there was discussion of many other people, including lisa page and pete strzok and many others. that just struck me as incredibly close to home because while i was serving on director mueller's team and it was in the middle of august, the exact time that the news was breaking, i was subjected to a really unusual re-up of my clearance. the way clearances work is they last for five years. at the end of five years, usually six or seven when the fbi gets around to it, there's a reup of your security clearance. well, in the middle of the mueller investigation, only two to three years into my clearance. and it's way before it was up, i was subjected to a re-examination by the fbi, which i remember at the time being incredibly suspicious. so, when i saw mike's reporting and those contemporaneous notes is seemed pretty clear how to connect those dots in terms of why i was subjected to that. i also want to make it clear that what i was subjected to, while it's indicative of exactly mike's reporting, it is by no means comparable in terms of the harm that pete and lisa suffered and jim. so

we're back with glenn thrush, pete strzok and david jolly. glenn, let's start with mr. weiss.s coming out with some pretty specific refuting of allegations being furthered and solicited by republicans. does this settle this issue? >> it doesn't settle the issue, but what's becoming increasingly apparent is weiss is getting mighty frustrated with having to absorb all of this incoming fire and is actually quite unusually specific in this third letter he's sent to the hill. this one in particular had the quality of a note being wrapped around a brick being thrown through a window. he refutes the claim by the whistleblower gary shapley who was an irs agent working on the tax issues in the hunter biden investigation. he refutes this claim that he said to shapley in this meeting in october 2022, i'm getting frustrated, i've tried to bring this case in washington and california and i can't get the local prosecutors to help out, so i'm thinking of becoming a special counsel asking merrick garland to be made a special counsel. he flat out refutes that account. garland has already been

notes that he took in these meetings where trump made these requests about irs investigations of pete strzok and lisa page. so that's a substantiated, you know, essentially a piece of evidence, if you will, in that argument. of course it rings a bell for me because i was the subject of a very rare and invasive irs audit as was jim comey. you know, the likelihood of us being subjected to the same sort of allegedly random audit is infinitesimally small although the postal service ig looked at this and didn't find any, i guess, particular suspicious things about it. i feel very differently about that conclusion, but i don't think it's surprising to anyone that donald trump was trying to use his access to the levers of power in washington to exact retribution against his perceived enemies. and whether that's through the department of justice, through baseless criminal investigations like the one that was focused on me for two years, or through the irs, this is what he does, and i think it's probably what the american people can expect if he's ever returned to the white house. >> nick, if prosecu

showing that donald trump, while he was president pushed to get the irs to investigate fbi officials pete strzokdonald trump's wrath. from "the new york times" brand-new reporting on this evidence. john kelly who served as donald trump's second chief of white house staff said in a sworn

and we have katie bennett and also joining us pete strzok.ack smith has the war plan. can do i get that right? >> yeah, we were wondering where they were.n do i get that right? >> yeah, we were wondering where they were. do i get that right? >> yeah, we were wondering where they were.do i get that right? >> yeah, we were wondering where they were.o i get that right? >> yeah, we were wondering where they were.o i get that right? >> yeah, we were wondering where they were. that was a case of that was then and this is now. and so many things that have become hardwired into the republican party. projection, shamelessness, and the double standards. feels old story to talk about hypocrisy and the republican party. we know once that they accepted the hollywood -- actually once they accepted donald trump as a plausible candidate for president. but you know, you are seeing how much of this is just pretextual, that they never cared about hillary's emails or servers, but it is among the many delicious things about the superseding indictment is the way t

. >> so pete strzok, you've been on the other side. here's some of the people that he wanted tad his bidding this. describing exactly what he wanted his department of justice to do. >> my recollection is the president said something like, well, we can get, some people say we can get to the bottom of this if the department sees the machines. it was a typical way of raising a point. and i said absolutely not. there is no probable cause. and i won't seize any machines. >> let's look at another one of your notes. you noted that mr. rosen said to mr. trump, quote, doj can't and won't snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election. how did the president respond to that? >> he responded very quickly and said, essentially, that's not what i'm asking you to do. what i'm asking you to do is say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. since dhs had been mentioned, the president yelled out to his secretary, get ken cuccinelli on the phone. and she did in very short order. mr. cuccinelli was on the phone. he