>> doug: yeah, i will go to peter strzok for that. the vast majority of fbi agents do their job. what has happened over the past 10 years, including mr. strzok and others, they at top levels camped out in washington, d.c. and decided agenda they push on the obama administration and the durham report said they shouldn't have opened the investigation, they cleared up everything that we and myself have been saying for others on capitol hill, this cross-fire hurricane was a sham, he has audacity to say higher levels of fbi acting in some other way than the proper way, that is wrong and has been the problem we had to esh >> out. i'm glad to see this coming to light. i don't care what presidential candidate says they will redo the fbi, that has to come through congress, congress has to take action to make sure availability funds comes through legislative process. >> todd: remind the audience, peter strzok is one half of the fbi lovers and he was texting his lover about undoing a presidential election, mind you. >> ashley: that is not bias, what is? >> not at all, don't look at that shin

some of these texts that were he revealed from peter strzok to lisa page about a media leak strategy. peter strzok said i had gone to find this phone to tell you i want to talk to you about media leak strategy with doj before you go. 112 days later he says-12 days later he says article is out, well done, page. >> the fbi and doj would go out and leak fake news stories in many cases, plant them in many cases and then pick up those fake news stories to use it as a pretext to go out and interview american citizens. maria: just to be clear, that was 2018, congressman, okay. we were seeking truth and searching for the truth on this program on sunday sun -- sundag futures and we had the truth tellers. we knew what was going on. i know you were a supporter under president trump. what is your reaction to this. >> i proudly worked if they the white house for the president for almost four years he was there. we knew this was a hoax. we knew it then. how concerning is it, what the doj is doing, how they handled president trump and how they're handling hunter biden and joe biden in this situation

prompted peter strzok of all people at the time mr. hate trump and i have a plan in place in case he wins said, listen, they texted the publication and says there's no substance and this story is largely wrong. the press is going to undermine -- is largely wrong. don't go with it. they went with it anyway. and this goes over and over again. the story the fbi declined to comment but peter strzok said wait a second, i did comment. i called you. i told you it was wrong. and they wrote it anyway. there is all these different examples "the washington post" and the "new york times" running with stories, unnamed sources and sometimes the sources clearly peter strzok and andy mccabe got in trouble once for leaking and then admitted it and apologized to everyone at the fbi. a lot of these leaks were people were an agenda and sometimes in case. one of the people in the fbi said this is not even true and they wrote it anyway. think about the damage to our foreign policy let alone the credibility. donald trump for four years was told he was illegi

tells peter strzok start a will counterintelligence operation.hey start investigating george papadopoulos and mike michael flynn and carter page. start looking into their background. nothing verified. where did you get this information. no one went out of their way to find out where this investigation was going. next thing you know they launch this into the trump campaign. never told trump and paul manafort the fourth. i got four of your guys investigating to see if possible links to russia where when they had a problem hillary clinton emails gave them a defensive briefing about russia possibly infiltrating the election. never did it to trump. next thing you know they launch it into trump. this thing happened during the campaign through when trump won, was president-elect and then through his first two years in between the mueller report gets launched. lives get ruined. our relations with russia is destroyed and the president, whatever you think he accomplished and he accomplished a lot. think about what more he could have done had he just been t

peter strzok says, no, we will stop him. it seems pretty clear, political animus.it bias or not call it bias, but it seems obvious there was a political dislike. it does seem like it colored the investigation. confirmation bias absolutely colored this investigation the whole time through. as the fbi was receiving these claims, whether it was receiving , especially when it received the dossier -- it went off and running with the dossier. christopher steele was offered up to $1 million by the fbi if he was able to confirm any of the allegations in the dossier. he was not able to. his main source, igor dichenko, was unable to prove any of the significant allegations in the dossier, as well. the fbi still uses information and never told the court it was uncorroborated that it was disputed and did not tell the court about its political origins with its direct funding from the clinton campaign. these are all pretty big problems. i would say that indications of political bias, especially confirmation bias, among the people running this investigation, thinking there must b

that went from jim comey to peter strzok. think about that.ew weeks later goats a rgoat get -- getting a report from the cia saying that investigation you just opened about russian collusion, it was probably the opposes political campaign, hillary clinton, john durham investigated that and found that no one at the fbi was made aware of that. what did comey and strzok do with that referral from the fbi? i don't know why he didn't interview them in his investigation, i would think that jim jordan would in the subsequent hearings in congress on this issue. trey: we care very much about the department of justice. this notion of policies and procedures, they are of no consequence if you have the wrong people implementing them, i do not give the fbi a pass. we have changed our policies and procedures does not do any good if you still have peter strzoks of the world implementing them, my wife told me to watch my blood pressure, thank you for coming on, on a sunday night, you have a unique insight into this. the fact that someone nearly avoided dime i

it's so clear in reading through this document that andrew mccabe and peter strzok peter strzok and james comey who was at the top of the fbi had a plan that they executed regardless of what the facts were and it falls i think quite cleanly into a trump during german that had its grip on the fbi in the wake of the 2016 election. there is so much contradictory behavior here from the way that trump was treated on the way that the clinton campaign was treated. this is an enormous endorsement. i said earlier, show many media organizations have so much egg on their face today. i was looking at the lower thirds of the other channels. fbi says there was no foundation for this investigation. my mind is replaying jim brennan, james clapper waiting for all these indictments. it's appalling what was thrust upon the american people with this story when you dig into how little they built all of us on. >> judge jeanine: it's not just the legal piece where they say the fbi and the doj failed to uphold their mission to the strict fidelity to the law. they split this country apart. they had families not t

and if you don't have a policy and procedure that keeps someone like peter strzok, who said he couldmell donald trump supporters in a walmart in virginia. i mean, look, durham kudos for his work and the time he spent. but anyone who thinks that the fbi has reformed itself, it was not comey and mccabe and strzok that we were meeting with when i was in congress. these were trump people that we were meeting with. and they still covered it up. >> bret: yeah, speaking of james comey on april 26th, 2018, i spoke here with the former fbi director comey about what he knew concerning the source material and the infamous steele dossier. here it. >> this intel briefing at trump tower, you briefed the president-elect on kind of the sliver of the dossier, really the salacious part about the prostitutes in moscow and that allegation. >> correct. >> bret: didn't include anything broader than that, correct? >> correct. my mission in that private briefing was just to tell him about that slice of it. >> bret: who suggested you brief that? >> i think the director of national intelligence did and explai

we know that because we have text exchanges between, for example, fbi agent counter intel lead peter strzokand carter paige, for example. in august of 2016, paige asked struck whether trump could really become president. struck responded confidently, and this to me, in my humble summation is smoking gun number two. saying, no, no. he's not going to be president. we'll stop it. now despite the smoking guns in many ways durham's findings today that we read 300 pages worth that lead the news cycle are six years too late because the hoax worked. an entire presidency was derailed. the democratic party succeeded in demonizing russia making them our primary enemy not the chinese party and bringing us on the brink of nuclear war as we create a proxy war in ukraine. an entire three years of presidency was derailed, the country pitted against itself and everyone now has bought into lies and disinformation while pretending they are the warriors against disinformation. and in the end, after all of that, not only has no one been held accountable but this, i think, would be the the third smoking god in t

someone who knows exactly what it is like to be a personal target of donald trump, former fbi agent peter strzok 2017, but he was later fired by the fbi after more than 20 years of service. peter, it's great seeing you. thanks for being my guest this evening. there's no better person to speak with. does this reporting feel like vindication for you in your search to find out exactly what happened here, and get to the bottom of your firing? but is it proof that trump has a kill list? >> alex, i don't know that i would call it vindication. it's certainly confirmation that what trump did in his last administration, he is absolutely going to come back with full vengeance the next time around. it is hard for me to overstate what an assault on the rule of law at this. it is essentially someone who is running for president, saying, if you dare investigate me, i am going to fire you. there is nobody out and america -- this is something out of a banana republic. there is no person about the law, but this is something that trump is saying trying to proactively identify people who are working on investigati

simple peter strzok in charge of the investigation was texting with lisa page stops donald trump frome fbi to do it. the white house has been asked about this. jake sullivan now the national security adviser started president bushing this narrative on behalf of the hillary clinton campaign. what the durham report also said is yes, these reforms have been im34re79ed unless the fbi protecting the american people away from politics and back to the constitution, then it will be, quote. fruitless for the efforts to change the trust that the american people no longer have in the institution. >> bret: yeah did. was interesting to hear barr talk about mccabe now weighing in andy afternoon andrew mccabe and peter strzok weighing in characters a part of this comment comments on it. >> none of these people should be taken seriously. this report documents repeatedly the norms, the rules they broke in order to make this case happen on a partisan basis. it is such an irony of the trump era of politics that all the people who used him as a threat to the norms and rules and expectations for our gover

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i can tell you at no time did i or anyone to my knowledge understand that peter strzok or lisa page were having those sorts of conversations. neither of the two of them ever gave me or anyone else that i am aware of any indication that their work on this investigation was being influenced by their professional -- by their personal opinions. so -- and that stands to this day. >> and just to put a button on it because of the point you made up in terms of not letting anything in terms of personal, political beliefs interfere, it's interested durham suggested creating a sort of position for a non-partisan fbi lawyer or agent who would essentially step in and oversee and help put checks on anything that would be deemed a politically sensitive investigation. do you think that's a good idea? >> it's not a bad idea but i don't think it's necessary. i mean, look, that person, that role, that voice exists in the fbi to this -- today. and that's the general counsel of the fbi. and it's staff of the general counsel's office, including dozens of attorneys who do nothing but advise the fbi on the impl

one of them has to do with lisa page, who was a former fbi lawyer, and peter strzok who was leading a counter intelligence activities at the fbi. in the durham port, he says that peter strzok and lisa page were directly involved in matters relating to opening crossfire hurricane, and then of course if you compare that to what the horowitz report says, he says that lisa page attended some of the discussions regarding opening up this investigation, she did not play a role in the decision to open cross fire hurricane, or the four in the investigations. these two became, certainly a fixation for the former president, for republicans, because they're having an affair, and a lot other text messages came out in the middle of the mueller investigation, and was used, really, to discredit the work that was being done to investigate these very, very suspicious ties between people associated with trump, and of course the russians. and so, that is one reason why highlighting that difference of opinion there, these two investigative teams, alisyn looked at all of the same things and came away with

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or press charges on peter strzok.ut maybe it will make politicians realize it's worth the scrutiny. >> the nation is more than border, biden and badness. america is pull of optimistic people focusing on what is good about america and americans would spark a return to the same. we'll try to do that more. but a lot of it will be about 2024. politicians attack politicians and that makes for better headlines. for the most part we are getting along better. keep the comment coming. we'll feature them on the show. be sure to follow us on the social media outlets. you can follow me on twitter, instagram, facebook. do it@kilmeade and i will get it. meanwhile i have some more good news. lawrence jones is in the building and he's ready to watch "cross country." i'm going to watch from home have the cameras follow me. [♪] lawrence: welcome to cross country. we begin with the latest crisis con souping america's cities. it's the sanctuary policies that opened the door for unending streams of my grants coming to the country. this is

for future elections and instead they will run away from it, distance themselves and you have peter strzok others who have profited from all of this out there saying is something even though it's an absolute indictment of what they did. stuart: then, stay there. a cup a couple more things in this block. we got some green on the left-hand side but i also want to say target reported this morning and they got huge crime problem. >> they are putting a number on it and the number will shock you. organize retail theft is costing them $500 billion this year on top of about the same figure for last year so two years time we are talking $1 million pulled from the store shelves because of the five discount. retail is mad and they are pushing lawmakers to do some things to renters and. change the laws, arrest them. targets revenue is $25.3 $25.3 billion, be the street, april was soft. made numbers were soft that's like guidance or consumers spend less the trip. and calling it a discretionary recession. your spending money on experiences and necessities a lot of what target cells is home goods, electr

throughout the report andrew mccabe and peter strzok came off as pursuing trump with a blind zeal. in particular at the direction of mccabe strzok opened crossfire hurricane immediately. he at a minimum produce evidence hostile feelings toward trump. the matter was operated as a full investigation without having spoken to the persons who provided the information. now after this conclusion by durham everybody watching tonight has to know it is important to remember how andrew mccabe described feeling right after comey was fired. this was at his first meeting with president trump. >> i was speaking to the man who had just run for the presidency and won the election for the presidency. and who might have done so with the aid of the government of russia, our most formidable adversary on the world stage and that was something that troubled me greatly. >> trouble me greatly. >> epitome of masculinity. completely absurd until remember he knows they never corroborated the dossier. now, more from durham. fbi records prepared by strzok in february and march 2017 showed that at the time of th

it simply:the fbi knew it was bs, so did the clinton campaign so did schiff and comey, so did peter strzok and so did the entire media mob, everyone went hook line and sinker to flip a federal election. hillary clinton in october 2016. that was a lie that hillary just can't seem to quit. >> i believe he knows he's an illegitimate president. >> i think it's also critical to understand that as i've been telling candidates who have come to see me, you can run the best campaign. you can even become the nominee. and you can have the election stolen from you. >> wow. what has happened to country? hillary clinton is delusional. remember former lover championing the evidence of collusion eric swalwell. he was dying. >> you believe the president has been an agent of the russians? >> yes. i think there's more evidence. i think all the arrows point in that direction. i haven't seen evidence he's not. >> i think he's afraid of the president of ruin? >> well, one can speculate why, that the russians have something on him personally. >> this past weekend illustrates what a great case officer vladimir pu

the two fbi lovers liz is a paige and peter strzok said it in texts lifns.ge clinton may be our next president the last thing we need going in there loaded forebear. do you think she is going to remember or care more doj than fbi? strzok yeah, agreed. so the fbi wanted to get on crooked's good side. and angry crooked isn't a fun crooked. and crooked was supposed to be the next president. all she had to do was act innocent. >> everything i did as secretary of state was in furtherance of our country's interest and our values. the state department has said that i think that's been proven. but i am happy. in fact, i'm thrilled to talk about the clinton foundation because it is a world renowned charity. >> the specific question went for p pepe for play. >> but there i evidence. but there is a lot of evidence about the very good work. >> and it's a criminal enterprise. >> jesse: but this wasn't the only investigation into hillary the fbi shut down before the election. in 2015 field agents and the fbi were trying to entrap hillary. and fbi informant was trying to s

they weren't punished, there were in fact rewarded with multi-million-dollar book deals, peter strzokic strobel, built up korea screaming about russia gates. max boot, rick wilson, ana navarro, we can keep going on and on as they did about russia gates. in benefited, let's to name a few. we are seeing names on the screen now, federal law enforcement agency, most important a responsible crafting our justice system, delivered left-wing sermons at prestigious university and lucrative contributing deals at msnbc and cnn. they are not only not apologize, they have profited, kelly heard pinion at the washing times and joins us now. charlie, the left i don't know if this originates some central memo are talking points, get on verbal tics, pandemic, start to democracy, durham report was a nothing burger. >> just like over the five or six years, they have all been on the singing in the same choir, talking about how our government was under threat from all of this disinformation and this attempt to perform iq on our government by russia and as it turned out we are finding what you and i and man

>> brian: how wrong they were and how unbelievable it is that peter strzok, andrew weissmann, andrewabe would come out when they should apologize. the four years, an investigation into why they were investigating a trump-russia collusion that never existed. they should be apologizing to the american people. they said that paul manafort, george papadopoulos, michael flynn as well as carter page got together and because of their look into russia they didn't exist, it means donald trump's whole campaign in his presidency shouldn't really happen. for four years, they said he was illegitimate. for four years, everything trump did from the north korean meeting to the tax cuts on down to the abraham accords, every time he had something, a russia probe investigation, revelation would pop up and this is all proven that its fiction instead of admitting to it like jake tapper says. >> harris: let's take a look at that. let's watch that. >> the report is now here. it has dropped. it might not have produced everything but it is regardless devastating to the fbi. and to a degree it does exonerate

. >> when the text messages came out between peter strzok and lisa page, it was pretty shocking, not that two people in law enforcement would not like donald trump, but that they were part of the investigation. it seems that their emotions -- they weren't able to even control the fact that they were saying very inappropriate things about somebody that they were investigating. >> yeah. i think that was pretty damning. again, we're not asking law enforcement or even doj officials to not have a political opinion. you get to vote every couple years. that's your duty as a citizen. when it comes to the enforcement of the law. again, when you launch an investigation on a presidential campaign, that's not a small feat. that's a big deal. that has real potential to disrupt politics. we've seen it really has. a lot of folks in the trump camp have been claiming that this has been a witch hunt. i don't think this rises to the level of witch hunt, but this today kind of gives him credence on that. i think this report appears to be -- i haven't read the 300 pages, but appears to be kind of in the

peter strzok got a professorship at georgetown university according to your article.so andrew mckay who was a deputy director of the fbi was fired. he is over at cn and pining about all this stuff. quickset is right it's remarkable how few professional consequences are seem to have been for people who clearly violated at least the spirit if not the letter of the fbi's own rules. you haven't fbi attorney who doctored e-mails in order to get a surveillance warrant against a trump advisor for example who has already had his law license reinstated. when your suspension. a slap on the wrist for fabricating evidence for wiretapping an american citizen. very few consequences for the people who have been found over and over again in every inquiry to have acted in an unethical way. jon: thanks for watching all this will have you back on again as events warrant. sarah washington examiner, thanks. fontana is facing multiple lawsuits now just days after the governor signed a law banning tiktok statewide. former facebook employee big tech expert cara frederick joins us on the lega

you talk about comey teaching a class, you also have peter strzok others on cnn and msnbc with open mic talking about whatever they want to talk about and painting it the way they want to paint it and you have people who abuse in top job. what are you going to do about it as official? >> they were maliciously unethical and probably should be illegal and that's the frustration. there's no accountability. the good news congress is take efforts now. this new working group that we have put together on fisa reform is going to be a vehicle to actually implement reforms to add criminal liability for some of these activities. remarremarkly what has been done hasn't been illegal. and so we didn't have criminal liability in the code. we will add that liability. but in addition to all those people that you just mentioned, my gosh, i spent last week i spent more than an hour with cia director brennan inv involved wh the shenanigans as well. primarily 51 supposed intel efforts that signed the letter about the hunter biden laptop but there's another example of where they go completely amiss and yet t

i mean, peter strzok didn't.nd looking at when we depose these guys a few years ago looking at what they said there, comparing that to the durham report. we will have mr. durham in front of our committee here in the next few weeks. we're looking forward to that hearing. looking forward to doing the research and going back and looking at those depositions we took a few years ago and then go from there but all i'm saying is everything is on the table which is how it should be when you're doing proper oversight. our constitutional duty to get the facts out for the american people. stuart: hillary clinton said look, age is a factor. president biden's age is a factor. i've got the impression that senior democrats are trying to ease him out before the election , because they know he can't win, and they are worried about what happens with the vice president. are you with me? >> well, i would say maybe this is one of the first statements secretary clinton made that i actually agree with. i do think it's a concern, and it

the fbi launched -- calls andy mccabe, andy mccabe tells peter strzok to launch an investigation and he does. predicated on absolutely nothing. and this is michael horowitz does an ig report which is damning on the fbi but says they had a reason to launch the investigation. where the rubber hits the road with these two investigations durham says i dispute that i don't believe there was any reason to launch this investigation. and after 190 subpoenas, 480 interviews, $6.5 million, is he sure of it. and if you read these 300 pages, you would know it. and all these people that win all these awards for plaguing the country with this fake story and fake investigation. you should return them all. >> steve: well, you know, ultimately, jake tapper over on cnn, he took a look at what has transpired and the results of the durham report and he said not good for the fbi. watch this, here he is, jake tapper. >> regardless, the report is now here. it has dropped. and it might not have produced everything of what republicans hoped for it. is, regardless, devastating to the fbi and to a degree it do

disparaging comments about donald trump made privately by two team members of the investigative team, peter strzok and lisa page. anybody following this knows those names. were you aware of their feelings at the time, and should they have been involved in the investigation? >> i was not aware of their comments, their private conversations via text message about their thoughts about donald trump and their thoughts about hillary clinton and the election writ large. had i known about it, no, they wouldn't have been involved in the investigation. but nobody knew about that at the time. and i think it's important to point out that in the ig's investigation, the doj inspector general, they looked very deeply at all of those messages and determined that neither pete strzok nor lisa page was ever in a position to significantly influence the decisions that were made by people like myself and director james comey during the course of this investigation. so, yeah, those comments were objectionable and they were unfortunate, and they subjected the organization to immense scrutiny, but ultimately were not resp

durham says in particular at the direction of deputy director mccabe, peter strzok opened cross fire hurricane immediately. strzok had announced hostile feelings towards trump. the matter was opened as a full investigation without speaking to the persons that provided the information. durham's narrative expected. the 2016 hillary clinton campaign received preferential treatment from the fbi as compared to the trump campaign. durham states the speed and manor in which the fbi opened cross fire hurricane during the presidential election based on raw intelligence reflected a noticeable departure from how it approached prior matters involving possible attempted foreign and election interference plans aimed at the clinton campaign. an important note for the viewers, we're talking about 2016-17. this is when james comey was running the ship over at the fbi. the fbi be since director christopher wray has made a lot of changes and i'll end this with you before i send it back. the fbi put out a statement. fox news has obtained it. had those reforms been in place in 2016, the missteps identifi

think of all the people that he would single out during the rallies, from poll workers to peter strzok. so, you could see a world where you are opening a door to endless defamation cases and and luis, you know, i mean -- this sexual assault case was because of this survivors law. but there is certainly -- this is not a man who does not have people who he has defamed. so, i do think it could be really problematic for him. but the misogyny of it was just shocking, i thought. >> carol, let me pick up on that point that molly just brought. it also goes back to e. jean carroll's lawyer saying that trump's comments this week in that town hall could be grounds for a new defamation lawsuit. what is your assessment? does she have a case based on what you saw? >> oh, i think she has a case. the question is, when would she bring it? and where would she bring it? so, the town hall was in new hampshire. it does affect potential voters in new york. and so there are two possible venues. there's actually probably more than two possible venues where she could bring a lawsuit. she has to keep an eye on

you think of peter strzok, lisa page, ken klein smith, andrew weissmann. third, double standards.est, contributions by foreign governments was in many cases much worse many reality than what was going on with trump. willful ignorance, fbi ignoring evidence that it was being with used by the clinton the campaign to execute a political dirty trick and russian are disinformation. the fbi probe may actually have been as a russian intel operation, and i would add a sixth to that, karl. the fbi broke the law. kevin klein smith admitted that he tamperedded with evidence to spy on americans to bet that fisa warrant. so how do you fix this? >> well, christopher wray, the fbi director, says that he has put in place procedures and policies that would keep it from happening, but this really boils down to do you have people who are in the fbi and and in the intel community who have an understanding of their enormous responsibility to act on behalf of the best interest of the american people? because you can put all the policies you want in place, but if you've got bad people in there, then bad

all of these people who were complicit in pushing this lie whether it's peter strzok, john brennan, jamesks and they're on msnbc and cnn as national security experts. >> yeah. so the way you have to look at this, it's even bigger than that and all of those bad, evil characters. what this is really about, it's about the justice department collapsing. it's also about the judicial branch of government collapsing and the fake news media collapsing. now, look, maria, a lot of this we talked about on your show for the last six years, your viewers understand that. but i think you have to take a global view of what the repercussions really are here, because, you know, the judicial branch, i just mentioned the justice system, how that's completely broke down. they knew about it, couldn't do anything about it. but how about the judges? let's just take, there's three easy examples with the judges. you have the fisa court. they did absolutely nothing. the fisa court could have stepped in. they knew right away when i knew, they knew in 20 to 17. and -- 2017. and then for sure ea they knew in '18 when

. >> martha: i'm thinking of peter strzok.smell trump support at the walmart and the back and forth, we will stop him. it appears based on the evidence that we've seen these years that they felt like they had this higher calling to block this person who had been elected president of the united states. anything that you had to do to keep him from being successful was okay because they were going to protect us from something that they thought was dangerous. now it turns out that they had no hard evidence. as you take it a step further, perhaps it was intentionally used to misdirect how people field about. the other thing is the impact of the presidency and the president himself for being under this all of that time. having this hanging over his head while he was president all of this time. where does he go to get that time back or that opportunity back that he might have had? >> he doesn't get it back. you know, martha, it's a timely point because the thing that is going on right now in front of our eyes is we have this scandal

peter strzok, it's great to talk about this, thank you for making time tonight. >> thanks, alex. >> that does it for our show. we'll see you again tomorrow. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, alex. we have senator sheldon joining us tonight. you know what that means, that means there is more to say about clarence thomas and harlan crow and harlan crow refusing to reveal to senator whitehouse, as he politely requested, everything, all of the money that harlan crow spent on clarence thomas. we'll get the senator's latest attempt to get that information, when he joins us tonight. >> lawrence, he has been leading the charge on that in a way that i think is so critical, given the other silence from his colleagues on the other side of the aisle. i am eager to hear what he says. >> he has really stepped up. alex, there is a tweet that i want to read to you. this is from feisty granny, which is a handout that i think will probably available to you for years from now, -- she says, i never had doubts. this was not his first time deali

think about all the people who had single out during the rallies, from poll workers to peter strzok. you could see a world where you are opening the door to endless defamation cases, two endless, you know, this sexual assault case was because of the survivor. but, certainly this is not a man who does not have people who he has defamed. so i do think this could be problematic for him. by the masaji of it was just joking, i thought. >> let me bring up the point molly just brought up. it also goes back to e. jean carroll's lawyer saying trump's comments this week in that town hall could be grounds for a new defamation lawsuit. s for what is your assessment? does she have a case based on what you saw? >> oh, i think she has a case. the question is when would she bring it? where would she bring it? the town hall was in new hampshire. it does affect potential voters in new york. there are two possible venues, probably more than two possible venues, where she could bring the lawsuit. she has to keep an eye on the statute of limitations. new york has a shorter statute of limitations up to on

peter strzok, it's great to talk with you about this. thank you making time tonight. >> thanks, alex. >> that does it for our show. we'll see you again tomorrow. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, lawrence we have -- sure senator sheldon joining us tonight, you know that? means that means there is more to say about clarence thomas and harlan crow and harlan crow refusing to -- as he is politely requested, everything, all of the money that harlan crow has spent on clarence thomas will get the senator's latest attempt to get that information. >> he has been leading to charge on that, it way that was so critical given the utter silence honors -- so i'm eager >> there's a tweet i want to redo, this is from feisty granny, which is a handle that i think will probably be available to you 40 years from now when you might want to use it. she says i never have doubts that this was not his first time dealing with negotiations. he knows what he's doing, i ignored all of the breathless repo

famously, some of the fbi agents, in particular, peter strzok had expressed a lot of bias and hatredexts. he was one of a group of people who made the decision to open this investigation. it was based on a trump campaign aide, george papadopoulos, telling an australian diplomat that the russians had gone to the trump campaign, and said they could leak information damaging to hillary clinton that would be helpful to the trump campaign. as our viewers know, at the end of the road, the robert mueller investigation issued a report and found no evidence or they couldn't establish coordination, formal coordination between the trump campaign and russia, but found dozens and dozens of troubling contacts between trump campaign officials and russian officials, and a senate intelligence committee report, a bipartisan report went further and said that poses counter intelligence risks to the united states. john durham has come and investigated for four years. he's not charging any fbi officials with crimes but saying in a report he believes the fbi acted inappropriately and was gullible and accep

peter schiff, strzok, mccabe, wiseman.nd yet here they are knocking it down. >> the fbi's reputation lies in tatters. the media pushes these lies for three years and now that the report has come out, they're trying to down play it. there's a reason why -- last october, there was a "new york times" poll that showed 84% of americans consider the media to be a threat to democracy including 59% who consider it a major threat. in fact, according to that "new york times" poll, more people consider the media to be a major threat to democracy than donald trump. that's a direct result of this russian collusion conspiracy theory that they pushed on it. >> trace: mark penn, you'd think the media would be angry at all of these sources that misled them for years. >> in fact, i did a poll for the messinger that shows journalists as advocates. everyone sees bias in the media. stories like the hunter biden laptop are suppressed. this is really an example -- this report is very clear, right? you look at the reports and you think you're rea

they certainly had some -- peter strzok and lisa paige saying things out of school that were incrediblypriate. but when you look at the information they had, it would have been a dereliction of duty not to investigate russia. like so many things in the trump administration it is all about whose side you are on. it is all about us versus them. what this should have been is about an investigation into russia. it is not about, you know, trump or hillary or whoever. it was russia that interfered with our election. now, robert mueller concludes donald trump welcomed the help instead of reporting it to the fbi. but this was an influence campaign by russia and the fbi did exactly what it should do in investigating these claims. >> congressman, before we let you go i would love to know the status of work that you have been involved in for many months now, and that's george santos. do you think there's any chance that republicans will join democrats or enough of them or in enough numbers to expel him from the house? >> well, we are anticipating that in a few minutes the republicans will move to

for one, which is also mentioned in the report, it turns out that fbi deputy assistant director peter strzok because the quote demonstrated his hostility towards trump bias played a significant role in the admission of the fbi extremely serious allegations based on uncorroborated information that was not subjected to the standard scrutiny used by the federal bureau of investigation and other members of the intelligence community. the fbi was indeed not alone in the witch hunt, the us department of justice and the national security agency were also given a high-profile investigation. the name of the hurricane. crossfire, obviously a man with a fantasy and all 2 years that the fbi nsa department of justice was doing business. it's a fantasy whipped over the edge so through the leaks. the media reported on hackers working for military intelligence that the money is subversive. the value went through the russian pensioners living in the usa and that jared kushner organized a secret communication channel with the kremlin, and 13 of our juices were added to the list of suspects. vladimir putin was