elizabeth: sydney, also there is nor information that more, more documents that surfaced that peter strzokt of questions that flynn could ask the fbi deputy director, appears to andrew mccabe during a planned phone call, dd, could be aware that flynn could ask him. one possible scenario where flynn says, quote i can explain all of this right now. i did this, this, this, strzok wrote, do you shut flynn down or do you hear him out? so you see, sort of the slant against flynn here. >> oh, completely. it appears in number of other places too because they also acknowledged their email traffic showing they knew they should contact white house counsel and they deliberately decide not to do that. that would have alerted everybody it was a real investigation they were trying to pull off. there were other brady disclosures indicate they did that. they were afraid they might screw it up. they didn't want flynn as national security advisor if they didn't succeed in getting him fired or prosecuted. they didn't want him to be an angry national security advisor, who couldn't trust the fbi. so they just l

four days after president trump's inauguration, peter strzok and one other agent visited the white house and they were there to interrogate flynn. they were sent by jim comey himself. james comey bragging, he sent the agents to grill him for two days. he wanted to exploit the chaos inside the transitioning white house. something he would never do in the bush or obama administration's come or get away with. ultimately that perjury trap was not a success. agents are no indication at all that the national security advisor was lying. they didn't believe he was lying. they said he didn't believe he was lying. the fbi turn the screws anyway, they threaten to lock him up for years. eventually he went bankrupt. he had to sell his home. they threaten to prosecute his son. they ultimately forced him to plead guilty, get this guilty plea, or they were going to prosecute his son. they didn't think he lied, but then they forced him to live, core stem into making statements. why? to protect his son. frankly, what a great father wouldn't do that? either you sign this or we will put your son way for the

but peter strzok thought -- those folks, peter strzok says no, we will keep it open. find interesting is the date. january 24, 2017. the day before that chuck schumer is on the rachel maddow show and chuck schumer responses something president trump said. president trump said the fbi is spying on me. the day before peter strzok sends a text message, chuck schumer says when you mess with the intelligence community i have six ways from sunday of getting back at you and this is one of those ways it looks like to me. you view it in context and that's how bad this whole thing was. >> martha: yeah. this is from senator chuck grassley today. he says the new flynn documents are stamped sco, as in special counsel's office. did mueller have these documents? why did he sit on them? the people deserve answers to restore faith in federal law enforcement agencies. why didn't we see any of this? i would imagine that some of the knowledge of what we might see here is what prompted attorney general bill barr to consider reopening an investigation of what went on. >> yeah. more brightl

peter strzok wrote a summary saying throughout the interview, michael flynn had a sure demeanor, did ors of deception. strzok had impression of at the time he was not lying, didn't feel he was lying. peter strzok was later removed from the mueller probe for bias against then candidate trump. so this certainly critics are saying this feels like lieutenant-general flynn was totally railroaded. your final word? >> well, you couldn't say it any better. railroaded, violate constitutional rights, lack of respect for a person who faithfully served his country for 30 years. even serving a democrat president in a high national security position. and for, some reason a long time before it came up whether he ever lied or talked to a russian ambassador, it is pretty obvious there was some information we got, there was people for some reason, and what reason i don't know, were out to get flynn, get him fired, get him prosecuted, whatever you could do. then i suppose he knew so much about the intelligence community and their violations of law, and maybe the constitution, and that's what he was prob

and then, you know, peter strzok responds well, i'm 90% sure we can do this. this is beavis and but th butt d with malice. these knuckle heads don't even know their own rules not that they would ever care about that. ainsley: can he change his plea now he was pleading guilty. steve: withdrawal. >> it's up to judge emit sullivan. given all these exculpatory documents it, seems inevitable to me that he must, in the interest of justice, allow flynn to withdraw his plea to order -- to vacate the plea. and then the department of justice has to dismiss the case against flynn. the moment that happens, i would predict that flynn would file a lawsuit against not just members of robert mueller's team but people like comey and mccabe and peter strzok and ladies ande for abuse of power and for, you know, things like obstruction of justice and so forth. they deprived him of his constitutional rights. brian: defamation. >> under color of law. ainsley: this is just the beginning. this is not over yet. thanks, greg. >> my pleasure. ainsley: now to this fox news alert. busines

you mentioned peter strzok, the foreman fbi agent -- former fbi agent.text messages he wrote, quote: hey, if you haven't closed razor, don't do so. his colleague texted back: it is still open, and i'm still case manager. strzok replied, roger, please keep it open for now adding seventh floor involved, that means the highest levels of the fbi. michael flynn as you know, lou, has been in legal limbo since 2017. he pleaded guilty twice the lying to the fbi but since has withdrawn that plea. he wants his case thrown out. one of the pages of fbi notes obtained by fox news is handwritten, sources tells us, by former head of counterintelligence bill presap. this had one sentence: what's our goal, truth, admission or to get him to lie so we can prosecute if him or get him fire. another one says: if we're seen as playing games, w.h., white house, will be furious. protect our institution by not playing games. president trump, as you mentioned, weighed in on this today from the oval office. listen to this. >> i hear there's a lot of other stuff coming out. if i bel

in an email, peter strzok and his fbi lover lisa page, they discussed how to slip in an admonition about lying under oath in order to set a stronger perjury trap. these agents were preparing for an interview that ultimately did take place on january the 24th, 2017. dave four of the trump administration. truth be told, it was an ambush, a ow legal dell make an illegal or abuse of power you don't need to have an attorney present for the interview. atthat would have been a miranda rights violation. four days after president trump's inauguration, they visited the white house and were there to interrogate flynn. they were sent by jim comey himself. james comey bragging, he sent the agents to grill flynn just four days in the administration, he wanted to exploit the chaos inside the transitioning white house. something he would never do in the bush or obama administration's or get away with. ultimately that perjury trap was not p a success. agents saw no indication at all that the national security advisor was not lying there they said they didn't believe he was lying. comey's fbi turn the scr

remember disgraced fbi or agent peter strzok was in the interview and documents show that his lover emailed on how to conduct the flynn interview. we should note these documents were released by a district judge but attorney general bill barr compelled their release and there are more coming. tucker? >> tucker: shocking. trace gallagher, shocker. dana, thanks so much for coming on. what do you make of this? >> this is a case in a story that's been out there for so long, i think senator chuck grassley tonight has asked the judge to unseal the case, and it's time for everybody to just get some clarity out for what all was going on. i believe we asked the u.s. attorney in missouri to take a look at this case and it's all starting to unravel for the fbi, it would look like. so you have questionable judgment. i'm not going to say you should treat any citizen differently but if you are going to go after someone who many people consider a war hero, and someone who is working for the president of the united states, then you don't do it like -- and a half fast manner. that is something where you wou

the documents contained emails from former agent peter strzok and attorney lisa page discussing that very interview with flynn. the pages were handwritten. the head of counterintelligence he wrote "if we are seen as playing games, the white house will be furious. a particular institution by not playing games. more documents released just a few hours ago show 20 days before flynn's fbi interview and "no derogatory information was reported back to the fbi about flynn." from a broader investigation to an alleged involvement with the trump campaign. he's been in legal limbo since being charged with lying to the fbi in 2017. he pled guilty twice but his work verse and chorus. president trump has not directly said whether he would pardon flynn but was asked about it today. >> president trump: i think you will be fully exonerated one way or the other and certainly he would be capable of coming back. he suffered greatly. >> the white house interview completely ignored protocol which would normally require forming the white house counsel's office. former fbi director james comey made the call

these are documents or emails that were sent back and forth between lisa page and peter strzok and theylso refer to the dd, deputy director andrew mccabe. when you get a look of some of what is in here when which we will do with andy mccarthy, there is discussion about getting them to live so we can prosecute him or get him fired. we will drill down on all of this and explain what it is as this is a very fast-moving story and we expect that there are more documents to be unsealed shortly as well. stay with us for breaking news on that. also breaking tonight, we continue with covid-19's devastating toll on america's most vulnerable populations. this time we look at a facility in massachusetts where at least 68, some estimates say over 70 come of our veterans who fought for their country have died from an outbreak inside of the holyoke a soldier's home in what is believed to be the deadliest outbreak in a long-term care facility thus far. one man whose father-in-law lives there says "these guys never had a chance." in moments, i will speak with the state attorney general investigating wha

. >> tucker: if peter strzok, who as we know, it's been proved is an open part of san, the one conductingnterview, does not suggest that there was a political motive here? >> i thought there was a political motive all along, tucker. at the time that general flynn was terminated which was against february of 2017, when he was ousted as trumps national security advisor. what was the good faith factual basis for conducting this investigation? i don't see any evidence of a crime. i don't see any evidence of a reason to treat this guy as a criminal defendant. this is pretty blatantly political to me from the start. >> tucker: it sure seems that way. andy mccarthy, i hope you will come back. we are about to find out a lot more about the story. good to see you. >> sure will tucker, thank you. >> tucker: people make allegations against politicians all the time. tara reid has made an allegation against joe biden. biden's campaign denies it. all of the sun and there is some evidence backing her up. tonight, yet another person come apparently she told contemporaneously. why isn't the press covering

and peter strzok shows up again. he is involved in all of this. >> dana: he's the bad penny. keeps turning up. i want to talk to you also about the campaign and especially vice president joe biden, said he's leading with his jaw in dealing with these allegations or actually not dealing with the allegations of sexual assault by tara reid and speaker pelosi was asked about this today. take a listen. >> it's a matter that he has to deal with, but i am impressed with the people who work for him at the time saying they absolutely never heard one iota of information about this. >> dana: all right, what have the democrats gotten themselves into? we see the double standard of how they treat people on the other side when they were are the sorts of accusations, and now they're having to deal with it themselves. >> i want to look at it from a purely political practical perspective, and that is he can't remain silent on this. he's going to have to speak at some time. he can't rely upon allies. he's gonna have to speak out and second of all, it's owing to put him in a hard place if as he

remember, disgraced former fbi agent peter strzok was also involved in that very flynn interview andocuments show at his lover, the former fbi lawyeroc lisa page, emailed himn how to conduct the flynn interview. we should note these documents were released by a district judge, but attorney general bill barr compelled their release and there are more coming. tucker. >> tucker: shocking. trace gallagher, thank you. dana perino hosts the daily briefing with dana perino, we are happy to have her on tonight. thanks so much for coming on. so here you have the most powerful law enforcement agency in the world, people are literally empowered to shoot you if they deem it necessary, destroying the life of an american citizen for political reasons. i mean, just take three steps back, what you make of this? >> well, this is a case and a story that has been out there for so long that i think senator chuck grassley tonight has asked a judge to unseal the case, that it's time for everybody to at least get some clarity as to what all was going on. attorney general by compelling the release of these

images of james comey's head, peter strzok, andrew mccabe.ld say straight to president trump's veins. >> i've got to say, i want to know what the book count is on either current or former administration officials during the trump presidency, and if that book count is larger than any other current or former administration officials in other presidencies. i would be confident to say that it is. jonathan swan, thank you, as always. going to be reading axios am in a little bit. sign up at signup.axios.com. that does it for me on this friday morning. i'm yasmin vossoughian. "morning joe" starts right now. >>> hi, everybody. >> hi, dr. ned. >> thank you very much. >> doctor, this malpractice committee received a few complaints against you. >> i'm just here to present talent. i'm here to present ideas. >> there's a crazy man with a sk scalpel in er, demanding to see a quack. >> supposing you bring the light into the body, through the skin or some other way. >> slow down, sir. you're going to give yourself skin failure. >> i see the disinfectant, whe

do we know who the fbi agent was, was it peter strzok? it feeds into a lot of what people believe about fbi investigations. there's always an angle. and to see it written out there i have to tell you, pete, just in general, it feeds a very bad stereotype of the fbi. >> so here's the -- this is the key to what was unsealed and given to the lawyers for michael flynn. this is a handwritten note. we're not sure who it's by. we think we know who it's by but we're not positive so we're not going to say prpthsay. others have speculated about it. it's minutes from a meeting strategizing, what's going to be our approach with this flynn interview? and it talks about, for example, should we show him the evidence that we have that he talked to the russian ambassador? and, remember, that's what flynn pleaded guilty to lying about. he admitted that when he talked to the fbi in january, shortly after becoming the national security adviser in the brand-new trump administration, that he lied to the fbi by falsely denying that he had a couple of conversati

and they show that peter strzok and fbi agents went in not looking to charge him with something withegards to russia, but trying to set him up to lie, what do you think? >> katie: we found out with new documents that the crossfire hurricane team that looked into the 2016 election, said that there was no information that general flynn had colluded with russia at all, but reader struck still put up the gotcha meeting at the end of january to interview him. but what we have been hearing about is the president fired michael flynn, so what's up with that? vice president mike pence was asked to do you believe that flynn should have been fired. and he said, i know what general flynn told me, and i am more inclined to believe that it was unintentional more than ever before. if so i think that they will revisit where they were getting their information about him allegedly lying to the vice president about his contact to the russian ambassador. >> jesse: greg gutfeld? >> greg: yes. i love that these guys got busted by their own notes. in an effort to frame general flynn. they actually frame to

incidentally, one of the "guys" james comey sent to interview flynn was disgraced former fbi agent peter strzok. document so that his lover, former fbi lawyer lisa page, emailed him on how to conduct the flynn interview. these documents were released by a district judge emma but it was attorney general bill barr who compiled their release and 11 more pages are coming out this week. shannon. >> shannon: we are standing by for the spirit of trace, thank you very much for breaking that down for us. time now for some analysis about what the new information means and why it took so long for these documents to be turned over. so we can all see them. fox news contributor jason chaffetz is here now to weigh in. jason, always good to happy with us. i want to read something that professor jonathan turley has to say about this. he said in a tweet, this is just one document, the more is expected to be released, we know more is coming, however it adds troubling new details to an already dubious prosecution by the justice department. the clear impression is that the doj sought to bag a top trump official, il

this is the arrogance, but also remember there was also a memo written by peter strzok to andrew mccaben what he would say to general flynn on the day of the interview. i want to remind viewers, mccabe lie today his own colleagues and fired but never charged for it. they charged general flynn in a setup interview with lying to the fbi but yet mccabe who lied to his own colleagues was never charged. there's a problem here. i want mr. durham to continue to see this. this is a real problem. maria: so congressman, when is enough? we know for a fact, it's been confirmed by the doj, at least four of the wiretaps on carter page were illegal. we know that general flynn was sets up, illegal. we know that there were informants in the trump administration before the official they say it began july of 16th, informants all over the place beginning inauguration happened. when is enough? when is anybody going to see inside of a jail cell here because this is massive abuse of power and now most people in america understand that? >> yeah, today is enough. today is enough. i mean, we have seen it this we

peter strzok did this interview. this is the time that comey knew he had free rein. this is nothing more than -- maria: that's right, we will see when this plays out. i understand it will play out this week, but the exculpatory evidence showing it was a trick to get him. jim comey has spoken about this before, congressman, remember when jim comey was out on book tour and we knew it was a chaotic and with any other administration it wouldn't fly but with this said hey, i want to talk to you, we will send a come of agents down there just to chat you up and that's exactly what they did and cornered him and then some of them said, no, i don't think he lied but, in fact, that's what they charged him with. you made a good point, they initially charged him with collusion, colluding with the russians and yet they -- they ended upbringing charges about him lying, so there was no collusion in the charge. >> doug: no, this is what the media and pundits want to tie the administration to russia which has found false at every level and flynn here, jim comey and captain america, so

doing the interview didn't think he was and one of those agents, of course, was the now famous peter strzokwhat's also so egregious about what happened to, again, this three-star general who served kouour count stuart: does this open up all over again the so-called deep state situation? >> well, we have known there's been a problem at the upper echelon of the fbi. that's the term bill barr used over a year ago when he said there was a failure of leadership at the upper echelon of the fbi. the vast majority of the fbi people great people working hard for this country but the top people, comey, baker, mccabe, strzok, page, there was certainly a failure of leadership. all those people were fired, under investigation, let go, left. that was a problem. so there was a big concern there and we know what they did in the summer of 2016. we know what they continued to do in 2017 and then we know what bob mueller picked up from their investigation and what he did for his two-year investigation, all, all wrong. that's why hopefully, hopefully michael flynn will be exonerated in the end. stuart: yeah. l

investigations and i want you to stop me, jason, when i get to somebody you think is really fair, and peter strzokiff , jerry nadler. how would you like to be investigated by that crew? so unfairness either the reality or the perception of unfairness has a devastating impact on the person who thinks they're being treated unfairly and so trump is watching this new committee be formed to investigate his response. have you seen schiff have a hear ing on michael horowitz's fisa review? have you seen schiff have a hear ing on china's response to covid-19? no it's all trump so if he appears paranoid sometimes you can be paranoid and people really are out to get you. pete: and trey, just like in january and february, they were obsessed with impeachment when they could have otherwise been focusing or paying attention to things now affecting us now. the president tweeted yesterday, he said the do-nothing democrats are spending much on their money on fake ads. i never said that the coronavirus is a hoax but the democrats and the way they lied about it are a hoax and also it did start with one person from ch