inspector general have acted in good faith throughout. the inspector general found the whistle-blower displayed arguable political bias against trump. it s another witch hunt, here we go again. it s adam schiff and his crew making up stories and sitting there like pious whatever you want to call them, it s a disgrace, it s a terrible thing for our country. bret: at the first day of this testimony with the director of national intelligence spurred response from the president not only they are talking to reporters, but on twitter where he continued little adam schiff, who has worked unsuccessfully to herd the republican party and the president has just said that the whistle-blower, even though he or she only had secondhand information is credible. how can that be with zero info and a known bias? democrats can. with that let s bring in our panel, charles hurt, editor for the washington times . former senior advisor to senator john kerry and phil
separate computer system because it was politically damaging and then they covered it up doing it, that is a big problem and where there are instances? that to me was the most shocking part of the day. bret: from this complaint, and you rightly say if, if it happened. that is where we are in this. if certain things have transpired, we are getting indications that may not have happened. number one. number two, that if it did happen, it happened as a result of calls being leaked as a precaution, not as a hiding the ball. that s their perception on the inside. and of course we also spent the day listening to a guy we were told yesterday or in the last couple of days have threatened to resign or was going to resign over protests about this very issue, which turned out not to be true. but the other thing is i think democrats have a real hard time making the case that donald trump tried to cover something up when he and he alone made the decision to
adding it could be a huge red flag. mcguire testified that an effort is underway to bring to bring the whistle-blower to capitol hill. bret: catherine herridge live on capitol hill, thank you. president trump is comparing that whistle-blower to a spy. we are learning more tonight about that person and just what the president thinks should be done with him or her. she white house correspondent john roberts has that part of the story tonight. landing at joint base andrews after three days at the united nations, president trump said he went on offense over the house intelligence committee hearings. just watch a little bit of this on television, it s a disgrace to our country, it s another witch hunt, here we go again. according to the new york times, the person who filed the complaint with the inspector general is a cia officer who was detailed to the white house. president trump also took aim at congressman adam schiff s opening statement where he broadly embellished the
arrested by ice, what is your side of the story? how do you feel about this? i feel bad. i pay taxes. for all the criticism, ice says the focus remains on interior enforcement and removing criminal illegal immigrants off the street. in los angeles, griff jenkins, fox news. bret: jewish civil rights group is expanding its online database of what it considers eight symbols. the list now includes the okay hand gesture, a mass killer s bold style haircut in the image of the moon wearing sunglasses. the anti-defamation league says the symbols are used by white supremacists and other far right extremists. up next, i talk with the prime minister of libya about the nearly decade-long turmoil in his country and how the u.s. may fit in. first, beyond our borders tonight, afghanistan s chief executive says the upcoming national election there is being threatened by abuses of power from the incumbent president.
are we heading there, do they have the votes? i don t think we know that today but i think you are seeing the possibility of it because people are looking into every element of this. if trump made the call that i referenced about solicitation, that is illegal. there are many other actions underneath that that are illegal. if you could see how this ends up to a vote in the house, but what is most interesting to me was the unanimous vote in the senate to release the whistle-blower complaint and you re starting to see some cracks and republicans, including on the republican house side so i think the smoke more possible than people think. bret: the dni said today that he didn t stonewall, he just delayed and he moved the complaint and actually the inspector general sent it to the doj. the doj then sent it to the fbi, which than the determination was made that there wasn t an illegal act committed in campaign finance. so the dni process when it says shall provide to congress doesn t