questioned by fbi agent's to help the fbi get their reputation back.s to help get the fbi reputation back. i mean, some of the justices of the peace will look for that. would you consider supporting the recording of statements to fbi agents rather than just a written summary that can be changed later by an fbi agent? dir. wray: well, congressman, there are certain circumstances under which statements are currently recorded already at the fbi, and that is a change. i think this is a subject that requires longer discussion, but i'd be happy to have my staff follow back up with you. as to the question of the fbi's reputation and candor to the court, i don't want to let this time expire without telling you how strongly i feel about candor to the court. i've been a prosecutor, i've been a defense attorney, i've been an assistant attorney general, i've been an fbi director, and to me, candor to and iurt is sacrosanct, don't think there's anybody in the fbi that is belaiboring under the misimpression that i think it is ok to mislead a court. the vast people a

in the fbi. i would say to you also that i am not somebody as quite clear by now to a lot of people who expresses himself with hyperbole and loud rhetoric. i reflect his views through actions. we have taken, i implemented the day the inspector general report came out over 40 deep corrective actions that deal with that series of failures and problems. i communicated over and over again of my expectations of what the fbi employees should do. that's what i do see from the fbi employees day in and day out all over the country and all over the world. where there are people who need to be held accountable, we have a disciplinary process for that for the current employees and the vast majority of the people involved that you are describing are no longer with the fbi so they're not subjected to our disciplinary process in the first place. there is the ongoing john durham investigation which we have been cooperating fully as the attorney general himself have said. i look forward to have a hearing with you

the fbi overseeding christopher steele's previous work with the fbi, the fbi was less than coal fully candid about christopher seals sharing information relating to a 2016 article. the fbi did not disclose the lack of reliability in -- fbi apparently avoided using the woods file verification system for fisa applications. the fbi knew carter page was the u.s. intelligence asked would assist in cases involving russian intelligence but hid that fact from doj during development of the fisa application so my question to you is, and i think a lot of the american people would like to know the answer to this question, are all the individuals and agents and supervisors who were involved in all of these abuses that i just annotated that were in this horowitz report, are all of them no longer working at the fbi? how they're resigned or been fired orban removed from their positions? >> at the more senior levels of the fbi, the people involved i think, in every respect that i can think of are gone. and of course, there is an ongoing investigation with mr. durham with what you are actively cooperat

work with the fbi. the fbi was less than fully candid about christopher steel sharing information leading to yahoo's 2016 article. the fbi did not disclose information about the steel subsource. they avoided using the woods file. the fbi knew carter page was a u.s. intelligence asset but hid that fact from doj during development of the fisa application. my question to you is and i think a lot of the american people would like to know the answer to this question are all the individuals and agents and supervisors involved in all these abuses i just annotated that were in this horowitz report, are all of them no longer working at the fbi? have they resigned or fired or been removed from their position? >> at the more senior levels of the fbi, the people involved i think in every respect that i can think of are gone from the fbi. and of course there is an ongoing investigation by mr. durham with which we're actively cooperating and fully cooperating, i might add. as to the current employees, there are more

so, the fbi -- and the fbi has been expected since 9/11 really to have zero errors, right? to make sure that there are no additional attacks of that scale on the united states. it has not been perfect. there have been obviously many smaller scale, even if you include boston, which was a major event for the city of boston and the nation. i just comparing it to 9/11. am but the fbi's responsibility is to basically be perfect, and that presents and puts on the fbi a tremendous amount of pressure, so that when you come to it situation like san bernardino, like pensacola, the fbi logically is expected to make sure it has turned over every rock and followed every investigative lead to make sure there are no other plots afoot and any other perpetrators have been apprehended and disrupted. that is why i think the fbi is so adamant about trying to address this problem, and not trying to take to itself powers that it should not have, but to tell congress to make sure that it understands that this is a significant problem. and so, yeah, that is how i think about it. peter: what are yo

i say that those fbi efforts continue with i will not get into the specifics but the fbi does continue on its own using its own tools to keep try to gain access but we have reached out to the companies and they designed the product to help us figure out how to get in and execute this lawful court order. >> host: mr. sujit raman, can you compel apple to break into that phone? and his apple capable of doing that? >> guest: there are certainly legal questions around that. in the san bernardino case which was two years ago similar circumstance and the justice department did take apple to court and essentially sued the company under the federal all risks act. that is the legal mechanism to force a third party to essentially assist federal investigators in the execution of a court order. so that would be the legal framework under which any kind of litigation would pursue and our goal is to avoid litigation with our goal is to try to work with the company productively and in a voluntary way to ensure that all the cybersecurity aspects are protected but that when investigators show up with a c

those fbi efforts continue. i will not get into specifics, but the ei continues on its own, using its own tools, to try to gain access. do you have reached out to the company since they designed the products to help us figure out how to get in and execute this lawful court order. you compel apple to break into that phone, and is apple capable of doing that? sujit: there are certainly legal questions around that. case, san bernardino similar circumstance, the justice department did take apple to court and sue the company under the -- a federal act. that is the legal mechanism that forces a third-party to assist federal investigators in the execution of a court order, so that would be the legal framework under which any kind of litigation would pursue. our goal is to avoid litigation and work with the company productively and in a voluntary way to ensure that all the cybersecurity aspects are protected, but that when investigators show up with a court order, they have the ability to execute that order. peter: is t

the fbi. there is an ongoing investigation with mr. durham in which we are fully cooperating. as to the current employees. there are what i would call line level employees who were involved in some of the events in the report. all of those employees, anybody who still remains at the fbi, again, they tend to be more line level people, or referred to our office of professional responsibility, which is our discipline arm. after there has been fact-finding, the facts go to our disciplinary arm and that is how we handle discipline. we have erred on the side of inclusion when we did that. so what i mean by that is, there are people in their report were named once or twice. it's not even clear they are named in a way that is problematic. we have gone ahead and just figured, better safe than sorry and sent all of the names to the office of professional responsibility. if that process results in recommendations of discipline, then we are going to impose discipline and hold people accountable. >> what i

the fbi began to try to get into the phone.ndfbi took about a month exhausted all of its internal options. spoke to foreign partners. unfortunately, none of those partners were able to help us. we spoke to the third-party vendor community. they deal with creating hacking tools. none of those options have worked. in early january, we reached out to apple seeking its of pasttance to help us get the security functions that the company has put into the phones. i say those fbi efforts continue. i won't get into specifics. the fbi does continue on its own using its own tools to gain access but we have reached out to the company because they designed the product to help us figure out how to get in and execute this lawful court order. >> can you compel apple to break into the phone? is apple capable of doing that? >> there are certainly legal questions around that. in the san bernardino case, similar circumstance. the justice department did take apple to court. and sued the company under the federal all writs act. tot is the legal mech

lisa page at the fbi.reat that he says, he has more to say about the president. he says america deserves better, this after the president criticized and ridiculed and mocked peter strzok personal text messages with lisa page this week. your reaction, what is peter strzok now have? >> should peter strzok strikes again, he seems to be upset that the president was talking about his text messages, he referred to it as being inappropriate. as i understand him, he's upset for reading peter strzok's inappropriate messages on a device, in violation of fbi policy. i suggest peter strzok should take a backseat and knocking himself in any more trouble than his guardian. liz: great to see you. come back soon. next, mexico now sending in their marines to help fight the narco terrorist reeking death and destruction at the border and beyond. this after the chopper administration and the attorney general william barr said to mexico, do it, stop the murder, stop the violence. the story next. they answered s in 8 categories

, the gi director, the director of the fbi, the deputy director of the fbi, the deputy assistant director of the fbi and nobody but nobody has been prosecuted. let me show you this graphic from the i.g.'s report listing out some things in february of 2018. misled investigators of the role on the news media disclosure. lacked candor on four separate occasions, authorized media leaks to advance personal interests, and he recommended the i.g. did the firing of andrew mccabe. fortunately, at least that happened but jeffrey, this is a person that brought a lot of shame to the department of justice. >> yeah, i'll say. to borrow from nancy pelosi, he'll be fired forever for doing what he did. this is just absolutely disgraceful. what about sympathy, as charlie was just saying. frankly, what about for the president and his family. put through this and the nation as a whole put through three years of just stuff because they don't like the way the 2016 election came out. this is truly, truly disgraceful. and what you've got, as mentioned earlier, whether it's the department of justice or the depart

during this time as deputy director of the fbi, he and james comey signed off on sending two fbi agentsincluding peter strzok top interview general michael flynn at the white house. we learned attorney general william barr tapped jeff jensen to review the flynn case. the reexamination of flynn's 2017 interview will include mccabe's tenure as well as comey's and strzoks. but based on what we are witnessing right now, it may lead to absolutely nothing for these evil doers. a new report says john durham is targeting former cia director john brennan, questioning his intelligence community assessment of russian interference in the 2016 election. the deep state does run deep and it's persistent. 11 of its members have so far managed to escape justice and accountability. protected, it is clear, by a justice department and intelligence agencies that seem to have a way of shielding their members from justice itself. a system that reeks of political corruption at the highest levels. the deep state wish to see president trump and his associates brought down now that they have not been able to over

you deserve better from the fbi. >> why haven't we be getting it?we made some errors. 37,000 people were an organization of people, we made some errors there is a small group of people that were involved and said errors we looked at the process of fisa, we proposed 40 changes to change the process. the fbi survives on its ability to illicit information from people. at the end of the day my job as fbi agents to clicked information and report information. reporting is using as evidence or intelligence, but at the end of the day i'm only as effective getting information. so we take very seriously, that responsibility so i just want to be very clear we're absolutely taking responsibility for the errors and we're fixing the process. i have it looked significantly into what mr. chris wrote. he is a career professional in this area he certainly in a position to tell us that we need to do more. and perhaps we do need to do more >> iran the fbi did put out a bolton into the wake of this soleimani's killing. we heard from the secretary earlier this morning no

january of 2018 fuente moved on to the fbi to serve as general counsel, 40 fbi agents worked on the mueller report that exonerated and vindicated donald trump but joining us tonight to make sense of all of this and remember the justice department i just described to you is the very same justice department the leader of which, attorney general william barr doesn't like people talking about his department, it makes the job tougher, he said. joining us is tom fenton, president of judicial watch who has been accused of making the work of public servants of the justice department and various quarters of the political system difficult, good to have you with us. your reaction to william barr for who i haven't respect and great hopes that when he says the president of the united states was making his job tougher at a justice department there's yet to hold accountable anyone who so obviously and blatantly broke the law, your thoughts? >> i would think the attorney general after job is made more difficult by mueller holdovers he allowed to be in place on the roger stone sentencing recommendation, a r

during this time as deputy director of the fbi, he and james comey signed off on sending two fbi agentsincluding peter strzok top interview general michael flynn at the white house. we learned attorney general william barr tapped jeff jensen to review the flynn case. the reexamination of flynn's 2017 interview will include mccabe's tenure as well as comey's and strzoks. but based on what we are witnessing right now, it may lead to absolutely nothing for these evil doers. a new report says john durham is targeting former cia director john brennan, questioning his intelligence community assessment of russian interference in the 2016 election. the deep state does run deep and it's persistent. 11 of its members have so far managed to escape justice and accountability. protected, it is clear, by a justice department and intelligence agencies that seem to have a way of shielding their members from justice itself. a system that reeks of political corruption at the highest levels. the deep state wish to see president trump and his associates brought down now that they have not been able to over

you toss that over to the fbi or -- sounds like a lot of things come to you from the fbi. how does that work? what is it that really triggers concern and what doesn't? >> ma'am, i'll take the lead on this one. when the fbi refers something generally to us, that's kind of how it flows back. if there's a military member or somebody attached to the navy or marine marine corp. the fbi refers that back to ncis to work the investigation. collaboratively what triggers that is either some online activity that basically they find somebody online and can actively identify that person is associated with the navy or marine corps. and that they have potentially talked about being able to procure weapons or take some sort of action. so they refer that back to us. we work that collaboratively with the fbi looking to, you know, continue the investigation, monitor the activity, not just online, but holistically during the investigation and look for any other ties they might have to other individuals within the military to make sure we're rooting out any additional problems that might exist

the fbi will work on the administrative investigation. a statement reads the fbi takes any shooting incident involving agents or task force members seriously. the review process is thorough and objective and is conducted exponentially. the police department is asking for any information that you may have. >> >>> now to a search for blue suv that struck and killed a four-year-old boy and then took off. neighbor say this area has been a source of problem for several years. the boy was hit just off of 23rd street. we talked with neighbors. >>he was so white. i said what is wrong. what happened? he started crying. >>reporter: tragedy strikes friday evening after four-year- old boy was hit and killed by an suv while helping bring in groceries with his family. >> yesterday at 5 pm officers responded to the 2200 block of kalina avenue in reference to a hit and run accident involving a four-year-old. >> the boys name was hector. he had been seen with his family many times before. tj evans was leaving for work facing the direction of the oncoming

andy mccabe was only the acting director of the fbi for a short time. it was right after comey was fired. but the fbi right after comey was fired was was a fraught time. mccabe didn't flinch. that was what he did when he was in that role. so naturally the president decided that he must be, you know, well, proverbially off with his head. the president's orientation toward andrew mccabe became one of a heat seeking missile. the president fixated on mccabe as an enemy. public denunciation after public denunciation. long after there was a new fbi director and mccabe had returned to his previous job, the president kept training fire on andy mccabe, insisting publicly and hounding the fbi into firing him, firing him specifically a single day short of him being eligible to receive his pension as a 20-year fbi veteran. even beyond hounding the fbi into firing him, the president also demanded that mccabe should be criminally charged as well. lock him up. well, understand attorney general william barr last year, the department of justice finally started to seem a

he also lied to the fbi. as we reported here before, wolf's indictment shows he picked up a highly classified document to take to the senate intelligence committee. a later fbi sentencing recommendation confirmed that that document included the first two fisa warrants for carter page. but james wolfe was never charged with leaking those classified documents. most of the charges were dropped against him in what could be called nothing other than a sweetheart deal. wolf as you allowed to plead guilty to one count of lying to investigators for which he served two months in prison. it is that moment we can see evidence of the department of justice covering up a backgrounds scheme to remove the president. had the prosecution of wolf gone on, it's likely text messages between mike western and christopher steele's attorney might have been highly scrutinize. we'll never know. further questions would have been asked about warner's links to steele. but it wasn't in the left-wing media's best interest to look into wolf'

hounding the fbi into firing him. firing him, specifically, a single day short of him being eligible to receive his pension as a 20-year fbi veteran. even beyond hounding the fbi into firing him, the president also demanded that mccabe should be criminally charged as well. lock him up. well, under attorney general, william barr, last year, the department of justice finally started to seem amenable to that demand from the president and they did, in fact, open a criminal investigation into andrew mccabe, as the president had been insisting. the problem on the horizon for the criminal investigation is there didn't seem to be adequate grounds to convict antd rue mccabe of any crimes. didn't even seem to be enough basis to charge him with anything. we would soon learn. the way we do indictments in the criminal justice system, broadly speaking, is prosecutors work closely with grand jurys. that is essentially a noned averse aerial one-sided process. and it does give prosecutor as ton of power. and that system has led to wha

republican lawmakers blast fbi director christopher wray's attempts to reform the fbi after the fbi fisae trump campaign. >> the what this is way in this report is way past constructive criticism that was a major royal screwup. i'm concerned you're not taking this serious enough. are you taking it serious enough? >> i'm telling you the fbi reputation here in washington cannot be cleaned up until there are people that are held to account for the unacceptable actions here in washington? liz: joining me now former fbi assistant director danny coulson. great to see you. >> thank you. liz: the fbi lied or misled at least 17 times getting fisa court wiretaps. did you hear this, republican jim jordan is talking about a new advocate position at the fisa court that would send transcripts of fisa proceedings to congress? >> that is all bad ideas. fisa worked for 40 years. until james comey came in with deceit, deception and problems with the constitution we had problems. we don't need an advocate at fisa court. congress considered that when they passed the legislation and rejected it. we don't nee

so we're working in partnership with the fbi. at this time we haven't had one complaint come forward off of our tips line regarding racially-motivated groups. >> i have exceeded my time, so i'll come back for a second round. ranking member kelly. >> thank you, madam chair. i want to talk to you two, because you were the guys who have the authority to do something. and it amazes me, i just completed a course last week x there's a book great new work, we had to read that. but in it it talks about the 1934 oss which is the precursor of the cia sabotage manual for germany written by william donovan, and it was the field manual. it said insist on doing everything through channels, never permit shortcuts to be taken, make speeches, talk as frequently as possible, illustrate your point. when possible, refer all matters to committees, make committees as large as possible, perhaps more than five. bring up irrelevant are issues as frequently as possible, haggle over wording and details. you guys are department of defense, okay in the clima

he also lied to the fbi. as we reported here before, wilson indictment shows he picked up a highly classified document on march 17th of 2017 to take to the senate intelligence committee. a later fbi sentencing recommendation confirmed that that document included the first two fisa warrants for carter page but james wolf was never charged with leaking those classified documents, most of the charges were dropped against him and what could be called nothing than a sweetheart deal orchestrated by former us attorney jesse lou. wolf was allowed to plead guilty to one count of lying to investigators for which he served two month, two months in prison. it is that moment in which we can now see evidence of the department of justice covering of the background scheme to remove the president. had the prosecution of wolf gone on it is likely text messages between senate intel committee vice-chairman mark warner and christopher steele's attorney adam waldman might have been highly scrutinized. we will never know. further q

andrew mccabe lied to the fbi, admitted to lying to the fbi and basically they are waving it and sayings is not that important. >> trump's justice department, come on the reason -- >> it shouldn't matter if you should lie to the fbi. >> that has been lack in the criminal justice in the d.o.j. and the fbi because for three years the president of the united states has been calling everything that they've done a hoax. >> i think that's really true, you don't think james comey -- >> why did barr say we are not going to keep doing the. >> i have to jump in with the media question given all of this to cover the mueller investigation, ukraine, impeachment, lower into now, the sensing recommendation and moving people out of the white house, is this a beltway media issue? the average americans are talking about this. >> i think this is in the belly right now because most americans are moving out. you don't see this on the campaign trail. >> john kelli the former white house chief of staff defendant colonel vindman for testifying as he did about ukraine during the house impeachment hearings and t

he is the former national security adviser who pleaded guilty of lying to the fbi, and the second trump loyalist to see the trump intervention in a case that is closely watched by the president. >>> also, tonight, the justice officials say they dropped the criminal investigation of the fbi director andrew mccabe, a move that the source tells cnn angered president trump, because he has attacked him publicly. and now, the attorney general says that he has the legal right to interfere in the attorney gener general's justice cases. so our analysts are standing by to discuss. >>> first, i want to bring in evan perez. and evan, two major developments from the justice department tonight, and tell us what you are learning. >> one of them, brianna is this fact that the justice department is now doing a review of this case against michael flynn. you remember that michael flynn has pleaded guilty in 2017, and he has been awaiting sentencing since then, and more recently in recent months he fired his lawyers and changed the legal team, and waging a campaign arguing that he actually never lied to th

. >> and i love the fbi, and the fbi loves me 99%. it was the top scum, and the fbi people don't like the top scum. >> frank, your reaction. >> it's painful to hear. i cringe when i hear it. look, the fbi doesn't like corrupt officials. i'll just leave that there. but what we saw today was someone who is going to continue to lash out and try to harm the very institution that protects americans from harm. and while he's doing that, the attorney general sitting in the front row today, yukking it up, he's stripping away the fbi's independence. he's wrestling away the fbi's ability to open a corruption case or any kind of -- campaign finance case or counterintelligence case against a presidential candidate, a vice presidential candidate, a sitting president. now it's clearly in the hands of the president's henchman, attorney general barr. so we're seeing the fbi bashed, and we're seeing attorney general barr strip the fbi of independence and one of the critical institutions of our society is being damaged severely. >> peter baker, mitt ro

there were some people over at fbi, a small number. significant number of people who abused their power to literally try to take down a candidate for president of the united states. they broke the law and i think people made to go to jail to send a message that nobody should think of doing that again and restore the good name of the intelligence agencies that play such a critical role in our intelligence communities and they ought to pay the price. lou: the fbi has a checkered background and checkered standing in the eyes of the american people. you say a handful, small number of people at the fbi. i'm looking at a list of the people who have been fired. agents and officials of the fbi, and we are looking at a list of almost approaching 30 names, and there has not been a one of them held accountable. >> that's why i'm look at the durham report. ultimately it allows the attorney general to go after these people and hold them accountable. those people need to go to jail that abuse their power. all the good people at the fbi have been dru

the remember the watchdog said no fbi bias. your take on that?oing to be you know, the inspector general horowitz couldn't find any definite bias but the question is going to be as investigations unfold both on the hill and elsewhere was there in fact bias and i think when you have something that went as badly wrong as this did, you do really have to exhaust the search for bias and i do think that the senators are entitled in this instance to the unredacted report. liz: you know, the other thing too is, the john durham criminal probe is still in the works, it's underway. the fbi was misleading in the fisa, at the fisa court to get the wiretaps. that one footnote we just showed that the fbi gave to the fisa court to justify spying on carter page it talked about, that unidentified person that was fusion's glenn simpson. he was funded by the democrats to get the steele dossier. the way it was written glenn simpson was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit candidate trump. no. the watchdog reports indicates that glenn simpson

former top fbi official. thank you for having us in your homes. we'll have a jam packed show again tomorrow. lou dobbs next on the fox business network. [♪] lou: good evening, everybody, the radical dimms moving tone a new phase of their hateful address against president trump. their new target, attorney general william barr, the house judiciary committee led by failed impeachment managerriery nadler says barr will answer ask questions on the 1st. the dimms want to know about three things. with the drawl of u.s. attorney jessie through's nomination. the process by which rudy giuliani can provide the doj info. and the reduced sentence for roger stone after the 9-year sentence that had been worked out by the former mueller attorneys. the attorney general for his part may well fun with next month's hearing. in withdrawing jessie liu's nomination. it was ultimately brought down by her ties to a group that supported abortion rights and opposed the nomination of samuel alito to the supreme court. on ukraine, the attorney general says there is an open do

she is on the fbi's website.ad, they were wearing disguises, they had nine millimeters pistols fully loaded, chamber ground and they had storehouses that were uncovered after the arrest. they were storage lockers and things like that. would they have these lockers? hundreds and hundreds of pounds of tnt, which was in pretty bad shape i've learned more about hercules unit gel temp type then i really ever expected. nitroglycerin was weeping out extremely dangerous but thousands of rounds of ammunition detonation cord blasting caps and dozens of small arms. fully automatic uzis, lots of nine millimeters pistols, thousands of rounds of ammunition. thousands of blank social security cards, drivers licenses, dea cards, fbi cards. you have to ask, why did they have all this stuff? this isn't just a couple of sticks of dynamite. these were major arsenals to the point where the dynamite that was found in doylestown, not doylestown, cherry hill new jersey, across the river from philadelphia. the bomb squad came in to move