getting started. the justice department and the f.b.i. now launching a probe into the clinton foundation over allegations of pay to play putting hillary clinton s tenure as secretary of state under the microscope yet again. i m sandra smith and i m happy to report that it is friday. bill: i m bill hemmer. word of that investigation coming as house intelligence committee chair devin nunes gets what he has asked for. good morning, catherine. this letter confirms as part of the deal house investigators will get access to all remaining documents without redactions by today and eight key witnesses part of comey s inner circle of advisors will be interviewed this month. demoted f.b.i. peter strzok who
sent anti-trump text messages. f.b.i. lawyer lisa page with whom strzok was having an affair and james baker who was reassigned. also new to the list is the f.b.i. s head of counter intelligence who comey testified made the decision not to brief congress about the russia case during last year s election. republican chairman devin nunes said the committee is concerned that top u.s. government officials investigating the trump campaign relied on unverified information in the democrat-funded dossier. these witnesses are tied to allegations of political bias and the bureau hasn t been held to this level of scrutiny before. f.b.i. is not used to having its inner discussions kind of brought to light. i think that s of huge concern for probably people at the f.b.i. the letter was sent late yesterday to the justice department and they confirmed
and providing witnesses related to the trump russian investigation. the justice department is on a very short timeline to deliver. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge joins us. the letter obtained by fox news confirmed that as part of the deal house investigators will get access to the remaining documents without reductions by tomorrow. key witnesses part of former director comey s inner circle will be interviewed this month. those witnesses include demoted fbi agent peter strzok who sent anti-trump text messages. fbi lawyer lisa page. as well as fbi general counsel james baker. i knew to the list is the fda s head of counterintelligence, bill precept who comey testified made the decision not to brief congress about the russian case during his last year s election. republican chairman devin nunes writes the committee is extremely concerned by indications that top u.s. government officials investigating the trump campaign
time to document and memorialize the president s behavior was fbi director andrew mccabe, who has this week been subjected to nearly 17 hours of closed door congressional testimony. and it s not just the house republicans going after him. republican senator chuck grassley of iowa also now says publicly he wants fbi deputy director andrew mccabe to be fired. he s one of comey s corroborating witnesses. another one of comey s corroborating witnesses, another one of the senior fbi officials who comey told contemporaneously about the behavior of the president was this man, top lawyer at the fbi, james baker. today the washington post reports james baker has mysteriously been reassigned at the fbi. we don t know the circumstances of his reassignment. we do know that shortly after this was reported in the washington post, republican members of congress leaked to
james comey on obstruction of justice. we know they re going after comey directly. we know there are five or six of these witnesses, senior officials at the fbi who comey told. as of right now they re trying to destroy two of them, going after mccabe and baker. but who doesn t think they re just going to keep going down that list? everybody is focused on whether or not the president is going to fire robert mueller. but what the republicans are trying to do right now is instead destroy the credibility of the evidence that robert mueller could use against the president for obstruction of justice, and they re doing it by trying to destroy the careers and reputations of the witnesses that mueller could call. and if it destroys the fbi in the process, apparently they think so be it. merry christmas. more ahead. stay with us. dad promised he would teach me how to surf on our trip. when you book a flight then add a hotel you can save. 3 waves later, i think it was the other way around.