joining me tonight, congressman matt gates. he serves on a number of committee.ongressman, great toy se to se. this has been an incredible week. let's start with the most recent development and that is the referral by sphwhairt grassley, the chair of the judiciary committee and lindsey graham for criminal investigation by the justice department. your reaction. >> bravo to senators grassley and graham for highlighting the real crimes by the real criminals in this case. the only evidence we have of collusion with the russian federation is the evidence that the democratic national committee paid the fusion gps company to go pay russians to tell lies about the newly elected president of the united states. and it is about darn time we made that the central focus of our collusion inquiries and i'm glad to see that senators grassley and graham understand the importance of the collusion between russians and democrats and that we're about to root that out in the future, lou. lou: and the how judiciary committee on what you said. why isn't there a turn there as well. devin

here's matt gates. he sits on the house judiciary committee. welcome. good to have you with us tonight. tell me more about that. in terms of this investigation and what you want specifically. one of the concerns here is it looks liked the attorney general had turned over all of the fbi texts in december of 2017. now it appears that they disappeared. >> that is the operative question. are these texts really missing? that's why tomorrow i'll be demanding to find out where the phones are. what the operating system upgrades were. when there was an original notice that there might have been missing information. the key information, martha, is that hahn december 13th of 2017, we had mr. horowitz, the inspector general for the fbi send a letter to senator ron johnson saying that they had these texts all the way through the month of june. so that would include the five month period that the fbi says that they don't have these text messages for. so we have conflicting information. are the texts truly lost? or does the inspector general have them? that's what con

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florida republican congressman matt gates in next. trish: one of the things that made speech special is president's ability to weave the stories together of all different people he had joining him as his guests, otto warmbier's parents who were there. an emotional moment, they lost their son to a crazy north korean dictator, then you had -- that is them that moment, whether they stood, you had north korean who escaped on the crutches and suffered tremendous tragedy. is now broadcasting from south korea in to north every day. the truth about that country. and president was able to weave the stories together and signal that we mean business with north korea. so what does that mean? what do we do right now? joining me on set, flood florida congressman matt gates. >> it was a cold night in washington but president was on fire, a fantastic job, only thing that disappointed me what president highlighted success of american people, american businesses. wages rising, jobs coming back, we didn't have more bipartisan engagement and applause. yo

joining me now is congressman matt gates who serves on judiciary, budget and armed services. pay close attention to what robert mueller is doing with his probe. when is it going to end? >> it needs to end. if robert mueller has evidence of collusion, let's see it. we've seen no much set. such evidence. the only thing we've seen is that the democrat party was using their funds to pay russians to go tell lies about the president. this is what russian does around the world. that appears to be the basis of this dossier. it's why it's so important to not allow the american people to think it has any credit whatsoever. david: there have been four charges that have come out of mr. mueller's office. two people have pled and one of them was general flynn, the other was pop lop douse who some people think may have been wired and gone back into the trump cam ban evidence that now mr. mueller has. do you have any knowledge of that at all? >> no. there is a theory that the drinking time in a london pub with an australian diplomat was the start of the investigation. but that seems far less

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joining me now matt gates of florida, a member of the house judiciary committee.o you heard the elements of that politico editorial, are you worried, congressman? >> not worried at all. in bill clinton taught us anything it's the economy stupid. the democrats can't run on that. we have growing gdp growth and we're winning on a lot of priorities. we have to maintain our focus on the economic gains the american people are enjoying. the democrats are the ones that have to use russia and extend out the investigations because they can't run on a policy message. they will lose there every time. >> jon: you think all of this potential headlines about manafort and gates and russia and so forth all of that is just noise that voters are going to ignore? >> i would compare all of that to monica lewinsky and ken starr and the activities that surrounded bill clinton in 1998. petime dealing with a special counsel would bring down the democratic party. the reality was republicans didn't gain seats during that election because we had six straight quarters of economic growth. if w

joining me now, matt gates of florida who serves on the house judiciary committee.ining us. first your reaction to the news that now former deputy director andrew mccabe has left the fbi and also, i'm wondering, what is your understanding of why that happened today. >> i don't know. why i will say i think it is a step forward for the country. many of us have been concerned about the highest levels of the fbi and the department of justice becoming too susceptible to politics and political influence and i think we can all move forward to ensure we have the type of confidence within the institutions that our democracy would demand. i would caution against casting an entire imagine's career based on one moment or investigation. andrew mccabe has likely done many things for this country that we will never know about and he deserves our thanks even if there are things in the most recent days is that months that have given us concern. >> let's talk about the nunes memo. you've called for it to be released. a trump appointee says it would be extraordinarily reckless for the

joining us tonight congressman matt gates who serves on a number of key committees including judiciary budget and armed services. congressman great to see you. like all of us here i'm sure you're anticipating the president's remarks tonight. what are the odds of him well giving that letter to speaker ryan? >> well the great thing about donald trump is you never can quite script him. we do know that the white house put out statements in support of those of us who have been fighting for transparency and openness so there's no doubt where the white house is and where the president is and i think there would be no better way to kickoff the state of the union speech tonight than to announce he will release the memo and expose the corruption that has to be cleaned up, lou. lou: well i would be delighted congressman as i know millions and millions of americans would be. there is in this a certain calculus that i find interesting because it's a judgment on the part of the white house that this memorandum is not lurking over all of the subjects that will be discussed tonight. no one in the coun

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representative steve king wrote like he's read the memo it's worse than watergate florida representative matt gates says that if we get this memo into the public square heads are going to roll up the f.b.i. . pushing back just a little bit i mean there is interest for devon una's to undermine the f.b.i. in this case how serious could this be. well again the evidence we already have access to actually reveals what we already know it creates the the pretext for reasonable suspicion and frankly we already know and have proven that russia did not hack us vote tallies they did not intervene to at least to the extent that was previously thought in the us elections and the democrats have been engaging in neo mccarthyism it's kind of switched the roles here from fifty years ago they were they were taking the fifth because they were being called to the mat for collaborating themselves with the soviet union now they're actually turning the tables and saying that russia did it every turn it's become a little silly it's become a little ridiculous this is a broken record we need to actually have a real conversa

republicans hoping to release what they call that jaw-dropping memo on surveillance abuses, matt gates seen the memo himself, he believes the american people deserve it as well. he believes obama spying on the trump campaign think it actually be worse than watergate. >> it is no longer disputable a pro hillary clinton anti-donald trump bias has infected the fbi and the united states of america is in jeopardy as a consequence. you laid out a great timeline, there are even more damaging fact to come. that is hard to believe but trust me, around the corner we are learn even more about how infected this investigation is, particularly the mueller probe. in august you had strzok and page saying they would be the insurance policy. the american people i never going to believe that two days after barack obama -- the intelligence community on donald trump, that all of a sudden these text messages went dark and happened to reappear in come alive the day after robert mueller is elected special counsel. it would be the coincidence of all coincidences. >> the process of releasing this memo could tak

the one just reaproved by the house of representative and senate, congressman matt gates shocked is now calling for it to be made public. >> intelligence memo, is so alarming, that it must be immediately disclosed to american people. and disclosure of this document, must be a top priority for country immediately. i cannot stress how important that is. any american, that would see this document would feel as though people like rod rosenstein and bruce oh.r. need to be fired immediately. >> great is one of 4 congressmen calling for public release of that memo. other include mark meadows. jim jordan, scott parry. joining us tonight, chris ferrel. it is good to see you, let's start with this 4 page memo. it is to me, deeply troubling, so much that we're getting this into light, but so much remains behind closed-doors and so dark after more than a year a year and a half of investigations, 6 1/2 years, of total investigation by 5 committees. the special counsel, and the fbi. >> this is a case again of gross over declasscasion. i think it american public knew what was in the memo, and the scop

florida congressman matt gates who has seen the memo and wanted to be released so he can expose whatdeep-seated corruption. >> we will see it in the next two weeks. now democrats are making a claim the memo is conclusory so chairman nunez is right to look at what supporting information can be released along with the memo that validates it. that will help us to have a more robust discussion other than lobbing conclusions at one another and why the memo hasn't been released yet. the chairman and committee rightfully going to the process so we don't disclose sources and methods, putting americans who are downrange in any jeopardy but expose what i believe is a deep-seated corruption that has undermined this presidency unfortunately. >> a personal lawyer for donald trump says 20 white house personnel have voluntarily given interviews to special counsel and 20,000 pages of records were provided in the russia investigation, describing the level of cooperation as unprecedented and we will continue to follow that. another fox news alert, two violent attacks on law enforcement overnight, one

here with me now, florida congressman matt gates. so dianne feinstein obviously released this unilaterally. why did she do it and how problematic is it? >> this is the one-year anniversary of the trump dossier it's salacious, unverified, and by dianne feinstein releasing the testimony of glenn simpson. i'm all for more transparent hearings where people tell their story open to everyone. but we have to set those rules on the front end. kennedy: if senator feinstein were the chair of that committee she would have lost her mind if chuck grassley did the same thing and released a bunch of information. she is trying to prove how politicized this is in a politicized move. but the question remains, was the fusion gps dossier opposition research or an intelligence document? >> in this case we have absolute proof it's a political document. the dnc admitted to paying for the fusion gps dossier and we know hillary clinton had a strangle hold on the dnc and she was calling the shots. and it seems to indicate the fbi relied on this document. why

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. >> congressman matt gates raising a red flag saying the timeline is too suspicious. >> are these textsissing? tomorrow i will be demanding to find out where the phones are, with the operating systems upgrades where, when there was a notice there might have been missing information but the key information is on december 13, 2017, we had mister horowitz, the inspector general for the fbi send a letter to senator ron johnson saying they have these text messages all the way through the month of june so that would include the 5-month period, they won't have these text messages, we have conflicting information, the texts truly lost or does the inspector general have them? but that is what congress needs to find out immediately. rob: republican lawmakers compare this to hillary clinton's 30,000 deleted emails from her time as secretary of state, missing emails and former irs official lois lerner's missing emails and the conservative targeting at the irs targeting conservative groups. jillian: gop lawmakers calling into question the james comey testimony specifically the timeline of when the f

sara carter, gregg jarrett, matt gates. let's talk about your -- you got a quote today in your article. tell everyone. amazing. >> yes, members of the fbi, like we have said before, sean. these are good people who want the truth out. former senior fbi officials and current fbi officials don't believe this was just a technical glitch. i can't use the language they shared with me when the news came out. something they did bring up that's important to get out to the audience. they said a lot of the text messages were done on unsecure samsung 5. >> the glitch. >> yes the glitch. it wasn't just us servers but foreign actors such as israel, germany, russia and china tried to capture fbi cellphones all the time it maybe a foreign actor has the text messages between - . >> vladimir may have it after all. >> someone may have it after all. they talked about flynn being the subject of blackmail. what about them the subject of blackmail. >> i have people. i don't want to mention their names. they say samsung phones don't have point to

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tomorrow congressman matt gates joins us. good night.t new fallout from a bombshell book on the president an lawsuits against the author and publisher. >>> plus, can iranian people toppable their government? john bolton weighs in. >>> jeff sessions says he's going to crack down on legal weed. grab a lighter. it's time to spark up this thing. steve bannon is a gas bag who flapped his gums to a presidential biographer and knew his bloated carcass is in the dog house. bannon gaifs hours of quotes to michael wolfe who through a lit gas on a gas-soaked relationship. ba

tomorrow congressman matt gates joins us. good night. kennedy: tonight new fallout from a bombshell book on the president an lawsuits against the author and publisher. >>> plus, can iranian people toppable their government? john bolton weighs in. >>> jeff sessions says he's going to crack down on legal weed. grab a lighter. it's time to spark up this thing. steve bannon is a gas bag who flapped his gums to a presidential biographer and knew his bloated carcass is in the dog house. bannon gaifs hours of quotes to michael wolfe who through a lit gas on a gas-soaked relationship. bannon called the meeting treasonnist and unpatriotic, said the investigators would crack don jr. like an egg on national television and opined, you realize where this is going. all about money laundering. the path to trump goes right through paul manafort, don jr. and jared kushner. it's as plain as the hair on your face or the adult acne on your face or the unhealthy moles. the president responded with the fire and fury promised in the forthcoming book's title re

. >> martha: breaking tonight, congressman matt gates is here with new developments exclusive to "theening. i martha maccallum. newly discovered texts between top agent peter strzok and he's lover, lisa page, show the two discussing the potential of working on the mueller special counsel team. you and i know are the odds are nothing. if i thought it was likely, i'd be there, no question. i hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern that there's no big there there. remember from last night that after the election, these two shocked at president trump's win also texted now part of a

. >> neil: matt gates is with us from florida. thanks for taking the time. how does it look to you that a shut down will happen? >> congress budget as lot like a 17-year-old does a term paper, neil. we wait until the last minute and do a mediocre job of it. it's 50/50. after one year of republican control of the congress, we have yet to do anything to cut spending. a at the same time, military members that need training and munitions are not getting what they need. every time the public hears continuing resolution, they should think more of the same. more depriving the military, more funding of obamacare exchanges. those are the types of things that republicans promised to be against and that's why we're fighting for real reform, not just kicking the can down the road. >> neil: what would that mean on this measure that could come up tonight? >> more funding for our troops. conservatives have said to our leadership if we can fully fund the military and do a resolution on the other priorities, we would hold our nose and vote for it. there's no reason to send o

there are a lot of republicans on the hill who aren't out there ranting and raving like matt gates islevision trying to carry water for the president. but they're not saying anything. they're saying things privately, but, you know, paul ryan and other republicans who we look to to be leaders on the hill occasionally trump will tweet something insane, they'll have to be asked about it and they will condemn those tweets. but on the whole -- the fbi derangement syndrome, and all these things that are running across the republican party right now, nobody is standing up and saying, hey, guys, come on. have you looked at all those memos -- >> it is unfortunate and say -- hyper boll i can for being offended by the kind of language and behavior and cruelty this president, it's his nature. >> because he got a tax cut. you're in a war of words with tucker carlson whether or not his show careens into racist themes, which you are more polite, it does. just talk about how unrecognizable some of the bright lights and rising stars -- you know, you and i used to disagree on sarah palin. but now i ret

here now it's florida congressman matt gates, leading the charge for congress to take over because allngressman just looks like a mess. >> it truly does. of the fusion gps op-ed is as unreliable as the fusion gps dossier for more than five months now we've had 20 members of the house judiciary committee calling for a second special counsel to evaluate the nexus between the dnc, the clinton foundation, fusion gps and russians, the very russians who told lies to undermine the president of the united states both before and after his election. we will get to the bottom of this and the fact that we are turning up the heat on our investigation is likely one reason why glenn simpson wanted to tell his side of the story in the newspaper. now we are ready for him to tell his side of the story in open hearings in congress. >> sandra: i got to tell you, we hear you and we know your ambition and we know that you are going after this, but at this point it feels to the american people like is anybody going to be held accountable? is anything going to actually, this? >> is a totally fair question in

interesting maybe now to get a democrats perspective because now it's being said by congressman matt gatesho is a republican has just issued a statement that the news that the fbi director mccabe is stepping down as a step forward. let's go live to democratic congressman, serves on the house intel committee. there's going to be about later today, how will that go? we would like to see this all-important memo, some pretty interesting goings-on inside the fpa at high levels. >> thanks for having me back. if the american people see anything as it relates to our investigation, i hope they see the full picture and the democratic side will offer that today. i believe that memo as written is our brainwashing memo that relies on inaccurate facts to send it to the whole body of the house of representatives who may be called one day to decided on the president's actions. i hope the american people get the full picture and that may b be. >> harris: this g.o.p. memo, reports show that the attorney general, deputy attorney general did not sufficiently explain the reason for extending a longer look at a

. >> that was congress man matt gates on trump tv hyping the contents of a classified memo being circulateddeference announce which alleges the fbi and doj engaged in abuses in an attempt to destroy trump. nunes refuses to let them see the memo he wrote. today steven boyd, assistant attorney general who works for jeff sessions sent nunes a letter saying it would be extraordinarily reckless for him to release it without review adding we do not see why the committee would seek 0 disclose sensitive information without first consulting with the members of the intelligence committee. joining me now representative adam schiff of california. what is there memo? >>. >> it basically is something that chairman nunes had drafted to distort the facts to mislead the house members, and to carry political water for the white house. chris, it's a continuation of what we saw back in march of last year on march 20th, we had our first open hearing with comey in which can he revealed there had been an investigation ongoing investigation of the trump campaign. that the republicans considered to be such a disast

also, gregg jarrett, fox news legal analyst and congressman matt gates.ou have a quote today in your article. tell everybody. it's amazing. art >> firstg. of all, members of te fbi, like we said before, sean, these are good people, people who want the truth out. former senior fbi officials as well as current fbi officials do not believe that this was just a technical glitch. i can't even use the language that they shared with me when they heard the news come out. something that they did bring up that i think it's really important to get out to the audience is they said that a lot of these text messages were done on these unsecure samsung 5 -- >> sean: the glitch. >> it wasn't just about capturing it a new servers, they said foreign actors such as israel even, germany, russia, china, and others, tried to capture fbi cell phones all the time. so it may be that a foreign actor actually has the text messages between -- >> sean: you mean vladimir might have it after all? because they talked about flynn being the subject of blackmail. what about them being the

liz: that's florida republican matt gates. he also said he thinks people will go to jail over this story. we're about to bring you republicans now calling for the public release of a classified memo prepared by the house intelligence committee that suggests and reveals allege ed widespread fisa abuse by the obama-era justice department and james comey's fbi. it allegedly outlines how the anti-trump dossier that file was used as a pre-text by the fbi in order to get fisa wire taps on the trump campaign. now members of congress already call it shocking and troubling. let's bring in editorial deputy editor dan henniger. how serious is this situation with this memo? >> i think it's pretty serious, liz. the whole thing sounds like a novel come to life and i think what's going on here is a couple of things. the whole thing originates in what i would call the trump panic. the trump panic existed before the election and after the election. those of us who are around politics remember that are even in like a city like this when trump g

"outfront" now, matt gates who sits on the house judiciary committee and has been very involved in allthis. so, congressman, i've got it here. the testimony of glenn simpson. it's 312 pages. he's the founder of fusion gps, the firm behind that dossier. you've u called the dossier and opposition research campaign document dressed up as intelligence document to use your words. in his testimony, congressman, simpson says the dossier alleged that members of the trump campaign were eager to get information from russia. that's something that's in the dossier and it turned out to be true. look no farther from the e-mail from donald trump jr., laettner the summer. in reply that the russian government had dirt on hillary clinton to share. are you willing to admit that some of what is in the 35 page dossier is true? >> well, i have no idea. i know that james comey said that it was salacious and unverified. my suspicion is that when it's fully vetted, it will be a pile of garbage. it really sets a bad precedent when you've got one political party paying for opposition research and then that then

ron johnson got overly -- >> matt gates. >> they shouldn't have gone there.the shoe were on the other foot and it was president hillary clinton being investigated and there were top fbi agents who clearly hated her and that were on the record expressing their hate and fear for her, it would be a huge scandal among democrats. >> hold on. there's your first point. >> joan, take up the point and a sense of irony, i heard that argument from hillary clinton's people when they were doing the e-mail investigation, that they are out to get her. they didn't want comey to clear her. that was -- they say the same thing. this idea -- >> they are right. >> this idea that the secret -- they shouldn't have said that. there are other issues. do you think we should let it go that way? >> there are other issues. struck was reassigned. he was taken off the investigation. there were consequences. it's not as though james comey said, this is fine, we have this going on. i think there was a private relationship between the two. i think there were complicating factors. he got moved

presidency significantly, adversely if he says something wrong, as one conservative congressman told me, matt gates said if he makes a mistake, it could redefine his presidency in a way that he does not want. he should avoid sitting down with him. >> certainly, he's given to hyperbole. we know that can be problematic in testimony. but also, just look at what we've been talking about so far on the show. and some of the sort of speech patterns that have evolved in the last week. he says something in a meeting, then he says he didn't say and tries to clarify what he meant when he said it. this isn't just on the immigration debate. this has to do with an interview with the journal earlier this week, a whole number of things. he said, that's not what i meant. that's one thing when it's in the public arena. it's a complete other thing when you're giving testimony as part of a federal investigation. >> right, even if you're not under oath. when you're speaking to investigators, you can -- yeah, dicey territory. let's move to something else. another shift from the president we've seen play out is, remember

. >> and congresswoman, one of the reason we had you booked as well as congressman matt gates, with different views, with all the votes and all of this going on, congressman gates is rescheduling us. i know you have some business as well. thank you for making time for "the beat". thank you for your perspective. >> thank you so very much. >> neera tanden still with me. robert ray, and i'm about to be joined by lawyer richard paint i painter. but would you as a prosecutor be comfortable with this type of disclosure midstream? >> the views of the congresswoman not with standing, reports of the demise of the fbi and special counsel's office not withstanding, call me curious, i am left to wonder what was happening during the course of the trump campaign that led ultimately to a fisa court to appro approve surveillance application that allowed wiretapping of the trump campaign or incidental interceptions. >> i'm also curious. we have that in common. as a member of the press. but i was asking you as a prosecutor, would you want this kind of disclosure midstream while your criminal probe is open? >>

. >>> i'm joined now by republican congressman matt gates of florida. sarah huckabee sanders today not denying the president said what he apparently said by all indications we have. do you understand why the statement he said in that oval office is viewed as so offensive and hurtful by so many? >> i do. i also understand that the president believed that it was a meeting he was having behind closed doors. it wasn't something he was doing in front of cameras. the conditions in some countries really are bad. it is a consequence of the not of the people there but a systemic failure. >> but if i called and you'll forgive me for using the language of the president, if i called okaloosa county a shithole, you would be upset with that, right? >> i could problem you wrong and i could bring you here and show you it's the home of the most beautiful beaches in america. i don't know if in haiti they can make the same claim. >> so you agree with the president's characterization? >> i agree haiti is a place where the people have been very disadvantaged as a consequenc

we have heard representative matt gates in florida described potential coup de ta against the president. i have heard senior members of the leadership ask if they are biased against the president. and they are creating hostility, especially the republican allies of the fbi say it could lead to lasting officials on the trust and institutions. >> i would say the midterms are here. the texas primary is two months away. and you will start to seen candidates and incumbents shore up the base with the trump folks to win. >> by using this as an issue. >> and i can see that happening and causing a great deal of consternation within the republican party. this group prides itself on backing law enforcement. >> you talk about where we are in the house, an rightly noted there is and difference in the senate and the house as gary noted. the war post said the e emergence among democrats on the intelligence committee as nunez comes back as a lead republican to the committee. based on this, what power does he and not have right now? >> he has full power of the company. he can bring people in for hearing

you have people like matt gates, jim jordan, members of the house judiciary committee, republicans particularly, who are really kind of homing in on this idea that the fbi is corrupt, corrupted, and that the whole investigation is tainted. so the idea that trump now is saying that he's fighting back, it really is not just him in the white house, it's expanded to congress and the media, the right wing media, and that is particularly problematic in and of itself because it's undermining public confidence in the bureau. >> question to all of them, to what end. lady, thank you very much. natasha and liz, appreciate your time. >>> we've got breaking news to report out of davos. president trump just spoke to cnbc in a new interview from switz switzerland. let's bring in msnbc's ali velshi who is there for more. ali what did he say? >> all right, katy, president trump's been here just a few hours. me met with the prime minister of great, with bb netanyahu of israel. he's taken a few more meetings and given an interview to cnbc's joe currekernen, which will be d out a little bit later. a lot of it is a

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gates to some national parks open. they would not have any rangers or any other staff on site. matt keller, abc 7 news. >>> matt, thank you. >>> this morning, more fallout from revelations of sexual misconduct. seven managers and chefs of an oakland restaurant owned by chef charlie hallowwell are threatening to resign unless he divests himself from the business. he has not denied the allegations by 17 female employees. according to the chronicle, he has removed himself from the day-to-day operations of the company. employees of the pizzeria, boot and shoe service, want him to divest completely. >>> san leandro city manager is facing allegations of sexual misconduct. rose padilla johnson of the davis street family resource center claims she was pressured to have a sexual relationship with him in exchange for public funding. johnson claims the abuse began in 2012. zapata has not responded to the allegations. >>> millions of women expected to take to the streets acrhow o resistance and power. you're looking at video from last year's march in san francisco. last year it was a demonstrat