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That if he was acting corruptly, wrongfully, that it was unlikely he was going to confess to president zelensky that he was asking for the investigations explicitly to help his prospects . In my experience, you almost never have a defendant or someone who is engaging in misconduct who would ever explicitly say in this case, president zelensky, im going to bribe you now or im going to ask for a bribe for i am now going to extort you. That is not the way these things work. Thank you. And going bac...

Carter page that he was never charged. also, the report shows, and we have some graphics made, top fbi officials james comey and andrew mccabe who were at the fbi at the time did not act with political bias. the investigation was properly predicated but there are several of missions and inaccuracies in the phis application. there are 17 significant errors of omission in the carter page phis application. there was an audit today and this is significant, by the department of justice inspector gene...

You? it would be inappropriate to talk about ongoing investigation. >> you say bob mueller is honest and not fake? im not public to repeat what youre saying. >> officials who advised you that you should not touch that investigation. >> my control with my -- i consulted with senior staff and legal counsel. it was my decision to make and i decided not to recuse. >> catherine: whitaker confirmed the department investigation and senior fbi and doj officials with later known as the trump dossier. 201...

Was no collusion, that there was nothing in these allegations and it was all smoke? >> well, you have to think that the f.b.i.s carter page application, which was in october 21 of 2016 at the height of the campaign, would list what their concerns were about relations between contacts between -- links between russia and the trump campaign. and apparently what we will find out with the release of these previously classified documents is what the f.b.i. was worried about so we can finally evaluate ...

Actually put down as 4 republican judges. theres so much to go to here, ben wittis, first of all, as a public service announcement to 87 million people watching and listening on armed forces radio across the world, im making that up, tell us just how dramatic a change from precedent it was to have the fisa made public and the grave risks that go along with that and then well ask you more about the carter page application. >> yeah, so. i think the answer to the question, how unusual is it is that...

Justice must adhere to the high standards in the fisa court and yes, it will be investigated. and i think thats just the appropriate thing. the inspector general will take that as one of the matters he will deal with. >> sandra: congressman pete king is a member of the house intelligence committee, congressman, thank you for joining us this morning. what did you make when you heard of this move by jeff sessions to open an investigation? >> i thought it was totally the right thing to do. certainl...

>> yesterday a federal judge rejected that argument saying congress enacted a law which attempts to avoid delays caused by lawsuit challenging construction of barriers allowing the secretary to waive application and enforcement of state and local laws during construction of a border barrier. the judge that candidate trump criticized for bias because of his mexican american heritage now hands the president perhaps his greatest immigration legal victory in federal district court and secondly now t...

P investigate fisa abuse? will take forever. has no prosecutorial power and already late with reports on comey, etc. isnt the i.g. an obama guy? why not use justice department lawyers and the president calling it disgraceful. >> i agree with the president. we should be using all the powers within the justice department to find out exactly what happened with this fisa application to the court. this was a total abuse of power. it was illegal to use an uncorroborated political dossier paid for by a...

Department is just now in the final stages of concluding their probe of the clinton email probe and thats expected sometime this spring. it sounds like one of the next big things the i.g. will look into is the potential of mishandling or fisa abuses and carter page. i think its appropriate to look at. we talked a week or two ago on this program about some of the revelations not just in the house intelligence memo but from some senators that suggest that the way that that fisa warrant was obtaine...

Christopher steele who was then practicing that information and handing it over to the fbi. if thats the case it looks like the state department was being used as a go-between for bad information pushed forward by hillary clinton allies, including perhaps sidney blumenthal if trey gowdys implication means anything. if thats the case, then one of two things could be true. either there could be some sort of corruption inside the fbi, the fbi knew that this was bad info, they didnt check it and the...