william barnett told the u.s. he didn't want to pursue trump-russia collusion because it was, quote, not there, there was no criminal basis for it, that it was supposition based on supposition that it was, quote, a dead end, that this was basically run by lawyers from the top down, andrew mccabe, james comey on down. it was a fishing expedition, you know, basically searching for facts to fit a crime when they didn't have a criminal basis to start the probe to begin with. that's what william barnett is saying. what's your reaction? >> my reaction is shame on andrew mccabe and shame on peter strzok. and likely, although comey's name is not all over this particular 302, but the leadership at the fbi or is very much to blame under james comey for all the bad things that you rightly said happened, and that's at the fbi's feet. again, the last part of the 302 goes on to his service, mr. barnett's service, in the special counsel's office, and that is really disturbing. they weren't professional. read the 302, and you wil

>> so many revelations came out in the last 36 hours including the 302 interview with william barnett but so many others with text messages companies rejected from different fbi agents who, quote, called the investigation a going down rabbit hole, lawyers from the doj and the investigations engaging in conspiracy theories so the details show this whole fisa warrant was predicated on information from a suspected russian spy working at the brookings institution for several years. you have the fbi agents who are supposed to be chasing down leads and going to lawyers to get warrants it was the other way around, it was lawyers pushing down to the fbi agents the desire to get this information. that is upside down, the opposite of how it is supposed to be. very troubling, they subverted the entire process from top to bottom. shannon: you mentioned the text messages, thereby and trump was right about the russia probe, fbi text messages show, the fbi employee talking about this after president-elect trump suggested they delayed a white house transition briefing on russian meddling because they

his name is william barnett.that interview he declared ma mule's' -- mueller's special counsel investigation had a, quote, get trump attitude. and although mueller was the leader of the special counsel team, the attorneys under him were the ones actually directing the investigation. barnett provided examples of that get trump attitude. the report stating, quote: barnett referred to incidents involving president trump whichn in the most negative american or in some cases miss interpreted. quoting from the report and as an example, barnett described comments made by trump in that investigators needed to get to the bottom of a matter, redacted. one of the special counseling attorneys said trump wanted to cover it up. barnett corrected redacted, saying, no, he said get to the bottom of it. parenthetically, i will say to you that would be just the exact opposite of what they tried to construe. back to the report. quote: barnett claimed that mueller's investigators didn't let the evidence or lack thereof determine the

what is outlined in this william barnett interview is that he viewed the original flynn investigationerly predicated, the interview was not a trap but a checking of the box. he said yeah, there's people that had a particular view but other people like barnett were kept on the probe and allowed to be there to get another view. >> shannon: he had a lot of reservations how this was moving along. i want to play something from senator lindsey graham that talks about the subsource for the steele dossier. here's what he says. >> this is a massive effort by russia to do a disinformation campaign against the trump campaign and it work. the fbi used a document prepared for by a russian agent. >> shannon: harmeet folks say of course you suspect this. what is the problem? >> the problem is this person was a suspected russian spy working for one of these so-called think tanks in washington. he was under investigation. the fbi knew that and they did not dischose that to the fisa court, this is a gross abuse of carter page's civil rights. it's outrageous. it's not just different opinions. this is a

of william barnett?is: the idea -- the question why exactly so many text messages appear to have been deleted before the investigation began seemed to have been revealed by text messages and testimony since that this was a bad investigation and people on it were word or at least the more fair people were worried on what it's going to look like when it's pulled out and sees the light of day and the idea that we learned from the testimony that the healed investigator felt that the whole thing was to get trump and was politically motivated, this is something that we have been talking about for years i'm assuming and right now we have per information to back that up and from the agent's own mouths. maria: yeah, for sure. chris, thank thank you so much r weighing in this morning. christopher bedford from the federalist. thank you. ballot concern on november third. keeping it real, check this out. paltrow's birthday post on instagram, it's making a buzz, we have it for you. the beautiful bath you've always wan

william barnett that story coming up. maryland republican congressional candidate kim classic, dozens arrested in riots. smashing windows after university building. driving cars into people, injuring them, reportedly setting cars on fire in louisville. new polls show americans have a really feel about this. they're fed up. plus house intelligence ranking republican devin nunez on former fbi official james comey and andrew mccabe. they're expected to face a heated grilling in the senate for letting the fbi use, use russia disinformation from a suspected russian spy, on the payroll of the democrat party and hillary campaign to help get fisa court wiretaps to surveil the trump team? also with us, retired i.c.e. acting director tom homan on the sanctuary county of los angeles, releasing hundreds of criminal illegal aliens back into the community after they were charged with crimes like murder and sexual assault. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ elizabeth: thanks for joinin

elizabeth: you know, william barnett a former fbi official saying there was no predicate for a criminalto, into michael flynn. you know, why didn't they get, why were they allowed to get national security letters that are not approved by a judge or a court? that's when you do when there is a criminal probe. this was now, became a counterintelligence probe. then they started to getting national security letters that circumvent a judge without court authorization in order to tap into general flynn's finances. that is how deep this thing got. at the same time the fbi text messages show they were saying this is a madhouse, this is a mad scramble, this is a nightmare. we're going to have to buy personal insurance here because there is misconduct going out. if this thing ever comes out in the public sphere, we're going to be in trouble effectively is what they were saying. so this is worse than we realized, sir, do you agree with that, it is worse than you thought? >> it goes deeper than any american thought possible, that the highest levels of our government, you talk about a scandal? there

i want to go through this interview with william barnett as well. o was declassified this week about declassification in front of me what struck you from this interview with mr. barnett and fbi agent? >> primarily what he said that the special counsel office was completely upside down. they already knew they wanted to get trump they already knew theory of the case and rather than have the evidence really guide the investigation, they basically just knew the evidence was there and he was just matter of finding it. so they come to frequency conclusion of this thing and you know maria if what you're reporting correct it is incredibly disappointing john durham won't be reporting. there would be -- what's political is if he doesn't report. we have had the, you know, beat that i will call deep state through these other investigations prevent the american public from knowing what happened with the fbi instruction of their investigation, the corruption transition process, three and a half years. we have been prevented from getting documents because john durh

william barnett, an fbi agent on the mueller investigation team told jeffrey jensen who was looking into flynn investigation that the mueller investigation was part of an attitude to "get trumped" in the russian collusion investigation was "not there" and "a dead end." your reaction? >> we just now got that piece of information. this is information we should have known literally years ago. but i don't have it with me but i just printed off the document, one letter we got from the fbi, we got the effects of the email, the gsa document is completely unredacted. so that's my problem, for the fbi to produce documents, what information we get is heavily redacted and we know there is no reason for it to be so heavily redacted because we have something and we actually have information so people within the fbi, the american people deserve the truth, it's well past time american people get the truth. >> john: the fbi agent talked about cal james comey and said s firing was interpreted as obstruction when it could've just as easily been done because trump did not like comey and wanted him replaced

what we have from william barnett interview with the justice department today is that we have the detailshad an incredible biased in pursuit of taking down trump. they were scrambling to find information to support the claims that general flynn violated the logan act and they were scrambling to find information to support the claims of president trump colluded with russia. the text messages have been released as part of sidney powell's filing which he made yesterday, sidney powell is a lawyer that is representing general flynn and in that fili filing, all of the text messages between peter strzok and lisa page have been released and they say things like this, a mad scramble to find information to support what people are saying, jesus why do we do this to ourselves. another when i tweeted out yesterday says man we are going to get real questions here if in fact we get a foia request, we are going to have serious questions about this investigation. more evidence that this case was based on lies. we will keep following this and of course all the latest on "sunday morning features", great to

stunning to you when you look at some of these text messages and when you look at this interview of william barnettsaid in testimony. >> the timeline is particularly interesting. he indicates that there was very little if any activity on the flynn case through august and the fall, until after the election and really after new year's even. so it makes it even more clear that flynn was the, quote, insurance policy. they had to derogatory information on him whatsoever, it was all a scam that they carefully created and orchestrated to set him up and frame him for statements that he didn't even make. maria: yeah, it's unbelievable this is still going on. you know, senator lindsey graham also joined me on sunday morning futures, general, and he discussed what else from the russia probe needs to be uncovered. take a listen. so you were waiting for a further declassification of evidence this upcoming week that is in fact more damning than what we're talking about this morning. >> well, all i can say is that there's -- so what have we learned? everything russia trump was looked at. you had $25 million, 60 a

curious on where this is going and how right dan has been in his books and on this show, google william barnettsaid there was a get trump attitude there they went and got personal insurance. this was explosive story that very few people are talking about. it look as if the "new york post" said it donald trump was right all along. they knew they had nothing. >> yeah. i mean, brian's right. brian: he is at the fbi and he said it. >> there is an fbi investigator by the name of barnett, brian is exactly right. who they have now is his texts and he is saying yeah, listen, i had to join the mueller team because i felt like there had to be some sane voices in here because they had this get trump attitude. they went out and is he right about the second part, too. they bought professional liability insurance, the investigators involved, because they were afraid of being sued. do you know how hard it is to get sued for your profession? i was a federal agent a gs 1811 you really is to do something stupid. these were not stupid people. they knew they had done something wrong. ainsley: well, the american pe

go through this interview with william barn ette as well and i've got the declassifications right here in front of me. what struck you from this interview with mr. barnette , an fbi agent? >> primarily when he said that the special counsel office was completely upside down. they already knew they wanted to get trump. they already knew their theory of the case and rather than have the evidence really guide the investigation, they basically just knew the evidence was there and he's just a matter of finding it so they already come to their preconceived conclusion of this thing and maria, if what you're reporting is correct, it is incredibly disappointing that john durham is not going to be reporting. what's political is if he doesn't report. we have had the and i will call it the deep state, through these other investigations, preventing the american public from knowing what happened with the fbi's corruption of their investigation, the corruption transition process, and for three and a half years. we have been prevented from getting documents because john durham doesn't want us to in any way, shape, or form effect his prosecution so the bottom line that me