weissmann as you mentioned in my book, "license to lie." sweetheart deals with the people who are the real criminals and put the screws to them to try to get them say things that incriminate people higher up that are the real targets that the prosecutors want, whether they did anything wrong or not. two defendants in the enron litigation in related cases had to be allowed to withdraw their guilty pleas because what mr. weissmann coerced them into pleading to wasn't even a crime. david: but years later the damage was done and reputations and lives were ruined. let's just hope the same thing doesn't happen here. >> please visit my website sidneypowell.com. david: reuters reporting chinese espionage agencies are creating linkedin accounts to lure americans. we take that up and more with judicial watch's chris farrell next. come away with me barnabas! but i am a simple farmer. my life is here... [telephone ring] ahoy-hoy. alexander graham bell here... no, no, my number is one, you must want two! two, i say!! like my father before... [telephone

andrew weissmann. >> andrew weissmann is like the detective that frames a suspect and declares himselfhe investigator to say whether the suspect committed the crime. >> sean: how can you ever trust the mueller investigation? excoriated by the judge, holding exculpatory evidence, putting innocent people in jail, that is overturned. 9-0, fifth circuit court of appeals, how does he get a job with robert mueller's office? >> he should not have had the job, and he should have asked a lot more of peter strzok and andrew weissmann. you have strzok who tainted the evidence, you have andrew weissmann who tainted the evidence, you have a team of pas appointed by mueller who a full stomach recuse himself, not only a boss that has a discounted interest, this is the most corrupt and tainted investigation of my lifetime an3 years old, and it goes beyond my lifetime. >> sean: sara has a much better career ahead of herself. let me ask this, mueller said that he might accept written answers. let me go to gregg on the legal side of it first. >> this is a victory for president trump's legal team, but it

tell me about andrew weissmann.hen catherine herridge is reporting why is he so important and what bruce ohr is doing and informing him along the i way? >> bruce ohr has now implicated the lead lawyer in robert mueller's special counsel team. he was in on the russia hoax. that was framing donald trump for doing things that he never did. wiseman knew that christopher steele compose the phony dossier, they knew the document was completely specious it was uncorroborated, unverified and they knew that he had been fired for lying and the fbi a department and department of justice apparently didn'tn care, they use that nevertheless to pursue this fabricated investigationin of donald trump. and to wiretap an american citizen without proper evidence. this now ruins the integrity and credibility of robert mueller's special counsel. weissmann should be fired and the special counsel should say we apologize, we arend terminatg our special counsel probe because all of it has been tainted and corrupted by weissmann. >> jason: wil

all of a sudden, there is andrew weissmann once again. before he joins mueller's team, he's in communication. he knows everything that's going on and he's relaying that information obviously to somebody else. this is why congress wants an investigation. this is why congressman meadows sent a letter to attorney general jeff sessions demanding that john huber, the prosecuting attorney and inspector general michael horowitz investigate bruce ohr and his connections with his wife, that conflict of interest and his communications with andrew weissmann. >> sean: what about the classifying these documents? >> this is even bigger. according to a number of sources and president trump himself actually told this. he said that they are seriously considering the classifying the surveillance act warrant that have been redacted by the doj. and these are 20 pages of the carter page fisa that they do do not want to come out. why? because there is information in there with fraud perpetrated on the secret court. >> the fraud would be the pfizer warrant was

he's still working for mueller, weissmann is. this comes as president trump looks poised to declassify important sections of carter page's fisa documents, everything that was shown to the gang of eight, specifically the pages 10 through 12, 17 through 34, potentially we're told exculpatory information on carter page. now, all of the associated footnotes, the so-called 302s, the reports that say bruce ohr talking about christopher steele in the context, terms of what they talk were. this -- talk about. this declassification can happen any time. i haven't seen them but according to my sources the information will be explosive. we'll ask carter page about that in a moment considering it's about him. and if he's such a danger why hasn't he been charged? joining us you ator of number one "new york times" best seller the russian hoax, elicit scheme to free hillary clinton and blame donald trump, fox news investigative reporter sara carter, we'll start with the news then get greg a's natural sis. we have the fbi and doj colluding to lea

weissmann for the government and with me is greg andres, kyle freeny, jeannie rhee and omer meisel and jeff weiland from the fbi. the judge, all right, good morning. and good morning, your honor, richard westling, thomas zehnle and kevin downing on behalf of mr. manafort. good morning. and i note that mr. manafort is president. the judge. i understand the defendant wishes to enter a plea of guilty, is that correct? that's correct, your honor. all right, before we proceed any further, he can join you at the lectern. and the courtroom deputy says, are you paul j. manafort, jr.? >> i am. are you the person named in the superseding proceeding? i am. this starts with the good mornings, right? at this very early point in the proceeding, everybody there in the courtroom knows at least one important part of what's going to happen, right? the judge has said right off the bat he is here to plead guilty, right? yes, yes, your honor. and then the reason there is a superseding information, which is what the courtroom deputy just asked there to paul manafort, superseding information, i know it's a w

andrew weissmann.he contents of the dossier he has updated through bruce ohr. 70 contacts, ohr and steele have together. hillary to steele all the way to bob mueller's office, you cannot make this up. it is insane. a web of corruption and abuse of power surrounding a foreign actor, a phony russian dossier in an effort to stop this man from becoming president, and then destroy him after he did. we did tonight reach out to all of the deep state actors in the report, but tonight we do have positive elements to report. we have 12 republican lawmakers now calling on president trump to declassify the retracted parts of multiple fisa documents, specifically pages ten through 12, 17 to 34. that could be released as early as tomorrow or next week. lawmakers now believe this retracted information, along with 302's, the gang of eight, can explain and might have exculpatory evidence on carter page and other information from the steele dossier, how a fraud was committed on the court, and how an attempt to sabotage

gregg: andrew weissmann was a participant in the russian hoax using a false document, the dossier, to to incriminate and frame donald trump for things he didn't do. weissmann, according to bruce ohr knew that christopher steele come posed it, was discredited as a liar, and the document itself was not credible. this was like a detective who frames the suspect then appoints himself to investigate suspect over the crime for which he has been framed. judge jeanine: he gets the real prosecutor out of the way and says you are conflicted. gregg: whatever robert mueller couples with should never be believed. it's like the exclusionary rule. tainted illegally obtained evidence should be exclude. judge jeanine: this all fruit of poisonous tree. everybody knew hillary paid for the dossier along with the dnc. no one is even looking at that. and that campaign contribution, yet they are on the hookers and campaign contributions on the other side. >> i have talked to many professionals who worked in a different era of the fbi. only conspiracy they see is a conspiracy by the fbi to defraud and deceiv

from his pitbull, andrew weissmann. >> think of how bad this is, sean.you look at john's story, and we look at bruce ohr, yeah i'm a that's one part of a much bigger puzzle. we've seen now that there's a resistance within the administration, within the bureaucracy. against the presidency of the united states, meaning against the people of this country. we're now seeing the pieces of this puzzle just kind of fit and fall together. they were on a fishing expedition to take this president down, to take candidate trump down and then to go after president trump. and they haven't stopped. this is so dangerous because i want us to take a step't back. this isn't just about what happened right now. remember the state department was involved in this. victoria newellen was involved in this, john kerry knew what was going on. there were other dossiers out there. now i'm hearing there's even more dossiers that we haven't discovered that were put together by fusion gps and spread out across washington, d.c. so this was an active disinformation effort to take down a ca

and andy mccabe knew, peter strzok nous and andrew weissmann knew as well.ws calling for the declassification of russian documents that could reveal big-time corruption at the doj. joining me now, the aforementioned congressman themselves. welcome to both of you. congressman jordan, the more we learn about bruce ohr's contact with christopher steele that predates what we talked about months ago, now the timeline has been pushed earlier. and yet, and his wife worked for the fusion gps firm. did they not know this at the justice department? why is this conflict not blaring across every media outlet tonight? >> it should be but you have a top justice official hired to work for the firm, and everyone at the fbi knew about it. and now we know andrew weissmann, the key player on mueller's team knew about it as well. they knew about it before they went to the fisa court. they knew about the involvement and who paid for it and they knew what bruce or told us that he told the fbi what christopher steele said. christopher steele, the guy who wrote it was desperate to

s lives came after andrew weissmann outlined the crimes that paul manafort confessed to this week -- conspiracy, obstruction of justice, conspiracy against the united states. judge amy berman jackson said to paul manafort, so are you prepared to tell me now whether you wish to plead guilty or whether you wish to go to trial? and paul manafort said, i am -- and the judge said, what is your decision? and paul manafort said, "i plead guilty." and with that, every member of the trump campaign team who has been charged which robert mueller has now pleaded guilty. every single one of them. robert mueller and his team are undefeated against the trump team. and everyone in the trump team who was ever in a room with paul manafort or on the phone with paul manafort or sent an e-mail to paul manafort or received an e-mail from paul manafort has to try to fall asleep tonight wondering who's next. who will paul manafort hand over to robert mueller? leading off our discussion now, jill wine-banks, former assistant watergate special prosecutor and an msnbc legal contributor. also former federal pro

look what happened with andrew weissmann.e know for a fact that a ohr was in communication with wiseman. he was basically passing information or trying to pass information to robert mueller's office. i think the investigation, the scope of this investigation is going to get so much wider. now that mccabe is under a grand jury investigation, imagine what they are going to find. we have spent years just trying to peel back the layers of this onion, and now we finally discover all of these connections and all of these players. going back to john story, it is so vitally important the timeline because nellie ohr, she was working early on for fusion gps. >> sean: let's get a quick comment -- sarah and john are with us before the hour. we will dip into the president's speech. right now he goes to the podium, a long ovation for the president obviously. >> president trump: hello montana. this is going to be a lot of fun. thank you. [applause] there is no place like a rosendale rally. forget trump, rosendale. but there is no place like

just a minute ago, prosecutor andrew weissmann announced in court that there is a cooperation agreementul manafort. we don't know the details yet of what exactly that cooperation agreement is, what the terms of it is, but he did mention it just as he was explaining what paul manafort is pleading guilty to. that's a bit of a surprise because it was a big question, obviously, that everybody had as a result of this plea agreement, was whether or not there was an ongoing cooperation agreement. and it appears from what we just learned that there is a cooperation agreement. now, what this entails is obviously the big question now. we had talked to president trump's legal team in the last couple days. these talks had intensified, and they expressed confidence that whatever, if there was a cooperation agreement, they were confident that this did not involve any cooperation against the president. so there are other people, obviously, that are part of this investigation. we quo there are people who are charged, including people in russia who are charged in the special counsel investigation. so it

was meeting with ap at that time, about manafort as final point weissmann is an interesting characterause we know now from our reporting, that he is being kept in the loop by trump dossier by bruce ohr justice department official not only after election but also before the election, in 2016. maria: this is incredible, okay so you think the president is going to declassify all of this information about the release of the fisa records, you think he will do that next week or so? >> i think week to 10 days it has been a moving target in large part so sensitive certainly momentum is moving that direction, maria. maria: we are going to break more nice on this, on sunday, when i sit down with congressman devin nunes congressman john ratcliffe anything else we should focus on going into two interviews. >> i think you want to look at, of the predicate for the opening of the investigation, why there has been a reluckance to make records available whether one or more confidential sources against the trump campaign in 2015. >> catherine great reporting as always thank you catherine herridge in d.

if you are remotely connected to donald trump, you get people like robert mueller and andrew weissmannoming at you with a vengeance and abusing their positions of power. that's part of the story about the russia hoax. you are right about bruce ohr and christopher steele. steele was on the payroll of hillary clinton and the fbi. when they fired him for being a liar, they continued to use him in connection with fbi regulations. they had bruce ohr as a conduit. the other amazing thing is, even after the president is elected, after he takes office, and for several months afterwards, they are still using christopher steele as a spy on donald trump, trying to verify the unverifiable dossier. jesse: now the big discussion is about the trump tower meeting. the allegation is that this meeting between don, jr. and this russia woman amounted to some sort of conspiracy. they don't use the word collusion. i guess the legal terminology would be conspiracy. because information is the same thing as money. i am looking at it and no information was ever give to the trump team by russia. but the hoik cam

he hired another lawyer named weissmann that was involved in that investigation. they have all kinds of ties together. they have all kinds of reasons to cover for each other. , t the fact that rosenstein assistant attorney general, deputy attorney general, the fact that he wrote a memo saying , fire comey, and the president acts on that memo, and fires comey, based on rosenstein's recommendation, or with his recommendation, and then rosenstein uses the president's action in accord wans rosenstein's memo -- in accordance with rosenstein's memo to say that probably was obstructing justice we need a special counsel, are you kidding me? there has been a failure of justice and of the justice system and federal district judge t.s. ellis saw that. and he commented on it. and when he had the chance to use the constitution and say enough already, justice has run , k, and paul manafort probably guilty of some of the things charged here, if not all of them, but you are not the one authorized to prosecute. the d.o.j. already had this investigation, it did not arise because of

lou: well, let's turn to if we may, the issue of evidence that peter strozk, lisa page, mccabe, weissmann knew about bruce ohr and his wife nelly who was working at fusion g.p.s. and they knew about it before, before the fisa applications were even filed. does that strike you as surprising? or can anything surprise any of us after what we have witnessed here and the corruption in washington? >> no, lou, it doesn't surprise me at all. it's consistent with what is all coming out bit by bit but very slowly. i want to go to the congressman's call of declassification of fisa. let's be very clear about what happened here. carter page was the target of obama administration wanting to get a leg in to the trump campaign. and that is what it was all about. they used carter page. power was abused and the fisa court was lied to. they used carter page by lying to the fisa court. just real quickly, in 2013, carter page was an asset, an f.b.i. asset and helped the f.b.i. indict a russian spy. when they are applying for the surveillance they make it look like carter page was in cahoots. carter page gave

andrew weissmann's misconduct and the special counsel's conducts.rupt and tainted so nobody can have confidence in the results. lou: chris farrell, do you agree? chris: absolutely. gregg summarized it beautifully. how far does rosenstein have to go. he's involved in what appears to be a seditious conspiracy. all the details gregg laid out, his conflicts of interest. the underlying question that mueller is looking at. how can this continue? what dose have to do to get fired? lou: it's a grand question. i asked chris farrell and gregg jarrett to stay with me the next two hours as we cover this breaking story and so many others including the judge kavanaugh confirmation hearing. we learned that at 10:00 p.m. we'll learn beth whether the new deadline set by chuck grassley, the chair of the judiciary committee, for the accuser to say whether they will testify. and if she does not act, there will be a vote on the confirmation of judge brett kavanaugh. gregg, your thoughts on the way in which he has been treated in this confirmation process. horribly. greg

going back to what happened yesterday, andrew weissmann going on for 25 minutes detailing all the information are that they had here on paul manafort. what is your sense of what paul manafort can offer at this point? >> david, this is so interesting to me because this plea deal didn't just crop odrop out of t of a sudden. it is as a result of conversations that go back and forth between the prosecutors and the defense lawyers. having done this many, many times on both sides, look, i don't buy as a prosecutor i never bought a pig in a poke. in other words, i sat down, i talked about what he can give, what the information is, and how much testimony, how much information, the quality of the information, what is it going to be. and remember, in this plea deal, they capped his exposure. he doesn't have to go to another retrial on the hung counts in virginia. and they dismissed some of the most aggravating counts in new york -- excuse me, in washington, the money laundering counts which would frankly have scored him out at 15, 16, maybe 18 years in jail. so look, there is no way this is a win for t

let me read from andrew weissmann, saying what's not in manafort's statement of defense is it doesn't on the information obtained from manafort in the course of his proffer sessions, and cooperation that led us to today. you have educated us before on how this works. why would proffer sessions, plural, be so significant to the case mueller is building? >> it shows mueller has a good sense of what manafort is going to say and he's interested enough to sign him up as a coop ray for. clearly it's been multiple sessions, and he's interested enough to extend this potential benefit of the cooperation. >> right. and that's fascinating, given what paul manafort had his hands on, the campaign, the convention, the money. >> sure. >> i've got to fit in a break. we have a big anita hill special report. >>> coming up, we turn to what we can learn from the history and why things might be better this time, the allegations of sexual misconduct that rocked another supreme court nomination. anita hill and clarence thomas. congresswoman ellenor holmes norton joins us live. that's next. insurance that wo

. >> andrew, in court, andrew weissmann in court said he proffers, plural, he has been talking to them. >> yeah, it's not a flip time. he knows where all the os striches are burr ids. i think what's going to equate here, we already know what the quit is. we know what trump got from any kind of collusion with russia. he got to be president. manafort is going to be able to tell us what russia got, right? we've been thinking all russia wanted was for president to be racist and confident, that's fine. they got specific things. when manafort is able to tell us what they got, that's going to close the loop on the conspiracy. >> if that's the case, the underlying facts, let's not get ahead of what we know. >> you're not wrong. >> this really shows you just how focused mueller has been from day one. i mean, this has been a masterpiece in prosecutorial work. he got appointed last may. in ten months he came down with that massive manafort indictment, and then a few months later came down with the second indictment in virginia. and almost immediately flipped rick gates. and then four months later

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but one important piece of information was revealed in court when prosecutor andrew weissmann indicatedone of the reasons that they were entering this cooperation agreement was because they had had the opportunity to debrief manafort. they actually had three days where they were able to talk to him. prosecutors don't usually conclude a plea deal and figure, we'll work this out as we go along. we'll see what this defendant has to offer after he's cooperated and pleaded guilty. prosecutors know up front what they're getting. in this case it looks like they really are getting very high value intelligence information. and you say it could easily lead to the president's kids. >> what do you make about this thing of retaliation where he said he's declassifying -- sounds like we went through this three or four weeks ago when word got out trump was going to try to destroy the prosecution by releasing all their information. >> you know, we don't know for a fact that this is specific retaliation for manafort, but it's clearly an effort to undermine mueller and to undercut the investigation's cred

right into robert mueller's office with the relationship with bruce ohr, christopher steele, andrew weissmannand christopher steele does not stand by his own dossier. but that did not stop him from trying to feed information, funnel it through bruce ohr to the special counsel's office and wrote it down. by the way, the president tweeted more text messages between former fbi employee strzok and page or a disaster and an embarrassment to the fbi indeed doj, but we are learning more and more by the hour how os were leaking like mad in order to get the president. we believe that to be the cia, jeff sessions, are you paying attention? rod rosenstein, where are you? by the way, bob mueller, are you concerned that steele was funneling information into your office? information he did not stand by when he was involved in an interrogatory in a court of law in great britain. he said, i don't know if this is true, is this acceptable behavior from the highest ranking members of our government? gregg jarrett, sara carter will be here and weigh in on the latest. we also have an update on supreme court nomin

the mystery of the day was is he cooperating with robert mueller, and lead prosecutor andrew weissmann plea arrangement a cooperation agreement, so most people are interpreting that as yes, he's cooperating. we don't know against whom. we don't know what evidence he's offering the mueller team, but this is a bombshell development. the idea that donald trump's campaign chairman, who was in very sensitive meetings during the time he was running that campaign, who came to the campaign with many connections to russian-backed figureses to russian oligarchs that paul manafort is cooperating with the mueller team, and he's now pled guilty to two counts. he's also got an information filed that he's not contesting that accuses him on a vast array of illegal conduct. he's only pleading guilty to these two counts today in washington, d.c. >> okay just before the break, geoff bennett shared a statement from sarah huckabee sanders at the white house where she's basically saying, yep, got it, but paul manafort did all of this stuff long before we knew him. it has nothing to do with the administrati

i left after critical remarks from special counsel mueller's deputy andrew weissmann.e said that in exchange for the guilty plea, the remaining counts here in washington, d.c. as well as 10 counts in virginia, remember, there was a hung jury on 10 counts in virginia. it will be dismissed at sentencing or when his cooperation is complete. there is some element of cooperation as part of the deal as we learn more of the details we'll come back to you. >> sandra: breaking details now. catherine herridge, thank you for your reporting on that. we'll see you in a bit. >> bill: extraordinary thing here. behind me here is the cape fear river and just like the mayor was describing a moment ago we've watched this river flow downstream toward the atlantic ocean and now it has reversed course and coming the other way. we've seen debris in the river float from left to right which means those are the waters of the atlantic that have now pushed this water further inland here behind there we mentioned last hour the u.s.s. north carolina, a major tourist stop here in wilmington. to see

rachel: we also learned from bruce ohr that he gave information of the dossier to weissmann and he isright. ed: tom fitton what he nailed as well he was saying that it appears that top officials at the justifiable department and fbi were out to lunch. so to be fair and balanced we brought new a former justice department official last hour ian pryor to respond to all of this. here is he giving basically jeff sessions, the attorney general his side of the story. here it is. >> what usually happens is the doj lawyers the national security division engage in a bit of back and forth with the court, with the staff of the court to make sure that the application is buttoned up and passes court muster before they submit it. that takes the place of a hearing. i think it's something we should look at. should there be hearings. should there be more oversight and protections? i think we have that debate in the coming months. ed: i think he is a fair guy and man of integrity. the fact he keeps saying well, we got to look into this. well, there is a process here. let's get some answers. pete: answer