here's paul ryan saying that what gowdy said, was there nothing to dispute what gowdy said and we'll how the president and the white house reacts. so far the president has continued to mak these unsubstantiated charges -- >> hold on one second. let's listen to the coach of the philadelphia eagle, the uninvited team yesterday. >> i'm not discussing it. over. what you've seen and what you've heard is enough and i'm not discussing. i'm not going to stand here and discuss it because we have two practices and i have a mandatory camp next week and i'm focused on that. >> how is the morale of the team? >> great. the team's great. [ inaudible question ] >> no. no. we're united. we're a team. it's been that way since i've been here. [ inauuestion ] >> we're focused on today, focus on getting a great practice here today, tomorrow and next week and our focus is 2018 and that's motivation enough. >> did you address the whole situation with your players? >> no. no. i mean,listen, it's -- no. [ [ inaudible question ] >> nobody was talking about him. nobody. it's over. it's behind us and we're movi

trey gowdy is one of my heroes. i always loved trey gowdy. i don't know if he went to the dark side. he understands credibility, lying and the courtroom. why would he talk to christopher wray and rod rosenstein saying i haven't seen the documents but i believe everything they are saying. >> i disagree with his analysis and it goes to what jim said. they should have just told candidate trump this is something they were concerned about. instead they chose to take taken aggressive posture vis-a-vis the entire campaign. they launched this massive counter-intelligence investigation based on papadopoulos saying something to downer. we know when downer reported that to u.s. authorities, he didn't even mention emails. there wasser in a discussion about emails. so the start of it is as thin as you can possibly be. and i would also say there was more information or evidence that would require you to surveil hillary's campaign and trump's campaign. look at the national security implications. they were paying a foreign national christopher steele to coll

gowdy doesn't think so. he's a lawyer, he's worked with doj, i don't know whose right but it's one of the things that we have to get to the bottom of. maria: you you are investigating the state department right now to try and understand how the information that flowed ultimately getting to the fbi to launch this investigation. what can you tell us about your investigation into the state department? >> well that was the new information i was referring to just a little bit ago is that the new york times have reported th mr. downer the australian high commissioner had brought this information through official channels through five eyes intelligence. that didn't happen. we have people in the state department who say they absolutely were involved so people in the u.s. state department have admitted they were involved so now we're trying to figure out well who at the state department was involved did mr. downer take this information to the state department is that what happened and did the state department then ta

week but today saying he also backs trey gowdy. four out of the five republicans backing trey gowdy on this. >> got it. thank you. meantime, fired fbi deputy director andrewabe heads to capitol hill next week to testify on the clinton e-mail probe. but there is one potential roadblock. he won't do it if he can receive immunity. the demand asoutlined in this letter obtained by cnn and sent to the judiciary committee chairman chuck grassley, grassley wants to discuss the long-awaited internal justice department report and the details on how officials handed that whole investigation. sources say the report will detail a series of missteps. our cnn jusce reporter broke this story. why is mccabe asking for this immunity, laura? >> reporter: unlike many oforme senator grassley is hoping will testify in the coming weeks, mccabe is in a tough spot here. he was fired after it was found he lied to intl investigators about a separate inspector general'sreport. since that time he's been under investigation by the u.s. attorney's office here in

here's trey gowdy again. i want to play this trey gowdy clip.aking. >> russia isn't being hurt boy this investigation right now, we are. this country is being hurt. we are being divided. we've seen the bias. we've seen the bias. we need to see the evidence. if you have evidence of wrongdoing by any member of the trump campaign present it to the damn grand jury. if you have evidence that this president acted inappropriately, present it to the american people. whatever you got, finish it the hell up. >> i've got to go back to ben wittes. ben, i'm going to show you a couple things here. let's look at timelines. trey gowdy knows better. that's what's so disgusting. the russia investigation that -- it's gone 397 days. it's cost less than donald trump's trips to his privately owned golf courses. check the numbers. that's the truth. and we've got four intel chiefs saying that russia is trying to influence and undermine and subvert american democracy so that investigation is going 397 days. iran can tra almost -- contra almost 2500 days, and whitewater

. >> you sat in a briefing with trey gowdy who said that he's more convinced the fbi -- [ ? normally like to comment on classified briefings. i think chairman gowdy's initial assessment is accurate, i think. we have more digging to do. we're waiting for some more document requests. we have some moreents to review. we still have some unanswered questions and it would have been helpful if we'd gotten this information earlier. as chairman nunes said the other day, if we had the information we were looking for we could wrap this up faster, but i have seen no evidence to the contrary of the initial assessment that chairman gowdy has made, but i want to make sure that we run every lead down and make sure we get the final answers to these questions. >> so, kate, no evidence to the ront raer contrary of what trey gowdy said this is what mitch mcconnell said who was also at one of those briefings last month and he said he saw nothing particularly surprising and chairman richard burr, the senate intelligence committee would not comment about what he saw in that briefing and only devin

gowdy laid this out there. now the speaker has backed it up, walked the line a little bit, but backed it up. our colleague heard from richard burr, who rarely speaks on these issues, he said he agreed with trey gowdy. you're seeing everyone but devin nunes saying everything the fbi has shown us shows what the fbi did was correct and in line with their process and what the fbi did is not at all what the president is trying to say. >> sometimes we need to slow down in the blur age of trump we live in. so the speaker of the house, trey gowdy, three very prominent republicans, including the man third in line to the presidency, saying mr. president, stop. mr. president, you are wrong. mr. president, the fbi did not spy on you. mr. president, give it up. >> he's not really saying that, though. they're saying the president is wrong, but what they are not doing is laying down some gauntlet and say thing is an outrage, this is undermining our institutions. you are seeing people, i think -- >> it's a step out of hiding,

if trey gowdy is right, why not turn them over?you end up defaulting to something approaching one worst's suspicions about the behavior of the fbi and the justice department because consider we are talking about event that is took place in 2016, possibly early 2016. here we are in the middle of 2018 and the justice department and the fbi are essentially saying trust us over this truly mysterious investigation that began possibly with legitimate concern over russians trying to penetrate on american election, but russians have tried to do that in germany and chance as well. why has it been necessary for those institutions to keep this investigation to themselves at this late stage other than the fact that they are perhaps, indeed, investigating the trump campaign and possibly the president himself? paul: here is an idea, bill, why doesn't the president, director of national intelligence dan coats to look into the counterintelligence side of this, leave aside the criminal stuff, but started as counterintelligence probe, the president,

trey gowdy went out of hisway to say it should be completed . >>chris: he said in terms of prussian interference. he wasn't talking about collusion or obstruction. >> i hope there is no collusion or obstruction but i think we should let the investigation conclude and find out what mueller knows. while some people are impugning mueller, i certainly would in most members wouldn't. he had an exemplary run as the head of the fbi and u.s. attorney before that. he was nominated by immigrants and republicans right around 9/11. i worked closely with them . the last comment about the fbi, this isn't the first strange event at the fbi. i had my own event which was very strange with the fbi. my view is yes, there need to be changes at the fbi but christopher wray seems to be a responsible leader and will take in a better direction. >>chris: how big a deal is this to hear trey gowdy who's been a pretty honest broker suddenly really change his opinion about the mueller investigation and president trump's potential legal liability? >> i suspect trey gowdy wil

gowdy, mr. goodlatte all calling for a second special counsel and the silence from our speaker is deafening. speaker ryan needs to step up, join news a call for a second counsel and stop defending the fbi collection of evidence op the trump campaign when they renews to givrefuse to give us e investigation. we know that fbi b their procedures. bruce orr broke procedures when he didn't discloses that his wife had a moonlight job for fusion gps. rod rosenstein didn't discloses that christopher steele had been terminated by the fbi for lying. and yet asking a court to rely on his statements. we need stronger leadership from our speaker supporting the work of those fighting in the trenches to get real answers for the american people. lou: let me ask you, congressman, why in the world would your conference not say 's enough, mr. lame duck speaker, get the hell out of the office. you're going to send us to destruction in the midrm elections. this man doesn't have a plan. he doesn't have a sategy. he di

gowdy and chairman. judiciary committee all calling from the special council and the silence is deafening. he needs to stop defending the f.b.i.'s collection of evidence on the trump campaign when they refuse to give us the documents to show whether or not they broke the law. we know they broke their own procedures. and bruce orr broke the law. and rod rosenstein violates the woods procedure when she didn't disclose christopher steele was terminated biept f.b.i. for lying. and we need strongerdership from our speaker supporting the work of us fighting in the trenches to get answers for the american people. >> lou: why in the world would your cash not say that is enough. you are sending us to perdition and te instruction mr. speaker? and this man doesn't have a plan or strategy and he doesn't raise money that any other speaker couldn't raise. and he is not a strategic thinker and anti- trump and has been show throughout. and he is a disaster if he is left in the speakership. >> i have never heard a single

why was it necessary if what trey gowdy says is true? i'm not saying anything he says is not true, but i'm saying in terms of how he's emphasizing this. why did they need to dummy up the fisa application? if they had a bunch of stuff to make them suspicious about trump campaign and the fbi, why did they use the dossier which was all bogus, 50% of it wasn't corroborated and we know the litany of facts of it paid for by steele and people in the clinton campaign, they would go out of their way, if they were neutral, go out of the way not to present that to the court. if they did present it to the court, they would disclose to the court that steele had been fired as an informant by the fbi, that it was funded as opposition research by the clinton campaign and would have made all those connections, but they didn't. you have to wonder why? why did they lie about the redactive material? why did they play hide the ball? why did they leak? something makes this not right, that what's makes this suspicious. there is a bunch that is still wrong, not

let's turn quickly to trey gowdy. you know trey gowdy.aying the american people would be thrilled to have an fbi spy in a presidential campaign. what happened to your friend gowdy? what has he become? >> no. i have the greatest confidence in trey gowdy. there are two parts to what he said. lou: wait a minute. jason chaffetz says there are two parts. >> hold on, lou. the second part has nothing to do with donald trump. and that did not get nearly enough attention as it should. lou: that's on trey gowdy. jason, thanks so much. mark, appreciate it.join us tom. good night from new york. kennedy: a news alert. a major development in the nuclear stand standoff. the communist regime's notorious spy chief will the deliver a letter tomorrow written by kim jong-un. and it could mean the june 12 summit is back on. the vice chair of the central committee kim yong chol met with mike pompeo. it's the highest ranking meeting with the nort north

gowdy and mr. just three weeks ago gowdy assured us that everything was peachy with the fbi. way were no how did the bureau spy on the trump campaign when it deployed an informant to pry information from trump campaign officials. this week gowdy did a 180 back on the war path slamming the politically bias over quote prejudging the outcomes of the plin kon e-mails and trump-russia investigations. and delivering a chess beating bow that the house would use its full arsenal of constitutional weapons to get compliance with its subpoenas, a threat that includes holding recalcitrant fbi and doj officials in contempt. joining us now, the author ims andy mcconsider thy, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, national review contributing editor and fox business contributor. good to have you here. >> can i get you to read my columns on saturdays? that would be great. lou: i would -- you know what, i read all of your columns and not always on. >> i want you to read them to america. lou: we might be able to work that out. now i'm getting into the fee basis.

let's turn quickly to trey gowdy. you know trey gowdy. it big time saying the american people would be thrilled to have an fbi spy in a presidential campaign. what happened to your friend gowdy? what has he become? >> no. i have the greatest confidence in trey gowdy. there are two parts to what he said. lou: wait a minute. jason chaffetz says there are two parts. >> hold on, lou. the second part has nothing to do with donald trump. and that did not get nearly enough attention as it should. lou: that's on trey gowdy. jason, thanks so much. mark, appreciate it. >> let me be clear, these tariffs are totally unacceptable. for 150 years canada has been the united states' most steadfast ally. cheryl: breaking this morning, u.s. trading partners denouncing u.s. tariffs on steel and aluminum that take effect today, europe, canada and mÉxico say they will retaliate with tariffs on u.s. products on motorcycles and whiskey. cheryl: trade war with selloff yesterday with the dow sinking. cheryl: investors starting a new month. right now futures actual

i trust trey gowdy. i trust the people who have seen this intelligence.ly, the fact that you have devin nunes completely sile silent, that you have marco rubio and graham also saying there's been no evidence to support what president trump is trying to put out there. i think that speaks volumes. >> but do you see his point, that some of the other leaders the fbi have had questionable behavior in his view, republican's view -- >> they're gone. >> -- and that raises questions? >> and they're gone. yes, mccabe was fired. i think what trump is trying to do and his allies like ken is to conflate the two. it's weird for me, a democrat, a progressive and a liberal, to be defending the fbi, but that's kind of where we have gone. more than that, i see what we're doing is defending the truth while trump has no idea what the truth means. >> you do have rudy giuliani saying just recently all of this is part of a pr strategy to sway public opinion. ken blackwell, maria, as always, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> and we'll be right back. ♪ with expedia you could bo

you've got burr joi gowdy and mcconnell, all s there wa there. nothing to support what the president says. that is four of the top republicans in the united states who saw the classified info and are suggesting the president's accusations about ta spy have n basis in any of the single facts they've seen. and yet, as recently as last night, the president kept poundo be b a totally mad up accusation. spy gate, full force, i mainstream media interested yet? who would be who believe belief? it's a great question,ecause no trey gow dpr wrkgowdy. while burr and ryan speaking out is bter late than never, they had they have allowed the president to pedal this theory for weeks without calling it >> all youave to do is look at the basics and you'll see. it looks like a very serious event. hope it's not true, but it looks like it is. h do you like the fact? they had people infiltrating our campaign. can you imagine? can you imagine?e's pedalling i whlieve it. poisoning the system. e president is also tweeted or said said some variation of the word spy at le

like trey gowdy.rmant, aka, spy, at the dnc to chase down the russians hacking the dnc's e-mails? no. if they're trying to protect us and the candidates and the election from the russians where weren't there informants in jill stein's campaign or hillary clinton's campaign? >> sean: boom, check mate. we have our finance -- fox nes contributor and author and let me start with the response to trey gowdy. why weren't there spies in the other campaigns and chris steel said it's 50/50 used to get fisa warrants on american citizens one that happened to be in the trump campaign. >> there weren't spies in other campaigns, sean, because they were spying on trump not the russians. this is -- i don't know if trey gowdy wafted a little bit -- >> sean: he never saw the documents. how could me make that document -- >> but me made a comment so irresponsible he said americans should be confident the fbi worked the case as they should have. then why did they hide it from congressional oversight for eight months when t

let's turn quickly to trey gowdy. you know trey gowdy.ed in it big time saying the american people would be thrilled to have an fbi spy in a presidential campaign. what happened to your friend gowdy? what has he become? >> no. i have the greatest confidence in trey gowdy. there are two parts to what he said. lou: wait a minute. jason chaffetz says there are two parts. >> hold on, lou. the second part has nothing to do with donald trump. and that did not get nearly enough attention as it should. lou: that's on trey gowdy. jason, thanks so much. mark, appreciate it. here is lou dobbs. lou: our top stories diplomatic drama, united states and north korea make a last-ditch effort to save singapore summit. secretary of state pompeo warning kim jong-un must make major concessions if he wants to sit with president trump on june 12. we take up the latest development with general jack keane. president trump keeping his promises putting american workers first on trade. much to chagrin of dems, rinos, round table, eu, and mexico, canada, "wall street

writing directly to your friend trey gowdy. >> jason: gowdy is right at almost all of this stuff.ene to look closely. peter strozk has a lot that congress wants answered for months. they would not allow them to come to capitol hill. now that there is an actual i.g. report suddenly he wants to come testify before congress. i will be fascinated to hear what they have to say and they should listen. >> harris: he should text message his answer then. i mean wouldn't you love to hear the man behind the text messages? >> melissa: we have never heard him speak that i know of and having read the messages what would be the first question to ask him? >> jason: i'd ask why he would think 100 million people should vote for hillary clinton. there isn't a single person that he knows of that would vote for trump. how is it that the mind set would allow him to do his job as the head of counterintelligence for the bureau of investigation. >> i wano bring up a point in this. the two people weren't just anybody at the f.b.i. they were working on a presidential candidate in hillary clinton. her e-mail

gowdy last week. i don't know what change skptd made it pertinent for him to go forward. >> what changed is you have seen a number of president's allies, including devin nunes, hammering gowdy, who was a conservative poster boy for the hearings he did on ben tkpwaz cancer and hillary clinton. and so i think that is why he felt the need to say the most mildest of statements about this. i don't think this portends new dawn. >> sarah sanders was on "cuomo prime time" last night. chris asked many times how she could justify to the white house press corps and all americans having said that the president didn't dictate that note about the trump tower meeting with russians and now saying she can no longer comment on it. it was false. what is she said was false. why did she tell us something that was false? that's a fair question. here's her response. >> we are purposely walling ourselves off and allowing outside counsel to do their job. and we're doing ours. >> but you did initially answer it, right? >> i di

chairman bob goodlatte and trey gowdy are in the room. here is trey gowdy.ments, five minutes each and trey gowdy. >> bill: look at that picture there behind michael horowitz. that's a stadium of lawmakers in front of him. it was row after after row. this will go for some time. >> sandra: christopher wray is not in the room. he was in the room yesterday. today the witness is the i.g. michael horowitz. but as you mentioned, 74 members of both committees combined. >> bill: as you look at this, you have to look to trey gowdy and you have to look to bob goodlatte. because they have been knee deep in this investigation for a year and a half. jason upwards of two years. i think their line of questioning is something you should have a keen interest in today to figure out where these house members are going now. >> well, they -- this is their golden opportunity to go and look under the hood. remember, this is the first investigation. there is still another investigation into fisa abuse, the russia -- was there wrongdoing in russia? they will try to ask questions on

gowdy. if i were them, i would let us know what happened.hey probably ought to tell us whether or not they were involved in this or they have a major problem. >> maria: the washington post is reporting that roger stone reveals new contact with russian national during the 2016 campaign and yes, you're right, it was in may of 2016 when roger stone says that he was met with a russian -- he's call him an informant, wanting money for information about hillary clinton that he says that he wants donald trump to pay for. you think that this is a new meeting that you didn't know about and you should have been told about this by today from the doj? >> well, we should have been told about this about eight months ago, okay, let's start there. in compliance with the subpoena that we issued last august. but for sure a couple months ago when we went -- when we began to ask, hey, we ask questions about -- we had a company and we wanted to -- we had a subpoena and we wanted to figure out what they were doing, right before and right after the opening of the c

do you trust gowdy's assessment? to talking to trey, he's a good friend of mine and he's someone that i really do trust. i don't know who these other members of congress who you say have come to the same conclusion, i don't know any of them that do, but this might be a time where trey and i are going to agree to disagree. unless virtually everything that's been reported on this is untrue. i still have real concerns and i still think we want to pursue this and have a broader look at the documents. >> you say everything that's been reported about it, really the most public things are things that the president has said, and he's consistently used the word spy, he's said two spies or a spy ring. >> yes. >> what do you think has been reported that needs to be looked into more? >> well, let's look at the "new york times" and "washington post" reporting. and by the way, an important consideration on this, anderson, is that we have been trying to get this information for actually months, intensely for the last few weeks. the

and senator richard burr said i think trey gowdy's assessment was correct. and house speaker paul ryan. >> normally i don't like to comment on classified briefing. i think trey gowdy's initial assessment is accurate. we have some more digging to do. we are waiting for more document requests and more document review. >> republicans break with the president at the latest indication he lacks any evidence to back up his claim of a major political scandal. the only republican briefed on the intel who has not broken with the president is devin nunes. he has demanded more documents. >>> president trump's lawyer rudy giuliani furthest r escalag the efforts at the conference in tel aviv, rudy giuliani misrepresented the formation and purpose of the mueller team with this claim. >> a group of 13 highly partisan democrats to make up the mueller team, excluding him, are trying very, very hard to frame him. they can't emotionally come to grip was the fact that the russian collusion didn't happen. >> giuliani also said first lady moe melania trump does not believe stormy

gowdy, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. the russia investigation has been going on for almost two years now. special counsel's investigation has been going on for over a year now. for most americans it is important to know what russia did to our country in 2016 and with whom if anyone they did it. when a foreign state interferes with our democratic electoral process, it should be chance of a lifetime for law enforcement agent to investigate that. except, apparently, the one that was actually picked to investigate it. that was peter strzok. fbi agenter peter strzok was picked to lead the fbi's investigation into what russia did in july of 2016. it was a counterintelligence investigation begun in late july 2016 and he was leading it and about the exact same time he was picked to lead it, this dispassionate and fair fbi agent was calling trump a disaster, destabilizing for the country, i'll leave out all of the f adjectives he used to describe that. i'll go with disaster and destabilizing. same time his fbi lawyer girlfriend l

we heard trey gowdy and he said they have to respond. does this put more pressure on intelligence officials to respond to investigators in line. >> one thing is this has been going on in-house intel for a long time. a lot of questions about bias for them. doj has had some cover to fight back. now with paul ryan saying he will bring this back on the house floor from his going to use the constitutional weapons the house has two forced doj can never documents. absolutely a lot of pressure. >> robert mueller has to know that this is ammunition for his political enemies. that is not something that i mueller cares about, is it? he probably feels pressure but he wants to complete the investigation or that's what he supposed to be doing. >> is no accident we haven't seen people like ryan and gabby turned the guns i mueller because what's he supposed to do. you've carried out the mueller probably agrees with at least one of these talking points from a lot of these republicans. the last time a body shot after body shot from the president. however

gowdy. can you tell us about that meeting? >> this was a long time coming, it was very difficult to get this meeting put together. however, i think that we have a process to move forward. we're supposed to meet on monday. our staffs are supposed to meet on monday. all the subpoena% supposed to be complied with this week. now, i'm not sure. my confidence level is extremely low that do j and fbi are going to comply. i don't have a lot of confidence. i was good that the speaker of the house was there and the other two committee chairman to make sure the fbi and doj know they've been put on notice, we won't take no for an answer anymore and the subpoenas will be complied with. >> maria: you put a deadline in place. you want to see the documents that you've requested by when? what is the deadline in place that you've agreed to? >> the deadline, multiple deadlines, let's not forget, multiple deadlines have been blown past. we could just -- there's countless deadlines. we went through a list of 20

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