after his contract with the f.b.i. was terminated through bruce or an f.b.i. official who is married to a staffer at fusion g.p.s. it's very embarrassing for. people who are trying to prove trumped russia collusion much just to pick up on something he said there why does the f.b.i. actually need to hire a third party to investigate whether trump colluded with russia or not doesn't have its own specialist i would have thought it seems to me that there were partisan officials inside the f.b.i. who have gone on record saying that they feared trump selection and that they were trying to establish plausible deniability working through a third party that was also funded by the clinton campaign you know i'm not a trump supporter not on the record really liking donald trump very much but it seems slightly disturbing to me that the f.b.i. was investigating a political campaign and so far seems to have not turned up anything to enforce the collusion narrative and then we also have the fact that a confidential operative stephanie stephon helper was planted inside the tru

when the f.b.i. director james comey was fired by president trump, ohr wrote that steele was, "very concerned about comey's firing. afraid they will be exposed." today the justice department declined to comment. ohr has a chance to tell his side of the story on august 28 when a closed door interview is scheduled scheduled with thee oversight and judiciary committees. as part of the joint investigation in the f.b.i. and the d.o.j. conduct in the presidential election. lou? >> lou: thank you very much. catherine herridge. joining us tonight, chris farrell, director of investigations and research for judicial watch. it's great to have you with us. how deeply do you believe ohr to be connected to christopher steele, the former mi-6 spy? and to the entire effort to discredit, first the president's campaign, and then his administration? >> well, first, that is a devastating piece of journalism by catherine herridge. probably the best single recap i've heard. and it points out that ohr is the linchpin in all

well the f.b.i. has done a review the f.b.i. reviewed and declined to investigate for mishandling of classified information there so being the rules in following procedure which is what they criticize you for violating well there's no doubt that i deviated as they say from the norms but there was nothing normal about the investigation of one of the two candidates for president of the united states during the election but is that an excuse for insubordinate and extraordinary actions which is what they used to know certainly not it's and it's an explanation as to why how we saw the decisions and why we chose bad over worse in each of the key circumstances they don't accept that choice that. well they do they just weigh it differently they think the better take take because the decision we had to make close to the election to tell congress we restarted the investigation inspector general's view is i had a choice between speaking or not speaking and i should have not spoken i get that and i respect that i think that under way he's th

when it comes to the f.b.i. one who works with the people in the f.b.i., the american people need to trust the institution. they need to trust there is no politics involved and everything that is happening came out over the past two years stinks. i think that we -- you couldn't have said it better. we owe it to the american people to review the roles to get this all out in open and have a cleansing from the f.b.i. leadership because it is not appropriate what is going on for the two years. >> harris: now we see why. and you and i have talked about it off-camera, why hillary clinton would have fired him immediately and the president should have fired him immediately as well. they are there in terms of what he was collecting and who he would leak it to. it feels like we should talk about somebody other than the f.b.i. director formerly. >> josh: hardly elliott ne ises character. >> jessica: his twitter account is a reminder of the hubris of what is going on. >> harris: did you say hardly elliott ness? i'd say more

in memos that you sent outside the f.b.i. according to a washington post report shortly after he was fired at me last year i review concluded that some of the information to reveal the most was classified and that the f.b.i. felt compelled to retrieve that information gave it to the information was not confidential apparently the last category of classified but it was classified. oh sure yeah in fact i've cooperated with them and talked to them and i eagerly await their report i think you broke the rules no no no no no and i think for you wait for the report i think what you'll see is i don't know what you ok i'll get the answers right there's i did not in any way and it's the reason i want the review done want to review don't want the report out of so little and the silly that's about me mishandling cause somebody asked me are you got it wrong that well the f.b.i. is going to review the f.b.i. reviewed and declined to investigate for mishandling of classified information which states are being the rules and following procedur

>> sean: interrupt on my own show. >> the head of the f.b.i. is not the head of the f.b.i. s under investigation by the inspector director. the deputy director fire and is under criminal investigation. mr. strozk the head counterintelligence investigator fire and he is under investigation. or will be. or should be under investigation as well. that is the top tier of the federal bureau of investigation. i have never heard of anything like this before. you have a mole in the deputy attorney general's office working with strozk fired. his wife works for fusion g.p.s . and pushing out the opposition research against the president of the united states. getting in front of the fisa court through the f.b.i. bruce ohr, bruce ohr who served for the deputy attorney general of the united states and there is tons more. you have fisa court judges that have never been held to account. >> sean: fraud. >> application that was file it with the fisa court. they didn't say who paid for the opposition research used to violate their rules. >> sean: i got to run. >> we need a special counsel now.

and in the case of f.b.i. as at the decision of the deputy director who overruled the finding of the bureau's internal disciplinary office, julie. >> julie: thank you so much. >> bill: the airplane joy ride, more information out of washington state ending in a fiery crash and the death of a 29-year-old man. causing concern how that could happen. airport leaders in seattle meeting about safety and protocols. we have a former navy pilot. how does it happen? >> it is quite easy for something like this to happen when you think about airports across the country, not just the major airports like sea-tac. there are smaller airports that have large jets, private jets. where there is very little security to get on the tarmac. in this case there was more security. according to that airport and port authority there they actually started security screening more so than other airports do where they require things like biometrics, special badgeing for airline employees and employees at the airport itself. baggage handlers to

now that the f.b.i. has fired agent peter strzok, his attorney slamming the agency in a statement saying, in part "it is a decision that produces only one winner. those who seek to harm our country and weaken our democracy, the f.b.i. and the american people deserve better." chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live outside of the trial of former trump campaign chair paul manafort in alexandria, virginia, and we are waiting the start of day 10 in that case. lots of news, break it down for us. >> that's right, melissa and thank you. so about an hour from now, the court will reconvene in the courthouse behind me in the eastern district of virginia, and we're expecting the government, the prosecutors to put on at least one more witness before they wrap their case. this is a senior banking official from the federal savings bank. he was part of the loan committee and he'll know the ins and outs of this $16 million loan that paul manafort secured in 2016. the big news, though, this morning has

>> no place in the f.b.i. whose bias, conduct and statement bring into question the integrity of the f.b.i. if they're sincere wanting the rehabilitate the reputation of that agency and let the good men and women do their work it is time to exit stage left. >> bill: he is everywhere. bring in america's a-team morgan ortagus and chris stirewalt and ben kissel. good morning to you. here is the tweet from the president, strzok started the illegal rigged witch hunt. why isn't the probe ended immediately and looking at crooked hillary. he has been saying that for a while now. >> right. what's really important about the i.g. said he could not rule out bias as it relates to strzok in the hillary clinton investigation. if you saw the testimony that happened, the public testimony on the hill, most of the questions that related to the hillary investigation strzok said i can't comment, ongoing investigation. for the purposes of looking fully at the hillary clinton investigation i think there are plenty of people in congr

the f.b.i. s, in fact, getting parts of the dossier from bruce ohr, top justice department official. bruce ohr's wife worked for the firm that the clintons hired. he gave it to bruce ohr. she gave it to the f.b.i. it's not supposed to work that way here in the united states of america. but it did. >> david: the questions about smoke and fire could bee put together. jason, let me go to you and get you to weigh in on this. i mean, is there nothing to see here? >> i think the issue that was mentioned with regard to him not reporting the fact that his wife worked at fusion gps, that's a relevant issue, but this is a senior justice department official who had nothing whatsoever to do with the russia investigation and was not involved in it. i don't know what the problem is with him having a conversation. he understands the investigation is going on. he passes information on relevant to that investigation. i don't know what else he did other than the reporting issue that was inappropriate. >> david: ok

the f.b.i. which is for years in gauged infiltrating progressive organizations and peace organizations to disrupt them. who killed fred hampton a leader of the black panthers in cold blood and now somehow the f.b.i. supposed to the it's really incredible you know brian one of the things i think it's very interesting very tragic here is that somehow russia meddled in america's democracy i don't even really know what that means but you hear it all of the time but what really is happening i think my personal opinion is that because there isn't any questioning of the intelligence community in their behavior and i'm thinking of the f.b.i. during a two thousand and sixteen election they are damaging america's democracy because you cannot ask these questions about what they did i mean the f.b.i. the d.o.j. which was created by congress right they fund these agencies and what we see is the obstruction so i can't you know meddling ok i'm not i have no idea what that really means but we're getting more an

politics are talked about because of the f.b.i. nd the potential bias. >> that is all what congress will have to consider. the credibility of what he comes out with. if mueller and his democrat largely investigators say no problem, trump didn't do anything wrong. it's over when the democrats on his team conclude that. if they say there is something wrong, if it's arguable issue, many republicans in congress will discount it because they will say and trump will say this is the democrat on bob mueller. biased. unless he has incontrovertible proof he did something wrong or lied, that is the only thing i see that could get trump in trouble but i have seen no evidence that trump and his team colluded the hack or steal democrat e-mails or podesta's e-mails and that is what this is about. hacking and the stealing. an attack on one party is an attack on all parties. take it seriously. >> harris: those are the stakes. quickly before i have to let you go. i want to remind the audience if you're tuning in we are awaiting the president secretar

and the f.b.i. just tonight, sara carter uncovered one more handwritten memo from bruce ohr reporting a phone conversation he had with christopher steele. in the memo ohr writes that steele is very concerned about the comey hearing and afraid they will be exposed. this is on top of the text that sara revealed here last night saying steele was concerned about whether or not, plural, firewalls will stay intact. ahead of comey's upcoming hearing. you have christopher steele worried about being exposed and for good reason. he worked on hillary clinton op research team in 2016 and put together the clinton bought and paid for dirty russian dossier full of russian lies, salacious, unverified, uncooperated and everyone steele himself wouldn't stand by it. under oath in great britain. he said well, it may not be true at all. it's raw intelligence. it's christopher steele who used bruce ohr to spread propaganda throughout the highest level of the government and to you, the american people. thanks to the report

countered the president telling reporters that the f.b.i. hasn't found any evidence that china that clinton servers were compromised here to help assess out the latest claim a foreign government hacking in the potomac he said she said they said that follows conservative commentator dave miles. and i dare you to say that again because if i may is that i haven't got there are one says that not just today but it was because the daily caller you know kick start of this incredible story but they are just sources to to anonymous sources which i mean time i hear anonymous sources always makes might be some time to raise you know why why should we believe the daily caller's claims why should we think that this is accurate information with reporters well you know you could take it all the way back to when the former head of the f.b.i. james komi said that no prosecutor would ever bring charges against hillary and take the case also brought up the possibility that yes. there could have been bad actors that got involved and got ahold of some of hillary'

>> so these are the people who are charge of the largest groupings at the f.b.i., the division, and then the braonhes that si top of that. so there is a cyber division that was created at the beginning of the last decade it's about 15 years old at this point. wid recently the head of that division, alon his deputy, left, and his boss also left that headed the bnch that's on top of the cyber division. so these are the officials who set these are the people who decide where resources are going to be spent, howgents e going to be utilizeed in the field. so we're talking about kind of high-level turnover, at righ now there aren't people in place deciding how to shape that mission going forward. >> stewart: has therbeen an explanation of the brain train? >> this is sort of a function of coincidence. agents have to retire at the age of 57, and all four people we wrote about in our recent story joined the f.b.i. as agents in the 90s. so this was a hiring boom in the 90s. the f.b.i. expects some of these retirements to continue as these agents reach tt age. they can also start to retire when the

the f.b.i. has released seventy one pages of alleged correspondence between the bureau and christopher steele the former british spy who authored a dossier alleging collusion between donald trump and russia the records show f.b.i. payments to steal as a confidential human source over an unknown period they also show that steele told the f.b.i. he had informed a third party he was acting as a source for the bureau however the document is mostly empty with important information removed so much so that it almost looks like a blank form it follows the f.b.i.'s release of documents on former top adviser carter page with most of the text heavily redacted in that document as well. investigative journalist max blumenthal thinks that despite of the redactions the documents prove trump's narrative about f.b.i. clinton during the two thousand and sixteen campaign these documents aren't heavily redacted they are completely whited out it's a literal whitewash i mean in this seventy one page file there's more

countered the president telling reporters that the f.b.i. hasn't found any evidence that clinton servers were compromised here to help us suss out the latest claim a foreign government hacking in the potomac he said she said they said that follows conservative commentator dave miles. and i dare you to say that again we have been inconsistent i mean is that. they got there at once as it not just didn't it was because the daily caller you know kick started this incredible story but they are just source to go to two anonymous sources which any time i hear anonymous sources always make some time to raise you know why why should we believe the daily caller's claims why should we think that this is accurate information what they're reporting well you know you could take it all the way back to when the former head of the f.b.i. james call me said that no prosecutor would ever bring charges against hillary and take the case also brought up the possibility that yes. so there could have been bad actors that got involved and got a hold of some of hillar

peter struck was one of the f.b.i.'s top investigators in charge of looking into whether hillary clinton broke the law by using private e-mails and also whether the trump campaign colluded with the russian government he was on special counsel robert mueller steamed in till last year when it emerged that he was having an affair with a fellow f.b.i. employee lisa page. they texted from their work phones and they were very critical of candidate trump in one she wrote trump won't be president right he responds no will stop him last month in a sometimes heated testimony before congress how many times did you don't look so innocent and do your wife's and a lot to her about this is fair miss the raging ability of his shame. struck tried to explain that in terms of the tax that. we will stop it you need to understand that that was written late at night off the cuff and it was in response to a series of events that included then canada trump insulting the immigrant family of a fallen war hero and my presumption based on that hor

the f.b.i. has released its seventy one pages of alleged correspondence between the bureau and christopher steele the former british spy who authored a dossier alleging collusion between donald trump and russia records show f.b.i. payments to steal as a confidential human source over an unknown period they also show that steele told the f.b.i. he had informed a third party he was acting as a source for the bureau however the document is mostly empty with important information removed so much so that it almost looks like a blank form it follows the f.b.i.'s release of documents on former trump advisor carter page with most of the text heavily redacted not documented as well. that's the good of a journalist max blumenthal thinks that despite the redactions the documents actually prove trump's narrative about f.b.i. clinton lucian during the two thousand and sixteen campaign these documents aren't heavily redacted they are completely whited out it's a literal whitewash i mean in this seventy one pag

the f.b.i. has released seventy one pages of alleged correspondence between the bureau and christopher steele the former british spy who or third a dossier alleging collusion between donald trump and russian the records show f.b.i. payments to steal a confidential human source over known period the also show that steele told the f.b.i. he had informed a third party he was acting as a source for the bureau however the document is mostly empty with important information removed so much so that it almost looks like a blank form and it follows the f.b.i.'s release of documents on former trump advisor carter page with most of the text heavily redacted in the two let's cross live now to investigative journalist mark blumenthal for his take on the show why is the f.b.i. releasing these documents so heavily redacted what's the point in that yeah i mean it's not these documents aren't heavily redacted they are completely whited out it's a literal whitewash i mean in this seventy one page file there's more

professionals at the cia and f.b.i. escape the polarization of politics. public and will therefore radically change the situation in the country. we're all from out larson former cia veteran who served as moscow section chief among other politicians welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us. now wolf the american intelligence community has been accused of being politicized many times in a bush sheriffs' the politicians use it to justify iraq now the agencies are again the world in a political scandal i know you pride yourself on your colleagues for being patry arctic nonpolitical but can you really be about politics in this line of work i mean that sounds kind of like fairy tale almost. i think it's a standard you have to strive for i've been a lifelong political independent for that reason that you outline that it's crucial for intelligence officers to be independent and objective and serve the country not just the president and the government but we are also all citizens now they. are taxpayer funded they have no private sector competitio

finally the list of bad players in the f.b.i. and d.o.j. gets longer and longer based on the fact that struck was in charge of the witch hunt will it be dropped it is a total hoax no collusion no obstruction i just fight back lawyer says he was improperly fired the f.b.i. isn't commenting president trump's attacks on the f.b.i. and its agents is unprecedented but he obviously feels he needs to discredit the investigation into his campaign and now he can point to the firing of one of its top agents as proof he is right. al-jazeera washington. time for a short break here on al-jazeera when we come back zimbabwe's president makes his first public address since winning a disputed election again blaming the opposition for inciting violence. and his board one of world targets biggest names unless the outcome of this trial for a friday and you say without still gonna stay with us. how the recurring nature of rain up in the northeast corner of the us in new jersey new york for example just keeps going is causing flash floods fairly readily and you s

peter struck was one of the f.b.i.'s top investigators in charge of looking into whether hillary clinton broke the law by using private e-mails and also whether the trump campaign colluded with the russian government he was on special counsel robert mueller steamed in till last year when it emerged that he was having an affair with a fellow f.b.i. employee lisa page. they texted from their work phones and they were very critical of candidate trump in one she wrote trump won't be president right he responds no will stop him last month in a sometimes heated testimony before congress how many times did you don't look so innocent and to your wife and a lot to her about this is fair miss the rage to belittle you in this same way you struck tried to explain that in terms of the tax that. we will stop it you need to understand that that was written late at night off the cuff and it was in response to a series of events that included then canada trump insulting the immigrant family of a fallen war hero and my presumption based

looks like a blank form follows the f.b.i.'s release of documents on former advisor carter page with most of that text heavily redacted as well. investigative journalist blum and max blumenthal thinks that despite the redemptions the documents prove trumps narrative about f.b.i. clinton collusion during the two thousand and sixteen campaign these documents aren't heavily redacted they are completely whited out it's a literal whitewash i mean in this seventy one page file there is more white than at a coldplay concert or the republican national convention it is all white it's a it's shocking really despite that complete redaction it it does confirm part of trump's narrative that the f.b.i. was colluding with the clinton campaign because we also know that christopher steele had been employed through fusion g.p.s. the opposition research firm in the contract was taken out by perkins koyo which was the law firm of hillary clinton's campaign. controversy has broken out over a new tech editor hired by the new york times as it turns o

people don't understand this jurisdiction the f.b.i. is on a reservation can they go into reservation and investigate a motive or a missing person and they just kind of do that kind of go a lap they have the responsibility to do that in your head and the big question that i think we would all ask is why why isn't that happening why is that not happening we don't know i think that you know one of the things and thinking about this issue that's been very obvious to me is that it is a human rights issue and there has been a situation through u.s. law where indian people have been dehumanised in multiple ways particularly with respect to when they're in a situation where they're victims of crime instead of being looked at like every other person in the united states what can we do to prosecute this the quick the first question is who did it because that's who decides how it's decided how it's prosecuted so is it in india potentially is the way it's potentially going to string what crime is that sometimes you get behind some of the stripping

the professionals at the cia and f.b.i. escape the polarization of politics. public and will therefore a radically changed the situation in the country. we're all from out larson former cia veteran who served as moscow section chief along other politicians welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us. now wolf the american intelligence community has been accused of being politicized many times in a bush sheriffs to politicians use it to justify iraq now agencies are again the world in a political scandal i know you pride yourself on your colleagues for being patry arctic nonpolitical but can you really be about politics in this line of work i mean that sounds kind of like fairy tale almost i think it's a standard you have to strive for i've been a lifelong political independent for that reason that you outline that it's crucial for intelligence officers to be independent and objective and serve the country not just the president and the government but we are also all citizens. now they. are taxpayer funded they have no private sector competition a

fissions of the cia and f.b.i. escape the polarization of politics. public and will therefore radically change the situation in the country. were all from larsen former cia veteran who served as moscow section chief among other politicians welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us. now wolf the american intelligence community has been accused of being politicized many times in a bush sheriffs' to politicians use it to justify iraq now the agencies are again in a political scandal i know you pride yourself on your colleagues for being patry arctic nonpolitical but can you really be about politics in this line of work i mean that sounds kind of like fairy tale almost i think it's a standard you have to strive for i've been a lifelong political independent for that reason that you outline that it's crucial for intelligence officers to be independent and objective and serve the country not just the president and the government but we are also all citizens now that into our taxpayer funded they have no private sector competition appointment

the f.b.i. tion. here is the chief. >> there was much more work remaining and only upon the full review upon the investigation will i be in a position to provide my recommendations on the actions of those involved. >> perez was a gang member just out of prison. he has multiple felony convictions. the victim's family will file a wrongful death claim later today. the coroner will come out with a report saying was she killed by the knife or by the police? that will go into the court case obviously. a lot left to be done in this case. >> bill: william la jeunesse reporting in los angeles today. >> sandra: we have some breaking news out of the white house this morning. right now president trump is firing off against his attorney general yet again on twitter calling on jeff sessions to end the mueller probe. we'll have more on that in a moment. >> bill: the suspect in the murder of border agent brian terry extradited to the u.s. out of mexico. what awaits him in arizona now. >> sandra: democrats rampin

after the f.b.i. cut ties with steele as a source. congressman jim jordan said republicans can't wait to get mr. ohr behind closed doors. >> how close they were. nelly, bruce, chris, glen, like they were all best friends and the number of times that bruce ohr interacted with christopher steele and glenn simpson as well. >> bill: the present is tweeting on this. afraid they will be exposed about comey's firing said ohr. they show his connection to phony and connected trump dossier. a creep thinking he would get caught in a dishonest act. rigged witch hunt. tell us what you find, catherine herridge. >> good morning. the review by fox news at bruce ohr's emails, text messages and handwritten notes shows he is connected to the trump dossier and scandal over alleged government surveillance abuse. glenn simpson, the firm behind the dossier, claimed no contact with ohr after the 2016 election. but his work emails conflict with simpson's testimony showing contact months earlier. ohr's wife nelly worked for gps

i spent as you know now most of my adult life in the f.b.i. so this loss of faith really ffects me and troubles me. and by the way that was my first seven seconds, how you do like me so far? i always listen to my friend melanie. i think a lot of the explanation for the problems and the lapses have that happened can be explained by a cultural change that happened after the eptember 11 attacks. when america was attacked on september 11th, bob muller and by the way is muller -- now muller. he's not a nazi. you may have your differences with him. commentator en the pronounce his name as muller. bob muller. became director of the f.b.i. only five days before the september 11 attack. which was on a tuesday. a tuesday morning as everybody remembers. on saturday morning, he was sum momed to camp david. was with his key advisors. secretary of state. condoleeza rice. the head of the c.i.a. and bob muller was called there to report on what the f.b.i. did. at least that's what he was called there to do. and he showed up with a report. and he's told us this