agent peter strozk's role in the mueller investigation. group judicial watch obtaining e-mails showing strozk insisted keeping his security clearance and other powers as an f.b.i. official when he moved over to mueller's team. the request was approved. now judicial watch president tom fitton says strozk's powers allowed mueller special access to target president trump. watch this. >> it sure did. strozk wouldn't have asked for it if he didn't think it would be useful in the new job. he wanted the authority to issue national security letters which are secret request for information that fall short of needing court approval. he also wanted and he said this was essential, which was unusual. he wanted the ability to declassify information. >> dagen: strozk was pulled from the probe with text messages with the f.b.i. lawyer and his girlfriend at the time lisa page came to light. greg, this is starting to make more and more sense of what was he up to and why did he position himself on the mueller team? >> this drives me crazy. everything he does

agent peter strozk. strozk insists that he retain his f.b.i.fore moving to special counsel robert mueller's team. strozk is assured he will remain free to act just as he did while a deputy assistant director of the counterintelligence division. the senate intel committee offering no new, well, results after a hearing on foreign influence operations and use of the social media. chairman richard burr and vice chairman mark warner issued this statement saying --" "today we learned that foreign campaigns to sow discord and disinformation through social media began well before the 2016 elections. and continue to this day." "new york times" publisher arthur a.g. salsberger complaining to president trump about the potential for violence against journalists. i appears his pape -- it appears his paper and the rest of the national left wing media are not interested in actual violence like you are seeing here against supporters of president trump. the hypothetical and the real. not under suggestion by salsberger. last week a u.s. marine was assaulted in h

agent peter strozk was pressed on ohr whose fort folio did not include russia. >> the f.b.i. received documents and the material from mr. ohr. >> the ohr document shed more light on steele's activity before the presidential election. steele shot the dossier to multiple media outlets he asked ohr for help with the russian oligarch after rumors that the u.s. might impose sanctions. when the f.b.i. director james comey was fired by president trump, ohr wrote that steele was, "very concerned about comey's firing. afraid they will be exposed." today the justice department declined to comment. ohr has a chance to tell his side of the story on august 28 when a closed door interview is scheduled scheduled with thee oversight and judiciary committees. as part of the joint investigation in the f.b.i. and the d.o.j. conduct in the presidential election. lou? >> lou: thank you very much. catherine herridge. joining us tonight, chris farrell, director of investigations and research for judicial watch. it's great to have you with us. how deeply do you believe ohr to be connected to christo

next up, look at peter strozk. he was also fired for improper conduct. the extreme bias and willing ness to act on that alone means he should haven't clearance. his mistress lisa page is also complicit with resulting to strozk's bias and his attempts to "stop it." meaning to stop trump becoming president. the insurance policy. then there is andrew mccabe. he was fired for lying. he was also involved signing off on the fake fisa application. that willfully misled fisa court judges. by the way, and the american people. we got sally yates also fired for insubordination. she signed off on one of the fisa applications. susan rice lied all over the place over and over about benghazi when they knew better. matter of national security. really? knowingly, lying? get rid of her clearance. michael hayden. gregg jarrett calls the case questionable. but hayden is employed by cnn as a talking head. finally we end on bruce ohr. he was once the fourth highest ranking member of the d.o.j. before being demoted twice. why? for failing to disclose his wife's employment at f

names on the list include james comey, andrew mccabe, sally yates and peter strozk. as rachel maddow points out last night, cutting off their access to classified information could have a direct impact. >> what if the practical effect of taking away security clearance of a formal official who was involved in the russian investigation is that you interfere with that former official accessing his or her own notes or files. what does that do to the ability to prepare for testimony and testify. we have good reason after all to think that a bunch of these people might have important things to say. he is not after his critics, he is after the witnesses. >> he is after the witnesses says rachel. she will be sitting down for a live interview with john brennan tonight. get the whole investigation shut down. he is taking aim at robert mueller himself. >> mr. mueller has a lot of conflict. he is highly conflict. in fact comey is like his best friend. i could go into conflict after conflict. but sadly mr. mueller is conflicted. but let him write his report. we did nothing. there

. >> melissa: as they out all stuff that has gone on over time i hear back to peter strozk's own statement this kind of a thing going on in their campaign would want to know. my response at that time and he was being questioned by a democrat in front of congress, they didn't ask the obvious question, why didn't you tell him? this is all going on. why did no one go in and say to the campaign do you know that this is who these people are that you are doing business with? i guess they were hoping against hope that there was some connection there, they haven't shown. i mean he said any candidate would want to know. so tell them. >> harris: that is what i said. >> melissa: why didn't they tell hem? >> harris: it would be in the role of the f.b.i. standing up and do this. >> the f.b.i. failed hillary clinton and donald trump's campaign in a number of ways. we discussed that a number of times. if you are running a legitimate campaign and we got this before and we were joking you can google manafortman and you will find out everything you need to know and why you shouldn't hire him. >> melissa: no

not even peter strozk thought he lied. ask george papadopoulos. bet he regrets volunteering for the trump campaign. ask the white house counsel don mcgahn. the white house counsel interrogated for 30 full hours. trump thinks, the lawyers thought we will cooperate and turn over 1.4 million documents and cooperate with mueller. it will go away. we didn't do anything wrong. and the most expulptory evidence in comey's notes. i didn't conspire but if anyone on the team did you have to hold them accountable. those were in comey's notes. now mueller's witch hunt is not and has never been about russia collusion. how did we get to taxi cabs? and tax fraud. and bank fraud. and lies to the f.b.i.? this is what we have been telling you for a long time. we have the evidence. it's an attempt at a political takedown of the man that the deep state never wanted to be the president of the united states. i will tell you tonight that the sovereignty of your vote is now in question. before we get to our guests we have another important topic to cover. for weeks foxnew

expressing the frustration he has with the level of corruptioion that we he comey,om people like jim peter strozk, andrew mccabe. amy: presents comes call for the end of the mueller probe came on the second day of his former campaign manager's trial and now attend rick, virginia. paul manafort faces 18 charges including money laundering. prosecutors said manafort hid much of the 60 main dollars he earned from lobbying as an unregistered foreign agent on behalf of per russia ukrainian officials by stashing it in undisclosed overseas accounts. witnesses is from manafort as spending lavishly from the accounts on cars, luxury goods, home renovations, even a $15,000 ostrich skin leather jacket. president trump weighed in on the trial in a two suggesting manafort is being treated worse in gel then mention aureus -- than the notorious mobster al capone. amy: in south texas, the american immigration says you should says a migrant toddler who was separated from her family as part of president trump's zero-tolerance border policy died shortly after being released from the dilley family detention center. ho

expressing the frustration he has with the level of corruption we have seen from james comey, peter strozk, andrew mccabe. >> harris: the chief white house correspondent john roberts are more. you are there. we are getting ready for this. >> john: we are not sure when sarah huckabee sanders will show up. probably in the next half hour or so. we haven't got word of a delay. but here is where we are in terms of the mueller probe and whether or not the president might sit down and do an interview with robert mueller. sources tell fox news that the president's legal team may respond monday to the letter earlier this week from robert mueller outlining what he believes are the parameters for an interview with the president. the president's legal team want to limit questioning to russia, election and whether or not there was collusion between the trump campaign and the russian officials to throw the election in 2016. they did not want mueller asking any questions about potential obstruction of justice. in his response, mueller indicated yes, in fact he did want to ask some of the questions. muell