tonight there are new allegations that a key Justice Department official
continued to communicate and trade information with dossier author
Christopher Steele long after the FBI had cut steel loose for leaking to the
media also breaking the possibility that House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte
preparing to subpoena Bruce or Christopher Steele and a number of other
current and former FBI and DOJ officials congressman trey Gowdy chairman of the
House Oversight Committee which has been investigating these issues jointly with
the Oversight Committee joins us tonight from South Carolina chairman welcome yes
ma'am thank you all right I want to talk about some of the new texts that have
come to light these are being reported in the hill between DOJ official Bruce
or and Christopher's steel author of the dossier this is what the hill says
Steele asked or in the January 31 exchange if he could continue to help
feed information to the FBI so just want to check you were okay still in the
situation I'm still here and able to help as discussed or texted back I'll
let you know if that changes steel replied if you end up out though I
really need another Bureau contact point number who is briefed we can't allow our
guy to be forced to go back home it would be disastrous mr. chairman are
these texts new to you maybe you've seen them maybe you know the context can you
elucidate at all they were not new to me because I'm also on the House
Intelligence Committee I may have been the first member of Congress who've
actually read these messages and that would have been in the fall of 2017
they were troubling then they're troubling now which is why chairman
Goodlatte and I so much want to talk to Bruce or I think hypsi house Intel
wanted to talk to Bruce or but but that investigation got wound down and then
transferred over to chairman glad and myself I mean think about Chris steel
who has been dismissed from the FBI because he cannot follow their rules and
regulations and he's communicating with someone in the Department of Justice who
by the way Shannon is not involved in this investigation
he's an osa deaf a narcotics prosecutor so of course we want to talk to Bruce or
and we also want to talk to Nellie or who oh by the way was working for fusion
GPS which is the firm that hired Christopher steel to dig up dirt on
Donald Trump do you and my understanding is the list of names I'm seeing tonight
or Bruce or Nellie or a fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson other FBI and DOJ
officials current and former will they be subpoenaed do you know and when would
you hope to hear from them well they're two categories those that work for
government now we should not have to subpoena them we should do what Bob and
I did what weeks ago which is send the list over to the Department of Justice
these are your employees that we want to talk to so far that has fallen on deaf
ear deaf ears chairman bill has a very patient man but
we have run out of patience I talked to him yesterday at length there either
need to set this for a date certain or there will be a subpoena issued the
speaker will back it up good that will back it up the house will back it up
there is no reason not to make him available for a deposition or
transcribed interview I think a lot of folks would like to know and I'm sure
your chief among them about what it means are you still able to help us
when Steele is talking to or I want to also though get to another questions
involving the Muller investigation because now there's this back-and-forth
about agreeing to some conditions for the president to sit down he seems
jonesing for the chance to do it everyone in the legal world is telling
him not to Harry Lippmann a very well known constitutional lawyer says this in
the Washington Post enough is enough it is time to subpoena
the president Muller has been extraordinarily deferential and patient
while Trump and his representatives engaged in their scarcely credible
gamesmanship it's become increasingly apparent that neither Trump nor anyone
in his orbit has any interest in answering Muller's questions in a word
they are playing Muller and in the process playing the country first do you
think that they will subpoena the president and second if it gets to the
Supreme Court how does this go if they subpoena the president there will be
motion to quash and our gred kids may be having this conversation it would take a
while to litigate it the reason I'm smiling Shannon is I was on a committee
that sent some questions in writing to President Obama they were really
Fortin questions to the family members of four people who were killed I'm not
even sure he even opened the envelope so where this newfound outrages that
presidents won't answer legitimate inquiries from either that branch or
another branch I am on record as saying this I President Trump can get much
better legal counsel than what I can provide him and it's been a while since
I have my Miranda warnings read to me but I'm fairly familiar with them and I
think you can stop answering questions whenever you want to so what I would
tell the president sit down and answer the questions about what if anything you
know about what Russia did in 2016 and then answer the questions about who if
anyone did it with them that's the core jurisdiction of Bob Muller answer those
and then don't answer anymore you don't have to answer a question simply because
it's ask I think the optics of not answering the
the collusion conspiracy coordination questions aren't great so if he's open
to free legal advice which is usually worth what you pay for but I'll try it
anyway answer the questions related to the two core pillars of a motorcy
restriction what did Russia do do you know anything about it my guess is no
with whom if anyone did they do it I think the president has said repeatedly
he knew nothing about it in fact he told Comey if anyone on my
team did it I want you to find out which tells me he doesn't know anything about
anyone all those team doing it answer the questions and then don't answer the
rest of it I won't ask you to answer when you were last Mirandized we will
get into that although I've got no college I think we'll talk about that
another job in the meantime chairman thank you very much we'll dig into that
separately great to have you with us tonight yes ma'am thank you and breaking
tonight new developments in the Ohio State wrestling allegations against
aspiring House Speaker Congressman Jim Jordan we're also monitoring some
breaking news from the NFL preseason football games tonight trace Gallagher
covering both cases for us good evening trace let's begin with the wrestling
Shannon good evening Mark Coleman is a former wrestler and wrestling coach at
Ohio State who coached with and is a longtime friend of Ohio GOP Congressman
Jim Jordan so Coleman's comments about what congressman Jordan did
or didn't know about the Ohio State sex abuse case carry a great deal of weight
and now Mark Coleman says and I'm quoting here at no time did I ever say
or have any direct knowledge that Jim Jordan knew of dr. richard strauss's
inappropriate behavior I have nothing but respect for Jim Jordan as I have
known him for more than thirty years and know him to be of impeccable character
but back in July called misquoted by our corporate cousin The Wall Street Journal
saying this quoting there's no way unless he's got dementia or something
that he's got no recollection of what was going on at Ohio State I have
nothing but respect for this man I love this man but he knew as far as I'm
concerned other former wrestlers have also accused Jordan of knowing about the
abuse but not reporting it including Mike D sabato who is leading the charge
against Jordan but now Mark Coleman is at odds with discipline D sabato
quoting again I am distancing myself from Mike D sabato as he is not my
manager and does not speak for me dr. Strauss is accused of sexually abusing
student athletes in 14 sports at Ohio State over 21 years
Strauss himself killed himself back in 2005 there has been no comment tonight
from congressman Jim Jordan Chenin okay Tracy also tonight any
related sports story it sounds like the players were still protesting the
national anthem as we kick off preseason NFL yeah the preseason officially open
tonight with 12 games on the schedule and the league and the players union
remain deadlocked on a national anthem policy back in the spring the NFL said
players who kneel or sit during the anthem would be fine but when the Union
bhakta that the NFL then suspended the rule so for now it's kind of a gray area
and a number of players are still protesting in fact the Miami Herald says
that dolphin receivers Kenny sills and Albert Wilson took a knee for the anthem
prior to their game against Tampa Bay and the Dolphins defensive end Robert
Quinn raised a fist just like he did last season and before the Steelers
Eagles game the Eagles Malcolm Jenkins and Devante Busby reportedly raised
their fists during the anthem and defensive end Michael Bennett walked
onto the field after the anthem started Shanon all right Chris Gallagher
on two fronts for us tonight thank you very much so-called paper record the New
York Times yesterday sinks to a new low when they published an op-ed Thomas
Friedman titled keep up the blanket coverage of Trump it hurts him all the
news that is fit to print indeed this is the same newspaper that recently hired
Sarah Zhang to its editorial board now you may want to remember she's the one
who among other things tweeted the hashtag canceled white people she wrote
that she gets quote joy out of being cruel to old white men also took pride
in her hatred for president Trump writing quote I was equated Trump to
Hitler before was cool and of course F the police so many times
it's hard to count 20s with reaction author of the briefing politics press
the people of New York Times bestseller former White House press secretary Sean
Spicer author of why we fight Fox News national security strategist dr.
Sebastian Gorka Sean these are all friends of yours this is the New York
time well look I think they recognize they the media Research Center did an
analysis that 92% of the coverage against President Trump has been
negative so I'm not much how much sure there's more to throw at him but the
reality is is that he's getting things done is an approval rating shows it
he unemployment rates at three point nine percent more blacks and Hispanics
are employed than ever before the gross the GDP hit a new level at four point
one percent the deregulatory state is going down the judiciary is getting
remade I mean all of these things no matter how hard the press tries to go
against the president he continues to get results for the American people so I
get that it's frustrating for someone like mr. Friedman to see the no matter
how much they fight against him that he continues to succeed and I think the
American people are smarter than he understands and they are actually
showing it with their with their approval rating so no matter how hard
they try he's getting results dr. Gork I look at the higher the New York Times
and I'm I just sit here and I look at all these groups they love to attack
every conservative talk radio host everybody on the Fox News Channel
has an opinion even you and Shawn and and pretty much anybody they disagree
with and I'm wondering let's just flip the
script and say that Oh a conservative said these things all these groups that
get paid millions and millions of dollars to silence and boycott and
attack and go to advertisers they're kind of silent over this I'm shocked
none of them are journalists all those people and my former colleague Sean
Spicer had to deal with it at the podium they're activists they're political
activists doesn't matter whether it's the New York Times The Daily Beast
Huffington Post they are all activists Thomas Friedman is why Donald Trump is
president this opinion piece tells you everything you need to know Sean what
did he actually saying that piece he said don't focus on the facts don't
focus on the economy the lack of unemployment the roaring trade economics
we've got to take him down that's the left they haven't learned anything in
the last two years and the results in the special elections this week and the
primaries tell you everything that they have not learned but hey it's great roll
on November I don't think anyone's for granted I want to be very clear here I
think this is the most important midterm impeach the president you know no vision
to help the Forgotten men and women in this country no consideration Obama
failed and Trump has great economic success foreign policy success keep
Obamacare eliminate ice keep open borders they want their crumbs back and
they want these investigations to stop and yeah Devin Nunez was right
hey okay here's what I'm going to tell you right now yeah that yeah and here's
the reality that if you if the Democrats were to take control of the house all
you're gonna do is add more and more investigations 24 hours a day that's
what their agenda is and all of the ability of President Trump to get his
agenda where the Republican House is going to stop people have to understand
that President Trump may not be on the ballot this November but his agenda
certainly is we need to go out there with the same fervor that we elected the
president with you this November and keep a Republican House yeah dr. Gork oh
Woody's like we'll give you the last word I
think November 2018 is potentially more important than November 2016 fake news
is real the president is right to hit back
ignore them get on social media repost the president find the facts out for
yourself and ask yourself one thing what do you think of the last year and a half
if you like it that's what we need to vote they got a no this is really in a
large way about President Trump and destroying and stopping his agenda
they've got to understand this is to undermine the bullshit they had in 2016
Sean the reality is and you said it earlier they're gonna destroy anybody
that tries to support the president they've sent now fake protestors
supported by people like Samantha B to come after me this is the problem
anybody who's with this president right now they will do whatever they can to
destroy them and I think we have to make it very clear right now what we're up
against got it all right guys
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