Across the country with the Trump Administration taking aim as clinics that provide abortion. A win for advocates but for groups like planned parenthood, a major blow. Theyre fighting hard. The vp of planned parenthood is here with us live coming up in this show. We start with day one, year two of the russia investigation way ton of modelines popping up on that. First Washington Post report President Trump wanting to out an fbi informant. He says the story is big thaern watergate. On that, even if the crit aiks degree, the president and his lawyer up early. Reporting corroborates what people have told us off the record. We dont no if theyre right or not. We have people who knew a little about the investigation, theyre either gone from the the president this morning may have been quoting a fox news commentator as his source of being concerned about this. This is a man who has the thrt to pick up the phone and say that the doj did you put somebody in my campaign. That would be that would
and then ken. what is the standard that has to be met in order for these documents to be pulled back and be restricted? i looked into this and couldn t find what the standard is. there must be some kind of internal procedural protocol that functions. but think what s important here to keep in mind is that we do have the banks that cooperate with triggering potential problems with major transactions. we re seeing lots of information coming out about what happened with mr. cohen and consultants in this kind of shell company. i think we re in an environment where the justice department and the criminal investigation process is under attack. so under the law this whistleblower could be held accountable. this person is not off the hook. but i think it perhaps demonstrates some fear about actually allowing an office to work in its normal way because we ve got a president and an administration that s against it. you talk about the treasury inspector general here. alan ya, you know the cap
assistant fbi director under james comey and his inaugural appearance on this show. former assistant u.s. attorney and associate independent counsel on white waur alon ashore along with new york times reporter ken roble. good crowd on a good news friday. greg, is it true there was an informant from the fbi planted inside the trump campaign? you can tell us? i don t know, hallie. the idea, the genesis of this idea is suspect to say the least. the fbi does use confidential informants all the time in a wide variety of types and cases. what s suspect and dubious about this particular allegation is that it s being done or was done for political purposes. that simply makes no sense to. he explain a confidential informant, a confidential source there is like a regular person with whom the fbi happens to have interactions with that s on the fbi payroll, fair?
similar files that are markeds restrict order moved from the database altogether. ken breaks it down for us. reporter: this document came from a database maintained by a treasury unit called the fenl force meant network. and ten of thousands of law enforcement officials across the country have access to this. and every current and former law enforcement official my colleague tom winter and i have consulted about this said it is not uncommon for certain files in this database to be restricted from viewing if they are part of extremely sensitive, law enforcement, or intelligence matters. and that s what people think happened in this kwcase. we don t dmo whknow what happen. but even if these reports were somehow improperly removed from the database, the bank that filed them would have their own copies of them, number one. and the other thing is robert mueller or the southern district of new york who was conductsing the investigation of mr. cohen, they have much more detailed
in zbengeneral. i m not saying that was the case here, i don t know. it would be a person who has some information that the fbi thinks could be useful and that person is essentially signed up to provide information about an ongoing investigation to assist the investigation. you called this suspect because it would be for political purposes. could any of this be true? might the president be on to something here? i m not going to go there but i will say again the genesis of this idea seems suspect. simply put, in my time with the fbi, the fbi does not use confidential informants for political reasons. in fact, it doesn t do investigations for political reasons at all. rudy giuliani, ken, made this point about why the president doesn t pick up the phone and call the doj. he said the voirnt right now between the department of justice and the fbi and the white house, maybe that s not a good idea. about the president could do that. i think it s a good point to keep in mind that the