handling of the clinton e-mail scandal. and let s fill that out. comey said to brett baier, i didn t know the democratic party and the clinton campaign paid fusion gps money to prepare the dossier. if you asked the fbi today how much of the dossier is verified, almost none and the verification comes from open media sources. this dossier was prepared by a foreign agent paid by the democratic party and used to get a fisa warrant and the fbi former fbi director did not know that it was a political document paid by a political party. to me that is stunning. maria: right. not only was the clinton e-mail investigation a joke, the dossier was used inappropriately maria: so how do you call yourself someone who agrees with and follows the rule of law if in fact you used a piece of garbage as, you know, the reason to wire tap and listen in on an
e-mail investigation an investigation call it a matter. she denies that. comey says there s classified information that if ever got to be revealed would destroy loretta lynch s credibility when it came to the clinton e-mail investigation. these two people need to be brought to congress, put under oath, and resolved this conflict james comey, i don t trust him. i think he was part of an effort at the fbi to give clinton a pass, the way they conducted the investigation was a joke, the thumb was on the scale, the head investigator by the fbi hated trump, liked clinton, they were trying to come up with an insurance policy to make sure that trump didn t win the election. they talked openly about how much they hated trump and i think the clinton e-mail investigation was a joke. maria: and i assume that is what we are going to hear from the forthcoming ig report which is expected to focus on james comey s behavior as well as the
intelligence the original reasons that the counter intelligence investigation was started. now this is really important to us, because the counter intelligence investigation uses the tools of our intelligent services not supposed to be used on american citizens so we ve long wanted to know well what intelligence did you have that actually led to this investigation. so, what we found now, after the investigators have reviewed it, is that in fact, there was no intelligence. we think there s some major irregularities at the state department and we re trying to figure out how it is that this information about mr. george papadopoulos of all people who is supposedly meeting with some folks in london how that made it over across into the fbi s hand. maria: that was the chairman of the house intelligence committee here with me last week saying there was no official intelligence used to start a probe into possible ties between the trump campaign and russia,
no way of knowing who the russians may have been favoring in the elook. suddenly on the front page of the washington post on december 7 of 2016 the story appears with all of this so-called classified information , how the russians were definitely behind donald trump, where did that come from? i mean brennan was head of the cia, clapper was director of national intelligence. did they launch an investigation and only a few people would have had access to these facts and conclusions and yet it was leak ed against the washington post and as far as i know there s no repercussions over that so brennan and clapper they are the people at the top and they re the ones responsible for this. whether they did it or not they have the nerve to be criticizing president trump when they allowed the worst leak probably in the history of intelligence. maria: and they re still at it. earlier, this weekend, clapper sent a tweet out and said stay tuned, mr. president, stay tuned , mr. trump as if something e
to tilt the elections. the california republican is now saying he s investigating the state department. this, as that same committee concluded in a final report this week, that there was no collusion between the trump campaign and russia. republican congressman peter king joins me now from new york. he sits on the house homeland security committee and subcommittee on counterterrorism and intelligence. good to see you congressman thanks so much for joining us. thank you, maria thank you very much. maria: i find this all so extraordinary. they had absolutely no intelligence to launch an investigation into trump, that investigation is ongoing which led to a special counsel, robert mueller whose investigating this , and they continue to say there s no collusion. your reaction. yeah, listen i m on the intelligence committee i fully agree what devon nunes said and while we can t go into all the details but to begin a counter intelligence investigation you have to have some intelligence a