At the agency. Peter strzok was the fbi agent at the center of the firestorm over antitrump Text Messages hes had while serving as the lead investigator on the Hillary Clinton email program and there are a start up of the russian investigation. President trump tweeted, agent peter strzok was just fired from the fbi, finally. The list of bad players gets longer and longer based on the fact that he was in charge of the witch hunt, will it be dropped . But the total hoax. I just fight back. During the heat of congressional testimony, peter strzok denied that his opposition of President Trump played any role in his decisionmaking at the nations Top Law Enforcement Agency chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridges life with the latest in alexandria, virginia, where the trial of former Trump Campaign chair Paul Manafort is scheduled to resume. Reporter that trial is scheduled to reconvene at any time. In the meantime we have at that big news on fbi agent peter strzok. 45 minutes ago, the president weighed in on his determination on twitter and it reads in part just fired agent struck, formally of the fbi. It was a total fraud on the American Public and should be properly redone. Also this morning we got a statement from agent strzoks attorney and he filled in the details. He said it went down on friday afternoon and it was done by the Deputy Director of the fbi. In that statement, his attorney alleges that the Deputy Director overruled the findings of the internal fbi Disciplinary Task force that he said had recommended a 60 day suspension as well as a demotion. That statement from strzoks lawyer reads, the decision to fire him was not only departure from typical bureau practice but also contradicts director at Christopher Wrays testimony to congress and his assurance that fbi intended to follow with regular processes in this at all Personnel Matters. This decision should be deeply troubling to all americans. The lawyer also said there was never one piece of concrete evidence that strzok allowed his own political views to infect the russia or the clinton email investigation. Here is agent strzok in his recent testimony to that effect on capitol hill. Like many people i had an express personal political opinions during an extraordinary president ial election. But let me be clear, unequivocally and under oath, not once in my 26 years of defending our nation did my personal opinions impact any official action i took. Reporter that testimony was to the House Oversight and judiciary committees and many republicans, on that committee felt that his statement about the Text Messages and the explanation where a little bit of a stretch. For example, that august 2015 text when he talks about stopping trump, we will stop him, and a conversation with former fbi lawyer lisa page, he said that we he referred to was the American Public, not senior officials within the fbi and Justice Department. The one kind of ridiculous. Thank you for that. Lets bring in bret baier, fox political anchor and host of special report. What is the significance of this, doesnt move the ball forward for either side . Its a combination of what had been a lot of focus on peter strzok and his text. It was written up pretty aggressively in the ig report and the evidence against him, and that hearing that youre looking out there, where you all real fireworks on capitol hill, and it was kind of surreal at times in the exchangers with peter strzok. Later we came to find out that lisa page testified to the Intelligence Committee that when they were texting about all of those things, it was what it was and she testified completely different than peter strzok we are told. I think eventually the rock was rolling down the hill, and he was going to get let go or suspended and he got let go friday. We still dont know what the insurance policy was, right . Bret from what we are told, behind closed doors lisa page was very forthcoming and essentially said that they were talking, when we look at those texts, that was the context. I think theres a lot of those pieces that are going to be put together and i think you will see another Inspector Generals report of the early days of the trump investigation, the russia probe and how that was handled. When that comes out, we dont know. What would be the ramifications of that . Because the ig report comes out and maybe it has some recommendations, but these people have already lost their job. Is there ever any sort of bret resolution. Melissa yes or punishment, punishment. Bret he has a talking about all before the midterms. You have this collision course of the two sides of this investigation and they are likely going to come together sometime in the fall. The president is tweeting and kind of reminding people of the fact that it was in fact peter strzok got fired today and he was on the draft of the memo that open up the russia probe. In his mind that means that the whole russia probe is a hoax. How does that play in washington, do people follow that same line of thinking or is there more to it than that . Bret it depends on what side of the aisle you are on. Up on capitol hill there are lots of folks about statements today that sat on the republican side, its been a Long Time Coming and clearly peter strzok had a bias that was seen in those texts, noted by the ig. On the democratic side they dont see it that way and they are waiting for mueller to come forward with whatever he has. But as time goes on, the narratives get set in stone and until we get some concrete evidence one way or the other, it just is talking points. Melissa and then you hear Rudy Giuliani talking about whether or not this mueller sit down will happen. Its starting to feel a little bit like that clinton tactic where they say a lot of things, Everything Possible thats out there and it muddies the water a little bit on what was said, what was agreed to and what wasnt. It seems like maybe a tap dance to just sort of keep talking until there is some sort of resolution. Whats your defense is that of a real possibility that the president will sit down, or that mueller will wrap this up anytime soon . Bret on the latter question, i think the possibility that it comes sometime early fall before the midterms report, and i dont know what form it will take but some kind of resolution of some part of that investigation, i think that percentage is high. The fact over the possibility of other president sits down with mueller, i think thats lame. Go back to your interview with the ladies they are on outnumbered with Rudy Giuliani on the phone, and about questions and all that, we havent really advanced of all that much since that time. That was astonishing, and it didnt feel like it had cleared up a lot and that sort of how you feel about this whole idea of whether or not the president is going to sit down. It seems like maybe a subterfuge. Bret its like chinese food. He read it and they were hungry after a little while. Or i am. Melissa on that note, its lunchtime and im hungry. For more on this, lets bring in the president of judicial watch, tom fentons organization has played a role in requesting documents in the russia investigation. Let me get straight off the bat your impression. Tom its long overdue and a body blow to the Mueller Investigation. Peter strzok is an architect to the russia collusion theory which we know is fraudulently based and there would be no Mueller Investigation without peter strzok. He was instrumental as the lead investigator and was certainly behind of the collision with fusion gps. The fisa Court Documents and all that, is a senior official in the fbi. The ig concluded that maybe some of his activity was impacted by his animus to President Trump or, then candidate trump. He should have been nowhere near either the clinton or the trump investigations and the president tweeted, we have to reopen the investigation because of people like peter peter strzok, and we to shut down the mall or investigation. You are the one who gets up documents before other people and you heard bret baiers talk about lisa pages testimony not matching up with what peter strzok said. Have you heard that and how do you eventually get access to that . Its up to congress to release that testimony. Thats why we have to sue in court the agencies directly to get some of the documents that congress has looked at privately but wont release publicly, or in the case of testimony, malt released publicly. His testimony needs to be publicized as quickly as it can so we have fuller information. Right now we are battling the fbi for the Text Messages of Andrew Mccabe, the number two at the fbi that was fired. When you look at the fbi and the department of justice, you had James Comey Fired for misconduct, Andrew Mccabe fired for misconduct, strzok fired for misconduct, lisa page demoted, all of whom had a hand in this russia investigation that mueller is now running with. He needs to be questioned, frankly, about how he used mr. Strzok that he was let go and no one was told about it for four months, the reasons behind him being let go. Its unbelievable. Melissa i know that you have been behind trying to get those Text Messages related to Andrew Mccabe and his wife joe mccabe and her 2015 run for state senate. In which she took money from hillary people. Why is that that you want to see those texts . Do you want to see a quid pro quo and they are or what do you think is in there . We are asking for Text Messages on behalf of a retired fbi agent, jeffrey danner, about the clinton email investigation. And we suspect there is going to be some interesting material there. Certainly now the fbi has told us that they dont even want to look at those Text Messages let alone turn them over to us. This is just typical of whats going on at the Justice Department and the fbi. They dont think the answer to congress, the president or the rule of law and we hope the courts intervened to get us to messages. The president tweeted over the weekend, in a way that suggests he might intervene to get these Text Messages public, that will be good, too, too. Melissa real quick, who is this new fbi agent that you are talking about, how did you get on to him and what do you think the issue is . Tom he is a supervisory agent who asked for the Text Messages of Andrew Mccabe. He had experience and record retention policies and he suspected there would be Text Messages so we asked specifically for them. We think getting the runaround for almost a year from the fbi. Why are they sitting on the Text Messages of this corrupt fbi agent . You can bet its because they know it would blow it right open specifically to the clinton email coverup. Melissa thank you for coming on and staying on the story. New developments when it comes to a potential trumpmueller sitdown. 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According to the wall street journal, the president s legal team also believes they can weather a negative report from mueller and they are. To rebut his conclusions with the report of his own. This as a Rudy Giuliani said that President Trump never had any conversation within fbi director james comey about going easy on former aide michael flynn, a key point in our ongoing obstruction of justice investigation. White house correspondent kevin corke has one from the white house. Reporter just last week, Rudy Giuliani submitted a proposal to the mueller team and in it he said the president would be willing to have a conversation if that conversation was limited to collusion with russia in the 2016 election. But not about obstruction of justice after he took office. The concern here melissa is that obstruction questions according to the president s lawyers, could ultimately become a trap for perjury accusations. So what happens next . Should the mueller reject the offer, the special counsel could still choose to subpoena the president which would almost certainly set into motion a legal showdown. Rudy giuliani thinks its high time that this program ended. We think it should end. The investigation should be overcome if terminated. He should put out his report of the American People what he has. They could evaluate it, they are entitled to this information before your simple date. And he throughout september 1st as a date he might be able to get the report done by. Reporter be heard Rudy Giuliani dimension and its important to point out, because of this particular office there are specific rules. We are talking about muellers probe. One of the requirements of the probe is he has to issue a report which has to be reported to the attorney general. In this particular case, the ag has recused himself in that report would ultimately go to rod rosenstein. Whether or not it happens by Early September he needs anyones guess. Its been one or more on this lets bring in federal prosecutor robert ray who served as the independent counsel for the whitewater investigation and the clintons back in the 1990s. Whats your impression as to where we are right now in this, does it appear to be wrapping up as some people are saying . I think theres political pushback and theres pressure being pushed by the white house to see if muellers will resolve itself and also related to that question is whether or not the president will sit for an interview. I guess the position now is the president will not do so unless it occurs prior to september 1. The final report issue is the very thing thats out there which is to suggest that if the Mueller Investigation wraps things up in whole or in part they would have to do so very soon after the first of september in order for that report to be delivered to the Deputy Attorney general. Also for the president s team to file whatever counter they would like to present, all of which then ultimately would be delivered to congress and all of that would have to occur in sufficient time before the election so that no one would really feel unfairly impacted by that major story. Melissa is it your sense, it seems like Rudy Giuliani continues to sit change when ty would sit down. At some point that mueller just say, its not going to happen, we will finish and go on . He does have to decide and i think the problem is from investigative stamp, if he were to react to, lets say, the president s ultimate determination through his lawyers not to volunteer for an interview, the only recourse is a subpoena. That would be litigated and my expectation is that would probably last for a year if it were fully litigated. In the District Court for d. C. , possibly in the court of appeals or may be a direct appeal, in any event, you wont have a final decision with regard to that issue probably for a year. I dont think this investigation has all the luxury of doing that, and the question is whats the point of having the president sit down voluntarily for an interview to give them additional statements . He is well advised as far as sitting in the shoes of of being a defense lawyer, and the best advice your client should accept is dont make any further statements. When you look at the reactions finding out that peter strzok had been fired and given that he is the guy that wrote the memo that set in motion the russia collision investigation, youve seen the president s tweets how he tries to link those things and say, that means this investigation is a hoax on its face. I think he does have a point about the origins of the investigation and quite frankly from a Personnel Matter i was sort of wondering when the firing of peter strzok was going to occur because i think it was all but inevitable. That makes two, Andrew Mccabe was also fired and they were fired not just because of expressions of bias but more significantly, they use the processes of the Justice System and fbi in order to impact an election. Whether that was done flippantly or what his motivations work doesnt matter. That sensitive position, that in my judgment is completely unacceptable and is a firing offense. Melissa let me ask you about the manafort trial. So they had an unexpected recess on friday, what do you make of that . I dont know what to make of that. I could speculate about all kinds of things that it might be but, i think we will probably know sometime in the near future what was going on on friday but i really dont know. Melissa the prosecution, did they present a good case . I think they dated, and they did so in the face of a very difficult and i would suggest cantankerous district judge. This story seems to be one of greed assisted by an underlayment. I think the jury in whitecollar cases gets that and it wouldnt surprise me if the jury decides independent of all this other stuff that swirling around and the impact that it might have insofar as the Mueller Investigation is concerned, it sounds like this investigation independently against Paul Manafort had merit. Melissa they had that recess, prosecution is done, do you think they are meeting saying, this is our case . I think thats unlikely. Thank you so much, great stuff and great Information Sources telling fox that iran has testfired a Ballistic Missile for the first time in more than a year. Just as President Trump was about to reimpose sanctions. After pulling the u. S. 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Just about an hour from down the commanderinchief will speak at fort drum in central new york. We will talk about how this 716 billion National Defense authorization act will be spent to better accomplish for key things. Lets run through them. It will better position the u. S. Military to really go against threats from china and russia. It will improve our missile defenses in modern modernize our military forces and it will also do a better job of caring for our troops. The bill is particularly tough on china and trying to counter chinas increased military activity in the south china sea. It improves taiwans military defenses as well as adding more joint training exercises with taiwan. Taiwan is a selfgoverning island that china that is actually their territory. The bill also calls for more military exercises and joint military exercises with australia, japan and india. It also calls for a tightened u. S. National security reviews of Chinese Business deals in an effort to stop some of this espionage, corporate as well as spying that we are seeing from china. It also does more to sanction vt which is a chinese telecommunication giant. It blocks the u. S. Police and contractors from using vte technology in an effort to stop the chinese spying. Thats about 250,000 that will go to the ukraine and also an increased number of troops in europe as well as new money and cyborg capabilities to go against russia. In terms of modernizing our missiles defense, this is another 350 million that are being pumped into our nuclear war and Nuclear Weapons to modernize them and we are also talking about more patriot missiles that will be added in south korea, as a course that north korea threats to loans. This act has a 2. 6 salary bump for our troops, something that you know many people here will be happy to hear from our president. It should come as no surprise, that something that candida trump was promising on the campaign trail in 2016. President Trump America first will be the major and overriding theme of my administration. We will spend what we need to rebuild our military. It is the cheapest single investment we can make. We will develop, build and purchase the best equipment known to mankind. Our military dominance must be unquestioned, and i mean unquestioned by anybody and everybody. But we will look for savings and spend our money wisely. Melissa it joining me now is house Arms Committee member martha mcsally. If there is one thing we have learned about the president , it is that he sees all of these pieces sitting together, so maybe you can help us see the larger picture here. He connects the idea of putting pressure on north korea, russia and china with the tariff and with this kind of spending as well. What is the message that he is sending today and to whom it hasnt done like your opinion . This is President Trump leading to make sure he can keep our country safe and, after the failures and after the obama administration, its historic units like these that are going to get the readiness. We are finally turning that around. Its been an honor to partner with them. I flew the warthog protecting troops like these and we are finally stopping the bleeding. Thats his the president has been very focused on china when we talk about the bad actors. Hes been very focused on cyber terror and their involvement with north korea, putting pressure on them through tariffs. This is another thing saying directly, we are going after the north china sea. How do you think they receive that message . Reporter they should receive it loud and clear. And make sure than america is first. In the last administration we watched china easily attack into things, and we needed an infusion of resources, like with pardon for President Trump and we will combine all the diplomatic efforts in order to protect our interests around the lobe and make sure that the troops, the army, navy, air force and marines have everything they need with future capabilities including artificial intelligence, hypersonic sent other things that china has invested in. We are the ones that need to be ahead on that and invest capabilities to include missile defense. You talking about missiles and bad actors, iran testfired a missile for the first time so far this year. What is your reaction to that and what should our response be . We need to continue a maximum Pressure Campaign like President Trump is leading on, whether that continues to be the largest state sponsor of terror in the region. We need to crank up the pressure and we see the iranian people are starting to rise up. Keep using economic military strength and deterrence, and diplomacy in order to turn them in a different direction. This was a bad decision on their part. We have to keep america and our allies safe, especially as oriole. Our strong allies in the region and this president , partnering with us is standing up against iran, north korea, china, russia, and isis is on the run. We are showing strengths again that we havent seen a very long time. Melissa i heard general jack keane earlier today talking about both the military exercises in the water, and as well as this missile testing. And, externally they are trying to show this in terms of force. Is that how you interpret whats going on there, do you agree . Reporter we have seen that and other elements of the regime and when they feel weakness internally, what do they do . And thats a pattern that we definitely see from regimes like this. It doesnt surprise me, and i dont know whats going on in their process but, we need to make sure that our troops have the next generation capabilities. We have had a readiness crisis over the last obama administration. We have had more people die in training accidents, 80 people, then in combat in the last years which is 20. And we will partner with them and im proud to be here. Melissa congresswoman, thank you for joining us. With the music behind you you did a wonderful job. Thank you. Have a great day. More on our top story today, the fbi firing controversial antitrump fbi agent peter strzok. Why does the agency wait until now to do it . And what could this mean for the russia probe in our power panel is here next its melissa back now to our top story, the fbi firing peter strzok. The agent got caught sending antitrust texts during the campaign. This after the bureaus Deputy Director overruled an internal disciplinary review that recommended strzok be demoted and suspended. Lets bring in our power panel, Kevin Mccullough and david bernstein. Kevin, what do you make of the firing today . Long overdue, should have happened months ago. Melissa its a government, nothing is fast. I remember a day in which, and ive known fbi agents for most of my life. Adultery has never been allowed in the fbi and why these two on that level were allowed to have an affair can be exposed and stay active in the rank seems unusual because they are very worried about keeping agents clean and making sure you have integrity of the process. So the fact that you had longterm standards being overlooked, but you also had all kinds of animus documented between these two. It should have been done away with a long time ago. Why it took so long as a mystery. Melissa whats your take . I think this is a real distraction, a broader issue, and primarily its probably better that he is gone than not. But this guy was one agent inside of a large system with lots of, as we now know different investigations. It suggests that he was somehow the key man. He was the one that wrote the memo that opened the investigation. I think when people hear about these things they dont take it into account. The fbi, huge bureaucracy with lots of people, lots of checks and, they somehow offer that. I argue that but i argue with you are the point guy and that turns into the counterintelligence investigation on trumpet, and you have two investigations that have been bungled as badly as these two things have been, i think hes got something to answer for. To go back to your point, its hardly one guy because its peter strzok and lisa page who are now hearing something very different be behind closed doors. If you have Andrew Mccabe who was also fired for cause, or lying about his contact with the media, and theres a whole bunch of people, but there are those others that text with the same bias and they havent even revealed to those types belong to. Its probably the right decision for him to be fired, if for nothing else, we can move on and talking about him. The reality is, if we put a microscope on every single Public Servant in this country, im sure we would find lots of things that are in violation of pages and codes and hundreds and hundreds of pages. The fact remains that we are not talking about are that there are serious investigations and its not a witch hunt but a serious investigation. The effort is to say, its all because of peter strzok and his colleagues, its totally wrong. And the investigation does go. Melissa i think would be easier to accept that if we ever got to know the insurance policy was, and when you said, he said, we will stop it and now hearing that lisa page testified behind closed doors, there was a very different answer from what peter strzok said to congress which frankly wasnt very believable. Melissa, the point youre trying to make with david is a valid one, the culture of the fbi is the problem and it was kind of spearheaded by mr. Comey. The top brass and there was this culture within that leadership. Look at how many people have been fired, demoted, moved on and let go . Their Inspector General said this is a problematic culture and a started making changes. Speeds and strzok was a key piece of that. Melissa pause there, we have more to talk about. The white house and the president blasting omarosa after secret reporting. What the president is saying about this right now. Ok everyone our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition. 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The latest and allegedly taped conversation with the president where he sounds surprised to hear she had been fired. I just saw on the news that you were thinking about leaving. General kelly came to me and said you guys wanted me to leave. Speak to nobody even told me about it. They run a big operation but i do know that. Melissa the white house says that omarosas claims are riddled with lies and she is just out there to sell her book. Who knew. The president tweeting today, wacky omarosa who got fired three times on the apprentice now got fired for the last time. She never made it, never will. To beg for a job with tears in her eyes and i said okay. Shes vicious but not smart. Back with Kevin Mccullough and run for america Founder David bernstein. I cant believe we are talking about this. Neither can we. Look, i dont think anybody out there takes omarosa seriously but obviously, this is the culture that comes along with President Trump. It is a reality show culture and i think that the thing that is most interesting to me about this, if you listen to that recording and hear the president saying that, and omarosa is now saying that the president did leader admit to her that he knew, one of the things that is most telling about this president is his inability to fire people. His inability to take responsibility people hes brought into his orbit who have done bad things and that kind of behavior to go on the phone with somebody and deny that he knew anything about it is so irresponsible. As someone who has run companies, i found that lack of leadership to be among the most troubling qualities of the president. And people out there who have had jobs and been laid off they dont care. But i appreciate the rest of your point. Heres what i would say, the president has tried to reward people around him who were loyal to him early on with perks later on because he appreciated. If you think back to the very beginning, no one thought he was going to win the nomination, much less the president. But as a result the people who were going to throw in him at the very early stage have proven to be a little sketchy in the long run and that has come back to bite him. Not even sketchy, but he said they didnt live up to what they expected. And i dont think anyone has been bludgeoned more by the president through twitter, but this is the president who does reward loyalty to me on almost an unbelievable scale and he said in that same tweet, you didnt finish reading the end of it, he was glad he hired her because she had spoken so nicely about him early on at the end of the day, i think you have to give the president of the latitude to tweak and run his administration the way he needs to. I think youre point to david just a second ago about people not caring about this is really well understated because, whats really happening is you have the lowest unemployment in the modern era. You have incredible advances in different areas that we needed to be happening and that should be one of the about. Melissa its interesting how the media as a whole treats the story because early on they didnt like to put her on all the time and didnt give her a lot of credibility because they felt like she was only sticking up for the president to see what she could get for herself out of it or seeing them from reality television. April ryan said that omarosa had recordings of her and she felt like a claim had been doctored. Then they put her on the first block of the today show and everywhere else this morning because shes going out to trash the president of course its a problem, reality is, this is not a serious person. 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