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Paige had a hand in leaking information to the press? >> im saying that any fair inference talking about the doj changing their media policy, and they are talking about the media reg policy, and the one that mark meadows references in his letter to rosenstein, that comes after that. >> tucker: but hold on, im not here to defend any member of congress or any politician. and the question is simple. are you saying that on the basis of the evidence received today that they were privy to leaking? you...

Liberties and people should be much more concerned about that than they have been. it gets trumped so they push it all aside. >> hang on. specifically with carter page, the fbi agent initiated in investigation -- as we would like to say on the show, facts matter. we need to understand the chronology. this investigation began well before donald trump announced he was president. for any of us to imply that somehow there was a political calculus in my carter page was targeted, i think it ignores th...

>> all of this just underscores that there was one purpose in mind and that was too damaged donald trump and undo the election. and they were all leaking. it wasnt just strzok and page. andrew mccabe nowmp under investigation for leaking to the media and lying about it four times. the biggest leader of all, ofew course, is james comey, stole government documents and gave them to an unauthorized personi for the sole purpose of leaking them to trigger the special counsel. we have strzok -- >> sean...

But they are thinking more things related to documents in the investigation that will be released. >> the president release more information on the fisa applications. it is important that the american people know the fullest truth they can about that before they go to the polls because of the misinformation around it. we have a media leak strategy, the notion that somehow this was a conversation about stopping leaking is utterly preposterous and when you look at the back story, a bunch of indivi...

Unnecessary danger to their lives. harris? >> harris: are member covering the storms, some of the first responders would, if you insisted on staying calm would make you write your name on youy number. that usually gets peoples attention. they are like "maybe we should get up." mike emanuel, thank you very much for the update. a topper poking now claiming that newly released text messages between peter strzok and lisa page show a systemic culture of leaking within the do our trump. mark meadows m...

Well, thats actually not true. if not, where is their credibility. >> neil: cabinet level secretary. >> there is a lot of speculation about that. as i said the other day, i think in d.c. everyone is a senior white house official when they want a better job or be quoted in the media. so, im not sure if this person ever had any kind of interactions with the president. >> neil: its having the desired effect on the person who wrote it, right and the "new york times" quoting it. it sent the paranoia ...

Campaign, calling for an investigation of his political rival, there should be a lot of skepticism about that and the american people deserve answers. >> a whole lot of skepticism. you know, this happens, mark mckinnon, all the time in government. the most dramatic case the pentagon papers. in 2005 the "washington post" published black sites and methods that the united states government was use to go try to thwart the next al qaeda attack, it happens with barack obamas administration, the cia an...

To the bottom of this, but is who the messenger is far upstaging the actual message? >> well, yes. first of all, i dont think the president knows squat about who wrote this op-ed. i dont think the white house knows. i dont think you have to -- >> you dont believe this whole whittling down the list? >> no, because its not based on any actual evidence. just to say to someone in national security, well, the whole thing is about foreign policy and national security. you dont have to be clairvoyant t...

Legal jeopardy perhaps? >> well see. what we do know, the fbi and the doj had a sophisticated leaking project going on. andrew mccabe lied about that, according to the inspector general, three times under oath and faces a criminal referral. theres now a grand jury on the andrew mccabe issue. this is what they did, i believe. they leaked information to the press and then used the reports the press wrote to bump up the fall dossier when it was a false document. that was the game that was being pla...

What we do know, the fbi and the doj had a sophisticated leaking project going on. andrew mccabe lied about that, according to the inspector general, three times under oath and faces a criminal referral. theres now a grand jury on the andrew mccabe issue. this is what they did, i believe. they leaked information to the press and then used the reports the press wrote to bump up the fall dossier when it was a false document. that was the game that was being played. we know that from the memo that ...