it definitely was a very different fbi. one of the interesting things is right now in the political climate we're in there's a large section of the country that feels very bad for the fbi, that the fbi is being maligned in our current era. 50 years ago as this stuff was coming out publicly, it was very different 40 years ago as it was being publicized that the fbi -- these were constitutional violations. essentially essentially spying on people for their political views. the fbi has evolved, it has changed, it is much more but, this but, this is important, it still continues in many respects to investigate those who are deemed to be threatening. black lives matter is an example that's come under suspicion for harboring or support organize being sympathetic to those who would promote violence. those have largely been spurious type of charges but it remands -- -- remains an fbi concern. >> can you explain who was targeted and the mechanics of how they were target and what devices were used? >> i'll speak to the group i looked

the fbi. the fbi's own history, if you go on their website, they have a long narrative description of their history and they link the creation of the fbi to the progressive movement that was active at that turn of the century. the progressive movement believed that the federal government must intervene to foster justice in an industrial society. a response to the labor unrest that we have talked about in previous classes and everything that inspired that, terrible working conditions, and so forth. so it inspires things like the fda, to ensure that the food you are getting has labels and what you are eating is actually what you think you are eating. it will lead to things like child labor laws. it will also create this sort of nationwide law enforcement body that is able to keep tabs on criminals throughout the country and did not exist prior to this period in time. based on the need for a law enforcement agency in the face of labor conflict, the rise of crime, and corruption in politics and bi

fbi. they have an independent office, of professional responsibility, and as if at heart of our justice system and law enforcement system, no one trusts leadership of agency, the fbi, no one trusts leadership of the deputy of justice. and -- department of justice this wrong. >> we know that nobody trusts them, but, even more compelling to me is that fact they try to get this information christopher brawray and rod rosenstein, makt clear there was a cabal, an anti-trump conspiracy. lou: and devin nunes t to a dege david ho horowitz. >> you know. to a degree. lou: judge jeanine pirro it will ways, then some. catch justice with judge j. frederick motz eanine . great to see you. >> thank you. >> appreciate it up. >> next, more to fbi a long overdue tiring o smurking smug trump hating agent, peter strzok, we take up why fbi had to overturn their original decision, and just to demote, suss span him or you know -- suspend him or slap him on the wrist, that is not the way it worked out, we'll talk

the fbi. the fbi's own history on their website they have a pretty long narrative description of their history. they link the creation of an fbi to the progressive movement that's active in that period of time. the progressive movement is sort of this belief that undergirds it is that the government must intervene to foster justice in an industrial society. the response to the sort of labor unrest, that we've talked about in previous classes and everything that went on, inspired that terrible kind of working conditions and so forth. so the progressive movement inspires things for example like the fda to insure that the food you're getting has labels on what you're eating is what you think you're eating. it will eventually lead to things like child labor laws. it is also then create this sort of nationwide law inforcement body. that is able to keep tabs on criminals throughout the country and just prior to this period of time. the fbi's history explains this creation, based on the need for law

the fbi encourages dr. mr. chairman to kill himself because he is such a threat to the nation in their view. king does not obviously kill himself. the fbi then offers to turn this tape over to the press. the press turns him down. imagine such an era. and the fbi backs off in the face of a looming congressional investigation into electronic surveillance. the timing of that works out in his favor, i suppose. from 1965 to '67 lyndon johnson takes over for the assassinated john f. kennedy. clamps down on wiretapping, suggests it should be outlawed. there are a couple supreme court cases, berger v. new york and katz versus situates both in 1967. in these cases the supreme court says wire taps have to follow the same procedures for a warrant. there must be probable cause, the people initiating the wire tap have to specify the crime, specify the space to be searched, specify the conversations. in 1968 congress sets specific standards for obtaining wire taps. this will not stop cointelpro overall. cointelpro will targe

his top deputy, the number two official at the fbi running the day-to-day operations of the fbi and the investigation, he, too, has been fired. turned into a political punching bag and removed from office. now, the head of the counter intelligence division at the fbi, the lead agent on that investigation, now, today, he has also been fired. turned into a political punching bag and removed from office. the president has also threatened all three of them with being prosecuted themselves. director, deputy director, head of the counter intelligence division, all gone. all blown up, careerwise, right? all being threatened with being prosecuted themselves. and the russia investigation continues to unspool, right? we've had the national security adviser plead guilty and become a cooperating business. we've had the president's deputy campaign chair plead guilty and becoming a cooperating witness. we've had that trump foreign policy adviser who piqued the interests of the fbi with his inside info about the russian hacking operations, right? we've had him plead guilty, too, and become a cooperati

the fbi encourages dr. martin luther king to kill himself because he's such a threat to the nation in their view. the fbi offers this tape -- king does not obviously kill himself. the fbi then offers to turn this tape over to the press. the press turns him down and the fbi backs off in the face of investigation and electronic surveillance. the timing works out in his favor i suppose. lyndon johnson takes over for john f. kennedy. it should be formally outlawed. there's a couple of supreme court cases. both in 1964 and in these cases the supreme court changes it's tune. wiretaps have to follow the same procedures. there must be probable cause. the people initiating the wire trap have to specify the crime. specify the place to be searched. specify the conversations to be seized. in 1968 congress follows suit. set specific standards for obtaining wiretaps. this will not stop. they'll target other confrontational political groups including the black panther party that it helps to destroy with informants, misinf

the fbi fires enbattled fbi agent peter strzok.t does it mean for the russia probe moving forward? what's the reason behind the firing? much more after the break. ♪ flintstones! meet the flintstones. ♪ ♪ they're the modern stone age family. ♪ ♪ from the town of bedrock. ♪ meet george jetson. ♪ ♪ his boy elroy. with instant acceleration, electric cars are more fun to drive and more affordable than ever. electric cars are here. plug into the present. now t-mobile has unlimited for the rest of us. unlimited ways to be you. unlimited ways share with others. unlimited ways to live for the moment. all for as low as 30 bucks a line. unlimited for you. for them. for all. get unlimited for as low at 30 bucks per line for four lines at t-mobile. >>> welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. breaking news today. the fbi fires the agent whose text messages are exhibit a to president trump and his allies who claim a deep state bias in the russia meddling investigation. plus, talk about a jury of your p

human asset relationship with the fbi. >> so the fbi and the department of justice used this phoney, fab arfabricated dossier unverifiedo gain a wiretap warrant from a fisa court. that was sometime in october. and of course the fbi redacted the exact date. does it look to you like based on the sequence of events and the documents you obtained that the fbi and the department of justice knew christopher steele was a liar before they filed their application to spy? >> absolutely. they already admonished him for some kind of misconduct. they knew the kind of game he was playing. eventually they had to disclose to the court in very soft, i would say dishonest terms, that they terminated him because of his unreliability and fallshoods. they had a lot of guilty knowledge. they were not forth coming with the court. in my view they perpetrated a fraud on the court. those warrants were not lawfully obtained. they do not contain true and accurate information. and you have fbi officials signing off on them. gregg: i wrote a back to "the russia mosquitoes" and i outlined -- "the russia hoax." 50s

the fbi did not include those issues on the application. >> not only did the fbi not that the dossiererified, they also knew there were credibility issues because of the way it was collected and the bias that was associated with that. >> democratic lawmakers said this is nothing more than an attempt to undermine the special's investigation. but democrats lawmakers did not attend yesterday's hearing. the house is in recess. they sent staffers instead. >> sean: with the author of the "ru "russian hoax,"greg jarrett and sarah carter with us. sarah carter you have new information relating to what happened. our reporting was accurate and more. bruce ohr never not before mueller with all of this information we now have? >> he never.before mueller and never went before john huber. this is incredible information. what we know now is nobody questioned bruce ohr. we know that congress is now going to call on nellie ohr to testify behind closed doors. >> sean: when do we get these transcripts? >> they hope they are available after labored. -- labor day. they want to talk to nellie ohr and to and

ohr said today he disclosed that to the fbi. really? the fbi was okay with that? now this is where we are. we know for a fact that in 4 separate fisa court applications, fisa court judges were repeatedly lied to. knowingly lied to. the american people, you were all lied to. all in an effort by high ranking government bureaucrats to rob an election and at all costs stop donald trump from winning and then to destroy his presidency. communications between ohr and christopher steele, 60 pages of it. it shows that steele was concerned about being exposed for this and for good reason. this level of corruption and abuse should make every single american citizen sick. a blatant example of what i been telling you. a 2 tiered justice system. hillary clinton gets a free pass and trump is targeted by the government with her phoney campaign research put together by a foreign national using russian sources for lies. we have a brand new article tonight from greg jarrett. he details how james comey took control of the clinton investigation and took it out of the hands of the fiel

his top deputy, the number two official at the fbi running the day-to-day operations of the fbi and the investigation, he, too, has been fired. turned into a political punching bag and removed from office. now the head of the counter intelligence division at the fbi, the lead agent on that investigation, now today, he has also been fired. turned into a political punching bag and removed from office. director, dem director, head of the counter intelligence division. all gone. all blown up careerwise. right? all being threatened with being prosecuted themselves. the russian investigation continues to spool. we've had the president's deputy campaign chair plead guilty and becoming a cooperating witness. the trump foreign policy adviser who piqued the interests with his infwoe the russian hacking operations. we've had him plead guilty and become a cooperating witness. we'll have more on him coming up. there's been some movement in that case. we have another adviser formerly named as an agent in the russian government in multiple surveillance wiretap applications. the ongoing felony trial ag

when james comey testified before our committee as the fbi director at the time on why and how the fbi came to the conclusion that there was nothing to be prosecuted, he made it very clear that it wasn't even a close call. no crime had been committed. in fact he improperly at the press conference that summer characterized secretary clinton's behavior which he really had no business doing, but he made it very clear there was nothing further to be investigated. i find that ironic that the man who was the subject of an active criminal investigation, the very thing he wanted done to hillary clinton wants to shutdown his own investigation. i'd call that a double standard by any stretch of the imagination. >> the fbi did its own investigation. the inspector general of the struck texts and recommended discipline, but that discipline being a demotion, and 60 day suspension. what you had today -- actually the firing took place on friday, the deputy director overruling by firing peter struck. i wonder if you're concerned about the politics around this, the president's comments, demands from repu

ohr said today that he disclosed that the fbi. really? the fbi was okay with that?ow at the end, this is where we are. we now know for a fact that in four separate fisa court applications, fisa court judges were repeatedly lied to. knowingly lied to. the american people, you come over all lied to, all in an effy high-ranking government bureaucrats to steal, sway, rob, and election and at all cops, costs stop donald trump from winning and to store his presidency. communications between ohr and christopher steele, 60 some odd pages of it. it shows that steele was extremely concerned about being exposed for this and for good reason because this level of corruption and abuse should make every single american citizen sick. a printed example of what i've been telling you, a two tiered justice system. hillary clinton gets a free pass. trump is literally targeted by our government with her salacious phony campaign oppo research put together by a foreign national using russian sources for lies. we have a brand-new article tonight from gregg jarrett, he'll be with us, too. he

him, the fbi paid him.he fbi made 11 payments to christopher steele. i have been saying, and now it has all come together. the biggest political corruption abuse of power andio scandal in our lifetime. this should outrage every single american. i don't care what yourim political affiliation is, let me say this slowly. they try to steal in the united states of america a presidential election, and this in other words, they abuse their power to steal an election. a presidential election. our justice department has been weaponized for pure partisan political gain. we will talk to john solomon and mark meadows in just a minute. in other news the latest example of how so many americans can't trust the media, they've been missing in action a on that scandal. last night, we called them out again for hyping up yet anothet fake news story about the 2016 trump op meeting betweenen don jr. and the russian lawyer. they met before with fusion gps and after. they claimed the president finally admitted to collusion and tha

mueller is head of the fbi and the fbi lavishes a $1 billion contract to lockheed martin where jamesto be the general counsel. how rich did comey then get? >> that's right. he made $6.1 million in the year after that contract was awarded. gregg: that's, what, like a 4,000% increase in his compensation? >> that's exactly right. we are talking about the revolving door. it's a familiar story. most americans have heard of it. it's turning your public service into self-service. here are the facts of james comey. in 2005, he was worth just $206,000, modest income, modest net worth. he had a mortgage. he goes to lockheed martin in 2005 as general counsel and also senior vice president and by 2009, he's raked in millions of dollars, $6.1 million in that year alone, and just like you said, it's over 4,000% net worth increase. it's actually 4,250% using the most conservative estimates. gregg: i don't begrudge people who are in government service eventually going into the private sector. they are perfectly allowed to do so. but does it appear to you that then he's trading on his previous positi

more on our top story today, the fbi firing controversial anti-trump fbi agent peter strzok.s the agency wait until now to do it? and what could this mean for the russia probe in our power panel is here next it's >> melissa: back now to our top story, the fbi firing peter strzok. the agent got caught sending antitrust texts during the campaign. this after the bureau's deputy director overruled an internal disciplinary review that recommended strzok be demoted and suspended. let's bring in our power panel, kevin mccullough and david bernstein. kevin, what do you make of the firing today? >> long overdue, should have happened months ago. >> melissa: it's a government, nothing is fast. >> i remember a day in which, and i've known fbi agents for most of my life. adultery has never been allowed in the fbi and why these two on that level were allowed to have an affair can be exposed and stay active in the rank seems unusual because they are very worried about keeping agents clean and making sure you have integrity of the process. so the fact that you had long-term standards being o

the fbi was determined -- >> sean: go further.es that mean? >> to perpetrate a fraud on the court, to spy on the trump campaign. this is important. here's what should happen. this was a fraud on the court. the chief justice of the u.s. supreme court is in charge of the fisa court, he should direct the presiding judge, rosemary collier, to hold a hearing, hold all of these people from the doj and the fbi in there, and if she finds there were crimes committed, and surely there were, there should be a criminal referral by her to the department of justice against these fbi and doj officials, including james comey. >> sean: the house of cards is coming down. that is why your book is number one for so long. good job, both of you. great reporting. we are very close. the cards are about to collapse. when we come back, kellyanne conway, sean spicer, they weigh in on fake news cnn and theiral credibility crisis. also florida gubernatorial republican candidate who won mike yesterday, ron desantis, he'll join. us. to stay. ♪ -omar, look. [ th

christopher steele was already communicating with the fbi, paid by the fbi, working for the fbi, why did he need to run the information that he handed to the fbi? when i give it directly to the fbi? why was bruce ohr involved? for some reason he was. my guess is because the associate deputy attorney general at the department of justice, one of the top justice department officials, that added weight to what they were trying to do about this dossier which was the key to everything. you don't need bruce ohr, he could have handed him the dossier which he did, also run it through bruce ohr, that is important issue we need to discuss and explore some more. shannon: we will look forward to that transcript, thank you for your time tonight. breaking news from arizona, fox news decision test can predict congresswoman kristen cinema will win the arizona democratic senate primary defeating attorney aboud to run against jeff flake. will be mc sally, ward or joe arpaio. that is next. ♪ >> shannon: right now we have the g.o.p. nominee hoping to run for senator jeff flake's seat. it is the congressm

he was being paid by the fbi, working for the fbi. why did he need to run information through bruce ohr that he handed to the fbi? why not just give it directly to the fbi? why was bruce ohr involved at all? for some reason, he was. my guess is because he is deputy -- associate deputy attorney general. at the department of justice, one of the top justice department officials. that just adds have to end weight to what they were trying to do about this whole dossier, which was a key to everything. again, you didn't need to bruce ohr, christopher steele was working with the fbi. he could have handed him the dossier. why run it through bruce ohr and tim give it to the fbi? that is an important issue that we need to discuss and explore more. >> shannon: congressman jim jordan, we look forward to the transcript. thank you for your content, sir sir. breaking news from arizona, the fox news decision desk can now project that congresswoman kyrtsen sinema will win the arizona democratic senate's primary defeating attorney for a chance to succee

and fbi operation. the man running the fbi, bob, you! the man courting the russian oligarch for money was andrew mccabe, deputy director of the fbi. now, since fired. now, bob, in spite of the fact that derek had been banished by the united states three years earlier in 2006, because of his organized crime affiliations, your fbi asked him to fund one of your operations? more important, after donald trump was elected, he is asked by the fbi to help corroborate this steele dossier? he himself stopped at the idea that they collude with russia. quote you are trying to create something out of nothing. fast-forward nine years later. and you indict paul manafort. but one name is left out of that indictment. your indictment makes no mention of him even though you have evidence that paul manafort wanted to invite him to a trump campaign briefing. my question to you is as follows. are you using the christopher steele, dossier as a basis of your investigation? what crime are you investigating? did you know bruce o

you know the fbi has been under fire by republicans in congress. you know how the president feels about strzok. and it seems to me that he may be a sacrificial lamb here. they may have just decided, you know what, let's just get rid of this once and for all. you remember that ten-hour hearing. he did not back down one minute. so you know, something has occurred here that would make them say, okay, we're not going to stick with protocol. instead, we're going to fire somebody who for a very long time was a respected member of his organization. >> i wonder that hearing in the end helped or hurt him. just a reminder, he was quite a defiant presence as he was responding to those questions. have a listen. >> i can assure you, mr. chairman, at no time in any of these texts did those personal beliefs ever enter into the realm of any action i took. furthermore, this isn't just me sitting here telling you. you don't have to take my word for it. at every step, at every investigative decision, there are multiple layers of people above me, the deputy director,

saying the fbi was deceptive in its omissions.t was a clever response by the fbi. saying we didn't find any evidence of hacking into the hillary server. which is true, baits was the i.g., the inspector general who found out about it. >> it's easy not to find something when you don't look for it. david: richard pollock writing in "the "daily caller,"" apparently from the beginning of her term as the secretary of state, the chinese embed a bug into her private server, and there was a lot of top secret stuff on there. >> they were getting copies of virtually everything that went acrock the server. -- went across the server. one of the problems in the whole saga is the fact with respect to the server itself we said look, there is a statutory obligation on the part of the fbi and justice department and the intelligence community to conduct a damage assessment. they are required by law to identify, what did we lose and how much of an impact there is on the security of the country. you know what the response of the federal government was

fbi director, mccabe, peter s., that's fbi agent peter strzok, and his lover, the lovely lisa page, and other top officials now dismissed or fired?

the fbi didn't respond.t told cnn, quote, it was before charlottesville by a bus, the internet and social media. fbi director christopher ray recently referenced charlottesville in saying foreign entities have stirred up tensions in the united states. >> to the extent we have domestic terrorism in this country that is spun up by foreign ideologies foreign influence is being used in many ways to capitalize on that and spring up domestic extremist movements to create terror attacks here inside. >> congress briefed by the fbi say there's no evidence there was russian influence on the ground in charlottesville. and analysts say white supremacists and their opponents would have gathered in charlottesville whether the rugs got involved or not. so how could have the russians stirred the pot before those events in. >> using those facebook groups we now know russia was using to appear they were left or right activists, using profiles they had setup to look like americans who are just like you and me on one side or th

donald trump has may have lost his favorite punching bag at the fbi, but the fbi may have just lost one of its best assets in the war against russian meddling. i will tell you the weirdest thing about omarosa being fired in the sit room. it isn't that she recorded a conversation with chief of staff john kelly when he fired her. ever wonder what happened when you click a stopwatch and ask a staffer to name one african-american west wing staffer? we'll show you. my mom washes the dishes... ...before she puts them in the dishwasher. so what does the dishwasher do? new cascade platinum does the work for you, prewashing and removing stuck-on foods, the first time. wow, that's clean! new cascade platinum. i've been making blades here at gillette for 20 years. there's a lot of innovation that goes into making america's #1 shave. precision machinery and high-quality materials from around the world. nobody else even comes close. now starting at $7.99. gillette. the best a man can get. this wi-fi is fast. i know! i know! i know! i know! when did brian move back in? brian's back? he doesn't get my

mueller changed the fbi structure. traditionally, fbi cases are managed in the field. there is a case agent, field supervisor, special agent in charge. they review the information and then he goes to headquarters and other levels of review and questioning and correction. what he did, he pulled the 9/11 investigation into headquarters which was continued by mueller and comey with the investigation of hillary clinton's emails and the counterintelligence investigation of the trump campaign. what did i do and why is that so bad? -- what did that do and why is that so bad? you then had a small group at the top of the fbi, speeder truck -- peter struck and mccabe, making decisions. if you have the same three people in the room a long time, they will reinforce each other. we all need somebody to correct us. even the journalists have people to correct them. when you have the same people, they reinforce the same opinion and there is no level of correction. the explanation you get is that these are very sensitive political investigations, and just like the intelligence agencies

do not like to special agents of the fbi. many thanks always to our partners, especially geoffrey eam of and your to career prosecutors. to john and those who lead a white-collar branch, i want to extend my personal appreciation. some are standing back in the shadows, but your work has been exceptional. what you do in the community matters and makes a difference. thank you. >> i would like to invite to the podium stephanie, the codirector of enforcement at the sec. stephanie: good afternoon. as he said, i am codirector of the sec's division of enforcement. before i begin my remarks, i would like to thank u.s. attorney geoffrey berman and his prosecutors, as well as the fbi, who worked on this matter. filed securities fraud charges against congressman christopher collins, his son, candace smith -- cameron collins, and three others. thats complaint allege christopher collins learned of the negative news incapacity -- -- of innate.s in addition to cameron collins is selling his own innate shares, he is alleged to have tipped his

the fbi had already punished him for texts. do we know now why he was fired or why he was fired now? >> there is actually no real answer from the fbi about this decision to fire peter strzok, anderson. the fbi's office of provisional responsibility which does deal with personnel matters recommended that a 60-day suspension along with a demotion for all these anti-trump tags. but the fbi's deputy director david bowdich was a trump appointee and fired strzok on friday. this caused strzok's attorney to say this breaks from precedent and is,quote, deeply troubling to all americans. the investigation did not find that strzok's personal feelings ultimately impacted the decision to clear hillary clinton of any wrongdoing. now after silence for much of the day, the fda did put out a statement saying, quote, the fbi director as a senior fbi official had the delegated authority to review and modify any disciplinary findings and/or penalty as deemed necessary in the best interests of the fbi. so as you can see, anderson, not many details