what is the fbi's role? >> the fbi probably has multiple roles, a criminal investigative role and there are ways in which the criminal investigative tools can be used to prevent, detect, disrupt threats. but it also has an intelligence role, where it partners with our partners in the intelligence committee and our overseas partners in trying to defend our systems and our infrastructure from attacks. it just a slightly different kind of role, and the two things work hand-in-hand. i would think that there is an analogy that could be drawn to the terrorism arena in terms of awareness, i remember listening to a prominent counterterrorism expert in a room full of prosecutors from all around the world, it was a very jovial meeting until this guy got up and spoke. he said there are two types of countries, those who have been hit by a terrorist attack and get it and there are those who have not yet. you could have heard a pin drop. it certainly caught a lot of joy out of the room. i think there is a degree to which

an fbi agent who was a key fbi interrogator, testified to us about the contrast between the fbi's techniques and the enhanced interrogation techniques used by the cia during the bush administration. he testified that these enhanced techniques were operationally ineffective and unreliable. and harmful to counterterrorism. we learned that bob mueller ended the fbi's participation in the interrogation of other cia detainees. because of the harsh torture methods they used. and because they were undermining the investigation. he pulled his people out. this is important because the issue of interrogation techniques isn't just something of the past. trump said that torture works, and he would immediately bring back waterboarding and much worse. so i'm interested in knowing more about the nominees knowledge for the cia's use of torture during the bush administration and knowledge of detainee abuse in iraq. the cia's use of torture are a stain on our nation's values and history. the senate intelligence committees torture report was issued in 2014 when i was chairman of that committee. it all lined th

>> i would say what i was saying just a a minute ago which is the fbi director and the fbi needs to be for all americans, including muslim americans and my experience and terrorism investigation have been some of the best leaves we ever got word from members of that community come up from muslim americans. i remember having conversations with, among others, u.s. attorney from your state, pat fitzgerald who is a friend of mine. well certainly we do face threats from certain radical ideologies, it is also true that those americans, just like all americans are people that we need to get information from, to help protect the homeland. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> congratulations to you and your family on this nomination. i appreciate your willingness to come back to public service at a time when i think the nation's confidence and its institutions has been shaken. i think it's very important to have somebody of your character, and experience serve as the next director because i think about confidence in the fbi has been shaken over recent events. i ask you when we met in my office about

i think the fbi has an important rule. one of the most moving cases to me as a line prosecutor was a different kind of hate crime with a serial church arsonist who went all over the country burning down churches and ultimately, one of the churches he burned killed a volunteer firefighter. i think i mentioned that meeting with the mother of the dead firefighter and the roughly 7-year-old daughter of the dead firefighter is a memory i will take with me forever. i've a personal appreciation for the importance of prosecuting those crimes. >> very good. if we have a second round, i will ask about human trafficking which is one of my top priorities. i have one other question about terrorists online recruiting. we had a number of instances of that in minnesota and our former u.s. attorney. i've met with the fbi in minnesota on this issue, they've showed me some of the internet targeting that's really designed to focus on people in our state because of the major somali population that we are so proud of the minnesota. could you el

>> we would be getting these fbi developments. team comey made a big show saying i will release the clinton investigation files. the slow rolling information's, we would get this if the investigation was still rolling. the fbi, they didn't care they can get the computer records and they just moved it along. in the meantime, they are dripping out, a slow drip of these documents, month by month. they're telling us it's going to take well over a year -- maybe longer. >> sean: jay, it's the opposite of the deep state leaking on the president. what do you of the grand jury? >> was a grand jury impaneled? possibly. i ask this question. it looks like the standards at play here, both the legal standards but also the way in which the case was apparently investigated, investigate isn't the right word. cheryl mills was an employee but also secretary clinton's lawyer, they allowed them at the same time -- none of these rules would be allowed for anybody else. we've got a situation. you talk about equal justice. here's the real fundamental iss

at this point, what makes him believe is the former fbi chief, he worked in the fbi, that any kind of information that he gleaned out of a meeting with the president of the united states in the white house would be personal information? >> he wants you and i and your viewers to believe that, but the truth of the matter is, this was political leverage to get back at president trump, he released this information to initiate a special prosecutor being appointed to go after donald trump. in my mind, i look at this, i say this is more like playground politics. he has now resorted to acting in a juvenile matter. he is now saying i'm going to get back at you. but i have news for former director of comey. there is an fbi policy that every director, every agent has to sign. within that agreement, they say that they will not release any classified information unless there is written consent given by the fbi. here, no consent was obtained. i will go one step further, if i was president trump, i would question whether comey did an investor investigation of hillary clinton. i think that investigat

circa news, sara carter reporting that fbi lawmaker james a baker, a close confidant to the fired fbi director james comey is now under investigation by the justice department. why? allegedly leaking national security information to the mainstream press. the establishment press. also, other media stories we are following tonight, this one comes from john solomon of the hill, according to his report, house him del devin nunes is now accusing the obama administration of illicitly unmasking hundreds of american s last year without any proffered test of proper justification. joining us now, sara carter and jay sekulow. and gregg jarrett. let's start with your breaking news tonight, sara. >> i've spoken to three sources with information who have direct knowledge of this that james a baker, the general counsel for the fbi is allegedly under investigation for leaking national security of classified information to the media. i have not been able to get verify what that information once. if these allegations prove true, it's going to be devastating for the fbi. whose morale has already been sh

the fbi, on and on. he sent a tweet over the weekend saint , same, we will go from majority to minority. do you agree with him? >> i think the two viewpoints. one, if we do not pass something that the electric will get angry and on the elect republicans. the other possibility, and this is what i adhere to. if you pass it does not work on the leaves and the obama death spiral, ryan-care. that is a disaster as well. doing nothing is not the worst-case scenario. i think passing a bad bill that leaves and place the obamacare mandate in the death spiral of obamacare. that is the worst of all possible scenarios. >> bill: should you blow off the august recess? >> i think we should get our work done, as soon as possible in the next three weeks. i think august 1st should be the deadline appeared less good it before august. >> bill: if it goes into august, will you be cool with that? >> i will do whatever it takes to do the work we need to do, but i think the work ought to be done last week lets us waiting another

the president chose christopher wray to lead the fbi. today he was grilled over a slew of topics. for a nonpolitical position, things got political pretty fast. >> did the president ask you to do something unlawful or unethical, what do you say? >> first, i would try to talk him out of it. and if that failed, i would resign. >> why did the president fire director comey? >> you know, senator, i don't know. i'm not familiar with all of the information that the president may or may not have had, so i'm really not in a position to speak to that. i do know there's a special counsel investigation under way. in all my dealings with jim comey, he was a terrific lawyer, a dedicated public servant and a wonderful colleague. >> from there the president's e-mail chain that he dumped on twitter is taking up a lot of oxygen. he did so today. while all that's going on the president himself will head to paris, france, tomorrow in lieu of the latest edition in the russian meddling saga. here to give her take on all of it is martha mccallum. >> harris, how you doing? harris: great, thank you. today

he violated fbi protocol. there was no sign off releasing that information. this was not a "dear diary" journal entry. >> eboni: not necessarily a statutory breach. >> katrina: maybe not the legal sense we know of yet but we don't know what the president knows we have to remember that. this also goes to show why he probably didn't think hillary clinton should have been indicted because he was doing the same thing. in my opinion, what this looks like is you have arguably one of the most, if not the most powerful bureaucrat in the country essentially creating a file on high-powered politicians possibly for an insurance policy. he goes to the media and leaks the information with the intention of undermining the president of the united states. he wanted to undermine the president and give out this illusion the president was doing something wrong. one can look at that and ask, the information that didn't come out, we don't know but there were also leaks prior to this coming from the fbi that we should look at. >> kat: the fact that some of these memos were classif

he also needs to get to the bottom of the fbi director. that is an open question. >> harris: if the fbi director actually leaked information to a friend it's critical. we move on. we will be right back. >> harris: we are awaiting that white house press briefing to come up and all sorts of questions we can expect to see him donald trump, jr., and the emails that he dumped on his twitter to let the world see conversations that were happening about that meeting that he had with the russian attorney. exclusive tonight only on hannity at 10:00 p.m. eastern is donald trump, jr., don't miss that. of course, i have one the best press secretaries sitting next to you coming want to know what she does now? >> ari: you should ask dana perino that. i think what she has to do is button-down with governmental employees. she speaks for the white house, that's what she needs to talk to this morning, get their facts, know what they know, and say it. as for donald trump, jr., he is not a government employee. she cannot speak for nongovernmental employees, ev

are we trying to confirm unable fbi director? lindsey graham, what is with the undermining of the president? will lindsey graham stand up as a u.s. senator and say donald trump is the leader of our party, yes or no, instead of throwing these ridiculous questions at the guy we are trying to confirm. some democrats were more capable and able. >> senator graham is a former opponent of donald trump. i'm sure it's still a sore point that he's not the president of the united states. there were a couple big issues not addressed. i didn't see the whole hearing. 702, reauthorization of the fisa court, probably one of the most difficult things for congress to pass and has to pass by the end of the year. we didn't hear anything about facial recognition. most americans would be shocked. 1 out of every two people in those countries and in an fbi database right now with facial recognition they are trying to employ. it's a real scary thing, and probably something that should've been peppered as a question to the fbi director. they missed an opp

he is saying any offer is something the fbi would want to know. would you agree that donald junior and garrett and paul manafort should've notified the fbi? >> lists what chris bridges said. he would investigate any type of involvement of interference. they have said precisely the same thing. on multiple occasions you can go back and check the record on this. the president said to james comey, satellites were doing something, here what you have. to place between what we know to base was not a violation of the law. there's not a violation of the law. the question is russia's other engagement on a global scale is directed to the united states is being investigated. the president has asked vladimir putin himself about that, talk to them about that when they were just at the g20. the idea that it's somehow inconsistent with what the president said is a false narrative. it's not true. >> you began this interview by going after james comey for leaking information, for writing a book. in our last interview last month, you are sharply critical and i want

fbi special agent in charge issued the following statement tonight .-ellipsis kang has been under investigation by the fbi for over a year. fbi assets and investigative resources were continuously deployed to ensure the public safety of this investigation and kang's eventual arrest. a complaint is being filed in the district court of hawaii, alleging that kang swore allegiance to isis and to provide training to the terrorist organization. the fbi believes that kang was a lone actor. >> dana: >> dana: we have to congratulate the intelligence operations and being able to track them for a year and stop him before he was able to do anything. >> kimberly: absolutely. that's the headline here. this is the intelligence community doing the very best it can, to identify, isolate, to do an investigation. what i think it's very important is that they were able to accumulate a large amount of information, to be able to see who his contacts are, who he spent communicating with, which is very important, in terms of fresh intelligence coming in. >> dana: greg, one of

the fbi said if there is any reason for the special counsel it is now. and janet reno refused to do. the republicans are po--ed on and don't care about collusion because they realize the double standard and selective outrage. >> sean: if it is goose it is good for the gander. and good advice from both of you. thanks for being with us. when we come back, we have a brand new report about campaign donations and raising a lot of questions. and how do the clintons make so much money from foreign governments? we'll have a report tonight. >> the documents i have voluntarily provided will show that all of my actions were purpose and incurred in the normal course of events of very unique campaign. >> sean: members of the trump administration is fighting back. jarred're jared kushner defineds himself. we'll have all of that and my important monologue tonight about you, who voted for donald trump can stand up to "fake news" and defend the agenda you voted for, straight ahead. ♪ if you have moderate to severe ulcerative colitis or crohn's, and your symptoms have l

and james comey may have improperly removed government prompt from the fbi. -- property from the fbi. and robert mueller has massive conflicts of interest. best friends with comey a key witness. that might be against the law. we will find out. mueller just 1 day before being named special counsel. he interviewed with president trump for the nib job. -- fbi job. and all of the members of muller's team the people he brought on donated thousands of dollars to the democrats and even hiring hillary clinton's attorney on the clinton foundation. the fake news dossier which has connections to democrats. the dossier commissioned by republicans but clinton paid for that. steele a former spy put it together. that should be shocking. it didn't stop democrats from repeating the falls information found in the dossier. there is progress. we are pressing every day. so we have equal justice under the law. fox news left-handers that the co-found is cooperating with the senate judiciary committee. the american people deserve complete investigations into this all of these scandals, but we can't take our

the head of the fbi or former head of the fbi fully has admitted that he called up his buddy at columbia and had him leak these memos to "the new york times." do you think that james comey himself regardless of whether this is classified or not classified, should be investigated? >> i think we got to look into what exactly comey leaked or gave to his friend to leak to "the new york times." if it turns out these reports are true and that comey disclosed classified information to his friend at a law school, that is beyond shocking. it is massively ironic and frankly such a stunning misjudgment on comey's part, it would make you wonder what on earth he would have been thinking. >> he has said, by the way, he himself -- you saw the exchange that catherine played for you there, he said he wrote his memos that he could get this information out and it wouldn't need to be classified, tom. >> that's what he tried to do. comey is a smart guy and a strategic thinker and he has to have been aware of the dividing line between republican information and classified information. he may have crossed that

he interviewed with president trump for the fbi job. and all of the members of muller's team the people he brought on donated thousands of dollars to the democrats and even hiring hillary clinton's attorney on the clinton foundation. the fake news dossier which has connections to democrats.on the dossier commissioned by republicans but clinton paid for that. steele a former spy put it together. russian government sources and sources that are tied to the russian government. that should be shocking. it didn't stop democrats from repeating the falls information found in the dossier. there is progress. we are pressing every day. so we have equal justice under the law. fox news the co-found is cooperating with the senate judiciary committee. the american people deserve complete investigations into this all of these scandals, but we can't take our eye off the ball, repeal and replace. back into the labor force, out of poverty. if congressmen stop taking vacations, maybe they can get these things done. here with reaction geraldo rivera and mon

president trump's pick for the fbi director testified today. the trump pick for the fbi director that special counsel robert mueller's investigation on russia is not a witch hunt. obviously. we'll have more ahead from that hearing. the daily beast reports that the russian lawyer has ties to the russian military and intelligence officials including officials from two of the kremlin's top intelligence agencies. according to the website, an american financial executive who has investigated russian corruption for a decade is set to brief the senate judiciary on the woman's ties to the russian government. this is not a variable. this is not an unknown. she is fully tied to the russian government and russian oligarchs. there's no doubt. e-mails show the middleman told donald trump jr. that she was a government attorney for russian. in the initial message to donald trump jr., the british publicist rob goldstone wrote -- >> russian officials deny she has any connection to the kremlin, of course. a spokesman for vladimir putin saided the on the whole, i

should've brought the matter to the fbi. >> to the members of the committee, any threat to interfere with our elections from any nationstate or any nonstate actor is a kind of thing the fbi would want to know. >> russian a first stage denied any involvement in the meeting between trump, jr. and the 14. the whole episode as worthy of a soap opera. >> i turned on the tv and western channels keep discussing it. it's amazing how you can make a buzz from nothing. >> the president tried to force the spotlight on the democrats tweeting: @washtimes states "democrats have willfully used moscow disinformation to influence the presidential election against donald trump." why aren't the same standards placed on the democrats. look what hillary clinton may have gotten away with. disgraceful!" after smothering any progress that came out of president trump's meeting with vladimir putin lastly, the controversy now threatens to overshadow his upcoming trip to france. amid reports the white house is in a state of paralysis and president trump obsessed with the bad news on cable tv, he took a "nothing

rob: the new fbi director's confirmation hearing set for this morning of the assistant attorney general under george w. bush says he is honored and humbled by the nomination for the fbi's top spot after james comey was fired this year. today is the day for the parents of charlie gard to make their case which connie yates and chris gard have to prove the 11-month-old terminally ill infants could be kept alive with experimental treatment in the us. the high court will rule tomorrow whether to pull little charlie off of life support. the spokesperson for charlie gard's parents will be on "fox and friends" in the 6:00 hour. heather: we are learning about a 60 member crew killed in a tragic military plane crash in mississippi, six marines and one sailor were part of an elite special forces unit based at camp lejeune in north carolina. the other nine marines were from orange county, new york. the kc 130 refueling plane was on its way to california when it plunged into a field killing everyone on board. the cause is being investigated. one patriot claimed tax on the highway near the crash to h

son received, they should alert the fbi rather than accept that meeting. is he wrong? also were you misled by your team in not knowing about this meeting? mr. president, thank you very much. you have heard president trump say it may have been others who interfered with the u.s. election. it is president trump taking a hard enough line on russia? >> president trump: i'll start off by saying first of all, i believe we will have a great fbi director, i think he is doing really well. we are very proud of that choic choice, i think i have done a great service to the country by choosing him. he will make us all proud and i think someday we will see that. hopefully someday soon. we are very proud of him. as far as my son is concerned, my son is a wonderful young man, he took a meeting with a russian lawyer, not a government lawyer about a russian lawyer. it was a short meeting, it was a meeting that went very quickly, very fast, two other people in the room, i guess one of them left almost immediately and the other was now focused on their meeting. i do think thi

and in doing so, he broke fbi rules. the trouble with putting yourself and testifying, and being a little bit a hole are you holier-than-thou. i think it's ironic that he may come back with the unintended consequences. >> bill: i don't know how they hold that hearing a month ago with the senators not having seen the memos in the first place. i don't know how you draft questions. without at least seeing his notes, and apparently, that did not happen. >> i don't think people were aware of how many memos there were. i think they they were thinking they were only talking about one, and they were talking about the content that had been leaked. it's a tough situation that will get worse. >> bill: governor, thank you. live in new hampshire. >> shannon: folks out west grabbing what they can and getting out. officials saying about the wildfires growing all across the region. spirit also, terminally ill baby survival hanging in the balance again today. why couple in britain is backing and trying to desperately save their dying chi

fbi says he's been under investigation for more than a year. accused of swearing allegiance to isis, attempting to provide military documents and training to isis. the bureau believes kang was acting alone. iraqi forces battling isis terrorists on a day that the prime minister declared a total victory for iraq. the commanders say they are still areas of the old city that must be cleared of explosive devices and possible isis fighters in hiding. to the syrian civil war and the second day of the latest cease-fire. john huddy reports from the israeli controlled section of the golan heights. >> this is a village in southern syria back in 2011. this is what's left of it today. a mosque and holmes, now rubble. the u.n. estimates more than 400,000 people have been killed in syria since 2011. quneitra province, 1 of 3 de-escalation zones. daraa and another province along the border of jordan. we went to see if the cease-fire is holding. this is the border fence. on the other side is syria. we have heard sporadic gunfire. it remains quiet. 48 hours ago,

it seems odd because robert mueller was the fbi director already. james became the fbi director. gets fired. the president of the united states was interviewing people including robert mueller. i think you are right. the president believes that robert mueller didn't get the fbi job and thinks maybe heap has an agenda. the president in this "new york times" interview was not shy about saying given some of the hires, attorneys on robert mueller's staff now, supporters of hillary clinton, this president doesn't feel like he will get a fair shake. >> do we know why jared kushner opted for a closed door with the senate intelligence committee on monday where as donald trump, jr. and manafort are schedule for an open door meeting? >> in the case of jared kushner, some of the questions involving him are about technical issues of paperwork. why didn't he initially disclose meeting with various foreign dignitaries during the campaign? all of that. maybe some of this is his attorneys saying these are paperwork mistakes. things he connected. why drag him in front of the cameras when he can c

leaving the fbi to arrest both people responsible. all right, so let me, before we -- let me set up the conversation reminding you, congressman of the good old days, you reference them as. holding the town hall february 9th, let's show everybody what that looked like. >> looking at the microphone, you did not have to back out of the question! [cheers and applause] >> very good. >> sandra: we can hear your voice there, be quiet! >> jason: people have the right to protest, they have the right to come in and express themselves, and someone to say it loudly. or they have the right to do that. what i have found, and i think paul ryan is also coming to the conclusion, they have turned to a degree of violence, there is a degree of let's burn this place to the ground, that is not healthy. i have had somebody who had threats against me, that person is spending time in jail. jeff flake had two people that had to be arrested. the reality is that people are being busted in as agitators to disrupt. there are other ways to do this. you can do it th

there she is on tv blaming the fbi and james comey. but doesn't she -- she apparently still is not taking responsibility that she invited the fbi into her life. >> that's right. i mean, any depressio interprett james comey had affect on outcome. once the fbi was aware server they had to do an investigation. that's the thing that set off the chain reaction. to set there and saying james comey coming out a week before the election or whatever is the reason she lost without that email server explanation seems pretty i didn't know complete to me. steve: amy, you have done some original reporting on this and you say from what have you heard it's unlike anything she has ever written before. it is a bombshell as well. why? >> yeah, i reported in the hill the other day, we kind of made news on this. you know, she feels like this is a book that because she is not going to run for office again, she has -- she can kind of let her hair down a little bit and kind of tell the full story. at least for her. and i think she feels a little bit of -- i t

give drone and military documents to undercover fbi agents who he thought were connected to isis. that is the allegation. the hawaiian based soldier was allegedly heard saying he wanted to, quote, kill a bunch of people. 's defense lawyers said he may suffer service related mental health issues. the fed along with the us military have been investigating him for a year. he will face a detention hearing thursday. >> fbi arriving on the scene in oklahoma this morning after a late-night explosion near tulsa. witnesses say someone on a motorcycle through a backpack at the u.s. air force recruiting center, blowing the doors off the front of the building, officials believe there may have been a pipe bomb, no arrests have been made but nobody was hurt. >> reporter: isis's days are numbered, that is the message from donald trump as he congratulates us backed iraqi forces for driving the terror group out of mosul. releasing a statement saying in part thousands of iraqis brutally killed by isis, we grieve with the iraqi people for the loss of soldiers and we honor their sacrifice. the us bac

it's funny for him to take the notes on the fbi computer. if you want to record his meeting with the president but then he said i really wanted to get out after i got fired. so i gave it to my friend and told him to give it to the media, and you brought up the reflection on james, his own words back on july 5th about how hard he was on hillary clinton. for the way she treated government material. watch this. >> although we did not find clear evidence that secretary clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws govern winning the handling classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive highly classified information. >> he may have done the same thing richard. >> i think we have to wait and see. it's very clear his friend who was the columbia presse received the information told "the washington post" that there was -- there was no classified markings. this information wasn't classified. if you listen very carefully. spin is it that we would hillary clinton said. >> in the hil

we know he doesn't like the new acting fbi director. why wasn't he log heavily into his donations that his wife was making towards the democrats. and the vice president yesterday kind of defended the president when it comes to the attorney general. he is in a tough position. he is very, like a lot of republicans, very friendly with the attorney general. ainsley: here is what he had to say last night. >> i think the president has been very candid that he is disappointed. >> right. >> with the attorney general's decision to recuse himself and to not know about his intention to do so before he was condition firmed. the washington way is to talk behind people's backs. but that's not president donald trump's approach. the great thing about this president you always know where you stand. i think what the american people like about this president he speaks candidly. he speaks openly. that doesn't mean we don't recognize the good work the justice department has been doing under the attorney general's leadership. taking on ms-13 gangs, removing

no fbi, no department of justice. i like mentioning them, because i know knee-knockers when i see them, and that you wil their knt knocking. >> president trump keeps his own feud going with his attorney general, jeff sessions. former solicitor general ken starr addressing that in a "washington post" op-ed piece with the headline "mr. president, please cut it out." ken starr writes, quote, tweet to your heart's content, but stop the wildly inappropriate attacks on the attorney general, an honorable man who i have known since his days as u.s. attorney in alabama. jeff sessions has recently become your pinata in one of the most outrageous and pro foundly misguided courses of presidential contact i've witnessed in five decades in and around the nation's capital. what you are doing is harmful to your presidency, and inimical to our foundational commitment as a free people to the rule of law." chris wallace joins us. chris, have you seen anything like this? >> no. nothing even close to it. in the middle of that interview wi

in your experience with him does he know what it is like to be an fbi agent? can he relate to the men and women, what leader he is going to be? >> when he was approached to consider the nomination and it became publicized he immediately received a tremendous outpouring of support. and at the senior leadership at the park. chris has been in the trenches with these men and women investigating the case personally, in the court room in key and critical security briefings at the fbi. he was with them on 9/11. he has been with them through thick and thin. chris has the experience and background, immense respect for the men and women of the fbi to lead them very well. >> my last question is the balancing act, what he is going to be facing, the fbi has more on their plate than ever before. can you balance that? >> chris's mantra is keep calm and tackle hard. if anyone can he can. elizabeth: thank you for joining us. we will cover the hearing on wednesday. leland: this first in-flight female throwing history for a loop. new evidence about the disappearance of amelia ai

this is the director of the fbi, not just someone in government. even the president has a twitter account, but he is not a director of the investigative arms of government. he is not part of that -- >> melissa: he also has something to promote, his agenda. james comey is the director of the fbi. what is he trying to promote? jessica, you want to say something? >> jessica: it's not like he is a prolific promoter, i think there was a secret account. >> melissa: are you defending james comey's social? okay, that is interesting. >> jessica: i think it is about his long career in service that people think quite highly of. last year has tarnished that. i don't think that you know, floating that he is leaking classified information to get those memos out there, what he gave to the law professor is responsible or reasonable at this point. i think the fbi director knows what is classified and what isn't. i don't think he ever have done that. >> harris: it's less about that to them whether it was government property that he was sharing. paraphrasing. so how

the fbi, justice department? those are questions we need to answer. >> sean: to think this was a set up by the dnc and this fusion group we are talking about? >> there's not enough facts and evidence to assume that yet. there were a lot of people working at once and what overlays and intersections they have come up we don't know. in part because fusion gps has not answered a lot of the questions that the senate has put to them. until we find out who was bringing natalia into the country. we won't know the full picture until we learn those questions. it's too soon to answer those questions. >> sean: after the break, senator ted cruz is here. he says failure is not an option when it comes to repealing and replacing obamacare. he will explain what he wants this bill to look like and also, later tonight .-ellipsis >> let's talk about fake news. we all know who that is. cnn. they are so messy, petty, and trifling. they are the phony baloney macaroni news. >> sean: our front on conservative media, we will give him the

>> so the answer is, should i call the fbi? >> you -- >> you're going to be the director of the fbi, pal. here's what i want you to tell every politician. if you get a call from somebody suggesting a foreign government wants to help you by disparaging your opponent, tell us all to call the fbi. >> neil: all right. that is essentially what chris wray did. he comported himself well today. a lot of folks are wondering even if it was illegal, an impeachable type of offense that could go to his dad, was it wise for donald trump jr. to set up a meeting with a russian lawyer who had dirt on hillary clinton. ron desantis with us here. congressman, the upshot of lindsay graham's comments no, it wasn't wise and probably would warrant a call to the fbi. do you agree with that? >> it's interesting, neil. the media has been reporting that he met with the russian government. it remints me of the keystone cops rather than the kgb. that lady has been in the congress lobbying people. there's a lot of democrats i bet that have probably met with

the fbi director is not going to get away with the fbi that he didn't know what wasn't classified or what was classified. he doesn't have that excuse. >> this is what he said on june 8th. listen to james comey. you said after you were dismissed you gave information to a friend so that friend could get that information into the public media. >> correct. >> what kind of information was that? >> i understood this to be my recollection recorded of my conversation with the president as a private citizen i felt free to share that i felt it very important to get it out. >> so were all of your memos that you rowrded unclassified or other departments to, memos that might be yours as a private citizen? >> i'm sorry, i'm not following the question. >> i think you said you used classified. >> not the classified documents. ununclassified. my view was that the content of those unclassified -- memorialization of those conversations was my recollection recorded. ainsley: congressman? >> well, look, when he was the fbi director meeting with the president he wasn't a private citizen. there is some exe

that said, his own fbi head nominee, or nominee to be the head of the fbi, said instead of taking the meeting one should call the fbi should you get word that the russians are offering up campaign help. the response from the white house ahead. e-mail showed donald trump jr. took the meeting after a middleman told him a russian government attorney had dirt on hillary clinton, dirt that was part of the russian government support for the donald trump candidacy. the president's soin, jared kushner and campaign chairman at the time, paul manafort were at that meeting. a member of president trump's private legal team went on every network on sunday to show and defend the defense. here's what the lawyer said about donald trump jr.'s meeting with the russians at trump tower. >> i wonder why the secret service, if this was nefarious, why did seat kret service allow these people in. the president had secret service coverage at that point. >> shepard: it didn't. now the secret service has responded with a rare public statement. an official with the agency tells fox news, i quote, donald trump jr

we don't know what the fbi is doing now. we know the mainstream media is not reporting it but remember, these cases were never actually really closed, were they? the clinton foundation and other issues related to the clinton foundation, we don't know what the fbi is looking at now. what we do know is that they are all these pieces of evidence laid out and that those pieces of evidence are going to start unraveling. right, russia, russia, russia when it comes to trump but go all the way back.ar the obama administration did to their due diligence to investigate the russians.en g we know that the russians have been meddling since thee 1960s. there is no surprise here. even what happened to donald trump, jr., that's no surprise.mp john brought up a great point -- who let natalia in? we will get answers. >> sean: there is a tweet saying "oh, i've never heard about this before." just read politico in january 2017 about the ukrainians working with the clinton campaign. there's your collusion. read about the dossier guy andor there

jeff sessions and rod rosenstein but the acting fbi director, former fbi director. obviously wants to discredit the investigation and that's been important. this is a tricky place for president trump to go when his credibility is in question. sarah huckabee sanders says in the briefing today that the president has confidence in jeff sessions when the president said yesterday he didn't have confidence in jeff sessions. >> chris: he has done it in talking about what comey did and the illegal leak led to the appointment of mueller. >> it is telling that nobody around him who's been asked about it has to rule out the possibility of firing mueller. some of the critiques are valid. the question is how often do you make them and if you make them in such a manner that leaves you less believable than the people you are criticizing. >> chris: and do you make them on the front page of "the new york times." when we come back, methods discipline -- message discipline in the white house. you won't see these folks at the post office. they have businesses to run. they have passions

broken the law, removing thosehe files from the fbi. i m will end on this note to the mainstream media. you have zero credibility left. spreading fake news stories, you will be critical of all my interviews but you carry out or your personal attacks against the president and his family and anybody that dares to be associated with the president. here's a minor small example. liberal joe, nbc, what is he called the president of the united states? a schmuck, a goon, a thug, mentally unhinged. then the president fights back. are you proud of how the media handles things? i guess you probably have defended all of this. the media in america -- we have an information crisis. overpaid, lazy, rigid left-wing ideologues. that's for another night. tonight, we have donald trump jr. we will ask him every single question i can think of on this topic. don jr., good to see you. welcome back. >> donald jr.,: i don't think there was any time left. >> sean: i get that a lot. let's start with the emails. the first email, let's talk about who with rob golds