thirty-three>> year veteran of e fbi print agent with the fbi who loves the fbi.u know there's no more than a dozen other fbi agents have come forth as whistleblowers but all are contendinghist the fbi s political. so the fbi thanks the fbi has become politicized. backitic in 2000 before it robet mueller and jim comey, more than 80% of americans had trust in a the fbi. full after pulled the summer shows lesson half of americansha not republicans or democrats bua americans have faith and trust in the fbi. there are real problems and this does go back to robert mueller and to jim comey and the things we have seen. look, 2018 as you well have covered maria, republicans in charge of the house of representatives raised questions about whether the fbi was illegally surveilling the trump campaign. wrotsurvg the a memo that was mh scorn from the sci, from that media. s declassifiedy wa it was found out they were not any threats to national security in thr that. the reason the fbi did not want to go public it was embarrassinn and had criminal liability that showed the fbi

exposing the failures of fbi director christopher wray and exposing blatant abuse inside the fbi.ted it has been politicized and the department of justice weaponized which is leading to a total collapse of credibility for both the doj and the fbi and now whistle-blowers are coming forward. they are sounding the alarm on what is a two-tier system of justice but the attorney general merrick garland appears to be sending a failed threat. and a stern reminder within the personnel, the fbi, the doj about any contacts with congress, but was on add to the democrats loved whistle-blowers, or do they only like nonwhistle-blowers, hearsay whistle-blowers to attack donald trump? that would be rank the hypocrisy, and revealing their communications with the fbi following the revelations to mark zuckerberg, that they are directing the tech giant to be on the lookout for russian disinformation ahead of the 2020 election which prompted facebook to censor the very true and very accurate hunter biden laptop story with the rest of the media. here now with the reaction is senator ron johnson. before

an agent with the fbi who loves the fbi.re is now more than one dozen other agents that have come forward as whistleblowers. all contending that the fbi is a little cold. the fbi thinks at the fbi has become politicized. back into thousands, before robert mueller and jim comey, 80% of americans had trust in the fbi. poll after poll this summer shows less than half of the americans have faith and trust in the fbi. there are real problems. this does go back to robert mueller and jim comey and the things that we have seen. and 2018, as you will have covered, maria, republicans in charge of the house of representatives raised questions about whether the fbi was illegally surveilling the trump campaign. the newness memo. division from the fbi, the media. it alternately was declassified. there were not any threats to national security and that. they did not wanted to go public because it was embarrassing and had criminal liability that showed the fbi was lying. that is just one example. you can get into hunter biden's laptop. what

how did the fbi respond?fbi responded by pulling in all units and bring them into the field office. i was in washington field office at the time we had surveillance issues canceled, is on a team that did that and people and other operational groups whether white-collar or child pornography, everybody was pulled in and tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of what they call leads through west virginia, the 800 tip line and some cumin on the internet as well. they were so egregious, i probably got rid of a couple hundred on my own help the people pencil with it tries to look the other way blatantly targeting what i call first amendment target rights, attended a rally at the city president was at. there's not further allegation of a criminal act and there wasn't, for most of these things and there's no reason for agent to knock on your door for so many tried to go along to get along and keep the paycheck and work toward pension eventually a lot of people went out and knocked on doors and self-incriminat

op eshg d saying fbi director wray, a craven apolgist for fbi abuses should reform fbi practices before overwhelming force turns into tragedy. he and merrick garland are derelict for mild anti-abortion protesters while showing no interest in filing single charge against those who firebombed pro-life pregnancy centers, wray will have blood on his hand is a child or innocent is ever killed by an itchy trigger finger. how worried are you about what the washington examiner puts out there? >> i read the op ed and deeply concerned. this invites comparison to the summer of 2020, taking over police departments, courthouses and violence that went along with it and nothing but crickets. supreme court justices, people went to their homes and threatened to assault them and harass them and their family members, same with some congressmen, you can go on and on and on. there are no left-wing domestic terrorists, deeply concerned about the fbi, i love the men and women of the fbi, it is a great organization. what we've seen since jame comey came in. the only presidential appointment on the director, do

you know, you criticize the fbi, you get all these news stories about unprecedented threats to the fbi s, you criticized the irs a couplee of days later. the irs is saying, oh, we're h now being threatened. in essence, they've noww established the shield where if you criticize them, they wilcllt toaim that you're putting them in dangedar. ot they , on the other hand , dotr not criticize the republicans. they try to dehumanize, defame and smear republicans by calling not vopublican officeholdersans, republican voters, everyday people by calling themle b semih fascists. last week in florida, charlie crist runninek iarlie crg for ge again here said he didn't wanton the support of anyone who had voted or supported rhonda saneness, which is the majority of the state. in essence, they are no longer . this is the distinction here. they're not attacking not political leaders alone. arey are att attacking voters, which in floridae is the majority of voters because donald trump won the state by four points. you know, as i b have beenve digging into your opponent, valo demings record , it looks l

is he directing the fbi, or has the fbi taken it upon themselves? >> great point. justice department -- from the justice department, the fbi are they're to fit that narrative, to satisfy that false narrative we hear from joe biden where he's referred to now half the country as fascists and extremists. i think they're trying to juice the numbers and cook the books to get this domestic violent extremism cases up so that it satisfies that narrative. and i think that's why they did this -- what they did to the pastor outside of philadelphia was designed also to chill speech. they said we're going to make this guy an example even though after the draft opinion, the dobbs draft opinion was leaked and dozens and dozens of churches and crisis pregnancy centers were attacked, we never saw anything like that from the fbi investigating those. but one pastor praying on the sidewalk and defending his 12-year-old son, he gets that treatment? so is that is what is so wrong here. but it's all designed, you're exactly right, it's all designed to fit this narrative that the left and

what i think needs to happen is we need new leadership at the top of fbi because most of the fbi agentsare outstanding. it's just we have a problem with the leadership in the fbi. next, we need to make reforms. just like what's happened with the case with the pro life person here, it's always the fbi's word versus the individual citizen's word and our freedoms are under attack here because a lot of people don't believe the fbi. the fbi should be required to do two things that normal you law enforcement is required to do. when the fbi talks to you right now they don't record it. and they can go into court and say maria, you lied and that's what you get charged for, lying to the fbi. that's like the number one tool in their toolbox. but a regular law enforcement officer would have to record the conversation. the fbi should be treated just like the regular law enforcement in being required to record. also being required to wear boy camera when they go in with a s.w.a.t. team or something like that or go into the residence of the former president of the united states to, you know, go in and

he is now on trial for lying to the fbi.e to confirm and report it widely believe first of all the media you all got it wrong on the russia issue. >> president trump: full of surprises and should be returned. they are 100% wrong they got it wrong. >> sean: this is important this drag this country for three years. i think you're watching some of the coverage so my next question is if, in fact, it couldn't get the pfizer warrant according to anja mccain that hillary's dossier because there was a connection you those back toward your campaign your transition team and your presidency here's my question. if the source for christopher steele he told the fbi in january of 2017. in fact it was all total b.s. bartok, none of it. then a few months later he's on the fbi's payroll. and yet they use his words as the source to spy on you as a president and candidate. he was on the payroll. >> president trump: another very high up in the fbi was working with the other campaign. think about this with the molar whwitch hunt. we have shown th

and so the fbi went straight to donald trump's desk. they found three classified documents, which is exactly three more than donald trump was legally allowed to have in his desk. those are not the only documents that they found in that room. here is a photograph that the fbi attached to last night's motion. this is what they found in, quote, a container in the 45 office. more top secret documents, including documents that indicate the information in them was derived from human sources, which could mean informers or spies. some of the information in the documents is signals intelligence, which means that it could include intercepted phone calls. on page 12, of last night's filing by the justice department, federal prosecutors right, three classified documents that were not located boxes, but we are rather located in the desks in the 45 office. they were also seized. the 45 office is donald trump's office at the hotel where he lives in florida. it says desks in the 45 office, so there is more than one desk there. probably too desk. his bi

maria: were on the fbi into tears of justice ohio congressman jim jordan sounding the alarm on the fbilleging the bureau is now engaging in a purge of staffers with conservative viewpoints in whistleblowers and their assignments are politically motivated the fda, fbi is pushing back and leadership of the fbi and they do not take overs action against employees for exercising their first amendment rights let's get the view on elise stefanik's in education and labor committees, the house republican conference chairwoman, congressman it's good to see you, thank you so much for being here. >> and to be with you maria. >> we talked about the fbi a lot we see plenty of instances where politics dictate wh what investigations agreed to from the russia collusion story to the hunter biden laptop, cover-up to the targeting appearance, will happen at the fbi, can you give us more information about the whistleblowers that jim jordan is talking about. >> absolutely this is the same agency that you pointed out the how to politicize attack, whether it was a faulty size application, whether perpetuating

i don't think that will scare whistleblowers inside the fbi, they don't scare easy.produce more whistleblowers, which i think is a good thing and there is no other outlet for an fbi agent than to go to congress. you go inside the organization and it will get bottled up pretty quick, the culture inside the fbi. i hated to see that from merrick garland, i think that just continues to build perception this is ideology driven partisan organization. >> rank and file, tough guys and gals and they are not easily intimidated. chris swecker great insight. gavin newsom pleading with californians to cut back on energy usage, including not charging their electric cars. didn't they just ban gas cars? they will turn california into the moon. >> it is beautiful, but unliveable, people will suffer, the people that will not suffer are people enforcing the rules. >> ashley: what is going on with the golden state? we'll dive into that after the break. ♪ this is xfinity rewards. our way of showing our appreciation. with rewards of all shapes and sizes. [ cheers ] are we actually going?

of the evidence that the fbi, just some of the evidence that the fbi picked up with that search warrant, that they attached to their filing last night. >> it was shocking. so shocking that i'm also getting nervous just talking about these documents. when you look at them, talking about the code words across the top of them. one of the things you learn when you are used to handling classified documents inside of the government, is talk about them with people that are cleared to have that information. and share them with anything else. you certainly don't remove them in a case of top secret materials, just like these are from a secure government facility, and take them to your personal residence. if you do take your personal residence by some mistake, you return him at the first instance. you don't lie to the government repeatedly about it, as the former president appears to have done. when you look at trump's filing, neal and andrew are right, the most damning things are the inability to rebut against any of the factual assertions that the government made in the briefing last night. the

at whose house the fbi showed us is enormous. the fbi showed up at their home with guns.g them of insurrection comparing them to confederate soldiers garland plans to disenfranchise them or jail them. too ironic to be real? it's real. just happened in new mexico. a state judge in new mexico removed an elected communitiy commissioner from office because he dared to exercise his constitutional rights by participating in the election justice protest on january 6th. this is not a talking point or a conspiracy theory. that's real. it geban after january 6th when republicans were so blown back, so intimidated by the other side they let it happen -- its effects are accelerating now. if you support joe biden's political opponents you could be visited by armed agents from joe biden's fbi. as we reported last year in our documentary that was mocked, it's happened to people living as far as as alaska. >> it felt like an invasion of our space. we would have a cup of tea with them. all right, what do you need? >> they cuffed me and put me in a chair. >> initially they would not presen

, it's that it, absolutely, needs the fbi. one of the things that was pointed out to the judge is the cia, and nsa to not to domestically. they operate overseas. if you need grand jury subpoenas, and search warrants, it is, by law, for good reasons, that it is the fbi that needs to do that. that goes to your point, and in effect, is what they are done. i'm going to say you do a national security of you, and in fact, you can't. it is domestic authorities to do that. >> so, the hundred documents with 100 classified documents, and was stressing today, it is any consideration by a special master. they're saying to a trump lawyers, what is your position on those documents? one of those positions is going to be, they are not classified. is it on the last day, and at some point on january, before you left office, he wave the magic wand, you're not classified, that could be one of the things you say. it is about those hundred documents, and would this be the moment in which these lawyers have anything else to say, that's right, the sp

anymore but any and all federal workers, the fbi and the national archives and the fbi very much anpresident trump over the last six years, and so i think it's just consistent, and the more, this is known as terrorism where someone puts out information in the media that demonizes i.v.s and organizations, and the more they say that and target individual people, the more likely, just percentage-wise, based on the following of any individual the more likely percentage-wise there will be an attack. i think it is a perilous estate that we're in right now, in an election year, every election year, we see it spike or tick up in terms of domestic extremism. so i am very worried over the next 90 days, this is something we talk about far too often. >> and certainly, law enforcement officers that i've spoke continue as well say they've never seen the political discourse so infused with threats of violence like it is right now. we know there is an attempted attack of an fbi field office in cincinnati, just a couple of weeks ago, and on that note, clint, how much more difficult is it for the fbi

guy who left the fbi.eft the fbi couple weeks ago. elizabeth: after allegedly blocking the hunter biden probe. you indicated this you saw this too during the school board parents fight. >> yee. elizabeth: to that the fbi was moving to pad the domestic terror threat numbers. we have hank johnson essentially equating school board parents with the capital 6 rioters. january 6 rioters. >> that is crazy and not true. elizabeth: did that happen during the school board could not controversy. >> 14 whistle-blowers come to our office while we're in the minority. we can't do a whole lot other than telling their story. they're doing it because it is so ridiculous. over 25 parents have been investigated by the fbi and because this, apparatus that merrick garland set up but to hank johnson's point, yesterday we were debating in committee. give me a break the school board's association themselves apologized for the letter. said we regret the letter, regret what we said. so the idea there is nothing there is ridiculous f

do you see as the fbi cleaning house or covering its back side?, i hate to say it, based on, you know, what i've seen in the last six years, i peer it's the latter. -- fear it's the latter. a cya move, if you will, sean, rather than cleaning house and taking corrective action. when i came into congress in 2017, i came from an intelligence background. there are marines i served with who are now law enforcement officials, fbi agents. i have profound respect for the rank and file of the fbi, that special agent who's doing a very difficult job. but i think their leadership is failing them. and if there are things that i didn't think would be possible six years ago that now i think are possible in terms of leadership failures. and so there are other things that contribute to this pattern. for example, when a deranged leftist tried to kill members of congress at baseball practice in 2017, the fbi did an investigation. never interviewed any of the republicans that were actually there that day, just basic professional failures which is why i think even th

they referred it to the fbi, which opened the investigation.been cause for alarm. so, he's basically saying, look, this is to be expected. of course, if you go back to look at history whether it's a republican president or democrat president, we've never seen a former president maintain top secret information like this. >> nothing quite like this. josh campbell, andrew mccabe, shan wu, kaitlan collins, sara murray, thank you all, quite a night. >>> next, what the administrations make of what we've been seeing in real time when ""360"" continues. neuriva plusus is a multitasker supporting 6 key indicators of brain health.h. to help keep me shararp. neuriva: think bigger. the day of the heart attack, i was scared. i didn't know what to do. seeing my daughter have a heart attack, it shook me. aspirin helps reduce the chance of another heart attack by 31%. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. ever get a sign the universe is trying to tell you something? the clues are all around us... not that one... that's the one. at

his wife is saying the fbi essentially win in with guns a blazing the fbi said, they did no such thingtion is, should they arrest him at all because at a state level, the state dropped the case against him so why would the fbi pick it up? >> i tell you a comic that is a good question. because it falls along the ideologically avenue that the left takes. this is the key to investigating. when we would get a complaint or see something when i was an fbi agent, we would look for probable cause to do a preliminary investigation. once we determined that there was evidence that crimes were being committed, we would open up a full investigation and we would look at what they were doing, who was doing it, and how they were going about committing the crimes. then we put together a strategic plan to go and get these individuals and charge them with crimes. you see none of that at all in the government when we look at how the left is manipulating justice. i'm telling you right now from an investigative standpoint, we are at the point where i can look at what the left has done, whether falsifying in

>> no, and this stinks worse than the fbi raid to be honest with you.you look at the conflicts of interest here, you cannot begin to tell the true story as to how it looks that mcquade was hired one month after clark was retained by hunter biden's attorney. mcquade was hired to be the head of the criminal division of the fbi! when everyone already knew there was an impending criminal investigation of hunter biden. no one knew about this until the post broke that story. how do you continue to operate with all of these conflicts of interest with respect to hunter biden? believe what you want to believe that there was a massive cover-up to try to protect hunter biden. now, joe biden it is the person that hired mcquade to be head of the fbi criminal division. that was one of the first acts of his presidency. so one would wonder, to chris clark, hunter biden's attorney tell president-elect joe biden, "you better hire mcquade on the first day of the administration because we have a lot of cleaning up to do in the department of justice." >> carley: former fbi

gop house judiciary says an fbi whistle-blower claims the fbi has been quote, sidelining crime casesn order to pursue political probes. also this, vice president kamala harris is out with yet another word salad. we've got it. more on the brave houston, texas, grandfather, he came to the rescue of a women hit by a carjacking. we have got the story. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: okay, let's start with your money. stocks ending down at the lows of the day, whipsawing and volatile action. wall street is digesting a hawkish federal reserve raising rates again to battle historic inflation. rates at 14-year high last seen in 2008. wall street pros warn the fed is pushing the u.s. economy deeper into the recession right before the midterms. the fed chair warning more pain is coming. edward lawrence at the u.s. central bank in washington with more. edward? reporter: liz, the market initially did not like the data from the federal reserve falling immediately after that announced came back when the federal reserve chairman jerome powell says they wo

person works.i just c sir, the fbi just came in. i said, what?e fbi the fbi who an?hey go , the fbi. and i said, how many people? many, many people, sir. people i many, many people. and i couldn't believe it. i and they wanted to do it quietly, silently. and i said, what do you meane ni salad?lent because i watch the way they were so not salad?y peop because i watched the way they were so horrible to so many people that you know and that i know that are good he people where they just attacked them. and th. want toe and they wanted it quietly. and by four o'clock in the afternoon, we started getting a little strange calls, like from a group calledhe group the media, if you've ever heardi of them. and they said something strangse is happening at mar-a-lago. there are people standing at the gates with ak 47 orated some kind of a very sophisticated gun. and what's happening atg at mar-a-lago. and when i heard that, i said, well, let's put out a notice that we were attacked or raidedk or broken in by the fbi. >> sea yon: i was i couldn't believe i. they wanted they wouldn

that the fbi had in its possession related to hunter biden, however, thibault blocked the fbi.h respect to hunter biden but cut bait instead. and the fbi and thibault cut bait right before the 2020 presidential election. how can the american people trust the results? elizabeth: and jon, here's the thing, here is what the senator is saying too, you know how hunter biden is being investigated by dave weiss, he is trump appointed u.s. prosecutor for money laundering, for violation of lobbying laws, for tax fraud? how is the fbi shutting down the hunter biden probe affecting that probe? >> right. well the senator believes that the fbi shut down a completely different potential probe into the first son. i mean we just don't exactly know what we don't know here. what we do know is tim thibault, not the football players, the fbi agent, was the point person in charge of managing tony bobulinski, who was one of hunter biden's business partners, who is the one who identified joe biden as the big guy. he, tony bobulinski gave detailed information to the fbi before the 2020 election. we're

clearly, there was some suspicion by the fbi.at suspicion justified? i think that is what micky dolenz is trying to get that now. two documents, the second apparently completely, 100% redacted. we have no clue at all what is in that document and that is why, he says through his lawyer, that he is prepared to go to court to try to get the fbi to reveal it. so interesting. thank you very much, peter. we will find out more when we get it. staying with the states, the fbi, and all things redacted. donald trump has reacted angrily to accusations by the usjustice department that his advisers "likely concealed" classified documents, found in an fbi search of his florida home. he's suggested that agents had staged a photo of papers strewn across the floor. thejustice department's court filing offers the clearest picture so far of what drove the fbi to carry out the search of his property. it also says that while mr trump's lawyers swore under oath that they'd returned all relevant documents, only half were handed back. we can now speak t

can the fbi be fixed at this point? >> we need a church commission to do a full review of the fbi.e need to do a house cleaning. when republicans take over the house and hopefully the senate in january, i know my former boss chuck grassley will be on the judiciary committee and he will be ready to roll up his lives and get to work. dan: the lunch bucket joe shah particular from joe. transportation secretary buttigieg is busy fixing the racist roads, our supply chain is on the brink of disaster. the railroads threatened strike if a deal wasn't reached. they reached a tentative deal. but not until the entire industry braced for a massive disruption. let's keep score for the libs watching at home. the small businesses that survived the restrictions and mandates, they are fighting crippling inflation while begging people to go to work, despite being forced to pay $15 an hour minimum wages while fighting supply shortages as well. what about the farmers? they are bracing for suffocating-year-old regulations. what about the cops? what about truck drivers. you better take that jab or lose

think about it, they love the fbi right now. the fbi has become an enforcement arm of the democratic party. they have. it's pour and simple. they love the fbi and yet they hate law endlaw enforcement. it was joe biden himself who was on a video telling an interviewer he's for reallocating funds away from the police. he's onlying changed his mind -- you just accurately said it -- in a 60 day election day conversion because he's afraid they're going to get humiliated at the polls. let me just say one more thing as a former police officer and an agent. there are two reasons there's a civil war going on, as heraldo said, in the get to. one, they elect democrats. but second, it's amazing how our government spend $4 trillion on all kinds of stupidity and they plea bargain cases out left and the right because they say we don't have enough jails and prosecutors. you spend $4 trillion a year. you can't figure out how to get savages off the street and put them in jail? you can figure out how to fund a shrimp on a treadmill and how to put

at the fbi serve the fbi well and the country well and are not politicized.there is a significant concern within the fbi headquarters that some agents, particularly in washington, are being used in an effort to weaponize our nation's criminal law enforcement system, at the federal level. look, just in the last few days, we have seen some pretty glaring examples of what appear to be instance of overreach. it is deeply concerning to us all and these are things we are going to be looking into. >> these are things that we will be looking into, do you think this is something the senate judiciary committee is going forward with? >> it depends on who is in the majority. if the democrats are in charge, you won't see oversight because they are protecting the administration. if the republicans take over, you will start to see a whole bunch of investigations. there is a lot of oversight that's needed in my view. lara, to your point, i was looking at this during the break, an update, i have no idea what the specifics were in this incident in philadelphia and exactly what

the fbi. it's all above board. >> trust the fbi. they're just doing their job.s not a partisan effort. and so mar-a-lago, it concerns me. i don't know if some of the material he carried to mar-a-lago compromises our national security. >> pete: so it's not a partisan effort because they are doing our bidding. you mention russia. how much of this comes back to a never-ending obsession with russia gate that they just can't quit, that those secrets are going to sit in those files until donald trump could personally deliver them to vladimir putin. >> that's what they always believe. i would give chairman thompson the benefit of the doubt had this happen seven years ago. if the fbi raided someone as prominent as former president trump, they would say oh, my gosh, what happened? but we know better now because we've seen. the steele dossier has come apart. fbi agents have dishonored themselves, forced to resign. people walked out of the building over the sort of stuff. they don't have our trust anymore. the fbi. that's actually healthy. the american people should not ju

has, from this brief they filed two days ago, the fbi has sources of information. there's still stuff left and it may be the case that the same sources are telling the fbi about other places you may have or they may not have told such a thing. salute me ask you since you both have handled these kind of documents. what kind of consequences would you face if you had documents like these in your possession and hadn't returned them? any thoughts about that? >> i wouldn't be sitting here, neither one of us would be sitting here talking to you. ... >> if you see mary garland going down this path to really dig in to show the president is behind the specifically? >> you have to in order to improve and obstruction of justice case against donald trump. so they do the certification it was being offered up along these lines they have to prove that president trump knew that certification was false and he allowed the representative simply by giving a false statement is a violation. it prohibits making falseoh statements to the federal government. what i was reading up on this an

last week fbi special agent steve fren came forward to accuse the fbi deliberately manipulating the wayn order to create false or misleading narratives about a rise of violent domestic extremists. now mostly cases later january 6th, but the fbi is kicking them to the field offices across the country creating an illusion of some widespread. he was then suspended by the fia last week for a free refusing to participate in what he regarded as an unnecessarily heavy-handed rate over a january 6 misdemeanor. and then yesterday the near post ran a report that his wife sent a private facebook message to the group homes for liberty who expressively to help. 30 minutes later her account was suspended. for violating facebook's community standards? wow, miranda devine is now. aranda you think that the fbi demanded that face would this? >> will i don't know whether the fbi demanded it with her facebook is voluntarily decided that it would start censoring any communications with a private or public about this fbi hero whistle-blower stephen friend. facebook has shown itself to be a little bit all too

first affixery than jason just said is what i'm hearing from people inside the fbi, outside the fbi,ress. he really hit it on the head. em, jim jordan had a great conversation with him. he's the likely chair number of the house, judiciary committee he could be the quarterback to this. the first question is it a select committee or is it a commission? do you bring a few outsiders with powerful members of congress, clearly have to be bipartisan to have the impack like the church commit did. but a lot f people are talking about this different constructs, nunez likes the idea of maybe couple outsiders but you're going to see a lot of discussion about this in the december-january timeframe after the election. >> we what if you have a problem, though, john, that is merrick garland remindd everybody recently that if you work for the doj or the fbi, you're not loued to talk to members of congress or the senate. >> yeah, i don't care that's going to hold. believe me, there are over 25 people that i know from the fbi justice department that have made contact with the congress despite merrick g

again, we established that that is something that, that the fbi and doj says they did.ages now, as have i, there is something which is not here. what is not here in this filing? >> an argument about the declassification of these documents, which of course is what the former presidents team and its ally on cable news have been arguing, that he does declassified all the documents that he took with him. but that photo that he's complaining about that was included in the justice department's filing last, night it was a notable photo just because it's sought to really showcase in an image what was taken from mar-a-lago, what was kept at mar-a-lago despite these efforts to get it back. but also know the documents and the photo say declassified on the front of them, the word declassified is also not appearing in this filing that we gain from trump's team tonight. maybe they will use it tomorrow in court when they're talk about trying to get the special master. we do not see it so far. and john, going back to the effort they're describing here, saying that, and one part of this

of lying to the fbi. much of fbi affidavit is still redacted. you don't know all the evidence of obstruction of justice that was presented to the judge to obtain the search warrant. but we do know that the judge believed it would probably be evidence of obstruction of justice founded donald trump's residence, that's why the judge approved the fbi search warrant. the most important piece of evidence for erin corcoran's new criminal defence lawyer to be studied by something else that we are just learning about and the newly unredacted portion of the affidavit. we have previously known that after the fbi and justice department went to that resident on june 3rd. they want to collect what they were then told we're all of the remaining documents. the justice department after that subpoenaed the closer to tv video recordings on the surveillance camera at the residence. we did not know how extensive the request was not subpoena. it was not a subpoena for one day of surveillance video. it was six months of surveil

>> obviously i'm very concerned about the attacks on the fbi. and the global attacks on the fbi. words have consequences. and those consequences are that for the deranged among us, violence becomes inevitable. important organized crime if there are jurors who have questions or suspicions about the credibility of the fbi agent who takes the stand because of these endless attacks on the fbi, that has consequences for public safety and our ability to enforce the law and put bad people away. >> when there's so much doubt, it's important that we try to do the right thing and i appreciate both of you so much and your service to the country. we've hit the limit but i wonder if i ask the last three to give questions do you have time to answer them? i'm not going to hold you to it if you have to run. >> and then they will answer them. >> you touched on this a little bit but i was curious as members of congress talked about condemning the fbi in more of a broad context at this rate what will it have regarding broad societal trust in u.s. political institutions at large? >> among a certain

the latest on house gop warning more than adonis fbi whistle blowers alleged the fbi is purging conservative fbi workers and is illegally retaliates against whistle blowers and the brom shell text that twitter's jack dorsey allegedly sent warning elon musk about the $44 billion takeover bid. i'm elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now. >> we begin with tropical storm ian hitting south carolina as a category 1. surreal before and after shots continue to pour in capturing the devastation to southwest florida. we've got 21 reported fatalities so far. fox weather's will nunly has been breaking stories in fort meyers, florida, with more. will, thank you so much for joining us. >> reporter: good evening. i have progress to report to you in terms of power restoration here tonight in the fort meyers area. these utility crews as you know working around the clock to try and bring the critical infrastructure back online in terms of medical facilities, fuel stations and ho tells and things like that -- hotels and things like that. as soon as gas stations are online, they're inundated of

fbi agents took everything.ember, they took donald trump's medical records, his private records, attorney/client privilege records estimated to be over 500 pages, tax records that they had no right to take, passports they had no right to take. they pretty much took everything. they riffled through barron trump's room and melania trump's closet. the warrant was so broad they could and did take anything that they wanted but the fbi's abuse of power didn't stop there because now these explosive filings with john durham, we were just talking about with john solomon, revealed that yes, your fbi in fact did pay for russian disinformation and they paid the number one sub source of that dirty russian dossier that hillary clinton paid for, disseminated it to a compliant media to smear donald trump before the election, and then was used to spy on him as a candidate and as a president. they knew directly from that source that the dossier was completely false, bar talk, never meant to be taken seriously. people like jim com

for example, this year, an fbi agent found me after the fbi raided my home. that fbi agent came to us with internal restricted documents from within the fbi's computer systems. they were calling us news media. it is a very big deal. the case hinges on whether we are news media. the people tend to find journalists that they can trust. these days, most sources don't really trust any journalist at all. most people don't trust media. we don't really pick our subjects. our subjects find us. >> how many times have you been sued? or jailed they are indicted. >> in this exhibit hall, my attorneys are standing about five feet away from me. i know that they're probably laughing. i don't know exactly how many, a couple dozen pieces of litigation over the last ten years. we have never lost a case. we don't lose because we're in the right and we don't give up. if you're in the right and you don't ever settle, you usually win in a court of law. in some cases you have to appeal, most recently, we end up going an offense against the new york times for defamation. we got past

fbi showe isk anybody who's the fbi showed up with guns at enormous.their home what that's like by accusing these people of insane rection for asking them s questions about electors, by comparing them to confederate soldiers. o merrick garland.co doj plans to disenfranchize plat them, if not jail them. really? so prohibit people fromai participating in american politics in the name of democracy. too ironic to be real.it's oh, it's real.just h just happened in new mexico. a state judge in new mexico newm just removed an elected countye removed an commissioner from office, e overturning the will of the voters. why? se because he had dared to exercise his constitutional rights violated by participating in the election. >> justice protest on januaryip justic 6th. >> so this is a full blownth. political purge. g poin that's not a talking point. it is not, in any sense a conspiracy theory. theory. that's it's completely real. and it began shortly after january 6th. january 6th when repu republicans, as usual, just as they were after the death ofw jorge floyd

and you headed the fbi counter espionage operation. what does a government do, as it became clear, you know, that this kind of information is potentially compromised? what happens? >> well, don, you've got a whole host of worries you've got to think about when you understand that this information was not under control, as juliette said, it was not only coffee they may have been shared and given to other folks. >> or even lost. i mean hoover's do lose things. >> [laughs] sure, but you've got to figure again, because it's the president, he's seeing the most sensitive information from across the intelligence community. so part of what is going on right now is across the board, from dni hayes on, across the intelligence community, when it's a cia, fbi, and say, all the other components into these, are looking at the information that's been recovered and saying all right, what are the sources out there at risk right now? first and foremost is any human sources, anybody who might be working for the united states in moscow, in beijing, anywhe

fbi. you have collusion from a wideuc range of the intelligence community. you had i think it was 50 somehk intelligence senior officialsear who signed a letter last year that we now know is a total lie ,none of whom have recanted. i fully expect the justicepect e department to indict president trump in a dc court district where he got h five point six percent of the vote. . so by 19 to one , the jury is likely to be against him.s al i think this is an all out front and just said zuckerberg, the founder of facebook, say that the fbi asked him tohunter suppress the hunter bidenor laptop for the three or fours be weeks before the election in 2020 at a time, by the way, when some 80 percent of americans say if they had known how corrupt hunter biden and threw him his father were they probably would have voted against joe biden. so i mean, i havr joe bidee no . what's going to happen next. i'm a historian by training and i tell everybody you have to assume that nothing, you know, tells you any