Melissa francis. Also from fox business, dagen mcdowell. And todays hashtag oneluckyguy, the host of fox friends, we welcome back to the couch, brian kilmeade, we say you are outnumbered, but mostly just loved. That is very nice, comedies speak for everyone on the couch . No, i dont. Dagen lives next to me on the 17th floor upstairs, and everone else is going to work. Dagen you will tell no secrets about me in sweatpants and dirty tshirts. Brian s if thats what i have to do. Harris we have a very busy news day, so lets get started, and we will begin with a new controversy that is roiling washington as they say, fbi director james comey says he will cooperate fully with an investigation by the dojs watchdog into his action before the president ial election. At issue is whether director comey violated the established Justice Department protocols, and procedures, when he announced last july the fbi would not recommend charges against Hillary Clinton. And later, when he sent letters to members of congress that the investigation had been reopened, that have been just days before the president ial election. The announcement of that investigation is parking plenty of reaction from both sides today. For democrats, such as former Clinton Campaign spokesman brian fallon, this is welcome news. The deviations from the protocols at the fbi and the Justice Department were so glaring and egregious, i still think if the election had been held ten days earlier, prior to sending jim comeys letter, Hillary Clinton would be the 45th president of the united states. Harris but president elect donald trump is exposing himself on social media, as he often does, taking the twitter to blast the investigation as more sour grapes. Heres what he wrote. What are Hillary Clintons people complaining about with respect to the f. B. I. Based on the information they had she should never. Have been allowed to run guilty as hell. They were very nice to her. She lost because she campaigned in the wrong states no enthusiasm harris meanwhile, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer believes democrats are trying to delegitimize the Trump Presidency even before it starts. It looks as if the democrats, on their way out the door, are trying to leave behind as many landmines as they can to at least cast doubts on the legitimacy of the trump victory. Harris so leaving a landmine, a stinky pile of poo, or as democrats are saying, right on time . Brian i think Charles Krauthammer again is it right on the money. Im being sarcastic, because he seems to always be, but think about what has taken place, remember right after the election Everybody Knows first it was the Electoral Systems bad, why are we still using it . The popular vote really is a people speaking out. Then the recount, because jill stein knows everything and she ran such a strong campaign, she is making sure those blue states didnt really turn red, and they did. Then fake news was the issue, then blame russia, that is still in play, no way find out that we have to reevaluate with james comey did. Why was he in that impossible situation . Because of what Hillary Clinton did. And he said this, and i dont know if you believe it, he said i am grateful to the department of justice ig for taking on this review, he is professional and independent. I dont know if you believe that or not, but on some level of james comey is as upstanding as ever but he says he is, he really says listen, if anyone of you think you couldve done better, take a walk. Harris that is interesting, because that is slightly a different thing than what he sang. Hes not saying if you could have done better, he sang take a look, it is an interesting question. Melissa i mean, i think is dangerous to conflate too many things. Putting this together with the election, separated out, look at what he did. And a lot of people say he did violate protocol of the fbi. I dont know what that means, but i do know he is the shabby asked fbi director of all time. I mean right . When have you ever seen the fbi director come out and announce well, we are going to do that us and we are going to do that, and no we will do this, it just seems like all of that is really unnecessary, why is he so chatty . Is he looking for Coffee Partners . What is the deal . Why are the democrats so happy about this . I have never seen anything like this when it comes to the democrats complete and utter inability to take ownership of their failures. I have been a part of a losing campaign, and when you are part of that you have to reflect on what exactly went wrong, and allotment wrong with Hillary Clintons campaign, and the idea that all of the blame is going to be placed on james comey i find absolutely absurd, that being said, james comey is so politicized, and you can find republicans and democrats everywhere who dont like him. I dont know why he continues to want this job. I think at this point the fbi is so politicized, we have leaks coming out everywhere of information that hasnt been confirmed, possibly doing detriment to donald trump and his presidency before hes been in office. I still stand by what i said yesterday that i think james comey should step down for it i think we need new blood, new leadership. He is so politicized, he is so controversial, and take it as nothing but bad things for the morale of the intelligence coming to do. Harris unfortunate for him though, dagen, that wouldnt quiet this investigation bridges before hes got to go. The wall street journal editorial page, following up on your thought, meghan, says that the incoming attorney general Jeff Sessions needs to ask him to resign, and if he wont resign the donald trump needs to fire him. He has the authority to do that, he lost the trust of the people in washington, the people of this entire country dont see him as an independent figure any longer, and during the summer, which republican was happy with the way that he handled the Hillary Clinton investigation . One reason hes been so chatty is because Loretta Lynch completely abdicated her responsibility as the attorney general meeting bill cle tarmac. But remember, he cut immunity deals with Heather Samuelson and sheryl mills, that were unnecessary, and then said oh, we will destroy your computers after the fact. So he mishandled the clinton investigation, and mishandled brian will that be looked at as well . So its a whole process, not just the october decision, and not just the july decision. Harris but you pose such an interesting question, and i want to put a finer point on it. Who could have done better within his department, and why didnt that person get put in the position of looking at this . Because clearly after july 5th, when he was vacillating and then came out and said, no way, no charges, clearly something needed to be looked at based on what we found out later in the summer. Brian the reason why he should not be fired, i think, is because everybody is mad at them. The republicans who are mad at them because he came out harris are they mad because he didnt do his job well . You want to leave them in . Brian what part didnt he do well . Was he wrong to see badly about Hillary Clintons behavior and decisions, yet not indict . Was he wrong to say weve got to reinvestigate because of the 150,000 emails we found on Anthony Weiners lap, which i dont even like saying lap and Anthony Weiner, but [laughter] brian so im just wondering, how could he be wrong on anything . Can i interject a . I think all these leaks, i think affect you clearly have problem with security within your own administration, forget all the stuff with Hillary Clinton, at this very moment he could be doing harm to our president before he is actually inaugurated into office, and i could be very dangerous. I have real problems with these fake leaks that of come out, we talk about all week on the couch, and hes got some problems. Brian someone is leaking from cnn, we know that. What is even even wants a job anymore . He has been lambasted from every side, everything he does at this point is wrong, you are right, no one trust him any longer. And maybe its not deserved, poor guy, but to me a break. I know they used some algorithms and some things to get through that, but it does beg the question since he basically came out to the same conclusion as he did on july 5th, why did he go through that gymnastics move . And was that political . And if it was, then why would he, in fact, want the job, why would anybody want them to keep it . Brian i will post it back, if you are james comey and you get word from a department that is already a little upset at you that i have agents here and we found, they are already pretty ticked off at you and now these agents a look, i just found a whole bunch of emails regarding huma abedin bringing stuff home to Anthony Weiner and we have to take a look at this. He takes a couple of days and says im going to tell you, there is reason to believe theres something here and im going to be transparent and tell you we are looking at it. So if donald trump loses, and we find out two weeks later that agents in september told him about these emails, then he looks like hes scandalous for suppressing the information. But i go back to how he handled the clinton investigation to begin with, where he makes an excuse saying, we are not going to indict her for gross negligence, but im going to call it something else. What did he call it . Extreme recklessness . Harris he basically couched it. Dagen and then he interviewed her at the end of the investigation, which is brian on Holiday Weekend for a couple of hours. He was just compounding the initial mistake where he did after come out and say listen, we are looking at this because agents brought it to us, but it was only because he was so chatty in the first place. If he hadnt had that first confessional with everyone, talking about the investigation and why he wasnt going to entiat, he wouldnt have had to come out again, so just zip it. Harris i want to go back to something that you brought up, the meeting on the tarmac with Loretta Lynch of the doj, and her regret now is that it went on longer than it should have, which rang bells in my head as well i guess it wasnt impromptu, then, it must have been on the calendar. Dagen whatever happened to mr. President , im not talking to you. But i think it was her lack of responsibility in the job as attorney general, where she is talking to the former president , when she knows that she should not. She never impaneled a grand jury on the matter to begin with, again, abdication of her job. A brian but harris, if there was no Loretta Lynch meeting with bill clinton on the tarmac, there was no Hillary Clinton indictment. No reason to prosecute, republicans would have been outraged, we didnt even have the expo nation about what happened. But the chatty nest benefited u us. It also revealed his line of thinking. At the same time you have general petraeus stepping down from us less of a Security Breach than Hillary Clinton compromise with her emails, so little bit of hypocrisy going on with this as well. The cut and dry of this is a lack of trust at the fbi right now, acrosstheboard republicans and democrats, that is a serious problem for president trump, for all of americans, and hes a figurehead for controversy and democracy. Harris and look at the role of fbi as we find out we were hacked by russia. Its part of the nexium, if you will, of those agencies that will be trying to protect us, so our trust in the fbi and all of these agencies is paramount. Dagen he is the top cop, he is most have every persons back in this country, and i have struggled to name one person is as yet, hes got my back. Yeah, hes not political. Brian but he was a same guy that took on the bush administration, who was trying to bully him into what he claims is signing something that John Ashcroft was to incapacitated the sign. Thats were they say yes, you must be a replicant how you vote, but you show me bipartisanship, that is how barack obama anointed him. Dagen his body pursued scooter libby, he pursued the investment banker vehemently, and he ultimately vindicated, so he has some questionable dealings in his past. Brian but you cant let them go now before the investigation moves forward. Now if you say let them go harris if he quits he quits. If he hands in his resignation, you can stop that. Brian but we need finality. Harris we need more outnumbered, so weve got to go, but im glad youre here brian im glad im chatty, i hope im not too chatty for melissa. Thats our job, not his job. Harris president elect donald trump now is blaming his clinical opponents, both democrats and republicans, for the release of unverified claims that russia has come from rising information on him. He also had more to say about the intelligence community. The impact of all of this, and, with just a few days left in office, president obama now says one of his biggest failures was that he sometimes lost the p. R. Battle. Public relations in washington going down. But did the president really not sell his agenda well enough, or were the ideas themselves to blame . We will talk about it. Hy you dr. Hy you dr. With 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. For the strength and energy to get back to doing. What you love. Ensure. Always be you. [ crowd noisewhoa. [ gears stopping ] when your pain reliever stops working, your whole day stops. Try this. But just one aleve has the strength to stop pain for 12 hours. Tylenol and advil can quit after 6. So live your whole day, not part. With 12 hour aleve. On capitol hill earlier today, house members getting a classified briefing on russian hacking, this is president elect donald trump is now blaming his political opponents in both parties for putting together the dossier of unverified claims that russia has compromising information on him. He tweeted, it now turns out that the phony allegations against me were put together by my political opponents and a failed spy afraid of being sued. Totally made up facts by sleazebag political operatives, both democrats and republicans fake news russia says nothing exists. Probably. Released by intelligence even knowing there is no proof, and never will be. My people will have a full report on hacking within 90 days meanwhile, Vice President joe biden telling the ap that intel officials briefed president obama and him about the dossier, the Vice President saying he was surprised it made it to the point where the fbi had to pursue it, and mr. Biden says president obama also wondered what the report had to do with anything. So that stuck out to me the most, brian, that our own president s had what does this president have to report have to do with anything . Brian it also shows me that joe biden said that when they both got that word, this seems like gossip, my indication was, why are you telling me this . It means to say that these briefings are so atypical of the once hes gotten for the last seven and nine tenths years, so it goes to show you that there is Something Weird going on here, and Donald Trumps instinct might be correct, there is something going on. Also, who the heck is leaking . Were just excepting whether its true or not is one thing, the other thing is there is somebody within these agencies or within the administration or the new administration that feels totally comfortable running to cnn with inside information . That doesnt make me feel good as an american. A harris that could be breaking news, we had a situation where predebate questions were leaked within that organization. Brian but we had to have a hack to find out that happened. I think it raises this giant question, though, why did something that the president of the intelligence committee, even if this was passed on by whomever and its still not clear, why they thought it was relevant enough to release of the public when there was no confirmation that any of this was legitimate. Im with brian, again, somebody very chatty who is running around and releasing information or a number of people, and we need to get to the bottom of that. I think its also interesting insight to the rest of the country about what goes on in politics. That there is this Opposition Research that goes on, that people try to put together these dossiers, some of them are real, and some are fake, trying to put together some of these negative information on almost anyone who is trying to, whether trying to get an appointment or trying to be a cabinet post or running for president , that this goes on, and that this is a business. Dagen ted cruz during one of the debates choked at marco rubio about hey, marco, you dumped her whole Opposition Research file right here on the floor in front of me. So that has come to the forefront, but as somebody who suffers from foot and mouth disease, i would like to see donald trump stop tweeting about the intelligence agencies. To avoid doing further damage to them. He is going to own these agencies, he is going to have dan coats is the director of National Intelligence, Michael Flynn, mike pompeo at the cia, and he can clean them up. In fact there was a report in the wall street journal about the Trump Administration rightsizing these agencies, 17 of them. No of course sean spicer denied that, but at the dni, at the office of the director of National Intelligence alone, there are now more than 1700 employees. And they have failed to identify, you name it, they have fallen down on the job. Harris so maybe on one