so we have to have an fbi, and it has to be an fbi we can trust. we can't trust it until its behavior merits trust. until it's honest, to the extent it can be transparent, consistent in the way it enforces the law. we have to have a federal law enforcement agency like that. we can't just make it go away and hope for the best. we're nowhere near that point, because the people are supposed to be overseeing the fbi have ignored egregious examples of corruption over many years. they're getting hard to ignore, because they're just so obvious now. it's not just the raid on mar-a-lago. consider the gretchen whitmer kidnapping case. you may remember that story from the fall of 2020. you may have followed it a little bit and heard how it ended. so it seemed like a terrorism plot was in fact a setup by the government to make a group of ordinary people in michigan look like terrifying right wing extremists. those violent white nationalists joe biden is always mumbling about. turns out there aren't enough of those people in real life. they're pretty rare actua

that is three fbi field offices. you step back, fbi taskforces focused on violent crime, sees more than 80,000 firearms and dismantled nearly 300 gangs and criminal enterprises and we are not going to let up. every chance i get, i try to highlight that law enforcement is taking on this challenge at a time when jobs are becoming more dangerous especially for our state local brothers and sisters. in 2021, 73 officers were baloney asleep -- bird -- were murdered. pi -- dfp i experienced loss -- d -- f e -- investigating crimes against children at one of our longtime taskforces officers were shot and killed in a ambers out -- ambush outside of our office. this year's deaths are keeping pace with last years. this june, more officers were murdered in this country than in any single month in the past four years. men and women of law enforcement make o'rourke sacrifices and adr support -- heroic sacrifices and they need our support. this year has brought the harbor of mass shootings -- harbor of mass shootings --horror of ma

it's not just defund the fbi. it's destroy the fbi, which is what paul gosar said.r greene said that, she tweeted a picture of an upside down american flag. according to the flag code, that's distress under extreme danger to life or property. in other words, that's not a tweet or a message. that's a call to arms. there will be more violence and members of congress who have seen their capitol police killed who have seen their other colleagues whether it's steve scalise or gabby giffords shot at and maimed, they will see this happen again and they will have to answer for it eventually. >> as a former secret service agent, paul, what that moment must have been like as they are there to -- sorry, jonathan. they are there to sort of protect the former president, and yet they have to listen to the fbi i am assuming. what that most must have been like. >>? very smartlerly, cooler heads prevailed. coordination was in advance of the raid, in advance of the search and seizure of mar-a-lago. communication between the secret service and the fbi did occur. now, it occurred at th

i love the fbi. i have such respect for the fbi. but we have concerns today. we have concerns primarily in the leadership. i would like to say that those concerns are not the feeling of every american majority of americans. i am hearing it from both sides of the aisle. they are worried about the weaponization, the politicization, the d.o.j. and fbi warning. this rate is unprecedented all we want answers and we deserve answers. we are the government of the people and where the representatives of the people. on behalf of our citizens, we are here to have oversight no agency in our government is its own standalone government. accountability must be there transparency must be there. i want to frame a scenario that is consistent with so much of what we are dealing with and what happened at the baseball june 14, 2017 a heavily armed assassin clearly by social media and other things he wrote was motivated politically, he hated donald trump, he wanted to kill republicans. he had named the republicans in his pocket he was outside of the baseball field for two months wa

let's play fbi agent. [laughter] what does it tell us about the relationship between al qaeda and the taliban if the leader of al qaeda is staying in a house owned by the number two guy of the taliban? would you say it is close and friendly? dir. wray: nothing good. sen. graham: nothing good. are there training camps in afghanistan being operated by al qaeda types? dir. wray: well, that, i think i might need to have a follow-up with you. sen. graham: fair enough. do the al qaeda and isis elements in afghanistan, throughout the world, do they wish to hit us again if they could hear at home? dir. wray: oh, yeah. sen. graham: oh, yeah. ok. now, this other border. have you been there lately? dir. wray: yes. sen. graham: array. secretary marcus says the southern border is secure. from a counterterrorism point of view, do we have operational control of the southern border regarding counterterrorism threats that would lead you to conclude the border is secure? dir. wray: well, let me answer that this way. while o

fbi!roger stone being awoken by the fbi agents and i would say riot gear, just flak jackets, bulletproof vests, one had a helmet on. i mean, agents where that when they don't know what they're going to encounter and it's just remarkable to see this because this is not how anyone else connects to the robert mueller investigation has been arrested. >> sean: experiences this himself, roger stone to respond. interesting what you went through and i'm sure that brings back some very fond memories for you and your wife who by the way just survived cancer, thank god for that. let's talk about that day and let's talk about that morning. if they were to call your lawyer and say you needed to report at a certain time because you're going to be arrested, would you have reported? >> in fact the special councils office spoke on the phone the day before and i would have turned myself in. but at 6:00 a.m., 29 totally swat clad fbi agents arriving in 17 armored vehicles with a helicopter overhead, two amph

, the doj, his fbi, his doj. take a look. >> i'm opposed to defunding the police and defunding the fbi. l look, there is no greater responsibility for the government than ensuring safety of our people. >> when hunter biden's home gets raided, i hope he feels the same way. we condemn all threats and all attacks on law enforcement, not when politically convenient. on this program, for the rank and file, 99%, we are grateful are if the good fbi agents and employees that risk their lives to keep us safe, we support them, the fbi is not immune from oversight and criticism and they are not immune from having bad apples or being called out for massive agency wide failure and failure inside the upper echelon of the fbi. breaking tonight, we're learning,a midgrowing scrutiny of the fbi and doj, the department is banning political appointees from partisan events. that is not good enough, wray and garland have done a disservice. director wray should have taken what should be the world's premiere law enforcement agency and s

i love the fbi. i have such respect for the fbi. but we have concerns today. we have concerns primarily in the leadership. i would like to say that those concerns are not the feeling of every american majority of americans. i am hearing it from both sides of the aisle. they are worried about the weaponization, the politicization, the d.o.j. and fbi warning. this rate is unprecedented all we want answers and we deserve answers. we are the government of the people and where the representatives of the people. on behalf of our citizens, we are here to have oversight no agency in our government is its own standalone government. accountability must be there transparency must be there. i want to frame a scenario that is consistent with so much of what we are dealing with and what happened at the baseball june 14, 2017 a heavily armed assassin clearly by social media and other things he wrote was motivated politically, he hated donald trump, he wanted to kill republicans. he had named the republicans in his pocket he was outside of the baseball field for two months wa

the fbi is beyond redemption.its bureaus and its institutions have to be farmed out and broken up. if you have an fbi warranted there is no guarantee that that has not been altered. if you subpoena and you want fbi records on the phone, they will be wiped clean. if you want disinterested legal counsel, look at lisa page and peter strzok. if you are the fbi and you want to find out why hillary clinton hired a foreign national to find dirt on a political opponent then you will hire the same for national. and you look at the last four directors. we just saw christopher wray and he just stonewalled every question and then he flew in an fbi plan, our plan, a luxury jet because he had to go to his own vacation spot. he took over from andrew mccabe, what did he do? lied four times to federal investigators and his wife was running for office with clinton related tax money while he was investigating hillary clinton's email scandal. he took over about james comey, controversial devices on the media, and then when he was cal

the fbi go in on this raid with a bunch of other fbi agents with secret surgeon service agents aroundlly impossible for them to plant evidence. maybe that has happened at some point in american history, but it certainly did not happen with respect to this particular raid. i think we've all got to take a deep breath and step back and see what the facts are. maybe in the and this was an unjustifiable weren't, and it wasn't a raid on mar-a-lago. but you know something? maybe, just maybe, there was good reason for it and good cause for it, and we don't have enough facts yet to have an opinion on that. nothing happens that a vacuum. we know this with politics. >> when you look at this, and you see the washington post reporting now that there may have been something to do with nuclear weapons, this documentation, what would you like to say to the republican party about how they've handled this? because they're fundraising off of this. i'm getting the emails. >> any movie or tv show that you see or book you read, when you make a deal with the devil there's a price to pay. ultimately, this is

the fbi. how do you explain the interest in donald trump, but more importantly, the lack of interest, jerry, in potential corruption in the white house? i'm going to use the word "potential," because allegations are designed to be investigated by the fbi. in this case what we've seen, and wray said last week, well, it's concerning that we haven't given that more attention. it's a problem that you called disinformation. not only did you decline to investigate, you explained it away as russian disinformation. >> right. that's a great point. think about this. i've heard a lot of your guests talking about hillary clinton deleting the emails. obviously donald trump pointed that out. bill clinton went to, you know, pedophile island a couple dozen times. you don't even expect an investigation, let alone a raid. with hunter biden, this always blows my mind, we don't need an investigation. it's right there in front of you. they handed it to you, christopher wray, we see the videos, we know there's prob

host: the fbi director testified before the senate on fbi oversight issues. we will take you to that hearing. it starts momentarily. >>'s hearing of the senate judiciary hearing comes in order. we will hear from christopher wray. his second -- i promise to restore the traditional oversight will including annual oversight hearings from key agencies in the jurisdiction. -- there is more to come. you told us that domestic terrorism was, quote, "metastasizing across the country and it is not going away soon." today, 10 years later i am afraid the threat has grown worse. in the decades, violent white supremacist have slaughtered people. they included the mass shootings in the manual ame church in 2015. the pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 and a walmart in texas in 2018. a white list -- supremacist -- last year, you told the committee that the top domestic terrorist threats continues to be those who are identified as racial extremists, specifically those who advocate for the superiority of the white house. --white race. i look forward to hearing from you from the steps

there's so many people in the fbi that defend the fbi ando tho protect its integrity.t and they feel terrible about what's going on. what are your thoughts about that, katie? >> well, i think that law enforcement obviously serves an incredibly important function here but any sort of investigative errors or credibility attacks on law enforcement will undermine prosecution at the highest level whatsoever. if the fbi and doj are moving ahead in the case, they better have is dotted and ts crossed and no room for mistakes whatsoever if they can get to that point. but from what we've seen, it seems the intent is to attempt to move forward with an indictment and that's what i read into with the search warrant that was issued. liz: you're saying an indictment of trump? >> i think that that would be the initial intent going in and obviously we don't know if final decisions are made and seeking a search warrant, you have to prevent probable cause that a prime was committed. that's been prevented by the fbi here. certainly i think it's a real shame that it does undermine ---liz:

you also have record cases like james comey was accused of taking fbi material when he left the fbi. history has been not to prosecute those cases. >> todd: jonathan, how many raids did you conduct on behalf of the glorified librarian that the national archive when you were an fbi agent? >> it was all the time. now, to be honest with you, that happened about as much as white supremacy arrest. it never occurs. those cases are unheard of at white supremacy, except in present pretty much because this is the thing is you. i was questioning where there is authority would come from for the fbi to get involved to the national archives can actually reach out to the fbi and the doj to do this, but you have to understand something to the fbi cannot tell the doj what they want to go after. they can recommend it, but the doj has to approve it. on the flip side, the doj can tell the fbi we want you to go after this and that is very important for people to see the trickle-down effect. i wanted to thing. when we look at christopher wray, we see exactly the one mistake, and i'm a bit trump supporter

today's fbi action at donald trump's home at mar-a-lago, is just the latest in a string of fbi raids on key figures in the investigation into january 6th. back in june, we learned that the fbi seized a cell phone belonged to john eastman. you know, the lawyer for donald trump, and author of the infamous memo, the came on the same day that federal agents raided jeffrey clark's home, where he opened the door in his underwear. clark, of course, the former doj official, who supported trump's claims of election fraud, and tried to help him overturn the results. and tonight, we are learning more about what went down on the ex presidents residence in mar-a-lago. harry lippman is a former u. s. attorney, and a former deputy assistant attorney general. he's the legal affairs columnist at the los angeles times. jill wine-banks is the former assistant water gate prosecutor, and general counsel for the united states army. they both join me now. harry lippman, you heard me just dial through all of those. do you see it as part of a pattern? >> certainly, but there's a very big point, alicia, i thi

and that is thee fbi. the justice department, by theth way, just labelede concerned parents speaking out at school board meetings as potential domestic terrorists that may need to be investigated at the request of the democrats. they have also seemingly ignored the dozens of attacks on pro-lifefe pregnancy centers. they declined to prosecute violent far riotersrs who attacked federal buildings in the summer ofriho 2020. that courthouse in portland, thousands of cops injured, ed dozens of americans dead. they did nothing to stopin the doxing and harassment of supreme court justices. even though we haveve a law against that prohibiting thatye they barely yawn when chuck schumer threatened these b same justices by name on the steps of the u.s. supremeps court, they couldn't care less when kamala harris promoted that bail fundmala to get rioters out of jail and told them not to stop writing. take g note. they're not going to stop. they won't stop. ou they shouldn't stop. weld won't stop.on and now they don't s

this is this is going to n continue on the fbi right now. is the gestapo.he the fbi is the gestapo.whether it's out in colorado putting a gold staro, mother lie tina peters in chains, peter navarro in chains, it'sr absolutely this is an obscenity and we're going t fight fire with fire the way to win election, win them overwhelmingly and then use the appropriation process to choke down the fbi and shut down the justice department and get to the bottom of who approved this. this is this is so outrageous. i it is the only investigation. i want to ask this question, steve. you know, i'm familiar with i'mm familiar with your point of view. i'm familiar with the opinions you share on war room. i'm familiar with how deep you fear the corruption has run y y within the united states of america. ori'm curious, i said this earlier in the program, believing elections can change the place in which we sit today. inunited of america is a very o optimistic point of view because thiss corruption, if it is partisan corruption, isn't relegated to the fbi.. i we saw eighty seven thousand new irs agents

what fbi -- suppressed.was there in that letter by the 51 former intelligence operatives, former officials in that's manager we need to investigate. we need to find out how that letter was, how that was proposed, who drafted it. were they in contact with the same fbi officials that were trying to suppress this laptop information? maria: yeah. well, this matters greatly because when we don't see accountability, when we don't actually see wrongs being righted, the more than people will continue to dis-- the american people will continue to distrust and question. that was part of what was going on in 2020 the as well. people were questioning, well, can we trust them? we mow what they did in the russia collusion hoax. your election right now in wisconsin, you say they are interfering in your election because of these smears on you. let's take a look at where you stand in wisconsin. tell me about your opponent and why you believe you right now are being smeared and this is the result. 50% for barnes, 46% for john

here's what the fbi took. might want to know that marco before you rush to my defense. >> i would want to know that especially given the experience of donald trump the who lies about everything. we know what kind of person he is. look, he had stuff there that he wasn't supposed to have! i can't prove that but i'm pretty sure that's true. these people who are defending him not to know that as well. but there is this fear. stuart it is right, yes he revealed something that was there before, a character that wasn't there before. but you just also see this naked fear of him and his base and what cros or not supporting him allowed enough voice could do to their chances of ever getting the support of that base. it's stunning, it's not a governing party, it is a threat to the country. >> stuart i know your father served in the fbi. i want you to imagine his your father at his desk at the fbi hearing these things over the last 48 hours from republicans. what would he say when he would come home for dinner? >> i think

the fbi at this point is totally useless.ing it and let red states -- >> you have no idea of the value of the fbi. >> yes, i do. >> is a former president above the law no matter what? >> the fbi is not above the law. >> if i'm saying they followed the law to enter into that home, should that not be allowed? the former president is above the law? >> he's a political target. he's being harassed by a rogue lawless agency. they spied on him, they have no respect for him. they hate the conservatives, they hate the republicans. >> wouldn't it be prudent to wait and see what the facts are before such a draconian statement? >> we have enough facts. >> reporter: in fact he doesn't have the facts behind the search warrant. former president trump does, yet so far is refusing to release them. meanwhile, fbi agents across the country are now being forced to watch their backs for doing their jobs. >> drew griffin joins us now. you know, there's some like ultra right, the maga folks who are cynical and know what he -- you know, i can't tell

but the fbi can. that's because the whole scenen should be captured on cameraca one as well and muchh more clearly than camera to camera. one has a clear shot of bothl benches. if the fbi released the fullse tape from camera one , we could see the pipe bomber planting the bomb. okay, so what exactly happenedn outside the dnc on january 6th? and why is no one asking that question and why has the department of justice not told? we've heard everything they want us to know about january six . why not more about this body of revolver news is well, as the people who is pressing fors answers, he joins us tonight. john , thanks so much for coming on . so we y we explained to us for those who may have been confused by the tape, which was that we just played, thatt was evocative raise questions. what do you think this and what is going on here? what does this add up to? w hawell, first, when it definitively shows this piece at revolver news available right now shows definitively and without question that the fb

twenty five years in the fbi. and i'll tell you this, will i gers, k many times inneys tong n twenty five years, zero. you talked about hillary clinton. wow. what a diffe handle things. we took her atittedchet emails e under subpoena, 30000 of them ug on details for her daughter'ss wedding, but they were under subpoena and we took her at her word and we didn't kick her door in chappaqua, new york . go to comey, director comey, he's tne a the time surrogate, not even on his own to the new york times memorandums that were fbi property, federalew records act. yes, some ofstctri confidentialt would have been top secretut ono it. will that's the rulehe of law has to t be applied equally, not separately. so therefore, why is it not you have those three lette to your name,hose the fbi is not the only corrupted federal e nithe cia.from the cdc t we could look at every american instit and wonder what has gone wrong. bu one in the spotlighthtith te fbi? w a statement. push back on corrupt. what the problems are is is theo t

he said all of that as a top fbi official, one that worked directly for the top leadership in the fbi. then a week later, strzok tested, quote, i want to believe that the path you through out for consideration in andy, presumably andrew mccabe's office, that there's no way he gets elected. but i'm afraid we can't take that risk. it's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before 40. so a top fbi agent, with an insurance policy, will stop it to thwart the will of the american people and ensure that one candidate can never win a free and fair election in america. by the way, where's that january 6th committee looking into this issue? now, of course the insurance policy was none other than the russia conclusion hoax, peter strzok became the lead investigator into the bogus conspiracy theory. his bias was career and obvious and political and strzok never ever faced legal consequences. it's why i often say we don't have equal justice or equal application of our laws in america any longer. that is a sad thing to say, but sadly it's true. strzok ends up with a book deal, his

this morning when we're told by the fbi, this person went into the local fbi field office there in cincinnati, ohio, with sources telling me and my colleague, josh campbell, an ar-15-style rifle and a nail gun. fbi agents responded and this person took off. basically, in a car, shutting down a highway. now, we just got an update a short time ago from state authorities in ohio who said that they actually tried to pull over this person, and this person engaged with them, shots were being fired from the car, they continued -- that person continued to take off, and now, again, this is a standoff that's going on, really, over an hour at this point. but yeah, big question here is, what was this person's motivation behind all of this? it's very unclear at this moment. was it a personal vendetta? did it have to do with the raid that happened on monday and all the rhetoric that has been spread now about the fbi? as one source told me, in the fbi, everybody hates us right now, but certainly, this is a serious situation they're trying to get under control and we're still trying to learn what the issue i

to the fbi.ur safety and security are my primary concern right now. pretty shocking that he has to issue a statement like that. katelyn, turning back to the specifics of the case against the former president where does the justice department go right now? >> we don't know if it's a case against the former president but one of the thing that is we are seeing here is that we know a lot more about this investigation and where it may be than the other investigation that donald trump and those around him may be facing which is january 6. this is not an investigation we were talking about recently and trump's lawyers thought it stalled out and taken aback by mefr rick garland and we have been learning about the investigation around january 6 and that conversation died down talking so much about this but we know that donald trump has a lot of legal issues potentially on the hands now and needs a lot of lawyers to be untangling exactly what may be lying down the path for him. the people and him, the phon

let's play fbi agent. [laughter] what does it tell us about the relationship between al qaeda and the taliban if the leader of al qaeda is staying in a house owned by the number two guy of the taliban? would you say it is close and friendly? dir. wray: nothing good. sen. graham: nothing good. are there training camps in afghanistan being operated by al qaeda types? dir. wray: well, that, i think i might need to have a follow-up with you. sen. graham: fair enough. do the al qaeda and isis elements in afghanistan, throughout the world, do they wish to hit us again if they could hear at home? dir. wray: oh, yeah. sen. graham: oh, yeah. ok. now, this other border. have you been there lately? dir. wray: yes. sen. graham: array. secretary marcus says the southern border is secure. from a counterterrorism point of view, do we have operational control of the southern border regarding counterterrorism threats that would lead you to conclude the border is secure? dir. wray: well, let me answer that this way. while o

attorney and a former senior fbi official. he joins me now. chuck, your reaction tomorrow garland's announcement today? >> parts of it were and unsurprising. but good to hear. for instance that mr. garland had personally reviewed and authorized the search warrant, not at all surprising. i was a little bit disappointed, alicia, that they were not yet moving to unseal the affidavit to the search warrant. let me explain. basically, there are three parts to a search warrant. the search warrant is essentially one page order that the fbi hands to the person in the house and says, we are authorized to be here, a federal judge said so. the inventory or the return is an itemized list of things that they took from the house pursuant to the search warrant. that is one of the things that mr. garland said they were going to move to unseal. but the really interesting document is the affidavit. that is where you find the basis for probable cause. that's where the government explains the case procedurally, and factually. and that is not yet been unsealed, nor

why send the fbi? they did subpoena trump for the documents several months ago, and did not get everything back that they had asked for. at one point, trump and his company had been telling so many lies that they started to blatantly and hilariously contradict each other. the documents were planted, they said. but then they also said that trump declassified the documents. he declassified documents that were planted. right. oh, and those planted documents were definitely declassified. even though we learned on friday that the fbi removed 11 sets of classified documents, including some marked as top secret, and meant to be only available in special government facilities. oh, dear. then came the next set nonsensical defense from trump world. >> this is from president trump's office. it just came in a few minutes ago. as we can all relate to every -- as we can all relate to, everyone has to bring home their work from time to time. american presidents are no different. president trump, in order to prepare t

fbi. that is the growing call by republicans after the fbi raided donald trump's mar-a-lago estate. >> i think every single candidate and elected official and in the gop right now needs to go on record pledging defund these lawless agencies. amy: we will speak to professor alex vitale. his latest piece is headlined "there are good reasons to defund the fbi. they have nothing to do with trump." plus we look at the growing calls for a long time prisoner mutulu shakur to be granted compassionate release. the 72-year-old black liberation acvist has been jailed for over 35 years. he is now suffering from bone cancer and is reportedly near death. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in georgia, prosecutors have informed rudy giuliani is a target of a criminal investigation into interference and the 2020 election. he is scheduled to appear before a special grand jury in atlanta tomorrow he faces questions about his e

defund the fbi. the fbi is the enemy within. a member of gop leadership said, it was an outrageous abuse of power, unamerican. a united states senator said the fbi had launched an attack on our constitutional republic. another said this is what happens with third world marxist dictators and the department of justice saying that of fbi agents saying that of law enforcement officers, all in defense of donald trump, all in defense of a man that they all privately loathe, and who some of these quotes came from presidential candidates who publicly despised him, one of whom said he feared donald trump becoming president because he could get his hands on nuclear information. and yet, just instinctively, the pavlovian response, the fbi moves to get back highly classified material, and suddenly elected members of congress and the republican party are calling them marxist, calling them community and saying they were unamerican and members of the gestapo. what exactly does that tell us about where the republican party is, especially consid

and fbi facilities. and this joint intelligence bulletin we're reporting on even says in some cases, people posting threats are also posting names, identifying information, names of facilities, very specific. the kind of threats that you would call the police if you heard about that, not just people saying things on social media. and as we saw with that cincinnati attack, there was a very direct progression here in a matter of days, between rhetoric by mainstream politicians, who were comparing the fbi to the gestapo, to threats on social media, to an attack if an fbi office, alex. >> it's pretty sobering, to say the least. betsey, for your report, you've been reporting on how the former president's shifting explanations, we'll call it, for these documentses is putting pressure on republicans. they're trying to twist themselves into pretzels to defend him. so explain how they're closing ranks, but also how this is exposing some fissures within the party. >> part of what's really challenging for republica

they have to clean up the fbi. you have to go deep from the top and we have to stop all of this corruption. this is unamerican, and it's going to destroy our country. >> sean: let me give you a fox news helped line greg jarrett, grassley says new whistle blower reveals deeply rooted political infection within the fbi. can the american people trust that the fbi and the doj are committed to equal justice and equal application of our laws? because i'm feeling they can't have that confidence that we need to have. >> yeah, trust is earned, and the fbi and the department of justice has squandered any trust. yet you have merrick garland standing in front of cameras saying trust the fbi, how dare anybody question their integrity. well, look at their track record. this is the fbi that had a lawyer who doctored evidence to gain a warrant to spy on the trump campaign. the fbi paid an ex british spy to conger up phoney evidence that the fbi knew was bogus and yet they ran with it. this is the fbi who had a director, james come

the fbi raids his home and they do it secretly, the fbi tells no one. donald trump's response is to tell everyone. that's how we know it and then to rush out emails raising money on the fact that the fbi executed a search warrant at his home. we've had 48 hours of public comment since the fbi surprised donald trump by executing that search warrant at his florida home and we will now present to you every single republican statement about that search warrant that is true. so, here are all the republican statements about the trump search warrant that are true. sorry. none, not one. i would happily sit at this desk and read to you every two statement by any republican anywhere about the trump search warrant if there were any. there is not a single true statement made by a republican about the search warrant. now in fairness most republican members of congress have managed to say absolutely nothing about it. republican senator mitt romney is typical. the salt lake tribune reports that senator mitt romney did not respond to requests seeking comment. but every

the internet, the fbi got me, or they sent the regular cops. stops there mid sentence. luckily no one but shiffer was hurt today. ben collins is part of the team that confirmed the suspect's identity and dug out his social media posts and following the story all day. ben, amazing. you've been looking around some dark parts of internet. i don't even know how to describe this story. but there is a guy who was fairly actively responding to the right wing response to the search. >> yes. >> there's been a right wing response that said this is illegitimate and the fbi needed to explain itself and the department of justice but this guy decided to handle it on his own. >> i want to say the very dark parts of the internet, the neo nazis, they don't care about this that much, but the parts that are trump obsessed, truly obsessed with donald trump, those are the people right now who are the most angry. and that's what you saw today. for example, i want to say, on may 7th, this is what shiffer posted in response to marjorie taylor greene. they got away wit

so switch over from the cia, an overseas organization, to the fbi.offices. many minor offices. those offices include spaces that are in public buildings. those individuals are not only open to the public, they are required to deal with the public in conversations about things like cybersecurity in initiatives to educate the community how federal law enforcement works. those organizations, fbi offices across the country, deal not only with political corruption, that is a tiny portion of what they do. they deal with local officers and police departments and state officials, sheriffs across the country on stuff like organized crime, drug trafficking and child pornography. mean while, pieces who are armed and in camouflaged show up outside phoenix, arizona, and say we're going to guard this office because we're concerned about what president trump is and we want you to feel safe walking in. how would you feel, wolf? when i transitioned from the cia to fbi, if i had a bunch of people showing up saying i hate you, but i protect you, i would say i don't wan

we're federal agencies, senior fbi leaders who are still at the fbi. they lied and they knew they were lying. they never took steps to validate this claim that it was russian propaganda or russian disinformation. on this show in october 2020 we interviewed one of hunter biden's business pounders. he verified the authenticity of that laptop. he had first hand information and texts and e-mails on his phone and also on the laptop. we reached out to tony last night and we asked him a very simple question. did anyone from the fbi ever call you or your lawyer to find out send your name is all over the laptop, if those texts and e-mails were real? if they wanted to know this was russian disinformation they would call you. but not one of them ever did. they knew it wasn't russian disinformation. they knew it wasn't propaganda. they knew it was real and they lied about it. he told us in october 2020. >> on may 13th that e-mail was sent from james gilliard to me. i didn't generate that e-mail. james gilliard generated the e-mail. in that e-mail james gilliard go

why did the fbi had to search trump's home?ked donald trump for the documents? why won't merrick garland explain himself? while today we got answers to basically all of those questions. the justice department did ask trump for those documents. that even sent him a subpoena. and enough or mental down that trump did not hand over everything he promised to hand over. they searched his home as a matter of last resort, and attorney general merrick garland is ready to show you the warrant, signed by a federal judge that authorized that search, as well as a list of with the fbi collective. the question now, what are we gonna learn next? joining us is the former federal prosecutor barbara mcquade. barbara, there is so much going on tonight, i want to start with your reaction. you have seen a lot in your life, in your career. but the breaking news from the washington post that some of the information that the justice department was searching for with the fbi were nuclear documents. i'm not sure i have words to understand what has happen

the effing fbi, that's who. >> new details on donald trump's visit from the fbi. >> they also said they are looking for classified documents, and evidence of a crime as far as documents go. >> tonight, we learned about what the fbi was looking for, the investigators inform the search, and late reporting that a member of congress had his phone seized by the fbi. then, eric swalwell on whether justice is closing in on donald trump. plus, unpacking the republican sponsors one day later. >> i'm angry, i feel violated. >> president trump is right, when he compared this to watergate. >> the real target of this investigation isn't trump, the real targeted this investigation is you. >> and alarming new reporting from nbc news on right-wing -- violence in defense of donald trump, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i'm elise jimenez in for chris hayes. 24 hours after the unprecedented fbi search of donald trump's florida home, one of his coup plotting allies in congress, scott perry of pennsylvania said he was stopped by fbi officers while traveling with his family. they pr

is there -- he says a large number of people from the fbi are there -- how long would the fbi be allowed to be on the property i mean, do they have a limited amount of time to search hither and beyond for whatever it is they're looking for? >> well, practically speaking they can be on the property for hours. that's happened in the past in investigations i was involved in when i was a federal prosecutor. it's not uncommon, for example, if law enforcement is searching a large office complex to take hours doing so and interview many employees and so on so they could be conducting interviews and gathering evidence over the course of hour i wouldn't be surprised if that happens. >> you know, i would say this -- this started popping up on twitter, i don't know, a half hour ago, maybe a little longer. but it wasn't until the former president sent out this notice that anyone even knew about it by way of example and to lift the veil a little bit, our big station in south florida, wtvj, nbc 6 in miami this isn't part of its news yet. west palm has a crew on the way. so the breaking news today came

>> the fbi is not above the law. they filed a law, which they did, should not be allowed, the former president is above the law? >> he is a political target, he is being harassed by a lawless, rogue agency. they spied on him, they have no respect for him, they hate the conservatives, they hate the republicans. >> wouldn't it be prudent to wait and see with the facts are before we have such a 20 statement? >> we have enough facts. >> in fact, he does not have the facts behind the fridge weren't. former president trump does but yet as refused to release them. meanwhile, fbi agents across the country are not being forced to watch their backs for doing their jobs. >> drew griffin joins us now. there are some culture right maga folks who are cynical and no what he said. i can't tell if he knows what he's saying is absurd or does he actually believe it? >> that is a question i always ask myself when i meet these people, and i'm the ultra maga members of commerce, they raise money off the stuff, they get on tv because of th

once they see the fbi raid in his house.im potentially indicted, once they see him fingerprinted. even for people who are not schooled in the finer points of law, someone is going to get the notion that maybe not only is this not a president in the mold of anyone else that we have ever seen before, but also for republicans who were eager to electra publicans to congress this fall, and the white house two years for now, i think they may finally get the memo that, this guy may not turn out to be very electable. >> i don't need to tell you, michael beschloss, because you know well, that there will be people who will turn a corner, and there will also be people who take the former president at face value, when he tells them that the democratic party and the fbi are one in the same, when he tells him that the justice system in this country is not to be believed. what does that look like? what does that mean for our democracy, in the days and weeks ahead, that there are still going to be a significant group of americans who are li

i spent 24 years in the fbi.ot once did i see a political case get opened up, you know, the least of which one that had no predication or not credible, what we call predication, which is the basis to open the investigation. sounds like this agent had a little bit of trouble recognizing factual information versus rumor and innuendo and opposition research and just general facts. >> sean: yeah, but he's also a left winger in a position of power. miranda this is the guy who helped launch investigations into trump and he's also working to suppress the hunter biden laptop investigation and story. >> yes. look, sean, he is just one of a cabal of fbi offices many centered at the washington field office who have been playing these games since the very beginning of donald trump's entry into politics. and, you know, the cross fire hurricane russia collusion hoax, that was the fbi. they just seem to be an unlimited number of these agents and analysts that are there to do their dirty work, and it's just impossible to underst

and that is why the fbi searched mar-a-lago on monday. and we now also know what the fbi took. we've got this list actually of it's literally here and it says the words "receipt for property." so this is the inventory list. let me read some of this to you because they put on here in as much detail as they could. the executive grant for clemency regarding roger jason stone jr. info re the president of france. various classified ts/sci documents signifying one of the highest levels of classification. those are documents only meant to be viewed in a special government facility. those were found around mar-a-lago. a binder of photos, a hands written note, and it continues. miscellaneous secret documents. miscellaneous top secret documents. more miscellaneous top secret documents. miscellaneous confidential documents. miscellaneous secret documents. confidential document. this list goes on and on and on. boxes of stuff. in all, 11 sets of classified documents, four of them, according to this receipt, marked top secret. four of them marked top secret, and one with that special design

the fbi director. the fbi's abuse of power is nothing new. then there is the ongoing hunter biden laptop probe that the fbi downplayed before the 2020 election. on behalf of millions of americans, let me say of course it was real. doesn't that seem a tad bit politically created. it was turned over by hunter biden and signed a signature that looks like hunter biden's because it was hunter biden and he has an address that was hunter biden's. it's just the latest example of the fbi betraying us. us. hunter biden goes on vacation with jill and joe. >> if we do not defend it, democracy simply will not stand. >> my former political party is fully anti-democracy it's a fascist political party. >> the threat trump poses to democracy. >> now the left sees no problem with the fbi's abuse of power against them. we can all complain and condemn the fbi, but that doesn't fix anything. the freedom of information act. you have got to get documents under foia. no big deal. except they will stonewall you until you give them up. abolish the fisa court. it's goo

fbi director wray.mber in the nation's capital, shannon. >> shannon: you covered washington for a very long time. this is a very unique event. things are doing a lot of extra duty for us tonight on that and we'll watch and see how it plays out. kevin, thank you. because you bet. >> shannon: coverage will continue on "fox & friends first" and on foxnews.com. tonight from washington, i'm ucshannon bream. is post and wri dogs have been such an j important part of my life. usi have landed a new puppy as i was writing, i found that there just wasn't as sharp and i knew i needed to do something. so i started taking forever and i realized that i was much more clear. i was remembering the details that i was supposed to forever just keep my brain working elinright provision, healthier elinright provision, healthier brains, better life skills the power with three. he's feeling it. . g. it's an invigorating rush. and seconds for that one of a kind, wolf, which leaves you feeling dream feel the world composite ener