. >>> and we have you covered all super bowl week with jessica, don, pat and lisa johnson reporting live from minnesota. you can also find complete eagles coverage at cbsphilly calm. and this friday we are celebrating the birds and the fans, eagles nation. join us for the big one more win line up starting with 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00 followed by a special one more win fan fest edition of eyewitness news at 7:00 and before you know it it will be sunday funday. the second the game ends, we will be live on the air right here on cbs3 bringing you post game comments from the coach, all the players and we will give you a front row seat as fans react all the cross the region. it's eagles. eyewitness news sunday night. >>> we know facebook taylors ads you see based on preferences and posts. but the social media giant is apparently also pegging you as a liberal or a conservative and you probably don't even realize it. nicole brewer is here how much facebook knows about its users. >> they know a lot about us. let's just say that much. our digital team featured an article from the birds today which rev

. >>> and we have you covered all super bowl week with jessica, don, pat and lisa johnson reporting live from minnesota. you can also find complete eagles coverage at cbsphilly calm. and this friday we are celebrating the birds and the fans, eagles nation. join us for the big one more win line up starting with 4:00 5:00 and 6:00 followed by a special one more win fan fest edition of eyewitness news at 7:00 and before you know it it will be sunday funday. the second the game ends, we will be live on the air right here on cbs3 bringing you post game comments from the coach, all the players and we will give you a front row seat as fans react all the cross the region. it's eagles. eyewitness news sunday night. >>> we know facebook taylors ads you see based on preferences and posts. but the social media giant is apparently also pegging you as a liberal or a conservative and you probably don't even realize it. nicole brewer is here how much facebook knows about its users. >> they know a lot about us. let's just say that much. our digital team featured an article from the birds today which reve

senator ron johnson, the chairman of the homeland security committee says it's a real possibility that the term was said in jest between fbi officials peter strzok and lisa page. johnson also says that an informant claimed the fbi officials were holding secret off-site meetings. now, democratic senator claire mccaskill is demanding hard evidence about that claim. >>> in the meantime, the justice department says it's now recovered many of the five months' worth of messages strain sfruk and page lost because of a phone glitch. >>> mitt romney is about to announce his next political move. media reports in utah say romney will announce his run for the u.s. senate next week. current utah senator orrin hatch is retiring. >>> we have new details about that deadly train derailment last month. investigators have now spoken to the train's engineer and say he apparently lost track of where he was even though he had been down those tracks more than a dozen times. he says he missed a speed limit sign and when he saw a curve coming, it was already too late to slow down the train. three people were killed in that derailment. >>> a new warning about the economic crisis

they are between him and an mib lawyer lisa page. ron johnsonchair of the homeland security committee, he released a handful of these texts. let me take you through a few pertinent one. there was one february 20, 2016, exchange, lisa paige, the attorney calls it unbelievable that the presidential race would come down to trump anticipate clinton. that's when this text comes in, agent strzok relied now the pressure really starts to finish mye. now that's an apparent reference to the mid-year exam. that was the case name for the clinton investigation. was fbi agent strzok biased or influencing that investigation at all? and then there's another text, this one about then attorney general loretta lynch's decision to accept the fbi's decision on the clinton matter essentially recusing herself after she met privately on her plane with bill clinton. so during the election, peter strzok text this, he says timing looks like hell. will appear to be chore graphed. that's when paige text back and yeah it's a real profile in courage since she knows that no ch

lisa page. a handful of texts from ron johnson state they refer to a quote secret society the day after president trump was elected. >> cnn's manu raju asks if he is spreading conspiracy theory. >> that is lisa page and peter strozk. you see the text. they use that. maybe we should have the first secret society. that's not my words. it's theirs. i heard that. there were managers. high level officials meeting off site. no, i don't. >> was that a beer after work or secret society? new context for that phrase. abc news has obtained the full text. are you even going to give out your calendars? seems depressing. maybe it should be the first meeting of the secret society. >> a justice department official tells thousands of fbi phones were affected by the glitch which resulted in five texts missing from the fbi servers. >>> and a weaker u.s. dollar sending the greenback to a three-year low. the dollar is good for us as it relates to trade and opportunities. really rare. in fact, i have never seen a treasury secretary welcome a weaker dollar. it is against the stated policy of treasury and the united sta

lisa page writing peter strzok... senator johnsonying that he's trying to get to the bottom of it, as he should. senator johnson is also making news by releasing text messages from anti-trump fbi lovers peter strzok and lisa page that also highlight even further their extreme bias. just after midnight on may 19th, remember, it was gone from december 14th to the 16th of may, and then mueller was appointed and then they reappeared again. strzok appears to be talking about getting an offer to join mueller's investigation. by the way, strzok, "my answer is no, no, and then i think, wait, a case will be in history books? a chapter? you tell me about my extra time with the field that all the cases, would you trade it? a million people sit in adn staff jobs. this is a chance to do that may be most important case of our lives." the same guy that was saying earlier, there is no they are there. 30 minutes later, strzok asked page the question... did strzok have extra knowledge about robert mueller's end goal was going to be? a statement from s

the president weighing in on twitter, where are the 50,000 text messages between lisa page and peter struck. and ron johnsonand a secret society to work against the president. >> corruption, more than bias, corruption at the highest levels of the fbi, secret society, we have an informant talking about a group holding secret meetings off-site. there is so much smoke here. >> you have an informant saying that. >> democrats across the aisle like chuck schumer, it is all a distraction. >> there has been a great deal of activity on the other side intending to diverse attention from mueller and stand in his way. >> the fbi blames technical problems, will not comment on attempts to recover them. we can expect several committees to press harder for this because there may be conflicting reports by michael horowitz. more on that later. and the fbi, samsung glitch for the missing text messages, some republicans not buying it. >> congressman matt gates raising a red flag saying the timeline is too suspicious. >> are these texts missing? tomorrow i will be demanding to find out where the phones are, with the operating s

is is cory johnson and lisa abramowicz. let's take a look at what happened to 10 year. a huge move as i'm leaving yesterday and then we kind of moderate and then you wind up having china say they might stop treasury purchases. 11 basis points in two days. is a pretty big move and there has been a shift in sentiment from sort of jittery to very jittery on the news that china might be considering pulling back its purchases of u.s. treasuries. china is the biggest foreign holder of u.s. treasuries with about $1.2 trillion of the securities in their coffers. there is a question if they stop reinvesting the proceeds and pulled back at all what does this do? even a marginal withdrawal of demands&p right now has an effet on treasury yields. that central banks globally are withdrawing stimulus and stopping bond purchasing programs. this is definitely a big threat. have 10 year and 30 year treasury auction both today and tomorrow. alix: actually really excited about that. at this rate things start to change. after a tax bill is passed with the notion of gdp -- i read this great

in september of 2016, jay johnson and jim comey and lisa monaco had a meeting with the gang of 12 on capitol hill and sat with them in the middle of september, in the middle of election and said, guys, we're under attack by the russians, we need to bring together both parties to take a very strong position against this intervention in our elections and mitch mcconnell and paul ryan said wire ne're not going anything to help you. it's one of the most unpatriotic things that any congressman has ever done. they turned a blind eye toward it in the middle of the campaign. >> and just to under score the importance, i mentioned mccabe and he calls this the political version of a 9/11. mark, thank you so much for your reporting and for joining us today, everyone else is sticking around, when we come back, bracing for impact, republicans staring at a grim reality acknowledging publicly that a democratic wave is possible. also ahead if donald trump acts like he has no idea what a president is supposed to do, it's because he doesn't. some amazing new reporting about the degree of donald trump's

president tweeting where are the 50,000 important text messages between lisa paige and peter strzok blaming samsung as senator ron johnsonho released the messages also says fbi officials talk about a secret society within days of donald trump's election. >> more than bias but corruption at the highest levels of the fbi, secret society, and informant talking about a group holding secret meetings off-site. so much smoke here. >> a secret society, secret meetings outside the justice department and you have an informant saying that. >> reporter: democrats like chuck schumer says this is all a distraction. >> i think there has been a great deal of activity on the other side intending to either diverge attention from mueller or even stand in his way. >> the fbi blames a technical problem for the missing messages and will not comment on further attempts to recover them but we can expect several congressional committees to press harder because there may be some conflict between the bible to justice's inspector general the seventh to those texts and what the fbi's official line is on it. >> just the beginning of this. thank you,

lisa page writing peter strzok, are you even going to give out your calendars it seems dough -- depressing. senator johnson is making news by releasing text messages from anti-trump fbi lovers peter strzok and lisa page highlighting their further bias. on may 19 -- remember it was gone december 14 through the 16th of may and then mueller was appointed and all of a sudden they started reappearing again. strzok appears to be talking about getting an offer to join mueller's investigation. this is key, and right here, strzok, my answer is no. and the lead division and then i think -- wait, a case will be in the history books? a chapter? much like you tell me about my extra time in the field and all the cases. would you trade it? a million people sit odd staff jobs -- i didn't quite get that, this is a chance to do maybe the most important case of our lives. by the way, the same guy saying earlier there's no there-there. 30 minutes later strzok add ed an impeachment and he talked about the possibility of trump/russia collusion after he was pointed. he said you and i both know the odds are nothing. if i thought

in a letter republican senator ron johnson asked fbi to explain why it didn't retain messages between peter struck and lisa>> the portland press herald reports is that criticism continues to grow. the manager is under fire for making white separatist and other comments. he doesn't believe it interferes with his work as town manager. >>> "the salt lake tribune" reports ruth bader ginsburg talked about her own issues. she talked about her life. she discussed a sexual harassment incident involving a professor when she was a student at cornell university. she said she told him, "how dare you," and that was the end of that. >>> for the first time it featured a female-only lineup of award presenters. the move is meant to continue the conversation about sexual harassment. the big winner of last night -- >> and the actor goes to francis mcdorman. >> mcdorman was named the best actress in her role as a mother seeking justice for her daughter. >>> and the film "three billboards outside missouri". and sterling kay brown for this straight year in a row went to claire foy for "the crown" and best drama series cast went

. >> reporter: republican senator ron johnson pointing to personal text messages exchanged between peter struzok and lisa page, an fbi lawyer seen in this alumni picture. in texts sent during the campaign, the couple exchanged their private thoughts, including critical comments about a number ofic figures, including candidate trump. strzok calling him an idiot. page saying he's awful. mueller learne o immediately removed strzok from the investigation. but senator johnson now raising questions about a potential larger fbi conspiracy against the president. >> yeah, but we have an informant that's talking about a group that were holding secret meetings off-site. there is so much smoke here, there's so much suspicion. >> let's stop there. a secret society, a secret meeting off-site of the justice department? >> correct. >> reporter: today, johnson refusing to produce evidence, but pointing to another text exchange between strzok and page. >> all i'm saying is that i've heard -- i've heard -- it's in the text. you'll see the text. they use that. maybe we ought to have the first meeting of the secret society.

look at the text that abc news is reporting any say they got ahold of it that johnson says is to damning former agent lisa paige. texting strok. are you giving out calendar being seems depressing. maybe it should be the first meeting of the secret society. does that implicate -- indicate to you they were plotting something against the president there? or is it a cheeky text message. >> well, that's right. i thought it was sarcastic. tongue in cheek, sort of communication between her and her friend strok. i don't think it had anything to do with knights testimony plar or elders of zion or skull and cross. >> near out to get the president and here is proof they're talking about the secret society. look it's right there in these text messages. don't believe it. it is the media, the anti-trump media that's out to get you and here is the proof. and people at home are like oh, yeah. none of it's real. it's not real. >> except -- except to asha's point, what is real about this is the attack on the justice system. we heard congressman talking about palace coup. and coup detat and secret societies all of which und

these have been released by republican lawmaker rob johnson, and here are some of them. lisa paige saying unbelievable that the 2016 presidential race would come down to clinton versus trump. now the pressure is the mid-year review about hillary clinton's e-mail investigation. another series of texts, you say we text on that phone when we talk about hillary because it can't be traced. those are just a few. >> so what? what does that tell you? i mean, yes, the fact that this investigation was going on in the middle of a presidential campaign, everybody knew that. obviously, they had to resolve it. this idea that fbi agents can't acknowledge what's going on in the real world. i read those text messages and i think so what? >> there's also this new revelation that some six months of texts, they can't find them and is that in any way suspicious to you? >> let there be an investigation of why they'ves did appeared. >> stuff gets lost, and it happens in law enforcement where i worked for a while. you know, if there was someone who got rid of these text messages for some sinister re

lisa page. here is senator ron johnson on that subject.rruption, more than bias but corruption at the highest levels of the fbi. secret society, we have, we have an informant talking about a group that we're holding secret meetings off sight. there is so much smoke here, there is so much suspicion. >> let's stop there. a secret society, secret meetings off site from the justice department? >> correct. >> you have an informant saying that? >> yes. stuart: that's a blockbuster interview right there, in my opinion. steve hilton is with us. the host of "the next revolution" a show, very good one on the fox news channel. steve, i picked up two things there, secret society operating within the fbi, and they have got an informant telling senator johnson all about it. this breaks new turf. this is a conspiracy, isn't it? >> it is a conspiracy and it's really the, the culmination of the bits and pieces of evidence we've been seeing. actually aaccumulate over the last year. that the establishment in washington, d.c., not just inside of the fbi and j

republican congressman, talking about a conspiracy between of the texts between lisa page and peter struck, the two fbi agents. ron johnson, the senator from wisconsin, to come out on tv and throw out there irresponsibly that an informant told him about a secret society and that proves there's so much smoke here and there's a conspiracy, a secret society he said, of fbi agents who meet off-site, away from government buildings, to theoretically, i don't know how the argument goes. plan the takedown of donald trump and his presidency? what a terribly irresponsible thing to say without presenting any evidence to defend it. >> we know, it's interesting, hold on, mike, it is interesting there was another senator from wisconsin, that would hold up pieces of paper and throw out allegations. wasn't there? >> yeah, joe mccarthy, 1952, '53, the mccarthy hearings, the preds of the united states, dwight eisenhower, quite late in the game stood up the way he should have came up and came to a lawyer, joseph welch to stand up and say senator, have you no sense of decency. but ron johnson's comments as willie pointed out, are truly, deep

lisa page and f.b.i. agent peter strzok, who was removed from mueller's team. today, reporters pursuing johnson on capitol hill asked if the reference could have been a joke. >> it's a real possibility. >> yang: republicans also raised warning flags when the f.b.i. said it could not find about five months' worth of those texts, but in a letter to congress today, the justice department's internal watchdog said his office had recovered them. there is also the matter of what's being called the "nunes memo." drafted by aides to house intelligence committee chair devin nunes, it reportedly alleges that the f.b.i. abused its powers to surveil the trump campaign. the specifics of the four-page document aren't clear because it is classified and only available to members of congress, despite calls from the right and the left to release it to the public. republican congressman mark meadows calls the memo "shocking." >> part of me wishes that i didn't read it because i don't want to believe that those kinds of things could be happening in this country that i call home and love so much. >> yang: the intell

. >> reporter: republican senator, ron johnson pointing to personal text messages exchanged between peter struck and lisae, an fbi lawyer seen in this alumni picture. in texts sent during the campaign, they exchanged their private thoughts, including comments about a number of political figures, including trump. they called him an idiot. page saying he's awful. senator johnson now raising questions about a potential, larger fbi conspiracy against the president. >> we have an informant talking about a group holding secret meetings off sight. there's so much smoke and suspicious. >> stop there. secret meetings? >> correct. >> reporter: refusing to produce evidence rk but pointing to another exchange between them. >> i saw the text. maybe we ought to have the first meeting of the society. >> reporter: republicans have not released that text message and the meaning is unclear. now, the president is raising questions about why the fbi is missing records of texts between the couple, during the critical five-month period. >> i think he thinks there's a great cause of concern that five months worth of text messa

lisa page served on the russia investigation. the gap reveals to the justice department as it released a second batch of texts. >> ron johnson, thettee chairman, questioned it. they say quote, the omission of texts cause us to further question the credibility and objectivity of officials at the fbi. assistant attorney general claims technical issues prevented the bureau from capturing messages from 2016 to may of 2017. >>> change of plans for melania trump. the first lady will not join the president on the trip to switzerland. her communications director citing scheduling and logistical issues. mrs. trump would travel with her husband as of last week, but melania trump has not made a public statement since january 12th after news of the payoff to stormy daniels was made public. >>> and the imf says world output would grow 3.9% this year and next. largest in years thanks to the changes in the tax code. a lower corporate rate boosting business investment. it warns the positive effects are temporary. the deficit will hurt growth in the longer run grdragging growt lower. imf says the momentum will persist. there are several risk fact

johnson at the white house. thank you so much. i want to discuss we have a lisa as well as chris, a republican strategist and back as well with the ag of d.c. and also we have josh dubois, a contributor who worked on faith, race, and community partnerships under the obama administration. first to you as you listen to that event. what was your reaction? >> my reaction was that dr. king worked and advocated and changed this country was not the dr. king reflected in these remarks. dr. king would have matched on people and advocating against this white house. you don't have to believe me. you can listen to the words of his own daughter, someone who spent as much time with him as anyone. the only people in the country haunted by white supremacy, would a sitting president feel comfortable degrading africa and haiti while praising norway. dr. king said trump is perhaps one of the greatest threats to civil rights he has ever seen. we heard one thing in the nice presentation from today. what i read about with people who love and knew him would have a lot to say about dona

breaking tonight, republican senators ron johnson and chuck grassley demanding to know how several months of texts between fbi officials peter strzok and lisa page went missing. among the texts that republicans have seen is a new one where strzok and page talk about a secret society after the president's november 2016 victory and in another strzok writes opaquely "i personally have a sense of unfinished business. unleashed it with the mid year exam" the code name for the e-mail case, and "now i need to fix it and finish it." that sparked reaction from republicans and democrats. >> the correct reaction is we need to see the five months of missing texts. who knows -- >> i think there's been a great deal of activity on the other side intending to either divert attention from mueller or stand in his way. >> then we learned today that james robicki is out -- to comey and last month grilled by the oversight and reform committee that he and peter strzok were involved in drafting comey's statement exonerating hillary clinton before she was interviewed by the fbi in the e-mail investigation. today sarah sanders here at the white house podium reitera

lisa page. they were kicked off the team for buy yiabias. a handful of texts released result in a secret society. >> manu raju asked ron johnson if it is a conspiracy >> all i heard is -- you see the text. they use that. maybe we should have the first secret society. that's not my words. that's theirs. they were meeting together off site. >> you don't know about what sf -- what? >> no, i don't. >> abc news has obtained the full text. are you even going to give out your calendars. seems depressing. maybe it should be the first meeting the secret society. >> why release that? thousands of fbi issued phones were affected by the glitch that resulted in five months of texts missing from fbi servers. >>> in a huge break with tradition, steve mnuchin welcomed a weaker u.s. dollar. he was in davos. he says he is not concerned the dollar fell 10% last year. in fact, he said quote, it is good for us as it relates to trade and opportunities. mirchanda mnuchin clarified he is not worried in the short-term. it is unheard of for a treasury secretary to endorse a weak dollar or talk up a weak dollar. especially at davos where world leaders are raising alarms of p

revealed ones between peter strzok and lisa page, who had important positions on the hillary clinton e-mail probe and russia probe, we haven't seen the texts, but ron johnson has seen the texts and put them out there, there has been a lot of talk about the secret society text. but there is new revolution this morning that that may have been a joked? >> reporter: yes, now having looked at the message myself on the secret society -- >> you've seen it, okay. >> reporter: it is far from clear what it means. it is far from clear that it is some plot to undermine the president. the day after the 2016 election last year, page says to strzok, are you even going to give out your calendars? seems kind of depressing. maybe it should just be the first meeting of the secret society. but who knows what she means? i reached out to her lawyer, i reached out to strzok's lawyer for comment as we continue to dig in here on what exactly these officials meant. >> of course you've seen the text. how could i say you haven't seen them? we haven't seen them as of yesterday. laura, thank you for the reporting. we appreciate it. >>> joining us now, phil mudd, and robert wray, former

johnson taking a different approach. what he now says about texts between two fbi officials and that quote secret society. >>> new texts exchanges between fbi officials peter strzok and lisa page appeared to show the two discussing the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and whether or not a special prosecutor should be brought in. page writing in 2016, she may be our next president. the last thing you need is loaded for bear. strzok's response agreed. >> supports have been using this and other issues to discredit the fbi. including a text by page suggesting the secret society within the bureau. days after raising alarms about the is secret society texts, ron johnson, chair of the senate homeland committee is backing off a bit. >> senator, this text message seems to be a comment of a secret society in jest. do you agree? >> certainly a possibility. >> the reporting now is this is just a joke. >> referencing a gag. >> the ig's office reports a trove of the missing texts between the two has been recovered. tools have been used to recover the texts from december of 2016 to may of 2017. >> it is out there now. you muddied the water. this is why you should practice patience

lisa page served on robert mueller's russia investigation. gap in communications reveal two lawmakers by the justice department as it released a second batch of the text messages. >> the senate homeland security chairman ron johnsonsed questions and quickly joined by the republican chairman of three powerful committees. they say the omission of texts causes us to question the credibility of certain officials at the fbi. technical issues with the fbi's retention software prevened the bureau from capturing the messages from late 2016 to may of 2017. >>> the pennsylvania supreme court ordered the congressional map thrown out and redrawn. the suit alleges republicans secretly designed a map packing democratic voters in five districts. >> the ruling couldmajor impacts of control in the gop mid terms. the ruling comes the same month a federal appeals panel overturned north carolina's map. the u.s. supreme court has blocked that decision and pennsylvania republicans are expected to ask the high court to reverse this ruling as well. >>> president trump expected to invavite french president macro to washington, d.c. this year. the invitation could be extended this week while the president tends the world economic forum in

yesterday senator ron johnson released more texts belonging to peter strzok an agent removed from the special counsel staff last summer for disparaging trump in messages with lisalawyer he was romantically involved with. on monday an fbi letter said that its system for retaining text messages had failed to save communications between the two over a five month period between december of 2016 and may of 2017. and at 10:54 p.m., president trump tweeted where are the 50,000 important text messages between fbi lovers lisa page and peter strzok. blaming samsung. he did not elaborate why. that is the second time trump has overstated the number of texts which the justice department says is the overall number found on servers. regardless the house and senate says they see evidence of an fbi conspiracy against the white house. >> what is missing is important, but also what is there is important. it is manifest bias not just against trump, but against his kids, against police business interests. there is a text where they hope that trump hotel fails. that is a level of bias that you rarely see and you never see from law enforcement officers. >> what this is all about is f

that's when lisa page texted back, and, yeah, it's a real profile encourage, since she knows no charges will be brought. in releasing that text message, senator johnson wrote to the doj in response, said it appears by those texts that attorney general lynch knew that no charges would be brought when she made her announcement to let the fbi handle the investigation. and in addition, senator johnson is also requesting that the fbi hand over text messages that were exchanged between strzok and page on their personal devices. he said some of those may contain business and he's asking for more info because apparently there are some sort of technical glitch that prevented some of the texts between december 2016 and may 2017 on exactly the same day that robert mueller was appointed special counsel. some of those aren't being turned over just because they can't be retrieved by the fbi. it continues to be a republican rallying cry. >> and i understand there is new tension between devin nunez and the fbi. what is going on here? >> it all relates to this memo that nunez has drafted. he and several other republicans, they want to release this classified memo. in

johnson and the republican chairman of the senate judiciary committee chuck grassley want answers from the justice department's internal watchdog. the missing text between peter strzok and lawyer lisa page and why their committees were told every text was recovered 15 months are missing. justice department spokeswoman said they are working every angle. >> find the text messages, the old phones, whether it's going to some of these technology companies that were involved in seeing if they have them. >> and attacks made public last year, page and strzok talk about avoiding detection. page says we talk on that phone will he talk about hillary because it can't be traced. law enforcement officials tell fox the missing checks are part of a broader technical problem. at least one republican wants more interest from the fbi and former attorney general. >> what i do want is an opportunity to fairly question folks like strzok and page and comey and lynch and others with a benefit of all of the documents for as many as can be located. >> today fox news asked robert miller's office to characterize a level of white house cooperation and whether their data is consistent with or conflicts with fox

another revelation from senator johnson in the same interview, november 14th memo 2016 by lisa final again about our plan, our is capitalized, that's a week after the election. judge napolitano is here, first, with those two revelations, what do you make of it? >> a two-person wrecking team to the reputation of the fbi and it's unfortunate if they can't check their very strong political opinions at the door and use political opinions to drive what they're doing in official work. now -- stuart: hold on a second, the revelation, they are talking about a secret society within the fbi these two. now our plan -- >> i don't know what the our plan is, but if you combine our plan with secret society, you actually have in writing the revelation of what many of us have been ranting and raving about, characterize my own behavior as ranting and raving for years and that's the deep state, that's the part of the government unauthorized by the constitution which never changes no matter which party is in power that exercises extraordinary power and influences the way the government goes for its own

lisa page range from december 2016, month after the election, tim may when james comey was fired. special counsel robert mueller took over the russia case. according to this letter from senator ron johnsone fbi blamed a technical problem for the bureau's failure to preserve the records. >> people need to be terminated or prosecuted. they say they lost him but i don't think verizon or at&t or the phone company's have lost the records. >> nearly 400 pages of text suggest loretta lynch knew the fbi would recommend against prosecution before hillary clinton's july 2016 interview. four days after lynch met with bill clinton where they claimed to discuss grandchildren and a day before hillary clinton's fbi interview, on july 1, 2016, strzok tells page "timing looks like hell." page agreed. the text appear to undercut comey's july claim he acted alone when recommending against criminal charges. >> i have not coordinated this statement or reviewed it in any way with the department of justice or any other part of the government. >> over the weekend, the republican chairman of the house intelligence, and judiciary and oversight committee met behind closed doors to discuss the next step. the four

lisa page spoke in text messages about a secret society. within the fbi itself, that was convened apparently off-site, presumably. to discuss things like insurance policies and other benevolent matters involving donald trump. senator ron johnson today was flabbergasted at what he learne learned. >> what this is all about, it's further evidence of corruption at the highest level of the fbi. a secret society? we have an informant that is talking about a group that were holding secret meetings off-site. there is so much smoke. there are similar individuals highly biased, political operatives burrowed into the department of justice as well. >> laura: you combine this with the sudden missing five months of texts between the two lovebirds, and you do have a full-blown corruption scandal on your hands, involving the very people that are leading the investigation into both mrs. clinton's private email server and of the russia collusion nonsense evolving trump. how our heads not already rolling just knowing what we know now? on my radio show this morning, joe did you have a made the case that this all indicates that we need a big change of leadership. at the fbi and at the justice department. >> quite apparent that christopher wray is

lisa page, who were also having a relationship, they have been found. some of them were not told all of them, but this message, i'm sorry, it is a memo from the justice department to ron johnson grassley. it states that as a result of a technical glich the messages were found and, of course, this is the dated time period crucial because it was the transition period and beyond into the first month of the presidency. december 14th 2016 to may 17th, 2017. they have successfully recovered using forensic tools to recover these messages from fbi devices, including messages between those two individuals. that were sent or received through the those dates effort to retrieve any additional text messages is ongoing. that's why we don't know if they recovered all of those missing messages. they have certainly recovered some. they do intend to turn those over. lee zeldin, congressman from new york is on the couch here. what do you make of this breaking news. >> i didn't believe that they were lost in the first place. i could see them damning or damaging but not lost. whether it was forensic cell phone carrier or possession of the inspector general i really did believe these texts were no

brian: chairman of homeland security, ron johnson wrote a letter and got the response from the fbi, we missed five months of exchanges between peter strzok and lisaessages send and received by mobile devices failed to preserve those messages. if the fbi was investigating any of us and we came back to the fbi yeah, the system we were working on it failed to retain, would that be okay being there was no disclosure of this prior to the request? let alone the ones that were retained really raised a lot of people's antennas? ainsley: fbi saying we lost the text messages, we can't find out. it is different what you mapped out. the two lovebirds are saying they don't have it anymore. brian: no, i'm not saying that. if the fbis with investigating us, we said sorry my system failed to retain just these five months that would be a little bit of a problem when they were told they had to retain them. steve: there is some question whether or not the fbi asked those two, can we have your non-fbi devices? there has been a suggesting they were using i-messaging. when you look at some of the messages they did release, not good for these two. listen to this. on ju

reference to a secret society comes from one of those texts between lisa page and peter strzok having some sort of affair. senator ron johnsony referenced that secret society and added another layer based on someone he referred to as an infor and the. watch him. >> what this is all about is further evidence of corruption, more than bias but corruption at the high left levels of the fbi. the secret skeet, we have and i formant talking about a group holding secret meetings off site. there's so much smoke and so [