Bret, good evening. Confident the special counsel investigation by Robert Mueller will show no evidence of wrongdoing by the Trump Campaign with russian collusion with the interference of the u. S. Election. With a major document central to that investigation now shown to be nothing more than political opposition, the white house believes it has a wind at its back. After revelations that the Clinton Campaign and dnc paid for the now infamous, unverified dossier, President Trump today took sharp came at the Mueller Investigation on twitter. It is now commonly agreed, the president wrote, after many months of costly looking there is no collusion between russia and trump, was collusion with hc. Details will be vague, but it will give americans a clear idea on how much in taxpayer money mueller is bending. The president suggested that the mueller special investigation is a waste of money . I think the president has been pretty clear what his positions throughout this process, i thought the only investigation thats only taken place, congress spent a great deal of time on this. All the news organizations have spent a lot of money on this as well, which we would consider probably a pretty big waste. The white house is also trying to turn the tables on democratic critics after three congressional committees opened investigations into the iranian which resulted into a Russian Company claiming one fifth of the and reserves. We know its Hillary Clinton who was secretary of state when russians were trying to infiltrate the United States to take an advantage on what ended up being 20 of the uranium going to a russian interest. I just think its not difficult for americans to connect the dots. The tugofwar over tax reform between the white house and congress continued today after fox news asked the president wednesday about ways and Means Committee kevin brady saying 401 k contributions were on the table. Brady said today he has since heard from the president. I talked to the president twice this week. We want to increase the amount you can give to your 401 k or ira for 401 k s up to 21,000. There is a catch to the idea of increasing contributions to 401 k s. The before tax allowance may be reduced. The rest of the balance will be after tax contributions that grow tax free, like a traditional ira. The white house wouldnt say if the president supports the idea. The president wants to continue to fight and push for protection of americans retirement, that hasnt changed. But im not going to negotiate any deals beyond that. The white house was on the defensive day over questions over a Small Montana company rebuilding the electrical grid in puerto rico puerto rico. Whitefish energy had only two employees before winning a 300 Million Contract for hurricane recovery. Whitefish is from the same town interior secretary ryan zinke grew up entering the white house insist officials in puerto rico awarded the contract. But in an Oval Office Meeting today, President Trump asked zinke about it. He did ask secretary zinke, just for clarification purposes. And he reiterated once again that we have no role, the federal government, specifically he had no role. Zinke has not responded in a statement late this afternoon saying, i had absolutely nothing to do with Whitefish Energy receiving a contract in puerto rico. Neither myself or anyone in my office has advocated for this company and get away. After the initial contract was awarded, i received a single email from the company in which i took no action. All records, which are being made available, will prove no involvement. Strong pushback, brad, from the interior secretary. Bret john, thank you. Lets take some time to fill in some of the background on the front dossier story from the beginning. Here is chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge with the timeline. They say it began with republicans. I think i would know, but i wont say. This letter from Clinton Campaign council the opposition Trump Research was originally reported stomach funded by one or more clients during the republican primary. Media reports suggest that the client was a wealthy republican donor and the project went on september 2015. Marco rubio publicly denies involvement. If i had anything against donald trump that was relevant, credible, politically damaging . I wouldve used it. I didnt have it. They force a disclosure that opposition reresearch firm approached 2016 and a month later a deal was struck by the Clinton Campaign and the dnc. British Court Records obtained by fox news shows fusion gps led by former wall street journal reporter Glenn Simpson and peter frisch then hired former British Intelligence officer christopher steele, a longtime contact. No charges appropriated in this place. By summer, the same time fbi director james comey record as candidate trump secure the nomination, two of steeles memos were in fbi fans hands. Fusion gps instructed steele to bring five American Media updates. After no stories were published, fusion told steele to do a second briefing. Yahoo news appeared to be the first reference to the dossier allegations, and mother mother jones followed. After President Trump fired him, comey did not explain whether the fbi relied on the unverified dossier to explain surveillance warrants on trauma Trump Campaign. Couldnt talk when i was the head of the fbi. A former british investor told fox to verify the dash 3 weeks before the inauguration, he pulled the president elect aside to discuss. On january 10, buzzfeed publish the allegations in full. But speed is facing multiple defamation suits. President trump has consistently denied the allegations. Bret . Bret catherine, thank you. The president and his party may come down on opposite sides of her in a law allowing Intelligent Services to track internet communications. Correspondent kevin corke looks at both sides tonight from the white house. From the attorney general and director of National Intelligence to a Homeland Security advisor, even a letter to congress signed by more than a dozen former intelligence officials sweeping support to renew Internet Surveillance Program the trump the ministrations that is needed to keep americans safe. This is a section of law that is a seminal, key piece of authority in our National Tool chest to keep americans safe since 9 11. Thats why its so important. Not that the United States government is doing nothing abusive. Hes talking about section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Service act, or fisa. For foreign and intelligence purposes. It set to admire expire unless renewed by congress. The debate threatens to pick the president against members of his own party in part because of the administrations effort to end a sunset provision in the law which forces it to be renewed periodically. Wisconsin republican congressman Jim Sensenbrenner called that a gamble that america cannot afford to take, and kentucky senator rand paul has cosponsored a bill which would narrow the scope of 702. The aclu argues that 702 should not be reauthorized because of the governments ability to collect calls and email between americans and foreign nationals without a court order to be used as a backdoor to the citizen. An example of that loophole, the electronic surveillance and collection of information of at least one member of the Trauma Campaign before, during, and after the 2016 election. Bret . Kevin corke in the White House Briefing room. Kevin, thank you. Lets talk about the fisa issue and other topics. Talking is here at the department of justice, attorney general Jeff Sessions. Thank you, bret. Its good to have you in our courtyard. Great building, great history. I work every day to be worthy of this great tradition to this department. Let me talk about the piece we just saw and that issue about fisa. There are concerns about capitol hill, a number of law makers link their need to be changes. What is your take, what is the administrations take . My view, and ive had it really embedded in me since ive been here in this department is that this is a really important issue. We have to protect the fundamentals of 702. I really think, if people understood it, they wouldnt think any change it needs to be made. But congress is working at it, giving intensive review of it. We welcome that. We welcome the discussion. But we have to have this. We have to have this reauthorized. We are able to surveilled terrorists around the globe. There is never been a need for a warrant to surveilled a terrorist, a nonamerican in a foreign country who might pose a threat to the United States. Never been a warrant for that. Weve got to be careful that we do not inhibit our investigators from protecting this country. Bret rand paul and others say theyre have to be changes. The American People deserve better from our own government than to have their Internet Activity swept up in warrant list unlimited searches that ignore the Fourth Amendment, the new bill, the building are pushing, institutes member reforms that prove we can still respect our contribution down the constitution. Pretty good to a lot of people concerned about privacy issues. When you surveilled a person abroad, you do not have to have a warrant to do so. In fact, theyve never been a suspect. They do not have First Amendment protections they do not have the Fourth Amendment protections. If they are terrorists, we really want to know who they are talking to. Maybe they are plotting an attack on the United States. Whenever you have a lawful warrant to listen on someones phone, you are forced to listen to who they talk to. You do not need a warrant because they might be talking to an american citizen. That is not the history of the Fourth Amendment and the courts have upheld the consistently poor this program is over cited in half a dozen different ways. Judges oversight on the intent. We are watching it closely. If we can work with congress, well do something. Bret youre concerned about the votes . I think we are going to have the votes. Im confident we will. I think a vast majority of senators will see it this way. We voted on it before. Weve executed it in a written way and its critical all National Security. Bret your department listed the gag order on on thii informant tied to uranium one investigation. Now congress is involved in that investigation very john roberts has sources saying that the president was involved in the discussion and pushed for that decision. Is that true . Well, i havent talked to him about that. What i will say is that senator grassley having been direct with us for some time. We worked with senator grassley and are very happy to be able to improving his testimony before the Senate Judiciary. Bret donned again, white House Counsel or deputies tell you or your people to say the president really wants this to happen . I have not talked to him about that, but i think its a good thing that is worked out and we are very pleased about it. Bret here is a former attorney general a former u. S. Attorney who has concerns if this in fact happened. Take a listen. What causes people not to have faith, even if it was otherwise a right decision, for this d. A. To be lifted, it causes people to question whether or not the president influenced the decision. You cannot have in this country, i think, if you want to have faith in how the laws are executed and enforced, that a president is calling out my name specific actions and specific directions in a criminal investigation. Bret so you are saying he didnt do that . Im not aware of any such communications. I dont believe there was any orders driven on delivery. But what i do know is weve been talking with the Senate Judiciary committee for some time. I have never understood, really, why there would be a problem and im glad its been worked out. Bret okay. I know you cannot talk about the specifics on the Russian Investigation because you recuse yourself. On the investigation thats not going on about this dossier, can you dismiss reports that the dossier was used to obtain surveillance warrants on the trump team . I dont know anything about that. Im not able to comment on that. I would just say that the system seems to be working and its a matter that im just glad people have looked at. Bret there was some frustration, House Speaker and others, that its taken a long time for your fbi to kind of produce the documents around this. They have been, you know, concerns about that, theyve been pressured for that. There are reasons why. The fbi should not provide details of their investigation in the middle of investigation. However, in this situation, i think its appropriate. Im glad theyve accepted the request. Bret speaking of taking time, big story today. These jfk papers. The president says he wants to put them out. Then they come out redacted because of concerns from the cia and fbi. Theres a lot of people saying that after all these years, werent you ready for this day . Its time to get it done, bret. Ive talked with the fbi. Weve talked with our staff here. I think the president s right to say, lets get these materials out. They are moving today very quickly. Some of documents have already been produced today. They will be moving faster, there will not be, i believe, any significant redaction. Very some people alive may not need their names or their current address is revealed. Lot of it is extraneous entirely. Bret you are trying to expedite it . We are working this weekend. We are going to be working every way possible to expedite the production of these documents as completely as possible and they will be virtually, completely revealed from the fbi files. Bret a lot of historians i think happy about that. Another issue, that jane doe case. This is this illegal immigrant who came into the u. S. And wanted an approach in abortion with federal fun. It happened. Prolife critics out there that your department dropped the ball on this. You had the chance to file on time that would prevent the aclu from moving the process along and she actually had the abortion. How do you respond to that . She was determined to do that. The lawyers that were representing her were determined to have that abortion. They were able to file, have the abortion at 4 30 in the morning before we were filing our brief the next morning. My lawyers tell me that they were told by their lawyers that that would not happen. This is a total surprise and it really a breach of the kind of providence that lawyers should be able to have with one another. We are very upset about it. I think its a serious problem. It should not have happened. And we are disturbed about it, ive got to tell you. Bret do you think this issue is going to come up again and go all the way up to the federal government about these federal dollars being used . I dont believe that we should be using taxpayers dollars to fund abortions. I think in this case, certainly ones not justified. Weve resisted it steadfastly. Im very disappointed that these lawyers are able to take that time. Time to avoid a Court Hearing to see what you are filing. Bret how was your relationship with President Trump now . A little bit rocky there now. Weve had the president really clear about when hes happy with somebody or when hes not happy with somebody. But i feel real good about it. We had a good visit yesterday. I had a speech he gave. He consummated us on our work. We had other visits in the last week or so. Its improving. I am excited about his latest shift on this opioid issue. This is a tremendously big issue for america. The first lady, melania trump, spoke yesterday. So he did. This morning, i went to new york to this huge Postal Center where 70 of the mail abroad comes where fentanyl is coming in. Its such a deathdealing drug. The whole government has heard from the president. We are reacting and we are going to be doing some thing about opioids. Ive got to tell you. Hes a strong leader. Weve got the message, something weve been working on here in this department for months. We are going to step it up even more. Bret bret less than qui. I asked this to a lot of officials and National Security positions. What keeps you up at night . Weve got the National Security threat is always there. And i am proud of the fbi. Im amazed how many people theyve identified in early stages who can be charged and arrested and stopped from plans that were developing to attack america. That is a big thing. But the murder rate in america is going up. We had a 20 increase in homicide in just two years. The largest increase since 1968. Fentanyl death rate went from 52,000 in 2015, huge. Weve never seen anything like that. It went up to 64,000 in 2016. It is more than accidents. It is more than the aids at the peak of the epidemic. Those things threate