the fbi has taken significant steps to advance the fbi's facial recognition technology. at the end of 2017, the fbi validated the accuracy rate at all list sizes. in early 2018, the fbi required law enforcement users to have completed facial recognition training consistent with the face standards prior to conducting facial recognition searches in the fgi-ips. additionally the fbi collaborated to perform the facial recognition vendor test and determined the most viable option to upgrade the current ng-ips algorithm. it has an accuracy rate of 99.12 %. i would like to thank the men and women of the fbi for their unwaiverring commitment. i'm proud to be working alongside so many mission focused staff, protecting the country against horrific crimes. want to thank the committee for their engage.ment on this issue. thank you. >> thank you very much. dr. goodwin. >> children. >>> , armingening member and member offered the committee other. pleased to be here today to gus gao's work on the fbi'sy of facial wreck nix telling nothing. this technology has as vannedded quickly and h

example for the 35,000 current fbi employees in today's report was an unprecedented rebuke of an fbi director surrounding his nefarious plot to seek revenge against president trump. by the way, it shows how political he was from the very get go. as it turns out, america's self-proclaimed super patriot is nothing more than a dirty, corrupt, former bureaucrat that will be in serious, significant legal jeopardy as this all unfolds. after he was fired, we know today, that he lifted sensitive -- and in some places, classified government memos about conversations he had with the president of the united states. and then the comey store these documents at his home and leaked these sensitive documents on the contents of them, one of the memos to the press, using a close friend, now a lawyer, as a conduit. that went to "the new york times." he also used a personal email address to disseminate classified material to his own lawyers. you are supposed to get the approval of the fbi. he didn't get that approval. among the many serious violations, let's go through the list for the inspector general

this is the head of the fbi who the inspector general says was a horrible example for the fbi. >> sean: the word was dangerous. >> that's an understatement her here. my friend john solomon said we are in the beginning of the first quarter, we are in the pregame show. here's what everyone has to put in perspective, this was the head of the fbi -- should president trump fire james comey? here is a 70 pages reason why. this was not the first time james comey has violated rules, regulations of the department of justice, we've already had reports on that. should the president have fired him? 70 pages laid out here, number two. this is serious investigations going on, how this whole thing started -- remember, james comey's leak is what appointed appointed bob mueller. we just saw last month, the charade of that hearing, that was going to be the crescendo of the entire russia collusion nonsense. you saw it play out in living color, everybody's room, the people that washed it and what did you see? they had nothing because there was nothing there. now we have the report that the guy in charge o

if the fbi never faced this. the fbi has never had a time in history were so many people, peoplead like myself, people lie former agents and employees, really are suspicious of how much we can still trust whatever is left of the fbi now. i have to say there's thousands of dedicated fbi employees and they are the same x they've always been. but literally they watched asat the seventh floor set double standards, one set of standards for them, the executives, the bosses, and another set oft standards for the people who worked in the fbi and that's why we have the mess we have today and is just a crying shame to sit here and watch this. >> tucker: what to make of his response? your you have the inspector general's office, which nobody is claiming is politically biased. are not right wing ideologues or anything like that. they do this straight report and theyue find that comey lied and really behaved in a reprehensible way. he responds with maximum self-righteousness, admits nothing and acts like he is the victim. wha

christopher steele had been working for the fbi during the campaign and the fbi fired him because he was a leaker. so they went to bruce ohr, whose wife was working at fusion gps, after the election, and started talking to ohr who was talking to steele, and glenn simpson, of fusion gps, and these are the reports of those discussions. according to these documents, the first one they release, it's clearly referencing steele, although they don't mention his name. he says that this person, presumably steele, was "desperate that donald trump not get elected and was passionatesp about him not being the u.s. president." so, this is how it starts off, sean, with the source desperate to keep the president out of office after he is elected. so, bruce ohr continues to talk to the fbi and the doj. he confirms that glenn simpson at fusion gps had been talking to the state department and this information was going over to a state department official, the clinton campaign, and the fbi. talk about a joint operation. steele and bruce ohr are communicating using the what's app application. an applicat

>> no, i didn't consider it part of an fbi file. >> you wrote it as an fbi director, it was a work product. >> it was personal, i created two copies of it, i always thought of it as mine like a diary. >> bret: who else did you leak the memos to? >> i gave the memos to my legal team after i gave them to dan richman after i asked him to get it out to the media. >> bret: you said in the memos i don't do sneaky things, i don't leak, i don't do weasel moves, but we can argue what a leak is but that's a leak, isn't it? >> it's not. >> bret: here's what you told chuck grassley about leaking. >> director comey, have you ever been an anonymous source in a news report about matters relating to the trump investigation or the clinton investigation? >> never. >> has any classified information related to president trump or his associates been declassified and shared with the media? >> not to my knowledge. >> bret: at what point were you made aware that some of the information was classified? >> which information? >> bret: in the memos. >> sometime after i was fired. >> bret: when you hear all of that, y

have been any fbi involvement. these 302's are clear. steele was as flawed and as you could possibly have. could politically motivated, spewing uncorroborated things, going to job mccabe before the election, all of those or breach of protocol. and the two men who allowed all of that to happen, peter strzok, and andrew mccabe, they want us to feel like they are victims. this is a backward story and i think the american public will be able to figure out who the real victims were, the american public. >> the amount of contacts that was internal analysis by our own catherine herridge, but it she rightly points out and reminds us that the amount of contact was so frequent after, in fact, christopher steele was fired and that ohr was the conduit, they used watts avenue, which is an application to shield their communications, and then the fbi began the briefing after steele was fired but steele is still feeding information ohr. he is the conduit even into the special counsel's office. sarah, how are we to interpret that?

they weren't real fbi agents or real fbi employees and about the best thing i can say to people about this is please keep remembering that because we will have to count on those real employees, real fbi agents to try to figure out how to straighten this out. >> tucker: thanks for that reminder, thank you. the report exposes plenty of misconduct, doj prosecutors have decided not to take further action against him, will they reach the same decision with andrew mccabe? a former to spokesman at joins us tonight. what is the fallout? this report comes out, a lot of us feel vindicated, there's also a lot of shouting on cable news, what are the real life implications? >> if i'm andy mccabe, i'm shaking right now because this has been the second or third inspector general report where somebody has been referred over to doj and they have to decide on prosecution. i think they looked at the case and said this is probably not the slam-dunk case we want but andy mccabe is a slam-dunk case, he lied to the fbi in an investigation. now you have horowitz say what he did here was a terrible example fo

permission from the fbi. did you have written permission? >> no, i didn't consider it as an fbi file. >> you wrote it as an fbi director, it was work product. >> it was not.it was my personam iso r mior. >> you were talking to the president. >> laura: first of all, any man who says aide to dememoir is someone you should not trust. comey's characterization of the memos and personal record finds no support in the law and it's wholly and compatible with the plain language of the statutes regulations, and policies. and the terms of the comey fbi employment agreement. so he's not just a leaker and a liar, he's incompetent or perhaps, willfully ignorant. neither of those is good either. still, after all this, comey had the gall this morning to tweet, doj-ig found no evidence that comey oror his attorneys releasd information contained to any of the memos to members of the media. i don't need a policy to defame me, but a quick message of sorry, i lied about you, we'll be nice. sorry, jimmy, don't hold your breath. th

and to think about the moral fbi. and believe it or not, i have access to colonial office records about my great grandfather and there's marge untilty about crimes he may have committed. i'm grappling with this and where you come down on what we may credibly draw or infer given your research on a moral fbi about what the character of the organization might be, and what does it tell us about the nature of state surveillance, and what to do with these kinds of things where you have a bundle on documentations talking about folks who are intimately concerned about their spiritual lives and morality, but we know the fbi is trying to very clearly engage in preemptive strikes against black radicals and the likes. where are we supposed to balance your findings with what leaves historians broadly very uncomfortable about speculations? >> well, so i guess we'll go backwards. i'll do the mlk thing. thank you for raising that. i appreciated the comments i read that you made about this as well. i have to say that i was disappointe

that is a reference to the first director of the fbi j. edgar hoover and his willingness to blackmail political leaders. let's bring in fox news contributor byron york and former trump campaign aid carter page, welcome to you bot both. you have written extensively about this today as you said americans now know how the mueller report ended. they don't yet know how it started. we have a little piece today, more to come. >> it shines a light on a key incident, it happened on januar. donald trump was the president-elect, the background is the dossier which had an unsubstantiated allegation that president trump had been in a moscow hotel room and acts, the intelligence chief go up to new york city to brief the president-elect on the findings, their findings of russian interference in the 2016 election. they all leave the room except comey who stays one-on-one with the president and tells him about this moscow stuff. at the first time the president ever sees the director of the fbi face-to-face, the messages we know about you and those in mosco

in the 1980s the fbi investigates the committee in solidarity with the people of el salvador, the fbi spies on occupy wall street. the fbi spies on code pink. they spy on burning man. the terrorist attacks of september 2001, and surprisingly are a huge impetus to reboot this kind of program. fear drives this, right. fear drives this feeling there you must act with regardless of the legal propriety of it, deal with the consequences later. the nsa after september 11 begins collecting the data of every phone call made in the united states from major carriers. and which is just like who did you call, how long did you call them, what time, what date. and phone conversations, the actual transcripts so long as someone is outside of the united states or involved in international terrorism as far as that court is concerned. internet communications, now, ostensibly, you're on supposed to be allowed to do this so long as one person is outside of the united states, but nevertheless, domestic communications are corrected, too, because there is no automatic way to sort out foreign and domestic inte

the how does it fbi address the threat beyond just a typical investigation? law enforcement support for us is important, and this is not only working with our federal partners but also our state and local partners. we will expand fbi resources even if there will not be a federal prosecution. we provide our music expertise as well as experience in a dedication and hate-based motivation. and so we work hand-in-hand with the state and local partners, again not always focus on the federal prosecution but addressing the issue. from outreach perspective, the fbi forges partnerships again with our partners not only in law enforcement but in the civil rights community, within minority and religious organizations and with nga's. one of the things we understand very important you have to establish those relationships before there's an incident, and that's very important. so for us for law enforcement peace but also the outreach of reaching up to the organizations is critical. and then we have our national training initiative. for a national training initiative we seek

was the decision from the fbi location 100% made within the fbi? >> sir, although the decision making predates my tenure in the fbi my understanding is that the decision was in fact made by director wray. i certainly in close consult allegationation with the administrator of gsa. >> so no outside opinions or thoughts or discussions were taken into consideration? >> well, sir, i believe the director said repeatedly that the decision was his. >> thank you. thank you mr. chairman. i yield. >> thank you, mr. hice. and thank you for your commitment too on a bipartisan basis to presentation of documents and the need for unredacted documents. the chair now calls opinion upon the gentleman from maryland my friend mr. raskin. >> mr. chairman thank you for calling this urgently important meeting. and i also want to salute mr. meadows mr. hice for thoughtful comments and support for a broad and robust congressional investigatory power and the central importance of document production in the exercise of that power. i want to welcome all of our witnesses today,

he was head of the fbi for 48 years. that means he came to power in that job at the age of 29, and he died in that same job at the age of 77. he was appointed under calvin he lasted through coolidge, then through herbert hoover, so was there in the early years of the great depression. he was there through the three plus terms of franklin roosevelt's presidency, through the new deal into the second world war i roosevelt died, truman kept him on. hoover was there through the early cold war and through mccarthyism. when hoover -- when truman left, eisenhower came in, and hoover eisenhower'sh both residential terms. through the rise of civil rights politics, he stayed on through john f. kennedy. after kennedy was assassinated in 1963, he stayed on for lyndon johnson's presidency. when lyndon johnson left office, he stayed on through richard nixon's presidency. and finally died in the position of fbi director in may of 1972. throughout this period, as you can see, hoover lasted -- one of the great themes in this world of bipa

fbi is silent. the fbi are honorable guys. i am sorry their name is up in this. it is hijacked from the top. it is all hijacked from the top. >> what does that mean? >> the organization was hijacked from the top by x, y and z. >> you know you are going to need to provide names of people you met with. >> i am highly confident that the department of justice will be providing the names on an indictment some day. >> you gave the doj the names of the fbi people you met with? >> i am not the only whistleblower coming forward. hillary clinton's supporters in hollywood were spied on. i am not the only person coming forward. >> it sounds crazy. i don't mean to use the word -- it is so unusual. i never heard anything like this patrick. >> it was a long time. it was weaponized. i was in the middle of it. law enforcement was weaponized. i'm sorry. i like president obama very much. i did not vote for donald trump. our national security was weaponized. those three names are known to the government. it happened. it happened. i was told last october if i come forward that the fo

. >>> and we begin with breaking news from the fbi. the agency now investigating the gilroy garlic festival shooting as a possible act of domestic terrorism. we're standing by in gilroy for an update with the fbi and gilroy police. good morning, thank you for joining us on this midday. i'm scott mcgrew. >> and i'm kris. marcus and laura have the week off. that breaking news just into the newsroom in the last 15 minutes. it is, i would say, the biggest development in the investion su. we expect that joint news conference with the fbi and gilroy police to start any minute now. morning. >> that is right. domestic terrorism investigation. three victims were killed including a 6-year-old boy. here you see the podium we'll go to the minute we see someone approach. many others have been released from the hospital, this happened sunday, july 28th at christmas hill park where the festival had been held for decades. the 19-year-old gunman killed himself after officers shot at him and using an ak-47-style rifle purchased in nevada legally. again

who was handling information to the fbi and who is the man who says he was desperate that donald trump didn't get elected, we will parse it out in minutes. the us attorney for the northern district of california joins us live after cleaning house in neighborhoods plagued by drug crimes and sex trafficking, 32 arrests and you will never believe how local business owners are reacting to the start of this new trump initiative. we begin with kristin fisher, boycotting businesses that are donated to the trump 2020 campaign. >> we don't know the full impact of what these boycotts in business and public shaming of trump donors will be the trump campaign says the intent is already clear. >> the motive of this is to make this as painful as possible to be a trump supported. >> it started this week with joaquin castro tweeting a list of 34 san antonio donors who contributed the maximum amount to donald trump in 2019. >> the contributor wasn't a problem for tying me to that horrific tragedy in el paso was galling. made me sick to my stomach to be bullied with slurs of racism. a lot of people of my

it's not a violation to violate doj or fbi policies. it may be for the department but that's different than a criminal act. i think that conclusion by the inspector general that he did violate fbi rules while probably technically true on its face, it just so misses the context of the time. it's so devoid of the context of what happened and what comey was responding to, it really feels me like the ig has missed the mark. you have to go back and remember when comey took this step, the president of the united states had asked him to back off an investigation into the national security adviser. he asked him for loyalty. when comey didn't do any of those things, the president fired him and then went on television and she had he fired him to help end the russia investigation. the idea comey was supposed to take this up with the inspector general rather than alert the meamerican public and try to gea special counsel appointed seems like a complete missive of any real context of what was happening in the real world by the inspector general. >>

but he lied, he leaked, he's a disreputable head of the fbi. he's a disgrace to the fbi. he used it for political purposes, the report demonstrates all of that. >> laura: clapper was on cnn tonight, did anyone ask him a question about it? >> i'm not sure if clapper knows where he is. brennan is the brains, clapper is the idiot. if you want me to guess who orchestrated this, clapper is not capable. i won't tell you who i think did. >> laura: rudy, what comey said, when he was asked the reason for briefing trump back in january of 2017 on that phoney -- on the steele dossier. >> it was important for me to assure him we were not personally investigating him. and i didn't want him thinking i was briefing him on this to sort of hang it over him in some way. i was briefing him on it because we had been told by the media it was about to launch. we didn't want to keep that from him. and i was keen not to leave him with the impression that the bureau was trying to do something to him. >> laura: but today's ig report says something totally different saying witnesses interviewed by

. >> jason: my grandfather was a career fbi agent. he spent decades in that service and i think he will look at that and not be able to recognize it. i think he would be ashamed of what's going on. you have dove as deep in the details as this. it's not just mr. comey. that's the problem. it is steep to far into the institution. >> it's endemic and what it look at what the inspector general reports appeared horwitz said look, this is sending a dangerous message and his conduct was dangerous. so what do we have? we have a guy who barely avoided criminal charges of four theft of government documents and that we can classify documents and there are no consequences for him. you know he's out there peddling his book which is a hoot and holler if you actually read it. and making millions of dollars off of it and then, you know, it's only the insufferably self right justice james comey would have the audacity to tweet out a demand for the equivalence of an apology as if he is gloating that he beat the rash. james comey and lisa page have an e

fbi agents and such. not one prosecution. we're still waiting on the andrew mccabe lie and leak prosecution. that was referred to the justice department 18 months ago, gregg. gregg: it's unbelievable, you know? and juxtapose how quickly special counsel robert mueller was accusing people of crimes including michael flynn who committed no crime, and yet he facedded -- faced the doc. >> this is why we have judicial watch. gregg: thank you very much. good work. >> thank you. gregg: share your comments and follow lou on twitter @loudobbs like him on facebook, follow him on instagram @loudobbs tonight. coming up next, the wild claim made by one of the open border 2020 dems about daca ca recipients and u.s. citizens. we're going to share it with you when you come back. you will not believe it. ♪ ♪ but some give their clients cookie cutter portfolios. fisher investments tailors portfolios to your goals and needs. some only call when they have something to sell. fisher calls regularly so you stay informed. and

the cornerstone of quantico for the fbi, for fbi agents going to the process of becoming agents and serving their country in a noble way is to put aside all political bias, especially during an investigation. and the second reason that he should have been removed, and he was removed, was because he was having an affair. here is a guy on the russia desk who is having an affair with another person inside the fbi, both of them married. think about the national security implications of what he was doing. if the russians had any information. >> sean: writes the exoneration in may, special considerations, by the way, in the case of hillary, cheryl mills, another person involved in the case, sitting by her side as she supposedly is being interrogated, but of course, exonerates three days later, has comey do that, he was involved in the exoneration letter, and then he starts the russia witch hunt and even his lisa page, she is fully cooperating and she has been for quite a while. and she is also the one in closed-door testimony said that after a nine month investigation into president trump, no col

we have brand-new fbi documents. they are shedding light on what doj officials bruce ohr was up to as the investigation into the trump campaign heated up. who is tipping off the campaign and who was back handling information to the fbi and who said he was desperate donald trump didn't get elected? u.s. attorney for the northern district of california joins us after cleaning house in a neighborhood played by drug, crimes, sex trafficking. 32 arrest in a major blitz and tonight you will never believe how local business owners are reacting to the sort of new trump administration initiative. hello and welcome to "fox news @ night." i'm shannon bream in washington. we begin with kristin fisher. the latest on the calls to boycott businesses whose owners may have donated to the 2020 campaign. >> we don't know the full impact of what the boycotts of businesses and public shaming of trump donors will be but the trump campaign says the intent is already clear. >> the motive of this is to make this as painful as possible to be

fbi is silent. the fbi is. >> reporter: honorable guys. i'm sorry that it came to this. it was all hijacked from the top whathijacked from the top? what does that mean? >> by x, y and z. >> you know you're going to have to provide names of people that you met with because you know, either you're telling a wild story or a story that's wild and true. >> i'm highly confident that bill barr, the department of justice, will be providing those names on an indictment someday in the not too distant -- >> you gave the doj the names of the fbi? people you met with? >> and i'm not the only whistle blower coming forward. hillary clinton's supporters in hollywood were spied on. i'm that the only person coming forward. >> it sounds crazy. i have to till. i don't mean to use the word insensitive to the mentally ill. it is so unusual. i've never heard anything like this, patrick. and i've been doing this a long time. >> it was weaponized. i was in the middle of it. our law enforcement was weaponized. i'll sorry. i like president obama very much. i did not vote for donald trump. our nati

the fbi revealing the dayton gunman had a history of what the fbi is now saying exploring violent ideologies. the bureau is taking a central role in the case. we're joined by a democrat who serves on the house intelligence committee. congressman, thanks so much for joining us. let's get right to the specifics. officials now say the dayton gunman was obsessed with mass shootings and the shooting in gilroy, california, last weekend, is now being investigated as another incident of domestic terrorism. do you believe this is a turning point in how the country thinks of these attacks? >> that's a good question and i'll answer it by saying no and yes. no in as much as, once again, we see an american ending the lives of lots of other americans with a firearm. and i want to start with that because it was just enraging to see the president blame the media and then in his talk to the nation blame the internet. other countries have a fractious media, have mental illness. no other country makes it a peace of cake for somebody to buy a weapon that should be in the hands of law enforcement and the militar

the federal judge ordering the fbi to collect all fbi records documenting the fbi communications with christopher steele after the fbi fired him as the source of the trump russia probe. what that judge said. it doesn't sound good for the fbi or for christopher steel. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. [♪] president trump talking tough on trade, declaring it does not matter if a trade war is good or bad for the economy short term. but somebody had to take on china. reporter: president trump making it clear he's not letting economic tension pressure him into making any deals. he said he's still not ready to make a deal with china. president trump: i can tell you i'm not ready to make a deal unless it's the right kind of deal. i don't know. but i will say this. something will happen, maybe soon, and maybe a little bit later. but china have much wants to make a deal. reporter: china wants to send a signal. the president said if china cracks down on protesters in hong kong with violence, that could make a difference. the president is blam

35,000 fbi employees plea them. the former fbi assistant director chris wegher worked with comey and he's not mincing words and former federal prosecutor doug are an in said he's not surprised by comey's actions to trust me you are going to want to hear their full thoughts on comey and the ig reports moments away. remember this audio glitch? >> i apologize.

the new fbi investigations into the deadly mass shootings that rocked the nation. the rampage at a food festival now being considered an act of domestic terrorism the killer's list of other potential targets found on his electronic devices churches, federal buildings, courthouses and more in dayton, the fbi also taking a central role as new video emerges from inside the attack new details about the gunman's fascination with violent ideologies his ex-girlfriend speaking exclusively to nbc news. the warning signs she saw. in el paso, dramatic new survivor stories the mother injured and playing dead as the shooter walked passed >> i remember closing my eyes because i didn't want to see and i was shaking. when i opened my eyes, i saw him shoot a lady in the head >> we go inside the hospital with the lead trauma surgeon who says it was like a war zone. tonight a nation on edge sales of bullet proof back packs soaring as children go back to school is it the right choice for parents? >>> also tonight, outrage over shocking photos police officers on horseback leading a han

why the fbi says gilroy was not his on >>back to our top story tonight at 9.30 the fbi has revealed that the gunman who killed 3 and wounded 12 others during the gilroygarlicfestival had completed a list of targets and kron four's maureen kelly she turned to a former fbi agent to get insight into where the investigation could go from here. >>this guy had a lot of hate former fbi agent turned private investigator rick smith speaking about san t nol again tuesday morning it was revealed at a news conference that the 19 year-old killer appeared to have an interest in competing violent ideologies. investigators still don't know yet if he settled on one ideology in particular, but they say they have uncovered a list of his potential targets. >>these organizations from across the country. religious institutions. political organizations from both major political parties. garlic festival. >>the fbi is not revealing the other organizations on the shooter's possible hit list, but they are notifying them if you're a hard target. i think there's like a federal building fences. >>they're already awar

>> i was in the fbi for 11 years and i saw internally how the fbi was trying to manage, smartly, the sort of prioritization of the domestic terrorism threat, with multiple manifestations of it to include the far-right threat, but also the international terrorism component. and since 9/11, the scales tipped on that much more towards the international terrorism side. after the past few years, it's had to rebalance and re-shift. i still think there's a discrepancy there. but the fbi is doing yeoman's work to try to combat this threat. but again, it doesn't have enough resources on that pure domestic terrific side. so they would have to make an internal decision to shift more agents, analysts, investigators in the field to take a look at this and potentially take risks on the international terrorism side. so these are tough choices. >> can i ask you? one of the things that sped the resources, the authority, the changes in the law around the patriot act or what not to make these jobs easier, to make combatting terrorism easier after 9/11 was the political will. i mean, how do you do any o

what we find out today with the investment -- fbi investigated team planned this encounter. they met top executives and they met before hand, made a plan for comey to write down his memory of everything trump said. he begins typing on his laptop in the car as it moves, they set up a prearranged video teleconference when comey reached the field office and he meets with top executives via teleconference and crossfire hurricane people. at this meeting comey says he told the president-elect we are not investigating you. then he left immediately and went to meet his investigators. shannon: there's a piece that you wrote, people haven't read the whole report, they should read this to get the rest of the story. in the meantime we are waiting for the rest of the report, a separate portion look into the fisa applications used to get surveillance approved on you. joe has been talking about this and his prediction, here's what he said. >> we know the fisa warrants were illegally obtained. if the fisa report is issued in its full form there will be no prosecutions because the comey repo

many people do that with the fbi every day. thank god because that's what helps them do the work that we do. but his references to things like a nonstandard relationship with the fbi and certainly the fact he was told to engage in a romantic relationship with a suspected russian intelligence agent, that is simply not the sort of thing that the fbi does. >> andrew mccabe, great to have you here at cnn. thanks so much for all the information today. >>> we've got breaking news, u.s. stock futures are down sharply ahead of the open on news china retaliating on u.s. tariffs on imports. ♪ feels like i'm taking flight. ♪ [sfx: poof] [sfx: squeaking eraser sound effect.] ♪ i am who i wanna be ♪ who i wanna be ♪ who i wanna be. ♪ i'm a strong individual ♪ feeling that power ♪ i'm so original, ♪ ya sing it louder. ♪ i am, oooh oooh oooh oooh ♪ ehhh ehhh ehhh ehhh ♪ i am, oooh oooh oooh oooh ♪ i am switching to the aarp auto insurance program let's take a ride with some actual customers and find out. hey, well te

the fbi has its own process. in this case, pete strzok actually engaged in that process and we went through it, and there's a woman who is the assistant director who's known throughout the bureau actually as kind of a hard ass. and she made the decision pete shouldn't be fired. he should be demoted from the senior executive service, they should have a two-month suspension. and that's something pete accepted and was willing to take that to motion. and then after we'd already had a decision from the assistant director, after we already had a signed agreement, then the deputy director stepped in last minute and overruled that decision and reversed it and said pete had to be fired. something i don't know of ever happening before. and certainly not unrelated to the, you know, dozens of hate tweets that president trump directed pete's way. >> one of the other serious allegations in your lawsuit is that the texts which mr. strzok expressed his political opinions about president trump but also criticizing people like ber

we've seen a lack of accountability, and still seeing it with the fbi and us russia investigation. you can count me among those who still have questions before the coroner's report, i just down believe it. lou: stunning that a the medical examiner in face of all of the eexternal evidence, that this ws a highly suspicious death and did not conform to a typical suicide by hanging, but rather was more conformed more to stranstrangulation. stunning to see him press ahead with this nonsense. >> it is stunning on one level. but in the wake of seeing all of these high ranking people in the fbi get away with what they have gotten away with and the doj, and many people in power in particular financial service world have gotten away with this type of crime it does not surprise me. this does undermine the confidence of the public. this a start, lou, but the attorney general needs to get to the bottom of what happened here. lou: we're not hearing much about white collared crime unless one believed that white collars crime has been absolutely ended in this country, in one -- you have to believe

i want to point out the fbi just pointing out a statement just moments ago from the fbi director. it says that the fbi remains concerned that u.s.-based domestic violent extremists could become inspired by these and previous high-profile attacks to engage in similar acts of violence. the fbi goes on to say that they're asking for the public's help, that if you see anything suspicious to report it. what they're doing is saying that both these incidents, the one in dayton, ohio, and obviously the one in el paso, there is now concern that there could be copy cats, that someone could be inspired by these attacks. they're urging the public, if you see something -- as we always say, if you see something, say something. the fbi putting out that statement, don. they're working with local authorities there in dayton and el paso, and they're providing all sorts of resources, one of those being that they're providing extra agents, agents who have an understanding in dealing with domestic terrorism, hate crimes. they're using all of those resources to try and figure out exactly what happened

and also the fbi. the fbi is on scene there. they're going to help the local authorities. they too could potentially bring some kind of charges here after the state officials charge the fbi, the special agent in charge there saying they're looking at it. the fbi is heading to other parts of the state. remember, this individual drove some ten hours to get to this location. he chose this area for specific reason. he drove there, he got there. and now they're going to go back and trace his steps. and obviously the manifesto, that is going to be one of the key pieces of evidence in all of this. and then the victims. we have yet to learn about them, so many of the people who were inside this walmart, back to school shopping, with the kids, with the parents, with their family, some of the hiding, running for their lives, and now some of them dead. we have yet to tell that story and that's obviously going to be one of the most important parts of that story. >> john, you were struck by some of the witness accounts. what stood out to you? >> first, our thoughts and prayers go out f

there was just -- pure hate. >> reporter: a veteran fbi s.w.a.t. team leader said the shooter had the advantage over police because of the layout of the walmart. >> each row, the rows cascade against each other and they go perpendicular and you have different sections, you have plants on one side and electronics on the other and some of the superwalmarts have a grocery store, people could hide in there if there are bad guys, they could hide there. >> reporter: we're also learning how the alleged shooter made his way to the walmart where he killed 22 people soon after allegedly posting an anti-hispanic hate-filled screed online. >> he took about 10 to 11 hours traveling from allen, texas, to el paso. as soon as he got here, he was lost in a neighborhood, after that he found his way to the walmart because we understand he was hungry. >> reporter: the shooter who is in custody and held without bail has been unployed for five months and bought his high-powered rifle legally. >> from the beginning, this was not coerced or threats or anything like that.

the fbi is barely involved in this. >> he says the fbi was barely involved, yet moments later talk about getting direction from james comey, james comey, andrew mccabe and he primarily got orders from one person. >> peter strzok, it's been confirmed to me that my instructions came from peter strzok, the people who carried orders were taking it on his behalf. >> peter strzok fired for a series of anti-trump text after he told to an fbi employee he was having an affair with. patrick burner would not elaborate giving specifics on what instructions he was given, but he says the man in black did point them towards maria butina, the woman who pleaded guilty to be a registered unregistered r. byrne claims the men in black wanted her to approach people in the trump administration. >> it was all 100%, then you she was trying to approach and her instructions were to approach because she had the ability to contact with anyone in the hillary campaign. she told me and i let them know. >> when byrne indicated this goes to the highest levels of government, he was pressed on who exactly who. look? >> no

i'm trying to help the fbi, not hurt the fbi. >> initially i think people were on comey's side. for months people initially inside the fbi, senior level people were all on comey's side. but slowly, as the drama started to unfold and more information was getting out, people started to turn on comey. i don't think he has the support of some of the high-level people that he once did at the fbi. even the rank and file. i think people were very upset he did this the way he did it. in comey's mind, and this is comey, he has a history of doing this. he felt he couldn't trust anybody. he couldn't go to anyone in the administration about this, at the department of justice. jeff sessions was the attorney general who he didn't trust. he didn't trust rod rosenstein who was the deputy attorney general at the time. he couldn't raise these concerns to anyone internally. his ultimate goal was to get a special counsel appointed. so he does this, he gets this out there, he gets this information out into the public sphere. and then what does rod rosenstein do? immediately turns around and appoints

>> well, under the guidelines of the fbi, the fbi cannot infringe on the first amendment protections so in the domestic terrorist case, for instance, association with particular group would not generate an investigation. in this matter, this list, and i suspect, they have thought about this for some time, just the official announcement came out today, but the list meets the criteria for investigating this as a domestic terrorism event. you need to have evidence of a tendency or target list, in this particular case, for acts of violence and that is really what generates a domestic terrorism investigation. >> do you necessarily have to have the potential gunmen, associated with a specific ideology or a specific clinical belief in order to designate a case as domestic terrorism? >> yes, in this particular case, there is some evidence of affiliation with some type of ideology. in the gilroy matter, you've got the postings of this particular individual. towards the whites supremacists. -- groups. so it is really, it really fits all of the criteria necessary for the fbi to officially open

we don't talk about it, and fbi form, the official documentation of what the fbi and christopher steele exchanged with each other. we have always focused on what did christopher steele give the fbi? but i'm told that these documents show the fbi may have given christopher steele sensitive information, in briefing him on the investigation, maybe even disclosed the existence of a cross fire hurricane operation, which could potentially have gotten back to his ultimate employer, hillary clinton and the democratic national committee. raises some real concerns about the control of information at the fbi had when working with steele. >> sean: we are putting it up on the screen. christopher steele's confidential human reports on the fbi, 53 intel interviews, the stefan halper documents, decked over 2016 fbi email chai chain, page, papadopoulos, exculpatory statements. how did they withhold exculpatory statements, and then numbed of going after, in the case of papadopoulos, put this guy in jail, when they had information that he -- as i understand it -- that he would consider it being a traitor

era el vocero de la policía de el paso y la oficial harper del fbi. básicamente ofrecieron alguna información nueva, no mucho, pero al parecer lo que sí indicaron es que este individuo no tenía cómplices. félix: eso es importante, porque suele pasar, cuando hay una masacre, un tiroteo de este tipo, que la gente cree que hay varias personas disparando al mismo tiempo por la confusión de los hechos y eso ocurrió en el comienzo. se pensaba que había varias personas disparando al mismo tiempo, pero eso se acaba de descartar. sí se están investigando posibles implicaciones de otras personas, pero hasta el momento no se puede hablar de cómplices. teresa: y, félix, vamos a pasar inmediatamente con arantxa loizaga, quien se encuentra en vivo allá en el paso. adelante. arantxa: así es, teresa y félix, muy buenas tardes. pues, otro de los datos muy interesantes que se dio a conocer en esta rueda de prensa es que el médico forense estuvo trabajando ayer, todo el día, y también en horas de la noche y que ya todos los cadáveres han sido sacados