Text, that is a joke. Is there a recall process for United States senators from wisconsin . Because people, not only around this country, but our enemies across the world heard a sitting United States senator say that he believed that there was a secret Society Inside the federal bureau of investigation that was planning a coup detat against the United States president. This thats big news. Its going to be very easy for us this morning to laugh at the stupidity of it all. Theres nothing funny about people using conspiracy theories to slur the men and women of the fbi. It used to be liberals that attacked Law Enforcement officers. Certain liberals. And we conservatives were proud to defend the c. I. A. We were proud to defend the fbi and the people who we believe defend us. Now it is republicans that are slandering and slurring the fbi at every turn. So with ron johnson, its clearly one of two things. Either he is of such limited intellect that he couldnt pick up upon reading those Text
Back him publicly and the c. I. A. Director even went so far as to say the russians didnt try to have an impact on the election. And now we know this the president of the United States tried to fire the independent counsel, Robert Mueller iii, who had been put in place because the president of the United States fired the fbi director because he wouldnt give him an oath of loyalty. And because in the president s own words, he wouldnt drop the fbi investigation into russia. And so, there you have it. Were going to have a very busy morning on morning joe this friday, january 26th. Willie, really unbelievable news. Once again, though, Michael Schmidt, Maggie Haberman coming through with some incredible breaking news. Weve got michael with us in just a minute. How many times on this program over the last eight, nine, ten months have someone said theres no way donald trump would try to fire bob mueller. It would set up a constitutional crisis. It would cross a line. He cant do it. And i thin
the number of texts? do you owe an apology for raising these concerns? we ll see what the next texts say. that s republican senator ron johnson who raised concerns about a secret society at the fbi. he said it s entirely possible that they were in fact joking. the two agents who were speaking to each other over texts, but he s not rhett yesterdaydy to apologize, he wants toe see what the next texts say. the justice department said yesterday it had recovering missing text messages are from two senior fbi officials involved in the clinton and trump investigations. other stories propagated by the white house and its allies in recent months, the president s accusation of quote president obama s wiretapping. the uranium one deal and the clinton state department. funding for the dossier into trump s russia ties, the fbi text messages, the secret society claims and the hashtag
so quickly when it comes to trump, it s important we step back and add context yet again to what s going on right now. you actually have a fox news host calling for war against the men and women of the federal bureau of investigation. and calling for war against the men and women, the professionals who work at the justice department. at the same time, you actually have a gop senator pushing out murky allegations about a secret society inside the fbi. that is plotting a coup against donald trump. and this all happens on the day that they start a hashtag #releasethememo, in which russian bots start going to push forward hashtag that the freedom caucus is trying to undermine the reputation of the men and
there is time to work it out. shannon: chad pergram, you will be with us i m sure tomorrow night. thank you. from the countdown to the shutdown to the showdown over the dossier. fireworks in the house intelligence committee tonight over transcripts from fusion gps cofounder glenn simpson s testimony last november. there is also a four-page memo that some house members have seen allegedly showing alarming disturbing government abuse of the fisa surveillance program. saying he can t believe it was something that would happen. ed henry s here and what he is found. major development. tina republicans are privately saying that some heads are going to roll if the fbi and justice department. big names could be other jobs facing major investigations if that memo that lawmakers are calling shocking actually goes public. pressure is building, trending on social media is the hashtag #releasethememo. it has picked up steam after the house intelligence committee moved to share the memo to