something peter strzok was probing hillary clinton for. peter strzok using unsecure devices, where his wife found out he was the reportedly having an affair. i am elizabeth macdonald, the "evening edit" starts right now. ♪ elizabeth: welcome to the show, you are watching the fox business network. impeachment hearings have resumed after recess, 4 officials testified. vin than answered a lot of question. >> clarify, in hig my advisory capacity, i advise up the chain of command that is what i do. >> and your military culture and to attach that culture that meaning to those words to someone who never served. >> representative, i made that judgment, i stick by that judgment. >> you testified in the deposition that you did not know who the whistleblower was. or is. >> i do not know who the whistleblower is. elizabeth: e edward lawrence at white house with more. reporter: the man who filed original complain, sort of flagging the phone conversation between president trump and ukraine president in july, president president trump pushing back, callin

his february you can take an expedition to new zealand with adventurer peter hillary, the son of edmund hillary lots of good stuff coming up .?'s on your seat for mister schwab that will be brought to our moderator, write your questions early and often and make sure they are questions,try to make them as legible as you can and we will try to get to as many as we can . signed copies of his book are on sale after the program. without any further review you get a warm welcome to charles schwab and adam listen see. [applause] >> what a crowd. i'm going to hit the gavel in a moment but before i do i'm going to reiterate that i do discriminate in favor of legible questions. so you been worn on that. this is one of my favorite parts ofdoing the commonwealth club event . i can hear you. welcome to tonight's meeting of the commonwealth club. i'm adam listen see, executive editor of fortune and your moderator for tonight's program. this program is part of the commonwealth club epic and accountability series, underwritten by the travelers family foundation with additional support from the bernard

this february you can take an expedition to new zealand's with peter hillary with the redmond hillary. there are question cards for mister schwab that will be collected during the program and brought to animation ski which please write your questions early and often and make sure they are questions, we will get to as many of them as we can. signed copies of mister schwab's book are available outside the room. charles schwab and adam lotions key. [applause] >> what a crowd. i will hit the gavel in a moment but i will reiterate i had to discriminate in favor of legible questions. you have been warned on that. >> i can hear you. >> welcome to tonight's meeting of the commonwealth club. i'm the executive editor of fortune and your moderator for tonight's program. it is part of the commonwealth club's ethics and accountability series underwritten by the travers family foundation with additional support for the bernardo sure foundation for good lit programs. i'm pleased to introduce tonight's guest charles schwab, founder, former ceo and chairman of the charles schwab corporations author of

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hillary clinton was charged with? >> this is -- i'm actually slabber gaftd that peter strob thinks he should have his job back after heith the hillary clinton investigation and what he did with the donald trump investigation. this is the height of hypocrisy by peter strzok. he was in charge of some of the most sensitive investigations in the united states. both hillary's and donald trump's investigation. and the fake russia collusion story really partially was created by peter strzok. we saw the insurance policy language. if you look at some of the language. his wife finds out. that's how some of this stuff gets out. his wife finds out about his affair with lisa page, getting in his phone. he has to tell her, my wife has my phone. david: isn't he the one who deposed general kelly and didn't mention anything about general kelly about maybe having a lawyer present when talking to the fbi? >> that interview should never have happened. so i was just about to get to this. look at what happened to general kel -- to mike flynn, to mike flynn on one hadn't, and you see what's happening with comey and brennan and clapper and s

margy, this is an interesting district because peter king's district went for obama/romney, but swung big for trump plus nine over hillarynd peter king had a contested race. what do you see the decision making of king? >> obama won this district twice. so this is a district thalts are been on the map for a while as one that could be a pick up opportunity for democrats and last time around he had a strong woman candidate who had this incredible video of a mom as young kids. she talked about being a mom in hevideo and she had this very contentious debate where he got testy with her and it was the kind of race where a lot of women won. it highlighted the opportunity for progressives and democrat to make clear contrast. >> what i see in the thinking of these folks are you're go having to to raise a lot of money, run a tough race. the demographics on the ground in the trump era makes it harder to win these place and you have to defend the president all the time. like who wants it, honestly? 20 exoduses, i can understand the decision making. >> see i don't see this story what you're seeing with king and other republicans disco

. >> marie: if the insinuation is that hillary clinton and president obama were discussing peter strzokd probably put my life savings on the fact that they were not. because they had a lot of things to discuss, and that seems to me like a lot of insinuation and, quite frankly, conspiracy theory. i see no evidence to back up that there's anything in these emails beyond reaching government business. i think, to andy's point, this is senator johnson tractor for a lot of spaghetti at the wall during the impeachment hearing to try and muddy the waters. "i know you think we are bad, but maybe there's something in these emails we haven'ts: can in that point? i don't know that i would call it spaghetti, but i would agree with you. as you said, to gettion of the conversation so you can point out things and say, "but this was untoward." or whatever. and notice the difference. when you find an actual crime, you defend against that crime or try to prove that crime. but when it is potentially something that some people think might be inappropriate, behavior of a president or whatever, then he tried

hillary clinton to try to shed more light on whether the former secretary of state discusses sensitive matters through an uncure account while overseas. catherine catherine: ron johnson says fbi text messages between petertrzok and james comey suggest there are emails between hillary clinton and president obama that went through her unsecured personal server. the letter reads in part i write to request emails between hillary clinton and president obama. i requested the department of justice produce emails hillary clinton sent to president obama while she was located in the territory of a sophisticated adversary. strzok writes, jim, that appears to be an fbi agent. i had the potus-hrc emails. i hesitate to leave them. please let me know a convenient time to drop them off. the president's high security blackberry aloud it to only receive emails and contacts from a preapproved list. presidential communications are highly classified. and while we don't know the nature of their communications, this section from comey's public statement in 2016 continues to stand out. >> seven email chains concerned matters that were classified at the top secret special access program at the time they were sent and received.

peter king's district, suburban long island, went for obama and romney, swung big for trump, plus nine over hillaryhad a contested race. what do you see here as the decisionmaking of king who is old enough that it's not crazy he's retiring? >> well, obama won this district twice, too, so this is a district that has been on the match, as we say, for a while, as one that could be potentially a pickup opportunity for democrats and last time around, he has a strong candidate, woman candidate, ubia gretchen shirley who had this incredible video as a mom of young kids, he had shown her young kids and talked about being a mom in her video and had this very contentious debate where peter king got very testy with her. it was the kind of race where, you know, a lot of women in a lot of districts around the country won that race. she came up a little bit short but it just highlighted, i think, the opportunity here for progressives to -- and for democrats to really make a real clear contrast. >> you know, cornell, what i see here in the thinking of these folks are you're going to have to raise a lot of money,

let me ask you, how did peter, lisa and this fbi lawyer all biased against trump and pro-hillary getrk on the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and the russia probe? how did that happen. >> as comey wanted to control it, he did not give it to an fbi field office where he should've with watergate were all grand by field agents. we talked about that in the past. he brought people in, he did what they wanted them to do and get control and we end up with a fake investigation of hillary clinton. now we see all the other falsifications that indicate staff in general and especially in carter page especially and it's kind of disturbing because what we value is trust. that's the most important thing that wework with, fbi in our commander and executives trust and they violated that trust and i hope they are held accountable some way for that. >> former deputy attorney general rod rosenstein had already testified, i think this happened last year, correct me if i'm wrong, rod rosenstein had testified that a fisa warrant renewal that he signed off on did not match public reports about it. watc

hillary clinton to try to shed more light on whether the former secretary of state discusses sensitive matters through an uncure account while overseas. catherine catherine: ron johnson says fbi text messages between peterzok and james comey suggest there are emails between hillary clinton and president obama that went through her unsecured personal server. the letter reads in part i write to request emails between hillary clinton and president obama. i requested the department of justice produce emails hillary clinton sent to president obama while she was located in the territory of a sophisticated adversary. strzok writes, jim, that appears to be an fbi agent. i had the potus-hrc emails. i hesitate to leave them. please let me know a convenient time to drop them off. the president's high security blackberry aloud it to only receive emails and contacts from a preapproved list. presidential communications are highly classified. and while we don't know the nature of their communications, this section from comey's public statement in 2016 continues to stand out. >> seven email chains concerned matters that were classified at the top secret special access program at the time they were sent and received. th

dirt on us and our enemies overseas with real information but nothing on the hillary clinton e-mails nobody tried to stop peter struck but yet there is a delicious leak including conversations with hfour leaders on a regular basis. why is that asymmetry allowed? to make because the intelligence community and fbi were all empowered. this group of unelected but powerful officials you call it the deep state saw donald trump coming and he was a threat to the perpetuation of their power. hillary clinton would be a third term of barack obama but remember donald trump vowed to drain the swamp. they are the swamp. they didn't want to be drained. the power in washington is like crack cocaine. once you getce on it you will do anything to stop someone who will take your power away from you. that is how the russia hoax began and the witchhunt because these people saw donald trump is a a threat to themselves of what they loved with power and the end justified any means. >> you wrote two books on this whole tragedy and it doesn't seem to end. >>. >> better be taking footnotes. >> i'm not planning to write another book that

is not being covered much by media, peter schweizer in his book, he turned up e-mail sho showing how clinton foundation intervened to arrange a meeting between hillarynton and crown prince of bahrain, bahrain was a big donor to clinton foundation, and a chicago commente commodity tr, donated and got a top job on arms control panel, that is quid pro quo, he had no experience this. >> sure, you are right. and will we ever get to the bottom? will we know? unfortunately, you have democrats who go after president trump with their terms of quid pro quo, they don't see evidence or facts of that happening. but with the hillary clinton, campaign and bill clinton there is a lot of things that need to be looked at. elizabeth: we have clinton foundation coming back with a statement to us. pushing back against media reports. implying that the foundations are struggling, their tax document show their fully funded by donation, they say they are in good shape. >> what else would they say? this comes down to clintons, and would rive -- we ever know what was going on who was involved in the revolving door to get influence and power from the clinton. elizabeth: deneen

national archive, ron johnson said if your text messages between peter strzok and fbi director james comey suggest there are emails between hillarysident obama that went through her private, unsecured personal server. the letter reads in part, "i write to request email communications between former secretary of state hillary clinton and president obama. the january 2018 i requested the department president obama when she was located in the territory of a sophisticated adversary." that's code for a country like russia that has a targeted and sophisticated hacking capabilit capability. one week before comey's public statement declaring no regional prosecutor would charge clinton. strzok writes, "jim, i have the potus hrc emails director comey requested at the end of the briefing yesterday. i hesitate to leave them. please let me know a convenient time to drop them off." according to two former intelligence officials, president obama's high-security blackberry used a special process known as white listing that only allowed it to take calls and messages from preapproved contacts. the last administration has acknowledged that the two

[cheers and applause] >> peter: if anybody else wants to get on the ballot here in new hampshire, they've got until the end of this week to do it. that includes hillaryon and a former massachusetts governor who "the new york times" reports this evening is rethinking a run, jamaal patrick. brecht. >> bret: we are adding numbers, not subtracting. peter live in new hampshire. thanks. pete king, republican, says he will not seek reelection next year. the 14 term representative says in a facebook post that he is retiring because he wants flexibility to spend more time with his children and grandchildren after 28 years of spending four days a week in washington. 20 house republicans have announced they will not seek reelection so far. three other g.o.p. lawmakers have resigned. up next, new developments in the search for an american missing for 12 years in iran. will bring you that story. first, beyond our borders tonight. three car bombs the border with turkey. reports say at least 6 people were killed. also, a priest was fatally shot in the nearby area by extreme extremists. he resigned sunday after his military called on him to quit. today he tweeted th

hillary clinton won by five or less. these are seats like kevin yoder in kansas. peter roskam in illinois. those were tough losses, but republicans have held those and -- those seats and can hold them again. the top 13 seats, donald trump won by six points or more. oklahoma five, utah four, it is a narrow path but if you look at it, you need 19 seats. let's assume we don't win all 13 of the ruby red districts, we win 10. now, we need half of the remaining 18 in the top 31, which i would argue are trump districts. these are districts where, this is why the first-term democrats, you hear people like jeff van drew, say, let's pump the brakes on this impeachment thing, because he knows what is coming. if we win half of those, we are back to the majority. depending on what the environment is, we can easily win back 4, 5 or six of these. the path is there to get to 25. >> that calculus does not take into account democrat offense, especially in places like texas, where you see districts that have been trending away from republicans and possibly driving some of the retirements we have seen. i thin

our enemies overseas but have real information and nothing on the hillary clinton e-mails and nothing on trying to stop him from quote, peter stzrok and nothing leaked but chat with president trump there is a delicious leak including conversations with foreign leaders and others on a very regular basis. why is that asymmetry allowed to because for the eight years of the barack obama administration intelligence community, fbi they were all empowered. the small group of unelected but powerful officials to collect the deep state and so do others but i call it a malignant force and they saw donald trump coming and he was a threat, the perpetuation of their power. hillary clinton would've been a third term of barack obama and their power would continue but donald trump remember bowed to drain the swamp and they are the swamp, all malignant force, they did not want to be drained. power in washington is like crack cocaine. once you get on it you don't want to give it up and you will do anything to stop someone who will take your power away from you that is how the russia hoax began and that is how it began with the "witch hunt" is

hillary clinton? of then i asked the question peter strzok under oath, and eter strzok gave me an honest answer. he said, i was. well, we've seen him in most going on. that was in fact, he was on robert investigative team as well until the text between himself and lisa paige came out he had e was no choice to be removed from the mueller team. peter strzok showed up these kind of things were going on and i believe he was the one that put that am together questioned hillary clinton that brought about a result that they wanted and not necessarily an one.tive so i would ask each one of them, i want to see -- this is a attorney general, loretta lynch, and james comey and peter and others, i want to see the videotape of the interview took lary clinton that place the second of july, 2016. videotape.e is no then, i want to hear the audiotape. there is no audiotape. i want to read the transcript. there are no transcript. sorry.e not we know that, madam speaker. there is no videotape of the highest level interview that one could imagine at the time. audiotape. there is no transcript. what is their answer?

hillary clinton. one who will never go away. we should be exposing her controversies. this is. trish: peterted on this in his book "clinton cash." she was making a ton when she was secretary of state. she made $116 million when she was running for president. the donors are not lining up anymore. what does that tell you? >> it tells you there was pay-to-play action going on, and she was putting the office and the start department up for sale it's obvious now that she doesn't have the pull, she would like to. the minute she jumps back in the race she might have it again. but there are questions about uranium one. she says it went to hate ian helping people around the world. but how did you get that money and what was it doing for those who donated. trish: the conspiracy theories abound about president trump, the manchurian candidate, an agent of russia and blah, blah, blah. we invested a lot of taxpayer money investigating all that. but nobody has take and hard look at what hillary clinton and her husband were doing when you think about the amount of money in speeches and the amount of money

peter strzok, page text messages. in 2016 they were exonerating cannon and clinton and then you have those pesky things like hillary clinton-0 good i'd flashbacks to that. i don't know why, >> martha: this is totally separate from what people think or don't think about what president trump did on that phone call but there's one thing that appears to be ended indisputable. there was a very large movement of people from day one and come after inauguration, made it their business to try to figure out a way to take the president down. i don't know how you can take this and connect us to the whistle-blower and take anything other than that at this point? >> the other thing that i don't understand that's not happening in the white house is that all of these career bureaucrats that are either in the nfc or other departments of the white house, by gosh, you want to see where the leaks are coming from, it's coming from the white house is owned bureaucrats that are sitting in there. >> martha: at people who work in the white house have said that since day one that there were people who were there that were against the president and

they wouldn't even peter brock obama seriously i don't know if they would have impeach him it's a really big hypothetical but what if i don't want to go we know they got off to hillary clinton i'm being well see one of them talking about teaching hillary clinton for benghazi one of the things that the trump people in the president have alleged is that obama and his administration officials essentially asked the ukraine to find dirt on the president's campaign manager and to drop some of those bombshells in the middle of the election and that's now we don't know if that happened or not but they fell a ledge that to have happened and that he also is alleged that he was spied on by the obama administration or potentially foreign intelligence agencies i don't know if a lot of our spying he lied about the topping of phones that was a lie from the president's own justice department so there was no evidence of his why is being tapped as you know. well again i haven't investigated all of it on the military public the department of justice says there was no topping of his phones that was a lie that's why he's never repeated it since that tweet in 2017 where he made that clai

hillary clinton and president obama amid the impeachment inquiry. the senate homeland security governmental affairs committee chairman says the doj is blocking their release adding communications between former fbi special agent petermes comey's chief of staff hint at messages relating to clinton's private email server. the emails released in march when clinton was secretary of state show that she discussed creating a 100% off the record back channel to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. senate democrats blocking a defense spending bill with funds for donald trump's border wall. the bill which failed in a 51-41 vote was previously blocked in september. lawmakers after 21 days past will appropriation bills and avoid a government shutdown, so far they only past four. opposition to democrats impeachment coming from both sides of the aisle after two democrats break rank and vote against the move. >> in march of this year nancy pelosi said impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there is something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan i don't think we should go down that path. the country just witnessed the only bipartisan vote on the floor was against. heather: bipartisan vote against. doe

they wouldn't even peter brock obama seriously i don't know if they would have impeach him it's a really big hypothetical but what if i don't want to go we know they got off to hillary clinton i'm being well see one of them talking about teaching hillary clinton for benghazi one of the things that the trump people in the president have alleged is that obama and his administration officials essentially asked the ukraine to find dirt on the president's campaign manager and to drop some of those bombshells in the middle of the election and that's now we don't know if that happened or not but they feel ledge that to have happened and that he also is alleged that he was spied on by the obama administration or potentially foreign intelligence agencies i don't know of a lot of our spying he lied about the tapping of phones that was a lie from the president's own justice department so there was no evidence of his why is being tapped as you know well again i haven't investigated all of it on the military public record all the department of justice says there was no topping of his phones that was a lie that's why he's never repeated it since that tweet in 2017 where he made t

wouldn't even peter brock obama seriously i don't know if they would have impeached and it's ok i'm a really big hypothetical but what if i but one of those we know they got off to hillary clinton on being wealthy one of they talking about teaching hillary clinton for benghazi one of the things that the trump people in the president have alleged is that obama and his administration officials essentially asked the ukraine to find dirt on the president's campaign manager and to drop some of those bombshells in the middle of the election and that's now we don't know if that happened or not but they fell a ledge that to have happened and that he also is alleged that he was spied on by the obama administration or potentially foreign intelligence agencies i don't know if i lied about a spy he lied about the topping of phones that was a lie from the president's own justice department so there was no evidence of his why is being tapped as you know. well again i haven't investigated all of it i'm a little public the department of justice says there was no topping of his phones that was a lie that's why he's never repeated it since that tweet in 2017 where he made that claim well

they wouldn't even peter brock obama seriously i don't know if they would have impeached in itself a really big hypothetical but what if what i want to get we know they got off to hillary clinton on being well it's one of they talked about teaching hillary clinton for benghazi one of the things that the trump people and the president have alleged is that obama and his administration officials essentially asked the ukraine to find dirt on the president's campaign manager and to drop some of those bombshells in the middle of the election and that's now we don't know if that happened or not but they feel ledge that to have happened and that he'll sue is allege that he was spied on by the obama administration or potentially foreign intelligence agencies i don't know if i lied about a spy he lied about the topping of phones that was a lie from the president's own justice department so there was no evidence of his why is being tapped as you know. well again i haven't investigated all of it i'm a little public the department of justice says there was no topping of his phones that was a lie that's why he's never repeated it since that tweet in 2017 where he made that claim wel

of strategic communications for hillary clinton's presidential campaign, msnbc contributor adrienne elrod. chief white house correspondent for "the new york times" peterus. and usa today opinion columnist and former senior adviser for the house oversight and government reform committee, kurt bar della. good to have all of you on board this hour. >> a lot going on today. of course we framed the day with the house moving forward officially, joe, with impeachment yesterday. >> yep, no doubt about it. it was a very big day yesterday and why don't we -- alex, do we have any -- any sound from that? let's go to that. and it was very monumental day and here's speaker pelosi talking about it. >> we must honor the constitution and how we do this. we must respect the institution we serve. so hopefully as we go forward with this for the clarity of purpose, the clarity of procedure, a clarity of fact, a clarity of truth. it's about the truth, it's about the constitution. >> trying to put a ribbon on a sham process doesn't make it any less of a sham. >> democrats are trying to impeach the president because they are scared they cannot defeat him ballot box. >> this

hillary clinton in 2016 now say they approve the president. brian: something else interesting came up in "new york times." it looks like peter king's retiring.s well. steve: you would think so, we'll see. meanwhile let's talk about 2020. one person who seems to be concerned about the field is this guy named president barack obama. a lot of people go to visit president obama. in fact every candidate and there are 17, not counting the ones that dropped out visited president obama, all except tulsi gabbard and andrew yang. they go and visit. they talk. he wants to know their mission, what they are going to do. he gives them advice what the trail will entail. i was shocked to two things that came out of that conversation in "politico" magazine. steve: the article by ryan lizza, titled, waiting for obama. these are things that are getting all the attention. president obama pointed out that during his own 2018 campaign in iowa he had an intimate bond with the electorate. that he no longer had. then he added as he is talking to the candidate, you know who really doesn't have it? >> biden. that is extraordinary. brian: unbelievable. >> ryan continue

peter strzok regarding something about the chief of staff james rybicki. and it goes like this. jim, rybicki the chief of staff in doj. i have the potus, hillaryed at the end of the briefing yesterday. i hesitate to leave them. please let me know a convenient time to drop them off. in other words, the department of justice has got the emails because he just said i got them right here. but, the national archives is now being asked for them because the department of justice said to ron johnson who requested these earlier, they said, you know what? there are other departments involved so we can't give them to you going this way. which is ironic on the statement day that they voted for the house impeachment, now the senate is striking back. ainsley: do you think he will get them? steve: no. brian: i guess we will see. 9 minutes after the hour. i guess we should go to tom fitton. tom fitton seems to get everything that he eventually requests. let's talk about the president of the united states. it looks like when he gets out in one year or five years, he is not coming back to new york city. ainsley: bye-bye big apple. brian: he sees the way he is b