, discredit the fbi. it was led by congressman nunez and they have a memo that outlines their case against the fbi. it uses material for a fisa warrant, targeting carter page. although the application is said to have drawn on a variety of memo, the information comes from one strand, the michael steele dossier that president trump had been compromised by russian intelligence. the committee voted last week that they would make this memo available to all members of the house. that surprised democrats on the intelligence committee who didn't know this memo existed. but this led to a huge right wing campaign that this memo be declassified and released to the public. >> this is a memo written by republicans. it's not like it's a secret document that's been unearthed or pried out of the fbi. this is something house republicans wrote themselves and now they've created a campaign saying it must be released, this thing we wrote ourselves. but this release the memo cause has become a leading cause of russian bots an

the fbi chief of staff last week, that official was let go from the fbi. he says he also conveyed that information to fbi general council who was recently mysteriously reassigned to what appears to be a no show job around christmastime with no explanation. and james comey said he reported the action tuesday the fbi deputy director today who was aapparently forced out of his job as well. the new trump director, christopher ray had threatened to resign in order to protect andrew mccabe against this white house effort to push mccabe out of his job. christopher re christopher ray does not seem to have resigned. he was going resign rather than see these other fbi officials pushed out of their job -- if you were thinking christopher ray was going tory zine rather than let that happen, andrew mccabe is out today. rod rosenstein overseas robert mueller's special counsel investigation into the russia matter since jeff sessions recused himself. the reason i go through that list is just -- i mean to be blunt about it, the president has fired or tried to fire everybod

isn't that odd to fire the fbi director? yes, it's odd to fire the fbi director. he has attacked everyone in the line of fire in this case. jeff sessions, james comey, andrew mccabe. we don't know the reasons why andrew mccabe has stepped down, but we do know that he was essentially a witness for comey in their exchanges. so i think it's odd, and i have to say, we can all talk legal jargon, but from a kind of human experience, if you are innocent of a crime, do not attack the prosecutors day in and day out. and i have to say the fact that robe robert ray feels comfortable with a politician, the president of the united states attacking prosecutors, it strikes me he would not do that if it was a democratic president. >> i want to -- we have breaking news, adam civet schiff. >> that both memoranda be vetted. but that was voted down. i spoke with the director of the fbi earlier this afternoon. he expressed his strong interest in being able to brief our committee, prior to any release of these materials about concerns that the bureau and the department have. i relayed

and lied to the fbi. jeremy bash, joy vance, thank you both and michael schmidt and ari, stay with us. a new poll shows 39% of the people blamed democrats and far more pin the blame on congressional republicans and the president. we'll run through those numbers straight ahead, you are watching "morning joe," we'll be right back. now you can join angie's list for free. which means everyone has access to our real reviews that we actually verify. and we can also verify that what goes down, [ splash, toilet flush ] doesn't always come back up. find a great plumber at angie's list. join today for free. >>> i sat down with president trump on friday and offered him quite a bit. i said if we do dreamers, we'll give you the deal. he basically agreed. and then he backed out that deal and he shut ts the government down. >> senate minority chuck schumer says president trump is ta says he's taking the wall off the table. deputy white house press secretary hogan refuted his claim saying the offer never existed. preside

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 actors at the fbi and the department of justice. also tonight, major developments in the special counsel witch hunt. mueller has now is interviewed attorney general jeff sessions and former fbi director james comey. president trump

all of that comes under the purrview of the fbi. when you started degrading the fbi's credibility, domestically and internationally, it does start to have an effect. i'm not saying they might have information about it. clearly the two people in the texts exhibited poor behavior and should be punished. we should go after them and they deserve due process. that this is now a campaign is really harm have. now to me, the democrats aren't exactly innocent. they'll release their own secret memo. whatever comes out of these investigations, republican or democrat, the american public will be more skeptical about the o outcome and that's not fair. >> stick around. we have lots more to talk about. what legal impact might mccabe stepping down have? mike and i are both veterans, both served in the navy. i do outrank my husband, not just being in the military, but at home. she thinks she's the boss. she only had me by one grade. we bought our first home together in 2010. his family had used another insurance product but i was like well i've had

we have done some reporting based off an internal e-mail that the fbi director sent out to the fbi late this afternoon where he seemed to hint at the ig report. >> inspector general. >> inspector general investigation, that's been ongoing to the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and said he couldn't really talk more about essentially the andrew mccabe situation because of that investigation. so, there are some hints that may be related to this report that's forthcoming. we don't know what happened. something happened in the last few days, perhaps, that caused this. today, andrew mccabe came in, met with the team and staff and said, i'm done. i'm leaving. today is my last day. at 12:00 he left. >> he used to work at the fbi and cia for that matter. how extraordinary and unusual is this, the sudden departure of the career fbi agent under these circumstances? >> i wouldn't call it unusual, wolf, i would call it down right weird. i don't think i have ever seen anything like this. typically, in this situation, if you want to leave quickly, you are going to say on today, tuesday, look, i'l

i spoke to the director of the fbi. he expressed strong interest in being able to brief our committee prior to any release of these materials about concerns the bureau and the department have. interest by the director of the fbi to the appointee of president trump. that was -- they were not willing to meet with the director of the fbi to hear the bureau's concerns. instead, they voted against allowing their own members, as well as the members of the broader house of representatives to be briefed by the department of justice and fbi. finally, i moved that if the majority was going to release the memoranda publicly they release the minority news as well. they be released jointly. the majority on a partyline basis voted against both memoranda been released to the public. they then took up their own memoranda and voted it out to make public. we had a separate vote on minority memoranda and the majority voted against it and allowing the public to see it. they released the memo crowd doesn't want to release the memo now. the

within the fbi and the doj. and president trump today saying he's looking forward to an interview with special counsel robert mueller. our first guest tonight says the attorney general should publicly announce the creation of a doj/fbi task force and the impanelment of a grand jury. joining me tonight, chris farrell. it's great to see you. i want to take up a couple of things first if we may. first, the overall development, the president saying he's now willing to sit down with mueller and have a conversation. your thoughts about the wisdom and the president's courage here. >> i'm sure the president is looking forward to it like he would a root canal, frankly. look, it's a mistake for him to testify or provide testimony to mueller. there's any number of ways to answer mueller's questions. mueller is out for the president to destabilize or to remove him. this is a perjury trap in the making flp's nothing in particular the president -- lou: by the way want which his lead attorney has acknowledged the possibility i

to the rank and file of the fbi. he's saying, i have your back. do your job, do your very tough job, and i'll have your back. and that's something all americans should respect tonight. >> and kaitlyn, how can you speak? what can you say to the communications between jeff sessions, the attorney general, the nation's top law enforcement officer and don mcghan who is white house counsel. >> so axios reported that sessions made wray aware of how reluctant he was to fire mccabe, like we said, that he threatened to resign instead of do that. the message seems to be well received. the issue has been left as it is for now, but yeah, it seems that message was very clearly communicated. and i think it goes back to just the idea that wray is standing up against what would have been at the bare minimum a media field day over the second major firing and then a resignation within the fbi. >> eli stokels, does the president understand the optics or has it been explained to him that you can't keep replacing fbi directors every few w

ron, your view on the fbi story? >> look, i think there are four big pieces, actually i think there's a fifth, in that the missing fbi text messages, hundreds maybe thousands of them between a couple of key players. i think it is troubling when the president, assuming this is true, tries to press the director of the fbi to start replacing staff. that is typically the province of the director himself. he has great latitude in promoting people from within the organization, bringing in some outsiders and you don't see the president of the united states looking to reach inside the fbi, certainly for political purposes -- >> which is what we know was the public criticism donald trump's own words, that he thought the deputy director, which is what this issue boiled down to was somehow against trump, was a comey ally, was a democrat. listen to christopher wray here when he was asked about president trump which now i think is in a new light. >> has president trump ever asked you for loyalty? >> i never been asked by the pres

fbi encourages dr. martin luther king to kill himself because he is such a threat to the nation in their view. the fbi offers this tape. king does not, obviously, kill himself. the fbi offers to turn this tape over to the press. the press turns them down. imagine such an error. the fbi backs off in the face of looming investigation into electronic surveillance. the timing that have works out in his favor, i suppose. from 1965 to 67, lyndon johnson takes over for assassinated john f. kennedy, clamps down on wire tapping, suggests it should be foremanally outlawed. burger v. new york and katz versus united states in 1967. the supreme court in both cases changes its tune and say wire taps have to follow the same procedures for a warrant. there must be probable cause. people initiating the wire tap have to specify the crime they're investigating, specify the place to be searched, the conversations to be seized. in 1968, congress follows suit, sets specific standards for obtaining wire taps. this will not st

lou: justice department and fbi. the agency and department sworn to preserve the national security violating law, law and order, and the constitution, and dye denying congress the fulfillment of its responsibility, which toys oversee those two organizations. what do you think can be done to preserve evidence and bring people who are in positions of authority to bay to prevent further corruption. >> i have worked with the fbi in a variety of capacities. i have enormous admiration for the average fbi agent. lou: the rank and file is not an issue. the department of justice are corrupt, they are crooked and they need to be removed forth with. >> the reputation of both institutions is stained, and the stain is spreading. the attorney general has to act in an extraordinary fashion. i don't think the new director of the fbi understands how serious this is. if you or a business you were running said you lost five months of emails you would be toasted. i think somebody has to take control of the fbi communications before more

the director of the fbi -- fired. special counsel robert mueller's criminal investigation has already shown why the president should be impeached. you can send a message to your representatives at needtoimpeach.com and demand they finally take a stand. this president is not above the law. >>> we reported on a story this week that got a ton of response from our viewers, lots of people contacted us about this story including a heads up about a possible a monkey wrench in the story itself, which i will get to in a second. one of the first and basically still unexplained legal controversies of the trump administration started back in march when the president fired all the u.s. attorneys with no warning, with no successors lined up, no time to plan for the handoff of work in the prosecutor's office. we don't know what that was about last march but then this week was the next big surprise move on these crucial and powerful federal prosecutor positions. thursday marked 300 days since they initially fired them all with no war

fbi that this was happening. everyone is learning this by watching us, by reading it, and that's what's going on now. now the fbi director has to tell a pretty angry -- some angry fbi agents as to what is going on and why is it that they're learning this through media accounts and not directly from him? >> yet it comes on the heels of the president apparently last june, according to a lot of reports, wanting to fire robert mueller, the special counsel. and adam goldman of the "new york times" is still with us. adam, if the president were to fire mueller, he would have to go to rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, who would actually do the firing unless he resigned in protest. >> that's correct. i mean, he can't fire mueller. i think trump realizes the problem is no longer sessions, his problem is rod. if he can perhaps get rid of rod, maybe he can replace -- he can put somebody in the number two spot at doj that could effectively remove mueller. i have to tell you, it seems unlikely. we're in the home str

in the fbi as one of the toughest and best fbi agents there. but by his republican critics who have read a lot of the text exchanges between him and a woman he was in a relationship with, he's become a very polarizing figure. peter struck. what's the significant of peter struck being the person who conducted the interview with mike flynn as you report in your story today? >> well, one interesting thing about it is you have these two figures who played a role in this particular day one year ago. you have andrew mccabe and peter struck. and fast forward a year later and they are both individuals who are under attack from the president and from republicans in congress to some extent, particularly peter struck. so, you know, you could see how that would fuel the perception that this is somehow an investigation that is politically motivated or unfair. and so the fact that the -- those two individuals were there from the start and this significant moment, and are now in the crosshairs currently a year later, we don't know how potentially significant

mccabe has served in the fbi under mueller as fbi director, under james comey, and he's been there since 1986. he has a long history there, he has been in recent months as john just mentioned swirled up in this controversy, not only about the election and what his wife took on campaign contributions in the run for virginia state senate but also text messages and whatever this memo is going to be and we will likely see it in a matter of days, one would think the release of this memo -- the former attorney general doesn't know all of that, what's in there, what's not and obviously he can say that all these attacks and concerns about the fbi are illegitimate but i don't think he knows what he doesn't know. just to put context and that and also the context, eric holder's is the only attorney general censured by congress in -- that we can remember in recent history for the fast and furious investigation. this is all coming to a head and i think you are going to see a lot of detail about the concerns on capitol hill about how the fbi and doj are dealing with this investigation in coming days a

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he has been a career public servant with the fbi. i think he has done an admirable job serving the country and i think this committee and others have done a disservice to mr. mccabe. >> you a long party lines [inaudible] and is there a chance the memo will be released before the five-day window? >> the vote to release >> the vote of having memo releases was on a party line basis. in terps of time table. this is never happened in my experience in the committee. we're on uncharted waters. but if the president expresses the view short of 5 days, i am cope settic with anything being published that helps me, i don't want they have wait five-day, white house made it clear, that they want the memo published even though they have not read it, that should tell you all you need to know about president's priorities. what damage it might do, it is clear thigh wan they want it re. as one of my tea party colleagues said, he was sure that president was going to want to release majority memo, because it was good for him, that is the standard now for

that's what the fbi was, that's what the fbi is. this is insanity. >> shimone, you've been in law enforcement before. know a thing or two about the fbi. what are folks saying about this conflict that spilled out so publicly? >> today a proud moment for some of them. it's nice to be able to put out a statement and defend the organization. >> waus they felt a little battered without being able to say? >> of course. and look at the headlines. it's been the lead story all day now. i think there is some feeling that at least we're fighting. there is a ton of concern over this, more for the inaccuracies. it's clear where devin nunes stands and how he feels about the fbi and where his intent stands. it's clear he's doing this for the white house, for political reasons and that's basically it. there's nothing good that could come of what this memo, releasing this memo. it goes to the credibility of the fbi and the work that they've been do iing. >> by the way, whatever happened to devin nunes being recused from the russia investigation? do

richardson joined the fbi as a special agent in 1996. he has worked with the bureau in louisiana, tennessee, virginia and several stints at headquarters. throughout his career, he specialized in the investigation of white collar crime, public corruption, hate crime, violent crime, gang matters and counterterrorism. since april 2016, mr. richardson has served as assistant director of the criminal investigation division with oversight of all fbi criminal matters. thank you for being here today and -- does he recognize individually or all -- okay. well, thank you for being here today and we're going to recognize you individually so you can begin with your testimony, mr. richardson. >> representative perry, chairman mccaul, ranking member rice and members of the committee, i'd like to thank each of you for inviting me here today to discuss this very important issue. my name is steve richardson, i'm the assistant director for the fbi's criminal investigation division. the issues that we're going to talk about today fall under my leadership at

it's originally came from the fbi. he made the point, i know if you just heard him but he told me this memo was derived and distilled from information that the department gave us. they are saying they have the information it's based on. why do they need to review it? the implication is unless they want to do damage control because they did something wrong with the warrant they had to obtain information on carter page? could he be right? >> the alternative point of view is they already have all this information then what would be the harm in having them review it? that's traditional, long standing tradition. let's be very clear about this. there are actually only two people on the intelligence economy that have read the more -- the deeper, the underlying classified intelligence. for the members of the committee to make this public is a little bit like writing a book review without having read the book. >> i'm saying that's trey gowdy who did see. he's one of the two. >> he knows better in is part of the game. since it's

report about the fbi. the clinton campaign -- >> there's no indication that christopher wray hasn't. >> the clinton campaign wanted to see the i.g. report. they had questions about how jim comey handled her investigation. >> right. >> republicans should want to see it. we should all want to see an independent investigation of the fbi, but this is not what we're now in the business of. we now have this house committee and devin nunes trying to say, forget about the i.g. report, we, in a partisan way, are going to investigate the fbi. that is dangerous. >> a quick last word to peter baker who spent time in moscow, knows a lot more than i do about russia. if you look at all the people contacted by russians, they are certainly more like carter page and george papadopoulos and i don't want to ask you if you think devin nunes is a dope or a dupe, whatever heilman just said, but the idea of whitting r unwitting accomplices, devin nunes and the public-facing actions he's engaged in, would it? >> well, look, there

the actions taken by his fbi, and not taken by the fbi as well showing a particular and determined animus toward bernie sanders and ultimately hillary clinton's opponent in the general election, president donald j. trump. >> i believe there has been a criminal conspiracy to discredit and undermine the duly elected president of the united states. you had a cabal of people who believed was their job to deprive the american people of the president they elected. we can't analyze these data points separately. the text message you showed where lisa page is saying we have to go easy on hillary clinton. ling that to the emails andrew mccabe sent out saying we won't used normal procedures, we won't empower the front-line fbi agents who are apolitical. they were doing everything they could so hillary clinton never faced consequences. lou: the special treatment at headquarters that was called for early, and strong and page had -- strzok and page had gotten their instructions. to see them react in these texts to that is stomach turning. because it is every sign that one could manage in these texts --

by the fbi. here with me now, assistant attorney general. this is a public smack between the fbi and the white house. i might just add again, this fbi director, christopher wray was not a holdover, he was appointed by the president. i imagine they would not go forward with a warning like this unless it's very serious. he is saying this memo is inaccurate and misleading. >> he is. and the fbi hasn't had a chance to review it and do an actual declassification review. the underlying applications would have been fbi information and potentially other intelligence community information. and so normally the way, if congress wants to release something publicly, the way this would work is they would go through a process. the fbi director, department of justice, perhaps the director of national intelligence would have a voice as to whether national security would be harmed by the release of this information. by the house taking the extraordinary vote that they did and then the president saying it's going t

it's the fbi seventh floor. it's individuals like peter strzok who think that they make -- they get to decide who is prosecuted and who isn't prosecuted based upon their political preferenc preferences. we have the text messages. we see the paper trail of how hillary clinton was protected and how if this memo comes out -- and the gop better release this memo. donald trump as a political candidate was targeted for political purposes by the intelligence community. that will make watergate look like child's play. lou: and the presidency being subverted. >> absolutely. lou: at the same time. james comey. i mean james comey as the director of the fbi leaking materials to create an office of special prosecutor so that his friend, robert mueller can attack and undermine the serving president. it is truly outrageous. lou: very quickly, the president, you've looked over, i'm sure, the immigration propoles that his chief of staff, john kelly took to capitol hill. this is not at all, not in any way, really, what he sold to

i speaking to a former fbi official today who says he really fears for the image of the fbi in middle america where a lot of people are watching right wing media and seeing day after day, the fbi denigrated. this is a well regarded law enforcement whose primary mission is counter terrorism, keeping the u.s. safe from overseas terrorists and domestic terrorists and there's a real concern that this could have lasting impact. >> all right, because ken delaney breaks so many stories, we need more of them. >>> the "new york times" reporting this hour that steve bannon is stepping down from his position as executive chairman of breitbart news, jeremy peters who broke the story for the "new york times" spoke to me on the phone. jeremy, big, big deal and a big statement in favor of donald trump from breitbart. >> that's absolutely right, nicole, i mean what you saw happen here over the last few days has forced an inevitable conclusion for steve bannon and to a career at a website that he helped put at the forefront of american 3politics. it reshaped the way we look at immigration, it reshaped

fbi or assistant director. my god, how arrogant can they be? >> i am in 100 percent agreement with you. they want to see the memo first. we shouldn't release the memo. you need to release the memo, because it is not the memo that is going to undermind the integraty or the people's view. integrity. it is it their conduct and action even now with the text messages. it undermines their credibility in the highest levelingly. >> lou: we only have you here a little while. that is to the administration's four pillars of the border security and immigration reform. if we could, we'll put it up. and the white house released today and turns out to call for a 10-12 year path for citizenships and daca recipients and others with work and education requirements and that number would expand it to 5 million people by the way. we are not sure. but there is no numerical cap. and now the wall has suddenly become a 75 billion trust fund. not only the wall, but ports of entry and other expenses to border security. that is a metamorphis and limit chain migration to t

so if jim comey is at the center of the fbi year one, why is fbi it the center as year two beg s begins? mccabe has served 19 years, his team used racketeering laws to go after russian organized crime and sent several people to prison. mccabe said there was a formative experience at the very beginning of his fbi adventure. when trump came in and appointed mueller, when republicans were riding a wave of power in washington, mccabe kept working his way up the ladder. when obama came into office -- >> policies that i have proposed represent a new direction from the last eight years. to protect the american people and our values, we banned enhanced interrogation techniques. >> it was behind the scenes, but at the time, mccabe oversaw that program on requesting suspects. he worked high priority cases investigating the boston bombing and helping find the suspects in the benghazi attacks. as the fbi adjusted to new threats, mccabe was assigned to crimes that actually didn't previously exist. things like getting cyber terrorists and isis recruiters. >> reporter: for eight months, the 17-year-ol

means the president knew flynn lied to the fbi when he met with fbi director james comey the next day. and when he asked him according to comey to drop the investigation of flynn, that moment asking your fbi director to not pursue a criminal infraction you know happened, well, that sounds a lot like obstruction of justice which might explain why soon after that tweet blew up, trump's lawyer rides to the rescue making the somewhat implausible claim he wrote the tweet. no, not trump. his lawyer out of nowhere for no reason who just decided to tweet in his client's name who made this unfortunate nat mistake. okay, sure. but what we learned today fills in some of the holes what trump knew when he fired mike flynn and when he knew it. it took place during a 20-day period in early 2017. the fbi comes to the white house and interviews michael flynn. this is two days after he's been sworn. this is the interview in which flynn lies to the fbi about his conversations with the russian ambassador sergey kislyak. these are the lies for which he was later indicted. flynn reportedly tells no one els

the understanding the fbi needs to operate as an independent agency and, yes, members of the fbi have political opinions like every american. if that's the sole standard, we're in a lot of trouble. the standard needs to be for those fbi agents not to act on their political biases in any investigation. most agents justice is engrained with them. having the president ask the question, it was inappropriate at the very, very least. >> interesting to mueller? >> probably, because if he's trying to show a pattern of behavior, if he's looking to do an obstruction of justice charge which, by the way, i think is really hard to get to. if that's what he's looking to do, he needs to show a pattern of behavior that would lead any jury to conclude, yes, that person was clearly trying to obstruct justice in this case. yeah, i think that's probably likely going to be a question. sounds like, according to e reporting, that mccabe may already have been interviewed about that very topic, about the nature of that conversation. >> if nothing else, it's another reminder of where the president's mind tends

within the justice department, at the fbi, the fbi's director was fired after he says the president told him to lay off the investigation. he conveyed the content to a number of fbi senior officials at the time so they could corroborate what comey said about how the president pressured him to lay off the russia investigation before he refused and he was fired. comey says he reported the president's behavior, the directors about the russia investigation at the time to the p fbi chief of staff. last week that official was let go. he says he conveyed that information to the fbi general counsel who was vently misst re reassigned to a no-show job around christmas with no explanation. james comey reported the president's directors to the fbu deputy director who today was forced out of his job, as well. less than a week ago there was dramatic reporting at axios.com crihristopher wray threatened t resign to protect mccabe. today andrew mccabe was pushed out of his job. christopher wray does not seem to have resigned. whatever is going on where christopher wray was inspiring people with him stand

campaign against the fbi. why some republicans are circling the wagons with conspiracy theories. >> when struck and page described the secret society, that doesn't surprise me. >> and why did he wait two days to tell investigators. >> and one the most interesting man in politics might be about to prove our point again. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. ♪ ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chuck todd here in washington. welcome to "mtp daily." trump won the popular vote. obama was born in kenya. ted ted cruz's father was involved in the kennedy assassination and the nod is state. you are called a conspiracy theorist or the president of the united states. the president attempt to destroy the fbi credibility on the russia probe and the elected republicans who appear to be helping him do it and frankly in some cases you would think know better. mr. trump fired the fbi director last year after allegedly asking him to pledge his loyalty. and as the wash post now reports, that he then quickly summoned the fbi act

>> the fbi -- >> sean: wrong. wrong.g. >> i did not finish the sentence. >> sean: you corroborated two hookers and the roads carlson and moscow -- >> i don't think that happened -- >> hee went to the czech republic, his passport said he never went to the czech republic. >> i will leave you two guys alone. >> sean: do you give up? >> i don't give up but you're not letting me finish a sentence. i'm saying the reason of the dossier -- were done. [laughter] >> sean: hannity hotline, ringing off the hook, the video of the day. after more than 20 years, you can now join angie's list for free. that means everyone has access to our real reviews that we actually verify. and we can also verify that what goes down doesn't always come back up. ♪ [ splash ] [ toilet flushes ] so if you need a great plumber, find one at angie's list. join today for free. because your home is where our heart is. join today for free. you won't see these folks they have businesses to run. they have passions to pursue. how do they avoid trips to

or the fbi. i think that listening to trey gowdy is very instructive because he is saying he wants the fbi to review this. it should be released. let's have it reviewed. republicans shouldn't be interfering with the special counsel. >> well, i wonder, you know, i've worked in the white house where the intelligence leading up to 9/11 became politicized, there was a process to declassify the pdb, what george w. bush saw and knew about bin lauden. dick clark was a whistle blower of sorts, if you will, who was talking about how he had been jumping up and down. there is precedent for intelligence that becomes part of a political food fight being declassified. listening to eric swalwell on our air, it sounds like republicans are so impatient and so zealous to smear the fbi and get ahead of that process that they've got the trump-run d.o.j. sending out a letter saying it is extraordinarily reckless. where do you think, sort of the ar bitter of all that is true and all that are hyperbole, where do you th

, in tatters. >> it's a shame what's happened with the fbi, but we're going to rebuild the fbi. it will be bigger and better than ever, but it is very sad when you look at those documents and how they've done that is really, really disgraceful, and you have a lot of very angry people that are seeing it. >> bear in mind the president isn't slamming the interior department here. he's not publicly attacking a deputy under secretary of state or assistant energy secretary. he's not accusing staffers of political bias. the president of the united states is attacking the public servant, even cabinet members who have had roles or should have bigger and friendlier roles in the various investigations of donald trump j. trump. more on the mccabe part of the news later, but let's focus first on the house intelligence committee eruption. adam schiff joins us. jessica schneider joins us. what's the status of this home moe at this hour? >> we know from an administration official this memo voted out of the committee by the house intelligence committee has been cover youred to the white house. t

the deputy director reports to the fbi director. now andrew mccabe, he's a career fbi agent, has certain protections. he's not a political appointee, so you can't just outright fire him without cause. there has to be some sort of wrongdoing to go ahead and fire a person who has been with the fbi, who has been a career fbi agent, so it's not something that the attorney general could do himself. it also would be pretty difficult for the fbi director to do it. again, you need to have some cause, some wrongdoing. he could have reassigned andy mccabe to a field office to another position at the fbi, but as we've been reporting, mccabe has been saying he's going to retire come march. he plans to retire given all the political backlash that he has received because of his connections to the hillary clinton e-mail investigation, to the fact that his wife was running for state office in virginia. all of that probably weighing heavily on him as he approaches perhaps the last month as the deputy director. >> and he's going to retire in march be

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 released, that will bring down the fbi. devon nunes has written the memo that reportedly says the fbi behaved badly somehow when it obtained search warrants from a court to collect evidence in the russia investigation. this, this memo that he wrote has been an all-consuming thing in republican congressional politics and technically in conservative media and at the

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of the justice department and fbi. we provided more than 1,000 pages of classified documents related to the fbi's relationship if any with a source and its reliance if any on information provided by that source. okay. media reports that the committee's memorandum contains classified material confidentially provided in a secure facility. they then explain in a footnote that when the justice department gave this classified information to devon nunes and the intelligence committee, he wasn't supposed to share it. he wasn't then supposed to show it to every other republican member of the house, which is what he has now down. quote, the terms of access for that classified information stipulated that review of the documents would be limited to the chairman, mr. nunes or his designee, adam schiff or his designee and two staff members each. that's it. the department takes any allegation of abuse of our justice system seriously. further we assume that intelligence committee members want to provide evidence of any allegation of

the characters are real and damage the integrity of the fbi. attorney general jeff sessions confirms fbi agent peter strzok and lisa paige exchanged more than 50,000 text messages for two years, some of those texts are missing. sessions without the justice department will leave no stone unturned in searching for them. lawmakers want to know if any criminal activity has taken place. >> we need a second special counsel to get to the bottom of this and answer the questions we have. >> reporter: republicans are concerned about corruption in the fbi's leadership referring to this text that reveals strzok's reference to an insurance policy and meeting in andy's office, went on to say, throwing out for consideration in andy's office, there is no way trump gets elected, but i'm afraid we can't take that risk. goes on to say that like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die when you are 40. that and others have lawmakers concerned certain fbi agents are operating a secret society meant to discredit zen candidate donald trump. >> you have this