so why would you not spend the first part of your investigation to definitely get to the bottom of joseph misfid? now what do we know about joseph misfid? we know that he worked with fbi agents, we know he trained fbi agents at the link campus in rome. we know that he was around many nato members running dialogues, so this is a guy who if he was a russian asset, so you have james comey said he was a russian asset, mueller stopped short, just saying he had a russian connection. somewhere we got to know the truth because either joseph misfid is not a russian asset and was working for someone else we need to know who that was or if he was a russian asset my god the state department has been corrupted our own fbi has been corrupted, joseph misfid was the in united states congress in early 2017 as we were beginning our investigation, so something doesn t add up. maria: because once we know for sure that misfid working with
that briefing, peter struck, the same agent who was already investigating the trump campaign. the same agent who, eight days before that defensive briefing sent a text message saying he was going to stop him, and to two days before that defensive briefing sent a message saying we need an insurance policy against the trump presidency. little wonder that on that day, august 17, 2016, donald trump wasn t warned about russian interference in this campaign. he wasn t briefed about the dossier, he wasn t briefed about carter page, and jim comey came out this week and said well, we didn t want to tip off anyone about that. the problem with that, maria, is that the same time they want warning and protecting donald trump, they were warning his political adversary and jim adversaries. on august 25, director john brennan picked up the phone
that. [inaudible] is an attorney general william barrs reaction to that. i personally felt he could ve reached a conclusion. the opinion says you can t indict a president while he s in office, but he could ve reached a decision as to whether it was criminal activity. joining me now is republican congressman from texas. he sits on the house judiciary intelligence and homeland security. he s also former federal prosecutor. always a pleasure to see you. thanks for joining us. good morning maria. robert mueller, you just heard that sound from william bark, he said he had a team of approximately 40 fbi agents, forensic accountants, special counsel issued more than 2800 subpoenas, 230 orders for communication records 50 orders for pen registers,
interviewed approximately 500 witnesses, and was given almost $40 million to complete the task. should he have come up with the determination or judgment on obstruction? maria, actually disagree with attorney general barr when he said bob mueller could ve reached a decision. bob mueller should have reached a decision. there isn t anyone in the country, republican or democrat who expected bob mueller, after everything you just relayed, two years of this, to come back and tell us he was not able to reach a decision or conclusion, especially when he was able to reach a decision on the most important aspect, whether or not anyone committed any crime by colluding with russia. bob mueller put a stake in the heart of his collusion conspiracy narrative as it relates to donald trump. he did exactly what a prosecutor is supposed to do. that s what surprising in puzzling why he went on for
charles grassley, chairman of the committee on the judiciary that back in october of 2017. let s talk about this letter and why this letter is important because we are looking at the letter from gregory brower, the assistant director of the office of congressional affairs. maria come about letter documents and really important in extraordinary events that were happening in august of 2016. let me remind your viewers exactly what happened during that timeframe. it was on july 31 of 2016 that the fbi opened this counterintelligence investigation that related to the trump campaign, operation crossfire hurricane. it was opened by fbi agent peter struck. it s interesting that 18 days later, on august 17 of 2016, that the fbi and cia conducting a counterintelligence briefing for the purpose of protecting and warning donald trump would put in charge of coordinating