harris: we begin with a question. what about bob? the house gave republican george santos the boot. now many people are asking why is accused felon bob menendez still in the senate? he is the democrat senator with gold bars and cash stashed inside his home. some dirty details now are coming out and for one exactly where the gold bars came from. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. congress established a new precedent last week by expelling george santos even though he is not convicted of a crime. the case hasn t happened yet. taking the power right out of the hands of the courts and the voters to decide on him. bob menendez has a rather unique legal predicament. he has been indicted before more than once. this time on corruption-related charges. the democrats are in no apparent rush to give bob on the left from jersey the santos treatment except for one liberal senator john fetterman of pennsylvania. fetterman has been the one outspoken dem since the sto
attorney general joined at the hip with the president trying to convince the public that the foundation and the of the special counselor inquire is flawed that s where it s going. kmuk i ve asked you this 500 times. let s make it 501. the charge is people including but not limited to carter page were spied on by our country. carter page an american working for a russian concern living for a time in russia. how hard or easy is it to get a fisa warrant to surveil an american? hard. it s a lengthy process. it s multilayered. many lawyers look it at the fbi and department of justice. by the way, brian as we discussed this is court authorized surveillance. words matter. it s not spying. may i add one thing to what frank and julia said, because i think julia s idea of zooming out a bit is important. here is one other way to think
and that erodes our national security frank, i heard it asked to why aren t the intel chief resigning in protest, the cia. fbi. dn. and they would worry about who replaces them. at least by staying on the job they can get through. what do you think morale is like on the inside? won t there be a natural attempt to withhold the best stuff because of institutionalists worried about the institutions? yeah i think what we are headed to here is a situation both external to the intelligence community and internal. by that i mean i think our friends will be reluctant to share everything with us because they can t be assured that the president won t somehow declassify it or release it if it s to his political benefit. and then internally i can t imagine now the plight of the cia officer or the fbi counterintelligence agent. counterterrorism agent who has
thee theresa may is not the first politician for every political career ends in hers ended this morning in tears. anchoring the news as viewers in the uk saw it tonight, history being made to be sure it s just that nobody knows what s next. theresa may is now the second prime minister to leave office in the wake of brexit. in announcing her departure today in front of number 10 she noted her own place in history in a line that began with margaret thatcher. i will shortly leave the job that s been the honor of my life to hold.
but now he has proven to be so pliant to this president that he has been richly rewarded with these new powers concerning our nation s intelligence. what do you make of it? well, there is a ripple going through the intelligence community today. and it s not a ripple of fear they re going to be caught in some conspiracy against donald trump. it s a ripple that bill barr will demand information from them, politicize it, expose it, put it out there for donald trump s political benefit, because everything bill barr has done so far as attorney general has not been in service to the nation or justice. it has been in service to donald trump s political standing and security. so there is a great fear out there that he is going to start demanding human sources. he is going to start demanding intelligence materials that were used in the in the legitimate fisa warrants in this thing and demanding the information from our allies to use for a political purpose for donald trump s benefit. and i