declassification of every one of those applications. and it is my understanding, praise the lord, that that process of declassification is now underway and that the white house counsel s office is reviewing the documents to protect sources that we all want, but also to review of the falsehoods, the material falsehoods, that were given to the fisa court by senior justice department officials and senior fbi officials in the obama administration. tucker: if you care about the credibility of the u.s. government, if you care about democracy, if you want the public on your side, which is a prerequisite for ruling a country like this, we should have more information. i don t know the argument against that. joe, thank you for that. thank you for explaining that were telling us that process is underway. i appreciate it. you bet. tucker: the new york times op-ed yesterday clearly designed to provoke the president. how about provoking him into pulling a wall on the border?
dorsey today but that doesn t mean republicans are satisfied with what they heard because they believed or received claimed not to know certain details that he should know. bret? bret: peter doocy, thank you. homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen says there were digital lives are in danger like never before. she s making that warning during a speech today on security ahead of the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. the home game and be away game are no longer distinct. they are, in fact, one in the same. after 9/11, our strategy was to take the fight to the enemy is over there, so that we didn t have to fight them over here. unfortunately, that is no longer the world in which we live. our enemies don t respect our borders, and they aren t constrained by geography. bret: she also again pointed to russian president vladimir putin for meddling in the 2016 election, calling it a direct attack on our democracy. for more on a host of topics from capitol hill, i m joined by senate m
and more prosperous, mentions deregulation, tax reform, a more robust military. then for complaints that are about the president is not a real philosophical conservative, he really doesn t believe in free minds, free markets, free people. he changes his mind at meetings, his instincts are not all that great. but this is a rather small minded criticism of a person may they really don t like meetings but they concede on the big this that we elect presidents for, this president has made a lot of progress. bret: the president talks about he mentioned, the mueller investigation but there may be a witch hunt investigation going out to find out who this person is and who was talking tb woodward. there should be a hunt to find out who this person is because there is a difference between being in the administration with the goal we keep hearing the phrase adults of the room. these are not adults who are subverting democracy. when you go to the administration, the good people
people, trump called up mattis and said he wanted to get rid of assad who elected these people commander in chief, you have unelected representative appointees undermining and refusing to carry out the lawful orders by the elected commander in chief, that is not defending democracy. that is undermining democracy. bret: the president pushed back on that particular reference about syria and assad, saying that is not true. here he was in the oval office. we are very happy with him. we are having a lot of victories. we are having victories or people don t even know about. he s highly respectable. i did appreciate his statement. he didn t have to write the statement. i did appreciate it. i appreciated the statement of john kelly and i appreciated the statement of many others. every week, there is a book coming out. some good, some bad. in all goodness, there are some good ones, too. i would like to take them when
we re being blamed not only for involvement or interfering in the us election but also for the referendum in catalonia and for breck s it and frankly it s all myths and mr macmaster the national security advisor of the us countered that with very strong words he said i quote the u.s. will absolutely will expose and act against those who are using cyber space for espionage or for purposes of subverting democracy and he also went on to make a bit of a joke mr the offer of had referred to russia s cyber experts having looked into this issue and concluded that there wasn t evidence of russian interference and mr macmaster said he was surprised that there were any russian cyber experts with any time on their hands get it given how many of them had been involved in the work to interfere with the u.s.