the fbi and justice department's theory of the trump russia case is that trump was bought and paid for by putin and that putin had him compromised whether it was in a personal nature or through other varieties of corruptionwhether it's financial, political and so on . don't get me wrong, i'm not saying that these things happened . what i'm saying is if that was the fbi's erie of the case and the justice department's theory of the case, what do you think their underlying submissions and memoranda are going to say? they're going to be a reflection of that theory. so even if it's not true,even if the things that they said about trump being inputin's pocket are true, if that information sees thelight of day, it's not going to be flattering for the president and there are certain percentage of people , we all know this, whether something is true or not , it's beside the point . can it be used by the tribe -mark does it help our side? that's the only thing that's of importance to them so that's the only reason the president may be gun shy about putting out information and the final thing i'l

i'm for law enforcement and law enforcement, it didn't happen in the trump russia investigation but was supposed to is crime that's committed and spent we assigned a prosecutor to investigate the crime. ... ... premier law enforcement agency, the fbi is also our domestic security agency. what is coming. in a lot of countries, there's a role the has to be carved out for government agencies to protect the homeland against foreign threats and those foreign threats can come from outside attacks when they can come from people who are foreign agents working on the behalf of the people inside of the united states. in some countries for example like britain, the idea is we are better off separating the law enforcement function from this national security function of protecting the country against foreign threats. in our country, what we've always thought was that the best way to handle the challenge of foreign threats to security is to have both the law enforcement and the national security mission housed in the same agency, the fbi. so the one side of their agency is the criminal law enforceme

offenses he says the allegations against him were part of a political witch hunt with claims of trump russia collusion reports of banks russia collusion were apparently founded and perpetuated on fear rather than proof the decision to leave the european union was something so monumental that it impacted the elites in britain both in the politics in civil service and in business and media that they needed to find the enemies they needed to find a way of discrediting the whole campaign and so the 1st thing they did. it was start to attack the donors to the campaign to leave and of course mr sharon banks and the leave means leave movement came into the firing line of their anger without a doubt this was a witch hunt it was a witch hunt against those who campaigned for brix it like myself and the leaders of the movement it was a campaign to discredit those who donated it and they also tried to discredit it by saying that there was collusion from other nations such as russia or that there was russian money behind mr r. and banks and all of this was to discredit the movement discredit the referend

rush investigation, , but what's supposed to happen in this country is a crime gets committed -- trump russia -- in lease assigned a prosecutor to investigate the crime come right? we usually don't say there's a person like donald trump, go out there and tried to find a crime on him, which is pretty much what we saw for the last number of years. so i knew nothing about how counterintelligence worked. and i barely knew, even though i'd been a prosecutor for the better part of a decade, that the fbi actually has a night job. i cite from being our premier law enforcement agency -- aside -- the fbi is also our domestic security agency. what does that mean? in a lot of countries, there's a role that has to be carved out for government agencies to protect the homeland against foreign threats, and those foreign threats can come from outside attacks or they can come from people who are for agents working on behalf of the foreign power operating inside the united states. in some countries like britain, for example, the idea is we are better off separating the law enforcement function from this nationa

i am from law enforcement and in law enforcement what happens, it doesn't happen in the trump russia investigation but what is supposed to happen in the country is a crime gets committed. we usually don't say there is a person like donald trump go out there and try to find a crime on them which is pretty much what he saw from the last number of years. so i knew nothing about how counterintelligence worked. and i barely kne knew him even though i'd been a prosecutor for the better part of the decade that the fbi actually has a nice job aside from being our premier law enforcement agency, the fbi is also our domestic security agency. now what does that mean? in a lot of countries, there is a role that has to be carved out for government agencies to protect the homeland against foreign threats and those threats can come from outside attacks were people who are foreign agents working on behalf of the foreign power operating inside the united states. the idea is we are better off separating the law enforcement function from the national security function of protecting the country against f

trump. they cared about russia, but not the dossier. many in the media mob predicting this will be the end of the trump administration. they been predicting that for years. as it turns out, though so-called "whistle-blower" wasn't even in question. whoops. this was not the first to have information. this was hearsay. look at this. even fake news cnn buried in a report they did over the weekend, the following line. "the whistle-blower didn't have correct knowledge of communications." who knows what this person hear heard. meanwhile, the ukrainian foreign minister, president denied that trump put pressure on the ukrainian president. denied it. flat-out wrong. according to "the washington post," yep. no exquisite offered. catherine. >> the whistle-blower did not have firsthand knowledge of the conversation between president trump and the ukrainian president. the whistle-blower did not have direct knowledge of the july phone call. that matters, because typically multiple u.s. officials are on the call with the president, indicating the whist

would take just needed a reason and come on there were plenty no people put their money on the trump russia collusion story treason collusion between the trunk team and the russians and trump knew about it that would truly be impeachable it's miss prison of treason and so far his response has been exploding and unfortunately proved entirely fabricated but to hell with it obstruction of justice federal seen in the united states that ought to do it to president trump trying to block the f.b.i.'s rush investigation commit an impeachable offense are we getting closer and closer to the possibility of yet another impeachment process no dodges that to come on let's go in on the guy slept with the porn star media told us and paid a hush money to keep it silent no way he'd survive that bicycle you see the trump team stepping into every trap that she and her lawyer set for them having a president knowledge that he was actually meant to be a party to the nondisclosure agreement and now of course she's got a an avenue and a way to fire back at it cohen what is going on how many get out of jail free car

would take just needed a reason and come on there were plenty the people put their money on the trump russia collusion story treason collusion between the trump team and the russians and trump knew about it that would truly be impeachable it's miss prison of treason and so far his response has been exploding and unfortunately proved entirely fabricated but to hell with it obstruction of justice a federal seat in the united states that ought to do it to president trump trying to block the f.b.i.'s rush investigation committed impeachable offense are we getting closer and closer to the possibility of yet another impeachment process no dodges that to come on let's go in on the guy slept with the porn star media told us and paid hush money to keep it silent no way he'd survive that bicycle you see the trump team stepping into every trap that she and her lawyer set for. evena president knowledge that he was actually meant to be a party to the nondisclosure agreement and now of course she's got a an avenue and a way to fire back at it cohen what is going on how many get out of jail free cards does

no trump-russia collusion. in reality, the dnc, the mob, their friends, the extension of their press office, they have been scolding themselves with ukraine to 2016. we have reported it, and joe biden has opened the door to re-examine it all. remember john solomon right here on this program march 2016. contractor for the democratic national committee was pressing the ukrainian embassy because the dnc operative wanted to find russian dirt on donald trump. the same dnc contractor also requested that ukraine's president publicly trash president trump then campaign manager paul manafort. that's not all. earlier this month in a meeting with ukraine's new president, democratic senator chris chrisy reportedly threatened to cut off u.s. aid. that's what trump didn't do that they claim he did and he did it. if the company opened an investigation into joe biden. in a letter from senators bob menendez, dick durbin, pat leahy, we've got it all chronicled, all the evidence you need. democrats threatening to withhold aid if

we saw two years of trump russia collusion i never thought was there and isn't there. and now, they're searching for issues. and they're searching for new issues. i think there are problems with the media. i was looking today at the image of various newspapers and far lower than i ever imagined they would be. the public, you should know, has caught on to this. and the media is going to have to change and the new reporters out there, that don't have the long term experience and issues constitution, political system have got to have editors who really supervise them. or we'll continue like this. >> laura: it's not just freedomm to express your faith within the four walls of your church. they want people to never talk about the bible in public. i mean pretty n much. if you're a conservative, you can't mention it. there's another thing that happened this week, guys, and i want to go to charlie kirk on this. bullying not just in the sports world, but newly appointed labor department official leif olson forced to resign after bloom burg accused him of writing an anti-semitic

i'm hoping the department of justice will do for the biden-ukraine connection would do for the trump-russiaonnection. maria: the american media is trying to turn what was a biden scandal into a trump scandal. >> i hope mr. barr doesn't allow that to happen, there's enough smoke here, there's enough concern about did the ukraine dump information into the american political system, legally system regarding manafort and others, was there relationship between the vice president's family and the ukraine business world that was inappropriate, i don't know, somebody other than me needs to look at it and i sure as hell don't trust the media to get to the bottom of it. maria: i want to move onto iran but you have important meetings today. >> yeah. maria: you'll be meeting with mr. erdogan and leadership of pakistan, anything that you want to tell us about upcoming meetings, what you would like to see? >> yeah, turkey is an important ally, they activate 400 that they bought from the russians, i hope we can find alternative to 400, we need turkey to stabilize syria, help us stabilize syria, i would li

i'm hoping the department of justice will do for the biden-ukraine connection would do for the trump-russiaonnection. maria: the american media is trying to turn what was a biden scandal into a trump scandal. >> i hope mr. barr doesn't allow that to happen, there's enough smoke here, there's enough concern about did the ukraine dump information into the american political system, legally system regarding manafort and others, was there relationship between the vice president's family and the ukraine business world that was inappropriate, i don't know, somebody other than me needs to look at it and i sure as hell don't trust the media to get to the bottom of it. maria: i want to move onto iran but you have important meetings today. >> yeah. maria: you'll be meeting with mr. erdogan and leadership of pakistan, anything that you want to tell us about upcoming meetings, what you would like to see? >> yeah, turkey is an important ally, they activate 400 that they bought from the russians, i hope we can find alternative to 400, we need turkey to stabilize syria, help us stabilize syria, i would li

and what russia is doing has not changed at all. we saw trump block the delivery of that military aid that is meant to help russia to stand up to russia and only release the aid under bipartisan congressional pressure. they are also shoring up defenses against russia, an initiative that started by the obama administration. trump is using that money for his border wall instead. to the extent that putin wants things from donald trump, those things all in some way or another connect to ukraine. dropping sanctions, getting back into the g-8, blocking money or webs going to support ukraine, and, yes, the whistleblower complaint in the intelligence community, that trump is trying to get a foreign leader to do his dirty work for him, that is upsetting on his own terms. but the foundational scandal of this president, donald trump's relationship to russia. joining me now is the former russian ambassador. always great to talk to you. >> thank you for having me. >> can we go back? this ukraine part. people think a lot about russia and donald trump's strang

the justice department investigation into the origins of the trump russia investigation. and i think that's a big difference from what we heard yesterday, which was this was strictly a quid pro quo about trump's political interests. >> dana: in the interest of talking about things that will never go away, this is a question of trust. if you can pull up number 40. this is about trust in the transcript. is it accurate? there's going to be a whole conversation surrounding this. take a listen. >> we still don't have the complaint. this is again bill barr's justice department trying to put out a misleading spin, in this case in the form of the department's opinion. >> it's never about the transcript. it's about the president admitting publicly that he raised these issues to a foreign power, he withheld aid that congress had appropriated and he asked that foreign power to manufacture evidence against his political opponent. >> this is a white house that has false filed information from showing a doctored hurricane man to promote ago video that an outside group alters of a cnn re

this instance it was donald trump who approached ukraine. the russianvestigation examined a lot of contacts 150 contacts mostly among aides and advisers with the russians. in this instance what is public facing is trump and rudy giuliani driving a ukrainian oppo operation in the russia investigation the mueller report sites donald trump jr.'s ignorance of the laws and accepting foreign aid. post mueller, the whole country is educated in the illegality of election interference. the russia investigation he was a candidate. now with ukraine trump is the american president has the -- of the presidency. in the question from the russia probe, as annie karni just said about a quid pro quo with military aid. >> we've seen this movie before. trump tried to bully the ukrainians into messing with our democracy. he tried to get a foreign national to help him when election to the oval office. he's on notice that that's illegal. it's a violation of federal campaign laws to solicit a thing of value including opposition research from a foreign national. mueller says t

donald trump just needed a reason and come on there were plenty of people put their money on the trump russia collusion story treason collusion between the trunk team and the russians and trump knew about it that would truly be impeachable it's miss prison of treason and so far his response has been exploding and unfortunately proved entirely fabricated but to hell with it obstruction of justice a federal seat in the united states that ought to do it to president trump trying to block the f.b.i.'s rush investigation commit an impeachable offense are we getting closer and closer to the possibility of yet another impeachment process. reluctantly wolf i have to say is it an impeachable offense even fact the president obstructed justice but now we're talking in piece where do you think this is a brand say far do you think it is a peace process what's more needed to prove an obstruction of justice than the president fires the guy coming after may have to ask him to drop the case no dodges that to come on let's go in on the guys slept with the pool and stuff media told us paid to hush my. me to kee