joining our conversation michael steele.h us at the table karine jean-pierre, and garrett haake joins us who's out in iowa today with biden. i think i heard you throwing some of those questions. what are you hearing if not from him from his campaign about this episode? >> reporter: well, nicole, a couple things. the campaign was very disciplined. last night, this morning, all day today they had no comment on the record. they were not talking about this on background. there were no tweets. he was very clear that the campaign did not want to engage on this. this is just not where they want this election battle to be fought even as other people saw this as potentially elevating joe biden in a crowded primary field. the biden campaign didn't touch this. you saw biden coming out after this event here. he spoke for more than an hour, did not bring any of this up on his own. we essentially in the press core following his campaign surrounded the event site and made sure he could not leave without addressing this in some capacity. yo

michael steele. msnbc contributor marc mike barnicle joins us and former aid to the white house and state department e-lee elise jord zblan congress been pressuring donald trump to advance that aid to the ukrainians because obviously vladimir putin continues his threats of further invasion after invading their country already. but explain how the president continued to hold up aid to ukraine at the same time eight times he was pressuring the ukrainian president to interfere in america's political process. >> just a few seconds of background here. after ukraine was invaded first

and michael steele, former chairman of the republican national committee in its former makeup. mr. chairman, thank you for coming on. tim, i'm going to start -- >> good to see you, brian. >> -- with one of your colleagues at "bloomberg opinion." a column on the ousting of bolton. "agree with bolton or not, he was at least arguably qualified for his job given that every other day of the trump administration is a re-enactment of red wedding, recruiting qualified grown-ups to fill jobs keeps getting more difficult and the chance of a terrible error keeps rising." earlier i referenced the blue lights that we will see tomorrow night over lower manhattan. that remind us of the worst day in our modern history, there they are, 18 years ago tomorrow. 18 years ago tonight, we knew nothing. a good many people were getting ready to go to work tomorrow morning in current time. god forbid what happens with this president, this white house staff, if we have a national emergency. >> that's where i think the buffoonery, the chaos, the lack of process, the lack of interest in policy details, trump's

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and msnbc analyst michael steel.lary clinton's presidential campaign, adrian elrod. and historian, author of "soul of america" john meacham. heez rn an nbc news and msnbc contributor. we begin with president trump admitting he discussed former vice president joe biden on a phone call with the president of ukraine. the admission came after the wall street journal reported that trump repeatedly pressed the ukrainian leader to investigate the business dealings of the former vice president's son, hunter. the journal puts that number at eight times. >> so it says that eight times, eight times the president of the united states got on the phone and as the wall street journal said specifically pressured the leader of ukraine to deal with his personal lawyer to dig up dirt on joe biden and his family. >> the president deflected questions. and instead tried to shift the scrutiny to biden. >> the conversation i had was largely congratulatory and largely all the corruption taking place, largely the fact that we don't want our p

this is the former aide to john boehner michael steele, the other michael steele, for constant viewers of this broadcast. "the state of the economy is the single biggest factor in determining whether the president is re-elected. and right now it feels like they are riding, you'll forgive the language, a rubber ducky into alligator-infested waters," said michael steele, former top aide to republican house speaker john boehner. does this match up, kim, with what people pull you aside and say? >> yes. it absolutely does. i mean, the economy is something that this president should be very worried about, very concerned about. we have seen from his poll numbers, especially from the folks who are his core supporters, his base, the folks he likes to play to and please, that just about everything else including sharpiegate, isn't going to make much of a difference when it comes to their support of him. the economy might. we're already seeing farmers hurting from the trade war that is ongoing with china. we're seeing a lot of uncertainty in the markets. and that is causing, as peter said, the pr

to you, michael steel, we see the president, he's been reacting with fury on twitter and at every photo opportunity while he was in new york at the united nations. what do you think about the way republicans, especially in the house, are responding? >> i think that you've got different camps. you've got folks who are very supportive of the president who are rushing to his defense, talking about the deep state, various conspiracy theories. i think there are republicans, more in the senate than the house, who are visibly uncomfortable with where this is going, who are asking questions, demanding transparency. and a big group in the middle is waiting to see where the chips fall. >> the senate intelligence chair, richard burr, has not stopped any of this, in fact is supporting it. mitch mcconnell letting that unanimous consent go forward. >> yes. >> to actually let the process continue. >> the senate in particular has an interest in establishing the legislature as a co-equal body and making sure we can do oversight of this president and other presidents going forward. they guard their insti

neera hayk, and michael steele, former rnc chairman. thanks to all of us for being with us.onathan, i guess take us inside the administration on how something like this works or might work. we have the reporting there that the president suggested to mike pence that he stay at a trump property. what does that mean in an administration like this? and what's the consequence? is there a consequence somebody would face if they don't follow the suggestion? >> well, my reporting is that it isn't any more complicated than what was described by mike pence's chief of staff -- sorry, chief of staff, mark short. trump often does things like this when he says you should my property is the best you should stay there. i think what's really important is to put it in the much larger context is that trump's presidency has been the world's greatest infomercial for trump properties. it's not just the money that you just referenced in terms of taxpayer dollars of housing, secret service and others at the properties. it's putting it on the world stage. the name idea of mar-a-lago prepresidency ve

my thanks to michael steele. most of all to you for watching. that does it for our hour. "mtp daily" with chuck todd starts now. >>> well, welcome to friday. not like any other friday. "mtp daily." good evening, chuck todd in washington. we begin with a big story breaking the last 24 hours. we told you yesterday, could be big, keeps getting bigger. we have additional new reporting from "the wall street journal." moments ago from "the washington post." the post is reporting president trump pressed the leader of ukraine to investigate joe biden's son during a call between the two leaders at the center of this extraordinary whistleblower complaint. that follows this report in "the wall street journal" that broke moments before that which has them reporting president trump repeatedly pressured ukraine's president to investigate biden's son, urged him about 8 times to work with rudy giuliani to do that, who of course is the president's personal lawyer. nbc news hasn't confirmed reporting in either the journal or post, which broke moments ago, but we're working on that. we're t

former rnc chairman michael steele is back with us as well., great to have all of you with us. so far only one conservative republican has come out for impeachment, that is justin amosh. certainly an independent, no doubt a conservative. what would have to happen for more republicans to get behind that? i'll start with representative curbelo. >> i think what we have to watch for first i don't think many republicans are going to come out for impeachment, but how many are defending the president's actions? i think the leadership are doing although they feel they don't have a choice although they do. i think the rank and file has been quiet. i know privately they've been expressing frustrations with rudy giuliani, with lot of what we're seeing out of the white house. so i think in the early days as this process develops, we have to watch for what republicans are saying and what they aren't saying, and that could be a clue, that could foreshadow what could happen a few weeks and months down the line as more information and evidence becomes availab

by msnbc political contributor jake sherman and former rnc chair and msnbc political analyst michael steele. jake, i'll start with you. i know you were in the room with nancy pelosi a short time ago. it would seem as if she's over all the impeachment talk. >> she's over the questions, that's for sure. what ri' been saying the last couple days and what sources have been telling me non-stop is the only person you need to watch here and we've talked about this before on air is nancy pelosi. nancy pelosi has been remarkably consistent. people around her, other house democrats have wanted to go farther. nancy pelosi said that democrats are legislating, investigating and litigating, a three-prong approach she believes is the key to success for house democrats right now. frankly, she's frustrated by these questions and thinks line, but that they're a waste of time. until there are impeachment articles in front of the committee, all democre views it. she views the kind of all over their rhetoric as a creation of the media. of course, we don't view it as that. democrats have been all over the map wh

. >> joining me enmy emy -- authl michael steele. warn all of you, i'll thrilling your here, but art cullen is one of my favorite guests. you're on the ground in iowa talking to these caucus goers, is it too late for kamala harris or does she still have time. >> well thanks, stephanie, and thank you to buena vista in storm lake for hosting us. it seems to me right now this the candidate in the strongest position probably to win the iowa caucus might be elizabeth warren. she has a tremendous organizing staff that has been in here since january. so yes, kamala harris has a uphill struggle. she has not spent time in rural iowa like some of the other candidates have and she was initially focusing her efforts on south carolina. so i think she has an uphill battle here. she has to get more into the rural parts of the state. caucuses you to blanket the entire state, not just stay on the east side. >> is that a good use of her time? is it a good strategy for second tier candidates to go all in. >> i think she is trying to take a page from jo

. >>> joining me now the discuss the exodus of so many republicans in the house, michael steele and msnbc political analyst norm ornstein, co-author of "one nation after trump." michael, what do you make of the retirements? >> well, there are a number of things that are roiling beneath the surface here, starting with the fact that it ain't fun being in the minority that is one of the key elements here, particularly if you were part of the big wave of 2010 and you've enjoyed that majority status since that time. to then lose it really puts a lot of pressure on you to sort of stay committed to the game. and so folks, particularly when you look at someone like congressman sensenbrenner from wisconsin that shocked everyone just kind of stepping aside, that gets to point two, running the risk of not only trying to get back the house with what you've got, but then losing some of that and putting a lot of pressure in seats like wisconsin and utah, for example, which are on the bubble. and a lot of these other states, chris, you're looking at alabama. and places like that, republicans aren't nece

i michael steele is a former spokesperson for house speaker john boehner and ronald reagan. there you are. you've got the smirk. i can't resist the smirk. i've got to ask you about trump and his joker. it's just like jack nickholson, he can't stand somebody else on television. here he is careening from light bulbs to wind turbines. your thoughts about trump's interruption of our lives again. your thoughts. >> well, you know, donald trump sees the presidency obviously as a reality television show, and that's how he relates to all of this. how am i doing in the ratings? how are the polls? are people applauding? am i getting laughs here? but the whole thing is beginning to spiral downward in a very alarming sort of way. again, we can laugh about his behavior, but the fact of the matter is he's sitting in the oval office and that makes his behavior a very scary thing. >> you know, it reminded me about these old comedians of one line after another, like take my wife, please. it was like that last night, like take my presidency, please. your thoughts, jaime. >> i hope there aren't

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former senior advisor to jeb bush and former house speaker michael steel. t start with you, you are my house republican, do you see any republicans, at least getting behind an inquiry or seriously questioning all that is happening right now. have you called jeb or john boehner in the last 24 hours? >> i think you were asking the right question. house democrats keep saying they're waiting for impeachment to be popular before starting an inquiry. that is backwards. they need to make a public case. this is an inherent effort, right? they need to make sure what they're doing rises to the high crimes and misdemeanors level. they have done a ma thetic job making that case to the american people. >> congresswoman, what is your take on that? >> sadly i agree with makele on this. i think that democrats have to change their strategy and their approach. should they embark formally on impeachment proceedings which i believe they should have done a long time ago. i'm glad in some ways that this latest activity and behavior by the president has helped to clarify what has

for more, let's bring in michael stee steele, felipe reinus, and amy stoddard. as to feliif so felipe, this is a key now the democrats in this 2020 race. and let's listen to what some of the top contenders had to say after saturday's shooting. >> split up after hijacking two separate vehicles -- >> so that wasn't quite the sound that we were looking for. but at this point, one of the things that i've heard from a lot of democrats is that the time is now to act. you have the nra in disarray, you have the parkland activists, groups like moms demand action mobilizing in ways that they haven't before. so how can democrats really jump-start this conversation? and really the responsibility it seems to sca to be squarely on democrats. >> i don't think that it is fair to put it that way. ptd responsibility is on the entire government including the president. but it is the republicans that are basically stone walling. at this point it seems that the only way that we will have change is if we take back the white house and hopefully the entire congress in 2020. i know that

. >> michael steel called boring concerning hush money paid to stormy daniels and mcdougal. public hearing on the president's role on those payments could come as early as october. ken dilanian reports, democrats believe the hush-money scandal is an easier case to present the public. here is what michael cohen told the committee this year. >> i am providing several documents. this includes a copy of a check mr. trump wrote from his personal bank account after he became president to reimburse me for the hush money payment i made to cover up with the affair with the adult film star. >> we should have known that trump and his lawyer deied this. one independent supported the impeachment vote for inquiry against the president. for now, we are happy to be joined by ted liu. thank you for coming on. can you convince me taking your summer break was not a complete momentum killer for democrats in the house? if you have to come back and say to the people watching oh no, we are going to tell a different story now, this one is about an adult film star, playboy bunny of hush money. >> th

this investigation will show, as you know, it now appears that the russia collusion was with michael steele the democrats who paid for this original dossier that was used as a foundation for the investigation. this is such a critical moment on behalf of the merc and people in the department of justice to show everything that went into this so we can no it make sure this never happens again. >> as you say, we now know he was discredited by his own government, the very agency from whom he once worked in the united states and government to government communications were aware of that including leading up to the prosecution of general michael flynn. it is outrageous, it turns out the outrages that have been committed, none by the trump organization or the president, accused by the obama era intelligence agencies. but by the investigators, intelligence agencies, and their counterparts in other foreign intelligent agencies. as a man who was once leading the organization, and the justice department official. you have to be sickened to see this corruption at the highest level of our law enforcement

goi joining me is the chairman of the american bridge 21 century and michael steel who is a former senior policy adviser for governor jeb bush presidential campaign and a former press secretary for the speaker of the house, john boehner. let me go to you michael, first. you as a republican, we've not seen any republicans indicate yet in the house that they are moving forward impeachment. is this not a very serious kind of situation when you have a cia operative, a cia person that has become a whistle-blower that has laid out a series of events that we're told has been verified that would have the president of the united states asking a president of another nation, in this case, ukraine, to do him a favor. meet with the attorney general and his ternl lawyperson lawyer with some matters that would smear his potential rival while holding up almost $400 million in aid that the congress has already voted to give the ukraine. >> yeah, i think one justin amash, republican congressman has indicated he would support an impeachment inquiry although he's distanced himself from the republican confere

joining me now, our political reporter from "bloomberg news" and michael steel.interesting here is the reporting out of the white house that the white house is searching to see what can pass congress. mcconnell is seizing what will the president support. that's usually is a sign of how things are happening. >> mitch mcconnell does not need the president to put anything on the senate. he runs the chambers, he knows that. what he's afraid of is there are a lot of single issue voters who'll perceive any action on guns as a threat to the second amendment. mitch mcconnell wants the president's political covered because there is a big part of the base that distrust mcconnell tch . the only way to get him to do something is for him to be convinced his own majority is under threat. >> let me read the nra statement. this is what the nra put out today. they have not been speaking much. they did put out a statement in response to walmart. "it is shameful to see walmart succumb to the pressure of the antigun elites." it is worth noting that most of these purchases are gone a

joining me is michael steele and joe crowley. you know mick mulvaney.member before the acting chief of staff and omb director. how inappropriate to sell wilbur ross to get the scientists at noaa to contradict what had been issued about alabama because the president had made a mistake? >> this is emblematic of this white house. it in some ways couldn't matter less but the same time the lies, the pettiness, the deceit, to pretend the president never makes a mistake leading to corrupting data of government scientists we rely on to keep people safe. >> and the inspector general is now investigating this, joe. >> i think it in all likelihood needs to be investigated. that is subject to be talked about around the water cooler. not in the halls of the presidency. and the oval office. as michael just said, i think the information is critically important to people's lives and should not be played in politics and scientists need to do their job. we hear that over and over again. this administration continues to question scientists at every level. and it's just re

and then you even heard michael steel who, you know, used to run the rnc say that the economy for this right now looks like they're riding in his words a rubber ducky into alligator infested waters. fair? >> i think that's a bit strong. let's put this in perspective. we expected job growth to slow. you can't create 200,000 jobs forever. that number was going to come down. it's inevitable. manufacturing, yes it's in trubl but it's really not the economy. we're seeing the economy slow. that was inevitable. that's not the same as actually going negative and having a recession. i do think it's important to keep those distinct. for the president slowing can be political danger. there's no doubt about it, he doesn't need a recession to get him in trouble. a very slow growth could get him in trouble. this is an economy really at an inflection point. it's got a weak business secker. they can't stay that way forever. that's what we have to watch. >> thank you both. good to have your brains on all of this this morning. have a good weekend. >>> mechanics are hired to fix problems, right? yes. but

thank you, michael steele, derek johnson. >>> up next, are democrats serious about impeachment or notmocrats on the house judiciary committee for example say they're moving the process forward but speaker pelosi is not even using the word impeachment. one hois member who's already come out in favor of impeachment joins me next. you're watching "hardball." impt joins me next. you're watching "hardball. a way to create energy from household trash. it not only saves about 80% in carbon emissions... it helps reduce landfill waste. that's why bp is partnering with a california company: fulcrum bioenergy. to turn garbage into jet fuel. because we can't let any good ideas go to waste. at bp, we see possibilities everywhere. to help the world keep advancing. these days we're all stressed. i hear you, sister. stress can affect our minds. i call this dish, "stress." stress can also affect our bodies. so, i'm partnering with cigna to remind you that your emotional and physical health are more connected than you think. go in for your annual check-up. and be open with your doctor about anything yo

i'm joined by michael steele, john boehner, and anisha, white house reporter for npr.g pat toomey about that feeble comment about i don't know what's going on here. i notice john cornyn says well is it a whistle-blower or leaker? they know what they see. >> i'm reminded by former speaker ryan's comment he would wake up every morning and prete pretend not to see tweets from the president. i think you're so seeing reserved judgment, hold back. the president was apparently willing to release a transcript of the call or notes from the call. there are suggestion we may see the whistle-blower report. at least senate intel obviously will because senate republicans did not object. so it's sort of an odd moment for house democrats to have moved into this new sort of fake impeachment phase when they were getting cooperation -- i think they're doing exactly what they were already doing, they're combining the reports all their committees and jurisdictions are doing, sending them to the judiciary. that's not impeachment. that's collating. >> but it does put them in a position -- >>

julia ainsley, michael steele, and came writtorinne jean pierr. julia, let me start with you.ust want to take a step back. to think how long mueller took. >> i know. >> and all of that. and we have gone in four days, mark murray, my pal tweeted this, in four days we've gone from is pelosi going to back impeachment to subpoenaing the secretary of state. >> right, we're so far past those questions. and i think it is a lot easier for people to digest and maybe a reason why it is moving so quickly politically because it is finally in front of us. think about how many tentacles the mueller probe had. it got to the point where why do i care about michael flynn's business associate, what does that have to do with trump and russia. this is straight in front of your face and the only difference is how people are interpreting it wednesday win go got the notes and then the complaint, a lot of people say how do they come back from this, this is so clear evidence. but we already have so many answers. including the fact that there will not be a further criminal inquiry that we know of into

i'm joined by michael steele, and robert costa, national political reporter for "the washington post.arn from myth and sloganeering that democrats fall in love and republicans fall in line. but why do they stay in line? >> because we're very good at the line. >> why do you guys circle the wagon so quickly? >> until you can show there's been a detrimental breach in that line meaning there's evidence, information, behavior, something that will cause a crack, they're going to hold it. >> wait a minute, we have that. we have the president of the united states -- >> well, chris, we don't have that yet. you have two documents that have been put out, and i think to congressman hurd's point, i think that line should have been broken a long time ago. >> the white house documenting showed the president of the united states responded to a call for defensive weapons and tanks and missiles with gimme dirt. >> i'm trying to give you an explanation why the line holds and what we have so far and i think congressman hurd is right, they want to talk to the whistleblower. because the whistle-blower is t

our colleagues, emily steel and michael schmidt reported that o'reilly had paid to silence sexual harassmentcusers over quite a long period of time and then the shocking thing was that o'reilly lost his job. not because fox knew about the allegations, they had known about those for a long time, but because of the public exposure of those allegations. >> this was in april of 2017. >> exactly. >> and then your editor said something to you. >> our editors asked what now seems a quaint question, but it was a very powerful one. they said, are there other powerful men in american life who have covered up abuses towards women? >> and megan, you were on maternity leave at the time, you came back and this story starts snowballing. tell me about it. >> in fact, i was actually -- jodi and i worked together, but didn't really know each other. so while i was on maternity leave, jodi called me, she had just started the weinstein investigation. and she was looking for advice on how -- what to say when you first knock on the door of a potential victim, when you first -- when you make that first phone call.

justice department inspector general michael horowitz's report on the fisa warrants connected to the steeleich was a an attack on the trump campaign and the prosecutor bill barr appointed to look into the intelligence community, he's also looking into ukraine's involvement in the 2016 election. these will be big stories and they're not going to help the democrats when they come out. paul: let me ask you, somebody else, a question about somebody else who might benefit from this, chuck schumer, in the sense that if this -- trump is impeached, it goes to the senate and get a mitt romney or mike lee voting to convict trump it will make it difficult for susan collins of maine and she's up for re-election and you could cross-pressure republican senators who cost the republicans the senate. >> they're not likely to get to the two-thirds vote that they need. paul: if you get five, six, seven republicans voting to convict and a majority above 50 in the senate you could put pressure on those candidates. >> that's a conversation for mitch mcconnell to have with the four senators and decide whether the

steel down about 10%. still to come, why secretary of state michael pompeo is calling the saudi a takes, quote, an act of warater, vaping taking a h as advertising dollars go up in smoke. (pilot) we're going to be on the tarmac for another 45 minutes or so. >> good morning and welcome back 5:20 on a thursday morning the dow was up 10 of the last 11 sessions we are expecting new details today on iran sanctions. as u.s. inspect of state pompeo dialing up >> saying u.s. sanctions are iran are significant president trump says he'll detail new sanctions on iran as early as today as the u.s. blames iran for the attack on saudi oil fields >> we'll see, we are in a very powerful position. >> secretary of state pompeo called the attack an act of war. the saudis putting on full display what they claim is evidence iran is behind the attack what happens next is being debated. >> we need to find a dip la magnetic solution to this. we should not be going to war over the saudi oil fields. >> if they don't pay a price for bombing a neighbor's oil fields, all hell will break out in the middle east. >> the president slammed j

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michael horowitz. prosecutors to decide whether any charges should be brought against any person with authority who both knew that the information in terms of origins of the steelethe clinton campaign and second intentionally withheld that information from a fisa court. if you can prove that that in fact occurred, a prosecution referral would be appropriate and the department of justice will have to decide whether anybody will be prosecuted. liz: comey signed off on three of the five fisa warrants. but he testified it wasn't verified in the steele dossier. >> i think even more significant * is going to be if anybody knowingly withheld information from the fisa court. they knew by the beforehand. they knew about the questionable orjibs of the steele dossier. and they chose not to disclose that to the court, that's a major problem. that's use of the criminal justice system in connection with foreign counter-intelligence to operate in the political process. ever since watergate, people have a bipartisan consensus that's bad and dangerous. liz: texas congressman maria bartiromo -- told maria bartiromo. >> the point i think he was making. the department has to be car

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michael antonelli, baird market strategist, will be joining us. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ welcome to "bloomberg daybreak" on this monday, september 23. i'm alix steelan economy almost grounded to a halt in the third quarter as the services sector. germany, which is the biggest economy, so it's worse downturn in seven years. president trump says he has no intention of meeting iran's president hassan rouhani at the u.n. summit. iran's foreign minister issued a stern warning. >> i'm not confident we can avoid a war. i'm confident we will not start one. but i'm confident that whoever starts one will not be the one who finishes it. alix: this comes as the u.s. will send more troops to saudi arabia in response to the attack. u.k. government launching a massive tourist air left after the collapse of thomas cook. the travel company filed for insolvency earlier today after 11th hour fundraising talks with creditors failed. with.k. has now to deal hundreds of thousands stranded passengers. the wework board said to be discussing plans to oust ceo adam neumann, who's found himself at odds with the largest investor softbank. taking a look at where we are in the

inspector general michael horowitz report that used briefing with president elect donald trump to gather intel for russia investigation, the meeting on january 6th, covered the steelech contained unverified allegations, congressman devin nunes says horowitz is setting comey for conspiracy charges down the road, listen to this. >> the ig report even though it didn't lead to prosecution, it's a tremendous amount of evidence that would bill into the case that we have been making that there was, in fact, a conspiracy here and that's what the justice department should be looking at. maria: what are you expecting here, chris, we know what took place, we know that there was abuse of the fisa court, will we see accountability? >> when you see james comey walk into to meet with the president to brief him, help with this transition and say, mr. president, you're not under investigation, and then run out to brief his friends, brennan and clapper, it starts to become sinister and looks very conspiratorial. whistleblowers go to prison for a long time, people who leak to the press go to prison for a long time unless they are at the top of the chain. i can't remember the last tim

steele hired by fusion gps. many republicans believe the fbi led the fisa court about the dossier's ties to the democratic part. michael'll be waiting for that. thank you for your report. we've been waiting. people are looking for accountability. did they, in fact, did any of these officials break the law or at least act improperly, and at hot of people -- a lot of people expect there will finally be accountability. pete: so much evidence of a giant conspiracy, a cabal, a group of people trying to take down a duly-elected president. people hoping the gears of justice are just moving slowly. one of the guys who's talked about this for a long time, dan bongino. here's his take. >> what happened here is the fisa courts, which were intended for surveillance purposes for intelligence and counterintelligence cases, were abused for the purposes of political spying. they used this fisa court against the trump campaign claiming they had probable cause that those two -- not one, those two things happened. they did not have that. they only had at best maybe one of those components that someone had visited a foreign country and ma