someone like peter stzrok who had this anti-trump hatred, you have to remember, he wanted it for a good nefarious and this is why robert mueller needs to be asked what stzrok was up to. given his record of misconduct, he wanted those powers for bad reasons and wanted to be able to declassify information for reasons that were inappropriate. he recognized it was problematic. why was it problematic, those were all sorts of areas of inquiry that need to be pursued. we are waiting for more emails but we are getting stonewalled. todd: the question on my mind is a security clearance that other people in the hr department where peter stzrok was moved typically have. >> deputy assistant director, the assistant director to take care of peter stzrok, a key official at the fbi. and you had a lot of juice. >> the president upsetting mainstream media asking jeff sessions to end the mueller probe. when you heard what the president said, is this donald trump blowing off steam or is there something more? >> he wants the mueller probe ended. he is constrained for the meeting, probably for political reaso

fund the account by friends of special agent peter stzrok has raised $250,000 in 16 hours. will go towards stzrok is legal costs and lost income. a twitter account under his name posted a link to the go fund me page and they also said that is the decision, and honor to serve my country and work with the fine men and women of the fbi. donald trump announced the termination on twitter saying finally the list of bad players in the fbi and doj gets longer and longer. a lot of folks reacting on social media. jim says draining the swamp one corrupt official after another, rick on twitter saying don't use words like honor when you have none. the peter stzrok twitter account has a letter from his mother criticizing it. >> it is an interesting move to create ago fund me page. let's talk about new york's governor versus the president in 2020. that would be an interesting matchup. >> one person versus the other. the 20 campaign has pretty much begun because donald trump encouraged andrew cuomo to run for president, take a listen. >> cuomo wants to end your second amendment, he said a

president bring up both individuals and his tweets from less than an hour ago saying that, fbi agent peter stzrok on the miller team should have recused himself on day one. he was out to stop the election of donald trump and should have never ever been a loud to remain and the fbi well being investigated. this is a real issue the president said. interest ofthe creating the illusion of objectivity around his investigation. alan dershow -- howitz, the president tweeted.

ed: let me get to peter stzrok. he had all these text messages, trump supporters in walmart, got to prevent him being elected. there has been trail text messages, what took so long for him to be fired? >> who knows? the department of justice don't understand who they work for which is the american people. you cannot have a senior fbi official out there unilaterally deciding he wants to undo the effect of an election. he is texting all the time. my 14-year-old daughter couldn't text that much. he is incompetent, prejudging and ruining investigation, the hillary investigation and the trump advance litigation. i can do anything but fire the sky, they should have done it months ago. ed: you saw rudy giuliani on "fox and friends" saying it is not just about the investigation of the president but the investigation of the investigators, calling first second special counsel. >> i don't think it will have a dramatic impact on the way people perceive stzrok or the mueller investigation. he was in testifying, americans made up

shannon: peter stzrok fired over his biased text messages. rob: donald trump calling for a redo of the hillary clinton email investigation. griff jenkins live with reaction to the latest shakeup at the bureau. >> reporter: the agent at the center of the anti-trump text controversy to stop trump's candidacy, and the president is welcoming news of his firing calling for the new investigation into his 2016 opponent saying just fired agent stzrok was in charge of the crooked hillary clinton sham investigation, total fraud on the american public those republicans who investigated his bias, trey gowdy, is responding to that. >> of course his lawyer says it was a railroad job, he made up his job donald trump should be impeached before interviewing him and did a lot of this on government phone and violated other fbi policy. >> the texts surfaced a year ago, and inspector general's reported a recommendation he be suspended but in the end he was cut loose, sixth senior fbi official to be fired as the fbi struggles to regain public trust. stzrok says hi

. >> reporter: the fbi intelligence analyst who works with peter stzrok and lisa page, they pushed back saying the fbi does use media material to corroborate their work product, the analyst, quote, never said directly he utilized fbi weeks. the national security court. democratic lawmakers, and in the past, they focus too much on bruce ohr saying this is an attempt to undermine the special counsel investigation. >> our next guest said he wanted to learn who at doj knew what and when. getting understand the basics, bruce ohr, his wife worked with a firm hired by the clintons to put together the dossier which was the key thing to get the warrant to spy on donald trump's campaign. we did analysis and learns when the fbi took the dossier to the secret court to find carter page, paid for the document and didn't talk about ohr's involvement in the document, extreme bias against donald trump. they should have disclosed to the court and -- >> your colleague, mark meadows had this to say, when talking about the evidence that may have been used to get information. new information, true fbi and do

now, so many for your names, dates clapper, james comey, sally yates, susan rice, andrew mc abe, peter stzrokand the new darling of this, bruce ohr at the end. how many should go? >> i don't think any of the people on that list should have access to intelligence information. a second step to revoke the clearance would require a misdeed. simply being an opponent of donald trump is not warranted revoking clearance but brennan went beyond that. the other thing to keep in mind is there are ongoing investigations and many of the people you names, brennan included are suspects for leaking classified information to the media that was used to smear trump and generate the idea that there was trump russia collusion. so far the only evidence seems to point that the collusion was between democrats outside and democrats inside the trump, the obama administration to smear donald trump. they need to look at all those people and see if they were the ones doing the leaking. jillian: thank you for your time. 18 after the hour. he was arrested at the airport trying to flee the country but debbie wasserman schul

rob: firing peter stzrok was justified according to a fbi director.e says, quote, the action was a decisive step in the right direction in correcting the wrongs committed by what is described as comey skinny inner circle. this as donald trump called stzrok and the russian investigation a fraud. from text messages during the presidential campaign. jillian: a judge getting death threats after granting bail to the suspects from the filthy new mexico compound accused of starving children and training them to be school shooters. rob: jackie ibanez joins us as one suspect is transferred to federal custody. >> reporter: a new mexico courthouse forced into lockdown after a judge gets 200 threats. critics are fuming over the decision to grant bail to child abuse suspects, court officials say the islamic terrorist emphasizing, one caller saying her throat would be slit and another said someone would smash her head monday. she granted bail to the suspect saying they weren't a threat to society, they posted $20,000, they can be released with ankle monitors despit

that plot involved a conspiracy with bruce ohr, steel, sally yates, john brennan, james comey, peter stzrok other senior fbi and doj officials who determined they were going to destroy the president after he was duly elected. it is absolutely essential that notwithstanding anything robert mueller was doing, the attorney general and deputy attorney general ensure that there is a federal grand jury to investigate everything surrounding ohr, steel, yates and everybody else. jillian: lawmakers question bruce ohr privately in two weeks. a missing mother and two young daughters founded in colorado. her husband and the girl's father is behind bars, chris watts faces murder charges after admitting to police he killed them. the arrest just days after he gave this chilling interview. >> it is not something i could fathom. no inclination. >> this house is incomplete without anybody here. jillian: celeste and bella reported missing monday when she didn't show up for a doctors appointment. she was 15 weeks pregnant. a body found at the fill the new mexico compound is identified as a missing little boy.

either he will plead the fifth on his own or do something similar to what we saw peter stzrok do whiche side, talk to his lawyer and say on the advice of the department of justice lawyer i will not answer the question. rob: you read the new york times today and they have a sob story about bruce ohr saying his colleagues said he was a straight shooter, he didn't do anything wrong. a piece in the new york times, it bears some reference, to read and think about. how do you answer that? >> what we see in the beginning of the russia investigation is collusion, conspiracy appears on the left and deep state conspiracy theories on the right. the only thing that will restore confidence in our institutions is more transparency. i know this is a closed-door hearing today with bruce ohr but a step in the right direction. my hope is this will move the trump administration to declassify a lot of documents congress has subpoenaed from the doj. shannon: thank you for joining us. 18 after the hour, imagine this, your child when the toyota county fair and get stuck inside, hidden camera. the disturbing

under oath, fired, jim baker come a former chief counsel demoted, lisa page demoted and left, peter stzrokthe left, sally it side, bruce ohr demoted twice, these are the key people who ran these investigations. >> ohr under fire for passing information from fusion gps, the opposition research firmware his wife work that was paid to build the trump dossier. donald trump back on the campaign trail today in indiana, he will rally for republican businessman mike braun who is running for the senate, facing incumbent democratic senator joe donnelly in november, donald trump referred to donnelly as sleeping joe at a rally earlier this year calling him the least effective democratic senator. the trump administration cutting more red tape and flooding the market with thousands of new drugs. garrett tenney explains how the plan works. >> help is on the way, that is the message from the federal drug administration as it works to lower the cost of prescription drugs. the agency strategy is as simple as supply and demand, increase competition by allowing more drugs into the market and as a result price

needs to be another investigation into what happened in the department of justice and the fbi, peter stzroksa page, what happened under james comey's watch. how this investigation was dealt with differently than hillary clinton's investigation, the double standard in the political nature of the fbi, you can say that all you want but those are the facts and what the american people believe. they believe the mainstream media is biased against this president because they are. yesterday 225 -- msnbc and nbc talked about impeachment. jillian: jeff sessions was the first senator to endorse donald trump for president. rob: hurricane lane pounding hawaii, a threat of landslides and the worst is yet to come, live in honolulu, the high of the storm gets closer to the island. >> all over downtown these posters say you are a predator and sexual violence, what is going on? jillian: the latest target of anti-ice liberals, how he is firing back. ♪ >> hurricane lane lashing of the hawaiian islands, could be the biggest storm there in 26 years. the category 3 hurricane spiking catastrophic flooding, landsli

see on the left will be question this morning, he is mentioned in those text messages between peter stzrok and lisa page and he will be asked about his relationship with bruce ohr who used to work for the justice department, he has testified behind closed doors on the 28th. >> donald trump's "nominee trying to win over democrats on capitol hill. >> brett kavanaugh meeting with lawmakers ahead of what could be a very contentious confirmation hearing coming up in september. ray bowden has more from capitol hill. >> brett cavanagh went quietly in and out of joe donnelly and heidi heitkamp's offices during the second and third democrats to meet with him after senator joe manchin sat down with him in july. all three are facing tough reelection bids in republican states. they also voted for donald trump's first nominee, neil gorsuch. he also meet with ron johnson who already lauded the nominee. the senate judiciary committee released a third batch of documents from cavanagh's time is a white house lawyer for george w. bush. they have also reviewed documents from 12 years on the dc circuit. john

a source telling fox news the agent who worked with peter stzrok and lisa page confirmed the practicee bureau says it didn't happen. >> reporter: lindsey graham on is his close friend john mccain in an emotional speech on the senate floor. >> if you want to help the country, be more like john mccain. i believe there is a little john mccain in all of us. he lived in the shadow of a 4-star father and 4-star grandfather. he always worried would he disappoint? you did not. rob: very nice, south carolina senator fighting back tears next to where mccain sat which is raped in black and topped with white roses with gray will speak at the memorial service saturday in washington and his burial on sunday at the naval academy in annapolis, maryland. jillian: the midterms around the corner and jimmy carter has advice for anti-trump democratic candidates. >> i don't talk about impeachment. that is the wrong thing for democrats to do. >> the former democratic president adding he is hopeful voters will make the right choice when heading to the polls in november. rob: donald trump calling foul on the

. >> the firing of peter stzrok was justified in the opinion of a former fbi director. he says, quote, the action was a decisive step in the right direction and correcting wrongs committed by what has been described as comey's skinny inner circle as the russian collusion investigation helped start is called a fraud. the disgraced agent was let go after sending anti-trump text messages during the presidential campaign. >> in new mexico judge getting desperate, they are accused of starving children and training them to be school shooters. rob: one suspect is transferred to federal custody. >> new mexico courthouse forced into lockdown after a judge gets 200 threats, critics are feeling over the decision to grant the child-abuse suspect. and the sympathizer with one collar quoting her throat would be split and that someone would smash her head, granting to suspect saying they were a threat to society, if they post $20,000 they could be released with ankle monitor's despite claims about attempts to kill teachers and anyone else they found to be corrupt, national security st

happened with the democrats, logo back at hillary clinton and not only hillary clinton but jim comey, peter stzrok, lisa page and not focus on the man in the white house. >> i want to play something for you from spearheading new. he has some advice for the president. >> if he has any interest at all in not only saving his skin but the skin of his child, his children, his son-in-law, his grandchildren this is a time when he has to seriously think about it. >> a lot of people say the way to get to the president who says he is tough and likes these fights got go after his family might be a different thing. >> this is a coup. the people who lost the election in 2016 immediately went into this story about russian collusion through a series of keystone cops steps, got a special counsel, they are talking about what the president did 10 years before he was president and we can't even get an investigation about what obama did while they were in office. the advice of this lawyer is absurd and it is time for republicans and conservatives and trump supporters and fair-minded people to look at whether there wa

>> peter stzrok lisa page answer that question with her text messages and everything that came out in's report that the fbi had people in deep state that were establishment holdovers from the last administration that wanted hillary clinton to win so they were biased against specifically donald trump and wanted to do everything they could to prevent them being elected and now they say they are doing everything they can in terms of the russia investigation that the fbi didn't alert him to. not only to get reelected but to start impeachment process. to have the fbi, and unbiased, special prosecutor, the american people are questioning the legitimacy of those agencies because there's a double standard, truth is truth, factors fact, double standard needs to stop. trish: i brought this up with sean spicer. you wonder if vladimir putin has succeeded in creating the chaos, disruption and divisiveness he wants for the country because the more divided we are the more difficult it is for us to push our foreign policy agenda. if you really think this through, dan hoffman, fox news contribute are

president bring up both individuals and his tweets from less than an hour ago saying that, fbi agent peter stzroke miller team should have recused himself on day one. he was out to stop the election of donald trump and should have never ever been a loud to remain and the fbi well being investigated. this is a real issue the president said. interest ofthe creating the illusion of objectivity around his investigation. alan dershow -- howitz, the president tweeted. a terrible, this is situation and ag jeff sessions. this rigged witchhunt right now before continues to stain our country any further. wheeler is conflicted and his 17 anger democrats, a disgrace. that is what he said. stan is in michigan, go ahead. caller: i just wanted to say ,hat your previous guest, maria that would not pass the truth and labeling test. if you listen to her punch words, she is clearly a communist. clearly a communist. she is not a socialist. socialists and europe, so that is my statement. host: eric, at west hollywood, california. good morning. caller: good morning. in los angeleser and semantics comes to mind with th

he accused now former fbi agent peter strzok of politicizing the fbi, now stzrok's attorney blaming the clients firing on the exact same thing. >> i don't think that you can rationally reach any conclusion other than it was political. it's difficult to believe, given the steady drumbeat of texts demonizing him from the president and all the calls on capitol hill for pete to be fired that that did not play a role in the bureaus ultimate decision. >> after the inspector general report came out in june, criticizing stzrok for sending those anti-trump text messages, the fbi's office of professional responsibility recommended that stzrok be suspended for 60 days and demoted, but not fired. stzrok's attorney is accusing a deputy director of the fbi of overruling that recommendation and breaking with bureau tradition. >> of course his lawyer says that it was a railroad job. his only other option is to say, you know what, my client prejudged two major investigations, he made up his mind that hillary clinton was and was innocent before he interviewed her, he made us by his mind that donald trump

stzrok and others. it's a shocking story. >> laura: peter, i think you reported on this at the time, i believe. when this email server wasr discovered, it also came out, i believe, that the person in charge of hillary's security on her system was told, we might've had some intrusion in the system, and kind of blew off the concern. i had to go back and get thehe actual language to get it verbatim. but that is reported, i guess the investigator, he said there was a concern raised, buts basically he was shot down. when he raise that concern. period. >> yes, that's exactly right. the service that was taking care of the servers raised this with the clinton people and it was dismissed. they didn't want attention focused on even the existence of the server. so the way they tried to cope with the server was pretending that the server wasn't there. this is a massive breach. look, we were told in the 2016 campaign that hillary clinton was the adult. she is the professional, she's the diplomat that knows how topl get things done and to do things in an orderly way. this was a massive failure. >> laura: she