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conservative backlash after declining to appoint a second special counsel to investigate claims of fbi fisase. instead mr. sessions appointing a u.s. attorney to handle the case. some republican lawmakers today defending the attorney general's decision. >> good first start. this prosecutor will somewhere subpoena power, can file charges, can do everything that needs to be done. the problem with a special prosecutor is, as we're seeing with bob mueller, they tend to go off of the rails and start chasing things and having an unlimited degree of scope. i think this is a good first start. jeff sessions consist always go back and appoint a special prosecutor. but once you cross the line, you can't uncross it. this is the right move. arthel: and live from washington gay rhetgarrett is here with mo. >> republican lawmakers are a bit decided over the attorney general's decision. instead he informed congress that john huber from utah is conducting an investigation, looking into allegations of surveillance abuse, claims of anti-trump bias at the doj and fbi and the handling of hillary clinton's e-mai

of justice of missing the thursday deadline for turning over unredacted documents related to fisa abuse. fbi, comey, lynch, mccabe, clinton, e-mails and much more.

russia investigation appears to have been triggered in part by this dubious fbi warrant that the fbi -- fisa more into it, excuse me, that they obtained to spy on former trim campaign aide carter page. now he has submitted documents that said that he will -- that comey was not telling the truth about several of the more absurd thinks he said last night. joining us now, the one and only, carter page. carter, it is good to see you. first of all, i want to play, if you don't mind, before we get into your filing, what was said about you in this interview. first of all, the full screen, so we can read it. stephanopoulos said, you also had your eye on carter page. he had also been working with the trump campaign. comey says, correct, stephanopoulos says, what was your concern there? then comey, says, was he in any way coordinating with the russians as an effort to influence our elections? we hear the word collusion all the time. collusion is not a word that is familiar to me from my work. comey continues and says, if is anybody conspiring, helping the russians accomplish their goal of interviewing

bombshell secret texts show fbi, doj may have rushed anti-trump fisa warrants. cording to sara carter, congressional investigators have discovered new text messages between anti-trump fbi agents, lovebirds, peter strzok and lisa page that show possible coordination between the fbi and the doj to get a fisa warrant to spy on the trump campaign associate, carter page. in one of the text messages,s, sara, strzok is whining and complaining to page that a warrant in the investigation is being held up. one of the congressional investigators is telling sara tonight, "everything here from the texts, complaining about fisa delays to the exchanges indicating coordination, to the white house visitors log, it seems to match to ach disturbing degree. at best, it's a strange coincidence worth investigating. it's much likely more." you have the fbi using an unverified clinton bought and paid for dossier as part of fisa application, then they rushed to get a fisa warrant approved, new evidence points to coordination between the obama white house, the fbi, doj, and the cia. sara

elections where you have the director of the fbi, the deputy director of the fbi leak all over the place. the abuse of the fisaourt. i have never heard of anything like this before. the problem right now is the fbi does all kinds of things to protect the people in this country domestic and foreign. you have had these bad cops, i call them, rogue top officials at the top of the fbi who have besmirched this agency. we need to help the agency get its reputation back. we need a commission to do that. an inspector general does a report. let's say he couples and condemns these people. what then? most of of them are already gone. we have a special counsel look for excuses why he exists. i here i -- here i can't think of a better situation where we have have a special counsel focused on the top levels of the fbi and the justice department. jesse: why has it taken so long for a second special counsel to be appointed? the drum beat has been growing the last couple weeks. what's taking so long? mark: not only should the attorney general quickly appoint a special counsel even those inspector general is doing his thing, on

that comey talks about in these memos with reince priebus being curious about whether or not the fbi had a fisa flynn. and then the president in another private meeting reportedly telling comey, acknowledging to him that he knew that flynn had what he called judgment issues. and so there were a lot of uneven things. obviously the first few months of this administration were incredibly rocky here, and i think what's interesting, you know, obviously republicans are trying to, a lot of people think, create this pretext for perhaps getting rid of rosenstein, perhaps firing mueller eventually by demanding a lot of documents over the last couple weeks. they wanted to see these comey memos, and the fact that they were able to see them and they've come into public light, comey's memos basically confirm and corroborate the story that he told to congress and the story that he tells in his book. everything that comey has said on the matter of his conversations with the president and his staff concerning mike flynn, everything has been incredibly consistent. >> eli, i'm just going to read a little bit from

that needs to happen first, how the fbi conducts fisa. th the former director, because he worked for jim comey. that's what's going on here. the fbi will turn over these documents, but in the meantime everyone needs to be concerned about protecting rosenstein and protecting the special counsel. i want to be sure they're being responsive. up until today we have dedicated staff to review the documents. to cover two shifts per day from 8:00 a.m. for midnight to -- there's a lot of paperwork, and we don't have enough personnel to review it and forget it, and we're going to get it to you as soon as we can. talk to me about the optics of all of this. and if they were to make a decision on go after rosen stein. >> what this particular administration does not do is take price in his work and be thorough so this also doesn't understand, the second thing is we know he as personal vendettas. he still thing. >> will let it go, and you have big irfish to fry, but he can't. as far as using twit tore try to trump up his own base, again him, the problem i

set of facts as did the leaders of congress. >> bret: there was no difference between what the fbi told the fisa court and what the -- about the trump-russia investigation and what you told the new president of the united states? >> what the fbi and the fisa application said in october of 2016? i don't remember clear enough all that's in the fisa application but we sure didn't lay that out for anybody, president obama, president-elect trump, or the leaders of congress. >> bret: okay. a lot of questions about the interactions with president trump and your memos memorializing that. after you're fired on capitol hill, we learned this: '17. >> i asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. didn't do it myself for a variety of reasons but i asked him to because i thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. so i asked a close friend of mine to do it. >> who was that? >> a good friend of mine who is a professor at columbia law school. >> bret: so what specifically did you leak to mr. richman? >> i sent mr. richman a copy of a two-page unclassified memo an

amazing that the people that are most angry about the things that have come out about the fbi, justice department, fisangs, unmasking and leaking. the people that i know that our angriest are the people in the intel community that protect us every day. and the fbi. rank-and-file guys who protect us every day and all of whom put their lives on the line. they are apoplectic, and a lot of the information coming out is because of their bravery and honesty. >> i think there is some frustration when down in the trenches, you see things clearly. you are briefing to your director. who in turn is briefing the president. sometimes politicians in the previous administration i saw, they like to start with the answer and twist the information to fit their solution. from the perspective of somebody in the trenches and saw the threats to national security. syria, iraq. >> sean: how scared with the average american be? >> we know the results of what happened in syria. isis had a lot of geographic space. iraq we retreated from those places. we know that in south asia the president completely swiveled with his policy on

they blame rosenstein for the slow production of documents demanded by congress related to the fbi and the fisa application and the surveillance -- the surveillance warrant that they took out on carter page. and you could also see some of this coming out into the president's tweets as he explains his frustration that he believes rosenstein is essentially not doing his job which is to manage and to supervise robert mueller. so stay tuned and see where this goes as far as president and rod rosenstein is concerned. >> and if he were to fire rod rosenstein, could that be folded into a possible obstruction of justice case against the president? >> well, absolutely. there is no reason why it couldn't be. certainly the special counsel would look to see whether or not this is being done to send some kind of signal to investigators much like perhaps maybe the comey firing. so this could fall within a purview of the special counsel and it could open the president up to more problems if he went ahead and did that. but you know, it is clear based on what we're hearing and what evan was saying, this could b

taking aim today at the justice department accusing once again the fbi of stalling the release of documents related to the alleged fisae and e-mails from hillary clinton's private server while she was secretary of state. joining me now are alexei mccammon, political reporter for axis and chuck rosenberg and former u.s. attorney and fbi officials and natasha bertrand staff writer for "the atlantic." great to have all three of you with us. chuck, the president has made a series of tweets about the department of justice's missed deadline to turn over a slew of documents that the house judiciary committee is requesting. trump tweeted this on saturday. lawyers of the house judiciary committee are angrily accusing the department of justice of missing the thursday deadline for turning over unredacted documents related to fisa abuse. fbi, comey, lynch, mccabe, clinton, e-mails and much more. slow walking. what is going on. bad. how often are deadlines like this missed? is this out of the ordinary to need more time to produce a large volume of documents from the department of justice? >> well, deadlines can be missed if the de

the fbi can't put in a fisa application unverified information.omit that one candidate paid for the russian lies that came from a foreign national. you can't omit that to a judge. god help you. >> first of all, i want to address the double standard i'm hearing. donald trump praised james comey for sending that letter. >> sean: stick to the issue. you can't lie to a -- >> the fisa warrant was constructed by several layers of people at the justice department and approved -- >> sean: is it wrong to use unverified information for a judge? yes or no? >> it is certainly wrong if it was intentionally false and unverified. >> sean: if they did it now, that they didn't know. >> let me go back to the topic at hand, guys. i agree with david once in a while, so when james comey held a press conference, and characterized evidence in a criminal investigation which he was conducting as "extremely careless conduct," he violates every role of due process and that is what he did with hillary clinton and what justice department will say, you don't publicly shame and

unraveling of weaponization of federal government and its agency in this case, doj and fbi against american people, utilizing fisa court system, to get to problem personalities we should never have before. >> what is insidious about this, is that the mainstream media was complicit in this conspiracy to go after president trump and declare hillary clinton. here you are a member of congress with other members, you send a very details criminal referral identifying various criminal statutes that appear to have been violated by all these people in obama administration, including comb comey and clinto. and when i open on-line version of new york times this morning there was no mention of it. doesn't that speak volumes about the need media. >> they are not the media, they are a propaganda machine for the other side. only way you can get that listen to fox you hear the facts, when i go in my district, talk about that openly, first thing out of my constituent's mouth is how do we get these facts, we don't know who to trust. the media who was supposed to be unbiased to present the facts, would they have done this during wa

nunez, the fbi turn over unredacted 2016 memo that you'd lined reasoning starting up the trump russia investigation. chairman nunez requesting unredacted copies of the four applications for fisahe fbi to snoop on individuals in the trump campaign. we turn to chris farrell with "judicial watch." chris, who wrote this memo? i'll wondering if peter strzok was involved? >> that is the informed opinion, strzok was the writer of opening case memo. it is the foundation piece for why they did what they did. that is frankly why they're terrified to release the actual contents. david: after all we know about peter strzok, by the way, correct me if i'm wrong, he is not only working with the fbi but i think he still has security clearance? i wonder why? >> they put him in the personnel office so he can further orchestrate the assignment of politically reliable persons in the fbi. david: unbelievable. why doesn't jeff sessions do something about that? >> yeah. why isn't he indicted frankly? i don't know, there is a lot of pattycake and a lot of dancing around and super cautious treatment that the average citizen would never receive. david: never, never. getting back to the memo, what inte

the president is hard at work in undermining confidence in the fbi, in the fisa process which is not really understood by a lot of people, but it's the way we spy on people doing bad things that represent grave threats to americans here and abroad. just take us inside your assessment at this hour of the damage that has already been done. >> it's extraordinary, nicolle. like sally yates, john brennan is someone who served under republican and democratic presidents. he of course after 9/11 served under president bush in the intelligence community. he was the first director of what now is the national counterterrorism center, the main entity in our intelligence community that analyzes threats from terrorist organizations. the brennans of the world, the sally yates of the world, career professionals defending our country are really expressing grave concern because what they see the president doing is not only seemingly utilizing those agencies to defend himself, but fundamentally undermining those institutions which defend us. this reaches back all the way from his very first day in offi

about one of the candidates in the 2016 election, then get people who were anti-trump at the fbi to obtain a fisaarrant to spy on the campaign. this is the party ewing the gop. shouldn't it be the other way around? >> to imply there is a conspiracy between russia and the trump campaign. take a look at what was going on with secretary clinton and president obama and his policies. she presented russia with a reset button. russia was the aggressor in georgia. this was six months after they invaded georgia. the obama administration canceled miss soil defense in europe. and did nothing from the crimea crisis and the ukraine crisis. lets russia go right in. david: not to mention 20% of our you uranium reserves going to a russian company which was at the same time the board members were contributing heavily to the clinton foundation. >> you can't forget president obama whispering he'll be more flexibility after his election. david: it looks like you are beginning to make the case for counter suit? >> well, that's not my call. i am not a party to the litigation. i will let those who are taking a look at

the federal prosecutor who is also looking at the fisa court violations with the fbi. his sessions in a tough spot here? he said this is the guy who will look into it. he would be the one a liquid he comes back with so the special counsel not happening now the same it may not happen in futu future. >> sessions is in a tough spot. he's trying to appease the administration and career officials at the doj and in the intelligence community. he's putting so much pressure on sessions. the president was very disturbed and upset that sessions recused himself from the russian investigation. he's trying to tiptoe around the president in terms of this new investigation. he's facing pressure from the republican party. sessions is in a difficult position. be interesting to see where he goes. he's also trying to stay neutral which i guess is like nonpartisan in these scenarios. >> molly: in the meantime on "watters' world", jesse sits down with former trump campaign advisor. here's a preview. >> did you change your behavior? >> i've never done anything wrong in russia for the last 2

documents from the justice department concerning everything from the fbi investigation into the clinton a mile stand-- scandal to fisa abuses. president trump tweeted the sink quote so sad the department of justice and the fbi are slow walking or not giving the unredemptive documents requested by congress, an embarrassment to our country. speaking in slow walking on another democratic scandal more disturbing details just surfacing about the pakistani i.t. aid and his family who now face charges. everyone at the 44 house democrats who hired them chose to exempt them from background checks. no vetting. they would have found had they done so a number of criminal convictions, a million-dollar bankruptcy, a dozen lawsuits against their company. he was arrested in july of 2017 on bank fraud charges. a hearing in this case is set for may. joining us tonight judicial watch president tom fenton. tom it's great to have you with us and we have a lot to cover so let's start first with the slow walking. the president of the united states imploring his justice department borrow the constitution and to give the committees with over

fisa process. let's go into that. does he not realize that he once worked with the fbi and it is a fact that the fbi and the department of justice used a faulty dossier? >> fisa courts are problematic before james comey became director of the fbi. when they were created on george bush, they were problematic to begin with. they're problematic, took republicans a long time to get to that position. with that being said, this doesn't take away from the fact that there's some leeriness with trump associates. even in the devin nunes memo, the facts are clear that it wasn't the dossier that triggered the investigation. this was triggered by george papadopoulos having a conversation drunk in london. that is a fact. i don't think you can mix the two. we have a problem with our fisa courts in this country. >> if you look at the case for fisa, they led with the biggest majority of the application was spent discussing the dossier saying it wasn't necessary to get the report. the problem here is the facts definitively demonstrated if you didn't have the dossier and the salacious charges, you wouldn't get the fisa court's attention

doj appointing a federal prosecutor to oversee release of fbi documents about clinton e-mail probe and fisa court abuses, 5 months after house judiciary committee, and house oversight committee demanded access to 1.2 million documents, they have received approximately 7,000 to date. half of which were delivered today. our top story, outraged the word of the day. mounting evidence of a corrupt justice department leadership. an fbi that is been out of control for years. and president trump tonight just voicing his outrage over the latest development in mueller witch-hunt. >> a disgrace. if is say real dis grace, an attack on our country, in a true sense, an attack on when about what we stand for. i saw this i heard it, like you did. i said that is really now in a whole new level of unfairness. >> we're wenting an orchestrated assault on president of united states, a justice department and fbi that are ignoring oversight, the constitutional oversight role of congress. the department of justice hiring u.s. attorneys toes tes to looko clinton e-mail scandal, including fisa court surveillance abu

fisa abuse. in my judgment it's because the fbi made missteps. he president were to declassify this fisa warrant, i would hope future presidents wouldn't do it. it's just bad precedent. i think the first time you do something, the dam kind of breaks and you can point and say you did tonight this fact pattern, why aren't you doing this here. bad facts made for tough decisions. 2016 was a tough year for the department of justice on self different fronts. this may be wildly unpopular, but i would probably try to persuade my fellow americans let horowitz and the new quasi special counsel look into it. not quite special counsel, but more than the doj. kennedy: he's a u.s. attorney with subpoena power. you said there are two dozen people the inspector general cannot subpoena but the u.s. attorney would have greater subpoena power. i don't think we need to have a second special counsel. i know you feel that way. i worry this first special counsel has gone side waids. if paul manafort's business dealings are the target somehow we are off base. my worry is

with attorney general jeff sessions announcing a federal prosecutor is looking into alleged fisa abuses by the fbibut some congressmen say it's still not enough. congressman ron desantis, ways your reaction to attorney general jeff sessions saying he's going to allow the u.s. attorney of utah john huber to look into this first then take his recommendation on whether a special counsel is needed? >> it is a step in the right direction of where he was a few weeks ago. he said i appointed the inspector general the look at it, he's a fine guy, but he doesn't have any prosecutorial authority. the fact that you have a prosecutor outside the beltway is a step in the right direction. there was a special prosecutor appointed to pursue president trump when there was no evidence of a criminal violation involving trump's campaign and russia. in this instance we have a lot of evidence there were statutes that may have been violated. false statements made to congress. you have potential obstructing congressional investigation. you have all of those things, and clearly the justice department has a conflict becaus

appears to be referring to a request the committee made for fbi documents related to the hillary clinton e-mail probe and potential abuses of the fisa warrant process. the fbi and doj are run by officials trump appointed. do these attacks make sense? >> they make absolutely no sense at all. we've never seen anything like this. trump needs to remember he's in charge of the executivejustice, fbi, they're part of the executive branch. he needs to have their back. these tweets, while they're not devastating, you know, one or two of them, they're chipping away at the credibility of the fbi and the department of justice. i understand the president may be more concerned about his self-image than the aimaimage oe institutions, but the damage can be lasting and have consequences far beyond the russia investigation, as these agents and these career prosecutors try to do their job. now, i understand the fbi has said, look, we may have been a little slow in responding initially, but we put double the team on it now. we've got them working in shifts to try to answer these document requests. they're trying to get it done. i don't think this presi

fisa court justice. why won't the justice department release the unredacted fbi memo that devin nunes of the house intelommittee has been demanding? what was used, of course, to justify the entire russia collusion investigation to begin with? now, this is more than frustrating and just one more example that we now live in a country with a two tiered justice system. this is what i have been warning you about. the fbi is more than capable of tracing a russia how to a porn star and door of donald trump's personal attorney, michael cohen, but the justice department of the united states of america is slow-walking and purposefully not even releasing documents they have in their possession that has been subpoenaed by the united states congress, the judiciary committee, the intel committee. it is shameful. this should alarm every person watching this broadcast tonight. we'll have a lot more on that in a few minutes. alan dershowitz, sara carter and gregg jarrett are all here. while the media are obsessing over michael cohen, there are really important stories to bring to you. over the weekend, according to mult

the house intel committee, regarding the fbi-clinton email investigation. and the potential fisases during the presidential election. the attorney general, jeff sessions appointed a u.s. attorney to oversee the delivery of more than 1.2 million documents. so far the justice department has offered 3,000 and 600. that's it. why are they slow walking? why aren't they handing over what congress has subpoenaed and it is their constitutional right to look at vis-a-vis oversight. according to a new report tonight from sara carter, quote. some lawyers are now saying the doj's appointment is fog but political theater to avoid contempt of congress. make no mistake, these documents are crucial if we're going to find answers about how the obama justice department under loretta lynch and the fbi director james comey handled or rather mishandled the clinton investigation. these documents will shed light on how hillary was cleared of all charges. i have never heard of an exoneration before an investigation before and i doubt any of you have as well. these documents could show how the fisa syste

fbi and doj. hillary clinton email probe. fisa abuse in terms of spying on the trump campaign and details of the fbi's interrible investigation to fire number two andrew mccabe. frustration continues to build about sessions amongst some of the president's supporters because, remember, this subpoena came in two his department from a fellow republican. the house judiciary chairman bob goodlatte who want a second special counsel to probe all of these matters. goodlatte says he was left with no but to subpoena because he had gotten only a fraction of the clinton probe documents he had requested and basically nothing. completely shut out of potential fisa abuses. goodlatte wrote to the deputy attorney general given the department's ongoing delays in producing thee documentation i'm let with no choice but to issue the enclosed subpoena to compel production of these documents. now, in his defense, the fbi director christopher wray has said he has more than two dozen fbi staffers trying to help the justice department provide these documen

fisa warrant surveillance? enough to ask the visiting fbi director. >> sounds like he wanted to know what they didn't know because if flynn was under fisa surveillance, then they would know that there's a lot more that the investigators at the fbi knows that the president and his team may not know was set. so they're trying to figure out, you know, where the ball is and how bad it is, i think. >> we hope everyone is keeping a whiteboard at home because sometimes that's what it takes to follow the tentacles of this story, especially on a night like tonight. kimberly atkins, frank, figliuzzi, mimi rocah, our thanks to the three of you for starting off our broadcast in this style tonight. >>> coming up, the politics of what this all means for the president and this white house. >>> and, later, president trump learning history on the job and trying to convince all of us that we're all learning this with him in realtime. "the 11th hour" just getting started on a thursday night. nothing says spring like fresh flowers, so let's promote our spring travel deal on choicehotels.com like this. earn one free night when you st