george papadopoulos. george papadopoulos was a foreign policy adviser to the trump campaign from march 2016 to october 2016. in late april, 2016, papadopoulos was told by london-based professor joseph mifsud, immediately after mifsud's return from a trip to moscow, that the russian government had obtained dirt on candidate clinton in the form of thousands of emails. one week later, on may 6, 2016,. one week later, on may 6, 2016, papadopoulos suggested to a representative of a foreign government the trump campaign had received indications from the russian government it could assist the campaign to the anonymous release of information that would be damaging to candidate clinton. papadopoulos shared information about russian, quote, dirt, end quote, with people outside of the campaign, and the office investigated whether he also provided to a campaign official. papadopoulos and the campaign officials with whom he interacted told the office they did not recall papadopoulos passed them the information. throug

maria bartiromo joining us straight ahead right here right now former trump campaign aid george papadopoulos reacting exclusively this morning to bombshell revelations that the fbi sent an undercover agent to interrogate him in 201f several agents that tried to question him. he tells us about the efforts to spy on him and new details on the suspected russian agent who sent him information about hillary clinton e-mails. the ranking republican on the house intelligence committee devon nunes with us this morning , and also digging into this as he has been demanding answers from our intelligence agencies about this former agent , how the fbi knew to ask george papadopoulos about those clinton e-mails and president trump said this is bigger than water gate as we have been saying for the last two years, devon nunes joins us exclusively this morning plus a high stakes show down on capitol hill this past week after attorney general william barr refuses to testify before the house judiciary committee and the judiciary committee member jim jordan is here exclusively to explain why he encouraged the ag

is what papadopoulos says. he is inviteed to london and sits down with an under-confer informant for the fbi. he sticks out his phone like he is recording the conversation. george, you and russia are hacking the campaign. it appears like papadopoulos was a patsy set up as a pre-text to investigation and spy on the trump campaign to collect evidence of a non-existence conspiracy to damage trump. >> sean: kimberly, i look at all three of you. you all have taken the stance of the 1%. the 99% of analysis went the other way. when you so this boomerang. the country was told one thing but in reality the other people were involved. how do we get everybody to see this is really bad? this is a clear and present danger on a lot of different levels to this great republic we have? >> well, sean, this goes to one of the follies of the special counsel. we warned of this when mueller was put into place. it creates a black hole. we had 2 years where the press was allowed to run wild hand in hand with the leakers who were giving

, which is whatsa papadopoulos says. he's invited over to london, he sits down with an undercover informant for the fbi, or cia, by the name of stefan halper. he sticks out his phone as if he is recording the conversation and says, it's great that russia isck helping you and the campai, right, george? george, you and the campaign are involved in hacking, aren't you? it seems, george, you are the metal man for. it does increasingly appear that papadopoulos was a patsy set up by intelligence agencies, maybe the u.s., may be british, and both, as a pretext to investigate and spy on the trump campaign, to collect evidence of a nonexistent conspiracy to damage trump. >> sean: you know, kimberly, i look at o all three of you, you all have taken the stance of the 1%. the 99% of analysis went to the other way. when you see this boomerang, that the country was told one thing but in reality, it was the people, the other people involved, how did we get everybody to now see, this is really bad? this is now a clear and present danger

similar to george papadopoulos. who was being probed by stefan halper who was a former british professor who was gathering information for the fbi and spying on the trump campaign. the most interesting fact i think, and i will leave you with this, sean, is that tricia anderson basically tries to downplay bruce ohr's involvement when they question about being the back channel for christopher steele after the fbi fired him. they question her over and over again. if the fbi actually had enough evidence, enough evidence to go after a fisa with what they found in the dossier. tricia anderson refuses to answer on multiple occasions. it's going to be very interesting to see what comes out next. it's going to be very interesting to see what the department of justice, william barr, attorney general william barr, will have as far as information on, you know, on the investigation and how it coincides with these transcripts. i think people have a lot of answering to do. >> sean: a lot of spying. he forgot the bond movie blonde

you forgot the bond movie blonde bombshell with papadopoulos. sam clovis, papadopoulos, carter page, fisa warrant. james comey. that wasn't spying. signed off on the first fisa application in october 2016. verifying it's true and accurate but told from later no, it's unverified. and now loretta lynch contradicting the testimony. great job. thank you. also breaking, we did learn that the mueller investigators were given permission by the british government to interview the dirty dossier's author, christopher steele. yes, that christopher steele, the guy who does not stand behind his own dossier, the christopher steele in an interrogatory under the threat of perjury says i don't know if any of this is true. the same steele that was fired by the fbi for lying and leaking, the same steele who was back channeling we know now information to mueller's investigators after being fired through bruce ohr. of course, did you get this to the special counsel? why would you trust a liar and leaker? mueller concluded the trump campaign did not collude in any wa

kellyanne conway, george papadopoulos, ed rendell. first, america for whom? that's the focus of tonight's angle. if you somehow thought that donald twrump would shy away from trackling big issues after republicans lost the house last november, you would be wrong. from china trade to fruk and now immigration he's shown fans that he's not just marking time, he's pursuing what he believes will make america great american. lifting up the american worker, the american family, and the american tradition. >> president trump: our proposal is pro american, pro immigrant, and pro worker. it's just common sense. it will help all of our people, including millions of devoted immigrants to achieve the american dream. >> laura: his plan would basically end the current legal immigration dynamic under which 1.1 million people are given green cards to live and work in the united states, they don't reduce the number but the frame work changes. 66% of all legal immigrants can come through chain migration. sometimes they will describe it as distant family migration. now, all of t

so it was clearly tried to be a pretty intricate operation against papadopoulos. >> according to papadopoulos, mark, the woman almost immediately began asking him questions about russia connections, possible russia connections. according to pop dopts, -- papadopoulos, he walked out because of her line of questioning about russia. was this an intelligence failure on the part of the u.s.? >> right now it doesn't seem that way because we know there wasn't sort of some big mother lode of information that george papadopoulos could have offered. they were clearly prodding to find out was he a key link between the trump campaign and russians because of his previous interactions. we now know that he wasn't. and so it would be hard to characterize that as a failure because it doesn't seem like a key piece of information in this case was missed. >> you know, laura, the attorney general bill barr used the word "spying," there was spying going on the part of elements of the u.s. government, of the trump campaign. is this what he was referring to? >> this is one of the big questions i have right now actua

ostensibly an assistant go meet with papadopoulos. her name -- she claimed to be an assistant to this cambridge professor. papadopoulos met with her at a bar in london after she invited him to come out. papadopoulos told tucker carlson last night that he immediately became suspicious of her. >> she was very suggestive, as you can understand. younger, very flirtatious. i right away understood this wasn't a cambridge assistant. she barely spoke english. she was very flirty. she was trying to do two things. one, to extract information about my professional connections. two, to see if i had any information that she could potentially extract for me about trump and russia. which is, of course, nonsense. >> we may find out more details about this and other events will lead to of justice inspector general michael horowitz releases his report about the genesis of the russia investigation. the president also telling our catherine herridge yesterday that he plans to declassify the documents related to the fisa warrants in the russia investigatio

one about george papadopoulos as an individual. and my background dealing with other governments, not russia. and then trump and russia. so it was a very bizarre meeting. and, of course, there was no fruit to bear from this meeting because there was no conspiracy. and i have never even met a russian official in my life so -- >> did she offer you sex? >> they, of course, overtly didn't offer it. but she made it very clear that was on the table if we continued to enjoy each other's company. and as you saw in the -- >> here's what you wrote -- here's what you wrote in your book about azra turk. we'll put it on the screen. azra turk is a vision right out of central casting for a spy flick. she's a sexy bottle blonde in her 30s. she isn't shy about showing her curves as if anyone could miss them. she's a fantasy's fantasy. if this is what academic researcher look like, i've been going to the wrong school, i love to myself. do you know today, george, who is she? >> i have no idea who this person is. and i'm actually very curious to find

i will start with what jessica said about papadopoulos. what's interesting here is that for a long time people have been saying, "how do these people happen to be across from george papadopoulos? "if it like a sting. people said that was a conspiracy theory. wacky theory. it turns out, and other "new york times" confirms, it was a sting. if you read down further, it starts with papadopoulos because they're so shady, they were investigating him. if you read further down in "the new york times," they say they never turned up anything on him. in the end, what he got in trouble for was lying to the people who were trying to trap him. when you look at the circular logic of all of this, the best of the democrats can come up with now -- and we heard it during this hearing -- against the president is, "well, you didn't report it." they are saying, "when we try to trap you, you then didn't turn around and report to the people who were trying to trap you that we were trying to trap you." >> harris: the irony of that, too, ed henry, on the one side i

notified papadopoulos by email that she had been told by glassener to introduce papadopoulos to sam clovis of iowa, the trump campaign's national co-chair and chief policy adviser. now here's the magic of a campaign. listen to what the president says to "the washington post" editorial board 19 days after that. >> george papadopoulos, he's an oil and energy consultant, excellent guy. >> excellent guy, michael. is this kind of freelancing, the name salad we just read aloud, common. >> no, i don't think it's common. i don't think it's as common as other campaigns would function, but i think what you're talking about gets at the question sort of in the mueller report about the trump campaign. was the trump campaign disorganized that allowed people like george papadopoulos, who had had sort of weird connections to different foreigners, particularly these russians, you know, people talking about russian emails into the inner circle of the campaign. you know, was it because it was so atypical that they were able to be on foreign policy advisers to the president? or were they just really well-coor

the papadopoulos story is certainly interesting because at that point recall it was the -- papadopouloshe primary reason they opened it in the beginning because he talked to an australian diplomate about the russians and so his role is quite interesting in terms of the back story and what the fbi wanted to know, but as we now know he didn't have the goods on a real direct link with the russians. >> josh, there are legitimate questions here, are there not, as to what is the standard that the fbi or other u.s. law enforcement can deploy resources like that to look at someone, an american citizen, mind you, participating in a presidential campaign. i mean, what is the standard that would allow that decision to be made? >> well, as i mentioned, something like this would have high level oversight, high level scrutiny. one thing i think it's important to point out is i watched the barr hearing as we all did and it's interesting that the framing here from the president's allies seem to be that an fbi -- that an investigation into the fbi is somehow punitive or pejorative, i think that that's a

papadopoulos will be here in a moment to preview this major development. he used exculpatory language and we have the tapes and transcripts. and according to the sources this is groundbreaking information fwild copious amounts of exculpatory evidence. obama's d.o.j., comey's fbi had mountains of information proving that trump-russia collusion was always a hoax. they knew on it five different levels. massive red flags were limitered all over the place. but instead of putting the breaks on the witch hunt they kept digging and digging and digging blinded by rage and hatred, desperate to take down the president, donald trump, they never understood why he won. they didn't think of it. by the way, their guiding light the entire time, hillary clinton's russian bought and paid for unverifiable dirty dossier full of lies. a clear example of what is premeditated fraud, conspiracy, against trump, members of his campaign, and guess what, on fisa courts. all must be held accountable. thankfully, truth did prevail, four separate investigations to date have cleared the p

spoke with the fbi, wwe know that carter page was spied -- and george papadopoulos went to jail for a period of time. >> let's declassify those and look at what prompted this investigation, and cause the justice department to spy on americans and find out if they were ever notified by state department and other government against that this entire dossier, was a pile of bunch, an--bunk and should have never n used in fisa application process. kennedy: they should have been much moric bless --ic blessive s about who funded it, part of it and interviewed. trey gowdy said there is a transcript that is a game changer that not yet mate public, i assume it has to to with george papadopoulos recorded, and the transcript of that, what do you know of that recording? >> i can tell you, when you look at what papadopoulos has gone through, and he went over to london, we know he was spid on because he was in process of having a conversation with a myy high ranking government official from australia they later used as pled ca predicate to start ts investigation, they are so concerned what george p

how much of it was george papadopoulos and what else was there? the way i thought about it, it's not just like papadopoulos drops in out of nowhere. you have all the stuff going on in the summer before the papadopoulos information, you have all the information about what the russians are doing with the hacking and the dumping of e-mails. clearly intended to have an impact on our political system. then we get the papadopoulos information. you can think of it like an actor on a stage. george papadopoulos walks across the stage. we see the set in front of him, the backdrop. we see what he's saying to us or what we heard indirectly. >> how big of an actor on that stage was the steele dossier? >> to my recollection it comes later. after we have already started the investigation. yeah, it comes in later. we have to look at it. we felt an obligation to look at it. it's coming in from what we thought was a reliable source or a source that was reliable in the past. we had a duty to try to deal with it. we didn't swallow that thing hook, line and sinker. >>

eric: let's get back to george papadopoulos' claim, he said the words seduce. tried to get information about russia and possible contacts, the fbi, they were getting all the reports of trump campaign officials meeting with various russian intelligent covers in various ways and the fbi has come under criticism for that, do you think that's justified? >> well, we don't know yet but hopefully we will find out because, look, now that we know that the whole russian-collusion claim was a hoax, ag has said that they are going to investigate, what credible evidence does the fbi have to initiate this investigation because if they didn't, they didn't have any actual credible evidence than it's possible the fbi actually abused its power to launch a law enforcement operation, actually counterintelligence operation when it didn't have the authority to do so. >> well, james comey has been defending that and officials have said that they followed all the rules in the book appropriately. here is what was said on knf radio. >> and the one that's the craziest, the notion that we

papadopoulos.not on offense, we are on defense, and you can see that today, this "new york times" story out of the blue, which is a cya attempt, if there ever was one. >> shannon: how much does this have to do with the upcoming release of the horowitz report? >> it is entirely possible it does, but i think the idea that it would be wrong for the fbi to conduct legal surveillance when they have one of our allied nations come to them and say a trump aide says russia offered to hack, they have to investigate that. do not investigate that would be a dereliction of their duty. i hope the fbi looked into all of these claims and took them seriously come in this case russia was interfering with the election peered whether papadopoulos was an integral part of that are not, they did -- in the election, they committed crimes against our country, and i'm glad the fbi investigated. >> shannon: and becoming you know a number of people, including the attorney general, was taken all kinds of flack, we'll talk more

george papadopoulos made early contact with a professor who had connections to russia. immediately upon his return to london he told papadopoulos that the russian government had dirt on hillary clinton in the form of thousands of e-mails. one week later in the first week of may 2016, papadopoulos suggested to a representative of a foreign government that the trump campaign had received indications from the russian government that it could assist the campaign through the anonymous release of information damaging to candidate clinton. throughout that period of time and for several months thereafter, papadopoulos worked with two russian nationals to arrange a meeting between the campaign and the russian government. no meeting took place. summer 2016. russian outreach to the trump campaign continued into the summer of 2016 as candidate trump was becoming the republican nominee for president. on june 9, 2016, for example, a russian lawyer met with senior trump campaign officials donald trump jr., jared kushner and campaign chairman paul manafort to deliver what the e-mail ha

papadopoulos' activities. if you're wondering where the genesis of this story is coming from, joining me is someone who knows how the fbi conducts this investigation, a former attorney and now an msnbc contributor. this story tells us a few things we did know, steve hopper, papadopoulos' assistant. when i found out that helper, before going into a meeting at the white house before being invited to the white house, is letting the fbi know he was invited to the white house. if i was trump i would be like, oh, my god, they were spying on me in the white house. why shouldn't you feel uncomfortable about that? >> you should ask questions. it's probably one of the most risky things the fbi does. you have to monitor them carefully, they have to check in with you. if they're acting at your direction, fine, if they're freelancing, not so fine. i think it's appropriate for the inspector general to figure out if it's appropriate. but i can tell you about the "new york times" article, if you want. >> i do, and i'm curious

russia was in different with the election whether papadopoulos ended up being in a report of that areot, they did commit crimes against our country and i'm glad the fbi investigated. shannon: the attorney general is taking flak for that. if it was so bad why didn't they go to someone who was an experienced attorney associated with the campaign. why didn't they do more to warn the trump campaign at that point? >> this was not a question of 2 or 3 bad apples around the campaign that were in the orbit of the trump campaign. the story has been put out for a long time but it has never been true. the most interesting thing to my mind to the time story was they kept mentioning this informant who conducted this activity there, surveillance activity, she was sent over to see what was the involvement of the trump campaign with the russians and i thought from the beginning years that the target of this investigation was the candidate, donald trump. they believed the steel dossier. if they hadn't believed that they would not have brought it to the fisa court, the theory of the steel dossier was d

papadopoulos said he was set up. >> right. >> laura: he is at ridiculed. all of these at civil libertarians, where are they tonight? i support the aclu, they are all for civil liberties, except the civil liberties of a conservative. >> papadopoulos has been saying for months, the ridiculous, prosecutorial, investigative overreach, finally going to get to the bottom of what is the true story here, and whether you think spying is a pejorative term or not, look it up, there isn't any question that what appears to have happened is that spying was going on, not only with electronic surveillance, but also the use of informants. and what amounts to an undercover. so i guess the question would be, in the midst of a presidential campaign, what you would ordinarily expect to happen, which didn't happen her here. maybe you didn't want to talk directly to the candidate, but i cannot imagine law enforcement foregoing the opportunity to have communicated to somebody trusted within the campaign, to say hey, look, we are looking at things. why didn't they go to rudy giuli

the first will be the evidence, that of george papadopoulos and carter page.ey were recorded which we have heard they were by stephan halbert was a spy for the fbi and that the fbi would tell that information from the foreign intelligence surveillance court, that is going to be huge. i will tell you something else. the unmasking, i think one of the biggest pieces of information that will come out here as well is those people that were unmasked, americans that were unmasked, their conversations, telephone conversations with foreigners. samantha powers, there was a big debate and trey gowdy got her to answer some very important questions. she unmasked nearly 300, that is unheard of. when john bolton was at the u.n. he unmasked three people, three people. she unmasked close to 300. i will tell you some of those names will be very important. >> dan: that is what started the case. sidney i will go to you with your legal expertise i would appreciate from a legal framework, if there are recordings made by intelligence asset the united states is using, they processed

to go peek in on george papadopoulos. that is not a coincidence that it shows up in the "new york times." it's how they inoculate themselves and try to lessen the blow. >> this is what the president has said about this. this goes back to over a year ago. people said he was crazy. they didn't know what he was talking about. >> president trump: a lot of ar" a lot of bad things happened. there was absolutely spying in my campaign. >> martha: do you think that that "new york times" article vind dates -- i go back to when the president goes back to talk about people wiring trump tower. people said it was unbelievable that he would suggest that. they jumped down his throat over that. now, you know, versions of that appear to be perhaps what we may end up seeing in this report. >> i remember back in the day when that came out, i was the chairman. i con about thed reince priebus -- i contacted reince priebus, who was the chief of staff. i said what in the world is the president talking about? reince priebus didn't have knowledge

they describe that a woman set up a meeting with then-campaign adviser george papadopoulos in london.investigator. at that time, the fbi eventually ended up having four people in trump orbit under investigation, based on shady, suspicious ties to the kremlin. one thing i will take exception that i push back a little on this reporting, is they describe it as signaling or explaining this state of alarm inside the fbi, which i disrespectfully disagree with. this is investigation 101. inform informants, undercover agents, investigative tools, they take you places that fbi agents can't go. they can't announce themselves and start asking questions. the president is going to call this spying. this notion that the obama administration was directing this is pure politics. this is investigation 101. if the fbi is trying to investigate a string of bank robbers or a terrorist group, or a campaign, this is the tool you would use. >> the trump team is claiming this is calling this spying. you say that is not accurate. why do you say that? >> the problem with the term spying, as attorney general bar

george papadopoulos has a new book out called "deep.arget: how i got caught in the cross hairs to bring down president trump." probably the most accurate title of a book and a long time. thank you for coming on. briefly describe your experience with the women you believe was sent to spy on the trump campaign by the obama administration. >> that is a great question. i received an unsolicited email in september of 2016 from a man name stefan halper who was suggesting that he wanted to pay me $3,000 to write a report on energy security questions, and i was a recognized expert on that, israel, turkey, and cyprus. i looked him up, i'd never heard of him. i saw that he had worked in four u.s. administrations and he was a professor at cambridge so i accepted his offer and he flew me to london, where he paid for my five star hotel, and he said before i meet with you i want you to meet my assistant. he put this assistant in an email chain along with me and i saw her name, i recognized it as turkish, which was suspicious right away because my pol

i could have happened to george papadopoulos? >> i'm sure he has many positive qualities.his focus on him reminds me of the focus of many people on the caravan to the run-up to the election. everybody in the trump world thought that this was a horrible thing and nobody else did which is why the congress flipped. let me tell you what donald trump said about your friend which is that he is a proven liar. this notion of spying -- >> tucker: i want to know what you think. he has worked for the u.s. government for cia as a contract spying, he reached out to this kid who had no knowledge of him at all. he is clearly acting on behalf. the obama administration would dispatch spies on a american citizen is clearly what happened. is that all right? >> 15 friendly countries report to our intelligence agencies that there are reports that they are getting, they credit that the russians are in fact as we now know from our intelligence community, trying to infiltrate the campaign and trying to tip the scales. that troubles me. >> tucker: does it bother you he wasn't a russian spy? he got

we had an australian diplomat sitting down with george papadopoulos reporting back george papadopoulos is reporting russia is offering dirt on hillary clinton. what are you going to do? go to congress and risk that being leaked? no. they took the quiet way to prove it. carving out the australian, getting rid of their long-time informant, you don't want him seeing the light of day in court. you insert a counterintelligence investigator who can go under cover, lay eyes on george papadopoulos and ask him point blank. that's how you do it. that's not spying. it's solid investigative work. >> it's all under investigation again. as you said, it's a heavily regulated, if you will, part of law enforcement, but it's also under scrutiny in an ongoing ig report, so if anything is there to be corrected or revealed we'll find out about it in a short order, right? >> bring it on. let's get the guidelines and the rule book. see what the bureau did and let's see if they violated any rules. >> let me ask you, tim o'brien, you've covered trump the longest out of all of us assembled. what does his full p

>> -- spying. >> depends on what you consider spying. >> by the way, it's in papadopoulos. >> the dailyaller has done excellent work in this person in particular, george papadopoulos has written about her. the new york times doesn't like to use the word spying but reporting, some of the ways we have learned about how extensive spying has been. we learned last year, almost a year ago that there were national security letters, human informants, there was government operative, who she is, whether she works for the fbi or not, think bring on someone, george papadopoulos wrote about how he's flirtacious. >> bigger than xeart gate. >> in reverse. >> the question of spying is spying for political reasons or spying because the fbi had concerns. >> it is important that "the new york times" did not use spying and they did focus on the counterintelligence that it was president trump that chose to shape it in that way and all of a sudden the failing new york times is not failing so much because he's now extrapolating from that. >> this comes in the week of facebook banning several people including

papadopoulos in the spring was in london and he was interacting with joseph mifsud how claim is a russian agent but he is actually from malta working in london as a professor. it was alexander -- we don't

papadopoulos thinks it's the cia he said that last night. are concerned about papadopoulos' links to russia because of something ambassador downer reported to the fbi. ambassador downer is familiar with intelligence sources in america. so on september 15th, they called stephon halper tell george papadopoulos meet me in london i will give you 3,000 bucks. i need your energy knowledge your knowledge of natural gas. he says okay. he shows up. would you meet my assistant first in a bar and they meet and he goes wait a second barely speak english. you are asking me questions about the russians what the heck? next day halper has the same meeting, same tenure. they get nothing from him. next day listen to these james. joseph mifsud and the next name you will hear about ambassador downer. same ambassador that engineered the accumulation of $25 million for the clinton foundation back in 2006. steve: you've got to wonder why is the "new york times" putting this story out now? we had jason chaffetz on a little while ago the "new york times" is trying t

times" rights of the meeting, which we've talked about before at the london hotel, between george papadopoulos, a young newly affiliated member of the trump policy team at the time, where he has long claimed he felt like it was a set up, like he was being framed. this tonight is the reporting from "the new york times," "the american government's affiliation with the woman there who said her name was zero two is 1 previously unreported detail of an operation that has become a political flash point in the face of accusations by president trump and his allies that american law enforcement and intelligence officials spied on his campaign to undermine his electoral forces. they write, the decision to use miss turk in an operation aimed at a presidential campaign official, george papadopoulos, shows the level of alarm inside the fbi during a frantic period when the bureau was trying to determine the scope of russia's 2016 interference in the election, but also give any munition to mr. trump and his allies for their spying claims. we will unravel this. good evening, everybody. i am martha maccallum a

flirting with george papadopoulos. they not only spied on carter page, the door into all things trump. trump campaign, and transition, trump presidency. correct? >> correct. doesn't understand how a fisa warrant works and why we need to monitor a fit once you get access to this, you get access to phone records, able to insert people like informants posing and also people, agents that might pretend they are a turkish college assistant, as in the case of george papadopoulos, to extract or trick you into giving up information. it's a very powerful tool. listen, fighting spies, capturing terrorists, is hard work. we don't want to take that from the fbi. but in this case, we now know the evidence that was used was highly flawed. it is not a normal counterintelligence investigation. >> sean: james comey said recently he signed the first fisa application. he says no, the fbi doesn't spine. was signing the fisa application, was that spying? did the fbi approve the blonde bombshell and stuff and stefan halper? is that spying? >

george papadopoulos, what are you doing with the russians.s is simple >> the attorney general of the united states sees it in a different category. here's what he said to congress in april. >> i think there was spying that did occur, yes. i think spying did occur. >> let me -- >> the question is whether it was adequately predicated. i'm not suggesting it wasn't adequately predicated, but i would need to explore that. i think it is my obligation. >> was surveillance on george papadopoulos adequately predicated? >> boy, i think this is going to go ugly early. any time you investigate a complicated case like this you look at the volume of information files, et cetera that the mueller team acquired. that's a lot of court orders, interviews by witnesses who may be intimidated, a lot of informants. when you have the inspector general look in this case at a very unique in some ways investigation, the likelihood in the next, say, 30 to 60 days, the inspector general of the fbi or the department of justice doesn't come out with a report saying there i

papadopoulos thanks for joining us. i'm maria bartiromo. monday, may of your top stories 8:35 a.m.ff threat yesterday, now china is threatening to skip the talks in united states, this week. markets are selling off about it the president tweeted again this morning, about it, saying this, united states has been losing for many years, 600 to 800 billion dollars a year on trade, with china we lose 500 billion dollars, sorry, we are not going to be an he doing doing that any more triggering globe sell-off china exposuredeep within s&p 500 auto makers gm ford take tag hit on tariff threats, tweet yesterday basically said trump was threatening to increase tariffs on 200 billion dollars imports, currently being taxed 10% that would go up to 25% by friday even more significant he hinted rest of the chinese imports could also be taxed at 25%, he said, that could happen shortly. >> that is what roiled the markets. >> breaking news occidental has suspended stock repurchase plan due to 38-billion-dollar bid for anadarko, company still expecting 3 1/2 billion dollars annual savings with propose

investigator tar g*eted trump campaign aid george papadopoulos.ormer f.b.i. director james comey was one of the people or probably one of the people who led the so-called spying effort and the president said this will be known, an apparent reference to the inspector general's report anticipated this month or next. >> president trump: i think that he did a terrible job. i would say he probably led some kind of an effort, the words spying has been used. he probably was one of the people leading the effort on spying, >> a very serious charge to make. >> president trump: we'll find out whether or not it was true. i think it could very well be true. we'll find out pretty soon. >> remember just about six or eight months ago the president announced he would declassify the russia records that relate to a surveillance for an application for a trump campaign aide carter page and then he put it on pause. what we learned in the interview yesterday is that the president is now pushing ahead and when it comes to timing and when the public will see it, he is ind

they describe a woman set up a meeting with then campaign adviser george papadopoulos in london. a research assistant when "the new york times" reports she was an investigative officer working for the fbi. they eventually ended up having four people in trump orbit who were being investigated. this was set up to gather information. the one thing i will take exception and push back a little bit on this reporting they described it as signaling or explaining this state of alarm in the fbi which i disrespectfully disagree with. this is investigation 101. they take you places that fbi agents can't go. they can't announce themselves and can't start asking questions. i think the president is going call this spying. this insane notion that the obama administration was directing this effort is just pure politics. this is 101 if the fbi is trying to investigate motor gangs or bang robbers or a campaign. >> the trump campaign is calling this spying. you say this is not accurate. >> don, the problem with that term spying, as attorney general barr well knows, is that it's typically used to ref

raises questions if he was cooked from the start. >> george papadopoulos plead guilty to lying to theponded that the fbi sent an investigator to london to target him. >> she was very flirty and trying to do two things. one, to extract information about my professional connections in the middle east and two, to see if i had any information that she could potentially extract for me about trump and russia, which is nonsense. >> the other connection to papadopoulos is if american academics steffan halpert. an alleged source that worked the fbi counter intelligence case reaching out to multiple trump campaign aides. with attorney general bar reviewed the genesis of the russia probe is under fresh scrutiny including a surveillance warrant by the fbi aide carter page. all associated records will be declassified. >> is there a timeline on when the public will see these russia records? >> yes. i'm going to be allowing declassification soon. i wanted to wait. i know what -- i've seen the way they play. they play very dirty. so i decided to do it. i'm doing to do it soon. far more than you would