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Letter to intel chairman that Michael Horowitz testify in the impeachment probe. What he wants to hear from horowitz. John ratcliffe and trey gowdy on and the road ahead on john durhams criminal investigation. Michael mukasey and kim strassel of the wall street journal. One of targets of Unlawful Spying, George Papadopoulos joins us with his account what went down. All that ahead on sunday morning futures. Maria all that coming up. Breaking news this morning on trade. The Trump Administration kicks off a landmark week on a vote on u. S. Mexico trade agreement. After reaching a phase one trade deal with china. Joining me on impact of all of this, white house Economic Advisor larry kudlow. Wonderful to see you this morning. Thanks for joining us. Thank you, maria. Maria youre going into a big week. I understand tuesday will be a vote on spending. Wednesday will be a Impeachment Vote and thursday the vote on usmca. How important was that agreement on usmca and are you expecting it to come to the floor on thursday for that vote . Well i guess that is the schedule. If it comes to the floor as expected it will pass. I think it will pass handily. Maria, you can go all the way back a week ago with the gigantic jobs number, 266,000, 3 1 2 unemployment. Production workers making faster wage increases than their managers. And then you come, yeah, well get a budget deal. Were also going to get the Space Defense deal as part of that budget operation. And then you have usmca, and you have china phase one. You know, china phase one and usmca cover more or less over two trillion dollars worth of trading activity. U. S. , north america, china, okay . Over 2 trillion. I just want to note here. Not only is this positive for Economic Growth but it does show that President Trumps example of being a tough, hardnosed bargainer on trade and economic matters works. You know, he has been accused of being an isolationist, every other name around. The fact is, he has accomplished stuff here in the trading area that no one, and i mean no one in our memory has been able to achieve. So you know what . I kind of like tough myself and i think tough is working and incidentally, tough is going to increase our Economic Growth rate next year and the years ahead. Maria certainly feels that way. You have got a landmark deal with mexico and canada for sure. What would you say is the appropriate representation in terms of what that contributes to Economic Growth in 2020, larry . What are you expecting in terms of growth . I know were at the lowest unemployment in 50 years. I know consumer is solid as a rock. What about Economic Growth, 2020 . I think that again, these trade deals will be very helpful. They will reduce uncertainty and probably i pick up important business spending n ballpark numbers, maria, i say we do half a percent better gdp in 2020 than otherwise would be the case. I like action of recent months. The u track the tremendous bull stock market, the broad index up 25 . That tells you Business Conditions are getting better. Trade is part of that of course. Easier fed policy is part of that, of course. If you look inside of that, the cyclicals, the progrowth areas, things like industrials and technology and financials, all that stuff has been leading the parade. Tells me that the economy is heating up once again. Maria larry, let me ask but the china deal. I know it is phase one of the expectation china will buy a whole bunch of additional agricultural products. What i want to know about is the intellectual property part of this. You say you have got some promises from the chinese to actually protect intellectual property but isnt it true they have just instituted their own new cybersecurity rules in place that say that no Foreign Company may encrypt data, so it cant be read by the chinese Central Government and communist party of china . Businesses are required to turn over the encryption keys. Are these new rules china put in place basically negating opportunity for the u. S. To protect its ip . Well see. There is a large ip chapter in this deal and forced Technology Transfer chapter in this deal. I dont think we know enough about the new chinese rules. Well have to look at that. By the way if they do violate we will take action. That is part of the enforcement mechanism in the deal. Look, to take a look what is actually there, in the intellectual property theft chapter, counterfeiting, stealing tradeable goods, that is going to be front and center. There is a whole process now where if you go out and you start stealing goods, or counterfeiting goods, thats going to come under an enforced process. Multistages, individual companies, this is for first time, our individual companies in america, they will go to american staff at the embassy and then the two will come together. Well do deputy level and principal level. Dont forget, although we have adjusted trade tariffs down, december 15th tariffs and part of the september tariffs, we will still have 250 billion at 25 which i look at, as a bargaining, an insurance policy. Maria yeah. All these things come under careful scrutiny. The question is, look, if the chinese in granting a license to an american company, okay, if they think they will mandate Technology Transfers or if we open up a joint venture and we dont get, we dont get fair representation in that joint venture, then, those will be violations of this deal and those will come under the enforcement process. So, we will see whether china lives up to its commitments or not. Maria what i like about the deal, you have a snapback mechanism in place. If they do break their promises which weve seen them do so many times the tariffs snap back in place. I also like the idea of these wages you mentioned, bottom earners are seeing wages go up a lot more than national. Oneword answer. What do you think bottom earners seeing increase in wages, larry . The National Average is 3. 1 . What is the bottom seeing wage increase . 3 1 2, 4 depending how you count it. Im not saying their wages are higher. Their increase in wages. Maria increase is much higher than 3 on the bottom. That is what i was referring to. Running a total compensation down there is about 3 1 2 to 4 . That is better rate than their managers are getting. It is first time weve seen this, maria, since the 1980s. I think in particular, the taxcut package, especially the business part, the deregulation package have had Tremendous Positive influence. But look, lets go back to the trade issue here. This is progrowth. I want to emphasize this. Whether usmca for example. Maria yep. The International Trade commission had wide, wide variance of options for what Growth Numbers could be. It could be 350,000 jobs per year. It could be 3 4 of a per year. And on china we export 180 billion worth to china. Maria right. Those are the latest numbers. This deal will push that to 200 billion. That is an increase, an increase of 200 billion. So we are going to be doubling american exports. Whether farming agriculture, and machinery and technology. We have never seen anything like this before. And so the economic consequences will be so positive from the standpoint of virtually the entire, entire american economy. Weve never seen this before. I repeat this point. President trump showed us how to bargain. 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What are you expecting the week ahead and tell me about the reaction youre seeing from the i. G. Report . Yeah. As you said the vote will be on wednesday, despite what a democratic scholar called the fastest, thinnest, weakest impeachment in u. S. History. Thats the direction that were going. The real question is, how big will the jailbreak be by the democrats. Weve already seen one democrat apparently switching parties over it. Another saying he will vote against it. So really the question is, how many more before wednesdays vote. The reason for that, maria is, because the democrats made the mistake staking the credibility of all this on adam schiff, the person that they put in charge of this investigation, turns out is the one that helped start it by meeting with a person who walked out of adam schiffs office and became the whistleblower. At the very same time that is happening, as you mentioned, now there is an Inspector General report that comes out and says during the last impeachment hoax, the trump russia one, adam schiff repeatedly made false statements to the American People about the fbis actions. So i think you know, that is whats happening. Thats why the democrats have been rushing to keep this from unraveling and keep their folks in line. Theyre having a really hard time to do that. I wouldnt want to bank my political future on adam schiffs credibility but they made that mistake. Maria i mean, going back to the ig report, you know, adam schiff was certainly out and about a lot throughout the last three years saying there is collusion in plain sight. And now we get the i. G. Report. We actually see the misconduct and what they called, errors, fraud, whatever you want to call it, what is your reaction to what you learned from michael who are with it . Well, wasnt just adam schiff was out and about, he put out a report says there was no fisa abuse by the fbi. That was false. He said that the fbi didnt fail to turn over exculpatory information. That was false. He said that the steele dossier was not a central part of the fisa applications against carter page. That was false. The Inspector Generals report, find national there detail all of that. It is indictment that the things that adam schiff was saying. It was an indictment of jim comeys leadership at the fbi. The biggest takeaway out there, maria, what the Inspector Generals findings clearly delineate, even if you concede, and i dont, even if you concede there was a predicate to start this, there was no predicate to continue a counterintelligence investigation against the president of the United States. They had to do it by making those false representations to the fisa court. Maria yeah. Well speak to devin nunez shortly of course. You referred to the nunes memo back in 2018, february of 18, where he wrote out all of the misconduct that took place by that cabal of people. Then schiff came out with that correcting the record memo which we know now was wrong, just flatout wrong. You mentioned some of the wrongdoing. One of them we know from the Michael Horowitz report was altering of a document by a fbi lawyer. Tell me about that. Where are you expect accountability, congressman . Well, as the Inspector Generals findings outline, what are referred to as errors and omissions are false statements, misrepresentations, destruction or alter ages of documentary evidence. What you have are fbi lawyers literally changing evidence to make false representations to the court to continue this Counter Intelligence investigation against the president. So you know, it details now everyone is entitled to a presumption of innocence. Democrat never want to give one to donald trump but the Inspector Generals findings really outline what is criminal activity. Were talking about fbi lawyers who are depriving folks like carter page of their civil rights under color of law. Tampering with evidence. Taking documents and making them say the opposite what they really represent and certifying that to the court. So you know, really terrible, again an indictment of jim comeys leadership at the fbi and of the things that the democrats said, again, most important point, to continue a Counter Intelligence investigation against a sitting president of the United States when there was no probable cause to continue it. That they started by making seven errors and omissions that were misrepresentations, alterations of evidence, then added 10 more to continue it along the way. You know, i dont think the American People can really appreciate the damage that was done to the fbi during jim comeys tenure there. Maria are you saying there was criminal activity against carter page and against a sitting president . Certainly, i would love to be carter pages lawyer. His civil right as alleged, in the findings by Inspector General horowitz, very clearly delineate that. But there were actions taken by individuals at the fbi to continue a counterintelligence investigation against a sitting president , against his campaign. Against his presidency. You know, so these are things that, findings made by Inspector General horowitz i would now expect john durham to look at from a criminal standpoint. Im not saying that anyone, im not making allegations that anyone has should be convicted. These are allegations, everyone is entitled to a presumption of innocence but do i think there is activity detailed in this, that should be investigated and prosecuted . Absolutely. Tampering with evidence, destruction of evidence. Maria could people go to jail over this . Absolutely. What would an aggressive prosecutor do with this if the folks involved were George Papdopoulus or Michael Flynn . The findings of fact made by the Inspector General here, you know, certainly detail potential criminal activity which would send people away for a long period of time. Maria were also going to talk with George Papdopoulus coming up. So he can tell us exactly some of the conversations he had which are now exculpatory evidence which were not given to the fisa court. Were also looking at when the investigation actually started because as you know the fbi tells us that the investigation, the counterintel investigation began in july of 16 but there were informants running into Campaign People as early as march of 16. Well speak to Michael Mukasey coming up. Congressman, good to see you. Thank you, maria. Maria reacting to the former we made usaa insurance for members like kate. 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He said he found no evidence that political bias sparked the probe. Joining me judge Michael Mukasey, former tone general and judge. Honor to be with you. Thanks for joining us. Pleasure to be with you. Conclusions of the i. G. Report were certainly debated after it came out because you had the ag, william barr, and john durham, both say that they do not agree. Saying that the i. G. Report makes it clear the fbi launched intrusive investigation of a president ial campaign on thinnest of suspicions that were insufficient to justify the steps taken. I want to ask you about political bias, where it was in the investigation. Was that among the reasons they investigated donald trump . Well. Lets look, lets look at evidence. It was evidence not discussed in either the i. G. Report or his prior report on the various investigations that the fbi did. There was a point where ted cruz withdrew from the campaign, during the primaries, which left donald trump as the only candidate, therefore the presumptive nom knee. That night, he and lisa page exchanged texts where she tells him, trump, it will be a trumpclinton campaign. He says, i cant believe it. And she says, maria were looking at text right now. Lisa page says, one more thing, she that was later when he was maria she might be our next president. The last thing you need going in there is full to bear. Peter strzok was about to interview Hillary Clinton that july weekend. That was in july. Earlier on they had this exchange where she says, i cant believe he is going to be the nominee. Maria says, holy s word, cruz just dropped out of the race. It will be a clintontrump race. Unbelievable. Peter strzok says what . You herd it her right, my friend. Figured it would be a bit. Strzok says now pressure starts to finish mye. Mye, was the, stood for the midyear exam which was the code word for the investigation of Hillary Clinton. Now will somebody please explain to me in words of one syllable how it is that the nomination of donald trump being the republican candidate increases the pressure to end the investigation of Hillary Clinton . Unless what you want is, to curtail the damage to Hillary Clinton. And assure that donald trump doesnt win. I dont understand what reason you would have to say that the trump nomination affects the course of the clinton investigation. He said that. Which is evidence that there was some effect. Now, thats never mentioned in the i. G. Report. It is never mentioned in his earlier report. I understand he basically took everybodys word for it because he doesnt have subpoena power. There is somebody who does have subpoena power. That is john durham. And durham will be conducting a criminal investigation which we have yet to hear about. Maria durhams investigation will go looking what happened before july 2016 because the fbi continues to say we started this investigation into july of 16 because of a tip we heard about a conversation that happened in a bar between George Papdopoulus and an infor ant. Right. Maria actually we know that informants ran into George Papdopoulus, quarter page, as early as march of that year. Not only that, jim comey was talking about carter page and briefing on carter page in june of 2016 well before any report on the conversation reached the fbi. We dont know why. It will be interesting to find out. Maria so john durham is looking at this in a criminal matter, what took place before july 16th. Well focus on that in durhams investigation. I want to ask you about what took place last week where adam schiff had phone records of Rudy Giuliani, the president s personal lawyer, john solomon, a journalist, devin nunez, well speak momentarily Ranking Member intel committee, not only get those phone records and let the public that he had not phone records. Everybody was speculating why did Rudy Giuliani call the white house. Why did john salomon call Rudy Giuliani. Youre allowed to make a phone call. That is the stunner where he got them, from the phone Company Providing a the service. There are statutes, part of the criminal code that restrict the ability of anybody to get those records and they list who can get them under what circumstances. That doesnt include congress. It is for Law Enforcement, for Law Enforcement purposes or if the Company Wants to disclose them to save somebodys life or prevent serious injury they can do that. Those are the only circumstances. A Congressional Committee as far as i know has no authority to subpoena that information. Maria are you saying that was a crime . It is, the statute restricting that is in title 18. That is the criminal code. You tell me. Maria wow. Devin nunez says he will have a legal strategy come january. Well see what that looks like. You think he has strong standing . I think he has strong standing and there ought to be questions asked an answered how it is schiff purported to issue a congressional subpoena for telephone records to the provider, not to the people whose records they were, but to the provider. Maria yeah. Mean for example, if somebody is nominated for a Public Office and being confirmed by a Senate Committee that Senate Committee has the right to look at his telephone records . That is ridiculous. The statute was designed to stop that. Maria at t rolled over and gave him the data, unbelievely. Congress regulates them. Maria your honor, you made a important point this morning. 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Congressman nunez joins me for an exclusive interview. Thanks for joining us. Want to lay the groundwork, to make sure people understand what has taken place. More than a year ago in march of 2018 you came out with what we now refer to as the nunez memo and that memo went through an update on significant facts related to the committees Ongoing Investigation into the department of justice and the fbi and their use of the fisa court and the fisa warrant to spy on innocent american citizens. You went through everything that you had come up with after your long investigation and now we know everything you said in that memo was true. It came out in the ig report. Having said that, after you came out with that memo in march of 2018, you were mocked. The democrats mocked you as well as the media. In particular adam schiff came out with a memo disputing everything you said. Tell us about the letter you sent to adam schiff this morning. Well, first off, we need to have a hearing with ig horowitz next week. The longer this goes on, the longer it takes america to heal itself. The fisa court itself is in tremendous jeopardy. We cannot support the fisa court right now. The judges are refusing to take action against these dirty cops and dirty lawyers who did this. That is totally unacceptable. Because, remember, this is a secret court. The people who, like carter page, they have no recourse except for congress. This is why the house Intelligence Committee and senate Intelligence Committee were created. So it is important i think to take people back. It wasnt that we just learned about this in february of 2018, maria, we actually, House Republicans learned about this in the spring of 2017, at least the initial part, that the dossier had been used, the clinton paidfor dirt. We then proved that the clintons did pay for it and the dnc did pay for it in the fall of 17. We knew we had to get this information out to the American Public and that is what led to us producing this memo in february of 2018 that the media helped cover up for it. And you know, to get back to normalcy in this country, we need a free and fair press but we dont have that today. We still have numerous members of the media, hundreds of them, who attack, not only House Republicans for putting this out but anyone else in the media who said, hey, maybe the republicans might have a point here, should we get to the bottom of it . Remember we spent a year saying these documents need to be declassified, that would have ended it there. Instead what happened the democrats lied and now they have put the American People in tremendous danger, the judges on the fisa court are putting the American People in danger, because look, the American People say at the end of the day we want our liberty before well give up, well not give up our liberty in order to have some secret court operate to spy on political campaigns and use our counterintelligence capabilities to do that. Maria one thing we didnt hear in the report, anything that happened before 2016. Jim comey said they launched a potential counterintelligence investigation about potential collusion between russia and Trump Campaign in july of 2016. Yet there is all this operational activity before that. I want to take your attention to that because weve got informants running at people like carter page and George Papdopoulus as early as march. What can you tell us . I know this is a subject of john durhams criminal investigation . Yeah, were unsure why horowitz was not able to figure out what happened prejuly 31st. Remember the dirty cops at the fbi and the department of justice over last couple years hid that from congress also. They would answer no questions. Right there you have obstruction of a congressional investigation that, that ought to be held at the highest level. All of those people who blocked us from getting that information, especially if we find out later that the fbi was involved in it. Here is what we kind of know right now. We know the spy ring that was created to target carter page, George Papdopoulus, Trump Campaign officials, this big spy ring that was spying on the Trump Campaign, before the fisa application, it is important to remember that, so this is in august and september and october, theyre getting miced up and recording conversations with the Trump Campaign members, that same spy ring was already operational in spring and early summer of 2016. So, look, i dont know if the fbi was running it. I dont know if some other Government Agency was running it. I dont know if a Foreign Government was operating it. Hell, for all i know, putin, russia, ukrainians, since that seems to be the blame for everything that happens wrong at the fbi or doj, or Democratic Party when they lose elections. I dont know who the hell is running the spy ring. I want to know. The American People want to know. That is what john durham is figuring out and im glad he is there. Maria what have you heard from the lawsuit because of what you called reckless, defamation, disregard for the truth from cnn youre suing them. The last time we spoke to you, you said you served them a week 1 2 ago. You hadnt heard back. Have you heard back from cnn head jeff zucker or lawyers at cnn . As predicted theyre refusing to come to the table to work this out. And defamation and reckless disregard for the truth continues, it gets to what i just said. Remember any republican who didnt go along with the media narrative, first we were accused of being putin puppets, russian spies. If you talk to ukrainian it turns into a problem. If you talk to former mayor of new york, Rudy Giuliani, that is even bigger problem. You cant make this stuff up. Maria yeah. What cnn did, timing they did that to create, to do tremendous damage not only to me but to my fellow republicans in congress, this was to create a new media narrative, that republicans couldnt be trusted because we were having secret meetings in vienna with shady ukrainians, okay . Great story, cnn great for hollywood. It is great for, it would be great for some sitcom possibly but politics, and it didnt happen. No, theyre refusing to get together. Theyre refusing to get together. That is what i said, where is jeff zucker . Maria congressman, real quick before you go, comey is out this morning saying i was wrong. I was overconfident in the procedures that fbi and justice built over 20 years. I thought they were robust enough. It is incredibly hard to get a fisa, i was confident in those, that he was right and there was real sloppiness. 17 things that should have been in the application were discussed and characterized differently. It was not acceptable. This is what come my is saying this morning . Look, who cares what he says, right . So he already knew that the dossier was salacious and unverified, okay, what he testified to us in early 2017. He knew that had been used in the fisa. He knew that the, what he called on bret baiers interview, he said it was mosaic of facts, he knew what the rest of those facts were. He knew it was the dirty dossier, he knew it was fake news articles planted by fusion gps and democratic operatives, and he knew spying already occurred. Maria so he lied . Perhaps only thing he didnt know there was exculpatory evidence, that would be the only thing, but he knew the rest of it. He lied so many times, it would take whole ig report would be a 1000 pages full of the comey lies. Maria congressman, good to see you this morning. Well follow it as we have the last three years. Thank you. Maria right with truth. Thank you so much, sir. Longterm implications of the Justice Department ig report are significant on the Intelligence Community and beyond from House Oversight Committee Chairman trey gowdy and kim strassel from the wall street journal will be up next. As we look ahead on chime shaq magenta . I hate cartridges not magenta not magenta. Im not going back to the store. Magenta cartridges are so. buzzer vo the Epson Ecotank. No more cartridges. It comes with an incredible amount of ink that can save you a lot of frustration. The Epson Ecotank. Just fill and chill. Available at. vo thewith every attempt, strto free itself,piders web. 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Make it ship sticks. Maria well come back. Trey gowdy former South Carolina congressman. House Oversight Committee chairman. Fox news contributor. Kim strassel, columnist at the wall street journal good to have you both here. Thank so much for joining us. Let me kick it off with you, trey. You have done so much last three years along with your colleagues John Ratcliffe and devin nunez to really expose the truth. Your reaction to what were hearing this morning in terms of when this investigation began, Unlawful Spying and informant thrown at the Trump Campaign in early 2016 . Yeah, i mean i, i think this morning comey admitted he was wrong. Sometimes, maria, it is better late than never. Sometimes it is just too damn late. Comey is two years two late. We could have used his objectivity, as head of the fbi helping republican figure out what was happening with fisa instead of thwarting us, obstructing us. He said it was policy and procedure issue. Its not, maria. There always has been policies against manufacturing evidence, this is not new policies this is personnel issue. It is the wrong people in the wrong positions of power. That will not be fixed with new policy and procedure. It will be fixed by replacing people who did what they did in 2016. Maria the other thing is, they keep saying no bias, that didnt affect what they were doing, kim, yet weve got all the texts that says, oh, well have pressure to end the midyear exam of the Hillary Clinton investigation, just by the fact that ted cruz dropped out of the case. That was the text Michael Mukasey pointed out earlier. That tells you they were changing behavior in terms of the Hillary Clinton investigation and trump investigation as a result of what happened . Well, maria, it is really important to talk about what the i. G. Really did find in terms of political bias because it has been mischaracterized. What he said he didnt find documentary evidence of bias. He didnt find letterhead somewhere with doj on top of it, saying lets take out trump. He addresses the fact there was bias in his report, at least from a personal perspective among the texts you just noted. Look, he also laid out for the American People to see, dozens upon dozens of ways in which the fbi abused and ma nip layed the fisa court. What he was trying to do, people, here is the evidence, you make your own judgment. Anyone with a brain who looks at this of course there was bias. All errors go one direction. Maria that is what you said earlier, trey, the bias ran through the u. S. Government. It is clear for everyone to see . Yeah. You have fusion gps, kris steele, Hillary Clinton, mainstream media, all their work product made its way into the application for fisa. It is one thing to have naked bias everyone can see and judge for themselves. Its another thing when you launder that bias through the United States government, place the doj, fbi and present it to a court. There is no question bias made its way into the bias application. Horowitz said i couldnt find it at beginning. We damn sure found it at the end. It is occurred pleading of the impramture in department of justice. Maria klein krien continues to talk about how the fbi was exonerated. I saw your tweet over the weekend, kim, where Hillary Clinton tweets out make sure your family and friends see evidence for themselves. You answer her and say, make sure your family and friends see the i. G. Report. Clinton just didnt invite foreign influence in 2016, she paid for it. There is a double standard that continues to go on here. It is amazing Hillary Clinton gets away with this, the press doesnt call her out for it. Right now we have in 2016 a clear evidence that this ig report that one campaign did indeed pay to have russian information, disinformation as it turns out, misinformation, sent to the federal government and used in an actual proceeding against american citizens that is beyond dispute. The idea that she can just get away with this, no one will say anything about it, in the context of the impeachment proceedings that were going on right now, this is a double standard that is beyond the pale. Maria real quick. Well have George Papdopoulus up next, trey. You mentioned exculpatory evidence a couple times when you were with me before . Yeah. Horowitz made an oblique reference to what i was talking to you about, which is a transcript. When the target of your investigation says, this is treasonous activity i would never engage in, guess what, comey that is exculpatory information, the court needs to be told that. It is fundamentally fair thing to papadopoulos and they were not told. 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