trump campaign. christopher steele was a confidential fbi source until the agency dropped him for leaking information to the media that many believe he remained in contact with the fbi through back channel. the gop chair of the senate judiciary committee lindsey graham and others have suggested the ig probe will provide evidence of improper conduct by the fbi in the early stages of the investigation and senator graham has already announced that michael horwitz will testify before his committee on december 11th meaning the ig report is imminent. we are standing by. the administration is redoubling efforts to get a new trade agreement ratified by congress to replace the much-maligned after the deal, donald trump blaming nancy pelosi for holding up the us mca. i have pretty good authority that she s using us mca because she doesn t have impeachment vote so she is using us mca to get the impeachment vote. responding as the president will knows the speaker has been working diligently
the report made 16 recommendations on how to improve the informant program and the fbi has apparently agreed to implement all of them asap. shannon: so trace, shouldn t we or should we read anything with regard to the timing of this report. it is interesting that inspector general horowitz is choosing now to kind of released a report on confidential informants. considering his report on the origins of the trump russia probe could drop anytime. a big part of that report will likely focus on the use of confidential informants. primarily christopher steele, whose salacious and unverified dossier was reportedly used by the fbi to help justify surveillance of the trump campaign. christopher steele was a confidential fbi source until the agency dropped him for leaking information to the media, but many believe he remained in contact with the fbi through a back channel. course the g.o.p. chair of the senate judiciary committee lindsey graham at others have suggested the ig probe will
investigation? yes, but sometimes people can convince themselves that what they re doing is in the higher interest, the better good. they don t realize that what they re doing is really antithetical to the democratic system we have. wow. that s the sitting attorney general saying that the folks involved in this investigation were doing something antithetical to the democratic system. and he has started there s an ig probe that started the investigation already, inspector general, he started his own probe. it sounds like something he s not going to back away from. that s certainly not something he s going to back away from. he has appointed somebody to lead that probe. and i think from the outset, barr has not been attorney general for very long. first he had to clear the mueller probe from his plate. but now, i think that s the most important thing that he is looking at during his tenure as attorney general, and he s deadly serious about seeing it to completion. and it s someth
ex-cia station analyst, signing an open letter saying the country will be weekend if there is a political witness test applied before experts can share their views. president trump said that was in response to what he called the rig probe of russia campaign meddling. and services for aretha franklin are set for august 31st in her hometown of detroit. now getting a chance to say goodbye to the queen of soul on august 28th and 29th at public viewing. franklin died thursday from pancreatic cancer. she was 76 years old. i m jackie ibanez, now back to tucker carlson tonight . tucker: welcome back to our inside the issue special hour. it really grabs headlines anymore but thousands of american troops continue to wage war in afghanistan. it costs more than $40 billion a year. that s enough to pay for two walls on the mexican border. enough to do a lot of things.