my meeting with stefan halper and that charge.nted to know about what trump was up there with the russians, which was nonsense. >> this is important. you were saying, she was being so suggestive with you to get that information. you were set up in a major way and then, you know, it sounds like, i would think, a perjury trap in the end that put you in jail for two weeks. >> that's exactly what happened. this whole thing was a complete set up. there werepp some keystone stuff going on. the u.k. obviously was involved because the operation was in london. i was meeting with british officials the same day that stefan halper and azra turk were spying on me. there was something really insidious going on here with our ally, the u.k., and i'm sure that president trump is going to get to the bottom of it once he goes abroad and meets with theresa may and the queen in june. >> sean: thank you, both. when we come back, and bc so-called commentator, he thinks he's a genius, took a shot at me, i'll respond a little better. ari fleischer, pam bo

tax dlanchts stephon halper has been paid lots and lots of money.does analysis papers for the defense security agency writing position papers that he gets paid $300,000 for and ends up being a way in which the money for stephon halper is paid out of sort of the black bag. what else interesting is that jonathan maffa is closed door testimony back in august on capitol hill was asked just how many confidential human sources there were in the investigation? and he couldn't answer the question. if it just been one or two or three, that would have been easy. instead he had to say well, there were confidential human sources, i just don't know how many there were. >> tucker: shocking. shocking. hopefully we will know. thank you for that reporting, eric felton, good to see you. >> good to see you, tucker. >> tucker: mollie hemmingway has been covering this story and has been for the federalist. she joins us tonight. why haven't we heard stephon halper long standing government source and as eric felten said recipient of u.s. tax dollars i believe is he still

we also know that in fact spies were sent in vis-a-vis stefan halper. for carter page, s papadopoulos, sam clovis. on top of the spying, basically through the fisa warrant into all things trump. what else are we going to find out? >> well, i know this much about christopher steele, and his dossier. i've read plenty of intelligence reports, i've met with plenty of british officials that are in intelligence, not only in the u.k., but here and abroad. they have been very valuable, allies to us. they are not idiots, sean. there is no possible way that british intelligence folks read the christopher steele dossier and didn't just laugh, okay? r so i actually believe that mueller knows that the mueller dossier team knew that the brits actually i think did give us some warning. but we can't get that information. i think there are things that mueller knew about, i think the brits probably did raise concernsns about steele's credibility to the new administration. but of course, we can't get those documents. it's what we continue to try to get. hopefully, it is w

remember halper is just an informant, not someone who could gather evidence even possibly testify in court. so it clearly shows the level of anxiety inside the fbi during this critical period of time with emails spilling out, questions about russian involvement, and as we said earlier, russia -- papadopoulos had already heard about offers of russian help. so it was clearly tried to be a pretty intricate operation against papadopoulos. >> according to papadopoulos, mark, the woman almost immediately began asking him questions about russia connections, possible russia connections. according to pop dopts, -- papadopoulos, he walked out because of her line of questioning about russia. was this an intelligence failure on the part of the u.s.? >> right now it doesn't seem that way because we know there wasn't sort of some big mother lode of information that george papadopoulos could have offered. they were clearly prodding to find out was he a key link between the trump campaign and russians because of his previous interactions. we now know that he wasn't. and so it would be hard to charac

but i do remember halper pointedly asking me strange questions. i told him what you're talking about is outrageous, trump has nothing to do with the russians, i have nothing to do with the russians. never met a russian official in my life. what i told him is what you're referencing is treason and we have nothing to do with it. we love, mr. trump loves america, i love america, we have nothing to do with what you're talking about. >> sean: let's assume that the transcripts xils the and that hannity for the last two years has pretty good sources as has all of this ensemble team we bring on this show every night. that would mean that if they taped you and they transcripts of you, and you just said everything you just said, then when you finally were brought in you were walking right into a perjury trap if you did not remember perfectly that which they knew you said. does that sound like it to you? >> i think that's exactly what happened. i've never met a russian official in my life. i worked at neoconservative think tank in d.c. then in the energy bus

halper is an fbi informant. he has been talking to the fbi for years.sent her in so that they could have a meeting and she came right out and said was the trump camp working with russia? they did not get any fruitful information. she returned to the united states. the fbi has declined to comment regarding this question. but the big question goes like this, how high does this go? was it james comey who said hey, i think there could be spying going on or we should spy on the trump campaign because we think they are somehow tied up with the russians? ainsley: funny you should throw out that name. steve: or did it go higher than that. ainsley: the president sat down with catherine herridge and she asked him a myriad of questions about so many topics. a wonderful interview. he said i have been telling you all along this has been going on. he blames the top guy at the time james comey. listen. >> how did this whole investigation start? because i think it's corrupt as hell. i think what's happened between comey and mccabe and brennan and all of these people. >

halper was working as a secret fbi informant, and they both worked in unison to spy on papadopoulos to set the trump campaign up. "the conversation at a london bar in september 2016 took a strange turn when the woman sitting across from george papadopoulos asked a direct question: was the trump campaign working with russia? keep in mind, halper was also set up, multiple meetings with trump campaign aide carter page, sam clovis, and who is being wiretapped. another way they spied on the trump campaign by the fbi after the fbi director, comey, and others obtained the fisa warrant using hillary clinton's opposition research what "theew new york times" is now suggesting could be russian disinformation, the phony, unverified dossier, the dirty russian dossier. wow, it is all beginning to come into focus, as i have been predicting.he none of these spying sessions yielded any evidence of trump-russia collusion, becauseg there was no collusion. without a doubt, spying, the attorney general's right, did occur. in the height of a presidential election under thet biden-obama administration watch,

i received an unsolicited email in september of 2016 from a man name stefan halper who was suggestinghat he wanted to pay me $3,000 to write a report on energy security questions, and i was a recognized expert on that, israel, turkey, and cyprus. i looked him up, i'd never heard of him. i saw that he had worked in four u.s. administrations and he was a professor at cambridge so i accepted his offer and he flew me to london, where he paid for my five star hotel, and he said before i meet with you i want you to meet my assistant. he put this assistant in an email chain along with me and i saw her name, i recognized it as turkish, which was suspicious right away because my policy positions throughout my entire career were very hostile to turkey. when i noticed a turkish name, i didn't understand why she would be involved. i went and i met with her and she was very suggestive, as you can understand, younger, very flirtatious. i right away understood this wasn't a cambridge assistant and she barely spoke english and she was very flirty and was trying to do two things, one, to extract infor

i believe that general plan was targeted and i was used to do that. >> stefan halper has not respondedx's questions in the past but if that changes, we are better reporting, >> tucker: wouldn't that be great. catherine herridge, you are always on these stories. we appreciate that. for more reaction to robert mueller statement today we are joined by someone who is being watch very closely. former trump advisor michael caputo. thanks so much for coming on. >> tucker, how are you doing? >> tucker: i can imagine you watched that live and had a strong reaction to it. what was your take away? >> to me, it was surreal. it wasas kind of like, so long, robert mueller. i guess you want to ride off into the sunset now. i thought, obviously he didn't say anything that wasn't in the report except that he didn'tt want to testify publicly. i don't think we will let him right into the sunset. i don't think we should. there are some things that i would like republican congressman to ask him in the private session off-camera. when did you know there was no russian collusion? why didn't you end it right

right now, there are transcripts expected to be released of his conversations as well with stefan halper. similar to george papadopoulos, who was being probed by stefan halper, who was a former british professor who was gathering information for the fbi and spying on theth trump campaign. the most interesting fact i think, and i will leave you with this, sean, is that tricia anderson basically tries to downplay bruce ohr's involvement when they questioned about being the back channel for christopher steele after the fbi fired him. they question her over and over again. if the fbi actually had enough evidence, enough evidence to go after a fisa with what they found in the dossier. tricia anderson refuses to answer on multiple occasions. it's going to be very interesting to see what comes out next.io it's going to be very interesting to see what the department of justice, william barr, attorney general william barr, will have as far as information on, you know, on the investigation and how it coincides with these transcripts. i think people have a lot of answering to do. >> sean: a lot of

keep in mind halper was also set up, multiple meetings with trump campaign aid carter page, and who is being wiretapped. another way they spied on the trump campaign by the fbi after the fbi director, comey, and others obtained the fisa warrant using hillary clinton's opposition research with "the new york times" now suggesting could be russian disinformation, the phony, unverified dossier, the dirty, russian dossier. wow, it is all beginning to come into focus, as i have been predicting. none of these spying sessions yielded any evidence of trump-russia collusion, because there was no collusion paid without a doubt, spying, the attorney general's right, did occur. in the height of a presidential election under the biden-obama administration watch, again, an opposition party candidate, who knew what when? we will get those answers eventually. tonight, democrats are pretty detached from reality. anything from here on in, it is noise. they can't handle -- they couldn't handle the election loss, they can handle no collusion, no obstruction. but it is over. watch them anyway. >> in the ent

leaks that happened what the "new york times," "washington post," reuters, mcclatchy, leaks about who halperas, leaks regarding the investigation, leaks about the dossier all came from some of these people. there is accusations and there is evidence to suggest that clapper leaked information. possibly brennan leaked information. they don't want to legitimately have the government, the department of justice investigate, investigate what happened in the 2016 election. why? because maybe they were involved? no. it stops here. the president did the right thing. he did it right way. william bar has an investigation and the american people deserve answers. >> jason: congressman winstrop you serve on the intel committee and the ways and means. we should note to the viewers this memorial day, great service for the united states military. i believe you are the rank of the colonel. maybe i should call you "colonel." break this down for us. you have seen leaks from the intel committee under schiff's leadership and what the democrats have seen. what do you think the president's directive will do and wha

>> well, i think the operation that was targeted against me in london by professor stephon halper andhis azra tucker wa azra turk wa operation. probing me the same exact day these figures were paying me and spying on me and recording my conversation. when i hear john brennan say this, i believe, yeah. usually the cia doesn't spy domestically and that's why they brought me to london to meet stephon halper and informants while the british were also involved in it. so i have to highly disagree with john brennan and i think the cia is up to their neck in this. >> martha: really? it's fascinating. i look at you and i think about all of the interviews that we have done over the course of this. and how much skepticism, so many people placed on your story. but, now, you have-out fact that they are still looking into it and the fact that the attorney general is saying not just the fbi but other agencies. you know that must be encouraging to you as someone who has been saying all along that you believe there is cia involvement here. >> well, you know what? i liked what congressman gowdy stated

evidence that carter page and george papadopoulos and others have told the fbi that being stefan halper, that they had nothing to do with russia and there was no connection between them and rush on the trump campaign, and they said this as they were being recorded. another piece of information that the congress is asking for is for bruce ohr's 302s. those are the interviews that the fbi conducted with bruce ohr at the time. and thepp information that he would have. compile this all together,r, and what you can see is that clapper, brennan, john brennan, clapper, and james comey are fighting back tooth and nail. and those in the bureaucracy that support them are doing the same. and they are trying to stop a.g. barr from getting the information. but now president trump has authorized the declassification, and he has given barr full authority to examine that information and make it public. and that's what the intelligence sources that i have spoken to says needs to happen, and the american people deserve the truth. >> sean: all the good people in the intel committee. it is not a matter of

>> this person would play the role of stefan halper's research assistant.bi believed she would -- she would make a good fit. i think -- i think part of the rationale was also to have an american investigator there who could provide some oversight and make sure this operation stayed on the rails. >> was she an fbi agent? >> i'm just going to leave it right now as a government investigator. i use that wording for a reason, and i'm going to leave it at that. >> okay. and is it clear if any actual information was learned from that meeting? i mean, you say it was basically a failure. >> basically it wasn't fruitful, but what it showed was this some might say panic, others might say heightened sense of alarm about what was going on, and they needed to get to the bottom of it. i mean, this was pretty extraordinary for the fbi to move this fast on something overseas, to run this type of operation. and it really goes to the seriousness of the threat, at least the threat they received. >> and yesterday attorney general barr defended -- he's his use of the term spying

the new york times reporting that a woman posing as an assistant to fbi informant steven halper was sent to london in sent 2016 to meet with former trump campaign advisor george papadopoulos. that woman in reality was an undercover intelligence operative of the fbi. and according to the times report, she is said to have directly asked papadopoulos if the trump campaign was working with russia. the deep state is reportedly scrambling tonight, desperately trying to get their stories straight and get it out ahead of internal inspector general and justice department investigations. the attorney general william barr says the justice department's inspector general is expected to wrap up his investigation into the fbi's actions during the trump campaign by next month. the radical dems on the house judiciary committee have a lot more to worry about than their own peculiar and pathetic performance today. they turned today's hearing into a circus, after william barr decided not to appear to be interrogated by their staff. for more on that, and the white house response to the mueller report, we tur

why haven't we heard stefan halper, s long-standing government source, and as eric felten just said,ong-standing recipient of tax dollars. why isn't he answering these questions? >> we have this i amazing situation going on where we have the russia hoax, treasonous league colluding with russia to steal the 2016 election. robert mueller declined to indict a single american for that. this is what eric felten has just reported about a wide-ranging campaign against the trump campaign that used human informants. national security letters. wiretaps. this character, i don't think that is her real name. a government official who was sent to london to oversee the operation. we know that there were probably four people who weret surveilled at least. we don't know so much about this, and the media show a shocking lack of curiosity. they broke the story, but then they kind of downplayed it and acted like we are going to telly you all about the spy, but it doesn't support donald trump's contention that he was spied onr it supports it, and they need tt cover it with the same rigor that they devote

. >> who, who's, howard as played by simon halper. his mother dies in season eight, episode 15. then, in episode 18, as a tribute, the cast all thaws all the foods that she has made for him, and then they have a big party. >> jimmy: okay. >> hello! you don't know this? >> jimmy: no, i don't know this, but don't cry. hey, you know what? you still have young sheldon. >> ah, [ bleep ] young sheldon! [ applause ] jimmy! i love aold sheldon, but now i' stuck at your stupid show and i'm not going to have a chance to rehearse the big bang theme song with my band. >> jimmy: we have a band, why don't you practice the song with our band. [ applause ] >> jimmy: see what i'm saying? you guys know that song, right? >> you mean, you mean that? >> jimmy: what's that? >> you pemean that? i can practice? >> jimmy: no, not at all, but go ahead. >> i guess i could give it a shot. one, two, three, ♪ our whole universe was in a hot, dense state ♪ ♪ and nearly 14 billion years ago started expanding weight ♪ ♪ we built a wall ♪ we built a pyramid ♪ it all started with a big bang ♪ ♪ yes, bazinga! ♪ [a

information for fisa applications, and one direction to spy on the trump campaign and another, stefan halperpproaching papadopoulos and clovis and others, and page. and that, to me, would be fraud on the court. and then they use the same line, russian dis-information, with that unduly elected president to take him out. i mean, karl. >> and today, booker is saying and acting as if nothing ever happened with christopher steele going to moscow, calling up his pals in moscow, saying, got any dirt on trump? same with kamala harris. she just grates on me and she goes after barr and says, did you ever look at the underlying evidence? he said, no, as a matter of fact, i assumed and took as fact what bob mueller told me in his 400 page report. well, she was a chief prosecutor in san francisco. c can she lick the camera straight in the eye and say that on every decision she made to indict somebody or not indict somebody, that she looked at all the underlying evidence? or did she rely on the police? absolutely right! yet this is the kind of stuff they were doing routinely today! editor speaks to the ra

then you have got the other side of the equation where have you stephon halper people that had intelligenceps with america -- other american intelligence arms. and it goes back to this question of who started this whole ball rolling and who may have been planted by some of these agencies. are you going to get to the bottom of that if you get this investigation you want? >> there are going to be some people looking into these things now. we have inspector generals. we have attorney general barr. we have, you know, at least two senate committees that are going to be looking at this. the public has a right to know. people do need to realize it's congressional investigations, their whole purpose is to make this information public. i'm always concerned if it's another criminal investigation, if no crimes are revealed. we may never hear about it. this is just potentially wrongdoing on the parts of these agencies that the public has to know about and that's really what the congressional investigations are all about and that's what i'm going to be tenacious wil about uncovering. >> martha: those st

how much were we paying halper. important questions when we do get bill barr in front of our committee i'll ask him or i hope his investigation will uncover and give us that information. maria: so my sources are telling me this morning that jerry nadler is going to mash mark up a resolution this wednesday to hold bill barr in contempt is that correct? >> probably so but who knows these guys are bound and determined to go after the attorney general after president trump and not going to focus on what we need to do to help the country so i think they're nervous about bill barr because remember what he said three weeks ago in front of the senate finance committee he made four important points first of all spying did in fact take place. second he said there is a basis for his concern that the spying wasn't properly predicated. third, he said there was a failure of leadership of the fbi we know that for sure, comey, mccabe, we know there was a failure of leadership there and then fourth he used two terms that i've never

wiretapped carter page and we knew that they had used confidential informant, a man stapled stefan halper in britain against page and papdopoulus as well. now we find out that they had a secret investigator, a woman by the fake name of turk. we don't know her actual name. she was apparently send there by the fbi to gather information out of papdopoulus. he did say on tucker last night he thought she was using sex appeal to try to get information out of him. but it is really, really hard to say that there was not spying going on for the trump campaign. melissa: so their defense at other times whether it is this or wiretap or all the different things has been, boy, they must have had really good reason for this, to go to these lengths. they definitely wait until you hear the evidence of what was going on that they were going into perform the sting operation. when you get to the bottom of "the new york times" article, in the end they never found anything on george papdopoulus. he eventually lied to investigators but he, you know, lied to the people that were entrapping him, in his mind at le

took the daily caller news foundation not public admittance from the government to uncover stephon halper government to political operatives for trump. just the last two weeks the "new york times" was able to uncover a actual u.s. intelligence officer posed as his assistant and set up a honey trap for one of trump's political associates. we are learning new things all the time here. the good thing about this attorney general is that he hasn't covered corruption in the fbi in my hometown of boston. has he investigated corruption not corruption but overreach of power during times of war. >> harris: leaks in particular. >> here in washington, d.c., he has worked for president bush. he has worked for president obama, he has worked for president clinton. so far he doesn't seem to be a very partisan person and hopefully judy is right he can put this to bed and there is no serious issue. if there is, it should be uncovered. >> harris: i caught that judy so benign the way he put that honey trap that we learned about recently last word from you. >> look, i think that, in general, it would be terri

. >> arguably the fbi lost an informant in stefan halper. his name is out there. that's the kind of damage that can get done. the exposure of people who have other jobs who have been helpful to investigations in the past. >> it's damage to prior sources, it's damage to current sources, and it's damage to potential future sources, because who wants to become a source of the united states if we can't keep a secret. >> peter baker, is this -- the president is somebody that loves -- he thinks everything is a deal in some form or another, right? so he went to nancy pelosi and said, you know i'm not legislatu legislating until you stop investigating. does he think if he starts this investigation in justice that he can say, okay, i'll stop that if you stop yours. is this the type of strategic thinking that the president has put into this? >> that's a great question. is he capable of it? i guess, a lot of things we've seen the last two and a half years indicate that he plays outside the box, he colors outside the lines. a normal administration wouldn't play it that way, i

had wiretapped carter page and that they had sent a confidential informant, stephen halper, to gather information about papadopoulos. now we know with the new report the f.b.i. sent another spy, a confidential agent, a woman who went by the fake name of asra turk. we don't know her real name. they sent her to london to gather information from george papadopoulos. last night on tucker papadopoulos said she used sex appeal to try to get information from him but that he knew at the start that something was really weird about the whole thing. >> bill: let me play a little bit of this. as you describe this interview, this meeting in london. here is how he described it with tucker. >> she barely spoke english. very flirty and was trying to do two things. one to extract information about my professional connections in the middle east and two, to see if i had any information that she could potentially extract from me about trump and russia, which is nonsense. now, of course, "the new york times" reported that she was some sort of agent but i don't think she was f.b.i., i think she was c.i.a..

me, i want to know about the spring first and how dare i go out of my way to ask questions on who halper is. professor meeting with papadopoulos and carter page and now we find out that carter page is meeting in virginia. ainsley: at his farm. brian: he was not clear what he did for a living. what he is doing for a living is pretending to be a professor. what is he doing for a living is working for the fbi. you don't think we have the right to ask questions? pete: thankfully we do. we got from inspector horowitz looking into the application process and bill barr. it's absurd in this op-ed he talks about how we did all these things with hillary clinton with her email and they think cost her the election. a lot of people feel like he didn't do enough. he gave her the white glove treatment. ainsley: we are hearing from the directors of the fbi. james comey wrote the op-ed. the former cia director john brennan said. this listen. >> i think it's critically important that the counterintelligence professionals continue to carry out their responsibilities and resist these unwarranted and very, v

you know, stephan halper, he worked the spy for obama tasked to targeting trump.t. he had contracts with the definition department. informant for the fbi. his partner targeting papadopoulos was a government investigator. who knows what agency she worked for. you have got three agencies, maybe four agencies involved so it's good the a.g. can pull it all together and just figure out what can be made public. steve: listen, we all want to know. the fact that the federal government was looking into the campaign of somebody running for president is extraordinary. >> biggest corruption scandal of all time. we need transparency now. steve: tom fitton thank you very much for joining us live from our nation's capital. >> you are welcome, steve. steve: what do you think about that? email us at friends@foxnews.com. able buy hornacek is exploring our nation from parasailing in the virgin islands to rock climbing. she will join us live to talk about it right here on "fox & friends." ♪ beautiful, wonderful ♪ american girl ♪ ♪ to give every idea the perfect soundtrack. ♪ to make

meeting with george papadopoulos and the trump campaign official and was brought there by stefan halperory here is the news is the news. the fact that the new york times finally had to come around now and avoided the story for a year and a half should tell you something and that leads to headline number two. notice how they frame it getting out ahead of bill barr and he's come walking into tombstone. they try to frame the narrative in advance and it's going to be this. mark my word. it was a "frantic" time in the fbi. it was confusing. that is not an excuse. the constitution matters precisely when it's frantic. freedom of speech matters, pete, when you defended your military service when it matters not when everything is great. the freedom to petition your government and assemble matters when it's frantic that is not an excuse thoughts frantic in the fbi to spy. pete: it was frantic and their other defense appears to be well we really thought you may have been a rug agent so we're just patriots in pursuit of the truth >> that's a valid retort, that i know you'll hear from the left and i