i was at the white house with the christmas celebration. soso wasn t of the agent from tw fbi had at least 20, 25 years in. he recognized me and came up to me and he said, the bureau s reputation is shocked. it s not because of the people who are protecting us on the streets, the terrorism task forces, it s because of a handful of bad apples, bent cops corrupt cops. sean, the saddest thing is, regain the documents now. i ve seen emails of collusion in the fbi to protect hillary clinton come up because i think the next president. i am seen names of agents i highly respected and have worked with, who once they got to the seventh floor, sean, that is it under the obama administration, they became political hacks. this could take years to rebuild the fbi. the president said it today. he will rebuild it, and he canks rebuild it. sean: it needs to be
for me, i believe this is going to have a profound impact on these issues moving forward. quickly, how big of an impact? big impact. it discredits the women who come forward and do not want to be paid.er this makes it seem like everybody is getting paid for a story, most of these womenon really were affected, and they do not want to be paid. i m not talking about sean: what happens with democratic presidential candidate youik like? it would be just as terrible. sean: if the voting public is notg your money was paid, is that fair can make should to be a log and set? i do not write statutes. sean: when i do not ask them, should it be a lot? sounds like there should b be as much transparency as possibl possible. sean: in two days before an election,ra someone makes an allegation, does the public have a right to know in the case? i think the public has a right to know as much as possible. this is also just what we do know now. who knows what else was
it s a great question. since the story broke, there is a question, if the donor s intention, given this money to help the woman also in hopes of influencing the election, it might ve been considered under the jurisdiction of campaign donation. as a whole another angle to this that we will have to report out and talk to lawyers and try to understand. there is no doubt the election was ati deadline given to the women. that is not in dispute. if the donor s intention, they have been told this may help the election if you help these women comeom forward, it could raise election issues that have not been raised in the public. sean: let me go down this road. this is very, very important. i do not know what the answer is. if this had happened in the public did not know about the payment, something like this in my mind having followed election my whole adult life changed the result of the r election. that is how profound this is. that is why you do not have an
sean: can you answer your own question? women are always accused of this. it is unique when you have someone who like the weinsteinan case, allege that she was offered money to retract her accusation. when you have something like this, since the forefront. it will reinforce the negative for women, who have every right to be heard, but this is why this exists. it doesn t discredit all of the women. you even have to say that, it puts a shadow over every single one of them. sean: cast a shadow. she decides, the woman is in the hospital, it is not responding to her text,os lisa bloom flies to the west coast. and then the exchange takes desk you re confused, because so many nights, text wednesday night after my other client wasted so much of my time and cancel the
situation. you put all this into context. what was taking place here? you have campaigns it s a rough business. everybody understands that. what have going on in the john solomon piece in the the hill, escalating value of the stories as election gets closer. in the de-escalation of the value and the election is over. you look at some of the trains of emails that cited, you see how this goes. it was interesting. the person offered the $750,000 as john reported did not take the money. spirit what if she did? the phony russian salacious lies, they re being paid for by hillary clinton preclusion. i have two days before the election, a massive sum of money for somebody to make an accusation. three quarters of a million dollars. what you have, sean, and you look at the whole process. you talk about the need for special counsel. look at all of this and what is