criminal organizations? >> i think transnational criminal organizations are one of the least talked about but threats we have to deal with. we see it not just in drug trafficking and all kinds of violent crime, but things that might not be as obvious to the american people. of course, involved in human trafficking. seen reporting about them relying on intellectual property theft all kind of this ings to raise revenue. so pretty much any area of violation that the subcommittee can think about, transnational criminal organizations are in them. so we are seeing that more hand more. i think one of the strengths that the fbi brings to the table, over of the course of entire 110 year history is focus on organized crime. dismantling enterprises. going after not just the people but taking apart the infrastructure and money and all that. so it's something that i think we are going to have to put more focus on and kind of capture

mueller was fbi director. wiseman was working on the case as well to investigate russia's legal effort to get control of u.s. uranium. softself-titled that -- -peddled that. they had to keep things quiet so the council on foreign relations on investment in the united states would vote to be able to allow the sale of uranium that would end up in the hands of russia. rosenstein let the public know about russia's illegal efforts, there is no way they could have approved that sale. then of course the clinton foundation wouldn't have gotten so much money that changed hands. these guys were disqualified. if they had any decency, they would have recused themselves from a, appointing a special counsel,b, be a special counsel. this was just robert mueller, who was shortly before that was begging to get the job as director of the fbi. he had no business doing this. i think eric holder, although he misrepresented facts before the judiciary committee, he was not misrepresenting facts to see an end. he said, i have known r

they're going to be investigating the fbi. and that is disruptive to ongoing operations if there's not a real reason to do it. >> and carrie is right. i confess, i'm wrong on this one. but on the point of the i.g., that's right. people who look at this as sweeping this under the rug have never dealt with the i.g. the i.g. is a sledgehammer. when they came after us when i was at the bureau, if they're investigating you, they will find something wrong. it's like looking at an hour of an anderson cooper program and saying was there ever 30 seconds that didn't go completely right. >> look at what happened with andrew mccabe. these are serious investigations that take a while. and so, you know, there's the question, the president wants an answer tomorrow. and that isn't going to happen. >> does this whole thing of what's happened with this confidential informant, the president is alleging he's a spy targeted at the campaign, does it hurt other confidential informants who cooperate with the fbi or with the cia who feel like, wait a

sit for an fbi interview. so, a diplomat from a foreign government sitting for an fbi interview.ly interview, intense, the investigations went all the way back to the capital of australia cann berra. it was tense, but the australians were willing to do it. this was so closely held that many inside the fbi didn't know this was happening. that document formed the basis for much of the investigation that we now know as the mueller case. and it is extremely closely held, extremely secret, and the investigation was given a code name, cross fire hurricane, that frankly really seemed to predict the political storm that the fbi finds itself in right now. >> i was going to read some of that. i'm going to go ahead -- [ technical difficulty ] i was born in a cross fire hurricane and that prediction of a political storm that continues to tear shingles off the bureau. i want to put up a list of all the ousted fbi officials and ask you what you learned in your reporting of any of their role in this. james comey, former fbi director, andrew mccabe, his deputy, a corroborating witness for comey,

the once storied fbi is in crisis. its leadership is inept as it is corrupt and unable to amount a defense of russian warfare and incapable of halting mass shootings and terrorism and failing to win criminal convictions under the direction of fired director james comey. the overreach and abuse of power is on full display. and michael cohen, in the weeks before the fbi's outrageous how was surveyed. the justice department is politically corrupt. and the fbi is a state police force that most americans barely recognize. former fbi director and others join me to assess the damage to the fbi and judge whether it could be salvaged from ruinous and corrupt leaders. the fbi crisis and its leadership. and the department and the fbi failing in the law enforcement role and the fbi's national security division all but fail would completely in its responsibilities. the fbi alreadiship is corrupt by the obama deep state elites. a raid against our constitution and our very gflt. the special counsel added to the fbi's failure. the dep

now, he's a very senior fbi official. until december he was general counsel at the fbi.e who james comey briefed about his interactions with the president, leading up to president trump firing james comey. mr. baker was reassigned to some unknown job in the fbi after comey's firing whereupon republicans and conservative media figures started accusing him of being the source who leaked the existence of the christopher steele dossier to reporters. according to our reporting, mr. baker was reassigned to basically a potted plant job at the fbi, one much further down the food chain than his previous job as the top lawyer at the fbi. but there really was no explanation for the reassignment. well, "the new york times" reports tonight that baker had been investigated by doj on suspicion of having shared classified information with reporters, though he certainly has not been charged with that. mr. baker also tells "the new york times" that he is joining the brookings institution now upon leaving the fbi. he tells the "times," "i love the fbi. i have tremendous respect for the bur

judge jeanine: chopper says trump should be happy the fbi was spying hoins campaign. >> was the fbi spyingon his campaign? >> no, they were not -- it's not a term i particularly like, but on what the russians were doing. were the russians trying to gain learn and influence which is what they do. >> why doesn't he like that? he should be happy. >> he should be. >> i like the head of a spying agency, i don't like the term spying. that's why we should shut down all of our intelligence agencies, this whole story is getting worse and worse and worse. i'm suspicious there was someone actually placed within the campaign. but it's utterly outrageous they are protecting the trump campaign. they want to protect them. judge jeanine: why didn't they talk to them on their way into the trump tower. >> liberals are playing a game with this. they say there was no spy. if you will remember this. bill clinton became such a famous liar that reporters had to start interpreting what he was saying. wall paula expwhroans was making her claim he said i was never alone in a hotel with paula jones. that's exactly w

an epithet in the fbi. these political or she's political is the worst thing you can say about somebody. a take in the long run but they are feeling pain right now's when you see the climate survey, when we finally get it, what are you expect it to reflect? what are the metrics that you're going to look at as the vocative of the current atmosphere. >> there is a measure about pride in the organization. >> and its mission. there's a measure about confidence in senior leadership . more broadly than just the director. there is measures about the regard with which we believe we are held. and the people we interact with in the course of our job, those sorts of things would be the most important to me i just get not just the readout that i would get a book everything said about me or to me. in the comments and it was hundreds of pages long and i read that 20 pages at a time. even though you're doing largely well, there's articles and everybody that have strong feelings but i would want to look at the data and the

listen, the fbi and i.g. did a report and came out with serious allegations against andrew mccabe and there will be an i.g. turning over other rocks and there are tweeting and sending e-mails that are zur-disturbing i think the president and the american people should know what is going on. it does speak to the integrity of what is going on in this investigation. and director mueller, and people say we should get to the bottom of it -- >> and andrew mccabe was invested by the i.g. and reprimanded for leakering information that was actually damaging to hillary clinton. >> but i'm saying this entire campaign, there is this drip, drip, drip of things that went wrong or awry. one way the left or the right doesn't like. this is another point that deserved some sunlight. >> what do you think? >> i don't think that the fbi is above criticism. so i think it is fair to say that there are things that people have been upset with the fbi about. certainly democrats are upset with how he handled the hillary clinton -- how

why did the fbi and the justice department do that? justice department and the fbi also have shed nearly all of the senior officials who were corroborating witnesses for james comey at the time he wrote up those memos, when he was documenting his interactions with the president, because those interactions were very irregular, they were seemingly improper, comey wrote those 'em mows to document those intersections, he con sided in other senior law enforcement officials at the time in order to create a record of those interactions with the president in case it some day needed to be used as evidence. the justice department and the fbi have since shed or demoted most of those officials who comey confided in. while the president has led a systematic campaign of attacking them, one by one, often by name. within the justice department, the inspector general investigation into those corroborating witnesses, into fbi deputy director andrew mccabe, that investigation was inexplicably accelerated to match a time frame demanded by president trump,

you go to the fbi and a lot of those great people working in the fbi, they'll tell you, i did a great service to our country. >> my fbi friends tell me that every day and they are helping to expose the corruption in their agency. they want the truth out. the soon to be released doj, ig report is expected to show clinton committed felonies and comey put the fix in to save hillary's campaign and started spying on the trump campaign. where is the warrant? where is the justification? former barack obama buddy james clapper is in a panic trying to seay himself running from media outlet to media out let trying to spin a false narrative. look at what he said with the ladies on the view. >> i ask you, was the fbi spying on the trump campaign? >> no, they were not. they were spying on what the russians were doing, trying to understand if the russians were trying to gain leverage and influence. >> so why doesn't he like that? >he should be happy. >> he should be. >> really? people in the fbi were spying on his campaign without a warrant and lied to four judges, is that not the deep state trying

the ig's upcoming report is expected to blast the fbi for the w tardy report. we'll keep following the story. that's it for us tonight. sean hannity is coming up next. >> sean: yeah. can we pan and a little? they have us back so far. i can't even see -- >> tucker: where are you? >> sean: if we could just pandan, james, help us out. too far away. come on and pray that's all right by the people at home understand is a p live televisi. they do, tucker, great show as always. welcome to "hannity." this is unbelievable. the deep state should be totally terrified as all of their nefarious deeds that we have been telling you have been exposed. this is the worst abuse of power corruption scandal in american history. it is all coming out. everything we have been telling you. the president rightly demanding to know just how pervasive this playing was on his campaign, and who in the obama administration was involved. rod rosenstein, he is responding, telling the doj inspector general, he can investigate. thisis is only providing cover r his deep state friends and trying to

fbi, he says facts matter, the fbi's use of human sours, the term is tightly regulated and essentialwill do lasting damage to our country. how will republicans explain this to their grandchildren. so, how the fbi uses confidential human sources and how this is different from spying. >> let me explain the difference as you're talking about, don, between a spy and an informant. the president is confusing like santa claus and frosty the snowman. i mean, they both live in the same place, but they're not the same person. let's talk about a spy. if you want to understand north korea, you want to understand what we call in the spy business plans and intentions. what are the north koreans thinking about at a high level, soup to nuts? about their nuclear program. what did they do in the past? what do they plan to do in the future? and what are their political intentions vis-a-vis the united states in a negotiation about their nuclear weapons? you want the whole pizza pie. in this case in the russia investigation i want an informant. i don't need to know about plans and intentions related to t

the fbi has the responsibility to keep us all safe. and they will deploy methods in order to try to find out what people are doing to try to violate our laws or harm us. and they use methods that have been well established for a long period of time certainly within the legal framework of the rule of law of america. that is how they operate. and if they are now expected to release that type of information that compromises their ability to get work done. >> and senator, may i ask you what your 1k3ek9s tapexpectatio the mueller sples investigation? do you believe the president should testify and will he testify? can you give us a time frame in which you think that might happen? >> well, my expectation is that the mueller investigation will have all of the tools and authority they need to complete this investigation without political interference. it has already been too much interference from the white house. the comments from the president this morning is certainly not helpful to the mueller investigation. the president indicated that he

they have destroyed the department of justice and the fbi. it's going to take a decade to rebuild the public trust in the fbi and the department of justice because sally yates, who just joined a fancy law firm in atlanta, is going to need to lawyer up. the disgraceful performance of her and of course even more disgraceful, john brennan that led a conspiracy against the campaign of the opposing party's presidential nominee, and then when he won did everything they could to frame him and his compatriots with false crimes. it's the greatest political scandal in american history, and shame on sally yates and shame on john brennan. >> sean: it's such a powerful commentary and sadly it's all true. sarah carter, march 7, 2017, you and john solomon, right here on this show broke the news about the trump campaign being surveilled. you're now saying that concealed fisa documents, the warrants, the original applications, the bulk of information as the nunes and grassley graham memo said came from the phony dossier that hillary paid for and lied to fisa

also judicial watch is learning the fbi will order anti-trump fbi lovebirds strzok and page to preserve bureau records and their personal accounts and personal devices. i hope they didn't acid wash them. senator chuck grassley saying one of these text messages actually suggesting that the "obama white house is running this." running water? referring to an unspecified investigation. the standoff between devin nunes, trey gowdy, the doj of our classified documents is now coming to a big head. we'll tell you what to expect at tomorrow's meeting and also, rod rosenstein created an unmitigated deep sea disaster by appointing robert mueller. we have a law professor who is now calling rod rosenstein did unconstitutional. brand-new, the american center for law and justice, they are reporting that 30,000 emails exist between a content state department at the clinton foundation proving that there was collusion. former clinton pollster, chief strategist mark penn is blasting the entire mueller investigation. he joins us tonight. first, a very important breaking news opening monologue. ♪ the presid

frank figluzi, former fbi director for counterintelligence, chuck rosenberg, former counsel to fbi directorobert mueller, also a former u.s. attorney. robert anderson, former fbi assistant of counterintelligence. former director of the criminal, cyber response and criminal branch. and the executive director of the fbi national security branch who these days is a senior managing director of guide post solutions. i jokingly said you've never been in the same place before. not since you were all feds together, i guess is the answer to that. frank, i would like to begin with you. your reaction to the way "the new york times" laid out the early seeds, the origins of this case. >> so isn't it ironic that the white house has been bashing the fbi as corrupt and targeting the president. but today we find out through the article that quite the opposite was true. they went to great lengths to set parameters, to be secretive, cryptic, nonto tip their hand, in the hopes of not influencing another presidential election. that's the professionalism that we see in the fbi. and that's what's been revealed to

what happened to the fbi, the entire fbi.ext the president described fbi agents in new york executing a lawful court order as quote-unquote breaking into the office of his lawyer. and then next his lawyer, rudy giuliani, described those same agent, the rank and file as nazi storm troopers. and now the organization is being labeled as part of some deep criminal state conspiracy. so i no longer speak on behalf of the fbi, but i have to imagine if you're in the organization right now and wake up every day and see our leaders calling you crooks you feel under assault. >> shawn turner is with us as well. why do you think the president has seized on this confidential source and framing this as though the source was a spy in his campaign? what's the goal? >> you know, wolf, no one knows better than the president that words matter. and when the president uses words like spy and deep state and conspiracy, he's doing that for a couple of reasons. one it's a continuation what we now know is an intensified attack on the intelligence comm

in phoenix, fbi spokesperson john einar rally, and former fbi agent and counter terrorism expert chad jenkins who was awarded three bronze star metals as an army ranger. so i don't think these guys are getting their story straight, john. you heard at the top of the show, klapper said there was a spy in there, and then call me on the late-night shows that there wasn't a spy. it's kind of important to make sure everybody is on the same page, don't you think? >> i find it odd that director comey is going on the view. >> i will tell you that, agents across the board are not political. but at the top, there appears to be a problem there. if they were interested in russians, the first person you will talk to would be the person that was the victim of the russians and that didn't happen. >> jesse: no, instead they spied on that person and surveilled them. it's not good for james comey, he's basically contaminated the so-called crime scene. you have these agents in there and when you bring in the fake dossier and the illegal spying, it doesn't look good. if it was the court of law, this thing

and you go into the fbi and a lot of those great people working in the fbi, they will tell you, i did a great service to our country by firing james comey. >> by the way, what you just saw there proved too much for one of our on-air colleagues today and we'll have his comments for you at the end of our broadcast tonight. but you'll want to see it. now, amid all of that rudy giuliani continued his back and forth over whether his client will sit down with robert mueller. earlier he told "the wall street journal" he was against such an interview. today, he told "the washington post" trump should talk to the mueller's team and a decision would be made within the next couple of weeks. he added, i guess i would rather do the interview. it gets it over with, it makes my client happy. giuliani also spoke to nbc news today saying that trump's legal team would like to narrow the scope as much as possible and the length of the interview is under discussion. he also said a previously mentioned september 1st deadline could be pushed back. on that, let's bring in our leadoff panel on a wednesday ni

that's the professionalism that we see in the fbi. and that's what's been revealed today. >> and what happens when you hear the president on "fox and friends." you can hear the host trying to say okay, trying to wrap him up. but when you hear that attack on the corruption at the top of the fbi? >> it goes much bigger than this case. it's a concern about long-term damage to our institutions and the rule of law and the public perception of the fbi that's being damaged. and ultimately that damages our attempts and the fbi's attempts to protect the nation. >> thanks to what you told us about robert mueller, he is due to arrive at work in six hours or less. when he does, i presume there won't be bagels and breakfast foods to mark the one-year anniversary. i'm guessing it is a meaningless day to him except for another day at work. >> it's another day at work. what i saw when i had the privilege -- and i do mean privilege, brian, of working for director mueller -- is a guy who didn't pay attention to these sorts of anniversaries. we'll talk

as he tracked with fbi agents, in your reporting. in the idea that this would go unmentioned by special counsel, given relationship between the fbi. and this russian oligarch. straight forwardly, this is collusion between fbi and russians, why would mueller not make the point. and the view point of a trusted source? >> that is the question a lot of legal experts. there is a conflict of interest, and troubling information about fbi not disclosing its witness with -- relationship with a witness at least in the current investigation. >> i have never season's story with such an overarching narrative, that is one of russian collusion with the trump campaign, there has not been one wit of evidence in almost a year of fbi investigation of that issue, a year with special council. not one piece of evidence to support corroborate that narrative, yet, we're talking about collusion between fbi. and a russian oligarch, at collusion between the deep state the u.s. intelligence community, spessicly fbi and department of the justice, and campaign of

that's an epithet in the fbi. he's political or she's political is one of the worst things you can say in that organization. so i think they have faith in the long run but they are feeling pain now. >> when you see the climate survey, when we finally get it, what do you expect it to reflect? what are the metrics that you are going to look at as evocative of the current at m t atmosphere? >> there is a measure about pride in the organization and it's mission. there is a measure about confidence in senior leadership, more broadly than just the directedor. there is measures about the regard with which we believe we are held by the people we interact with in the course of our job. those sorts of things will be the most important to me. but i used to get not just the readout but i would get a book of everything said about me or to me in the comments and it was hundreds of pages long, and you could only read that 20 pages at a time, because even though largely well, there is some aunt's and uncles in every family that h

a confidential informant is someone who provides information to the fbi but does not work for the fbi. and they come in any number of different ways. they could be people who have criminal exposure themselves. they could be people who just provide information. >> concerned citizens. >> yeah, and particularly in the counterintelligence area. you have to distinguish the counterintelligence area from the criminal investigative area. in the counterintelligence area, there are a boatload of informants that just provide information, not in connection to a criminal investigation, but just for national security reasons. >> jennifer, why are we just now hearing about roger stone? >> so what i think is going on -- and i'm very pleased with this development -- is that they are now getting to one of the huge areas where we know there is criminal conduct but it hasn't been charged yet, which is the hacking, right? the hacking into the dnc, podesta. >> we expect that to be the next tranche of indictments. >> roger stone may be at the center of that to the extent there is trump team involvement in t