, he is shining a light on this unusual relationship between daniel richman and the fbi. i had not noticed before. watch this. >> the oversight committee and judiciary committee interviewed james rybicki. during the deposition, it was brought out that daniel richman, the guy who information was leaked through to "the new york times" had the special's status called special government employee status where he could come and go in the fbi which may not mean much but it seems interesting the guy that comey leaks to hide this sort of unfettered access into the fbi. >> sean: amazing. congressman jordan detailed possible deep state collusion between the media and some of the highest ranking officials in the government over the salacious anti-trump, untrue, unverified clinton bought and paid for, phony russian dossier. take a look. >> james clapper probably leaked >> the press was working on it, the dossier. you have the cover-up, briefed the president-elect. >> it gives it weight and that's what happened. my guess is that clapper is one who orchestrated. he said to comey, you talk about i

his friend daniel richman. he's documented that those conversations he had with the president were more widely known. patrick fitzgerald was one of the likely recipients and did not rule out a third individual. during his sworn testimony, comey gave no indication the memos went beyond the professor. >> my judgment was i needed to get that out into the public square so i asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with the reporter. i didn't do it myself for a variety of reasons but i thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. i asked a close friend of mine to do it. >> who was that? >> a good friend of mine who is a professor at columbia law school. >> there asking to call richman and others under oath to see how the information was handled to the media by other fbi leadership. >> he wasn't just leaking this information to a friend at "the new york times," he was a special government employee. he had access to the fbi. we presume he had full clearanc clearance. he did not disclose that. frankly, there's no one on capitol hill who thinks this was the

to the media. now daniel richman confirming to fox news that he worked as a unpaid basis. here is ohio congressman jim jordan on the house oversight about it? >> the oversight committee. jim rybicki. during that deposition daniel richman the guy the information was leaked to through the "new york times" had special status, special government employee status where he could sort of come and go in the fbi, which may not mean much, burr it seems kind of interesting the guy that comey leaks to is a good friend who in this unfettered access into the fbi. >> harris: looking into it for us catherine herridge live in washington. catherine? >> thanks, harris. fox news first contacted daniel richman on friday about his special government employee status and he declined to comment. and then we got additional information about the scope of his work and the nature of his work and we went back to him. but, yesterday, and to his credit, richman confirmed that he did work as an sge or special government employee under director comey. sources familiar with richman's work at the fbi said he was assi

three people. columbia university professor daniel richman, as well as to lawyers. that comey says represented him. republicans, meanwhile, who conduct oversight of the justice department insist content of conversations behind closed doors like the one that comey got to reporters through a third-party are privileged. democrats say they are not all ready to make a determination yet. >> the committee did not use that subpoena power for bank records, phone records, other things that would have verified but was told to us. it wasn't a serious investigation. >> that was congressman castro talking about a russia investigation report that was out today. he told us separately that he's not ready to make the determination about whether or not comey leaked or not. he wants to wait for an investigation. comey also said he never saw any bias in the publicly available text messages between peter strzok and lisa page, the fbi agents who were actually removed from the mueller probe, from the special counsel's office for anti-trump type messages. investigators released 49 new pages of text message

individual besides daniel richman, the columbia professor, who we find out now was working for free for the fbi, perhaps, with a top security clearance. this is getting ridiculous in terms of what we didn't know before this book came out. steve: he is on this book tour. apparently he told 600,000 of those books. that's a big number. i think he went over to cnn yesterday to do the town hall with anderson cooper and he thought it was going to be really easy. anderson cooper actually was very good at trying to pin him down about leaking these memos. anderson thinks he leaked memos. we think he leaked memos. mr. comey, not so much. listen. >> you did leak memos. is it okay for somebody at the fbi to leak internal document even if it's not classified was that leaking. >> there is a whole lot wrong with your question; i didn't leak memos, i intentionally gave this information to a friend intending that it be out in the media. i wanted it to get in the media. as a private citizen i could do that and did that just asry written about it into n. my book. brian: private citizen with documents that you

this memo to his friend, professor daniel richman of columbia university. tonight sources are revealing comey's current lawyer, longtime friend patrick fitzgerald. you remember the scooter libby case, he was also given this potentially classified information. these documents. and sources are also claiming that comey may have leaked the memos to yet another unnamed individual. moments ago here's how james comey tried to explain these leaks he never told us about before. >> i sent one memo, unclassified, still unclassified. to my friend dan richman. asked him to get the substance of it to the media. i wrote a bunch of memos about my interactions with president trump and i was what was called an original classification authority at the fbi meaning i had the training and authority to make decisions about what should be classified, what shouldn't. some of these memos i decided should be classified. for others, i wrote them, and i was confident they should not be classified. those four, i kept a copy at the fbi and in my personal safe at home. after i was fired, i put together legal

leake leakd those memos is much more than a professor. daniel richman worked for comey as the so-called special government employee. richmond has a security clearance and access to fbi buildings. wwe'll have a full report on reu in minutes. >>> the deep state judiciary striking again. a third federal district court judge ordering the president of the united states to reinstate daca. these federal court judges now seem to be trying to run the country's immigration policies. is this really what our founders had in find in the bush-appointed judge imperiously overruling home security and capriciously rule that obama's executive order take takes prect over president trump's executive order. that is the kind of nonsense that passes for legal reasoning in many of our federal courts. we'll take up the need to roll up the deep state judiciary. andy bigg and former trump aide dr. sebastian gorka joining us tonight. >> republicanscrashing democratic hopes of defeating republicans in a wave election this year. instead the republicans won the arizona 8th congressional seat in last night's sp

shared his memos with multiple individuals not just columbia law professor daniel richman. comey telling fox news's brett where he also shared documents with his legal team. comey now claims it actually was not a leak, not at all. listen to this. >> i don't consider it a leak. told him of bauden nonclassified conversation with the president. i gave him nothing else ever. >> you set in the memos i said i don't do sneaky things. i don't leak and i don't do -- moves that we can argue with a leak is. that is a leak, is it not? >> it's not. trish: okay, it's not he says. president trump unequivocally stating comey -- . >> comey is a leaker and he is a liar and not only on this stuff. he's been leaking for years. he has probably been using his friend the so-called professor who now turns out to have fbi clearance which he never said that even lied about that so he did an illegal act and he said it himself in order to get a special counsel against me. trish: i remember watching that testimony. he did say it himself and i was stunned when i heard as i said wait a second he is leaking to

professor. daniel richman worked for comey as the so-called special government employee. richmond has a security clearance and access to fbi buildings. wwe'll have a full report on reu in minutes. >>> the deep

likely recipient. that's in addition to columbia law professor daniel richman and they're not ruling out a third individual. after president trump fired him, coney did not describe richman as an fbi employee and gave no indication that the memos were shared more broadly. >> i asked a friend of mine to share them with a reporter. i didn't do it myself for a variety of reasons. i thought him doing it would prompt a special counsel. >> this apparent omission did not go unnoticed by the president. >> he never said that in congress. he said he gave it to a friend. he gave it to a friend to leak classified information. he did an illegal act. he said it himself in order to get a special counsel. against me. >> corey, the plot thickens. even if comey did something that was illegal with secret information in the memos, will he ever pay a price for that? >> i sure home so. in addition to leaking classified information, what we know if you're an fbi agent and you receive information as a professional in that capacity, you're not allowed to give out that information without the express written a

. the first lawyer, daniel richman, is that person to whom comey leaked seven stolen presidential memos, four of which were classified. >> sean: is that a conflict? >> so now he can hide behind the attorney-client privilege with richman, and if he also gave those same memos to fitzgerald, and i believe he did, he has now hired him to hide behind the attorney-client privilege. >> sean: the guy that puts scooter libby, who was recently pardoned, he's the one who put him on trial. got a conviction. >> that's correct. so you've got comey now versus mccabe. i suspect mccabe is going to start singing like a a canary because he is in serious legal jeopardy now with the criminal referral against him for lying to the inspector general. >> sean: sara, last word. >> i think a lot of people are singing like canaries, peter strzok and lisa page and everybody else. >> sean: why do they still have top security clearance? why do they still have access to this information? >> i think it's important because i think the inspector general still has access to them as long as they are still employed. r

you find out? >> in an e-mail to fox news, daniel richman said he was a special government employee known by sge on an unpaid basis. comey assigned him to special projects. he had a security clearance as well as badge access to the fbi building here in washington. richman's employment, which lasted more than a year, was formalized through a memorandum. senator chuck grassly questioned cge employees. after comey was fired, he did not describe richman as an former employee. he said he gave them to richman to kick start who is knew the mueller probe. >> i asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. i didn't do it for a variety of reasons. i did it because i thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. so i asked a friend of mine to do it. >> who was that? >> a good friend of mine from columbia law school. >> fox news understands that richman was sent talking points on the clinton e-mail investigation specifically the government server used for business and sandy berger, the late national security adviser under president clinton. an fbi sp

on whether a line may have been crossed. >> an email to fox news, columbia law professor daniel richman confirmed he worked for then fbi director james comey as a special government employee. known by the shorthand sge. on an unpaid basis. sources familiar with richman's work say comey assigned him a special projects. had a security clearance and badge access. republican lawmakers want more answers. >> maybe we need to talk to mr. richman under oath in front of members of the judiciary and oversight committees. would've been nice if we would've had a full understanding of the full relationship mr. comey had with the guy who orchestrated the leaks. >> during his june 2017 testimony, comey did not describe richman as an fbi employee. the former director testified he gave the memos, documents and conversations with the president, to richmond kick start what's now the mueller probe. >> i asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. i didn't do it myself for a variety of reasons but i asked him to because i thought it might prompt the point of a special co

. catherine? >> in an email to fox news, columbia law professor daniel richman confirmed he worked for then fbi director james comey as a special government employee. not by the shorthand, sge, on an unpaid basis. sources familiar with his work said that comey assigned him to special projects. he had a security clearance as well as badge access to the building. a replica lawmakers want more answers. >> maybe we need to talk to mr. richman under oath, and front of members of fiduciary and oversight committee. it would have been nice if we had a full understanding of the full relationship with that mr. comey had with a guy who orchestrated the leak. >> during his june 2017 testimony, comey did not describe richman as an fbi employee. the former director testified that he gave the memos documenting conversations with the president to richmond to kick-start what is now the mueller probe. >> asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with the reporter, didn't do it myself for a variety of reasons, i asked him to because i thought that might prop the appointment of a special counsel.

don't know how much he sent. it's been reported that four were sent to daniel richman. >.we interviewed the oversight committee and the judiciary committee interviewed jim ra vickie. and during that deposition it was brought out that daniel richman had a special status called special government employee status where he could come and go from the fbi, which may not mean much but it seems interesting that the guy who comey leak to is a good friend with unfettered access into the fbi. >> there was a report that jeff sessions told the white house if rosenstein is fired, i'm gone too. you met with rosenstein, what do you think? >> we met with him to give us the information. two weeks ago mark meadows and i met with the new point person, the guy facilitating getting the information to the congress. the u.s. attorney from chicago. he seems like a nice guy but i asked him four simple questions. i said what's the proximate number of documents we're entitled to, what's the number of steps in the counter process, what's the standard use to determine what gets redacted and what doesn't and when are

name is daniel richman, and we are just learning he had s.g.e., that is a special status at the fbi. special government employee is what that stands for. steve: that's right. so that kind of changes everything. because he had special status, he had security clearance, so he -- you know, the secret documents that comey gave him that he could leak, he could, it looks like, could actually view them. what's interesting is though, out of -- the fbi has 35,000 employees. why did james comey have to give another fbi employee these leaks that he -- and -- you know, these documents. we don't know how many times this guy actually leaked to any press. pete: no we don't. steve: we know for sure once. but were there others. this guy is one of his attorneys, along with u.s. attorney peter fitzgerald. ainsley: client attorney privilege. he shows a friend, someone in the media, a law professor and an attorney. and he gave him status at the fbi. he covered all of his bases. pete: of course he did. on the surface it almost looks better. this guy had a security clearance. comey is giving him the docum

conversations with president trump and several people including daniel richmond, the columbia law professor. >> i sent mr. richman a copy of a two-page unclassified memo and asked him to get the substance out to the media. >> you called him a good friend and a professor but you didn't reveal he was special government employee for the fbi to work on special projects. why? >> because it wasn't relevant. he was an fbi special government employee until february of 2017. >> did you leak other things to mr. richman? >> yeah. i was smiling, brett. i don't consider what i did a leak. i told him about an unclassified conversation with the president. >> jon: let's bring in leslie marshall and lawrence jones, editor in chief of campus refor reform.org. thanks for being here. is it a leak or not? >> it's not whether it's a leak or whether it was a criminal offense. we're getting into the weeds with semantics on that. i do think the information was leaked. but what was the intent of james comey? when we look under the current actual actually obama executive order, he had the power to declassify attorney