General william barr on impeachment and his own departments Inspector Generals report which debunk the president s claim that the fbi spied on the Trump Campaign. But he is not backing down. Do you stand by your statement that the campaign was spied upon . It was clearly spied upon. I mean, thats what electronic surveillance is. The full exclusive interview with nbcs Pete Williams coming up. And will lavrmr. Lavrov com washington, the Russian Foreign minister returns two years after the infamous return to washington the day after the president fired james comey. Does the comey firing cast a shadow over your talks, gentlemen . Yes. Goo day. Im Andrea Mitchell in new york as House Democrats take a historic step. Introducing articles of impeachment against the president of the United States. Accusing President Trump of abuse of power and obstruction of congress. It is an Impeachable Offense for the president to exercise the powers of his Public Office to obtain an improper personal benefi
Department of justice. Years of ugly conspiracies up in smoke. No spying on the Trump Campaign. The investigation was lawfully started. No political bias. There were some errors made along the way and the new fbi head has a slew of changes to make but none of. Mistakes were judged by the Inspector General as adversely affecting any outcomes. The only arguable deep state activity today was by this president s attorney general, attacking the findings of his own agency and having a handpicked prosecutor to justify his feelings about spying, doing his own probe and his prosecutor pulled the comey, broke protocol, bad mouthed the Inspector Generals findings while talking about his own Ongoing Investigation. So will those accused of treason and worse get an apology . The two men i rely on most about these matters are in fact in the news tonight. Andrew mccabe, former Deputy Director of the fbi and former fbi general counsel jim baker. Gentlemen, good to have you as always. Thanks for having
June 2018, a year after the last fisa authorization when the juptd lawyers sent a letter informing them of new information they had learned including from the litigation that mr. Steel had acknowledged he was a direct contact for yahoo news in that story. That was the first time the court was told about it. Would you look at footnote 461 for me . Yes. That footnote states that a former fbi confidential human source contacted an fbi agent in an Fbi Field Office in late july 2016 to report information from, quote, a colleague who runs an Investigative Firm hired by two entities, the Democratic National committee as well as another individual who was not named to explore Donald Trumps longstanding ties to russian entities. Was that Investigative Firm fusion gps or did the dnc hire another firm to peddle antitrump information to obamas fbi . I dont know which it is but i can certainly follow up and get back to you on that. But it is a question you can answer . I dont know. I have to double
The headline is they didnt find the things that bill barr and donald trump allege. Tonight new alams about the attorney general in the wake of the i. Good. Report. No treason, no conspiracy. It was all nonsense. As the president s lawyer continues to do his bidding. New repotting on the unsavory sources of Rudy Giulianis money. Gets a little weird that hes in ukraine right now. All in starts right now. Good evening. Im chris haze. Democrats laid out it case for impeaching donald j. Trump. They presented their respective findings to the full committee responsible for drafting articles of impeachment. A process that can begin by this week. The hearing went on for roughly nine hours. Democrats put forward a very clear case explaining how president misusesed the power of his office for his own personal gain. The president s scheme is quite simple. Sd the facts are not seriously in dispute. It could be boiled down to four key take aways. First, that President Trump directed a skeenl to pres
Just you know that yelling you have to get used to in that committee, we got some of that from congressman collins, but what has been striking about the rest of them is how they havent really gone into those fevered screaming versions of their statements. They avoid the evidence as they always have, but its been a quieter lets get this over with attitude, it seems. Outrage burns a lot of calories and in the winter were not trying to slim down, were trying to fatten up for hibernation. I can see as theyre trying to conserve themselves as we head into what they know is going to happen. Its almost as if theyre trying not to attract attention to the president is being impeached. Theyre hoping Everything Else happening in washington is some sort of distraction from it but theyve got to live it now. Thanks, rachel. Thanks, lawrence. During this breaking news night we cant tell you right now for sure exactly who will be joining us in this hour because as the House Judiciary Committee continue