joining our conversation, former cia director and nbc news senior national security analyst john brennan haven't seen it, so if i've missed it, i'll stand corrected, but i haven't seen steve scalise, who cassidy hutchinson worked for before she went to the white house, put out a statement defending her patriotism, her service to the country over any political party. neither have i seen mark meadows, the former member of congress, the former boss that i'm sure she worked much longer than 8-hour days for, probably more like 12 or 16-hour days, defend her. i haven't seen any high-level republicans defend cassidy hutchinson. in this climate, with all the reporting that katie benner and others have had today about risks to her security, that that's why we added this surprise testimony yesterday, potentially, what do you make of this moment in our politics? >> well, her testimony today was chilling, and quite frankly, i don'think we ould be surprised or shocked by anything that she told us about donald trump. it is clear, with her firsthand account, that donald trump was at the center. he was

we just showed the john brennan notes on the screen which you declassified.assified which showed john brennan wrote notes that the russians know that hillary clinton is coming out with a story against trump, and the second item that you declassified, tell me about that. >> yeah. so the second, so by law because there was a counterintelligence information involving a domestic actor, in this case the clinton the campaign saying, look, hillary clinton's campaign is creating these false allegations against the trump campaign, the cia was required to send that information over to the fbi, which they did. but it went to fbi agent peter strzok, and i think your viewers will know know that is the same agent who for months had been sending hundreds of text messages saying that he was going to personally stop donald trump from ever becoming president of the united states, and and the same agent who robert mueller added to the mueller investigative team as one of the lead investigators. so from the very beginning, it shows that the fbi and everyone in law enforcement th

what the real world is, you know who john brennan is.lutely great. so thank you for that. also, it's great, this was the pro-life -- he would like it this way, by the way. he's also a minister. so that was a pro-life anthem because you saw that all those baby pictures are there. i requested that because i went to a pro life event and the women there said less pets, more babies and the producers delivered on a perfect weekend to do that. that was the pro life anthem. more babies and the flag, it's the kind of america you like. >> two for one today on the anthems. >> welcome to "fox & friends" on the fourth hour on a sunday. that's usually a 6:00 a.m. tradition. if you're not up early, the national anthem accompanied by your pictures is something we start every show with. today because john brennan is in town for rachel's daughter's wedding. rachel: he sang at the wedding. >> it was the perfect opportunity for him to come on the show today and serenade us at the 9:00 hour. >> congratulations again to the mother of the bride and the bride a

>> first is former cia director john brennan i always believed that memo was a cya for him to cover himselfs working with hillary clinton even after he briefed obama to target president trump. along with james comey and james clapper it was the same collusion with hillary clinton. now we have that straight we have to go back to hillary clinton. go back to the 19 nineties with white water real estate and into the presidency of bill clinton is see what happened at the state department with hillary clinton and all the accusations of pay for play. look at the slush fund and the clinton foundation and the connections globally the fact that bill clinton even was paid half a million dollars by a russian bank literally run by the fsb for a speech he gave in moscow, this is like the bonnie and clyde the teflon team of washington dc. in my opinion i believe what they have done is creating a bureaucracy that protects them. we have seen it with the department of justice during with the so-called investigations we saw that with benghazi, when hillary clinton was accused for pay for play. in the fbi did

the new york times," the "washington post" andnd so on, they blocked it and you had people like john brennan and other former security and intelligence operatives who then gave the fig leaf to joe biden that this was russian disinformation so the american people were kept in the dark before the election and with due diligence they were not able to do on one of the candidates. >> i'm going to open up for questions w and as we get the first question i want to ask you to talk a little bit more about that because as much a scandal as there is on the laptop and in the book about the biden's i feel like the scandal was the media. it's almost more alarming it's not just one family and some corrupt kind of upper class. this is supposed to be and this kindnd of goes to the heart of what journalism is and isn't and it's amazing to think of the consequences you talk about that a little bit in the book that this really was an attempt of theco election outcome and you wonder who's pulling the strings. i wonder if you have any kind of perspective on "the new york post" and from others that you have intera

prestige media , the new york times, washington post and so on a block it and you had people like john brennanand other former security and intelligence operatives who then gave the fig leaf to joe biden that the laptop was russian disinformation so the american people were kept in the dark for the election and the proper due diligence they were not able to do on one of the candidates, the president . >> i'm going to open this up for questions. i knowwe've got a great audience, and we've got the first question queued up . i'm going to ask you to talk about that because that as much scandal as there is on the laptop and in the book about what the bidens i feel like the scandal with the media is almost more alarming because it's not just one family and some corrupt uppercrust. athis is supposed to be, this goes to the heart of what journalism is and isn't and it's amazing to think of the consequences. you talk about that in your book that this reallywas an attempt to suffer the' election outcome . you wonder almost was pulling the strings on some of those companies. i wonder if you had perspecti

the "washington post" and so on, they blocked it, protected the story, and you had people like john brennan and other former security and intelligence operatives who then gave the fig leaf to joe biden that it wasca russian disinformation so the american people were kept in the dark before the election and with proper due diligence, they were not able to do. >> i'm going to open this up for questions. we have a great audience that will have a lott of questions. i just want to kind of ask you to talk a little bit more about that because i do think that as much a scandal as there is on the laptop and in the book about the bidens i feel like the scandall was the media. it's almost more alarming because it isn't just the misdeeds of one family and the upper class, it is supposed to be the heart of what journalism is and it's amazing to think of the i consequences if you talk about that a little bit in your book that this really was an attempt to subvert the election outcome. you wonder who's pulling the strings and i wonder if you have any prospective if they were surprised at the extent of the

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jim clapper and john brennan committed perjury on television before congress. there is no dispute about that. what do they do, they are on tv too. hunter biden lied on a federal gun forum. that's a felony. how was he punished? a mild probing on cbs that he shrugged off as if it were nothing. watch. >> why did you have a gun? >> again, it was it. in my life that was difficult. i don't know. >> according to the reporting a one point the secret service went looking for the record of sale. do know anything about that? >> nothing. >> they do know about the secre service being involved? >> not at all. i don't know. i don't think that is true. >> i don't know why the secret service were involved. really? you had no idea? they were with you. they helped you. you committed a gun felony. it's all out there. but hunter biden is the president's son and more importantly he's a faithful party loyalist. you know as well as he does he doesn't have a thing to worry about. he can flaunt his crimes. radar online.com got pictures of him casually waving his illegal firearm around w

they blocked it big tech sense of the story and you had people like john brennan and other you know, former security and intelligence operatives who then gave the fig leaf to joe biden that this was the laptop was russian disinformation. so the american people were kept in the dark before the election and the proper due diligence they were not able to do on one of the candidates for president. yeah, you know, no i'm going to open this up for questions. i know we've got a great audience that's gonna have a lot of questions and as we kind of get the first person queued up, i just want to kind of ask you to talk a little bit more about that because i do think that that as much as much scandal as there is on the laptop and in the book about what the bidens i feel like the scandal with the media is almost more alarming because it's not just the miss deeds of one family and some corrupt kind of upper crust. this is supposed to be this is kind of goes to the heart of journalism is and isn't and it's amazing to think of the consequences and you talk about that a little about in your books cl

joe biden, john brennan, jim comey. your reaction? >> it was the greatest political crime in the history of our country. >> why has there been such limited coverage of the flynn unmasking when this is what the president of the united states has referred to as the biggest political scandal in history of the united states of america? >> none of that was true. but imagine being a fox news viewer and having a cast of characters pushing that line on you over and over four years. a supposed grave crime is that trump's first national security adviser, mike flynn, a guy who pled guilty to lying to the fbi about lying having meetings with the russian official, before trump took office, was somehow improperly targeted by the obama administration, and had his identity unasked for political reasons. well, now we are seeing that this is nonsense as well. according to a 2020 department of justice document, newly-obtained by buzzfeed, written by a trump appointed u.s. attorney, who is assigned to the attachment by bill barr, an investigation found,

where are obama's attorney general, crapper, cia's john brennan, james comey, hundred biden took nearlyr business deals? >> absolutely. there are so many questions we don't know the answers to and i don't think we're ever going to. this was what was going on during the obama biden administration and right before what are they doing? they're putting their focus on trump. those are great russians but i don't see how we will have answers. possibly after the republicans take over congress, they will push for the but unfortunately this is the swamp we see in d.c. we see the lobbying and family members getting money, i would much rather focus on the hundred biden joe biden scandal. that's when you bring in the information about the obama administration as well. elizabeth: says with a trump voters are saying, it's unfair they went after trump and slammed him but then hunter biden saying couldn't he be considering the poster child for white privilege? he's being ejected, he's got the d.o.j. tax evasion investigation, money laundering and lobbying violation, let's watch how hunter has been cover

and andrew mccabe james clapper and john brennan and lois lerner, they all had one thing in common. they had enormous powers. they all lied under oath or said they could not remember and there were no punishments at all. even somebody with a sterling reputation that we all honor robert mueller. how could robert mueller run a 22 month long investigation? based on the steel dossier and its dissemination by fusion gps and testify under oath. to the house intelligence committee. when asked that he had no idea what the dossier was. he had no idea. what gps was in other words he had no idea why his committee existed his commissioned existed in the first place. and that that was 22 months post-facto. so it's very dangerous to invest and give up your constitutional rights to people who are not elected and they're growing greater and larger as the individual citizen fields. that they are losing their independence and they need someone to instruct them someone to house them someone to give them education someone to give them legal advice for someone to protect them the more that they want pro

congress like both john brennan and james clapper, there's no consequences very littlepe and o the law is designede on the premise that the noble ends justifies any means necessary. this has. defined those means is radical equality, fairness, social justice, not constitutional law. and so i think right now people are really bizarre. they see may thirty first two thousand eight a mob come from lafayette square tries to torch down a historic church, tries to swarm on federal property. the white house grounds sends the president into a bunker with his family and there's very little consequences at gas compared to january 6th. and so i think the law is very fluid. merrick garland is much to blame. so j is joe biden. yes, it's part of the lefte ideology that's in ascendance right now. and it's very l scary because i think most americans realize if youol are a particular political persuasionpers and you break the law or you're accused of breaking what you're going to be treated veryyer differently, then another thing. yeah, stephen colbert is diffexulting in that fact tonig. 60%, thank you s

congress like both james brennan and john clapper, there's no consequence, very little.igned on the premise that the noble end justifies any means necessary and the left has defined those means as radical equality, fairness, social justice, not the constitutional law. and so i think right now people are really weird, bizarre. they see may 31, 2020, a mob from lafayette square tries to torch down an historic church, tries to swarm on federal property the white house grounds, sends a president into a bunker with his family and there's very little consequence. compared to january 6th. and so i think the law is very fluid. merrick garland is much to blame so is joe biden but it's part of the left ideology and it's very scary because i think most americans realize if you are of a particular political persuasion and you break the law or you're accused to breaking the law you're going to be treated very differently. >> tucker: yeah. stephen colbert is ex you willing in that fact tonight. thank you so much. >> absolutely. thank you. >> tucker: recently a horrifying school shooti

he worked with john glickman on the domestic council staff along with colonel brennan and a handful of other staff members. he was asked to fly aboard air force one on the final flight home to california on august 9th, 1974. frank worked with the former president in san clemente for five years as richard nixon's chief editorial assistant, organizing the research and writing of his memoirs, working with diane sawyer. frank received his bs from the georgetown university school of foreign service, a masters from the london school of economics, and a ph.d. from oxford. ladies entitlement, would you please join me in welcoming dwight chapin? >> [applause] >> thank you, tim. good evening, ladies and gentlemen. what a great group we have here. i want to thank you all for coming. this obviously is a huge occasion for me. i am really honored to have frank here asking the questions. we hope you enjoy it. we are going to have some q&a at the end. be thinking of any questions you might have as you listen to us. frank? >> well, thank you. thank you for being here. thank you for helping to launch it