question, fair moderator and get out of the way. trey: if you are your self you ll be seen as all of that because that s all you ve ever been, i can t think of anyone better to do this, the only thing i worry about, you have two candidates from south carolina and there is a chance you will not understand what they say. that is my only fear is the accident. can you do translation for me. i will, yes i will, best of luck on wednesday night. bret baier and i will see you then, thank you so much. trey: coming up, more indictments for former president trump, plus a second fbi employee pleads guilty in connection with russia, former director of national intelligence john lee ratcliffe and house intelligence committee member dan crunch alright after the break.
that something is amiss. for those keeping score at home, it s fbi to, trump family 0 and the russia conviction sweepstakes. i wonder if media scrutiny will be the same? and last as long. joining us now house intel committee member congressman dan crenshaw from the great state of texas, congressman it s been an awful seven years for the bureau. i ll just ask your reaction to another employee, this is a senior agent responsible for counterintelligence, pleading guilty to helping a russian oligarch and he also has pending charges in another jurisdiction. i ll get your reaction to that as a member of the intel committee. as an american we need to fbi to have a good solid reputation, we need to be able to trust our
your sense, what is the current mood of the congress and you sense of the bureau and the other members of the intelligence community understand the frustration within the public and in members of congress that the lack of trust may jeopardize programs that you need. they know it, they are very clear on this, there also been very open on the intelligence committee and being open with members of congress, a lot of classified briefings showing us exactly what they click on through the software. how they do the query searches that they do their fisa. the fbi is the focus of this, it s not so much the other intelligence agencies, there is a reason, the fbi is a national law enforcement agency which means are going to be investigated americans all the time, that is the job, when they
fbi as a national international law enforcement agency, 99% of the people that work there do extremely important and noble and honorable work at a trustworthy manner, you have bad apples that keep popping up, are we catching them, that is the good news but the bad news, it happens. the bad news it happens in especially when it has to do with russia people lose additional faith in the fbi, especially when you look at the years that this was apparently happening, it was happening during the time where everyone was accusing trump of colluding with russia. it is going to make it harder as we reauthorize programs like pfizer 702 it s one of the most important intelligence programs we have. it helps us track fentanyl and battle the cartels in a hopeless battle china, we need this
program, we cannot have fbi agents engaging in this kind of abuses, it s going to be harder and harder for the public to understand why we need the government to have the authorities that it has. we need to do a better job that in these folks before they get to the high level positions because somebody like peter stroke who i think single-handedly destroyed the fbi s with what his actions were. the most guilty out of all of them, his reputation is rent he s fired from the fbi but he is not in jail. these things need to be criminal behavior when you completely dismantle the trust of an institution as important of the fbi. trey: congressman you mentioned some words that, intention, you talk about trust, terrorism and you put your finger on it, their surveillance reauthorization that are up for renewal either now or soon will be, what is