j. edgar hoover was trying to scare dr. king into silence. j. edgar hoover believed that martin luther king jr. was america's, quote, most dangerous negro. those were the fbi's words about martin luther king jr. after he gave the "i have a dream" speech in washington. after the fbi witnessed that, they decided this, this is america's most dangerous negro. he has to be stopped. j. edgar hoover despised dr. king. hoover believed the civil rights amendment was anti-american. created an attack on martin luther king that was designed to get dr. king to kill himself. they tried to drive him to suicide. the building that james comey works in has the most disgraceful name of any building in washington. it is called the j. edgar hoover building. it is impossible to destroy the reputation of an organization created by j. edgar hoover that is housed in the j. edgar hoover building because j. edgar hoover destroyed that reputation himself. by the time james comey graduated from law school in 1985, the fbi had been working very hard to rebuild its reputation,

j. edgar hoover? >> people loved us, we were going to transform society. we were going to bring the needs foe the attention of everyone. we were going to skew that mainstream message that we can wait. it might take a long time, but -- it might take another century, but we can wait for health care and food and decent education and housing. we can wait for the police to stop abusing, beating and killing people without any reason and against the law. we said we can't wait. and we were the children who grew up with martin luther king and saw him brutally murdered. >> and wrote a book of course called why we can't wait. >> yes, he did. >> and we were paying attention. and so j. edgar hoover was very concerned, it's in writing, he called it the rise of a black messi messiah. and what he didn't understand is that there are many messiahs, that there are many ways that a community could be uplifted and we were doing it. right under his nose. as a matter of fact, as an example of the embarrassment as well as the threat. the breakfast program became so popular and so

j. edgar hoover. (bleep) j. edgar hoover. we still don't know who killed kennedy." with the boy, you better watch your mouth. i was cutting your daddy's hair." "all right, man, that's $20. have a good day. god bless. god bless, brother, god bless." ( cheers and applause ) barber shop 5. thank you very much. ( laughter ) now, obviously, a special prosecutor, especially of mueller's stature, essentially puts the white house on notice, and you could tell by the way they reacted last night. >> the white house released a statement saying "there was no collusion between my campaign and any foreign entity. i look forward to this matter concluding quickly." >> trevor: wow. you know what? i'm proud of trump. that's a smart response. it's calm. it's measured. it's appropriate. it's also clearly not for him. ( laughter ) you see, for real trump, you have to wait until the morning. >> the president is awake. he seems angry, and he is tweeting this morning. gone is the relatively measured statement from last night. ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: did you hear what that guy sa

j. edgar hoover know earnest had the dalliance with the soviets? noep. does hoover know hemingway had friends on the left? yes. does j. edgar hoover think emming way was guilty of anything except for being maybe a little bit after fellow traveler? absolutely not. we have hoover's own handwriting on the file, kind of a summary near the end of the file, he says i know he was not a communist. he was just a rough, tough, guy, who stood up for the little guy. hoover, i mean think what you want about hoover and other cases, but in this particular case that's kind of the gentler, kindler hoover we don't get to see much about. >> tell us about orlov? >> okay. i think he lives in dayton or cleveland, i have to check. any way, orlov, one of his jobs is to kill people for stalin. they have, basically roving teams of assassins who go and kill political opponents. and what stalin does in his totally paranoid world view, he kills his own people after he decides that they have become a threat. if you do, if you don't do a good job you're in trouble. if you do too good o

j. edgar hoover here, or are we? >> shannon: former f.b.i. rector james comey being compared by some to his legendary predecessor years back j. edgar hoover including our next guest who has been doing it for months. michael goodwin. good to see you today. i want to read a little bit from your piece. this is an analogy you've been drawing. it is noteworthy he never complained about trump until he was fired. he learned his hoover lessons well which is why i call j. edgar comey two months ago. >> the legacy of j. edgar hoover cuts in both directions. he created the f.b.i. but you couldn't get rid of him. he served under six presidents. five of whom wanted to fire him but were afraid to. harry truman famously said he is like a secret police force that he established. black mails people. harry truman didn't fire him, either. he died in office. it's named the hoover f.b.i. building. he created the f.b.i. but i think he also set up the power center where he was above accountability. too big to fire. and i think that's what comey was beginning to get

j. edgar hoover, when nixon was president, he did the same exact thing. >> read my book. i have a memo to nixon recommending the retirement of j. edgar hoover before his deat death. >> i will buy your book. >> eboni: president trump hosting russia's foreign minister in the oval office today. stay with us. think again. this is the new new york. we are building new airports all across the state. new roads and bridges. new mass transit. new business friendly environment. new lower taxes. and new university partnerships to grow the businesses of tomorrow today. learn more at esd.ny.gov ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ sfx: engine revving ♪ (silence) ♪ what makesheart healthysalad the becalifornia walnuts.r? the best simple veggie dish ever? heart healthy california walnuts. the best simple dinner ever? heart healthy california walnuts. great tasting, heart healthy california walnuts. so simple. get the recipes at walnuts.org. ♪ it's not just a car, it's your daily treat. ♪ go ahead, spoil yourself. the es and es hybrid. experience amazing. i just saved a bunch of money on my car insurhuh. with geico.

j. edgar hoover would indeed be proud. today's fbi is often and accurately described as one of the few intelligence and law-enforcement agencies combined. with the culture of the fbi now in for the past 100 years has been a culture of hard work and dedication to protecting human its states no matter what the challenges. in the wake of the september 11th attack became clear that the fbi number one priority must be the prevention of another terrorist attack. to refocus the mission to revise their priorities and realize the work force and strength of the lives of communication between the bureau within goal intelligence and law-enforcement community and now we're stronger and better yclept to confront the threats that we face today. today's fbi continues to reflect on fidelity, every every and integrity. it is a model emblazoned on the seal and worth its weight in gold. and for the past 100 years years, the men and women of the fbi have lived up their commitment to fidelity and bravery and integrity and precisely because they

j. edgar hoover. he is one of the most credible law enforcement owe isfficials e country. >> in 2004, comey was acting attorney general while his boss john ashcroft was ill in the hospital. comey and mueller worked to fight the bush white house attempt to renew the wiretap program. the pair raced to ashcroft's hospital bed when they found out two bush west wing officials were headed there to get the ailing attorney general to sign off on the renewal. >> a dramatic moment. mueller and comey threatened to resign and the white house backed off. one other note. special counsel can be fired. without the protection of the council law. he can order rod rosenstein to fire mueller anytime. trump can fire rosenstein. dave, they already started hiring up. several associates at the law firm. they all resigned and getting -- starting to hire. he has to get space. make sure they can get that information and hire clerks and make sure people have the right classified status and begin investigation. >> a lot of questi

as has been told over the last couple days, he was the longest-serving fbi director since j edgar hoover himself. the first since hoover to complete the 10 year term of an fbi director, and then he was so popular and so respected that he was extended for an additional two years by president obama and a bipartisan act of congress. host: what made him so popular and respected? guest: he is a ramrod straight , former marine straight shooter. in a city that seems like it gets more partisan and more politicized with every passing year, he is completely apolitical, completely nonpartisan, and very well respected on both sides of the aisle. host: what was he known for doing at the fbi, in terms of the structure of the organization and its accomplishments over those 12 years? guest: one of the most important moments of his career in tracing how he involved his leadership style, was he started at the fbi as director on september 4, a week before 9/11. on the morning of tuesday, september 11, he was at the hoover building, seated in his first briefing on al qaeda when the twin towers were struck.

j. edgar hoover has played a larger role in the political part of this country as comey day. and even hoover for all his strength and weaknesses did so in a less visible way. we all knew about it. it was legendary. the bureau was the bureau. it came to be what it was under him pretty both the place, he'd been there long time, he was kind of a legend. he was a much different kind of character than comey. but he was powerful and everyone was afraid of him. you have some of that here as well with comey. people are afraid of comey as he said in the earlier segment, people are afraid of him and is very clear that his handling of the whole hillary clinton matter was really proved by almost no one. for him to say as he did that his only choice was to be the guy that recommended whether prosecutor or not, that's crazy. the fact that loretta lynch was compromised, she did not by the way recruits herself, she said to accept whatever recommendation she got. that reclamation recommendatior subordinate officials. the weight supposed to work. what he did was on the face of it improper, inco

j. edgar hoover has played a larger role in the political part of this country as comey did. d even hoover for all his strengths and weaknesses did so in a less visible way. we all knew about it. it was legendary. the bureau was the bureau. it came to be what it was under him. he'd built the place, he'd been there a long time, he was kind of a legend. he was a much different kind of character than comey. but he was powerful and everyone was afraid of him. you have some of that here as well with comey. people are afraid of comey as you said in the earlier segment, people are afraid of him and it's very clear that his handling of the whole hillary clinton matter was really proved by almost no one. for him to say as he did that his only choice was to be the guy that recommended whether prosecute or not, that's crazy. the fact that loretta lynch was compromised, she did not by the way recuse herself, she said to accept whatever recommendation she got. that recommendation or other subordinate officials. the way it's supposed to work.k. what he did was, on the face of it, improper,

director of the fbi j edgar hoover notoriously had a very difficult relationship with several presidentsthe director position is a 10 year term. the reason it is established that way is to maintain the integrity and independence of the fbi as a law enforcement agency. brent: comey was 3.5 years into his contract, a republican put in place by obama. >> and he was put there because he had a bipartisan consensus. he was the deputy attorney general and sina somebody with sterling integrity. it was questioned in the 2016 campaign. brent: of course. >> his fierce independence was seen as a strength by democrats in the russian case and perhaps is a problem for the administration. brent: let's just remind our viewers how we got to where we are tonight. take a look. reporter: here is how the scandal unfolded. after a lengthy investigation, the fbi announced it was recommending no criminal charges against clinton while she was secretary of state. >> although we did not find clear evidence-p, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in the handling of highly classified informatn. reporte

j. edgar hoover is worried about his power. he is worried about his security. and he eventually recruits and brings in an old field agent, tom white, to take over the case, they launch an undercover operation. what is most interesting, among those undercover operatives is a native american. they need to adopt the criminal techniqu techniques, fingerprinting, handwriting analysis. >> how successful was hoover? >> the agents, tom white, they deserve more of the credit than hoover. they are able to, by finding the money to catch one of the masterminds and some of his henchman. it turned out to be, not only a prominent white settler, it turned out to be someone that molly knew well and trusted. what makes the crime sinister, they involve an unbelievable level of deception and portrayal. white men pretending to love you, and meanwhile, plotting to kill you. while the bureau captures a few killers, there was a deeper and darker conspiracy. hoover was in a rush to solve the case, those crimes were never solved. the money was never recovered. one of the most powerful t

j. edgar hoover.et somebody good to run the fbi. >> eric: something, this level of activation, i would assume would check the box for obstruction of justice. >> eboni: certainly. if the allegation is true from donald j. drum, that would be in the highest form. this is that type of allegation, the type of cloud hovering until this is resolved. if you are an anti-trump person, you love this and it's great. more fuel for the fire. he doesn't understand this constitutionality war. if it's not true, then it's more false alarm. more undermining of what we should be talking about. i'm very concerned about what general flynn did. >> kat: maybe there is something in the middle. maybe trump said, do you like me? who knows. same thing, if any -- of any the world is not falling down right now. things are moving forward. >> eric: there are two separate issues here. what did flynn do and was it illegal or improper or unethical and what happened afterwards? what was the investigation? didn't anyone try to inhibit th

j. edgar hoover. confirmed for the job just a week before 9/11.oing on to serve a dozen years during the bush and obama administrations. he's james comey's immediate predecessor and have had this to say about comey -- >> a man of honesty, dedication, and integrity. >> reporter: the feeling mutual. >> i must be out of my mind to be following bob mueller. >> reporter: mueller himself wants to find his approach. in a speech at university of virginia, as public service without politics. >> we must be objective, and be perceived as objective. we must be fair, and be perceived as fair. it also means that we must be apolitical. >> reporter: today key congressional committees signaled they'll press on with their own investigations. the senate intel committee formally asked comey to come and testify asap. >> i think we want to hear from him in a way that's going to be fully forthcoming. and i'm looking forward to that. >> reporter: separately, the committee also demanded the fbi hand over any and all documents prepared by comey that detail his interactions

j. edgar hoover. he was appointed by george w. bush and was asked to stay on for two years in 2011 by president obama. and he was asked to oversee the restitution money from the takata defective airbag case. and he was appointed to oversee the ray rice investigation. news 4's tracie pots will have the details on how broad mull news about a police shooting. >> white police officer in oklahoma who shot and killed an unarmed blackman is unacquitted. betty joe shelby said she fired out of fear. you might remember this case. crusher had his hands held up over his head when he was killed last september. his family bursting into tears in a courtroom when the verdict was read. she said she fired because crutcher didn't obey her commands. she was charged with manslaughter but again not guilty in that. his family called the verdict a disappointment and called the police department corrupt. >>> it's 4:33. it happened in a busy section of arlington and now police are looking for witnesses to a police-involved shooting that left a suspect in g

j. edgar hoover he's the longest serving. i asked him in 2013 about stepping down. >> you going to miss all this? >> yes. no. great people. great challenge. it's been great opportunity. >> reporter: mueller will have the full authority to investigate the russian matter that any u.s. attorney would including the power to file criminal charges. democrats have been pushing for the appointment of a special counsel since rosenstein was confirmed and since attorney general jeff sessions took himself out of making decisions about the investigation. mueller now 72 took over as fbi director just a week before 9/11, more recently the nfl chose him to review handling of the ray rice domestic violence case. he is in private law practice but says he will resign from that firm to avoid potential conflicts. >> that was nbc's pete williams. the president reacted saying quote a thorough investigation will confirm what we already know, there was no collusion between my campaign and any foreign entity. i look forward to this matter concluding q

j. edgar hoover. in his new role he'll have broad powers -- the power to seek subpoenas, to convene a grand jury, and add as many fbi agents as needed as he digs for evidence of any crimes, ranging from collusion with the russians to obstruction of justice. mueller has worked under republican and democratic presidents, and he's worked closely with james comey for years -- his successor at the fbi. >> i want to commend the president for the choice of jim comey as the next director of the fbi. >> pierre thomas with us live at the fbi tonight. pierre, this fbi investigation has been under way now for about ten months, long before election day. this new special counsel, does he start all over or does he pour through the evidence that they already gathered there at the fbi. >> i'm told that mueller will assess the investigation and the ed so far and determine how best to proceed. it's totally his call. david. >> pierre thomas with us tonight, our thanks to you again. >>> we're following other news tonight

j. edgar hoover, mueller is the longest serving in that job.e will have the full authority to investigate the matter that any u.s. attorney would. that includes the power to file criminal charges. congressional democrats have been pushing for the appointment of a special counsel since rosenstein was confirmed and since attorney general jeff sessions took himself out of making any decisions about the investigation. mueller is now 72. he took over as fbi director just a week before 9/11 and more recently, the nfl chose him to review its handling of the ray rice domestic violence case. he is now in private law practice here in washington, be going to resign from that firm to avoid any potential conflicts. so the immediate effect of this is to mean the investigation is going to take longer because mueller will have to get up to speed on the case. he can use existing department prosecutors to help him. he can ask to have others brought in from outside. no reaction yet tonight from the white house and administration officials tells nbc news that the

j. edgar hoover. it was a very sordid relationship. we know that the kennedy justice department allowed hoover to take record martin luther king. you know, this new found notion of ethical separation between the president and the fbi is not really a matter of law. it's a matter of post-kennedy administration, post-johnson administration tradition. i suspect historians will go back and find very often that president -- >> that doesn't justify it. >> the law changed. that's why they created a tenure term for the fbi director. if you wanted to defend this on the grounds the behavior of kennedy-j. edgar hoover was appropriate, you cannot behave the way john f. kennedy and bobby kennedy behaved in 1962. >> it is not whether it was appropriate or justified. my point is whether it was illegal. the law doesn't change -- >> the laws have changed. there have been new laws since 1962. >> criminal laws don't change. >> there are new criminal laws since 1962. the government practices in terms of political -- >> the law that existed prior to the ken

former fbi director come in fact james comey's predecessor, the longest-serving fbi director after j edgar hooverying it gives the fbi credibility. it is not just with a trump and his team colluded with russia, it is a broader probe. was there meddling? what happened with the election? the senate intelligence committee praised the appointment, the house intelligence committee requesting james comey's dismissal documents. obviously they want to get started and dive right in. hisrt mueller can follow inquiry wherever it takes in, so perhaps that is why the president is feeling preyed upon. the appointment has managed to ease tensions in called the and also markets. what are we hearing from the fed and treasury? >> not much. the fed has to look past short-term swings in the market. she seems to be arguing that conditions are in place for a rate hike and the fed has to not fall behind the curve. is important to remain vigilant against falling behind as we continue to make progress on our goals, specially the low level of interest rates and the large size of our balance sheet. >> let's take a look at

white house should perhaps recall what another president, lbj, said about another fbi director, j edgar hoover than outside pissing in. it is a delicious irony that russia's foreign minister should be visiting washington today to see mr trump. you're kidding? such insouciance is impressive. never forget that the us intelligence agencies all say that russia interfered in the election, and they did it to put president trump in office. raise your hand, please... that assessment was made by james clapper, when he was director of national intelligence. he told congress this week that russia had hacked leading democrats and then leaked out damaging information a sophisticated propaganda campaign. they must be congratulating themselves for having exceeded their wildest expectations with a minimal expenditure of resources. and i believe they are now emboldened to continue such activities in the future both here and around the world, and to do so even more intensely. no evidence has been made public proving that the trump campaign did conspire with russia. nothing. there's no evidence either for the cl

j. edgar hoover. >> your candidate praised him repeatedly during the campaign.et's be clear about that fact. one other thing that's important here -- >> so everything switches, democrats can switch around when they don't like the candidate anymore. now jim comey should be fired and we should trust him. >> can i just finish? i'd be happy to give the floor to you then. >> yep. >> it's hard to remember that jim comey took these notes about things that -- conversations he found disturbing. he wrote them down quickly and put them in a file. and people were instructed not to go forward with this as long as he was the fbi director but he was trying to maintain a record and other additional attorneys will tell you that it's evidence if the case were to go to trial, they would be admissible evidence. are they dispositive? let's wait and see what the evidence leads. there may be other memos or other conversations. >> it's always going to be he said versus he said there. >> we're going to leave it. we don't know that. they've got to investigate and get the facts. jordan an

j. edgar hoover. >> eric: you don't think he's really going to cancel the press briefing?> it is part of this cat-and-mouse game. >> i don't know what we mean, shut down. what is that exactly? stick we will play the rest of the game. >> regardless of what the president thinks, the american people have no appetite for this. >> eric: let's call it what it is. >> they are extremists. >> eric: extremist what? >> extremist killers. >> kat: trolling. >> eric: i have known president trump for 15 years and i said keep tweeting. you hit 100 million people. >> terrible, horrible advice. >> eric: go around the fake news. >> eboni: everybody condemning obama right now are with her, and she also made a whole bunch of money speaking to wall street as well. why is it okay for hillary and not okay for obama? >> kat: people on twitter attacking me because i am wearing teal. i didn't have time to do laundry because i was at west point military academy watching my cousin graduate. >> what is the endgame? you will accomplish absolutely nothing. we will win. >> kat: i am mad they didn't includ

gregg: jfk and lbj forever told j edgar hoover to do this investigation and stop that investigation.oes all the way back to thomas jefferson and the trial of aaron burr. i'm getting into the weeds. i don't know where that popped out, great to see you guys. laura: president bush teaming up with an old friend to protect their common legacy. uniting a rock star and former president coming up next. hillary clinton takes aim at donald trump during a commencement speech more than six month after she lost the election. the time to let it go? fair and balanced debate coming up. i count on my dell small business advisor for tech advice. with one phone call, i get products that suit my needs and i get back to business. ♪ ♪ what makesheart healthysalad the becalifornia walnuts.r? the best simple veggie dish ever? heart healthy california walnuts. the best simple dinner ever? heart healthy california walnuts. great tasting, heart healthy california walnuts. so simple. get the recipes at walnuts.org. z282sz zwtz y282sy ywty "how to win at business." step one: point decisively with the arm of your

j. edgar hoover. gabby, thanks, appreciate you being with us. >> thank you. >> byron york, appreciate you being with us. >> thank you. >> thank you, both. in a surprise decision, president trump firing fbi director comey tonight. the search now for a new director. chief operating circa news, john, adriana cohen, they're hear to weigh in. stay with us. usaa gives me the peace of mind and the security just like the marines did. the process through usaa is so effortless, that you feel like you're a part of the family. i love that i can pass the membership to my children. we're the williams family, and we're usaa members for life. you know how painful heartburn can be. for fast-acting, long-lasting relief, try doctor recommended gaviscon. it quickly neutralizes stomach acid and helps keep acid down for hours. relieve heartburn with fast- acting, long-lasting gaviscon. and helps keep acid down for hours. thereit comes to technology, about my small business so when i need someone that understands my unique

j. edgar hoover. >> do you believe he should resign?> of course, yes. >> meghan: the hypocrisy is not lost on president trump who tweeted the democrats have said some of the worst things about james comey including the fact that he should be fired, but not if i so sad. >> one of the things that i find so interesting is that hillary clinton had one, which thank god she didn't, but if she had, director comey would have been fired immediately in the same my credits were criticizing the decisions today would be dancing in the street. >> meghan: that's quite the real we just showed you, but they are being hypocritical. a >> david: for the average american, it's like whiplash. everything keeps changing, ever be close to a different side. at the core of this, listen to democrats trying to make their cases as to why they lost the selection. i defy any democrat to find ten voters whose opinion changed based on information they got about hillary clinton during the election. >> meghan: we were joking about it in the green room that there were some

j. edgar hoover became the acting director of the federal bureau of investigation.r 48 years. he went against gangsters and spies. the fbi targeted political opponents including aclu and dr. martin luther king jr. after hoover's death, a congressional committee called some of the tactics illegal and unconstitutional. congress also named fbi headquarters against hoover who took control of the agency 93 years ago today. should news break out, we'll break in. breaking news changes everything on fox news channel. "your world" with neil cavuto comes up right now. >> nei >> neil: all right. nothing political going on here. welcome. i'm neil cavuto. you might have heard the news and james comey but you might have missed the fact that protests erupted outside the white house featuring no less the guy that runs the dnc, tom perez. we're getting indications that things near and dear to you and investors could be put on hold, maybe delayed if not deny. things like a healthcare fix, tax cuts, regulatory relief, you name

j. edgar hoover. i believe that. >> do you think should resign? >> of course. yes. >> sean: let me specifically remind crocodile tears chucky schumer about what he said back in november. >> i don't have confidence in him any longer, to restore my faith i will have to sit down and talk to him and get an explanation for why he did this. that shows more proof that schumer and the democrats arews full of it when it comes to james comey. on top of all of that, just last week hillary clinton blamed james comey for her election loss. i bet she's a big fan today. watch this.. >> i was on the way to winning until a combination of jim comey's letter on october 28th and russian wikileaks laid doubts in the mind of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off. >> sean: no. but here's the point tonight. there's no getting through to these tinfoil conspiracy liberals. they are detached from reality and oblivious to truth. it's time to diagnose them withh what it is. trump derangement syndrome. sadly, there is not a cure. that's the worst part.o this will go on

j. edgar hoover informed. similarly robert f. kennedy the u.s. attorney general kept the fbi informed of his back channel meeting with soviet intermediaries during the cuban missile crisis. with all this in mind let's bring in walter isaksen, president of the aspen institute, former editor of "time" magazine, veteran journalist and author. biographer of figures so big we need only mention their last name, franklin,ine teen, kissinger, jobs, and da vinci. walleter is with us from his great home town of new orleans, louisiana. walter, first of all we are going to make some folks buy the book because they should. a thumbnail sketch, who were the wise men -- it would be wise people today. and what would you say to president trump if you had 15 minutes to say to this guy who ran as an anti-establishment, anti-administrative state nationalist that it's good to have wise people around you? >> the wise men were a group of people who advised truman, and then eisenhower. it was dean afterison, chip bowlen, mccloy, lovette, avrille hairn harrellman. by coau

j. edgar hoover. he was asked to stay on for two more years in 2011 by former president barack obama. he over saw the disbursement of a billion distribution of the takata airbag case. and he also oversaw ray rice's domestic violence case. president trump released a statement saying in part, quote, a thorough investigation will confirm what we already know. there was no collusion between my campaign and any foreign entity. i look forward to this matter concluding quickly. >>> erika gone zal slzalez is a live >> reporter: sorry about that mike issue. there we go. this was a jetblue flight that was on its way from dulles to new york. had to make an emergency landing because it hit a bird. this morning we've got new audio for you of the communication between air traffic control and the cockpit. take a listen. >> stable, but we are getting a loud vibration coming from the nose gear. we don't know if there's some kind of debris stuck on the nose gear. in the meantime, would era he running checks. >> reporter: this was late last night. this flight that was supposed to be going to new york fr

j. edgar hoover, he doesn't have to know his way around the building or where to go to get answers. he, i'm sure, has not made any of the decisions. there's a lot of things your asking that we can't answer yet like how much will he staff up? where will he set up shop, in the justice department? will he get independent space? probably the later. what will his budget be. he has to decide that pretty soon, and you know basically getting his arms around the scope of his investigation. this is the only second time that this sort of completely outside of the government special council has been used. the first time was john danforth when janet reno asked him to investigate what went wrong in waco that ended in a however fire, and he hired a staff of 74 people, but he was in essence investigating the atf and the fbi's ro fbi's role in that. mueller's task is different here. he can simply decide how toun this, does he just plug himself into the role that rod ros rosenstein was playing one guy gets up and the other sits down. he brought two people over from the law firm here in washington. on

j. edgar hoover was there from 1969. 40 years later, he is still dominating it. that is where the idea of the ten-year term to insulate them from politics. i think people don't understand. this is like the white house butler or something like that. you can be fired or changed around. this is an important institution that is supposed to be held in check and held outside of politics. clearly the president doesn't believe that. >> phil mudd? what is your level of confidence this is done the right way and do you think there needs to be a different level of independence? >> i don't think morale is rock bottom. we know what is happening. i know andy mccabe. take it to the bank. chris, this looks simple from the outside. the story on the inside is fundamentally different than any american who thinks you can shutdown the investigation. we are ten months in. there is a ton of data on the floor. there are dozens of people who know the details of the investigation. including what individuals in the trump campaign did. they can speak to the press inappropriate or other avenu

j. edgar hoover era and have endeavored to make sure that wasn't the case further than that.here have been breakdowns in that and i think what you see now, even if agents have had personal affection for comey as their leader, the fact that the fbi is in the news for the things that it's been in the news for and rather than the good investigative work that the agents do on a daily basis is quite upsetting to many. >> how about robert mueller's role in all of this? how is that going to affect the investigation, from your perspective? >> so, i think he's a very good pick. he certainly knows how to manage this type of an investigation and has history, as some critics have charged, not worked as aggressively on investigations where the involvement, the intelligence agencies in some kind of inappropriate activity and that goes back to his time as the head of the criminal dision of the justice department and, of course, during his tenure at the fbi is when the bush administration initiated torture programs, warrantless wire programs, wiretapping programs and, therefore, you know, th

j. edgar hoover passes away in '72. six weeks later, you have the break-in. the purpose was altruistic. >> why is it altruistic now? >> and he was related with the investigation and how it was que squech theed. i feel the leaks are conducted for the purposes of we want to get back to the president for what happened to director comey. >> the fbi, frank, was leaking in the clinton administration. they were doing interviews with people and her e-mails and leaking the content. the fbi does this on the evidence trail or influence a particular result. they did in the petraeus case. this is conflict with the executive. the key point is it not always classified information. that is legitimate issue. the administration will try to hold on to that information. this is different. this is not all classified information. >> it is not all classified information. it is important to realize that. let's go back to the clinton white house and lewinsky scandal. what was leaked in the scandal came from the white house because it was trying to influence the court of public opinio

j. edgar hoover in sense that he's above everything, that he's untouchable, too big to fire. >> neil: nolitzer price. michael goodwin joining me. a fox news contributor. here we are. now i'm thinking the rage that we're getting and watching over this, the timing of this seems beyond to pale. what do you think? >> i think the blow-back is fairly cheap and fairly predictable. as others have noted as well. not so long ago, the democrats were calling for his scalp. now they get the scalp, oh, no, put it back on. we don't want it. we want trump's scalp really. >> neil: they're making a big deal of the timing of it. why now? if this guy seemed to be a stumbling buffoon, why now? >> i don't think the timing is arbitrary at all. you had this report come out. the deputy attorney general was just confirmed two weeks ago. he does this report. that report is the basis of the firing. that report which covers a lot of ground with a lot of former attorneys general and their deputies about various things that comey did wrong. neil, there's a passage in there that people ought to pay closer attention to.

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