libs. republicans have been happy that share that narrative if you will during campaign season. we know we have failed to see that type of strong leadership from congress or this president. the issue here that sometimes it is human yous and we cam minuti like ecology that does have to be right. areas of law enforcement, the mueller report, the notion that the president can do no long in his own eyes but a matter of national security. versing sanctions as his own department issue yesterday. his influence of turkey to pull out of syria.
edits were made at the request of the f.b.i. nunes disputed the criticism from democrats and the bureau. having stonewalled congress s demands for information for nearly a near it is no surprise to see the f.b.i. and justice department issue objections to allowing the people to see surveillance abuses at these agencies and top officials used unverified information in a court document to fuel a counter intelligence investigation during an american political campaign. once the truth gets out we can begin taking steps to ensure our intelligence agencies and courts are never misused like this again. sandra: thank you for all your reporting on this and we ll see you again shortly. bill: back to that in a moment. president trump telling house republicans about the priorities for 2018. he is thanking lawmakers for their hard work calling his first year in office a tremendous success. president trump: so often i ll see and i must say six or seven months ago they were saying he didn t ful
president trump s campaign and whether the president himself obstructed justice. president trump has denied those claims. our chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington, hi, catherine. thanks. the feud between the fbi, justice department and capitol hill took a new turn with the bureau taking on the house intelligence s republican leadership. this morning the fbi issued a statement saying the memo is incomplete because facts are missing and reads in part the fbi was provided a limited opportunity to review this memo the day before the committee voted to release it. this comes after a source told fox news that officials could not point to any inaccuracies in the memo. when we contacted the bureau, they chose not to comment. a short time ago, the committee s republican chairman, devin nunes responded with this statement. having stone walled congresses demand for information for nearly a year, it s no surprise to see the fbi and the justice department issu
international counterintelligence sort of investigation. it s not easy for any senate panel to do. you think, jeffrey, there s any chance there will be a 9/11 type independent outside investigation that really takes charge? no. do you have another question? no, i mean, mitch mcconnell is not going to agree to this. this is something that, you know, political heat is off for the moment. you don t have democrats talking about every day, us in the news talking begun it every day and the only reason mitch mcconnell would do that was if there was just irresistible political pressure because he obviously doesn t want to, and and so now it s what happens, jeffrey, if the fbi and justice department issue a series of indictments and they they seek to go after some of these players, some of these individuals in court? would that put enough pressure for an independent investigation from congress, a 9/11-type
edgar hoover. he stayed too long. five presidents confessed secretly they wanted to fire him but were afraid to. harry truman accused him of black mail and i think there s a sense of these guys being above the law themselves and being unaccountable to anybody the ten-year term and comey saying you re stuck with me. he doesn t intend to leave. that s a brazen thing to do and last week when president trump said he was wiretapped comey apparently went around the fbi and justice department demanding the justice department issue a denial and we only know that because comey leaked it. everybody had the story comey was furious and credulous and