gop congressman devon nunez is going after anybody he thinks lied and tried to defame him. ranking member on the house until committee filing another multimillion dollar lawsuit. the time against the mcclatchy newsgroup and a gop strategist, david fund dealing into the allegations. >> it began with headline in a california newspaper, cocaine, prostitutes, partly owned by nunez, sued after a fundraiser event. >> they retract what they did against me but need to come clean with the american people. >> reporter: devon nunez is ready for courtroom clash. he filed a $150 million lawsuit against mcclatchy, the parent company of the fresno beat, the article describes allegations of the 2015 party aboard a yacht involving 25 men used cocaine andrew straws for sex workers, nunez says the men were not investors and he had nothing to do with anything on the boat that dan is furious as the words cocaine and prostitutes. that he have a case? >> i think he does but it will be fact sensitive. >> he claims he had nothing to do with any cocaine or any prostitutes and there is no reason to d

shannon: todd: 1 about the global leak referral devon nunez mentioned? >> this is also position. i don't know who this is. is that john brennan? clapper? i don't know. i think john brennan was more of a puppetmaster than people first thought. >> you have this list, these committal referrals, eight to the doj? what happens next? what could be the outcome for all this? >> this is up to 2 dozen criminal referrals and what can happen, he referred these to ag bar, he will look at these results and i have to tell you i don't think he will dismiss these out of hand, the former head of the house intelligence committee making these referrals. if he decides to take them up and investigate them and does find criminal behavior people go to jail and that's the important thing here. i do think crimes were committed. people used our surveillance state and law enforcement as political tools against political opponents over policy differences. for us to not have consequences a reckoning is to normalize it. i hope bar will be serious about this and i hope there will be consequences and i hope ther

democrats making it about the mueller report and republican devon nunez sending eight criminal referrals to the ag, some big names could be in very big trouble. straight to kristin fisher with the latest on bold moves regarding key players on immigration. >> three major shakeups in 5 days. first the acting head of ice, then secretary kirsten nielsen and the director of the secret service at a time when even the homeland security secretary under president obama concedes there is a crisis at the border. ron johnson issued a statement saying, quote, i'm concerned with the growing leadership void in the department tasked with significant problems facing the nation and democratic senator dianne feinstein notes that the department of homeland security, 10 top positions filled by someone in an acting capacity adding, quote, the leadership of the homeland security department is unprecedented and a threat to our national security. more changes are likely due in large part by the president's domestic policy chief stephen miller who last week was given total jurisdiction over immigration. is known

katherine herridge also has more about those criminal referrals devon nunez just sent to the doj. >> fox news is the eight criminal referrals include conspiracy and go well beyond eight individuals, sources familiar with the matters say as many as 2 dozen targets may be implicated. the formal notification went to william barr last week and the winking republican on the house intelligence committee devon nunez, republican congressman john radcliffe, the two lawmakers offered to brief bar as early as convenient about the allegations that brought the committee's to your russia probe that focused on the anti-trump dossier. the referral includes issues surrounding the democrats and that opposition research from fusion gps. for british spy christopher steele. the dossier was used in october 2015 to secure a surveillance ward for carter page. bar testified that he is personally reviewing the genesis of the fbi's 2016 russia investigation and it laid the foundation for the mueller program. and he wants to be sure there was no unauthorized surveillance of the trump campaign. >> i not seen the

. >> let the prosecutors do their job, not the politicians, devon nunez wants to make a. i have faith in bar because of his distinguished career of public service but more faith than i had yesterday. jillian: thank you for your time. rob: down to the wire, close election for benjamin netanyahu with a razor thin lead seeking a record fifth term. jillian: live in jerusalem with election results and what it means for the united states, stay right there. ♪ -we bought a house in a neighborhood with a lot of other young couples. then we noticed something...strange. oh, could you, uh, make me a burger? -poof -- you're a burger. [ laughter ] -everyone acts like their parents. -you have a tattoo. -yes. -fun. do you not work? -so, what kind of mower you got, seth? -i don't know. some kid comes over. we pay him to do it. -but it's not all bad. someone even showed us how we can save money by bundling home and auto with progressive. progressive can't protect you from becoming your parents. but we can protect your home and auto. progressive can't protect you from becoming your parent

rob: devon nunez says his criminal referrals are signed, sealed and delivered. jillian: why are democrats struggling to control the mueller nest egg? inclusion a political statement. rob: a school district raising the black lies matter flag today. "fox and friends first" continues. ♪ >> you are the only person who doesn't move when you hear it but it is -- rob: i am not moving. thursday happy hour. jillian: more on that later. good morning. you are watching "fox and friends first" on friday morning. i did not put happy hour on thursday. rob: thanks for starting your day with us, you were smarter than me. julian assange not going down without a fight, a legal battle is expected over his extradition to the united states. jillian: the doj accuses him of working with chelsea manning unclassified information. rob: washington's reaction. >> reporter: opinions run the gamut, some applauding his request, others worried about journalists. the president trying to stay out of it. >> i know nothing about wikileaks. there is something having to do with julian assange, seei

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if you sound like devon nunez, you are do, it wrong. remember, this is someone over the past weeks he has been precise in his language, the purposely vague letters of the report. yesterday in the house saying i'm not making news today and saying nothing. so when he used the word spying today. he meant it. the question is exactly what game was he playing, but it's not a slip. it's not an accident, it's not something we should give him a pass on. >> april, he used the word spying. look, the word spying is a heavily charged word. it is also, it's a legal word. okay. when someone is an informant or an act or a spy or under, you know, investigation, these are very specific terms. spy is not a specific term. spy is a term but evocation certain things that seem to play to the audience of one. >> right. there are a couple things here, erin. in that audience, one is always watching. but especially in their executive time. but, erin, the word spying and this moment was a strategically placed moment for shock and awe. william barr knew exactly wha

. >> the investigation led by devon nunez into the origin of mueller's investigation appears to be growing, sources telling fox news 2 dozen individuals may be implicated in the referrals into attorney general william barr. nunez wants questions answered around the anti-trump dossier used to secure surveillance warrants as a member of the trump campaign. >> ever set up involved. if mueller can't get to the bottom of this i don't know what the report was worth. >> chuck grassley and lindsey graham are demanding in a letter to the attorney general more information by the fbi's clinton email investigation included access to classified materials. it is in a press release seeking doj permission. it is necessary to complete the investigation. but it was never sent to the doj and the investigation was disclosed shortly thereafter. the justice department offered no comments beyond the attorney general's testimony vowing to take a look. all this before we know what is inside the mueller report that would be released tomorrow and redacted. and great skepticism over what we will see and what we will

congressman devon nunez is naming names. the top republican on the house intel committee sending criminal referrals for potential violations in the russia probe. >> referrals based on lying, obstruction of congressional investigation and leaking. we had global leaks referral and conspiracy referrals based on manipulation of intelligence. the second one is based on fisa abuse and other matters. >> reporter: nunez notifying bill barr in a letter, the names could be secret to the public. federal prosecutors drop 36 charges on michael avenatti. the embattled attorney is accused of stealing settlement money from a paraplegic client and could face 333 years in prison if convicted on all charges. he says he is innocent and will plead not guilty tweeting for 20 years i represented david versus goliath and relied on due process in the system of justice. along the way i have made many powerful enemies. i'm entitled to a full production of innocence and am confident justice will be done once all the facts are known. avenatti is accused

devon nunez said of the text, quote, this is more evidence of the fbi trump russia investigation was filled with irregularities. there was no response from lawyers for stzrok and page and chuck grassley and ron johnson say these and other incidents should be investigating adding any improper fbi surveillance activity will be properly addressed. shannon: two top senate republicans say the fbi spying on the trump campaign may have continued after the election in the transition. go. he is the president's reaction to these new text messages. >> you see now they tried to infiltrate the white house. it is a disgrace and hopefully the attorney general will do what is right and i really believe he will. former solicitor general of texas, scott keller and former utah congressman jason chaffetz, welcome to you both. one of the things this letter talks about is asking about these briefings going on with the transition team. and the letter senators grassley and johnson asked were these briefings used as intelligence gathering operations. any fbi surveillance activities conducted after the 2016 e

nunez but taking a look at james comey's handling of classified information. the man who cleared hillary clinton of her wrongdoing being looks at himself or mishandling classified information, the memos he wrote of his conversations with donald trump. we know four of those are classified, one or more may have been leaked based on numbers we know were shared and we also know the fbi scrubbed offices where the classified information was leaked so look for that and we will really see just how bad the comey fbi was when these reports come out. >> james comey was fired by donald trump in may 2017. democrats demanding documents donald donald trump's plan to send migrants to sanctuary cities. we then following that. some of those cities pushing back, even threatening legal action. griff jenkins is live for us in washington where this story has taken on a life of its own. what is going on? >> reporter: let me try to put this together. house democrats are responding to a threat and rejected on legal advice of immigration officials but involving a legitimate effort to p

devon nunez said, this is more evidence that the fbi trunk brush investigation was filled with irregularities. >> there was no immediate response from lawyers for lisa struck lisa lisa page and peter strzok. adding any improper fbi surveillance activities must be brought to life and properly addressed. >> chris: catherine, thank you. the pentagon inspector general has cleared acting defense secretary patrick shanahan of wrongdoing. in connection with allegations, and he used his government post to favor his former employer, boeing. the ruling appears to open the door for president trump to nominate shanahan to become the permanent pentagon chief. but the white house has not said whether the president plans to name him. that sent the dow spiraling to a 135-point loss today. the s&p 500 was down one, the nasdaq gained 17. now, to a shocking story about north korea and the american student who died after his confinement there. before releasing otto warmbier in 2017, the north korean government submitted a $2 million medical bill to the u.s. state department. rich edson has the details and reacti

here is devon nunez from sunday. what can you tell us, tell us as much as you can about breaking this news this morning that you are prepared to send eight criminal referrals next week. >> 5 of them are straight up referrals, referrals that name someone and name the specific crimes. those crimes are lying to congress, misleading congress, leaking classified information. there are three that are more complicated. the first is fisa abuse and other matters, there was a conspiracy to lie to the fisa court. by numerous individuals. the second conspiracy one involves manipulation of intelligence, that could inspire many americans but third is what i call a global leak referral. there are a dozen highly sensitive information leaked to only a few reporters over the last 21/2 plus years. maria: the combination, no secret that the trump administration was spied on and leaking and conspiracy to mislead the fisa court. i don't understand why there is such shock and surprise and being stunned on the part of the democrats and we k

shannon: we learned about criminal referrals to the ranking republican devon nunez so we know there are a lot of threats. a long day for you. a little light reading for us tonight. donald trump says it is game over, democrats say the president better buckle up. kristin fisher is following latebreaking news. >> reporter: for the first time in two years donald trump can go to sleep knowing the american public now knows he was telling the truth when he said no collusion. no obstruction claim is quite murky but the white house believes today was a good day for donald trump. when donald trump landed tonight in west palm beach for a weekend at mara lago he told supporters on the tarmac the same thing he tweeted earlier in the day, game over. before landing the president pushed back on lingering questions, special counsel did not answer in his report. the president says he did not obstruct justice because i had the right to end the whole witchhunt if i wanted. i could have fired everyone including mueller if i wanted. i chose not to. i have the right to use executive privilege, i didn't even t

bar of taking unprecedented steps to spin the report ahead of it but the house intel ranking member devon nunez had this to say. >> the constitution has three branches of government, executive branch, legislative branch and judicial branch of the executive branch and attorney general can do whatever he wants to do. it's not for the legislative branch to tell them what to do or how to conduct themselves. rob: we also know the president's attorney rudy giuliani has been working on a response. we are not sure if -- one thing is for sure, we will hear more on twitter. rob: it is going to be a big day. jillian: democrats already fuming before william barr takes to the podium. rob: joe jenna versus the attorney general is going to set a corrupt congress. >> william barr, the new sheriff in town is going to hold a news conference at 9:30. by doing so he will confront the rebellious, abusive congress under the charge of the democrats and the house of representatives, he will start a process which is going to lead to a series of federal grand jury to hold accountable all the people you are talking

the investigation led by congressman devon nunez on to the origin of the special counsel appears to be growing. sources telling fox news as many as 2 dozen individuals may be implicated in criminal referrals. at issue, the trump dossier used to secure surveillance warrant on the amendment. >> there was a set up involved. if mueller can't get to the bottom of this i don't know what the report was. >> reporter: the justice department is not going be on the previous testimony he is reviewing the genesis of the investigation. meanwhile three top republican senate committee chairman, chuck grassley, lindsey graham and ron johnson demanding a letter to the attorney general more information why the fbi clinton email investigation concluded without accessing classified materials. grassley's office, if the fbi is seeking doj permission to review highly classified information necessary to complete the investigation. the memo was never sent to doj. the media investigation was closed shortly thereafter. all of this comes before we know what is inside the budget in the mueller reports it to be rele

. >> paul ryan and devon nunez and i spent a lot of time asking the fbi about the briefings because they've done for other folks, they did for the clinton campaign. the expiration given us by the bureau was this. we did go to brief the president, the candidate initially. but one of the people we wanted to brief him on was in the room with him so we couldn't do a briefing on person x while person x was sitting right next to him. papadopoulos and page were never that close to him. the question then is it you go back. the fbi mission to me was we don't have a good explanation for why we did not go back and brief him later. shannon: we know the attorney general is tracing back, the inspector general is looking at the documents. based on what he had to say here is what nancy pelosi said in reaction. >> let me just say how very dismaying and disappointing that the chief law enforcement officer of our country is going off the rails yesterday and today. >> democrats a bar can't be trusted, he was a political appointee who auditioned for the job of president so anything that filters through him can'

nunez had this to say. >> the constitution has three branches of government, executive branch, legislative branch and judicial branch and the executive branch and attorney general can do whatever you wants to do. not for the legislative branch to tell him what to do or how to conduct themselves. >> reporter: we also know that the white house, the president's attorney rudy giuliani has been preparing a counter response, whether there is a press conference, we will see something on twitter. one thing that is interesting to watch is who at the white house was spoken to go whether they are running for cover because the president will see for the first time that they spoke to the government and you know how things work in washington. it could be a very interesting morning. >> we've heard there are a lot of nervous people in the administration. jillian: getting democrats worked up even before taking to the podium. >> the attorney general today is going to set congress free. >> william barr is going to hold a news conference at 9:30. by doing so he will confront a rebellious, abusive congress und

. >>> top republican on the house intel committee devon nunez is accusing robert mueller of spying on president trump citing wednesday's testimony from attorney general bill barr. >> now we have an attorney general who calls spying for what it is. in late 2015, early 2016 spying began on the trump campaign. that information leaked to what they considered to be legal spying. then you have the culmination of the ultimate spying where you have the fbi director spying on the president, taking notes, illegally leaking those notes or classified information. why? so they can appoint a special counsel to spy on an acting president again. >> the justice department is reportedly concerned about partisan allies of the president using barr's phrasing to suggest that something illegal occurred. a person familiar with the attorney general's thinking said to "the washington post" that barr of not trying from provide conservatives with rhetorical red meat and using the word "spying" in the technical sense of collecting intelligence, something barr attempted to clarify himself. >> spying on a politica

let's bring ranking republican member of the committee, devon nunez. i want to read a tweet from the democratic caucus chairman saying so-called attorney general is presiding over a dog and pony show. you have 0 credibility and there is a huge list of democrats who have come forward to say give us the report and let the american people decide. your response. >> two thoughts on that. last time i checked the constitution has three branches of government, executive ranch, legislative branch and judicial branch and the executive branch and attorney general can do whatever he wants to do. it's not for the legislative branch to tell them what to do or how to conduct themselves. he can have one press conference written press conferences. the second thing i would say is the irony and hypocrisy, they put us through a dog and pony show for 2 and half years, so they have evidence of russian colluding with trump and the reality is the only thing found were russians colluding with the clinton campaign and the democratic party. i don't need to hear about dog and pon

nunez formal criminal referral sent to the attorney general over the origins of the mueller probe. he wants questions answered regarding the dossier that was used to obtain surveillance warrants. >> if mueller can't get to the bottom of the, i don't know what the report was really worth. >> reporter: as for the relief itself, trauma, there will be more than 400 pages potentially of the mueller report and the redaction of the things that have been blacked out. the white house, we're told, has prepared their own rebuttal report that could run north of 40 pages. get comfy and get your reading glasses. in washington, fox news. >>> hopefully there will be a good night for baseball tonight. >> it will be a beautiful night. we're in the clear across most areas. with some patchy fog. were watching the camera over the past hour or so. we have some patches of fog in the left portion of the screen. mostly clear skies and the same deal in the south day. san jose is definitely approaching the lower 80s for thursday afternoon. we're treading out the temperatures. yesterday we had 60s and 70s and

nunez scrambling to try to prove the president was right and he was somehow being framed for collusion with russia. bill barr is old enough to know that. he knows what he's doing, feeding into these conspiracy theories because he knows that's what the president wants to hear and it is just deeply, deeply irresponsible behavior for the nation's senior law enforcement officer to be doing this and tlo uhhing the fbi and the justice department under the bus here. >> thank you all. i appreciate it. >> thanks, don. >> mayor pete buttigieg, and vice president pence, a discussion next. quite a lot of colleges to pay for though. a lot of colleges. you get any financial advice? yeah, but i'm pretty sure it's the same plan they sold me before. well your situation's totally changed now. right, right. how 'bout a plan that works for 5 kids, 2 dogs and jake over here? that would be great. that would be great. that okay with you, jake? get a portfolio that works for you now and as your needs change from td ameritrade investment management. travel and dining now kayak and opentable let you earn travel

it seems to me right now that that is the agenda of devon nunez and other people. >> where are you on the dossier after all these months? the dossier, what worth would you attach to it right now? all this stuff? >> it seemed to me based on what i heard that there were parts of it that were relevant. there were some parts that were not. i hope with the mueller report we will get a better sense for that. the country should be able to make their own judgment about the dossier and everything else. >> we will see. joaquin castro of texas. a member of the house intelligence committee. who is in charge after kirstjen nielsen's ouster. five other officials expected to leave. who is running our home front security. is stephen miller the guy to do trump's dirty work? ahead of today's election in israel, president trump went out of his way to boost his friend, benjamin netanyahu, making shifts that could have far reaching rammive kag iification country and whether trump's efforts paid off for his bud. we have a lot to do tonight. stick with us. a lot to do tonig. stick with us. mom! he's blinkin

nunez scrambling to try to prove the president was right and he was somehow being framed for collusion with russia. bill barr is old enough to know that. he knows what he's doing, feeding into these conspiracy theories because he knows that's what the president wants to hear and it is just deeply, deeply irresponsible behavior for the nation's senior law enforcement officer to be doing this and throwing the fbi and the justice department under the bus here. >> thank you all. i appreciate it. >> thanks, don. >> mayor pete buttigieg, and vice president pence, a discussion next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> the vice president and the former governor of indiana, mike pence, and the democratic presidential candidate, and mayor of south bend, indiana, pete buttigieg, they're locked in a battle over religious beliefs and lgbtq rights. the two are former colleagues and according to mike pence friends. that's what makes this feud. the vice president is hiding behind friendship to defend his policies that buttigieg is calling out as wrong. show you what i mean. buttigieg lobbied the first

congressman devon nunez tells fox news the investigation focused on the genesis of the fbi probe and whether the surveillance warrant was lawfully obtained. >> bret: thank you. israelis have a big decision to make tomorrow, major ramifications on u.s. foreign policy. prime minister is up for a fifth term and he is facing his toughest opponent in years, correspondent troy gangsta set that up for us tonight from jerusalem. >> is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu strolled through the main market today talking to voters. he is up against his former chief of staff of the blue-and-white party who also spent the weekend campaigning. >> we will not let him be the largest party. israel is expected to see one of its tightest elections, amid major scandals. in february is rails attorney general announced plans to indict the prime minister on bribery and corruption charges. weeks later he saw his name is doing across papers is a story broke that the iranians hacked his phone. he has relied heavily on support from the president of united states. president trump has spoken extensively about

devon nunez over on fox. >> now we have an attorney general who calls spying for what it is. then the ultimate spying where you have the fbi director spying on the president taking notes illegally leaking those notes of classified information. why? so they could appoint a special counsel to spy on an acting president again. >> well, i mean, we saw conservatives launch on to this immediately as evidence that there was some deep-seeded, you know, bureaucratic conspiracy to hurt donald trump. and i think it comes on a week when there are already a lot of questions about the president trying to make agencies overtly political. either be it the federal reserve or the department of homeland security. and it's definitely something that is, i think, concerning to liberals and critics of barrs because it is coming right before the mueller report potentially comes out. >> there's another thing that rosenstein said, not only not that bill barr is not trying to mislead anybody. one thing if you put out a letter and said, i am not going to give you the report. what barr said, look, it wil

nunez. >> let me say and also the current general at the fbi also when he was acting, i think he was acting deputy attorney general at the time. >> he was also the u.s. attorney in the eastern district of virginia. >> also involved in approving under surveillance. why he can't get a briefing by all of those. it's not as he suggested today, well, i'm not criticizing the fbi. i'm criticizing certain former leaders. no, no, he in effect criticize his own dag and own fbi today. in defense of them, there is no evidence of any wrong doing at a all. >> alphonse, i go es the question here is if you believe that things were started under political suspicion. right? that's the charge from the right. why act so politically? i mean, i'm sorry, what he ended up doing, two wrongs don't make a right here if you believe a wrong happened. >> i'm not saying it was the most articulate what i to say it. clearly it wasn't. it wasn't the appropriate timing when the president had just -- >> he chose to do it this way. they knew what they were doing. this isn't an accident. >> how do we know that? do we kno

. >> this is one of the insecurity cases that devon nuÑez is sending to the attorney general. this rocks alternative relations. the president cut short the planned hour-long call to just 24 minutes. in thailand, they suffered a setback after the result of last month's election. the group says it could form a seven way coalition that would oust the ruling military back party. however, the election commission says more than 25 parties will likely receive parliamentary help. global news, 24 hours a day, on air and on tictoc on twitter. prepared by more than 2700 journalists in more than 120 countries. >> the latest here is of tip -- is a potential trigger. the top economic advisor of president trump says that the size are moving closer and closer to one. carlos said that he has darted optimism about resolving the trade war. get closer and closer. it is really interesting. we make good headway last week. this coming week, there will be a lot of teleconferencing among the top tier people. >> china has echoed that positive sentiment, saying that progress has been made. these are tou

that's what many republicans believe, that devon nunez is the leader of that group but you read that in the conservative press. they've got a lot of memos they spin back and forth. >> but why would barr go there when he knows the process was proper, he understands the role of fisa judges better than anybody else, he knows the surveillance would not have been approved, would not have got i don't know -- gotten past four or five republican-appointed fisa judges. he knows that. why would he throw that theory out, sully his reputation when he more than anybody else knows this was a legitimate inquiry? >> there are two possible answers. one is that when he read the mueller report, which we still have not, he looked at the evidence and decided that there was far less that he expected of wrong doing and that he had questions about how the investigation got started in the first place. i think the more troubling one and likely the more accurate is that his good sense has been broken down by being in donald trump's justice department as attorney general. he is surrounded by people who believe