frightening hello everybody I'm Jesse waters along with kimberly guilfoyle
marie harf dana perino and greg gutfeld it's five o'clock in New York City and
this is the five
breaking news we are awaiting a press conference from FBI director Christopher
Rea in response to the scathing Justice Department Inspector General report
we'll bring it to you when it happens among the many new revelations the IG
report blasts former FBI director James Comey for how he handled the Hillary
Clinton email probe saying he broke protocol the White House is responding
to stunning developments the president was briefed on the IG report earlier
today and it reaffirmed the president's suspicions about commis conduct and the
political bias among some of the members of the FBI all right let's bring in
special report anchor Bret Baier Bret I'm sure you have not read the entire
thing or you probably know me please really look Jessie and we're all
printing what really jumps out at used so far from what you've seen from the
report one the big loser James Comey this haiji really goes after
the former FBI director for his decision-making to the other loser Peter
struck and Lisa page and those text messages that are that surface more of
them in this report the biggest of which will be I'm sure graphs thought upon by
President Trump and his supporters and that is seven words that's that is an
answer to a text from Lisa Paige to Peter struck Trump's never going to
become president right right and struck then responds no no he won't
we'll stop it well that in and of itself even though we don't have the full
context of what they're talking about they're just that in a vacuum will
create major fuel to to the issue of of what was happening behind the scenes the
the other thing though to note is that overall at 30,000 feet the IG says that
they couldn't document political bias within the FBI on the decisions made
early in the Clinton email case it does raise questions though about the bias
that they did find and how that affects the case after
July when the FBI director Comey comes out with that bad news statement yeah
and it seems like the report really tees up the next IG report about the Russia
investigation especially off of these new page struck texts let's take it
around the table kimberly guilfoyle alright so you know brett i think there
was a lot of you know people saying there's gonna be significant evidence in
here it's obviously quite voluminous but in terms of the level of discussion that
preceded this do you think that the takeaway what you're hearing from behind
the scenes is that this was something that they over promised under-delivered
or how would you characterize it yeah i think first of all depending on your
political point of view I'm just talking pure politics you'll look at this and
and there'll be people who say oh it's a nothing burger and though the other
people who say it's really chock-full of damning things I think what you'll hear
from the FBI director Chris Rea is that this is a big problem within the FBI and
they're going to probably announce some kind of actions that they're taking if
you look at trey Gowdy and what he put out in this in this statement that he
put out he says he's alarmed angered and deeply disappointed and goes on to
detail in pretty scathing terms what he sees and he's a guy who's defended the
FBI even in the most recent Spygate stuff well Juan Williams took a really
good day to take off and we have Marie harf
in his place let me take it away hi Brett well Jim Comey already responded
in a New York Times op-ed where he endorsed the I G's efforts but said he
disagreed with some of the findings in it what do you think's next for Jim
Comey does he keep speaking out does he go quiet is he investigated further by
DOJ what happens for him next I bet you he kind of goes into the night it's
interesting that he's out of the country at the time the IG report is coming out
he obviously made his rounds on the media including on special report he
made the book tour he kind of laid the groundwork for his defense and obviously
has this letter to the New York Times but the stuff in here suggests that you
know he made some big mistakes in the eyes of the instructor general of the
Justice Department and and no matter if you look at it from
a clinton perspective that that there are folks who think he costs hillary
clinton the election or a trump perspective and how he dealt with the
president Trump after the after the election I mean he took it on the chin I
mean they said he committed serious violations of FBI policy and processed
and then damaged the credibility of the investigation and the institution itself
so pretty tough stuff coming out of the IG report Dan well Brett James Comey
statement in reaction to this right away but first a tweet and then an op-ed in
The New York Times he says look I respect the IG I think they did a great
work here reasonable people can disagree so he's moving on now the struts
attorney he did put out a statement as well but he didn't address these text
messages and I'm curious if you think that that might happen and then my other
question is Michael Horowitz the inspector general had a lot of
bipartisan support lots of credibility across
administration's congressman Ratcliffe said today that he has read the report
he's been briefed on it and he still maintains confidence in Michael Horowitz
which I guess means that this next IG report which is on the actual Clinton
emails themselves and that investigation would at least have some credibility
yeah and I think these are questions that I'm going to ask chairman Gowdy and
Goodlett and they'll be on in the next hour on special report I think that
there is a lot here that tees up as Jesse mentioned the next iteration of
the AG's efforts and the second text the part that says no no he won't be
President we'll stop it that was just released last in the past few days weeks
and the first part where the quotient has asked will he be President was
released but the second part was not you know that tells you something about
transparency and where this document back-and-forth is going up with Capitol
Hill and an oversight I think to your point people will look at this and there
will be Republicans who look at it and say it just didn't deliver and I think
others will look at it and say there's a lot in here yet to be mined okay now
from the fives inspector general yes Greg Gutfeld
this is a stunning read bread it's blowing my mind hey I heard a rumor that
the FBI is gonna change their name to fw beef feds with benefits is that true
there's there is a section yeah a report that deals specifically with that about
tickets from media organizations and invites to golf outings yes yes I do
have a serious question there was a part there where we found out that Comey used
his private email to conduct I think it was non classified business which may be
why he couldn't damn Hillary for doing the same thing because it's like
mutually assured destruction everybody's guilty of doing the same thing could
that be part of the reason why he decided not to proceed further I tell
you what these you're trying to be funny but these are really good nuggets of the
report that had not been kind of put out there Comey is using a private email
even though it's unclassified to deal with the email investigation of Hillary
Clinton and the IG says that's not a good thing I've got the guts Feld
diaries over here you're on page 70 job with the interview the other day the
president yeah Andy will be looking forward to 6:00 p.m. for another great
special report all right see you guys all right Kimberly like we talked about
some of these nuggets that are coming out and it's gonna take probably another
24 hours to get all of them her emails were penetrated by a foreign agent and
that we really didn't know because Comey himself said it was possible that that
happened and now we learned that it actually did happen and one of those
emails was considered secret which means disclosure of that email reasonably
could be expected to cause serious damage to the national security of the
United States yeah I think this is significant because the match was made
at the time oh well it's possible but there was no nailing it down but
obviously they knew and we're not honest about it and essentially what I call
that as a cover up like why if you knew that in fact that they had been
penetrated and they have been red etc via access by a foreign agent that is
significant it is a security breach of the highest order and something that is
very disconcerting for us for national security but there you go
Hillary Clinton the rules of law do not apply it to her or to mr. Comey birds of
a feather flocking together right another weasel move by the director
Murray some of the nuggets that I'm really interested deal with struck
because they keep coming we'll stop it meaning will stop the trump presidency
when you pair that with they need to protect the country from Donald Trump
and we need an insurance policy in case he is elected and now FBI agents are
calling Trump supporters retarded at least five FBI agents exchanging anti
Trump Pro Hillary text messages the IG says there was willingness to take
official action to impact Trump's electoral prospects that sounds pretty
serious to me it says and I think they demonstrated incredibly bad judgment but
the IG also found that there was no evidence that political bias or improper
motivation affected the Hillary email investigation so what I've always said
is these people should not have been doing this it was stupid it looks bad
and the IG actually found that that it looked bad it called into question the
investigations impartiality but there's no evidence that their personal views
impacted it because they're not dumb enough to leave the paper trail you and
a lot of folks on the conservative side have been waiting for this report and
basically putting a lot of faith in what comes out of it they found it very
clearly I think so I think we've been downplaying he said it was probably
gonna be a well-know a big air ball go ahead I think I think it's important
this is selective history fake news I think that it's important that they did
not find evidence that the political bias impacted the investigation they
also found that they had no way no ability to prosecute Hillary Clinton
under the five statutes they examined so I'm not an attorney but the Department
of Justice looked into the question that that a lot of
Republicans and Trump supporters keep bringing up and found in fact that they
did the right thing that's actually not true what what the IG report says Dana
is that witnesses meaning prosecutors at the DOJ are FBI investigators didn't
think that this would be a prosecutable case it doesn't mean the IG concluded
that that was the fact that just meant some attorneys disagree well and to
further that I think one of the things call me did was so they the IG says
insubordinate insubordination but who did that really benefit right I said it
Loretta Lynch who was the Attorney General because he then took it out of
her hands for making a charging decision that I'm sure President Obama and
Loretta Lynch did not want to do to their nominee of course if this gets me
back to the original point of how do we even know any of this why have we spent
so much time and so much money on all of this and it goes back to Hillary
Clinton's decision yeah to subvert the process to have her own email system to
have a private server and we are so that was in 2015 her epic kind of mine is
2015 500 pages it's why doesn't she pray she should you might say is that at
least she uncovered this you know the struck and page email situation and
their bias against the president I've been looking backwards for a long
time on the show we I remember we said I was I don't know when it was its which
II was like talking about gender we kept it's not about the female it's about the
email right that's what we kept saying I points show this yes it is like the
white oh it's it also it how amazing it must be to be Anthony Weiner he might be
one of the few people who's happy he's in jail because the fact is if it wasn't
for his laptop and his lap I Trump would have been elected and guilty I mean he
kept we should be thanking Anthony Weiner
he kept Hillary out of office that's really about him in Houma but I was
there they are also it is amazing again this is more evidence that Donald Trump
can turn people into emotional high school freshman struck in Paige they
were like the characters in the David Bowie song heroes
you know they're up against the wall they're fighting the only two men there
- they're gonna stop Trump and do anything they can it was so deeply
emotional for them they were like they were like star-crossed lovers in a in a
romantic song I want one final point starlets liberal exactly god I think
it's weird timing that the day that this report comes out but the media gets a
gift in this state of New York suing Trump over the Trump foundation it's
incredibly well played it's be a coincidence
no it's not it's it's it's party and media working and in the hands and it's
it's and it's just to me just so obvious and wrong it is and to go to jail about
Carlos danger they found that they sat on these emails for I think a month and
Strock was behind those slow walking those up to James Comey Me's office yeah
it's when you say this is really sad isn't it though you know we read this
and you become almost desensitized but this is really egregious you're talking
about you know the FBI that is you know held to the highest regard in terms of
justice and supposed to be truth seeking in fact finding without any ideological
bent and you see people here that we're only hell-bent on undermining the term
campaign and preventing a presidency you see a candidate in Hillary Clinton that
completely just disregarded the law destruction of evidence and really just
creating a situation that undermines the confidence not only in our political
process and campaigns and elections but in our highest investigatory agencies
and what you're seeing here is a modified redacted report by Ron
Rosenstein who was allowed to do this and he's actually in the middle of all
that so how is this you know coming out of clean hands we actually don't know
what all the evidence is because some of it has been removed well and I think
some members of Congress are trying to request the original documents before
they were changed or allowed to have been looked at by other people
all right we're breaking developments on the DOJ is IG report coming right up and
we're also awaiting the FBI's press conference at 5:30 we're gonna have that
for you live plus watch this White House reporter here
screaming at press secretary Sarah Sanders over immigration packed our of
the five don't go a day after president chomp labels fake news the enemy of the
country White House reporter Brian Karen loses it on press secretary Sarah
Sanders over separating undocumented children from their parents take a look
at this tense moment come on Sarah you're a parent don't you have any
empathy for what these people are going through they have less dry trying to be
serious but I'm not gonna have you yell out at firm Jill please Allah and and
they have these people have nothing hey Ron I know you want to get some more TV
it's a serious question these people have nothing they come to the border
with children and children oh my goodness alright so getting a little
intense there are greg in the press briefing
room so what do you make of I was waiting for him to throw a shoe but
judging from his judging from his apparel I don't think he wears them
he's the Press Club hobo all he needs is a little bindle you know where the
little bindle the hobos used to have yeah we were always told that Trump it's
true there was never anything you could put in the bingo it's true uh they
always said that Donald Trump would be a terrible influence on his side the
Republicans and their half right he's he's been a terrible influence on the
media now because they think they judge Trump's behavior and say that it you can
say and do whatever you want now and including being a complete jackass which
he was that was a purely and emotional and a dishonest response on his part
their kids are not being held in cages maybe you saw that as a meme on Twitter
but that's not reporting strange man there's no policy about family
separation just so happens if you're gonna put you're gonna do with the
parents you got to get the kids away and they're trying to get him to a relative
a living relative or a friend in United States that's what they're trying to
here well they're not putting him in cages in nut bag sorry any other
though I hope he does that shoes all right yeah everybody should everybody
should have shoes okay they approach you you like big shoes and a fan of
elisabeth shue should we move on let's go to some common sense and children
being separate from their parents is one that you can go through all of the
policy points and there it's quite logical you can see the the laws the
executive orders how HHS Health and Human Services and DHS Department of
Homeland Security tries to deal with this issue but there's also as Greg's
talked about there's the emotional part of it and it is strong and you have it
running rampant I do think the White House needs to get in front of this a
little bit because that among it wasn't just being a jerk that people are like
are you kidding me you are ripping babies out of the arms of their mothers
and this is crazy and just to say like you're ridiculous that's fake news I
actually think that online in particular this is spreading quite rapidly but with
you're using false pictures I mean I think that your point that the president
needs to give a speech yes eight Baptists it should be on the
teleprompter or whatever it should be a detailed speech about what he is for
what he is not for and he's signaled that he's willing to go for this new
compromise that the House Republicans have come up with it actually you know
it could pass and that would be very good but the other thing is again I go
to the root cause the drug cartels are really fueling this they have figured
out a way to make a nice little bit of side money becomes not just like on the
money they're like oh we could get money by getting like your life savings and
he'll give it to me and I'll tell you how to go in the coyotes send the people
there and that's what's actually the pots the problem like we have to deal
with the root cause of it and deal with the fact that we have some people here
that need to be taken care of and returned to their home how dare you call
them coyotes yeah I think why you charge about five grand a head at the border
right these families get a discount and how do you know if they're even related
when some guy brings over some young kid you don't know I don't know if they're
being trafficked so you want to keep separating they're trying to do what's
best for the kids also deter people from bringing people across the border you
know what's a great deterrent you don't never have to separate a family at the
border a wall how about just building a wall there
won't be people coming across you would have to separate anybody
this guy is an emotional wreck he embarrassed himself he doesn't belong in
that room it's like a Kosta I don't care if you have opinions like that be an
analyst go debate it on CNN in primetime but don't pretend to be a nonpartisan
correspondent and then melt down like that and embarrass your integrity these
people don't belong there their jokes they start need the ripping press passes
away you're gonna act like a wild animal and you don't belong there and if that
was a Republican conservative reporter yelling at a female deputy press
secretary we have 45 so I think the data is absolutely right it is a very
emotional issue and I do think that Sarah Sanders needs a better answer than
to ignore it she needs to think about it and talk about it and a need to give her
a better face and then the president needs to take charge of it and do what
greg has I think Sarah Sanders just needs they they need they owe her better
at the White House a bit better that is right all right okay no personal attacks
not nice we're minutes away from the FBI's response to the DOJ watchdog
reports stay with us Hunnic catherine herridge is that the Justice Department
with the latest Catherine I haven't talked to you in a couple of hours it's
London to check back in with you and get your thoughts now we are at 5:30 right
before this press conference that the FBI is going to hold it's right that's
right Dana and thank you this is the five hundred page report it was 17
months in the making and there are a handful of key takeaways number one for
FBI director James Comey the Inspector General found that when he gave a
statement in July 2016 about the Clinton email case and when he recommended
against criminal charges the Inspector General found that that was
insubordination that he had gone outside the chain of command
he had not notified his leadership attorney general Loretta Lynch for
deputy Sally Yates and that when he made that decision it was not really his to
make that should have fallen to the Justice Department number two these text
messages between FBI agent Peter struck and FBI lawyer ELISA page this really
hung like a cloud over the Clinton email investigation the Inspector General
found that there was no documented evidence that political bias infected
the Clinton email investigation so in other words that it changed the steps
that they took in the investigation prior to commis statement in July 2016
but just last month a new text message was uncovered between struck and page
where they talked about stopping Donald Trump and the Inspector General said
that in the latter stages of the email case agent struck made the priority the
Russia investigation and not the Clinton emails and that explained why there was
such a delay to go through newly discovered emails that have been found
in late September on Anthony Weiner's laptop that he shared with his wife
Clinton aide Wilma Aberdeen on Attorney General Loretta Lynch the Inspector
General found that she showed bad judgment when she met with Bill Clinton
on that Arizona tarmac in June of 2016 and that she clearly did not understand
the implications and sort of the bad optics it would have not only for the
public confidence in the Justice Department and FBI but also for the
integrity of the email investigation Dana we're about 45 seconds away from
the press conference we've gotten word that they're almost ready can you tell
me anything more about what Peter Struck's lawyer said today and if we'll
hear anything more from him especially about that most right seemingly damning
text message okay so Peters trucks lawyers position is that any delay in
the final stages of the Clinton email investigation was down to just basic
miscommunications between struck deputy FBI director Andrew McCain
and director james comey it was not because I go by you and turn it over to
Chris Rae the FBI director wearing everybody thanks for being here on such
short notice as you all know of course the Justice Department's Office of the
Inspector General issued its report today about DOJ and FBI activity in the
run-up to the 2016 election let me say up front I appreciate the Inspector
General's work on this important review I want to take a few minutes to talk
about the report and then I'm happy to take a few questions
the FBI's mission is to protect the American people and uphold the
Constitution but to carry out that mission were entrusted with a lot of
authority so our actions are subject to close oversight from the courts from our
elected leaders and from independent entities like inspector general and
that's how it should be that kind of examination that kind of oversight makes
the FBI's stronger as an organization and makes the public more safe with that
mind let me briefly address the findings in the inspector general's report I take
this report very seriously and we accept its findings and recommendations it's
also important though to note what the inspector general did not find this
report did not find any evidence of political bias for improper
considerations actually impacting the investigations under review the report
does identify errors of judgment violations of or even disregard for
policy and decisions that at the very least with the benefit of hindsight
we're not the best choices we've already started taking the necessary steps to
address those issues first we're gonna hold employees accountable for any
potential misconduct we've already referred
I'm doc highlighted in the report to our disciplinary arm OPR which is the FBI's
independent Office of Professional Responsibility we need to hold ourselves
accountable for the choices we make and the work we do we're doing that fairly
but without delay in the way that people should expect we're going to adhere to
the appropriate disciplinary process and once that process is complete we won't
hesitate to hold people accountable for their actions
second we're gonna make sure that every FBI employee understands the lessons of
this report because change starts at the top starts with me we're gonna require
all of our senior executives from all around the world to convene for in-depth
training specifically focus on learning the lessons that we should learn on this
report then we're gonna train every single FBI employee both new hires and
veterans alike on what went wrong so these mistakes will never be repeated
third we're gonna make sure that we have the policies the procedures and the
training that are needed for everyone to understand and remember what is expected
of all of us that includes drilling home the importance of objectivity of
avoiding even the appearance of personal conflicts or political bias in our work
ensuring that recusal x' are handled correctly and effectively and
communicated to all the right people making all of our employees fully aware
of our new policy on media contacts which I used last November and making
painfully clear that we will not tolerate non-compliant ensuring that we
follow all DOJ policies on public statements
about uncharged conduct or ongoing investigations and ensuring that our
employees adhere strictly to all policies and procedures about the use of
FBI systems networks and devices I've also directed our associate Deputy
Director to lead a review of how the FBI handles sensitive investigations and to
make recommendations on how those should be staffed structured and supervised in
the future so that every sensitive investigation is conducted to the FBI's
highest standards we're gonna continue also to work with the department to
gauge our progress in each of these areas the OIG report makes clear that
we've got some work to do but let's also be clear on the scope of this report
it's focused on a specific set of events back in 2016 in a small number of FBI
employees connected to those events nothing nothing in this report impugns
the integrity of our workforce as a whole or the FBI as an institution as I
said earlier fair and independent scrutiny is welcome an appropriate
accountability is crucial we're gonna learn from this report and we're gonna
be better and stronger as a result but I also want to be crystal clear about the
FBI that I get to see in the past ten months I've been able to visit over 30
of our FBI field offices around the country and a whole bunch of our league
at offices overseas I visited with folks from every FBI Division at headquarters
and in office after office meeting after meeting I see extraordinary people doing
extraordinary work again and again I hear remarkable stories frankly
inspiring stories about the work the men and women of the FBI are doing to
protect the American people and uphold the Constitution
in the past several months we've disrupted terrorist attacks in places
ranging from the Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco to a crowded shopping mall
in Miami in March we charged a ring of Iranian state-sponsored hackers with
stealing terabytes of data from scores of American companies universities and
government agencies in Austin we deplored more than 600 of our people to
assist in the investigation of the package bombings down there
this year alone we've rescued one thousand three hundred and five kids
from child predators some of them as young as seven months old we've arrested
more than 4,600 gang members violent gang members in just the past several
months our FBI lab has closed thousands of cases through fingerprint analysis
and DNA analysis and our hostage rescue team has deployed something like 27
different times on missions around the country I could go on and on the FBI's
men and women are doing all that work with the unfailing fidelity to the
Constitution and the laws that it demands the bravery that it calls for
and the integrity that the American people rightly expect as FBI director
I'm laser focused on ensuring that our folks get to continue that great work
and do it with the fidelity and bravery and integrity that we've always had as
I've been saying since as far back as my confirmation hearing I'm a huge believer
in the importance of process of doing this job by the book in every respect
and I expect all our employees to do the same I've tried to emphasize that at
every opportunity in my view the FBI's brand over the past 110 years
is based less on all of our many many successes than it is on the way in which
we've earned those successes following our rule
following the law following our guidelines staying faithful to our core
values and our best traditions trying to make sure we're doing the right thing
but to doing it in the right way treating everybody with respect and
following the facts independently and objectively no matter who likes it that
is the best way that in my view is the only way to maintain trust and
credibility with the people we serve I appreciate this chance to respond to
the IGS report and I would also refer you for more detail in our written
response that's attached at the end of the spectrums report and with that I'm
happy to take a few questions the killer that singled out and the report has been
referred to OPI which what are you referring to in particular I can't
comment on any specific personnel matter I would just say that there are a number
of instances in the report where there's conduct that's highlighted we've had
that referred to are as I say our disciplinary arm our OPR there's a
process for that it's a tough process it's a rigorous process and we expect
that process to be followed and once that process is complete we won't
hesitate to hold people accountable
just to follow on that and any can talk about the specific kind of security to
say that they're combing these in agent Peters truck is always perfect
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