of peter strzok's wife. some people think when i asked peter strzok in our judiciary hearing about him having that same smirk hundreds of times he lied to his wife. the rules in our committees are extremely relaxed compared to rules in a jury trial, of which i have had many as a litigant and as a judge. i know the rules. and i heard him in his deposition talk about how he never lies. he just always tells the truth. and i knew he was lying when he said basically he remembered the investigator for the intelligence inspector general coming over and advising -- he remembers coming over and advising him about something but he doesn't remember what it was about. i will tell you he was lying. when frank rucker went public, it was china and the intelligence inspector general knew china was getting every email going in and out of hillary clinton's private server. and since strzok and others had apparently protected information about what happened with her the , here comes intelligence inspector general's investigator

besides mccabe, james comey, peter strzok. who were the other people? now we know the attorney general has questions to answer. now we know biden was in these meetings. obama was. and we know that a high-ranking official that was writing hillary was actually obama. does it go to him? does it go to biden? does it go to rice , klapper and brennan? >> we don't know. we certainly know jim comey, i think clapper are aunt on this in some way. so you have to look at those people, but it may be others. i just don't know. >> what about lynch? >> certainly she is the head of the entire justice department, she is the one after all who told them to call the investigation. i think it is interesting, sean she said to call it a "matter." but he wouldn't tell the truth.l when thebu president said tell e american people i'm not under investigation after he had told him three different times, and he wouldn't say that, so he is willing to mislead them on the clinton matter, and not on the trump-russia investigation.ha we will see, but i think all those people need to be e

peter strzok is the counterintelligence guy and can assess new questions or different demeanor.band as they or he can see of people to develop potential relationship. a former fbi intelligence specialist said the test appeared to be with strict rules with fbi director robert mueller. notice the domestic investigations operations guide "these test fbi employees executing strategies with sensitive investigative matter without regard for the mueller and doris that guide" the senator lindsey graham leading judiciary committee and peter strzok could be back on the hill. >> i am certain congress will absolutely have the opportunity to look at any investigation once it is closed and ask all these questions, and i would love to answer each and every one of your questions. >> catherine: the attorney general recently testified he is conducting a review of the fbi probe's origins and with their surveillance of th the trump campaign on sound intelligence. and devin nunes said "this is yet more evidence the fbi's top russian investigation was still filled with regularities. >> shannon: there

look at the text messages between lisa paige and peter strzok. president trump will never become president, right? and peter strzok replied, no, no, he's not we will stop it. your reaction? >> i think it speaks for itself. for this phony outrage by some of the people on the democratic side, i think is ignoring the facts. we heard peter strzok testify. we heard what kind of person he was. we saw a lack of integrity but i think people need to understand this has been done before and this is what the commission 1973 was supposed to put an end to. you know, we had been monitoring martin luther king and quite frankly, we had monitored other people, historically. i think that we need to recognize that this has happened before. do not act so outraged at the fact that the attorney general, a man i think of great character and courage, has now said he believes that there is a possibility that they were spying and it was not predicated correctly. elizabeth: general, you put into historical context. the attorney general testified today about how bad it was

look at these newly released transcripts, closed-door testimony, even peter strzok peter strzok and lisa page, they are admitting the doj controlled all of this, breaking the clinton probed from the beginning. they knew the fix was in. so what did loretta lynch know? when did you know it? wears her emails? wears her text messages? what about national security director susanex rice? whited unmasking requests in an election year 2016 increase almost 350% under her watch? what did rice know? when did you know it? why would the u.n. ambassador, some of the powers, request, oh, 100 unmasking's and say, i didn't really request that? shee didn't, then hooted? then we got our good friend, the man who stands above it all, james comey. why did he sign off on that first fisa warrant in october of 2016? to spy on the t trump campaign associate carter page, using him for a and paid for phony russian.ca as the bulk of evidence? that means that he is signing off that it's true and accurate to the best of his knowledge. we now know it was never verified, and we all know it's unverifiable because christo

reporter: 9 days after presidential elect, fbi allen peter strzok and lawyer lisa page exchange textse string of text referring to an e-mail and prior briefing with pence. struck and page appear to discuss strategy and staffing for an upcoming session, page writes -- a former fbi intelligence specialist said that text appears to conflict with rules made up by robert mueller. quote, these texts indicate -- fbi employees are executing strategies on sensitive matter without any regard for mueller endorsed guide. strzok may find himself back on the hill. >> i am certain congress will absolutely have the opportunity to look at any investigation once it closed ask all questions and i would love to answer each and every one of your questions,. reporter: attorney general testified he is conducting a review of fbi origins and whether surveillance of trump campaign was based on sound intelligence, nunes said, this is yet more evidence that of fbi. trump russia investigation was filled with irregularities. today in a litter to attorney -r attorney general. grassley and johnson said they should b

peter strzok response, or he's the counterintelligence guy, saying it might make sense.e can assess if there are any new questions are different demeanors. if the husband is there he can see if there are people we can develop with potential relationships. a former specialists of the text appear to conflict with strict rules made up by then fbi director robert mueller. quote, these texts indicate both fbi employees were executing investigative strategies on a sensitive investigative matter. without any regard for the mueller endorsed a guide. with the report complete and he may find himself back on the hill. >> i'm certain that congress will have the opportunity to look at any investigation once it's closed and ask all these questions, and i would love to answer each and every one of your questions. >> the attorney general recently testified he is conducting a review of the fbi probe origins and whether surveillance of the trump campaign was based on sound intelligence. devon nunez said, this is more evidence that the fbi trunk brush investigation was filled with irregula

the guy that interviewed peter strzok commission went 100 to zero. we have been classified material that was found on unsecured private server that was managed by networks. it was in a bathroom closet. she committed a real crime. and for us had a real intent to obstruct justice by destroying . hence, 33,000 deleted acid washed emails. the media on thursday will pretend to care about obstruction of justice. meanwhile, lithium will ignore the biggest slam-dunk of obstruction of justice case, that is right hillary's case. democrats, they believe all the cavanaugh the kuiper -- a kuiper -- accusers, deafening lieutenant governor, he has been accused of rate and violent sexual assault so where are all the eye believers? obstruction matters but only if it is trump, not hillary clinton. charges of rate serious sexual assault, only matters if appointed by trump but not the democratic lieutenant governor of virginia. a clear, violation of the espionage act, 18 u.s. 793, the law by hillary cleared because the investigation was rigged. why did james comey obstr

they are hiding text messages from andrew mccabe, peter strzok and lisa page. there are others that are out there. you start off talking about the presidential campaign. you have to remember that the democrat party apparatus was involved in this. the democrat national committee spent money on this effort to overthrow the president by working with russia intel. they were meeting with the fbi general counsel just shortly before the election. the lawyer for the dnc and hillary clinton. joe biden was in this infamous early january, 2017 over office meeting with barack obama and susan rice and james comey, where they all talked excitedly about the dossier just before comey was launched by obama with president trump team through the dossier. >> i think we are going to see an effort to make it seem as though joe biden was dropped in from the planet mars and was never involved in this. he has been involved a great deal. he is an experienced man and knows what's going on. all of us, mike, when we deal with things like this, people mention watergate. this is exclusively

was peter strzok basically saying to his mistress, look, we're just going to keep investigating donaldhould he win? >> boy, it surely reads that way, but the only way we're going to know that is to interview lisa page and peter strzok. maria: what bothers people out there is you have to be able to trust your fbi, cia, irs, because there is a thing called rule of law. we've learned there's a whole lot of bias and corruption going on at the top. tell us what you've learned. >> and it's important to emphasize there are tens of thousands of great men and women who solve crimes at the fbi, but they are being besmirched by several people in the leadership of the fbi that have a shocking contrast in the way they took, the approach they took to the clinton investigation and the one they've taken to the trump investigation. maria: you joined us four weeks ago on this program. at that time you said you wanted to get the electronic communication from the department of justice and the fbi, you wanted electronic communications to understand exactly how the trump investigation into collusion even be

>> well, every time we get more information out about peter strzok and lisa page it goes to what theyriginally wanted to do -- prevent donald trump from becoming president, and the use and abuse of power to try and infiltrate, if you will come of the transition team of president trump and then use it to do what we anticipated from other text messages. to try and delegitimize the president. in any of the country would call it a coup when you abuse the power of the police state to basically disenfranchise or just eliminate, if you will, the acting president. that's what was being done here. >> melissa: this was part of the letter to attorney general barnett regarding this. saying, "the nature of the medications on the precise purpose of any attempt to develop relationships with trump or penn's transition team staff are not immediately clear. where these efforts tend to gain better communication between the prospective parties, or were these used as intelligence having government operations?" this is strzok. "he's the ci guide." counterintelligence. "he can assess if there are new questi

why did comey and peter strzok start writing and exoneration and may? they didn't interview here to july. why did they take out gross negligence, the legal standard, and replace it with extreme carelessness? why did peter strzok allow two other people in the interview room when he was interviewing clinton on july 2nd, 2016? comey exonerated her on july 5th. they had written my first and may. why did bill clinton on loretta lynch talk about on the secret meeting on the tarmac in phoenix just before hillary was cleared? did lunch, the fbi, did they work in concert together to clear the clintons? that they break that investigation when it's obvious she committed multiple felonies because she was the one that should won 100 million to zero and trump supporter's roy smalley walmart voters? hillary clinton's rigged investigation, spying on the trump campaign, committing a fraud and fisa abuse, to unmasking american citizens and abusing the powerful tools of intelligence, we will now finally get the answers. i know that media won't go there. they would have to

know is at the top of the fbi, there was what i call the comey cabal purity of comey, mccabe, peter strzok and lisa paige. i think these people put this whole thing together and were out to get the president. i think we also need to look at potentially john brennan and jim klapper. how far he went to the white house i do not know. what i take comfort in is what bill barr said, he will investigate this. lou: right. >> he is concerned about the spine that took place and whether it was the proper predicate for it to begin with in the first place. i think that is the key thing to look at. how high it goes we will see when mr. barr does his investigation. frankly, i think we will learn more in six weeks when michael horowitz gives us the inspector generals report that he has been working on for the past year. lou: i think congressman, you're being somewhat modest about what you already -- you have some advantage over the rest of us and we cannot wait to see what unfolds because what has occurred is a despicable, deep, the word scandal is history and we all know it. it is the question of how soo

you look at mccabe and comey and you look at lisa and peter strzok. this was an attempted takedown of a president and we beat them. we beat them. so the mueller report, when they talk about obstruction, we fight back. you know why we fight back? because i knew how illegal this whole thing was. it was a scam. what i am most interested in -- excuse me, what i'm most interested in is getting started, hopefully the attorney general, he mentioned it yesterday, he is doing a great job. getting started on going back to the origins of exactly where this all started. because this was an illegal witch hunt and everybody knew it. they knew it, too. and they got caught. and what they did was treason. what they did was terrible. what they did was against our constitution and everything we stand for. so hopefully that will happen. there is a hunger for that to happen in this country like i have never seen before, including all of the millions of people that voted for me. what they did was disgraceful. there has never been anything like it in the history of our coun

lisa page, devoted then left, peter strzok demoted then fired. these were the key people. >> sean: will they be indicted in your view, the rule of law is followed, will they be indicted? >> two things will happen, as sara just mentioned, inspector general horwitz will bring its report forward as he attorney general late yesterday. that will tell us a lot, and bill barr's investigation will unfold as well. that will determine if they can indicted. a >> sean: do you see laws broken? i know that the criminal referrals are coming this week, probably tomorrow. >> i do, i particularly think so with andrew mccabe come i think he is uncharitable coming in peter strzok, we will have to see what mr. horwitz does and what the attorney general says. >> sean: sara, we will have the criminals were approached, do you see indictments in your crystal ball? >> according to sources that i've spoken with, yes, there will be indictments and people will be held responsible for the actions that they committed against country. >> sean: what one of them be james comey? >

said, both of them, they had no control over that investigation at all, although peter strzok himselfnterview, allowed two other people in the interview, which is unheard of, and was writing her exoneration in may before interviewing her in july. exonerating her three days later. comey did that part. do you believe that that investigation into hillary was a rigged investigation and showed it to a new? >> i don't know that because we didn't look at all that information. know howy that i don't destroying a server that should have been there in the first place was not obstruction justice. another important what you talked about -- >> sean: with classified information! >> we are waiting on transcripts. i want to remind the viewers, we still have transcripts from ourw investigation letter sitting at the dni that still have not been declassified. those need to come out also that will give a lot more transparency to everything else that is going along with the transcripts you are seeing now. the last interview i had with the president, he said he would be releasing this. patent applications,

i want to say one more thing, he said peter strzok could have killed the president by going public, het have to. john brennan went to harry reid and harry reid went public in eight or nine days before the election saying the fbi -- and made it to get out of the publi public. >> you couldn't begin to make sense out of what it was and what the full -- what the russians dead to of the trump campaign welcomed. hey wikileaks, it's great, read it. of course donald trump says that's not his deal. >> martha: john solomon thank you very much, richard goodstein, thanks. still ahead on "the story." trey gowdy's first response on the report that came out today. drivers just wont put their phones down. we need a solution. introducing... smartdogs. the first dogs trained to train humans. stopping drivers from: liking. selfie-ing. and whatever this is. available to the public... never. smartdogs are not the answer. but geico has a simple tip. turn on "do not disturb while driving" mode. brought to you by geico. i felt i couldn't be at my best wifor my family. c, in only 8 weeks with mavyret, i was cu

a t nine-month probe by the fbi, even peter strzok and paige said they had nothing. the house intel committee's exhaustive investigation, the senate investigation. given the clear, undeniable now, noour times rational collusion. the left is likely to obsess about, oh, obstruction of justice or donald trump's taxes. remember, president trump wasn't charged with's obstruction of justice, not by mueller, not by anybody. attorney general barr himself along with rod rosenstein made the decision, he said, "the evidence developed during the special counsel's investigation is not sufficient to establish the president committed an obstruction of justice offense." this is important. our determination was made without regard to end is not based on the constitutional considerations that surround the indictment and criminal diprosecution of a sitting president. in other words, president trump did not obstruct justice. his role as president had nothing to do with the doj's decision not to charge them. keep in mind, the attorney general came to that conclusion and consultation. her

>> when you look at the text messages between peter strzok and lisa page, they continue to referencehewhite house so i don't know who in the white house was driving this but i'm sure it was senior levels of our government, people who did not want to see donald trump elected president. we cannot allow outgrowing administrations to launch investigations into their political enemies because they're doing what they accused russia of doing. they'reundermining confidence in our democracy by creating this huge dust storm of suspicion against a president who did not collude with russia so now you're going to see the democrats go to 81 different investigations and probe every element of the presidents life . same witchhunt, different groups, the american people shouldn't trust them. >> i have toask is this president, is his government, his administration going to put up with the nonsense that your democratic colleagues are attempting ? very quickly, we're out of time. >> they did should not do anything to distract them from the important work they're doing, cut taxes, reduce regulations and r

peter strzok had said about the collusion there is no there there. lisa page closed door testimony actually said after the nine month fbi investigation they had no evidence of anything with you and your campaign and russia. that's before the appointment of mueller. we also had the house intel committee report. that's two. no collusion, then the senate bipartisan committee and now the mueller report is you said any news? no obstructions. no collusion. >> that's right. >> sean: what is your full reaction to the mueller report? >> well, it was, as i call them, 13 angry democrats. they were supplanted by five more, five more were added. and you got up to 18, 19, 20. they are all democrats many of them made major convictions to the hillary clinton campaign and they had one of them was one of the top people at the clinton foundation. jeanne ray. you had weissman and bad, bad people. no friends of trump. i had no friends. it was like a one-sided witch-hunt as i called it. special counsel much tougher word than that i won't use it. it was a terrible thing. h

. >> among them former fbi agent peter strzok removed from the mueller probe after his anti-trump textsere discovered. gregg: katherine, thanks. >>> the anger over the handling of jussie smollett's hate crime hoax continued to chicago today. two competing protests meeting face to face. matt finn has the latest tonig tonight. >> dem sphrairts getting in each other's faces outof cook county state's attorneys kim forks' office. foxx's office. they're protesting for a history of antipolice and demanding that she resign. jesse jackson led his group of counter protesters into the middle of the police dem demonstration. jackson said the conclusion that smollett committed a hoax is not true. >.foxx supporters saying she's reforming criminal justice. kim foxx continues to defend her office's decision to drop smollett's case writing in the chicago tribune, since it's expedient to question my motives and actions and those of my office, i welcome an outside nonpolitical review of how we handle this matter. the police union fired back writing the cbp concluded that mr. smollett faked a hate crime an

peter strzok responds, no, no, we'll stop it. then after this, in october 2016, fbi start wiretapping water page, what was probable cause evidence. >> i really don't know at that particular point in times, it seems to me based on these clips and overall operation and horrible problems that existed from strzok, page, mccabe, they did something well beyond what anyone should have done in the fbi. i think that bill barr will get to the bottom much that. that does not exclude imjust a momenty either as for -- that does not exclude jim comey either as far as i'm concerned. elizabeth: the issue is, what triggers electronic surveillan surveillance. if is based on a few disturb connection and talks to people overseas, and russia that is scary, but if just a survey connection and conversations that could trigger the government listening in electronically, what if you swap out word trump campaign and put in word obama campaign, right? >> that is true. and you know you get to put electronic surveillance in, you have to be able to show there

there were dirty cops, these were bad people, you look at mccabe and comey and lisa and peter strzok. these were bad people. and this was a attempted coop, an attempted take down of a president. lou: two leaders of trump 2016 campaign among our guests cory lewindowski and david bossie, turning to national emergency, crisis on southern border, president is there tonight in part to draw attention to urgent reality ignored all together by national left wing media and radical dimms, president trump explains to reporters on scene, dangers. >> we start talking. first person said sir, we have many people dying. coming across the border, i say nobody said that. they know it but press does not talk about it much also they come in raid their houses, it is dangerous. told never to leave their house at night. and that day during the day, always carry a gun and know how to use it. these people had no idea. we have the media here, and good people here. i think it should be explained, nobody heard this. lou: president's visit to texas and the broken immigration system he trying to fix is our focus t

you look at mccabe and comey and you look at lisa and peter strzok and these were bad people and this was an attempted coo, this was an attempted takedown of a president. stuart: and two leaders of the trump 2016 campaign among our guests here tonight, corey lewandowski, and david bossie. turning to the national emergency, the crisis on our southern border, the president is there tonight in part to draw attention to the urgent reality, ignored altogether, by the national left wing media, and the radical dems. president trump explaining to reporters on the scene the dangers that border communities face each and every day. president trump: we start talking and the first person gets up and sits there and we have many people dying, coming across-the-boarder. i said nobody ever said that. well they know it but the press doesn't talk about it. also they come in and raid their houses and it's very dangerous and are told never to leave their house at night and that during the day, always carry a gun and know how to use it. these people had no idea but i said do you know what? we have the medi

and sara carter, investigative reporter are reporting tonightat there are new fbi texts between peter strzok and lisa page that actually show they suggested using a post-election briefing to gather information on team trump. a lot more coming up in a second. developments on this all throughout the show. first tonight, the democrats'ts crazy train has yet another passenger because there he is, crazy uncle joe biden, after delaying his launch and delaying it again, he has finally now jumped into the 2020 race. 2 he is now the 20th democrat i running for president. that's a record. now, what's going to happen next is going to be pretty remarkable, as joe bidenre tries to court the new ultra radical extreme socialist left democratic party and convince them, well, he's their guy. but even the bigger story is overseas. and that's surrounding joe biden's shady involvement with ukraine, breaking tonight also. you remember, john solomon explained on this program,on while joe biden was vice president, his son, hunter, took a lucrative job at a major ukrainian energy company and by the way, is also pet

of staff, joshua, was actually a topic for the scheme because his wife worked as an analyst for peter strzok during the investigation. he released a statement denying he had any contact with them. he emphasized that he never took any action on their behalf. now, of course, that is the latest example. high ranking fbi obama doj officials aggressively investigating -- he asked, spying on the incoming president and his staff. of course, then canada trump before that. after they gave a rigged investigation into hillary clinton. real crimes, espionage act, destroying subpoenaed emails. nobody ever heard of that before, and nobody ever heard about hiring aides to bust up your iphones in your blackberries and rip out the sim cards. you did that? that would be called obstruction. from using informants on the campaign trail as well, abuse against carter page, spying on the trump campaign that way. using that dirty hillary clinton bought and paid for russian.ca, even "the new york times" is now saying no, it might have been bresson del mike rush and misinformation. he is saying that this needs to be e

that is a text message from peter strzok to lisa page after one of the first foundational meetings aftery launched the investigation and it says, "thee white house is running this." the white house is running this. i covered law enforcement for 3n years and the white house doesn't normally run counterintelligence for justice department investigations. that text has remained in my head for a long time and over the last few weeks, i've beenat reporting, i think victoria had something to say in the last segment, january 27th there was one white house meeting and i think next week we will be talking about a meeting one year earlier where the origins of the trump collusion case begins. a whole year earlier. i guarantee you it will have been inside the white house. >> sean: you are saying it started in 2015? >> no, 2016. she was talking january, '17. january 2016, the beginning of that.ni >> sean: we know the fbi investigation began in july 2016. >> i'm going to say six months before. the effort to get trump was launched. i think next week we will be talking about some pretty interesting evide

peter strzok and page, they said there is no there there.se until committee investigation and the bipartisan investigation and now the mueller report. you can't state any more clearly, no collusion. now the american people, the answer is in. if they want to do this on top of the green deal, what are the political ramifications for not serving the american people? >> they will get punished in 202o and i think president trump will get reelected. i know what happened in '98 when the american people understood what they got with bill clinton, they understand president trump warts and all. mueller was the guy that i was going to let look at, make sure he looked at the idea after working with the russians and the verdict is in. there was no collusion. there was no obstruction of a crime that never occurred. the obstruction thing was bizarre to me to begin with. here's what i think. they will be stampeded to impeach trump because they hate him so much and i hate it for the country and the president but it will result in him m getting reelected. the

peter strzok is such a liar, baby he didn't tell mueller but about eight months into it, he had to knowhere was no collusion. he had to know it. he had to know how stupid the whole situation with papadopoulos is and why didn't he investigate the possibility that papadopoulos was set up, which is almost obvious from the fact that somebody gave him the information, who is a counterintelligence guy, and then he gave it in turn to another counterintelligence guy. they put papadopoulos right in the middle of a typical counterintelligence dirty trick. you can smell that if you know anything about this business. mueller knows a lot about this business. why didn't he investigated? he didn't want to look for the truth. he wanted to look to national trump. i don't blame bob, i blame bob for being asleep at the switch. he had a bunch of bad people doing this. he wasn't supervising them. he was like "the wizard of oz." he was behind a screen somewhere and they were doing all the dirty work. >> jason: i think it is important and why we some point figure out what did they actually know, there was no

the media especially the as the fbi and all against going forward but really what we find is peter strzoklisa page, we see baker, we see comey of course and all this is coming back to everything that we go back to following all the way from the clinton investigation to the beginning of the russia investigation through the mueller investigation we go back to this really corruption that is involved in everything and i think it's really interesting when you have baker actually saying in the transcripts we released this past week were he thought originally clinton would have been indicted and charged in this and is actually talked out of it by some of the others comey and others but then we also found out from lisa page's transcript on the same issue that they were actually being pressured by the department of justice even from attorney general lynch who actually said let's call it a matter instead of an investigation so what both ers me the most is you had this very high level individuals , the fbi and the department of justice that were not acting in the best interest of the country, acting

elizabeth: here's the text messages between lisa page and peter strzok where page said is trump reallyng to become president, is that going to happen, and peter strzok said, no, no, we're going to stop it x. then the fbi started wiretapping, right? >> no, it's outrageous. they were so casual about doing that, and they don't want accountability. they don't rule the country, and this idea that the fbi's independent, the fbi is part of the executive branch, it's part of the department of justice which is part of the executive branch. and i think there's going to be a lot to answer for because, you know, in addition to what -- i was glad that bill barr said this, but there are three i.g. reports, one on leaks, one on the fisa application, i think one on gifts that fbi agents were accepting. there's devin nuÑes' criminal referrals, there's the u.s. attorney, huber, who's working on mccabe's -- there's a lot of information out there. elizabeth: you know, russian meddling, right, should they have not done any electron insurveillance? should they have just waited to get proof and then acted? >

it's all over those newly uncovered text messages between lisa page and peter strzok. >> we've learned a whole lot more about the case. he's connecting the dots over potential set jets. we've got team coverage. they are calling it tr-- trumpa-nomics. >> good to have you. >> a new candidate every day. there are now as many democratic candidates for president as there are players on an nhl team. to continue the metaphor this is training camp and every man and woman must fight for a roster spot in the primary battle. if you want to know who is ahead look at who is getting hit the hardest by their own party. joe biden out of touch with the center of energy in the democratic party today. elizabeth warner got snarky when she pointed out biden brought in more campaign cash in a day than she did in the first quarter. in an email she wrote how did joe biden raise so much money in one day. he held a private event for wealthy donors. bernie sand, struck the same tone. a big day in the democratic primary. we hope to end it strong, with an overwhelming number of individual donations. but biden isn'

that both catherine herridge and sara carter are reporting tonight we now have text messages from peter strzok and lisa page, never before seen. discussing recruiting white house sources to spy on you. take it in any order you would like. >> president trump: well, i think it's incredible when you hear it. these are great reporters, all three. and when you have them on your trail, that's a problem. these are people that should be getting pulitzers, not the ones that got the pulitzers that got everything wrong. if you listen to them, they got everything wrong. go back and read some of their early and mid articles.ro they didn't have a clue what was going on and they win pulitzer prizes.e these are the ones that should be winning. it sounds like big stuff and o sounds very interesting with ukraine. i just spoke to the newds president a little while ago, two days ago, and congratulated him on an incredible race. incredible run. a big surprise victory. got 75% of the vote.is that sounds like big, big stuff. i'm not surprised. >> sean: mr. president, ukraine is offering this evidence to the united s

the initiation document drafted by peter strzok, if that name rings a bell. he drafted, approved the investigation in july of 2016 and the words trump campaign are specifically in the initiation document. it is eminently reasonable to ask what was the factual predicate for this investigation in july of 2016? and is that when it really began because there is some evidence he began months sooner. >> shannon: with all of that in the mix, the attorney general brought up an interesting point today about who knew what when and why they didn't go to the trump campaign. here's what he said. >> fiber attorney general and that situation came up, i would say yes. brief the target. >> shannon: what do you know about attempts to brief the trump campaign, like you might be in danger by russian folks who want to flip or infiltrate your campaign. >> paul ryan and devin nunes and i spent a lot of time asking the fbi about what we call defensive briefings. they do it for other folks. they did it for the clinton campaign. the explanation given to us by the bear was we did go to

people like peter strzok and lisa page talked all about how much they dislike this president and didn't want him to win and were terrified and backup plans that i kind of thing. although they did they'd say it didn't bias their decision, he admitted that there were people who were in initial part of the team who clearly were not fans of the president. but john, before we let you go, i want to ask about this new letter from senators grassley, graham and johnson to the attorney general. if they've been trying to get information from the doj about the hillary clinton email investigation for years. they were told they couldn't have it because it may interfere with the mueller investigation. this letter they sent today's says that now that the investigation has concluded, we are unaware of any legitimate basis upon which the department can refuse to answer the judiciary committee's inquiries. is it wasted time at this point to be going back to the holy clinton email investigation? or that said listen, we waited patiently, we want the stuff now. worth their time? >> i actually think they're p

you look at mccabe and comey, and you look at lisa and peter strzok.this was an attempted coup, attempted take-down of a president and we beat them. >> the president of the united states saying the mueller investigation was an attempted coup against him. again, that was today. now listen to what he and members of the administration were saying shortly after the barr summary of the mueller report came out. >> it was a complete and total exoneration. >> i think everyone here and everyone, prafrankly, across america was happy. >> we had the full fair and thorough investigation, this the mueller investigation is the goal standard. >> the mueller report was great. it could not have been better. it said no obstruction, no collusion, it could not have been better. >> i do see some people now trying to besmerch the integrity of director mueller and attorney general barr. that is really rich. this the mueller investigation is the gold standard. >> now not so much. she said it was the gold standard and now it's an attempted coup. here to talk about besmirching,