peter struck. what's the significant of peter struck being the person who conducted the interview with mike flynn as you report in your story today? >> well, one interesting thing about it is you have these two figures who played a role in this particular day one year ago. you have andrew mccabe and peter struck. and fast forward a year later and they are both individuals who are under attack from the president and from republicans in congress to some extent, particularly peter struck. so, you know, you could see how that would fuel the perception that this is somehow an investigation that is politically motivated or unfair. and so the fact that the -- those two individuals were there from the start and this significant moment, and are now in the crosshairs currently a year later, we don't know how potentially significant that is in terms of the investigation. but in terms of the political perception and the way the president has tried to cast this investigation, it could be rather significant. >>

we learned peter struck and lisa page had all the -- >> peter struck already had a fisa warrant out forim. carter page was easy to get ahold of. he already had one. he is somebody that traveled to russia. he did so again. so that's kind of -- >> we learned about bruce moore, top official at the justice department's wife was working for fusion. brought on to fusion's team for the russian project, for the dossier project. we learned that in the last several weeks. peter struck, the deputy head of counter intelligent at the fbi -- >> i know you want to dwell on the dossier. i know you want to dwell on the dossier. the fact of the matter is there are two people in the senate who are heading up the intel investigation into this, intel committee investigation, one of them is a republican who both say that parts of the dossier have been subinstant ystantiate officials. that's a fact from them. that's not a fact from me. that is a fact from them. but your guess -- that's the thing. you say your guess. you have no idea. because you're not in on that committee. congressman, don't you want to know

peter struck.st batch of text messages he talks about the insurance policy in case the american people make donald trump president. this latest batch, he talks about unfinished business. he unleashed it during the midyear exam, which was the code name they had for the clinton investigation. now he says i need to finish it and fix it. four minutes after that text message, he sends another message to lisa paige where he says an investigation that leads to impeachment. if that doesn't go to their entire motive, their entire plan, what they had in store and the animus they had for president trump, i don't know what does. peter struck was the key guy in the clinton investigation. interviewed mills, interviewed aberdeen, interviewed clinton. he was the guy who changed the exoneration. liz: that's jim jordan. he's saying the fbi official peter struck who was involved in both the hillary clinton e-mail probe and special counsel robert mueller's russia probe, he has since been demoted from that. and he is t

kays after robert mueller took over the russia investigation in may, new text messages between peter struck and lisa paige discussed the merits of joining mueller's team. struck writes, if i thought it was likely, i'd be there no question. i hesitate in part because of concern there's no big there. on fox republican lawmaker said the texts are more evidence of political bias. >> i care a lot about the department of justice and the fbi and it breaks my heart that we're having to have this conversation about two agents that only wanted to get the president. they didn't have any interest in clearing him. >> another republican who read the text said the fbi officials talk about a quote secret society within days of president trump's victory. >> there was a society of at least two people to include peter struck and lisa paige that had a desire to keep donald trump from becoming president and then an expressed intent to work against him after he was elected president. >> in a cryptic text struck writes, i personally have a sense of unfinished business, unleashed with mye, the fbi's code name for

and among the people questioning mike flynn was peter struck. who is peter struck? peter struck is the fbi official who was involved in a romantic relationship with another fbi official, which has come under scrutiny because of their disclosed text messages. and one of those, mike memalee text messages, the republicans are seizing upon which have been turned over to investigators so presumably others know this has well. on november 9, the morning they now realize that donald trump has been elected. and they had been involved with each either but also involved, frankly, with comey investigation as well. this is november 9 election morning after. the text message from one to the other. are you even going to give out your calendars? seems kind of depressing. maybe it should just be the first meeting of the secret society. now we will just get to this, everyone take a deep breath. we have breaking news. at the larry nassar trial involving the defendant. he is now speaking about all of the sentencing hearing about what is going on with all of these defendants. >> pales i

the election cycle this is the real scandal here because if you look all at all of these things peter struck at his girlfriend and all these things with andy's office and all that there's nothing about russia they're absolutely zip go ahead james. that's have sure a little really right what we're really talking about i think the key word here is conspiracy there was a conspiracy with and organs of the of the federal government particularly the f.b.i. i understand there's some reference to the cia in this memo as well we'll have to see if it's in there or not but i think if you look at the hysteria with which the democrats have been opposing release of this memo and also the distraction that the media has been pursuing to take away the attention of this memo if you go to the three networks or m s n b c or or c.n.n. they don't lead with talk about this memo they talk about trump once thought about firing muller it's the saturnine massacre all over again it's attempt to deflect deflect from the real news which is this thing which i expect in short order we will see what's what and i think i do

loss from hillary clinton and to cover up the loss we know that there was an insurance policy so peter struck in the text messages stated well i spoke to andrew mccabe and now mccabe is out. and we can't we can't. question whether or not we have to have an insurance policy if in the event that trump wins then you have speedo struck ok all right. ha you got a lot of material right there let me go to james here i mean ha's got it down cold here the facts here but james i mean the fact of the matter is that we're going to actually see what's behind the curtain here how the obama justice department and f.b.i. operated as they went through the election cycle this is the real scandal here because if you look at all of these things peter struck at his girlfriend and all these things with andy's office and all that there's nothing about russia they're absolutely zip but go ahead james. that's have sure a little really right what we're really talking about i think the key word here is conspiracy there was a conspiracy with and organs of the of the federal government particularly the f.b.i. i understan

i can tell them right you, yes they did >>> new texas messages between anti-trump fbi agent peter struck and attorney involved wi, suggests they were leaking stories to media outlets. how many and how important, we take up here tonight. >>> and the top democrat on the judiciary committee, senator dianne feinstein is under fire tonight. she single handedly unilaterally released the transcript of the classified closed door interview with smear merchant gps cofounder glen simpson. neither chuck grassley nor his committee staff has any idea what to do about it. they don't like it but they don't know obviously what to do about it. we take that up with christophes ferral tonight. >>> president trump risking his base to pursue amnesty with democrats, not one of which has ever voted piece of legislation, all of whom support his detractors and his tormenters or mock the president and his agenda. president trump today held a bipartisan, bicameral meeting in the white house to discuss immigration reform and broaden the white house press corps to video the historic openness of this white house. one

agents peter struck was one of them who were expressing points of view about donald .

agents peter struck was one of them who were expressing points of view about donald trump during the campaign you know it obviously i think the right action was taken to remove those people the challenge is it lends credence to this narrative that there was this systemic bias against donald trump now whether you believe that or not there are some who can make that argument and this kind of gives them fodder for the fire at the end of the day i don't think it's particularly productive for republicans to be assaulting the credibility of the f.b.i. the f.b.i. is the finest law enforcement the finest law enforcement agencies in the entire world i don't think that gets them particularly far but i do think that there will be an increasing chorus of people who will express their concerns whether it's about the f.b.i. or about the mall or investigation generally and to the extent that these kinds of things are in the water it makes things that much more complicated and that much harder for robert muller eight to draw his investigation to a close but b. to draw to a close in a way that all si

peter struck was removed from the special counsel investigation led by robert mull they are summer after justice department's inspector general turned up text messages that show struck and page were communicating with each other on a personal level expressing strong political opinions during the campaign. their texts back and forth were at times very strongly anti bernie sanders, anti hillary clinton, anti eric holder, anti ted cruz and yes, anti donald trump. after the wall street journal published this interview tonight where mr. trump made the treason claim, mr. struck's lawyer responded it is beyond reckless for the president of the iunite states to accuse pete struck to defend thing country of treason. it should surprise nobody the president has the facts and the law wrong. a lawyer for ms. page also released a statement tonight, quote, the president attacked a 38-year-old lying attorney who spent her entire career at the department of justice defending the constitution and upholding the rule of law. the accusation of treason is as shocking as it is baseless. if you are tracking dir

i respect him, i think he's going to do a good job, but if he's picking guys like peter struck and lisa page to be on his team and they're only interested in being on the team if they can get the president, they have no interest in clearing him, that he had some hiring failures of epic portions. >> sandra: and one message made in 2014, the fbi agent debates whether he should join special counsel robert miller's russia probe saying "you and i both know the odds are nothing. if i thought it was likely, i'd be there no question. or hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern that there is no big big bear there. some believe he is talking about evidence of collusion of course. and to trey gowdy's point, who knows what else is in those text messages that can be found? >> josh: i was always taught that everything you do on the internet is automatically preserved forever where everyone can see it. but there is an exception in the role when it comes to high-ranking liberal officials because in this case and if you think back to hillary clinton email case an irs investigation all of the

there was question about mular's conflict, not to mention everything else we've learned about peter struck and lisa page and memos and misuse of fisa and everything else. so, i think -- >> wait, his argument is that my attorney put me up to it here? >> i think so. i think -- this is what i understand as very possible that he said you should consider it. mcgahn said it is a horrible idea. if you do it, i would resign. >> the president himself or those that speak for him said, no, i never considered firing mueller. it was because he was told by his attorney to do so. >> i do not know if he did or did not but i would say on the outside, it would be very reasonable for them to have this discussion. and how far he took it. he could say we had the discussion, but i never considered it. i bounced it off mcgahn and i asked him to talk to rosenstein about it. i think all of that is a reasonable conversation for somebody who has a prosecutor who has very obvious conflicts of interest. i think we could all agree that if you look at the team he put together, it was a partisan, anti-trump team. they ga

staffers linked to the trumping russia pro perhaps gone missing one of the agencies peter struck he oversaw the investigation into alleged russian interference now he was also part of robert muller's team that was looking into suppose the pollution between trump and the problem prior to that the plane did e-mail investigation which went nowhere and then there's lisa page a lawyer for the department of justice who also worked for robert muller the couple came into prominence back in december when their private text conversations were released to congress god hillary should win.

staffers linked to the trump of russia propane have gone missing one of the agency's peter struck he oversaw the investigation into alleged russian interference now he was also part of robert muller's team that was looking into suppose the collusion between trump and the problem prior to that the clinton e-mail investigation which went nowhere and then there's lisa page a lawyer for the department of justice who also worked for robert muller the couple came into prominence back in december when their private text conversations were released to congress god hillary should win. i know. and maybe your man just the way you are because your man to protect the country from that man asked. thanks it's absolutely true that we're very very fortunate and of course i'll try and approach it that way. these text messages prove that both struck and page were biased in favor of hillary and the messages even hint at some nefarious political activity so when they wanted to dig deeper it turned out the rest of the converse.

staffers linked to the trump of russia propane have gone missing one of the agents is peter struck he oversaw the investigation into alleged russian interference now he was also part of robert muller's team that was looking into suppose the pollution between trump and the problem prior to that the clinton e-mail investigation which went nowhere and then there's lisa paige a lawyer for the department of justice who also worked for robert muller the couple came into prominence back in december when their private text conversations were released to congress girls hillary should win. i know. and maybe your mom just the way you are because your mom to protect the country from that man. trying it's absolutely true that we're very very fortunate and of course i'll try and approach it that way. these text messages proved that both struck and page were biased in favor of hillary and the messages even hint at some nefarious political activity so when they wanted to dig deeper it turned out the rest of their conversation had disappeared the f.b.i. described the dates last misconfiguration issues

letter republican senator ron johnson asked fbi to explain why it didn't retain messages between peter strucka page. >>> the portland press herald reports is that criticism continues to grow. the manager is under fire for making white separatist and other comments. he doesn't believe it interferes with his work as town manager. >>> "the salt lake tribune" reports ruth bader ginsburg talked about her own issues. she talked about her life. she discussed a sexual harassment incident involving a professor when she was a student at cornell university. she said she told him, "how dare you," and that was the end of that. >>> for the first time it featured a female-only lineup of award presenters. the move is meant to continue the conversation about sexual harassment. the big winner of last night -- >> and the actor goes to francis mcdorman. >> mcdorman was named the best actress in her role as a mother seeking justice for her daughter. >>> and the film "three billboards outside missouri". and sterling kay brown for this straight year in a row went to claire foy for "the crown" and best drama series

staffers linked to the trump and russia probe have gone missing one of the agency's peter struck he oversaw the investigation into alleged russian interference now he was also part of robert muller's team that was looking into suppose the pollution between trump and the problem prior to that the clinton e-mail investigation which went nowhere and then there's lisa page a lawyer for the department of justice who also worked for robert muller the couple payment to prominence back in december when their private text conversations were leased to congress girls hillary should win. i know. and maybe your man just the way you are because you're a man to protect the country from that manifest. thanks it's absolutely true that we're very very fortunate and of course i'll try and approach it that way these text messages prove that both struck and page were biased in favor of hillary and the messages even hint at some nefarious political activity so when they wanted to dig deeper it turned out the rest of their conversation had disappeared the f.b.i. ascribed the dates lost to misconfiguration issues

peter struck will be his teacher you can see exactly exactly i said all that big yesterday would make a great. you know but this is very serious right here because it shows i mean i've said this on this program before you know people have a right to their opinion and you can say whatever you want about the president but if it's connected up with your job in stonewalling or creating an artificial. trap appears to be rattling you know there's a lot of other text messages we need to rebut that it certainly is suggestive you know russia is really not the bar thrush russia gate is about american security serious is the american intelligence community. and constitutionally. in syria itself into the american politics. is is it. about the american media that instead of doing its job he's doing the bidding of the cia though the f.b.i. and other agencies does not come to the state they're going to talk about an elected officials special connected with special interests with me you can really feel that is what rush again is about this i think we all agree on that and not only you know the media

i think we need to talk to peter struck.o talk to bruce ore, i think we need to talk to his wife. there's a whole host of folks that we're going to systematically work through to get the answers to these fundamental questions. stuart: last year, it was all about russia, russia, russia. the attempt to show that president trump, candidate trump colluded with the russians to influence the election. >> yes. stuart: i sense a complete switch. i sense this year -- actually starting a couple of months ago, the onus is now on hillary clinton, her aids on comey, on mccabe, on struck. it's all about her and the intervention within the justice department and the fbi to skew the election. i mean, the onus is completely changed, it seems to me. >> it certainly has based on things we have learned the last couple of months. namely the dnc and the clinton campaign paid fusion -- paid the law firm who paid fusion who paid russians to do what? influence the election. to date, no coordination has been shown at all between the trump campaign an

staffers linked to the trump of russia propane have gone missing one of the agency's peter struck he oversaw the investigation into alleged russian interference now he was also part of robert muller's team that was looking into suppose the pollution between trump and the problem prior to that the clinton e-mail investigation which went nowhere and then there's lisa paige a lawyer for the department of justice who also worked for robert muller the couple came into prominence back in december when their private text conversations were released to congress girls hillary should win. i know. and maybe your man just the way you are because your man to protect the country from that manifest. thanks it's absolutely true that we're very very fortunate and of course i'll try and approach it that way these text messages proved that both struck and page were biased in favor of hillary and the messages even hint at some nefarious political activity so when they wanted to dig deeper it turned out the rest of their conversation had disappeared the f.b.i. described the dates last misconfiguration is

the fbi gave congress a new batch of text messages from peter struck. senator ron johnson says there's a five-month gap in the messages. after complaining to the fbi director, he was told that the agency's system failed to preserve those text messages. >>> new details about the attack on a luxury hotel. in afghanistan. the taliban claimed responsibility for six gunmen. who were dressed in suits and wielding ak-47s. they opened fire on the dining room of the intercontinental hotel in kabul. and then went floor to floor looking for foreigners. terrified guests could be seen trying to escape from their balconies. tying bed sheets together. at least 18 people were killed in the end. most of them foreigners. afghan s.w.a.t. teams eventually killed the attackers. >>> meanwhile, with tensions rising in the korean peninsula, japan has held itself first anti-missile drill in downtown tokyo. coming barely a week after the missile alert scare in hawaii. hundreds of people in tokyo practiced how to swiftly evacuate both indoor and outdoor spaces, including an amuse

being considered for professors position teaching ethics the university peter struck will be his teacher you can see exactly exactly i said all that for the big three yes that i would make a great thing kill others you know which is very serious right here because it shows i've said this on this program before people have a right to their opinion and you can say whatever you want about the president the united states but if it's connected up with your job in stonewalling or creating an artificial. trap appears to be rattling you know there's a lot of other text messages we need to rebut i mean it certainly is suggestive you know russia is really not that russia gate is about i mean you can security serious is the american intelligence community. constitutionally getting in syria itself into the american politics russia is it is about american media that instead of doing its job he's doing the bidding of the cia or the f.b.i. and other agencies does not total state they're going to talk about an elected officials who special connected with special interests within me can really be all tha

staffers linked to the trump of russia propane have gone missing one of the agency's peter struck he oversaw the investigation into alleged russian interference now he was also part of robert muller's team that was looking into suppose the pollution between trump and the problem prior to that the clinton e-mail investigation which went nowhere and then there's lisa page a lawyer for the department of justice who also worked for robert muller the couple payment to prominence back in december when their private text conversations were released to congress girls hillary should win. i know. and maybe your man just the way you are because you're a man to protect the country from that manifest. thanks it's absolutely true that we're very very fortunate and of course i'll try and approach it that way these text messages proved that both struck and page were biased in favor of hillary and the messages even hint at some nefarious political activity so when they wanted to dig deeper it turned out the rest of their conversation had disappeared the f.b.i. described the dates last misconfiguratio

russia propane have gone missing one of the agencies peter struck he oversaw the investigation into alleged russian interference now he was also part of robert muller steam that was looking into suppose the pollution between trump and the problem prior to that the clinton e-mail investigation which went nowhere and then there's lisa page a lawyer for the department of justice who also worked for robert muller the couple came into prominence back in december when their private text conversations were released to congress girls hillary should win. i know. and maybe your man just the way you are because your man to protect the country from that manifest. thanks it's absolutely true that with her it's very fortunate and of course i'll try and approach it that way. these text messages prove that both struck and page were biased in favor of hillary and the messages even hint at some nefarious political activity so when they wanted to dig deeper it turned out the rest of their conversation had disappeared the f.b.i. ascribed the data loss to misconfiguration issues related to rollouts provisioning

witnesses they want in whatever sequence they want if we would just be able to interview lisa page, peter struck, jim baker, and why was jim baker reassigned two weeks ago? i want to bring them on the witness stand and answer questions in front of the american people? >> laura: it seems like the threat of contempt of congress as it started to get some balls rolling. thanks so much for joining us. up next, the president may keep his biggest campaign promise of all. hollywood is a problem, how to celebrate what is its worst year ever at the golden globes, i can hardly wait. michelle malkin weighs in on i tried hard to quit smoking. but when we brought our daughter home, that was it. now i have nicoderm cq. the nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release technology helps prevent your urge to smoke all day. it's the best thing that ever happened to me. every great why needs a great how. >> laura: we've been imploring president trump all week to stick to his guns and make sure that he gets that border wall built, all of it as part of any wolff deal. now he's asking congress for $18 billion for new

at issue, five months of messages between agent peter struck and attorney lisa page. have been under scrutiny for exchanging anti-trump messages during the 2016 election. at the time, struck was working on the investigation of hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server. attorney general sessions says he will leave no stone uncertained. >>> three -- unturned. >>> three top board members of usa gymnastics resigned, and the former coach of the u.s. olympic team has been suspended. a number of former olympians testifying at the sentencing hearing of dr. larry nassar called for their resignations. so far more than 120 women and girls have given often dramatic and disturbing statements. dr. john lapook reports. >>> i'm possibly the last child he will ever assault. >> reporter: 15-year-old emma ann miller was the last to read her statement. she saw nassar monthly for five years. >> he used sports medicine, charged me for appointments. my mom is still getting billed for appointments where i was sexually assaulted. >> reporter: a michigan state spokesperson said patients

you know where it's very troubling is that peter struck you know he's kind of the premier character in all of this right now i mean the hillary emails and then we have the flynn interrogation eccentrics letter he still has his job why why why isn't he on leave why isn't he gone in front of a. place legal you know complicated implications of what he's done i mean there is none of it at all but we don't even hear from him go ahead. well this goes back to the the whole problem with the f.b.i. in the poorest place remember when it was first formed the first thing it did is started spying on anti-war people in the early part of the twentieth century and putting them to jail f.b.i. agents do what if the rest of us did it we would be sent to jail and that's the core problem and blundering and losing losing evidence is nothing new a look at the collection bundy case in in the western part of the united states they absolutely obstructed justice they got rid of evidence to exonerate them and they were found to doing the same thing happened if you remember a few years ago in ruby ridge in waco un

what peter struck did is remove gross negligence five times the references which directly relates to the espionage act and that statute you don't even need gross negligence because she paid by parking on a five thousand dollars the issue that i don't use any of them all or well but what you're doing and i'm going to cut you i'm not overwhelmed that you went down this ad. but it actually proves the point here james brings up this point we have these two narratives out there and depending on how you see politics is what you're going to stress i agree because hillary clinton was given a free pass over and over and over again donald trump like a murder don't like him there is no evidence that he committed a crime not yet after all this time ok though the other side and so you have c n n n n b c do not want to talk about the crimes of hillary clinton and her mafia gang because that's essentially what they are ok and all they can do is focus on me going to james they're all they can do is focus on the what they believe what they hope what they pray for our sins of donald trump but in all t

agents peter struck was one of them who were expressing points of view about donald trump during the campaign you know it obviously i think the right action was taken to remove those people the challenge is it lends credence to this narrative that there was this systemic bias against donald trump now whether you believe that or not there are some who can make that argument and this kind of gives them fodder for the fire at the end of the day i don't think it's particularly productive for republicans to be assaulting the credibility of the f.b.i. the f.b.i. is the finest law enforcement the finest law enforcement agencies in the entire world i don't think that gets them particularly far but i do think that there will be an increasing chorus of people who will express their concerns whether it's about the f.b.i. or about the muller investigation generally and to the extent that these kinds of things are in the water it makes things that much more complicated and that much harder for robert muller a to draw his investigation to a close but b. to draw to a close in a way that all sides a

you know where it's very troubling is that peter struck you know he's kind of the premier character in all of this right now i mean the hillary emails and then we have the flynn interrogation eccentrics letter he still has his job why why why isn't he on leave why isn't he gone in front of a. place legal you know complicated implications of what he's done i mean there is none of it at all but we don't even hear from him go ahead. well this goes back to the the whole problem with the f.b.i. in the poorest place remember when it was first formed the first thing it did is started spying on anti-war people in the early part of the twentieth century and putting them to jail f.b.i. agents do what if the rest of us did it we would be sent to jail and that's the core problem and blundering and losing losing evidence is nothing new a look at the cliff and bundy case in in the western part of the united states they absolutely obstructed justice they got rid of evidence to exonerate them and they were found to doing the same thing happened if you remember a few years ago in ruby ridge in waco und