trump going after mccabe on twitter this morning, saying, why isn't the fbi giving andrew mccabe text messages to judicial watch or appropriate authorities? fbi said they won't give up even one. i may have to get involved. do not destroy. what are they hiding? mccabe's wife took big campaign dollars from hillary people. then he says, will the fbi ever recover its once stellar reputation, so badly damaged by comey, the former fbi director, mccabe, peter s., that's fbi agent peter strzok, and his lover, the lovely lisa page, and other top officials now dismissed or fired?

trump going after mccabe on twitter this morning, saying, why isn't the fbi giving andrew mccabe textauthorities? fbi said they won't give up even one. i may have to get involved. do not destroy. what are they hiding? mccabe's wife took big campaign dollars from hillary people. then he says, will the fbi ever recover its once stellar reputation, so badly damaged by comey, the former fbi director, mccabe, peter s., that's fbi agent peter strzok, and his lover, the lovely lisa page, and other top officials now dismissed or fired? so so many of the great men and women of the fbi have been hurt by these clowns and losers. we should note the justice department provided thousands of pages of documents to republicans in congress including those text messages between strzok and the former fbi attorney lisa page. and mccabe has already left the bureau after that sweeping report into his conduct. trump still frustrated with the level of transparency. as the former campaign manager paul manafort stands trial. he's been escalating his attacks on special counsel robert mueller as the manafort tria

and his wife joe mccabe and her 2015 run for state senate. in which she took money from "hillary people." why is that that you want to see those texts? do you want to see a quid pro quo and they are or what do you think is in there? >> we are asking for text messages on behalf of a retired fbi agent, jeffrey danner, about the clinton email investigation. and we suspect there is going to be some interesting material there. certainly now the fbi has told us that they don't even want to look at those text messages let alone turn them over to us. this is just typical of what's going on at the justice department and the fbi. they don't think the answer to congress, the president or the rule of law and we hope the courts intervened to get us to messages. the president tweeted over the weekend, in a way that suggests he might intervene to get these text messages public, that will be good, too, too. >> melissa: real quick, who is this new fbi agent that you are talking about, how did you get on to him and what do you think the issue is? >> tom: he is

>> yeah, he had a lot of tweeting this morning, but he did revisit the whole issue with andrew mccabe who as you know was involved in both the mueller probe and the clinton e-mail investigation and whose wife was running for the virginia state senate back in 2015. the president's tweets read, why isn't the fbi giving andrew mccabe's text messages to judicial watch or appropriate governmental authorities? fbi said they won't give up even one. i may have to get involved. do not destroy. what are they hiding? mccabe's wife took big campaign dollars from hillary people, and the next tweet reads, will the fbi ever recover its once stellar reputation so badly damaged by comey, mccabe, peter s and his lover the lovely lisa page and other top officials now dismissed or fired? so many of the great men and women of the fbi have been hurt by these clowns and losers. mccabe has denied the accusations of wrong doing in the past saying that the president was trying to destroy his reputation. jon, no public events scheduled that we know of tomorrow. and then the president's vacation, his working vac

mccabe testified that there was -- mccabe testified at approximately the same time that comey testified that there was no ever attempt to influence any investigation. >> has mccabe ever testified that comey never told him about that conversation with the president? >> yes. i think. >> i don't think so. >> i know the first part. >> let's do this. >> mccabe testified that up until may, there was never any attempt to influence any investigation. >> just because they didn't feel that they weren't going to be able to investigate or that they weren't obstructed or that they did everything the same way anyway doesn't mean there wasn't a solicitation. it doesn't mean that it wasn't put out there by the president. they're different things. but let's do this. let's take a break. we'll do a little google search. then we'll come back, talk about what all this means for the current thinking about the most important piece of the puzzle, which is whether or not the president sits down with mueller. and you can argue that's not an important piece at all. >> i think it's important. >> oh, how about that

history, is a total hoax, the democrats paid for the phony and discredited dossier along with comey, mccabe, strzok and his lover lisa page used to begin the witch hunt, disgraceful.

the mueller investigation, and you mentioned only indicate that -- comey and mccabe. sarah: it is based off of a dossier paid for by an opposing campaign and had a lot of corruption within the entity that was overseeing it, peter struck, james comey, andrew mccabe. we have laid without a number of times. we don't have to go through it every single time you're in here. reporter: why doesn't the president use the powers he has to end it? sarah: the president has allowed this process to play out but he thinks it is time for it to come to an end. reporter: can you clarify this tweet from this morning. is it his desire for jeff sessions student not recuse himself? sarah: i have clarified this about 10 times. i don't have anything further. reporter: last night at the tampa rally the president pushed for creation of a space force, a new military ranch. the defense department missed its deadline to submit a report to congress about how this was to be structured. we are told the white house has now twice rejected drafts because the defense department does not want a space forc

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we have a you say, jameses comey, gone, andrew mccabe, gone. peter strzok, gone. we're talking about the top levels of the fbi. rife with political corruption. i think that the president deserves from the special counsel a reason why they don't close their doors, shut down their operation and send the 17 angry democrats crying all way home. but to put this to a rest, this witch-hunt. >> the president has made clear, with his social media feed, he feels both sides should be investigating, we're still searching for certain things, 1.2 million documents later, and 33 witnesses later, and 15 months later, we see at highest levels of fbi, which is a shame for rank-and-file, 35 thousand or so fbi personnel who go to work every day, it is a shame those at top echelon most strzok who was in charge of clinton e-mail server investigation, and thumbs on scale against donald trump saying we'll take care of it never let him win. he gets thrown out, goes to twitter to like and retweet antinegative stuff, sets up a gofundme page, and shows his true color, he stands alone. lou: t

and the fbi hasn't released the messages from andrew mccabe, the former director, deputy director of fbi. could the president and the instruction to turn those over to judicial watch, to the fbi, to the justice department, how would that work and are you hopeful that it will occur? >> i'm always hopeful. lou: i don't mean capriciously. i mean sincerely and surely. >> i think this would be a relatively simple intervention by the president to order transparency, to have the fbi say look, text messages, they're covered by foia. you should search the andrew mccabe text messages and make them available to foia and judicial watch and other -- we're not the only ones asking about text messages here. but the idea that the fbi said text messages aren't subject to foia is something that the president can obviously say no, you should apply the rule of law to andrew mccabe's text messages and other text messages that the fbi may have. this is the fbi trying to protect itself, trying to protect andrew mccabe because we know what's in there given what happened with the strzok-page text messages. l

mccabe's wife took big campaign dollars. what is the president, would he sing is what is the fbi giving this information to congress and to judicial watch? >> i don't want the public to think this is normal or necessary. all of this conduct. many people very high up in president obama is fbi, even after president trump is elected unexpectedly and undesirably. by the folks in the fbi.we don't want people to think this is everyone in washington does this. everyone in washington doesn't do this. in fact, the only dirt i researched for hillary clinton was five foot two, eyes of blue, what corruptions she would say and do. it was all right there in hillary clinton. never looked outside of her statements, her lies, the problem she had with the truth with the problem has with her. i want to make the point emphatically. if you're investigating russia collusion and somehow people playing dirty pool and a trump campaign to help them get elected, it simply did not happen on my watch. i was out there every day saying with the strategy w

and kaitlan, i understand andy mccabe's attorney is responding to this news. what is he or she saying? >> reporter: andrew mccabe's attorney, melissa schwartz, tweeted out a statement pretty quickly, just now saying that andrew mccabe's security clearance was deactivated when he was fired, according to what they were told was fbi policy. she goes on to say, you would think the white house would check with the fbi before trying to throw shiny objects to the press corps. now that, of course, is some criticism we saw when the white house first announced they were considering revoking the security clearances of most of these people that are on this list. they have added a few new ones today, including the former fbi director, james comey, who said he also does not have his clearance any more. so they essentially said the white house was just saying this, not really -- they were actually concerned about these officials still having access to that information, but simply trying to make a statement about people who have criticized the president. and brooke, that was

james klapper, james comey, michael hayden, sally yates, susan rice, andrew mccabe, peter strzok, lisa paige and bruce ohr. security clearances for those who still have the may be revoked. those who have already lost security clearance may not be able to have it reinstated. it is for the foregoing reason that i have exercised my constitutional authority to deny mr. brennan access to classified information. i will direct appropriate staff at the national security council to make the necessary arrangements of the appropriate agencies to implement this determination. with that, i will take your questions. >> seems like everybody you mentioned has been a political critic of the president. i see going after his political opponents with this? >> no, there were others that we deemed necessarily we would take a look and reviewed those as well. >> i want to ask you about the president's attorney ted, rudy giuliani said of special counsel, robert mueller, -- he said if it is not written in the next two or three weeks we will unload on him like a ton of bricks. the president okay with his attorne

mccabe wife took big campaign dollars from hillary people. u now is that conservative watch group trying to get the text messages. judicial watch president tom fitton. why can't you get your hands on any of these text messages? >> it's a lawsuit. so we're representing a retired supervisor in the fbi, jeffrey danic who we all suspect there are text messages he has. they haven't given us one text message and they just gave us a file, something with the court on friday. the president is on top of it saying that text messages aren't covered by the freedom of information act. open as far as we can tell, the fbi is the only executive agency that takes that position. so. >> this is a government phone that's being used. you're requesting text messages -- because all of these government records in indeed public records and you're saying other departments treat text messages as government records but the fbi does not? >> that is my understanding and not only that, they won't look at them. and all all know why. we've heard about the peter strzok-lisa pa

andrew mccabe. peter strok. lisa page. bruce orr. >> what do those people have in common? all of them have been targets of trump's public ire, or they've criticized trump, or both. not on the list? fired national security adviser michael flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his conversations with ambassador kislyak. and take another page out of a dictator's playbook. president trump seems to be trying here to manipulate the news cycle. what say you? take a look at his statements as sent out today. clearly dated july 26th, 2018. that's three days after the white house first said the president was considering the move. so why would they sit on this for nearly three weeks? and why release it today? well, the white house aide claims it's nothing but a cut and paste error. would versus wouldn't. a cut and paste error. the president tells "the wall street journal" he was prepared to do it last week but it was in his words, it was too hectic. he was on vacation last week. but you've got to wonder about the timing here. there are a couple of possibilities here. one

i mean you've got andrew mccabe fired for misconduct criminally referred.'ve got james comey fired under investigation. sally yates fired. peter strzok fired and now under investigation. bruce ohr demoted under investigation. >> right. three of the five people we received the fisa warrant applications through another foil lawsuit, three of the five people who signed off on those applications have been fired for misconduct. two of them remain rod rosenstein who signed on presumably for mr. mueller, he signed, his warrant application that rosen rosenstein signed on for was in june of 2017 so this is in the middle of the mueller operation so these compromised documents, these compromised techniques the fisa warrant, is benefiting the mueller operation this is what i want to focus on because we're talking about what went on during the obama administration into the beginning of the trump adminitration, but all of this is part of mueller's acts. he needs to be held thible and i'd like to see mr. mueller on the list of witnesses for congress. why isn't he being br

mccabe and all of strozk and bruce ohr's.o know a lot more about bruce ohr. >> lou: now with the firing of strozk and this declassification that is underway -- frankly, i will be amongst those cheering loudly. because this administration has both the opportunity to be the most open and transparent in american history. it also has the opportunity to advance the cause of justice and bring consequence and punishment to evil doers, as you say. to look at mark warner, senator warner, his reaction today. i'd like to just read this. share this with the audience if we could put that up. "i guess to me this had an eerie memory of an enemy's list. smacks of nixonian type practices of trying to silence anyone that is willing to criticize the president. that puts us again in unchartered territory." said the illustrious vice chair who has been running the senate intelligence committee, because richard burr the republican chairman abdicated. your reaction? >> well, senator warner, senator mark warner a democrat from virginia is basically a

cited other people with knowledgof the russia investigation, including comey, sally yates, andrew mccabe. these are all peopleho not only are they may have valuable -- not onlyre critical of the president, but they may have valuable witness testimony later on in the scheme of the russia arvestigation. rajini: many peoplsaying that the timing of this is a way to divert attention from the news cycle 24 hours ago when we were talking about allegations made by his former advs or omarosa'ok. shelby: i think that's a really important point, because obviously, the white house is trying to shift the news cycle and that is something they do very well.t the presidn jump from subject to subject with a civil -- a simple tweet or statement we saw today. one thing that is important is he is revoking the security clearance of somebody at the same time the white house is dealing with the hemorrhage of sensitive information, tapes oncorded inside the situa room and other parts of the west wing, and this ugly spilling of secrets by omarosa. when you looat the white house security clearantes, it is an stin

the idea that peter strzok and andrew mccabe got fired. it may have taken a little longer, but there is a process to go through. i think it says a lot about getting those guys fired. i think christopher wray should get credit. >> and in the commercial break pam will tell us the conversation the president and it better be good. hear nancy pelosi's delusional comments up next. surance that won't replace the full value of your new car? you'd be better off throwing your money right into the harbor. i'm gonna regret that. with liberty mutual new car replacement we'll replace the full value of your car. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty ♪ it's the ford summer sales event and now is the best time to buy. you ready for this, junior? yeah, i think i can handle it. no pressure... ...that's just my favorite boat. boom. (laughs) make summer go right with ford, america's best-selling brand. and get our best deal of the summer: zero percent financing for sixty months on f-150. get zero percent financing for 60 months- plus $2,800 bonus cash on a 2018

look at mccabe. they moved in.y were goingoi to let him retire until everyone came up publicly, calling for him to be fired so he didn't get his retirement. look at stzrok. he is fired. look at page.en resigned. ohr should have been fired yesterday are much earlier, now that we know this. it is absurd. again, the bottom line, the crux of all this, is that fisa warrant that was obtained and we all keep talkingf about that because the manafort trial -- >> sean: they lied to the fisa court judges, they stood up for it, but they never verify that. thenen they literally conspiredo spread unverified russian lies that hillary paid for to influence the american people. i'm sorry, that's a lot bigger than paul manafort stupid tax case. >> and none of that would be taking place but for a fisa warrant obtained with false information. >> sean: if i am robert mueller, i would be humiliated. all of this evidence is out there, is it that political? he hired all these democrats because he's not much of a hack and he doesn't care a

the director, james comey, andy mccabe, peter strock's firing today. and i think there's a couple different important consequences of that. the first is about the president's legal liability in this scandal. last june after he was fired, fbi director james comey testified on congress that president trump had improperly pressured him about the fbi's open investigation into trump national security adviser mike flynn. now, at the time, comey said he recognized the president's request to him concerning flynn to be both improper and highly unusual. and so according to his fbi training, he knew what to do next. he immediately wrote down what had happened in that conversation with the president. he wrote in it memo form right after that conversation. he then shared the contents of the memo with senior fbi officials. they could corroborate on the interaction that he just had. >> who did you talk with about that? listing the cloud, stopping the investigation at the fbi, and what was their response? >> the fbi during one of the two conversations, i think the fir

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look at mccabe. they moved him.y were going to let him retire until everybody came out publicly calling for him to be fired so he didn't get his retirement. strozk, he fired. page resigned or should have been fired yesterday or earlier. now that we know this. it's absurd. again, the bottom line, the crux of all of this is that fisa warrant. we all keep talking about that. >> sean: the crux of it was the dossier. >> the manafort trial -- >> sean: they lied to the fisa court judges and committed a fraud on the court and they stood up for it and they never verified it. they literally conspired to spread unverified russian lies that hillary clinton paid for to influence the american people. i'm sorry. it's bigger than paul manafort's stupid tax case. >> right. none of that would be taking place but for a fisa warrant obtained with the false information. >> sean: if i'm robert mueller i would be humiliated. the evidence is all out there and on a tee. is it that political and he hired the democrats because he is that much

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whether it's susan rice, mccabe, comey. a lot of people that have criticized president trump and a lot of people connected early on by the obama administration to the russian investigation and the mueller investigation. so -- and i guess another thing to think about, how do you define erratic behavior? if this is a partisan war of you're criticizing me, your behavior is erratic, where does it end? does this happen every time that the presidency switches parties? you know, i think there's a lot to unpack here even though this just broke. >> shepard: katelyn, stay with us for a moment. i want to turn to catherine herridge, our chief intelligence correspondent. talk about, if you could and as you understand it, the practical implications of this action. >> shep, i've been covering the intelligence community the past 17 years. what i know from my own reporting, when you have a change in administration often they'll bring back the former senior players for ongoing operations to discuss what the next steps might be. they need to

comey,lapper, james michael hayden, susan rice, andrew mccabe, peter struck, lisa page and bruce orff. the security clearances may be revoked and those who have already lost theirs may not be .ble to have it reinstated i will direct appropriate staff to make the necessary arrangements. but that, i will take your questions. reporter: it seems like everyone thementioned is a critic of president. is he going after his opponents? no,. -- reporter: rudy giuliani said if it is not written within a couple of weeks, we will unload him in a couple of weeks. see theuld like to investigation read -- wrapped up. for suffix, i refer you back to him. anter: -- reporter: isn't it attempt to curtail their freedom of speech? the president has a responsibility to protect classified information and that is what he is doing. is specific to mr. brennan and the others are under review. why are there no republicans on the list? >> we would be happy to review those. there is obvious examples. a list ofs only that have been critical? thosein, we would look at if we deemed it necessary. we will keep you posted

comey, peter strzok, mccabe, all of them., if you look at this, he tried to peddle lies to the american people in his role as director, putting aside former directors must act as former cia employees which he's not doing. as a matter of protocol, he has failed on every level. how did this guy even get a security clearance? >> you just stole my thunder, sean. issue number one, john brennan should never have had a security clearance. he admitted in 1980 when he joined the cia in a polygraph that he voted for the communists at the height of the cold war when they wished to destroy us. never should have had one. i love alan dershowitz, but this is not a civil rights/freedom of speech issue. nobody has right to security clearance. a there's only one person who get security clearancecl automatically. guess who it is? it's the president.at everybody else, it is a privilege of office. dan hoffman, myself, h john brennan, we have all taken an oath of office. i took it twice. i took it when i joined the defense department, i took it wh

. >> sean: this kind of corruption in this country better not go unpunished from ohr, strzok, mccabe, comey, anybody else who clearly abused their power. if we are going to be a functioning democratic republic our system of justice must be free of all political bias and political persecution and that's why tonight strzok, bruce ohr, mccabe, comey, others, they better be willing to face the legal consequences. by the way, hillary. rod rosenstein, are you watching? jeff sessions, where are the criminal referrals? what's happening? i know the trial of the century is paul manafort, but it's not. look at the list of doj fbi bad actors as it grows. what are you doing to hold these people accountable? what is taking so long in this country? and as mueller's anti-trump witch hunt turns on and on, where is justice against those that weaponize your government against the political campaign and then of course we had spying and unmasking and everything else associated with this. it's time they better act, or they need to step aside. by the way, as a side note, mr. mueller, i know somebody is your

>> we're suing on behalf after retired fbi agent asking for text messages of andrew mccabe, the firedtwo, one of strzok's key supervisors. lisa page worked for him. we're asking for text messages about the clinton email investigation. he had potential serious conflicts of interest because his wife was getting money from the clinton operation through terry mcauliffe, the virginia governor close to the clintons while he was investigating the clinton operation both in 2015 and '16. this is pretty serious stuff of the fbi doesn't want to turn over any text messages that mccabe created around that time. there is no good reason for it. melissa: yeah. what do you think you would find in those text messages? >> we're going to find what is confirmed largely bit ig report but the ig didn't want to go there, that the fbi leadership was interfering on behalf of hillary clinton keeping investigation away from her and not serious enough to warrant indictments and prosecutions. melissa: interesting, tom fitton. we appreciate you coming on today. we appreciate your time. >> you're welcome. connell: w