the white house and a lot of people are upset about this, planned parenthood, the president ran on this idea that look, stop giving taxpayer money to planned parenthood. they can fund themselves. other people can help fund them. well the government will still give them 500 million dollars. although planned parenthood says they never use any government funds for abortion services. that said, it is still a very difficult pill to swallow for a great many of the president s supporters. i should also point this out, eric, while we have a moment, the president did make a point to listen to his military leaders in signing an important memorandum as to the case of transgender individuals hoping to serve in the u.s. military. you and i have talked about this previously. the courts obviously getting involved in this. ultimately the senior leaders at the pentagon have made a determination that while transgender troops in the service today can still serve, they are limiting the scope of their serv
members of the trump campaign for what they call quote bad judgment and inappropriate meetings with russians but said they found no signs of collusion. they also concluded russian meddling in the 2016 election was not designed to help then candidate donald trump. democrats though slammed the report saying they plan to issue a dissenting report of their own this coming week. what can we expect from all this? joining us now is the former fbi assistant director. you know, critics say the decision to close this is premature. you know, the republicans as i just said said they found no evidence of collusion. do you think this was an appropriate step? well, you know, whether it was appropriate or not i think is less important than it s real at this point insignificant. what we have seen is, you know, a predictably on the part of that committee in particular a predictably partisan approach to things, which is extremely unfortunate. so it s almost immaterial at this point, the republicans
advisor to lead president trump in the white in the right direction in this very dubious itinerary. what advice could he give it that could be costly for the u.s. this is the third national security adviser that we ve have in a little over a year. and one president. i think the point that some people are missing is that president trump is in charge. president trump sets the term. i certainly don t want to be rude. i will ask you some very pointed issues and i would like you to weigh in on it in terms of how the now national security advisor will perform. it s very clear that he is much more hawkish than hr men master was. we should use force potentially and he seems to be advocating regime change in
let me read you one of the editorials of the other day about this exact issue. you wrote this. congress should not be funding washington activities in this way. it needs regular order to govern well. they are too big and too opaque because it s been created to an irregular process. and hurry to the finish line they want the line item veto. one of the provisions this was tried again about six or seven years ago. maybe the level of frustration has reached such a point.
of your in terms of your investigative and responsibilities. and again, i don t see any proof that that s occurred. and again, talking about investigations, that s what the inspector general is doing, the inspector general again a very respected independent objective person is looking at all that, and i think we should wait for his findings and to see how serious those actions on the part of those people were. eric: you were at the highest level of the bureau so you feel that michael horowitz is a straight shooter. absolutely do. eric: and obviously the office of professional conduct had serious i wouldn t say allegations but they found something serious about andrew mccabe and that prompted his firing. tell us about that on what we can expect from horowitz and some of the things we have had out of the office of professional responsibility that have taken this seriously? let me say to you as part of my responsibilities, i was in charge at one point of the