in summary no spy in the trump campaign. >> now that trey gowdy who has actually seen all the classified information on what the fbi is doing says that there is nothing to the allegations that they were spying on the trump campaign, and in fact gowdy says the fbi was doing exactly what they should have been doing, given what trey gowdy has said is the president prepared now to retract his allegation that the fbi was spying on his campaign? >> clearly, there's still cause for concern that needs to be look said at. let's not forget the deputy director of the fbi was actually fired for misconduct. the president's concern would the matter and we're going to follow the issue. >> trey gowdy dliterally debunked the theory last night and this morning. and notably no one else who was briefed has come to the president's defense on this. but that is not stopping the president at all. here he was last night. >> so how do you like the fact they had people infiltrating our campaign? can you imagine? can you imagine? can you imagine people infiltrating our campaign? is there anybody in this big, beauti

his typical flair the president is taking gowdy's word when it comes to jeff sessions recusal because he used it in his tweet. how can he avoid not listening to treyd owe this issue that he went after last night. >> you're asking how the president could not be a hypocrite on this? i don't know how to answer that. he's cherry picking gowdy's comments that suit his political goals of the moment. >> he's going to have trey gowdy. trey gowdy will not move up his position and i know what i saw. >> they're gowdy blew the entire basis claim and a spy embedded in the trump campaign and he blew that to smithereens and not only is it going to be difficult for the president to deal with that, but the right-wing media echo chamber and fox news, this is devin nunes and other members of congress that pushed this, kate, trey gowdy is a well-respected conservative republican and former prosecutor and he blew that case to smithereens by saying that and that becomes a messaging problem and to your earlier point and trey gowdy remembers that two months ago said on television if you're innocent, act like it. so he's been offering advice to this president on this case

here's trey gowdy. >> that's one person. that's not the people. that's one person. >> here's trey gowdy. >> i am even more convinced that the fbi did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got and that it has nothing to do with donald trump. >> how do you explain that, matt? >> i disagree with trey gowdy. >> he's seen the intel and you haven't. >> but a lot of people who have seen the intel agree with me and you know that. you're not quoting the other republicans who have seen the other intel. >> yes, i am. nobody came out of that intel and said, a-ha, there's a smoking gun. they call came out and said nothing new here. even mitch mcconnell. >> he said he would not comment on classified meeting. >> go look at the transcript. he said i will not characterize the meeting in a positive or negative way. i will not discuss the meeting. i will not discuss classified meetings. >> there was nothing new that changed his mind. what about marco rubio? >> he didn't say -- he did not say that. nope. marco did no

trey gowdy -- and he really touched on that.n't know if he's correct in this, but he said that the president is going to be glad that we have an fbi that took seriously what they heard. he was never the target. russia was the target, but bianna, he's still -- we've seen this over and over, he can't separate this investigation about russian interference in the election without taking it personally and a challenge to his legitimacy as a leader. >> he can't separate the two and keep in mind that he is now the leader. he's not a candidate. he's not running for office. he won. he is the president of the country and his job is to defend the country from russians once again trying and attempting to do what they did in the past. most people, nobody really, is serious of matter is questioning the authenticity of the question. what they are concerned about is russians repeating -- and not just russians, by the way. you've got the chinese and iranians, a lot of other countries now are trying to do the same thing and we don't hear the presi

and devin nunes, not a peep. >> the fact is, it sounds as though the president is cherry picking trey gowdy'ss to serve his political purposes. because gowdy is held by many republicans in such high esteem based on the background that you just said, a former prosecutor, someone who has been in those classified briefings, it's going to be difficult to continue to beat that drum. i think it makes it a harder road to convince people that the story is true. >> trey gowdy has raised questions about justice department manage men and fbi conduct. but on this specific one, he got the briefing and says the fbi did exactly what we should want them to do. >> he knows what he's doing. he's going on there exactly to your point, to take the air out of the balloon of this conspiracy theory, which i interviewed rudy giuliani on sunday, which he admits -- i don't think he had to admit it, it's pretty obvious, they admit they're doing it to poison the court of public opinion in case of impeachment, period. and now you have a well-respected guy who was leading the charge to get this information intentionally, g

the other big story today and you covered this, as well, is trey gowdy.y the intelligence committee to see things says nothing to see here when it comes to the fbi sending in the confidential source to get information about whether the russians were trying to infiltrate the trump campaign. the key republican saying the fbi did nothing wrong, which is like a complete 185 from auto -- 180 from what president trump has been saying. we'll see if gowdy ends up on the naughty list when it comes to the white house. it will be interesting. guys, day two. anything could happen. we had day one all planned out for me here on "new day." today we're completely unplugged and unscripted. >> maybe it's your fault. all of this is berman's fault. >> she just tweeted, roseanne, i feel bad for potus. he goes through this every single day. plenty of material for day two of the berman era. see you in a bit. thanks. >> thanks. >>> a check on cnn "money." political turmoil in italy threatening the future of the european union. and that is rocking global markets. the dow dropped

trey gowdy going to follow that, so they push back. >> i wrote at "the federalist" that trey gowdy didf the subpoenaed documents that they are seeking to use the informant that he also seems confused whether it was a criminal probe, we do not use the term spy and criminal probes, but we should all know because james comey testified about this in march 2017, this was not a criminal probe, this was a counterintelligence probe. spies are common in a counterintelligence probe, we do with political opponents during a campaign, i think it is really something that people should be discussing. and thinking through and knowing so much more about whether they are congressional investigators, internal watchdogs, or people in the media. >> bret: when trey gowdy has these meetings and agree that they did not bring in any documents, and they have a classified debriefing and they explain what they were doing. and he says, you should be proud of what the fbi was doing at the time, and you would expect that. how is that interpreted any other way? >> well i am not entirely sure how to explain what trey

this is their m.o. >> this is trey gowdy, poster boy. the facts aren't in their favor.hey threw a lot of spaghetti at the wall, as you say. but this is not working out. trey gowdy has seen the information, had the briefing, not buying it. >> i will say my theory is that they know the inspector general report is coming out, the horowitz report. maybe they know what is in it. maybe he will provide a guilt by association cover. listening to giuliani, all of a sudden they are pulling a comey claims. i think they know something is going on. giuliani has a lot of talents when he is talking about things. we saw it during the campaign. things don't get said for no reason. there could be cognitive dissidence here for the white house and the president. he likes to watch fox news to learn what he thinks about things largely. and fox news, one of his favorite sources on there, judge that pnapolitan napolitano, says there is nothing to see. >> the allegations over the weekend which would lead us to believe that the trump people think the fbi got an undercover agent who tpepbing a el

trey gowdy came out, where's mitch mcconnell, paul ryan? >> to his credit after the briefings he said he found nothing surprising and he still defended the mueller investigation in an interview on fox news. that was notable. trey gowdy has been attacked by lou dobbs as being a phony. marco rubio over the weekend said these two individuals that were being tracked by our law enforcement agencies, because they had basically for all intents and purposes russian agents. carter page was on our radar screen since 2013. had nothing to do with the trump campaign. he was targeted by breitbart. they are being attacked by the alt right and the pro trump media. it's hard if you are not retiring like trey gowdy or senator flake to say these things. if you speak to them privately, they know it's true. they listened to andrew napolitano describe why it is legitimate and they want to stay quiet as possible. who's seen the most intelligence? mark meadows from north carolina of the freedom caucus or trey gowdy? devin nunes deferred to trey gowdy as the expert

. >> let's talk about trey gowdy now. the oversight chairman. and we have to note because it is so significant, he was briefed on this fbi informant that did make contact with some trump campaign officials as there was this investigation into russian meddling or concerns about russian interference in the election and so he knows what he's talking about as the president is alleging that the obama administration is trying to infiltrate his campaign with a spy. trey goudy wdy is running cold r all over that. >> i am convinced that the fbi did what my fellow citizens would want them to do, when they got the information they got and what it has to do with donald trump. mark preston, how significant is that? >> trey gowdy has been one of those behind the investigation behind hillary clinton. trey gowdy, based on his background, he you willy understands what's at stake right now and to david's point as does jeff sessions. jeff sessions was a u.s. attorney for 12 years. he served many years on the judiciary committee and same thing with trey gowdy. they

and he's just, you know, afflicted with the disease of being honest. >> you know, ken, trey gowdy was guy sent in to be part of these classified briefings. he's the guy that devin nunes is stirring all of this up. he's the guy nunes wanted to see or hear. gowdy is say huh-uh. the fbi handled it perfectly. do you agree? >> i agree that gowdy is more credible than nunes. i do not agree we can push aside inform kwrapbt or spy when the obama administration was doing the things they were doing. i would note the other half of that comment that has gotten no play in the mainstream media, his statement this is nothing to do with donald trump. meaning from his perspective, whatever it is he saw not only convinced him that the fbi was pursuing something legitimate but also that it had no connection to donald trump. there are two parts to this. i am comfortable with one of them. less comfortable with the other as one of the 300 plus million americans who don't get to see this information. i don't think -- i would flip the case around and say what would i do? if donald trump's administration is p

we going to keep you in check here. >> and trey gowdy has time and time again, trey gowdy has been ansible, reasonable voice in this process. >> i know alex was right. >> not always coming down on the side of the fbi or justice. he's weighted, he's been pretty balanced. >> he's been willing to say there are potentially abuses of fisa. if there are abuses of fisa, we need to know about it et cetera, that's been the party line. we've talked a lot about paul ryan, criticized him. he has not felt as though he could fire devin nunes, they've been friends for a long time. but essentially he's elevated gowdy's role behind the scenes. he was in the meeting with the gang of eight when rosenstein went up there. that's very unusual. which you did not hear any democrats kicking and screaming about. there's a rein for that, it's because gowdy as viewed as the adult in the room. as somebody who is -- i'm surprised he was as straightforward in that fox clip as to say i'm going to defend the fbi. this is a guy, trey gowdy devoted his life to the justice system in our country. he wanted to be a judge

the president had trey gowdy stepping up for him today in one aspect and in another, gowdy raising questions gowdy is one of those that saw the documents about the informants or the spy as the president refers to it as. trey gowdy said the fbi did the absolute proper thing, which has led to questions about why the president continuing to refer to this as spygate. maria? >> maria: thanks, blake. the department of justice responsible general michael horowitz will testify before congress on his report of the fbi handling of the clinton e-mail probe. could the report take the heat off of attorney general sessions from former doj official, tom dupree joining me now. thanks for joining us. your expectations for this i.g. report. >> i think it has the potential to be a bomb shell. i think depending open what the i.g. finds went on behind the scenes in 2016, it has the potential for changing the narrative. it will not shut down the mueller investigation but depending on what the i.g. finds, could change the conversation we're having. the white house says this could turn the tables, put the spot ligh

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the odd man out is trey gowdy, the chairman of the house oversight committee, trey gowdy as someone who is not a member of this exclusive club does not have the same clearance that these other eight individuals do. so what would make sense, what would be rational and reasonable would be to have a gang of eight meeting that all the details could be shared and if there needs to be a second meeting, have a second meeting with trey gowdy because he doesn't have the same clearance. the only way this makes sense is if somehow gowdy and devin nunes are entitled to more information than the gang of eight. and that doesn't make sense. that doesn't seem to be the case here. something smells fishy about this. >> i hate to get this far in the weeds. it is important, though. you have 12 plus one, the gang of eight, which is devin nunes in both cases. the four people from the white house, doj, fbi involved in the thing, and then you have gowdy. >> that's right. >> so the theory we were discussing before the commercial break here is is the whole thing a sham because the second meeting, the gang of eig

shame -- >> it was trey gowdy. >> don't bring up trey gowdy tonight. the idiot tick comment that he made last night and this morning that everything was done by the book. this was a false narrative created by the fbi and the cia to plant intelligence overseas with americans that were then feeding it back to the united states in e-mails and phone calls and the fbi took that information and used it to get a false narrative in front of the fisa courts to get warrants. when trey gowdy was briefed the other day, they didn't get to see one single document. how can you say that things that he has said in the last 24 hours without seeing any documents? this is ludicrous. >> sean: let me ask you, everybody in the media, oh, these are just informants. you met carter page, sam clovis, michael caputo. they're spies. you found the definition first. >> if you look up the definition, it defines exactly what the fbi was using this man for. to infiltrate the campaign, to induce and in my judgment entrap people to saying things that were incriminating. ney never did bec

to attorney general if not the white house, this is not done lightly in department of justice, trey gowdy does not know diddley squat about what rules are for opening an investigation into a presidential campaign. lou: and gowdy is a lame duck, almost likely is job hunting out there. i mean the man is confused just in his own narrative. let's turn to that narrative. that people would want a spy planted in a presidential campaign if there were russian meddling, don't you think it would be we had a president in president obama who did nothing. and best we could tell cia knew not a thing about what the russians were doing. >> here is proper protocol, they should have gone to the presidential campaign, told them they were fearful that russians are trying to infiltrate, and ask for their support. they did not do that. why? they were busy making up evidence to frame the president. that is what they were doing. that is what this is all about. talking about it for 6 months now the brazen plot to frame president trump the then presidential candidate. >> you are right. but all of this now understan

trey gowdy seems to have basically said that the fbi did the right thing. the fact that the president, this white house refused to admit that, does it surprise you at all? because in today's white house briefing, sarah sanders says there's still cause for concern. >> yeah, no, it doesn't surprise me at all, anderson. it disappoints me, but, you know, this is a long series of accusations. recall the wiretapping of trump tower, the illicit unmasking of u.s. identities. >> the secret society. >> the secret society, you bet. the fisa abuse alleged, and now the spy within the trump campaign. each of those on their face, i thought, were absurd. and frankly, there was never any evidence, real evidence, offered in any of those cases. and so now we have this last case about the spy, and i was very heartened that congressman gowdy was so candid yesterday in his comments. but aeshnderson, i travel a lot through the country. i give speeches to civic groups and trade associations and so on. and there are a lot of good americans who try to pay attention to this, who actu

let's turn quickly to trey gowdy. you know trey gowdy.t big time saying the american people would be thrilled to have an fbi spy in a presidential campaign. what happened to your friend gowdy? what has he become? >> no. i have the greatest confidence in trey gowdy. there are two parts to what he said. lou: wait a minute. jason chaffetz says there are two parts. >> hold on, lou. the second part has nothing to do with donald trump. and that did not get nearly enough attention as it should. lou: that's on trey gowdy. jason, thanks so much. mark, appreciate it. join us tomorrow night. good night from new york. kennedy: a news alert. a major development in the nuclear stand standoff. the communist regime's notorious spy chief will the deliver a letter tomorrow written by kim jong-un. and it could mean the june 12 summit is back on. the vice chair of the central committee kim yong chol met with mike pompeo. it's the highest ranking meeting with the nort north

trey gowdy and also john ratcliffe from texas. are federal prosecutors and been through the system and through the process. thank you for joining us on this beautiful friday night. chairman gowdy, did you get a lot of lip service? did you get to read the documents? what did they tell you? >> jason, it was a productive meeting yesterday. i think every question i asked the bureau and the department now understand they are relevant, material, they are specific and pointed. there is a reason congress wants to know the answer to the questions. it was a constructive -- i know that is not good news from the media standpoint that we had a boring, constructive meeting yesterday but that is what it was. so constructive we have agreed to meet next week. you ask if we saw something. i can learn with my ears and my eyes. i can got to ask questions. we were prosecutors and i know the questions to ask in an investigation like this. yesterday was actually productive. >> jason: when do you actually get to see them? >> well, let me say this. i work

trey gowdy and also john ratcliffe from texas. are federal prosecutors and been through the system and through the process. thank you for joining us on this beautiful friday night. chairman gowdy, did you get a lot of lip service? did you get to read the documents? what did they tell you? >> jason, it was a productive meeting yesterday. i think every question i asked the bureau and the department now understand they are relevant, material, they are specific and pointed. there is a reason congress wants to know the answer to the questions. it was a constructive -- i know that is not good news from the media standpoint that we had a boring, constructive meeting yesterday but that is what it was. so constructive we have agreed to meet next week. you ask if we saw something. i can learn with my ears and my eyes. i can got to ask questions. we were prosecutors and i know the questions to ask in an investigation like this. yesterday was actually productive. >> jason: when do you actually get to see them? >> well, let me say this. i work

we'll tell trey gowdy why he's wrong. will remind everyone watching just why this by gate case, the fisa views abuse, the lying deception, from comey, mueller, the merry band of democratic donors, has recognized the system of justice against your duly elected president. with mueller's runaway investigation on day 378, not a single shred of evidence, president trump and even some top w democrats worry that americans are getting sick of the seemingly endless fishing expedition. finally, we'll bring you all the breaking news about secretary of state mike pompeo's incredible meeting with the top north korean official in new york city.or it's time for our very important, fast-paced, breaking news opening monologue. ♪ in early march of last year, the attorney general jeff sessions was new on the job. he had just been appointed by president trump, and just confirmed by his former peers in the u.s. senate. he vowed to uphold the law of the land as america's top cop. without skipping a beat, sessions ando stoned president trump, t

well, i mean, i feel sorry for trey gowdy in so many ways. he's trying to be rational and reasonable in a completely bizarre situation, and circumstance. it is, in fact, true, that the president himself said that if there's something that ever got involved with my campaign that was dealing with the russians, i want to know about it. and so as trey gowdy pointed out, the fbi is going about its business trying to figure it out and the president is flipping his wig. earlier it was said that he hasn't fired him because he's doing such a great job. he's not tweeting saying he's doing a great job. he's not -- sarah huckabee sanders didn't say he's doing a great job. she refused to defend the great job he's doing. i feel sorry for trey gowdy or any political professional trying to function in this environment. it's nuts all the time. >> david, let me get you to respond. i don't doubt that you think jeff sessions is doing a great job, but there's no evidence that president trump thinks it. the only stuff he says about him publicly is criticism, and i

maybe he's having buyer's remorse at this point. >> trey gowdy said this.oll it. >> i'm even more convinced that the fbi did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got and that it has nothing to do with donald trump. >> again, this is someone who oversaw the benghazi hearings. he's saying the president's repeated claims that there was a spy into his campaign, he's saying they're false. they're false. >> there was a confidential informant, right? >> well, the president says a spy. >> but he's saying there was a confidential informant in the campaign. that was a fact. >> confidential source. >> a confidential source. and it is -- that is somewhat normal procedure for the fbi, right? there's no question about that. >> totally. >> what they're communicating back in terms of who they're communicating to, we haven't seen any evidence that there was anything nefarious going on. certainly it's within the president's purview to call into question, but now gowdy has seen it and debunked it. >> because we haven't seen

trey gowdy, he's a republican congressman.e was in on one of those two very highly classified briefings that the justice department provided on the allegation by the president that the fbi was spying on his campaign. he knocked that down completely last night. listen to this. >> i am even more convinced that the fbi did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got. and that it has nothing to do with donald trump. >> so that's it. the president's spy allegations -- >> done. >> that they were spying on his campaign. trey gowdy, not a huge obama supporter, comes out of that classified briefing and says not true. >> paging devin nunes. where is he? >> he's been ssilent. he was in that briefing as well and hasn't said a word. >> trey gowdy has -- you know, here's the man who is a partisan republican. he is retiring, but he's a partisan republican, ran the benghazi investigation. coming out and saying, this is what you should want. this was not about spygate or spying on the president.

as for the white house, take a look. >> sarah, now that trey gowdy who has actually seen all the classifiedng says that there is nothing to the allegations that they were spying on the trump campaign, and in fact, gowdy says that the fbi was doing exactly what they should have been doing, given what trey gowdy has said, is the president prepared now to retract his allegation that the fbi was spying on his campaign? >> clearly, there's still cause for concern that needs to be looked at. let's not forget that the deputy director of the fbi was actually fired for misconduct. the president's concerned about the matter and we're going to continue to follow the issue. >> but gowdy was in the briefing. he knows what was done. and he is saying that these allegations are baseless. >> again -- >> that there was no spying tonight trump campaign. >> certainly, the president feels that there is cause for concern and it should be looked at. >> keeping 'em honest, this has been looked at by a member of the president's own party, who's seen the evidence. yet the white house keeps making claims without offe

you think trey gowdy, an ally of this white house. the president quoted him extensive this morning about another issue. you think if he said there was no evidence that the fbi was spying on your campaign, the president would say somebody that i know and trust and value his word said there's no spying so we'll say there's no spying. listen to what sarah huckabee sanders said at the press briefing this afternoon. >> gowdy was in the briefing. he knows what's going on. he says the allegations are baseless. there was no spying on the trump campaign. >> the president feels there's cause for concern and should be looked at. like i just said, the deputy director of the fbi was fired for misconduct. there's -- i'm not finished. there's a number of things that have been reported on and show i think not just for the president but a number of americans a large cause for concern and we would like to see this fully looked into. >> as for the president himself, he's sticking by his guns that he believe the fbi did something improper. listen to how

trey gowdy went to a highly classified briefing last week. trey gowdy of benghazi fame. remember? wdy said the claims are not true. that the fbi was doing its job the right way. the evidence seems to support him. president trump accuses the agency of spying for political reasons. this after reports that the fbi sent an informant to meet with the trump campaign advisers because of their suspicious contacts linked to moscow. all an effort to discredit the investigation so later if there's some charges or findings, people might not believe them. john roberts is live on the north lawn. hi, john. >> good afternoon to you, shep. guliani is questioning gowdy's a assertion last week that he believed the fbi acted absolutely properly when it dispatched a confidential informant from the outside to make contact with several members of the trump campaign, this is what gowdy said tuesday with martha maccallum on her show. >> i'm even more convinced the fbi did what my fellow citizens wanted them to do and it has nothing to do with donald trump. >> guliani, in a conversation this morning, was qu

these committees, especially in the house under the current leadership, not under trey gowdy's leadership but under devin nunes's leadership are not investigating committee, they are exculpatory committees. they exist to exonerate the president and clear him from wrong down. i think what gowdy, a dui who respects and reveres the institutions of law enforcement realizes that under control of guys like devin nunes the institutions he respects and reveres have become tarnished. i think he wants to try to reverse that while he is still in congress. remember, the spectacle that unfolded over the last year and a half is part of what has driven people like gowdy out of washington. they just can't take it anymore. >> smart point. stanley puttinger thank you to you as well. >>> on to what could be a potential bombshell in the investigation surrounding president trump's personal attorney, michael cohen. >> mr. cohen's attorney was forced to admit as a result of our efforts related to bringing these tapes to light, he was forced to admit in open court today that michael cohen was making recordings o

>> stay strong, brother. >> the white house pushing back today after republican congress member trey gowdy under cut the conspiracy theory that the fbi planted a spy in his campaign. gowdy under scored the quote cowardice of the republicans that have not spoken up against the president calling their silence bad for republican leaders whom history will rather as moral weaklings in the face of the president who assaulted democratic institutions. cnn's reporting is the fbi used a confidential source, but not planted within the trump campaign. boris sanchez with more from the white house. >> reporter: white house not letting a lack of evidence take the wind out of their sail, dave and christine. they pushed back on comments made by trey gowdy, the congress member who sits on the house intelligence committee. a republican who has been able to see the underlying classified information the president is using to base these conspiracy claims about the spy imbedded in his campaign by the deep state. something the white house has not been able to provide evidence. gowdy saying this investigation has

lawmaker, no less. >> god bless trey gowdy for saying this that the fbi did it by the book. >his remarks are astounding. >> judge andrew napolitano a fox news legal analyst who has been a defender of the president through and through. he called the president's claim baseless. >> nothing to see here guys, chill. >> earlier this evening i got judge andrew napolitano's reaction. >> martha: do you agree with the commentators we just showed that you are calling out the president and basically debunking his theory of spy gate. >> i'm relying on the accuracy of what trey gowdy reported to you and what candidly he told me about before the show started because he knew i was going to be on last night to comment. he has a top secret security clearance. he saw all these documents. assuming he saw the right documents and wasn't mislead by deputy attorney general rosenstein or fbi director wray, which i think is extremely unlikely that they would have mislead him and he basically said yes, the fbi used an informant and by the book, no, fbi did not have a spy inside the campaign the presid

and he did, quote trey gowdy to take another shot at him. trey gowdy said, look, he can understand why president trump is frustrated. he said, quote, there are a lot of really good lawyers in the country. he could have picked somebody else. mr. trump added to his tweet, "and i wish i did." so, again, katy, really underscoring what we've heard from this president in the past, which is that he thinks he may not have picked the right attorney general. as to that big question, why doesn't he vus fijust fire him? well, we saw after he fired james comey, that sets off a whole another round of potential issues. that could be one reason why this president has not made any moves. and we could get to ask sarah sanders about that within the hour. >> kristen welker doing a good job battling the white house lawn mower for airtime today. kristen welker, thank you very much. natasha bertrand is a staff writer for the atlantic and an msnbc contributor. jake sherman is the sior writer for politico. and chuck rosenberg is a former u.s. attorney, senior fbi of

. >> reporter: can you clarify comments about trey gowdy. you said there's still cause for concern, meaning about what the president says was a spy in his campaign or cause for concern in general about the fbi? >> i think both. the president still has concerns about whether or not the fbi acted inappropriately having people in his campaign and certainly the president has concerns about the overall conduct of the fbi when it comes to this process. >> reporter: who was in the campaign? it was referred to they were in the campaign. >> i'm not going to get into those details but the president has expressed very publicly his concern as did the outside counsel. blake. >> reporter: last weekend secretary steven mnuchin said the trade was on hold, and there was the threat offer ten tariff now $50 billion in tariffs. >> i didn't say it was on hold indefinitely. the president makes decisions on trade and we announce them and that's what's happened. >> reporter: how comfortable does the president feel he's going to have an agreement on nafta before the

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the standoff between devin nunes, trey gowdy, the doj of our classified documents is now coming to a big head. we'll tell you what to expect at tomorrow's meeting and also, rod rosenstein created an unmitigated deep sea disaster by appointing robert mueller. we have a law professor who is now calling rod rosenstein did unconstitutional. brand-new, the american center for law and justice, they are reporting that 30,000 emails exist between a content state department at the clinton foundation proving that there was collusion. former clinton pollster, chief strategist mark penn is blasting the entire mueller investigation. he joins us tonight. first, a very important breaking news opening monologue. ♪ the president now is reacting to a flood of information coming out about how the deep state targeted and in fact spied on his campaign. on twitter earlier today, he wrote... we've been saying that we didn't we call this the year of the boomerang? exactly what this is. you have a criminal deep state and that is all coming out at breakneck speed. it is literally hour by hour, the things that

he quoted trey gowdy in a tweet and said this.ed gowdy saying there are lots of really good lawyers in the country. he could have picked somebody else, referring to the president. the president retweeted that quote and he said i wish i did. >> i think the president has been clear with his frustration with the attorney general always it relates to the fake russia investigation, the hoax that has been perpetuated now for the last 15 months that he has been in office that there was some type of collusion. we know there was no collusion. the president, i think, has been very clear. he is disappointed that attorney general jeff sessions did not tell him that he would recuse himself from this investigation prior to being nominated and that's a fair thing for the president to say. he has been very public about it and very consistent about it because this whole russia narrative which has been a cloud over this administration never existed. there was no collusion, no cooperation or no coordination. the only campaign that paid a foreign ent

great question. >>> devin nunes and oversight committee chairman trey gowdy have been invited to the justice department for a classified briefing thursday. this follows outright threats from nunes to hold attorney general jeff sessions in contempt. the department of justice now reportedly wants to work with lawmakers concerning their latest request for documents, requests that have been ignored and stonewalled throughout. our first guest tonight is one of those leading the fight against the department of justice and fbi efforts to undermine the constitutional authority of congress in its oversight responsibilities. joining us tonight is congressman jim jordan. he serves as a member of the house judiciary and oversight committees. also a member of the house freedom caucus. congressman, great to have you here. >> good to be with you. lou: it appears that you have solved part of the puzzle. >> yeah. lou: the department of justice will respond to threats of contempt citations and impeachment as delivered by chairman nunes. >> we'll see what happens tomorrow, if in fact they get to see th

meeting with devin nunes and trey gowdy to review classified material is no longer happening tomorrow. it has been rescheduled for next week. mara obstructionism. another major win for the trump administration. the american hearer, gina haspel, secure the votes needed. she will become the new cia director and will call out the mainstream media's lies about what is happening between israel and the palestinians. that and so much more in tonight's breaking news opening monologue. the media on the left are going insane over reports that the north korean dictator come a little rocket man came drawing on is threatening to pull out of the plan, june 12th so much with president trump over drills. kim jong un also reportedly canceled preplanned talks with south korea. now before all of you left-wing liberal activists work yourself into a frenzy, let me give you the truth and some facts. the state department at heather nauert is saying that this summit in singapore is going on as planned. one. in the pentagon is adding that these military exercises are going to continue. the big take away that

. >> reporter: congressman trey gowdy undercutting the latest attempt to undercut the russia probe by saying the fbi planted a spy in his campaign. >> the fact that two people who were loosely connected with the trump campaign may have been involved doesn't diminish the fact that russia was the target and not the campaign. >> reporter: the white house continue to go push the claim but providing no evidence. >> given what trey gowdy has said, is the president prepared to retract the allegation that a spy was spying on his campaign? >> no there is clear cause for concern that need to be looked at. >> reporter: giuliani telling reporters that jeff sessions' job is safe for now despite the escalating attacks over recusing himself from the investigation. >> there's no doubt he's complained about him. >> what is he saying now? >> no doubt he has some grievances. >> reporter: mr. trump endorsing the characterization as an unforced betrayal of the president of the united states after lamenting that he wished he had picked someone else for attorney general. all of this as a previously undisclo

trey gowdy was right. the claims of a spy are baseless. a spy are baseless. the white house continues to say, that might be the fact but this is the way the president feels and they're going to continue to claim there is a spy even though there's no evidence to that. >> i think anderson, whether you look at it there's key take away from what congressman gowdy says. number one, he said russia was the target, not the campaign. as a trump supporter and someone who supports this administration, that's a good thing. i think the other thing he said was it had nothing to do with president trump, which is reenforcing what the president said. when i look at this entire thing with what trey gowdy was saying, just because he's saying that this is what the fbi should do, and he doesn't want to call it a spy, let's use the phrase, confidential informant. if i was running a campaign and i knew the fbi sent somebody to infiltrate and collect information on people in my campaign, and send it back, i still wouldn't like it. >> they're not infiltrating the

i'm joined now by south south carolina congressman trey gowdy. thank you. know you have to go at 2:30 and you stuck around for me and i appreciate that. we could use your expertise on a couple of issues. on the first one, as a former prosecutor what do you think is really needed that the congress needs to pass in order to meet the standards of what rod rosenstein was just describing to the president from a law enforcement angle? >> well, you have to have two types of security. border security and you have to internal security and you have to have the mechanism by which to remove people who are not law-abiding in an expeditious way. i would point out to you the supreme court pace which is impossible for normal people to understand how if your home country won't take you back, we are going to release you back on the streets in the united states, no matter what underlying crime you committed. that is impossible for reasonable people including some like me who aren't that reasonable, it's impossible for us to understand how someone who just committed a heinous

david: trying to figure out what is in trey gowdy's head is impossible, we can't do that.ome people thought it was because of the fact what he saw when he met with doj officials last week convinced him of that. the federalist says he didn't see anything last week. the documents were not presented to him. >> i don't want to try to read gowdy's mind except to say i think what he wants is what i want but we're both going about it in a different way. he's worried about the effect that the, that this investigation and everything that has been reported about it is having on these important institutions of our government, the justice department, the fbi. and two, i think only way you cure this by transparency getting to the bottom of what happens. david: you don't make things up. adam schiff came out with a comment last week saying essentially that the fbi followed all procedures and all protocols in terms of putting an informant or a spy into the trump campaign. putting one close to the trump campaign, trying to lure stuff out of them but i defy adam schiff to point to the page

but on a personal level, the comments by trey gowdy, who was one of those who was briefed, who came out of course earlier this week and just basically tried to blow up this notion of this conspiracy theory that this was a spy in the trump campaign saying that he didn't see anything that was not going by the book by the fbi, giuliani, i spoke to him this afternoon, is really lashing out at trey gowdy, saying that he drank the kool-aid. he also went after gowdy for the way gowdy handled the benghazi investigation. he said "i never understood what he did with the benghazi investigation either. he really screwed that up. i don't know what he was doing." so it's personal. i should also tell you that gowdy's office declined to comment. but this is personal and this is an intra republican fight showing, a, they're not backing down, and b, not happy that trey gowdy is trying to come out and say this is not real, the fbi did nothing wrong, trust me, i looked at it. >> thank you very much. let's get back to samantha bee. she is now apologizing for using offensive language doing a bit on her show

and great that trey gowdy has come out and said that there was no spying. can't paul ryan say it? why can't mitch mcconnell say it, why can't devin nunes say it? as long as they're not willing, they are accomplices in the president's efforts to torch the rule of law in our country. it's time for them it say it. >> you have i think you're a normal person. you strike me as a person who gets along with people regardless of politics. mitch landrieu of new orleans said don't let your politics decide who your friends are. some people can live like that across the aisle. when you talk to republicans do they admit they're basically gagged because of their fear of this president? >> my mom and dad are both republicans. my brothers are cops and republicans. my wife is a hoosier. they're all republicans. i've worked well with republicans. i rote a bill after the interference campaign that some signed on to have an independent commission. i remember one republican on the intelligence committee telling me this person had gone against president trump when he was a candid

by the time trey gowdy got out and decided to use his time during congressional recess to try to pokeheory, this notion of they call it spygate and to say that's not accurate. i saw the intelligence. i saw the information. what the fbi did was right. they were doing their job. the seeds had been planted and -- and the rhetoric had been out there for a couple of weeks and -- the notion of the p.r. war was already done and yesterday, yesterday rudy giuliani was at the white house and, you know, both presidential lawyers if they're visiting their client would avoid the press. what did he do, he made a beeline for the press and talked about this trey gowdy issue and blew it off just like sarah huckabee sanders did from the podium, suggesting that they're still not sure nothing was done wrong. that might fly in the face of the facts and certainly according to republican trey gowdy it does, but the thing we have to all keep in mind is that this is a public relations and political war and i'm not really sure that -- that -- in the face of all this criticism and looking at rudy giuliani sayin