for future gps. worked to hire a foreign agent to get dirt on president trump. the number two guy at the fbi is under investigation for lying. the director of the fbi, mr. comby, leaked internal memos. you are not talking much about page memos where they openly hated trump in the tank for clinton. other than those few details you have it right. where does that investigation stand at this point. we have watched a handful of interviews. peter, lisa, where does this go from here? we need a special council yesterday. i m disappointed in the department of justice. the number four person who is on
unmask the. i don t know. sean: you have been told. yeah. sean: london bridge is falling down, curious origins of f.b.i. s trump- russia probe. this is huge including the new strzok/page memos. it is a good question. when people in washington tell you there is no political pressure, i don t believe it. if it is something like the russian election and the text messages are the first to get at the idea that f.b.i. felt political pressure and they were worried that they used exmretative brothers at the obama department my be leaking. and that is a meeting of the fib feb at the white house, quote,
documents we are talking about here. we know with a little but we haveve gotten, as andy mccarthy wrote, we only have a few of the strzok page memos. t first, the inspector general s report, it was michael horowitz who uncovered the page-strzok text messages. it was also michael horowitz and his team who determined that andrew mccabe had misled people, lied four different times, three times under oath. we are anxiously awaiting this report. i m sure there will be some reviews i have to take place but that is good news that we will be getting that soon. more importantly is the letter we sent. we are just tired of the runaround we have been getting from the department of justice. it s time for them to turn over the information. the one way that can happen is head of the executive branch, the president elected by the american people to tell the attorney general the deputy attorney general, the fbi director, give congress a separate and equal branch of government sean: they would hav
initially they would be doing these five six page memos and sending them up and word came back and they said why don t we cut it to a page and i talked to a bunch of people that said it didn t seem unreasonable. so they started doing that, they sent up one page memos. word comes back this is still too much. can we do less? then what happened is there was a directive where a senior official at the nsc said is there any way the president is a very visual person. is there any way we could describe things pictorially? it s back to the narrative we describe from knowing him. we don t think he reads, at all. it s so difficult. the talking points that you get from the career experts are already it s necessary to boil them down in a way to be communicated, just for communications purposes and then i can t imagine the difficulty of trying to use pictures to as the talking points. i think, though, what i took away from the story was that you have a fairly traditional nsc
it was clapper who told him to privately briefly incoming president about the unverified salacious claims in a trump dossier just before the inauguration. comey wrote, i said media like cnn had the men were looking for a new smoke. i said it was important that we not give them the excuse whether the fbi has the material. i said it was inflammatory stuff, they would give helpful reporting straight up from the source reported rate house intelligence committee republicans found that clapper provided inconsistent testimony about his contacts with the media. comey disagreed, saying you talk to media but only after he left government and we ll know a lot more soon because that report will soon be public. of the 15 page memos, documented by comey, eight contain classified information, highly sensitive or confidential level. that seems to be at odds with comey s congressional testimony after he was fired by the president. my thinking was, if i write it in such a way that i don t include an