plus, why was obama's intel czar, jim clapper, so quick to attack attorney general bill barr after he revealed that the trump team was spied upon? an ingram angle investigation ahead. and the fall of michael avenatti. the media shield add man that was on the wrong end of 36 federal indictments today. first, dems fail the vision test. that is the focus of tonight's angle. yesterday gave us a bird's eye view of how starkly different the president's priorities are from those of the democrats. now, yesterday the president headed to texas to focus on two important issues. first, illegal immigration and second the energy sector. he had a couple fund raisers. in washington, congressional democrats worked open their agenda which was harassing bill barr about the mueller report and, well, this. there he is. the goofy house intel committee chair, adam schiff taking a selfie like a junior high school girl at the house democrat's retreat. look at that. in the background there are two trump hating elites from tinsel town. john legend and chrissy thiigen. >> it's laughing through the pain. but it's

>> i just want to say happy anniversary to jim clapper. it's his 54th wedding anniversary today. he and his wife, sue. >> what is the secret? >> chris, there is no place i'd rather be than right here, right now with you and chairman mike. >> wow. i know there is one woman who is not happy you gave that answer. what's the secret to 54 happy years? >> my wife is very patient. >> all right. that works. that works. well, then i got that going for me. i have a patient wife as well. all right. let's talk about somebody who is impatient, the president of the united states. he doesn't like what's going on right now. mike rogers, the idea of this story at "the new york times" that nielsen went and said, look, i want to start and get going on 2020, i have ideas. stand down. we don't -- the president doesn't even want to talk about this. it is -- goes to whether or not he thinks it is bad for his legitimacy as president. what do you make of that? >> well, it's concerning, and, unfortunately, i think it bolsters some of what we saw in the mueller report about the dysfunction of the managemen

last night we explain idea obama intel jim clapper was angry about attorney general bill barr confirming that the trump am pair had, indeed, been spied upon. he wasn't the only one. and tonight is jim comey's turn in the barrel. plus the democrat congressional hearing were a farce from beginning to end, all of the embarrassing moments you know you missed them, and the hi liarious clapbacks coming up. what's behind the religious war against vice president pence? don't get it. and screwy louis farrakhan for get what funeral he was atenting. a holy edition of "friday follies." in "the ingraham angle," stories you may have missed. first we hit immigration. the left has a very interesting way of approaching this issue. it's not an emergency, is it, when 100,000 people are pouring across our southern border. but when it's reported that president trump is considering bussing illegal immigrant detaenees to sanctuary cities the democrats freak out. the president umped the ante today. >> president trump: we can give them a lot, we can give them an unlimited supply. and let's see if they're so happ

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and fact that there was spying, even though jim clapper said in front of congress that nsa never spiedamericans that was not true. however, my question, whether it was so common place, nsa spying and maybe other organizations, cia might have been involved, we know that fbi was involved in spying on americans, that became easy to turn on for political operative like peter strzok for example, was it so common place it became a tool of influence by our political system and partisans? >> it seems that is the case, you look at it for clapper, think about anyone else lying before congress, the democrats would want to prosecute but not james clapper who lied to us, we know federal government was spying on u.s. citizens without probable cause and proper authority. this is akin to fisa courts, it is a secret court, nobody is holding him accountable, they tell you, we have these independent third parties, it is inadadequate. that is just not something that should happen in a free, democratic republic like we are, a constitution republic like we are. there is way too much power in hands of too fe

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but trump was not leaving that conspiracy, jim clapper was. >> was the fbi spying on trump campaign?> no, they were not. they were spying on a term that i do not like it, but what the russians were doing, trying to understand where the russians infiltrating trying to gain access and leverage and influence. >> why does he not like that? >> he should be. >> tucker: he should be, you got that, the obama administration was not spying, they were watching him without his knowledge could on behalf of the opposing party in the closing months of a bitter presidential campaign. no big deal. trump should be grateful for that. they cared enough to surveilled his staff. they are patriotic that way, they are bighearted people. come on, there has to be a limit to how much lying a country can take from their leaders before things fall apart. and we have reached our limit. russian collusion did not happe happen. domestic spying during a presidential campaign did happen, and we have a right to know who participated in it. who authorized it. and what their motives were. we have a right to know that imm

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jim clapper former dni went on television around the same period voiced concerns about him having the nuclear codes. david brooks wrote in a column that the president in a closed door meeting in front of republican senators walked out of the meeting and were questioning whether or not the habit of repeating himself over and over again could be an early sign of alzheimer's these are three publicly reported events. is this worthy of some attention and some care? >> absolutely. john bre unanimous, the former cia director has been public about the concerns for the president and his judgment. you look at the things in the past few days and say what's going on, who's in charge. there's no one around him anymore who he listens to. he doesn't have an actual chief of staff, no one that you or i would hire for any campaign we would be a part of. it's just him. ashley is right in her reporting, he's making the decisions by himself. there's also a political end to this. he's doing stupid things politically. the shutting down the border thing is a nightmare for chances in amaz in arizona. the heal

listen to jim clapper about his concerns on this. >> it has all kinds of negative connotations, and i have to believe he chose that term deliberately. >> so now that's about using basically a bad word, but here was the a.g. himself about the idea of using the word spying. >> do you want to rephrase what you're doing? because i think the word spying could cause everybody in the cable news ecosystem to freak out. >> i'm not sure of all the connotations of that word that you're referring to. >> what do you think, phil mudd? do you think he is? >> oh, come on. give me a break. >> don't freak out. >> everybody -- i will freak out. everybody in america when you heard the word spy thinks about 007. they think about nasty things that are illegal. let me make this really boring on the cuomo show "prime time" for 20 seconds. what we're talking about is the department of justice and the fbi investigating for them, going to a court of judges who are both republicans and democrats in washington and saying, we have this information about an individual. we'd like to conduct surveillance of that indi

donald trump was being truthful when jim clapper and john brennan and members of the intelligence communityere accusing him of treason for colluding with russia. .is being truthful when james comey and andy mccabe and folks at our justice department weren't being truthful in verify ing an unverified dossier as probable cause evidence of collusion, and donald trump was being truthful when the media wasn't being truth full about the certainty that robert mueller was going to indict donald trump and members of his family for conspiracy and collusion with the russian government, so now all of those folks, maria, that weren't being truthful all of a sudden want to gloss over collusion they say we don't give a damn about collusion and we want to look at robert mueller's findings on possible obstruction by donald trump into an investigation of collusion that never should have taken place in the first place. it's borderline absurd. maria: yeah, and i want to get your take on that because we've got an op-ed that i want to point to but first a word on the obstruction because this is the new talking p

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but jim clapper, thank you so much for your guidance and we'll lean on you heavily as we process everything in here and how it fits together. be well, sir, i'll talk to you soon. >>> let's bring back shimon prokupecz and reporter sarah murray and josh campbell, former special assistant to former fbi director james comey and special agent and jennifer rogers, cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor. jennifer, let me start with you. this -- help me explain to the audience why saying no collusion, no exoneration is grossly distorting what the reality of this report is. mueller goes out of his way to say i don't think about collusion. we're not going to use that term. it is not a crime. we're only looking for proof of conspiracy and whether or not these people were foreign agents. if you want to use collusion by the webster dictionary, clever behavior, secrettive behavior, there is tons of that documented in here and the actions were lied about repeatedly, fair point? >> that is right, chris. the legal issue here that mueller was looking into is was there a crime committed here. and the

jim clapper, former director of national intelligence who was director as this was happening said my key question is what more did they find about russian interference in the electoral process? at the end of the day, that's the big threat. that's a fundamental threat to u.s. democracy and one that has continued post-2016. we know they did stuff in 2018 and 2020. it is worth highlighting that, that that is something that both democrats and republicans agree on. serious threat, and it's happening. except for the president. >> and 17 intelligence agencies which have been saying this for the last couple years. and that has been a question, and the president, as you point out, has been noncommittal, i think is the best way to describe it. >> after the summit in helsinki with putin, he said why would he. >> he said he believed vladimir putin. >> what mueller says will be interesting. >> this is where we'll see the limits of using a special prosecutor to address this issue of foreign interference in the election. because if the conduct that i think we're going to see in the report, which is

definitely i would know it so jim clapper think about this, he is the dni director of national intelligencehere is no fisa. >> there was no fisa warrant to spy on carter page. that is clearly factually a lie. and then todd asks him well, if there was one, would you know about it? he said yes, definitely. he was lying or he was the worst dn in the history. he is the dumbest guy we have ever seen he didn't know there was a fisa? brian: 15 month often to try ofe trying to get russians. weather ivanka or friend of a friend of a friend trying to get ahold of jared kushner or alpha bank president trying to on behest of vladimir putin try to get some tide into the brand new trump administration. that's chronicled? >> absolutely. that's not news that the russians have tried to penetrate. that's clearly old news. the question was did the trump campaign collude and the answer is definitively no. ed: you hearsay if it's not active maybe it was passive. beto o'rourke out on the campaign trail if there was not collusion maybe there is coordination. i don't know if that's a crime. coordination. listen to

we certainly know jim comey, i think clapper are aunt on this in some way. so you have to look at those people, but it may be others. i just don't know. >> what about lynch? >> certainly she is the head of the entire justice department, she is the one after all who told them to call the investigation. i think it is interesting, sean she said to call it a "matter." but he wouldn't tell the truth.l when thebu president said tell e american people i'm not under investigation after he had told him three different times, and he wouldn't say that, so he is willing to mislead them on the clinton matter, and not on the trump-russia investigation.ha we will see, but i think all those people need to be examined. last question congressman meadows. >> sean: when do we get this information? when do we get it? the gang of eight? >> the president has guaranteed that he is going to declassify those things. i think barr will set it, but we are looking at weeks, not months. and the horowitz report in may. mohs>> sean: thank you both. cascading down. it can't be stopped at thi

clapper. always good to have you on. >> thanks, jim. >> react, if you can, to his criticism of the obama administration not going more public with its findings on russian interference prior to the 2016 election. it's my own reporting that there was a debate inside the administration as to how public to go. do you think that's fair criticism? >> i do think there is fair criticism there, but it's difficult to be critical when you weren't in that situation. when we found out in the intelligence community that russia was taking these more extensive and detailed actions to interfere in our election, the obama administration had a tough decision to make. you're getting all this information and it's unlike anything we had ever seen before, and as the former president has said himself, you know, there was this question of whether or not you go to the public with this information and appear to be putting your thumb on the scale in favor of hillary clinton. or whether or not you continue to monitor the situation and determine whether or not this is a much larger and ongoing campai campaign. there was a period of

clapper, creepy uncle joe what did they know and when did they know it? we will have the answers to these important questions in a letter to the director of national intelligence, congressman jim jordan, have requested that 53. we only have like seven but 53 close door to testimony transcripts be made public. i'm sure jerry nadler will join them because he didn't want the release of the starr report. and already received through sorely, peter strzok, james baker and fbi and doj officials involved in the witch hunt and it was against donald trump. the free pass given of course, they literally give a get out of paris jail card because they like hillary. the guy that interviewed peter strzok commission went 100 to zero. we have been classified material that was found on unsecured private server that was managed by networks. it was in a bathroom closet. she committed a real crime. and for us had a real intent to obstruct justice by destroying . hence, 33,000 deleted acid washed emails. the media on thursday will pretend to care about obstruction of justice. meanwhile, lithium will ignore the biggest slam-dunk of obstruction of justice case, that is right hillary's case. democrats,

stunning and scary for clapper, his role in spreading the collusion conspiracy theory might scrutiny. i want to point out the willful blindness that appears to have afflicted jimis dossier he told brett behr i still don't know that the dnc and the hillary clinton campaign paid for the dossier. maria: or he just lied, dagen, or he you just lied. it's as simple as that. >> let's not forget that they used an fbi asset to infiltrate the campaign. steffen halper to engage with p papadopoulos. maria: comey leaked to him. >> you have the surveillance and infiltration of the campaign, trying to set these guys up. if the democrats want to try and have this be a debate about the word -- whether it was spying or surveillance, they're going to lose that debate. most of the american public can see pretty plainly it was spying. dagen: i watched the whole thing. senator shatz, after a.g. barr used the word spying, senator shatz went back to him said i'm giving you the opportunity to rephrase that. >> why would he rephrase it? dagen: they were shocked by the word. what he said explicitly was we need to find out if there's an evidentiary basis for the spying, whether it was pr