he has their actual texts. now you will remember the shock that reportedly erupted in federal court in manhattan in april when it was revealed in addition to calling himself donald trump's personal lawyer, michael cohen said he was also sean hannity's lawyer. sean hannity then, i think, very credibly insisted he had never retained michael cohen in any legal matter or ever paid him as a lawyer for any legal services. and tonight we have text messages from michael cohen indicating that michael cohen considered himself am booker for sean hannity's show. or at least friendly enough with fox news that he could book a guest on the network whenever he wanted to. i have her tentatively scheduled for hannity tonight, call me after your trial. that's a text message from michael cohen on january 17th of this year, it was a text message to keith davidson, who was stormy daniels' lawyer at that time. michael cohen had booked stormy daniels on sean hannity's show that night so that stormy daniels could say she never had sex

one of the most compelling text is the text about we'll stop him. peter strzok took over the trump russia probe on july 31, 2016. eight days later holing he answs girlfriend he won't become president, right, she said no, we'll stop him. this text exchange shows that he was using his position of power to stop donald trump. >> it's disturbing. the implication wasn't i'm expressing my opinion but says i have a plan to stop him. of course we have other texts with conversations with andy. also, we have discussions about a insurance policy. these are things that are not just an indication of someones opinion but an indication they are actively seeking and using their position to make sure donald trump doesn't become president of the united states. that should never happen to any presidential candidate and we need to make sure the fbi is totally reformed so in 2020 any candidate has the assurance the fbi won't be a tool for the opposing political campaign. >> do you trust you are getting accurate information from the justice department. i'm shocked that we

we know about his text messages. we know nothing about the leaks from fbi personnel who are actively taking steps to sway the election to mr. trump. you didn't include an investigation in those reports, is that correct? >> that's correct. we were not able to speak to work we have ongoing. >> i would hope the investigation is i don't know going at some point. you report to us. because it was generally accepted around here that leaks were going to mr. guliani during the campaign. in fact, mr. guliani based so on tv. the president says this report totally exonerates him and says there's no collusion with the russians. inspector general horowitz, did your report even consider the question of collusion? >> our report is focused on the fbi and department's handling of the clinton e-mail investigation. it touched on the russia investigation as we laid out here when we found the text messages in the july-august time period and the decision that was made in october about whether to proceed or not proceed with the wiener lapto

now have you this text in 2016. there was plenty of evidence of conversations and other coordination between the trump campaign and the russians. and i think that's what that text was about. not anything else. >> dana: okay. well, we will see when that report comes out what happened there collin, let me ask you, for democrats who think that this helps, makes hillary clinton's case thought fbi was biased against her, what do you think of that? >> well, to me, this whole report is about two people who are largely irrelevant and discredited at this point. hillary clinton, who is not the president, and whose decision to use private email server set off this whole chain of events and james comey, who was fired, who is no longer the fbi director and is someone who has the rare ability to unite left, right, and center in the belief that he didn't do a very good job in 2016 as marianne just articulated. what i don't think this report involves is bob mueller and his investigation. and i think it's important we not conflate t

strzok texts back, oh, abysmal.d the text continues, this is important, on february 24, 2016, page texting, hillary clinton might be our next president. the last thing you need us going in there loaded for bear. and peter strzok, who conducts the interview with hillary, is the lead investigator in the case, agrees. time to cover our backs. fix the clinton investigation. she's going to be our next president. we want to be on her good side. on march 3, 2016, trump is a loathsome human being, he's awful. hillary should win 100 million to zero. this man cannot be president. on march 16, 2016, i can't believe that donald trump is a serious candidate for president. the lead investigator, in the clinton server case, and by the way would be the lead in the start of this so-called trump russia witch hunt on june 11, strzok calls trump bigoted. on july 18, page calls trump an enormous expletive. july 21, strzok calls trump a disaster, only days away from beginning the so hive called collusion investigation. these texts are ev

and -- anti-trump tex texts.ge of this report you find some evidence of political bias against donald trump and that really calls into question the work that was done here with respect to the two highest profile investigations in recent times, both the hillary clinton e-mail investigation, and the trump russia investigation that became the special council matter. >> maria: if anybody has given us a window into how the rank and file or some of the leadership certainly felt about donald trump, it'seter strzok with his text. that has been incredibly revealing. why does he still work there? how is it possible that he still has a job at the fbi? i know he was demoted, but still. >> i can offer you no explanation for that. i would hope that director wray would care enough about the 13,000 folks at the fbi that instead of just offering platitudes about how great an organization is it would defend those 13,000 by holding accountable agents like peter strzok and others who tarnished the badge that the 13,000 other agents

strock text message to lisa page. i want to believe the path you threw out to consideration in andy's office that there's no way he gets elected but i'm afraid we can't take that risk. it's like an insurance policy and the unlikely event you die before you're 40. now that's a week later. who's andy? >> our understanding it was andy mccabe, the deputy director. >> so you have the deputy director meeting with the lead investigator of the clinton e-mail investigation and ms. page, who's involved somehow meeting in andy's office discussing taking out an insurance policy to make sure donald trump doesn't become president? is that what you're telling us? >> i'll be clear, i can't speak to whether mccabe -- mr. mccabe was there or not. >> did you ask mr. mccabe? >> we did. he said he did not recall. >> so one of them is lying. so i want you to reopen this investigation and come back and tell us. do you believe strock or do you believe mccabe? because you just told me the deputy director of the fbi says he's not the andy. >>

let's assume that these text messages is. these came about earlier in the discussion, and you just swap out the name trump for the name hillary. the text messages said, she's not ever going to become president, is she? no, no, we'll stop it. what if that had been the exchange occurring earlier in the investigation. in that circumstance, in that hypothetical, could she, as a practical matter, have been prosecuted, assuming that the facts warranted it, and assuming that people making the charging decision concluded many that there was a good reason to charge her? >> i'm hesitant to engage in hypotheticals. >> we're lawyers. we talk about hypotheticals, right? >> i'm no longer practicing as a lawyer. now i get to blame the lawyers. it's a wonderful experience. so i'm not going to try to engage in specific hypotheticals. what i would tell you is that i expect all of our employees, all of our employees to engage in professional conduct, including on how they communicate with each other by text message. >> i get that, and that didn

do you know who the text is referring to? >> the the text that says the white house is running this. >> my understanding is a general reference to the white house. i don't know that there is a particular person. >> if it were discussed it's not the russia collusion investigation by the special counsel, it's referring to the russia election interference. we have so many investigation. now, in your discussion with mre to be a logical analogy made. as an attorney that something we look at is the logical inferences. i wasn't sure if it was correct. if he is a person who has a disproportionate biased in their personal then you also have to look at their amount of decision-making in determining how that is that how they determine if there biased and if it affects the outcome? >> i understood it as a disproportionate given their role of impact on decisions made in that. >> and if their personal biased then bled into their work as well. >> correct. terms of answering it did they in fact cause and impact but rather given their role to

text messages. conversely, we found the fbi's explanations for its failures to take immediate action after discovering the weiner laptop in 2016 to be unpersuasive, and we did not have confidence that the decision of deputy assistant director struck to prioritize the russia investigation over following up on the weiner laptop was free from bias in light of his text messages. we also found that in key moments then fbi director comey clearly departed from fbi and department norms and his decisions negatively impacted the perception of the fbi and the department as fair administrators of justice. director comey concealed from the attorney general and the deputy attorney general his intention to make a unilateral announcement in july 2016 about the reasons for his recommendation not to prosecute former secretary clinton. his july 5th statement included inappropriate commentary about uncharged conduct, announced his views on what a quote, unquote reasonable prosecutor would do and served to confuse, rath

are you familiar with that text? >> i am. >> on january 24th, 2018, ron johnson went to fox news and indicated shouting further evidence of corruption. more bias corruption at the highest level. secret society. we have an in for manhattan that was talk o -- informant that was talking. there's so much smoke and suspension. did your report find any evidence of secret society. >> we did not find. >> did it find any there was a group of the fbi holding secret meetings off site? >> i'm not sure we looked for that. but certainly in the midterm investigation, we didn't find one. >> in fact, the counter reference was funny and snarky of russian president such as holding up a kitten. page instruct both told your investigator that secret society was used as a joke, is that correct? >> that's what they told us. >> on august 15th, a text that stated, "i want to pass you throughout consideration in andy's office and there's no way he gets elected, but i'm afraid we can't take that risk. it's like an insurance policy in the unlike

text messages are inappropriate. thefbi are trying to throw election to hillary clinton and could not have done a worse job. the front page of every news people are leading up to the election, every single misstep hillarybi damaged clinton, helped donald trump. all fbi personnel including mr. stark kept quiet about the russian investigation, as they should. the same cannot be said about the clinton investigation. rudy giuliani, james carlstrom, devon north, received highly sensitive leaks. that contributed to director comey's decision to send the now infamous october 28 letter. could not have come at a worse time and likely impacted the election. last year, i asked director comey specifically about leaks to mr. giuliani. he acknowledged for the first time that an internal investigation was ongoing. mr. comeyay, was telling the truth in that? there was anthat internal investigation ongoing about the least mr. giuliani. was he correct? dir. wray: i cannot speak to that. was he correct that there is an internal investig

text messages. when we got all their text message, as you know, we found a window, a period of several months. >> right. >> there was zero. we then went and got their phones and said, okay, if the fbi isn't collecting them, we're going to try to extract them from the phones. we did a first run through using our cyber forensics capabilities, collected material. we then went to our outside vender to see what else that contractor had. we did another go round with some additional tools and found more. we then went to the defense department, same thing. >> yeah, i'm thankful that he yielded me time, but i got the gist of it. you had to jump through all kinds of hoops to retrieve it. the point is when you did get it, mr. rosenstein decided we couldn't get it until your report came out. he sat on it for a month of time? >> i can't speak to how they -- >> it's not the first time mr. rosenstein has kept us from getting information. he's hid information from us. he redacted all kinds of important conversation

it includes text messages.ohen reaches out to davidson in an attempt to get daniels to appear on fox news to deny the affair. the texts start january 17th. the same day in touch magazine published excerpts of an interview in which stormy daniels described a sexual encounter with trump. cohen says, i have her tentatively scheduled for hannity tonight, so which davidson replies she cannot do it, she's flying to l.a. tomorrow. cohen says, this is no good. we need her. by doing tomorrow, you create another news cycle instead of putting an end to this one. the lawsuit calls those messages a desperate attempt to convince ms. clifford to lie tohe american public about her relationship with mr. trump. >> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? why did michael cohen make that if there was no -- >> you'll have to ask michael cohen. >> do you know where he got the money to make that payment? >> i don't know. >> and it claims president trump knew about the conversation between davidson and cohen because

in december 2015, struck texts a page. to justice department guidelines, lures are first to convince a former attendant to leave the country so they can be federally prosecuted in the u.s., a common practice by the fbi. page responded to that text. no, it just explains a bigger policy issue. i'll explain later. but none of the text messages from the same time period in december 2015 discussed any kind of investigation into trump or russia. the one-time page did share a news article about trump and called him an utter idiot. congressional sources from both parties who have reviewed the texts say they have no reason to believe the text is referring to a former investigation into the trump campaign. still, that's not how former trump media portray it. ban ho about an hour later, trump september his tweet to his 250 million twitter followers. then the conspiracy unfolded on fox that evening. >> it certainly appears they were looking to put more lures into the campaign in 2015. >> republican congressman robin santos, who has jo

>> yeah. >> so she texts something that you asked her about. this is april 1st, 2016 text. i want you to tell me why she told you she sent this text. she said so, look, you say we text on that phone when we talk about hillary because it can't be traced. you were just venting because you feel bad that you're gone so much, but it can't be helped right now. why did she -- what did she tell you was the reason she sent that to strzok? >> the -- she told us, this was an example and i'm looking at our report here, why she had used the phone to keep this information from her spouse and this was an example of that. >> and in this text she said she was coaching strzok basically on what to tell his wife, correct? >> correct. >> so she was telling him how to lie. she was using a government phone to tell her husband how to cover up an affair coaching her on how to lie, and using the pretext of this investigation to carry out this affair with her co-worker, so she coached her co-worker and lover on how to lie to his wife, used government resources to do it, in the pretext of this investi

on the text messages not just car bias in the text messages. what i'm concerned with is in regard to peter strozk the willingness to take official action to impact the presidential candidate electoral prospects. that's what i'm concerned about. that is what i hope they drill in with michael horowitz. for christopher wray, i want to know will there be accountability if for five agents who are recommended for the further investigation? >> kennedy: do you think he took responsibility the press conference? >> lisa: i didn't. so i think they should do more and i want more on the f.b.i. action -- >> harris: you want christopher wray to weigh in heavier on this part? >> lisa: he is now the head of the f.b.i. so he has to answer for it. >> harris: the president says he is the man to clean it all up. i want to bring in melissa. >> melissa: what disturbs me the most is not how they talk about the president but how they talk about a huge group of americans who are supposed to be safeguarding law and order for. if they have open disdain for americans and e

text messages between the infamous fbi agents peter strzok and lisa page. who were also part of special counsel mueller's russia investigation, also having an affair and also perhaps having some bias in their text messages against the president. he says the inspector general dropped the ball by concluding bias did not ultimately impact the fbi's investigation. watch. it's because you look at peter strzok and what he said about me, when you look at comey. it's interesting, pretty good report. and then i say that the ig blew it at the very end of that statement because when you read the report, it was almost like comey, he goes point after point about how guilty hillary is and he said but we are not going to do anything about it. the report, the ig report was a horror show. that one sentence of conclusion was ridiculous. >> harris: peter doocy live at the white house with more. big a president trump told us that he believes the results of this investigation into the clinton email investigators shows that there was a culture of political bias within the fbi th

and the texts reflect that as well. i'm going tom: read this text message. august 8, after he got the nomination. not going top is become president, right? responded no, no. he is not. we will stop it. i don't know how you feel about that, but it is unnerving. wasn't he the lead investigator of the clinton investigation? mr. horowitz: in essence. >> the head guy looking at clinton says we have to stop trump. was that idle talk? a week later here is what they say. graham: i want to believe the path you throughout, that there is no way he gets elected. i am afraid we cannot take that risk. it is like an insurance policy in the event you die before your 40. that is a week later. who is andy? mr. horowitz: the deputy director. >> you got the deputy director meeting with the lead investigator of the clinton email investigation. ms. page is meeting in andy's office discussing taking out an insurance policy to make sure donald trump doesn't become president. is that what you are telling us? >> i cannot speak to whether mccabe was there or not. he said he did not re

one of the problems is we still don't have all the text messages. concerned the justice department doesn't have all text messages with congress doesn't have all text messages but he may have to come back once more information is disclosed by the stonewalling justice department and fbi. rob: for so many months this was denied is a big nothing, donald trump's excuse there was bias against him and the ig blows the roof off of everything and we have this hesitation from christopher rand rod rosenstein. why do you think there's that hesitation to cooperate with this? >> they are protecting the institutions of the doj and fbi come more interested in their credibility than anything else and protecting the mueller investigation is more important than anything else as well. when you look at these text messages, the dossier was corruptly formed and by allowing information it further undermines the mueller anti-trump investigation. jillian: let's talk about maxine waters facing criticism over her comments the last couple days. let's listen to what she had to s

now back to the issue of the texts. during the investigation the ig recovered a large number of texts between two fbi officials, peter strzok and lisa page. strzok played a major role. about a month and a half before the wiener e-mails are discovered, she texted to him, trump's not ever going to become president, right? right? and what we learn now is that strzok responded as follows -- no. no, he's not. we'll stop it. now the ig says strzok told them that he doesn't remember sending that, but that he thinks he was simply trying to re-assure lisa page, with whom he was having a close relationship, that he wouldn't get elected, not because he was suggesting that he would do anything improper. this is a subtle little point in this 500-page report. what the ig says is they're not accusing strzok of playing an improper role. he was among the fbi officials who could have gotten the fbi to move more aggressively on the e-mails found on the wiener laptop in late september. they're not accusing him of having an improper politic

i remember if i wasn't with him, i was texting him all the time. >> but as for those texts followingyan just before the crash, justine says despite what many believe, she would never, ever have tried to commit suicide knowing that her grandmother killed herself when her dad was just a boy. in fact, she says, the most like explanation is she was just playing a game of sorts with ryan. >> he liked controlling everything having to do with, like, my life. and he would threaten suicide twice. that's what i would think was happening is that i was playing his own card back at him. >> well, i'm going to kill myself, then. >> yeah. i don't think that they were text messages that were to be taken seriously. >> well, if you look at them through justine's eyes, they don't look like a threat. >> yeah. >> despite her conviction and all that evidence and the fact she has no memory of that night, justine claims she must have been wearing her seat belt and cannot imagine driving that fast. >> something happened, you swerved across and hit that other car. >> it's probably you that caused the accident.

can you understand to carl's point about those text messages between miss page and mr.hs about our law enforcement agencies in this country after seeing exchange? >> yes, absolutely. i can remember like it was yesterday where i was and what i was doing when i learned of these text messages. i tell you it was like a punch in the gut to the entire fbi. as carl mentioned, it's just to this day outrageous. -to-say the least. but i would say that the oig report, i haven't read the whole thing, it appears to have concluded that this sort of outrageous unprofessional conduct was limited to those two individuals. it was not -- emblematic of the entire agency. >> exactly. i think -- i know that the fbi ranks -- agent ranks, staff rnk ranks, the institution generally and doj never really saw the sort of improper political bias by those exhibited in those texts as something that was -- had infected the bureau generally or doj generally. that doesn't seem to have been the case and it's not something the oig found. >> carl, back over to you. i want you to make your points but first

the insurance policy text was sent after the "we'll stop him" text. we found out about the insurance policy text first but we'll stop trump text message preceded that. >> melissa: they are trying to make strong and page scapegoat but there are more that were guilty. the trump supporters are poor, middle class, uneducated lazy -- >> bill: here i am. >> melissa: there you go. >> dagen: text message about the southern virginians in the walmart. that is me right there. >> melissa: trump supporters are an ethnic group or women. you wouldn't let them investigate anyone. is it because he says the trump supporters are all poor middle class uneducated lazy p.o.s.s? you wouldn't say didn't impact the work and he characterizes that entire ethnic group that way. >> jessica: this is the argument that theteams are making. >> lisa: what is in the judge's head? do they have a perceived bias? this is what we hear in the confirmation process from the democrats. it was the inspector general who said peter strozk not only indicated a bias state of mind but a willingness

that night an all-out war began via text. you're getting text messages from bonnie.e two of them having sex? >> uh-huh. pictures of sexual positions. >> reporter: photos with captions like -- this is what he really likes, you fat old woman. normally the mistress keeps a very low profile. >> she wanted to make sure i knew now she was in the picture. >> reporter: did she ever. many of the messages are too graphic to show, but you can get a good sense of them from these excerpts. "let me know if you want some good juicy pics of me and your hubby. you stupid old person, keep fixing yourself up, maybe he'll find you more attractive. what's the worst text message she sent you? >> the hollow bitch. >> reporter: she actually called you hollow. >> hollow. >> reporter: because -- >> of my hysterectomy. >> reporter: complete with a diagram to reinforce the point. bonnie admits she sent those nasty texts. you have to imagine though that people are going to see this and they're going to think that some of those text messages are cruel. >> never sent her pictures of my and bill ha

strzok and his texts as evidence to sabotage or discredit the mueller investigation.hat was clear. >> the house is set to vote today on the resolution by republican congress member mark meadows calling on the justice department to provide russia and clinton records by july 6th. meadows says if rod rosenstein does not comply, he should be impeached. >>> bill shine has accepted a position in the administration and is expected to become deputy chief of staff in charge of communications. we're told shine and the president are not personally close, but do know each other well. sean hannity is a close friend of shine's and has been pushing him for communications director for months. shine stepped down from fox under fire last year for how he handled sexual harassment claims at the network. >>> al lly -- allies are concerd the president is being too kind to western adversaries. can we expect the same when the president meets with vladimir putin? we are going live to moscow. before you and your rheumatologist move to another treatment, ask if xeljanz xr is right for you. xelj

for text for text exchanged between peter strzok and lisa page and we're wondering how could there notlved in these investigations if they were truly having these thoughts amongst each other? adrienne? >> i think that's one of the questions that the inspector general is going to be asked today and probably be expected to answer because you look at these. these text messages and again i'm trying to take this from the standpoint i still believe that hillary clinton would have won the election if james comey hadn't reopened the investigation before the election. it is hard to sit here and say there was not political bias between these two people. >> sandra: you will have a few people at the table disagreeing if you do that. >> the inspector general didn't say there was no bias. he just concluded the bias did not affect the ultimate outcome. >> sandra: at least there was no evidence it played a part. >> i don't know how he makes the judgment but that's the judgment he made. >> a lot of members of the committee asking how is that not political bias and how did james comey not show bias? the

republicans are pointing to these texts.es that are out and that is you referenced before with catherine, "no, we will stop him" from becoming president. that text of peter strzok was just released in this before despite being asked for by congress for many, many months. trey gowdy, who was the chairman of the house oversight committee, he has been somebody that has played it straight. he got a lot of grief for siding with the fbi on the spygate explanation. he put out a statement today after this i.g. report in which he says that he was angered, alarmed and deeply disappointed by this report and he points to the strzok part and says it's man nest bias, trending towards animus, calling a shadow on this investigation and everything strzok touched, which in other words is also the beginning of the russia investigation. we're going to have chairman gowdy on as well as chairman goodlatte tonight on "special report" and get into the details. >> shepard: so by that line of thinking, if it wasn't for strzok, we wouldn't have had th

let's come back to these iminating texts with peter strzok and lisa page. we hadn't seen this text. guess was somehow held back. i think it made a lot of headlines because it's so over the top whether they were able to carry thatut these people hated donald trump. mollie: the i.g. said they couldn't determine whether waiting to handle the wiener laptop was based on bias. it's also true these weren't just about peter strzok and lisa page' texting their extreme bias. there were five different people in this probe texting insults against people who voted for trump. the attorney who was actually asking hillary clinton questions during that interview said i am with her when he did that. it's not necessarily -- the i.g. is careful to say, there is not hard evidence saying i am with her, therefore i'm letting her get off. this level of bias is problematic for two investigations. howie: journalists and pundits are cherry picking the evidence. i think the only common denominator is jim comey had flawed decision making. so that enables each side to say here is evidence that supports our conte

heather: some antitrump text messages, thank you so much for joining, we appreciate it.er strzok's messages casting shadow in probe because he was the lead investigator hand-picked by robert mueller. rudy giuliani said based on horowitz, he's confident that the president will be vindicated. >> the president of the united states, my friend and a great president is off to terrific start is going to be vindicated that this is a witch hunt with no evidence and nothing else with a bunch of people who hate him, hate republicans, hate anything that he stands for and vowed to get him no matter what. we will not know that until mueller is investigated. the investigators need to be investigated if we need to see justice here. i doubt that we will go forward if i think there's any doubt if these people are trying to -- i'm beginning not only to doubt it, i'm beginning to believe it. heather: report unearthed biases from other agents saying i'm with her. lawmakers are now demanding names of those agents to be released to determine whether they were also assigned to the russia probe.

her and no more texting from then.er people started calling me and saying this is really bad. we have seen pictures of people being killed. >> and she's not responding to you now. >> no. >> just down the corridor, another mother struggled to keep her children quiet. >> i'm here thinking about our survivor and thinking will this stop and run to an area where we can be safe. >> she told her children being quiet wasn't enough. she made an incredible decision. they would all play dead. her 9-year-old daughter could understand how important it was to stay still. her son then, too, seemed to sense it as well. he didn't move except for an occasional blink. >> men with machine guns scoured every inch of the mall. >> we were next to a corridor where we could hear them passing from time-to-time. but there was no way to change my position. >> as the minutes dragged into hours, knowing her son might stir at any minute, faith was relieved when he dozed off for a bit. >> he was lying there on the ground snoring away. i didn't know i

and you're going out and texting somebody you're having an affair with, you're texting her we're goingonald trump from becoming president of the united states. he should be prosecuted. melissa: democrats are already out saying that message is being taken out of conn text. it is actually about something else. what the ig report shows that the fbi was working in favor of the trump administration or potential administration, future campaign, and that all he did was hurt the clintons. i mean, isn't that what we keep hearing, bill, from the democratic talking points? >> that seems to be a continued line but i think where all this merges together, remember this report only deals with hillary clinton's email matter and james comey. melissa: right. >> this is not bob null letter. it is -- mueller. it is not russia. the connection they're drawing is the strzok matter. he was in charge of the russia matter for one year entirely. he was the lead dog on that, until he was removed. melissa: jason, are theyç settg him up to be the scapegoat, peter strzok? >> he set himself up. you go back to the fa

see you back here tomorrow. >> do you believe this text shows political bias?it shows a biassed state of mind. >> do you believe the political bias shown by this text had an effect on the initiation of the russia investigation? >> that's a matter under review and looking at right now. >> more to be determined. >> more to be determined. >> neil: think about what was said there. forget about the war of words back and forth and what led to an investigation of hillary clinton that didn't go anywhere and republicans say didn't do her any harm even though democrats disagree. no, no, this was

trump bias in the texts. he said the fbi said it didn't affect his work. but they have a legitimate issue but they seem to be taking that into some much grander conspiracy theory, essentially saying the deputy attorney jena pointed by donald trump and now the new fbi director appointed by donald trump, part of this somehow nefarious justice department who gave them their jobs. >> it is literally their job to oversee this and it's absolutely essential that elected officials oversee appointed officials, especially law enforcement who has the force of law, the force of imprisonment and the force of violence to go after citizens. that being said, it is a congressional hearing which means it is ridiculous, even though it's essential. that being said, there are real problems. i think one of the issues and one of the sort of dynamic you're seeing here less with rosenstein or comey or others who have testified in the past is this idea that they are above having made mistakes, and that law enforcement is full of just nothing but perfect actors who cannot basically

it was her sending those text messages. bill wouldn't have never disrespected me like that. >> reporter: but if there was any doubt that she'd been following the halls, she seemed to confirm it herself by sending photos of their house and frances' car. why were you sending those pictures? >> to piss her off. to defend myself. >> reporter: what are you -- i mean, you're the one -- but, but -- >> her telling me that bill didn't love me. her telling me that bill was using me. >> reporter: but bonnie, you're the one who is having the affair with bill. so why are you attacking his wife? >> because she was attacking me. and i will defend myself. >> reporter: one week after that text message feud came the car chase that left bill hall dead. nearly three years after that frances hall went on trial for murder. prosecutors stephanie paulissen and scott simpson laid out the case for the jury. >> we understand why she was angry. but that's not justification to go attempt to run down your husband's mistress and kill him in the process.

we wan those text messages. we're entio them.lient is entitledonow th depths at which these two individuals went to prejudice her. >> and are youseeking, keith's disbarment? what is the solution from your point of view? what is the appropriate punishment and sanction for keith davidson colluding with miael cohen? >> there is no questio raises very, very serious ethical issues that would relate to his practe a law or his ability to practe law. we haven't made a determination yet as to whether we're going to file an ethics complaint or not. we filed this lawsuit for a number of reasons. and another reason, nicolle, is we need all of this information and all o documents that we've been trying to get for the better part of three months now because we're doing everything in our power to cooperate with the southern district of new york. and what that requires is we need to look at all the documents and we have toake determinations as to the attorney/client privilege. and mr. davidson ishwarting d those efforts by refusing to give us wh

all those text messages were produced in 2017.ou had the hoopla about the collusion investigation. had this text message landed before mueller was appointed and people see the guy running the whole thing saying we are going to use it to stop trump. whether it was strzok, page or somebody else, we need to know. judge jeanine: congressman, i am so fed up with this. you guys have been doing this with all due respect. i gave you credit in my open. my viers are fed up. they want to know why is there a different system of justice for the ordinary americans than for them. they can destroy evidence and tamper with evidence, they can change the rules. look at manafort. not that i give a darn about manafort. this gay is in jail and people have violated the law and they are getting a check from us. >> you are looking at the person who wrought original criminal referral to sessions where i had 16 members of congress to refer all these people, comey, mccabe, strzok, page. we already referred them to the justice department. the oig was not will

he only found this text message in may. thousands have been turned over and seized by republicans on capitol hill as exhibit a of political bias, but this one was only recently uncovered and on this particular one the inspect or jgeneral makes and interestig point and he said the decision to prioritize the russia investigation over following up on the mid-year related investigative lead, meaning the finding that huma abedin e-mails on betweanthony anthony weiner' laptop is concerning. he said under these circumstances we did not have confidence that strzok's decision to prioritize the russia investigation over the following up on this mid-year related investigation lead was from free from bias. >> evan perez is with us as well. what impact does this have on the legitimacy of the overall clinton e-mail server investigation. >> i think, wolf, the people at the justice department, people at the fbi who were very concerned about how this would come across have to be relieved that the inspector general went through the step of s

here's the text message.tatively scheduled for hannity tonight, call me after your trial. i'm trying to get her to commit for tomorrow. with me now ms. daniels' current attorney, michael avena you'reking about collusion with regards to these text messages. michael cohen writes to davidson, quote, cohen texagn, men all bieve the story is dying. don't think it's smart for her to do anything.davidson respond. you're saying they were essentially working together, because don't lawyers often communicate even if they're on the opposite side? >> anderson, you're right. lawyers often communicate when they're on opposite sides, but they're not sube workinogether when they're supposed to be representing adverse clients. and at this pointettlement was supposed to be executed back in 2016. there was no reason for keith davidson to be communicating with michael cohen. and if you look at the text messages attached to the lawsuit, these were tool individuals who had a very chummy inappropriate relationship at this point. th

why didn't rod rosenstein showed us that one when we saw insurance policy text, texts with all the biasnd on muis towards president trump, why didn't we just see this one on two days ago when the report comes out? those are some of the other questions we have for rosenstein and mr. wray. neil: the president says he's vindicated, do you agree? >> the bias at the top people, not the ranking -- neil: that's not what i asked. it vindicates and exonerates him? >> well, we know there's been no evidence of coordination between the trump campaign and russia, a year of this mueller investigation, no evidence, so this report i think -- what we already know and shows the bias that existed even inspector general says we don't have no confidence that it was free of bias. they even say that in the report. neil: a democrat's read on this after this. three are fha, one is va. so what can you do? she's saying a whole lotta people want to buy this house. but you got this! rocket mortgage by quicken loans makes the complex simple. understand the details and get approved in as few as eight minutes. by amer