the controversial surveillance document is coming but the fbi officially does not want you to see it. a train carrying republican lawmakers to retreat crashes in west virginia, killing one person. investigators are on the scene. plus we go back to michigan for heartland state of the union reactions. this is "special report" ." good evening. i am bret baier. we are coming to you tonight from fox news world headquarters in new york. our top story is about 250 miles outside washington, d.c. one person is dead and a lot of republican lawmakers are shaken up after a train carrying them to a political retreat hit a truck on the railroad tracks near the west virginia border, the virginia border with west virginia. several people on board the train taken to hospitals are naturally right after it happens, question started about whether this was an accident or something else. correspondent peter doocy has the latest from white sulfur springs, west virginia. >> good evening. almost three hours into a chartered train ride from washington, d.c., to west virginia to come were jolted. they heard

peeled off and said let's let the fbi and justice department reveal it to see what kind of damage we'll do to national security by releasing this information, we never in the history of congress released information like this before let's let the professionals look at it and tell us how dangerous it is. it would only take a couple republicans to have problems with that. but they all went along. including ones that have law enforcement and intelligence backgrounds themselves. >> we might get the transcript as early as tomorrow we know what we'll be doing before the state of the union. >> that's right. >> franklin roosevelt has a bigger list of accomplishments than any other president because of the time he served, the pft period he served, and he served longer. more than other things he pulled the economy out of the worst depression, created social security, won world war ii and created the federal bureau of investigations. and only 13 presidents, prior to donald trump have dealt with the federal bureau of investigations, beginning with franklin dell nor roosevelt. and none of them

. here's shep. >> shepard: it's noon on the west coast, 3:00 in d.c. where the deputy director of the fbi and frequent target of the president is stepping down. did andrew mccabe go voluntarily or did somebody give him a push? starting to look like this may not have been his idea. not today. the secret republican strategy memo on russian investigation. lawmakers could vote today to release it. we're learning more about the information inside. all this as the president prepares for his first state of the union address. let's get to it. good monday afternoon from the fox news deck. the fbi's number 2 guy is out. we knew andrew mccabe was planning to retire in march when he reaches pension status. but a source said that he was removed from his post effective today. andrew mccabe has been a frequent tart get of president trump and republicans in congress. they accused him of political bias in hillary clinton's e-mail scandal. back in 2015, mccabe's wife ran for senate as a democrat in virginia. state senate. she got a donation from a group tied to the clinton family. last month president trum

day in june that james comey testified in congress about his fbi director and what he knew and about his firing by president trump, james comey said something in that testimony that was very memorable and very mysterious about the attorney general, jeff sessions. remember the major point of james comey's testimony that day was that the president had repeatedly pressured him as head of the fbi that he should drop the russia investigation, that he should lift the cloud that was looming over the trump presidency because of these on going criminal and counter intelligence russia investigations, comey says the president asked him to direct the fbi to let go of the investigation into trump national security advisor mike flynn. so james comey testified about those interactions with the president. he testified that he made notes detailed notes describing the president's directors to him after he had the communications with the president and explained under oath he shared the notes of what the president had done in realtime. he shared them with other season yo -- senior members of the fbi but

trump bashing fbi lovebirds peter struck at mesa page. we reported this right here last night on this show. also breaking on this hour, just released text messages, 21 from strzok and page commercial more evidence that in fact the fix was in as it relates to the clinton email investigation. also, they suggested that a special counsel be appointed to the client an email case and that is not alternates. with congressional republicans now signaling that they are going to release the classified memo, hopefully we'll see it next week, "the daily beast" is beginning to leak some of that memo and they are reporting james comey, andrew mccabe, rod rosenstein, are all named in that explosive document exposing fisa abuses against the president and his campaign. huge news, we have every single detail, why we are calling on all of you, keep up the pressure, police, it's making a difference. call congress and we'll give you the number, it's only part of our very important opening monologue and we have a lot more to tell you. buckle up and welcome to "hannity" ." ready, do it again. one, two,

russia investigation. now chairman nunes written a memo alleging fbi misconduct over a warrant to eves drop on carter page. the doj warned the release of the memo is extraordinarily reckless. that didn't stop the gop from voting to release it. which is exactly what president trump wanted and they know that. it comes on the same day a surprise resignation of the fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. who stepped down in the wake of months of criticism from the president. we have a lot to cover in this hour. i want to bring in cnn justice correspondent. jessica snyder. good evening to you. two major breaking stories today. first on the controversial part season memo alleging fbi misconduct. the house gop voted to release it. >> it made its way to the white house. it will be reviewed by the white house counsel office. the national security council. and possibly the broader national security community. this is a five day revoo window. before the president must decide whether to declassify and distribute it publicly. we reported it last week the president is in fact inclined to make this public

fbi and justice department, someone at fbi destroying 5 months worth of text-messages, between peter strzok and lisa page. spanning a critical window between presidential transition and launch of robert mueller oso called russia probe. and telling the public that those e-mails were lost cause of a technical glitch. congressman ron desantos said that fbi director wray needs tech stocks are plan how the texts could have been deleted. we take unth unup the steep sta- take unthe deep state. congressman desantos among our guests here. also tonight, schumer shut down has ended. president trump making sure that would be so. making it clear these would negotiate status of millions of illegal immigrants while chuck schumer and dems held the government hostage. this morning, schumer caved. we'll take it up with two of finest political strategists, and great americans ed rollins and michael goodwin. new warnings this north korea is only months away from possessing the ability it carry out a nuclear attack against the u.s. cia director mike pompeo said that nuclear weapon program is morad

tensions between the white house and the fbi. tonight axios reporter jonathan tonight axios reporter jonathan swann said it this way. he writes, quote, attorney general jeff sessions at the public urging of president donald trump has been pressuring fbi director christopher wray to fire fbi director andrew mccabe. but wray threatened to resign if mccabe was removed, according to three sources with direct knowledge. wray's situation under those circumstances would have created a media firestorm. the white house decidedly gunshy didn't want to scene so the. so mccabe remains. don mcgahn told sessions this issue wasn't worth losing the fbi director over, according to a source familiar with the situation. just yesterday jonathan swann also reported this, quote, attorney general jeff sessions has adamantly urged fbi director christopher wray to make a fresh start with his core team, including replacing deputy director and trump bete noire andrew mccabe, according to a senior administration source. according to this source and two other sources briefed on the conversations, sessio

investigation. the voracity is still disputed. many republicans want to know if the dossier has sparked the fbi investigation into possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia. >> but this all goes to how did this investigation into this collusion begin with law enforcement, what was christopher steelers role, who was he working with in the justice department or the fbi people. >> richard, senior democrat released, this action was taken without any bipartisan cooperation and vaguely stated allegations seem to design to distract attention from the priority issues for investigation and discredit the fbi and other law enforcement. the doj doesn't have to take up the matter but judiciary committee has oversight of justice department, coming from grassley and graham it would most likely be a priority, kelly. kelly: indeed, caroline reporting from washington, thanks, caroline. julie: we fixed the hick-up, let's get to rich with more on the president's tweet basically defending himself regarding those who are questioning his mental stability. rich, go ahead. >> yeah, julie, something with

senior fbi official that president trump has been attacking just announced he is stepping down. the white house formally denying involvement but the "new york times" already reporting early this evening that the pressure came from donald trump's appointee to replace jim comey. now here is why this matters. bob mueller's working his way up the trump chart pushing for an interview with the president himself. at this time we are seeing a series of stories breaking about trump trying to pressure or purge every key law enforcement leader around mueller. take rod rosenstein, his supervisor and jeff sessions who recused from russia and now tonight andrew mccabe stepping down and that order to fire mueller himself which leaked out last night but was aborted when trump's lawyer threatened to resign over it, and all this comes in the wake of the purge that led to the firing of comey. new details emerging about what donald trump said to comey's deputy who's leaving tonight after comey took what you see on the screen right now. boarding that fateful plane ride. trump saw that footage of comey b

sessions shouldn't recuse is so the president can be protected from that fbi investigation, and the prospect that the white house counsel may have violated the rules about contact with the justice department that are supposed to protect these things from white house pressure. both of those may be a problem for the president and some of his senior advisers in terms of potential criminal liability on obstruction of justice. if he was trying to interfere with the recusal decision because he thought that could shield him from an fbi criminal inquiry, that is a problem. but that all happened this spring and now we have arrived at this weekend with now reams and reams and months of reporting how angry the president is that the lobbying didn't work and jeff sessions didn't recuse himself from the russia investigation. so the president this weekend will be hosting this big republican and cabinet summit conspicuously without sessions in attendance. if this is a prelude to the president firing jeff sessions as attorney general, that will be important on its own terms, right? but it would also

williams in our newsroom with a big shake-up at the fbi. >> a big one but an expected one, andrea. this involves the deputy director andrew mccabe, who as you recall was acting director when james comey was fired. now he's back in his role as the deputy director with christopher wray in charge. he's been the subject of repeated criticism by president trump because of the activities of his wife running for office and getting contributions from a political group associated with hillary clinton. there were questions about whether he was neutral in the investigation of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and of course the fbi has always insisted the two are separate. nonetheless, this has made him a target of some criticism. backing into the news story here, andrea, the news is he's stepping down as the deputy director sooner than anticipated. he has made no secret of the fact for several years, in fact, well before president trump was elected, that he would leave the fbi when he was eligible for retirement, which in the fbi is a combination of age plus time in service to the bureau. h

conspiracy theory of secret society within the fbi has fizzled to a simple joke between friends. this secret society claim came from a text message exchange between two fbi agents who have since been removed from the russia investigation. cnn now has a copy of this secret society text message the day after the election, fbi lawyer lisa paige says to agent peter stroch, quote, are you even going to give out your calendars? seems kind of depressing. maybe it should just be the first meeting of the secret society. calendars mentioned there were a gag gift that he purchased for employees working on the russia investigation. this is happening as one of the republicans is sounding the loudest alarm over the whole secret society conspiracy is having, shall we call, a change of heart. let's go to our senior washington correspondent up on capitol hill, chasing senator johnson down. what exactly did he tell you? >> reporter: he is almost backbacking off these remarks he made earlier this week when he said on fox news that this text message referring to the secret society was very serious, somet

taking on the bad fbi and the bad robert mueller. that's kind of the scenario that's been painted over the last few weeks, you can't trust these hopeople, they're corrupt there has to be a winner. >> there's times when you can get a witness to incriminate himself by appealing to or taking advantage of their weaknesses. ego can be a witness. speak is to that as well as the context of that, which is something we don't always see. lawyers and their clients basically shadow boxing over who gets to make this call. >> first of all, the real lawyers here is not the lawyers, it's donald trump. just as you saw with the statement that his son made, the statement that kushner made, this is all being orchestrated by donald trump, he's calling the shots. but it's absolutely true, if he goes into a grand jury, he is going to be questioned in minute detail about conversations with michael flynn, that is going to be the biggest down side for him. because flynn has detailed for mueller's people all the conversations, all of the things -- >> all the meetings, all the sanctions discussions and if th

. it's 4:00 in new york. the gop war on the fbi is being waged today against the backdrop of a day tautant with russia. "washington post" reporting, "the trump administration under fire from lawmakers for not punishing moscow over election meddling said monday it will not implement russia-related sanctions mandated by congress last year because the threat, itself, is acting as a deterrent." a deterrent of what? donald trump's own cia director, now concedes that russia remains committed to meddling in american elections. but it's the gop war on justice that's generating the most upheaval and drama this hour. speaker paul ryan in remarks today about last night's party-line vote to release a memo crafted by house intel committee chairman devin nunes and his staff, a move that the trump-run justice department deemed, quote, extraordinarily reckless, said this. >> there may have been malfeasance at the fbi by certain individuals. so it is our job in conducting transparent oversight of the executive branch to get to the bottom of that. sunshine is the best disinfectant. what we want is a

media whip itself into an increasingly out of control frenzy against the fbi, led by california republican congressman devon nunez to try to create alternate scandals that the white house likes better. devon nunes is the guy behind the "they wire tapped trump tower" allegation. he's the guy who tried to make it into an unmasking scandal. susan rice is the real scandal here. devon nunes says the real scandal is uranium one. the fbi being corrupt and terrible. over the past week, that congressman, devon nunes has led a conservative media and republican full-scale, freakout over a memo. a memo that conservatives insist will be magic antidote to the robert mueller investigation and a get out of jail free card for anybody implicated by the mueller investigation. this was written by devon nunes himself. his office wrote it and he and republicans and conservative media and lots and lots of russian bots online are all now insisting with increasing ferocity that this memo that devon nunes wrote, it must be released, even though it contains classified information, because if this memo is

, and it puts the fbi and the democrats in the crosshairs. the memo they plan to release is just the setup for what they hope will be a mass conspiracy of wrongdoing at the highest levels of law enforcement. all an alleged plot by the enemies of president trump. that's what they're selling. tonight i go one-on-one with minority leader nancy pelosi, who has seen this memo. and we have one of the republicans who is sounding the alarm. friends, it is time to get after it. i'm chris cuomo. welcome to "prime time." >>> all right. so here's what we know. in the last few hours, house republicans voted to release a memo by chairman devin nunes alleging fbi abuses and obtaining surveillance warrants based on classified information that the panel is not releasing. in fact, classified information nunes reportedly has not even reviewed. so in effect, they're asking you to accept their conclusions without revealing the basis. odd? just wait. the panel deeply divided along party lines, but the republicans control, say they were also able to blong a countermemo by democrats. just last week the just

gaggle with us, focusing on andrew mccabe who was the acting director of the fbi when james comey was fired. he said how many people paid attention to my speeches. mccabe was the star of my speeches. that's true. he was very focused that mccabe's wife had run for a state senate seat in virginia and her company received quite a bit of money from terry mcauliffe's super pact. terry mcauliffe is a close friend of the clintons for many years. he says this as inoculating himself, especially with his own supporters who are already concerned about the fbi, already are mistrustful of this investigation and he is stoking that. he talked about the missing texts, although he described them as deleted. it's not clear they were deleted. there was some glitch and they were not there. two fbi agents had been speaking negatively about a variety of politicians including him in terms that have alarmed republicans. he is trying to flip it to the extent he can. i also think in that moment that you just played he was genuinely aggravated, and it was not just politics. i think it was naturally where his br

efforts to divert attention from the intel memo and the obvious corruption at the fbi, doj and special counsel. the left clucking loudly about that "new york times" report which claims trump ordered mueller to be fired last june, a report dismissed by the president. president trump: fake news, folks. lou: all about firings that didn't happen, a media that is ignoring real evidence of a corrupt fbi and justice department thanks to recovered text messages between anti-trump, fbi officials and lovers. congressman matt gaetz, one of the lawmakers who prominently led efforts to release the intel memo to the american public. he joins us here just in moments to take up the fight. gregg jarrett and pastor robert jeffress join us later in the broadcast on what we should make of this worsening government scandal and a left-wing national media that is siding by all appearances with corrupt government officials against the truth, the american people, and their right to know what is going on. president trump trading the swiss alps for the swamp where a cloud of corruption hangs over the fbi

the justice department and the fbi mount and more questions arise. the doj now says it's recovered five months of text messages that were missing. those messages between anti-trump fbi officials, peter strzok and lisa page, lovers, it turns out after all. the recovery of those texts required less than a week after officials claim they had lost the messages. that at one point seemed to be blaming samsung. no more. we don't yet know who is to blame, but at least samsung has been exonerated, as say say at doj. doj officials also trying to stop the release of that house intel memo detailing surveillance abuses. the department of justice says that release would be extraordinarily reckless and seeks to block it. the intelligence committee with the support of the white house says the justice department can just stand down and relax. and continues to block doj and the fbi from seeing the house intel blockbuster memo. congressman andy biggs and judicial watch president tom fenton among or guests tonight. they join me to discuss the corruption at the highest levels. >>> as the drama in the s

will come to order. the subcommittee is meeting today to hear testimony from the fbi, the department of homeland security and the department of state on federal coordination and information-sharing vital to dismantling transnational criminal organizations. i would like to welcome the members of the subcommittee and express my appreciation to the witnesses for being here today. the chair now recognizes himself for an opening statement for which i will deliver mr. king's opening statement. law enforcement officers use many weapons to fight terrorism and crime on our streets. some of these weapons such as badges, guns and squad cars are easy to see. they are the hallmarks of police work. there are other weapons, however, that are harder to identify but every bit as vital. among these less visible weapons, access to timely and accurate information is often times the difference between a successful investigation and an unsolved crime. in today's threat environment, much of the information needed by law enforcement in the united states is generated overseas. this is particularly true when

damaging the fbi and the department of justice. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> all right. it's wednesday. you know what that means. >> what? you're exhausted. >> not coffee. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "new day". it is wednesday, january 24th. 6:00 here in new york. this is what we have on the starting line. significant developments in the russia investigation. first, sources telling cnn special counsel bob mueller wants to question president trump about his decisions to fire fbi director jim comey and national security adviser michael flynn. also, we're learning mueller's team has already interviewed comey, attorney general jeff sessions, and hope hicks, key presidential adviser. what does all of this reveal about the direction of mueller's investigation and a possible end game. >>> the "washington post" reports that shortly after firing fbi director comey, president trump, quote, pointedly asked acting fbi director, andrew mccabe, in an oval office building who he voted for. he said he did not vote but

matthews in washington. first he fired the director of the fbi. then the president asked the guy replacing him, who did you vote for, the reporting from the "washington post" about an incredible oval office meeting shortly after andrew mccabe became the fbi's new acting director. "trump according to several current and former u.s. officials asked mccabe a pointed question. whom did he vote for in the 2016 election. mccabe said he didn't vote at all according to the officials. mick cave found the conversation with trump disturbing." trump vented hissing ander to mccabe to the new acting fbi director about political donations to mccabe's wife who ran for the virginia state senate in 2015 as a democrat. her campaign received several hundred thousand dollars from a political action committee controlled by clinton ally and then virginia governor terry mcauliffe. that campaign happened before mick cave become comey's deputy. today sarah huckabee sanders didn't deny trump asked that question how mccabe voted. >> does the president make a habit of asking career government officials their

trump pointedly asked the acting fbi director, andrew mccabe, who he voted for in the 2016 election. this was during an oval office meeting. officials say mccabe told the president he did not vote but mccabe found that conversation disturbing. mccabe has been a protect target of angry tweets from the president. kaitlan collins is live at the white house. what's the latest there? >> reporter: alisyn, a day of bombshells at the white house. after months of interviews, special counsel robert mueller finally set his sights on dond ump himself. cnn learned that special counsel's lawyers are negotiating with the president's lawyers to set up a meeting because robert mueller himself has expressed interest in sitting down with the president. special counsel robert mueller expressing interest in questioning president trump about his decision to fire former fbi director james comey and former national security adviser michael flynn, according to sources. >> we're going to be fully cooperative with the special counsel, but we're also not going to comment on who may or may not or could be inter

of the fbi steps down. secret memo. the house intelligence committee meets right now and may vote very shortly to release a secret republican memo alleging surveillance abuses by the fbi. why the justice department said that would be extraordinarily reckless. >>> congressional warnings. president trump tried to fire him once. now lawmakers warning a move to get rid of the special counsel would be the end of the trump presidency. would they pass legislation to protect robert mueller? and tracking u.s. trumans. fitness trackers count our steps and our calories and how many hours we sleep. could they also reveal the locations of u.s. troops? i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." snmpblt a stepping down immediately. it comes on the eve of the state of the union address. our specialists are standing by with full coverage. was andrew mccabe fired? >> it certainly seems he was forced out. fbi direct or chris wray said he was forming a new team and mccabe was not on it. the white house insisting it didn't have anything to do with the exit from the bureau but that's not the

politically bias anti-trump leaks from fbi officials, potentially to the media before the presidential election. we'll show you their text messages and we have judge andrew napolitano to break it down in just a bit. >>> also uncovering more companies putting the republican tax cuts to work. the list is growing to 130 companies getting tax cuts back to workers. and now companies even banks passing the tax cuts along in the form of cheaper stuff for customers, lower energy bills and lower mortgage costs and better savings rates. we're on it. >>> a drug giant saying tax cuts could lead to possibly, venbetter cancer drugs. we also have the details on more errors in michael wolff's book about trump. you're not going to believe the whoppers, they're coming in past right now. we're going to leave it to you. >>> also steve bannon leaving breitbart. an all-star guest lineup including andy biggs, former 2016 deputy campaign manager for donald trump david bossie. judge andrew napolitano. and radio host lawrence jones all here all tonight. politics, money, we got you covered. welcome to "risk & re

the upper levels of the fbi and the justice department. yes, i said the rot. the fbi and the doj have broken the public trees by destroying evidence, defying oversight and actively trying to bring down the trump presidency. tonight there are new concerns that anti-trump fbi officials formed even a secret society at the fbi to subvert the president after his election. that's according to do republican lawmakers who have seen some of the thousands of texts between the fbi's peter struck and lisa paige. >> the day after the election, the day after what they really, really didn't want to have happen, there's a text exchange between these two fbi agents, these two supposed to be objective fak centered fbi agents saying perhaps this is the first meeting of the secret society. so of course i'm going to want to know what secret society are you talking about because you're supposed to be investigating objectively the person who just won the electoral college. yeah, i'm going to want to know. lou: our first guest tonight is congressman francis rooney. he's called for a purge of the bad act

50,000 -- we thought they were ten -- text messages between trumpeting fbi agent peter strzok and his fbi lawyer mistress lisa page. now ely nearly 400 of them are released this weekend. also tonight, stunning evidence that the fix is in, we have been right all along. the fbi now saying they lost five key months of text messages between the two lovers, strzok and page. this is a conspiracy to justice, i'm not buying it. part of the problem, it's a troubling pattern. we've seen it over and over again, hillary and debbie wasserman schultz and the list goes on and on. the irs case, remember that? not only is this worse than watergate, it looks like a cover up worse than watergate. 18 minutes of missing tape has shown up in this case. it all comes as one of the new messages tonight suggests that strzok, page, and the former attorney general loretta lynch new hillary clinton would go free in the email scandal investigation before they ever investigated itt or interviewed her. plus, tonight, pressure is built into released a classified memo showing s systemic abuse against the trump campaig

is acting fbi director who the president asked in the oval office who did you vote for, incineration that he vote -- insinceuation that he voted for hillary clinton. we'll tell you in a moment. >> i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. january 24th. 4:00 a.m. in the east. robert mueller focusing on the firings of james comey and michael flil ynn. the story reported by the "washington post" that mueller is aggressively scrutinizing efforts by the president or others to hamper the investigation. cnn sources say the terms for the questioning the president are far from set. >> the president's lawyers want him to answer questions in written form only but understand there may also be in-person interviews. press secretary sarah sanders was asked why the president has not simply fired mueller. she says he hasn't partly because of how the media would react. >> why doesn't the president just get rid of bob mueller, just fire him? mr. gidley said it's wasting taxpayers' money. in that regard, why doesn't he just end the investigation? because it's wasting the taxpayers' money.

-- >> that's what we have. that is not a nothing burger. >> two were indicted for lying to the fbi about contacts with rush. >> but that is completely different than saying that those individuals then somehow coordinated an ongoing campaign with the russians to help tip the election in favor of donald trump. what those gentlemen have been charged with is lying to the fbi. >> there's a lot of room between shady and reckless which is what i think the trump team often is. what the democrats -- hold on. and what i think the democrats' fantastic of what happened with the russia thing. >> let's talk about what we do know beyond the -- let's talk about what we know with the collusion and about potential obstruction of justice. in terms of collusion, we know according to the u.s. intelligence community, the russians hacked and got a bunch of dnc e-mails from john podesta. we know russian cut-outs made offers to trump people. and three, we know a bunch of trump people expressed interest in the dirt. and we don't know, we have no proof or evidence at all that they ever coordinated. but all t

the fbi that was trying to launch a coup d'etat against the president of the united states. and when pressed about it, he said -- we're looking into it. and then we find out, it is one text, that is a joke. is there a recall process for united states senators from wisconsin? because people, not only around this country, but our enemies across the world heard a sitting united states senator say that he believed that there was a secret society inside the federal bureau of investigation that was planning a coup d'etat against the united states president. this -- >> that's big news. >> it's going to be very easy for us this morning to laugh at the stupidity of it all. there's nothing funny about people using conspiracy theories to slur the men and women of the fbi. it used to be liberals that attacked law enforcement officers. certain liberals. and we conservatives were proud to defend the c.i.a. we were proud to defend the fbi and the people who we believe defend us. now it is republicans that are slandering and slurring the fbi at every turn. >> so with ron johnson, it's clearly one of

, the fbi urging the white house tonight not to release a secret memo reportedly critical of the agency. the fbi citing grave concerns. and this moment, audio of the president late last night, what he said about releasing that memo. >>> the deadly flu, and tonight, the new concern here over the supply of that rapid test used to diagnose patients. and tonight, word of a young mother of four from new hampshire, one of the newest victims. >>> the arrest, a student at virginia tech. authorities said he had an assault rifle and was trying to get thousands of rounds of ammunition. what else he was looking for. >>> the drowning danger. tonight, americans on vacation, nine drownings in less than two weeks in the same area. >>> and the deadly crash. the former nba player and a former "american idol" contestant who did not survive. >>> good evening. and it's great to have you with us here on a very busy wednesday night. and we begin with that deadly train collision, onboard, more than 100 republican members of congress. that amtrak train was taking those lawmakers to a retreat, colliding with a g

bureau of investigation, fbi. the fbi's own history, if you go on their website, they have a pretty long narrative description of their history. they link the creation of the fbi to the progressive movement that is really active at that period of time, at the turn of the century. the progressive movement is sort of the belief that the federal government must intervene to foster justice in an industrial society. it's a response to the sort of labor, unrest that we talked about in previous classes and everything that went on, that inspired the terrible kind of working conditions and so forth. so the progressive movement inspires things, for example, like the fda, to ensure that the food you're getting has labels and what you're eat something what you think you're eating. right? it will eventually lead to things like child labor laws. it will also then create this sort of nationwide law enforcement body that was able to keep track of criminals across the country. this creation base d on the nee of professional law enforcement agency, rise in violent crime and corruption, both in politi

to undermine the fbi and more broadly, the mueller investigation. but according to our sources, president trump was more concerned with other issues such as rod rosenstein's loyalty. cnn evan perez and pamela brown join me. he went to the white house and then what happened? >> so this was a meeting in december between president trump and rod rosenstein. don mcgahn was also there. and at the time intent of this meeting was rosenstein asking for the president's help to block document demands from house intelligence chairman devin nunes. sources familiar with the meeting saying the president had other things to his mind. you may recall the testimony back last december. the president asked rosenstein where he thought the investigation of links between russians and his campaign is headed and he won't he to ask whether rosenstein was, quote, on my team. as a reminder, rosenstein oversees mueller's investigation. this is only the latest to document light that president trump asks questions that sometimes cross a line that presidents try to avoid when dealing with the justice departmen

. while we do that, i want to go straight to some new reporting on fbi concerns about the nunes memo. >> yeah, that's right, dana. just in the last few minutes, the fbi releasing a statement. we must keep in mind that it's rare for the fbi to comment on these kinds of issues, certainly a political issue. let me read to you what they said. this line here very important. as we expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy, they say. now, i've been talking to officials over at the fbi, certainly some people at the department of justice as well, and all have raised concerns over this memo in that it leaves out important facts, important details and would mislead people into leaving certain things about how intelligence was gathered, what was done at the fisa court, how the fbi and law enforcement went about gathering some of this material. it just does not paint a complete picture of what was going on at the time. and it's important. i think the fbi -- having the fbi issue this statement tells yo

behavior by the president. first we knee mueller wants to talk about the firing of the former fbi director comey. according to the post, remember the white house said he was dismissed because of the email. but now we know it was because of the russia investigation. >> do you believe the russia investigation played a role? >> in why i was fired? >> yes. >> yes. because i've seen the president say so. >> okay. he did say the president say sochlt because the president of the united states in his own words explained that the reason he fired comey was bausz comey wouldn't bow to his pressure about russia. >> regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey, knowing there was no good time to do it. in fact when i decided today do it, i said to myself, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. it's an excuse by the democrats for strg lost an election that they should have won. >> now, the post also reports mueller wants to talk about the pressure the president put on jeff sessions to step down after he recused himself. so, again, i'll give you president

the fbi's corrupt clinton email investigation. we have that exclusive report and president trump's 2017 successes have now created a republican blueprint for the mid terms. will they follow? and last year was an epic failure for fake news in this country, especially the fake ca cannabis news network. tonight breaking news opening monologue for the new year ♪ ♪ >> sean: despite vicious media attack and many political obstacles, 2017 was a very successful first year for president trump. now, before we get to the full list that the media will never show you, let's take a look at the economy. stock market is at an all-time high. and hit over 60 record closes in 2017 alone. the dow jones was up 25% over five trillion dollars in new wealth has now been created. unemployment. yes, unemployment at 17-year low since 4.1%. since taking office, president trump has created 1.7 million new jobs. african-american unemployment 17-year low. we ended the year with consumer confidence sitting at a 17-year high. home prices are up 6% as is home building. regulations have been slashed at historic

trump weighed in on his feud from the fbi. he said he does not remember asking andrew mccabe who mccabe voted for in the 2016 election. and the president says he's very disturbed when asked if he trusts the fbi. >> remember, the president has never expressed a shed of concern about russian interference or any of the actions of the men surrounding his campaign and administration despite all the davis for concern. yet he is ready to impugn the reputation of a key part of our democrat is seu because of missing fbi text messages, an unknown. and a battle over a classified memo. now, the president hasn't weighed in on the house republicans refusal to show the much hind memo on surveillance to the skwrus distent. the doj warning that it would be, quote, extraordinarily reckless to release a memo that contains sensitive information that shows surveillance power abuses. remember, they are both republican by republican choices of president trump. there's also a new twist in the immigration battle. president trump putting a pathway to citizenship for some d.r.e.a.m.ers on the negotiating table. b

informant, anti-trump fbi investigator peter strzok and his gal pal fbi lawyer lisa page spoke in text messages about a secret society. within the fbi itself, that was convened apparently off-site, presumably. to discuss things like insurance policies and other benevolent matters involving donald trump. senator ron johnson today was flabbergasted at what he learne learned. >> what this is all about, it's further evidence of corruption at the highest level of the fbi. a secret society? we have an informant that is talking about a group that were holding secret meetings off-site. there is so much smoke. there are similar individuals highly biased, political operatives burrowed into the department of justice as well. >> laura: you combine this with the sudden missing five months of texts between the two lovebirds, and you do have a full-blown corruption scandal on your hands, involving the very people that are leading the investigation into both mrs. clinton's private email server and of the russia collusion nonsense evolving trump. how our heads not already rolling just knowing what

when you're doing an in person interview. a voluntary interview. he'll probably have fbi agents with him. who are very seasoned in doing interviews and the main goal of an agent is to elicit information. and to do that in many any way they need to do it. could be to disarming to be friendly, to play dumb if you have to. you get the information you want. a grand jury subpoena makes it a much more formal environment. adversarial. and i think it's not ideal for mueller and his team to get the information they're looking for. >> julia, the president was asked about whether he thinks mueller will be fair to him. take a listen. >> we'll find out. here's what we'll say. and everybody says. no collusion. there's no collusion. now they're saying well did he fight back? if you fight back -- it's obstruction. so here's the thing. i hope so. >> how do you define collusion? >> you'll define it for me. there's no collusion. i couldn't have cared less about russians having to do with my campaign. the fact is you people won't say this. i'll say it. i was a much better candidate than her. you always

security adviser, met with fbi investigators and. in meeting, flynn lied to the fbi about his interwakss the russian ambassador. the first domino, if you will, which set off a chain of events that continues to send dominos falling today. stretching all the way to the oval office. with special counsel robert mueller now seeking to interview the president of the united states, donald trump. a year ago this month, the white house counsel don mcafghan said he believed flynn had not only lied to vice president pence about his contacts with russians but that he believed flynn had misled the fbi as well. a source tells cnn. he recommended the president fire flynn which he did. but before that january 27th, three days after that flynn fbi interview that we're celebrating the anniversary of today, on that day, president trump invited then director comey to dinner. according to comey, that's when president trump asked him for a pledge of loyalty. >> i got the sense my job would be contingent upon how he felt i conducted myself and whether i demonstrated loyalty. >> reporter: on february 14th, the

in time. the fbi's history explains this creation based on the need for professional law enforcement agency in the face of labor. both in politics and big business, all of that accompanying urbanization and industrialization at the turn of the century as well as national security concerns particularly regarding anarchism as well as threats of wartime subversion and a and all that. over the years, the fbi will spy on a variety of organizations including the american civil liberties union, the evangelical american council of churches and the american jewish congress and the aflcio and the naacp, the new orleans women's center and the american friends service committee, the women's peace movement, prolabor anti-war folk singers like pete seager, et cetera, et cetera and sometimes these organizations are investigated for decades. these are not violent revolutionary threats but rather political dissidents that oppose certain aspects of u.s. government policy and they do through so through specific means protected under the constitution. as we noted in our class on free speech, not so much

a walk in whistle blow eer from the trump team who was sharing similar information with the fbi. quote, my understanding was that the fbi believed chris at this point, that they believed chris might be credible because they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing and one of these pieces of intelligence was from inside the trump organization. we're also learning steele cut off contact to the fbi in t. let's get right to msnbc intelligence reporter and "new york times" justice reporter, at the table associated press white house reporter jonathan lam mere, elise jordan nbc analyst and former aid in the former george w. bush white house. also here, steve schmidt, republican strategist and msnbc contributor. let me start with you and let me ask you a simple question. why did dianne feinstein release the transcript? >> well, we haven't heard her explain it nicole, but one can only assume that it had a lot to do with that criminal referral against christopher steel on friday that was made yuan nauni ly on friday. accusing christopher steele of potentially misleading the fb

deputy director, particularly the news reports of today, i would refer you to the fbi. fran which he fran. >> the president put out tweets regarding mr. mccabe, doesn't seem to be a figure fan of him. is he disappointed he's leaving his postas deputy fbi director? >> i haven't asked him. i can tell you he didn't play a role in any of that process and would refer you again to the fbi for any specifics. >> in one of the president's tweets in december, though, he did say andrew mccabe is, quote, racing the clock to retire with full benefits, 90 days to go. does the president believe he should be allowed to retire with full benefits? >> i would refer you to the fbi for any specifics around the news of today of his stepping down. >> you mentioned he was going to be in the first lady's box at the state of the union. you talked about the guests but i didn't hear anything about the president's family. can you say which of the president's family members will be there? and can you potentially preview for us some of the travel the president might take? >> in terms of family, all of the president's c