Me. The heaters dont work. Willful blindness to trumps triumphs and how the fbi and doj can stop the bleeding. Thats the focus of tonight angle. Think about how reporters would handle things under this hypothetical. Hillary clinton, not donald trump, won the presidency in 2016. I realize thats terrifying to contemplate, but bear with me for just a second. Imagine that bill is too old to chase intern so she isnt distracted by any new scandals, and somehow during her first year in office, hillary oversees a stock market rocketing up, theres a big drop in unemployment, including among minority workers, and imagine this, imagine consumer confidence, business investment, even wages in certain sectors, all up. Imagine hillary announcing that dozens of american run businesses are bringing jobs back to the united states. They are doling out thousand
actually some even trying to give obama credit for all of 2017s good economic news. He thinks it started from the day he became president when in fact he inherited good conditions. I thought barack obama did turn around the economy to bring it back from the precipice with tough action. Mr. Trump inherited an economy that was in full recovery for blacks and whites from president obama. Now hes taking credit for picking up somebody at the end of a trip that Somebody Else broke the trip. Laura Somebody Else drove the trip. I dont even know what hes talking about. To add insult to injury, even while Business Leaders do credit trumps tax cut with all the deregulation, whats the Big Business Story Of Today . Here it is. A new reuters poll claiming that just 2 of americans have gotten a raise, a bonus or other benefits from trumps tax cuts. Okay, kids, heres a lesson from laura. You usually get a benefit from a tax cut when you pay your taxes. Everyone is going to benefit except for upper income earners. Hello . And from the trump tax plan, they will see more money in their pockets come april when most people pay their taxes. Most people dont pay quarterly. We will see if at that Point Reuters runs another poll just to see if people are happier or benefiting. A far more telling survey from the National Association of business economics finds that company say sales and profits rose at the end of last year and nearly half of the respondents say they are now paying more in wages and in salaries to their employees. This is news that weve been waiting for and that will benefit workers long term. Its about time people had a
raise. I promise you, if Hillary Clinton had had this record, the praise would be deafening on the eve of her state of the union. Meanwhile, the media spent the day blaming the real president for the voluntary resignation of fbi Deputy DirectorAndrew Mccabe. The president play this very active, public role in pressuring the Justice Department to get rid of mccabe. So far the white house is saying the president was not involved in this, was not pushed at all. It seems hard to believe that. This is yet another instance of the president bullying and pressuring Law Enforcement agencies hes concerned about investigating him. If anybody thinks in the Justice Department laura media bias at nbc, thats my question. The only problem with that lovely scenario they painted, theres no evidence to indicate that trump is responsible for the resignation. Do we really want to Deputy Director of the fbi who was so
nomadic recused himself from both probes. There was a New York Times story tonight suggesting that fbi director Christopher Wray was concerned about the findings of a forthcoming Government Investigation into the fbi and into mccabes conduct. Thats the Inspector Generals report. The time source said that the director and mccabe had a frank conversation about that report and apparently a demotion was discussed for mccabe. Whatever the explanation for his departure, i say this, its about time. Theres a larger point being lost in the mccabe blame game. The president is actually trying to restore confidence and Law Enforcement institutions that i think for a long time have been used as political instruments. There are a lot of great rankandfile people, at the at the overwhelming majority. But when the leadership appears to have a political ax to grind, nobody is served by that. Its time to cleanse the upper tiers of the Justice Department and the fbi of all partisanship. Media from the moment the story broke on all the other channels and on nbc, cbs, it was trump to blame . To blame is mccabe and to blame is comey and anybody else at the senior levels of the fbi. This is quite a disgrace for the for the bureau. As someone who worked with the bureau, im truly saddened by the fall from grace for everybody there. Make no mistake about it, this was a plot to exonerate Hillary Clinton illegally and then if she lost the election, to frame donald trump with a legal crime. This was the worst period in the history of the bureau, much worse than the late hoover period when they were spying on domestic groups. This is the weaponization of the fbi for political purposes by all the people at the Upper Echelon of the bureau. I think its really time for people in the other party who seem to make nothing but excuses
for the senior people at the bureau and the department of justice, may i say, to kind of wake up and see that whats coming now is the federal grand jury and its not going to be pretty. Laura you represented the bureau in the Public Domain and you are the spokesperson for the bureau. Your reaction to todays developments in the effort to blame donald trump for the early retirement of the Deputy Director . Theyd been talking for some time that he was looking to go on Terminal Leave and exit the bureau. I think that was hastened as a result of the director just yesterday going to the hill, looking at the information that went into this dossier. But i will tell you, no president , whether its trump, obama or anyone else, tells the fbi which i do. The fbi is independent. They are there for the people. To think for a minute that a sitting president would be able to push out a Deputy Director, that goes against everything the fbi has stood for for the past
hundred nine years. Laura did you speak to mccabe a few weeks ago . I happen to be at headquarters a few weeks ago and chatted with him briefly. Laura what did he say . We didnt talk about him possibly leaving. At that time he was in the office while the director was out on other business so essentially hes the man in charge. It seemed to be business as usual. However, everybody in the bureau knew that mccabes days would be running short because of the history. If it was time for the bureau to move on with a clean slate and get back to the work that the fbi does. Laura joe, he wanted to leave in the spring. The ig report is coming out in the spring. But its a wild coincidence, if indeed the fbi director strolls up to capitol hill on sunday, reads this very short report, four pages, and then it just so
happens that monday, mccabe is like you know something, i would rather go skiing in breckenridge for the next two weeks. Im not going to be doing this work any longer. According to the New York Times in the latest publications, Christopher Wray was shocked on sunday when he read the four pages. First of all, if thats the case, where has he been since he was sworn in . There is enough evidence on the public record. With the information from the Inspector General and from the hill with the legal release of documents that it was clear that mr. Mccabe and others had engaged in highly improper, probably illegal activity in the fisa court stuff along with the dossier from christopher steele. First of all, mccabe should have been gone a long time ago and so should strzok and page and all the people involved in this. This is a dark moment for the fbi. Its going to take a lot for
them to recover from this. Laura we had jim Comey Tweeting after the mccabe news came out. Hes tweeting quite a bit. Very poetic. He sat special agent Andrew Mccabe stood tall over the last eight months. He always makes height references, i wonder why. One small people were trying to tear down an institution will depend on. He served with distinction for two decades, i wish andy well. I also wish continued strength for the rest of the fbi. America needs you. John, what you make of the comey tweets . Small people, tall people. Hes 68, by the way. Mccabe is part of comeys legacy. Andrew mccabe did a lot of good things in the bureau during his career, but it doesnt matter. When you were doing something wrong, that is the time that it has to be stopped immediately. I had some very good agents that
made an unfortunate mistake along the way. Laura he was the guy to whom peter strzok reported, correct . Absolutely. Laura mccabe could have, joe, were almost out of time, mccabe could have used one of the regular Field Office Set of investigators to do both the clinton and the trump investigation. Perfection also could run this thing and run it right. He chose to put together this team, correct . Kind of an unfortunate mistake. Comey was a dirty cop and he dirtied up everybody else around him. Laura we also have a huge development, by the way in the rush or pro. A House Committee of course has begun investigating the investigators. Up next, we will talk to a congressman who voted tonight to publicly release that memo that could spell big trouble for both the fbi and doj. Coming up. Starting with advanced manufacturing
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intriguing facts that makes you ask even more questions to mike to make the case that this is the most shocking document in the history of mankind, i believe thats a little hyperbole. Laura are you guys engaged in hyperbole . I can tell you i havent been. Some people have and we have actually cautioned against that. This is an important document. Its very important for the American People. The process. I listen to mr. Schiff and my head just wants to explode. My father was an air force pilot. To accuse us of saying we would endanger National Security is just silliness. This memo doesnt do that. What it does do is ask these questions, was the fbi fair . For the accurate . Weve been Making Accusations, serious accusations, theyve been called traders, treasonous. For more than a year now. Did the fbi make those kinds of
accusations against innocent people with laughable evidence . Thats the kind of think this memo will address. Laura Congressman Gates from florida has been a frequent guest on the show. To listen to Congressman Gates, this is just got barn burner of a memo. I think people have gotten your hopes up that this guys going to go and end this person will lose his job and maybe this one will go to jail. I always find that republicans tend to, sorry, be bad storytellers. Im worried about that, as our other congressmen to whom ive spoken in the last 48 hours. We kind of get, try to get people to temper their language. I cant speak for what everyone has said, but this memo is very factual. Its not emotional. It doesnt draw any conclusions, it just lays out the facts and let you draw the conclusions. Laura nancy pelosi spoke about an hour ago and i know you havent seen it, so this is a gift for you, lets watch. They have made up a memo if that isnt even true, and they are lying to the American People. What are you going to do about it . The republican party, as i said, has crossed over to cover up. They are deadly afraid of the russia investigation. The fbi recentlys selected by President Trump, he got the memo. He could have, and said with due respect, you dont know what youre talking about. Laura she really gave it to chris cuomo. As she read it . I dont know. Laura i want to know. We had members of the department of justice over the weekend saying was reckless to release this memo when they had not read it. They didnt know what was in it. They were Making Accusations that they have no knowledge of. Laura where his sessions in all of this . What has he said . He is the head of the Justice Department in which the fbi resides. Is he just not going to comment because russia . I recuse myself to all things related to russia, which i still dont understand. I think is one of the most
decent, honorable men. I would say he has recused himself from one of the most important laura you cant recuse yourself if youre going to be attorney general. I said it was you had not done that because you have i think you have an obligation to step aside and let the department to be led by someone who will not step aside. Laura you are saying sessions cant leave this department . Ive set it in the past, its unfair for him, its unfair for what we are trying to accomplish. Laura are there other people who are agreeing with you other than the few with quota publicly . I think there are a few. Laura i love jeff sessions. For some reason, im concerned about this. Great on immigration, good on some of the enforcement. Gang stuff. Frankly, the marijuana enforcement, which i think is good to give discretion to the field officers. This investigation, im sorry, was a fraud from the beginning. Rod rosenstein wet himself when he went over to the hill and is
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