Transcripts For FBC Lou Dobbs Tonight 20180221 : vimarsana.c

Transcripts For FBC Lou Dobbs Tonight 20180221

Business associate of President Trumps former Campaign Chair paul manafort. Well have a full report. President trump ordering the Justice Department to propose regulation to ban bump stocks, the devices that allow rifle to mimic automatic weapons. The president saying we must do more to protect our children. The key in all of these efforts, as i said in my remarks the day of the shooting, is that we cannot merely take actions that make us feel like we are making a difference. We must actually make a difference. We must move past cliches and tired debates and focus on Evidence Based Solutions and security measures that actually work and that make it easier for men and women of Law Enforcement to protect our children and to protect our safety. Trish were going to take up the fallout of the president s move with two of the best political analysts in the business, ed rollins and charlie hurt our top story. House intel chairman devin nunes sent a list of critical question to Senior Obama Administration officials about the dirt ya discredited dossier, bought and paid for by hill clinton and the dnc. Katherine her ridge has our report. Law enforcement and state department officials, the republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee launched phase two of the committees trump dossier investigation. Chairman devin nunes posed a string of dossier related questions covering when the officials learned that the dnc and Clinton Campaign paid for the information. Fox news learned the questionnaire including a threat to subpoena information went to former fbi director james comey, former director of national intelligence, James Clapper and john brin nan among other. The republican staff memo released earlier this month said the fbi and Justice Department knew about the dossiers democratic root when it asked the court 18 days before the 2016 election to collect Trump Campaign aid carter pages communications. Almost a year later brennan testify he didnt know the whole dossier story. Director brennan, do you know who commissioned the steele dossier . I dont. Do you know if the bureau ever relied on the steele dossier as part of any Court Filings . Applications, petitions, pleadings . I have no awareness. In a separate development, a london lawyer entered a washington, d. C. Federal court and pled guilty to lying to special counsel investigation i. He lied about his communications 2000 months before the president ial election with rick gates. Along with his business par par, paul manafort, gates was indicted on Money Laundering charges. The white house spokes mab says the lawyers guilty plea is where steps removed from the special counsel collusion mandate. This has to do with an attorney representing one of the individuals who has already been indicted. Nothing to do with the actions related to this president. The guilty plea places more pressure on gates to cut a deal and cooperate with the special council against ma manafort. He faces a fine of 250,000. But given his cooperation hes likely to get six months or less of jail time and a fine not to exceed 10,000. His sentencing is scheduled for early april. Trsh President Trump tomorrow set to meet with students and teachers impacted by School Shootings following last weeks tragedy at a florida high school. The meetings come as the president demands the Justice Department draft regulations banning bump stocks. Our chief correspondent john roberts has the report. In the wake of the Douglas High School massacre, President Trump reached back to the last mass shooting, las vegas. Announcing hell seek a ban on the socalled bump stock that allowed the shooter there to fire off so many rounds so quickly. Just a few moments ago i signed a memorandum directing the attorney general to propose allegations that turn automatic weapons into machine guns. I expect that this critical regulations will be finalized very soon. As he recognized today the va lore of safety officers who responded to yet another mass shooting, San Bernardino in 2015, the president praised the heroism of those who sacrificed their lives last week. In the aftermath of this evil massacre, our spirits have been lifted by the accounts of bravery at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that show us that the forces of love open and courage are always stronger than the forces of evil and hate. Douglas high school is the first mass shooting at a school since President Trump took office. Today he pledged to take steps that would actually make a difference. The key in all of these efforts, as i said in my remarks the day of the shooting, is that we cannot merely take actions that make us feel like we are making a difference. We must actually make a difference. The president will hold listening sessions this week on School Shootings. Tomorrow hell meet students and teachers from doug last high school and sandy hook. Thursday hell meet with state and local officials to hear what they have to say. President trump voiced support for a senate bill that seek to make the background check situation more consistent but when pressed with the secretary admitted more needs to be done. The president is focused on Mental Illness, working with the health and Human Services department to determine the best path forward on that and what is available and allowed under the law. Unfortunately we cant just flip a switch but there is a process. Were a law and order country and the president is trying to do everything that he can under his capacity to address these concerns and certainly when it comes to men tl illness. The white house today also defended a tweet President Trump was widely criticized for. On the weekend he said that the fbi missed all of the many signals sebt out by the Florida School shooter because theyre spending too much time trying to prove russia collusion with the Trump Campaign. Hes making the point that we would like our fbi agencies to not be focused on something that is clearly a hoax in terms of investigating the Trump Campaign and its involvement. Four days after Robert Mueller announced indictments against 13 russians for interfering in u. S. Elections, President Trump today faulted the Obama White House for not taking russian meddling more seriously. And while the president made no effort to call out the russians after muellers announcement, the white house today insisted President Trump has been far harder on russia than the Obama Administration ever was. He helped push through 700 billion to rebuild our military. Hes helped export energy to eastern europe. Hes closed three Diplomatic Properties that were russias here in the United States. Hes helped arm the ukrainians. There are a number of pieces that obama was too weak and refused to take and put pressure on russia where this president has. President trump also took aim at the Obama White House in his memorandum to the attorney general seeking to ban bump stocks. Pointing out that the Obama Administration repeatedly concluded that the devices were legal to both purchase and possess. At the white house, john roberts, fox news. Trish a lot to talk about tonight and we have none other than dr. Sebastian gorka, now a Fox Business National security strategist. So good to see you, dr. Gorka. Im going to start with phase two. What is this going to look like . Well, this is a very very interesting development. We saw the memo that basically proved to all americans that a fisa warrant, a surveillance warrant was illegally acquired against a member of the Trump Campaign, exculpatory evidence was hidden from the fisa court, the fact that this was an op ed paper paid for by Hillary Clinton and the dnc. Now who knew in the Obama Administration about the file, where it truly came from and where did the what did they know and when did they know it . Specifically, has john brennan committed perjury. Thats going to be the big big question. Trish look, in some ways i think, dr. Gorka, we should have known about this, right . By the way, the Obama Administration did know about it and didnt do much about it. But the reality is this is how government in the first world tries to influence things. And whether we like it or not weve had a history again, dont know if obama did this. There were a lot of things he should have done that he didnt do. But historically weve tried to influence elections. And we would be awfully naive to think that the russians or the chinese wouldnt also be trying to influence elections. I mean theyve gone back decades, right, trying to, the russians, influence sentiment here in the United States. I guess the question is have they been able to actually influence them. Id argue that after all it was her decision not to go and campaign if pennsylvania. So the russians had nothing to do with that. But they created enough distrust. They created enough chaos. For Goodness Sake they had rallies that Michael Moore was championing so they put one side against the other. With all of that in mind, how do one, we protect ourselves from any other influence Going Forward and two, what did we miss . What should we have done during the Obama Administration years . Look, lets jetson the moral equivalency market. America has influenced elections in other countries. The soviet union did it since 1970 onward and so has china. Were the good guys. We yurpd mine communists and fascists. When former kgb officers like Vladimir Putin are having his people do it to us here in america, thats a threat. We have to revitalize Counter Intelligence in this country. We havent done effective Counter Intelligence since the end of the cold war. Rod rosenstein used an interesting phrase in his press conference last week. Used the phrase active measures. Active measures is what the soviet union and now russia does. We need to have people who shed light on the propaganda, connect it with who is doing it and then, people who arent hiding in other countries and can be extradited. The people who know about the fisagate scandal, who used that, gez what, theyre here and theyre americans and they can be charged and they can be prosecuted. Trish look. Unfortunately you and i have talked about this. You got cnn and the likes of other mainstream outlets doing the work of the russians for them. Right. Trish you have the fbi issuing in this case a fisa warrant not telling the judge where this information was coming from, in this case Christopher Steele, fusion gps, Hillary Clinton and the democrats. This is not the research that perhaps was actually fed to Christopher Steele by the russians in the first place, to which i say are we that dumb, dr. Gorka . Is our fbi that dumb that they missed that entirely . Because i read that thing and it certainly didnt read like a piece of intelligence to me. Look, its a personal issue for me. Ive worked with thousands of fbi agents and analysts. Look, the problem isnt with them. The problem is with the seventh floor at the fbi and doj who were convinced Hillary Clinton would win the election and they were in the tank for Hillary Clinton. Just read the Text Messages from that ig investigation which has yet to drop. Remember, the igs report, which may be far more damaging for the Obama Administration than devin nunes or the grassley referrals has yet to be released. These were people who were politicized and who obama allowed to politicize others. Thats what we have to get to the bottom of. Trish and i think the tragic thing in all of this, you can relate these two in that our fbi was politicized and whatever direction they were getting from the top on down was not to do what we needed the fbi to do to protect our children and protect our country but instead to go after this administration and perhaps florida is proof of that. You know, a tragedy all around. But theres room for improvement. Thats for sure, dr. Gorka. Theres a reason that this sition since 1776 onward has never created a kurt service. We dont spy on fellow americans unless we have a good reason and the judge gives you the warrant. That changed under the Obama Administration. We have to walk the fbi back from being a political arm of the president of the United States and donald trump is not going to allow that to happen again. Trish thank you so much, dr. Sebastian gorka. Were coming back with a whole lot more. Stay with us. The House Intelligence Committee chair launching phase 2 of his nfltion as President Trump slams the Obama Administration for not doing enough to stop russian interference. We take up the antitrump web of corruption with ed rollins. And the battle for midterms heating up. Republicans making gains. Well have all of those details an oh, manatees. Aka the sea cow oh theres one. Manatees in novelty ts . Surprising. Whats come at me bro . Its something you say to a friend. Whats not surprising . How much money matt saved by switching to geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. I tabut with my back paines, i couldnt sleep and get up in time. Then i found aleve pm. 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Anyway, President Trump today tweeting, quote, thats because he thought crooked hillary was going to win and he didnt want to rock the boat. The whole game changed and the russia excuse became the narrative of the dems. In another tweet he writes, i have much tougher on russia than obama. Look the the facts. Total fake news. Joining me with more, fox business political analyst ed rollins. Thank you. Trish hes right. Listen to that sound from october 2016 and the president was saying, theres in way the russians could ever. No one thought trump was going to win. Very few, each e eac even thoses dedicated to his cause, including people very much in the camp. He had a tremendous victory. 74,000 more votes in those three critical states that made the difference. Won 300 electoral votes. Won states that we havent won since the reagan campaign. We need to move forward. Hillary needs to go elsewhere, expresident doesnt matter. Donald trump is what matters. Trish they cant understand why or how he won so they

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