do i believe jim comey was asleep at the wheel? partly i do, because i deposed him, what i don't know is why. what was more important to you than your agency investigating a presidential candidate? which case in your office was more important? >> so i want perspective from the other side here, leslie marshall, we heard from senator dick durbin, the ranking member. he said basically in his opening questioning, all of this, everything you are seeing today, entire hearing is a red flag, distraction from the real issue, trump admin tragz running of the justice department. he said it is corrupt and there are shen anigans and that is what you should be seeing today. what do you say? >> leslie: with all respect to the republicans, we are in the midst of a pandemic. we have surging numbers. this is the fourth time that we're having such a hearing. what will the outcome be? i think that dick durbin will decide that. asleep at the wheel. but is it criminal? if it is criminal, let's go down that road. the american people are concerned with 7.

. >> andrew mccabe replaced jim comey. mccabe says he met with the president the very day comey was fired. >> i said to him, i'm not sure what you were referring to, sir. i heard you were one of the people who didn't agree with jim comey. and i said, no, sir, that's not true. he was looking for me to adopt his false narrative. >> the president's false narrative that comey was fired for mishandling the hillary clinton email probe. >> we had to consider, was he truly fired because the president didn't want us to continue investigating this idea of russian collusion? >> investigators felt confident of that after president trump said this on primetime tv. >> and, in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. it's an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election. >> it's ridiculous. it's ridiculous. with the probe. >> a ridiculous probe the president attempted to discredit in an extraordinary moment. >> mr. president, i will give this

>> andrew mccabe was deputy director of the fbi under jim comey.n on presidential aides to -- presidential candidate aides to donald trump. they authorized -- andrew mccabe authorize the most intrusive technique you can use against an american citizen which is fisa. you can read emails, texts, intercept phone calls, even go into somebody's house without a warrant and rummage through their records of the court authorizes that. we find out later through the inspector general this was flawed information, inaccurate information, discredited information and the people who approved it up preferred further up the chain, sally it, rosenstein and jim comey says they would never have approved this intrusive technique if they had known the actual fact that the steel dossier which formed the basis of the fisa warrant was thoroughly discredited and he was discredited. andrew mccabe will have to answer a lot of questions. he bypassed normal procedures, according to the fbi lawyer who approves these. he bypassed the normal approval channels and allegedly went thr

politicized and how much political abuse there was from joe biden and from political appointees like jim comeynt obama himself. but of course it is the height of hypocrisy when you have been roads tweeting, saying that joe biden is talking to foreign heads of states. this is before the election has even been certified by the electoral college, so yet again, it's democrats pointing fingers at republicans but not living by the same unfair rules they have set for those on the other side of the aisle. >> sean: congressman nunes, everywhere i go, we spent the better part of three years, and we were proving right about russia, about the dirty dossier, about premeditated fraud on the fisa court. everywhere i go, people say, "when are we ever going to get justice?" i don't have an answer, because it is all they are. low-hanging fruit. no prosecution, double standards, look at the treatment of papadopoulos or manafort, roger stone, anybody. i mean, it's unbelievable to me. will we ever see justice, or does it end? >> i get the same questions, too, everywhere i go, every day, and on every interview that

, jim comey pushed back on that. and the president said no, i need your loyalty that is what defines this president. and it has warped our government institutions. bill barr, the attorney general very early on, not a dumb man, he learned that lesson. he turned the department of justice into a defense firm, a legal defense firm for donald trump. people like john ratliff, people like richard grenell turned our intelligence community into a political support mechanism for the president of the united states. this, of course, is what the new president joe biden is going to have to fix when he takes office on january 20th. >> all right. congressman jim himes, thank you so much for coming out. have a great thanksgiving. >> thank you, chris. >>> john brennan served in national security roles for decades, most recently director of the central intelligence agency in the obama administration, and he joins me now. what's your reaction to this? >> well, the saga of mike flynn is an unfortunate sad tale of two men. one was a milit

he highlighted the firing of director jim comey as a red flag in that vein.admitted he would not have signed off on any fisa warrant to surveil carter page. >> did you mislead the fisa court? >> i signed a package that included numerous factual errors. maria: yes, the ig said the inspector general report last year concluded the page warrant applications were filled with 17 mistakes and omitted information and two out of the four wiretaps were unlawful. apple announced the release of its new mac book air and pro. they will not feature intel chips for the first time. they will be equipped with the tech giant's custom m-1 chip. take a look at apple shares this morning. and as you know, technology is trading up this morning but has been trading down recently. apple shares up about 1% right now. time for the word on wall street, top investors watching your money this week. joining me right now is dan yele hughes, keith fitzgerald and chief equity market strategist, phil orlando. thank you so much for being here. phil, i want to look at the state of the consumer. t

>> well, sir, i can't speak for why jim comey -- what jim comey thought about that at the time. i'm not aware of that. >> okay. mr. mccabe, we've hauled in a few different people to talk about the crossfire hurricane investigation before this committee. so far we haven't been able to get a single straight answer to some critical questions, including, who in leadership at the fbi or at the department of justice knew about the serious flaws contained in the carter page fiso warrants before the original application was submitted on october 24, 2016? also, who knew the first time before the first renewal was submitted on january 12, or how about the second renewal on april 7, 2017. and who knew before you signed the third renewal on june 8, 2017? nobody seems to be telling us anything. back in august, deputy attorney sally yates told this committee that she had no idea where critical factual errors were on the carter page application. she had no idea those were there. a few weeks ago general comey told us he didn't know about the errors when he signed the applications and the subseq

donald trump sought to have that investigation stopped, curtailed by jim comey who refused. >> it went on. but today, he's pardoned him. and i wonder if you think that arc, as robert gibbs called it, a book end, what does that portend, if sally yeates is a figure tapped for the leadership position at the justice department for president biden? >> well, there's some karma-like irony that could be involved here, where the person at doj who tried to warn the white house, who tried to get justice on the table with regard to the threat that mike flynn posed with his relationship to russia, his potential for compromised by russia, because he was lying and russia knew he was lying, to the vice president, to the fbi, that same person could end up back at doj overseeing the justice system and the department of justice. so, the irony would be sweet. i can already hear republicans in trump's orbit claiming that can't happen, she's too close to this, she could recuse herself, you can hear the whole recusal drum beat starting right now, because she was involved in this, but i know this. the preside

. >> she was miffed at jim comey for doing an end run around her. >> flynn is a free man as the presidentdoned him. earlier this year the yates wrote the justice department is not a tool of any president to be used for retribution or cam pledge. the justice department... when asked if highs department of justice would go after former president trump in the future biden said this. >> there are a number of investigations i have read about that are at a state level. there is nothing i can or cannot do about that. >> biden is referring to the financial investigation into president trump's taxes by manhattan district attorney. there is also the durham investigation looking into the origins of the russia probe. >> mike: republicans picked up their 11th seat in the house and third in california. david reclaimed the seat he lost 2 years ago. the former congressman defeated the democratic incumbent. 222 democrats and 205 republicans with 8 seats still uncalled. the vatican has a first in history with a prominent american arch bishop. that's next. a new buick? for ? to james, from james. that's jus

tumultuous legal saga and as you may recall, the fbi went after michael flynn in a way that even jim comeyd they would not pursue someone in president obama's white house. his case was about to be closed. and they decided to interview him anyway. no lawyer for michael

to her credit, she was very miffed at jim comey for doing it around her and going straight to michael flynn. >> flynn is now a free man. after the a president pardon him this week. attorney general bill barr advocated to drop the flynn case prompting outrage. earlier this year, yates rode "the justice department is not a tool of any president to be used for retribution or camouflage. in all of government, the justice department uniquely functions and a trusted bond with americans to dispense justice without fear or favor when asked." when asked this week of his department of justice would go after former president trump in the future, biden's at this. >> there are a number of investigation i've read about but at a state level and looking at all and nothing i can do about that. >> biden referring to financial investigation into president trump's taxes by manhattaner attorney cyrus means jr. also the junk term investigation with the origins of russia probe and it's possible that could wrap up after joe biden has taken the oath of office, mike. >> mike: david spun to live at the justice

in 2016 we had the whole dust up because of jim comey bringing up the emails the weekend before the election, about six days out. you don't want to be dealing with your negatives six days out, and that was really something that i think led to a lot of hillary clinton's defeat at the end. we had to get out from under the whole email controversy and we couldn't do it. trump needs to get out from under his failures on coronavirus, but he's completely lacking of any repairive skills as a politician. he refuses to acknowledge damage, so he consequently can't fix it. >> mark, your answer to that? what do you think each campaign can do in these sunset hours? >> it's a terribly frustrating time for the ad guy like me in a campaign because there's nothing you can do. i would generally day drink and go to a movie. >> we've been doing that for days. >> why wait until the day before the election? >> and maggie, i mean, in terms of what they're saying on the trump campaign, are they aware of these strange optics of coronavirus spreading like wildfire and their big rallies and does it concern anyone? >> l

tumultuous legal saga and as you may recall the fbi went after michael flynn in a way that even jim comey admitted they would not pursue someone and president obama's white house. his case was about to be closed. and they decided to interview him anyway. and the lawyer for michael flynn, no heads up to the white house counsel. not even permission from the acting attorney general, james comey was supposed to be working for, sally aids, flynn was treated differently. they wanted to catch him. they wanted him to make a mistake. we are not a country with two justice systems. if you wouldn't do it to your friends, you shouldn't do it to your enemies. the doj dismissed the case against michael flynn but that was even tied up in court. the president's pardon ends this legal saga for michael flynn. and making the announcement the president tweeted "it is my great honor to announce that general michael flynn has been granted a full pardon. congratulations to general flynn and his wonderful family. i know you will now have a truly fantastic thanksgiving. and our own sean hannity writing "happy than

stationery is a narrative about him, trump, and it goes back to the obstruction involved in trying to get jim comeyahn, an important figure we'll still hear from, to corruptly drop the prosecution against flynn who not only pleaded guilty but laid out all the facts and agreed to them for why he was guilty. and it was not a trivial crime. he really damaged the national security. >> at one point, flynn was cooperating with robert mueller, but then he stopped. was that a sign that this pardon was inevitable because suddenly he's not doing anything? was that a sign? >> it was a sign that he was gaming for it, including his firing his counsel and bringing on, who? sidney powell, the same counsel who was, you know, kicked off the island by rudy giuliani this last weekend. but yes, he changed his tactics completely and it was an out and out play for a pardon, possibly even connected with conversations between counsel that we don't know about. but it was a strategic move by a guilty man. and you know what? it worked out for him. he made the right calculation hoping that the corrupt president would see it h

>> first of all we seem jim comey on capitol hill and none of them had substantial answers about how that was all operating. the fact that there are not answers about who is responsible, one of the questions is who is responsible for devastating carter page's life. there was not an answer about the pfizer process and how it got to the point where they were relying on the dossier that had already been essentially it was said it was skeptical at least but really throwing out for most of the conclusions in it. and yet it became the thing that was used for the fisa warrant for carter page. there are many questions yet to ask and the fact that the durham report didn't come up for the election is frustrating for a lot of conservatives but that does not mean that the questions end or the investigation ends. >> the other thing is, we heard mitch mcconnell there, i think we can set that aside because right now it's just speculative and it seems like he really wants to get one done. he is saying that he believes that president trump should pursue whatever legal means he has to try to look into

politicized and how much political abuse there was from joe biden and from political appointees like jim comeysi president obama himself. but of course it's the height of hypocrisy when you have been rhodes tweeting, saying that joe biden is talking to foreign heads of state. this is before the election has even been certified by the electoral college. yet again, democrats pointing fingers at f republicans, but nt living by the same unfair rules they have set for those on the other side of the aisle. >> sean: congressman nunes, everywhere i goar we spend the better part of three years and we were proven right about russia, the dirty dossier, about premeditated fraud on the fisa court. everywhere i go, people say,pl when are we ever going to get justice? i don't have an answer because it is all there. low-hanging fruit. no prosecution. double standards. look at the treatment oft papadopoulos or manna formanafort, oranybody. will we ever see justice or does it end russia >> what concerns me now is watching how the media and the social media countries have behaved since this election since electi

they brought it to the headquarters, andy mccabe, jim comey, lisa page, peter strzok could run the casethey say i didn't know what is going on. it is mr. clinesmith, based on what the inspector general said. that doesn't fly, pass the smell test because you guys specifically brought it to the headquarters. you ran the whole thing out of the headquarters. you launched the investigation on a dossier anyone knows, a dossier was completely false and you did it back in 2016 on july 31st, trying to get to the president before he was even elected. elizabeth: then mccabe denied knowing who ordered peter strzok to keep general michael flynn's case open, even though andrew mccabe was running the show there. so again and again, cnn hired andrew mccabe as an analyst. he keeps saying he is unaware of probes he was running, that he doesn't know what was going on in them sort of like james comey saying i was unaware, i was unaware dozens of times. why would you buy james comey's book if he is so unaware of what is going on? you know what i mean, jim? how do you, so that the problem is, and you just po

you mentioned jim comey and andrew mccabe not facing accountability. will you appoint a special council? >> comey and mccabe, that's the least of it. you talk about the logan act. they used the logan act on general flynn who i was very proud to pardon but they wanted to use and they did use the logan act on general flynn and you know where that started. look, this whole thing is a terrible situation. this should have never been allowed to happen and you know, it'sap an embarrassment to our country. all over the world they'reen talking about it. and yeah, i would consider a special prosecutor. because you know, this is not a council. it sounds so nice. i went through three years of a special council, prosecutor, i call prosecutor, because it's a much more accurate term. they spend $48 million. wisemanand all trump haters, they spent 48 million, that was the mueller investigation. they went through taxes. they went through everything. efor 48 million. you look at everything. and they found no collusion, no nothing. they found nothing. after friends of min

>> well, sir, i can't speak for why jim comey -- what jim comey thought about that at the time. i'm not aware of that. >> okay. mr. mccabe, we've hauled in a few different people to talk about the crossfire hurricane investigation before this committee. so far we haven't been able to get a single straight answer to some critical questions, including, who in leadership at the fbi or at the department of justice knew about the serious flaws contained in the carter page fiso warrants before the original application was submitted on october 24, 2016? also, who knew the first time before the first renewal was submitted on january 12, or how about the second renewal on april 7, 2017. and who knew before you signed the third renewal on june 8, 2017? nobody seems to be telling us anything. back in august, deputy attorney sally yates told this committee that she had no idea where critical factual errors were on the carter page application. she had no idea those were there. a few weeks ago general comey told us he didn't know about the errors when he signed the applications and the subseq

it started with jim comey, his firing because he refused to basically give an oath of loyalty to donaldnued when robert mueller was appointed, the continuing threats of firing mueller and his staff. it continued with roger stone who w-- his sentence was commuted. other than donald trump there were three key people that dealt with russia during the campaign and were knowledgeable about the campaign's situation with the russian government. that was general flynn, it was roger stone and it was paul manafort. roger stone's sentence for 40 months has been commuted. paul manafort somehow is now serving his sentence at home as opposed to in a federal prison. i guarantee you he's next on deck. what we're watching now is essentially the last chapter in "the godfather" where the mob boss goes out and makes sure he's buttoned down the hatches and everybody is on board. he's making sure that all of these people are going to be loyal to him. they're not going to rat him out and not reveal what occurred between the campaign and the russian government. that's what's going on here. that's what this is

from the moment he talked to jim koki and jim comby said -- whatever you think of jim comey he pushed back on that. the president said no, i need your loyalty. that's what defines this president. it ward our government institutions. the attorney general not a dumb man, he learned that lesson and turned the department of justice into a defense firm, legal defense firm for donald trump. people like john ratcliff, people like richard began el, directors of national intelligence turned our intelligence community into a political support mechanism for the. of the united states. this is of course what the new president joe biden is going to have to fix when he takes office on january 20th. >> all right, congressman jim heinz. thank you for coming on. have a happy thanksgiving. >> thank you, chris. >> john brennan showed in national security roles and he joins me now. what's your reaction to this? >> well, the sort of mike flynn is unfortunate sat tale of two men, one was a military officer who honorably served for over 30 years and rose to the rank of three star general. the other is a civi

carter page is coming up suing jim comey, andrew mccabe and peter strzok in a $75 million lawsuit thatsterday. carley: nobody can handle those interviews quite like you. thank you so much, maria, we appreciate it. griff: thanks, maria. >> thank you, see you soon. griff: senate minority leader chuck schumer says it will cost at least $30 billion to get a covid-19 vaccine into america's hands. schumer making the claim as he passed are to the senate to pass the $3 trillion hero's act. but president obama's chief economist says democrats should take whatever relief they can get. >> this isn't stimulus. this is literally relief money until we can get the furnace back on. it's just keeping people from being evicted. keeping businesses from shutting down permanently. if they have to accept hazel a loaf, then they should accept half a loaf. griff: president-elect joe biden has also asked congress to pass a smaller relief bill. carley: cyber monday is expected to be the biggest online sales day ever. adobe analytics projects today's sales will bring in between 10 and $12 billion. it comes after

, these guys brought it to the headquarters, they brought it to theey headquarters so andy mcca, jim comeyker and lisa instructed all run the case, now to say i did not really know what is going on it's just mr. clinesmith based on what the inspector general said, that does not fly or pass the smell test because you guys specifically brought it to the headquarters and ran the whole thing out of the headquarters and launch this investigation on the dossier that anyone knows and everyone knows today was completely false and you did in 2016 on july 31 trying to get the president before he was elected. elizabeth: then mccabe denied knowing who ordered peter strzok to keep michael flynn's case open, even though andrew mccabe was running the show. again and again, cnn hired andrew mccabe as an analyst, if he keeps saying he's unaware of probes that he was running that he doesn't know what was going on it's almost like james comey saying i was unaware, dozens of times, why would you i buy james comey's book if you so unaware what's going on. the problem is, you just pointed out, they had a politi

when former fbi director jim comey first met donald trump and his entourage, he likened the experiencemob family. said dealing with trump gave him, quote, flashbacks to my earlier career as a prosecutor against the mob. the silent circle of ascent, the boss in complete control, the loyalty owes, us versus them view, lying about all things, large and small, in service to some code of loyalty that put the organization above morality and above the truth. keep that assessment in mind as you watch the scramble by lindsey graham and the white house to deny and distance themselves from what could

department opened and then closed its own criminal case the flynn case sparked the firing of fbi director jim comey hiring of special counselor robert mueller. it started many in trump's campaign, including roger stone whose seven-year sentence was commuted steve bannon and paul manafort who chaired trump's campaign and deputy chair rick gates. thoseindividuals have not been pardoned so far president trump has used his power to pardon less frequently than any other president in modern times, but that could change with the flynn pardon potentially ushering a new and final wave of clemencies to come. shep, now questions about whether president trump could choose to preemptively pardon himself because the constitutional power to pardon is so broad. >> but we all know that hasn't been tested for the supreme court, so i guess he could -- there are a lot of things he could do i wonder, is there like a short list of who else he might be thinking of pardoning? all the presidents have done it. >> reporter: well, certainly and president trump has done it less than other presidents we just showed you a list o

the fbi director jim comey about in that oval office meeting when comey later said that the president asked him to let the investigation into flynn go. of course we later saw how that relationship went. the president later fired james comey. that led to the appointment of the special counsel robert mueller. so you really saw what a lasting effect just that simple decision by the president to hire mike flynn at the time had on his presidency and of course now it's coming to a close as the president himself is also getting ready to leave office. >> that's right. michael flynn was not just an isolated case in all of this. he was in many ways central to this russia investigation. and kaitlan, in some ways this pardon is as close as perhaps we'll ever get to a concession from the president. this makes him sound like a short-timer to some extent. >> reporter: that's right. the president isn't saying that he's lost the election. he is refusing to acknowledge it publicly and is insisting the office -- but look at his actions here. it's making clear the president realizes he's on his way out b

essentially proven to be liar at a high level of the fbi, a person who was a press hound with his friend jim comeyi could let this out because it is super-duper secret i'm not allowed to talk about it. it is absurd. this guy, the worst thing about the comeys, strzoks, mccabes they are so self-righteous and not figured out they should be ashamed what they had done. feeling bad for all the agents would be run out on the rails if they did half the stuff comey and mccabe did, outrageous to see them get in front of the cameras, that they're victims and righteous, boy, donald trump will be proven to be a russian traitor any one of these days. i hate to talk about mccabe, when you talk about somebody that degrade the institution of the fbi, him, comey, strzok and page have a lot to answer for. elizabeth: think about what the fisa court judges are saying. we read through the documents. they're outraged. this is a court supposed to be used to catch terrorists. they rehe hadly saying we don't even want these fbi cases under the comey regime before us. we have to double-check everything you guys did. andrew

office is she will have to answer questions about fisa, i mean, to her credit, she was very miffed at jim comeynd going straight to michael flynn. it would be a tough confirmation. i think she would make it. i think jeh johnson would make it. i think doug jones would make it. javier becerra it depends on whether he is part of the social justice movement or not. i know is he a former prosecutor. not a lot of experience in the federal system. the three safest picks are jay h johnson, doug jones or sally yates. >> martha: as you point out, sally yates got a lot of attention in the early stages of the russia investigation, you know, trying to figure out who was sort of pulling the strings. you say and she -- it reflected better on her when more of that report came out, i think. and that might work in her favor. but, as you point out, you know, the link between the dnc and the doj and the fbi is something that leaves a not great taste in people's mouths. >> yeah. it's terrible and, also with georgia two runoffs in georgia, sally yates is the daughter of georgia. so republicans, whatever negative thi

likely that the case against him would be closed, which means that trump would never have had to ask jim comeye the case, which would have eliminated one of the significant motivations that we were acting on when we decided it was time to open a case against trump himself. so if trump wants to see people who are individually personally responsible for many of his problems, he should look no further than michael flynn. >> counter argument, flynn was set up. guys came in, posed as his buddy and they were looking to frame him the whole time. had he known that, he would have acted completely differently. that's because you guys were out to get trump any you could. it could have never been avoided. and really flynn is a casualty of over zealous investigation by political rivals. >> absurd. absolutely absurd. unfounded and a complete lie that's been per pet chew waited against me personally and many of my colleagues. the fact is we were investigating russia, what the russians had done with possibly coordinating with the trump campaign. we looked at flynn that had historical connections with russia a

he asks fbi director jim comey to go easy, to let go of the investigation against flynn. that ends up becoming one of the predicates for the appointment of the special counsel in the first place. that leads to robert mueller's investigation that goes on for a couple of years. so the flynn case has been at the heart of this president's troubles for a long time. but you're right, the reason i tweeted that is because the president acts as if this was only the fbi or the justice department involved. he was the one who fired mike flynn, and he's never apologized for that to mike flynn or suggested that he was wrong to do so. if he thinks mike flynn has gotten a wrong deal, then why hasn't the president disowned his own actions against mike flynn? he of course doesn't want to take any responsibility, he's made clear he doesn't take responsibility in a general sense, and he clearly doesn't want to take it in this case. it's part of his narrative of persecution, his narrative of grievance and victimhood. >> it seems like maybe mike flynn is taking this pardon as an apology from t

what i know is, i having been inside i know that people like jim comey and brennan and others investedcareers and showed very poor judgment in, of a theory, this theory that somehow the russians had infiltrated the trump campaign and were coordinating directly with both the president-elect and then ultimately the president. and members of his campaign. and again, if you read, you know, the special counsel's report, there is no evidence of that. they were exhaustive in who they interviewed and who they talked to. yet many of these folks went on national tv during this time and assured us there were illegalities and connections. again, this, you know, i think, that the best solution for this is daylight as to what these folks did, how they exhibited, not only poor judgment. i think a lot of americans think there were illegal acts performed here by these folks in their rush to condemn and ultimately try to convict the president of the united states. andy mccabe is right there up with them. he is the one that opened the investigation into the sitting president of the united states with no

i think it's a lie from jim comey.you have the intelligence community briefing the white house on that issue. it's a defensive briefing for hillary and then it's a briefing for the white house. and it's a referral. a referral from that level from the intelligence community goes to the highest levels of the fbi. so we're to believe that neither of the top 2 in the fbi had any idea that there was an attempt to deflect the email investigation that hillary clinton was enduring. brian: breathbrett, think aboutt this country went through because the fbi decided to go with this investigation instead of doing what they did with hillary clinton and said need to speak to you. paul manafort a lot of links russia and ukraine. there is communication going back now with some of your staffers. hey, chris christie. you are a former u.s. attorney. i know you are tight with the president. could you let him know this hire you made might have some conflicts? turns out paul manafort was let go anyway in september. and it really hurt the co

>> i didn't ask jim comey -- >> i'm not asking whether you asked. okay, according to the washington times, mr. mccabe insisted that he authorized that and mr. mccabe told investigators that mr. comey knew he had authorized disclosure and agreed it was a good idea. is that accurate? is that your testimony to this committee? >> that is my recollection. >> so you're aware that your testimony is 180 degrees opposite mr. comey's sworn testimony to this committee in which he insisted he's never authorized anybody to leak to the press? >> i'm not going to say what director comey said or didn't say to you. however, your characterization of a leak is not accurate. >> the fbi has records that will establish whether you're telling the truth or mr. comey's telling the truth. do you believe the fbi should make those records public so if you're telling the truth, you can be vindicated and if mr. comey is telling the truth, he can be vindicated? >> i'm not sure what records you're referring to, senator -- >> any and all emails, correspondence, records, whatsoever,

when former fbi director jim comey first met donald trump and his entourage, he likened the experience to a brush with a mob family. said dealing with trump gave him, quote, flashbacks to my earlier career as a prosecutor against the mob. the silent circle of ascent, the boss in complete control, the loyalty owes, us versus them view, lying about all things, large and small, in service to some code of loyalty that put the organization above morality and above the truth. keep that assessment in mind as you watch the scramble by lindsey graham and the white house to deny and distance themselves from what could eventually become an illegal attempt at election interference by the president's most subservient ally in the senate. watching the news that prominent republicans leaned on the georgia secretary of state, also a republican, exclude legitimate ballots from being counted from the blockbuster report. secretary brad raffensperger said he is under increasing pressure recent days from fellow republicans, including senator lindsey graham who he said questioned the validity of legally cast

it was dangerous when he tweeted threats against andy mccabe and his wife and jim comey. it is always dangerous when he lines to his voters, but it is creating an unprecedented and perhaps unsustainable instability to make his supporters, to make half of this country doubt the validity of joe biden's victory. >> nicolle, the way you led into this conversation was so expertly done and touched on a number of chords that resonate in the question. and i think we have to step back a moment and say that donald trump didn't have to do a lot of convincing here. donald trump didn't have to do a lot of lying to the supporters. he picked a scab in which they already believed a lot of this. it was beneath the surface. it has been there for a long time, this -- this overwhelming sense of mistrust of our institutions and our executive and political leadership. it's been there. we've seen it. it manifests itself during my watch during the rnc, it was in place during the bush years. it goes back to newt gingrich's uprising in the house of representatives back in 1994 and even before that

i've got your lawsuit in front of me and in it you are suing jim comey, andrew mccabe, kevin clinesmithlying on a document that was used to get the fisa warrant to spy on you, peter strzok, lisa page and the list goes on. tell me what this lawsuit is about, carter. >> maria, the lawsuit is really just achieving justice after over four years of injustices and one of the greatest civil rights violations by the u.s. intelligence community in american history. the time has finally come. and similar to what you, you had congressman collins on, the conversations you've had with people like chairman graham, people have been digging for the truth and trying to get some semblance of justice after these terrible crimes. so this case is an important next step, really an essential step in terms of achieving those objectives. maria: well, your life was completely ruined. you were wiretapped. you were spied on by the fbi. that meant -- tell us what that means they had your phone calls, your e-mails, your texts, everything and then that gave them a window into the trump campaign. you were never charge

biden winning florida said a 70% chance ka, 538, said democrats 75% taking the senate, 89% chance jim comeyen wo election. >> final poll joe biden up 17 points razor-thin moving forward pollsters as my blockbuster card my answering machine, lets pay attention but not put too much emphasis on this anymore, two elections should he simply got it really, really wrong >> he really did mark penn your answer your response here, given that we're talking about the pollsters got so it wrong, are, what do you think went wrong? >> look, i think we had a week out -- biden by 8 harris poll closed a 4, just before election. i think trump two things had tremendous momentum going in. obviously, having 60 million people vote before the end of the election, really, really hurt him in the end here. i think people were stigmatized polls by a couple points probably two or three underrepresent trump vote i think we saw that last time i think that is pretty well documented this time, look one thing right now, the president path got to get georgia, north carolina, pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin, not looking g

general barr saying he otherwise going to appoint a special counsel to check you into you hunter jim comey, after trump four years claiming there is ab russia collusion, but we have a handwritten message from the former cia director john brennan -- in our office made up to cover-up for hillary clinton e-mail server, outrageous >> it really is congresswoman good to see you this morning thanks very much we will be watching your race all the races tonight debbie lesko joining us in arizona we talk with dick grasso the other side of this a break stay with us. non-valvular afib can mean a lifetime of blood thinners. and if you're troubled by falls and bleeds, worry follows you everywhere. over 100,000 people have left blood thinners behind with watchman. it's a one-time, minimally invasive procedure that reduces stroke risk-- and bleeding worry--for life. watchman. it's one time. for a lifetime. maria: welcome back, investors putting focus on 2020 election, market look to being extended yesterday's gains as voters rush to the polls today dow industrials right now up 368 points, president trump

never forget that meeting january 5, 2017, when in oval office obama vice president biden susan rice jim comeyhed a plan to take out michael flynn the reason they had to take you out to michael flynn they understood to cover-up what they did to president trump's campaign had to take out the guy, who was former head of the intelligence now going to become new national security adviser to president trump had to take him out joe biden sat in that meeting january 5,2017 do you think if 124rekd president people are held accountable do you think if he is elected president people go to jail? another reason we have to reelect president trump, again i think it is going to happen, and needs to happen so that we can hold people accountable in american people can be confident that the rule of law is applied equally do every single american citizen >> john ratcliffe director national intelligence came on this program said the bloom is the people who abused power want to be a in power again. >> yeah same, same folks who approved deals in china you talked about same folks spied on president's train same folk

there are a lot of moving parts for and what are your thoughts on now republican jim jordan and james comey saying to have fiduciary pretties got to do a hearing and a probe of election integrity. not sure carolyn's good to go for that, what your thoughts on that? >> here is a difficult part. if you're trying to resolve this by the middle of december, all of three and a half weeks of now. who are really going to have to rely upon the litigants in civil court. law enforcement usually can't move that quickly to build a case and to persuade people that they brought a righteous case. congress may havebr hearings, may have moments where they talk about this. but again over the long run of corruption in our system. because of things not going to win the day for president trump. look at thee resolution you look at civil litigation >> deceptively higherel courts including supreme court. sales shakes out. here's the other thing. there's a story out there that the president is basically doing this to delegitimize the election for joe biden. is looking at 2024. could the courts take anything any state