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Chairman devon nunes coming up about that, and how far up the ladder does the corruption at the Justice Department go . Does it reach barack obama . Also a new budget is in place including more than a trillion dollars in defense spending over the next two years, is that enough retired four star general jack keane joins me live plus a week for stock prices on wall street whats behind all this volatility . What does it mean for you as we look ahead right now on sunday morning futures. And we kick it off now with the abuse of power at the top of the fbi, dualing memos, dividing washington this weekend as the white house declines the request to release a democrat being counter memo to a gop document alleging surveillance abuse at the fbi and department of justice. The republican lawmaker behind the initial memo is setting his sights on the state department as part of his Ongoing Investigation of corruption in our top law enforce. Agencies continues. That lawmaker joins me right now House Intel Committee chairman devon nunes. Mr. Chairman its good to see you thanks so much for joining us. Its great to be with you. Maria let me kick it off with that and the fact that the white house denied the request to release adam schiffs memo. What can you tell us about that memo . Youve seen it. What do we need to understand about this . Well first off, this was not a surprise, so this was after they had accused the republicans of putting sources and methods into our memo, we actually did not, we just put in what we thought the American People needed to know. It was clear from the development of the democratic memo from the very beginning that they packed it full of sources and methods. Now for the viewers out there what are sources and methods . We dont want to give up the way our Intelligence Committee recruits sources, the methods they may use to recruit sources, so these are things that dont need to be made public; however the democrats knew this. They packed their memo full of sources and methods. Now, on friday night we received a letter back from the white house, the white house did not deny that the release of the democratic memo. What they did is they said look, you need to make some redactions and technical corrections here and we will get it out right away. Now, from that point, weve heard nothing but crickets. The democrats have been on tv all weekend long. Their memo is sitting at the house Intelligence Committee down at the bottom of the capitol waiting to be redacted. If they really wanted to get it out theyed be down there all day yesterday redacting it getting it back over to the white house so that the public can know whats in it. This is nothing but politics. Maria and within the democratic memo, there was no rejection of the point of your memo which was bottom line, the fbi used Government Resources to spy on a political enemy. Well right. We actually want the democratic memo out. We think its ridiculous on the face of it and its very political about how they attacked myself, they attacked chairman gowdy, they turn carter page into some super secret russian spy, they talk about how Christopher Steele is a really really good source when we know he lied to the fbi, so we want this out. We dont know why theyre not in this weekend redacting it so we can get it back to the white house so the president can declassify it. Maria right and but they did not deny the omission of information that has taken place here. Basically fbi goes to the fisa court and presents this socalled dossier of un verified information about donald trump during an election and they do not tell the fisa court that the dossier was actually paid for by Hillary Clinton. Yeah, and not only that, i mean thats the crux of our argument, well phase i of our investigation was to look at the fisa abuse, so we very simply said look, the court didnt know that the democrats paid for this. Now, remember this is an investigation into the other campaign. I would think the judge would need to know that. They also admitted the fact after they discovered that Christopher Steele wouldnt talk to multiple Media Outlets and that they had used some of those stories to cooperate the dossier , you would think somehow , someone, somewhere would say hey we better go tell the fisa court this and they didnt do it the first time. They didnt do it the second time, third time the fact they didnt even do it the fourth time so a full year, they were spying on an american citizen who was affiliated with the Trump Campaign and the court didnt know any of that for four times in a row. Maria in terms of their surveillance did they also capture steve bannon and other people within the Trump Campaign well look, i mean we know that carter page, we know now because its been declassified. We know anyone talking to carter page was likely picked up by authorities. Now that would include remember carter page has been a suspect of congress. We have interviewed him, i think the senate has interviewed him, so this is scary stuff, right . I mean this would mean they would have Congressional Communications from our branch of government. They would have anybody that he was talking to in the white house and look, lets just, you know carter page is an interesting individual okay . But he also was a guy who cooperated with the fbi back in 2013. They used him in a court case to say the russians actually didnt even want to recruit carter page , but look, i dont agree with carter page on very much but the guy shouldnt have his emails or phone calls listened to and eavesdropped into. Maria give us the new information youre seeking. You have asked the fisa court for what . What are you seeking now, congressman. Well, one of the thins this past week that we sent a letter to the fisa court asking for the transcripts of the four appearances before the fisa court so if the fisa Court Approved the warrant, we want to know what transpired so we sent a letter to the court this week asking for those transcripts so that we can make either at least we can have those in a classified setting and if theres anything we would need to make public or other members of congress aware we would. Maria people want to know where this is all leading congressman. Now i want to ask you about the Graham Grassley memo because that memo from Lindsay Graham and Chuck Grassley, that memo confirms everything basically in your memo, but it also recommends charges. Tell us about those charges that this memo is recommending. Charges against the british spy Christopher Steele. Yeah, so its pretty clear, the good thing about the Grassley Graham memo is it was actually a letter a criminal referral to justice. It was written before our memo was put together, so any type of essentially what it does is it corroborates what we had said and it goes further than that and it really points out how Christopher Steele lied to the fbi, so it is a clear cut case. Christopher steele lied to the fbi and i cant for the life of me know when you have the house who said that hey this guy lied to the fbi, and you have the senate who said this guy lied to the fbi, Christopher Steele, what is the Justice Department doing . Where is the prosecution of Christopher Steele . This is a slam dunk case, they have all of the documents and this is what makes people really wonder about having confidence that the doj and fbi are playing this straight up. Maria thats right. If theyre playing it straight up they would have immediately went after once they were notified by congress, Christopher Steele lied to you, they would bust him for lying to the fbi. They also, still the big felony in all this that nobody talks about from the very beginning was the leak of highly classified information when they leaked the phone call of the Russian Ambassador talks to general mike flynn right before the inauguration. That was a felony. Nothing has ever been done about it and people are sitting like myself are sitting there you want to go after people who were colluding with the russians great but lets first start with the felonies that we actually know that took place and for some reason, nobody thinks that thats important to do. Nothing has been donald its absolutely outrageous. Maria thats what im saying. There are more felonies that you can point to. I mean the idea that cheryl mills got immunity after lying to the fbi and a number of other clintons getting immunity after actually lying to the fbi. The idea that two fbi agents peter strzok and his lover, the lawyer lisa page are saying okay , hes winning we need an insurance policy, what was the insurance policy . Creating all this nonsense and noise around a russia probe and getting a special counsel involved . So the bottom line is where are the charges, who will we see get prosecuted as a result of this massive abuse of power, congressman. So what we can do, what can we do in our branch of government . In the legislative branch of government. We provide oversight right . So we look at these agencies. We can investigate them and at the end of the day, we can make criminal referrals, but criminal referrals only. We dont have people that can go out and arrest people and bring them down to the capitol and hold them, you know, in the bowels of the capitol. All we can do is make criminal referrals, so if doj and fbi are not going to prosecute what seemed to be very clear cases like with Christopher Steele lying to them or if theyre not going to investigate clear felonies like the leak of very highly sensitive classified information in terms of phone calls that were intercepted, if theyre not going to go after those, at some point the bucks going to have to stop with someone and you know we will continue our investigation but i think ultimately it will be the American People who will put the pressure not only on congress but the other branches of government to make sure that justice is served. Maria yeah, so where does the buck stop . Were going to take a break and when we come back i want to ask you a little more about this congressman because youre at a world ag expo right now and this is turning into a street fight between you and the left whose attacking not only you but the entire farming community. Were going to talk about where you are this morning as well as how far off the chain of command goes in terms of the corruption at the fbi. Does it reach barack obama . Well talk about this after this short break. Stay with us common devon nunes follow me on twitter at Maria Bartiromo at sunday futures let us know what you want to hear from congressman devon nunes we will be back with us after this. Stay with us. It whispering with the capital one venture card, youll earn unlimited double miles on every purchase, every day. Not just airline purchases. Think about all the double miles you could be earning. yelling holy moly, thats a lot of miles shhhhh shh whats in your wallet . Man shhhh shh its technology was engineered beeping . While its design was meant to be seen. Experience the new 2018 lexus nx, and the nx hybrid. Experience amazing, at your lexus dealer. I had tried to quit before, i had tried the patch. I tried to go cold turkey; it didnt work for me. 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Maria welcome back. Were back now with the chairman of the House Intel Committee devon nunes and congressman, you know were talking about this fbi investigation and want to get to phase ii of your investigation in what youre looking at the state department. Lets explain where you are this morning. Youre coming to us from the world ag expo, the architecture farmers, the annual expo there and you know, this investigation in general has turned into something of a street fight between you and the democrats in particular adam schiff whose attacking you all the time, nancy pelosi coming out last week saying devon nunes is not fit to run because you are seeking the truth. Its also impacting the entire industry isnt it farmers . Yeah, i mean this is apart of the world i always call this area the canary in the coal mine i warn my conservative friends and republican allies across the country weve been dealing with these people for a really long time so were in the architectural mecca of the world over 300 different crops grow here, we will have the Largest International ag equipment show in the world. Well start here tomorrow and so but we have been attacked by hollywood and San Francisco for years and in fact, so much so that a lot of the land in this area even though its the most fertile and productive farmland in the world we struggle every year because constantly they take our water and they let it flow out to the ocean, so this is not something that is unusual, people ask me well how can you, youre getting attacked so look were used to getting attacked here in california. Theres been a war on people who actually build things, grow things, work with their hands. They think that, you know if youre in the d. C. Beltway or new york city, no offense to where you are now, but San Francisco and los angeles that this is somehow the people who make this country work and the fact is they dont have a clue. They dont have a clue where their food comes from and so when they attack me, it means that i know exactly whats up. It means that they are, we have the facts. They do not, and they dont want the American People to know that the doj and fbi use political dirt from one campaign, paid for by the democrats to go and spy on the Trump Campaign. Maria thats what were learning more and more thank you for what youve done in terms of water for the Central Valley and your district because i know that theyre trying to get all this Economic Activity and just put a stop to it by creating the Central Valley and putting it back to its natural dessertlike fashion killing that farming so thats a whole other story well do that on mornings with maria on the Fox Business Network coming up but let me ask you about phase ii of this investigation. Youre investigating now the state department. What went on . So what we originally said is that we had an investigation into the state department and how information was coming into the state department and then getting to other agencies. Since we announced that just a little over a week ago, weve had numerous people that were the state department at the time who have now come out and are spilling their guts. In fact so much so one of them actually wrote an op ed as to why i was investigating him. It was published in the Washington Post which i thought was a little bizarre because we hadnt even reached out to him yet. The only people reached out to him or named that individual was Chuck Grassley senator grassley whose also conducting an investigation so names are beginning to spill out. Names that i think would ring a bell like cody shear and sidney blumenthal, who are known longtime Hillary Clinton advocates this was actually before my time in washington when they were up to a lot of shenanigans but most of the people have been around a long time know these characters and know theyre bad characters in terms of the types of things that theyre willing to use against political adversaries. Somehow, what it appears like if you believe the Washington Post editor quality or op ed is that these cast of characters were putting information similar to the the original steel dossier what appears to be a different steel dossier if you believe them which was attacking trump and feeding that into the fbi and thats not all were looking at. Im glad that they came out and puked their guts out in the Washington Post. Id like more people to do that but we are actually looking at additional challenges of information that went into the state department and went to the fbi to be used against the republicans. Maria congressman how far up the chain does this go . Was powerful speech and Hillary Clinton basically pulling the strings . Well we know that the attorney general was briefed in the spring of 2016, so we know she was made aware. We month now by the people from the state department who have said that john kerry, secretary kerry was briefed on the dossier we know most of the news media was briefed on the dossier, so all of this was out there, everybody i think but the Trump Campaign and republicans and the American People. Everybody else outside of those three groups knew about the dossier and were actively trying to open an investigation, start investigations to use this dirt to go after the other campaign. Maria incredible so we know that Hillary Clinton goes to run for president and shes got the full weight and strength and power of the u. S. Government behind her where fbi and other agencies are completely politicized to make sure she wins, and she still lost. This is just an extra ordinary story. And not only that, maria but id also add that the collusion is right in front of our eyes. Maria yes. People just because you hire a lawyer who hires a firm who hires a former british spy to make contacts with russians . That means that you were colluding with the russians. Maria thats called collusion, yes. And corruption. And nobodys looking at that. Maria congressman we are thank you so much sir. Thanks for joining us this morning. Thank you. Maria well be right back. My do you want clean, stain free dentures . Try polident. The four in one cleaning system kills 99. 99 of odor causing bacteria, cleans where brushing may miss. Helps remove stains and prevent stain build up. Use polident daily. The things we do rising before dawn. Sweating it out. Tough to do it all. But we can always find time to listen to great thinkers and explorers whose stories take us places our hamstrings cant. All we have to do is listen. Download audible to start listening. Soi want you to pick a newr truck for your mom or dad, knowing that they could possibly pass it down to you one day. Oh. Cool. 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The deal boosts Pentagon Spending over the next two years and scraps the spending cap set by the 2011 sequester which completely really hammers the military. Want to bring in retired four star general jack keane right now he is the chairman of the institute for the study of war and a fox news senior strategic analyst general always a pleasure good to see you sir. Great to be here maria. Maria we talked a lot about these budget requirements and what needed to be done, going into this budget deal. Your thoughts on what we just saw . Well this is very significant , so i already understand we have not had a budget increase like this in defense spending since the early years of the Reagan Administration in the 1980s. That is how significant this is. In 2018, the plus up from the ceiling on the budget caps is 80 billion over what that budget cap was, and now, we can begin to make a down payment on what the military really needs. Here is what they need. They need to have increase their readiness and what that means is spare parts for our airplanes and all of our vehicles and things that we use, training for the pilots, training for our organizations, desperate need of that. Thats why half of the airplanes arent flying and we have so many maintenance problems. The second thing is, maria, we have the smallest military we have had in 75 years, yet we have global responsibilities that are significant, there for, were stretching that military, stressing that military and weve got to start growing it. What am i talking about . More people, more airplanes, more ships, and weve got to also increase our future capacity. The russians and the chinese have caught us. We no longer have the technological advantage we used to enjoy for multiple generations, thats over. Weve got to get back out there with increased capability over our adversary so this is good news. Next year another plus up again weve got to do it maria for about five to six years steady. Maria yeah you make a lot of good points because the truth is now weve got the budget done but now comes the appropriations where does this money get appropriated . And thats what were going to hear in the next couple of weeks , but you know, theres a lot of people out there even on the republican side basically saying the republicans have lost fiscal discipline. This budget is going to mean trillion dollar deficits for years out, for as long as the eye can see and as you said, its a significant increase in military spending but that would not have been agreed upon had the republicans not agreed on discretion architecture it spending increases as well, so whats your take when you look at these budget numbers and all the complaints about the republicans today because you are talking about the return to trillion dollar deficits. Well certainly. I think thats a concern that we all have to be sure. The political reality is it was likely not going to be a defense increase unless there was a similar increase on a domestic side for the democrats. Thats the political reality were dealing within washington but here is what im encouraged by. Were not going to be able to sustain these numbers from five to six years unless something happens here and here is what im talking about. Our economy has got to grow and if our economy begins to grow, we can afford these budgets and thats where were heading and were off to a good start this year with the growth in this economy. You know we talk about on your show about were finally seeing wage increases. Maria thats right. And we havent seen that in years. If that continues to happen this economy is going to take off and thats where our Revenue Growth will be so that we can afford defense spending so we can afford infrastructure. Maria its a great point. We are going to be speaking on mornings with maria on the Fox Business Network the show you just referenced with speaker paul ryan. He will be my special guest on tuesday so well get into all these budget issues with speaker ryan. Let me ask you to switch gears for a moment general because i want to ask you about north korea. Obviously, Vice President mike pence going to the olympics sitting right in front of kim jonguns sister. Whats your take in terms of what we saw from the optics in theres mike pence with the head of south korea but we know the south koreas and the North Koreans marched together in the winter games. Yeah, well certainly the olympics are a special thing i think most people in the world get inspired by what takes place with these great athletes and hats off to that 17 year old youngster we got that won a gold medal yesterday, but listen, i think theres a lot of optics out there something the north is talking to the south. Talking is better than shooting thats for sure but i know for a fact, maria because i was talking to key leaders in our Administration Just this last week, they are very cleareyed about what is happening with north korea and south korea. They know full well the North Koreans here this is a propaganda game for them theyre trying to drove a wedge between the South Koreans and the United States. Thats not going to happen and certainly what theyre continuing to do is advance the Technology Programs to nuclear ize icbms we know thats happening and we also nomar it a theres a showdown coming were months away from there having a full throttle capability. The United States is going to have to pull out all the stops to stop that from actually taking place and i know the administration is up to that task. Maria yeah, so in terms of when this showdown is happening whats your timeframe in terms of when push comes to shove and the u. S. Ha to make a change in terms of what its doing in its approach to north korea and its nuclear efforts . Well director pompeo of the c a told us its months away from the summer and the months closed and north korea still hadnt got full capability so hopefully while he says its months away it actually takes longer than that but i do believe that theres some things we can do right now. I would close the back door into north korea from the sea which we know is happening and, you know, where supplies are getting in. Id put navy ships up there we call it a blockade, stop it you know . And i start bringing into the theatre logistical infrastructure if we need a military operation. I want North Koreans to see the United States is serious about a military operation and its not just words and id stop sending military families to south korea because we dont want them there obviously if a conflict takes place we have to bring the ones that are there home, so theres some things we can do in the meantime and i also believe, maria, that the chinese have not shut the door completely and were going to have to go toe to toe with the chinese. Maria thats a really important point well be watching that. General good to see you sir thanks so much. General jack keane always a pleasure up next the white house withholding the democratic counter memo for now saying it contains highly sensitive information. 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Maria its an amazing story. Obviously the fbi and the department of justice decided to just use Government Resources to spy on the political enemy of Hillary Clinton. Well look, i think it goes deeper than that. The one text message in which the fbi agent says weve got to brief comey because president obama wants to know everything really raises a whole series of questions about what the devil is going on. I mean, i think you probably have the president involved. You have the attorney general Loretta Lynch who youll remember met in secret with bill clinton the week they were interviewing hillary. You now have evidence that comey , the director of the fbi at the time was writing the statement exonerating hillary two months before the interview. I mean lets go down this list and then on both the protect hillary side and the get trump side, it is the most extraordinary example of the deep state totally abusing the rule of law and its devon nunes has shown enormous courage but its way beyond devon nunes now. You have chairman ron johnson in the senate releasing things. You have chairman Chuck Grassley in the senate releasing things there are a lot of different players now engaged in this and they seem to be pretty consistently lining up except of course for adam schiff and the democrats who are in the see no evil, report no evil, just hide with evil for the weekend kind of group. Maria yeah thats absolutely right and by the way we should point out that 10 people at least have been fired or re assigned at the fbi or the department of justice. This is not some, you know, conspiracy theory. Youve got people from james comey to the attorney from the southern district, acting attorney general sally yates, fbi Deputy Director james mccabe , hugh chen, mary mccord, bruce ohr, james baker, peter strzok reassigned all these people have been reassigned or fired, so obviously, someone, go ahead, newt. Well let me just point out. To show you how sick the elite media is, they report all that as though its something bad about trump. Maria right. And they say look at all of the people who have left. Yeah theyve all left because they are all engaged in what was probably criminal behavior and the truth is that the attorney general is not recused on any of this and the attorney general should interview and appoint a special counsel for all those people including the director of the fbi, including the former attorney general. I mean we have a very serious problem of corruption at the very top of our judicial system and our fbi system in a way which i think is pretty frightening. Maria but what are the consequences, newt . Thats what i keep hearing from our audience. Where is this going and who will get prosecuted . Whose going to jail and does this go all the way up to barack obama and Hillary Clinton basically calling shots on her own election to try to investigate and come up with dirt on her opponent. Look, in any reasonable system of law, secretary clinton would already be in jail. All of her senior aids would be in jail. I mean you look, you eliminate 33,000 emails. Every single one of them is a count in terms of how the state department lists what are secrets. 33,000. You have her aids who are totally engaged in this and who are being treated by the way with kid gloves by the fbi. You have i mean i think the first question has to be asked by the congress is to comey to say what did it mean that he was briefing the president . Give us copies of what you use to brief him. What was the president asking . I dont think you can get to obama until you first get to comey and to lynch but certainly , the one text message i thought was the equivalent of Alexander Butterfield in water gate saying oh, you know theres this taping system. I mean we now have a very senior fbi agent the number two guy in counterintelligence involved in Text Messages with his girlfriend saying, you know, we really got to put this together so comey can brief obama who wants to know everything. Maria right. Well does that mean he was in the middle of both covering up hillary and going after trump . Im not saying i know anything except that somebody had better be preparing for some very serious hearings. Maria thats absolutely right. The gentleman youre talking about, lets see peter strzok, rather pardon me, peter strzok was on both investigations on the trump investigation, socalled collusion which never materialized and also on the email scandal investigation of Hillary Clinton and lets not forget that Loretta Lynch told james comey to call it a matter. Dont call it a criminal investigation even though it was a criminal investigation. See ive been told by insiders that comey was basically just used and told what to do by andy mccabe and Loretta Lynch, that they were really pulling the strings so if Loretta Lynch is basically telling comey call it a matter not an investigation, do this, say it this way, im going to go meet with bill clinton on a tarmac in arizona shes obviously getting the word from her boss who barack obama. Well i think thats probably true but we dont know that yet which is why i think we have to start with comey and put him under oath and say were you briefing the president or did strzok lie and then bring strzok in and have him testify why didnt you think his briefing the president and also strzoks girlfriend who was part of that conversation. Maria thats right. Then you have the conversations in andy mccabes office and remember his wife had gotten i think 700,000 dollars as a democrat being candidate so now you have the Deputy Director of the fbi and it was in his office that strzok said they had talks about how terrible it would be if trump won. If you put all the pieces up on the wall, it is impossible to reach any conclusion other than that there was an enormous conspiracy at the very top. Again let me be clear. Most fbi agents are honest, honorable decent people. The top 1 was apparently stunningly engaged in corruption maria and one by one those 10 people are being fired or reassigned i agree with you about the fbi in general. A word before you go, newt, on Jeff Sessions. Is he going to get involved in any of this and at the end of the day, hes holding the ball in terms of where this goes for prosecution. Look, he is a very good friend of mine but i have to tell you i am very disappointed. He is not in any way recused on this information. He should be appointing an independent counsel. He should be demanding that we get to the bottom of this. He should be the guy in charge of the cleanup and theres no reason he cant be. This has nothing to do with the socalled Russian Investigation and therefore hes not recused in any way and i frankly am very surprised that he has been so passive about this. Maria well whats the answer . Does he always have lawyers around him basically saying dont say a word about it because you recused yourself . Look, you are a great interviewer, invite him on your show and ask him. Maria [laughter] i dont know what the answer is. Im totally mystified because hes a great guy. Hes a solid conservative, he certainly is in his career has been a fighter and this behavior is just totally unlike everything i knew about Jeff Sessions before the last six or eight months. Maria yeah, all right well be watching that, on Jeff Sessions we will be following the story as you know it. Newt gingrich always a pleasure sir, thank you. Good to be with you. Maria and then theres this the economy and a rollercoaster week on wall street what can we expect tomorrow . Have republicans lost fiscal discipline with their latest budget . Our panel will weigh in as we look ahead on sunday morning futures back in a 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 . 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Maria so they paid for the dossier and they wrote part of it. The clintons. It was the Opposition Research of the Democratic National committee and her campaign and the idea for the fbi and state department to pick it up and run with it while investigating it shows they clearly were the ball was tipped against trump and clearly in her favor. Maria its extraordinary james. It is and i think people want to know id like to see the democratic memo. Id like to also hear from the fisa judge. I think americans want to know is it really that easy to get a warrant to spy on your political opponents because weve heard a lot about the Civil Liberties being protected when you have a judge looking at these wire tap requests and in this case it looks like they werent. Maria can anyone explain Jeff Sessions . No i think hes just missing in action. I think he basically is a job he always wanted and he doesnt want to function and i think the reality is the person who just resigned the number three position is a very important position and better be a trump loyalist. Youd like someone running the Justice Department that would be helpful. The problem is you probably couldnt get anyone else confirm ed through the senate right now, so maria good very important point you just made. Yeah so we have this really kind of disturbing moment where the Big Decisions arent being made by the dulyelected authority in the executive branch but people who are more or less independent. Maria were going to hear a lot more about bruce ohr. Bruce ohr was the number three department of justice official. His wife worked for fusion gps who put together the dossier. Nobody at the department of justice knew that bruce ohrs wife worked for fusion gps, i mean this is a joke. [laughter] its kinked of highlevel positions and i had the privilege of serving on some of them you have to have a core of your own beliefs and basically say i think theres a conflict of interest here and ill step aside. Unfortunately the only person who stepped aside is Jeff Sessions who should be fully engaged. He has no reason to not be fully engaged but these other people who have been active did have conflicts and they werent there maria i think its also interesting to note every time james comey had a meeting with donald trump he took lots of cop ious notes. Every time he had a meeting with Hillary Clinton it was off the record, no notes. What wed also like to know about is meetings with barack obama and specifically what was said about these various investigations both did they discuss the clinton one, did they discuss the russia investigation . I mean the truth that the fbi director despite what you see in a lot of media does work for the president but of course barack obama said im here now. That he didnt discuss investigations. Maria thats right. The fbi director or the ag. I thisly the ag was met accidentally with maria bill clinton. They werent talking about golf and grandkids. Maria accidentally, they met accidentally because everybody just so happens to run into their friends on a tarmac in arizona. Absolutely. Lets take a break and when we come back a thousand point swings James Freeman in the stock market are they here to stay should we care . Were taking a look at the economy and markets when we come back as we look ahead on sunday morning futures back in a moment. For all the noses that stuff up around daisies. For all the eyes that get itchy and watery near pugs. For all the people who sneeze around dust. Theres Flonase Sensimist allergy relief. 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Maria should you not worry about yields in terms of Interest Rates because when we look at the dow versus the yield s, like the 10 year getting up to 3 thats been one source of upset right that people are saying rates are going higher so let me take my money out of the stock market less risk in treasury. I was thinking about this, this kind of freakout over 3 . Thats still historically very low. Maria yeah, right. Ed remembers mid 1980s, we had doubledigit rates on the 10 year bond from spring of 83 to spring of 84 it went up 300 basis points or more and what was the economy doing . Crushed it. Maria exactly this is all for good reason right ed . Every sign of the economy is strong the market is up and down and crazy and it may settle itself out. The thing i think i worry about a little bit though is we now have weve raised the entire budget process to much higher level and were going to have deficits go back to the mark and thats not fair to the next generation plus with the Interest Rates going up its going to be a very substantial dollar sum they have to pay in just interest so we need to be very very restrained on the especially investment spending. Maria but doesnt growth help that thats the whole point the republicans say growth is a priority. Does growth help on the debt . Youre right, trillion dollar deficits is what this market is worried about. It certainly will if we get the growth and i hope we do. Maria will we get it james . I think thats the signal and we want to see that productivity growth as well but i agree this is the threat and people focus on the stock market. I think the real bubble is in government bonds. Theyve never been more expensive than 5,000 years of recorded history and i think the republicans really missed an opportunity this past week to start to bring us back toward fiscal sanity. Maria thats definitely the word. Well see what happens on entitlements. Probably nothing in an election year. Good to see you both. Always a pleasure. Join me for mornings with maria on the fox business net work this week this tuesday got an exclusive special interview for you with House Speaker paul ryan that is Tuesday Morning at 8 00 a. M. Eastern on the Fox Business Network. Please join me then and join me every weekday on fox business for mornings with maria 6 00 9 00 a. M. Eastern have a great day everybody. Sunday morning futures comes back next sunday right here im Maria Bartiromo stay with fox Maria Bartiromo stay with fox news back whispering with the capital one venture card, youll earn unlimited double miles on every purchase, every day. 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Also tonight, were awaiting the release of the democratic memo rebutting allegations that the obama Justice Department and the fbi abused