dozens of new cycles with his investigation into alleged russian meddling in u.s. politics, but that is not the only doj investigation going on, michael horwitz has spent a year investigating how jim comey and the fbi handled their investigation into hillary clinton s email server. michael horwitz is the one that found peter strzok s text messages to his paramore bashing donald trump. chris recker is a former assistant director at the fbi, he says jim comey s conduct last year has become a trap for mueller s own investigation. chris, i guess to use the president s words, whether or not the fbi is tainted, mueller s investigation has been tainted by the revelations about these never-trumpers in the
transition to the russian investigation after what i thought was a very half-hearted noninvestigation of hillary clinton s emails. so that investigation runs out supposedly and then it seems like a good percentage of that team was assigned to the russian investigation with all of the baggage that they brought with them. mark: you almost think of it as one reputation, where investigation, get hillary off the hook and if that does not work, get trump onto it. chris, thank you very much. interesting to hear from a former number three g-man during these recent years. the united nations college eighth avenue to lump of coal in its christmas stocking this year, courtesy of the trump administration. u.n. ambassador nikki haley has announced a $285 million cut to the u.n. s a budget for 2018. the u.s. pays 22% of the u.n. s overall operating costs.