fbi leaking to a reporter, reporter running a story, theng fbi using the story, we now have something new in the chain. you have reporters spying on people and taking it to the fbi. probably in exchange for favors. sean: your thoughts, mark? the big thing we ve got to understand the is there were a number of players at the toprs levels of the fbi that continue to work with the media in an inappropriate manner in order to spin the narrative that we are still dealing with two years later. it s time the american people judge for themselves, let s declassify everything and make sure the truth comes out. the president will be exonerated when that happens. e sean: quick answer. should the president have a response against iran? i think he does need a response. it has been a bad regime for 40 years. sean: mark meadows? it has to be measured and certainly calibrated
as just at thi justification ton an investigation into the rival campaign. that statement should be shocking to every american. paul: well, where does it go? where do those facts go? are there going to be any political or legal implications for anybody at the fbi? look, i think we re going to have to wait until there s actually some phi announce final announcements. that s dependent on donald trump declassifying some of this information. i think the question too of whether or not leadership at the department of justice is willing to do a thorough internal investigation and also be transparent with the public. we ve got an expecter general who is doing some work. at that point, the question becomes what crimes were committed, were there crimes committed. the biggest one seems to be leaking. that is a felony. if there are people caught to have been doing that. but other than that, it s a question i think of simply
holding public officials accountable for their actions and for that we first need to know what they did in entireity. paul: dan, we don t have a lot of time. what s the biggest risk in 2019 for donald trump from the mueller probe. he s going to have the report to the justice department, almost certainly will leak. is it that congress will use it to impeach him? certainly, it s that congress will use it to impeach him. the biggest risk is that mueller does come up with a legal charge against him. and i just hope, paul, that i robert mueller understands that a lot of american institutions have been damaged here including theng fbi. what we want from mueller is a full and fair accounting of what has happened, what are the results of the investigation, rather than over-reaching to come up with a secondary legal charge against the president of the united states. paul: dan, i hope you re right. when we come back, our hits and misses of the year. year.
election. it doesn t reflect welln on donald. trump s judgment. that s a far cry from what it s being presented as, as collusion. paul: let s take a look at the other side of this, which is what we learned about what the fbi was doing in the 2016 campaign, investigating officials associated with the trump campaign. in many i ways, those are some f the biggest revelations of the year. we were talking earlier about congress accomplishments. i should say this is one of the huge ones, the investigators in both the house and the senate in particular devin nunes and the work they did to uncover what the fbi was doing in 2016 and what we now know is that the ton campaign and clinton campaign and the democratic national committee obtained the services of an opposition research firm that was behind the dossier and they shopped it to the fbi and the fbi seemed to have used it