. >> sean: what about barack obama new -- acting ag sally gates, she was shocked. this is when susan rice in the day donald trump was inaugurated, went back in the white house to talk about the specific meeting and in this meeting, barack obama said he knew all about this and all the details of the call with general flynn and his soon-to-be counterpart which interestingly, rice and samantha powers admitted they talk to their counterparts before they got into office which would be a normal course of duty but sally gates talking to all the people in the meeting including vice president biden, including jim comey and others that were there as well. that obama knew the details of the wiretap. who would have told barack oba barack obama, i want to know what biden do and when he knew it. >> probably susan rice who was working for mr. brennan on the counterintelligence investigation -- we have to go back to at least august 15th when strzok and paige texted each other about the insurance policy they discussed, it's the very next day august 16th before the election that the

they got that admonition from sally gates and then the acting attorney general.nd this is not bill barr plucking a bunch of political arguments out. these are -- it's a well supported argument with him and citation to a lot of supporting evidence that shows something that we already know, which is, against protocol and under circumstances where we had no case, the fbi set up a perjury trap interview for mike flynn, discouraged him from getting counsel and from notifying the white house authorities who should have been alerted if the fbi wanted to interview somebody on the white house staff, and one of the things that bill barr doesn't get into today but is very alarming is the monkeying that they did with the report of the interview. i think when you look at all the things that are brought together in the memo, you come away with exactly what the justice department said which is, they did not have a case that they could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that flynn was guilty. you have an ethical obligation not to go forward. >> tucker: and just to be totally clear,

, testimony from witnesses, including from jim comey, andrew mccabe, jim clapper, john brennan, sally gates, and others. attorney general william barr says he doesn't expect attorney john durham's probe into the fbi's decision-making in the russian probe to lead to criminal investigations of the president's predecessor or the presumptive 2020 democratic nominee. >> based on the information i have today, i don't expect mr. durham's work will lead to a criminal investigation of either man. our concern over potential criminality is focused on othe others. >> bill barr and obviously a very important statement today. you heard coming into our broadcast tonight the president has made a very important decision. he has decided to at least temporarily freeze any additional funding for the world health organization. he said they must improve or they will now face a permanent freeze. in a letter to the leader of the w.h.o., the president reminded him back on april 14 he suspended u.s. contributions to the world health organization, pending an investigation by the administration over the organization's

let's see, clapper, brennan, rice, sally gates and jim comey were there. the end of the meeting -- and biden was there. comey and yates stay behind baird that's where sally gates said under oath that she was shocked that obama knew every intimate detail of general funds communications. unmasking, in other words. a coincidence? i'm sure. obama's vp, the ever clueless forgetful joe biden was present at the meeting. and what's interesting, on january 12, 8 day before his leaving, vice president, trumpets coming into be inaugurated, joe biden himself directly submitted his own request to unmask general flynn. now, it just so happens yesterday biden was on with george stephanopoulos. clinton sycophant, obama sycophant. even george asked what did you know, when did you know it and he said he knew nothing about any investigation into general flynn. now either he forgot or he's lying. we will let you decide. >> so what did you know about those moves to investigate michael flynn, and was there anything improper done? >> i know nothing about those moves to investiga

sally gates was shocked to know that obama understood everything that had taken place in the unmasked phone call of general flynn. wow! what did he know and when did he know it? i would like to know. >> well, clearly, sean, what we are finding out now this is a full court press on the part of the obama administration. the obama/biden administration. remember biden was in the room january 2017 to conduct a coup, nonetheless to make sure that donald trump suffered whatever they could make him suffer at the hands of michael flynn, papadopoulos, and peter strzok and lisa page. they were able to violate everyone's constitutional right to make sure they could get someone to flip against this president. they were willing to lie to us. they lied to us from the get-go about russia. they knew there was no russia collusion and swore to it under oath. they knew that they had to tell the truth. yet, they continue to lie to the american people so as to take out donald trump as a legitimately elected president of the united states. >> sean: was obama -- >> they should be made accountable. and when w

on november 3rd, 2017, former deputy attorney general sally gates saying to adam schiff there was no evidence of collusion but on march 132018, four months after those four officials and others testified, there was zero evidence of any trauma or russia collusion the congenital liar adam schiff got in front of a camera and was held up as some kind of hero by the mob media. the socialist media that said there was a significant evidence of trumpet russia collusion. he knew it was a lie, he had all the testimony proving it was a lie, this is what he told the american people, take a look. >> the people need to know whether the russians still have something they can hold over the president had. the president of the united states. our work is far from done. i can say with confidence that there is significant evidence of collusion between the campaign and russia. >> sean: you have a guy that was. what the nature of the compromise? naked pictures. does vladimir know? vladimir no compromise. that is him on tape, he was colluding with a russian he thought. a year later, by the way, march 24th 2

his final days president obama has at early january 2017 meeting with officials like comey, and sally gates not revealed it was president obama himself who revealed to her that flynn was on the wiretaps. then susan rice wrote that odd email saying that for the record back about 15 days earlier at the meeting, president obama said do all these investigations by the book. attorney general bill barr has decided the probe was not done by the book and he moved to drop the charges. prosecutor john durham is now looking at this unmasking issue among others, wondering about whether there could be prosecutions. they are waiting for canal himself, and i'm thinking i could get sticky because of other info. that was a remarkable statement and an assessment declaring that russia meddled in the 2016 election, and most importantly, they claim that russia interfered. it turns out, obama cia chief john brennan had intel saying actually russia wanted hillary clinton to win. he was a former chief of staff, and brennan suppressed some of the intel that suggested russia wanted clinton to win. i separately have

comey, james clapper, cia director john brennan, andrew mccabe and former acting attorney general sally gates. meanwhile attorney general bar catching the attention of the president saying he does not expect us attorney john duramax investigation to lead to prosecution of his predecessor or his opponent. >> president obama and vice president biden, whatever their level of involvement based on the information i have today i don't expect mister durham's work will lead to a criminal investigation of either man. >> that surprised the president who repeatedly refers to obamagate but stood by his attorney general while maintaining his criticism. >> i have no doubt that obama and biden were involved. it was >> house democrats tell supreme court they are still investigating donald trump writing a letter to the 9 justices, the house judiciary committee investigation did not cease with the conclusion of the impeachment trial, more specifically they say they are looking into possible improper political influences in recent decisions in the stone and flynn cases. i will be looking at more impeachment hea

special counsel team, these documents submitted by bill barr show us that sally gates and some of the people at the very highest levels of the department of justice gave interviews to the mueller team in august of 2017 where they talked about the misconduct, the clear misconduct going on by jim comey and andy mccabe and peter strzok as they ran up and down pennsylvania avenue trying to find a way to destroy this young presidency. they knew this, in august of 2017 when they did these interviews and yet, what did mueller's team do? they continued, they prosecuted flynn, they continued this collusion conspiracy narrative in spite of knowing very well by then that the dossier was nonsense, the logan act was never brought against anyone, and that michael flynn didn't do anything wrong and that the fbi did. they knew all of that, but did we know any of that? we did not. >> tucker: do you find, they didn't like the outcome of the election so they set about trying to destroy the administration. what shocks me is that they spent three years lecturing us about the threat to our democracy, and f

so an acting attorney general sally gates who allowed an interview with the president's new nsa chiefo go forward and of course there was the cricket fbi agent peter strzok and his insurance policy that he mentioned to his lovebird lisa page. they went after him on a pretext, they already knew he had spoken with the russian ambassador because they had the call transcript but they set up this interview in hopes that he would step into a perjury trap. one former fbi head of intel noted before the flynn meeting revealed last week, they showed just that. this was the only justice that could have been handed down. here now, a man who was with flynn from the campaign to transition and who sat face-to-face with mueller, rudy giuliani. today seemed to signify the real beginning of the unraveling of the deep state as we know it, do you agree? >> i believe it's a very important day. justice has been done for a man who has been treated totally unjustifiable way. this is a man that the obama administration was out to get from the time that he wouldn't light for them and it had something to do wit

the doj has dropped the case against flynn but in testimony released last week, sally gates said she would surprised to find out president obama knew all about flynn's call with the russian ambassador. >> the whole thing was orchestrated and set up within the fbi in the oval office meeting. >> you think this goes to the top with president obama? >> absolutely? >> a private phone call was leaked, president obama says this about the flynn charges being dropped. >> you begin to get worried but not just institutional norms but basic understanding of will of law is at risk. species possible consequence and all of this we are told us attorney gender a maps probe into the origins of the russia collusion investigation is moving full throttle and expanding by involving top federal prosecutors. shannon: we are standing by for that. the wall street journal editorial board weighing in on obamagate ready barack obama is a lawyer so it was stunning to read he ventured into the michael flynn case in a way that misstated the supposed crime. goes on to say, and ignore the history of his own administr

when he was briefed -- when it became clear he had been briefed by comey on the flynn wire tap and sally gates was acting as attorney at the time, it was pretty clear that -- and they had gone around. so there is a lot to investigate there. so we are probably going to find out. as for the journalism involved in the pursuit of that story in the collision narrative that we live with us for so long before it was blown up, it was a worse generalist a fiasco of my more than 50 some years of journalism. it was a disaster. you look at the editor of "the new york times," he said he had set up his whole newsroom, his whole journalistic operation was to cover that story and it ended up going nowhere. it was a terrible journalistic misjudgment and it was rooted in their view, in my opinion, it was rooted in their view, and he was such a terrible person that had to be true. "the washington post" and "the new york times" pursued it relentlessly. their coverage did not reflect any real doubt that it may not turn out to be true at any time, and in the end it all blew up. you would think that they would learn

. >> sean: he knew it, it even shocked sally gates on january 5th 2017. when we come back, patriots owner robert kraft sold one of his super bowl rings for over a million bucks, donating it to charity. gave new york 300,000 n95 masks and respirators. he'll joining us live. and can we open the nfl safely? straight ahead. ♪ >> sean: new england patriots owner robert kraft doing everything he can to help with covid relief. a plane sent to china to bring back million of masks for americans serving on the front line. to pop up the hospital at the javits center in new york city. he also sold his prize super bowl li ring for over a million dollars as part of a coronavirus fund-raiser. he joins us now. first of all, beautiful ring. thank you for all you've done for it i'm going to put up on the side of the screen all you've done, only a tip of the iceberg. the ring in particular, that had to be hard to give up. they are not easily obtained. i know you have a lot of them, but... >> no. that one is pretty special. i had a good friend, michael rubin,ha who started t

after that so called "by the book" meeting sally gates and james comey decided white to discuss plan. now according to the recently testimony from sally yates, this is from the house untilhe committee that the crept congenital, cowardly, you know adam schiff was hiding here the former deputy ag, she admits she was shocked to learn. on january 5th, barack obama and the president with details of the wiretapped phone calls. does that seem "by the book" to you? what about the flynn case demanding to be reopened just the day before, january 4, 2020, after the investigation found ne evidence of wrongdoing? one other fact about january 5th. the chief of staff of barack obama, that guy was unmasking flynn. dennis mcdonagh. coincidence? eight days before they left the oval office and donald trump was inaugurated, then joe biden who said on day one of this last week, he didn't know anything about unmasking. we found out he was one of the unmaskers. what about comey sending the agents as he admits and brags on tape to ambush general flynn a 33 year veteran four days into the trump administration

>> sean:ea what does it mean that sally gates and comey on that january 5th oval office meeting were ld back and sally yates expressed shock that barack obama knew all about the contents of that phone call and the unmasked phone call of general flynn? >> it means the obama administration intentionally unmasks a conversation with the incoming national security advisor to president trump. that is astounding. if i ever find that the intelligence community is unmasking my phone calls with foreign leaders where i discuss foreign policy via a united states senator, heads would roll. i find it unbelievable that the outgoing administration is surveilling the incoming administration. that is incredibly wrong. at the minimum, unethical. >> sean: what about the realization now that in fact you have one guy, giving the bills from fusion gps to pay for the russian disinformation and podesta saying that in fact hillary kind of knew, we all knew we were paying for op research and some of that was from russia. in i the end, "the new york tim" actually got something right. the tour of the paper times.

general flynn, obama, we were finding out more and more every day laying the traps working with sally gatese department, flynn looked down and saw the fbi and said they will come brief me about national security issue but what happened, they went into trap him and try to trap him in a y which they probably did not get, that did not stop him from prosecuting them. >> the word is that president obama was angry when he testified to congress that he is not the gdp. to your point, he was a former director of defense intelligence agency in the pentagon service and the theory is according to sidney powell, michael flynn's lawyer, flynn knew how and where to find evidence of the fbi and legal spying operation against the trump campaign. let's listen to sidney powell i would like your reaction on what she says listen. >> he was going to audit the intelligence as he came to the white house and that was one thing he was terrified of and he would mee immediately discoveree fisa abuses and the incredible widespread general surveillance abuses of the administration, i don't know whether it's from mrs on

on november 3rd, 2017, sally gates concluding to adam schiff, there was no evidence of collusion, butn march 13th, 2018, just four months after those four officials and others testified, there was zero evidence of any trump-russia collusion, the congenital liar schiff got in front of a camera and of course not question, he was held up at some kind of hero by the mob and the media, the socialist -- of our day and said there was significant evidence of trump-russia collusion. he knew it was a lie, he had all the testimony proving it was a lie, but this is what he told the american people, take a look. speak of the american people need to know whether the russians still have something they can hold over the president's head. the president of the united states. so our work is far from done. i can certainly say with confidence that there is significant evidence of collusion between the campaign and russia. >> sean: let's not forget, there was only one guy who thought he was talking to a russian and that was schiff. and you have a guy that was breaking -- that's right, adam schiff. we have

then george stephanopoulos pointed out he was in a meeting with the fbi director and sally gates on january5th, 2017, in which they were discussing a counterintelligence investigation into flynn. when stephanopoulos brought that up he said i thought you said -- i don't know anything about a criminal investigation. he needs to get a straighter, better answer about that. i think it depends on what is out there and if you like something that's against the law and that would be very serious. newly classified information. just seeking the unmasking of somebody who was identified as american number one and a classified intelligence report, that's perfectly legal and happens all the time, in 2018 and the trump administration it happen 16,000 times. so just asking for somebody, what was the name of the un-american, number one is fine. if you like it you got a problem. >> bill: more questions coming on that. looking forward to seeing you on sunday, a great lineup. we talked with tom frieden, and also the chief economic advisor at all eons. then you have the democratic in colorado who met with presid

the department of justice, keep in mind sally gates who is no flaming republican, by the way she wasurious james comey did what he did to flynn because she works for that blindfolded woman who holds a set of scales. and you have to treat people even if you agree with one and not the other. clinton has a bunch of lawyers and flynn is told not to have any. the only commonality is remember comey didn't prosecute hillary clinton because no one had been prosecuted under that statute before. guess what, no one's been prosecuted under the logan act either here and so if you went to interview flynn with an act never forced a prosecutor before, that is one thing. if you ask marsha blackburn about the intelligence part of it, okay, that is a good question you asked her. here is what the fbi agent should have done. general flynn, whether you remember stating it or not, here is the transcript. here is the recording of the call you had with ambassador. maybe this will refresh your recollection. who told you to call the russian ambassador? who told you to do what you did? that is how you would run

centers around this january 5th, 2017, meeting in the oval office with obama, biden, susan rice, sally gates the deputy attorney general and james comey, the fbi director. and the charges that the investigation discussed and the idea of the fbi interviewing flynn. sally yates' sworn testimony says that what happened in that meeting was president obama said, look, we've learned some information about flynn. do we need to withhold information from him? and they were -- we were told that didn't happen and that flynn was briefed on everything he needed to know. and that there was no discussion of the investigation in that meeting. but those are the allegations, and, frankly, steph, they're going to continue to make them. this is not going away. >> joining me -- well, we're going to keep fact-checking it then. joining my to discuss and break through this noise, ken dilanian, an nbc news national security and intelligence correspondent and dylan biers, senior media reporter. ken, this word is used over and over again in this case. unmasking. can you explain what unmasking a source would be necessa

we have this oval office meeting and sally gates, when sally yates learned about the conversation withobama and she was so shocked about what she was learning that she could barely process information, is what the reporting says. beyond that and this meeting, you have jim comey bringing up the logan act. a statute not ever used in its entire more than 200 year history to prosecute an americ american. what was the entrapment? and, as we know as of yesterday, we are now taking on this judge who has been openly critical of president donald trump to argue against the motion to dismiss this case. what is the reaction from the white house on that? >> well, the judge should follow the facts. that clearly shows the outlines and the doj document that this case was corrupt from the very beginning. they were about to close it, and there was serendipitously good news that they were incompeten incompetence. they go into michael flynn's office and kurt encourage them not to have a lawyer and trap them. when they left even andy mccabe said there was no lie here. so this was very corrupt from the begi

i can't possibly criminal investigation because remember sally gates doesn't know anything about it.the top law in the count country. to this day she learned it. so it can't be a criminal investigation. by the way, comey is both criminal and counter intelligence and the other thing that i find shocking about this, if susan rice had been interviewed by jim comey that day he would've followed a completely different book. he did things to flynn that he would have never done to the other administration so i'd like to know what the name of the book that they are following is because it's not the fbi men mike emanuel. >> it's a conspiracy theory and a distraction from the pandemic and yet i will give you a chance to respond to that fairly. marco rubio put his finger on something and he said there's something that a lot of people are forgetting. >> elements of a phone call, they were leaked to the press, someone broke the law. someone took that information, give it to members of the press and broke the law. that alone was cause for accountability and to find out who did it. >> ed: so even i

director john brennan, former deputy director andrew mccabe and former acting attorney general sally gates. among others we reached out, and so far no one is talking. >> we will watch it. thank you. >> let's bring in senator john cotton. senator, good morning to you and thanks so much for being here. first of that, lindsey graham announcing that -- do you support his move to do so? >> yes they do. they need to get exactly to the obama administration, the campaign during the transition to spy on the trump campaign and it would appear to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power, a hallmark of our republic going back more than 200 years. just last week we learned that almost 40 obama administration officials had unmasked the name of general mike flynn. some of them may have had legitimate reasons to do so, many of whom operate undercover but, the white house chief of staff and the secretary of the treasury, even vice president biden himself. when you pile that on to the abuses getting electronic wiretaps on some trump campaign advisors we need to get to the bottom of what's happening. >> he's n

answer on collusion, so did former attorney general loretto mentioned deputy attorney general sally yates and gates also was asked about the steel dossier, the discredited document, or rubbish is one interview called it, the fbi relied on to repeatedly gain fisa warrants to spy on a member of the trump campaign but because during questioning the age didn't know the information in the dossier had been corroborated adam schiff tried to steer her in a different direction saying the investigation wasn't all about the dossier, it was also about general michael flynn, the man whose, the case was dropped today by the feds and former fbi director andrew mccabe said this about the dossier, quote, we have not been able to prove the accuracy of all the information. the newly released documents also show former president obama apparently knew the fbi had recorded a phone call between michael flynn and former russian ambassador. mister obama's knowledge of that call apparently came as a bit of a surprise. >> our panel has been pouring over the documents and have plenty to say. fox news contributor byron york an

bill gates, sally ride lin-manuel miranda, pablo picasso, toni morrison. they all throughout the checklist. they all ignored the plan. so maybe you are saying to yourself i can't expect to be jane austin nor frank lloyd wright but i think what we can embrace is a handcrafted life, not one made up of plans and checklist but fragments of the expectations of a society that honestly in most of its expectations is not worthy of you are any of us and that requires courage, not compliance, passion in lieu of simple plans. this right now is a new world so are we strong and smart enough to explore the new world instead of pointing to the old one? are we smart and strong enough to become who we might need were we not afraid because that's a problem, isn't it? we seek what is correct because we are afraid. caution is nothing but fear dressed up is common sense. the road less traveled is a popular palm and unpopular life choice. a well trod road is so much safer but do we want our lives to be a resume or an adventure? don't let fear rule you. fear is what has poisoned