>> the public portion, the open portion of this hearing, with fbi director christopher wray on the fbi budget, coming to a close here. we understand the committee now heading into a closed session which will not allow our cameras to attend, so we'll be leaving it here. if you missed any of this hearing by the way, you can see it in its entirety if you go to our website cspan.org. we'll take you back to the beginning of this session, starting with opening statements from the senate commerce chair. >>> good morning. our subcommittee hearing on related agencies will come to order. we welcome the director of the fbi christopher a. wray. thank you for your presence here. director, senator shaheen and i have decided we will forgo our opening statements in order to enhance the chances that we can get get our questions and questions of all of our members answered. and we also have a closed session that follows this public hearing. director, you and i just had a conversation with senator shaheen about blue mass. it is the reason for your need to depart and i would take this moment on behalf of

and so james baker was there at the very top of the fbi's top legal job at the fbi when the country first started to realize within law enforcement and intelligence circles that russia was attacking the 2016 election for the purpose of trump to get donald trump installed in the white house and they were simultaneously becoming aware that there were numerous, numerous, numerous somewhat inexplicable contacts between a particular presidential campaign which happened to be the trump campaign and people associated with the kremlin at the same time that that russian attack was going on. and that must have been a remarkable thing to go through, right? in 2016. to be a senior intelligence leadership role, to realize what was happening. call on all of your years of experience, all of your personal gumption to deal with this absolutely unprecedented situation. to run a counterintelligence investigation into a hostile foreign power's operation targeting our election while that election was ongoing and while there appeared to be numerous unexplained contacts between the party in the united states th

he told similar lies to the fbi. on january 26, 2017 officials notified the white house that he and the russian ambassador had discussed sanctions and that michael flynn had been interviewed by the fbi. the next night the president had a private dinner with f.b.i. director james comey in which he asked for me loyalty. on february 13 2017 the president asked michael flynn to resign and the following day had a one-on-one conversation with comey in which he said, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. evidence, incoming national security adviser flynn discussions sanctions on russia with russian ambassador through. for the next two months flynn played an active role in the presidential transition team cordoning policy positions and communicating with foreign government officials including russian ambassador to the united states sergey kislyak. on december 29 2016 as noted the obama administration announced it was imposing sanctions and other measures on several russian individuals and

as that top fbi lawyer james baker was in the room for many of the major decisions made during the fbi'son into russian interference in the 2016 election, and of course the issue of potential coordination with people associated with the trump campaign. baker's currently the director of national security and cyber security at the art street institutes a non-profit public policy research institution. mr. baker, thank you for being here. it's a real honor having you here. >> thank you for having me. >> you spent more than 20 years at the justice department and the fbi. since you left last year you you have under investigation by the inspector general for the handling of the investigation into the president's campaign. the president has made a sport out of suggesting you personally acted, you know, treasonously and attempted a coup. you've become a star in conservative media, always pillaring you. just as a human being the transition in your life before to your life after just feels precipitous. how are you? >> no, i'm fine, thank you for asking. yeah, it's been, you know, horrible. i mean,

should that be the fbi? dir. wray: well, senator collins first let me say i agree with your framing of a predicament we face in terms of the threat itself. in terms of coordination, i think the fbi has a lead role to play in aspects of that. i think the nsc provides a useful construct for us to coordinate. i have not found a significant impediment to our coordination with the department of homeland security, nsa in particular and odni. i have found that to be similar to the way we deal with counter terrorism and a number of other national security threats. at the moment that hasn't struck me as one of the biggest barriers we face. i think the bigger issues are making sure that we continue to lean in and are working on the -- with silicon valley and the tech sector on the foreign influence side and with the state and local election officials who, after all, control the election infrastructure. that part of it is where we need to keep upping our game as we anticipate 2020, the threat being even more challenging tha

instigation by the fbi. and athat point, he's really, from comey's perspective, crossed the line. >> it's really in direct contravention of policies thatce have been in pver since watergate to not have that type of interference by the white house in investigations undertaken by the department or. the >> jim called me shortly after he lefthe white house. and i remember just listening to the details of that meing and really being in a state of shock, that's when i realizedhi thatwas not simply a lack of sophistication or a lack of understanding about how do our work. >> it was an active effort to influence what we were doing. >> narrator: once again cotyy d his notes of the meeting on his laptop. s>> comey begins opening laptop and typing down words, the phras that he can remember the president said whcause he's that scared o this is that has just happened.e >>'s an old adage in the organization that, "if it happened and you didn't write it wn, it didn't happen." and so i think that he was thinking, at that ti

and humiliate the hethe fbi. and we're going to get a special counsel on top of it. >> arrator: the white house counsel had a plan that might soften the blow.pa >> mcgahn had tely learned th rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, also had concerns with jim comey. and he brokers this deal. so he basically says to the president, you know, "mr. president, you don't need to send that. you should really talk to rod rosenstein." se narrator: they set up a meeting between rotein, attorney general jeff sessions, and the president. >> the president lets them know he wants to fire james comey. that's clear. and the directive for sessions and rosenstein is to draw up the rationale, to write mes explaining why they believe comey had madeistakes on the job and deserved to be fired. >> narrator: they had their orders. asrosenstein would build a against jim comey's handling of the fbi. >> rod rosenstein, this guy who's served 27 years in the scstice department, a boy scout, he looks like a bot. and he thinks that comey ha

we request the fbi respond within 30 days. the subcommittee now stands in recess and we will reconvene momentarily in a closed and classified session to hear from direct wray in 217. thank you. >> the public portion, the open portion of this hearing, with fbi director christopher wray on the fbi budget, coming to a close here. we understand the committee now heading into a closed session which will not allow our cameras to attend, soe'

so how did the fbi know if mifsud wasn't an asset of the fbi? let me ask you this.pying going on, early in 16, watching george papadopoulos, knowing that he was reaching out to lieu en corey lewandowski, there wasn't a warrant. the fisa warrant to spy on an american citizen like they did with carter page didn't happen until october later that year so was this illicit spying? >> well, it's beyond me. i never knew you could use counterintelligence capabilities , these are the capabilities in our government we could target terrorists. i never knew that you could actually go out and use those capabilities to spy on americans , and we don't know all of this yet for sure but we have strong suspicions that that is exactly what was happening and you really only have to look at the text messages from strzok and page who were the fbi agents who were the lead that ultimately served on the mueller dossier team. they were texting about this stuff. maria: they wanted an insurance policy. >> that's right. maria: congressman good to see you this morning thanks very much. >> thanks

the fbi has attorney general guidelines which the fbi has to try to address every possible investigativeatter you can think of. you can come up with rules like that but the problem is the next thing that is big and controversial will not fall within that category, which is why it will be big and controversial and hard to figure out. that was the hard part year. we went to the books we had available to us and there is some guidance that is available and we applied the law as we thought but with respect to a lot of these questions and how you handle them and approach them, it is just very difficult. hindsight is 2020 and you are always trying to solve the last problem. yes i'm sure out of this will come some type of rules and maybe some recommendations from the inspector general about how to improve things and make them easier and clearer. the future will always throw things at us that we hadn't thought of before and it is upon us to rely on our values and abilities to sort out how to deal with them. >> we will leave it there. thank you all. one thing i would be remiss if i didn't say befo

the fbi acted lawfully., connotes something unlawful, improper in some fashion. >> james baker, i appreciate your time. a pleasure. >> thanks. >>> i want to get more perspective. joining me cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin and gloria borger. jeff, is it any surprise that rod rosenstein would push back at comey given what comey said? >> no. it's not. you can see why both of them take the positions that they do. just remember the history here. i think we take it for granted that everybody remembers, but the president wanted to fire james comey for one reason and one reason only, because of the russia investigation. and then he sends rod rosenstein off to invent a pretext to fire him. in the mueller report they use that word, a pretext, that he was fired because he was too mean to hillary clinton during the 2016 campaign. just a preposterous justification. the president then asks rosenstein to elaborate on that, to pretend that that's the real reason comey was fired. and that, to me, is, i mean, indefensi

mueller left that with the fbi.is document is about a prosecutor's look at whether there are crimes to be prosecuted. do. >> you think the russians have leverage over president trump? >> i don't know the answer to that. >> think it's possible? >> yes. >> our next question comes from adrice o'connor who works at northern virginia college. >> hi, director comey. do you think the policy for not indicting a sitting president should be revised by congress? >> the answer is i don't know. the policy on its face seems reasonable to me. ao its primary motivation is to not put yourself in a situation where you distract our approximation. when our founders set up a sanction to remove a president, and second, you don't create the very strange situation of the executive branch indicting its own leader, which sets up really interesting legal questions. so i'm not sure that it should be revisited. i think we have the mechanisms in place in our constitution to respond to presidential misconduct if congress wants to take advantage o

i mean, this is the fbi. this is our fbi. this should make everyone left, right and center angry.se if we have people in big government thinking that they can do whatever they want and they can spy on innocent americans or people they consider a threat from an opposing campaign, then i'll tell you what, we have big, big problems. theythere were all kinds of easy disprovable things in that dossier. for one, the dossier claimed with such specificity that michael cohen was in prague in august 2016 holding secret meetings with the kremlin. but michael cohen had never even traveled to prague. ask you know what? -- and you know what? that was pretty easy to figure out. hey, fbi, check his passport records, right? mueller figured it out. it's in volume ii, page 139. and there are more of those things throughout, more of those things that were in the dossier that could have been easily disproven. but the point is if, as i suspect, the fbi was out there relying on opposition research for political purposes, then this is the biggest scandal in modern american political history. perhaps the

he's undermined fbi.t they are personally out to get him as the quintessential ax to grind. but the president doesn't understand that simply because the fbi may not be in line with his exact policies or what he would like to say about his private narrative does not mean it's worth undermining the integrity of the fbi. in the long run, it's detrimental, it hurts the communities that need the fbi >> so it's even deeper for the president, who fundamentally not made the jump from private life to public life in that just because you appoint somebody, and they are in place, confirmed by the united states senate like the fbi director is for a united states senate, doesn't mean that they are loyal to you, the person, that her loyal to the job, to the oath of office. to the idea of being the fbi director. and so that obviously rubbed him the wrong way, that chris wray didn't sort of supplicate himself that he was donald trump's person. >> do you think we're seeing the beginning of the end of christopher wray over

fbi doesn't spike to begin with, fbi investigate.y reasonable steps, trying to understand is a true? i can't believe republicans would have wanted it any other way. we acted in responsible limited and constrained way. >> i was jim coming. days ago. you just heard him call me, explain this. >> i former colleague likes to refer to this think jim, i like jim call me or to the event superhero. he's always the hero every, saving america time and time again. as i listened to, jim call me is proud and wouldn't change a thing. he's proud he put peter struck judge of investigating trump while investor getting donald trump. , to ask him and stop him. he proud of his hand-picked deputy rector, andy who under oath, like to the inspector general criminally referred to that. just proud of himself but the inspector general found him insubordinate and many of us believe he is or should be under investigation for violating the act for recording his conversation with trump in the oval office and intently leaking classified information to start this in

i think the fbi is doing its job. just this recent case out in california where they interdicted this would be bomber. they do great work around the country every day. it's -- i agree with senator kennedy, who said it's the premiere law enforcement law institution in the world. i believe that and i say to the extent there was overreach. i don't want to judge people's motives and come to a conclusion on that but to the extent there was overreach what we have to be concerned about is, you know, a few people at the top getting it into their heads that they know better than the american people. >> and that is the problem. and that is what we hope that you are -- >> yep. >> you're addressing. let's go back to this. to the report. to produce it, i think that mr. mueller assembled what would be called a dream team. 19 all-star lawyers, watergate prosecutor, deputy solicitor general, a fluent russian speaker who cloaked for two supreme court justices, former head of the enron investigative task force, chief of the public corr

the fbi doesn't spy to begin with. the fbi investigates. you've got to remember where we were end of july of 2016. we knew the russians were engaged in a massive effort to attack our democracy. and then we learned from an allied ambassador that one of president elect -- candidate trump's advisers had been talking to a russian representative long before that about dirt they had an hillary clinton that the russians wanted to make available. we all should have been fired if when we learned that we didn't investigate to figure out is there a connection between any americans and this russian effort? and the fbi, in my view, took very reasonable steps, careful steps to try and understand, is that true? and i can't believe republicans would have wanted it any other way. and we acted in a responsible, limited and constrained way. >> you said it's not spying. why do you think attorney barr used the word spying? >> i can't explain it. the only explanation i can think of is he used it because the president uses it, which is really disappointing. he kn

she writes a memo, and then she sends it to the fbi.e to take a look at her boss, victoria nuland, who has said something that has rung in my ears, as soon as i saw it, e saw it for what it was; it was politics, electioneering, it had no role with elections officials, and if we did, we would have been violating the hatch act. if the state department figure out that christopher steele, in a 45-minute meeting, was giving them false information, was overtly political and violating an fbi agreement, you would think those counterintelligence investigators who gave us this warrant and this two-and-a-half year investigation could have figured it out before they went to the fisa court. it's remarkable for what it says about the state of the fbi at that moment. lou: the political deadline that steele not only acknowledged, but insisted be met by all parties whether at the state department, whether at the fbi, this on its face is a problem. one would think a determinant problem for anyone who came into contact with him. he looks worse by the toda

historically, as noted by the fbi and department of justice, the fbi has been well-positioned to producentelligence on hate crimes. will the fbi owns a preponderance of the information and resources to support the investigation and analysis. dhs domestic terrorism-related -- waslicativ relied on the data from colleagues. we're producing more original unique reporting. as part of our establishment of mission centers, we have a 24/7 open source collection team which was established to identify potential threat intelligence. due to this shift, the dhs intelligence enterprise increased to open source collection or reporting on domestic terrorism. as a result, our increase in production has risen by 40% on this issue since last fiscal year. we have done this and still kept our intelligence products consistent since 2014. overall, i believe fy 18 represents the highest level of production ever achieved by the department in the domestic terrorism context. additionally, the number of personnel assigned in support of the portfolio has substantially increased. for example, we maintain a robust pre

the fbi director? if you talk to the fbi officers you have somebody who served in the u.s.ally who's been quiet in the face of attacks by the president of the united states and who continues to serve despite being picked on by the media and the white house. he's been great >> phil mudd, thank you. >>> senator cory booker gave a big presentation this week. did it make the grade? chris cillizza's midweek grades next >> time for midweek grades? >> it is. i had a heart problem. i was told to begin my aspirin regimen, and i just didn't listen. until i almost lost my life. my doctors again ordered me to take aspirin, and i do. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. listen to the doctor. take it seriously. >>> it's wednesday. time to check the 2020 candidate grades. let's check in with chris cillizza. professor? >> hello. >> great to see you. >> you were up burning the midnight oil. you were grading some of the papers at, like, 3:00 in the morning >> yeah. it was not good. >> let's start at the beginning. the person you give an a this week is -- >> joe

to investigate the fbi. where we get into a really dangerous world, a dangerous place because there are real things happening. we have a foreign government that interfered in our election, that committed a cyber attack in our election and we're not doing anything about that. >> it's been striking to me, david, and i got to think -- because i've been doing my own trump research, the language, i go back to the language that's being used, the innuendo that mccarthy and cohn perfected. it's a line with roy cohn. it is amazing to see a lot of people adopting this type of innuendo language. >> roy cohn was 27 years old when he was a chief of staff for joseph mccarthy in 1954, and the whole process was go on the offensive, turn language around on its end to use things against other people and just sort of manipulate the language and the situations to their own advantage, but always be on the offensive and create an atmosphere of fear. >> bill barr, i've got more questions. i'm holding in -- i got more questions. >>

most of the fbi's had enough of it.nt to continue to do the work they do protecting the american public. david: john, i'm sure you heard me and the congressman talking about whether or not this state department official passed on a memo to the fbi before the fbi swore that christopher steele was a reliable witness. if he signed off, if james comey signed off on that, the fisa warrant and the swearing under oath, the swearing to a fisa court that steele was reliable knowing that he was not reliable, isn't he guilty of perjury? >> director comey needs to get an attorney better than he is, because clearly, there's going to be some issues. this is exactly why we have checks and balances of having somebody in power sign off, to insure that no one does the anything up toward. untoward. that is clearly against all rules and takes out any consciousness of trying to be unbiased. dead david and finally, john, how long is it going to take to wipe out the stain of what comey has left behind? >> you know, fortunately, there's men an

that was an fbi informant before they got rid of him for breaking fbi rules. >> sean: are you convinced that fbi agents, as well as the attorney general at the time, that they rigged hillary's investigation? >> i'm convinced that they handled that investigation in a way unlike any investigation i have ever seen handled before. and the fact that you still have to ask that question, sean, after a what, 12-month investigation by the world's premier law enforcement agency, the meeting on the tarmac, the fact that comey had to threaten special counsel -- you mentioned he leaked memos because he wanted a special counsel appointed for trump. what did he do when he had questions about loretta lynch? did you see him leak anything then? >> sean: nope. if you have top-secret classified information on a private server is that not a violation of the espionage act? >> if handled negligently. >> sean: well, we know it was handled negligently. what if you acid wash your hard drive, bust up your devices with hammers, pull out sim cards, would that be a good case for obstruction of justice, clear and con

fbi director. we'll explain all of it. and later, the alleged sabotage of several tankers near the persian gulf. it adds to growing concerns this administration is heading toward military conflict of some sort with iran. as we say, what could go wrong? "the 11th hour" is just getting started with watchful eyes on a monday night. here's one you guys will like. show me making it. oh! i got one. the best of amy poehler. amy, maybe we could use the voice remote to search for something that you're not in. show me parks and rec. from netflix to prime video to live tv, xfinity lets you find your favorites with the emmy award-winning x1 voice remote. show me the best of amy poehler, again. this time around... now that's simple, easy, awesome. experience the entertainment you love on x1. access netflix, prime video, youtube and more, all with the sound of your voice. click, call or visit a store today. >>> welcome back. as we said, former deputy attorney general rod rosenstein is going after the former fbi

and the fbi has four categories. first racially motivated extremism is defined by the fbi to threats bias, related to race held by the actor against others. these threats are often directed at religious or racial minorities. anti-government, anti-authority extremism is defined as threats advocating for ideology contrary to established government systems such as militia extremism. and third, animal rights and extremism, a belief that criminal actions are necessary to end cruelty and exploitation of animals and the environment. and the fourth, abortion extremism, is derived from pro life and pro choice individuals who seek to advance their social and individual agenda wholly or in part through the force of violence or violation of federal law. though domestic terrorism activity may fall outside these four categories the vast majority of our investigations can be characterized as one of the above. domestic terrorism as previously stated is defined by federal statute 18 usc 2331 section 5. it is important to note that no

the fbi at the same time right now, that fbi director is running agency with thanks no text message of its own should be subject to the freedom of information act. protecting the same gang that tried to overthrow the president through an illegal coup. lou: the president, again, being harassed by the judiciary committee. and the radical dems that make up now the democratic party. what was the democratic party. what should the white house do? they are saying no and it is refreshing to hear the attorney general, to hear the white house counsel say, no. the president to say, no. but where and how is this resolved in your judgment? the most likely result. >> in a sensible world, there will be a negotiation that would allow -- lou: we can ruled that one out! >> congress would have to authorize litigation against the justice department or against the attorney general to force compliance and that litigation takes years. the fast and furious litigation, it only resulted in documents being produced to congress francis, that was the litigation of eric holder. after judicial watch filed a lawsuit

service approaching the fbi with information about george papadopoulos. there has long been a suspicion that this is not the truth and that the investigation had some nefarious other origin. the attorney general of the united states recently fed that in congressional hearing when asked whether -- you know, about the origins of the investigation. he said of the conventional narrative that that was the story, and he said it in a way that sort of implied that he had doubts about it. so i want to ask you very directly, how did the fbi come to be investigating anyone associated with the trump campaign and that person's or those people's relationship with russia? >> well, yes. the short answer, there's a lot you have in your question there, so i'll try to pick apart and come back to it if i don't answer something you want to talk about. yes, most directly, in july of 2016, we got the information from the trusted, reliable foreign partner that we have a deep relationship with. so we had a high degree of confidence in that information coming to us about george pa

the fbi is doing its job. just th case out in california where they interdicted this would-be bomber. they do great work around the country every day. i agree with senator kennedy who said it's the premier of law enforcement institution in the world. i believe that -- to the extent that there was overreach -- i don't want to judge people's motives and come to a conclusion on that. to the extent that there was overreach, what we have to be concerned about is, you know, a few people at the top getting it into their heads that they know better than the american people. >> and that is the problem. and that is what we hope that you are -- >> yep. >> you're addressing. let's go back to this. because to reput e -- to the report. i think mr. mueller assembled what would be called a dream team, deputy solicitor general, fluent russian speaker, who cloaked for two supreme court justice justices, former head of the enron investigative task force, chief of the public corruption unit in the manhattan u.s. attorney's office

at the fbi. i heard your responses earlier that you believe the culture at fbi is strong and solid and i agree with that. i do believe, however, that it's been pretty clearly shown in a number of different ways that there are some individuals at the fbi, at high levels who in the past few years have not been holding up the standard of the fbi that the american people expect of them. i'm sure you're familiar with the report of the doj inspector general michael horowitz where he looked at bias in the fbi. and, in fact, he found it. and he indicated in a hearing in this room before us that he did, in fact, find there was fbi -- bias at the fbi. and that -- but he said that he wasn't able to prove that the bias affected the employees' work product because in questions that i asked him, he said i found that there was clearly bias, but in order to prove whether that affected the work output of those who were bias, i had to ask them whether it impacted and they of course said no. and i didn't have other

the others prime jurisdiction over the fbi. we have no real jurisdiction over the fbi. we had to fight hard. mr. chairman i fully support the hearings. we are at a stage a new threat, evochl threat, more sophisticated threat and this is an important hearing. somehow to say that people didn't care about it before and didn't care about the loss of human life and didn't care about the victims of that and their families is wrong and i take strong exception to it, mr. chairman. especially when you were chairman and did nothing on it yourself. >> gentlemen from new york finished? >> i'm finished. >> let me just, for the record, indicate that the briefings that we started, we started under my committee. i assure you that we will continue to address any form of terrorism, international or domestic. the hearing today is to talk about domestic terrorism, how it looks, what the departments are doing to combat it, and that's why our witnesses are presenting their testimony here today. so at this point we'll go forward and we will ask the questions, but the goal is to find out what

we can see and hear the president coming out against his own fbi director. how does the world view this kind of thing? it can't be that we look strengthened in their eyes. >> well, i think we saw a glimpse of international posture toward this kind of thing, and it's a refreshing thing to say -- it's sad but it needed to happen. and that is that our allies have come out on the iran issue, brian, and said, wait a minute, that is not at all what we're seeing. we don't see an increased threat with regard to iranian presence in iraq and the withdrawal of u.s. personnel from iraq because we think the iranian presence is going to hit. that's not what we're seeing. we're seeing business as usual, is what the brits have told us, it's what the germans have told us, so the response now is to come out and counter our administration and say here are the facts. >> i believe the spaniards have well pulled out of the carrier strike group. frank figliuzzi, our thanks, as always, for being part of our conversation here tonight. >>> and coming up for us, an update on some actu

what the fbi knows but has chosen not to share with the american public. when we come back. >>> so here's where we are. we now know russian hackers breached voter systems of two florida counties in 2016. republican florida governor ron desantis confirmed this news for us earlier this week. then he went on to say he has signed a nondisclosure agreement with the fbi, promising not to be the one to tell the public which voter registration systems were hacked by the russians. earlier today florida lawmakers received a classified briefing from the fbi where they learned the identities of the counties. our next guest, mark caputo of politico, confirmed a story in "the washington post" tonight. the gist of which is we know one of the counties, one of the voter registration databases. it was washington county, florida, breached by the russian hackers in 2016. small county. florida panhandle, where like the other counties in the panhandle it went heavily for donald trump. so, again, now we know one of the counties hacked but no word on the other. meantime, the publ

we work very closely with the fbi. and in that election and to change the outcome of it in their favor, we cia, and fbi work for collaboratively so that we could have that ability to see what the russians were doing and who they were working with so when william barr said spying it clearly indicated that there was something that was inappropriate if not illegal. nobody used the term spying when they are referring to legitimate predicated, authorized investigative actions on the part of the fbi. >> sean: he is lying. but, of course, fake news, conspiracy tv wouldn't ask him a question. brennan spied. they spied on the trump campaign. they spied on carter page. they spied on papadopoulos. they spied on sam clovis. there was spying all over the place weaponizing the powerful tools of intelligence. by the way didn't brennan seem awfully defensive for someone who has done nothing wrong? one former federal prosecutor now openly wondering why brennan is so worried about the ongoing investigation into the origins of the russia

fbi director. we'll explain all of it. and later, the alleged sabotage of several tankers near the persian gulf. it adds to growing concerns this administration is heading toward military conflict of some sort with iran. as we say, what could go wrong? "the 11th hour" is just getting started with watchful eyes on a monday night. some things are out of your control. like bedhead. hmmmm. ♪ rub-a-dub ducky... and then...there's national car rental. at national, i'm in total control. i can just skip the counter and choose any car in the aisle i like. so i can rent fast without getting a hair out of place. heeeeey. hey! ah, control. (vo) go national. go like a pro. >> tech: you think this chip is well sooner or later... every chip will crack. >> mom: hi. >> tech: so bring it to safelite. we can repair it the same day... guaranteed. plus with most insurance, it's no cost to you. >> mom: really? >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, ♪ safelite replace. hey, who are you? oh, hey jeff, i'm a car thief... what?! i'

i'm have a fbi pin in a cia pin on. the 99% who protect us every day but those in the fbi and the cia in the upper echelon, the intel community, they are withholding exculpatory evidence, let me tell you this is bigger than we ever thought. it means the of premeditated fraud, conspiracy against the fisa court, that means there was a real attempt to steal a presidential election with russian lies paid for by hillary and an effort when they lost, to unseat ahi duly elected presidet of you, the people. much worse than we ever knew. keep in mind papadopoulos, he was just one of several trump campaign members who in fact were being surveilled by comey's fbi. this transcript is just one of several. we have told you there's five. information will soon be revealed. we are also expecting the declassified fisa application against carter page. that should reveal how comey and others totally, completely relied on the phony clinton bought and paid for russian disinformation dossier that was passed off as verified material and we now