. >> we have trey gowdy, and of course trey gowdy is on. this guy owes me. he owes me and i'm going to milk that for everything that it's worth. have a good show. >> jason: i'm jason chaffetz and for laura ingraham and this i"the ingraham angle" from washington. after two weeks there's no sign that the democratic fanatics and the liberal media has calling trump racist and former house oversight chairman trey gowdy is here with who fired peter strzok. you will want to hear this, nobody has heard it before. plus new questions tonight about how millionaire jeffrey epstein died, and it could it have been prevented? sounds like there's some breaking news that trace gallagher also has that we will be getting into later in the show. former department of justice officials are here to weigh in and also high school tennis star suing over religious discrimination. her father is here for a "the ingraham angle" exclusive. but it's been two weeks and counting and if you thought the democrats would tone down a vicious race baiting, think again. it all started earlier this

maria: welcome back and i'm back with former south carolina congressman trey gowdy the chairman of theersight committee a fox news contributor and trey, i want your take on john ratcliffe a frequent guest on this program the president nominated him to be the director of national intelligence and he withdrew his name. here is what my sources are telling me. i am hearing that mitch mcconnell and richard burr basically blew him off. he called them to have a meeting with them and they said no, no, no, we're busy we have the budget we can't do it and then they came up and said well i don't know. i don't really know him. they could have been more forceful in following the president's nomination, and the president's pick but they didn't , and i understand that partly was because they felt they could not deliver susan collins vote because susan collins said john ratcliffe was awfully rough on mueller so am i to believe here that john ratcliffe did not get the job because he did his job too well? in questioning mueller? >> i hope not. john ratcliffe was offered the d ni job before mueller ever

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joining me now for a reaction to all of this is former congressman and fox news contributor trey gowdy. i served with mr. gowdy on the congress and it was a pleasure to do so and try, i appreciate you coming here. i love the glasses. it's a good look. it's a good look. >> i love you too jason. >> jason: you have read through the report. you have dealt personally with mr. director called me over a series of years. what's your take away from what mr. horowitz concluded? >> he is a two-time offender. remember horowitz also is deemed for his handling of the clinton email investigations and how he gets dinged in the other major cases handled in 2016. i never said comey would or should go to jail. i'm certainly not going to apologize to anyone who violated fbi and department of justice policies, who violated an employment agreement, who shared sensitive information about an ongoing investigation, who sent classified information to an unauthorized person and then had amnesia when the fbi came to his home to try to retrieve government property. i'm not going to apologize but i will give him a

maria: welcome back and i'm back with former south carolina congressman trey gowdy the chairman of thettee a fox news contributor and trey, i want your take on john ratcliffe a frequent guest on this program the president nominated him to be the director of national intelligence and he withdrew his name. here is what my sources are telling me. i am hearing that mitch mcconnell and richard burr basically blew him off. he called them to have a meeting with them and they said no, no, no, we're busy we have the budget we can't do it and then they came up and said well i don't know. i don't really know him. they could have been more forceful in following the president's nomination, and the president's pick but they didn't , and i understand that partly was because they felt they could not deliver susan collins vote because susan collins said john ratcliffe was awfully rough on mueller so am i to believe here that john ratcliffe did not get the job because he did his job too well? in questioning mueller? >> i hope not. john ratcliffe was offered the d ni job before mueller ever set foot on c

we don't need more laws as trey gowdy said. happen is, you know, these shooters are going after the low hanging fruit. so they are going after soft targets. and if they even had a background check on either one of these individuals, it wouldn't have stopped, they would have been able to acquire the guns that they did. steve: evy, we see that reportedly the he will pass so shooter from the dallas area looked like he left a hate-filled manifesto online on one of those web sites and in fact one of the founders of the website said just close down the website, that's ridiculous. >> shooter also typically communicate in some way a threat or people would have been informed by shooters. i think -- look, at the end of the day, we are all responsible as a community. we all have to be aware of the people around us, not just in our communities but in our homes. steve: sure. joe? i will give you 15 seconds to summarize if we can get our heads around what we have seen. >> this is a very big mental illness problem. officers are expected to ha

you change the hair to white and slim it up just a little bit it would be a good impersonation of trey gowdy. but we'll leave that one for now. so anyway, i'm trying to figure out what kind of speech to give tonight. and the -- the dirty little secret is that i don't give really good political speeches. i can't do what henry just did. i can't give the real good rousing speech. i give good geeky speeches that put people to sleep. i don't give witty speeches. i can't do what tim does which bring a tear to your eye and i don't have good hair like tim. i figure to have fun with the people back home and the several people who are watching on c-span. [laughter] but then i start to realize and my staff always helps remind me of this, i'm a budgets geek. i'm still the director of office of management and budget. the one thing about budget people is we don't have a sense of humor. my family reminded me of this. the triplets are 19 now. several years ago they were 7 or 8 years ole. we were sitting at the dinner table. i said something extraordinary witty. it was monty python and little jonathan winter

i noticed that peter strzok failed to mention bob mueller as trey gowdy pointed out. dy mccabe doing? why are people still investigating whether to charge with andy mccabe. gowdy is a lawyer, listen. >> right. but the head of those allegedly 13 angry democrats also fired him. bob mueller fired him. jim comey, who is no fan of the person you're talking to right now, when we deposed him, he would have gotten rid of peter strzok if he had known about the texts. peter strzok need blame no one other than himself for writing what he wrote. he was unfit to investigate either of the presidential candidates. how this is going to turn out i don't know. it is d.c. i don't know what a jury will do with it. he is unfit for law enforcement. whoever fired him, i guess chris wray, i'm sure chris did not do it because of pressure from president trump f that were the case, mick mulvaney would have been fired a long time ago. steve: can you imagine if he gets his job back, he goes back to the fbi. ainsley: he will not. steve: i'm just saying, can you imagine. brian: let's see if he has a

former house oversight chairman congressman trey gowdy with us. where does this case go? against him is over. to the extent there are others who aided and abetted or had knowledge of these crimes and had a duty to report and failed to do so, sufficient factual predicate, i am heartbroken only for the victims who were denied an opportunity to see their attacker, he is not in control. he's not in power. he's not calling the shots. he is in court in a jumpsuit and handcuffed. for a lot of victims that final image provides closure to the extent you can have it. i am starting with them but he wasn't going to testify against others. i would not give him a time to go implicate people who may have been less culpable. that makes no sense in the criminal justice system. i will say this. you can't get the death penalty for anything other than taking another life but most americans think you want to be able to get it for getting a sex assault on a child. the supreme court disagrees but most americans if we had a hierarchy of crimes, including sexual crimes against children, would be

former congressman trey gowdy is calling out peter stzrok pursuing the fbi and doj about his firing overtrump text messages. >> peter stzrok need blame no one but himself for writing what he wrote. he was unfit to investigate either of the presidential candidates. i don't know anyone republican or democrat who thinks that is a law enforcement officer that should be handling a school crossing much less counterintelligence investigation. >> he claims the bureau cave to, quote, unrelenting pressure from donald trump when firing him. heather nauert he led the investigation into hillary clinton's use of a private email server. no responsibility there. stocks bounced back after their worst day of 2019. tracy carrasco here with the rally. >> recouping losses from monday which was the worst trading day of 2019. the dow jones industrial average climbing 311 points. the s&p adding 37 and the nasdaq rising 107 points was all three major averages up by 1% so what fueled yesterday? we saw the china currency stabilized, this after the us accused china of manipulating its currency on monday by letting

jillian: trey gowdy says it's tricky balance protecting gun rights and protecting the american people. >> well, we have controls on who can have firearms, we have controls over where you can can have them and we have controls over what kind of firearms you can have, so those are 3 areas of control, whether or not you can plus up one of those sections and then raise your -- your safety, the public safety, i need to see a causal link between what you're proposing and the outcome. i was a gun prosecutor, i was a homicide prosecutor, so i've seen all the laws that people are willing to break to do evil toward their fellow man but i'm also open to additional laws if there's a causal link but i'm not open to a political discussion while people die. >> the last major gun legislation to pass congress was the so-called assault weapon ban that went into effect from 1994 to 2004. >> china taking aim at america's farmers, bloomberg reporting that beijing is telling its state-run firms to stop buying u.s. agriculture products, likely retaliation for the president's threatening tariff on $300 billi

. >> trey gowdy was on the sunday morning futures show a few hours ago and he specifically said any righthe's ready to give up if it can promise no more shootings like parkland, like, of course, sandy hook and all of the horrific shootings that we've had, you know, there's nothing that's absolutely perfect but the media would do well to start focusing on congress, certainly because right now on the twitter verse, folks are saying at least some members come back off vacation now to deal with this 2 in 13 hours is ridiculous, howie. >> shows you how out of control things are and seems to me, though, the question will be even if congress did come back what would congress do that could be signed by the president because obviously the many, many shootings like this and i'm also wondering, you know, the typical formula on television they go on and say it's president trump's fault, he created the climate and others will say that's ridiculous and i don't think ultimate their argument gets anywhere, it's the fault of the people that pull the trigger in these situations and i think the media ought

he replaced trey gowdy i believe. >> this is a job by statute that's supposed to be filled by someoneexperience. >> it says it in the law, significant intelligence experience. i talked to experts who question whether that can be enforced. you've got to imagine it's going to be an issue in these confirmation hearings, that plus the embellishments as you discussed. he said he put terrorists in prison. we have shown that never happened. he never prosecuted adterrorism case. now he's saying he put 300 illegal immigrants behind bars, it doesn't hold up. >> rod rosenstein, who has left the justice department, but was a career loyalist has come to the defense of sue gordon, the principle deputy there. already you've had the senate intelligence chair, a statement saying that they're going to deal with sue gordon which contradicts the president saying i'm going to name someone as acting. >> exactly. when the president said that, he suggested that sue gordon wouldn't be the acing even though the law says the principle deputy will be the acting. she has long experience, much beloved on the hill

maria: trey gowdy says there some interviews of papadopoulos were transcripts rather, conversations witho clear that he had nothing to do but they did not present that to the fisa court. he mentioned george papadopoulos, we had him on the show and he told me he's intending on testifying in front of your committee. when do you expect that to take place? >> what i want to do is get the horowitz report and have him come testify about it. my job will be to make sure this never happens again. do we need to change the fisa warrant application process to protect against this in the future? do we need to have rules about counterintelligence investigations being open against politicians? do we need to restructure the department of justice? these are things that congress will be looking at. durum will be looking at criminality, did someone violate the law? and horowitz will be telling us about the good, the bad and the ugly and what should be done internally. garlic papadopoulos, yeah, i would like to call him. i would like for him to tell the world what kind of interactions he had, where he had t

and i think a lot of people have them forgot about this, under pressure from trey gowdy, when he wasuestioning him the nine book closed, bruce ohr admitted that he had told people within the department of justice, particularly the criminal fraud division, which was then handed by andrew weissmann, which then became a part of the special counsel, the right-hand man, the second in charge next to robert mueller, all about this. so there were three people at senior-level doj officials that actually knew about bruce ohr and his contact with christopher steele, two of which would were working for the special counsel. so all of this is going to come out and greg is right on the money. the most important thing that those 302's, i believe, are going to reveal, is that he warned people that christopher steele would be anti-trump and that there was information that was not verifiable and that this would look really bad and if that's the case, this is a potentially big criminal liability and problem for people in the fbi. particularly for comey who signed off on the first fisa warrant. >> jason:

former prosecutor trey gowdy weighing in on cavuto earlier saying epstein's death closes the criminal case against him but not others. >> well, the case against him is other, but to -- over, but to extent there are others who aided or abetted or had knowledge of these crimes and a duty to report, failed to do so, if there is sufficient factual predicate, they could still be charged. arthel: jacqui heinrich has more on this developing story. >> reporter: well, arthel, the fbi, as you said, is investigating, and that's important because they'll determine whether a crime was committed and whether there was foul play. epstein was in a special housing unit which would indicate he was no longer on suicide watch because of the policies in the prison's suicide prevention program. what we don't know is when he was taken off suicide watch or even if he was in a cell by himself at this point. epstein had been placed on suicide watch nearly three weeks ago now after he was found in his jail cell with marks on his neck. he reportedly hung himself. he was found unresponsive this morning around 6:30

jim jordan, mark meadows, trey gowdy, when he was there. these people have been pushing for this, and there has to be some answer from inspector general. >> martha: so with regard to the second -- i want to stick with the james comey question just to remind everybody home what might have been the proble problem. they said he released some of his memos. he met with president trump and then he got into the fbi vehicle and open to the fbi laptop, which is part of the issue at hand here, and started taking notes on his discussions with the president. then he made it perfectly clear he would leak some of that information to the press, found a way to get that out because he wanted to revoke a special counsel. is there anything wrong with that? >> yes! you cannot -- no matter if you're the fbi director or some low-level person, you cannot take government records and just unilaterally put them out there, particularly if they have a degree of -- >> martha: he would actually disagree with you because he said it in testimony in congres congress. >> th

former chairman trey gowdy dismissing claims that president trump pressured the fbi to fire him.trzok need blame no one other than himself for writing what he wrote. he was unfit to investigate either of the presidential candidates. how this is going to turn out? i don't know. it's a d.c., i don't know what a jury is going to do with him, but he's unfit for law enforcement. whoever fired him -- i guess it was christopher wray -- i'm sure he did not do it because of pressure from president trump. >> lisa: congressman, does peter strzok have any standing here? >> jason: no, he doesn't. first of all, if the president wanted to make a fire them unilaterally without any reason. but it was mueller that dismissed him. remember, it was the inspector general who highlighted this first. the inspector general couldn't get the text messages of which there were more than 10,000. i love my wife, we communicate regularly, but 10,000 text messages? to somebody he's having an affair with, within the department can back that alone -- this guy should never have had a security clearance, let alone h

jon: the former congressman trey gowdy, house judiciary committee now a fox news contributor says there could be other people charged even though epstein is now dead. listen. >> the case they assume is over, but to the extent there are others who aided and abetted and had knowledge of these crimes and a duty to report and failed to do so, if there's sufficient factual predicate, they can still be charged. jon: that charging i guess those cases become is a lot more difficult, though, with the central character dead, don't they? >> they do, but we already know that there's paper evidence. there's definitely -- at least it's being reported that there's so much overwhelming evidence against epstein, certainly the investigators are pouring through to it to see if there can be connections to others involved in it. but you are exactly right, it is difficult. when the one person that could have come forward and cooperated with law enforcement, although we don't have any -- we don't know whether he would have or not, but if he were alive, and events have encouraged him to cooperate, he would hav

because if you change the hair to white and slim me up, it would be a really good impersonation of trey gowdy. [laughter] chief mulvaney: we will leave that one for now. i am try to figure out what kind of speech to give tonight. the dirty secret is i don't give really good political speeches. i can't do what henry just did. i can give good geeky speeches to put people asleep. i can't do what tim does, which is bring a tear to your eyes. i have better hair than tim, but that is about it. i thought i would have fun with the folks back home and watching on c-span. i stopped to realize -- and my staff reminds me of this -- i am a budget geek. manager of the office of budget, but i am not a good speech giver. but theyets are 19, were seven or eight years old and i said something extraordinarily witty. material,lly well any and it was complete crickets at the dinner table. my only daughter, who at the time was seven or eight, said mommy, does daddy have a sense of humor and we don't get it? daddy doesn't have a sense of humor, he just amuses himself. so how can i come home and give a gun -- a fun

congressman trey gowdy back there affair decision. >> peter strzok need blame no one other than himselfting what he wrote. he was unfit to investigate either of the presidential candidates. how this is going to turn out, i don't know. it's d.c., i don't know what a jury will do with him, but he's unfit for law enforcement. >> melissa: robert driscoll, former doj official who served as deputy assistant attorney general. thank you so much for joining us. what do you make of this? does he have a case? >> as a lawyer i think everybody always has a case. there's an argument to make. but it doesn't struck me as a particular strong one. he was caught sending inappropriate texts that demonstrated political bias. and he wants to say this particle bias in firing him. it's an argument that proves too much. you can never bring -- you can never fire someone for that reason if a person can turn around and say, "you fired me because i'm displaying my bias, so you political biased against me." it doesn't make much logical sense. >> melissa: one argument he makes is that it's his first amendment right t

we also will have breaking news because we've got trey gowdy coming on and we've also got representativeday we'll ask about the left and the looney left with tim ryan and we're also talking to trey gowdy which i'll also have breaking news. remember a couple of months ago trey gowdy mentioned that e-mail that he said will change people 's minds? it was a transcript of a conversation that george papadopoulos had had with an informant? we've got that news as well. griff: you'll be busy. maria: breaking news in the next hour. pete: thank you. maria. jedediah: a fox news alert, two deadly shootings in the last 24 hours. nine killed in dayton, ohio and 20 killed in el paso. we are live for an update, coming up, next. tual customized my car insurance, so i only pay for what i need. and this is me now! any physical changes to this man's appearance are purely coincidental. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ the business of road trips... ...adventure... ...and reconnecting. modernized comfort inn's and suites have been refreshed because our business is you. get the

many people are pleased that the attorney is finally taking takie reins here and doing what we and trey gowdyessman, the biggest question in my mind how high it was, was it just rogue actors like peter strzok and andy mccabe who were going with their political instincts rather than the good interest of justice or did it go higher than that, were there people at the top or after all this started during the obama administration, was anybody at the top levels of government involved in this? >> well, i think that the inspector general may answer that question. there's already significant evidence that it extended outside of the department of justice to intelligence gathering organizations, a lot of questions -- i know that john durham wants to interview a multiprofessor with russian ties but also western ties with joseph who played role in getting this started and i hope that takes place but there are a lot of questions that need to get out in the public, we had a look at ui lot -- a lot of this information and never got declassified. bill barr has the authority to declassify not only do you docu

trey gowdy talked about this last night.lame no one other than himself for writing what he wrote. he was unfit to investigate either of the presidential candidates. how this is going to turn out, i don't know. it's d.c. i don't know what a jury will do with it. he is unfit for law enforcement and whoever fired him i guess it was chris wray, i'm sure chris didn't do it because of pressure from president trump. >> bill: out-of-pocket politically. let's move on. >> sandra: is the law -- are these lawsuits over a state requiring that the president release his tax returns, we're hearing a lot about this. is it constitutional? the president's attorney has responded to this and this is specifically their statement that they released. today we've taken action in federal court challenging california's attempt to circumvent the u.s. constitution. the issue of whether the president should release his federal tax returns was litigated in the 2016 election and the american people spoke. can they do this? >> i -- can the states do it? i t

if you believe former representative trey gowdy from earlier this may he predicted those email he saiding. david: we heard last week from someone in the mix, this man who was a spy, he has been working for various spying agencies in the united states and elsewhere in the world, who said he was at the time the obama administration was still in control, he was working for a u.s. intel agency. so there is stuff dribbling out that under president obama's watch, maybe not with his direct intervention one way or the other but under his watch, intel agencies were working to spy on presidential campaign, trump's campaign. >> that is a question we saw senator lindsey graham we saw ask yesterday. he will not only take a look what the fbi is doing, he will make it clear he is examining what is going on with the cia as well. back in june of 2017, both "the washington post" and "new york times" reported that brennan had an asset who was close to vladmir putin. and brennan found this information so sensitive and so important that he wanted to put it on president obama's desk and he did so by hand in

here he is reading this out loud in front of trey gowdy's committee. >> august 8th, 2016, ms.r going to become president, right? right? >> no. no. he is not we will stop it. august 15th, 2016, i want to believe the through out for consideration in andy's office that there is no way he gets elected but i'm afraid we can't take that risk. insurance policy in the unlikely event you i do before yodiebefore you are 40. >> he said i have no memory of that his paramour lisa page testified privately the insurance policy was the fbi's secret counterintelligence investigation against donald trump that they were going to use against him if he were elected. he was. they did. brian: so he was fired. they recommended that he get demoted. >> right. brian: he says i want my job back. my fifth amendment rights were not guarded. the president put so much pressure that's why i was fired. does he have a case? >> no. he does not have a case. obtuse and clueless peter strzok has no sense of self-awareness. he has done more damage to the fbi than anybody in the last 50 years. he would not be welcome