text messages. what do they prove to you? well, steve, what this proves to me is that there is a true deep state out there. there are people who do not support this president who continue to serve in the government. and, look, these were career government officials. number one, what no one is talking about these two were having illicit affair between the two of them. number one. number two, this person who sent these text messages is still working for the fbi and they have taken the person and moved them to the human resources department. i don t understand it, steve. how does this continue to occur. so they can hire new bad fbi agents. i mean, this guy has to government he can t stay as a member of the fbi. ainsley: what do you make of the media bias? obviously many people are wondering if there is bias in the fbi. but then there is also bias in the media because, according to the media research center, think documented all year long the media coverage and highlighted september,in
in the absence of hard evidence to the contrary, it seemed wise to give his investigation the benefit of every doubt and wait for the outcome. we are americans, we believe in the fair application of justice. we think that s what normally happens. unfortunately it s getting harder to maintain that faith. two days ago comment news broke that a key figure in the mueller investigation, a longtime fbi official named peter strzok had been removed from his job for sending highly political text messages to his mistress, another fbi official. apparently those texts attacked president trump and expressed affection for hillary clinton. ordinarily this would not rate a headline. even career government officials are allowed to have political views. but this is no ordinary moment. peter strzok is at the very center of the two most politicized justice department cases in a generation. he was first of all deeply involved in the investigation of hillary clinton s private email server last year. at the
targets and earned praise from across the spectrum. senator schumer and attorney sneiderman putting out statements today in support of preet bharara and the prosecution cases he went after. i think there are two important things to know in the context of this. number one, it s not uncommon for presidents to dismiss existing u.s. attorneys. president bill clinton, of course, did that with 93 u.s. attorneys when he came into office. that s right. presidents have the legal authority to do that. what was a little unusual here as ari pointed out, number one, president-elect trump meet with preet bharara. asked him to stay on. it seems it was settled. this is an abrupt shift and turn of events. 46 attorneys were immediately asked to clear out their offices. usually there s a bit of a transition period where replacements are organized. until replacement found, right? yeah. exactly. the other thing to keep in mind, we have trump strategists and trump allies on the outside talking inc
leaks are coming from many different places for many different reasons that s been true during the transition and now especially true that trump is in office. every administration, every government has leaks but this is at a whole other level. we re seeing something so much more extreme. why is that? that s partly to do with career government officials concerned about trump. it does have to do with obama administration officials and partly it s a cry for help from trump aids from people inside the trump white house that believe he needs help and that he s not getting the right support and often times people are motivated in order to alert the public to a problem. we have seen a definition here that i think this story has corrected. he doesn t like it. but he loved leaks during the campaign. he asked the russians to hack
background is a lot of connections to the kind of networks of policy and regulatory and administrative specialists who you would populate a government with. donald trump obviously knows many people in the country. but does he know 4,000 people through his extended networks. i don t mean personally. in the way that someone like barack obama, george w. bush, bill clinton could with effort and preparation eventually fill those 4,000 jobs with people who all at least met minimum qualifications and often exceeded minimum qualifications. it s not clear if donald trump has that. even if he thought he was going to win, he does not have that and he did not think he was going to win. they re in a difficult posture. i agree with you in some sense that letting the bureaucrats, if you will, letting the career government officials run things is an okay idea for a while. the problem is those jobs will