i supported the mueller investigation because i didn't know. now i know why mueller didn't find anything. >> reporter: fox news learning transcripts from health intelligence committee interviews show top intelligence officials affirming they had no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia during the 2016 election this after house republicans sought 6000 page the transcript conducted by the committee in 2017-18. a senior official tells fox news that the house until committee chairman is in panic mode. we will see if anything else becomes declassified. there is a suggestion that we may. rob: more on that in 10 minutes donald trump raising american warriors forced to make social and economic sacrifices during this pandemic. >> as the white house plans to point their progress, several states loosening restrictions today. rob: more economies opening up nationwide. >> reporter: donald trump announcing the white house coronavirus task force will no longer be shifting its focus but will continue down its original path with some power

lou: right. >> the whole mueller investigation's corrupted.n barr came in, he should have audited mueller immediately. you can presume everyone that mueller touched was corruptly pursued. everyone should be pardoned; witnesses, targets, everyone. lou: that's an interesting point because, obviously, the fbi was corrupt from the inception preceding the special counsel investigation as well. it is, it is a stunning document, as you say, and it is also gratifying that the attorney general, william barr, appointed a man -- u.s. attorney jensen -- who moved this to a decision in a matter of months instead of what we have become used to, a painful, prolonged procrastination. this was, i think, a timely exercise of a power to stop an abuse of power. >> yeah. and general flynn deserves tens of millions of dollars from the federal government for what they put him through. the next step in justice, in my view, that's required are prosecutions of his persecutors. and you see this in the justice department filing who ought to be targeted, james comey. i me

rosenstein tells mueller to look at floor people. carter page warned before, you said it better than anybody. january, eighth months both for the sub disavowed the dossier, there was no legal justification to suspect carter page of being a russian agent because dependent on the dossier, that crumbled in january. flint's case was looked at the field office in washington, january the 4th of 2017, that said there is no reason to believe that he's doing anything wrong. he shouldn't be part of crossfire hurricane. papadopoulos' own tape in 2016 denying working with the russians that say to do so would be treason. so there was no legitimate reason to believe any of of these four are working with the russians august 2nd 2017, therefore the entire mueller investigation was illegitimate to begin with. that's very important. >> sean: it's not only illegitimate. senator, we are talking about a shredding of every dent of constitutional law and due process that we would ever have, and they are doing it from the very beginning, never verifiab veri

every case mueller brought, he won. no court, no jury, no defendant has ever defeated any of those cases. in other words, every time a prosecution did proceed, either it went to a jury trial and they convicted, or there was such overwhelming evidence that the defendant plead guilty as we saw from machine manafort, mr. cohen, mr. gates, and yes, from mr. flynn. he plead guilty. i want to remind you of that. a judge asked him in court, and flynn said "guilty, your honor." the judge are you entering this plea of guilty because you are guilty and for no other reason? public, in court, under oath. and flynn said under oath, "yes, your honor." these are facts, public facts under oath. provided to you by the adeputies involved. tonight we're seeing all of that attempted to be overturned by the trump justice department, not because it wasn't proven in court, not because mr. flynn didn't admit guilt, not because mr. mueller didn't lay out a careful case, but because tonight we can report for you after all that, the justice depar

elizabeth: you know, the mueller probe, i don't think the mueller report didn't even mention the steeledo you think they should give their pulitzers back as the president said? >> i got pull setzer for reporting things and ended up really discredited i would go in front of the camera and burn it. i won a you pulitzer in 2013 for snow reporting f it turned out after 18 months ever investigation everything we reported was not supported by any evidence, available evidence negated it's true for russian conspiracy i would hang my head in shame. that gets back to your question what resistance journalism is. as long as you promote a narrative popular among that pre-sent of cnn, mean, "washington post," "new york times," establishment liberalism there is no accountability needed because lies and discredited reports are forgiven on the ground you were doing it in service of the right cause which was undermining the trump administration, as i said i'm no fan of but that doesn't excuse fact-free and discredited journalism. elizabeth: glenn greenwald, you're terrific. can you come back on the show?

we are still waiting for the durum investigation into the mueller probe. roger stone, what will happen to him, like flynn, president trump leaf stone has been treated unfairly, may be up for a presidential pardon. bret. >> bret: thank you. we are going through those documents as we're getting them to bring any breaking details here on "special report." the justice department filing an emergency request with the u.s. supreme court supreme court asking justices to temporarily block enforcement of an order requiring the release of secret grand jury materials from the russia probe to the house judiciary committee by may 11. house democrats have been seeking the redacted portions of robert mueller's report and its underlying evidence from grand jury proceedings. they say they needed for an ongoing impeachment investigation of president trump, even after he was acquitted by the senate regarding the ukraine controversy. late this afternoon we also learned the justice department officially close the case against former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. he was acc

-- counsel robert mueller's fraudulent russia investigation.told the supreme court, if you can imagine, that they need those materials to determine whether there was any new evidence of impeachable offenses by president trump. the finding of the special counsel was that there w

i don't think that robert mueller will speak publicly. he was clear during his report.ny, everything he had to i wouldn't expect him to go back on his word. you're absolutely right, they are erasing the work of the special counsel's office and of the mueller team and they're doing it in a way that i find utterly corrupt. there's absolutely no basis in fact for what the attorney general is now asking a federal judge in washington, d.c., to do, which is to dismiss all of the charges or i should say, the charge against mr. flynn. >> what are the properfects of this judge? i guess, i hate to raise the hope that anyone will stand in front of the steam rolling train that's donald trump and bill barr's corruption jam. we thought that maybe sessions or rosenstein would steer the justice department in a noncorrupt manner, we thought that maybe robert mueller would come down on one side or the other on the obstruction question, we would have some clarity, republicans would vote to hear from witnesses at least in the context of a trial and now we ho

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elizabeth: you know, the mueller probing i don't think the mueller report didn't even mention the steelee their blitz -- their pulitzers back, as the president has said? >> if i ended. getting discredited, i would go in front of the camera and burn it. i won a prettier in 2013 for the snowden reporting. if it turned out nothing was supported by evidence in the available evidence negated it, i would hang my head in shame. but there's zero -- that's what gets back to your first question about resistance journalism. as long as you're promoting a narrative popular among that precinct of cnn, msnbc, washington post, new york times, establishment liberalism, this is no accountability needed because even your lies and discredited reports are forgiven on the grounds that you were doing anytime service of the right cause which is undermining the trump administration which, as i said, or i'm no fan of. but that doesn't excuse fact-free and discredited journalism. elizabeth: glenn greenwald, you're terrific. can you come back on the show? we love having you on. >> [inaudible] elizabeth: come back s

the memo to mueller was given to me fully unredacted. so now we know that the scope of the investigation was to look at carter page, flynn, as to whether or not they were working with the russians. now this is in august of 2017. you nailed it. in july of -- excuse me january of 2017. the sub source disavowed the dossier. and without the dossier, there is no warrant. so they knew that the carter page thing was a fraud. they wanted to close the case against flynn. we have him on record denying working with the russians. a saint to do so would be treason. so the foundation for the mueller investigation is crumbling. now and -- >> sean: slow down a second pit i want to stay on the timeline here. this memo, this is august of 2017. rod rosenstein. now we are up to the fourth application. now let's stay on the dates for one second. the only source for this had to be steel. by august of 2017, for the scope memo, and the final renewal or third renewal fourth warrant. by that time, they knew back in february of 2017 that it was russian disinformat

robert mueller declined to respond to this.would you like to hear from robert mueller right now since this prosecution and his prosecutors are being maligned in some ways by the doj? >> i think some of the things that the prosecutors have done speak pretty clearly about how they feel about this step by the department of justice. the fact that not a single line prosecutor signed on to that 20-page motion they filed yesterday, i think, speaks pretty those folks who built this prosecution who have taken it through every hand wringing phase of the judge, whose efforts have been repeatedly held to have been proper and lawful, i'm sure those folks feel terrible today, their legs have been cut out from beneath them, so i think the fact that they haven't stepped forward to claim this action in any way speaks pretty loudly. >> i will note, as you have noted about questions that william barr did answer, he didn't exactly answer my question there. my question was, what would you like to hear from robert mueller, who has been conspicuously

he's done with respect to the mueller findings.s done it with respect to findings of inspector general michael horowitz. it's just pattern and it's darn shame. >> pete williams, are you detecting any moral issues inside of justice or any new ones or we at the same tension we have seen between career and bar and the political team? >> well, i think based on the few call this is is not going down too well as you expect with fbi and some career people in the justice. i would say one thing though. like it or not, what barr's approach has been is to say he believes the fbi acted improperly to investigate a president engaged in core political activity during campaign. that's been his starting point. he would say he's concerned the fbi acted without proper foundation ininvestigating him and in flynn. jim comey says doj has lost its way. andrew mckcabe said the fbi had ample reason to interview flynn. >> you asked if i could ask bill barr that question, i would love to ask him that question. we'd give him plenty of time and space to do it.

they were above robert mueller.ns will be making criminal referrals in the comins against these individuals. we have republican kelly armstrong. great to have you on, sir. you're in house judiciary. he is wanting more documents too. what shoes are going to drop here? what do you think what do you expect to see? >> we need to continue to do this because we know at this point in time that for sure kevin clients smith lied. he altered an email that went to the fisa court. we don't think he was doing it alone. mr. jarrett was on before and he was talking about the flynn prosecution. we know comey and mccabe actually testified that the agents didn't think that flynn lied in the interview. it was only after the mueller prosecution came about with no new evidence. the person who conducted interview was not even in the room where they charged michael flynn. that is solely, there is a reason that you have conflict of interest as a prosecutor. and drew wise -- andrew wise man and every member of the mueller team, they had dir

and mueller comes in. he covers up the whole comey corruption deal and tries to tee up an impeachment. but they all failed and they got caught. flynn's charges are dropped and he's about to walk, but not so fast. the judge in this case we just found out is part of the witch hunt. judge emmet sullivan a clinton appointed activist judge, he hates flynn. he called him a traitor in court, totally biased. this week judge sullivan appoints another judge and asks this other judge to help him sentence an innocent man. think about that. it is against the law. and get this, this new judge, who sullivan tapped, hates bill barr, on the record. this new judge gleeson used to work with andrew weissman, mueller's dirtiest prosecutor, and his law firm, mrs. resistance, remember her? basically forcing trump to pardon flynn. they can't take the loss. they will do whatever it takes to make the flynn case legit because it's the last pillar holding up this entire hoax. "watters world" found something even more corrupt. watch t

here he was during a mueller probe and recently. a listen. >> if bill barr was your first attorney general, would there have been a mueller probe and russia hoax? >> no, there wouldn't be. he would have stopped it immediately. >> the president was frustrated and angered by his sincere belief that the investigation was undermining his presidency. >> i think the president did the right thing in removing atkinson. i think the president has every right to be frustrated because i think what happened to him was one of the greatest travesties in american history. >> what is your response to mr. barr's defense that the president's personal or emotional feelings about something can justify actions which you and your committee have identified as potentially unconstitutional? >> well, the president's emotional responses cannot justify illegal or unconstitutional acts, obvious ly obviously, if we are a nation of laws. and here you have a perfect illustration. the president, on the other hand, and attorney general barr on the one hand are making

what did the mueller investigation do?said, they probably knew going into it that there was nothing to the russian collusion case. but they went ahead anyway. why? i think they were trying to find a crime, any crime that they could pin on president trump. you know, stalin, the russian dictator stalin, had a secret police, head of secret police, and the guy said, you know, mr. stalin, show me the man and i'll find you the crime. that's almost what they were attempting to do. they were trying to find any crime they could get on anybody anywhere around trump in hopes that they could find enough information to bring trump down either in an impeachment or so hobble his administration they couldn't get anything done, and they couldn't carry out what trump wanted to do which was drain the swamp. who's the swamp? the permanent bureaucracy led by the fbi and people like comey. elizabeth: and damaging, damaging leaks to the media that the media took and ran with as fact when this stuff was not proven. was president obama more aware

so why would mueller spend $40 million and not get to the bottom of that? people from the outside that had these clinton connections? all of that has to be looked at including why did people at the highest levels of doj and fbi that were supposed to be overseeing mueller and helping mueller, why did they help to block us, republicans, from getting information? a lot of what you will see now will be looking at, you know, did they obstruct a congressional investigation, did they lie or mislead congress. and, look, we know that's a pretty low bar because, you know, roger stone right now has been convicted. he was accused of it and convicted in a washington, d.c. court. one can argue whether or not the jury was correct or not, but if we can prosecute roger stone, we damn sure better be able to prosecute these high-level people that were on the mueller team and anybody at the doj and fbi that were involved in this fiasco. lou: the american people will never have faith in the justice department, the fbi or, frankly, several of our intelligence agencies until ther

liz: another sign that the crooks are growing in the mueller probe.bi director christopher wray ordering the fbi to do an internal investigation into possible fbi misconduct in the fbi probe of former national security advisor michael flynn. this is a messy case. it is essential to the mueller probe. the debate tonight, can the fbi be trusted? will take a good hard look at just what was faxed and what was not and what went wrong. president trump announcing he is ordering flags to fly at half staff over the next three days to memorialize americans lost to the coronavirus and on memorial day to honor americans who died serving in the u.s. military. also tonight the president declaring the liquor stores are essential businesses and their essential to the u.s. economy and society, so our churches and houses of worship. he says he will overwrite any governor that tries to stop him there. with us tonight, we have the federalist, david marcus on his call and that is turning heads from new york to california. it reads new york city lockdown now, he is outrage

i supported the mueller investigation because i didn't know. now i know why mueller didn't find anything. >> the transcript cleared for release show top intelligence officials, with the trump campaign and russia. house republicans sought earlier this week some 6000 pages of interviews conducted by the committee with 53 individuals. house intelligence committee and adam schiff is in, quote, panic mode with questions over previous statements of direct evidence, fox was told it is possible we could see more releases this week, perhaps as early as later today. >> donald trump praising people making sacrifices during the pandemic. rob: the white house lamp the media for undercutting their progress. several states are loosening restrictions. jillian: more economies open up nationwide. >> reporter: donald trump in announcing the coronavirus task force, no longer shifting its focus but continuing down its original path. powerful language from the president calling the virus and attack worse than pearl harbor or 9/11. >> i'm calling the nation warriors,

therefore, the entire mueller investigation was illegitimate to begin with. is very important. >> we also expect to see transcript of interviews conducted by the house intelligence committee with 53 people back in 2017 and 2018. a spokesman for the democrat majority of the intelligence committee saying, "this process had already taken far too long. most notably, because office of the director of national intelligence improperly held up the declassification review and release of several transcripts at the request of the white house." the top republican on the intelligence committee offered this prediction. >> there is not going to be any major bombshells in this, because the democrats already leaked all the suppose that bombshells and lied about those bombshells. i think for the good guy's side and the real investigators that are trying to get to the bottom of the russia hoax and he was involved in it, there will be likely people who were not so truthful to congress, let's just say. >> foxes told those pages transcripts could be released as soon as today. harr

>> sean: how much of the mueller testimony did you actually watch?going to watch it all, and then i started thinking about it, and then, i watched a little bit at the very beginning, and i couldn't believe what i was seeing, and i ended up watching more of it, i wanted to. it was such a big crater at the beginning, and i said, now i have to watch shifty schiff because he just went through three hours and now he has to go through schiff, and i said this is going to be very interesting, and i've never seen anything like it, actually, sort of good television, i couldn't v watch t all, i had meetings, economic development meetings, and i was saying, fellas, maybe we can move it to another time, but i didn't want to do that. but i got to watch enough, it was shocking. i thought the republicans represented themselves brilliantly, actually. john ratcliffe and jim jordan, i mean, all of them, louie gohmert, i can mention 15 names, or however many they have that spokes, it got fairly close to that number, i guess, maybe it was a little bit less thanme bad, bu

mueller. mueller knew right from the jump that this was all garbage, and they continued. >> tucker: i know we are supposed to pretend that mitch mcconnell is impressive because he understands how the senate worked. why didn't you do anything about this? what are your priorities, what is your job? we will get to that, francie, great to see you tonight. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: bret baier is our chief political anchor whose special report of course every weeknight at 6:00 eastern, always happy to have him. some of these documents are kind of, even for those of us who are cynical about it, are surprising. what's the political fallout of this question marks >? >> let's start with the michael flynn development, you see this split along party lines where the left is pointing to bill barr and saying he is overshooting and politicizing the doj. he is very matter of fact, once he saw the facts and all of the tactics used by the fbi under the legal problems around this, it was an easy call. remembe

mueller investigation is right and of course one of the great mysteries is why the mueller investigationdn't even look at whether the president violated the law because we knew he couldn't be charged with a crime. >> that's a very important point there. pete williams with that breaking news for us. pete, thanks. thank you for trusting us for these last two hours. thanks for tuning in. nicolle wallace and brian williams pick things up i think right now. take it away, guys. >>> well, good day. brian williams here with you along with nicolle wallace as we begin this hour of the afternoon, 3:00 eastern, 12:00 out west, with the breaking news you have seen being covered live on msnbc and pete williams will be along to help us in a moment. there's the headline, nicolle, justice department asks judge to drop flynn prosecution. there are so many ways to go. it boggles the mind. please begin. >> so i just hung up with a former fbi official who said simply, oh, my god. mike flynn confessed to the crime of lying to the fbi. mike flynn was fired after a mysterious period in which sally yates came ov

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how are those indictments going for mueller.hen it comes to michael flynn and roger stone, those people were set up using the same playbook. the fbi tried to entrap them into lies and leverage that against donald trump. michael flynn wasn't a target as an end unto himself. the entire reason the fbi under comey was going after flynn, going after stone, going after donald trump, jr. they thought if they manufactured lies about the people close to the president, that those people would turn on the president and say bad things about him. the on one weak weak enough to to do that is michael cohen. and we can't live in a world where michael cohen gets treated better than michael flynn. it's time to do right by them and show neither stone nor flynn spend a day in jail. judge jeanine: i spent a lot of years as a prosecutor and judge as a d.a. but as an attorney, i never believed that this kind of thing could be happening over was pervasive. you are an attorney also. you were a trial attorney. did you have faith in the fbi before this? h

the mueller investigation didn't yield what they thought.e whistleblower, and they thought the whistle blower was going to yield something. and frump released the -- president trump released the transcripts, something nobody expected, and it undermined their case because the transcript showed that the president did everything right, in fact, had a perfect call, and the president of ukraine said it was a really good call and appreciated talking to president trump. but yet they still moved on and impeached him anyway to appease their radical base and, lou, they haven't stopped. you can see with the creation of this committee there are, as we pointed occupant, a lot of oversight committees this congress that already have the ability to look into fraud and mismanagement of funds. they're not doing any of that, by the way. and there's inspectors general. they set this committee up specifically to keep harassing president trump and try to interfere with the 20ing 20 election that's coming up in november. this is all about politics for november. th

and this is the latest it ration in which the president can can say, the mueller investigation was partf this witch hunt, part of thehis deeptate coup against my administration even though there's a lot of evidence that shows that the mueller investigation was a real inidstigation. itea to a number of guilty employees by a number of people that are in president trump's orbit and there was a willingness to accept informationhat was coming from the russians that was negate about hillary clinton to promot someat iormation such as the information we saw in wikileaks. the mueller probe made it clear that there was a lot of contacts between people that are trying to push thisnformation during the 2016 election. and this latest episode shows that the attorney general was trying to discredit all of that. robert: so molly, if the president is going to go relitigate the russia probe, what is t speaker going to do? is she going to engage? are house democrats going to talking about their own russia investigation? >> i doubt it. i, thi you know, the campaign strategy for the houseoc dts for 2020 and

the mueller probe exonerated president trump.appen,achment didn't because there was nothing to impeach. a bunch ofndure hoaxes and stuff brought on. i want to remind everyone listening that all this happened of 2016ourth quarter 2017, beforeuary trump was sworn into office. they have all these transcripts. you can't take one piece here and --but when you put them altogether, there was something brewing in the democratic party. stuff, server, all that there was something going on that was hidden. the smashed computers. given to hillary clinton's aides. there was really something going on. the democrats have had their casetunity to prove their or what they really wanted, but in doing so all this other stuff has come out, and now it is our turn. i think the one lady called in and said we just want to shed light. there.ght on who is president trump came into office saying he would drain the swamp. if anybody thinks that the swamp would go easily, they are crazy. it is like a root down a tree stump. you have the media with the article

why did rod rosenstein expand mueller's mandate to cover that sort of thing. generally, rod rosenstein has said at various times he was told the president was not a suspect, that there was no evidence tying the president to any alleged collusion. rosenstein say that to the president or say that publicly, rather than putting the country through what we have gone through the last three years? those will be some of the questions i assume. host: our phone lines are open. (202) 748-8000 is the line for democrats. (202) 748-8001 if you are a republican. about generalyou michael flynn. what did he do, what to do not do that led to his firing? firing,hat led to his michael flynn was the designated national security advisor. 2016, there were a series of conversations with the then russian ambassador and the question of sanctions came up. there was a leak to the washington post, which published an article about that conversation. the vice president talked to flynn and then went on television and said, sanctions had not come up, and it turned out sanctions did come up. t

robert mueller didn't find it. in fact, as robert mueller ---robert mueller be at member of the deep straight who is betraying fellow donald trump d robert mueller is essentially exonerated donald trump of collusion with russia? there was the issue of trump trying to interfere in the investigation, but that's this idea of is bob mueller this kind of straight shooter? is tony fauci doing the level best he can with information he has to try to come to conclusions about coronavirus? neither are perfect but i think if we think that no one is -- if we don't have some kind of a political expert, simply from basic facts whether it's the reported peace, you see on the newspaper or the book you read or a government report, how do we govern? that was the allegation from will hurd against adam schiff, that the democrats knew that wasn't clear evidence of trump colluding with the russians but schiff kept adding and had on tv every night and it was powerful. just lessing will hurd. he was a cia operative for about a decade, ran