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Are even more severe. and we wont hesitate to throw the book at people who violate our rules on this. >> okay, thank you. i think my time is up. >> senator leahy. >> thank you, mr. chairman. this is an interesting hearing and irony doesnt begin to describe president trump and his allies exploiting this report for partisan gain. clearly some of the text messages are inappropriate. but if the fbi were trying to throw the election to hillary clinton, it could not have done a worse job. on the front...

Justice if its requested. its almost like a secondary investigation. so, the problem that mr. rybicki has, is two-fold. attorneys general office as well always committees that dont have much of an impact, even with ben gazie it didnt. hes going to have to probably, a little bit of difficult problem, explaining why he was involved at that level. >> martha: and these are serious questions michael. the reason it goes to the house oversight committee theyre doing oversight have the fbi. reading a pi...

We have a president that is saying, hey, everybody committed to 2%. now its time to figure out how well have these nations pay the bills, step up to the plate and commit to a common defense through nato. >> neil: thanks, commander. thank you again. >> thank you, neil. >> neil: all right. just for those of you tuning in here a couple things. were following up on this attack in paris today. its anyones guess if it was terror related. the president has no doubts. he says it looks like a terrorist a...

Tell you they never got a subpoena. and then there was the fox news fiasco where like there was an indictment coming and they had to walk that back. so all of this bespeaks an effort to gray propaganda around this campaign g. >> and its only targeting one side. clearly most people believe there is a current fbi investigation of the trump connections to russia people on his staff current and former and theyre the not leaking about that. >> no, there are no leaks about that. and i guess the ren is...

Agents involved this investigation and of course a violation of guidelines at least. and maybe a violation of law. for them to be talking to people who are openly partisan. >> yeah. >> calstrom endorsed trump on fox news. giuliani is his number one surrogate. i think more involved in the campaign than mike pence. >> yeah. wayne barret, thank you so much for your time. i really appreciate it, wayne. >> thank you, chris. >> be good. still to come, a judge calls the process for challenging voters r...

And he goes on the air and calls the clintons a crime family. now, the fbi has five units in the city of new york in that very office that investigate real crime families. for him to use that kind of wording, i mean, that is just -- its calamitous for a fbi agent whos held the titles and he was assistant director. >> he was up there. >> yeah. to use that kind of language, its just completely beyond the kin. and they both have gone on the air. rudy a couple of times and calstrom endless times, ci...

Investigative journalist broke the story today. wane barret joins me now. wayne, te me about what your reporting found and who jim calstrom is. >> im out here in our neighborhood, chris. >> good. >> or as you like to call it, cub land. >> thats right. >> but james calstrom was the head of the fbi office in new york for a number of years and it was a number of years ago but for many reasons he has maintained enormous ties with fbi agents, particularly in the new york area. he had a tv show called...

>> good. >> or as you like to call it, cub land. >> thats right. >> but james calstrom was the head of the fbi office in new york for a number of years and it was a number of years ago but for many reasons he has maintained enormous ties with fbi agents, particularly in the new york area. he had a tv show called "the fbi files" that was on air until 2006. and he runs a foundation that is called the marine corps law enforcement foundation. and its the marines that are in any fbi and other federal...

We need to do a better job with government regulations that slow down, you know, the ability for the bureau and other agencies to keep up with technology. and the black stones that people can operate on, you know, thats a huge, huge encumbrance. say what you want, but if thats your family thats being held or your family thats in the target zone, would you probably think twice about that, wouldnt you? so we have to react to the times. we cant be tied to the 90s and 80s. we cant be tied to the who...

Everyone has been terribly worried about the suitcase-sized bomb of some kind or an airplane or an attack on our subways in the large cities. and this obviously no one had anticipated. three airplanes that were deliberately aimed at critical targets in america. we can only hope that its over for today, but officials are taking no chances on all of that. theyre evacuating all critical buildings, because as mr. johnson said earlier, this is an open society. james calstrom from the fbi pointing out...