and part of what i discovered to the fbi any threat was a big threat. the the potential for people to dissent from the established order to cause disruption or chaos was, from the fbi's perspective, very, very troublesome. from hoover from hoover on down there was this emphasis on identifying who these people were and stopping >> them. >> it was a very different time in the 1950s and '60s, a very different fbi? >> yes. it definitely was a very different fbi. one of the interesting things is right now in the political climate we're in there's a large section of the country that feels very bad for the fbi, that the fbi is being maligned in our current era. 50 years ago as this stuff was coming out publicly, it was very different 40 years ago as it was being publicized that the fbi -- these were constitutional violations. essentially essentially spying on people for their political views. the fbi has evolved, it has changed, it is much more but, this but, this is important, it still continues in many respects to investigate those who are deemed to be threat

>> within the fbi, and had approval from the very top of the organization, which was j edgar hoover, who was the long- term director of the fbi, and to was extraordinarily focused on identifying communist links, or communist individuals who were involved in social justice movements and other political movements in the united states. >> any concern from president truman, president eisenhower, resident kennedy, president johnson that individual rights were being discriminated against or taken away based on these eavesdropping devices? >> it was not part of the conversation until the later part of the 60s. j edgar hoover himself by the mid 60s began to want to pull back some of the spying and surveillance activity over concerns like that. >> another term or organization, the southern student organizing committee, what was that? >> the southern student accurately -- organizing committee, a group that i have written about that was white college students in the south in the 1960s. most people think of white young people at the south at that time, they often think klan or people who opposed

this is from the fbi. king, in view of your low-grade abnormal personal behavior, i will not dignify your name with a mister or a reverend or your doctor, and your last name calls to mind only the kind of king asking henry viii with a moral conduct lower than that of a thief. look in your heart, you know you are a great fraud and liability to all of us negros -- this is definitely written by the fbi, -- you are no clergyman and you know it. you are a fraud and a vicious one at that. you could not believe in god and act like you do. clearly you do not believe in any personal moral principles. et cetera. et cetera. it is on the record. listen to your self, you filthy abnormal animal. you are on the record. all of your acts, et cetera. the american public, the church organizations that have been helping, will know you for what you are. and evil, abnormal beast. you are done. king, there is only one thing left for you to do. you know what it is. you have 34 days to do this. you are done. there is one way out fo

the fbi. the fbi's own history on their website they have a pretty long narrative description of their history. they link the creation of an fbi to the progressive movement that's active in that period of time. the progressive movement is sort of this belief that undergirds it is that the government must intervene to foster justice in an industrial society. the response to the sort of labor unrest, that we've talked about in previous classes and everything that went on, inspired that terrible kind of working conditions and so forth. so the progressive movement inspires things for example like the fda to insure that the food you're getting has labels on what you're eating is what you think you're eating. it will eventually lead to things like child labor laws. it is also then create this sort of nationwide law inforcement body. that is able to keep tabs on criminals throughout the country and just prior to this period of time. the fbi's history explains this creation, based on the need for law

the fbi encourages dr. mr. chairman to kill himself because he is such a threat to the nation in their view. king does not obviously kill himself. the fbi then offers to turn this tape over to the press. the press turns him down. imagine such an era. and the fbi backs off in the face of a looming congressional investigation into electronic surveillance. the timing of that works out in his favor, i suppose. from 1965 to '67 lyndon johnson takes over for the assassinated john f. kennedy. clamps down on wiretapping, suggests it should be outlawed. there are a couple supreme court cases, berger v. new york and katz versus situates both in 1967. in these cases the supreme court says wire taps have to follow the same procedures for a warrant. there must be probable cause, the people initiating the wire tap have to specify the crime, specify the space to be searched, specify the conversations. in 1968 congress sets specific standards for obtaining wire taps. this will not stop cointelpro overall. cointelpro will target

his top deputy, the number two official at the fbi running the day-to-day operations of the fbi and the investigation, he, too, has been fired. turned into a political punching bag and removed from office. now, the head of the counter intelligence division at the fbi, the lead agent on that investigation, now, today, he has also been fired. turned into a political punching bag and removed from office. the president has also threatened all three of them with being prosecuted themselves. director, deputy director, head of the counter intelligence division, all gone. all blown up, careerwise, right? all being threatened with being prosecuted themselves. and the russia investigation continues to unspool, right? we've had the national security adviser plead guilty and become a cooperating business. we've had the president's deputy campaign chair plead guilty and becoming a cooperating witness. we've had that trump foreign policy adviser who piqued the interests of the fbi with his inside info about the russian hacking operations, right? we've had him plead guilty, too, and become a cooperati

the fbi encourages dr. martin luther king to kill himself because he's such a threat to the nation in their view. the fbi offers this tape -- king does not obviously kill himself. the fbi then offers to turn this tape over to the press. the press turns him down and the fbi backs off in the face of investigation and electronic surveillance. the timing works out in his favor i suppose. lyndon johnson takes over for john f. kennedy. it should be formally outlawed. there's a couple of supreme court cases. both in 1964 and in these cases the supreme court changes it's tune. wiretaps have to follow the same procedures. there must be probable cause. the people initiating the wire trap have to specify the crime. specify the place to be searched. specify the conversations to be seized. in 1968 congress follows suit. set specific standards for obtaining wiretaps. this will not stop. they'll target other confrontational political groups including the black panther party that it helps to destroy with informants, misinfo

the fbi night was phoney. you look at it. it's preposterous. >> as laughable as it is, the outrageous part is it's the predicate, the foundation for a year-long surveillance of somebody who had virtually no connection to the campaign, and it's part of this russia hysteria which is a manufactured lie. gregg: is it clear to you that the trump-russia collusion investigation was really triggered by this phoney dossier. the initial memo was written june 20, and on the very day that comey is clearing clinton, the fbi is meeting in a building in london secretly with christopher the steel who surely gave them the dossier and three weeks later they formally signed the papers to launch the trump-russia case. >> when you look at the timeline, it's incredibly damning. there is a lot of guilty knowledge and perjury. a lot of deliberate -- there is a sequence of actions that show this is a planned out deliberate, corrupt evident to steer an election. it's that simple. gregg: if you want to read more about it, read "the russia hoax." chris f

the fbi fires enbattled fbi agent peter strzok. does it mean for the russia probe moving forward? what's the reason behind the firing? much more after the break. ♪ flintstones! meet the flintstones. ♪ ♪ they're the modern stone age family. ♪ ♪ from the town of bedrock. ♪ meet george jetson. ♪ ♪ his boy elroy. with instant acceleration, electric cars are more fun to drive and more affordable than ever. electric cars are here. plug into the present. now t-mobile has unlimited for the rest of us. unlimited ways to be you. unlimited ways share with others. unlimited ways to live for the moment. all for as low as 30 bucks a line. unlimited for you. for them. for all. get unlimited for as low at 30 bucks per line for four lines at t-mobile. >>> welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. breaking news today. the fbi fires the agent whose text messages are exhibit a to president trump and his allies who claim a deep state bias in the russia meddling investigation. plus, talk about a jury of your pe

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the fbi did not include those issues on the application. >> not only did the fbi not that the dossiererified, they also knew there were credibility issues because of the way it was collected and the bias that was associated with that. >> democratic lawmakers said this is nothing more than an attempt to undermine the special's investigation. but democrats lawmakers did not attend yesterday's hearing. the house is in recess. they sent staffers instead. >> sean: with the author of the "ru "russian hoax,"greg jarrett and sarah carter with us. sarah carter you have new information relating to what happened. our reporting was accurate and more. bruce ohr never not before mueller with all of this information we now have? >> he never.before mueller and never went before john huber. this is incredible information. what we know now is nobody questioned bruce ohr. we know that congress is now going to call on nellie ohr to testify behind closed doors. >> sean: when do we get these transcripts? >> they hope they are available after labored. -- labor day. they want to talk to nellie ohr and to and

him, the fbi paid him.he fbi made 11 payments to christopher steele. i have been saying, and now it has all come together. the biggest political corruption abuse of power andio scandal in our lifetime. this should outrage every single american. i don't care what yourim political affiliation is, let me say this slowly. they try to steal in the united states of america a presidential election, and this in other words, they abuse their power to steal an election. a presidential election. our justice department has been weaponized for pure partisan political gain. we will talk to john solomon and mark meadows in just a minute. in other news the latest example of how so many americans can't trust the media, they've been missing in action a on that scandal. last night, we called them out again for hyping up yet anothet fake news story about the 2016 trump op meeting betweenen don jr. and the russian lawyer. they met before with fusion gps and after. they claimed the president finally admitted to collusion and tha

his top deputy, the number two official at the fbi running the day-to-day operations of the fbi and the investigation, he, too, has been fired. turned into a political punching bag and removed from office. now the head of the counter intelligence division at the fbi, the lead agent on that investigation, now today, he has also been fired. turned into a political punching bag and removed from office. director, dem director, head of the counter intelligence division. all gone. all blown up careerwise. right? all being threatened with being prosecuted themselves. the russian investigation continues to spool. we've had the president's deputy campaign chair plead guilty and becoming a cooperating witness. the trump foreign policy adviser who piqued the interests with his infwoe the russian hacking operations. we've had him plead guilty and become a cooperating witness. we'll have more on him coming up. there's been some movement in that case. we have another adviser formerly named as an agent in the russian government in multiple surveillance wiretap applications. the ongoing felony trial ag

they had a direct access, steele had direct access to the fbi. y did they also run it through bruce ohr at the justice department? >> good question. >> it seems to me to create credibility behind a document that is completely false. if you can tell the press and tell other people, oh, a senior department of justice official is talking about the dossier and also passing it on to the fbi, it gives it weight when in fact it was completely and on credible, unverified document and a bunch of garbage. >> sean: there are people in washington that get it. the ohr and steele texts now make perfect sense. christopher steele often expressed concern to bruce ohr. he didn't want to be exposed. he hoped the firewalls held. now we know it. it should rock every single american. forget your politics, to the core. robert mueller could not care less about the real corruption and collusion we just showed you. bruce ohr and christopher steele were trying to funnel what he knew were lies to robert mueller.d instead they are focused now on taxicab medallions, loan appli

of the fbi has either been fired, resigned, retired. are all playing golf, laughing at this. there appears to be zero consequences. gregg: and who do you blame for that, jeff sessions? was the president right when he said he never took control of the department of justice, he hasn't done investigations into, i'm using the president's tweet, deleted e-mails, comey's lies and leaks, mueller's conflict, ohr, et cetera. it's a long list. >> it is a long list. i guess if you take the most expansive possible interpretation of the russia hysteria, maybe that's how he's excusing himself. but look, this stuff predates the election. this goes back to hillary clinton sending classified material across her server years before. it's a rife investigation that should be brought to a grand jury. problem is, the deep state blocks it every step of the way. gregg: you know, sessions and to some extent president trump as well had said there was going to be a serious investigation, a serious review of hillary clinton's e-mails. betsy woodruff several months

steele and the fbi and the doj. tie it all together so everybody understands. >> we talk about any contact with russia must be terrible. the fbi had a lot of contact with russians and got help locating a former information. here's the real problem with collusion, it goes into the fisa warrant. when he tells him you are wrong about manafort, they had an obligation to go to the court steele told us this, but this russian guy is telling us something different. there is no evidence that occurred. >> sean: this is not just any oligarch. this is a friend of putin's. >> if you look at video clips you will see him in many of the clips with putin. very prominent in russia. >> sean: all of these others players, ohr and others, they are meeting with this oligarch who is friends with putin. this is supposed to be about putin and we are talking about taxi medallions and bank loan applications. >> democrats with collude with the russians and buy it. but when republicans have a meeting with a russian it sounds criminal. that's wha

he was being paid by the fbi, working for the fbi. why did he need to run information through bruce ohr that he handed to the fbi? why not just give it directly to the fbi? why was bruce ohr involved at all? for some reason, he was. my guess is because he is deputy -- associate deputy attorney general. at the department of justice, one of the top justice department officials. that just adds have to end weight to what they were trying to do about this whole dossier, which was a key to everything. again, you didn't need to bruce ohr, christopher steele was working with the fbi. he could have handed him the dossier. why run it through bruce ohr and tim give it to the fbi? that is an important issue that we need to discuss and explore more. >> shannon: congressman jim jordan, we look forward to the transcript. thank you for your content, sir sir. breaking news from arizona, the fox news decision desk can now project that congresswoman kyrtsen sinema will win the arizona democratic senate's primary defeating attorney for a chance to succee

chief counsel, left the fbi, lisa page, fbi council demoted the left and peter stzrok, deputy head of counterintelligence, demoted, then fired. although the doj side, sally yates was fired and bruce ohr was demoted two times, the key people involved in all this and i never saw where you have top people who ran two key investigations, so many fired, demoted or had to leave their respective employment, something i never witnessed before and this is why it is important to have these depositions and get the answers to important questions. shannon: the special counsel investigation, whether you can answer specifics or not, whether he or his wife nelly have been contacted or had interviews with the special counsel. >> we asked those questions, we are not supposed to give the answers. i hope we release the transcript of the didn't talk about that. we had lots of questions, some interesting things that also happened. when the fbi terminated their relationship with christopher steele, bruce ohr continued to meet with him. that is important and there are other t

he said the fbi knew about the cd relationship with steele.o much to cover, stay with us, we'll break with it. there is no doubt that a conspiracy to commit fraud against fisa court judges did in fact take place. let's dive into the testimony from bruce ohr today. remember, he is the twice demoted doj official who once helped ex-foreign spy paid for by hillary christopher steele spread all these anti-trump russian lies throughout the highest levels of our government. today during a closed-door hearing, bruce ohr was growth on the hill by members of the house oversight and the judiciary committees for seven hours. another crucial issue at play here is rampant fisa abuse surrounding christopher steele's dirty dossier with russian lies that hillary clinton illegally funneled through a law firm into fusion gps, hiring then christopher steele. now our sources say that the topic was front and center at the hearing today. get this, sara carter is now reporting, shelter and is later, that we now know that the fbi was aware of steele's plaintiff in an

the fbi. now this guy was corrupt. we know he had anti-trump -- lou: have you seen the defense of strzok on the part of cnn, on the part of other left-wing members of the national media? i mean it's extraordinary, saying he's just simply a wayward soul who got carried away with a few texts, discounting his role in the creation of the special counsel. discounting his role as the lead investigator of hillary clinton in the e-mail scandal. discounting his absolutely venomous commitment to stop this president and his administration. >> you know, and if mueller had curtailed his investigation either voluntarily and recognized there was no collusion and he was going to curtail it, you might say that maybe mueller had learned his lessons that strzok was out there and was focused on getting trump as opposed to enforcing the rule of law. but instead we have an harassing investigation that mueller continue to pursue despite indictment after indictment of russia-related collusion activities that have no e

i led a disciplinary of adjudications in the fbi. i have to tell you, this is not a firing because of any finding that peter strzok's biases or actions impacted the investigation. let's make that clear. but what it is about is how the fbi polices itself. and the judgment and conduct of a senior executive in the fbi that did grave damage to the fbi's reputation in the public eye, back in the fbi category in your earlyest days, it is ingrained to you above all things, never embarrass the bureau, and that's what pete did. yes, he was a great counter intelligence agent, but the damage he did to the incredible perception of the bureau which has to remain apolitical can't be recovered from and his effectiveness was gone. that's why he's out of the bureau today. >> and i heard similar things from democratic and republican alumni and current officials of this justice department of the fbi, even one while i was reading that introduction. let me ask you a question, though. do you think he would have been fired in the political pressure would ha

tying it back to the fbi, do you think one of the reasons why the fbi had dragged their feet in certaincircumstances is because they are trying to avoid the embarrassment of showing it was the cia that pushed this forward? mr. baker: yes. at a minimum, that is part of it. the bigger embarrassment is this, if i can give you the summer 30 seconds of background, many of you may know this, but there is a long-standing agreement between the united states and britain, and actually five nations in total. they called them the five eyes. we will never spy on their territory. the other half of that agreement with the cia is that they are the hand on the arm of the cia. 6 tocia tasks mi5 and mi do things. that is the agreement. they will never do anything in canada and the canadians will consider doing what they are asked to do by the cia or whoever. the canadians will usually do what we ask them to do. and vice a versa. versa.ronclad -- visa to the fbi, cia, and the leaders of mi five and mi6 in britain that the cia was directly operating these two individuals at this cambridge institute. effect

he is charged with insider trading and lying to the fbi. collins cheated our markets and our justice system in two ways. first, he tipped his son to confidential corporate information at the expense of regular investors, and then he lied about it to law enforcement to cover it up. son, cameronis his collins, and the father of cameron's fiancee. these charges are a reminder that this is a nation of laws and that everybody stands equal before the bar of justice. now i would like to go into the details of the allegations more. to serving in the house of representatives, congressman collins was also on of aoard of directors publicly traded company that was developing a drug for multiple sclerosis. in june of 2017, congressman collins was told confidential and highly sensitive information. information that was not yet made public. namely, that the company's main drug to be the backbone of its company was a total failure. this was devastating information for the company. congressman collins had an obligation and a legal duty to keep that informati

lyings is charged with to the fbi at insider trading. ongressman collins cheated market and justices in two ways. tost, he tipped his son confidential corporate information at the expense of regulatory ambassadors, and he lied to law enforcement to cover it up. also charged or his son, cameron and stevens starsky, the father of cameron's the fiancÉe. now i would like to go into the details of the allegations a little more. in addition to serving in the representatives, collins on the border of in immunotherapeutic, a company creating a drug for multiple sclerosis. confidentialold and highly sensitive information about innate, information that was not yet made public. namely that innate's main drug, the drug innate was developing to be the backbone of this company, was total failure. this was devastating information for the company. congressman collins had an obligation, a legal duty, to keep that information secret until that information was released by the company to the public, but he did not keep it secret. instead, as alleged, he deci

i talked to a lot of former colleagues in the fbi, former and current colleagues. one of the things i take away from those conversations is that almost universally, whether people in the fbi support the president or they don't support the president, almost universally they have said that what peter strzok did in those text messages and what he did thin this testimony irreparably damaged his reputation. you leave your politics at the door when you do the business of bureau. i think the impression that he might not have been doing that, whether it's true or not, is something that was a real concern for a lot of rank and file fbi officials. so i think that for a lot of them, they saw this coming. i think some of that inside pressure may be why we're here today. >> you're saying that performance, because he was so defiant? >> not only because he was defiant, but he did not speak to the fbi's strong belief -- he didn't speak strong enough to the belief that politics, that partisanship should not enter into the work of the fbi. basically, he defended himself and took issu

right now we are battling the fbi for the text messages of andrew mccabe, the number two at the fbi that was fired. when you look at the fbi and the department of justice, you had james comey fired for misconduct, andrew mccabe fired for misconduct, strzok fired for misconduct, lisa page demoted, all of whom had a hand in this russia investigation that mueller is now running with. he needs to be questioned, frankly, about how he used mr. strzok that he was let go and no one was told about it for four months, the reasons behind him being let go. >> it's unbelievable. >> melissa: i know that you have been behind trying to get those text messages related to andrew mccabe and his wife joe mccabe and her 2015 run for state senate. in which she took money from "hillary people." why is that that you want to see those texts? do you want to see a quid pro quo and they are or what do you think is in there? >> we are asking for text messages on behalf of a retired fbi agent, jeffrey danner, about the clinton email investigation. and we suspect there is going to be some interesting material there. c

the bureau. andrew mccabe who was fired over allegations he lied to fbi agents. publicans in the house want the president to declassify fbi records about ohr and the surveillance warrant for campaign aides. president trump: what's happening is a disgrace. at some point i wanted to stay out. but if it doesn't straighten out properly. i will get involved and i will get in there if i have to. it's disgraceful. catherine: house democrats say the focus on ohr is being mischaracterized by republicans. david: catherine herridge thank you very much. joining me, gregg jarrett, author of "the russia hoax." people can't get enough. i'm surprised it's still in print. gregg: they are doing a second printing. david: bruce ohr, a lot of us suspected that we weren't going to hear much. he is telling us a lot about andrew weissmann who is now a member of the mueller team. gregg: he's the lead attorney on the mueller probe. his tentacles are on every aspect of that case. which means the entire case has been corrupted and tainted by his actions. because weissmann was in on the russi

what the hell is going on at the fbi? fact, in the case of carter page, as we know, he was put under surveillance for a couple of years, and he still has not been charged with anything, sean. >> sean: ed henry at the white house, great reportt tonight. we appreciate it. joining us now with much more reaction, former u.s. attorney for the district of columbia, there he is, joe digenova.jo we got shipless, or shiftyfo schiff, we'll call him. we got him on tape colluding about naked pictures of donald trump with a russian. then we have fisa russian lies paid for by hillary, used to spy on americans. now we have bruce ohr, steele, fusion gps, what have we got there? oh, their hail mary, evidence of the hail mary to push the russian lies to the american people, to affect the outcome of an election, and then, when it fails, oh, they are also helping a russian oligarch who wase kicked out of the country to get back in. if it wasn't so serious, joe, and so freaking hypocritical, it would be funny. this isn't funny. we are losing t

one of the fbi's top agents has been fired. strzok was one of the top agents on the russia probe, but was removed when robert mueller discovered he had exchanged text messages during the campaign that were critical of then candidate donald trump. the president and his allies have pointed to strzok's anti-trump text messages as smoking gun proof of bias and corruption at the fbi. strzok says his work was never affected and his lawyer suggested the firing was politically motivated. president trump issued a celebratory tweet that peter strzok was just fired from the fbi finally. the list of bad players in the fbi and doj gets longer and longer. based on the fact that strzok was in charge of the witch hunt, will it be dropped? so how will strzok respond to all of this? his lawyer joins me now. thank you so much for being here. we appreciate your time. why was peter strzok fired? >> well, thanks for having me. i don't think that you can rationally reach any conclusion other than it was political. pete, along with several other employ

chargedman collins is with insider trading and lying to the fbi. as alleged in the indictment, congressman collins cheated our markets and our justice system in two ways. first, he took his son to confidential, corporate information at the expense of regular investors. then he lied about it to law enforcement to cover it up. son, cameronis his collins and stevens are ski, the father of cameron's fiance. these charges are a reminder that this is a nation of laws and that everybody stand equal before the bar of justice. go into the to details of the allegations a little more. in addition to serving in the house of representatives, congressman collins was also on the board of directors of inmate immunotherapeutic, a publicly traded company that was developing a drug for multiple sclerosis. 2017, congressman collins was told some confidential and highly sensitive information about it. information that was not made public yet. the main drug, the drug they were developing to be the backbone of the company was a total failure. this was devastating informat

man running the fbi, bob, you! the man courting the russian oligarch for money was andrew mccabe, deputy director of the fbi. now, since fired. now, bob, in spite of the fact that derek had been banished by the united states three years earlier in 2006, because of his organized crime affiliations, your fbi asked him to fund one of your operations? more important, after donald trump was elected, he is asked by the fbi to help corroborate this steele dossier? he himself stopped at the idea that they collude with russia. quote you are trying to create something out of nothing. fast-forward nine years later. and you indict paul manafort. but one name is left out of that indictment. your indictment makes no mention of him even though you have evidence that paul manafort wanted to invite him to a trump campaign briefing. my question to you is as follows. are you using the christopher steele, dossier as a basis of your investigation? what crime are you investigating? did you know bruce ohr and christopher steele communicat