we want you to send out, we want the text messages. now the government shut down is almost over my advice to republicans going forward on immigration. we have that and so much more on tonight opening monologue. remember the vined scathes i told you is coming. tonight it's in full motion. everything we have reported the last year and the media has ignored the past year is now uncovered. we have so much information. i literally need three hours tonight. we will go through it slowly for everyone to get it please stay with us. it will take your breath away. jeff sessions is revealing there are more than 50,000 text messages between trump hating fbi employees, peter strzok and lisa page this. is significant. previous reporting put text messages at ten thousand. sessions is vowing tonight to get to the bottom of the missing text messages which beginning to look more and more like a fbi cover up. this is a massive developing scandal. it ties into everything we have been telling you. we are learning that five, five months of text messages betw

amongst these text a number much them catch my eye.is between page and strzok, referring to the next president and here it is. one more time writes page. she might be our next president. the last thing you need is us going in loaded for bear. you think she would remember or care it was more doj or fbi. >> strzok greed, i called bill and relayed what we discussed he grease, i will e-mail and redakted same. your reaction? >> the bill is thoughts to be bill prestat. not bill clinton. and charles grassly the senator released that e-mail and text today and said they are pulling their punches in a clinton investigation and it certainly does. there are other parts they talk about a special counsel for the clinton investigation. this one it was they didn't want to go after her and we know they didn't. >> lou: we know they didn't and the evidence is mounting and more evidence to come. and it is it a reminder in this, we talk about the secret society as i did yesterday, ron johnson, senator from wisconsin, walked back his reference to secret soc

messages from fbi devices, including text messages between mr. struck, the fbi agent, and ms. paige, the fbi attorney, that were sent or received between december 14th, 2016, and may 17th, 2017. but what they go on to say in this letter is that while they have recovered some of these text messages, they have not recovered all of them. that's something that the inspector general's office continues to do, and they say at this point these text messages won't go directly into the hands of members of congress. instead, the inspector general will hand over these text messages that they've so far retrieved from the devices themselves, they will go to the department of jurisdiction and then the department of justice will determine what to do. of course, we've seen the department of justice hand over two batches already of these text messages. first they handed it over to congress, as well as gave reporters a look. and then this most recent batch, they came out in the past few days, about a week ago, they gave directly to members of congress. and we've se

i'm interested in the one about the secret society. >> the secret society texts and texts prior to the, talking about making texts disappear, intent to destroy this information. the laws of cumulative probability, the most important period of time and the text messages are magically recovered on may 17th, stretches believability. on the other hand you have to prove it. verizon, at&t, get hold of the phones, this could be easily untangled but difficult to believe because it is an improbable set of coincidences. heather: thank you for joining us. the time is 20 minutes after the top of the hour, north korea becoming a nuclear threat no longer if but when the arms race about to begin amid shopping -- shocking warnings from the cia coming up. ♪ heather: outrage growing after the super bowl ad that simply says please stand encouraging football fans to honor our nation's heroes as the nfl commissioner says he is proud of the players for protesting. kelly wright live in washington dc with the latest move of the league. >> reporter: here is a look at the ad which shows the american flag with t

text number four. "holy cow. "new york times." lynch will accept whatever comey and career prosecutors make. no political appointee input." strzok says "timing not great but whatever. i wonder if that's why not, no coordination." >> top officials in the fbi, loretta lynch new before she said she was going to let comey decide that he wasn't going to prosecute. and then comey testified there was no coordination between the department of justice, loretta lynch, and the fbi. that's coming into question. what this is all about is further evidence of corruption, more than bias. corruption of the highest levels of the fbi. the secret society, we have an informant talking about a group that was holding secret meetings off-site. there is so much smoke here. >> bret: lets stop there. secret society? secret meetings off-site of the justice department? you have an informant saying that? >> yes. >> bret: anything more about that? >> we have to dig into it. this is not a distraction. this is biased, potentially corruption, at the highest levels

we have the text messages.the paper trail of how hillary clinton was protected and how if this memo comes out -- and the gop better release this memo. donald trump as a political candidate was targeted for political purposes by the intelligence community. that will make watergate look like child's play. lou: and the presidency being subverted. >> absolutely. lou: at the same time. james comey. i mean james comey as the director of the fbi leaking materials to create an office of special prosecutor so that his friend, robert mueller can attack and undermine the serving president. it is truly outrageous. lou: very quickly, the president, you've looked over, i'm sure, the immigration propoles that his chief of staff, john kelly took to capitol hill. this is not at all, not in any way, really, what he sold to the american voter. >> look, the deal hasn't been incorporateinked yet. there has to be a wall, not a trust fund, a physical wall. that's what has been promised. as an immigrant to this country who had to wait

they say it's 50,000 texts and its prime time. that's disturbing. >> harris: its prime time and now they have some of them. catherine herridge's live in washington with the latest, what did they find? >> fox news within the last few minutes received this letter, which is from the inspector general david e horwitz. he is writing to senior senate republicans so senator ron johnson who chairs government and homeland security as well as chuck grassley. it horwitz is not household name but he is really an essential player to both the email casey n the russia case. about a year ago he was tasked with doing an investigation of the fbi's handling and the justice department's handling of the email case and it was through that investigation that he uncovered these anti-trump texts between demoted agent peter strzok and the fbi lawyer lisa page. according to the two page letter that has gone to the hill, they've been able to recover some of the texts during this critical time period of decembe7 went special counsel robert mueller was appoint

that's the text. sources tell cnn that the calendars mentioned there were some sort of gag gift, putin-themed calendars that stroch purchased for employees working on the russia investigation. this coming into us today from one of the republicans who sounded the alarm over the secret society conspiracy is having a change of heart. let's go to jessica schneider with more on this from this republican senator, who is now, what, saying it's a joke? >> reporter: yeah. backpedalling here, brooke, after several sources had come forward to cnn to clarify these texts. after we've seen from senator johnson and a lot of republicans, they've been implicating scandal with this text as the basis. that message you just read there is from november 9th, referring to the calendars and the secret society. really, this was all an attempt at humor, they say, one day after the election. and we know that agent stroch was part of the russia investigation. even before the special counsel was appointed and, like you said, broo

the number of text messages that only 10,000.essions is also bowing tonight to get to the bottom of the missing text messages, which, beginning to look more and moree like an fbi cover-up. this is a massive developing scandal and it ties into everything we have been telling you. we are learning that five -- five months of text messages between the trump hating lovers, strzok and page, they have conveniently disappeared. i don't make this up. the messages that the fbi is claiming to have lost, well, theyey are from a critical, crucial time in the russia investigation. here is what happened. during that five months, from december 14th to may 17th, 2017, march 4th president trump claimed he was wiretapped at trump tower. we don't have the exchanges from them. i would love to know what strzok and page were gossiping at that point. january 11, buzzfeed published the phony russian propaganda dossier that the fbi used to get a fisa warrant against the trump campaign, they say against carter page, a pretext. january 24th, now former nati

peter strzok texting. that those text raise big story, dana. not just the five months missing, but the texts we are seeing about a secret society, about how to make sure the texts don't get out. these are texts that are in between strzok and page. >> dana: i have an idea how they don't get out. >> if you're having an affair with a co-worker don't use your government issued telephone to discuss things. >> note to self. >> dana: it will be captured, if you're doing that. that blows me away. let's switch topics. let's talk about the shut down and the breaking news about senator schumer pulling back the offer to the president last week. listen to sara sanders, earlier today. >> i think chuck schumer is trying to save face every way he possibly can. this is a president who stood firm and stood his ground. worked with republican leadership like speaker ryan and leader mcconnel. we had a coordinated effort to put pressure on the democrats to reopen the government. >> dana: i think the republicans are right to take a victory lap with this shut down end

and law enforcement over there, and the text messages. >> we have seen a lot of text messages, betweene. and peter strzok says the pressure really starts to finish, the fbi, the clinton investigation, lisa page says it sure does. we never have. we look at the text messages that have been revealed, and the public is able to make a judgment and opinion on this. there are months of text messages that are gone. what do you think the public is supposed to think of this? >> the most charitable investigation, clinton text messages that came out, there was much in the way of political sensitivity what was going on with the clinton investigation. they felt pressure to close out the investigation, the less charitable interpretation is we need to finish this up so hillary can beat out trump who we don't like. i don't understand why these agents are still at the fbi. if it was anyone else they would be washed out of the fbi. this is so frustrating because director ray is protecting andrew mc caleb and robert mueller, special counsel, removing this gentleman from the investigation in july of last y

we take up the secret society mentioned between texts between these two. they're geing to be awfully familiar. their fac too fixed in our minds, perhaps. >>> and later, the u.s. relationship with russia tense and getting tenser. we take it up with general jack keane hee here next. stay with us. finally. hey ron! they're finally taking down that schwab billboard. lou: senator chuck schumer now facing a backlash from dems extremely unhappy with him, i guess, because he caved on daca. and today the minority leader says he's yanked the offer he made to president trump to fund the border wall. >> president trump's inability to negotiate with congress is what caused the three-day government shutdown from which we've just emerged. it's causing the fact that we're not making more progress on these issues. we're going to have to start, start on a new basis and the wall offer is off the table. lou: well, i guess what you're looking at is not only a guy who folded when trump put on the pressure, but now he's crying and taking away his football. amazing. amazing. this

if you look at the five months worth of missing texts. that's a lot of missing texts.nd as i said yesterday that's prime time. so you do look at that and say what's going on. you do look at certain texts where they talk about insurance policies and say the kind of things they're saying. but i would love to do that. i'd like to do it as soon as possible. good luck everybody. here's the story. >> do you have a date set? >> i don't know. two or three weeks. i would love to do it. again. subject to my lawyers and all that. i would love to do that. >> under oath? >> like hilary? you said it. you say a lot. did hilary do it under oath? >> i have no idea. i'm not asking her. >> do you have an idea? >> i don't remember. >> she didn't do it under oath. i would do it. you know she didn't. if you didn't know about hilary you're not much of a reporter. >> you would do it under oath? >> i would do it under oath. >> all right. this comes amidnews that the special counsel has given trumps lawyers a range of topics to discuss. the good news is there's little chance trump can completel

if you take a look at, you know, five months worth of missing texts, that's a lot of missing texts. and as i said yesterday, that's prime time. so you do sort of look at that and say what's going on. you do look at certain texts where they talk about insurance policies or insurance where they say the kind of things they are saying, you have to be concerned. but i would love to do that. i'd like to do that as soon as possible. >> do you have a date set? >> so here's the deal -- no, i don't know. a couple of weeks but i would love to do that. subject to my lawyers i would love to do it. >> would you like to do it under oath? >> who said that? >> i said it. >> you say a lot. >> did hillary do it under oath? >> i don't know. >> i think you know. do you really not have an idea? i'll give you idea. she didn't do it under oath. but i'll do it under oath. and you no he she didn't do it under oath, right? >> if you didn't know about hillary, then you are not much of a reporter. >> you would do it under oath? >> oh, i would do it under oath, absolutely. >> so there is a lot of other questions

that's a lot of missing texts. >> is the texts were found, the political rhetoric over the four page memo documenting alleged government surveillance abused a good return. with the house no adjustment is republican chairman who staff draft the memo traveling overseas, the ranking democrat drafted his own version and took a swipe at the media who are covering the allegations. >> they didn't care what was in the underlying documents. they wanted to make a political statement. they wanted to feed the beast on fox news. they wanted to do do what they could to derail the mueller investigation. >> former fbi agent elected to the house was a republican said the democrats national security concerns are overblown. >> i read the memo. along with several of my colleagues, and in my estimation, having experience with fisa and wiretaps, there are no law enforcement sensitive sources or messages that would be compromised. >> the justice department expects to reservations, calling any release of the memo unprecedented and reckless. fbi and justice department want a review before it goes public. >>

we have a new text about andrew mccabe and his recusal in the investigation. strzok texts...reading texts] so comey's chief of staff only wanted mccabe to recuse himself because of public perception. not because of the fact that mccabe's wife got the 700 grand in a campaign contribution from terry mcauliffe, an insane amount for any race in the commonwealth of virginia, and democrats, it turned out to be a failed state senate run. you see the connection? andrew mccabe, deputy director, friends with strzok and page, private meetings, insurance policy, 700 grand for his wife, and on top of all tha that, comey was not doing a real investigation. he was turning a blind eye to what we know where felonies and crimes committed by clinton. other strzok and page messages indicate that the attorney general, we told you this last night, loretta lynch, she also knew hillary clinton was not going to be charged. strzok knew it, comey knew it, mccabe knew it, and loretta lynch. this happened even after lynch took a backseat in the investigation after getting caught talking to bill clinton o

what we have seen, what johnny and i saw today was a text about not keeping texts. we saw more manifest bias against president trump all the way through the election into the transition. and i saw an interesting text of the director comey was going to update the president of the united states about an investigation. i don't know if it was the hillary clinton investigation, because remember that had been reopened in the fall of 2016, or whether it was the trump investigation. i just find it interesting ahead of the fbi was going to update the president of the united states, who at that point would have been president obama. >> martha: who by the way headset on the record -- let's roll the president obama sound bite from his interview with "fox news sunday" about this. watch. >> she would never intentionally put america in any kind of jeopardy. i continue to believe that she has not jeopardize america's national security. what i've also said is that -- and she has acknowledged -- that there is a carelessness in terms of managing emails that she has owned and she recog

, that's a lot of missing texts.s i said yesterday, that's prime time. you do sort of look at that and say what's going on. you do look at certain texts when they talk about insurance policies or insurance, where they say the kinds of things they're saying, it you've got to be concern the. but i would love to do that, and i'd like to do it as soon as possible. good luck, everybody. >> do you have a date set in. >> i guess they're talking about two or three weeks. i have to say subject to my lawyers andll that but. >> would you do i under oath, mr. president? >> you mean like hillary? who said that? >> i said that. >> oh, you did say it. you say a lot. did hillary do it under oath? >> i have no idea. >> i think you have an idea. don't you have an idea? wait, wait. do you not have an idea? do you really not have an idea? i'll give you an idea. she didn't do it under oath, but i would do it under oath. >> you would? >> and you know she didn't do it under oath, right. if you didn't know about hillary, then you're not muc

where are andrew mccabe's text messages and james comey's text messages. judge jeanine: andrew mccabe's wife was running for the office. you want marshals over there, i want them taken out and cuffed. >> what is director wray doing? he's defending strong and protecting mccabe and lisa page. so there is a real problem with the leadership of the fbi. ite for wray is oblivious or complicit. either way we need strong action and pressure to clean out its ranks that aloud this scam to go upon obstructing congress, obstructing the courts and the text message issue and maybe obstructing justice in terms of with holding and trying to hide these text messages and other documents. it's this justice department that fought tooth span nail to turn over the dossier which shows they lied to the court. if rod rosenstein can't doirt they need to find someone who will. rosenstein runs the operation of the justice department day to day. there has to be accounts built. we have to start calling these individuals out directly. judge jeanine: that place is dirty. and that's becau

it's a lot of missing texts, and, as i said yesterday, that's prime time. >> well, now, those texts haven recovered, and republicans on capitol hill are backtracking a built on claims of a conspiracy at the fbi and justice department to undermine president trump. cnn's tom forman is here to separate fact from fiction. tom, this text representing a secret society, appears in context, to be a joke. >> looked like a joke from the start, but i don't think the revelations are going to satisfy many of the president's defenders who all along have been insisting the only collusion here is between fbi agents trying to frame the president, claiming that he fixed the election with russian help. ♪ >> reporter: just after donald trump won the election, fbi agent sent a text to agent, peter struck, are you going to give out your calendars? seems depressing. maybe it should just be the first meeting of the secret society. critics of the russia probe quickly pounced, long incysted the fbi is trying to take down the president. never mind that sources tell cnn secret society referred to a gag gift purchas

some of these texts are disturbing.trate a conspiracy on the part of some people. >> meanwhile republicans are pushing to release a secret surveillance memo have reveals anti-trump bias at the fbi. also, gop lawmaker on the house judiciary committee reportedly indicated there are plans to call back former fbi director james comey to testify. former hillary clinton campaign staffer and former dnc advisor and back from "outnumbered overtime" lisa booth and fox news contributor. let's start with the gap of the five months of text messages from the fbi lisa. it's really good finding stuff. >> of course it raises questions. particularly because these were text messages from peter strozyk who was the lead investigator at the hillary clinton investigation as mark meadows pointed out on twitter. he was texting about the need to end the clinton investigation and no less than 48 hours later, allegedly he tampered with the statement from james comey removing what would have been criminal definition to just gross negligence to care

this was a significant time period when these text messages, other fbi agents text messages as well,. what about the timing. is that questionable to you? >> that is a very crucial period of time and it is important they try not only to recover these text messages but also determine the answer to the question, was this a technical glitch or was this intentional? we don't know the answer to that. i will tell you something else. what they are talking about his recovery of the text messages from the official fbi owned cell phones individuals were using. i haven't heard anything about whether doj is recovering the text messages from their personal cell phones. we have already seen text messages where they talk about going off the fbi grid, apparently personal apple devices. heather: there are no safeguards that fbi agents are using cell phones like you and i would use, exchanging these messages back and forth about information the rest of us should not be privy to or be able in any way to have access to. >> fbi agents know they are not supposed to for example use their personal cell phone

reporter: conditional republicans call out fbi after learning that 5 months of text-messages. in clinton e-mail and russia investigation are missing. the text messages between strzok and page range from december 2016, a month after president trump's election to may, when then james comey was fired and robert mueller took over the russia case. according to this letter from senator johnson, fbi flames a technical problem for the failure on capture and preserve the records. >> people need to be terminated or prosecuted, i don't think that verizon or at&t or any other phone companies have lost them. reporter: 400 pages of texts,ing suggest that then attorney general loretta lynch, 4 days after she met with bill clinton on a arizona tarmac, they claim to discuss grandchildren, one day before hillary clinton fbi interview, on july 1, 2016, strzok tells page, timing looks like hell. will appear to be choreographed, page agreed -- she knows no charges will be brought. to under cut comey claim that he acted alone. >> i have not reviewed it in anyway with any part of the government. rep

what we have seen, what i saw today was a text about not keeping texts. we saw more manifest bias against president trump all the way through the election into the transition. >> sean: hatred against trump, bias against trump, and not>> keeping the text messages. that sounds like obstruction of justice. it's not the first time that we've all seen this happen. every single solitary time the obama administration and other officials are backed into a corner and in serious legal trouble, all of the evidence magically disappears. this is their modus operandi. hillary clinton, 33,000 subpoenaed emails deleted. just to make extra extra sure, acid watch bleach bit, the whole entire hard drive to make sure the evidence is completely destroyed. in case it made it to any of the mobile devices, they send an aide out with a hammer. boom! let's smash that sucker. the only phones they gave the fbi, they had no sim cards. i'm sure it was just an accident. do you believe that? i'll sell you a bridge to nowhere. there's also the irs targeting conservatives. the email from

plus, these text messages, the president declared it as a major story.orking tonight, republicans ron johnson and chuck grassley demanded to know how five months of these text messages between fbi officials strzok and paige all went missing, all of us barking much different from republican's and democrats. >> the secret society, we have an informant that is talking about a group that were holding secret meetings off site. there is so much smoke here, we have to dig into it. this is not a distraction. >> i think there has been a great deal of activity on the other side intending to either divert attention from mueller or even stand in his way. >> amid all this turmoil, we learned that wray's chief of staff is out of the fbi, significant because he was previously chief of staff to james comey. he was grilled by the house oversight committee about the fact that he and peter strzok were involved in drafting comey's statement exonerating hillary clinton before she was even interviewed by the fbi in that email probe. sarah sanders at the white house, by the wa

and in the texts we do have they're discussing how to avoid texts being captured and secured.'s missing is important. but also what is there is important. it is manifest bias not just against trump, but against his kids, against his business interests. there is a text where they hope the trump hotel fails. that is a level of bias that you rarely see and you never see from law enforcement offices. what is also troubling to me is this text that johnny radcliffe found last night about this secret society. now, i have no clue what that means because it was not the phraseology i used. but it's the day after the election. it's the same two people that were discussing a little bit later in the text the damage they had done with the clinton investigation and how they could, quote, fix it and make it right. that is a level of bias that is stunning among law enforcement officers. >> sandra: congressman ron johnson. you had a chance to see and hear what just came out of this radio interview with a local radio station, he read off one of the text messages that he says that he has uncovere

that was in january pete alda said in the text stop. that was used in part and later on to get the visor want to spy on the trim campaign. lieutenant general michael fan is interviewed by the fbi and what would luck habit, it was peter strzok who actually was the official that oversaw that interview. on may 9th, the fbi director james comey was a fire. then on may 17th, robert mueller was named a special counsel. those are the major events, and how conveniently, it happens is that the messages, some 50,000 of them, this is the time. period where strzok and page height back 's were missing. they's blade on samsung who supplied the phones. you gotta be kidding me. it's the fbi who specializes in intelligence and gathering. they can't find the messages? i don't believe that's possible. giving the inherent antitrust bias that we have seen from strzok and page, they hated trump, and their involvement in almost everything involving the russian investigation, well, we must now know what they were talking about during these five critical months

society text. but there is new revolution this morning that that may have been a joked? >> reporter: yes, now having looked at the message myself on the secret society -- >> you've seen it, okay. >> reporter: it is far from clear what it means. it is far from clear that it is some plot to undermine the president. the day after the 2016 election last year, page says to strzok, are you even going to give out your calendars? seems kind of depressing. maybe it should just be the first meeting of the secret society. but who knows what she means? i reached out to her lawyer, i reached out to strzok's lawyer for comment as we continue to dig in here on what exactly these officials meant. >> of course you've seen the text. how could i say you haven't seen them? we haven't seen them as of yesterday. laura, thank you for the reporting. we appreciate it. >>> joining us now, phil mudd, and robert wray, former independent counsel on the whitewater investigation. this release of just how cooperative they have be

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, that's a lot of missing texts.id yesterday, that's primetime. so you do sort of look at that and say what is going on. you do look at certain texts where they talk about insurance policies -- >> do you trust the fbi? >> i am very disturbed as is the general. as it everybody else that is intelligent. when you look at five months, this is leap great rosemary woods. right? with a step, right? this is a large-scale version. >> 18 minutes. >> that was 18 minutes. this is five months. they say it's 50,000 texts and it's primetime. that's disturbing. >> references to nixon's secretary aside, the president keeps repeating there's 50,000 missing text messages. keeping them honest, that's the total number of text messages the inspector general reviewed on servers. the missing text messages number is unknown. there's more information about the missing messages. manu raju has that now. what have you learned? >> reporter: anderson, a law enforcement official tells cnn a technical glitch resulted in thousands of fbi phones being

we have texts to prove it.the russian collusion story that has had no solid evidence whatsoever. this has tangible, concrete evidence and we get new information every day about corruption in the highest level our justice system. liz: 1.8 million immigrants will be put on the path to citizenship in the next 10-12 years. the president would demand a $25 billion trust fund for the northern border and possibly northern border with canada and southern border. what are your reactions to that? >> his core base will not be happy with it. a lot of people voted for him for his immigration policies. i think they see they are forgetting the forgotten men and women here legally who voted for donald trump because they felt they had a leader that would defend them. but would i would say is this is a negotiation. we did get some good things in it. we are getting funding for the border all and other things we like as well. liz: we'll have more after the break. don't go away. holy smokes. that is awesome. strong. you got the bas

when those texts came to light, he moved those people out of there.ob mueller is a man of integrity. i've worked with him we did pan a.m. 103 together. he's bright. he's not going to manufacture evidence. he's going to collect evidence. and if the evidence supports a crime or doesn't support a crime, he'll go with that. but i think the fact that two individuals who were corrupted, frankly, are now gone, i don't think that taints the whole investigation. i think mueller is a man of integrity and he'll do the right thing. kelly: they're gone but not from the fbi. they're still working there in some fashion. they've been demoted and reassigned. you can have a rotten apple and it doesn't make the whole bunch bad. >> no. here's the deal. there is a process in the fbi, the department of justice, if an executive is under administrative inquiry or criminal inquiry, there's a process to place that individual on administrative pay. they can't go to work and can't influence an investigation. they lose nothing expect the ability to work at the fbi. that should be

this week more texts emerged between f.b.i.and for many conspiracy theorists christmas came early. >> one of the texts according to republicans who reviewed them discussed these two individuals talking about a secret society on the day after trump's election. >> trevor: that was lisa page's text! she said that we need to be able to get together and have our secret society meeting. >> of course, i'm going to want to know what secret society are you talking about. >> let me see the text. they used that. the first meeting to have the secret society. not my words, it's theirs into the f.b.i. has a secret society that they call "the secret society"? that's really sinister and a little obvious. ( laughter ) i mean, calling your secret society the secret society is a weird way to keep a secret. that would be like if batman's real name was bruce batman. hey, bruce! are you related to batman? never heard of him! what's the suit in the background? it's a sex thing. ( laughter ) , like, if you're in a secret society that controls the worl

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you'll see the text. they use that. maybe we ought to have the first meeting of the secret society. >> reporter: but republicans have not released that text message, and its meaning is unclear. but now the president is raising questions about why the fbi is missing records of texts between the couple during a critical five-month period from the transition to the start of the mueller probe. >> i think he thinks that there's a great cause for concern, that five months worth of text messages have gone missing. >> reporter: the fbi says the texts disappeared because of a technical glitch, and today, the republican chairman of the senate intelligence committee suggests he accepts the explanation. >> i'll let the fbi explain where the glitch is, but it's not limited, as i understand it, to two people's text messages. it's across the board at fbi. >> reporter: democrats believe republicans are just trying to undermine the special counsel. >> i think there has been a great deal of activity on the other side intending to either

he said we will see what the new texts say. of course, that is in reference to the inspector general saying they've discovered five months of texts that were missing. he's raising the possibility that perhaps there's some reference of secret society and new texts are going over to conference. of course, as we know, we've not seen any reference to a secret society in any other batch of texts. johnson isn't ruling out that there's talk about this in this new batch of texts. >> so dangerous. words matter. thank you very much. >>> former fbi supervisory special agent and chris cillizza, editor at large. first to you, ali. to have a u.s. senator essentially go from a to z in the span of a week without facts to get to this conclusion, which, by the way, he's now saying maybe it's a joke but let's take a look at the new texts and we'll see. call it out. >> this is pathetic. it could be comic if it's not tragically dangerous. this is not funny. this is a u.s. senator. he's claiming that there's a secret society within the fbi to take d

texts that are missing. new tekts we have tonight are not among those. just ones we have not seen those. and one or more could be damming when it comes to bias in the clinton investigation h. >> yeah, that's the one that senator chuck grassley judiciary committee, he's pointing to first and foremost. so just released this letter. again, these text messages are trickling out from the second batch, because reporters haven't been allowed to look at it so we are depending what comes out from capitol hill. so this latest text in a letter from grassley, it's a text message from fbi page to strzok and they talk about the clinton email investigation. and she is sort of indicates to the special agent strzok that he might want to tread lightly. she puts it this way, she says one more thing, she might be our next president. the last thing you need us going in there loaded for bear. you think she's going to remember or care that it was more d 0, j than fbi? and agent strzok replies agreed. so really senator grassley is