my meeting with stefan halper and that charge.nted to know about what trump was up there with the russians, which was nonsense. >> this is important. you were saying, she was being so suggestive with you to get that information. you were set up in a major way and then, you know, it sounds like, i would think, a perjury trap in the end that put you in jail for two weeks. >> that's exactly what happened. this whole thing was a complete set up. there werepp some keystone stuff going on. the u.k. obviously was involved because the operation was in london. i was meeting with british officials the same day that stefan halper and azra turk were spying on me. there was something really insidious going on here with our ally, the u.k., and i'm sure that president trump is going to get to the bottom of it once he goes abroad and meets with theresa may and the queen in june. >> sean: thank you, both. when we come back, and bc so-called commentator, he thinks he's a genius, took a shot at me, i'll respond a little better. ari fleischer, pam bo

we also know that in fact spies were sent in vis-a-vis stefan halper. for carter page, s papadopoulos, sam clovis. on top of the spying, basically through the fisa warrant into all things trump. what else are we going to find out? >> well, i know this much about christopher steele, and his dossier. i've read plenty of intelligence reports, i've met with plenty of british officials that are in intelligence, not only in the u.k., but here and abroad. they have been very valuable, allies to us. they are not idiots, sean. there is no possible way that british intelligence folks read the christopher steele dossier and didn't just laugh, okay? r so i actually believe that mueller knows that the mueller dossier team knew that the brits actually i think did give us some warning. but we can't get that information. i think there are things that mueller knew about, i think the brits probably did raise concernsns about steele's credibility to the new administration. but of course, we can't get those documents. it's what we continue to try to get. hopefully, it is w

i received an unsolicited email in september of 2016 from a man name stefan halper who was suggestinghat he wanted to pay me $3,000 to write a report on energy security questions, and i was a recognized expert on that, israel, turkey, and cyprus. i looked him up, i'd never heard of him. i saw that he had worked in four u.s. administrations and he was a professor at cambridge so i accepted his offer and he flew me to london, where he paid for my five star hotel, and he said before i meet with you i want you to meet my assistant. he put this assistant in an email chain along with me and i saw her name, i recognized it as turkish, which was suspicious right away because my policy positions throughout my entire career were very hostile to turkey. when i noticed a turkish name, i didn't understand why she would be involved. i went and i met with her and she was very suggestive, as you can understand, younger, very flirtatious. i right away understood this wasn't a cambridge assistant and she barely spoke english and she was very flirty and was trying to do two things, one, to extract infor

i believe that general plan was targeted and i was used to do that. >> stefan halper has not respondedx's questions in the past but if that changes, we are better reporting, >> tucker: wouldn't that be great. catherine herridge, you are always on these stories. we appreciate that. for more reaction to robert mueller statement today we are joined by someone who is being watch very closely. former trump advisor michael caputo. thanks so much for coming on. >> tucker, how are you doing? >> tucker: i can imagine you watched that live and had a strong reaction to it. what was your take away? >> to me, it was surreal. it wasas kind of like, so long, robert mueller. i guess you want to ride off into the sunset now. i thought, obviously he didn't say anything that wasn't in the report except that he didn'tt want to testify publicly. i don't think we will let him right into the sunset. i don't think we should. there are some things that i would like republican congressman to ask him in the private session off-camera. when did you know there was no russian collusion? why didn't you end it right

similar to george papadopoulos, who was being probed by stefan halper, who was a former british professor who was gathering information for the fbi and spying on theth trump campaign. the most interesting fact i think, and i will leave you with this, sean, is that tricia anderson basically tries to downplay bruce ohr's involvement when they questioned about being the back channel for christopher steele after the fbi fired him. they question her over and over again. if the fbi actually had enough evidence, enough evidence to go after a fisa with what they found in the dossier. tricia anderson refuses to answer on multiple occasions. it's going to be very interesting to see what comes out next.io it's going to be very interesting to see what the department of justice, william barr, attorney general william barr, will have as far as information on, you know, on the investigation and how it coincides with these transcripts. i think people have a lot of answering to do. >> sean: a lot of spying. you forgot the bond movie blonde bombshell with papadopoulos. sam clovis, papadopoulos, carter page

that happened what the "new york times," "washington post," reuters, mcclatchy, leaks about who stefan halperas, leaks regarding there investigation, leaks about the dossier, all came from some of these people. there is accusations and there is evidence to suggest that clapper leaked information.nc possibly brennan leaked information. they don't want to legitimately have the government, the department of justice investigate, investigate what happened inin the 2016 election. why? because maybe they were involved?be uh, no. it stops here. the president did the right thing. he did it right way.ps william barr has an investigation and the american people deserve answers. >> jason: congressman winstrop you serve on thens intel committee and the ways and means. we should note to the viewers this memorial day, great service for the united states military. i believe you are the rank off the colonel. maybe i should call you "colonel." break this down for us. you have seen leaks from the intel coming out of the intel committee under schiff's leadership and what the democrats have seen. what do you thin

former trump campaign associate carter page just revealed that his contacts with the fbi informant stefan halper were extensive. and continued for more than a year. spanning a time period before and after the 2016 election. that's right, spying occurred. james comey says, i did not spy, but he assigned the first fisa warrant. we will find how and why hillary clinton's phony russian dossier that she paid for and never told the fisa court judges that she paid for, it was used against the president and his allies. we also learned aboutt media leaks, ramping bias, and whose inalienable rights were trampled on. as president trump pointed out, and we could well uncover the role of some of the closest allies, but argues probably great britain, probably australia, probably italy, but i'm just guessing. what do i know? take a look. >> the attorney general is one of the most respected people in this country, and he has been for a long period of time. he is going to look at a lot of documents, some he may find interesting, maybe he will finds none interesting, but for over a year, people have asked mee to

>> this person would play the role of stefan halper's research assistant.bi believed she would -- she would make a good fit. i think -- i think part of the rationale was also to have an american investigator there who could provide some oversight and make sure this operation stayed on the rails. >> was she an fbi agent? >> i'm just going to leave it right now as a government investigator. i use that wording for a reason, and i'm going to leave it at that. >> okay. and is it clear if any actual information was learned from that meeting? i mean, you say it was basically a failure. >> basically it wasn't fruitful, but what it showed was this some might say panic, others might say heightened sense of alarm about what was going on, and they needed to get to the bottom of it. i mean, this was pretty extraordinary for the fbi to move this fast on something overseas, to run this type of operation. and it really goes to the seriousness of the threat, at least the threat they received. >> and yesterday attorney general barr defended -- he's his use of the term spying

why haven't we heard stefan halper, s long-standing government source, and as eric felten just said,ong-standing recipient of tax dollars. why isn't he answering these questions? >> we have this i amazing situation going on where we have the russia hoax, treasonous league colluding with russia to steal the 2016 election. robert mueller declined to indict a single american for that. this is what eric felten has just reported about a wide-ranging campaign against the trump campaign that used human informants. national security letters. wiretaps. this character, i don't think that is her real name. a government official who was sent to london to oversee the operation. we know that there were probably four people who weret surveilled at least. we don't know so much about this, and the media show a shocking lack of curiosity. they broke the story, but then they kind of downplayed it and acted like we are going to telly you all about the spy, but it doesn't support donald trump's contention that he was spied onr it supports it, and they need tt cover it with the same rigor that they devote

information for fisa applications, and one direction to spy on the trump campaign and another, stefan halperpproaching papadopoulos and clovis and others, and page. and that, to me, would be fraud on the court. and then they use the same line, russian dis-information, with that unduly elected president to take him out. i mean, karl. >> and today, booker is saying and acting as if nothing ever happened with christopher steele going to moscow, calling up his pals in moscow, saying, got any dirt on trump? same with kamala harris. she just grates on me and she goes after barr and says, did you ever look at the underlying evidence? he said, no, as a matter of fact, i assumed and took as fact what bob mueller told me in his 400 page report. well, she was a chief prosecutor in san francisco. c can she lick the camera straight in the eye and say that on every decision she made to indict somebody or not indict somebody, that she looked at all the underlying evidence? or did she rely on the police? absolutely right! yet this is the kind of stuff they were doing routinely today! editor speaks to the ra

fbi investigator working undercover, a cambridge professor, and a foreign policy expert named stefan halper. we've talked a lot about this. and trump campaign advisor george papadopoulos, he spent two weeks in jail. the meet up was supposed to be a foreign policy strategy session. the undercover investigator, well, set up the meeting. he was working as a secret fbi informant, and they both worked in unison to spy on papadopoulos to set the trump campaign up. "the conversation at a london bar in september 2016 took a strange turn when the woman sitting across from george papadopoulos asked a direct question: was the trump campaign working with russia? keep in mind halper was also set up, multiple meetings with trump campaign aid carter page, and who is being wiretapped. another way they spied on the trump campaign by the fbi after the fbi director, comey, and others obtained the fisa warrant using hillary clinton's opposition research with "the new york times" now suggesting could be russian disinformation, the phony, unverified dossier, the dirty, russian dossier. wow, it is all beginning t

had wiretapped carter page and we knew that they had used confidential informant, a man stapled stefan halper in britain against page and papdopoulus as well. now we find out that they had a secret investigator, a woman by the fake name of turk. we don't know her actual name. she was apparently send there by the fbi to gather information out of papdopoulus. he did say on tucker last night he thought she was using sex appeal to try to get information out of him. but it is really, really hard to say that there was not spying going on for the trump campaign. melissa: so their defense at other times whether it is this or wiretap or all the different things has been, boy, they must have had really good reason for this, to go to these lengths. they definitely wait until you hear the evidence of what was going on that they were going into perform the sting operation. when you get to the bottom of "the new york times" article, in the end they never found anything on george papdopoulus. he eventually lied to investigators but he, you know, lied to the people that were entrapping him, in his mind at le

. >> arguably the fbi lost an informant in stefan halper. his name is out there. that's the kind of damage that can get done. the exposure of people who have other jobs who have been helpful to investigations in the past. >> it's damage to prior sources, it's damage to current sources, and it's damage to potential future sources, because who wants to become a source of the united states if we can't keep a secret. >> peter baker, is this -- the president is somebody that loves -- he thinks everything is a deal in some form or another, right? so he went to nancy pelosi and said, you know i'm not legislatu legislating until you stop investigating. does he think if he starts this investigation in justice that he can say, okay, i'll stop that if you stop yours. is this the type of strategic thinking that the president has put into this? >> that's a great question. is he capable of it? i guess, a lot of things we've seen the last two and a half years indicate that he plays outside the box, he colors outside the lines. a normal administration wouldn't play it that way, i

reporter: what is key about that "new york times" report it goes to this i am form man, stefan halperaide, but also sam clovis. also interesting enough, former national security advisor mike flynn. we found in our reporting a russian woman alleged to be a honey pot with flynn which was not the case had specific contact with halper as well. goes to the issue of the ci investigation. really, i don't want to say the word stinks, that is not the right word, you can see how it was brought and how they were using individuals to do that. brian: you have company for the first time. "new york times" and "washington post" decided to join you on the story. where have they be been? do you find this astounding that this is new news that you have had for a year. reporter: i don't really want to comment on their reporting except i know that our team here, pamela brown, sid, we've been really pushing hard on these documents and when you look at the paper trail, you can see that there really was something amiss. just think last week with the vice president and the text messages, with lisa page and pet

carter page said he confided with stefan halper, he is former professor befriending trump associates, in mar-a-lago as a teen admits he snuck inside the club. president trump was in town when he said he got in through a tunnel. it took 20 minutes to arrest the university of wisconsin student. he wanted to see if he could get inside and had no ill intentions. he will be on probation for a year. >>> ferrari is expected to announce the debut of its first hybrid supercar today. the italian brand teasing an important announcement on social media saying, dare to imagine with no other details. ferrari's ceo has said the company would unfail the new hybrid by the end of this month. reports say the car could cost more than 600,000 bucks. so very affordable. brian: great on gas though. pete: save on gas. like a cheeseburger with a diet coke. brian: more on that later. thank you, jillian as she gradually walks away. if you picked up "the new york times" or "the washington post." might pick up the editorial writer, writing columns regularly, james comey called out anyone who has the audacity to f

at a meeting with george papadopoulos and the trump campaign official and was brought there by stefan halperory here is the news is the news. the fact that the new york times finally had to come around now and avoided the story for a year and a half should tell you something and that leads to headline number two. notice how they frame it getting out ahead of bill barr and he's come walking into tombstone. they try to frame the narrative in advance and it's going to be this. mark my word. it was a "frantic" time in the fbi. it was confusing. that is not an excuse. the constitution matters precisely when it's frantic. freedom of speech matters, pete, when you defended your military service when it matters not when everything is great. the freedom to petition your government and assemble matters when it's frantic that is not an excuse thoughts frantic in the fbi to spy. pete: it was frantic and their other defense appears to be well we really thought you may have been a rug agent so we're just patriots in pursuit of the truth >> that's a valid retort, that i know you'll hear from the left and i