strzok responding "more than they already did? told you that quinn told me they are pulling all the stops out on some story."t he then followed up "think our sisters have become leaking like mad. scorned and worried and political, they are kicking into overdrive." according to reporting from her own catherine herridge, the sisters they are referring to that strzok mention, that likely is the cia, that would be john brennan and barack obama's cia. less than a month after that exchange, "the new york times" published, published a story about rnc hacks on the very same day buzzfeed published a steele dossier filled with russian lies that hillary paid for.sh you have strzok referring to the cia pulling out all the stops saying the cia is scorned and that they are political and they are leaking like mad.he less than a month later, the dossier becomes public. is this the kind of politically motivated leaking from our most trusted government officials? is that acceptable, john brennan? i hate to say that chuck schumer is right, but if yo

strzok adding, "well done." now mark meadows letter to rosenstein, he signed off on one of the warrants that continued the surveillance of carter page. th may shed more light on how the doj handled the investigation. house republicans also want to see the documents that may shed light on why justice department official bruce orr kept such close touch with the former british spy, christopher steele, who put together the dossier that layed the ground work for the surveillance of carter page. >> sean: a dossier that he doesn't even stand by. here with reaction is former trump campaign associate, he's at the very center of tonight's scandal, great to see you. when you were on last time, you traveled to russia and other places and when your country, when you came back, they often debriefed you. >> very often. >> sean: you cooperated with the fbi because you are a patriot? >> yes. >> sean: and they considered you a friend. >> i always thought they did, yeah. >> sean: you are at the heart of all of this. the media leak

there is some evidence so, going to the point about strzok's attorney, i don't think that peter strzok the doubt. we can't reach any conclusive determination on the point that charlie and you were just making. there is something looking into. this the president tweeting about nothing is being done in the doj or fbi. the inspector general michael horowitz is investigating precisely this point. is he a credible person. i think we should allow him to get to the bottom of it. >> bret: quickly? >> guy took the words right out of my mouth. there is a part 2 ig report coming. the first one was quite critical -- >> bret: do you think that comes before the mid terms? >> i think they are under general policy over there not to do things in the 60 days before the mid terms, right? so i guess the answer has to be no. >> bret: we shall see. we will follow it all sides of this investigation. when we come back, the 9/11 anniversary all over the place. ♪ ♪ it's time to get out of line with upmc. at upmc, living-donor transplants put you first. so you don't die waiting. upmc does more living-donor liver

strzok had said that.hese new text released yesterday from congressman matos, a pretty clear picture of what's going on. including this text from strzok to page, it took place on april 10th 2017 reading "i had literally just gone to find this phone to tell you what i want to talk to you about. media leak strategy with the doj before you go. fbi and doj colluding. and then two days later on apria page that the articles were coming out about her namesake, carter page and then on april 22nd we originally believed this was on april 12th, metal's office corrected that earlier today -- same point. peter strzok told lisa page article is out, well done. this is what we have now been telling you what is a coordinated effort, the highest levels of the fbi and the doj leaking into trump information before the election, after the election, to the press first to stop them from becoming president and then to destroy his presidency. sneaky peter strzok is not trying to actually put out his own conniving spin on this fres

strzok added well done. mark meadows is a letter to rosenstein, interesting it went to him, he signed off on one of the fisa warrants that continued the surveillance of carter page. republicans want to see the president declassify documents that may shed light on how the doj handled the investigations of president trump and hillary clinton around the election. house republicans want to see the documents that may shed light on why justice department official bruce ohr kept such close touch with the former british spy, christopher steele who put together the dossier that laid the ground work for the surveillance of page. >> sean: doeser in that steele himself doesn't stand by. ed henry, here with an exclusive reaction is trump campaign associate, at the center of tonight's breaking news, the fisa abuse scandal, carter page, great to see you, sir. just to remind people, when you were on last time you traveled to russia and other places. when your country, when you came back they often debriefed you. >> very oft

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strzok added well done, paige. and here's a statement from strzok's attorney.his is the one where he defends him now and this has come out recently. "the term media leak strategy in mr. strzok's text refers to an departmentwide initiative to detect and stop leaks to the media. the president and his enablers are once again peddling unfounded conspiracy theories to mislead the american people." what do you make of it? >> john: this is kind of tough to swallow after what happened last week with the anonymous op-ed that we all remember. there was a crisis of trust in this country were resend elected officials here to do a job to represent us all and when you have these leaks, it fundamentally undermines the way we do business and government. this is why there is such a distaste among all americans regardless of what side of the aisle you're on. we all believe very strongly in the free press. we all believe in shining light in darkness and speaking truth to power. but at the same time, we need to make sure that we remember that these leaks. our service members at ri

strzok, page, and others.he newly found email chain referencing the data chain program with european intel agencies. it was sent over an unsecured device account, and rights in all caps "and [bleep] given everything going on, using a yahoo account for this." a yahoo! account from the redacted ipad, make him stop. all of the developments, this is four nights in a row surrounding the rampant political leaking and bias and abuse of power, mishandling sensitive information. we should all demand a lot more. finally, from the highest ranking government officials, those responsible for the deep state of bureaucratic -- need to be held accountable in a court of law. we know that this goes right into robert mueller's office with the relationship with bruce ohr, christopher steele, andrew weissmann. and christopher steele does not stand by his own dossier. but that did not stop him from trying to feed information, funnel it through bruce ohr to the special counsel's office and wrote it down. by the way, the president tw

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strzok and page talk about insurance policy.hen steel tells ohr asking ohr did you get the information we now know are fabricated lies from russia did you get them into the. >> tell you if there is the same relentless pursuit of these people as they have done to president trump, you're going to find very quickly already admitted evidence of serious crimes and a major conspiracy to first stop him from being president where there would be an impeachment. my head hangs in shame gave 16 years of my life to the department of justice as a third ranking official in the department of justice when i could proudly say it was a department of justice. and the only thing that could be done now is as relentless an investigation of all these people, as they did to president trump. >> sean: all right, mr. mayor, thank you for being with us. we appreciate it when we come back, trace gallagher has a live update the democrats' 11th hour attack to smear, slander besmirch judge kavanaugh and his confirmation that more on this busy breaking friday ne

agent peter strzok and former f.b.i. engaged in a coordinated effort to leak damaging information in order to damage the president, or they were attempting to stop others from doing so. now, strzok through his lawyer says my client wasn't leaking, he is trying to plug the leagues. congressman meadows only saw one side of this. i'm looking forward to meadows interrogating him and give strzok under oath toex plain what the texts meant. do the feds leak? of course they do. they are the best leakers in the business. f.b.i. agents and federal prosecutors. if they want to tarnish the reputation of someone they leak. if they want to pollute the jury pool, they leak. if they want to make their own investigation look good, they leak. >> sandra: will the truth come out? >> the truth will come out. that's a great question. it will come out if the right questions in the right environment are put to peter strzok and lisa page. i say the right questions and the right environment. politicians aren't always the best interrogators. profe

>> well what you see is the mainstream media and even strzok 's attorneys said no he wanted to get toottom of leaks, he was worried about getting to the bottom making sure nobody was leaking. what was happening here and this should scare american people, it scares me, to know that 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 and that's the word they used in their text message, a pre-text to go out and interview american citizens. knock-on their door and say look we head these three news stories we won't tell you we planted with the news and talk to you about these so that's first. second don't forget that the carter page fisa wasn't just that they used the clinton dirt as a basis to get the fisa. they also used, planted news stories to corroborate the dossier in front of the court, so they went to the court and said look, look at these news stories, judge. they actually matched this dossier, never telling the court that actually those were planted news stories by the clinton campaign and the f

this one from strzok saying this.need to open the case, this is on may 9th, 2017, we need to open the case, if we've got the full screen, please put it up, okay? i'm going to wait for you to get that up. you got it? we need to open the case, we have been waiting on now while andy is acting, referring to andrew mccabe. page responds we need to lock in redacted in a formal chargeable way soon. effectively acknowledging there's no evidence, they need some sort of contrivance it seems. your judgment, your interpretation of that exchange? >> mine matches yours. it's a pretext. they know andy mccabe would essentially conspire with them and since he was the acting, he could sign off on it. this is another deliberate targeting. this is incredible abuse of power targeting president trump personally and all those around him. this is the greatest outrage and abuse of authority of the fbi the country has ever seen. lou: chris farrell, thanks for being with us. up next, south korea's president goes to pyongyang tomorrow for a thir

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and lisa page, one from page to strzok, december 2016.ke your head spin to realize how many stories we played a personal role in. andrew mccarthy addressing the shocking further evidence of the smear campaign. >> we know there was a ton of leaking, and we know that they are talking about leaking at the same time the ton of leaking is going on, and they are quite happy about it. looks like a pretty strong case to me. lou: and that is it for us tonight. we thank you for being with us. sarah carter, gordan chang among our guests on monday. hope you will join us. have a great night. from new york, good night. >>> happy weekend. welcome to the program that analyzes the week that was and helps position you for the week ahead. i'm maria bartiromo. coming up in just a few minutes, northwestern mutual chairman and ceo is with me this weekend. plus, later on in the program, the president and ceo of the federal reserve bank of dallas, robert kaplan, my special guest. joining us coming up. but first we have the big headlines impacting everything from

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more drama from the ongoing saga of peter strzok and lisa page.ight newly released text messages from the two of them that make it pretty obvious that some of our most trusted officials, people who hold sensitive posts in the country's most powerful law enforcement agency have radically abused their power and hurt american citizens in the process, all for political reasons. the new text messages were revealed in a letter sent by congressman mark meadows to the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. the texts were sent in april 2017. they were part of a batch that you will remember had supposedly been lost to some sort of technical glitch. now mysteriously and thankfully, we have them. here's what they say. on april 10th, peter strzok told paige that he wanted to discuss a "media linking strategy" with her. the next day "the washington post" reported the obama administration had spied on trump campaign advisor carter page because there was credible reason to believe that page was an agent of russia. we now know that's ridiculous. carter page is n

lisa page, one from page to strzok, december 2016.ll make your head spin to realize how many stories we played a personal role in. andrew mccarthy addressing the shocking further evidence of the smear campaign. >> we know there was a ton of leaking, and we know that they are talking about leaking at the same time the ton of leaking is going on, and they are quite happy about it. looks like a pretty strong case to me. lou: and that is it for us tonight. we thank you for being with us. sarah carter, gordan chang >> a freaky forest that scrapes the sky. >> that's a redwood? >> it's several redwood trees. >> mysterious, incredible. believe it or not. >> you might see something like this in "lord of the rings" or "game of thrones." >> this is natural? >> of course. mother nature can only do this. >> but when life and limb's at risk...omeone could have gotten hurt.verybody in it. >> ...can they work without a net? >> that gives you the direction of where it's gonna fall... hopefully. >> the stress that you go through, the mayhem, the sleepl

and he's talking -- this is truk strzok to page. want to talk to you about media leak strategy with doj. now, in context, his lawyer says this was actually not talking about leaks to the media that page and strzok would put out, but they were concerned about new policies and it was actually talking about preventing leaks and their departmentwide initiatives in that. but from a political standpoint, jim, i think the texts are the gifts that keep on giving for people that want to discredit the mueller investigation because there's no debate these two were on the mueller team, at least for a short period of time, and there's no doubt that their text messages were publicly trashing -- privately i should say, trashing the president time and again. and so no matter what, people can now take these text messages out of context whenever they want to use the political football. >> right, classic strategy, right. you just need a little snippet there and you don't have to prove the broader charge. it is not the first time that republicans have

agent peter strzok.e are saying what we already know about bias at the f.b.i. is only the tip of the iceberg. >> i can tell you seeing some of the unclassified documents there is more of the story that has not been shared with the fisa court. actually with the american people. omplete job from any one else. why accept it from your allergy pills? flonase sensimist relieves your worst symptoms, including nasal congestion, which most pills don't. it helps block six key inflammatory substances. most pills block one. flonase sensimist. most pills block one. alice loves the smell of gain so much, she wished it came in a fabric softener too. [throat clears] say hello to your fairy godmother, alice. oh and look they got gain scent beads and dryer sheets too! today's senior living communities have never been better, with amazing amenities like movie theaters, exercise rooms and swimming pools, public cafes, bars and bistros even pet care services. and there's never been an easier way to get great advice. a place

one in which strzok talks about talking to page about a, quote, media leak strategy with doj. tells page about an article coming out involving her, quote, namesake. that appears, according to meadows, appears to seem to be carter page, the former trump foreign policy adviser who is the subject of a "washington post" post article soon after that said the fbi used that dossier to monitor trump adviser carter page. he said they have a fisa warrant to monitor carter page. now, this got the president riled up. he tweeted this morning about this. but it turns out, according to the attorney for peter strzok, he was not discussing that article at all. in fact, peter strzok's attorney released a statement saying the term media leak strategy in mr. strzok's texts refers to a department wide initiative to detect and stop leaks to the made yeah. the president and his enablers are once again peddling unfounded conspiracy theories to mislead the american people, and a source close to lisa page tells our colleague this is not part of any coordinating leak strategy. they were briefing senior

and strzok. then they talk to page and strzok. and there's some sort of meeting between ohr and mccabe. so the question is, was there a lot more here that has not been previously disclosed, number one. and number two, you're hearing from democrats in washington that this information is too sensitive to be released. but interesting they're making that argument right after you had corey booker at the supreme court hearing saying, let's release everything. we need to know everything we can. so the idea democrats have spent the last week saying we need more transparency, that might bolster the case for republicans in congress to release this info. >> sean: might be as early as next week according to people i'm talking to. ed henry, thank you. joining us ohio congressman jim jordan, matt gaetz. when you look at the people ed mentioned in his report, page, strzok, bruce ohr and mccabe, we've got all the essential figures in the insurance policy aspect of this. one has to wonder, is this now -- and christopher steele, is that where this

and strzok. then they talk to page and strzok.here's some sort of meeting between ohr and mccabe. so the question is, was there a lot more here that has not been previously disclosed, number one. and number two, you're hearing from democrats in washington that this information is too sensitive to be released. but interesting they're making that argument right after you had corey booker at the supreme court hearing saying, let's release everything. we need to know everything we can. so the idea democrats have spent the last week saying we need more transparency, that might bolster the case for republicans in congress to release this info. >> sean: might be as early as next week according to people i'm talking to. ed henry, thank you. joining us ohio congressman jim jordan, matt gaetz. when you look at the people ed mentioned in his report, page, strzok, bruce ohr and mccabe, we've got all the essential figures in the insurance policy aspect of this. one has to wonder, is this now -- and christopher steele, is that where this is lea

an attorney for former fbi agent peter strzok this morning is denying reports that strzok and his ex-girlfriend who also worked at the fbi, lisa page, had a strategy to deliberately leak information to the press hoping to harm the trump administration. this comes after new text messages between the two have been released and they reference a, quote, media leak strategy. in a tweet this morning, the president also repeated the accusation and also asked why the department of justice and fbi are not doing anything about it. our senior congressional correspondent manu raju has this reporting. he joins me on the hill. tick through it with us, what the texts were, what they show. >> mark meadows, a congressman who leads the house freedom caucus, is part of this effort to investigate the fbi, released a letter last night to rod rosenstein detailing new text messages between peter strzok and lisa page where meadows alleges a coordinating effort on part of the fbi and doj to release information in the public domain in an effort to harm president trump. specifically, meadows refers to text messages that

does it include page, strzok or steele? and andrew mccabe?if you were going to create a company called destroy trump inc, that would be the board. they all had a motive. they all did something to advance the w motive. violation of the fbi's rules, certainly a conflict of interesh rules. we know that what happened in july was not an organic concern. it was bruce ohr taking information from his wife's company, fusion gps and i christopher steele, walking it over to the fbi and redirecting the fbi to a different piece of evidence than what they started with. remember what they started with. george papadopolous. big case, right? >> sean: the president tweeted that out -- >> we know from our reporting early on that they thought the papadopoulos issue wasn't as serious as they thought. bruce ohr gives them something else to follow. >> sean: didn't the professor in london say -- >> no big deal. nothing there. nothing burger. that's what he called it. >> sean: what else did you get in your report? >> at the end of the day what we now know is ohr is a

this is why strzok texted paige, sitting with bill watching cnn, a ton worn out.et me know when you can talk. now we use it as a pretext to go interview people. pretext? to use the power of your office to go after people in the fbi? no evidence, they want a special prosecutor so they leak to get it? we will have lots of deep state coverage throughout the show but first we have new information on the president's decision to classify a series of important documents. our own catherine herridge has that report tonight. >> there is no official timeline but a source involved says they expect the warrant for carter page first as well as fbi interviews with justice department official bruce ohr. the source as the justice department is a compressed timeline and records could come in days and not weeks. bruce ohr matters because of his connection to the trump dossier. after the former british spy was fired by the fbi november 2016, documents show that the british spy, christopher steele, maintained contact with the fbi and other government officials by using bruce ohr as a

. >> we have congressman jim jordan on new batch of incriminating text-messages between strzok and page. saying others in the intelligence community were quote leaking like mad in run-up to russia collusion probe, democrats say that take is wrong. we have the proof, democrats are wrong, coming up, thank you for joining us and watch, money, politics we have debate behind tomorrow's headlines, i am elizabeth macdonald the "evening edit" starts right now. liz: your money, dow jumping 1 french, ends day at -- 147. and officials now trying to get people out of five states you were mandatory evacuation. not leaving, meteorologist and officials have a message for anyone hoping to ride out this hurricane. don't do it. the outer bands of hurricane florence hitting north carolina. governor of north carolina calling it a vicious monster category 2. the real story is the size of this thing. it is about 400 miles across. almost the size of michigan, 10 million people could be affected, tornado fears as well, as of this hour, eye of the storm is about 78 miles off of moore head city in north carolina

and then comey, for heaven's sake, mccabe, strzok, all of these people. they need to have their day in court where they're on the other side of the courtroom than where they're used to. it's outrageous what they've done. i look forward to these things being declassified. the president did the right thing and i'm looking forward to people finding out what it says and it's stuff that they wanted redacted actually was self serving to people like rosenstein, strzok, mccabe, page, all of those kind of people. lou: the people that want to hide all of their nefarious activities as part of the most corrupt. >> yeah. john mitchell never dreamed -- lou: this is an absolute cesspool of the most toxic political corruption imaginable. and by the way, let's be clear, this intelligence community that was led under president obama is equally as corrupt ea and equaly nefarious as anything that was being pulled or attempted by the justice department. it's disgusting. these fisa documents. >> we know brennon and some of the others had -- let's see, was it brennon voted for

strzok wrote i literally have to find this phone to tell you.t to talk to you about media leak strategy about doj before you go. a second text warned lisa page that two articles were going to come out about carter page, and congratulate her on the release of one of those articles in which he said, article is out, congrats, lisa page. the president wasted no time calling out the love birds. nothing is being done at doj or fbi. but the world is watching and they get it completely. peter strzok's lawyer claims the text was about a strategy to stop leaks in washington. let me bring in tonight's panel to help separate fact from fiction. a coauthor in the age of trump. jessica tarlov along with the host of the jamie weinstein show. and wwe superstar and tag team champion dolph ziggler. welcome, everyone. so let's talk about this. both side are rushing to day completely different things. the media leak strategy be about prevent something of these leaks? >> according to their lawyers. like michael avenatti, never lie, michael cone, never lies. i don't k

he tweeted this morning, new strzok/page texts reveal leak strategy. done at the doj or fbi, but the world is watching and they get it completely. but it turns out, according to peter strzok's attorney, that is not the case at all about what these texts actually mean. peter strzok's attorney making it very clear that the term "media leak strategy" in mr. strzok's texts refers to a department-wide initiative to detect and stop leaks to the media. and a source close to lisa page tells lauren jarrett this is all about an effort to stop leaks within the new trump administration, as they institute a new policy to crack down on leaks to the news media. so the question is how do republicans respond from here? no word yet about any pushback from the republicans to these latest explanations from peter strzok and lisa page. >> manu, i understand republicans are pushing to declassify more documents in the russia probe. what documents, and on what justification? >> yeah, that's right. two key documents, one involving a carter page fisa application, an application

remember, it was strzok and comey. they worked on the draft in may before the july exxon ner racial. they were changing it from the gross negligence legal term to the more innocuous just careless, just like sandy berger, puts documents in his pants, socks and walks out and says, i'm just being sloppy. really? people put private documents in their pants and they are sloppy. the very same time, the clinton campaign along with the dnc funneling money through a law firm. it wasn't a legal expense. they hire fusion gps to do op research who hired an ex-foreign spy. i thought they weren't supposed to influence our elections. his name is christopher steel and the wife of a high-ranking doj officials, nellie ohr, to put together a campaign op research document against donald trump filled with lies and rumors, never verified nor core roar bore rated. steel himself said, i don't know if any of this is true. maybe 50/50. that was spread throughout the highest levels of our federal government. all these deep state actors like nell

it also does not say, it is also inappropriate to suggest that page and strzok's relationship if they to bring down -- >> tucker: i am not saying that. >> it is inappropriate to transmit that to the entire fbi. >> tucker: i am being careful and precise. and i have a lot of theories about this, but here's what i know. the fbi was leaking to the press about an ongoing investigation. he says it repeatedly. >> let's review. >> tucker: shall i read it to you? >> we shall. >> tucker: he talks about a media leaking strategy about the fbi. >> about the fbi. >> tucker: so there is leaking going on at the fbi. >> these techs do not confirm that. >> tucker: well, they do. >> they don't. >> tucker: he says that they have been leaking like mad. >> we do not know who our sisters are. >> tucker: he says earlier leaks about carter page. here's my question, why defend this? you don't have to like trump period all of us as citizens, leaving trump out of this, carter page out of it, why should we allow the most powerful law enforcement agency to leak against u.s. citizens about cases that have not been