and veteran fbi agent, ron hosko, a former assistant director there. thank you very much for appearing as part of our segment tonight. another break for us. coming up, it's not an easy week for republicans to back their president. so the question arises can conservatives be pro-trump in this environment, or are they more successful being the anti-anti-trump. we'll explain with charlie sykes right after this. >>> the destroy trump propaganda media continues to do the democrats' dirty work by pushing insane tin hat conspiracy theories. they're totally suffering from trump derangement syndrome. >> the democrat party is going bananas, completely, totally unhinged on their own to literal insanity. the democrats are convinced the russians stole the election. >> conservative media reaction there to the firing of fbi director comey. more broadly, many republican lawmakers have avoided commenting on the firing this week. according to nate silver's 538, of 52 republicans in the senate, 25 either gave an ambiguous reaction or gave no statement at all. only a quar

back with me now is ron hosko former assistant director of the fbi's criminal investigative division and president of the law enforcement legal defense fund. sir, thanks for staying with us. >> sure. >> melissa: you know, based on those comments, the question it seems like a lot roff people's minds has come down to whether or not there was collusion with the trump campaign. when do you think we will know that? i know there shouldn't be a rush on these things. at the same time, it is a cloud that is hanging over things and preventing the country from getting on with this business. how do we know one way or the other? >> that is, i think, going to be an on going struggle, melissa. because very often complicated cases, particularly those that involve many transactions, whether that's electronic phone records, travel records, business records, financial records. and especially when you're talking about multiple potential people. you know all of the names. overseas, engagements overseas. i don't think -- i think we would be mistaken to set our expectations that we're gonna hear something

ron hosko was a former assistant director of the f.b.i. >> the goal, obviously, for these folks, i don'te to hurt everyone. i just have to make my mark. >> reporter: hosko says terrorists view people entering and exiting event, from papal masses to hockey games, as easy targets. typically, security is relaxed when an event ends. you exhale because the event's over. >> that's right. >> reporter: but what manchester shows is that maybe you have to rethink that. >> that's right. and rethink how do we push security? and we've seen this at airport as well. how do we push the security perimeters back in a way that just doesn't make the choke point further back? >> reporter: but in some places, it's not practical to change the brim primters. correspondent don dahler is in new york's times square. >> reporter: it's especially challenging here in times square where 300 to 500,000 people pass through this pedestrian plaza on any given day. with eight streets and multiple sidewalks converging here, this is a vulnerable area that police say they simply cannot make 100% safe. >> reporter: police ackn

assistant director ron hosko worries that comey's firing could have a chilling effect. >> if the timing of this termination lines up with timing about a slowdown in the investigation, the russia investigation, then i think there are serious, serious questions that are going to need to be answered by this white house and by the department of justice. >> reporter: acting f.b.i. with the president today. the white house said that the president wanted to discuss bureau morale. scott, tomorrow mccabe will be on capitol hill testifying at a previously schedule hearing. >> pelley: jeff pegues, thanks. now, earlier we mentioned the memo from deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. the white house is pointing to that memo to justify president trump's decision to fire comey. rosenstein, who has been the number two with the justice department for just two weeks, specifically criticized a news conference that comey held last july on the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. chip reid has more on this. >> our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. >> reporter: on july 5,

ron hosko. or left, republican or democrat, you have to be concerned what about going on here. meanwhile, uber caught in a new controversy that will cost them a bunch of money and drivers are revolting and passengers revolted. >> neil: you know, these days, a lot of folks say, they're not taking a cab, it's an uber. it's a lexicon like a xerox. and adam has created a crisis for uber in the middle of pay back for drivers. i guess they were stiffing, right? update me on this. >> uber was miscalculating the commissions that they paid to drivers in new york city. they reached an agreement on how to do it. rather than taking the after tax amount, they were taking the pretax amount which means uber was taking a bigger share. it's mind boggling in its stu d stupidi stupidity. >> neil: why would they do that? let's say it wasn't deliberate. why would that do that knowing the fact that they have a guy like you writing a best seller on them that everybody would be all over it? >> one can only assume that

bret: let's get analysis from ron hosko, former assistant director of the fbi and works with the legal defense fund. thanks for being here. >> sure, good evening. bret: i want to play two sound bites, first, the senate minority leader asked a question whether they are going to move forward with an fbi replacement? >> senator mark warner, he's the top democrat on the intelligence committee, he wants the democratic party to refuse to vote on the nomination of new fbi director until a special prosecutor is appointed. do you support that move? >> yeah, i think there are a lot of democrats who feel that way. we'll have to discuss it as a caucus, but i would support that move because who the fbi director is related to who the special prosecutor is. bret: and then, this is acting fbi director mccabe answering questions on capitol hill last week. >> you have the resources you need for the russian investigation, is that correct? >> sir, we believe it's adequately -- >> the actions about jim comey and his release has not curtailed the investigation from the fbi, it's still moving forward? >> the

. >> ron hosko, ambassador christopher hill, we will have to leave it there, sirs. you both. >> you're welcome. >>> up next, drowning in drama. we are about a third of the way into donald trump's first year of his presidency with no shortage of crises coming from the oval office. david. what's going on? oh hey! ♪ that's it? yeah. ♪ everybody two seconds! ♪ "dear sebastian, after careful consideration of your application, it is with great pleasure that we offer our congratulations on your acceptance..." through the tuition assistance program, every day mcdonald's helps more people go to college. it's part of our commitment to being america's best first job. ♪ before fibromyalgia, i was a doer. i was active. then the chronic, widespread pain drained my energy. my doctor said moving more helps ease fibromyalgia pain. she also prescribed lyrica. fibromyalgia is thout to be thlte resu of overactive nerves. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. woman: for some, lyrica can significantly relieve fibromyalgia pain and improve function, so i feel better. lyrica may cause s

also with us is ron hosko former assistant director for the fbi. matt, let me start with you.rump raised a lot of eyebrows this week with a cryptic tweet saying comey better hope there's no tape of their january meeting. the president was asked about that in the fox news interview. take a listen. >> what about the idea in a tweet you said there might be tape recordings? >> that i can't talk about. i won't talk about that. all i want is for comey to be honest. and i hope he will be. i'm sure he will be, i hope. >> matt, is there any indication a tape like that exists? >> there isn't, though the president would certainly be the one to know that. if a tape like that exists, you're watching and have access to it, send it along to me, i'd be curious to hear the recordings of these discussions of the president and fbi director. i'm sure the whole world would be curious to hear the recordings. >> would it be legal for the president to do that? >> certainly he's within his power, i guess, to do that. the white house does record just as a matter of the technology they use a lot of phon

joining us right now on the phone is ron hosko, former assistant fbi director under robert mueller and he is now the president of the law enforcement legal defense fund and ron, thank you for joining us today. what's your reaction to this move? >> it was like, i think, my former colleagues over at the fbi, shocked certainly a certain amount of sadness. i worked for jim comey. i thought he was a patriot. a good american trying to do the right thing during very troubled politicized, angry times in america. and i trackly thought i couldn't use some of the words was pondering about how they did this. but i thought it was disrespectful to him, to the organization. you know, jim comey was at a -- at the los angeles field office at a hiring event, and essentially learned about his own termination when tv screens were on behind him in the room. and to me that is a credibly disrespectful for someone who meant this much to the organization and to america. >> yeah, very surprising to hear how that was kind of disseminated and how he found out about it. we had a guest earlier who posited that mayb