wrapped up given the redactions in the mike flynn sentencing of all the things he s helping with that are not wrapped that are still ongoing. but since the fbi started that investigation in the summer of 2016, the fbi has lost or turfed out its director james comey, its deputy director andrew mccabe, the head of counter espionage, peter strzok, the fbi general counsel james baker, the fbi chief of staff, the head of national security division, chief council to the deputy director lisa page, now the assistant director of the counter intelligence division who was personally running the investigation before mueller. as of tonight, they are, all of them, gone. and that is intriguing tonight in terms of why bill priestap is leaving and why now. it is also a good reminder of the night wee get t get the sen document on michael flynn. there was an op-ed in usa today, just this morning even before we
spread a little love today spread a little love my-y way spread a little something to remember philadelphia cream cheese. made with fresh milk and real cream makes your recipes their holiday favourites. the holidays are made with philly. before we got the mike flynn sentencing memorandum tonight from robert mueller s office, the wall street journal was first to report that bill priestap is leaving the federal bureau of investigations. that is not a household name, but bill is the number two official in the counter intelligence department at fib financial. it is a landmark moment in the russia investigation because he is the last senior fbi official directly involved at a senior level in the russia investigation from the very beginning. he is the last one who was still at the fbi. and now as of this reporting tonight in the wall street journal, apparently he is now gone, too. or at least he s on his way out. and i know that these guys
the political feelings get in the way. i think these are some really bad apples. [all talking at once] melissa: if you look at the end of the inspector general s report and a lot of people have pointed this out, there was a jump to levels when you have lisa page and peter strzok going and talking directly to the director, to the deputy director andrew mccabe. they bypassed their superiors who were michael steinbock pin bill priestap. and they said these two are not thrilled with what they did and were not thrilled how they were shoved aside by these others and they have quite a story to tell. katie: that brings up the question of why they were jumping the chain of command. working with andrew mccabe, having meetings in his office. that sounds like a conspiracy to try to do everything they can to use their official office to go after the presidency must not forget these text messages had
likely i think should face seril n the last minutes, sixampering. and a half hours of closed-door testimony has completed. one llama care described bill priestap as extremely operate, adding based on the latest information, documents, testimony and other records, it seems clear to them now that fbi agent peter strzok played a much greater role than previously known in the clinton email and russian investigations. they emphasized a greater role than what was indicated in the text messages. bret: catherine herridge, thank you. we are less than a week away from the scheduled summit between president trump and north korean leader kim jong un. the u.s. and the west want north korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program. north korea might want the u.s. to pull all or some of its troops out of south korea.