parties are mulling over information received at a pair of classified brief -gdz about the fbis investigation into the trump presidential campaign. one came at the request of the president, for republicans only. another came after considerable grousing from democrats. we are live on capitol hill tonight with details. good evening, mike. bret, democrats claimed they were shut out. they were ultimately included. after today s briefings lead by top justice and more, that president trump inserted a spy in his campaign. there is no evidence to support any allegation the fbi or any intelligence agency placed a spy in the trump campaign or otherwise failed to follow appropriate procedures and protocols.
the initial plan was to meet, buin a brief statement paul ryan defended the comments of law makers. saying he looked forward to the intelligence committee promptly completing their work now they re getting the cooperation they need. on fox and friends president trump was asked about an attack from james comey. he tweeted yesterday facts matter the term is tightly regulated and essential to running the country. president: the firing of james comey will go down as a good thing. fbi is great. i know many people in the fbi. it s a fantastic institution. some of the people at the top were rotten apples. james comey was one of them. i have done a great service to this country getting rid of him and firing him. lindsey graham says he has
means really. we have zero indication that special council is looking into abuses by the fbi. we don t have evidence that the ig is. that s why congress sub evening the information needs to get it an oversight body. we will talk more about this. panel, thank you. when we come back little girls with big dreams. but what if ai could find connections faster. to help this researcher discover new treatments. that s why she s working with watson. it s a smart way to find new hope, which really can t wait.
what happened here? this wasn t a thing days ago. now it s a gate. some little man in donald trump s head has said it. you know in a period of time, he said about elizabeth warren, they call her pocahontas. the only one that call herd that was donald trump. they went back and traced the history of the fbis, that they ve done the history of the fbi investigation into hillary clinton. now they did the history of the counterintelligence investigation of donald trump, which we did not know in real time. they went back and did that last week. and in that piece of reporting, they revealed that there was an informant who had spoken to three people in the trump campaign op the outer peripheries of the trump campaign including carter page, george papadopoulos. they had conversations. that was something, as soon as they came out, the notion of an
was donald trump. they went back and traced the history of the fbis, that they ve done the history of the fbi investigation into hillary clinton. now they did the history of the counterintelligence investigation of donald trump, which we did not know in real time. they went back and did that last week. and in that piece of reporting, they revealed that there was an informant who had spoken to three people in the trump campaign op the outer peripheries of the trump campaign including carter page, george papadopoulos. they had conversations. that was something, as soon as they came out, the notion of an informant, the president seized on. the informant worried that the russians were weedling their way into our election. a counterintelligence investigation conducted by the fbi, knowing now what we know is true, that has been proven beyond all doubt, confirmed by