april 26, joseph mifsud drops this info in my lap. week later the australian government wants to meet over drinks and allegedly probed me about my own individual business ties and what trump was up to. mueller's team actually confirmed this to me. when i told them, i have no recollection at all about this individual having any type of discussion with me about russia. they said you did say something. i said how do you know that? they said what do you think? transcript. gregg: he recorded it on his cell phone. if alexander downer was there to record my conversation. how could crossfire hurricane emerge spontaneously on july 31, i think this goes back to 2015. and i don't think it's a coincidence that michael flynn had the same open raw toughs looking into him in 2015 as i did in 2016. gregg: it wasn't the only time that it happened. so then the fbi's undercover informant stefan halper, he wants to meet with you and he does the same thing with his cell phone and sits it next to you. turning to page 119 of my book, witch hunt. the convers

april 26, joseph mifsud drops this info in my lap.ts to meet over drinks and allegedly probed me about my own individual business ties and what trump was up to. mueller's team actually confirmed this to me. when i told them, i have no recollection at all about this individual having any type of discussion with me about russia. they said you did say something. i said how do you know that? they said what do you think? transcript. gregg: he recorded it on his cell phone. if alexander downer was there to record my conversation. how could crossfire hurricane emerge spontaneously on july 31, i think this goes back to 2015. and i don't think it's a coincidence that michael flynn had the same open raw toughs looking into him in 2015 as i did in 2016. gregg: it wasn't the only time that it happened. so then the fbi's undercover informant stefan halper, he wants to meet with you and he does the same thing with his cell phone and sits it next to you. turning to page 119 of my book, witch hunt. the conversation goes like this. it's great that rus

john durham giving us hope here. >> what happened is horowitz had no access to people at the cia, joseph mifsud to reach the conclusion he did about the basis for the investigation, without knowing about mifsud and all those people which durham does. durham felt he had to slap horowitz across the face publicly. that is a rebuke like i have never seen of an inspector general by a united states attorney. southern well deserved may i say. i think horowitz' conclusions are outrageous. >> mifsud is not an fbi agent. he's cia for western intelligence. lou: there is plenty of embarrassment here. the fisa courts, despite all of this, the judges themselves, the chief justice of the supreme court -- >> these are federal judges already confirmed and they are appointed by the chief justice. i would like to know he called them in and sat them down and asked how this happened. but i haven't heard any rumor to that effect. it seems to me the chief justice should do something. >> there should not be a tree authorization of the fisa court until these judges and the chief justice testify in open hear beings what

you are also waiting for the government to hand over blackberries by joseph mifsud.o you expect to get those devices? >> i don't necessarily need the devices but we asked for the data from them. we think that might indicate what mr. mifsud's role was in all of this and who it was being run by and tasked by. we know he was an asset of russian intelligence and not a russian asset. so there is a story there, too. jesse: it looks like from all your filing that the government has been withholding information from your client, michael flynn, and this whole thing could have been avoided from the very beginning and he may not end upperring of time or getting charged with anything at the end of it if the judge tosses it. sidney powell working for general flynn. thank you very much. up next, a. "watters' world" investigation into q. what is this conspiracy theory everyone is talking about? an exclusive interview with a private investigator who knows about bill clinton and jeffrey epstein. [♪] ♪ some things are too important to do yourself. get customized security with 24/7 mon

brian: stephan halper and joseph mifsud. the summary was very thick by the way.re, stephan halper was the one who was commissioned to go speak to carter page to get information. and go speak to papadopoulos and try to get information. and joseph mifsud is the one who had the conversation initial whether i george papadopoulos and ended up being something that was discussed with ambassador downer that was brought to the attention of the fbi in the summer and then we launched this whole investigation right after. it is still not clear to me what they are up to and who they are. because mueller said that mifsud worked for russia. really? we found him in italy. >> mifsud remains, he is the mysterious maltese professor, i mean there is some really odd characters in all of this. he remains a mystery. we don't know exactly why he was talking to george papadopoulos. why he lured essentially george papadopoulos with a speaking offer to come to italy to talk to them and how that whole thing happened. maybe durham will tell us more. maybe not. by the way, durham does not hav

for example, who initiated the context between joseph mifsud, alexander downer, and george papadopoulos? john brennan, james clapper, orchestrated to provide the justification for the news of publication of the steele dossier? it remains murky and unknown after an 18 month long inspector general investigation. it's not criticism of his work but speaks to it's the statutory limitations. another question that needs to be asked is who will be held accountable? during his investigation of the fbi's handling of the clinton e-mail scandal, the inspector general uncovered a treasure-trove of bias in the forms of texts between peter strzok, lisa page and others. were it not for the discovery of these texts, would we even be here today reviewing the ig investigation? i have my doubts. the officials involved in this scandal had plenty of time to rehearse their carefully crafted answers to the ig's questions or used times and excuse for the lack of recall. for example, on significant issues described in the record, andrew mccabe told investigators 26 times he did not recall. some involves are clai

interesting thing we learned was about this conservative conspiracy theory having to do with a guy named joseph mifsudpredicate for the fbi to open the investigation. conservatives have theorized that mifsud was a u.s. intelligence plan and the whole trump campaign was set up. but what we found is that horowitz, the inspector general, couldn't find any evidence to substantiate that. he queried u.s. intelligence agencies and reaches out to john durham, the prosecutor hand picked by attorney general bill barr, and durham tells horowitz he too has no evidence to substantiate that mifsud was an american intelligence asset setting up the trump campaign, sort of undercutting to these conservative theories about what horowitz or durham might find. >> we haven't seen the whole report yet, so is there any indication there could be more in there that has not yet been revealed to the press? >> very true. we have not seen the full report. we were careful to note in our story that we have not seen the full report. and i should say too that this inspector general report suspended it doesn't give the fbi and the jus

saw that john durham's probe became criminal in nature once he left italy with information on joseph mifsudcoming up with the john discoure ham investigation -- john durham investigation. it's been a big week, last week in washington, a bigger week next week. "mornings with maria" will be in washington this week. we'll be live with "mornings with maria" on wednesday and thursday, straight from dc and we've got a great lineup with more to come. join us, some of the key guests, peter navarro, as well as congressman steve ca scalise, debbie dingell, chuck grassley join me as lawmakers get ready to close out the week with three important votes where we'll be covering it live in dc. coming up, washington is calling for new talks as the hermit kingdom sends a chilling warning. and stopping porch pi pirates, e state is tackling the growing problem. ♪ this girl is on fire. ♪ this girl is on fire. ♪ she's walking on fire. ♪ this girl is on fire. ♪ ♪ do you recall, not long ago ♪ we would walk on the sidewalk ♪ ♪ all around the wind blows ♪ we would only hold on to let go ♪ ♪ blow a kiss into the sun

there was joseph mifsud, informants running into campaign people earl-- >> some say the horowitz reportened before that. maria: michael mccasey made a good point this weekend. the horowitz report said there was no political bias, right. look at those checks between lisa page and peter truce where lisa page says holy e oh, my god, ted cruz is out of the race, that means it's trump versus hillary. and peter strzok says there's more pressure on us to end the mid year exam, the hillary clinton investigation. i ask what doe -- >> the point is to stop donald trump. maria: that's political bias. >> that's what the insurance policy is about. >> the prediction from durham he's going to reveal that the surveillance began in june of 2015. what happened in june of 2015? donald trump announced his candidacy for president. maria: that's right. in the ig report which kim extras eestrassel pointed out, g report it sense glen simpson was hired in may by -- i'm sorry christopher steele was hired by glen simpson in may of '16 to look at com collusion between tp and russia. it's there in black and white in

. >> according to james comey's may 28th, 2018, op-ed, joseph mifsud, unnamed at the time was a quote, russian agent. did you find anything in the fbi documents that would support james comey's conclusion about that? >> i want to be careful in that because i think if i answer either way i might be touching on information i'm not sure i can speak to in this setting. >> okay. >> let me be clear, you know, we certainly would have looked to see what the fbi -- >> we're follow up in a different setting. did you ever determine why on april 1, 2016, fbi headquarters directed fbi's new york field office to open a counterintelligence investigation on carter page? did you ever get to the bottom of why that happened? >> i'm sorry? >> april 1, 2016, fbi headquarters directed the field office of new york to open up a counterintelligence investigation on carter page. did you ever figure out what caused that? >> the primary purpose was not to look at that investigation. we did get some testimony we described here about that investigation and what prompted them to open it it grew out of a southern di

why were the australians meeting with me on april 20th and then joseph mifsud told me about the emailsre. i think durham is looking into it. steve: something fishy at the fbi according to the horowitz report. >> right. steve: this was all about trying to get the president of the united states. you were caught in the crossfire and the crossfire hurricane you feel like you were unfairly gone after by the fbi, the department of justice. when are you going to sue somebody? [laughter] [applause] >> i have great legal counsel in new york and definitely exploring all options. clearly the horowitz report not only convinced indicates myself at a personal level, i think it was a great day for american. this is not a partisan issue. elicit surveillance of american citizens by the fbi or cia or whoever it might be and issuing the fisa warrants of americans let alone a presidential campaign, let's remember. brian: you and carter page. >> let's remember what a fisa warrant is surveillanceless warrant usually designed for terrorists and spies. you are issuing it on campaign advisors or trying to assi

has met the president once somehow meets by chance with a professor that we can't find anymore, joseph mifsudw york times" story which which addresses these two points which is supposed to be some type of effort to glass light everyone and make you believe what happened didn't happen, actually says it happened. the "new york times" story, if you read it, which most people didn't, they just read the headline which is a propaganda effort says no evidence of spying. it then goes on to say if you read the story later on how the fbi spied and put spies in the campaign. now, it uses euphemisms and the euphemism game to call spies like, you know, all kinds of fancy names like fbi employees. steve: informers. >> informers spies in common use of the language. and the "new york times" story confirms it. as for mifsud. if this whole case started with mifsud, this professor who is allegedly a russian agent and best you can do in the "new york times" story co-including with russian agent at least he wasn't fbi specific informant, if this is your best face forward you are in a lot more trouble. one more th

there were a host of informants running into people like carter page george papadopoulos, like joseph mifsud>> yeah, we don't fully know might be john durham does comments indicate he knows something more than inspector general did, but mifsud's lawyer said emphatically this isn't client was long time western intelligence asset trucked to make observerture to papadopoulos in march starts whole thing creates predicate we need to find out who told him that whos orders that itself unclear same about -- donner we don't know everything about his approach the australian democrat i think he will answer questions we will have a more maria: what are you expecting from his committal investigation that is being led? where is the potential for prosecution or indictment? >> i think one is clear right now. there's an fbi lawyer who falsified documents too great a false portrait of carter page, hiding the fact he was assisting the cia while the fbi was investigating him. i think that is the first starting point and from there when you get a conviction or flip a purpose in like that you work up the food cha

sentenced 14 days in jail, but the whole papadopoulos story the whole story of the mysterious joseph mifsudw not only did john durham who is working on the -- investigating o origins of this -- probe counterintelligence probably into trump campaign it is a criminal matter, is a criminal investigation, full-blown one number one, issue number two also expand in scope in terms of the time frame that jane durham is looking at also resources that have been committed to that very investigation would we know that it will happen, we will may be find out something about that later next year potentially. >> part of that shows the limits of the horowitz investigation that we are going to find out about today he is the inspector general, he doesn't have law enforcement powers he can't subpoena people he can't go indict somebody, i should say one thing, i think in the past two weeks, the people who are the target of this report, some of the people who oppose republicans in this have done a masterful job planting stories in the press to suggest this report is going to be nothing no big deal a nothingburg