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Kelly: heather, good morning as well. the reason for wanting special counsel is to get to the bottom of possible abuse of fisa court, trey gowdy explained its not possible for the fbi to conduct its own inspection of itself on this issue, he believes a special counsel is needed. >> congress has proven itself incapable of investigating the fisa abuse, doj should not be looking into it, we need an independent arbiter thats either the attorney general or special counsel. when there are two dozen wi...

Fbi to inspect itself on the issue, he believes a special counsel is needed. >> congress has proven itself incapable of investigating this fisa abuse, doj should not be looking into it, we need an independent arbiter thats either the general or special counsel, someone else has to do it and i am reluctant to call for special counsel but i think it may be unavoidable in this fact pattern. kelly: house intelligence devin nunes breaking from president trumps position, if the fbi violated guidelines...

Assigned by the president. >> right. having that statement suggests it is interfering. jared kushner has an extensive portfolio. we or not clear exactly what he has been doing. the background checks and security clearances have been one issue. this would be another. the interesting thing is when it comes to the family, we have seen donald trump respond in realtime to the entire russia investigation. we saw that, of course, over the weekend. ill be interested to see what his response is to someth...

>> tucker, i still think the best of the fbi as an agency and as the premiere law even forcement and investigative body in the world. that doesnt mean there arent fatal flaws within the system and personnel that are there. human beings make mistakes. i hope this was a mistake i hope this was a clerical error, somebody wrote down a lead and the lead didnt get into the system and not sent down to the miami division where it could have been acted on. i hope thats what happened. worst case is tha...

>> tucker, i still think the best of the fbi as an agency and as the premiere law even forcement and investigative body in the world. that doesnt mean there arent fatal flaws within the system and personnel that are there. human beings make mistakes. i hope this was a mistake i hope this was a clerical error, somebody wrote down a lead and the lead didnt get into the system and not sent down to the miami division where it could have been acted on. i hope thats what happened. worst case is that a...

Asking about rob porter, well, you know, youll have to talk to the intelligence agencies and the fbi if you want to know why this clearance could have happened when there were bad allegations in his past, specially laying it at the foot of the fbi. they had to realize there was going to be push back. you have wray wanting to show hes going to be independent, hes not going to succumb to these requests from the president for loyalty, which we know he likes to make, and that hes going to try to be ...

Mass murderer? should he have done some outreach there? >> no. ive been in diplomacy and there have been instances where i was told youre going to see castro but because we have no relations you have to avoid him. you cant do a handshake. i think the vice president was following protocol, maybe a little side glance would have helped, a little smile, which president obama pufd to do very skillfully, but i think here is where kim jong-un by sending his sister its a message that you know were ready...

This person, informant is talking about, definitely needs to be looked into. it needs to be part of a much bigger investigation into the clinton foundation, the pay-for-pay schemes. the $500,000 that bill clinton was receiving four months before the decision. any other ancillary issues and big ones like the clinton email server. so i have been calling for many months, and you and i have talked about this that we need to have a special counsel to investigate this. and i think that this persons cl...

That is beyond the shadow of a doubt driven by the hatred of a man, i think its wrong. i think its great that its coming out. let the public decide. its not hard as an example to prove to get the checks that were cashed to pay these different people. and you expect a greater sense of awareness and a fairness than the fbi to pass on this. >> as you point out, for so long, the trust of the fbi has been sacrosanct and really never before has been the fbi been attacked, even during watergate, other ...

Its hard for me to believe he says this in a vacuum. >> yes. but i also dont know if theres that much strategy surrounding it. it might be that christie is advising trump from the tv, which is what we see sometimes. i have a couple of concerns about this. i have concerns about what i think is in some ways by the trump administration a campaign against the intelligence community. i also have concerns about what is a politically motivated leak campaign that he is right to have a bone to pick about...