the fbi has evolved. to a certain extent but unfortunately one of the things that made me realize that when i was writing this book that i was on the right path was i saw in the new york times where there were 15 or 16 women who had filed a lawsuit. this was in 2019 had filed a lawsuit against the fbi because their firearms instructors at quantico were trying to sabotage their training. 2019 so i thought to myself has it changed really i mean has it. yes, there are more women in leadership positions, but i think that there's in the fbi. it's it's still inherently male-dominated. and you know, i think that unfortunately a lot of the negative media that the fbi is getting is warranted, especially when it comes to those young women those young gymnasts who went to the fbi to talk about their sexual assault and they were ignored. i personally think and this is just my opinion. it's not the opinion of the fbi. they were ignored because they were young women. so what i do now, i have gotten so many emails from

the fbi investigate it. that's pretty much what the fbi does overseas.counterintelligence, counterespionage, we are looking for spies. that's what we do. we look for spies in the unitedstates . and i like to say that the fbi looks for spies. we hunt down the spies and the cia,they make spies . in anutshell that's pretty much it . now, what one of the things that in your book you talk about training. that is survival evasion resistance and escape tand any went through see her training which by comparison fbi academy training is like a cakewalk but you say in your book that on page 167 the goal when you get captured, you become like a pow so the goal is only to resist until you can't resist any longer. instructors were adamant that we were to come home alive with honor. so my question is because i thought about this and especially in the last few years. john mccain has been called a loser because he was captured. because he was a pow . sometimes the public looks at soldiers who are captured and they're forced to read a statement on tv or on camera and its

, why on earth is the fbi overseas? aren't they domestic? right? so i wanted to know to touch on why the fbi is even overseas and occurred to me, do i know what counter espionage is and all of this stuff. could you define that for people? because you did that and also talk about in your book, process that the fbi did taking certain things out of your book. i had to go through a similar process, you should know, with mine through the department of defense where they look at it and they say, okay, you have revealed classified information so you can't say this. now, i tonight have-- they didn't strike anything out of the book, which is great, but you must have gone through something similar because you have black lines there. can you answer that. >> there are some redactions in my book and because i wrote a nonfiction book, they have to review it and if they have questions they have to send it to a certain unit, hey, is this classified. mine had to go to counter intelligence and counter espionage. the things marked out of

so what's with the fbi and are you going to investigate the fbi? >> absolutely., the department of justice inspector general to give me a call next week. he was out of town and i've written him a number of times for example to investigate the briefing of the fbi gavetous, we didn't ask for it. i knew it would be used to smear us, and it was. there's been corruption, it starts with the editing of james comey's exoneration of hillary clinton and followed through the corruption investigation into russian campaign collusion -- or russia's collusion with the trump campaign, which was completely false, and it's continued to this day. no, we need to clean house of the fbi the christopher ray, under his leadership, the fbi knew the dossier contained russian investigation and briefed the senate committee and had integrity. we have time and time instances of fbi corruption, but department of justice isn't looking into it and it's certainly not being solved under christopher ray. maria: senator, thank you very much for your leadership. senator ron johnson from wisconsin. we

once the fbi to help going to go to the fbi if it's warranted we send people over too that country and we help them with their investigation. there's a terrorist attack oversee that as the fbi's jurisdiction for the fbi investigates it.se that's pretty much what the fbi does overseas. counterintelligence counterespionage we are hurling that's overdue. i like to say the fbi looks for spies but we hunt down spies in the cia they make spies. so in a nutshell that is pretty much it. now, one of the things resistance and escape. amy went to steer training. it's like a cakewalk but you say in your book on page 167, the goal when you get captured, you become like a pow. the goal is only to resist until you cannot resist any longer. instructors were adamant that we were to come home alive with honor. so my question is, because i thought about this especially the last few years john mccain has been called a loser because he was captured. because he was a pow. i think sometimes to the public holooks at soldiers that are captured. they are forced to read a statement. we know it'sn a lie maybe it

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i've got to get your thoughts on the fbi.ng to play politics? your thoughts on how new report that whistleblowers within the doj and fbi are saying aha there was a scheme at the doj and the fbi to suppress all the information on hunter biden? we've been through this umpteen times around the rush is that hoax. what can you tell the us about the fbi right now? >> yeah, this is sounding all too familiar to your viewers, maria, a scheme at the fbi and the department of justice to influence a political candidates or campaign. we saw that with page, strzok, comey, mccabe, bruce ohr. but at that time, jim comey was the fbi director and was complicit with regard to those efforts. hope was that chris wray would move away from the politicization at the fbi, but this whistleblower complaint very cheerily on his -- clearly on his watch, the names have changed, but the allegations are are the same, that these fbi agents were attempting to influence the outcome of the 2020 election by suppressing derogatory information about hunter biden a

the evidence that the jury heard mostly in text messages and testimony of agents and the fbi is the fbi did not discover an existing scheme to collect evidence and take down the plot some of the resources had a lead in the formant to pretend to lead a fake militia to recruit disadvantaged and unstable man. several of them one of whom ats video produced and at one point according to "the new york times" there was a nighttime surveillance of the vacation and when the group was falling apart in august of 2020 the fbi congratulated them to, quote, look at you bringing people together and congratulated him for breathing new life in. not as well known the same fbi agent and the parallel scheme to recruit folks into the plot against former virginia governor asked held to couch the plan to one of the recruits. that's the evidence i can understand. understand. it is ate complete sampling. but is that the kind of conduct doj andev fbi are engaged in in pursuing domestic terrorism matters? >> as you know it involved defendants charged with kidnapping. the governor of michigan as an ongoing case th

the fbi actively not going after hunter biden. how compromised is the fbi bureau?everal times chris wray needs to get this partisan nature and any political bias out of the fbi. this example we were just talking about, this fbi agent chuck grassley is asking questions about had derogatory social media postings. again, makes no sense why an fbi agent is on social media doing politics. this is the type of things that raise questions and chuck grassley is absolutely right and my point, as well, the fbi and doj need to be above politics and right now, especially this january 6 investigation and the hunter biden investigation appear to have a partisan tint to it and it is not good for the rule of law and long-term success of the department of justice. >> todd: they all think they have misguided higher calling and this is the crap that results. always great to have you. thank you, sir. stick around we're talking to congressman byron donalds and kat cammack next. >> carley: check in with -- having breakfast with friends at the long street. good morning, brian. >> brian: d

there were more than a dozen fbi informants involved in the process, undercover fbi agents, several of them, one of them who reportedly taught how to teach them how to make a bomb, and used to bomb video by the fbi. and one, according to the new york times, there was a nighttime surveillance of a government witnesses vacation camps, and for the witnesses were informants, including big data or undercover agents. when the group was falling apart in august, 2020, the fbi handled congratulated big down and quote look at you bringing people together. congratulated him for breathing new life into the plot. not as well-known, the same fbi agent, jason chambers, coached big dan and a parallel screen to coax -- in a plot against former virginia governor northam. -- and chambers wrote quote, mission is to kill the governor, specifically. again, that's the evidence i understand from the trial. i don't know if it's a complete sampling of it, mister attorney general. but it's not the kind of conduct that doj and fbi are engaged in pursuing domestic terrorism matters? >> i'm sure you can appreciate

this week we learned fbi whistleblowers have come forward and reported the fbi committed a widespread effort within the fbi to downplay or discredit negative information about hunter biden. are you familiar with that reporting? >> no, i'm not. >> so has an investigation of hunter biden by your office been influenced by the work, product, or actions -- timothy bull? >> i will not comment on any investigation that may or may not be ongoing. but i assure you is that we follow the facts and evidence and we apply the law and i -- every case without regard for ideology -- >> you are unaware of the reporting, so you are unaware of any -- label derogatory information under biden as this information. >> i will not comment on any potential ongoing investigation. >> okay. according to reports, border patrol has apprehended at least 50 illegal aliens at the southwest border in the fiscal year 2022. the office of field operations has encountered at least 50 aliens on a terror watch lit at ports mentor in the fiscal year. does -- when they encounter an illegal alien who is on a terrorist watchlist?

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but the fbi's been able to do a search that data to find connections. it's not a warrantless search of americans. it's a search of data that was collected targeting people outside the united states were not u.s. citizens. >> if i may sir, that's contrary to the report that we got from odnr i and from the fisa court. my time has expired. we need to get to the bottom of this. aunt mr. chairman i yield back. >> thank you. mr. matthews is recognized for five minutes. >> i yelled to my friend from florida mr. gates picnics is hunter biden national security threat? i >> is not a question that would come up before me at congressman picnics or the head of the national security division. it seems sort of on the nose precooked is not my practice or experience to identify. >> not in my purview we have heard that before. >> an individual. nude certainly succeed if the adult offspring of the presently nine states of the vice president were compromised w national security threat. in open court. you cannotriri have anything, go hunter biden's laptop is? >> again i'm n

this week we learned fbi whistleblowers have come forward and reported the fbi committed a widespread effort within the fbi to downplay or discredit negative information about hunter biden. are you familiar with that reporting? >> no, i'm not. >> so has an investigation of hunter biden by your office been influenced by the work, product, or actions -- timothy bull? >> i will not comment on any investigation that may or may not be ongoing. but i assure you is that we follow the facts and evidence and we apply the law and i -- every case without regard for ideology -- >> you are unaware of the reporting, so you are unaware of any -- label derogatory information under biden as this information. >> i will not comment on any potential ongoing investigation. >> okay. according to reports, border patrol has apprehended at least 50 illegal aliens at the southwest border in the fiscal year 2022. the office of field operations has encountered at least 50 aliens on a terror watch lit at ports mentor in the fiscal year. does -- when they encounter an illegal alien who is on a terrorist watchlist?

and of the 56 fbi field offices, only 7 are run by women. are there still so few women in these fields? >> i think there is few women in law enforcement in general. you know, it's a tough job. >> jacqueline maguire runs philadelphia's fbi field office. what's your message to girls who may be thinking about a career in the fbi? >> i say go for it. it's really cool to be able to go home at the end of the day to say i tried to make an impact, i tried to make the world better. >>> this is cbs news flash. i'm matt pieper in new york. senator joe manchin and senate majority leader chuck schumer say they've reached a deal on health care, energy, and tax legislation. they say the senate will vote on the wide-ranging measure next week, setting up the president for an unexpected victory ahead of november's elections. there has been weeks of delays in growing criticism against the federal government, but health officials say about 800,000 doses of the monkeypox vaccine will soon be available to go hard-hit areas. as of now, many major cities have stopp

his rivals inside the fbi. inside the fbi this is a an interpretation that is persuasive in my view and it's the subject of of a book length treatment called leak mark felt self-disclosed is deep throat in the year 2005 when he was in his 90s. encouraged by his family to do so leighton his life. so, you know if you look closely at the hairline here. there is some so maybe there was a hint or clue in the movie the 1976 movie. that the deepthroat character played by how holbert played exquisitely well by how holbrook it's actually kind of mark felt mark felt's name surfaced frequently in the speculation about who is deep throat. he always denied it. he said i want occasion. if i had been deepthroat, i i would have done it better. he threw people off the trail and woodward helped too. there was a little bit of circumvention on woodward's part he said at one point that deep throat was not in the intelligence community in washington. the fbi most people would link into the intelligence community in washington, dc it

it is the fbi.ed the ball so many times that they are insulated and do whatever they can to work with other institutions to drive the narrative the peer that it's really scary. that is north korean stop. i think about the fbi blowing it, a lot of these mass shooters who have been on their radar and they dropped the ball. i think about the dozens of young gymnasts who testified and talk to the fbi and buried their story for years. so more women could be traumatized. by dr. larry nassar. the fbi has been involved with so much and trust is waned. be used have a great deal of trust in federal law enforcement. i don't think it has done enough to be transparent or change the culture they are. i think because this president is in office and the democrats are in power, they are doing whatever they can to protect him. who suffers for it? we do because we don't know the depth's family has enriched and we should know the answers. >> geraldo: and yet, jesse, there is nothing to me less efficient, more self-serv

an fbi sharpshooter shot his wife dead while she was carrying the baby in her arms. >> fbi agents areined to shoot only to protect themselves or others. the rules of engagement for ruby ridge were rewritten. >> decisions were made within the fbi that allowed the snipers to shoot at anyone who was armed. it was completely unjustifiable. >> put a bullet in my head! hey, i'll make it easy. i'll turn my back on you. >> not everyone who lives around here says randy weaver is in the right. but they say none of this would have happened if federal authorities had just left him alone. >> ruby ridge was not a story that was on the front page of national newspapers. most people didn't know about it at all, but it actually did energize the radical right. >> the siege ended at 12:15 when randall weaver and his three children walked off the mountain after 11 days. >> there is all this tremendous ferment that is arising after the end of the cold war. this mind-set that the united states government is the enemy breeds almost the decade of violence. >> in langley, virginia today, right outside cia hea

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and that dayha when he met with the fbi agent, he gave the recording to the fbi. and so that kid's dad, that was the first man who was put on trial for his role in the january 6th attack. he's ahi man from wily transactions, guy rift. he was the first one put on trial in march 2021. he was charged with five felonies,it armed trespassing, found guilty, instruction of an official proceeding, guilty, interfering with police in a riot, guilty. transporting a firearm also guilty. the fifth was witness tampering. he was also found guilty of that, witness tampering for threatening his teenage son and daughter if they told what he had done. in the trial that he was doubly armed in d.c. that day, he had an ar15 assault rifle with him. he left that in the garage of his d.c. hotel on the day of the actual capitol attack. but his loaded semiautomatic smith & wesson pistol, that one he had holstered on his hip the whole time while he led the pro-trump mob in attacking police officerse at the wing doors of the u.s. senate. he also had flex cuffs with him, police-style heavy-dut

and the credibility of the fbi is at stake here. >> the fbi has always said in the past they remainedtral. the agency began investigating the younger biden in 2018, some four years ago. gillian, a source with the hunter biden investigation firms to fox news the grand jury to ask was looking at potential evidence that wrapped up its latest term in the specific case in recent weeks. that means the case may be in the hands of the government to make the next move. the president's son, we want to reiterate has not been charged with a crime, but under investigation for overseas business dealings. when joe biden became president, he kept on david white, the u.s. attorney in delaware a donald trump appointing. some say president biden did so to avoid conflicts of interest. gillian the doj and fbi have these letters from republican senators as of this week. but no official, as of this hour other than to say they are in receipt of the letters, gillian. >> gillian: david spunt in washington, thank you. >> thank you. >> gillian: let's bring in the legal panel john yoo and prosecutor jim trusty. j

you either call the fbi at 800-call-fbi.w.fbi.gov/highland park with any information you may have about the person of interest, the suspect robert e. crimo iii. take a look at this picture. if you see this individual, rememberez considered to be armed and dangerous. so be very, very careful. all of this unfolding as president biden now saying that he and the first lady are shocked like so many of us by the senseless gun violence that has killed six innocent wonderful people in highland park, illinois. let's go to our senior white house correspondent phil mattingly. phil, tell us what the president said. >> reporter: bilpresident bidens spoken to the governor of illinois and the mayor of highland park, pledging all of the resources the federal government could provide as they work through this very trying moment and also most importantly a surge in federal law enforcement as the manhunt continues. the president also gathering today on the south lawn to celebrate the fourth of july alluding to the shooting that occurred a few

states ought to have really good feelings about the fbi.ht to know that they are credible organization and there should be no party party power involved in this decision-making it should be simply fair, follow the facts where it takes them and there should be no political. it's unfair and the fbi have not met the test of fairness in this particular case. >> jesse: can you give me one word answer here do you trust fbi director wray's ability to handle this case with hunter biden? >> i would think that he would be in a position to do it and when he moved tebow, that's the guy's name i was talking about. they moved him out of that decision-making role to something else, it shows me that he can take action. but i wonder if the whole situation isn't so bad there is a lot of it going on that even wray doesn't know about. that's a sad commentary. that's why you have got to rely on whistleblowers know down at the grassroots something is wrong, listen to the whistleblowers. >> we will see if the media listens to the whistleblowers as closely as they

agent, he gave the record together fbi. . and so that kid's dad, that was the first man who was put on trial for his role in the january 6th attack. a man from wily, texas, guy reffitt, the attack on the capitol building was january, 2021, he was the first one put on trial, put on trial march 2021, charged with five felonies. armed trespassing, guilty. obstruction of an official proceeding, guilty. interfering with police in a riot, guilty. transporting a firearm for purposes of interfering with police in a riot, guilty. and witness tampering, found guilty of that. witness tampering of course for threatening to kill his own teenaged son and daughter if they told anyone what he had done. it emerged during guy reffitt's trial that he was doubly armed iny dc, an ar-15 assault rifle when he went to washington and apparently left that in the-1 garage of his dc hotel on the day of the actual capitol attack butda the loaded semi-automatic smith and wesson pistol, he had on his hip, and flex cuffs, and heavy duty zip ties to tying pe

fbi has more information. >> it's 1-800 call fbi. thank you. all information. >> that will do it for that briefing. police say we can expect briefing anywhere from half hour to hour and we will keep you updated on those. we are joined by chris swecker. thanks for joining us for the breaking news. what do you make of what you heard there? >> another unspeakable tragedy on our mice iconic holiday. what i hear is local police department highland park is in the lead. fbi and atf may play a major role in the background as you just saw they're going to operate the tip line. there's two key things to get this person in custody because this is a live situation all the way around and this is quickly tracing the weapon and geting a high resolution photo out to the public so we can get this guy in view and leverage the public with a sort of broad dragnet. those are the two things can i guarantee are happening. >> chris this is alicia talking to you now. you mentioned they're tracing the weapon. so the indication is he doesn't have this rifle with him righ

cnn has more on what the fbi found in an exclusive report. >> it all started with an fbi counterintelligence. ] the obama administration, and was ultimately braved to the trump white house in 2019. the fbi knew that equipment made by the chinese telecom company was still being used by small rural cell service providers in the midwest that were located near sensitive u.s. military installations in colorado and nebraska. including nuclear missile silos. companies were using as a woman in part because it was cheap and reliable, but the fbi as part of its investigation determined that the equipment at the capability to intercept or disrupt restricted defense department communications. eventually giving china a pivotal and dangerous window into america's nuclear arsenal. as one source described it to us, this was in the vfd category. as part of the same investigation the fbi discovered that the leading regional provider was placing weather and traffic cameras atop a number of their towers and live streaming them as a public service. intelligence officials tell us they believe those live streams c

moral of story is, fbi can lie to you, but you cannot lie to them.eral prosecutor can make misrepresentations to you, but cannot to them. violent crime is soaring, some california prosecutors condition find any crime worthy of prosecution but we know what gets attention of federal agencies and prosecutors in los angeles. nebraska congressman, who can't recall details of tep-month-old phone calls. i'm sure that mays all of us feel so much safer. jeff is appealing his conviction, we're joined by his attorney. this has been a disappointing case to watch unfolded. >> you know, it is worse than that. i have been a lawyer for over 28 years this case has shattered by confidence in the doj, fbi and judicial system, congressman fortenbery does not lie does not swear, he is a man of faith and conviction, he cooperated pulled with fbi agents which came, they lied to him, deceived him throughout process, they lied about who they were, why they were there, they came unannounced. came nearly 9 p.m. along they decided to prosecute him to indict him and try to charg

so again -- elizabeth: like fbi was weaponized against a sitting member of the senate.den's treasury department is blocking details about 150 financial transactions, suspicious activity reports involving the biden's global business deals overseas, red flagged by u.s. banks and u.s. treasury and now he is going directly to hunter biden's financial advisors to get details about that because biden's treasury department is stonewalling. >> elizabeth, this could be the greatest scandal, the greatest episode of corruption, executive branch against congress in u.s. history. i mean you got the fbi, the federal law enforcement agency, obstructing congressional oversight, congressional investigations, smearing us, can it get much worse than that? elizabeth: so we'll stay on the story. just astounding that, you know, this feels like tip of the iceberg stuff, senator. final word? >> i think it may be. again i don't have all the answers on this. i have a lot of smoke. we need to find out where the fire is. i've been suspicious of this obviously for years because we've been lied abou

we need a lot more whistle-blowers inside that fbi for health agencies.t of credibility to the agencies where we need to know the truth and that will require whistle-blowers. unfortunately i don't find this revelation shocking. it is outrageous, but there is so many things, and we received briefings we did not request from the fbi where they had a leak to "the washington post" to smear us and discredit our investigation. i will never forget peter strzok's text to lisa page said that our sisters are leaking like mad, feeling scorned and political kicking into overdrive. and now we are finding out from these whistle-blowers that the fbi actually had, i don't know what you would call it, but individuals specifically taking derogatory information against hunter biden downgrading it to end the investigations. were they responsible talking to their intelligence sisters of the 51 intelligence officials that came forward? and engaged in their own information operation when they said that hunter biden's laptop had all the earmarks of a russian information operatio

and that day, when he met with the fbi agent, he gave the recording to the fbi. and so, that guy's dad, that was the first man who was put on trial for his role in the january 6th attack. he is a man from wiley, texas. his name is guy reffitt. the attack on the capitol building was january 2021. and he was the first one put on trial. he was put on trial in march 2021. he was charged with five felonies, armed trespassing, found guilty. obstruction of an official proceeding, found guilty. interfering with police in a riot, guilty. transporting a firearm for the purposes of interfering with police in a riot, also guilty. and the fifth felony, he was charged with was witness tampering. he was also found guilty of that witness tampering of courts for threatening to kill his own teenage son and daughter, if they told anyone what he had done. it emerged during guy reffitt's trial, that he was doubly on it in d. c. that day. he had an ar-15 assault rifle with him when he went to washington. he apparently left that in the garage of his d. c. hotel on the day of the actual

>> sir, i can't answer that. >> did any fbi agents or fbi informants actively encourage and incite crimesf violence on january 6th? >> sir, i can't answer that. >> jesse: we are seeing the doj and fbi openly conspire to protect joe biden and the democratic party just locking up republicans who ask questions. what's this really about? donald trump wanted to close the border, confront china, and stop policing the world. and that was a threat to the establishment and their profits. joe biden on the other hand, he wants to police ukraine's borders instead of ours and wants to let china raid our piggy bank. so they will do anything they can to keep this guy in charge and imprison the renegade. senator ted cruz is a member of the judiciary committee and former texas solicitor general. so how alarmed are you? i mean, this is going to be the third election in a row, senator, it can't get much worse than that. >> well, unfortunately, we have seen the department of justice and the fbi and our intelligence agencies deeply politicized and deeply corrupted. i listened to your opening monologue and i a

they say how bad is it over at the fbi. to fix it. >> it will take new leadership. i think it's systemic at the top. god bless the whistleblowers who contacted chuck grassley. but christopher wray didn't fix the problem. the fbi knew in 2016 that the steele dossier was dirty. but in march of 2008 under the leadership of christopher wray agreed that it has integrity. they allowed the mueller investigation to go forward. this is a corrupt organization. we had a briefing that was a setup. this is just the tip of the iceberg, i fear. dan: an explosive report in the "new york post" essentially confirming that president biden is the big guy. this reporting is -- to call it explosive could be an unstatement. where do we go with this? will this further your investigation? >> how much more evidence do we need in the laptop is a treasure trove. the media barely admit some of these emails may be genuine. they are all genuine and show corruption and criminal activity. the only way this is going to break through is if the main street me

what did the fbi find?counterintelligence investigation that began under obama and was briefed to the trump white house in 2019. the fbi knew that small, rural tell xhoouksz providers in telecommunications providers in the midwest, colorado and nebraska, where there are lots of sensitive military assets to include nuclear silos, companies were saying they were using huawei equipment because it was cheap and reliable. what the fbi was able to determine in the course of their investigation is that the equipment had the capability to recognize and potentially disrupt communications, potentially offering china a dangerous window into the command and control for america's nuclear architecture. in addition to that the fbi realized in the course of this investigation that the leading regional provider had posted weather and traffic cameras on top of many of its towers in the region, which it was live streaming as a public service, which is great if you want to see if there's a traffic jam on your way to work. but

arthel: is it possible the fbi may have missed a spot?e fbi was out there at the exact spot we did our ground penetrating radar. dan who work with us at fox news and on fox nation as a part of our investigation, our exclusive, dan was not there. this all started because frank's brother paul was watching a fox news cycle with dan and myself. he wanted his brother's story alfred contacted me, i contacted dan and dan went there with frank. how do we know the fbi is at the right spot question rick let me our viewer tweeted us this, maybe they did not stand where you did in 2019 but somebody has to go out there and see if they dug where you stand. what you found is gone if not they got it wrong and need to go dig there. our producers taken care of that, what is the possibility they may have missed it? >> slim to none. are we questioning the fbi's competency here? they had a search warrant. they abided by the regulation of the search warrant signed by a federal judge. they were there for two days. they were there for two minutes. they did their

you may remember back when the then fbi director james comey oversaw the early stages of the fbi's investigation into ties between the trump campaign and russia, in the summer of 2016. with questions swirling about those ties as trump took office, comey dropped a public bombshell in the early days of the trump presidency. >> i have been authorized by the department of justice to confirm that the fbi, as part of our counter-intelligence mission, is investigating the russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. and that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the trump campaign and the russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russia's efforts. >> it would later be revealed that trump had demanded loyalty from comey and repeatedly pressed him to end the investigation into trump's first national security adviser michael flynn. now, after comey refused to do so, trump fired comey, in shocking fashion. in a remarkable oval office meeting, the following day, the day after he fired him, t

. >> did donald trump use the irs to try to take down the fbi? tonight, as the investigations began, the trump appointee who response and the reporter that broke that story joins me live. then zoloft one of the january six committee on tomorrow's big interview will tomorrow's white house counsel. plus david hogg on what we are learning from the father's role in illegal gun sale before the highland park massacre. and two weeks after the supreme court ended the federal right to abortion, the nightmare scenario is playing out across the country as we get new evidence of hope and growing backlash. all in starts right now. >> good evening from new york i'm chris hayes. you know, it may be 2022 but today we have a new story in the official investigation into an apparent or possible trump administration's conduct. today, the irs announced it is asked the treasury department inspector general to look into audits of the two who dared to cross donald trump. james comey and andrew mccabe. they were both selected by the irs, supposedly at random for very rar